Above the white clouds, a small river flows.
Song Ciwan listened to the fisherman's lecture on the river, and what he talked about was the ancient golden elixir avenue!
I just heard the fisherman say leisurely: "This golden elixir avenue is the way to immortality and the way to immortality!"
If this sentence of "enlightenment sect" were put into the outside world of Dazhou practice, it would immediately cause a sensation and even set off huge waves.
After all, in the spiritual world of Dazhou, although there are immortals alive, there is no such thing as immortality!
The immortal cultivators of the Great Zhou Dynasty did not cultivate the golden elixir, they cultivated the gods!
All practices are for the sake of the gods in the heart.
The so-called immortality has become a lie.
Song Ciwan couldn't help but ask: "Senior, you said that the golden elixir avenue is the way to immortality, but is there really immortality in this world?"
To be honest, although Song Ciwan's cultivation goal has always been immortality, this is only because she has the scale of heaven and earth, and lifespan is easy to come by, so she has set her goal high from the beginning.
But in fact, does stacking life guarantee longevity?
How long a life span is considered immortal?
A thousand years does not count, but does ten thousand years count?
If ten thousand years is not enough, then what about one hundred thousand years, one million years, or even tens of millions of years?
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However, everything in the world is subject to change at any time.
Tens of millions of years is too long.
For example, Song Ciwan, even if she can live for tens of millions of years, but this world...can it exist for tens of millions of years?
Don't even say it's tens of millions of years, let's say ten thousand years. Looking back at ten thousand years ago based on today's great cycle - the history of ten thousand years ago seems to be blank.
Song Ciwan had read a lot of books and collected a lot of information in recent times, but at most, she could only collect historical materials from five thousand years ago.
If you go any further, it will be either vague or fallacious, or it will be blank with nothing.
Song Ciwan just didn't delve into it, but in fact, she sometimes had vague doubts in her heart: What is immortality? Is there eternity in this world? Can endless lifespan be equated with eternal life?
No one could answer her questions, not even herself.
The fisherman said: "There is eternal life naturally in the world. Those of us who are looking for immortals should first listen to the immortal method and then seek the elixir. We swallow the elixir and build the foundation of the Tao. Then we feel the aura of the heaven and the earth. We use ourselves as the furnace and the heaven and the earth as the fire. One alchemy pill, this is the foundation of immortality!"
When talking about the way to immortality, the fisherman's face was full of energy and his eyes were shining. Although he was swaying the oar, he himself had not yet become an immortal, but there seemed to be a wisp of immortal energy between heaven and earth, faint from the endless sea of clouds. Come, surround him and lift him up.
At this moment, the fisherman seems to be a symbol of immortality. His words and deeds are all enviable and yearned for.
Song Ciwan quickly asked him about his immortality in detail, but the fisherman told him everything he knew.
According to the fisherman, the practice method of Jindan Dao and the method of the gods in Song Ciwan’s cognition are two completely different paths.
The so-called method of gods, the first step of cultivation is to refine one's own essence, introduce the vitality of heaven and earth, use one's own essence as a guide, use the vitality of heaven and earth as a guide, and generate true Qi on its own. This is called refining. gas.
Only after successfully refining and transforming Qi can one truly enter the path of spiritual practice.
But at this moment, "people" are still "people" and cannot separate from the mortal body. Therefore, during the stage of refining and transforming into Qi, human lifespan is still affected by the limits of mortals.
In other words, a cultivator in the Qi Transformation Stage can live up to one hundred to one hundred and twenty years old.
This life span can also be achieved by some mortals who take good care of themselves.
After refining the Qi, it is time to refine the Qi and transform it into the Spirit.
The Qi refining stage is Song Ciwan's current stage.
It is necessary to refine the true energy in the body until it is round and smooth, light and heavy.
Being able to lift a heavy weight as if it were light, and also be able to lift a light weight as if it were heavy, so that the true energy is overflowing, the gods are born, and the mortal life is essentially sublimated. In this way, it is the period of Qi training!
Therefore, the upper limit of life span during the Qi training period is two hundred to three hundred years.
However, no matter how the mortal body is reborn, if the gods cannot grow, the physical body will eventually decay rapidly.
At this time, you need to take the next step of cultivation, becoming a god!
The self-generation of gods is the preliminary stage of transformation into gods - Song Ciwan has actually achieved this step in advance.
Therefore, for Song Ciwan, there should be no suspense in going from the qi training stage to the divine transformation stage.
Whether you can transform into a god or not depends only on the timing.
Also, she still lacks the third level of sitting and forgetting the Heart Sutra.
But these are not big problems. In short, Song Ciwan already has a clear path in his mind regarding the practice of refining Qi and transforming into God.
Refining essence into Qi, refining Qi into spirit, refining spirit into void, refining void into Tao.
This is the current common path in the Da Zhou practice world, which is not to cultivate golden elixirs, but only to cultivate gods!
The golden elixir avenue is completely different. According to the fishermen, for their golden elixir avenue, they must first find an elixir to build the foundation of the Tao, and then use it as the foundation to collect the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to refine the golden elixir.
Golden elixir, Nascent Soul, out of body, distraction, integration, ascension!
Hearing this, Song Ciwan finally understood.
The biggest difference between the so-called Golden Elixir Avenue and the Divine Avenue is that there is a path to ascension on the Golden Elixir Avenue, but there is no such thing as ascension in the Divine Avenue in the Great Zhou Cultivation World.
The immortal cultivators of the Great Zhou Dynasty do not need to ascend. They only need to cultivate to the god refining stage before they can be called Earth Immortals by the world.
In the stage of returning to emptiness, one becomes a heavenly being.
In the stage of refining the void, one becomes a true immortal.
As for the Hedao stage - it is said that there have never been any cultivators in the Hedao stage in the world. Therefore, whether Hedao really exists has always been just a guess.
The Immortal Dynasty of the Great Zhou Dynasty was a world where immortals and mortals lived together.
It’s just that the immortals of Dazhou are not immortal.
Song Ciwan couldn't help but ask the fisherman again: "Excuse me, senior, you said that after joining together, you will ascend. Where will you ascend? The fairy world? Isn't this, here..."
At this point, Song Ciwan suddenly stopped talking.
She almost asked: Isn't this a fairyland?
An inexplicable impulse prompted her to ask this question. She couldn't tell where this impulse came from. Maybe it was because the world they were in at the moment was clearly a world above the clouds?
If the world above the clouds is not a fairyland, where else can it be?
Of course, Song Ciwan quickly came back to his senses.
She felt something was wrong with her emotions, and she couldn't tell whether she was leading the fisherman to answer, or the fisherman was leading her to ask questions...
In short, everything in this secret realm is very wonderful.
The fisherman didn't care at all about Song Ciwan's pause. He chuckled and said, "Of course I want to ascend to the fairy world, which is a world completely different from the spiritual world like us."
It turns out that this world above the clouds is what they call the spiritual world!
The fisherman's face showed a look of fascination: "The immortals in the immortal world are free from all worries, hardships, and worries. Once they become immortals, they will live forever. They have infinite life. The immortals will not be destroyed by the heaven and the earth, and the immortals will live forever in the heaven and the earth!"
