Friday, July 9, 2004
Beijing
During the battle at Big Bear Lake, Wang Shen unintentionally opened up several acupuncture points in his body when he was facing death. Now the flow of Qi in his body is many times smoother than it was half a year ago.
It can be said that you only know the poverty at the bottom when you climb high and look far away. Now, looking back at myself half a year ago, it feels like a lifetime ago. At that time, I believed that my talent in cultivation was different from ordinary people. Now it seems like a joke. The saying that there is no end to learning is really true. Not for nothing.
Wang Shen was writing his summer vacation homework in his room, but he felt waves of burning in his dantian. He quickly put down his pen and sat cross-legged on the spot, using the self-enlightened "Jiuzang Sutra" technique to guide the true energy into his limbs and bones.
"Third floor! Third floor! Here I come!" Wang Shen was so excited that he almost saw the third floor in the foundation building period waving to him. But until he drained all the burning pure Yang power from his dantian, he didn't see any movement in his realm.
"Ah...this..." Wang Shen lay on the floor frustrated. The journey of cultivation is indeed not achieved overnight.
Three years ago, when he was just sensible, Zhang Qingqing explained to him how difficult it was to practice and improve his realm.
The strength of Chinese monks is divided into eight major realms, namely the body refining stage, the qi refining stage, the foundation building stage, the golden elixir stage, the Yuan Ying stage, the distraction stage, the integration stage and the Mahayana stage.
The body refining stage is the realm where ordinary martial artists in the human world exercise their physical strength, fists, feet, and sword skills. Only when the body refining stage reaches the eighth level can one touch the threshold of the qi refining stage. The real qi returns to the Dantian to exhale the old and absorb the new, and achieve preliminary communication with the heaven, earth and universe. .
If you reach the Qi refining stage, you will be equivalent to the trainee magic apprentice of a European wizard, the ranger of the knight system, the third-level pharmacist of the alchemist, the Weng Zeng of Buddhism, and the Shadi Kushan of the Southeast Asian Gu Master.
But it is only the eighth level of the body refining stage, but it has blocked hundreds of millions of monks throughout the ages, and all of these people have stopped here and lived in hatred for the rest of their lives.
Although monks all over the world have very different skills, they reach the same goal by different paths. When they reach the top of the Mahayana stage, high priest, Templar knight, great magician, living Buddha, bibanchai and other realms, they all change their fate against the will of heaven and their bodies and souls are immortal from now on. To obtain eternal life, and before reaching this goal, everyone must go through a test called "Thunder Tribulation", "God's Punishment" or "Sky". Only by passing the test and truly becoming immortal can they join this ranks. The world collectively calls this realm the "transcendent realm." However, there is another realm above the extraordinary realm, which is the divine realm. Some immortals in the immortal realm, such as King Li Jing, and newly promoted ones such as Kanxia Fairy, are in this realm. It is called the "Golden Immortal Stage". Other systems also have it. Similar god-level powerhouses are collectively called "god realm". However, there are some people in the Mahayana stage whose strength far exceeds that of the Golden Immortal stage. For example, Zhang Tianhao, a man of the Kunlun Mountains, once fought against sixteen divine generals without defeat, but there is not one such person in ten thousand.
Wang Shen asked Zhang Qingqing if there was anything more powerful than the divine realm. Zhang Qingqing said, "Yes, but that realm has no name because there are only a handful of people who have reached that realm."
Wang Shen asked: "Who is it?"
Zhang Qingqing said: "Buddha, Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, these people. They are existences beyond the law, and few powerful people in the divine realm can see them."
One of the questions Wang Shen often asked Zhang Qingqing was "How long will it take me to reach the next level?"
At the beginning, Zhang Qingqing patiently explained to him: "There is never a fixed length of time for the advancement of realm. Some people's realm has advanced rapidly before raising a Nascent Soul. However, after cultivating a Nascent Soul and being able to leave the body, the growth rate of cultivation suddenly slowed down. Come down. Some people progressed slowly before forming the elixir, but after cultivating the elixir, their cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds, leaving their brothers and sisters far behind. Zhang Tianshi, the leader of Longhu Mountain, and Zhang Tianhao of Kunlun are examples."
But then Wang Shen asked shamelessly several times. The last time Wang Shen asked again, Zhang Qingqing stopped giving him a good look and scolded: "The most taboo thing in cultivation is to have other things and rush for success! You are not allowed to care anymore. When will we break through this problem?" Looking back, this was more than a year ago, and Wang Shen didn't dare to ask again after that.
In fact, according to the speed of ordinary people's cultivation, as long as their bones are still good, they can stably advance to the first level in one year during the body training period. However, the seventh to eighth level is a watershed. Without guidance, and without the assistance of spiritual elixir books from high sects, many people are stuck at the seventh level of the body refining stage. The physical body can open monuments and rubble, but there is no possibility of introducing Qi into the body.
After passing this hurdle and reaching the Qi refining stage, whoever progresses faster depends on who is more diligent in breathing and inhaling every day. Only by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth for one's own use, tempering the Dantian, strengthening the foundation and cultivating the essence, can it be used for the future. lay the foundation for building the foundation. As long as there are no three small passes such as 369, people with superior talents and diligent cultivation can reach the first level every year during the Qi refining period. If there is a God-given opportunity or the sect's elixir is used properly, a few people can do it. Two floors in one year.
