Dao Fruit

After experiencing the rays of light just now, he was already familiar with the contents of the book. Those rays of light reflected the words in the book into his heart. However, after this incident, the divine power attached to the book completely dissipated, and it will no longer have rays of light from now on. The effect is stunning and unforgettable.

"The way of nature is a god, and the way of destiny becomes an immortal."

Chewing on this sentence, Qiu Yan's eyes swept over the book, and feelings flowed through his heart.

"This 'god' does not refer to gods or deities, but to the mind and spirit; and 'immortal' does not refer to ascended beings, but is a metaphor for people climbing mountains, referring to the physical body reaching the top, and the body becoming immortal. "

The first few pages of the book contained general outlines, which were imprinted in Qiu Yan's heart with the light. But now he opened it and read aloud in a low voice, spitting out each word from his mouth——

"Xing refers to reason, heart, spirit, intention, and virtue; fate refers to law, breath, energy, form, and gong. Xing and life are the foundation, and we must survive and survive."

"When a practitioner seeks the Tao, he first seeks eternal existence and longevity. If the spirit and form disappear before the Tao is achieved, then there will be no hope for the Tao in this life. Therefore, one must first realize eternal existence and immortality before he has a chance to achieve Taoism."

"As the saying goes, if you live forever and look at things for a long time, if you don't live forever, no matter how far or deep you look, they are just trees without roots and water without sources, and they will eventually turn into mirrors, flowers, and water."

The opening chapter of this book makes it clear and directly names the goals of spiritual practice. First of all, it is for eternal existence and longevity, and even the pursuit of the Tao can be put aside for the first time.

"Life, life, life, if you lose your life, what can you use to seek enlightenment? What this book says is straightforward, but it is also true."

With this in mind, Qiu Yan opened the opening chapter and took a closer look.

The book provides a certain explanation of the cultivation of "life", including the methods of cultivation.

"Xingdao is a god, and what is cultivated is the mind, heart, and soul."

Looking at the rows of words and confirming them one by one with the memories he just memorized, Qiu Yan gradually grasped the key to the practice of the way of life.

"This book says that cultivating the soul on the path of sex can be divided into the realm of awakening and the realm of soul condensation. The first step is to awaken. Once you have entered the realm of awakening, you are considered the beginning. Then you can move your thoughts and get in touch with the essence of the mind until the three souls are manifested. Only then can one advance to the soul-condensing realm. This enlightenment and soul-condensing are the two realms of sexual cultivation.”

Qiu Yan slowly turned the pages and read them word by word.

"There are actually many different schools of methods for cultivating one's nature, such as observing one method, keeping the mind, vipassana, meditation, silent meditation, sitting and forgetting, etc. However, there is no detailed introduction in the book, but it contains a This set of soul-cultivating methods is called "Whishen Nei Jue", which involves three schools of spiritual preservation, meditation and silent meditation."

Scroll further back, and you will find the specific content of "The Secret of the Sleeping God", which is mysterious and mysterious. In Qiu Yan's eyes, it reflected the memory in his heart, and he was slightly moved.

The content of the whole book is profound, but there are not many words, only a few columns, and it only takes up two pages.

Behind the method, what is described is the next realm of soul cultivation, the realm of soul condensation.

"The three souls are different, and each has its own differences... The description of the soul condensation realm is obviously not detailed enough. It does not even list the specific soul condensation method. However, it is understandable that the soul condensation has obviously gone a step further. It is obviously another There is a secret, and it shouldn’t be easy for just a mortal to find out.”

This book was not given to the deity himself, but to the scholar's clone, a "mortal". Qiu Yan still remembered this, and thinking to himself, he turned a few more pages.

"To become an immortal by destiny, you need to cultivate your flesh and blood, your muscles, your bones, and your body."

The content inside has reached the life cultivation part.

"The introduction to the destiny in this book is very detailed. It is not as mysterious as "The Secret of the Sleeping God", and it even has specific training methods."

But after turning a few pages, Qiu Yan shook his head.

"However, compared to sex cultivation, the introduction of this life cultivation is detailed, but not in-depth. Most of them are simple methods to strengthen the body and strength, and do not involve specific methods. However, the following somewhat gives the direction of future cultivation. , this cultivation of life path is mainly to strengthen the body. The first step is to build the foundation state. Once you have developed the dark energy and internal strength, which can stimulate the flesh and blood of the whole body and shake the seven souls, you can advance to the soul refining state and condense the seven souls in sequence. , It’s a pity that the function of condensing the seven souls is not written.”

"The Foundation Building Realm and the Soul Refining Realm seem to be capable of enlightening the way of sexual cultivation and the Soul Condensing Realm, but they do not have the rigorous rules and regulations of "The Secret of the Sleeping God"..."

After thinking for a moment, Qiu Yan suddenly felt enlightened.

"Yes, the City God gave this book to me to give to the flesh and blood clone. In her opinion, my clone is just a scholar. My body is not strong enough. I have passed the best age for foundation building. No matter how much I practice, I am afraid that I will not be able to practice at all. It doesn’t come out, so although the two paths of life and life are introduced together, and the skills of practicing the life path are also involved, the focus still falls on the cultivation of sex and the mind.”

