Volume 7: The Strongest Four Realms Chapter 24: Seeing "God" is not bad
The Chicken Soup Monk did not say anything clearly, but just looked at Lu Qingshan steadily, waiting for Lu Qingshan's own decision.
Smart people often talk like this, to the point.
Lu Qingshan had a lot of thoughts in his mind.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Even if it is the compassionate Bodhisattva, if you want him to protect all living beings, you must first burn incense and offer sincere prayers every day.
This is also what the chicken soup monk meant.
The Buddhist connection we make today will surely be rewarded in the future.
If the chicken soup monk had not said "Qi-refining Taoism is the best", Lu Qingshan would have declined this Buddhist opportunity without hesitation.
After all, the Qi refining method of our own sword sect is the same method, so why should we go for the far one?
But it’s different for Taoism No. 1.
It was impossible for the Chicken Soup Monk, with his status, to deceive him.
Refining Qi is the beginning of Taoism. The strongest Taoist method in the Qi Refining chapter is so attractive that it goes without saying. It is also worthy of the saying that Buddhist methods have a solid foundation.
Successful people in the world are more or less perfectionists in their characters, some even to the point of paranoia.
Lu Qingshan was not yet paranoid, but with such a "perfect" Taoist method in front of him, he couldn't just wave his hand and refuse it.
Knowing what he wanted, Lu Qingshan did not pretend to be reserved, "I would like to establish this Buddhist relationship with your temple, what should I do?"
"Sword cultivation is a branch of Taoism. Taoism has saints who established scriptures, thinking without evil, seeking purity, and the skills are passed down through classics. But our Buddha did things like feeding an eagle with his own body, and established his mind through actions, but did not establish any holy words. Therefore, our Buddhist tradition emphasizes a little enlightenment from the spirit." The chicken soup monk said with a kind smile.
Lu Qingshan clasped his hands together and said, " Thank you for troubling the holy monk."
Seeing Lu Qingshan's decisiveness, the old monk lowered his eyebrows and said, "Great kindness."
Then, this holy monk of the eighth realm lightly stroked his finger.
The indestructible body of diamond was broken in an instant, and a drop of blood as solid as mercury seeped out from it.
However, the blood was not the common scarlet color, but a bright golden color, which made Lu Qingshan feel particularly familiar with it.
It was exactly the same as the bowl of "chicken soup" he had drunk before!
How could he not understand at this time that the so-called chicken soup was actually the Buddha's Vajra Blood.
The drop of diamond blood located in the center of the Chicken Soup Monk's finger burst into endless Buddha light.
The old monk smiled and pointed his finger at the center of Lu Qingshan's eyebrows.
The drop of blood quickly sank into his body and disappeared, and the Buddha's light extinguished.
But in his sea of consciousness, at this moment, a sky full of Buddha's light was lit up.
A dragon elephant with a dark green body appeared and galloped in Lu Qingshan's sea of consciousness.
The dragon elephant was only the size of a fist, but it made a sound like a huge bell, making his head buzz.
That sound was a verse.
"If you want to be the dragon and elephant of all Buddhas, you must first be the horse and cow of all sentient beings!"
As the sound of these twelve big words continued to resonate in his sea of consciousness, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but feel dazed.
A vast feeling came over me, like a mountain pressing down on my head.
Isn't the job of horses and cows to carry heavy loads?
Lu Qingshan seemed to have realized something, and tentatively released his spiritual sense to contact and communicate with the dragon elephant with supreme divine power.
Buzz!
A moment later, a vast text was transmitted and entered his mind.
【Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art】(Qi Refining Chapter)
Level: Dao level
Note: If you want to be a dragon and elephant of all Buddhas, you must first be a horse and cow of all sentient beings. There are 10 levels of Qigong.
Effect 1: With each level increase, the upper limit of spiritual power increases by 40 points.
Effect 2: Spiritual power recovery speed +100%
Effect 3: When the Mysterious Dragon Elephant Art is cultivated to level 10, the upper limit of spiritual power will be increased by 200 points.
Effect 4: The spiritual power cultivated by the Mysterious Dragon Elephant Art is of extremely high quality.
