Royal Guard

Chapter 103 On the Tao
Lay Zhuang Yun's answer left Jiang Hailong completely speechless.

This old man, who has lived for more than 200 years, now answers: Even he himself doesn't know what 'know' is.

Who would believe such a thing?
"Master, don't make fun of the younger generation." Jiang Hailong said with a wry smile.

"I really don't know." Layman Zhuang Yun chuckled and asked, "Then what is the so-called Tao in your heart?"

"It should be..." Jiang Hailong pondered for a moment, and then replied, "It should be like your old man, with a long lifespan, a late stage of Qi Condensation, advanced Taoism, and a step of [-] meters."

"Hahaha" Hearing Jiang Hailong's answer, Lay Zhuang Yun laughed again, as if he had heard some funny joke.

Layman Zhuang Yun laughed, shook his head and said, "Is this the so-called Tao in your heart?"

"Well, this is the younger generation's understanding of Tao." Jiang Hailong replied.

"No, no, this is not Tao, this is just your dream." Layman Zhuang Yun shook his head repeatedly.

"Then what is the Tao in Master's heart?" Jiang Hailong asked back.

"My way?" Lay Zhuang Yun was taken aback, he didn't expect Jiang Hailong to ask him back.

After thinking about it for a while, Lay Zhuang Yun put down the chopsticks in his hand, then pointed to the food on the table, and said: "My way is simple tea and light food."

He pointed to the children playing outside again: "My way is to see their innocent smiling faces every day at dawn."

The finger moved slightly, and pointed to a vegetable garden in front of the house: "My way is the joy of cultivating a vegetable garden!"

Hearing Lay Zhuang Yun's words, and looking at the vegetable garden and children he was pointing at, Jiang Hailong's eyes gradually paused, and he stood in the room thoughtfully and said nothing.

Lay Zhuang Yun didn't bother him, and continued to eat simple food.

About ten minutes later, Jiang Hailong let out a long breath, turned around and bowed again to Lay Zhuang Yun, saying: "Your junior has been taught."

"Well, sit down and eat." The old man pointed to the food. He didn't ask Jiang Hailong what the so-called education was, and he didn't speak again. The two just chewed slowly and ate in silence.

After the meal, Lay Zhuang Yun cleaned up the dishes himself. Jiang Hailong wanted to help clean up, but Lay Zhuang Yun didn't agree, so Jiang Hailong had to go out of the house and sit on the stone pier at the door.

The four children were taken away by the women, and they didn't know where they were taken. Layman Zhuang Yun also came out after packing up. He took a cigarette pouch, put tobacco leaves in it, squatted on the ground and smoked, saying, "Eat every day." Simple tea and light food, watching these vigorous juniors grow up day by day, farming in the fields, this is my way."

"Actually, there is no need to force anything. Everyone has their own way. As long as you don't deviate from it, don't go too far, and let nature take its course, that's the real way. In fact, the way a person lives is the way!"

"Are these children descendants of the master?" Jiang Hailong asked curiously.

Lay Zhuang Yun nodded, but then shook his head and said with a smile: "I have never married in my life, they are of the same family as me, I have no fixed place in my life, and I came back here decades ago, they only know I am the old birthday star of the clan, but I don't know that I am two hundred years old."

"Give me a set of punches." Lay Zhuang Yun suddenly suggested after finishing speaking.

"Okay." Jiang Hailong didn't have any affection, flew into the courtyard, and fought his own original set of miscellaneous boxing, nameless boxing.

Of course, when the boxing is fought, it is full of vigor, and when it is shaken, it is even more vigor and vigorous.

Lay Zhuang Yun didn't show any expression from the beginning to the end, but just watched lightly.

Five minutes later, Jiang Hailong withdrew his fists and said to Lay Zhuang Yun, "Master, please give me some advice."

"Not bad." Lay Zhuang Yun gave a two-word comment, cherishing words like gold.

Jiang Hailong scratched his head and wanted to ask again, but Zhuang Yunju continued: "The journey of Qi training has no beginning and no end, even if you learn the way of Mahayana, you can at most reach the state of perfection like mine, and it will be as difficult as stepping forward. sky."

"Your qi training method is very low-level, and you have fallen short of the Hinayana." Zhuang Yundong's evaluation was exactly the same as that of Qingqiu Layman.

"When I was young, I followed a wandering layman all over the world as my home, and got his true biography. I stepped into the current state at the age of sixteen years. After more than 100 years, I didn't take a step and stopped here!"

"Over the past few years, I have also accepted a few beginners, but their roots are rough, they have not entered the Mahayana, they are ahead of me, and they die of old age."

"Since you came to ask today, then I will pass on my practice method to you. Anyway, it is not a secret, and there is no distinction between sects. I hope you can go further and break through to the shackles." Zhuang Yun After the layman finished speaking, he returned to the house, took out a yellowed ancient book, threw it casually to Jiang Hailong, and said: "My teacher is called 'Tianxin Layman', and I don't know where he came from. The title of this book is 'Natural Qi Jue', and when you practice Mahayana, you will be in the late stage of Qi Condensation."

"Thank you, Master." Jiang Hailong bowed respectfully, and Layman Zhuang Yun nodded lightly.

