No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 16 What is the world like?

The moonlight was as bright as a mirror, shining into the dilapidated temple through its broken door.

Taoist Lan just lay in the dilapidated temple, looking quietly at the moon in the sky through the gate.

What was he thinking about?
If he doesn't say it, no one will know.

Xu Shun, who was standing aside, was sitting cross-legged and practicing.

After the spiritual energy entered Xu Shun's body, it passed through the meridians in his body and was partially absorbed by the meridians. The remaining spiritual energy fell into the lower dantian, improving his body little by little.

During this period of time, Xu Shun practiced the "Qinghua Sutra" explained by Taoist Lan, and gradually understood the Qi Refining Stage.

The Qi Refining Stage is about training Qi and cultivating the body.

This is because monks ascend to heaven through their physical bodies.

A good physical body is the beginning of a monk, like the foundation of a building.

Qi training can't even be considered as laying the foundation, it can only be considered as digging a hole. Just like a hundred-foot-high building, you don't build it directly, but dig a hole first.

It seems to go against common sense, but it actually makes sense.

The same is true when you train your qi and your body.

Laying the foundation is the basis.

After the foundation-building period, the physical body can bear the changes in spiritual energy and transform it into usable power according to the method of practice.

That is magic power!
That is the spiritual stage!
This is also the beginning of a monk's true practice.

According to Xu Shun's understanding, the Qi training stage and the foundation-building stage are probably equivalent to kindergarten in his previous life; anyone can go and it can all pass by happily.

By the time Xu Shun finished his homework for the day, the sky in the east was gradually turning white.

"Legend has it that when the sun rises every day, a stream of pure yang purple energy will appear between heaven and earth, and the cultivators absorb this pure yang purple energy."

Xu Shun looked at the sun slowly rising in the east, and thought of the scene he saw in his previous life, and couldn't help but speak.

"My disciple, you may not know that the sun rises at different times in different places." Lan Daoist glanced at the illiterate Xu Shun and explained:
"If there really is such a thing, with the speed of a monk, he can inhale it all day long."

"My disciple should read more and think more!"

"..."

I was actually looked down upon by Mr. Lan.

It’s because of the sun’s revolution!

Cultivation novels are killing people!

Xu Shun felt strange and said, "Could it be that the sun revolves around the earth?"

Taoist Lan looked at Xu Shun strangely, and was surprised for a moment, and said: "My disciple is very insightful, he can even guess this."

I didn't guess it, I learned it!

"Disciple, do you know what the land of China beneath our feet looks like?" Taoist Lan wanted to test Xu Shun, so he asked.

"It can't be round, like a ball, right?" Xu Shun said tentatively.

"I didn't expect that you, my disciple, actually knew this!" Taoist Lan slapped his belly and said in surprise.

"I guessed it!" Xu Shun told the truth, he was indeed guessing it.

Who knew that the world beneath our feet is a ball?
In previous lives, when civilization developed to a certain level, people became aware of the full picture of the earth beneath their feet.

But in this world, he wanders around in the mountains all day, and who knows what the world is like.

"You can actually guess it right? It turns out that my disciple is a person who knows it by nature." Taoist Lan looked at Xu Shun carefully.

Xu Shun’s speech and manner are sophisticated, which can be understood as precocity, but Meng’s belief that the world is round is very... strange.

Normal people don’t think the world beneath their feet is round. Xu Shun doesn’t seem abnormal.

"Born with knowledge? Does that mean you know a lot the moment you are born?" Xu Shun asked back.

"That's right! According to the records in our sect, there was a senior named Huang Ju in the Huang generation who was born with knowledge and was good at music and singing. Back then, he led that generation in composing music and singing, and he was quite famous in the sect." Taoist Lan nodded.

"Is it a colt? The colt of a fine horse?"

"No, it's the 'ju' of restraint." Lan Dao Ren said, "The records in the sect say that the founder of the Orange generation criticized them for having unkempt hair, being unruly, having strange and lewd skills, not practicing well, and disturbing others' cultivation."

"But according to the later evaluation of the Green Generation Master, Huang Ju disliked the Orange Generation Masters for being too incompetent and broke the musical instruments they invented, so he did not play with the Orange Generation Masters."

"The founder of the Orange generation was so angry that he banned alcohol and did not allow them to drink."

Orange, yellow, green, Taoist Lan finished telling the story about three generations of people, about wine and singing.

Oh yes, the reason we talked about banning alcohol yesterday was because the Huang generation’s ancestor liked to drink and sing, so alcohol was banned.

So it’s because of Patriarch Huang Ju.

"But why not ban singing?" Xu Shun asked.

"It was banned. Later, the ancestors of the Orange Generation either ascended to heaven or passed away. The ancestors of the Yellow Generation changed the sect rule of banning songs." Taoist Lan said.

Yuhua is a euphemism for death.

"Then why don't you lift the ban on alcohol?" Xu Shun asked again.

It's unreasonable to lift the ban on singing but not on drinking.

"That means that later on the ancestor of the Green generation restored the ancestor's method." Taoist Lan thought for a moment and said.

"It can't be that the Yellow generation patriarch didn't lead the Green generation in playing music, and the Green generation endured humiliation and, after becoming the leader, banned alcohol, right?" Xu Shun speculated based on the nature of the Qinghua Sect.

"My disciple, you are quite experienced. You are not supposed to know the ways of the world at your age." Lan Dao said, "I have always had some guesses in my mind, but I was afraid you would misunderstand, so I didn't ask."

"Now I feel the time is right."

Lan Daoren is a cultivator in the Mahayana stage. He has practiced in the world of immortals for hundreds of years and has wandered in the human world for countless years. He has seen all kinds of things.

Xu Shun's casual words, actions and strange ideas made Lan Daoren always guess, but he always pretended to be confused, for fear that Xu Shun would misunderstand.

They misunderstood that he accepted him as his disciple because Xu Shun knew it by nature, and they misunderstood that he was plotting against Xu Shun.

Young people who have a bit of talent always have some delusions of being persecuted. He has also experienced this age and thoughts.

Xu Shun thought for a moment and said, "If one is born knowing a lot of things, then it can be considered as innate knowledge, then I am not one of them."

"Oh." Taoist Lan nodded calmly, indicating that he understood.

He chose to believe his disciple.

"A year ago, I suddenly had a lot of strange knowledge in my mind." Xu Shun added: "I don't know if this situation can be regarded as innate knowledge."

When he traveled to this world, this body was already a teenager.

It's really not something I know naturally.

"...Disciple, please finish your words at once next time." Taoist Lan was speechless by the way Xu Shun spoke.

"Your situation is not innate knowledge, but another situation." Lan Dao thought for a while and said, "It can be considered as awakening wisdom."

"Awakening of innate wisdom? Are there really past lives, present lives, and future lives? Are there really underworld?" Xu Shun said with his eyes lighting up.

If there are immortals, there must be an underworld, right?

If there is immortality, there will naturally be reincarnation?

What on earth is this world like!
(End of this chapter)