Chapter 678: Swallowing a Golden Pill, My Fate Is Now in My Own Hands

Zhang Jingqing looked at Zhang Zhiwei angrily, the golden light curse is a good thing left by the ancestors. The reason why you like to use it is just because it makes a clanging sound when you hit it, and the sound is better?

He frowned and wanted to scold him, but then he thought about it. Perhaps the reason why Zhang Zhiwei's attainments in the Golden Light Curse were so high was because he didn't praise the Golden Light Curse too highly and didn't take it seriously.

For Zhang Zhiwei, the various auras of the Golden Light Curse, such as the unique skills created by the Ancestral Master, the unique skills of the Tianshi Mansion, the intertwining of life and life, and the excellent means of protecting the body with both offense and defense... none of them exist, it is just a tool that can be used It is very convenient, very pleasant to the ears, and can also be used to practice ordinary skills of life.

If there were not the first two reasons, perhaps in his eyes, the Golden Light Curse, the Dragon and Tiger Inner Alchemy Technique, and even the messy hoeing technique he created were not much different.

The first two reasons were his dazzling love without utilitarianism. It was precisely because of this seemingly childish attitude that he excelled in the practice of the Golden Light Spell.

Perhaps as a disciple, many of his seemingly childish attitudes are in line with a certain way of quietness and inaction. There are some things that I should not only not reprimand and ban, but should also learn from him.

There is nothing to be ashamed of. The sage Confucius also said that if a threesome walks together, there must be a teacher. Of course, the content of this study will definitely not include Zhang Zhiwei’s big mouth.

After thinking about it, Zhang Jingqing was too lazy to scold Zhang Zhiwei. If you like it, just jingle it. Anyway, just use it as a means of protecting the road.

"Your current cultivation level is very high, so high that it can be described as 'refined as a watch guard, Baili Zhenju', and it is not an exaggeration to say that 'a golden elixir has been swallowed into the belly'."

"Refining to become a guardian, living in the true world" comes from "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Qi", which is a description of a state of cultivation.

Among them, "refining into a protective barrier" refers to the transformation of the body through the dual cultivation of life and life, so that the body becomes like a solid protective barrier, just like a fortified city.

"Baili Zhenju" refers to a pure and untainted state, in which the human spirit and body achieve harmony and unity, and integrate with the nature of heaven and earth.

This is exactly Zhang Zhiwei's current state. On the inside, heaven and man are one, and on the outside, even if he does not use magical powers or resort to any means, he is still as solid as a rock.

Zhang Jingqing continued: "But it cannot be said that 'I know that my destiny is up to me and not God', because on the road, there may be failures, and if they fail, they will collapse to the end."

"So don't be in a hurry. On the road, the most important thing is to avoid being impetuous. Even Chunyang Master Lu Dongbin took you twelve years to achieve enlightenment."

"It took Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, twelve years to become enlightened. For nine of those years, he spent all his time facing the wall in Bodhidharma's Cave."

"Even the master of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, went through twelve years of hard training. For several years, he sent away his disciples and walked alone in the snowy mountains. Later, he became enlightened under the Bodhi tree."

Zhang Zhiwei said in surprise: "Why is it always twelve years?"

Zhang Jingqing said: "One week of the year star is one period, which is equivalent to the twelve-year cycle of the Earthly Branches. If you don't complete it in these twelve years, it will take the next twelve years. This is the opportunity for enlightenment and the number of days."

Speaking of this, Zhang Jingqing smiled and said, "You must be saying that Master Xuanmen likes to knock his head three times and close the main door with his hands behind his back."

What you said are all my words... Zhang Zhiwei smiled and said: "Master, please continue talking."

Zhang Jingqing continued: "It's said to be a number of days, but in fact, it's just like conceiving and giving birth to a child, it's a cycle. After swallowing the golden elixir, what should I do? I can't control my destiny."

"It's time to raise the holy fetus. Once the holy fetus is completed, my fate is up to me."

