The green grass three feet around Shuguan suddenly turned into withered yellow powder. At the same time, the black soil was blown out from under the grass roots. The soil splashed and scattered all over the ground, like a howitzer shell. It fell here and exploded like a deep crater.
Li Zhixia slowly retracted her right palm and placed it behind her back again.
"Don't worry, my master will definitely not really hit you."
Li Zhixia first said this to Shu Guan.
The tone was still so rigid and cold, and Shu Guan didn't hear any apology in it.
"The thunder just now was the lightning technique in the Five Thunder Methods that I practiced for my master."
"According to the records in the Taoist scriptures, if a heavenly immortal uses the Thunderbolt Technique, it can turn everything within a radius into dust. And a practitioner of Fetal Movement Realm like Wei Shi can also cover the range of the Thunderbolt Technique. It’s dozens of feet in diameter.”
"But fifty years ago, when I first entered the Fetal Movement Realm, I used the Thunderbolt Technique, but it could only cover an area of five feet. It was very different from the description of the power of this technique in the Taoist scriptures."
"But now fifty years have passed, both my practice as a teacher and the concentration of spiritual power in my body have improved. I am only one step away from the Nascent Soul realm. However, when I use my full strength to use the Thunder Technique, I can only reach three feet away. .”
After finishing speaking, Li Zhixia was silent for a moment.
Shu Guan understood what he said. Li Zhixia meant that the effect of his Taoism was constantly weakening, and then Shu Guan felt extremely shocked.
Then Li Zhixia continued:
"Of course this situation does not only exist for the master, nor does it only exist for the art of lightning."
"This is the reason for the decline of Immortal Dao today. It is becoming more and more difficult to advance, and the effect of using Taoism is getting weaker and weaker. And this situation, according to the saying handed down in the Immortal World, has actually been going on since the Fourth Yuanhui here we go."
"The immortals of that era were greatly inferior in strength to the creatures of the first three Yuanhui. Even those creatures who survived from the prehistoric era to the fourth Yuanhui can still feel that their strength is declining."
"And the immortals from the Fifth Yuanhui are not as powerful as those from the Fourth Yuanhui."
"As of now, we cultivators may still be much stronger than ordinary mortals, but the gap between the two is no longer the same as before."
"Like your fourth senior brother or fifth senior brother, they practice the art of weapon refining and divination. If they don't have other fighting methods, they are not much better than ordinary people."
"As for why the road to immortality between heaven and earth is becoming more and more difficult, and the path to immortality is becoming more and more illusory, I naturally don't know the reason."
When she said this, Li Zhixia paused and said another sentence.
"No one knows."
"Including those powerful creatures who survived the first three Yuanhui, including the heaven where thousands of immortals once gathered, none can find the real reason for the decline of immortality."
"And what I have said so much is to tell you that today's practice can no longer live forever. Even decades later, after you have worked hard in practice, you will find that you are not much different from ordinary people. You have to endure the pain of losing the power you once had every day...and you have to bear the risk of going crazy at any time and losing your life."
"Obsessed?"
Shu Guan whispered suspiciously. He had heard this word from Li Zhixia many times, and the real Qixia person who had been hiding in the Shennongjia Mountains for hundreds of years had betrayed Shan Yiguan because of his obsession with evil.
It seems that this obsession is a very big deal for practitioners.
"Yes, people are possessed by evil spirits. Compared with the past, today's practice is becoming more and more unsafe. The path of immortality is ethereal, and the disaster of being possessed by evil spirits has become more likely to happen."
"Do you know how many senior brothers there were in my generation? There were ten in total, but now there are only two who survive, including my senior."
There was a lot of sadness in Li Zhixia's voice.
"Three of the senior brothers who were my former masters died due to going crazy. In addition, Senior Brother Qi, who is still in the monastery now, also lost all his cultivation because of going crazy."
Shu Guan's breathing became a little rapid. He had already guessed that being obsessed was a very serious matter for a practitioner, but he did not expect it to be so serious.
Four out of ten people ended up going crazy, which is nearly half.
"So, did my two former senior brothers also die because of their obsession?"
Shu Guan asked in a seductive voice.
Li Zhongxia was silent for a long time, shook her head and said:
"No, they died in battle."
"This is what my teacher is going to tell you, the second danger that belongs to us as practitioners of Samadhi Vipassana."
"Our Shanxi Kuan is not an ordinary place of cultivation. The disciples in the Kuan actually have another identity, and that is the guardian of the heaven!"
"What? Hasn't Heaven been destroyed?"
Shu Guan finally couldn't help but exclaimed again.
Ever since he met Li Zhixia not long ago, his mind has been hit one after another.
"You come in with my teacher."
Li Zhixia did not explain immediately, but turned and walked into the thatched house behind her.
Just now Li Zhixia had been standing in front of this thatched house talking to Shuguan.
There is only one thatched house on this wide grassland behind the cliff.
The thatched house is small, and it looks crowded with two or three people standing inside. On the eaves outside the door, golden hay is swaying gently in the breeze.
Li Zhixia's figure disappeared behind the door.
Shuguan quickly followed in.
When he stepped into the small door, he felt that a different world suddenly changed before his eyes.
This feeling was the same as when he first walked into the wooden door of Shan Si Guan.
When you stand outside the door, you can't imagine what the scene behind the door will be like.
The thatched house looks very small from the outside, as if it can only accommodate two or three people.
But the thatched house is very big inside. Even if hundreds of people stand inside, it will not feel crowded at all.
This is a square space with many statues of people in it.
These statues are all Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes of various colors, neatly arranged on both sides, and there is only one statue in the middle.
It was a statue of a Taoist priest wearing a bright red robe.
The statue is lifelike. The Taoist looks to be in his thirties, with a face like a crown jewel, free and handsome, with a trace of a bohemian smile on his lips, his hands behind his back, raising his head slightly as if looking at the distant sky, and behind him there is He was carrying a long sword on his back, with the hilt protruding diagonally from his shoulder.
At this time, Li Zhixia was standing in front of the statue of the Taoist priest in red robes. She gave a long salute with a solemn expression, then turned around and said to Shu Guan:
"This one is our founder of Shan Si Guan, Chunyang Immortal Lu Duanyang."
"And this is the Zushi Pavilion where Shan has been closed."
