Self-struggle starting from Douluo

Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West" also learned inner alchemy.

Patriarch Bodhi said: "This is an extraordinary way, it seizes the creation of heaven and earth, invades the mysteries of the sun and the moon, and after the elixir is completed, even ghosts and gods cannot tolerate it.

Although you can maintain your youthful appearance and prolong your life, after 500 years, you will be struck by a thunderbolt from heaven. You must see your true nature and understand your mind, and avoid it in advance. If you can avoid it, you will live as long as the sky; if you cannot, you will die.

After another five hundred years, a fire will fall from the sky and burn you. This fire is not heavenly fire, nor is it ordinary fire. It is called Yin fire. It will burn from the Yongquan acupoint of your body, and go straight through the Niyuan Palace. Your five internal organs will turn to ashes, and your limbs will decay. All your thousand years of hard work will be in vain.

Five hundred years later, another wind disaster will come and blow you. This wind is not the southeast, northwest wind, nor the warm and fragrant golden wind, nor the flower, willow, pine and bamboo wind. It is called the Bi wind. It blows from the fontanel into the six internal organs, passes through the dantian, penetrates the nine orifices, and the bones and flesh are weakened, and the body disintegrates, so you must avoid it.

Therefore, Patriarch Bodhi taught Sun Wukong seventy-two transformations to "avoid the three disasters."

Before the three disasters, there were the "nine difficulties".

The elixir has not yet been prepared, and it is difficult to withstand the cold and heat. The true qi has not yet been generated, but there is still hunger and thirst, and one still needs to wear clothes and eat, so this "hunger and cold" is the first difficulty.

The karma from past lives is heavy and must be repaid in this life. Even if one wants to take a break from busy work, one is still restricted by elders. Therefore, being “invited and stopped by elders” is the second most difficult thing.

Those you love are your wife and children, and those you cherish are your parents. The bond of love and affection increases every day. “The entanglement of love and affection” is the third difficulty.

Even if one is rich enough to own ten thousand households or is as noble as three officials, his delusional mind will not rest for a moment, and the greedy person only worries about not having enough. Being entangled by fame and fortune is the fourth difficulty.

Weak energy leads to illness, a stubborn mind refuses to realize one's mistake, and the root of evil causes disasters, causing one to suffer in this life. "Misfortunes occur everywhere" is the fifth difficulty.

In a hurry to find a teacher, he does not distinguish between the true and the false. At first, he thinks he has met a god, but in the end he finds out that he is just a profit-seeking person. "Being restrained by a blind teacher" is the sixth difficulty.

Blind teachers and crazy friends point to side doors at random, picking branches and leaves but finding nothing that fits. "Discussing differences" is the seventh difficulty.

Do what you do in the morning and change it in the evening, make up your mind while sitting and working, "being slack in determination" is the eighth difficulty.

When you are young, you never forget fame and fortune; when you are old, you always care about your children and grandchildren. "Wasting time" is the ninth difficulty.

Generally speaking, not to mention the "three disasters" after entering the Tao, the "nine difficulties" before entering the Tao directly stop most people.

Those who truly enter the Tao have the following characteristics:
Be tenacious and persistent! Be yin and yang, be soft and strong! Clear your mind and concentrate! Let nature take its course and rule by doing nothing! Be wise but foolish and be open-minded! Be ignorant and desireless and reach all directions!

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How many stories of joy, anger, sorrow and happiness are there in the world? Can a person experience even one or two of them in his lifetime?

People who practice cultivation live longer, but that also means they spend more time practicing, and their life experiences combined may not be as much as those of ordinary people.

What would be the consequences if all the joys and sorrows, ups and downs, happiness and anger, sorrow and joy in the world were concentrated on one person?
In more than a year, Qinghuan had no idea how many illusions he had experienced. If he had not become a "real person", he would have gone crazy long ago.

But it was precisely because of these countless illusions that he was able to cleanse his body and mind, and polish his golden elixir to be round, golden, transparent and flawless!
Being able to take on and put down, this is called "complete enlightenment"!
Before entering the next realm of delusion, Qing Huan suddenly thought of a question: "Does this sea of ​​suffering really have a limit?"

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After a lot of trouble, Xiao Xuan finally brought Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er back to the tomb.

As soon as they entered the tomb, they saw Qinghuan in the stone pavilion. She was sitting with her back against a stone pillar, one leg stretched out and the other bent, one hand on her knee, and she was sleeping soundly with her head down.