"There has always been a saying in the world of spiritual practice that it takes ten months to conceive, three years to breastfeed, and nine years to face the wall. It means growing up the holy fetus. According to Buddhism, when the holy fetus is completed, it is 'this festival, the special manifestation of the Dharma body. Image too'.

Dharmakaya...holy fetus...Zhang Zhiwei thought to himself, if we just talk about the holy fetus, it would give people the impression that it is the Nascent Soul in later novels. The old monster of Nascent Soul is so terrifying, but when it comes to the Dharmakaya, it is not difficult. Got it.

Although the dharma bodies of all Buddhas, all bodhisattvas, and all buddhas are the Great Sun Tathagata, among the dharma bodies, there is another one called the self-nature body, also called the self-nature dharma body.

The relationship between the two has been elaborated in various Buddhist classics. Some people say that the Dharma body is the Dharma body, while some people say that the Dharma body is not the Dharma body.

Actually, both are correct.

In Zhang Zhiwei's view, the relationship between the self-nature body and the Dharma body is like the relationship between the Buddha, Bodhisattva, Arhat and Mahavatha Tathagata that make up the Great Sun Tathagata.

In short, although the dharma body and the self-nature body are not inconsistent with each other, the difference between the two is that the self-nature body is the dharma body, but the dharma body is not necessarily the self-nature body.

The dharma body is the ontology, and the self-nature body is the part of the dharma body.

And what Master said about raising the holy fetus is to raise a Dharma body.

As for whether this dharma body is a self-nature body or a true dharma body, it may depend on one's own ability.

If you have strong ability, you are the Great Sun Tathagata. If you are not strong, you are the Buddha or Bodhisattva in the body of the Great Sun Tathagata.

Of course, Zhang Zhiwei has not yet touched on this, so it is difficult to say.

However, Zhang Zhiwei is sure that the self-nature of the Dharma body is infinitely stronger than the subjectivity of those who have taken refuge after death.

The subjectivity of people who take refuge after death is like those tree people in the sacred grove of Nathan's sacred tree. Although some consciousness still exists, they can only rely on the sacred tree to exist.

And the self-nature body may be able to get rid of the shackles of the roots of the sacred tree and freely enter and exit the sacred forest.

As for whether it can grow into a new sacred tree, it is unknown.

In this way, it seems to explain why there are so many messy factions in Taoism and Buddhism.

The ancestors of these factions should all be the existence of nurturing the holy fetus and realizing the self-nature body.

They have broken away from the constraints of the ancestor's Dharma body, but not completely free, and are still under protection.

Just like a grown-up son, you can leave home and start your own family.

But you still have this surname, and you can go home to visit your parents at any time.

At this time, Zhang Zhiwei suddenly remembered the head of Wudang Sect and said:

"Master, I went to Wudang that day. When I met head Sun, he had been practicing hard in the Prince Cave of Wudang for several years. Is he nurturing the holy fetus?"

Zhang Jingqing was stunned for a moment and said: "With the cultivation level of that old guy, this is possible, but I am afraid only he knows the details."

Zhang Zhiwei was thoughtful. If his memory of his previous life was correct, head Sun would have passed away a few years before the Jiashen Rebellion.

Before he passed away, several famous doctors had examined him and said that he was in good health and better than ever before.

He himself said, "I am in good health, why should I go to the hospital? It's just that when the time comes, there will be immortals and Buddhas to take me there, and I want to go for a trip."

Sure enough, not long after he finished speaking, head Sun began to not eat for two weeks, and only practiced boxing and calligraphy every day.

Then, one morning, he said that a fairy came to take him away and asked people to burn paper money. Then, he left a sentence "I regard life and death as a game" and died with a smile.

Although in the plot of One Person's World, Sun Menchang did not appear as a character, since he existed, he might have passed away in the first few years of the Jiashen Rebellion as recorded in his previous life.

That means that Sun Menchang will not live long, but when he saw Sun Menchang that time, Sun Menchang was obviously full of spirit and energy, not like a person who will die soon.

