One of the benefits of a strong soul is that memory and concentration will be exceptionally strong.
With Jiutian's current soul strength, he can easily achieve photographic memory, so even if thousands of ancient books and information are flying in front of his eyes, he can still read them quickly and memorize them.
Jiutian's eyes flashed crazily, taking in all the words in the secret chapters.
After about ten minutes, the churning words gradually subsided and dispersed. Not only were they the ancient books obtained from the British Museum and Japan, but Jiutian also recorded the collections of the Palace Museum when he passed by Beijing.
He closed his eyes and stood in the silent sky. His mind began to understand and analyze the words like a super computer.
From the pre-Qin period at the beginning of written records to the modern Qing Dynasty, these contents span a long history of five thousand years.
Looking at the entire earth, the Chinese civilization is also an extremely unique existence. This civilization has a completely different system from other civilizations.
Almost every element of Chinese civilization is independent of other Western civilizations. This is quite incredible. Even in today's era of globalization, it is still so unique and charming.
Therefore, if you want to understand the various meanings and contents contained in the ancient books of Chinese civilization, you need to have a considerable understanding of this civilization. Otherwise, even if you learn Chinese characters, you will not be able to understand the meaning of those words.
Fortunately, Jiutian is originally from China, and he has read a lot of non-secret content in those ancient books, so he can understand it fairly smoothly.
As time went by, those contents began to be gradually integrated in his mind, and some secret contents surprised him again and again.
Jiutian opened his eyes and breathed out the starlight in one breath.
"So that's it..." Jiutian murmured to himself, "It turns out that our ancestors embarked on the path of spiritual cultivation thousands of years ago, and they have gone much further in terms of mental strength than in evolution."
"They have even distinguished the realm of mental cultivation and pointed the direction for future generations."
When a person walks on the road, the biggest test is not the long distance of the road, but not knowing the direction and where he should go.
Having no direction and goals is an extremely dangerous thing, because if you are not careful, you will go astray and even forget your original intention and return.
In fact, this is one of the fundamental reasons why the current study of mind power in the universe is very shallow. Almost all evolvers and scholars in the universe focus on the external path of evolution, because the sages who have been there for hundreds of millions of years have successively given guidance.
It is a smooth road with a long-established direction, a road to the sky.
However, on the road of mental power, no one pointed out the direction for them, and no one told them where the end point is. This is a difficult and thankless road, and at the same time, the effect it can show in the short term is not as good as evolution. Therefore, in the universe,
The inheritance of mental power is extremely rare.
But mental strength is not without its advantages. Its biggest advantage is that it relies entirely on oneself, and there is no need to rely on external objects when cultivating.
For example, on the path of evolution, in order to absorb secret power and improve the efficiency of cultivating secret power, life needs to continuously collect various props, such as insect crystals, dark matter capsules, high-energy filter bags, etc., and even needs to continuously optimize the evolution method.
Allow life to jump to a higher level.
However, mental power does not require evolution or external props for assistance. Its cultivation cost is 0, and its progress depends entirely on the understanding of life itself.
Therefore, those civilizations that lack resources on the road of evolution will naturally embark on the road of mental energy. Earth civilization is a typical example.
In ancient times, the earth's civilization had no guidance and struggled on the evolutionary path that required advanced evolutionary methods to continuously break through. Moreover, the resources on the earth that could be used for cultivation were extremely pitiful, which made it difficult to give birth to a white bud for thousands of years.
However, in terms of mental strength, the earth's civilization has shown its talents that are remarkable when looking at the universe.
Generations of sages have been born, and through their own efforts and realizations, they have summarized various splendid ideas and pointed out the way forward for future generations.
Although the lives of people on earth are short, the lives of those sages are as bright as supernova explosions, illuminating the entire earth civilization in different eras.
Combining the inheritance of the Holy Ninja Alliance and the secret records of ancient Chinese books, Jiutian finally summarized the four realms divided by the ancients.
They are:
Quiet, simple, empty, brilliant!
The so-called emptiness and tranquility means that "nothing in the heart is emptiness, and no thoughts are emptiness." Life in this state is no longer troubled by external objects in the world, allowing the mind to reach a state of emptiness, tranquility and purity, so that it can "reach the extreme of emptiness and maintain the state of emptiness."
Quietly, all things are working together, and I can watch their recovery."
Life in this realm can already spy on the existence of "Tao".
Returning to simplicity is what is often said to be "returning to one's original nature", or "like a newborn baby", just like a newborn baby, there is no need to deliberately, the heart is pure and ethereal, heartless and desireless, just like a newborn baby crying and laughing.
, just follow human instinct, naturally.