Effect 5: When the Mysterious Dragon Elephant Art is cultivated to level 10, one will master the magical power [Indestructible in the Face of Gods].
【Seeing God is not bad】
Explanation: Break through the void and see the indestructible God.
Supplementary explanation 1: The "spirit" of the human body is the acupoints. There are 360 acupoints, which dominate the operation of the human body, just like the gods who control the heaven and earth. By breaking the confinement of the acupoints, you can see the spirit, see through everything, and know that you are yourself.
Supplementary Note 2: There are four levels of seeing the gods and opening the orifices: 9/36/72/360. After completing one level, you can choose to break through.
Supplementary explanation 3: Once the acupoint restrictions are broken, one will be able to perfectly and minutely control the Yuanqiao and thus dominate one's own body.
Current Deification Yuanqiao: 0/9 (upper limit 360)
Skill 6: The experience points required to upgrade the Dragon Elephant Skill is increased by 100%.
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"Break the void and see the indestructible God." Lu Qingshan murmured.
No wonder the Chicken Soup Monk said that the Dragon Elephant Method has a solid foundation and a bright future, but progress is slow.
It turns out that all the causes can be attributed to this magical power of "seeing gods without being destroyed".
The "god" in the Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art does not refer to the immortals in the sky, but to the 360 Yuan Acupoints in one's body.
Once the constraints of the acupoints are broken and the "God" is seen, the cultivator can control his own power more perfectly and become a god who dominates his own body.
Perfect control over one's own power seems to be a very vague thing and difficult to understand just from the literal meaning.
To make a rough analogy, if two people can both lift 100 kilograms, one is well-trained and the other is normal.
The well-trained person knows better how to exert his strength, so his punch may have a force of 80, 90, or even 100 kilograms.
A normal person's punch usually only has a force of about 50 to 60 kilograms.
The gap between them is huge. Once the two confront each other, the winner is self-evident.
Moreover, mastering one's own body also means being able to call upon the power hidden within one's body.
The reason is very simple. When facing a horrific disaster, people can often exert power that they cannot imagine in normal times, commonly known as explosive power.
However, this kind of explosive power is hard to come by. Once it happens, no matter how much you torture yourself, you will not be able to display the terrifying power you had at that time.
The significance of being able to see the indestructible gods is to allow the cultivator to explode at any time.
This magical power is not of much significance in the early stages, because the cultivator's base strength is too low in the early stages, and it is difficult to see the difference.
But when you reach a high level, the horror will begin to show.
One tenth of ten is just one, but one tenth of ten thousand is a thousand. This is the concept.
If one were to break through all the voids in the body's Yuanqiao and then reach a higher realm, how powerful would one be then?
Lu Qingshan's mind became involuntarily active at this moment.
Immediately, he began to practice according to the techniques of the Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth began to gather towards him.
But after circulating his spiritual energy for one week, Lu Qingshan stopped practicing and slowly opened his eyes...
It's nothing, his poor spiritual roots are a fact that he cannot change.
Without experience points, it would be very difficult for him to practice the top-notch martial art, the Mysterious Dragon Elephant Art, and it would be hard to make any progress.
So he was not in a hurry for the moment.
Just use experience points when you have time.
The old monk saw Lu Qingshan open his eyes and seemed to want to say something but hesitated.
"Holy monk, just speak frankly if you have anything to say." Lu Qingshan said with a smile.
The Chicken Soup Saint Monk thought for a moment and said slowly, "I see that you are no more than twenty years old. Before you cut off your own foundation, you had already reached the Nascent Soul stage. You also won the first prize in the Seven Realms Dao Forum and became famous all over the world. You cultivate your own flying sword internally and the Tongtian Secret Sword externally. You are both unique inside and outside. Your perception of artistic conception is even more magnificent. Your talent is rare in the world."
After a pause, the old monk uttered the last sentence, "Why is it that when I saw you practicing my Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art just now, the momentum of your spiritual power intake and discharge was like a trickling stream?"
Well, she was dissatisfied with his slow practice speed, but she didn't expect that this holy monk actually knew the euphemism of praising first and then criticizing.
Lu Qingshan said sincerely: "To be honest with you, Saint Monk, I do have some talent in swordsmanship, but I am a little dull in the way of cultivation."