At that time, he had wondered why Sun Menchang died in such a state that he could live for another few decades without any problem?

Now I think that maybe he is not going to die, but his holy fetus is about to be completed and he is about to become a Taoist.

It's just that in these years, he has been too low-key and has not been involved in the affairs of the rivers and lakes. He passed away before the vigorous Jiashen Rebellion, so there are not many records.

"Then how should Master nurture the holy fetus?" Zhang Zhiwei asked.

"Do you need to be taught to raise a child? Once you have conceived it, you will be born with it!" Zhang Jingqing said, "However, to nurture the holy fetus, you must first conceive it."

"How should it be conceived?" Zhang Zhiwei asked.

Zhang Jingqing said in a deep voice, "If scholars know the purpose of gathering five and combining four, and returning two to one, Yin and E will be formed and the holy fetus will be formed."

Zhang Zhiwei understood it immediately and understood the meaning instantly.

"Gathering five and combining four" means to combine the five elements into one, and the four images will gather together and not disperse.

Needless to say, the five elements are gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The four images mean the sun, the moon, the lesser yang, and the lesser yin.     "Returning two to one" means to combine the two divine qi into one, so that Yin and E can be formed and the holy fetus can be formed.

"The five elements and four images don't disperse..." Zhang Zhiwei reacted, "Master, you asked me to integrate the five elements of my body a long time ago, just for this?"

Zhang Jingqing nodded: "It seems that you have reacted, you have the heart to surrender... The monkey in the heart helps, the five elements and four images are just a matter of time, just slowly blend them."

"As for the two-in-one, it depends on your own ability. As for the things of the Tao, Master can only give you some guidance and can't help you too much."

"Take this book, although you can't get the true method, there is no oral transmission, but some of the principles in it can still be used as a reference, it may be useful to you."

Zhang Jingqing handed the "Rootless Tree" on the table to Zhang Zhiwei and continued:

"The immortal grafting method in it, although it looks like a steal at first glance, She, dual cultivation and so on, but in fact it means that people can use their own spirit to replenish. "

"Our usual spirit is outward, and the six senses are all outward. How to make the spirit inward, communicate with the spirit of heaven and earth, and connect with the void, this is the 'grafting method'."

"If it is understood as dual cultivation, possession of the body and other evil methods, even if some ways are cultivated, it is all wrong."

"These Taoist methods are too difficult. It is useless for ordinary people to know them. They will not really know them, and will only mislead the disciples."

Zhang Zhiwei took it solemnly: "Master, I will study it carefully."

"Okay, you go back and study it yourself. If you don't understand something, you can ask me!"

Zhang Jingqing waved his hand and let Zhang Zhiwei leave.

Zhang Zhiwei saluted the master and left.

Walking out of the master's room, he kept thinking about what the master said before and understood the meaning.

Although the master did not tell him the specific formulas and the trajectory of Qi, Tao is not a technique. It is impossible to recite by rote and repeat others' operations. Some things can only be done by oneself.

Ten months of pregnancy... three years of breastfeeding... nine years of facing the wall... nurturing the holy fetus...

"Ten months of pregnancy is actually a practice, a transition process of Neidan Gong. Although it is ten months, the realm before pregnancy may be difficult for many people to reach in their lifetime."

"And three years of breastfeeding and nine years of facing the wall are the process of nurturing the holy fetus. Although there is a saying that practitioners can break through the realm, it is by no means that once the realm is broken through, their own strength will change dramatically."

"It takes time to practice Taoism, and twelve years is the time for practicing Taoism, which is also the time for the holy fetus to grow. This time is fixed, and even Buddhas and immortals have to abide by it."

At this point, Zhang Zhiwei suddenly thought of Zhang Chulan in the plot.

Speaking of which, this kid's practice, under the arrangement of the big-eared thief, just had a twelve-year gap.

And twelve years later, a baby with the words "Nothing gained, to the valley of gods and spirits" grew out of his body.

Doesn't this just fit the time for nurturing the holy baby?

