With magical powers, I can quietly meditate on sutras for hundreds of years and become an immortal.

Chapter 118 Open the door and see immortality

The light is indifferent.

Everything in the huge palace was enveloped as if it were eternal.

We have also witnessed countless talented people come here.

The halberd was broken in front of the relief carvings engraved with the secrets of heaven and earth, and it failed to do its full work.

However, thousands of years of waiting will eventually come to fruition.

The unbroken record will also face its end.

Li Zhen stood in front of the penultimate relief, the forty-eighth relief.

Facing the yin and yang Pisces that seemed to be constantly rotating.

He had clearly escaped from that spiritual world, but he did not wake up.

Perceive the true spiritual seed that falls in the lake of your heart.

lost in thought.

He was thinking about the lines of writing engraved on the bottom of the relief that looked like ancient patterns of fish, insects, and birds:
  [Heaven and earth are one Tai Chi, human body is one Tai Chi, and Tai Chi is one. 】

[The small becomes the big and the small, and the mind becomes the inside and outside. If we can get rid of this mind, how can there be no distinction between inside and outside, between you and me? 】

[And since heaven and earth are endless, how can the human body be exhausted? 】

[In this way, all appearances can be eliminated and one can merge with heaven and earth. 】

When I first saw him, I was puzzled.

But when you walk into such a spiritual world, experience all kinds of scenery and then reflect on yourself.

In a sudden, enlightenment.

He is now about to reach the pinnacle of martial arts, but the road ahead is still unclear and there is no light.

But it's because he is too obsessed with himself.

From beginning to end, his eyes were always on himself.

Even if it is reciting scriptures, understanding the truth, and browsing the mountains and rivers.

What I was thinking about was always me, a little person like myself.

Trapped in the barriers of mind and heart, blocked by obstacles in knowledge and vision.

Now I have realized it.

Decades of accumulated experience in sutra meditation.

In an instant, it becomes a concrete experience.

He understood clearly that when the spiritual and physical martial arts paths came to an end.

I want to find another breakthrough.

In addition to opening the door to heaven and earth, heading to the unknown world.

Use a higher world to elevate yourself.

The only way left.

There is only a change from body to bodylessness, from mind to mindlessness.

The body is connected with heaven and earth, and the mind is connected with nature.

There is neither a human body nor a human heart.

The rules imposed on people by heaven and earth in the past have lost their effect.

The road to immortality has thus opened the door.

Therefore, if you want to achieve such a state, you must first remove the wall between your own heart and the spirit of the outside world.

Allow smooth communication between heart and soul.

Let this little "Tai Chi" return to the big "Tai Chi" of the outside world.

That's how it works.

And such a process.

Li Zhen called it: asking the heart.

When you ask your heart and see nature, you can achieve true spirituality.

In the past, he actually passed the most difficult hurdle and embarked on this process.

But now the group from Xiantian Palace accelerated him through this process.

You can see the true spirit and enter the lake of your heart.

But now, there is only one last step left to achieve perfection.

If you want to be careless, first guard your heart.

To the virtual machine, keep pure and sincere.

When you guard your heart to the extreme, things will turn to the extreme and break the prison of bondage.

It seems that pure yang gives birth to true yin, and pure yin gives birth to true yang.

This is the truth behind the state of mindlessness.

Li Zhen gently closed his eyes and abandoned all distracting thoughts in an instant.

No thoughts, no one, no self.

Chaos, indistinct.

Gradually, he forgot everything.

Get rid of all appearances.

Pang Ran's spirit continued to improve, turning into a pure thought.

One thought generates yin and yang again, and yin and yang transform into all things.

There are ten thousand thoughts, as if there are no thoughts.

Although the physical body still exists in the Xiantian Palace, it seems to have nothing to do with him.

This is a concept passed down orally and secretly by the old Taoist priests of Zhenwu Division.

The practitioner uses an object as a mark, visualizes and meditates.

Until the spirit is pure and is superior to the body.

Li Zhen made many improvements in the past, but now he was inspired by these reliefs.

Abandoning the existence of visual objects, purely using the method of meditation to achieve the state of mindlessness.

But compared with that kind of trick method, I don't know how much better it is.

Time seemed to freeze in Li Zhen's consciousness.

No longer aware of the passage of a moment, it seems like eternity at this moment.

I don't know how long it has been.

Li Zhen's whole being is as pure as one, yet he has a spirit that embodies all things.

Suddenly, it turned into a spiritual light and soared upward.

