Xu Yin smiled and said: "But no matter what, you look like you are not counting stars happily now."
Zhang Xiaofan scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, then looked at Xu Yin and said: "Seventh Senior Brother, I heard that your cultivation progressed very quickly in the first year of your apprenticeship. You broke through four realms in one year, which is unprecedented in Qingyun Sect!"
Xu Yin stroked his beard and said, "My martial arts training cannot be wasted."
"Oh...but then why haven't you been able to break through the fifth level until now?"
Xu Yin smiled and said: "So you are curious about this. I have never heard of the things the disciples of the Six Meridians say behind their backs, such as the talent is exhausted, the potential is exhausted, and so on.
It's a pity that they all guessed wrong. If I want to break through the realm, it is not difficult to practice the Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao Yu Qing realm to the ninth level."
Zhang Xiaofan believed that Xu Yin could do it, but he couldn't understand it.
"Then why, senior brother..."
"Why don't you practice? It's because I want to find a way to restore my youth, not to enhance my cultivation.
In fact, when I broke through the fourth level, I already knew that no matter how high my cultivation level was, I would never be able to regain my youth, so I have been focusing on this all these years."
Zhang Xiaofan still couldn't understand, "But even so, can't you improve your cultivation and find a way to restore your youth at the same time?"
"Of course not. There is no turning back when practicing Qigong. If you make a wrong step in the middle, it will be difficult to complete the exercise.
Besides, what's the use of having such a high level of cultivation? Apart from being able to fight a little better than others, I was also very good at fighting back then!
But what if I can fight again? God will reopen one day, and no one will be young again."
Xu Yin chuckled and said: "The saddest thing about people is not that they are too mediocre, but that they are old. They have meat but can't eat it, and have wine but can't drink it!"
Xu Yin didn't know if his transformation of his outlook on life had any effect. In short, Zhang Xiaofan seemed to have untied some knots in his heart and became a lot more cheerful.
After that, he practiced kung fu and martial arts every day. Although his cultivation progressed slowly due to his dual cultivation of Buddhism and Taoism, Xu Yin knew that through practicing the martial arts taught by Xu Yin, his actual combat ability was not weak.
Xu Yin was now ready to attack the fifth level of Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao and the higher realm of Brahma Prajna. Now that he had found the path, there was no need to stagnate.
One night, Xu Yin came to the bamboo sea alone, and the moonlight poured onto the ground, bright and cold.
A relief sculpture from the God of War Catalog emerged in Xu Yin's mind. The relief gradually changed and blended into the moonlight, producing thousands of changes.
The picture is abstract and almost devoid of logic, but Xu Yin has great feelings and is full of spirituality.
He jumped up and stepped onto the top of a purple bamboo, letting it sway up and down in the wind.
Xu Yin raised his head to look at the bright moon. Suddenly he sat on a bamboo shoot and fell into tranquility.
The Great Brahma Prajna of Tianyin Temple pays attention to observing oneself after annihilation. You will not be disturbed by the outside world, so you must seal the acupoints all over your body so that you can view yourself freely.
What Xu Yin just realized from the Illustrated Book of the God of War is the method of opening the acupoints to draw in the vital energy of heaven and earth at the time of death.
If you do this normally, you will definitely not be able to enter samadhi. However, after Xu Yin's opened acupoints absorbed the vitality of heaven and earth, he allowed it to flow freely in his body without any influence.
The vitality gathered into the body actually moved and gathered on its own under the instinctive control of Xu Yin's body according to the method of Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao.
But Xu Yin himself had no idea about this. He had already turned his consciousness into the Purple Mansion, guarding an inch of the spiritual platform, without thinking or doubting, and completely entered the realm of annihilation.
This is completely different from his usual method of fusing life and soul. Even if he fuses life and soul, he still needs to run two methods separately.
For example, when operating the Xuanqing Dao of Tai Chi, one's life must be dominated by the soul.
When the Brahma Prajna is operating, life dominates the soul.
But in this current state, neither party can dominate the other, just like the Yin and Yang diagram of Tai Chi, embracing each other, rotating in balance, extremely subtle.
This is an essential improvement in his self-created skills. It truly and thoroughly integrates the two disciplines of Buddhism and Taoism, and it is absolutely impossible for others to copy.
At this moment, Xu Yin was neither sad nor happy when he died, but he clearly felt the existence of another person.
In the aura of Qing Ming, the outline of a long sword appeared.
Although Xu Yin could not clearly see its body, he could already sense from its breath that it was an ancient bronze sword!
After coming to this world for more than ten years, he has never sensed the sword spirit of the ancient bronze sword. This time he suddenly felt this way. Could it be that the ancient bronze sword has initially awakened?
"Your cultivation level is growing very slowly, but you have officially entered the level of cultivation."
In Qing Ming's Qi, the sound of the ancient bronze sword was full of ridicule.
Xu Yin chuckled as if seeing an old friend.
"I can't help it. I have never felt so old before. How much life did you take from me when you dealt with the thunder tribulation?"
The ancient bronze sword said leisurely: "It's only 80% of your remaining lifespan."
Xu Yin looked stunned and said angrily: "No wonder I felt so weak when I woke up! Are you not afraid that if I can't find a way to live longer in my remaining life span, I will die of old age?"
"It's better than dying from a thunderstorm on the spot. Among all the hosts that have walked through the heavens in the past, your Qi calculations are very good."
Xu Yin was silent for a moment, and finally asked the question he had always wanted to ask but had never asked before.
"Since this is not your first time traveling through the heavens, then what exactly are you?"
"That's right. I promised you that when you officially enter the world of practice, I will tell you part of the truth."
The aura of Qingming in front of the ancient bronze sword seemed to have faded a bit. Xu Yin could already see the familiar sword body, but it was still shrouded in a layer of mist. It seemed that it had not awakened completely enough.
"When I was first created, it was not a sword, but a key."
"Key? Key to where?"
"Why isn't it the key to something?"
The Ancient Bronze Sword smiled and said: "My origin involves the truth of the heavens and the world, and also involves the final result of the endless world, so I still can't tell you now. You can't afford to know the consequences of knowing all the secrets."
Xu Yin said in amusement, "If that's the case, doesn't it mean that it's all in vain?"
The ancient bronze sword joked: "You really want to know? Then you will have to face a punishment from heaven that is even more terrifying than the last thunder punishment."
Seeing Xu Yin's silence, the ancient bronze sword said again: "Although I can't tell you the ultimate purpose of my creation, I can tell you why I became such a sword that was born for killing!"
"Born to kill?"
"Yes, it is the sword of killing in your mouth, but the killing you think is just a way of erasing life, which is too superficial. The real killing is more than that.
If you want to bear the price of this secret, you need to collect five volumes of heavenly books in this world. Each of the heavenly books contains a copy of my vitality, which can help me recover to a certain extent."