The highest state of the "Great Heavenly Immortal Dharma" is to cultivate to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
It’s not that the Great Celestial Master can only cultivate to the level of Celestial Immortal, but that the path to a true Immortal cannot be shown at all.
After the heavenly immortals comes the true immortals. According to Jiang Sibai's understanding, the heavenly immortals are the position, interaction and coordination between themselves and the heaven and earth, while the true immortals need to cultivate themselves and understand their own truth.
It was the ‘Returning to True Realm’ that he had previously figured out.
He didn't have much understanding of this realm before, and didn't know how to achieve it.
But thanks to Heitianzun, he almost returned to the True Spirit River under the pressure of Heitianzun.
It was in that situation that he saw his 'true nature'.
That was his true spirit, and its appearance could not be described. I only knew that it was a piece of light, his own spiritual light.
While Jiang Sibai was thinking about the various inheritances of the Great Immortal Sect, he also began to pursue his own true spirit.
He withdrew his eyes that had been looking at the distant place in front of him, and began to monitor himself and feel his own soul.
This process is very slow and also requires quietness.
Fortunately, Master was there for everything at this time, so he could carry out this part of his practice with peace of mind.
He thought a lot, because he had that moment of feeling, so he desperately wanted to recall and define that feeling, so that he could catch it easily.
However, he thought a lot and gave many definitions, but no matter how deeply he thought about the true spirit and how comprehensively he defined it, he could never really touch it.
If it cannot be touched, what is the difference between it and fantasy?
In the end, he was so dizzy thinking about it that he simply lay down and closed his eyes to rest.
But his mind was still thinking wildly.
He no longer paid attention to it, and gradually he felt like a bystander, as if another self was 'watching' his random thoughts.
Jiang Sibai thought this was really interesting, so he remained in this 'spectator' state for a while.
Until the chaotic thoughts slowly dissipated, he fell into an unspeakable silence.
In this silence, he had no thoughts for a brief moment, only an ethereal silence that surprised even him.
However, it was precisely because of this surprise that all the thoughts in his mind popped up again, breaking his emptiness.
Even so, the brief ethereal silence filled Jiang Sibai with aftertaste and longing.
At that time, he wanted to continue to pursue this feeling, but he was soon swallowed up by chaotic thoughts.
The next day, he stood up helplessly and realized that he should have touched his true spirit again before, but unfortunately it was only for a short moment.
"It seems that the next step in practice is to cultivate your mind well."
He sighed to himself.
The way to practice is to return to the realm of emptiness and realize the void. In the Mahayana period, you have cultivated the immortal body. The realm of heavenly immortals is the induction of gods and humans. Naturally, it is time to cultivate yourself in the true immortal realm.
This time is it about cultivating the mind, or should we say it is about cultivating one’s nature?
Jiang Sibai suddenly discovered that many of Jian Xingfeng's methods of cultivating the mind had the same purpose but similar approaches.
Perhaps the inheritance of Jianxing Peak is just to go further on the road of cultivating nature, but Jiang Sibai looked back at it now. If the inheritance of Jianxing Peak can go all the way, he always feels that he can directly lead to the true immortal.
Feel.
Of course, the premise is that the cultivator can endure loneliness and realize the true nature of Taoism in just a hundred years.
Then once he wakes up, he becomes an immortal instantly.
Jiang Sibai suddenly thought that his master Shenhua seemed to have never given up on cultivating his mind to see Xing Peak. Maybe he would be the next true immortal in the future?
Jiang Sibai was a little annoyed at not being able to grasp his true nature this time. After thinking wildly for a while, he simply got up and went to Mr. Wen's place to relax.
Gongsun Zhi has been leading the army to fight for more than half a year, and he doesn't know what the situation is now.
"I have met the Lord God."
When Mr. Wen saw Gongsun Zhi arriving, he immediately brought his subordinates to attend the ceremony.
No one dares to be disrespectful, after all, this is the God of Sheji.
The living kind.
"Don't be offended, I just came to ask how the state affairs are now?"
Jiang Sibai greeted with a smile.
At this time, Mr. Wen treated him like a king and father, so he immediately sorted out the memorials and other things and started talking as if he was reporting his achievements to Gongsun Zhi.
"Most of the northern area that I, the Great Zhou Dynasty, now occupies has become self-sufficient, and the grain production in the Gyeonggi region has also returned to 70% of previous years. However, because the king treats everyone equally and collects taxes based on acres, the grain and grass obtained is enough to support an army of 100,000.
Used for half a year's campaign."
"As for the king, he is currently in charge of Han. As long as the king is in Han, the cities in Han will not dare to rebel."
"However, after King Zhao was defeated and died, the new king of Zhao came to the throne, and he no longer dared to fight head-on with the king."
"They used cities as barriers and started a tug-of-war with the king."
"The king is indeed invincible in field battles, but losses in siege battles cannot be avoided. Therefore, the king will stop at the border of Zhao for the time being, and will not take action at will until there is a good way to capture those strong cities."
Jiang Sibai nodded. In fact, Gongsun Zhi was also hindered by the Korean land after he seized it.
The fundamental reason for this is that he cannot get the support of the Korean wealthy family.
So he asked: "What do the people of Korea think of the guilty monument?"
Mr. Wen said: "The common people are very accepting of the guilty monument, but the wealthy families are quite disdainful of it."
Jiang Sibai nodded and said, "That's enough."
After that, he stopped worrying about Gongsun Zhi's affairs. According to his understanding of Gongsun Zhi's character, the overlord should soon be unable to resist and attack these local wealthy families.
After all, in Gongsun Zhi's heart, these wealthy families are of no help to him, they are just a hindrance.
Things turned out as Jiang Sibai expected, and Gongsun Zhi soon implemented "tyranny" in Han.
The number of registered households in Korea is very small, with less than 600,000 to 700,000 people, but the number of people hidden by aristocratic families is at least one million, and these are all people who are not listed on the household registration.
And Gongsun Zhi's 'tyranny' was to measure the land and then collect taxes according to the amount of land!
The work of measuring land does not require human effort at all. With Jiang Sibai's order, the local land god can submit all the detailed data.
Then different levels of taxes are levied according to the proportion of each household's population and land.
For example, if each member of a household has two acres of land, the tax will be less.
If each person has ten acres of land, the tax revenue will be slightly higher.
If the per capita area is one hundred acres or even one thousand acres, the tax rate will jump exponentially.
This is undoubtedly a policy specifically targeted at large households.
If the big households really paid taxes at this rate, I'm afraid they would go bankrupt.
Therefore, they had only two options: first, hand over most of the occupied land, dismiss most of the tenant farmers, and limit their family property within a certain range.
Second, rebellion.
Of these two choices, one is to lose money, the other is to lose one's life.
And Gongsun Zhi hasn't given them any time to hesitate.
If you delay in paying taxes, then troops will be sent to attack on the spot, and your family will be confiscated and your ancestors will be destroyed.
For a time, the wealthy families in Korea were in mourning.
Of course, there are many people who choose to rebel.
But is Gongsun Zhi afraid of rebellion?
His rule over Korea was not stable to begin with, so just killing a few of them would bring peace to the world.
It just seemed like he was so murderous, but in fact he gave all his tenderness to Guizhou Shou.
This is actually a benefit for the people, because the high taxes only target those with more land, while those with less land have lower taxes.
For a time, the tyrant in the mouth of the powerful was actually a benevolent king in the mouth of the head of Guizhou.
Gongsun Zhi's image in the eyes of the world is quite fragmented.