Chapter 167: Whose family is this? Wandering in the world

The evil cherry blossom stamen is a very unique medicinal material. If used alone, it cannot be refined and cured. It is a kind of evil cherry blossom stamen growing on Ningcui Cliff. The evil cherry blossom blooms every three years, and there is a pink mist like a sea of ​​smoke covering the entire Ningcui Cliff. If you break into the Ningcui Cliff and accidentally inhale this pink mist, people will enter the illusion as they are fascinated. There are countless wonderful things in the illusion that come one after another and make people indulge in it. If a practitioner does not dare to go to that place without breaking the delusion.

Of course, there is no need to worry that ordinary people will break in. It is also a kind of practice temple. Ordinary people cannot go to it at all, which is equivalent to half a blessing in the world. Because it is not completely hidden or completely open. There is only one person on Ningcui Cliff who is practicing, and he is also a famous senior in the world of cultivation, named Jiuli Sanren. I have also heard of this Jiuli Sanren's name. The piece of warm fire jade obtained by Ayou at the opportunity conference was given by Jiuli Sanren. The warm fire jade is also one of the specialties of Ningcui Cliff. Only where the warm fire jade is buried can evil cherry grow.

The Jiuli Sanren is so quiet and does not often go out to walk around. He practices alone on Ningcui Cliff most of the time. But it is said that this person is easy-going and has no such an air of a master. Three years ago, Danxia gave birth to Ningcui Cliff to seek the evil cherry blossoms and sent a batch of Xuanyuan Sect secretly made spiritual medicines by Jiuli Sanren, but Jiuli Sanren did not stop him from collecting them. This time, the evil cherry blossoms bloomed again, Ziying went and brought three red fruits, which were the only three we have at present. I thought that the Jiuli Sanren would not make things difficult for her, so I asked her to go alone, just reminding her to go quickly and return soon.

Ziying is not here recently, and I haven't been to Zhiweilou for several days. I have time to go to have a meal this day and see how Zhiweilou is when Ziying is away. I went there a little early, just arrived at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, the hotel has just received guests, but there are already many customers in the lobby of Zhiweilou. It seems that the business is really good.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a man sitting alone in the corner beside the window, ordering two dishes of meat, one vegetable, and pouring himself a pot of wine. I quickly walked over and greeted him: "Hello Teacher Tang, are you here to drink too? Why did you come alone?"

Old Man Tang: "I am here to drink, not to find someone. I drink alone, and no one robs me of the glass. The old woman at home will not nag in my ears. You are here just in time, and I will treat you, the old man, to a drink with me. Today I will invite you, a student, to have a drink."

"Why don't you want to invite me to drink? Don't forget that I am the owner of this restaurant. Teacher Tang, please stop sitting here. Please go to Junziju, upstairs. I'll have a good drink with you. I'll have a question and want to ask for advice."

Old Man Tang smiled and said, "There are many benefits in the world! In this Wucheng, you can meet students everywhere and treat them everywhere. It is difficult for me to settle the account once... Sit down and say something here, I am not a Feng Junzi, what kind of gentleman is here to live."

"So many people, it's not convenient to speak?"

Old Man Tang pointed around with chopsticks: "What's inconvenient? Look at these people, they are eating their own dishes, drinking their own wine, and saying their own words. Who cares about you and me? We also say our own, it's here."

I had no choice but to sit down, and called the waiter to serve two more dishes and serve two pots of wine. First, toasted Old Man Tang, and then drank with him. After three glasses of wine, the old man asked me: "You said you have something to ask, why haven't you said it?"

"That's right, I've been thinking about a question recently. You said that there is no such assumption that a practitioner's practice has surpassed the realm of ascension to become an immortal, but he still stays in the human world and starts from scratch from another starting point? If, I mean, if this happens, how can I explain it?"

Old Man Tang: "Well, you asked this question well. Actually, I thought of it many years ago."

"Have you thought about it? How come you thought of this question? Haven't you given up on your practice?"

Old Man Tang shook his head: "Give up? Then what are I doing after teaching so many students over the years? I just changed my way, unlike those people flying around in the sky... Shi Ye, let's play a game of argument. According to the classical way, I have taught you."

"Okay, then I'll set a major preface first - that is, people can really become immortals."

Old Man Tang: "Then I will set a small preface - in theory, there is such an immortal world, and the descendants of the immortals have gone to such a place. Now the question is, what is the essential difference between immortals living in the immortal world and mortals living in the human world?"

"Interesting, let me think about how this game is played. Two ideas, the first point is, what is the difference between immortals and mortals. The second point is, what is the difference between interpersonal relationships and social structures in the fairy world and the mortal world."