"If you have a chance, let's pass on this method, but the requirements for inheritance are too high, and ordinary people may find it difficult to understand it in their lifetime." Layman Zhuang Yun shook his head with a wry smile.

"Master, what is the late stage of Qi Condensation?" Jiang Hailong said suddenly.

Lay Zhuang Yun chuckled, "It's death!"

"Uh dead?" Jiang Hailong froze.

"If it's not death, what is it? Do you think there are gods in this world? Are there really people who can live forever?" Lay Zhuang Yun rolled his eyes: "A Qi trainer trains Qi, and what he wants is to increase his lifespan. That's all, so even in the late stage of Qi Condensation, if there is a situation where Qi nourishes the body, it won't last for too long."

"People are bound to die. This is a cycle, and the same is true for people who have practiced Qi deeply. When they reach the late stage of Qi Condensation and nourish their body with Qi, they will live for seven or eighty years at most before they die without a problem."

"Of course, I'm an exception. I just stole for a few days." Layman Zhuang Yun said with a sly smile, "The master told me when he was dying, that you have to cheat to win your life against the sky."

Layman Zhuang Yun saw that Jiang Hailong was puzzled, so he patiently explained: "When I was 60 years old, I reached the late stage of Qi Condensation, but my body's various functions were not exhausted, so I did not nourish my body with Qi. This is the clever door that my mentor told me."

"So when I was 120 years old, when the viscera and internal organs of my body were gradually failing, I used the method to nourish my body with qi, and gradually recovered all functions! So I was cheating, stealing for a few years, stealing for a few days! But It's coming soon, maybe within three to five years, I will pass away!"

"There are many Qi practitioners in the world, and many people have reached the late stage of Qi Condensation, but when they enter the late stage, they can't wait to nourish their organs with Qi, so most of the Qi practitioners in the late stage of Qi Condensation have no active Over 160 years old, so I am an exception, and maybe you will be an exception in the future."

"It's just that I have lived for a few more years, and I can't think about it."

"Can't it continue to circulate? After seven or eighty years of nourishing the internal organs with qi, won't they be able to function again if they circulate again?" Jiang Hailong questioned.

Layman Zhuang Yun rolled his eyes: "Do you think your internal organs are generators? If it breaks down, you can repair it again, and keep repairing it non-stop?"

"Isn't that so?" Jiang Hailong nodded.

"It's a fart." Lay Zhuang Yun chuckled: "Cultivating once is already a blessing from the heavens, and it's a coincidence. When the body's functions fail for the second time, no matter how you cultivate, it will be endless, and you will definitely die. .”

"I'm taught, thank you for your guidance, master." Jiang Hailong bowed again.

"What's the problem?" Lay Zhuang Yun straightened up after smoking a bag of cigarettes.

"Yes, there are many." Jiang Hailong replied immediately.

"Just ask."

Jiang Hailong thought for a moment, then smiled wryly: "What I want to ask the most is, is it really gone after the late stage of Qi Condensation?"

"Maybe there is." Layman Zhuang Yun smiled helplessly: "But I don't know, and I haven't heard of it."

"Then have you ever heard the saying of breaking the void and ascending to the fairy world?"

"Yes, I have seen it." Layman Zhuang Yun replied solemnly.

Jiang Hailong was shocked: "Really?"

"Well, the father of the third child who was working in the city a few days ago brought back a novel. I saw it in the novel. The title of the book is Broken Void."

After getting the serious answer from Lay Zhuang Yun, Jiang Hailong was speechless, and after a long time, he continued to ask: "Then those ancient legends are also false?"

"Should it be true?" Lay Zhuang Yun did not deny it, but replied ambiguously: "The world is very big. Although I have traveled to many places over the years, I have only traveled halfway. There are many, many unexplained incidents, and no one can tell what is going on."

"Then do you know that there is a Layman Qingqiu in Zhongnan Mountain? He is also a Qi practitioner in the late stage of Qi Condensation."

"I know, that little doll is very tall, has excellent bones, and can wield a beautiful ten-step lore sword. She is very domineering and has few opponents!"

"You know him too?" Layman Zhuang Yun asked in surprise.

"The scar on my face was given by him." Jiang Hailong said truthfully.

"Then work hard, maybe you will surpass him in another 50 years, but he should be dead in 50 years."

"You have so many questions, what else?" About two hours later, Lay Zhuang Yun was a little impatient with Jiang Hailong's question, and he also claimed that he didn't sleep well last night and wanted to go back to catch up on sleep. How old is he? , If you don't sleep, you don't have energy.

Jiang Hailong was dumbfounded by the words of Layman Zhuang Yun, but he still asked his last question, "Master, can you explain why people who practice qi produce the sea of ​​consciousness? The sea of ​​consciousness is still in the brain in their own thoughts. ? What is the sea of ​​consciousness in the late stage of Qi Condensation like?"

"Oh? Do you know the sea?" Hearing Jiang Hailong's last question, Layman Zhuang Yun suddenly became interested, as if he had lost all sleepiness, he asked with a smile, "You are in the middle stage of Qi Condensation, you know the sea. It should be the size of a bowl, right?"

"What?" Hearing Lay Zhuang Yun's words, Jiang Hailong's head exploded, and his breathing became short-lived.

His current sea of ​​consciousness, which is round and fuzzy like a foggy swamp, seems to be one meter square.
(End of this chapter)