He had previously speculated that this holy fetus was either left by Wu Gensheng, and later grafted onto Zhang Chulan's body in a similar way to the grafting method recorded in "The Rootless Tree", or it was the means by which Zhang Huaiyi realized the source of the Qi body.

Now thinking carefully, maybe it's not certain.

It takes twelve years for Zhang Chulan to nurture the holy fetus.

During these twelve years, he needs someone to protect him, and the person Zhang Huaiyi found is Feng Baobao.

Of course, there is another possibility.

That is, the holy fetus was actually raised in Feng Baobao, and later Feng Baobao gave it to Zhang Chulan.

But no matter who it was raised in, it took twelve years.

At the same time, if the holy fetus, that is, the Valley God, is similar to the Heavenly Master Degree and the Golden Branch of the Divine Tree, then it should also have restrictions. What are the restrictions it imposes on Zhang Chulan?

Zhang Zhiwei thought about it. The restrictions of the Heavenly Master Degree are more direct, which is to explicitly prohibit certain behaviors of the transmitter.

The Divine Tree is gentler. It does not explicitly prohibit things, but it will brainwash people and let believers learn to sacrifice and be pious...

Li Muxuan's granddaughter was brainwashed. She was willing to contribute and sacrifice everything for the Divine Tree.

In the plot, Elijah, who is Nathanwei, likes Li Muxuan's granddaughter very much, and even has the idea of ​​saving her from the sea of ​​suffering.

So, he chose to be a traitor and tried his best to burn the Divine Tree.

When Zhang Zhiwei first learned about this plot, he only thought that Elijah was a love-brained warrior who charged for love.

But now it seems that this is not the case.

As a Nasenwei who accepted the subjective will of the sacred tree, how could he have the idea of ​​burning the sacred tree for his love? !

If there really is, there are only two possibilities.

The first possibility is that Elijah is stronger than the sacred tree, and his personal will overwhelms the will of the sacred tree.

But this is unlikely. If he can really overwhelm the sacred tree, he can free King Nasen in a moment, and there is no need for such trouble.

The second possibility is that his thoughts and actions of charging for love were all arranged by the sacred tree.

It's just that this arrangement is subtle, and Elijah himself did not notice it. He thought he was resisting the sacred tree, but in fact it was the sacred tree that made him resist.

As for why the sacred tree did this...

If you think from the perspective of the sacred tree, there is a group of people who draw a line in the sky and trap you on the sea for thousands of years, not letting you go out, and not letting you develop.

What can you do to escape without being hunted down?

The answer is to escape by faking death.

Although Zhang Zhiwei does not know the plot after Nasen Island, he thinks this possibility is very high.

After this plot, Elijah should be just a pawn, and King Nasen cannot be freed, but the sacred tree may be freed, ascending from the dead end of Nasen Island, and entering the sea.

Of course, it is not certain whether this can be concealed from its opponents.

"The sacred tree has the ability to brainwash, does the Tianshidu have it?"

Zhang Zhiwei turned his head and glanced at the master's casket, and then shook his head.

Taoism is the least favorite of all religions to brainwash.

The sacred tree can brainwash, and the ancestor Tianshi can't help it, and can even do better, but the situation shown by the Tianshidu is almost a rigid prohibition.

When facing things that touch the prohibition, the state shown by the Tianshi, I really want to do it, but I am restricted, so I can't do it.

If brainwashed, there will definitely be no such emotion.

Therefore, the Heavenly Master Degree should not be brainwashing. It only tells you which things you are not allowed to do, and you can do whatever you want with the rest.

In this case, what about the Valley God that Zhang Huaiyi got from Zhang Chulan? How does it manifest in this regard?

Zhang Zhiwei was thinking about it, and suddenly he met Zhang Huaiyi at the corner.

This kid was sneaking down from the back mountain, and the two bumped into each other under the plaque of the Sihan Heavenly Master Mansion.

"Huaiyi, why are you not sleeping in the middle of the night, what are you doing sneakily?"