Old Man Tang: "These two points finally come down to a proposition. What is the difference between the existence state of immortals and mortals? Let's talk about the first point first. What is the difference between immortals and mortals? From the most vulgar understanding, immortals have the magical powers of immortals, so in front of mortals, what if they reach the fairy world?"

"According to this idea, supernatural powers are just extensions of the perception of the five senses and amplification of behavioral abilities. If everyone is the same, it is not called supernatural powers. If a cat can speak, it is a divine cat, and a person can speak, it is an ordinary person. If from the perspective of ability, there is no difference between an immortal and an immortal."

Old Man Tang: "We only talk about magical powers. It is better to stay in the world than to go to the fairy world, so the first idea is meaningless. Now, the second idea is, the relationship between the fairy world and the social structure, do you know?"

"I don't know, it's impossible to know."

Old Man Tang: "You really can't know. But since ancient times, mortals have made all kinds of speculations, and countless writers have written many mythological works to describe the existence of the fairy world. Let's take the metaphysical world first. Is there any difference between the fairy world and the mortal world in those mythological literature?"

"Looking at those myths and fairy tales, it's no different! The same treasure hunt, the same cultivation upgrade, the same struggle, and the same power-making methods are just a copy of the human society wearing the skin of an immortal."

Old Man Tang: "That's right. From the first point of view, it is better to stay in the world than to go to the fairy world. From the second point of view, there is no difference between the fairy world understood by the world and the world. Based on these two points, there should not be the kind of fairy world understood by ordinary people in this world."

"You can draw a conclusion so easily? Doesn't the fairy world exist?"

Old Man Tang: "I only came to a conclusion that the kind of fairy world described in mythological novels does not exist, and it does not say that the abstract fairy world does not exist. Now in metaphysical terms, if the fairy world exists, what kind of world is it?"

"If the fairy world exists, it can only be a realm described by religion, but it cannot be a realm described by literature."

Old Man Tang: "You are worthy of being a successful person in practice. You can say such things. I thought about it for a long time back then. I ran to ask the Shouzheng Zhenren, and the Shouzheng Zhenren said that I had not reached the point of talking about immortality and asked me not to think too much, but I couldn't help thinking. If I were to look at it, the so-called immortals in the fairy world are a kind of transcendence of the state of existence. They may be immortal, may be eternal, may be harmed by each other, and may live in the rare tranquility of this world...and it is meaningless to discuss it."

"That's great, staying away from all unnecessary troubles and troubles."

Old Man Tang: "So, it is not the spatial structure we understand."

"So is this the same thing as hell?"

Old Man Tang: "You can teach me! You can actually think of Western religions. The so-called heaven has hell. They are a type of thing."

"You said so clearly, why don't you practice the Thirty-Six Cave Heavens?"

Old Man Tang: "I won't talk about other reasons, I will only talk about my thoughts over the past few decades. How can I become an immortal when practicing? Why will there be a heavenly disaster in the practice of practicing?"

"Don't ask me, what do you always think?"

Old Man Tang: "Actually, I don't think it's all about it. Whether it's cultivating nature or life, whether it's cultivating one's body or mind, it's ultimately about reaching that state of existence. Being an immortal and becoming a Buddha is just taking that step. And this place in the world is very strange. The cleverness lies in how you view it. It may be your paradise or your hell. Although I don't have a lot of supernatural powers, I think I can still find the state of existence of an immortal here, so why bother to leave it close and far away?"

"Teacher Tang, we seem to be off topic."

Old Man Tang: "Yes, yes, yes, off topic! Why did you talk about me? What was your assumption at the beginning?"

"There is a practitioner whose cultivation level has surpassed the ascension, but he stayed in the human world to start practicing again. How can he explain this phenomenon?"

Old Man Tang took a sip of wine: "Go back to the first question we just silenced. If a person, whether an immortal or a mortal, is an immortal in the fairy world, and a human in the human world. Have you ever heard of the story of a wolf child? A person is raised by a wolf in a wolf's nest. From a biological perspective, he is still a human, but from a behavioral perspective, he is a wolf. He has all the conditions to become a human, but he has to start from learning to be a wolf until he realizes that he is a human. If the wolf in the world can also spontaneously understand practice... There is no assumption of staying in the human world, there is only a possibility of being born in the human world... Of course, this metaphor is not appropriate. Wolves are different from the human world. The wonder of human society is that people will consciously reflect and think, so among the six paths of Buddhism, it is the most wonderful path-the Saha world."

"Thank you, Teacher Tang. I think I understand a little bit. This wolf should be depressed enough! Come on, drink and drink."

