Chapter 12: Card Bugs and Talking about Immortals (Part 1)
With a nervous mood, Lin Tianze called out the virtual grid belonging to the backpack.
Seeing a cloth pocket-style logo appear next to the virtual grid, Lin Tianze focused his thoughts on it with anxiety.
The cloth bag opens automatically, revealing a row of items.
〖Item: Clay Pot x8〗;〖Item: Mud Pot x2〗;〖Item: Bottle x7〗;〖Material: Candlestick x1〗;〖Material: Ancient Book x1〗;〖Material: Rot x2〗;〖Material:
Iron x1〗;〖Production table: shelf x1〗
Lin Tianze hit the shelf with force against an earthen jar containing half a jar of rotten soil. The earthen jar moved very slightly, but other than that there was no other movement.
"Huh?" Lin Tianze was a little surprised, "I just experienced death once again. Is the effect so immediate?"
I originally thought that with all my strength, I would be able to shake a floating tree and not be able to affect the jar at all, but I didn't expect that the jar would actually move.
Lin Tianze felt that he had underestimated it. This was a Chinese version of "The Sutra of Impermanence of Life and Death" that even a ghost could buy. It was indeed basic, the most well-known thing to the public, and it had to be refined over time.
Some people may say that most of the widely circulated classics will be like "Laozi", which is also known as the Tao Te Ching among the people of the world, and will be hammered from swords into scrap metal.
It seems that anyone can make two sentences about the modern Tao Te Ching. The Tao can be Tao but not the Tao, and the name can be named but not the name. However, we make a comparison based on the two books A and B unearthed in Mawangdui.
There is a difference of more than a hundred words between the version before Liu Bang became emperor and the version after Liu Bang became emperor, which is taboo for the superior, and is in line with Huang Lao's governance.
Then, those who were superior throughout the dynasties kept taboos, fearing that others would understand something, so they changed a few words to hide it. There were differences in accents or they felt that there was a more appropriate description. Due to various reasons, a classic that had been circulated was deleted, deleted, revised and modified countless times.
It seems that the new one is no different from the previous one, but if a time traveler handed the current version of the Tao Te Ching to the original author, I, I would not even recognize it.
Therefore, as long as the time traveler travels through the Warring States period to be more authentic, you can use the "Tao Te Ching" freely, which is the title added by later generations.
With colleagues and colleagues, I can revise hundreds or even thousands of editions of the Tao Te Ching and show off in front of that Taoist sage, and my legs will not be broken by a pole.
After all, what you are taking is something written by a descendant, plus the name given by the descendant. He knows 5,000 years before and 5,000 years after. You can only pinch your nose and say that the two books are related. No matter how deep the relationship is, it is still
It's really hard to get involved.
Things circulated among living people will be tampered with by time. Even if the Sutra of Impermanence of Life and Death after the double-layer buff of the Dead Immortality Seed is not the original version, it will not be too wrong.
I asked for advice again. When the ghost was practicing Dharma, the old ghost even mentioned an allusion to brag about it.
I heard that from the wilderness to the present, in the six or seven versions of the underworld, the priesthood of "impermanence" is quite ancient, even surpassing the Ten Palaces of Yama.
As early as the earliest version of the Five Ghost Emperors period, one of the thirty-six ghost kings under them was replaced by the Great Ghost of Impermanence.
The old ghost said that Wu Chang has been alone for countless years since his birth. However, at the end of the "Qing" dynasty outside the Pass, Wu Chang suddenly became black and white.
This is most likely a cultivation method created by the first Impermanence, his dual cultivator Taoist friend.
In his previous life, Lin Tianze was an amateur writer with average skills, but he also spent some time thinking about it. He had learned about folklore and history, and knew that what the old ghost was talking about was indeed the context of black and white, impermanence, and evolution.
From the impermanence of a certain hexagram in the Yi Jing to the perfection of the underground view in Buddhism, it evolved all the way. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty in the previous life that the black and white impermanence became two people, and they have different names and origins across the country.
