Ye Tian spit out a few sour words with great difficulty, but they were all nonsense. Even Lei Hu could tell that the Taoist sitting on the ground was a dead man!
Viewed from the front, the Taoist's expression and exposed skin are no different from those of living people. Moreover, he sits upright and looks as if he is meditating.
However, on the back of this man, starting from the lumbar vertebrae and extending up to the bottom of the neck vertebrae, the skin and flesh were completely opened outwards, and a large gash nearly one meter long was opened, but no blood flowed out.
The flesh under the yellow skin is golden yellow, and even the long spine is golden in color. All the internal organs are of this color, making it look extremely weird.
"Master, what...what's going on?"
Lei Hu has seen a lot of dead people in his life, but at this moment he only felt his heart beating "dong dong". If he saw this situation in another environment, he would just think it was a metal dummy.
Ye Tian showed a look of respect on his face and murmured: "Become an immortal, this... this is the true transformation into an immortal!"
The word emergence first comes from nature. When an insect changes from a pupa to an adult, the process in which an insect changes from a nymph or a pupa to an adult after molting can be called emergence. It is taken from "Sou Shen Ji" Vol.
Thirteen: "Wood beetles give birth to insects and emerge into butterflies."
According to Chinese Taoist classics, when human beings practice to the extreme, they can escape the cycle of life and death, birth, old age, illness and death, which is called becoming an immortal. Su Shi once said in "Ode to the Former Red Cliff": Floating like a left-behind reading ability, transformed into an immortal.
Ascend to immortality.
After this term was spread, later generations often regarded the death of some Taoist masters as becoming immortals. In fact, those people were just normal births, old age, illness and death, and had nothing to do with becoming immortals or Buddhas.
The above-mentioned things are all known to the world and can be found with a little effort. However, in the history of Taoism, there have been several Taoist cultivators who truly shed their skin like insects and left behind immortal bodies.
In the 1960s, a mountaineering team discovered a cave on an inaccessible cliff in Huashan Mountain. After descending into the cave with the help of ropes and other objects, the team was surprised to see that there was actually a person inside.
Taoist corpse.
Different from ordinary dead people, this corpse was immortal and lifelike, but there was a crack in the back. The mountaineers were so frightened at that time that they did not dare to move the Taoist's bones rashly, so they reported the matter to
Local political ax.
After hearing about this incident, the local government immediately organized people from the archaeological department and the Taoist Association to go to the scene.
But in that fanatical era, many people classified things they couldn't understand into feudal superstition. The local government ignored the objections of the Taoist Association and finally cremated the body of the Taoist priest.
Later, when Ye Tian's master Li Shanyuan heard about this incident from his Taoist friends, he beat his feet and chest for a long time, calling those people prodigals and blaspheming their ancestors. However, it was already done and there was nothing he could do.
According to the inferences of Li Shanyuan and his friends, if nothing unexpected happens, the man in the cave should be the ancestor Chen Chuan. The crack in the back may be the real explanation of Taoist emergence. The soul comes out of the body, just like an insect sheds its skin.
, leaving a bad skin behind.
It's just that Li Shanyuan deduced all of this. He doesn't know where the soul will go after leaving the body, and how it can survive in the world. Since Li Shanyuan himself is just cultivating energy, everything is based on his imagination.
, without any real evidence.
After seeing the person in front of him, Ye Tiancai suddenly remembered what his master had talked about in a casual chat. The situation between the two was almost exactly the same. This person was most likely a real cultivator. And this scene, perhaps
It was a realm that Ye Tian didn't even know about.
"Master, has this person really become an immortal?" After a while, Lei Hu also calmed down. If a fierce person like him is not afraid of the living, why should he be afraid of the dead? But the person in front of him is too
It was so weird that it made him panic for a moment.
"I don't know, I can't tell clearly. Maybe he really became an immortal?"
Ye Tian shook his head. If Ding Hong were here, he might be able to answer Lei Hu's question, but he knew too little about the things on the road to cultivation, and he didn't know if this phenomenon really existed?
"Okay, don't disturb the mortal body of our ancestors, let's go out first."
Looking at the Taoist in front of him, Ye Tian vaguely guessed a bit of his identity, but this matter was very different from what was recorded in some classics. Ye Tian still needs to sort out the wooden slips outside to see if he can find out.
The answer came. After arriving at the outhouse, Ye Tian said to Lei Hu: "Lei Hu, you go outside to practice. When you are hungry, you can catch fish from the sea. When you are thirsty, there are fresh water from mountains and streams here. Be careful not to go too far from the beach. This
The animals on the island are not something you can deal with."
Speaking of the location of this wooden house, it is really a treasure land for cultivation. It is just at the foot of the mountain rock wall. There is a stream next to the house that flows all year round. The hills are covered with various plants, and there are many plants inside.
