Wet viviparity

Chapter 211: Enlightenment, Return to the World of the Living
Floating in the shade of the trees, Ji Ming seemed to be floating in the night sky, floating in the boundless void. Occasionally, a few beams of dim sunlight that escaped the vast treetops would shine on his body, making him feel as if he had entered the silent bliss of death.

In a trance, he saw a crow flying down from the tree with a dead branch in its mouth. This was a sign, a sign given by the sacred tree, not a real scene, but a symbol of the changes that were about to take place in him.

In an instant, all the practices that one has done in the past, all the paths that one has seen, and all the teachings that one has heard come to mind.

The Taiyi Jiabu True Method·Zuoshan Lishi Sutra, Controlling Cranes Technique, Haishi Dafa, Chengpan Yuhua Sutra·Panjia Volume, Huosan Longwen Large Characters, etc., they seemed to be thrown into a furnace and refined into a new method.

Gradually, the bloody skin of the goddess stopped floating, and the poisonous skulls and relics wrapped on the skin loosened and floated on the skin. Ji Ming completely entered into enlightenment.

When the Inverted and Formless True Vacuum Mother arrived here, she saw countless corpse-eating birds flying down from the skin hanging in the shade, holding branches in their beaks and building a huge nest under the skin.

Smoke began to billow from the nest, thick smoke billowing out, producing strange heat waves in the deep dark shadows.

Fire, a very big fire, started in the nest, burning the skin in it. Soon the skin was burnt, and the magic of the goddess on it was broken. The fire burned all the way to the soul in the skin.

“The taste of Nirvana!”

This is what the Vacuum Mother said.

In the charred skin, mouths appeared, howling in the fire inside the nest, "Soul, soul, why are you burning my body? Why are you hurting your benefactor?"

On the skin, a wriggling worm struggled out. It was no longer the same as before, vaguely resembling a large beetle, with the forked horn on top particularly conspicuous.

On the skin, in the fire, Ji Ming's slender, serrated lower legs were sitting cross-legged, with the two pairs of insect legs above clasped together.

The transformation of the soul's form is not due to sudden enlightenment, but rather the result of the insect body's transformation into a pupa in the world of the living being nearing the end, and it has transformed into a new posture. As the form and spirit remain one, the soul will naturally change accordingly.

On the skin, those mouths were noisy and said: "Shenghun, Shenghun, it turns out that you had an epiphany under the sacred tree, what did you realize?"

Ji Ming did not speak, but looked at the indescribable "ghost" in front of him. The constantly changing torso, facial features, joints, and internal organs were truly beyond comprehension.

"Vacuum Mother!"

On the skin, the goddess' mouth exclaimed in surprise.

"She is one of the disciples of the Charred Ghost King, a great accomplished goddess, who has attained the 'Anagami Fruit'. She is one of the few with the most extraordinary affinity with the Buddha in the Laughing Forest. You must be careful."

After saying that, the mouths on the skin closed one by one and disappeared.

The four fruits of Buddhism, the first three of which are Sotapanna, Sakadagami and Anagami, can be contrasted with the three steps of refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit and refining spirit into emptiness in Taoism.

Ji Ming's own practice is in the foundation-building stage of the second step of refining Qi into spirit, between the two stages of "foundation-building" and "golden elixir". If placed in Buddhism, it means that he has attained the first fruit, Sotapanna, and is in the process of practicing to attain the second fruit, Sakadagami.

This True Vacuum Mother attained the Anagami fruit, which is at least the last step of refining the spirit and returning to emptiness. The Yang Spirit in the two realms of "fetal spirit" and "Yang Spirit" can be called an earthly immortal in Taoism.

At this moment, Ji Ming had the illusion that his heart was speeding up. He was actually facing an earthly immortal. He almost forgot the true method that he had gained through sudden enlightenment.

"Wuchao Huowo Samadhi" is the name of this method. The realization of this method is entirely due to the power of the sacred tree here. Ji Ming secretly sighed in his heart that this is worthy of being the Buddha's temple, and there are opportunities everywhere.

