The boat travels very fast, and the journey of ninety miles only takes one hour.
No matter what kind of beautiful scenery, it is naturally wonderful when you first look at it, but after looking at it for a long time, you will inevitably get tired of it.
At first, Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu discussed how the scenery was and what allusions there were. As time went on, Zhang Yuelu was no longer willing to talk. Qi Xuansu simply suggested playing a few games of Xuansheng Cards to pass the time.
This was exactly what Zhang Yuelu wanted, so he agreed directly.
Playing cards always goes by quickly. After the passenger ship arrived at Guandu, Badong, it docked for an hour. Neither of them got off the ship and continued playing cards.
When the passenger ship was on its way again, Zhang Yuelu put away the Xuansheng tablet and urged Qi Xuansu to refine the medicine.
Qi Xuansu was still very concerned about his own cultivation. He could not only think about shortcuts like "Xuanyu", nor could he miss the right path of hard work, so he did not hesitate and returned to his room to start meditating on his luck.
Zhang Yuelu simply came to Qi Xuansu's room to protect him to avoid any accidents.
In this way, Zhang Yuelu really saw something was wrong.
Sanren are originally lower-level banished immortals, so there are many similarities between the two, especially before the banished immortal converts all his true energy into true essence.
Before the heavenly beings, the cultivation methods of Sanren were not much different from those of the banished immortals. They were all based on Qi training. But at this time, Zhang Yuelu discovered that as Qi Xuansu began to luckily refine the accumulated medicinal power in his body, the Qi and blood in his body also followed.
Its operation, intertwined with the true energy, is like the cultivation methods of Sans and Wufu running in parallel.
The reason why she didn't notice it before was because when Qi Xuansu drank the medicinal wine for the first time, the hot medicinal wine was too strong and covered up many abnormalities. But now that the medicinal power has weakened, they are gradually revealed.
Zhang Yuelu looked at Qi Xuansu thoughtfully.
Is this just because of a demon pill?
Qi Xuansu knew nothing about Zhang Yuelu's doubts. At this time, he only felt that there were two completely different qi in his body. One was true qi, like a gurgling stream, and the other was blood qi, like a wider and faster flowing stream.
small river.
True qi comes from the refined qi of a qi refiner, and blood qi comes from the qi and blood of a martial artist. The word "jing" in "refining" means essence and blood. It can be said that the two have the same origin.
The difference between the two lies in the word "refining". The Qi Refiner refines the human body's natural essence and blood, just like refining iron ore into refined iron, while the martial artist not only does not cultivate the soul, nor refines the essence and blood, nor understands the internal and external communication, heaven and man.
Unity, the method of controlling the vitality of heaven and earth, focusing solely on oneself, training muscles, muscles, and skin,
Train your bones until you are completely reborn and your body becomes an immortal.
Because he has no distractions and only cultivates his body, his vitality is very strong. Even his missing limbs can be reborn in time, which is the realm derived from flesh and blood. His pure mind is the realm of understanding the heavens. The spirit of the alchemist who has not yet become a heavenly being is extremely important.
Have restraint.
As for Qi practitioners who practice Zhenqi, including banished immortals and Sanren, due to their pursuit of the unity of heaven and man, although Zhenqi is more majestic and abundant and endless, it also loses its purity, so the restraint of Qi and blood on opponent warriors is reduced.
Many of them cannot be derived from flesh and blood.
When Qi Xuansu killed the alchemist who was returning to his true form in Yishan City, he relied on the human-immortal inheritance to restrain the ghost-immortal inheritance. However, if he were replaced by a qi-refiner, a shaman, or even a banished immortal or a hermit, he would never be able to easily defeat the scholar.
, this is the reason why among the Five Immortals inheritance "Heaven, Earth, Gods, Humans and Ghosts", the inheritance of humans and immortals is ranked before the inheritance of ghosts and immortals.
As for why the inheritance of human immortals comes after the inheritance of the other three immortals, it is because even if a warrior becomes a heavenly being, his fights with humans are all based on physical strength. He does not have magical powers such as controlling the air, volleying, manifesting the law, and calling the wind and rain. Against the other three immortals
, if you can't get close, you can easily be manipulated by others. The so-called "human immortals" are still "human beings" after all, and can only be inferior to the three immortals of "the gods of heaven and earth".
Not only that, because the martial artist cannot move around the sky and breathe out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, he has to eat a lot to supplement and strengthen his own qi and blood. The requirements for food and medicinal materials are extremely high, so there is a saying that the poor man is rich in martial arts, and the martial artist's expenses are
It is far better than the alchemist, but compared with the witch wish, the incense and wish power does not require peace money, but the effort and manpower required to collect the incense and wish power can be converted into peace money, which may not be less than the peace money spent by a martial artist.
From the perspective of the Taoist sect, the Qi Refiners are the pillars of the Taoist sect, and there are relatively few other inheritances. The warriors are mainly concentrated among the men in black in the imperial court, and there are not many martial artists in the Taoist sect.
Before Xuansheng integrated the inheritance of the Five Immortals, the various inheritances were very confusing. Most of the time, they were simply and roughly divided into warriors and alchemists. Qigong practitioners who preferred close combat and banished immortals were all classified into the ranks of warriors.
Qi warriors and banished immortals are also confused. Many banished immortals are regarded as Qi warriors with better talents and qualifications, while Wu Zhu are mostly classified into the ranks of alchemists.
It wasn't until Xuan Sheng integrated the five major inheritances that it was completely clear that only the human immortal inheritance was a martial artist, and the other Qi Refiners and Banished Immortals were not martial arts, but belonged to the earth immortal inheritance respectively.
and the inheritance of immortals.
