But it didn't take long for A'xia to realize that she had overestimated herself. She watched a wild boar running towards her, not with all fours on the ground, but like a human being, swinging its arms and using its two hind legs to fly quickly. ran down.
Axia subconsciously hid behind the old Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest happily held her hand. The wild boar ran up to the old Taoist priest and grunted non-stop, looking very intimate.
The old Taoist priest touched its head and still stood there waiting.
Not long after, more than a dozen of these weird-looking things came from all directions. They were said to be human beings, but their bodies were covered with long hair that had not faded away, and some of their fangs were turned out. They looked really scary. They are said to be beasts, but each of them has all their hands and feet, and they can barely speak human words.
Not long after, the old Taoist priest suddenly raised his head and looked towards the mountain road. On the mountain road, there was a barefoot boy running towards this side in a hurry.
After seeing the old Taoist priest from a distance, he fell excitedly and fell down the mountain in a circle. This boy was quite tough. He didn't even look at himself after he came down. He jumped right in front of the old Taoist priest. After seeing the old Taoist priest, I hugged his legs and cried, "Why did you come here!"
Able to speak, is he a human being?
Being here, Axia felt a little abnormal.
The old Taoist priest laughed and said, "You have made a lot of friends."
The boy waved his hand proudly, and then the half-human, half-animal monsters slowly revealed their true colors. All of them are majestic mountain beasts.
"Let's go to the mountains."
Axia was carried on the back of a huge ape and flew up and down behind the mountain stream. She has been in the deep mountains and jungles since she was a child, and she is very courageous. At this time, she feels indescribably happy.
When the ape stopped, she realized that she had reached a steep cliff. The ape put her down gently and stepped back. The boy and the old Taoist priest in front were looking at him.
When the boy saw Axia coming, he smiled happily and asked, "Is this her you are talking about?"
"That's right."
"She looks different from what you said before. She looks like a woman?"
Of course Axia heard what they said, but she didn't know why the boy said that he was a mother.
The old Taoist priest laughed and said, "How about it? It's much prettier than this New Year painting doll like you."
It's not a popular New Year's Eve in southern Xinjiang, so Axia naturally has never seen anything called a New Year doll, but the boy's appearance is very attractive.
The old Taoist priest called Axia to him and said, "How about living here from now on?"
Axia pointed at the child and said, "Who is this child?"
The boy was a little unhappy. He bared his teeth and gritted his teeth twice. The sound of the teeth colliding gave Axia goosebumps all over his body.
The old Taoist priest said: "They are all elves of this mountain."
"Elf? What is it?"
"They are all beasts who have achieved Taoism. The other Taoism is still shallow. Only this one has just taken off his beast form. This appearance still imitates the appearance of a boy in the world."
Cultivation, animals, elves, these incredible words hit Axia's heart one by one, and she suddenly remembered that this was no longer the original world.
After a long time, Axia timidly asked: "Master, can I practice?"
The old Taoist priest did not answer, but asked: "Why do you want to practice?"
"I heard that mortals can become gods. I want to be a god too."
The old Taoist priest pondered for a moment and then said: "Practice requires the unity of knowledge and practice, otherwise it will be easy to waste all the efforts, or worse, to become obsessed. Come to me when you have figured out why you want to practice."
Axia didn't dare to look at the old Taoist priest, fearing that he would really see through her heart.
She was so eager for revenge that she thought about it all the time. She could not forget the struggles of her parents and fellow villagers before their death and the frantic looks of those soldiers. That scene seemed like it happened yesterday.
Three months later, Axia and the boy had become friends. On weekdays, except when practicing meditation, the boy is with Axia Nui every day.
One day Axia asked the boy: "Are you born to practice?"
"How is that possible? Except for auspicious beasts, no one is born to practice."
"Then how did you learn it?"
"Of course it was your master who sorted out my meridians and taught me how to breathe. It took hundreds of years for me to become like this."
"Hundreds of years?"
"Hundreds of years have gone by very quickly. Look at that stupid pig. He became enlightened earlier than me, and he still has the head of a pig."
Hundreds of years... too long.
The boy was trained as a young tiger, and his appearance has not changed after so many years. Axia usually replaced him with a young tiger.
"Xiaohu, what does it feel like to practice?"
"Cultivation is to make yourself a part of the world and feel the thickness of the world. The deeper you feel, the more you can do whatever you want."
Axia has heard this statement countless times, but she doesn't understand this feeling.
"Axia, do you want to practice so much?"
"Um."
"Why do you want to practice? If you want to practice, you must be clear about your own thoughts. If you cannot face your own thoughts, you are likely to lose yourself in the world when you practice. Then you will melt into the world."
"Xiaohu, why do you want to practice?"
"Me? I want to fly into the sky one day."
