Man in the heavens, wins by lying down to prove the truth

Chapter 313 Riding the Green Bull Upside Down, the Way is Invisible

The wind blows from the sky, passing thousands of miles morning and evening.

The ancient Chu land, the future Shennongjia area.

Surrounded by misty white fog, the green hills seem to be a reclining Buddha, the ancient forests are verdant and towering, and strange monkeys and monsters sometimes pass by.

In this ancient and sparsely populated forest, one can vaguely see an ancient altar with nine corners, which corresponds to the positions of the Nine Palaces.

"The Feathering Platform..."

Zhou Cheng stood on the altar, sitting cross-legged, with three flowers rising, stirring the qi of heaven and earth, resonating with the altar.

After a while, Zhou Cheng suddenly opened his eyes: "So that's how it is. I should sit here in meditation for 49 days to complete the number of days."

"Wow!"

The sky was filled with colorful clouds, and a phoenix cry resounded, turning into a colorful phoenix circling around.

"Zhou Chengzhou Chushi, follow me. The great master has decreed that you should be a saint in the world, open a great religion, guide the people, and make your name known through the ages."

Thousands of birds took flight, colorful rays of light dyed half the sky, and the colorful phoenix actually spoke in human language.

"Don't go."

As Zhou Cheng finished his words, the colorful light in the sky dissipated, and he continued to sit with his eyes closed.

At three quarters past noon the next day, there were thunder and wind again. Bright lightning tore through the sky, and endless dark clouds covered the sky, with the shadow of a real dragon wandering in it.

"Since the beginning of Zhou Chengzhou, you have been practicing and have taken away the fortune of heaven and earth, and invaded the mysteries of the sun and the moon. You have no intention of repaying heaven and earth, but have abandoned your homeland. You should be punished!"

The dragon's roar resounded, and billions of lightning bolts descended, like mercury pouring on the ground, like a thunder waterfall.

The mighty power of heaven and earth echoed for thousands of miles, making countless people terrified and losing their lives.

In the eternal pure land, thousands of lightning bolts covered the Yuhuatai. Zhou Cheng sat cross-legged on it, unaware of the outside world.

This is the thunder of the heart. Anyone whose mind is disturbed will immediately lose his spirit and will and have no chance of survival.

If one has a strong mind, he will be like the rocks and living beings under the lightning, without any damage.

On the third day, a dragon-like beast with a bird's body and a deer's head, named Fei Lian, came riding on the wind, and stirred up the Xun wind that rose from Zhou Cheng's body. However, some of the three flowers were incomplete, and in an instant they turned into ashes and returned to heaven and earth.

One day, a true immortal appeared in front of Zhou Cheng. He had white hair and beard, and an immortal demeanor. Wherever he passed, heaven and earth were in harmony. Garlands hung from the sky, and golden lotuses emerged from the ground.

"What a gentleman who seeks the Tao, you deserve immortality. This golden elixir, if you practice it nine times, you can achieve the great Tao fruit of Hunyuan Wuji after taking it."

The golden elixir was brilliant, illuminating the thirty-three heavens, containing all the Mount Sumeru in all directions, and swallowing myriad mustard seeds. When any living being saw it, their life instinct would urge them to swallow it.

If one really takes it, he will turn into a golden statue in an instant, and will live forever with the heaven and earth, but he will be unable to move. His mind will be worn away in the ancient years, and he will eventually turn into a dead object completely.

On another day, there was a great golden light and a brilliant golden body came from the west.

A smiling Amitabha was seen sitting on a lotus platform, looking at Zhou Cheng with a smile, and said: "Good man, in the next life, you will become a Buddha and a ruler of the world, because there is really no way to attain Anuttara Samyaksambodhi..."

In this way, a total of 49 days will pass, and 49 kinds of mental calamities will manifest.

It may be that gods and immortals appear in your dreams, or that the heaven and earth are overturned. All kinds of changes are mysterious and extraordinary, but if one's mind is even the slightest bit disturbed, he must not survive this calamity.

On this day, the spiritual essence is complete.