But his slightly furrowed brows showed that he probably didn't dream of anything good.

"Qinghuan?" The two called out in unison, and Xiao Yan even planned to go over and wake him up.

Xiao Xuan stopped him and said, "Don't touch him, he's dreaming... He's been sleeping for more than a year." Gu Xun'er was confused: "Dream?"

Xiao Yan seemed to be thinking about something. He had seen Qing Huan's body dreaming, but his soul was away from the body and moved freely.

Xiao Xuan led them away from the stone pavilion and came to the pool. He sighed and asked, "Can you tell me about the current situation of the Xiao clan?"

Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment, and said honestly: "The Xiao clan no longer exists. What remains is only a declining Xiao family..."

He recounted the past events in detail.

After Xiao Yan finished speaking, Xiao Xuan said with some sadness: "Fortunately, the incense is still there..."

Xiao Yan thought for a moment and asked, "If the ancestor appears, can you still be resurrected?"

Xiao Xuan smiled and said, "If you had asked me before, I would have told you that this is just the remnant of my soul. Once I leave the Heavenly Tomb, it will disappear... At least I have no way to stop it!"

Xiao Yan was stunned: "What about now? Is there any difference?"

Xiao Xuan gestured to Qing Huan in the stone pavilion and said, "He gave me an idea... Perhaps, only the legendary Dou Di realm, or even a higher realm, can revive me."

“Dou Emperor…” Xiao Yan smiled bitterly, he was only at the Dou Zun realm, it was still unknown whether he could break through to the Dou Sheng realm, and the Dou Emperor was even more out of reach!

Xiao Xuan saw through his thoughts and said, "Qing Huan showed me an experience... I can cultivate to the level of Dou Di, or even Dou Di Supremacy, in his dream, and then revive my current self at that level!"

Xiao Yan was dumbfounded: "Break through in a dream... and then revive my real self?"

"Incredible?"

Xiao Xuan saw the same expression on Xiao Yan's face and laughed, "He told me that he could achieve the real world in the illusion world, and he also demonstrated it to me in person!"

Xiao Yan opened his mouth wide, a look of disbelief.

Xiao Xuan chuckled and said, "After I hand over the things I have saved to you, I will enter his dream. From now on, there will be no Xiao Xuan in this world. I will only exist in his dream until I break free from the delusion!"

Xiao Yan slowly came back to his senses and said with a wry smile: "This kind of thing can only be trusted if it is about Qing Huan..."

Xiao Xuan nodded, and returned to the topic, saying: "When the Xiao clan still existed, I sensed that the Doudi bloodline of the Xiao clan was about to dry up... You should understand that at that time, if the bloodline power was exhausted, the Xiao clan would probably be immediately destroyed by some covetous opponents!

The only way to replenish the emperor's blood is to have another Dou Emperor in the clan!
After discussing with the elders, I decided to burn my boats and use a secret method to transfer most of the blood power of the entire clan into my body... As you guessed, we failed!"

Hearing Xiao Xuan's self-blaming sigh, Xiao Yan remained silent. After a moment, he said softly, "This is the only solution. No one in the Xiao Clan will blame you... But if the bloodline power is exhausted, then why do I have the clan mark?"

Xiao Xuan looked at Xiao Yan's brow and said, "Because the Xiao clan's family emblem was not given by others, but cultivated by oneself... If I sense it correctly, you have cultivated the "Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire", right?"

Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, “When I asked Qing Huan to help me practice the first transformation, Qing Huan said that the ‘Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Fire’ is not a secret method to increase one’s strength, but a method to cultivate one’s bloodline…”

Xiao Xuan sighed, "He figured it out? When I created the 'Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Fire', I passed it on to Burning Flame Valley. That guy was at a similar level to me, and he didn't figure it out... But since it's Li Qinghuan, it's only natural!"

Xiao Yan smiled bitterly. Was his ancestor also conquered?
"You are still missing the last step in the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Fire that you are practicing..."

Xiao Xuan said solemnly: "I have waited alone for so many years, just to give you everything I have left, which naturally includes the last step of the Three Mysterious Changes of Skyfire... Are you ready to accept everything from the Xiao clan?"

Xiao Yan took a deep breath and said in a sonorous voice: "Yes, Ancestor!" (End of this chapter)