Add some practice: start with a lucid dream

Chapter 178 Qi, body, source, flow

"Have you read the preface in the book?"

"The preface written by Daoist Zhang?" Chen Ze confirmed it, and answered after Liang Yi nodded.
"I just scanned it and didn't look carefully."

"Daozhang Zhang made it very clear in his preface." This time Liang Yi didn't make a fool of himself.

"Qi" transforms the Sanqing, "body" can carry the Tao, "source" is the innate Taoism, and "flow" is the Laojun's Dharma pulse, so it is called "The Origin and Flow of Qi Body"! "

"These four words have already been explained clearly!"

After Liang Yi's point, Chen Ze felt a fog that had been shrouded in his mind for a long time suddenly dissipate.

The origin and flow of the body, these four words are like a clue, a clue that strings together everything Chen Ze has done so far.

Martial arts, 【Physique】, Fitness, Vajra Longevity Kungfu, 【Tongxuan】, Qi Tuan, Outer Daoyin, Lian Qi, Qi Bureau, Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.
All of a sudden, Chen Ze subconsciously sorted these things into different categories in his mind, and finally put them all under the big category of "Dan Dao".

And the catalog is the four words "Yi Ti Yuanliu".

At this moment, without waiting for Chen Ze to urge, Liang Yi began to explain carefully,
"What is Qi, I don't need to explain it anymore? Let me tell you something you don't know yet."

"Qi, there is also the distinction between innate and acquired."

"Xianxian, that is, the innate qi, is the innate talent of everyone. It is destined by the sky and cannot be changed by humans."

"Of course, in the alchemy practice, the life skill similar to the jade liquid refining method can slightly strengthen the innate energy."

"But if the innate qi is not strong enough to even enter the door of alchemy, how can we talk about being strong?"

"This is the importance of innate qi."

"The so-called 'Qi Hua San Qing', Qi is the root cause!"

Right!
Chen Ze thought to himself, the [Physique] attribute is also the same, it can hardly be changed.

"And in alchemy cultivation, whether it is through refining and refining the qi, or absorbing the primordial qi of the heavens and the earth, and strengthening the primordial qi in the body, what is refined is the acquired qi!"

"The acquired qi is completely different from the innate qi, it is not the source of life."

"Thus, the Qi luck exercise in normal times, and even the Yuan Qi consumed in the talisman Taoism, are all regenerated Acquired Qi."

"So the innate qi is like the eye of a spring, and the acquired qi is the water flowing through the spring."

Hearing this, the young genius Chen Ze nodded silently, and made an exact analogy in his heart.

Xiantian Qi is like the battery in a traditional car. If you want to start the ignition, you must rely on the battery to supply power. Without the battery, you cannot start the car at all.

After the fire is fired, the battery can rest, and instead consume fuel to provide power, which is the acquired qi.

Chen Ze got it!

In this way, I have strengthened my innate qi step by step to such an extent by forcing my [Physique]!

At this time, Liang Yi went on to say,

"As for 'body', you should understand better."

"If you don't have a good body, how can you refine your qi? How can you endure long hours of sitting in meditation? How can you withstand the increasingly powerful qi in your body?"

"So 'physical energy carries the Tao', the body is the foundation."

"In fact, the innate qi determines the physical quality, and the physical condition determines the acquired qi that can be refined and carried."

"Qi, sexual energy, body, life energy."

"The two complement each other, this is the dual cultivation of life and soul!"

After digesting Liang Yi's words for a while, Chen Ze couldn't wait to ask again,

"What about 'source' and 'flow', Dr. Liang?"

"Yuan." Liang Yi paused, "It refers to the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth."

"People are born in nature, and the vitality in each person's body comes from between heaven and earth."

"Therefore, the primordial energy of heaven and earth is the best nourishing elixir for every living being."

"And in alchemy practice, the outside world's energy is like the fire outside the alchemy furnace, and it's like the water added in the alchemy process."

