allonlinenovel Chapter 112 Sharing Life and Death, Forging True Fire
Chapter 112 Sharing Life and Death, Forging True Fire
Lu Qian transformed into golden light and passed through the narrow passageway, arriving at a pitch-black stone chamber.
This area, roughly three zhang in circumference, is filled with pitch-black darkness; silence is the only thing to see here.
He arrived at the center of the stone chamber, bathed in golden light, and sat cross-legged on a futon on the ground.
As he sat down, the golden light that had illuminated the entire stone chamber suddenly dimmed, and streaks of golden light transformed into streams of light that dissipated into the void, restoring the silent stone chamber to its original dark state.
Having examined all the various methods of achieving enlightenment, I realized that it all boils down to a single path to life and death.
Lu Qian closed his eyes and entered a meditative state, his mind filled with various thoughts, and the profound mysteries of different schools of thought collided and merged rapidly in his mind.
Although the methods of each lineage are different, their core principles are the same: cultivating both body and mind.
Even though they are divided into the Southern School and the Northern School, the difference is merely between prioritizing destiny over nature, prioritizing nature over destiny, or uniting the body with the spirit and uniting the spirit with the body.
Wudang has the "Golden Elixir of Rejuvenation" that unites the spirit with the body, while Longmen has the "Burning Body and Refining Spirit" that unites the body with the spirit.
According to Lü Qian's deduction based on the "Zhong Lü Chuan Dao Ji", these two paths lead to the same destination, and in the end, they will achieve unity of form and spirit, and yin and yang in harmony, thus returning to the state of "primordial ancestral energy".
Although the Three Demon Sect has some unconventional methods, they condense and manifest their own yin essence through various means, and then, by recognizing themselves, understanding their true nature, and cutting off evil thoughts and desires in their hearts, they obtain the pure yin half of their self.
Yin and Yang are mutually dependent and always complement and transform each other. When one half achieves pure Yin, the other half will also be influenced and transformed into "pure Yang". Thus, Yin and Yang are mutually dependent and the state of "primordial ancestral energy" is no longer far away.
Although these methods to reach the heavens are essentially about cultivating both body and mind, their essence is not one of simultaneous progress and mutual support!
These methods always prioritize either "nature" or "life," starting with "nature" or "life" and then guiding the other to refine and integrate with it.
In this way, life and death are divided into primary and secondary, and there is a difference in strength between the two. The matching of life and death is not perfect.
Just like two mismatched gears, there will always be some wear and tear during the process of grinding and meshing together.
Although life forms are forged and tempered together, constantly becoming stronger and more resilient, their efficiency inevitably suffers wear and tear.
This is one of the reasons why those methods require a long and painstaking process.
Mismatched lives ultimately require a great deal of effort to adjust and adapt, so that the two can function better.
Moreover, when the body and spirit finally unite and the primordial energy is returned, if the life force is not in harmony, the resulting primordial energy will not be perfectly integrated and will always have some flaws, requiring a great deal of effort for final correction.
Life is only a hundred years or so long, how much time can a spiritual practitioner waste?
Why didn't our predecessors want to truly cultivate both body and mind, allowing them to progress in tandem?
Difficult, difficult, difficult, the Dao is most profound, do not take the Golden Elixir lightly.
Human life is like two intertwined and churning dragons; it is never a gentle creature.
It is already difficult for an ordinary person to capture and tame one of the dragons, thereby enabling the other dragon to transform as well, let alone capture and tame two dragons at the same time.
To ensure stability, we can only pretend to help each other while actually practicing dual cultivation.
Just like how Guo Zu of Baiyun Temple and Jiuding Tiesha Mountain evaluated Lü Qian's method of "burning the flesh with the six Ding and igniting the soul with Samadhi".
The implications are profound, but the ideas are too audacious!
True fire is actually formed from the essence of the human body. True fire is inherently difficult to control. If the Samadhi True Fire and the Six Ding Divine Fire are ignited at the same time, one will likely "play with fire and get burned" in the next moment, being burned to death by one's own surging essence.
Therefore, this method is not suitable for ordinary people, but Lü Qian was different at this time.
He's a man of great fortune!
On the Nine Peaks Iron Mountain, Guo Zu once bestowed upon him the Turtle and Snake Generals, to regulate his own essence and fire, allowing the two true fires to follow their own paths and not interfere with each other.
This enabled Lü Qian to "burn the six Ding in his physical body and ignite the Samadhi in his spirit," simultaneously refining his own life force. However, this method could not last long.
If we compare Lü Qian's own life to the raw materials for alchemy: gold, silver, lead, and mercury, then Lü Qian himself is the cauldron for refining the elixir.
If the fire in the furnace is too strong, it will affect Lü Qian, who is the furnace, and burn him to death.
Afterwards, Lü Qian received the Heavenly Escape Sword Technique from Lü Zu, and combined it with the inheritance of the Three Demon Sects to create his own Three Corpse Forms, which can also be regarded as an incarnation with Samadhi True Fire as the bone and essence as the flesh and blood.
If the Three Corpses' True Form, which merges with the Samadhi True Fire, is made to be illusory inside, and the Tortoise and Snake Generals, who transport the Six Ding Divine Fire, are made to be real outside.
The two combine the real and the illusory, and complement each other internally and externally. Thus, Lü Qian, as the "cauldron," can become more resilient under the combined tempering of the two true fires.
Thus, the Great Elixir of Life and Nature can be formed!
However, the power of the two true fires should not be underestimated. If one wants to transfer creation and adjust the temperature within the two true fires, one must use the "Song of the Great Dao" taught by Patriarch Wang Chongyang.
The Great Dao Song, passed down by the patriarch, is a method of cultivation that can be practiced in all four postures: walking, sitting, and lying down. It contains the principles of nature and can regulate the flow of one's own primordial energy.
This technique can be transformed into the "Banana Leaf Fan," used to regulate the heat during alchemy, allowing one to manipulate the essence of creation and adjust the heat.
Thus, Lü Qian successfully built a complete framework.
However, a framework is just a framework, and it still needs to be supplemented and polished with details.
These methods are all other people's paths. Lü Qian can learn them, but he cannot imitate them in form!
Those who learn from me live, those who resemble me die.
Those who transform me will live; those who destroy me will advance.
Lü Qian needs to draw on the strengths of various schools of thought, combine them with his own insights, and form a new framework to complete this framework, thereby laying the foundation for his own "path to heaven"!
During his year of wandering, Lü Qian not only walked the physical paths beneath his feet, but also the spiritual path within his heart.
Along the way, his character has been tempered, and his inner strength has become more profound and complete with the help of various parties.
This is also the source of his confidence that he can successfully traverse the "Path to Heaven".
Transform all laws into your own use, and comprehend all paths to generate your own path.
This is how one nourishes the hundred scriptures in the furnace to attain enlightenment!
His path is the true meaning of "sharing life and death"!
I will follow my own path, and my path will lead to the heavens!
The path of those who came before us lies behind us; my path lies ahead, beneath my feet, and in the distance!