The specific realm of Taoist cultivation is as follows:

1. Soul Condensation: This step involves refining the Qi and condensing the ‘soul’ in the sea of ​​consciousness through visualization. This is the practice Xu Sheng completed in her mother’s womb.

2. Soul refining: This step is to continue to train the soul and make it stronger until the soul power is strong enough to spread out of the body. This is the training completed three years after Xu Sheng was born.

Third, manifesting the soul: In this step, after the soul power is manifested on the body surface, it is necessary to continue to temper the soul with various methods to make the soul power stronger. This is a practice that Xu Sheng spent five years completing.

Fourth, the outer soul: This step is when the soul power can gradually be released and can directly affect the external physical world! However, the released soul power is still very rigid. It cannot turn and can only be released straight. Xu Sheng is now

The current state of practice.

Five, Divine Soul: This step is the next state that Xu Sheng has to reach. If it can be successful, the soul's soul power will be divine, and the released soul power can turn around, etc.

At this point, the 'spirit' has been cultivated, which also means that the Taoist priest's cultivation has reached a qualitative change.

A watershed has been crossed.

In fact, all these cultivations are inseparable from the general outline of Taoism: "Refining Qi to transform into God, refining Qi to transform into God, and refining Soul to return to void." When you reach the realm of divine soul, you have actually reached the level of refining Qi into transforming into God.

After that, there are: out of body, night tour, distraction, day tour, Yang Shen, transcending tribulation, real person.

These are seven realms to climb.

These are all parts of ‘refining the spirit and returning to the void’.

The ultimate goal of these Taoist practices is to become a real person!

Use the power of thunder to return the soul to the void and merge it with the body to become a real person!

Therefore, many people usually call some virtuous people, and they like to call each other: xx real person.

In fact, this is just a compliment. Anyway, in today's fairy tale world, it seems that it is unheard of for a living practitioner to reach the realm of a real person.

Of course, it is also possible that some experts are hiding in the world, so it is possible that Xu Shengcai does not know about them.

After all, it is possible that some people also know about the evil existence of the fake Guanyin Master. In order to fight against this evil existence, they will hide themselves in the sea of ​​people and continue to practice.

If he wanted to deal with that fake Guanyin Master, Xu Sheng would have to overcome the tribulation and become a real person! Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel that there was a long way to go.

In Buddhism, there is no need to go through tribulations.

Because the Buddhist practice method directly treats the physical body as a stinky bag.

Abandon the physical body directly!

So they don't have to go through thunder tribulation.

All you need to do is practice hard and sit in meditation.

Taoism emphasizes the "double cultivation of human nature and life", while Buddhism only cultivates human nature and not life.

actually!

In the history of spiritual practice in this world!

In the beginning there was only Taoism, not Buddhism.

All practitioners cultivate both life and life. Although all cultivation is cultivating the soul, the ultimate goal is to rely on the power of the soul to make the body immortal.

But then I don’t know when the ‘Buddha’ practice method appeared, which was developed on the basis of Taoist practice.

Abandoned Taoism's attachment to the physical body, treating the physical body as a stinker, and tortured one's own body through methods such as 'penance' to strengthen one's soul.

In the end, he completely abandoned his body!

To dissolve it is to crush it!

Then become a Buddha with only your soul!

Therefore, the common people in the world often spread the legend of the Taoist master with "crane hair and childish face".

But Buddhists did not leave such similar legends.

The legends left behind by Buddhist monks who achieved enlightenment are all about "ascetic monks" and the like.

And this is also the reason why the little Taoist nun said "Buddha is the Tao" when she was debating with Chun Yangzi.

In fact, Xu Sheng had already understood these things in his previous life, but now he still listened carefully to the twenty-eighth senior brother's explanation in a systematic manner.

Mainly I want to know if there are any other changes in Taoist practice today after more than a hundred years.

But overall it sounds like there aren’t many changes.

Others are related to the specific exercises and what you need to pay attention to when practicing various exercises, what to do to achieve better results, etc.

This aspect is quite important. There are people who teach you step by step and teach you the practice experience personally. It really saves you a lot of pitfalls in practice.

After all, Xu Sheng could only collect exercises in his previous life, but he could not practice at that time, nor could he personally experience the pitfalls he would encounter while practicing various exercises.

Especially the small details that need attention are very important.

It's hard to understand without personal experience.

In short, under the careful guidance of the twenty-eighth senior brother, Xu Sheng's cultivation progress has indeed been faster.

However, there is still a long way to go before he can become a divine soul.

Cultivating Taoism is not something that happens overnight.

It is estimated that it will take some years to become a divine soul.

Three more days later.

This day.

The twenty-eighth senior brother called Xu Sheng and Cheng Shou over.

"Junior brother twenty-nine and junior brother thirty, I have called you here today."

The twenty-eighth senior brother said: "I almost forgot, the master ordered me to give you a good treasure!"

"What?"

Cheng Shou's eyes lit up: "What a good baby?"

"A gift from the master?"

Xu Sheng also breathed quickly: "What kind of magic weapon is it?"

He thought that the twenty-eighth senior brother was going to give him some powerful magic weapons.

But I didn't expect that the next moment, Brother Twenty-Eight took out two guns from his space magic weapon.

"Come and see you off!"

The twenty-eighth senior brother said: "Take it, what are you doing standing still? Do you know what this is? The latest musket! It's hard to get it!"

"..." Chengshou was dumbfounded.

"???" Xu Sheng was speechless.

Unexpectedly, what a real Taoist priest gave away was not a magic weapon, but a gun that was researched by someone in his previous life!

"Why, you look down on guns?"

However, Brother Twenty-eight said: "Although we have magic power, magic power can block bullets! But how precious is our magic power? How time-consuming is it to recover? Now that muskets have appeared in the world, we Taoist priests must also keep pace with the times.

!”

"..." Xu Sheng was speechless.

"..." Cheng Shuze is solemn.

"How hard is it to cultivate our magic power? If you can't use it, don't use it!"

The twenty-eighth senior brother added: "So, it is very important to have a gun for self-defense! If you are really entangled by cause and effect, and there is any situation where you have to take action, just use the gun directly, so you don't have to waste mana."

In the end, Xu Sheng had to admit that what the twenty-eighth senior brother said made sense.

Then he and Cheng Shou took the gun together.

Although guns are still useless against truly powerful practitioners.

For example, it won't work against the fake Guanyin Master.

At first, even cannons couldn't kill her.

If he wants to kill the fake Guanyin Master, Xu Sheng can only improve his spiritual skills.

But there's nothing wrong with getting a gun for self-defense.

This thing is still very useful for dealing with some ordinary people, or dealing with some ordinary practitioners.

"Don't use it randomly, I'll teach you!"

At this time, the twenty-eighth senior brother said again and again: "The gun was invented by Xu Longsheng, the founding emperor of Daxu! It has been developed for more than a hundred years and has become even more sophisticated! It does not require any magic power to urge it.

move……"

Later, he even took Xu Sheng and Cheng Shou to the back mountain to practice marksmanship.

Xu Sheng couldn't help but feel speechless about this. He didn't expect that the first thing he had to practice after entering the Taoist temple was marksmanship.

Of course Xu Sheng understands that these are the different evolutions brought to this world by the things he made in his previous life.
To be continued...