"Not to mention absorbing the energy of the heavens and the earth into the body, if there is no forging and harmonizing the energy of the heavens and the earth, it will be extremely difficult to cultivate into a real person!"

"It's still the shape refining method of jade liquid. If it was in ancient times, with the nourishment and cooperation of heaven and earth Yuan Qi outside, even people in the foundation building stage can be guided by thoughts and cycle around the sky."

"The so-called innate orthodoxy exists before human beings. This is the 'origin'."

"And 'flow' refers to the alchemy that the sages of the past dynasties fumbled and handed down!"

"The way of alchemy originated from Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", isn't it the Laojun's Dharma?"

"Of these four conditions, what modern people lack the most is 'source'! Then there is 'flow'."

"This is the biggest dilemma of modern cultivation."

At the end, Liang Yi couldn't help saying with emotion,
"The so-called Dao to Simplicity, just these four words, have already explained the way of alchemy clearly, even if a person of insight spends his whole life, he can't use it up."

"Daozhang Zhang is a man of great wisdom, what a pity, what a pity."

It's a pity that Chen Ze didn't pay attention to the last two sentences. He was thinking about how to plan his future route.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ze suddenly took out his mobile phone, swiped it, and handed it to Liang Yi.
"Doctor Liang, do you know this thing?"

Liang Yi took the phone and looked at it. There was a slightly enlarged photo on the screen.

The content of the photo is a yellowish and dirty rectangular piece of cloth with many patterns and texts drawn on it.

It was the fragments of Qishu that Chen Ze snatched from the hands of the superficial brothers.

"This." Liang Yi handed the phone back indifferently.
"It's a kind of qi refining technique, I've seen it a few times before."

Liang Yi, be steady!

Chen Ze immediately asked in surprise,

"Doctor Liang, you should have the rest of the exercises, right?"

"No." Liang Yi answered unexpectedly,
"It's not very useful, so I don't care."

"Why is it so useless!" Chen Ze was a little excited.

He has a deep understanding of how powerful the [Qi Energy Affinity] obtained through qi refining (residual) is.

Liang Yi, on the other hand, explained without haste,

"This exercise is more appropriate to say that it is a technique of controlling qi rather than refining qi."

"But the biggest problem of modern people's cultivation is not to control Qi, but to feel Qi!"

"So this thing is worse than chicken ribs. It's tasteless to eat, so it's not a pity to throw it away."

"This..." Chen Ze organized the words in his mind, "So this was practiced when the energy of heaven and earth had not declined?"

"It's not accurate to say that." Liang Yi put on a look of wanting to talk about it.

"The formation of Dan Dao is not achieved overnight, but a process of gradual development and perfection."

"As early as the pre-Qin period or even the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, there were ancient Qi practitioners who explored some of the mysteries of the human body, and thus created a method of how to use Yuan Qi."

"Although these people are considered astonishingly talented sages, after all, they have the limitations of the times, and it is absolutely impossible to just refine Qi."

"Cultivating only one's nature without cultivating one's life is like one foot is long and the other is short, you can't go far."

"So, just like the outer alchemy, these exercises were later absorbed and improved by the inner alchemy, and gradually disappeared in the long river of history."

"But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, at least after the Qing Dynasty, the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth declined sharply."

Hearing this, Chen Ze interjected: "Doctor Liang, are you so sure?"

"That's right." Liang Yi nodded, "I'm not sure before the Qing Dynasty."

"But at least throughout the Qing Dynasty, the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth must have declined significantly."

"This point is not only passed down by word of mouth, but also recorded in many alchemy classics written in the Qing Dynasty."

"The Annotation to the Thirteen Classics of the Supreme Master, the Collection of Books in Yudong, "Yuanzhenlu", "Notes on Rootless Trees", "Talking about Daoqiao", "Sanche Mizhi" and so on are all mentioned."

"Especially "Taiyi Jinhua Purpose", this book was later spread to Europe, and its influence is very great."

"Not only that, there are many historical events that can be corroborated."