Old Man Tang: "It's not necessarily depressed. If he didn't treat himself as a human being, he might be very proud. He thought he was smarter and flexible than other wolves. He had five fingers under his front hooves to tickle it. Isn't that good?... Don't talk about these absurd things, drink two more glasses with me." As he spoke, Old Man Tang was already a little drunk and his face gradually turned red.

This old man Tang is really not an ordinary person. No wonder He Feng Zhenren once told Director Gu that he would ask Tang Qing if he had any questions he didn't understand. Through Old Man Tang's words, I vaguely guessed the origin of Feng Junzi and why his blood as medicine can be used to refine three Nine-turn purple gold elixirs. This is probably Feng Junzi's great secret. He himself said that if Master Tianyue didn't tell him, he would be in the dark for the rest of his life. It seems that Master Tianyue had also seen through his origin. This is a question he has never wanted to say. Even if I guessed something, I would choose to keep silent.

While Old Man Tang and I were drinking and chatting, we accidentally looked up and saw Ziying coming back outside the door. Ziying didn't come back alone, she was also holding an old man. The old man's face looked like a gentle jade, but it was covered with a layer of light green. His hair was neither black nor white, but a strange brown-gray. Of course, I saw Ziying standing up to say hello, but Old Man Tang reacted faster than me, as if the wine suddenly woke up, and walked to the door in front of me.

He grabbed the old man by the arm and asked, "Lao Jiu, why is it you?"

The old man was stunned, and then asked excitedly: "Xiao Tang, are you here too?"

Old Man Tang: "You seem to be injured... This is not a place to talk. There is a gentleman living upstairs, so let's go there."

Old Man Tang just talked to me about not avoiding everyone in the fairy world, but now when he saw this old man, he took the initiative to go to Junziju. These two people should be acquaintances and called Old Man Tang "Xiao Tang". I'm afraid he met him a long time ago. When Old Man Tang was still the real Xiao Tang, I asked Ziying next to me: "Ziying, who is this person?"

Ziying: "Let's talk about it when you are at the residence of the gentleman."

Junziju happened to have four seats. After closing the door, the four of us sat down and introduced each other. Only then did I realize that the old man was Jiuli Sanren on Ningcui Cliff. Han Ziying went to Ningcui Cliff to pick evil cherry blossoms. He was originally asking Jiuli Sanren. How could he bring Jiuli Sanren back to Wucheng? He was also injured? This matter is a long story-

Ningcui Cliff is thousands of feet high, and the peak is covered by the evil cherry fog. If a practitioner wants to go up, the most direct way is to fly to the sky to the top of the cliff. If you use ordinary methods, such as a large invisible technique in the world, climbing up the rock, casting spells on one side and fighting against the illusion in the fog, it is very dangerous, and even I dare not try it easily. People who cannot fly and dare to climb the rock unless they are proficient in the medicinal properties of the world, and have refined the antidote to control the evil cherry fog in advance. Danxiasheng and Han Ziying are both such people.

Han Ziying climbed Ningcui Cliff that day. Halfway through the cliff, she found an unconscious old man on a tree on the cliff. She looked familiar and seemed to have seen him at the Zhengyi Sanshan meeting. It was important to save people, so she took the old man down to Ningcui Cliff and woke him up. When she asked, she was shocked. It turned out that the old man was Jiuli Sanren, and was knocked down from Ningcui Cliff by a master who came to provoke him. Fortunately, he also had a good cultivation level and barely condensed in the air and fell on a tree. Then he fell into a coma when he was injured.

Jiuli Sanren is also a famous senior master in the world of cultivation. He can fly into Ningcui Cliff with weapons and fly to Ningcui Cliff. His realm is at least above my current cultivation level. Moreover, this person does not come out and walk around often, and there are almost no enemies in the world of cultivation. Who would come to him to hurt him? With such great supernatural powers, who would do such a thing? Those who have such ability in the world of cultivation can almost count them by their fingers.

However, after Jiuli Sanren's description, the mysterious master who climbed Ningcui Cliff had never even heard of it! This man was wearing a bright red cloak, his face was pale, and he couldn't tell how old he was. His facial features were cold and arrogant, his nose was like a hook, his long black hair was almost to the ground, and his fingernails of ten fingers were one foot long, which could be spread like a sharp blade or curled and folded. His magical powers were unpredictable. According to Jiuli Sanren, it was not much worse than the real person who guarded the truth.

The man called himself Kunshanzi, descended from the sky and flew to Ningcui Cliff, and saw the evil cherry blossoms as fog as fog. Jiuli San people thought that a foreigner was visiting, so they came out to greet him politely. Unexpectedly, after saying a few words, Kunshanzi said that he had taken a fancy to Ningcui Cliff, the practice place, and wanted to practice here, so he asked Jiuli San people to leave. How could the Jiuli San people agree? The two started fighting. Jiuli had not suffered a defeat in decades, but after fighting with this man, he was knocked down a thousand feet of cliff. The strange man did not chase him and occupied Ningcui Cliff.