When it comes to the foundation building stage, each level is ten times more difficult than the Qi refining stage. There are many monks in the foundation building stage in their 40s and 50s in high-level sects such as Qingcheng Mountain and Longhu Mountain. It is even more difficult to advance to the next level in the Golden Elixir and Nascent Soul Stages. It often takes five or ten years for each level to be advanced.
A person like Liu Xiangjun who reached the Nascent Soul stage at the age of 80 can be said to be a person with amazing talent and beauty that is rare in thousands of years. The talent of another little fairy Yan Feiling on Mount Emei who is only slightly higher than her is not bad either. However, her physical body is already 220 years old but has only just broken through the second level of the Nascent Soul stage. This shows how amazing Liu Xiangjun's talent is. No wonder Zhang Qingqing and Zhang Ruirui are full of praise for her.
But Liu Xiangjun never cared about this. She always practiced according to her heart and never forced it. After being dragged down the mountain by Zhang Qingqing to take care of Wang Shen together, her cultivation level seemed to have stopped improving. Wang Shen couldn't help but feel extremely guilty every time he thought about this. A strange woman who had never seen a thousand years of cultivation would go around the pots, pans, and washing machines just for her. If this kind of thing were allowed to happen to other sects, Did you know that you were so angry that you lost your temper on the spot?
Wang Shen looked back at himself. At the age of 8 this year, he was already at the second level of the foundation building stage. It took him more than a year to break through the first level. At this speed, he should be able to occupy a place among those with "outstanding qualifications", right?
Wang Shen was imagining things when he suddenly felt a strong and unfamiliar breath appear outside the door.
Wang Shen was very familiar with Zhang Qingqing's aura, and he had just spent more than ten days with Zhang Ruirui day and night, almost escaping death. So he knows all about what it's like to be around an unabashed Mahayana. The person who unleashed this strength is by no means lower than Zhang Qingqing, and this person is now in the living room.
Wang Shen opened the door and heard Zhang Qingqing and a strange female voice chatting happily. His curiosity aroused and he walked to the end of the corridor connecting the living room and poked his head into the living room.
I saw a woman sitting on the same sofa as Zhang Qingqing. The woman's graceful figure was wrapped in white clothes. Her chestnut hair was tied into a bun behind her head and the rest hung around her waist. Her nose is straight, her pupils are green, and her smooth forehead sets off her exotic face. She is sitting next to Zhang Qingqing. Wang Shen actually doesn't think her beauty is inferior to Zhang Qingqing. Liu Xiangjun sits Smilingly accompanying them on the other sofa.
"Hello! Little Wang Shen!" As soon as Wang Shen poked his head in, the woman tilted her head and smiled at him.
Wang Shen was immediately embarrassed, but after thinking about it, it was right. Based on the two of them, they must have noticed it when he reached out to open the door.
Just when Wang Shen was about to say hello, Zhang Qingqing said to him first: "This is the head of Shuanghenmo of the Tianshan Sect. Come here and call Aunt Shuang!"
When Wang Shen heard this, he suddenly realized that it was her other good sister whom Zhang Qingqing often mentioned, the current head of Tianshan Sect, Xueyu Feixian Shuanghenmo, who survived the thunder tribulation nearly a hundred years ago and is now in the Mahayana stage.
Wang Shen obediently walked up to Shuang Henmo, cupped his fists and bowed, saying, "Junior Wang Shen, pay your respects to Aunt Shuang!"
Shuanghenmo's beautiful eyes narrowed into a slit and he smiled: "You're so good! You don't need so many ancient rituals. Your aunt and I are good friends. Come and sit down."
Wang Shen sat next to Zhang Qingqing, but put his hands on his knees and straightened his waist. Shuanghenmo looked at him and smiled, and then said to Zhang Qingqing: "Xing'er was supposed to come, but he was afraid of coming to Beijing. I ran into that person again, so I took the trip instead."
Zhang Qingqing smiled and said: "What do you mean, don't you want to stay in Beijing longer?"
Shuanghenmo frowned and said: "Of course I want to stay for a few days! But there are too many things on the mountain! They are all counting on me! Do you know how long it has been since I went shopping?" This kind of grievance belongs to a girl in the world. Anger appeared on her face, which immediately melted her cold and aloof temperament by seven points, making her look playful, charming and full of fireworks.
Zhang Qingqing said: "I didn't know you were coming. If I had known, I would have bought you dozens of clothes from the Jiangnan Buyi family and brought them back to you."
Shuanghenmo smiled and said: "You said it, I owe it first, and you have to accompany me to buy it when you have time. Sigh... I really envy you and Ruirui. You have been the shopkeeper for hundreds of years."
Zhang Qingqing said: "First of all, there are only more than 20 people in our mountain and down the mountain together. Secondly..." At this point, she winked at Shuanghenmo. "We have a sweetie!"
Shuanghenmo was so angry that he leaned on the back of the sofa and said: "I have more than 1,300 disciples, and among the fifth generation disciples, the one with the highest cultivation level has already reached the golden elixir stage. Some time ago, they suggested that we should also accept the third generation disciples. The Sixth Generation! I sternly refused! Now I can’t manage it anymore and I still accept the Sixth Generation! I also want a sweet girl, please give her to me!”
Zhang Qingqing smiled and said: "Then go to Xiading yourself and ask her if she is willing."
