Rapidnovel #118 - That is! A hazy world!!!
#118 - That is! A hazy world!!!
Chapter 118: That is! A hazy world!!!
Life at the Taoist temple was peaceful and uneventful. If there was anything interesting, it would be Cheng Yu. Zhang Chen looked at the little dumpling, reminding him of his own younger sister.
Zhang Chen walked in the darkness for a full month, day and night, tirelessly absorbing the essence of the sun and moon. His soul didn't show any changes, and he didn't feel like he could leave his body, but he was getting closer and closer to the light in the darkness.
But on this day, when Zhang Chen, after a hard journey, finally arrived in front of the light source, he was stunned on the spot, and his spiritual world was trembling.
The thing that emitted light was not an object, but a barrier, a light curtain.
"That is!!!" Zhang Chen stood in front of the light, his eyes reflecting the light source in front of him, and finally saw everything in the light.
"Impossible! That is a world! How can there be a world in my spiritual world?"
Although it was unbelievable, he did see a world, a hazy world, with towering mountains and a sky with rotating sun, moon, and stars.
"This is a world barrier." Zhang Chen stroked the light curtain in front of him, looking at the scene inside the light curtain, his eyes fixed on the hazy mountains and the brilliant galaxy, his eyes full of shock.
"Impossible! My spiritual world simply doesn't have the power to carry a world. If there were a world in my spiritual world, I would have been crushed to mental breakdown by the world long ago. Not to mention me, even a Yang God True Person would never be able to bear the weight of a world." A trace of seriousness and caution appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes, and his eyes were full of horror.
It was really too unbelievable.
"What exactly is going on?" Zhang Chen stood in front of the screen thinking, his mind racing.
After a long time, he really analyzed something: "When my previous 'Heavenly Round Earth Square Diagram' was complete, it evolved into that figure holding a treasure bottle to receive the essence of the sun and moon, that was the real visualization. But after breaking through the extreme realm, my visualization seemed to have mutated. The visualization diagram disappeared inexplicably, evolving into an endless dark void, and the world in front of me."
Zhang Chen stroked the world barrier in front of him with both hands. The world barrier was indestructible, and seemed to have a kind of indomitable artistic conception.
Zhang Chen didn't act rashly, but stood in front of the world barrier, carefully thinking about all the clues. Unfortunately, there were too few clues he could know, and he couldn't deduce what was going on with a world appearing in his visualization realm.
Zhang Chen simply withdrew from the state of concentration, his eyes looked at the moonlight in the sky, and then in the next moment, a rune flashed in his palm, and the rune turned into the appearance of the fox fairy Nannan.
As soon as she landed on the ground, the fox fairy Nannan said with a face full of anger: "Boy, you are finally willing to summon your grandma out. Do you know how bored your grandma is being locked up in that ghostly place alone?"
The fox fairy Nannan opened her mouth directly, complaining to Zhang Chen, and then her eyes swept across the house in front of her: "Where is this? Did you run out of that big tomb? How is the Pingbian King's walking dragon transformation going? Did it succeed or fail?"
Zhang Chen looked at the fox fairy's curious and gossipy appearance, and couldn't help but feel speechless. He hadn't discovered that this fox spirit was such a chatterbox before.
"Since I am still alive, how can Zhang Shicheng transform into a dragon? That fellow had his eyes dug out and his body cut off. Now he is probably already reincarnated." Speaking of this, Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit: "As for where this place is? I only know that this place is Huangli Temple, but I don't know how far it is from our village. It's better to avoid the limelight here."
"Huangli Temple? This is Huangli Temple?" The fox fairy Nannan showed a surprised look when she heard the words: "This place is the southernmost part of the Pingbian King's fiefdom, five hundred miles away from your village. How did you run here?"
Zhang Chen said helplessly, and could only tell the story of how he accidentally bumped into Elder Wu and the abbot discussing rebellion. The fox spirit was stunned and her eyes were full of disbelief. After Zhang Chen finished explaining, the fox spirit took a breath: "You kid is just extremely unlucky, how come all the troubles are encountered by you."
"I heard people say that sixty years ago, there was a warlock who accidentally strayed into the ancient god and demon tomb and obtained a list. It is said that he could use the power of incense to make people gain incredible power. So the warlock transformed himself and began to teach his disciples and formed the Yellow Heaven Dao, which operated everywhere within the territory of the Dasheng Dynasty, collecting the power of incense and belief. This person is the Grand Celestial Master of the Yellow Heaven Dao! Huangli Temple seems to be a Taoist temple built by the disciples under the Grand Celestial Master. It is mysterious all day long. It turns out that they think the power of incense collected by secretly preaching is not enough, and they actually want to rebel." The fox spirit said thoughtfully when she heard the words.
Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit in surprise, never expecting that this fox spirit was a know-it-all, seemingly knowing everything.
"This old ancestor is known as the little smart in the mysterious world. There are few secrets that I don't know." The fox fairy Nannan said proudly.
"I have a cultivation problem that I want to ask you for advice." Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit and said solemnly. He now finally knew how precious and unattainable it was to have a famous teacher.
"Tell me." The fox fairy Nannan sat slowly under the moonlight, picked up Zhang Chen's teacup and played with it.
"After I entered concentration, I successfully visualized, but I fell into an endless dark place. There was a glimmer of light in that dark place. I followed that light and walked in the darkness for a month before finally approaching that light, but I found that the light was actually a barrier, and behind the barrier were mountains, rivers, sun, and moon, and endless galaxies. Why is this?" Zhang Chen asked with a face full of doubt.
"Pa Da ~"
The teacup in the fox spirit's hand fell to the ground and shattered. The whole person was so excited that the stool fell to the ground, falling on her back and looking embarrassed. However, the fox fairy Nannan got up from the ground at this time, ignoring the embarrassment on her body, her eyes fixed on Zhang Chen, and green light appeared in her eyes: "Say it again, I didn't hear it clearly just now."
Zhang Chen was frightened by the fox fairy Nannan's stress response, and quickly narrated the process again, and then asked cautiously: "Did I go wrong in my cultivation? I always feel that something is not quite right."
The fox fairy Nannan stepped forward when she heard the words, her delicate face almost贴贴 on Zhang Chen's face, her eyes fixed on Zhang Chen's eyes, and she looked at Zhang Chen.
Between breaths, a sweet fragrance hit his nostrils, causing Zhang Chen to swallow involuntarily, forcibly suppressing the word 'temptation of skills'.
Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this, "These are all my personal experiences, otherwise why would I come and ask you? Is something wrong? Am I going to have bad luck?"
"Damn it! This is simply unjust! To think that I, Fox Immortal Nan Nan, have diligently cultivated for decades, never daring to slack off for a single day. I am known as the number one genius in the world, so why does the heavens treat me this way? You are just a mere two-legged beast, why do you have such good fortune?"
Fox Immortal Nan Nan directly collapsed to the ground, as if her spirit had been drained, wailing and complaining.
Zhang Chen looked at Fox Immortal Nan Nan's performance and became even more confused: "Tell me quickly, is this a good thing or a bad thing?"
Fox Immortal Nan Nan stared at Zhang Chen with a helpless look in her eyes, and after a long time, she said: "Do you know that seated meditation and entering Samadhi also have different levels?"
Zhang Chen shook his head upon hearing this.
Seeing Zhang Chen's ignorance, Fox Immortal Nan Nan became even more annoyed, muttering and cursing: "The heavens are really unfair. I, Fox Immortal Nan Nan, work hard day and night to cultivate, why not grant me access to this realm."
Then, Fox Immortal Nan Nan looked at Zhang Chen and explained: "Our cultivation through contemplation is a general term. The first realm is entering Samadhi. Once you enter Samadhi, you can already reflect on your soul, which means you have embarked on the path of cultivation. However, entering Samadhi is just the simplest entry point. After that, there is also the great realm of forgetting form. According to the ancient texts excavated from the ancient tombs, forgetting form has thirty-three levels, corresponding to the thirty-three heavens of the spiritual world."
"Some ancient gods discovered that there is a mysterious world between heaven and earth. Only by cultivating seated meditation to the extreme, forgetting the constraints of one's own form, can one enter that legendary spiritual world. It is said that in that spiritual world, there are endless good fortune medicines. Obtaining them can transform a person, even to the point of regenerating flesh and blood, or even achieving immortality."
Fox Immortal Nan Nan's voice was filled with excitement as she spoke: "I heard that in the thirty-three heavens, there is a divine peach that can extend a person's life by thousands of years. There is a divine Nine Revolutions Golden Pill. If you can pluck one in the spiritual world, your soul can immediately transform into the Yang Spirit realm. In the thirty-second heaven, there is a divine Li Spring that can restore a person's youth, bringing the dead back to life. That thirty-three-layered spiritual world possesses infinite good fortune, which can only be touched by entering an inconceivable realm of seated meditation."