When Jiuli Sanren heard that Han Ziying was going to pick evil cherry blossoms on Ningcui Cliff, he quickly persuaded her. The Kunshanzi on the mountain could never afford to provoke him. I am afraid that only the top masters in the world, like Shuzheng Real People, could do it. Jiuli didn't know the origin of the strange man, so of course he could not accept this humiliation and returned to Wucheng with Han Ziying. He thought of Zhengyimen to ask for help. On the one hand, he asked who Kunshanzi was, and on the other hand, he also wanted to ask his help to retake the temple. As soon as they arrived in Wucheng, they met Tang Qing and me.

Old Man Tang has left the world of cultivation and does not care about practice, but forty years ago he and Jiuli Sanren were good friends, calling each other "Lao Jiu" and "Xiao Tang". Today, when I first saw an old friend who had not met for decades, I was very concerned about the situation. Jiuli Sanren knew me because I had been at the Zhengyi Sanshan Conference after all, and after seeing me, I exchanged greetings, and then I went to Zhengyimen to find Shouzheng Zhenren.

I advised: "Senior Brother Jiuli, you are not in a hurry to take revenge. You are seriously injured now and need to be recuperated quickly. As far as I know, true Shouzheng is not in Zhengyi Sanshan at present, I can help you find him... This way, you should recover first, I will go to meet with you by the practitioners nearby, and then talk about this in detail?"

I was also shocked when I listened to the retelling of Jiuli Sanren! If Kunshanzi had such great powers, it would be meaningless to find ordinary people to argue, and maybe there would be unnecessary damage. Among the experts I know, there may only be the living Buddhas of Guangjiao Temple, Shuzheng Zhenren, Qiye, Feng Junzi, etc., which can play a role. It is difficult for others to find, I can find Shuzheng and Feng Junzi. Moreover, Shuzheng Zhenren is indeed not in Zhengyi Sanshan. I went home a few days ago to see my parents, and Grandpa Jin has already returned to the village. I can't lead Jiuli to find Grandpa Jin and Feng Junzi, but I can invite Shuzheng Zhenren and Wangqing to discuss.

After finally explaining it clearly, Jiuli Sanren also suppressed his temper, accepted my suggestion and thanked me repeatedly. Han Ziying guided him to go to Feijinyan on Feijinfeng to recuperate and heal his wounds, which was a good place for practitioners to regulate their breathing. I thought that Qiye was also recuperating there when he was injured, but now Qiye returned to Hainan to retreat, and there was no one in Feijinyan.

The first person I was looking for was the true man of the Zhengzheng world. He was not only recognized as the number one master in the world of cultivation today, but also as the head of the Zhengyi sect, he also had the status of the leader of the world. If there were any disputes in the cultivation world, he should find him. I went back to Shizhu Village overnight and went directly to Grandpa Jin's place without going home.

The courtyard gate was not locked, Daguai rushed out and roared and rushed towards me with his tail shaking, looking very happy. At this time, the door of the house opened, Grandpa Jin stood at the door and said, "Ono, come find me so late, come in."

I walked in and sat down. Grandpa Jin poured me a cup of tea, and I blurted out: "Shouzheng real person..."

Grandpa Jin: "Why are you kid calling me Shuzheng here? It should be Grandpa Jin. Could it be that something happened in the world of cultivation?"

"Yes, Jiuli Sanren of Ningcuiya was injured by a mysterious master. Now he is in Wucheng and wants to find you. I advise him to go to Feijinyan to recover from his injuries, and he rushed to you overnight."

Grandpa Jin was moved and said, "With Jiuli's cultivation level, there are not many people in the world who can hurt him... Do you know what the person is from? Is it Qiye again?"

"It's not Qiye, it's a person who calls himself Kunshanzi..." I repeated the retelling of Jiuli Sanren.

Grandpa Jin's reaction was beyond my expectations. His expression was not shocked or angry, but he fell into deep thought and looked worried. He sat there for a long time without saying anything. It was not easy for him to interrupt his contemplation if he didn't speak. It took him a long time to look up and said, "How many people know about this?"

"There is no one else, only me, Teacher Tang is your original apprentice, Heqing, Han Ziying, Jiuli Sanren knows that I am planning to find Feng Junzi."

Grandpa Jin: "Okay, please remind them first, don't make any noise in advance. I'll go to Ningcuiya to find out the origin of this person."

"Don't make a statement, why?"
Chapter completed!