"Then you cultivated into an eagle, why did you turn into a human form?"
"I don't know why it's like this."
"You don't know either?"
"There is nothing majestic about this person. Why should I cultivate like this?"
"Xiaohu, can you teach me the cultivation formula?"
"The formula? There is no formula. When you practice, just silently think about the reason why you practice. This is a matter of course."
"The reason for practicing?"
Axia tried many times to meditate with Xiaohu to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, but sitting there for a whole day had no effect at all. The little tiger can already slowly transform into feathers. Maybe I can really turn into an eagle if I wait a few more years.
Half a year later, the old Taoist priest had to go out for a while. Before leaving, he called Axia and asked her, "Have you figured out the reason?"
"My mind is a little confused and I can't see myself clearly."
The old Taoist priest nodded: "There's no rush. Disciple, if you can't see the direction clearly, just stay where you are. It's better not to go than to go in the wrong direction."
The old Taoist priest has been out for more than a year, and Axia no longer meditates with Xiaohu. Every day, she watches the sea of clouds billowing in the distance, and the occasional wild beast at the foot of the mountain, and gets enlightened. Several more elves at the foot of the mountain finally transformed into human forms. Among them, the one who has been practicing for the longest time is a winter bamboo. God knows when it started practicing, and finally transformed itself into a human form this year.
That day, Dongzhu walked to the top of the mountain and let the strong wind blow him all night.
Axia and Xiaohu accompanied Dongzhu on the mountain peak for a night of freezing. Before the sun rose the next day, Dongzhu returned to its original appearance, a green bamboo swaying left and right in the mountain wind. The rising sun makes the colors reflected on it even more gorgeous.
At that moment Dongzhu found the meaning of practice.
From that day on, there was an extra winter bamboo on the mountain peak. It can now run and jump, and runs up and down the mountain every day.
When Axia woke up one night, she finally faced her heart. She calmly shouted: "I want revenge!"
To take revenge, this is obsession! It has nothing to do with right or wrong.
It happened that the old Taoist priest came back the next day.
Axia immediately expressed her thoughts to the old Taoist priest. Whether it was cultivation or martial arts, as long as she could get revenge, she was willing to do it.
The old Taoist priest laughed and said, "Now that you have thought about it, let's get started."
Axia asked the old Taoist priest: "Master, aren't you afraid that I will kill all the people in the Central Plains? Isn't Master from the Central Plains?"
The old Taoist priest touched Axia's head, but did not answer Axia's words. He just started to sort out Axia's body veins from the next day. Axia died and died many times, and many times she thought she could not survive it. .
But from that day on, Axia suddenly understood what Xiaohu and Dongzhu said, and became a part of the world.
I am heaven and earth, and heaven and earth are me.
After practicing for several years, Axia gradually mastered the power of heaven and earth. The vast power once made Axia obsessed with it.
One day, the little tiger came to Axia and transformed into a golden-winged roc in front of Axia. Then he took Axia to travel between heaven and earth, and Axia congratulated it for finally realizing its wish. At that moment she saw Xiaohu's happy look. Axia had seen this look before when Dongzhu was on the top of the mountain. It’s just that Axia herself has never had it.
Is this what obsession looks like?
After a long time, Xiaohu took Axia through various places in the world. They drank white dew in the morning and stayed in the forest at dusk. The world was really vast and boundless. In the process, they met many elves. These elves, like Xiaohu, were acquired. As a person who practices human form, he is full of curiosity about Axia, who was born in human form.
When approaching the East China Sea, the sky suddenly became gloomy, and dark clouds pressed the sky very low. Xiaohu told Axia that there were auspicious beasts in the East China Sea.
"What is an auspicious beast?"
"You might encounter dragons, phoenixes, etc. They are lucky and can fly in the clouds without practicing. But if they want to practice, they have to pay much more than us."
"Why?"
"They are aliens from heaven and earth. After they have mastered cultivation, they can call the wind and rain. Naturally, they are not comparable to us. Of course, cultivation is troublesome at least. If it rains soon, you might see a dragon tumbling in the clouds."
"They come to make clouds and rain?"
"Them? No, no, no, they just took this opportunity to come out for some air. They are rare animals. Being discovered by other things is a big deal."
"What's wrong?"
"If you get caught by something evil, you'll be eaten."
"have eaten?"
"How else would they be called auspicious beasts?"
"Eat them? Why eat them?"
"Eating auspicious animals is good for spiritual practice."
It was the first time Axia heard about this kind of thing, and she was a little scared for a moment.
"Look, there is really a dragon!"
Axia looked in the direction of Xiaohu's finger, and saw a hundred-foot-long green dragon looming in the sea of clouds amid the lightning and thunder. As the green dragon swims away, rainwater pours down from the sky like a waterfall.