“The holder of fate!” The Vacuum Mother, who was too daunting to look at, raised her hand that had grown to her back, and the blue skull at Ji Ming’s side was taken away by the other party. “This thing is not your fate.”

Afterwards, the connection between the Blue Skull and the Cemetery was erased, and from then on Ji Ming could not rely on the Blue Skull to come here.

Ji Ming didn't say anything. He had no right to have an equal conversation with this Vacuum Mother. He did not forget the purpose of his coming here - to understand Zhong Chengzi, especially his relationship with Su Luo.

Besides, does this "not due to any other cause" mean that the green skull originally belonged to Huang Jue, and that he was able to come to the cemetery because of Huang Jue's cause and condition?

"But the Ghost King is here to guide me?" Ji Ming asked devoutly.

He did not think that he was qualified enough to be approached by a great master like Vacuum Mother, just as he believed that most people would not take the time to communicate with the ants under their feet even when they had nothing to do.

So there is only one answer, the Vacuum Mother came here because of the will of the Ghost King.

"The Venerable Jiaomian said that you have the karma of others, not your own karma, and sent me here to take a look. I think he wants me to enlighten you and eliminate the shallow karma in you."

The Vacuum Mother surrounded Ji Ming, and everything on her had returned to where it should be. She said again: "Now that I have seen it, I would like to verify the karma in you.

Therefore, I recommend you to practice in the "Lost Hermitage" on Mount Kege in the west.

Ji Ming nodded, but he disagreed in his heart.

For ordinary people, a state is a world of its own, but for cultivators like Ji Ming, the south of the world is a world of its own.

Now he is unable to handle everything in his own place, and it is not in line with his future plans for him to cross several states and go to a temple in the west to study. Perhaps in the future when he reaches the sixth or seventh realm, he can go to the west to broaden his horizons.

"Please help me solve my confusion, Mother Vacuum!"

Ji Ming said sincerely.

Originally, when he learned that this Vacuum Mother was the disciple of the Burnt-faced Ghost King, his heart sank.

To be able to be the teacher of an earthly immortal, the Burnt-faced Ghost King must be extremely powerful, much higher than Ji Ming had imagined.

In his heart, his belief that he would get what he wanted on this trip had been shaken. Would an elephant care about the troubles and doubts of an ant? ! But he never thought that for some reason, the Ghost King actually sent the Void Mother to enlighten him.

"cause!"

He has firmly memorized these two words. He will have many opportunities to deal with Buddhism in the future, and perhaps he will be able to understand the deep secrets of these two words.

After coming into contact with this Vacuum Mother, he felt no excitement or excitement of meeting an immortal. Instead, he felt a deep sense of insecurity, like a mortal staying near a tiger or a real dragon.

"I know you are confused, so I will give you one sentence: 'Practice according to your heart, and you will find enlightenment.'"

"You really"

Ji Ming wanted to ask more clarification, as he could not afford to be evasive on this matter, but the Inverted Formless Vacuum Mother in front of him had disappeared.

The next second, Ji Ming had a feeling of ascending, and he was sent back to the world of the living.

In the world of the living, in the shade of orchids, the secret struggle between the Zen master and Jintong did not cause much waves. Even if there were some waves, they were quickly smoothed out by Zen Master Sula.

In this place, leisurely and peaceful days passed one by one. The Zen master tried to return to a state of meditation, and also tried to find the golden boy and his "incarnation", but both failed.

The successive deaths of his disciples made him feel more and more lonely and powerless, and he became pessimistic for no reason.

As a last resort, Zen Master Sula began to gather independent practitioners from Heshan and Lanyin to work for him. Even if it meant taking an unconventional approach, he was determined to give it a try.

"Strike?"

In the open, the Zen master who was in a passive position could not help but laugh in his heart. He, a master of Dragon and Tiger skills, was dealing with a person who had just entered the foundation-building stage, and he actually used the word "fight" in his mind. Wasn't this a sign of defeat?

(End of this chapter)