"As for whether it's true, no one knows." Hu Qiniang spread her two furry fox claws and shook her head helplessly.
Bai Jun was immersed in the magnificent world that the other party talked about, and was lost in thought for a long time.
It wasn't until Hu Qiniang's tail patted his head behind her that she heard a lazy voice: "What's wrong? Did the little snake become stupid?"
Bai Jun came back to his senses and said, "Thank you Qiniangniang for teaching me.
The little demon also wants to know, what is the state of cultivation, and what kind of disaster is needed to achieve a happy and immortal life? "
"Immortality?" Hu Qiniang laughed, and there was sadness in the narrow fox eyes: "Haha~ Immortality, who doesn't desire it? But throughout the history of Tianyuan world, how many people have achieved that immortality? Can they live the same life as heaven and earth?
Anyway, I'll explain it to you.
The realm of cultivation is extremely complex. Each clan has its own realm and method, and each Tao has its own realm. Even the realms of different cultivation methods in the same Tao are different.
In this way, the realms vary greatly, and there is no final conclusion at all. But according to legend, a huge stone from outside the sky fell from the Tianyuan Realm, called the Monument of All Living Beings.
It is divided into three realms, namely upper realm, middle realm and lower realm. If you achieve perfection in the upper realm, you can ascend to the fairyland and pursue a higher and higher path.
Legend has it that after the realm is perfected, one becomes a powerful being with boundless magical power, capable of turning rivers upside down and changing the world!
These three realms are divided into different levels by each race and Tao.
For example, a Taoist sect can draw Qi into the body, open the Dantian, and breathe out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to control Taoist magic weapons by relying on the secrets of the exercises. They are called Qi refiners.
Although Qi Refiners are only at the lowest level of the Taoist sect, don't underestimate them. There are always some unpredictable beings, even monsters in disguise, who may suffer a lot when encountering them.
Above the Qi Refiner, the middle realm is revered as a real person. In cultivation, the Dantian needs to undergo the wind of heaven to refine the soul, the evil spirits of the earth to refine the body, and the calamity of human beings to refine the heart. Only by combining the three natural talents of heaven, earth and man can one become a real person, and can condense golden elixirs. Transforming the Nascent Soul into a True Talisman is a method used by the three main Taoist sects to cultivate real people. Most of them are masters, uncles and elders within the sect. There is no final conclusion among the three. Real person realm is just a symbolic name for status and power.
Further up, there are legends about mortal immortals. Most of those beings are powerful in this world and no one even knows about them.
Buddhism is divided into meditation and physical practice, and there is no distinction between them. Meditation opens up wisdom through the secret treasures of Buddhism, and cultivates the Buddha's mind to understand the Buddha's teachings. Physical cultivation can be achieved through physical exercise, Buddha light bathing and other cultivation methods, which can form the diamond body, glazed body, Mingwang body, etc.
There is a great virtuous and wise person in Buddhism who has made great wishes, communicated with heaven and man, used my heart to guide the hearts of heaven, used my body to help all living beings, and was able to condense relics. In the middle realm, he was respected as a Zen master!
Zen masters also don’t know the higher realms they can reach.
Next is Confucianism. There is righteousness between heaven and earth, and there are righteous people among all living beings. If you study for ten years, you can develop a strong righteousness. You are a person in Confucianism and Taoism. Gods and ghosts should not be close to you, and evil spirits should be avoided.
When the awe-inspiring spirit enters the heart and becomes Qingyun Qi, he is a great Confucian in the middle realm. As for the upper realm, it is said that when a sage comes to the world, he will be blessed with blessings.
Among the demon sects, the main focus is on cultivating demons, and the evil cultivators are weird. Some are Taoist and Buddhist cultivators who have gone astray and become demon cultivators. Others are willing to fall and practice demons in order to seek immortality. Demon cultivators in the middle realm are called demon kings and great demons. , even we demon clan are very disgusted.