After thinking about this, Qiu Yan moved his fingers and turned the page of the book back to the page where "The Secret of the Sleeping God" was recorded.

"In this case, let's not be distracted and study this method first. If we can achieve something, we will have a foothold in the practice of this world."

"The Secret of the Sleeping God" is written in a mysterious language. It contains a few Taoist nouns and mostly quotes from classics and history books that Qiu Yan has read.

Fortunately, Qiu Yan had already memorized the text inside with the help of divine light. After inheriting the scholar's body, all his original memories could be mobilized.

Browsing through the polished prose, he quickly grasped the key point. He followed the words with his fingers and traced them across the page——

To preserve the spirit is to preserve the spirit within the body. There are gods in the five internal organs and hundreds of joints of the lady, lying in the thirty-six thousand orifices, ten of which are integrated into one body. They exist day by day, continuously from time to time, never forgetting, and the original mind is unmoved.

Staring at this sentence, Qiu Yan thought silently and quickly understood the general meaning.

"The spirit in the body is not a god, but the mind. Human beings have limbs and bones, which can be controlled by a single thought. The mind can reach all parts of the body. The method of preserving the spirit is to make these thoughts and minds concrete and imagine them as a A 'god', and then..."

Thinking of this, his eyes fell on the next few sentences——

Meditate on my God. The light contained in God illuminates the whole body, and the thoughts move around and gather in the heavenly spirit.

"This section refers to the transfer of the imaginary 'god' to the heavenly spirit above the head in imagination. The mind is invisible. You must first imagine it as a god, and then use your thoughts to imagine it and make the god move. Every step can be called It’s unreal and beyond imagination. If I hadn’t come to this world and truly become a human being, I probably wouldn’t have believed it at all.”

Thinking like this, he raised his hand to turn the page, and his eyes fell on the last few columns of text, which were some formulas that the cultivator needs to recite silently in his heart while meditating.

"This text is to completely standardize the process of concentrating and meditating. The so-called mantras for silent meditation are like Shang Junfa and Sun Wuling. They impose prohibitions and restrain the mind and thoughts to prevent thoughts from wandering around. In the end, they have no effect."

Just like a qi practitioner must control the qi in his body, there are methods and rules for cultivating the mind and nature. It is not a matter of confusing thoughts, otherwise it will be easy for the mind to become distracted, which may lead to amnesia in the mild case and damage to the soul in the worst case.

"This method of restraint is indispensable regardless of life practice. The Buddhists call it Dharma Wheel, the Taoists call it Zhoutian, and the Confucianists call it Xingting."

After reading "The Secret of the Sleeping God" several times, Qiu Yan gradually came up with an idea.

"The principles and methods sound mysterious, but the key lies in practice. You might as well give it a try now. The first step is to get rid of distracting thoughts..."

He did it as soon as he thought of it. He crossed his legs and did it, clasping his hands firmly and placing them on his knees. As soon as he thought about it, he drove away the distracting thoughts in the mind of the scholar's clone.

It is not easy for ordinary cultivators to achieve this step. It often requires a lot of movements and repeated attempts to achieve tranquility. The city god also gave a cloud of smoke to help Qiu Yan calm down and calm down, but Qiu Yan's true self is As a god, it is easy to separate the mind and thoughts from the clone, so it can be done in one step.

After entering tranquility, just think about the spirit in your body.

Qiu Yan's mind changed and he first meditated on the five gods.

The five great gods come from "Zhen Gao", which is written in the book given by the city god: "The five great gods are the two hands, two feet, and the head."

This "Whispering God Inner Art" is about the gods in the body. The five gods are the general outline. You should imagine that your head is covered with green energy, your hands are filled with red energy, and your feet are stepping on white energy.

This step is not difficult for ordinary people, but the human mind is limited. It is barely possible to think about the five great gods with limbs and heads. But if the number increases, it is inevitable to focus on one and miss the other. However, "The Secret of the Sleeping God" requires all the body and mind to think about it. Three thousand six hundred gods!

This is not something that ordinary people can do. To achieve the truth, you can only have deep thoughts and no distracting thoughts. It takes several or more than ten years to practice the meditation to its core, thinking about it every day, and thinking about it all the time. , or even take decades to achieve.

If Qiu Yan was just an ordinary scholar and wanted to achieve results in practicing "Whishen Nei Jue", he would not have time to study for the imperial examination in the future.

Fortunately, for Qiu Yan, this problem did not exist. He was thinking in his mind that white light was emitting from the scroll on the table next to him, covering his whole body and falling like a curtain of water.

The next moment, all over his body, under his flesh and bones, little bits of light appeared, like stars.

Soon, as he silently recited the mantra, the light slowly moved bit by bit along the surface of his body, quickly gathering at Qiu Yan's head and condensing on top of his head.

Under the heavenly spirit above his head, the light became more intense.

Gradually, it approached a critical point.

Trance!

Qiu Yan's true form and clone were in a trance at the same time. The white light covering his body swayed, and then he saw a ball of light leaping out from the sky!

The light group was bright at first, then dimmed, and finally disappeared.