Chapter 9: Protecting God with Incense
"Why did your soul run out ......."
Just when Hong Yi felt that his soul could not return to his body and was about to be dispersed, he suddenly saw a little girl who was covered in plain white suddenly run in, hugged himself and pushed himself towards his body.
Afterwards, Hong Yi only felt a sense of relief and sat up violently. In front of his eyes, but there was no little girl dressed in plain white, but a small white fox, a stone table placed a fruit bowl, inside the fruit bowl a few snacks, a cup of steaming tea.
The little white fox's eyes looked at himself, blinking.
"It was you who saved me just now?"
Hong Yi asked to the little white fox.
"Kiki, Kiki."
The little white fox nodded.
Hong Yi knew that he was in extreme danger just now when his divine soul was disembodied and could not return to his body. Luckily, this little white fox's soul pushed himself. That little girl with a plain white body was the soul of the little white fox out of its shell.
"No wonder the world is like a sea of bitterness, the physical body is a treasure raft to cross the world, and when a person's divine soul is disembodied, it's like jumping naked into the sea, and all of a sudden, it's over."
Hong Yi finally realized the danger of the divine soul coming out of the shell.
"Kiki, Kiki, Kiki ......." The little white fox cheerfully circled around Hong Yi while pointing at the refreshment snacks on the ground with its paw.
"What is this?"
Hong Yi realized that the dried fruit inside the plate was strange, it was a kind of fruit bigger than a bean with a layer of red outer film wrapped around the fruit. And the other one was a large fruit chunk that was roasted to a charred state, and when the shell was plucked, the inside was golden and gave off a sweet flavor that was appetizing.
Hong Yi, however, had never seen these two things before and didn't know what they were.
Little white fox again chirping, as if to answer Hong Yi's question, but the two words can not, Hong Yi look puzzled.
The little white fox barked for a while, seems to know that the explanation does not work, bar bar bar ran out, took a long incense in, lit a fire inserted in the ground, in a short while, Hong Yi around the incense smoke.
"Kiki, Kiki."
The little white fox used its front paw to point on its head and crouched on the ground. At the same time, it pointed at Hong Yi, asking him to imitate himself.
"You mean you want my divine soul to come out of its shell again? Let's communicate? But." Hong Yi had just tried the danger of the divine soul leaving the shell, and was a bit hesitant.
"Kiki, kiki." The little white fox pointed at the burning incense on the ground with its paw again, meaning that there was incense to not be afraid of.
"Alright." Hong Yi sat back, closed his eyes and performed the Pagoda Viewing Thoughts, and suddenly jumped.
Boom!
He saw his body again, and his divine soul came out of its shell.
"Have you practiced before? How can you get your divine soul out of your body so quickly?"
Hong Yi heard a voice.
At the same time, he saw a twelve or thirteen year old girl standing in vain above the head of the little white fox. Her entire body was plain white, her clothes fluttered, and her eyebrows were like a workman's brush engraving, exquisitely translucent with spirituality.
"My name is Hong Yi, what is your name?" Hong Yi saw the dazzling incense smoke around him, and only felt as if his body was soaking in a hot spring, completely free of the coldness of the first time his soul came out of its shell.
"We pure foxes all have the surname Tushan, my name is Tushan Sang, you can call me Xiao Sang. It turns out that your name is Hong Yi, then I'll call you Little Brother Yi from now on." Xiao Sang was a piece of naivety and romance, "My body hasn't learned to speak human language yet, I can only communicate with your divine soul. This is sandalwood incense, can protect the divine soul, but is not afraid of the wind to blow the soul away, the incense enshrined inside the temple, are this kind of it."
"No wonder the gods all like incense ......." Hong Yi laughed, "Xiao Yi brother ...... you just called me Xiao Yi brother?"
Hong Yi's eyes flashed with surprise, never called him such an affectionate name, although Xiao Sang is a fox, but the divine soul is out of the shell, and there is no difference between people, a cute little girl.
"You still haven't told me why you were able to get out of your body so quickly? Was it the Pagoda Viewing Method you just practiced? When I practiced this method, it took me a full month before I could bring out my out-of-body body." Xiao Sang fiddled with his head.
"This door method is nothing to be surprised about, it is to take a thought of jumping after stomping high, people who climb mountains and jump off cliffs, when they jump, they are already dead before they reach the ground, that is, their souls are already out of their bodies. By practicing this kind of koan idea, one also pretends that one is jumping from a high place, and the soul is out of the shell."