There is also the mysterious and strange witch clan. They have witchcraft that communicates the power of heaven and earth. They have powerful magical powers and unpredictable spells. The middle realm is called Wu Zhu.
In addition, there are also gods, which are divided into natural gods and incense gods. The lower realm of the incense spirit is called the Yin God, the middle realm is the Yang God, and the upper realm is said to be the True God.
The number of born gods is extremely rare and few people know about them.
Then there is the ghost cultivator. After death, living beings become souls and inhale the yin energy and become ghosts. The middle realm of ghost cultivator is the simplest. You only need enough resentment and yin energy to enter it, but it is also the weakest among all the realms.
As for the existence of true dragons, sky phoenixes, etc., very little news has been circulated. It is just that there are dragon bloodlines that can be cultivated for thousands of years to transform into dragons. It seems that snakes are one of the species. "
"What about our demon tribe?"
After listening for a long time, the most important demon clan member didn't say anything. Bai Yan calmed down and asked seriously.
"Haha, our demon clan naturally cultivates the demon path. However, there are countless creatures and beasts in the world, and only one of them can be enlightened. There are only two demons among the tens of thousands of snakes in your Ten Thousand Snake Mountain. It's rare.
Besides, even if the monsters activate their spiritual intelligence, there is no telling how many of them will die at the mouths of natural enemies, let alone how many of them will die at the hands of humans. So the number is even more pitiful.
After the monsters began to practice, they could only breathe out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth by instinct due to their slow intelligence. Some beasts were too lazy to practice for three to five days before they could practice for an hour. Therefore, some monsters that are hundreds of years old cannot defeat a Taoist monk who has been practicing for decades.
For human cultivation, there may be secret books of exercises, and there may be a place for wealthy couples, but we demons have nothing, and it is extremely difficult. If you want the Great Dao, you can only transform into the innate Dao body, and you will be slandered by the human race as a cultivator who desires the body of the human race.
But in fact, what we demon clan incarnates is the innate Tao body, which can sense the way of heaven above, and the mountains, rivers and earth below, and neutralize all living things, so that we can pursue the long-lasting Tao.
However, although our demon clan has difficult cultivation, we have a long lifespan.
Practitioners in the lower realms of the human race can only live for two to three hundred years at most, but our demon clan can easily live five or six hundred years in the lower realm, and even the long-lived demon clan can live to a thousand years old.
The first calamity for our demon race is to awaken our spirits and gain wisdom. The second calamity is to hide from natural enemies and avoid human disasters. The third calamity is to transform into human form to survive the thunder calamity. After the third calamity, we transform into innate beings, which is called the Great Demon in Transformation. This is In the middle realm of our demon clan, the lifespan can reach thousands of years, which is the longest among all races. Of course, those ancient beasts are not included in this list.
As for the upper realm, as far as I know, it is the legendary demon king, who can condense the dharma of his ancestors, turn rivers and seas upside down, and have unparalleled combat power. The rest is beyond what a little fox demon like me can understand. "
Bai Jun pondered for a moment and then asked, "Why are you so knowledgeable, Qi Niangniang?"
Hu Qiniang raised her head and smiled, "Of course it's my extraordinary talent that awakened the ancestral bloodline and gained the ancestral inheritance."
"Ancestral inheritance?"
"It is said that our demon clan has powerful demon ancestors and demon masters in the fairyland. In the distant ancient times, they used great magical powers to condense the world's understanding, avenues, and magical powers of our demon clan's strong men into their blood and pass them down.
I have awakened the inheritance of the ancestors of the fox clan, and I will not hide it from you. When I take my revenge after transforming, I will leave the Qinan Mountains and go to the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom in the Demon Continent. At that time, the entire northern part of the mountain range will belong to you! "
Bai Yan raised his head, "Then Qi Niangniang, do you have the strength to sit down and win the whole audience?"