It was noon, and the sun and the moon were shining together, the dragon and the phoenix were singing together, the brilliant purple clouds were illuminating the nine provinces, and the brilliant spiritual energy was spreading throughout the land.

All the mental tribulations and strange visions that Zhou Cheng had experienced before appeared at the same time, bowed to Zhou Cheng, and then transformed into the spiritual charm of Tao, flowing towards Zhou Cheng.

"The method of ascension is here between heaven and earth. It is the way of nature. Why do we need to seek for the method?"

Zhou Cheng was bathed in the spiritual charm of Taoism.

The path of spiritual practice begins with nurturing the three energies.

Polishing your life, refining your essence, energy and spirit, and then opening up the bridge between heaven and earth, breathing in the mysteries of the sun and the moon, are all for the purpose of condensing a breath of innate Qi.

This breath of innate Qi is flawless and is real Qi.

One must also absorb the virtual Qi to be a true Qi practitioner.

The so-called virtual Qi is the various spiritual rhymes and Taoist rhymes in this world. It is invisible and intangible. It is the magic power when the virtual and the real are tempered and the yin and yang are harmonious.

"call out!"

A brilliant glow rose, and Zhou Cheng completely transformed into an immortal and disappeared from this world.

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"The Dongsheng Divine Continent is narrow in the east and wide in the west. The sun rises from here. It is shaped like a half moon, and the faces of people are also shaped like a half moon. People are eight cubits long. The life span is 250 years."

"The land of the Southern Continent is narrow in the south and wide in the north, shaped like a carriage. The faces of the people are like the terrain of the land. Most of the people are three and a half cubits long, and some are four cubits long. The life span is 100 years, but most die young."

"In Xiniuhezhou, the land is shaped like a full moon. The faces of the people are also shaped like a full moon. The human body is sixteen cubits long and the life span is five hundred years."

"In the north, there is a land called Luzhou. Its land is square, like a pond. Its human faces are like the landforms. Its body is thirty-two cubits long. Its lifespan is a thousand years, and it never dies prematurely."

On the side of a country road, a Taoist priest was sitting cross-legged on a green ox. The ox was moving forward, while the Taoist priest was facing forward, riding the ox backwards, explaining something to Zhou Cheng who was standing beside him.

Zhou Cheng bowed slightly to the Taoist: "May I ask the Taoist master, is this the one I saw back then?"

The "that year" that Zhou Cheng mentioned was naturally the Taoist who joined forces to eliminate the main god.

“Yes and no, the Tao is there but cannot be seen. I am the Tao and the Tao is me.”

After the old Taoist finished speaking, he explained: "Boundless nothingness, at the beginning of ancient times, the first god is me, the heart of all Taos, the spirit of all Taos, the embodiment of all Taos."

"If you are on the path to transcendence like you, then you don't need to call me the ancestor. I am just the Tao."

The nothingness mentioned by Taoists is the nothingness before all conceptual worlds and before the birth of infinite dimensions. It is an absolute thing.

The Taoist is the original Tao, the original concept, and Tai Shi.

Tai Shi, it sounds as if it is not as good as the initial existence, the absolute nothingness.

But the Taoist is the origin of all concepts in the heavens and the world. Only with the Taoist, there are all information, concepts, laws, etc.

This is not the Taishi of a certain world, but the Taishi of all worlds.

"Then... why doesn't Daozu seek transcendence?"

Facing Zhou Cheng's question, the Taoist shook his head and smiled: "Tai Yi is nothing, Tai Chu is something, Tai Shi is the Tao, how can we talk about the difference between high and low? My friend, you are on the path of transcendence, can you really prove the end of all Taoism?"

"What I have seen is all there is to prove, but what I have not seen, there is no question of whether it can be proved or not."

Whether it was Zhou Cheng's path, the path of the Three Heavenly Emperors, or the Five Emperors of the Blue and White Society, before transcending, they only mastered all the principles that they saw.

How can you master a truth you have never seen?

"The old Taoist is right in front of you, can you prove the original Dao?"

In response to the Taoist's question, Zhou Cheng seemed to understand something.