The chicken soup monk, who was called a holy monk of Buddhism by Tianji Temple, was silent for a long while, exhaled, and said calmly: "Donor, you are joking."
This is generally the case with the truth in this world. When you tell the truth, often no one believes it.
Just like in his time, people who kept complaining about being poor, no matter if they were really poor or just pretending, seemed to be disbelieved by others.
Lu Qingshan smiled. He was in a good mood because of obtaining the [Dragon Elephant Mystical Art] and didn't take it seriously.
"The donor had the courage to cut off his own foundation because of a flaw in his Taoism. He must be a person who is extremely strict with himself. But the matter of awakening one's mind is a long and slow process, and there is no shortcut. So for the sake of this magical power that is useless in the early stage but only becomes powerful in the later stage, how much time a cultivator should spend on it requires a choice. Perfection is a good thing, but don't let a good thing become a bad thing." The old monk did not care about the matter of talent anymore, but turned around and reminded like this.
The awakening of the orifices cannot be accomplished overnight, but when refining Qi, the cultivator is still in a mortal body. If too much time is wasted in this state, and the blood and energy of the physical body decay, it will not be worth it to advance to the next level even if more orifices are opened.
In Longxiang Temple, many people wasted too much time in the Qi Refining Realm in pursuit of the perfect opening of the 360 Yuan Acupoints, which resulted in them not being able to become high-level cultivators in the end and not being able to exert the power of [Indestructible Seeing Gods]. It was not uncommon for them to work in vain.
In other words, you work hard to earn a lot of money, but before you can start to enjoy it, you die.
The words "choose and give up" have always been like this, running through the path of cultivation.
Although Lu Qingshan was confident, he also understood the good intentions of the Chicken Soup Monk. His eyes softened and he laughed loudly, "Kid, I understand."
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After the matter was settled, Lu Qingshan left the main hall.
The handsome young monk Juezhen had already been waiting outside the palace, with Qin Yitian standing beside him.
Seeing Lu Qingshan coming out , Juezhen performed Buddhist rituals with Lu Qingshan, and suddenly realized that the aura on Lu Qingshan was from the same source as his own. He was shocked, but he quickly restrained his expression and did not show anything.
After Lu Qingshan left, Jue Zhen slowly entered the hall.
"Master." Juezhen said respectfully.
"Here I come." The Chicken Soup Monk nodded slightly.
"Master, how come benefactor Lu has the aura of my Buddhist techniques?" In front of his closest master, Jue Zhen did not have too many reservations and asked directly.
"I passed on to him the Qi Refining chapter of our Dragon Elephant's Mysterious Art." The Chicken Soup Monk spoke frankly in front of his little disciple.
"Ah?!" Jue Zhen exclaimed, puzzled and surprised, "Why would Master pass on the Dragon Elephant Skill to outsiders? Won't the four academies' upper sect hold him accountable?"
"Since the Seven Realms' discussion, our seven major sects have become much more open-minded about the techniques. Now that our clan is facing difficulties, naturally the legal principles and rules have also changed. With my status, I can still afford to use the Qi Refining Chapter of the Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art to establish a Buddhist relationship with Lu Qingshan." The Chicken Soup Saint Monk shook his head and smiled, "Don't worry, Master."
"Master, are you quite optimistic about Lu Qingshan?" Jue Zhen asked again.
"He has both wisdom and Buddha nature, and he is a genius swordsman," Monk Chicken Soup said with a calm smile, "One day he will be able to make the Bodhisattva lower his eyes."
"As a member of a secular tribe, he dared to do such a thing even if there were thousands of people against him. He is a true sword cultivator in the making. Today he has benefited from the Buddhist fate of my Chicken Soup Temple, and he will definitely remember it in his heart in the future." Monk Chicken Soup made his final judgment.
In fact, there is one more thing that Chicken Soup Monk kept hidden in his heart.
The reason why he used the Dragon Elephant Taoism to establish this Buddhist connection was not only because he was optimistic about Lu Qingshan's future, but also because he could see the day when Chicken Soup Temple would be in trouble.
Juezhen clasped his hands together and said no more about the matter.