Once you get here, you can perceive and understand the key points and key points of "Tao", and then you can have the heart to "hold simplicity".
When you reach the state of emptiness, reaching this state means that your heart is empty. When your heart is empty, "Tao" can enter your heart. The more empty your heart is, the more Tao will enter your heart. Finally, there is nothing.
The essence of the heart cannot distinguish which is the Tao and which is the heart. The heart and the Tao are integrated together, and the realization of "unity with the Tao" can make it "deeply rooted and solid, and can be seen for a long time."
This is the realm of "saints".
As for the final splendor, this realm is the least described in ancient secret chapters, and few people have reached it since ancient times.
Jiutian guessed that this realm is actually a "state", a state based on the realm of nothingness.
The universe is brilliant, the stars are brilliant, and life is brilliant.
Life that has reached this level has already broken through the essence of Tao. What is Tao? It is not just the Tao that is in the heart, but everything is Tao!
You are the Tao, I am the Tao, the bird flying in the sky is the Tao, and the bright moon hanging high in the night sky is also the Tao!
All things are Tao, all things are brilliant!
"Wonderful, wonderful!" After finally understanding it thoroughly, Jiutian sighed.
It is really too majestic and vast.
The universe, heaven and earth, one's own body, everything can be as small as a mustard seed, and everything can be as vast as Xumi.
After understanding these four realms, Jiutian could even see a smooth road appearing in front of him, which was a road to spiritual sainthood.
It is really hard to imagine how those sages had such great ideas thousands of years ago when material was scarce.
But even if there is a smooth road, it still starts with your feet.
Jiutian compared his current mental state with the four realms, and could vaguely sense that he should be at the peak of Xu Jing, and could even occasionally touch Gui Pu.
The main reason is that the realm of mental power is different from the realm of evolution. The realm of evolution is very clearly divided. Whatever realm you reach is that realm.
The mental state is very vague, even fluctuating. It is possible that you have some realization at the moment, and the mental state suddenly leaps to Guipu, but when you calm down or have other ideas, it falls back to Xujing.
Only when you can maintain that kind of idea and put it into practice in daily life can it truly be regarded as a breakthrough in realm.
With Jiutian's current mental strength, he is still unable to maintain the fragments of Wen Yunyun's consciousness while expeling the erosion of the sky. I wonder if it will be better after breaking through and returning to simplicity?
Jiutian himself was not sure, because mental strength was greatly affected by personal factors. There was nothing standardized. Various secret texts and inheritances only served as a guide. The key was to look at yourself.
However, it's not completely impossible.
Just like the inheritance of the Holy Ninja Alliance records various methods of using other people's faith and mental power, the ancient Chinese secret books also record many methods of using the mental power.
But most of those are "meditation", "strengthening the mind" and the like, and there are no techniques that can be applied to frontal combat.
Thinking about it, mental power is not a substantive power after all. It is a by-product of improving the spiritual realm. It is more practical to rely on secret power and mental power for real battles.
There is another thing that Jiutian is very concerned about.
He recalled in his mind the various ancient books he had just read and confirmed them again.
Well, sure enough, "Han Feizi", "Yue Jueshu", "Zuo Zhuan" and so on...
But none of the more famous ancient books and secret chapters are there.
Especially those that talk about Qimen Dunjia, such as "Guiguzi", "Book of Changes", "Luoshu", etc., as well as the "Tao Te Ching", "The Classic of Internal Medicine of the Yellow Emperor", "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", and "The Book of Mountains and Seas", which play an important role in Chinese history.
"Diamond Sutra"... There is not a single secret chapter in these books!
In fact, Jiutian and Wu Jian discovered this two years ago when they first came into contact with the secret chapter. Until this time, Jiutian thought he could find some of these cultural relics scattered overseas, but he still failed to do so.
There are two situations that can lead to this result. One is that there are no secret chapters in these ancient books, so naturally you can't find them no matter how you look for them. The other is that these secret chapters have been deliberately hidden.
But combined with Gu Haoran's previous revelation that the sect he belongs to practices the secret chapter of the "Huangdi Neijing", Jiutian has reason to suspect that the second scenario is the truth.
So Jiutian fell into trouble again.
Because you know everything with your feet, the forces that can hide those secrets all over the world can only be secretive.
Damn it, it seems that sooner or later, I have to go to their headquarters. How can I catch the tiger's cubs if I don't enter the tiger's den? Jiutian's heart was filled with confusion.
It's really because those secret chapters of ancient books that represent the most essential parts of ancient Chinese civilization are what Jiutian really wants to read. Perhaps the opportunity to accelerate his mental breakthrough is hidden here!