"The Tao is invisible. I have only seen the Hunyuan fruition of this world, and have never seen the Taishi of all worlds. Moreover, I have cut off the foundation of the infinite sacrifice of the Tao, and pursue transcendence with the wisdom of mortals."

From the time you start to absorb the Qi of both the real and the virtual to refine your magical powers, there are only five levels.

Those who refine Qi and cultivate life are called celestial beings, those who refine the mind and cultivate nature are called immortals, those who attain immortality are called true people, those who realize all the ways are called Hunyuan, and above Hunyuan is called Wuji Hunyuan.

After acquiring magical powers, one begins to practice cultivation.

After that, one must subdue the monkey in the heart, tame the horse in the mind, subdue the golden man, settle the wood mother, summon the yellow woman, revive the innate nature of Taoism, open the divine eyes, and clarify the cause and effect of the catastrophe. After both are achieved, one can then pursue immortality, live as long as the heaven and earth, and be as old as the sun and the moon.

"My friend, you have great perseverance. Since you are willing to start practicing again, you can follow me for a while."

On top of the green ox, the Taoist smiled at Zhou Cheng and extended an invitation.

Zhou Cheng slightly bowed his hands: "I couldn't ask for an invitation from the Taoist Master."

The old Taoist said nothing, but said: "I have countless side doors, but with your wisdom, most of them are of no help. Only the Golden Elixir Road can prove great wisdom and gain great perseverance."

Just as the old Taoist said, what Zhou Cheng lacked was this great perseverance.

As he learned, understood, and gained more and more, Zhou Cheng's heart for the Tao became heavier.

In other words, Zhou Cheng never truly understood the difference between life and death from beginning to end.

Since he left the main god space at the beginning, Zhou Cheng has left a way out for himself while practicing.

It is precisely because of the existence of the fragments of the main god that Zhou Cheng always has something to rely on and can always make rapid progress and improvement.

This is a great opportunity, so great that Zhou Cheng has never risked his life to survive.

"I wish to cultivate the golden elixir path."

Upon hearing this, Laojun groaned for a moment and said, "Since the birth of sentient beings, there are three gods accompanying them, namely the primordial spirit, the consciousness spirit, and the desire spirit."

"If you want to achieve the Great Dao, the God of Consciousness and the God of Desire will block your path. The God of Consciousness will teach you the wisdom and cute sister, and you will hesitate and be at a loss. The God of Desire will teach you the six poisons and make it difficult to maintain your state of mind."

"During your journey, your consciousness and desire have not been subdued, so you lost your willpower at the critical moment of life and death."

"The Golden Elixir Path, cultivation is also the cultivation of the mind. There are many disasters and tribulations, many tribulations and hardships. If the mind is slightly disturbed, the body and the Tao will be destroyed."

"But you have endless potential, the Infinite Dao Fruit. If you don't kill it, it will be difficult to cultivate your character."

Laojun's meaning was very clear. Even if Zhou Cheng made a mistake, he would not really die even with the infinite sacrifices and fruits of the original deity.

It's nothing more than the reincarnation of this consciousness turning into ashes.

Zhou Cheng fell silent after hearing this.

When Laojun said to cut off the foundation, he did not mean to cut off the foundation as he had before, but to completely merge into the mortal world.

"Then, cut it off."

After Zhou Cheng made the decision, a towering figure began to dissipate in the endless nothingness and chaotic land.

How majestic is that figure?

Just by sitting cross-legged here, he could gain insight into all the principles of infinite chaos. A faint glow shone, as if the entire infinite chaos had turned into pores and hair, hanging on his body.

"You have the heart to achieve the Dao Fruit, but you don't have the fortitude to face Guixu. You have achieved the Dao so easily along the way that I don't know how many people envy you."

Laojun felt a little emotional when he saw Zhou Cheng easily kill off his indestructible body that was the result of thousands of reincarnations and practice.

How many people would rather die than return to the mortal world.

But this is also a good thing. The heart of seeking the truth is the heart of seeking the truth. If it turns into obsession, it will still be difficult to achieve the truth.

