Chapter 323: Those Who Travel a Thousand Miles Gather Food in Three Months
The passage had appeared, and a kingdom under the sand was about to appear in front of them. The moment the passage opened, they sensed the chaotic metallic aura inside the king.
The little flower demon and Ran Bing thought it was nothing, but Lu Pingxi could sense that the ant demon's kingdom was extremely unbalanced. There were too many metallic auras in this kingdom and it was too chaotic.
Metallicity represents bravery and invincibility, and represents strength and unyielding strength, but it is easy to break if it is too strong, so the earth attribute is needed to stabilize the metallicity and to nourish the metallicity, but there is no earth attribute in this kingdom.
Lu Pingxi, who has reached the golden elixir stage of cultivation, has begun to gradually feel these changes and realize things that ordinary practitioners cannot understand. Moreover, he has begun to realize the help of spiritual realm in cultivation. Recently, he has begun to study some ancient classics. As he studied these ancient books, he understood a truth.
You can practice Taoism without cultivating immortality, but you can't cultivate immortality without cultivating Taoism.
The passage had gradually formed, and the sand inside spread out. A staircase appeared in front of them. Several ant demons said respectfully: "Senior, please follow us into the underground kingdom."
This is the underground kingdom of the ant monsters. Normally, they would not invite other creatures into it, but this time the situation was different.
Since they are people authorized by the great elder, they must open the door for them and welcome them in respectfully.
Lu Pingxi and the others nodded, then walked down the stairs.
Several ant demons led the way, and soon they entered the intricate ant tunnel. The metallic aura around them became stronger, which made the little flower demon and Ran Bian feel a little uncomfortable.
In addition, countless ant demons are busy, coming and going, some are transporting supplies, some are transporting cultivation resources, and some are transporting books made of stones.
"These books," Lu Pingxi asked, "are they written by He Yao?"
When these ant demons were carrying the books, Lu Pingxi's spiritual consciousness had already swept over them. These stone books were written with a very special "voice". This voice is the smell. There are different smells on these stones. These smells It is fixed on the stone book by the metallic aura. If you want to understand the information on it, you have to use your olfactory organs to smell it instead of seeing it.
As far as Lu Pingxi knew, ants were originally creatures without vision and used smell to communicate. Therefore, Lu Pingxi deduced that these ants developed spiritual intelligence before they became successful in cultivation and invented the smell text.
This group of ants
They are not ordinary ants, but most likely treasure beast level or even spirit beast level ants.
Facing Lu Pingxi's inquiry, the ant demon did not dare not answer. It said: "Some of these books were written by the great masters of our ant tribe in ancient times, and some were written by the great elders of the past dynasties."
This ant demon didn't hide anything, and it felt that it didn't need to hide anything. This was a book written with scent, and other creatures couldn't understand it at all.
However, it miscalculated that Lu Pingxi could understand these books.
After Lu Pingxi scanned them with his spiritual sense, he understood the contents of these books. Although these books were written with scent, it still could not prevent Lu Pingxi from understanding them. For this reason, Lu Pingxi could only attribute it to himself. The physique is gone.
Otherwise, it makes no sense, because he has never seen an ant tribe, never seen a scent book, and has never learned a scent text.
The ant demon continued to lead the way, and Lu Pingxi followed behind. He kept scanning the stone books with scent words recorded with his spiritual sense. What surprised him was that all the stone books recorded in these stone books were books about spiritual practice, and It is a book for cultivating the mind.
For example, a book called "Xian Bei Lun" records a saying that before practice, you must first cultivate your mind. If you retreat for one month, you must first spend five days cultivating your mind and retreat for one year. You must first spend one month cultivating your mind. If you are in retreat for more than ten years, you must spend one year cultivating your mind.
This is called preparation before retreat. Be prepared and prepared, the smoother the retreat will be.
Lu Pingxi strongly agrees with this book. Yes, bigger things require more preparations. There is a sentence in Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou": "Those who are suitable for the wild world will have three meals, and their belly will still be as expected; those who are suitable for hundreds of miles." , stay to pound grain; those who are suitable for thousands of miles gather grain in the third month.”
This sentence fully illustrates this truth. The longer the vision and the loftier the goal, the more time people will spend to prepare and then go further. Lu Pingxi’s previous behavior has already been in line with the Tao, just waiting to read He understood this only after reading the classics.
When ordinary people travel far, it takes a long time to think about things before and after. It may not seem decisive, but it makes sense.
When an immortal travels far, he makes an instant decision, which seems decisive. In fact, at that moment, the immortal has clearly judged the cause and effect. If he continues to travel, he is just acting according to the changes in cause and effect.
Just as Lu Pingxi was carefully checking the classics of the ant clan, the ant demon leading the way suddenly said: "Senior, the residence of the great elder is just ahead."
Lu Pingxi looked up and saw a long underground passage. At the end of the passage was an underground cave that exuded an earthy atmosphere. The cave looked very simple, and there were several ants standing at the entrance of the cave. Monsters, the ant monster at the front is a very old ant. It is different from other ants. Other ants all exude a metallic aura, but it exudes an earthy aura.
At that moment, Lu Pingxi understood that this old man was the great elder mentioned by the ant demon.
"Senior, you have come from afar. I am sorry that I did not come to greet you."
Lu Pingxi was a little surprised because it was strange to hear the word "disrespectful" in the other person's mouth. The word "etiquette" only appeared after Confucius and was exclusive to humans. The monsters that entered the fairy tower in ancient times did not know what etiquette was.
However, this ant knew it, which was very strange.
However, Lu Pingxi did not ask about this matter in detail. He asked, "You should be the great elder of the ant tribe, right? I am very interested in your magic arithmetic. I wonder if you can discuss arithmetic with me."
Arithmetic is also called fortune-telling. It is a very profound subject. There is another book "Book of Changes" in ancient Z country, which was passed down from the Zhou Dynasty. Now you can search it on the Internet at will, but you can only search for the hexagram, but not the algorithm, let alone the solution.
So no matter how much ordinary people study, they don't know how to calculate this hexagram, let alone how to solve the hexagram calculated.
This is like getting a math problem and a reference answer, but not knowing the algorithms of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, let alone the solutions of setting unknown variables and binary linear, so just looking at the problem and knowing the reference answer, but still not knowing how to do the math problem, so when encountering a practical problem, you still don’t know how to solve it.
Therefore, the algorithm and solution are the top priority, and at this moment, the great elder of the ant tribe seems to have mastered this algorithm.