I don’t know if Polygonatum multiflorum and other things were planted there by this Taoist back then?
"Yes, Master, I understand." Lei Hu agreed, exited the wooden house, and stayed with a corpse that didn't know how to die. He felt awkward all over and wanted to leave a long time ago.
"This "Dao Dao Jing" was written by Zhang Sanfeng. Is it really him who is in it?"
Looking at the wooden slips scattered on the table, Ye Tian's eyes suddenly froze, because he found that there seemed to be the words Zhang Sanfeng written on a wooden slip in the upper right corner of the table, and he quickly reached out and took it over.
"Yu Zhang Sanfeng was born in the period of hundreds of schools of thought. He went through many dynasties in the Qin and Han dynasties and pursued the great path for more than two thousand years..."
Looking at the words written on the wooden slips, a secret of the monastic world was slowly revealed. Ye Tian's expression was also constantly changing. He never imagined that Zhang Sanfeng, who was born in the late Song Dynasty in 1247 according to Taoist records, actually
It has such a big background.
According to Zhang Sanfeng's self-report, he was born in the same era as Confucius and Mencius. When he was young, he met a Taoist monk in the mountains. After receiving his inheritance, he lived in seclusion in Wangwu Mountain and practiced hard for nearly two thousand years.
It's just that Zhang Sanfeng, who has never entered the world, has never been able to understand the true meaning of the Tao. Later, he suddenly woke up and came out of the world with a smile.
In the late Song Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng escaped into the secular world and went through the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. He refined his mind in the world of mortals, and his cultivation level also improved by leaps and bounds. In just over two hundred years, he advanced from the early stage of the Golden Elixir to the late stage of the Golden Elixir, and encountered many difficulties.
Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation.
But what Zhang Sanfeng didn't expect was that just when he was going through the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation, a space gap suddenly opened between heaven and earth, sucking him in. Zhang Sanfeng originally thought he had ascended to heaven, but he discovered that he
I actually came to the legendary "Penglai" fairy island.
Zhang Sanfeng knew much more about the overseas Sanxian Mountain than Ye Tian. When he was practicing Taoism, Sanxian Mountain was known as the Holy Land of Immortals, but it was always floating on the sea. Only people with great luck could enter by chance.
Among them, there are rumors from the outside world that these people have already practiced in the fairy mountain and soared to the sky.
But after entering the "Penglai" fairy island, Zhang Sanfeng discovered that this was not the case. It was true that the "Penglai" island was rich in spiritual energy, but it was home to many legendary ferocious beasts, with many ferocious beasts' strength, not even
below him.
Except for those ferocious beasts, there are no humans on the island. Those who were said to have entered the fairy island in the past have all disappeared. Zhang Sanfeng spent ten years traveling around the entire "Penglai" fairy island, and finally he could
For sure, if he considers himself the owner of the island, there will never be anyone else to compete with him.
Zhang Sanfeng originally tried to leave the island, but he found that there was a layer of restriction in the sky of "Penglai" Island, which he could not break through even with his late Jindan cultivation, and on the sea more than 3,000 meters away from the island,
There is also such a layer of restrictions that wraps up the entire island. Typically, you can enter but not exit.
Zhang Sanfeng had lived in seclusion in the mountains for more than two thousand years. His surname was Tianlian. If he couldn't get out, he would just change the environment to practice. He didn't feel any discomfort. He built a wooden house and practiced in the most spiritual place on the island.
stand up.
But what confuses Zhang Sanfeng is that despite the strong spiritual energy on the island, it is not known whether it is because he was interrupted during the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation. His realm has never been able to break through to the late Golden Core stage, and the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation has never appeared again.
Pass.
After practicing on the island for more than two hundred years, Zhang Sanfeng discovered that he had been unable to break through to the Nascent Soul realm. After living for more than two thousand years, his end was finally coming.
Zhang Sanfeng, who has been pursuing the way of heaven all his life, is only one step away from death. He feels a little unwilling. He leaves a message at the end of the wooden slip, ready to abandon the body as a skinny bag and use his soul that is almost transformed into the Nascent Soul to make a last ditch effort to see if
Can break the shackles between heaven and earth.
Before making this choice, Zhang Sanfeng left behind various insights he had gained from practicing Taoism for more than two thousand years. The wooden slips piled up all over the wooden house were all carved by him at the last moment to keep for the destined ones.
"What happened to the soul after it left the body?" The record ended abruptly here. Ye Tianxin's head felt itchy as if it had been scratched by a cat's claws, and he wanted to rush into the inner room to ask about the human body.
"No, with Zhang Sanfeng's late-stage cultivation of Jindan, he can't escape from this island. Then... wouldn't I be trapped here for the rest of my life?"
Ye Tian suddenly thought of something, and suddenly he was covered in cold sweat. You know, even though he has a heart for Taoism, he doesn't want to spend his whole life on this island!
