Add some practice: start with a lucid dream

Chapter 158 Dan Dao
And Liang Yi hadn't finished speaking,

"Innate qi is the root of the human body and the source of physical growth."

"And the strength of the innate qi is also a kind of talent. If the innate qi is strong, it will naturally be strong and strong. If it is weak, it must be weak and sick since childhood."

"Besides, the way of heaven is to make up for what is lacking."

"The innate strength of one qi and the talent of being close to nature's yuan qi, there are very few people who can have both. Those are the true favored children of heaven, and many people who have left their names in history are like this."

"And most of the materials that can be made can only have one of the talents, so people who are close to the natural energy are often born with one energy that is not too strong, and the body will naturally not be able to bear the years of losses."

In other words, [Physique] attributes are mediocre. Chen Ze suddenly realized.

"But it's not because of everyone's poor health, right?" Chen Ze chose to break the casserole and ask the end.

"Of course, people who have achieved success in cultivation can tell the truth just by looking at each other. Naturally, I can tell the difference." Liang Yi said on the ground.

"So you are a man of virtue, Dr. Liang?"

"Hahahaha." Liang Yi smiled smugly, with a bit of fairy air,
"That's kind of flattering me."

"But, compared to ordinary people, I'm pretty good."

"What are you doing standing here!" A domineering voice suddenly cut in and interrupted Liang Yi's words.

"Tell me about you, old man!"

"How can there be no people standing in such a big place!"

"And the tall one, go away! Don't stop me from watering!".
The pungent cleaning aunt roughly pushed the two of them away, almost causing Liang Yi to stumble,

"Hey yo yo yo yo!"

Chen Ze stretched out his hand to catch the embarrassed Liang Yi,

"Doctor Liang, let's go outside and talk."

"Hey." Liang Yi panted slightly and patted his chest, "Okay, okay."

"I'm an old bone"

This little episode ruined Liang Yi's inscrutable image a bit, and it also made Chen Ze's guard down a lot.

Outside the gymnasium, the two came to a mobile snack truck.

Authentic Shandong miscellaneous grain pancakes.

"This pancake is good, I come here often." Liang Yi greeted the boss with ease,
"Add shortbread meat floss, bacon, two eggs, no coriander, more green onions, and less sauce."

Seeing this, Chen Ze also ordered two cakes, filling them with all the toppings, and at the same time told the boss to put coriander as hard as he could.

While waiting for the boss to spread the cake, Liang Yi spoke naturally,

"Tell me, what else did you want to ask just now?"

Chen Ze didn't speak, but just glanced at the stall owner.

Seeing this, Liang Yi shook his head: "There's nothing to hide, and it's not something to be shady."

Chen Ze thought about it too, and there is no law prohibiting cultivating immortals.

And they don't spread the specific exercises because they are afraid that others will go astray by practicing privately. Thinking of this, Chen Ze boldly asked questions that have been accumulated in his heart for a long time.

"Doctor Liang, what is the difference between the so-called cultivation of immortality, cultivation of truth, practice, and cultivation in reality? Which one is the correct statement?"

After working around alone for so long, it was easy to catch an expert. Chen Ze was going to re-establish his systematic understanding of cultivating immortals.

And Liang Yi didn't disappoint Chen Ze either, he just explained the truth clearly,
"What's in novels and movies doesn't count, I'm just talking about the situation in real life."

"Cultivating immortals, cultivating to become an immortal, cultivating Taoism, cultivating spirituality, and comprehension are actually often used together, and generally there is no special emphasis."

"Strictly speaking, cultivation is a more orthodox term."

"Cultivators use fakes to cultivate the truth. To learn the Tao and practice, to seek the true self, to discard the false and keep the true is 'cultivation'."

"The 'false' here refers to the mortal body, and the 'true' refers to the eternal detachment."

"That's why those who have cultivated the truth are called 'true people'."

"Of course, the true and the false here are more philosophical theories, and you don't need to know too clearly, otherwise it will be regarded as a fascination."

"I guess what you want to know more is what exactly is the practice of cultivation, right?"

"Doctor Liang." Chen Ze took a bite of the fresh and warm multigrain pancake from the boss, "You know me."

"Hey, I forgot to put the dried radish!" Liang Yi pointed to the iron plate suddenly and reminded.

"Sorry." The boss helped him fill up the dried radish with a troubled expression.

Apparently, the conversation between the two just now distracted the boss a bit, and he didn't even spread the pancakes.

After receiving the pancake wrapped in a kraft paper bag, Liang Yi looked around and led Chen Ze to squat on the side curb.

On the side of the pedestrians coming and going, the two squatted in a row on the steps, with their toes touching the ground.

"This practice has been around for a long time." Liang Yi ate a little greasy.

"Then let's start from the beginning." Chen Ze also opened his small mouth in front of the rolled pancake.