Hong Yi pondered, "I just read what is written inside the Taoist scriptures, 'fixing the spirit, coming out of the shell, night travel, day travel, repelling objects, manifesting, possessing the body, seizing the body, thunder tribulation, and Yang Shen.' This Taoist spirit cultivation method, the reason is simple, but difficult to start, fortunately I am a reader, can be quiet, the general public mind, how can you fix the God down? If you can't settle your mind, don't talk about coming out of your shell, it's true that the path is the simplest, this immortal art's cultivation is much simpler than martial arts' cultivation."
"Xiao Sang, what kind of food is this? How come I've never seen it before? Is it eaten by foxes?" Hong Yi pointed at the two things on the ground.
"These are the seeds that the monks of the Great Zen Temple brought over from overseas, the red-coated kind is called falling peanuts, also called peanuts, and that roasted and soft one is called sweet potatoes. After the Great Zen Temple was burned down, we brought some of the seeds over and sowed them ourselves inside the mountains... These two things, again, are good for planting, produce a lot, and are delicious." Xiao Sang giggled.
"Peanuts, sweet potatoes?" Hong Yi looked at it and reached out to twist it, but twisted it empty.
"Giggle, giggle, little brother Yi, why are you so stupid, the soul can't hold things, people can't see it, unless it reaches the realm of repelling things, it can only pick up things now, but little brother Yi, you can cultivate to the point of coming out of the shell so quickly, repelling things should be very fast, it's true that, people are the spirit of all things, and they can cultivate it much faster than us foxes. "
"Little Fei, Little Sh, you guys quickly come over ah, Little Brother Yi can actually have his divine soul come out of his shell and talk to us." Xiao Sang suddenly yelled.
Just at this time, the doorway came in two more small white foxes, saw the stone room in the middle of the sandalwood incense, both issued a chirping sound, the body prostrate curled up on the ground and did not move, at the same time, Hong Yi saw two little girls still dressed in plain white again.
"Really oh, this can be fun. Staying inside the mountain day after day can bore us to death, but unfortunately, sister Yuan Fei said that we can't go outside, if we go, people will kill us."
"Last time, Yuan Fei sister also brought a few scholars to say that they want to teach us to read and talk and write, but they fainted and died when they saw us."
"I really can't understand what we foxes have to be afraid of, those people want to kill us while being afraid of us. How strange."
"Little Brother Yi, are you called Little Brother Yi? It's so nice to have someone, we can play together in the future. I've long wanted to go out of the mountain and find someone to play with."
The two little girls were talking, chirping around Hong Yi, making Hong Yi feel that the little girl actually had such a cute side. But unlike the "Wu Wen Hou" residence in the maid, even if the age of small, but all smart, want to sharpen the head up camp.
"The world says that foxes are cunning, but they don't know that people's cunningness is 10,000 times better than foxes." Hong Yi sighed.
"By the way, what level have you three cultivated to?"
"Xiao Sang and I have only cultivated to the point where we have come out of our shells, Xiao Shu is a little more powerful and can travel far at night, but we have not yet reached the point where we can travel far in the day. We can't go too far away from our bodies. Sister Yuan Fei said, if we have not practiced to the realm of the Yin Spirit to repel objects, we can not use flying needles and flying swords, that can not go out it. Otherwise, those people outside the mountain, with strong blood spirits, we won't be able to confuse them, and we'll be easily victimized." Xiao Fei shook her head.
"Flying swords flying needles?" Hong Yi said doubtfully.
"Yes. After practicing to the realm of repelling objects, you can drive swords and needles to stab and kill, and you can also drive stones to hit people. Then you can protect yourself." Xiao Sang said.
"Then without practicing to the realm of repelling objects, what ability do you have to protect yourselves?" Hong Yi asked.
"Before the divine soul is practiced to repel things, we can only confuse others to protect ourselves. But when we come across strong body and strong-willed understanding people, it's a bit difficult to confuse them... Like brother Yi, you are an understanding person, we can't confuse them at all. The last time I went into the mountains to hunt a group of people, there are a few particularly strong body, my soul saw from a distance, their blood qi as if on fire, do not dare to approach. Luckily we hid and weren't found by them."
Within the three girls, Xiao Shu seemed to be a bit more mature. Speaking was also well-organized.
"Hm? In order for a demonic charm to bewitch a person, the first thing that is needed is that the person's heart is not right, or the body is weak and the blood is not strong." Hong Yi remembered something recorded in the notes of the Herbal Hall.
For a demonic charm to bewitch a person, the first thing that is required is that the person's heart is not right, and if they are suspicious, their soul will be weak. Secondly, if the body is weak and the blood is not strong. It can also take advantage of the weakness, such as the person who is going to die, can always see the demons and ghosts.
This truth, Hong Yi did understand.