"In that case, I will teach you the art of alchemy. You can call me Mr. Boyang."

Boyang is the name of Laojun when he became a mortal.

His surname is Li, his clan name is Lao, his given name is Dan, and his courtesy name is Boyang.

"Hello, Mr. Boyang." Zhou Cheng bowed.

Laojun nodded slightly: "In the way of alchemy, there is a difference between internal alchemy and external alchemy."

"The two come from the same source. The so-called Golden Elixir Dao refers to an inner elixir method."

"My friend, you have cultivated your magic power and completed the cultivation of life. After that, you need to cultivate your mind. Then you can kill the consciousness god and the desire god and achieve the golden elixir path."

"But if you want to kill the two gods, you need to awaken your own primordial spirit. This primordial spirit is the spiritual nature of human beings, the innate spirit that all sentient beings possess."

"Only by subduing the five and having them guard your soul can you awaken your innate spirituality and gain the innate spirit."

"Do you know where the five are?"

Just as Zhou Cheng was about to speak, he suddenly forgot what he was saying.

Five people? Where are the five people?
The Monkey Heart, the Wild Horse, the Gold Man, the Wood Woman, and the Yellow Woman must be within the human body. Zhou Cheng knew this just now, but suddenly his mind became confused and he couldn't say anything when the words came to his lips.

Seeing this, Laojun thought to himself, "Before, you had the great wisdom of the Wuji Dao Fruit, so your heart was naturally untainted by worldly things. Now that you have cut off your foundation and become an ordinary person, the two gods of consciousness and desire have come to block your path, making your wisdom dim and it difficult for you to achieve the Great Dao."

Zhou Cheng bowed and said, "Please give me some advice, Mr. Boyang."

"You can't point it out, you can't point it out. This is to cultivate your mind. You can only understand it when your mind is clear. Otherwise, the two gods will be confused. Even if I tell you, you will forget it in a blink of an eye."

"Besides, if you can't clear your mind, you can't cultivate the great way of the golden elixir."

"If you cannot comprehend the word 'clear', I will let you attain the state of Wuji again."

Zhou Cheng understood something and stopped talking. He began to think about what a clear mind is.

Laojun said with a smile: "Well, my friend, please follow me on this journey to the west. I will go west through Hangu Pass and return to heaven. If you have not realized the truth by then, you can go back to where you came from."

The two men and the ox immediately headed west.

Although Zhou Cheng cultivated his life and body and refined his magical powers, he was just like an ordinary person and followed Laojun at a slow pace.

They walked like this for about ten days. As they went further and further away, they saw purple air spreading and lingering in the sky.

Any Qigong practitioner who has attained the status of a celestial being can see this magnificent vision in any corner of the four continents.

There is a saint on earth who is about to return to heaven.

One day, Zhou Cheng and his companion were walking when they saw an ox cart coming from a distance, with a burly man on the cart.

Along with the man's bicycle, there were seventy-two followers who never left him.

The man driving the car seemed to be aware of something. As a mortal, he seemed to see the purple mist lingering in the sky, and then he saw Laojun riding on a green ox upside down, and Zhou Cheng accompanying Laojun.

"Meet the elder."

The man on the carriage got off quickly and bowed to the old man with white hair and beard. The seventy-two wise men who followed the man also followed and paid their respects.

"Is the one coming Confucius?" Laojun asked while sitting on the green ox and stroking his beard.

"Exactly. May I ask who the elder is?"

"Aren't you looking for me? I am Lao Dan."

"I didn't expect that you would be the sage in person. I am rude." Confucius looked serious and apologized quickly.

Laojun smiled and shook his head: "If you have any doubts, just tell me."

Confucius heard this and said: "The Zhou Dynasty has declined, rituals and music have collapsed, and it has obviously lost the mandate of heaven, causing the common people to suffer. Confucius is willing to seek a righteous way to bring peace to the world again."

"There is no such thing as a right path. As long as you walk, you are on the right path."

Laojun sighed and pointed to the side of the road: "Let's not block the road here, let's discuss the Dao by the side of the road."

"If you want it, please ask the elders first."

(End of this chapter)