Unlike Qi practitioners who focus on the three Dantians, the twelve main meridians, and the eight extraordinary meridians, martial arts practitioners focus on the countless acupoints in the body, transporting Qi and blood, washing the acupoints, and then condensing the body and spirit, each acupoint has one spirit.
, is to see the realm of God's indestructibility, and finally reach the realm of Shattered Void, which is not inferior to the Qi Refiners of the Hedao Realm.
If it is not a specialized human-immortal inheritance and there is no great method compiled by the Taoist sect, it will be difficult to discover the many acupoints in the body, because each acupoint has a very subtle and unique position, and even the acupoints are hidden in the acupoints, and one acupoint can connect to all the acupoints.
The condensation process is extremely complicated and difficult.
Qi Xuansu also considered taking the human-immortal path at first, but after careful consideration, he still chose the Sanren path. In addition to some shortcomings in qualifications, poverty was also an unavoidable problem.
Nowadays, although Qi Xuansu cannot condense his body and mind, he can move his energy and blood like a true energy, achieving some of the effects of martial arts training, making his body strong and improving the realm of flesh and blood.
In other words, Qi Xuansu is in the Jade Void stage, but he has both the Jade Cauldron realm of a Sanren and a realm derived from some flesh and blood of a martial artist. This is what makes Zhang Yuelu even more surprised.
At this time, Qi Xuansu only felt comfortable and hot all over his body. The "stream" and the "river" converged in one place, mixed with the burning medicinal power accumulated in the body. It was like a fire dragon swimming quickly, not only passing through the twelve meridians.
There are eight extraordinary meridians and acupuncture points.
In the process of wandering, blood energy is constantly being drawn into it, and blood energy is constantly being left behind to fill the vacancy of the trapped blood energy. This is in line with the principle that running water will not rot the door hinges and will not be beetrooted. However, when passing by the left arm
, because the meridians here have just been connected, it is like leaving Yangguan Avenue and entering a rugged mountain trail. The journey is extremely difficult, and a lot of blood energy is left here.
Finally, the "river" formed by blood energy dissipates throughout the body with part of the medicinal power, as if moisturizing things silently, while the true energy returns to the lower Dantian Qi sea with part of the medicinal power, strengthening itself.
Qi Xuansu slowly woke up from his trance and exhaled a breath of turbid air.
Zhang Yuelu was sitting not far away. Seeing Qi Xuansu wake up, he said, "It took a long time for you to enter samadhi."
Qi Xuansu asked: "What time is it now?"
Zhang Yuelu took out his pocket watch, took a look at it, and replied: "Today is November 12th, and it is the end of noon."
Qi Xuansu roughly calculated the time and found that the two left Jinguan Mansion on the third day of November and arrived after walking for five days.
They arrived at Baidi City on the eighth day of November. Because Qi Xuansu was recovering from his injuries, the two of them stayed in Baidi City for three days. They left Baidi City by boat on November 11th and arrived on the same day.
Badong Ferry.
In this way, he actually fell into samadhi for a day and a night.
Zhang Yuelu glanced out the window: "We will arrive at Jiangling Mansion soon, which is also the destination of this passenger ship."
Jiangling Mansion is the capital of Huzhou, and Jiangling City is the state city. Many powerful yamen, including the Yunmeng Governor's Mansion, the Huzhou Governor's Yamen, and the Huzhou Sansi Yamen, are all located here. It can be said to be an important town in the southeast. And because it is adjacent to the Yangtze River in the south and the Yangtze River in the north.
It relies on the Han River, controls Chongqing and Shu in the west, and connects with Xiaowu in the south. It is called the "thorough of seven states".
According to the division of Taoism, Huzhou is still considered the territory of Quanzhen Taoism, but it is already the border of Quanzhen Taoism. Outside of Huzhou, whether it is Jiangzhou, Xiaozhou or Wuzhou, they all belong to the territory of Zhengdao.
Qi Xuansu couldn't help but ask: "Why did Xuan Sheng divide the three factions into three factions in the first place, so that today the three factions are fighting endlessly?"
Zhang Yuelu sighed and said: "This is not Xuan Sheng's original intention, but the Taoist sect was fragmented at the beginning, with more than twenty different branches and factions. It cannot be said that there were constant internal fights, but there were also many old grudges, such as our Zhang family and the Li family
Xuan Sheng believed that under the circumstances at that time, it was difficult to completely integrate the entire Taoist sect into one place. He could only divide it into three major factions: Zhengdao, Quanzhen Tao and Taiping Tao based on the distance, proximity and ancestral inheritance of each branch."
"In addition, Xuansheng dispersed some people, and divided the people who originally belonged to the Zhengdao into the Quanzhen Dao, the people from the Quanzhen Dao into the Taiping Dao, and the people from the Taiping Dao into the Zhengyi Dao.
Between the three roads, there is me among you, and you among me, just like dividing the state boundaries, intersecting each other, making it impossible to form an independent separatist power. Just like the Hanzhong Prefecture in Shuzhou, regardless of customs or geography, it should belong to
Shuzhou, but was assigned to Qinzhou by the imperial court because Hanzhong Prefecture was the gateway to Shuzhou to prevent Shuzhou from forming a separatist regime."
"Xuansheng originally planned to gradually cancel the Three Paths, but in his later years, Buddhism rose. Xuansheng's main energy was focused on dealing with Buddhism. He could only put this matter aside for the time being and hope that future generations of great masters can solve the problem.
.The subsequent great masters were unable to integrate the three paths into one place due to various reasons. The three deputy masters, Da Zhenren, were even more powerful, leading to today's situation in which the three paths are in conflict. To this day,
The position of Grand Master must be controlled by the hands of the three deputy Grand Masters, and it is impossible to integrate the three ways."