"No wonder it is said that the way of gods and ghosts, does not bench the hall of great elegance, but it turns out that there are so many taboos." Hong Yi heard these conversations and gained a deeper understanding of the immortal way of cultivating the divine soul.
"The Immortal Way of cultivating the divine soul has too many restrictions, it is difficult to get into, and the danger is too great, no wonder it is not popular in the world, while the Way of Martial Arts is flourishing."
It turns out that to cultivate the divine soul, the first thing to do is to meditate, fix the mind, and drive away all distractions before one can come out of one's shell through the idea of visualization. First of all, to meditate, calm the mind, and drive away all distracting thoughts, such a condition is not something that ordinary people can do.
Even if one can do it, and come out of the shell, it is like a person who does not know how to use the water jumped into the sea from the boat, and immediately suffered from the disaster of extinction.
Hong Yi estimated that many cultivators, while practicing, would have their souls fall apart after getting out of the body.
And even if the out-of-body, there is still no self-protection ability, until after the repellent, only gradually have the ability to self-protection, which is much more than the martial arts boxing and kicking difference. After practicing boxing and kicking for a month or two, one could easily knock out one or two people.
"No wonder that in the Taoist scriptures, when they recorded the idea of observing the mind, but they didn't say that a sandalwood plant should be lit, so the original meaning of harboring wickedness is to make the person who practiced it to die."
Hong Yi again surmised the drawbacks of some of the cultivation methods recorded inside the Taoist scriptures, and even the intentional viciousness.
The Dao Scripture was compiled by the Da Qian Dynasty by collecting the world's canonical books, and the Da Qian Dynasty didn't want people to cultivate Immortal Arts, that would undermine the dynasty's rule.
"In that case, there may also be a lot of willful non-reminders within the Martial Scriptures. However, I think that there should be two versions of the Martial Scripture and the Taoist Scripture, one version inside the royal library and another version that was passed down to the people. Moreover, I'm afraid that the emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty felt that this was still inappropriate and ordered the books to be banned."
Hong Yi reading is not dead reading, but to figure out the author's thoughts, and even life experience, and even more, to figure out the time of the book, to examine the author of the book when the book is what kind of environment, out of what kind of state, how the mentality, so as to be able to read a book thoroughly, the mind and the writers to communicate.
Now he slightly pondered, he understood, the Great Qian Dynasty's martial scripture, Taoist scripture two books, although profound, but there are also many improper places, and even lure people to die.
"No wonder, the highest realm inside the Martial Scriptures only reaches to the Martial Saint, but there is no Human Immortal!"
Having figured out the problem, Hong Yi's mind was clear.
"Xiao Sang, Xiao Shu, Xiao Fei, you Pure Fox Clan, do you all cultivate according to the above of this Dao Scripture?" Hong Yi suddenly asked.
"Yes, in the beginning, but a few elders went off the deep end and died, then Mr. Bai came over once and said that there was something wrong with this Dao Scripture, so he gave instructions to Elder Tu." Xiao Shu replied.
"Mr. Bai? What is Mr. Bai?"
This was the first time Hong Yi had heard of Mr. Bai.
"Mr. Bai is called Bai Ziyue, he's very famous, he's one of the Eight Great Demon Immortals in the world."
"What are the Eight Great Demon Immortals in the world?" Hong Yi asked.
"It's the eight most outstanding and powerful ones besides humans. But I don't know, it's just what I occasionally heard last time when I eavesdropped on Mr. Bai and Sister Yuan Fei's conversation." Xiao Shu shook his head again.
"Hehe, the incense is about to burn out, little brother Yi should return to his shell, otherwise he will not be able to stand it. When the divine soul is strong, Little Brother Yi can still go out and play with us, in the future, Little Brother Yi, you can still go inside the town and buy us some things to come back and play, okay, I'm so eager to go inside the town to buy things."
The three foxes and one person's spirit returned.
Hong Yi opened his eyes, there was nothing in front of him, only the three little white foxes were looking at him, their eyes blinking, the conversation of the three little girls just now seemed like a dream.
"Kiki, Kiki."
The three little white foxes called out again, holding up the dried fruits on the stone table and sending them to Hong Yi.
Hong Yi pinched open a peanut rice, and it was full of crunchy flavor. Peeling open a sweet potato, it was also full of sweetness, never had he eaten such a good thing.
Drinking a mouthful of steaming tea, Hong Yi looked at the three little foxes jumping around, remembering the time when the soul came out of the body, the three girls who called themselves little brother Yi, a wave of warmth welled up in his heart.
This kind of warmth, in the human warmth like swords and frost general marquis, can not feel.