Lin Tianze was also familiar with the cultivation system of this world. It belonged to the relatively ancient school of cultivating immortals. In the past, there were all kinds of immortals, which could be accurately divided into the "qi" practitioners and the shamans of the Warring States Period and the Emperor Zhou period.
From the very beginning of my practice, I have pursued the simplest goal of seeking immortality for the ancient princes and generals in my previous life, which is to achieve longevity and freedom.
I don’t know what deviations have occurred in history. Over time, various methods and various schools that have appeared in history have also appeared. It can even be said that a hundred flowers bloom.
However, in the end, including the classic outer alchemy and inner alchemy, they were also swallowed up by the two paths of immortals and gods.
Putting aside the superficial complexity, Lin Tianze feels that the extraordinary paths in this world can be summarized into two.
Lin Tianze calls the two routes, personal struggle to become an immortal; iron rice bowl to become a god.
Cultivation in this world is not like practicing qi, building foundations, golden elixirs, Yuanying, transforming into gods, overcoming tribulations, ascending, and then continuing to practice in the fairy world as in fairy novels.
Instead, you practice qi, practice qi at a specific time, swallow pills to practice qi, practice spells to practice qi, and different species to refine qi. This qi can be called spiritual power, immortal power, or magic power.
Therefore, this group of immortal cultivators are also called Qi Practitioners, and Lin Tianze can also be called Qi Practitioners, according to the records of the Sutra of Impermanence of Life and Death.
Up and down are impermanent, and it is not evil. It is impermanent and destroyed, and cannot last long. It is like the joy of emptiness. There is nothing more impermanent in the world than birth and death.
Taking this sentence as a general outline, it lists thirteen cultivation methods of "Qi" that are innately compatible with the ghost, the greatest impermanent person of life and death.
Lin Tianze first thought about Qingling Ghost and Ghost Immortal. That road has a bright future, but the only drawback is that it is too difficult.
Ghosts are tangible and insubstantial, and are just a collection of Yin Qi and spirit. Therefore, the difficulty of receiving Qi can be imagined. Ghosts and zombies that also belong to the Yin category worship the moon and swallow moonflowers.
Normally, a ghost swallows as much as a year, and what one earns in one night can be picked up with a needle and collected into a pond with beautiful scenery.
Lin Tianze asked himself that as a modern person, he had already developed a fast-paced life. He really didn't have the confidence to practice hard for a hundred years before he could see the results and become a ghost.
The most important thing for a person is to be self-aware, and the same applies to the ghosts of the dead. After careful consideration, Lin Tianze finally chose to practice and die "Qi".
The mass graves are full of dead energy. I have practiced enough in the early stage and don't need to run around. I don't need to worry about encountering experts who can slay demons.
In the feudal era, when there were natural and man-made disasters, everything was lacking except for places to die.
As a time traveler looking across the heavens, death "qi" Lin Tianze understands it as a concept that can also be called death.
The development prospects are brighter than other types, "Qi".
The basic structure of this world's world view, from immortal to divine, seems to have evolved from the two qi of pure and turbid, and then the three talents of heaven, earth and man, earth, water, fire and wind, metal, wood, water, fire and earth, evolved infinitely.
Therefore, there are countless types of "Qi" in theory, each with its own characteristics.
Although Lin Tianze also started to practice, he still didn't understand that it could be practiced and what was the "qi" that existed in the world view?
Because, the most common property of "Qi" is omnipotence.
It is so omnipotent that it seems to be omnipotent, even surpassing the so-called Philosopher's Stone in alchemy.
From extending life span, being as light as a swallow, increasing strength, regenerating lost limbs, and rejuvenating youth, as long as you practice Qi diligently enough, immortality is not difficult for "Qi".
"Qi" for individual civilizations such as cultivators is like electricity in modern industry. As a basic energy source, electricity can drive mobile phones, televisions, signal towers, tanks, and airplanes, producing various magical effects.
The most common mobile phone that comes with "Qi" is the magical power practiced by Montenegro. In addition, witch cups, curses, nightmares, flying swords, and illusions are also matching parts.