"About more than 3000 million years ago, the earliest apes appeared in the late Oligocene of the Cenozoic Tertiary"

"Cough, cough cough!" Chen Ze almost choked on the coriander stalk, "You'd better make a long story short!"

"Okay." Liang Yi seemed a little regretful that he couldn't show his full stomach,
"Although there have been classics on cultivation since the time of the Yellow Emperor, most of them were forged by later generations."

"The so-called comprehension, in fact, is alchemy."

Speaking of this, Liang Yi emphasized it several times, and he didn't even notice that a piece of bacon was dropped by his hand.

"Remember, the cultivation of truth is alchemy, and the whole system of cultivation is developed on the basis of alchemy."

"Alchemy is the core of the essence of cultivation."

"Dan Dao." Chen Ze repeated.

Compared with other words, the spread of Dan Dao is far less, and it is often considered to be heresy.

Yet the opposite seems to be the case.

"And the origin of alchemy has to be counted from the Tao Te Ching."

"In the beginning it was Wai Dan, which was to refine all kinds of golden elixirs and take lead dan red pills in order to live forever. Later, many people died after eating them, and naturally it gradually declined."

"Since the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, "San Tong Qi" and other inner alchemy works have been written, and Zhong Liquan, Lu Dongbin and other patriarchs have appeared in the world one after another. The inner alchemy school gradually overwhelmed the outer alchemy school and became the mainstream of cultivation."

"In the end, comprehension is basically synonymous with Neidan Dao."

At this time, a few big migrant workers came over with a box of lunch, talking and laughing, and started cooking.

Glancing at them, Chen Ze also had the cheek to continue asking,

"Doctor Liang, how should this inner alchemy be cultivated? Does such a systematic set of exercises really exist?"

"It does exist." Liang Yi nodded solemnly, "And there is more than one set, but although there are many schools, the basic system is almost the same."

"The 'elixir' of inner alchemy is actually a metaphor. Comparing the human body to a furnace, the essence is to condense one's body with the three treasures of spirit, energy, and spirit."

"Refining the self to build the foundation, refining the Qi to transform it, refining the Qi to transform it into the spirit, and refining the spirit to return the emptiness, these are basically the same."

"The Wuliu school is the main one, and there is also the saying of refining the void and smashing the void, but I don't know if it is true or not."

"Wu Liu School?" Chen Ze asked a question.

"It is the Luzu school founded by Wu Shouyang and Liu Huayang, which belongs to the Quanzhen Longmen branch and advocates Qingxiu."

Chen Ze had dabbled in the Taoist faction before, so he took this opportunity to ask Liang Yi to explain it carefully.

"On a larger scale, Taoism is basically divided into two schools, Zhengyi and Quanzhen."

"Zhengyi Patriarch Xuantan is located in Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi Province, Zhang Tianshi's lineage, and he majors in Taoist talismans. I don't know much about it."

"Quanzhen regards Wang Chongyang as the patriarch, and does not focus on outer alchemy talismans, but on cultivating his own body, which is the way of inner alchemy."

"Dan Dao is further divided into the 'Jian' faction and the 'Dun' faction."

"Among them, the 'Dun' sect absorbed Buddhist thought, and mainly talked about sudden enlightenment. It's really too mysterious, at least I haven't seen any reliable ones."

"The 'Jian' sect is the mainstream of alchemy, and it is divided into five sects, north, south, east, west, and middle."

"Among them, the eastern and western factions are mainly based on double cultivation of alchemy and group cultivation of alchemy, which are relatively unpopular."

"The northern and southern sects are mainly Qingxiu, which can be regarded as the mainstream of alchemy."

"Generally, when we talk about cultivating immortals, what we are cultivating is the Qing cultivation method of alchemy from the northern and southern schools."

"Xiao Chen, do you know what 'sex' and 'fate' refer to?"

"I know." Chen Ze nodded, thinking about going to the next door to buy some sets of pancakes to satisfy his hunger.

"Ming" refers to all visible physiological tissues of the human body.

Intangible existences such as qi, spirit, and soul are called "nature".

So Liang Yi continued talking,

"Northern school pays attention to life before life, while the southern school pays attention to life before life."

"But in general, both factions advocate dual cultivation of life and life."

"Oh——" Chen Ze said with a long breath, "So if you practice according to their skills, you can count as cultivating immortals, right?"

"It's not wrong for you to understand this way. It's almost the same meaning. In fact, that's the same thing about cultivating immortals."

Liang Yi affirmed, and licked his sauce-stained fingers without any image.

There was a rustling sound, and it turned out that the big brothers of the migrant workers next to them squatted to the distance like avoiding snakes and scorpions.

You can still vaguely hear their whispers and glances from time to time.

And Liang Yi was obviously used to other people's different gazes, and he was still eating the delicious pancakes by himself.

(End of this chapter)