Chapter 81 Where is the end of the road of practice?
Chapter 81 Where is the end of the road of spiritual practice?
"Pity."
Zhang Sanfeng lamented: "Of these two people, one of them was too obsessed and insisted on defending Xiangyang without retreating, and was eaten alive by the Mongolian army."
"The other person was originally a martial arts prodigy, but he saw through the world of mortals and chose to avoid the world. I don't know if he is still in the world today."
Song Xuan wondered: "If the innate warrior is so great, why didn't the hero Guo Jing directly sneak into the Mongolian capital and assassinate their emperor?"
"Because, he is not cruel enough!"
Zhang Sanfeng said with emotion: "Back then, the Condor Hero killed the Mongolian Khan among thousands of troops, and the Mongolian army retreated. But afterwards, the Mongolian army massacred several cities dominated by Han people in retaliation!
This move completely stopped those martial arts masters from plotting assassinations.
In order to kill a few Mongolian royal families, the lives of hundreds of thousands or millions of people have to be sacrificed. Even though I am an experienced person, I don't want to be responsible for such a huge cause and effect."
Song Xuan nodded, "It's indeed not cruel enough!"
Zhang Sanfeng glanced at him and said: "Qingshu, to win the world, it is best to be upright and upright. Now that you are strong and capable, there is no need to carry out assassinations and let innocent people be massacred by the Tatars in revenge!"
Song Xuan nodded immediately and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Grand Master, I will fight for the world. I will never use the people as victims!"
After that, he added: "Let's not talk about fighting for the world. Grand Master, let's continue talking about the innate realm. Apart from the two heroes you just mentioned, are there really no other innate warriors?"
Zhang Sanfeng shook his head and said: "Old Taoist, after I was promoted to the innate realm, I traveled around the world for many years and never met anyone again."
Speaking of this, he laughed and said: "Actually, there are still some people with innate talents, but most of them have bad conduct and even do many evil things. I basically killed them all!"
Song Xuan laughed twice.
Taishifu, you are so awesome, you are really killing so much that no one in the world dares to respect you!
Song Xuan even suspected that if he had not been the disciple of Sanfeng Zhenren, his martial arts path would have come to an end.
"In fact, more than a hundred years ago, although there were not many innate warriors, there were still some."
Zhang Sanfeng continued: "For example, the Five Ultimate Skills are worshiped by warriors throughout the world. East Evil, West Poison, South Emperor, and Beggar have magical powers. These five people almost stand at the pinnacle of martial arts in the entire world.
In addition, there are some people who have cultivated the innate true energy, but have not condensed the martial arts will. Although they are not as good as the five absolute levels, they can still be regarded as masters that ordinary warriors look up to!"
Zhang Sanfeng's tone was sighing, with a bit of regret, "It's a pity that I was born too late and was not born in that splendid martial arts era. If I can fight against Wujue, my life in this world will not be in vain!"
"Master, is Xiantian the limit of a warrior? Are there other realms beyond this?"
"Of course there is!"
Zhang Sanfeng looked at Song Xuan with a smile and said: "You boy, you are quite ambitious. You haven't even reached the innate level yet, and you are already thinking about a higher level."
"Then what state is Taishifu in?"
Zhang Sanfeng waved his hand and said: "Your great master, I haven't stepped into that realm yet, so how can I tell you?
If you have doubts, go and read Tao Zang when you have time. Although our Wudang sect is a martial arts sect, it is actually a monastic sect.
The realm of the innate warrior, divided according to Taoist techniques, can only be regarded as a small achievement in refining the essence and transforming the qi. Later, there are other major realms such as refining the qi to transform into the spirit, refining the spirit to return to the void, and refining the void to combine with the Tao.
Speaking of which, the so-called martial arts will, sword intention, etc. are just a kind of speculation and experiment at the level of refining qi and transforming into a god, and it is also the most simple application of ‘god’!”
Zhang Sanfeng was deeply moved and said: "The road to spiritual practice is long and difficult, and no one knows where the end will be.
Qingshu, you have taken many fewer detours than Taishifu and I, and you are expected to enter the innate realm at a young age. Your future path of cultivation will only be longer than that of the old Taoist me. Don’t be lazy and waste your time.
Your cultivation qualifications!"
Song Xuan nodded quickly and said no.
In the following days, apart from necessary military matters, Song Xuan spent most of his time immersed in reading Taoist canon.
At this glance, it is half a year.
The more he read Tao Zang, the more profound his understanding of spiritual practice became.
In his mind, he had a vague idea. He wanted to create a mysterious skill that was most suitable for his own kendo physique.
It's just that this idea is still quite vague, and I haven't been able to grasp the key points. I have so many ideas, but I still don't know where to start.
In the past six months, battle reports from the four armies sent out have been sent back frequently.
The first was Chang Yuchun. This fierce general commanded an army of 100,000 people, starting from Zhejiang and sweeping across Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.
With the cooperation of cannons and fire guns, the city was destroyed and several large chieftain tribes were destroyed one after another. Chieftains from all over the country came forward one after another to swear surrender.
Chang Yuchun loved to kill prisoners. Many civil servants mentioned this matter in several meetings in the past six months.
In the barbaric land of the South, it is true that killing is needed to intimidate, but you have already conquered everyone, but you still kill the prisoners, which is too much.
Song Xuan gave Chang Yuchun a special order for this purpose, telling him not to kill prisoners unless he had no choice.
Lan Yu's side was progressing smoothly. Liu Futong chose to surrender in his free artillery fire, but Guo Zixing was still a little unconvinced and led his troops out of Anqing. Apparently, he was going to join the Ming army.
In this regard, Song Xuan ordered that there was no need to pursue, and ordered Lan Yu to simply rest and then attack with more than 100,000 troops. He and Xu Da sent troops at the same time to march north to attack Yuan Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang was even more powerful.
This person found some eloquent sergeants from the army, sneaked into Jiangxi, and spread various rumors, which caused the conflicts among several rebel forces in Jiangxi to increase sharply and led to a big fight.
When Zhu Yuanzhang's 150,000-strong army marched up the river and approached Jiangxi, several rebel forces were unable to resist. Except for a few individuals who led troops and fled, other rebel leaders chose to submit.
Zhu Yuanzhang accepted the surrender of more than 100,000 troops, and his military strength suddenly increased to nearly 300,000.
It was a good thing to capture Jiangxi, but many civil servants in Jinling City began to feel wary of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Even Li Shanchang specially sent a message to Song Xuan, requesting that Zhu Yuanzhang be transferred back to Jinling and not continue to lead troops.
Song Xuan just laughed it off, and even ordered Zhu Yuanzhang to continue up the river after taking Jiangxi to clear out the remnants of the Yuan army and the rebels who refused to submit.
Regarding the confusion of Li Shanchang and others, he just smiled and said: "You may not trust Zhu Yuanzhang, but you can always trust the 150,000 Jinling soldiers, right?"
This sentence blocked all kinds of rhetoric from civil servants.
After all, those 150,000 soldiers had fathers, mothers, fields and houses. Only those who had lost their minds would choose to rebel against Zhu Yuanzhang.
In fact, even Song Xuan is a little curious. The opportunity has been given to you, Lao Zhu. Do you, Zhu Yuanzhang, have the guts to dare to have dissent?