The sound of life as a seed sprouts and breaks out of its shell seems to resound in my heart.

Jumping forward, the whole "person" is in a higher level and space.

He felt the light.

So, he opened his eyes carefully and saw a wonderful scene.

In the dome of the Milky Way galaxy, there is a crystal that emits endless light and brightness.

Behind the crystal, there is a transparent light pillar running through it.

One end runs through the void of endless darkness, seemingly leading to light.

Under the other end, there is a small figure looking up with eyes closed.

When Li Zhen realized that the insignificant person under the light pillar was himself.

Shocked!
  Thoughts abounded and consciousness returned.

"Hi~"

He groaned softly.

An indescribable feeling of comfort echoed throughout his body.

at the same time.

In the consciousness, there are naturally more methods of absorbing the "spirit" between heaven and earth, so as to achieve "no body".

[You have read through the Three Thousand Taoist Canon, and you have fully understood the principle that things will reverse when they are extreme, and change when the Tao is exhausted, observe the spirit with your heart, and plant the Tao in your heart]

[You have glimpsed the opportunity of eternal life, and you have clearly understood the unknown method of spiritual cultivation]

Sixty years of painstaking pursuit, Jiazi years of hard work to perform.

Finally, it comes to fruition at this time.

"Finally, it's done!"

A long sigh echoed in the silent grand palace.

Sadness, relief, joy, sigh.
  Various thoughts appeared alternately on Li Zhen's face.

Finally, they gathered into a dazzling smile.

There is hope for eternal life!

At this time, even the most precious thing in the world was placed in front of Li Zhen.

However, it is difficult to compare with the meaning carried by these four words.

After thinking about it for a long time, no matter how happy I am, I have to return to reality after all.

Suppress the joy in my heart that my long-cherished wish has finally come true.

Li Zhen raised his head and glanced at the last relief.

Unsurprisingly.

The scene depicted in the picture is exactly the opposite of the first one.

The man with a vague face rode the monster and returned to the world from the gate of heaven and earth.

But Li Zhen noticed completely different details.

The last relief shows the man's armor broken and his clothes stained with blood.

The dragon-like monster beneath it also had its scales broken and was bleeding profusely.

"Sure enough, there is no peace outside the broken world, but great danger."

"And after being broken, you can also come back."

Silently, he summarized these two crucial pieces of information in his mind.

As he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed the first relief in the center of the palace.

At some point, a waist-high stone platform rose from the ground.

There is a gleaming light on the countertop, which is eye-catching.

Looking closely, it was a plain jade pendant.

Li Zhen's expression changed.

Secretly, is this the ultimate reward for him to overcome all these relief difficulties?
  But I have never heard anyone mention it.

But since it was all in front of him, there was no reason for him not to take a look.

To take or not to take is another matter.

But if you don’t look at it, there is something wrong with you. You can seek immortality, but you can’t lose your most basic desires.

Greed is the source of motivation that drives people to pursue higher goals.

Thinking of this, Li Zhen glanced at the forty-ninth relief for the last time.

After recording all the details in your heart, move forward.

The jade pendant is not big, only about half a palm.

Picking it up casually, it felt heavy on my hand.

At the same time, there is also an indescribable warm touch.

But none of these superficial things matter.

At Li Zhen's level, he no longer cares about some external things.

What made him curious was what was so magical about this ordinary-looking jade pendant.

Is it worthy of being stored in the Xiantian Palace for countless years and not born until this moment?

The curiosity and inquiry in his eyes flashed away.

Keep a steady mind.

Suddenly, he once again entered the state of separation between spirit and body.

Look at it with your whole heart.

Invisible to ordinary people.

A symbol that was exactly the same as the text on the relief, but was extremely complicated and unusual, was revealed.

Li Zhen obviously didn't know it and couldn't guess the evil meaning it represented.

But the moment he "saw" this symbol.

In my heart, an inexplicable understanding arose.

seal up!
  What this symbol represents.

What’s the meaning of seal?

Block, close, wrap.

And what kind of thing can be sealed in a jade pendant that has no actual space?
  Naturally, Li Zhen thought of the national destiny that he had always heard about but had never seen.

In fact, I even got my hands on the incense.

"so."

"Is this jade pendant used to seal the national destiny and incense?"

Playing with the objects in his hands, his mind was racing with thoughts.

He thought of Zhao Ping's jade and the small seal of the fairy.

There is a feeling somewhere.

These three are most likely the same existence.

In other words, the first two were brought out by other warriors who entered Xiantian in the past years.

