The joy at the foot of the mountain did not affect Li Ye's state of mind at all. After his state dropped to the first level, he did not go to the snow to practice swordsmanship, nor did he rush to the cold pool to temper his body.

In the past few days, he has been quietly knitting the unfinished bamboo hat in the shed.

Although the realm had dropped, he did not feel the loss of true energy in his body at all. On the contrary, it was now much more solid than when he was at the fifth level.

Xiaobai still went to bed after eating and no longer ran out to find the old wolf.

The knife in his hand was turned gently, and the thin bamboos slowly emerged one by one as the knife turned.

It seemed as if what he was weaving at this moment was not a bamboo hat, but a treasure. From time to time, he would put the bamboo pieces in his hands on the fire to bake, and the whole wooden shed was filled with the fragrance of purple bamboo.

After reading the Hua Dharma Sutra many times these days, he would always compare the trivial matters in his daily life with some of the important points in the scriptures.

I also thought about the incomprehensible meanings of the sutras taught by the old monks in the Great Buddha Temple, and I felt more and more important that you should cultivate your own state of mind.

According to what the old monk told me at the foot of the mountain, the Mahayana root nature has an upper root, a middle root, and a lower root. However, most practitioners in the five realms have blunt roots.

The so-called: The heart desires the Tao, but cannot achieve it. The old monk said that we should practice visualization, want to practice samatha, and want to practice the most tranquility, but the tranquility will not come. If we want to practice Samadha, we will remember the right thoughts, but the remembrance will not come.

If you want to practice Zen, you should first practice counting breaths. If you can’t count your breaths...

I feel that the more I practice Buddhism, the more profound it becomes, and the more I practice, the shallower I become.

Just like the bamboo hat in your hand, weaving it becomes more troublesome the further you go, just like writing scriptures in bamboo strips, if you are not careful, it will be broken in the middle.

You have to cut the bamboo strips into strips again, then bake them on the fire to soften them before you can continue to weave them into the bamboo hat.

It's as if the old monk is sitting in front of me and preaching to himself: You have to know that when you practice hard, you can only move forward, not backward. If you retreat, where are you going? Are you retreating to the position of an ordinary person?

Thinking about the day I started practicing with my husband, there was no way out.

Whether it's walking with a heavy load, begging for alms to cultivate one's health, whether it's carving words on a stone wall, or practicing swordsmanship in the glacier, none of it requires a huge effort of one's own energy and physical strength.

I have already retreated from the fifth level of Jindan to the first level. Do I still have to go back to foundation building and Qi gathering?

Li Ye shook his head and murmured: "This is absolutely impossible. I will never let such a thing happen."

"Is it impossible? What kind of thing will you not let happen?" The door of the wooden shed was pushed open, and the old ape walked in with a small bamboo basket in his hand.

Li Ye was startled, looked at the old ape and said, "It's nothing, I was just thinking about my spiritual practice."

He stopped knitting and put the bamboo hat on the table. He added water to the kettle and put it on the fire to boil.

"I have a question. I've always wanted you." The old ape tapped the slate on the table gently.

"Little girl, before you came here, your realm broke through to the fifth level. Why have I seen you return to the first level in the past few days? Could it be that you have encountered some major problems in your practice?"

Li Ye looked at the old ape, smiled softly and said: "I still can't hide it from your eyes. My husband said that my realm improved too fast, so he asked Xiaoqing to bring me a pill.

My five-level golden elixir was melted, I returned to the first-level realm, and I started all over again."

The old ape was stunned, looked at Li Ye and said, "Is this okay? Is there such a kind of elixir in this world?"

"I heard from Xiaoqing that this elixir comes from another world and is a very precious thing. Sir, you have put a lot of thought into my cultivation." Li Ye took out the tea leaves and started to make tea.

Then he took out a plate of peanuts from his back and placed it on the table, indicating that the old ape could eat it.

The two of them started drinking tea quietly in the shed and peeling peanuts. Li Ye occasionally added some hot tea for him, then peeled the peanuts and put them in his mouth.

The old ape suddenly laughed.

Li Ye also laughed.

The old ape pointed at Li Ye with a trembling big finger, and his voice was trembling: "You are cruel! I have been practicing on Tianshan Mountain for thousands of years, and you are the first young man to do something poisonous to me."

The old ape said long-windedly.

"Is it easy to reach the fifth level of cultivation? How many practitioners have devoted all their efforts, just to advance to a higher level, you actually cut off your fifth level with a single sword!"

"I ask myself, I absolutely can't do it! If you don't believe me, ask the old wolf. If he can do it, I will lose this old face to you."

Sighing, the old ape picked up the pot, filled the two cups with tea, and sighed heavily.

"I really don't know what is going on in your husband's mind? How could he deceive his apprentice like this?"

Li Ye looked at him and smiled without saying a word. He just peeled the peanuts and put them in his mouth.

"You call him to come up. I want to question him and argue with him carefully!" the old ape said, glaring at him.

Li Ye looked into his eyes and didn't speak for a long time. He carefully peeled a peanut and threw it into his mouth, chewing it seriously for a while.

After a long while, he murmured: "The moment Xiaoqing gave it to me, I felt the same as you. I thought how could anyone in the world cheat his apprentice like this and actually ask me to take poison.?"

"That's right. How can there be any reason to force your apprentice to take poison?" The old ape became more and more excited as he spoke.

Li Ye looked at the excited old ape, shook his head and said, "But what Xiao Qing told my husband: A stable practice in the golden elixir realm is extremely important to me. If I break through too fast, my foundation will be unstable."