"Do you know about Emperor Qianlong burning books, banning books and promoting literary inquisition?"

"Ouyang mentioned it to me." Chen Ze added, "It is said that it is to collect cultivation techniques, and then pretend to be fake and monopolize the immortal way."

"Not bad." Liang Yi nodded in satisfaction and continued,
"Actually, Qianlong wasn't the only one who was doing this. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty basically did this kind of thing more or less."

"Even among the people, there are many aristocratic sects, and even hermits are doing this kind of thing."

"Why? It's because of the great changes in the world and the environment that year, Yuan Qi is getting thinner day by day, which made everyone panic."

"Many people think that the problem is that there are too many people cultivating immortality, vying for the heaven and earth Yuan Qi, so at that time there was a trend of self-preservation and self-care in the cultivation world, from top to bottom."

"And this trend reached its peak during the reign of Qianlong. Coupled with the tyrannical government, it caused panic everywhere and caused many tragedies."

"Have you read this book?" Liang Yi suddenly picked up his phone and clicked on the bookshelf interface of a reading app.

"Calling the Soul - The Great Sorcerer in Huaguo in 1768"

"Coincidentally." Chen Ze raised his eyebrows, "The history teacher told us about it when we were in school."

This book tells the story of a panic that originated in the Jiangnan region and finally swept the country during the 33rd year of Qianlong's reign.

"Okay, reading more books is always a good thing." Liang Yi seemed to like Chen Ze more and more,

"The essence behind this matter is that Qianlong is actually using the topic to make full use of it, taking advantage of this to hunt down Taoist monks among the people."

"I'd rather kill by mistake than let it go."

"It's a pity that my alchemy has been passed down through the ages, and almost all of it was destroyed in the Qing Dynasty."

"So that's what happened." Chen Ze had a feeling of lifting the fog of history to explore the truth.

Putting away the phone at this time, Liang Yi went on to talk,

"In this context, some people were fighting openly and secretly, while others were looking for a way out."

"Isn't the primordial qi of heaven and earth declining and not enough? So they found inspiration from the ancient qi refining masters, and simplified the previous set of qi refining exercises. After improvement, it became the qi refining technique handed down today."

"It's ridiculous to say that this kind of exercise that focuses on controlling qi can be said to be putting the cart before the horse, but it turned out to have become the mainstream exercise in the cultivation world at that time."

"However, to be honest, not only the people are doing this, but the ruling group is also betting on both hands."

"The dispute between Buddhism and Taoism has lasted for thousands of years, with each other winning and losing, but in the end of the Qing Dynasty, they all worshiped Buddhism and derogated from Taoism."

"This is also because of the difference in practice between Buddhism and Taoism."

"Taoism talks about the dual cultivation of life and soul, but Buddhism has a special liking for sexuality."

"Their concepts of epiphany, ten mysteries, six phases, penance, Nirvana, rebirth, etc. are all very extreme."

"However, under the background of the decline of heaven and earth energy at that time, their method is very popular."

"Of course, in the future, the decline of heaven and earth energy will become more and more serious. No matter whether it is Qi refining or Buddhist methods, it will not work!"

"Doctor Liang, you know a lot!" After listening patiently, Chen Ze gave a thumbs up before continuing to ask,
"Then you don't have any clues about the whereabouts of this refining Qi?"

"You don't need it, and caring too much about miscellaneous things is not good for your mood." Liang Yi persuaded with some earnestness.

"Doctor Liang!" Chen Ze straightened his back, "To be honest, I still have some talent in refining Qi, and I might use it someday!"

Hearing this, Liang Yi took a serious look at Chen Ze,
"Young man, I understand."

Speaking of which, Liang Yi lay down on the back of the chair again on the ground,

"I was the same as you when I was young. I felt that I was different, that I was the child of destiny, and that I was different from ordinary people."

"Calm down, step by step down-to-earth is the right way."

"Doctor Liang, listen to me."

(End of this chapter)