Chapter 49: The troubled world of mortals, the prosperous world of self-cultivation
Chapter 49: Troubled times for mortals, prosperous times for the world of cultivation
As the sun set, on an ancient official road leading to Yanzhou, two figures, one large and one small, were walking slowly. The one at the head was the Taoist in purple; the ones following him were the Taoist in purple who had been visited by the Taoist in purple a few days ago.
Rescued Zhao Yuanwu.
Zhao Yuanwu felt like he was in a dream these past few days, and he has not yet fully woken up. A few days ago, the town where he was in Baishi was burned to ashes by party members, and even the big tree where he was hiding was burned. Just as he was
When he thought he was about to be burned to death, the cultivator who called himself "Wandering Longzi" arrived in time and saved him.
Although Zhao Yuanwu didn't know what a cultivator was, he had seen the power of a cultivator in the past few days. In these troubled times, it is normal for some people and troops who are extremely vicious or unable to survive to become bandits and rob their homes.
Generally, when a lone business traveler encounters a robber, he or she is lucky to be robbed, or even worse is to be murdered and silenced.
But these situations are different for this "Wandering Longzi". When encountering bandits who are robbing him, he can just throw out a fire talisman to blow up the bandits with heavy casualties and scatter them in a rush; or he can use magic spells.
, recited some spells and cast some illusions that Zhao Yuanwu could not understand, scaring them into fleeing.
However, these are just things that make Zhao Yuanwu curious. What really makes him envious is "Wandering Longzi"'s ability to conjure food out of thin air. Because the world is in chaos now, the fields are deserted, and natural disasters have continued in recent years, so the harvest is very poor.
Well, the people don’t have enough to eat and starve to death all over the place. In some places, there are even tragedies of people changing their children to eat! In the wild, not to mention wild animals and fruits, even mice, locusts, even grass roots, tree bark, Guanyin
The land was eaten up by the hungry people. Zhao Yuanwu originally saw that "Wandering Longzi" didn't have a package with him, and was wondering where he should go to find food. Unexpectedly, he knew that he was so hungry that he couldn't bear it, but he still looked calm.
As usual, full of energy.
In the end, Zhao Yuanwu couldn't bear the hunger, and hesitantly asked You Longzi when he would look for food. You Longzi was stunned for a moment, and smiled and said that he had entered the inediate stage since he had become successful in cultivation.
After eating, he forgot that mortals still need to eat. After saying sorry to Zhao Yuanwu, he turned over his hand and took out a fruit he had never seen before and handed it to him. This fruit was about the size of a fist.
The fruit was plump, sweet and tempting. Zhao Yuanwu was also very hungry. After thanking him, he started to eat. He felt that the juice of the fruit was sweet and green, refreshing and delicious, and there was no seed in it. He swallowed it all in three mouthfuls.
After the pulp entered his stomach, Zhao Yuanwu suddenly felt a fresh breath flowing through his body, as if everything inside and outside had been washed. His hunger disappeared, his strength was restored, he was a hundred times more energetic, and his whole body was covered in stinky sweat.
Fortunately, You Longzi used a "dust removal technique" on him to clean away all the dirt on his body, which made Zhao Yuanwu couldn't help but sigh, "This magical magic is really convenient."
In the following days, Zhao Yuanwu's eyes were opened. Whenever he was hungry, You Longzi would take out some fruits for him to eat. According to You Longzi, these were spiritual fruits he grew himself. After eating, he could
Prolonging life and strengthening the body. If you eat too much, you can even enter the path of cultivation. Zhao Yuanwu doesn't know if it can prolong life. However, his body has indeed been getting better and better in the past few days. In just a few days, he has grown taller and faster.
He became more and more brisk, and could stride a foot away with one step. But he found that no matter how fast he ran, You Longzi always walked leisurely, but could always be one meter ahead of him, which made him also
I couldn't help but feel awe in my heart, and became more and more curious about cultivation.
On this day, the two of them were resting. Zhao Yuanwu finally plucked up the courage and asked You Longzi, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed, "Taoist Master, what is cultivation? What kind of person is a cultivator?"
You Longzi slowly opened his eyes, looked at Zhao Yuanwu, and replied with a smile: "That's a good question. In fact, the name of cultivation has been around since ancient times. It is commonly known as cultivating the Tao.
It covers the entire practice process of moving to transform essence, refining essence to transform Qi, refining Qi to transform into spirit, refining spirit to return emptiness, returning emptiness to combine with Tao, and attaining the status of true immortal.
What is truth? Truth is the status of a true person, and truth is a true immortal. It is not a self-proclaimed one, but is actually sealed by the upper realm of space. True truth is the highest state of a Taoist cultivator. Practitioners should have great ambitions, be far-sighted, and be diligent and hardworking throughout their lives.
Cultivation, virtue and merit go hand in hand, in order to reach the superior realm of real people and true immortals, so it is called cultivation.
What are cultivators? They are those who are born extraordinary or unwilling to be ordinary. In order to better understand themselves and the world, they have continuously explored a path of cultivation and verification over the long years, and then embarked on this path.
Living things are cultivators. Cultivators include not only human beings, but also birds, beasts, insects, fish, flowers, plants and trees. As long as they have spirituality and understand the way of cultivation, they can all be called cultivators. It’s just that the concepts of cultivation came into being with each other later.
Conflict is considered to be divided into different categories such as immortals, Buddhas and demons."
Zhao Yuanwu seemed to understand, and then asked: "It sounds similar to myths and legends. Since there are so many cultivators, why have I never heard anyone mention it? What is the world of cultivators like?"
"Cultivation is also called Taoism. What we cultivate is the "Tao" that contains everything and evolves everything! Therefore, everything is based on seeking Tao and self-improvement. We don't like to be contaminated with too much worldly cause and effect, so under normal circumstances we will not
Those who stay too long in the mortal world, but there are also a few who have a certain purpose, or who do not care about the entanglement of cause and effect, will walk in the mortal world and play in the world."
You Longzi paused and asked Zhao Yuanwu: "What do you think is the goal of survival?"
Zhao Yuanwu thought for a moment, and for some reason he remembered the tragic situation in Baishi Town and his own tragic experience, so he replied: "Live for a better life! If possible, let more people live a better life!"
You Longzi was stunned for a moment and looked at Zhao Yuanwu, and Zhao Yuanwu also mustered up the courage to face it calmly and confirmed that what he said was indeed from the heart. You Longzi's eyes became softer and said: "I didn't expect that.
You little kid actually has such a compassionate heart. Yes, the ideas of us cultivators are essentially the same as yours. However, most people have narrow minds. Their idea is: live a better life and let others live with you.
Those who are closely related usually mean that their relatives, friends and sects are living better and more prosperous!" He paused, waiting for Zhao Yuanwu to digest what he said, and then said something that shocked Zhao Yuanwu.
"And the current chaotic times in the mortal world are the prosperous times in the world of cultivation!"