Hu Qiniang chuckled lightly, took out a long jasper cigarette rod from her waist, took a breath of cloud smoke intoxicatedly, and slowly exhaled it after it circulated in her mouth, "Huh~"
A faint white smoke enveloped Bai Jun like a veil, and Hu Qiniang's consciousness came down from the clouds. "My wisdom is unparalleled, how can I be compared to two country monsters? Believe me, only by following me can you have good meat." eat.
Otherwise, don’t blame me for not caring about you when the time comes~"
Bai Jin held his breath. There was nicotine in tobacco, which is highly poisonous to snakes. Although the other party may not realize that the snake demon is also a snake and hates tobacco.
"Don't worry, Qi Niangniang, the little demon will only recognize you as the king."
"Zhizhi~" Hu Qiniang couldn't hold it back for a while, and laughed like a fox, "Okay, I will go through the tribulation in forty years! At that time, I will invite the black wind old monster to protect me. This guy can only be used against Mr. Pingshan, the little monster under his command is useless.
At that time, we will have to rely on you, the incense treasure of the Liuxian family. After you help me transform, I will ensure that you survive the catastrophe of transformation within five hundred years! "
"This..." Bai Jun pondered for a moment, "There are many old demons in the mountain, and I can't guarantee much, but I will try my best to protect Qi Niangniang. An old demon with four hundred years of cultivation cannot disturb Qi Niangniang in Wan She Mountain. Your Majesty."
"Okay! Your words are enough. If you really say that you are completely sure, I will be suspicious. Let me say something unpleasant in advance. If I fail to transform, the old monster Black Wind will definitely be defeated. You have Kill the three little demons under Lord Pingshan, and there will be no way to survive in front of them."
Hu Qiniang half threatened.
…
Bai Jun climbed back to Wanshe Mountain. The sun was setting all the way and he climbed to the top of the mountain. The clouds from thousands of miles inlaid a layer of gold on the mountains, as bright as brocade and as strong as fire.
He crossed his body and looked at the boundless mountains. What Hu Qiniang had said appeared in his mind, and he felt infinite longing in his heart.
Back in the Snake King Valley, the Green Snake came to greet him blankly, with a fat rabbit in its mouth that was struggling with its legs, as if it was a dinner prepared for him.
Bai Jun laughed and said, "Let it go."
Green Snake tilted her head, as if she thought she heard wrongly.
"I said, let it go." Bai Jun repeated it again.
Green Snake shook his head reluctantly, but after seeing Bai Jun's eyes, Snake Xin licked the rabbit's fur, which frightened the rabbit so much that it almost lost half of its life.
The green snake put down the fat rabbit in his mouth, and the fat rabbit stared at all four legs. The fat rabbit ran faster than the rabbit, and ran away in the blink of an eye.
The green snake kept following the fat rabbit's swift legs, imagining what kind of delicious food it would be like to swallow it, and couldn't help but vomit the snake letter again.
Bai Jun shook his head, quite helpless, and then said: "Today I heard from the people at the foot of the mountain that it is the Xiayuan Festival, the birthday of Shuiguan in Taoism, where the three officials of Tianguan, Diguan and Shuiguan use five qi to relieve misfortune. Today we hold Fast and abstain from eating flesh and blood.”
"???"
Green Snake looked at Bai Jun with a puzzled look.
"Starting from today, you must listen to me recite the Tao Te Ching every morning, and you must listen to me recite the Mahaparinirvana Sutra once every night.
The Taoist scriptures touch the nature of heaven and earth, and the Buddhist scriptures enlighten the mind and wisdom. I hope these two scriptures can help you grow as soon as possible. Since we have received the scriptures of Buddhism and Taoism, it is also necessary to observe fasting on the birthdays of these three officials. If you don't eat for three to five days, it won't hurt you if you're hungry. Maybe if you go hungry for one day, you'll be fine. "
Hearing this, Green Snake shook his head in protest. Wouldn't he stop eating food if he didn't starve to death? He just wanted to eat fresh rabbit meat, which was so tender and delicious that he felt like he was half dead if he didn't eat it.