"I originally thought it was just a legend, but who knew it was true!" Fox Immortal Nan Nan's voice was full of shock, her eyes staring fixedly at Zhang Chen, her eyes full of jealousy, as if she couldn't wait to replace him directly.
"Impossible! You are so young, how could your spirit enter the extreme state of forgetting form? Since ancient times, in the thousands of years of human history, no more than ten people have reached this realm through seated meditation. These ten people are all famous figures who will be remembered forever, such as the Confucian sage of Confucianism and Taoism, and the Legalist sage who created jurisprudence. Only the brilliance of the philosophers can reach such an unbelievable height. You, kid, can't even read a single word, why?" The fox spirit's voice was full of disbelief.
Why?
Zhang Chen relied on his golden finger!
Hearing the fox spirit's words, Zhang Chen only felt that the tens of thousands of points he had added were really worth it!
Zhang Chen probably understood at this time that the cultivation of the human soul is roughly divided into two systems: one is called: nature cultivation. One is called: life cultivation.
There is no need to say much about life cultivation, which is the Yang Spirit system, a pursuit of power. From seeing the gods, astral projection, night travel, day travel, manipulating objects, manifesting form, possessing bodies, seizing bodies, and so on, this series of realms is the pursuit of soul power.
There is also nature cultivation, which, if understood in the words of the twenty-first century, is the realm of thought. It can also be interpreted as the state of mind. For example, Lao Tzu and Wang Yangming in the twenty-first century, although they are still ordinary people, their realm of thought has reached an extremely mysterious level, which is simply incomprehensible to ordinary people.
As for what is the connection between the two?
Only when the mind reaches a state of tranquility can one see the gods, and then one can carry out the cultivation of life.
The higher the realm of thought, the faster the speed of cultivating nature.
"Damn it! It's really unfair!" The fox spirit cursed loudly, her voice full of indignation: "To think that I, the ancestor, pride myself on being the most talented person in the fox clan for ten thousand years, countless clansmen worship and envy me, but now I am actually inferior to you a two-legged beast, it's really unjust."
Zhang Chen looked at the cursing Fox Immortal Nan Nan, the corners of his mouth raised, and his mood was extremely good. Such a difficult spiritual realm to enter, he actually relied on adding points to get in. This is definitely a cheat.
"How is it possible? How could it be? Even those sages in human and demon history who can enter the realm of forgetting form have gone through decades of learning, decades of comprehending the principles of heaven and earth, before suddenly realizing the Tao in their old age, and their hearts entered that realm. You, a two-legged beast, are just a mortal body, why? You are only a teenager, how can you compare to the ancient sages who have lived for decades?" The fox spirit stared at Zhang Chen with a pair of eyes, her eyes full of suspicion.
At the same time, the fox spirit also realized that the world was about to change!
This kid's heart has stepped into the mysterious first heaven, I'm afraid the entire world situation will change, this kid will definitely surpass everyone, and reach an unprecedented height in the future.
This may be the only person in the world who relies on acquired hard work to cultivate, breaks the twelve ranks, and opens up a path for all beings in the world.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Zhang Chen felt a little hairy from the fox spirit's staring gaze.
"I really can't figure it out, how can you, a waste, have this kind of spiritual realm." Fox Immortal Nan Nan looked at Zhang Chen and suddenly sighed.
Zhang Chen's face suddenly darkened upon hearing this. The fox spirit's words were too demeaning.
"That's because my heart is pure and I don't have your dirty and despicable thoughts." Zhang Chen scolded angrily: "If your heart is as pure as snow as mine, and you don't do immoral things, you will definitely be able to enter this realm too."
The fox spirit's fur immediately stood on end upon hearing this, as if Zhang Chen had hit her sore spot. She jumped up and said angrily: "Boy, don't be ungrateful. Didn't I just steal a little something from your house? Do you have to bring it up every day? I, the ancestor, steal food from your house because I look up to you. After all, your food is the freshest. You are an ungrateful person."
"I thank your eight generations of ancestors." Zhang Chen said angrily.
Unexpectedly, the fox spirit showed a smile on her face upon hearing this: "A promising child! You really know your mistakes, and now you know to thank me?"
Zhang Chen's smile froze on his face upon hearing this. He forgot that this world did not have the curse of greeting eight generations of ancestors.