Chapter 304: Confucianism and Taoism
On the ring.
"Begin."
The referee gave the order.
Gu Xia casually snapped his fingers, and sparks overflowed from his fingertips like a real fire, and instantly expanded into a hot fireball the size of a washbasin.
Then a fire crow broke out of the shell in the fireball and circled around his body, extremely agile.
For ordinary soul cultivators to perform a Taoist spell, they need to activate the corresponding spiritual talisman in the spirit platform, and then cooperate with fixed spells and hand seals.
And Gu Xia cast the spell so casually, the soul cultivators in the audience knew at a glance that he was a Taoist master.
"It's interesting!"
Just when everyone was looking forward to a wonderful fight.
On the opposite side, Yang Youyi saw this familiar starting move and immediately Qin Wuyang's upper body, his legs trembled, and he almost wanted to escape.
"That fire crow! It's him! He actually exists!"
Seeing that the fire crow was about to attack, he immediately shouted: "I give up!"
"Tsk!"
Seeing Yang Youyi give up, there were waves of boos from the audience.
"Did I awaken the aura of kingship and make my opponent bow down to me?" Gu Xia was also confused.
However, the opponent had already fled the scene with a broken heart, so it was too late to ask.
"Forget it, it would save some effort to win without fighting."
In this way, Gu Xia passed the first round of fighting in an unexpected way.
In the next three days, 16 games will be played every day until all the 128 to 64 games are played, and then the schedule will be re-drawn.
After a day of rest, it will be 64 to 32, which is also a four-day schedule, 8 games a day.
So, Gu Xia's next round of competition will be at least 5 days later.
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The next day.
Early in the morning, Gu Xia appeared in the secret realm challenge hall on time.
Today he will use up the last chance of the grand prize, and by the way, collect the remaining secret realm mysterious force structure data.
Gu Xia casually threw a mysterious crystal to the Taoxian disciple here, and the disciple did not say anything, and skillfully handled the procedures, and then handed over a certified jade card.
He took the jade token and inserted it into the corresponding door, and he entered the secret realm.
Next, everything was calculated.
Xingchen unfolded the soul force field and continuously recorded the readable data in the secret space, while Gu Xia dealt with the illusion, accurately controlled the time, and killed each illusion at the right time.
Until nearly an hour later.
"Soul-catching soul!"
A loud shout came from the secret realm.
The entire body of the ninth-level illusion was shattered by a soul force vortex, turning into a blood soul flying sword, stabbing forward.
He actually used a trick of burning both jade and stone, which means that as long as you can withstand this sword, you can pass the secret realm.
Generally, illusions will not do this kind of operation that allows the challenger to pass the trial directly. Unless, if you don't do this, the illusion will be wiped out.
On the opposite side, Gu Xia stood there leisurely, his face unchanged, and waved his hand calmly, and ice walls and rock walls were erected in front of him.
For a moment, it was unclear who was the challenger.
But the blood sword was indeed powerful. Gu Xia erected a total of 18 layers of 3-foot-thick Taoist wall made of nine ice and nine rocks, but it was shattered by the blood soul flying sword in an instant.
"This move is really extraordinary! We can't underestimate them. They are quite capable as the ninth-level illusion."
Gu Xia frowned slightly, and three more spider webs made of flames stood up in front of him as he stretched out his hand.
The blood sword pierced into the fire net, and with a crackling sound, it began to burn, and its speed suddenly slowed down. You could vaguely hear the blood sword wailing.
The blood sword still broke through two layers of the fire net.
However, when it came to the last layer, only one-third of the blood sword was left.
The fire net was twisted by the piercing and was almost pierced. The blood sword was only an inch away from Gu Xia, but a slight difference made a huge difference.
Finally, the blood sword disappeared in a wisp of white smoke, and the arc on Gu Xia's fingertips also dissipated.
"Challenge successful!"
"Data collection complete!"
Two mechanical voices sounded, one outside and one inside the mind.
An hour later.
Gu Xia returned to the inn. Xingchen was trying his best to analyze the data he had collected with more than ten black crystals, while he was holding a new jade scepter to study the contents.
This was the soul cultivation method exchanged from the secret realm reward.
There was only one volume of Night Tour Realm, and there was not even any Taoist magic attached.
The Taoxian Mansion disciple at the secret realm challenge also hinted to Gu Xia that the Taoxian Mansion store was willing to sell the follow-up and supporting parts of this method at a low price.
I think the other parts were taken away by Taoxian Mansion, leaving only a whiteboard Dharma phase diagram, trying to be a hook to lure the cultivators to buy the supporting parts.
Gu Xia could only sigh that this place was called Taoyuan, but Taoxian Mansion was very good at business, and the spirit of business prevailed.
Fortunately, the level of the mind method was the third and ninth grade, and it was a good mind method among the third and ninth grades. It was expected that a lot of Xuanwen data could be extracted from it and integrated into the Heart Demon Daozang.
If it is used for cultivation, it may be useless, but it is suitable for upgrading materials.
Gu Xia's soul power merged into the jade sceptre, and only an outline of the mind method and a picture of the Dharma were displayed.
The name of the mind method is "The Unity of Knowledge and Action".
As soon as the name was seen, it was known that it was the Confucian and Taoist mind method.
The picture of the Dharma was also constructed by imitating the statue of the great Confucian Mr. Shouren.
The unity of knowledge and action is one of the most famous mottos passed down by Mr. Shouren.
Perhaps due to the experience of the previous life and this life, Gu Xia has a good impression of Confucianism, and he most admires the sub-sage.
But what's interesting is that just like in the previous life, the Great Emperor of Gan here also doesn't like the sub-sage, after all, the sub-sage always likes to say things that are not conducive to the imperial power.
Mr. Shouren is also a Confucian and Taoist predecessor that Gu Xia admires.
Especially the phrase "unity of knowledge and action", Gu Xia has always kept it in mind.
He understands it this way, people's behavior should be consistent with their own cognition, in simple terms, people should do what they think is right.
In another easy-to-understand sentence, it is: my heart and my actions are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is justice.
Of course, the world is so turbulent, and people will always have many hardships if they want to practice their own "justice", so they must keep their original heart and work hard to move forward, and sometimes they have to do some "unjust" things for their own "justice".
Seeing this mind method, Gu Xia couldn't help but read the outline of the mind method in it.
"The human heart is dangerous, the heart of Tao is subtle..."
Unknowingly, an hour passed.
Mr. Shouren's famous eight words "investigation of things to gain knowledge" and "unity of knowledge and action" were deeply engraved in Gu Xia's heart.
"Huh..."
Gu Xia put down the jade sceptre and let out a long breath. Unconsciously, his mind became much clearer, and all the distracting thoughts in his heart were removed. As if he had realized something, his heart of Tao was more firm than before.
This is why every soul cultivation method must be accompanied by a seemingly useless outline of the method.
Soul cultivation is essentially about cultivating the heart of Tao and the soul. Those Dharma images and Tao methods are all techniques, and the sentences in the outline of the method are the core, which records the Tao.
If you cannot understand the outline of the method, or find your own Tao, and only study it, no matter how talented the soul cultivator is, he will never reach the innate realm in his life, and there is a high probability that he will not even reach the peak of the acquired realm.