"Is there such a saying? How come I don't know about it and I haven't heard it from Old Wolf?" When the old ape heard this, he was surprised.

Li Ye ignored him and continued: "The only way is to melt these five realms and start over!"

"So there is really such a saying? It seems that we are a little ignorant staying in the mountains!" The old ape sighed.

"Not to mention the fifth level, even if I have reached the ninth level of golden elixir, my husband will force me to melt it and practice again. This is my husband."

Li Ye couldn't help but laugh when he thought of his husband's expression as if he wanted to wear iron armor.

"Xiao Qing told me that this kind of elixir is not available in the Five Realms, and even the sky is extremely precious."

"After I took the elixir, my level just dropped, but I tried to use the true energy in my Dantian, but it was not lost at all. Instead, it became more solid than before."

The old ape frowned and remained silent.

"So that's the truth. Considering your age, Mr. Xiao, it is indeed a bit scary to break through to the fifth level of the Golden Core at such a young age. The realm is inevitably a bit unstable."

"For your future practice, sir, it seems that you can only break your realm into pieces and practice all over again. But you have already gone through the previous path, and starting over again is just a waste of more time and energy."

The old ape sighed: "And you don't lack time and energy, so naturally you are not afraid of melting into these realms."

"Based on the current situation of Lao Lang and I, we never dare to give up our realm. Every day we look forward to realizing the coming of the Nine Tribulations, and being able to successfully overcome them and escape from the void."

Waving his hand, the old ape felt a little depressed.

Li Ye said: "My situation is quite special, and it is not suitable for you two seniors. My husband also said that this elixir is poison to other practitioners, but it is good medicine only for me. This just varies from person to person."

"It's just because you are too young. Is this the saying: if you have too many debts, you won't have to worry about it, if you have too many lice, you won't be itchy?" The old ape shook his head.

Li Ye reflected on the black fruit in the bamboo basket and asked puzzledly, "What kind of fruit is this? Can it be eaten? Why do I feel that it is dirty and more poisonous than the pill I took."

The old ape laughed and said: "Fart! Who told you to eat these fruits? These are good things that my children picked up from the mountains. Grind them into powder and put them in a pot until oil is cooked. Applying them on the body can kill poisonous insects.

Bite wounds and inexplicable stomachaches can be cured by taking some."

"I saw that you had been weaving a broken bamboo hat for several months without finishing it, and I thought you regarded it as a treasure. When you are free, grind the fruit and boil it to get the oil, and then apply it on the bamboo hat. Apply more

After several times, no matter how heavy the wind or rain is in the future, even if you soak it in water, it will not deform or leak."

Li Ye's eyes lit up and he looked at the old ape excitedly and said, "I've been worrying about this for the past few days. I thought that even if I finished the weaving one day, it would definitely leak and deform if it rained heavily. I didn't expect these trivial matters.

You have thought of everything for me, I really want to thank you."

After saying that, he handed the bamboo hat on the table to the old ape.

"My fingers are so thick, how can I braid it for you? Are you kidding me?" The old ape took the bamboo hat and played with it in his hand.

"Turn it over and take a closer look." Li Ye did not tell the old ape the secret in the bamboo hat. "See if you can understand my little bamboo hat."

The old ape turned over the bamboo hat in his hand and looked at it carefully.

After a while, he took a breath of cold air, looked at Li Ye blankly and said, "I asked you how it took you several months to make a bamboo hat. It turns out that you carved so many scriptures on bamboo pieces."

"Do you want to let your bamboo hat recite Buddhist scriptures for you while you are getting wet in the rain? Or do you want to pray to God not to get you wet when it rains?"

The old ape stared at Li Ye, as if looking at a little monster, feeling incredible.

Li Ye laughed loudly when he heard this, and said while laughing: "How could I have so many ideas? They are just used to sharpen my state of mind."

Looking at the puzzled look on the first ape's face, he continued: "My husband has always wanted me to cultivate my state of mind, but I have never found a good way. I don't want to slowly hone my skills while slowly weaving a bamboo hat.

State of mind.”

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"What he said are very simple words. It's really easy to achieve double capacity." The old ape thought about Li Ye sitting quietly under the shed in the past few months and weaving a scene, and he felt a little excited.

"I believe that few practitioners in the world are willing to spend a lot of time on such troublesome and complicated matters."

The old ape looked at him and admired him sincerely.

Li Ye smiled: "I am not the majority of practitioners in the world."

The old ape was stunned for a moment, and then he thought about the thing that could be easily accomplished by worldly practitioners since the night when Li Ye came to the mountain.

He had practiced cultivation for hundreds of years before he dared to practice standing under a pool of water. But how old was Li Ye? He dared to train his body hard in the pool.

Looking at the relaxed face next to him, Li Ye said: "Although I haven't tempered my state of mind as hard as you, you are my descendant after all, and you are destined to take a different path from the practitioners in the world!"

"Maybe neither Lao Lang nor I will be able to see you grow up, but I still want to bless you from the bottom of my heart."

He took a sip of water and continued.

"The sweat you put in today will pay off one day, I believe that."

Ning Que smiled and said, "I didn't think about it that much. I just occasionally thought that I still have some days left on this mountain, and that you and Senior Old Wolf haven't left yet, so I thought it was very interesting for me to knit my bamboo hat.

, so I want to stick to it.”

Looking at the mist on the stove fire, Li Ye smiled lightly.
Chapter completed!