As for who it is, it is no longer known.

But is its role just that?
  Li Zhen has a different view.

After entering the state of "unintentional", the world in his eyes became very different from before.

Let's take the present as an example.

His vision was filled with extremely small light spots of different colors.

Floating, ups and downs.

It would also shoot towards his body, but it would strangely pass through his body.

And these light spots are "spirits".

It is the "spirit" that is everywhere in heaven and earth.

I couldn't see it before just because there was a barrier between myself and it.

But now the obstacles are gone and nature is revealed.

Since there is a "spirit" in everything.

The human body is no exception. It may be very small, but it will definitely exist.

Does that mean we can make an assumption based on this?

The so-called national destiny, incense and so on.

Is it actually the gathering of spirituality in the bodies of ordinary people?
  They are also a type of "spirit".

If you think about it this way.

Then the function of this jade pendant may be much more than its original single use.

Thoughts are flying in my mind, and all kinds of thoughts are going on.

In the end, Li Zhen decided to take the object away.

Although he has developed a character of neither fighting nor grabbing over the years.

But it doesn't mean that you will give up the benefits once you get them.

Besides, there might be some other connection between this jade pendant and the other two jade bis and jade seals.

He doesn't want to let go.

Thinking like this, Li Zhen held it in his hand and never put it down.

And seemed to notice that the jade pendant had been taken away.

The stone platform in front of him slowly sank.

But in a matter of moments, it merged with the ground, and there was no longer any flaw.

Such a scene made Li Zhen couldn't help but marvel.

Then, I became even more curious about how that person built such a grand and ingenious temple in the first place.

'perhaps.'

‘In the world beyond the sky, there was once a place that was skillfully constructed with ingenuity. ’

He remembered his past life.

After thinking about it for a moment, he threw them aside.

Now my purpose of entering the Xiantian Palace has been successfully achieved, and I even got some additional gains.

The door leading to immortality that was blocking him was already crumbling.

As long as you leave, you can lock the "spirit" of the outside world with the state of "unintentional".

Then capture it with the sublimated spiritual thoughts and integrate them into your own body.

Achieve "no body" and embrace the nature of heaven and earth.

There is hope for the immortality he has been pursuing so hard.

A long-cherished wish is about to come true, almost within reach.

Li Zhen can't wait to leave here now.

Find a quiet place to start practicing.

However, the question before him at this time was precisely:
  How is he going to leave?

Looking at the untouchable dome and the enclosed palaces around it, Li Zhen frowned slightly.

However, at this moment, changes occurred in the palace.

It can only be seen with the "mind's eye" just now.

With the crystal on the dome as the center, there are light pillars running through both sides.

At this moment, it suddenly appeared in reality.

At the same time, it also loomed over Li Zhen.

The moment the light fell to the ground.

An inexplicable attraction came from the sky, pulling him upwards.

"Are you going to leave in this way?"

After thinking about it, I didn't expect to leave in such a non-martial way.

Li Zhen made no resistance and let his body fly upward.

Just flying in mid-air and glancing down in a condescending manner.

In my heart, a thought suddenly emerged.

When Zhao Shenyue shattered the void.
  Does he feel the same as he does now?

It's a pity that he has passed away.

Maybe there may be a chance to meet again in the future.

But by then, there may be no need to ask.

As his thoughts flowed, Li Zhen's head had touched the spar.

The imagined scene of the egg hitting the stone did not appear.

Instead, a feeling of harmony came to my mind.

The head passes through.

There is no trace of the magnificent palace beneath him.

His gaze passed through the beam of light that shrouded his body, and all that was reflected in his eyes was darkness.

Endless darkness, like the eternal darkness of the outer universe.

A depressing feeling came over me.

And as it gets higher and higher, the whole person is floating in the void and darkness.

That feeling is getting stronger and stronger.

In addition to abandoning this feeling, Li Zhen took pleasure in suffering and determined one thing.

That is, this Xiantian Palace is definitely not in the belly of the monster outside.

As for where?

That can only be left for later.

Looking at the top of my head, a ray of light emerged.

It indicates that he is about to break through the darkness and return to the world.

But by this time, the joy in his heart could no longer be suppressed.

Accompanied by a "pop" sound.

It was like being vomited out of something.

Li Zhen's vision suddenly became clear.

Blue sky and white clouds, snow-capped mountains and Tianchi.

He is back.

From now on, the sky is high and the sea is vast.

You can travel as much as you want.

(End of this chapter)