When Bai Jun saw him like this, he didn't scold him, he just said softly: "I thought of a name for you, do you want it?"
Green Snake nodded hurriedly and said: I want it! want to!
When the spirits become wise and have names, they leave their mark on the world. The mark of their own beings means that they are no longer themselves, and they are no longer like the beasts they are.
Bai Jun said slowly: "Although you haven't had any strange phenomena since you turned into a demon, you once got a breath of pure Yang purple energy when Canglong Qisu was in the sky. I am the white snake, and you are the green snake. My name is Bai Jun. Your name is Qing Cang.
Qingcang, do you remember? "
The green snake nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and its slender tail behind it swayed from side to side in joy.
"Qingcang, can you possibly do it by observing the fast today?"
Qingcang nodded repeatedly: I can!
"Then, next, I will recite the Mahaparinirvana Sutra to you. Keep your body straight!"
Green Snake hurriedly coiled up his body and raised his head.
"Don't wag your tail!"
The tail wagging from side to side also stopped abruptly.
"Don't stick your tongue out all the time!"
Qing Cang suppressed the movement of sticking out his tongue.
"Okay! Relax your mind, just like you are sleeping. Listen to me chanting the sutra. All the joints are connected. Nara stretches the body. The joints are hooked together. The ten-abode Bodhisattva's joints and bones are separated. The dragons are connected. Therefore, the Bodhisattva has the greatest power. In the world It’s time.…”
The setting sun gradually sets. On the ancient willow boulder in the pond, two snakes, one green and one white, sit cross-legged facing each other. The afterglow casts a light red color on the snake scales. The willow leaves flutter down and Buddhist chants are slowly recited.
The green snake was in trouble when he was a child, and the snake's head was tilted down. The white snake raised its tail and woke up the green snake. The green snake listened to the chanting again, and then fell back into sleepiness and was whipped again...
From then on, the green little snake demon began his miserable life of practicing snake life. Every morning and sunset, he would be dragged out of the cave to listen to Taoist scriptures and Buddhist scriptures on the boulder.
There are 365 days and nights in the four seasons of the year, excluding the 60 days of hibernation. The white snake chants Taoist Buddha scriptures three hundred times every year, and the green snake listens to Taoist Buddhist scriptures three hundred times every year.
Day after day, year after year, the years pass by in the non-stop practice day and night, in the daily scriptures of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, and in the unseen growth rings of the thousand-year-old willow.
There are thirteen old medicinal herbs buried in thirteen snake nests in Wan She Mountain. Now it has taken another thirty-six years for one medicinal herb to obtain the essence of heaven, earth, sun and moon and become a panacea.
Bai Yan swallowed it in one gulp, but it only gained ten years of mana. Based on Qing Cang's demon power and years of cultivation, Bai Jun now has nearly three hundred years of demon power!
Qingcang had the opportunity to receive elixirs from the city god and fruits from Qiniang, but he only had 180 years of demonic power.
However, during the thirty-six years of winter and summer, listening to the Tao Te Ching and the Buddhist Heart Sutra, Qing Cang's spiritual wisdom improved, and he even understood the second magic, Wood Escape!
It is a kind of escape technique to save your life and chase the enemy on the road!
This technique can be used in places where the vitality of the wood element is strong, and snakes will swim like dragons, wind and lightning will move, and shadows will be invisible.
Bai Jun also comprehended another magic spell, just an auxiliary magic spell, spitting mist.
The literal meaning is that it can transform the water energy in the body and stretch it out from the mouth, spitting out a torrential fog and disappearing without a trace.
When the evil wind and heavy fog combine, the clouds in the sky are moving, the wind is blowing from all directions, the wind and clouds are mighty, and the immortal magic is boundless.