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Lu Qingshan walked out of the main hall and walked two or three steps side by side with Qin Yitian, then a practicing monk in gray linen clothes came to greet them.
"The monk Juezhen asked me to lead the way for you. If you want to go anywhere, just tell me." The gray-robed monk bowed to the two men and was very polite.
"I am quite interested in the customs of Jitang Temple. Would it be convenient for you to take me on a quick tour of the temple?" Lu Qingshan replied.
"Of course there is no problem. Just follow me, donor." The practicing monk continued.
Although he appeared polite, the gray-robed monk's mind was filled with confusion.
"The other monks all said that the two distinguished guests who came to the temple, the female one looks like Guanyin, but why didn't anyone tell me that the male one looks good but doesn't look like an ordinary person?"
"But this female donor looks extraordinary. How come this male donor, who has no cultivation, has become a distinguished guest of our Buddhist sect? Could it be that he has an extraordinary background, or is it..."
Unconsciously, looking at Qin Yitian who lowered his brows and looked at Lu Qingshan, the gray-robed monk's thoughts went astray, and he associated it with the so-called hardness and softness of the rice.
People care about what they lack, and even feel jealous of it. This is true everywhere.
Although this is a Buddhist temple, the monk is only a monk of the lowest level. Can his spiritual realm really reach the Vajra realm of no desire and no demand?
He was a man of average appearance, not to mention he was a monk, with a bald head and wearing Buddhist robes. How good could he be?
Of course, he could cite countless examples to prove that a person's appearance has nothing to do with his achievements.
Haven’t you seen that many of the holy monks in Longxiang are of ordinary appearance?
But this cannot change the fact that the man in front of him seems to be able to make a living by relying on his looks, nor can it change the fact that he actually feels a bit envious and jealous in his heart.
"Amitabha." The gray-robed monk silently chanted the Buddha's name to pull his wandering thoughts back to normal, while secretly scolding himself for his evil intentions.
Of course Lu Qingshan didn't know that in just a few short breaths, the monk in front of him had even secretly plotted against him, but at least on the surface, the monk showed him enough respect.
That's enough.
In everything, judge by the deeds, not the intention.
The practicing monk walked straight ahead, taking Lu Qingshan through the halls and visiting several distinctive places in the temple.
It was impossible to take Lu Qingshan to see the important and secret places in the temple, and he could only get a rough understanding of the Buddhist customs.
Cluck, cluck, cluck——
When he walked outside a Zen room, Lu Qingshan suddenly heard some strange noises.
"What is this?" He was a little curious, because the sound was actually a bit like... the crowing of a rooster?
"Donor, please come with me." The gray-robed monk smiled knowingly and walked out of the corridor with Lu Qingshan and Qin Yitian.
A vast flat land is hidden behind it.
Afterwards, Lu Qingshan was a little dazed.
Because, in this Chicken Soup Temple, there are actually chickens...
A fat hen with brightly colored feathers was running happily on the ground, shaking her butt, pecking at the ground with her thick beak.
Looking more closely, I saw that there was a dark golden dragon on the ground, which looked extremely magical and was crawling around in panic.
"This is the chicken raised by the abbot," the gray-robed monk introduced. "She chases after the centipede and pecks at it every day. She has been doing this since I entered the temple, as if it is her mission. I don't know how long this has been going on."
"Old hen, why do you chase me and peck at me every day?" The dark golden centipede seemed to be annoyed by the old hen's chasing, and actually spoke in human language angrily.
The big hen just raised her head, stood on one leg, clucked twice, and then said proudly: "I am a hen."
The corners of Lu Qingshan's mouth twitched. He was shocked and wanted to vomit.
Old hen, you will be fined if you talk like this.
"This chicken was raised by the abbot, and the centipede crawled here on its own. They listened to the abbot chanting Buddhist teachings all day long, and after a while they gradually became enlightened and spoke human language." The gray-robed monk explained with a smile, "The Master of the Sutras also raised a yellow bird. We all say that when the yellow bird speaks human language, the Master of the Sutras will be successful."
Lu Qingshan thought about it and felt a little emotional.
You, Chicken Soup Temple, are really awesome.
