The Golden Elixir Road

Chapter 41: Testing Your Own Heart on the Path of Refining the Heart

"Well, I don't have to give face to others, but I still have to give face to your little Yueyue." Wang Zizai said after thinking about it.

Wang Zizai brought the three people to the entrance of the Immortal Mountain. With a flick of his fingers, he moved the mountains on both sides and set up a formation on a small path.

Afterwards, a stone tablet was erected at the intersection outside the Immortal Mountain, on which were engraved three large characters "The Road to Refining the Heart" and several smaller characters "Anyone who passes this road on their own below the Dao Palace can enter the Immortal Mountain."

"How about it? Is it okay now? It depends on him whether he can pass or not." Wang Zizai said.

"Not bad, not bad." Ji Ziyue smiled with satisfaction: "I'll go in and try it first."

After saying that, he was the first to rush in to experience this spiritual training journey.

When Ji Ziyue saw the words engraved on the stone tablet, he thought that he was going to use the power of the Wheel Sea to attack, so he came in to test the waters first. However, when he stepped into the Heart Refining Path, he found that it was not the case at all.

I saw the scenery in front of me suddenly changed, and I appeared in the place where I first met Ye Fan. This time I didn't catch him, and he didn't kidnap me either.

Instead, he walked towards me affectionately and said, "Zi Yue, you're here?"

Ji Ziyue was wondering why he was here all of a sudden, and responded: "Why are you here too?"

Who knew that he would appear outside the formation the next second.

From the perspective of the three people outside, as soon as Ji Ziyue stepped into the Heart Refining Road, she began to stand still and giggled, and then was sent out.

Ji Ziyue reacted and said angrily: "What else did you see just now?"

"Don't worry, everything you see is what you think in your heart, and others cannot see it." Wang Zizai said.

Wang Zizai knew why Ji Ziyue was angry. No one wants others to pry into their secrets.

"I'll try again." Ji Ziyue said unconvinced.

"Try it as many times as you want. Remember, what you see inside is just what you think in your mind. As long as you stick to your heart, you will be able to pass it." Wang Zizai reminded.

Ji Ziyue was well prepared this time. When she saw Ye Fan, she closed her eyes and pretended that he did not exist. Sure enough, after a moment, everything disappeared and she appeared on the path.

Then he took another step forward, and saw a large piece of fairy gold appear in front of him. He almost turned into a money-grubber and rushed forward.

Fortunately, I remembered Wang Zizai's warning and told myself again and again that it was fake. After a while, the fairy gold really disappeared.

Ji Ziyue took another step forward and felt that she had arrived in the fairyland. The fairy palaces around her were hidden in the clouds.

A group of immortals in front of him saluted and said, "Congratulations to Immortal Ziyue for becoming an immortal today!"

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After taking one step and stopping every now and then, Ji Ziyue finally walked out of the Heart Refining Road after an hour.

Sure enough, with Ji Ziyue's current level of cultivation, as long as she understood what was going on, she would naturally be able to pass.

Ji Ziyue looked back at the short distance of a hundred steps that she had walked in an hour, and felt that her cultivation level seemed to be about to break through again.

"This road is too difficult. Can Shenxiu make it?" Ji Ziyue said worriedly.

Ji Shenxiu is one generation younger than Ji Ziyue, so he has to call Ji Ziyue aunt.

"It depends on his luck." said the Holy Lord of the Ji Family.

"Believe me, Aunt Ziyue, you have done enough for me." Ji Shenxiu said.

"Okay, go ahead. Aunt Ziyue is waiting for you here. Even if you can never practice cultivation, no one can bully you with Aunt Ziyue around." Ji Ziyue said to Ji Shenxiu.

Ji Ziyue told Ji Shenxiu about her experience on the Path of Refining the Heart. After listening, Ji Shenxiu went on the Path of Refining the Heart alone.

After taking one step, Ji Shenxiu was not thrown out directly. After half an incense stick of time, Ji Shenxiu took the second step, and then the third and fourth steps, and walked forward with difficulty. After three hours, Ji Shenxiu walked nearly halfway before he was finally sent out of the Refining Heart Road. After all, he did not finish the journey.

Ji Shenxiu looked gloomy, and Ji Ziyue and the Saint Leader of the Ji Family felt sorry for him.

"It's not bad to be able to get halfway out." Wang Zizai also felt sorry for him.

"How about this, although I cannot accept him as my disciple, I can let him stay in Immortal Mountain and recite scriptures every day. If he can understand the great Dao, maybe he will have the opportunity to practice from another path, which can also be regarded as his good fortune. How do you think?"

When Wang Zizai heard his name, he suddenly remembered that he had a few Buddhist scriptures there, all of which he had written down from memory. Maybe they were destined to be with him.

Buddhist practice advocates that the mind is inherently pure, Buddha nature is inherent, and enlightenment does not require external help. All wisdom of Prajna comes from one's own nature. If one recognizes one's own nature, "once one hears the words, one will be enlightened and suddenly see the true nature", and the mind will become a Buddha.

In the words of Taoism, one only cultivates nature and not life, and the secret realm method can be said to be the ultimate in life skills. Since one path cannot be taken, it is better to try another one.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist. Let's just leave it at that. If we go back we will be looked down upon. It is better to stay here." said the Saint Leader of the Ji Family.

When Ji Shenxiu heard that there was still a chance, his face lit up again.

Now that the matter had been settled, the Holy Lord of the Ji family took his leave as he was busy with his duties, leaving Ji Ziyue to accompany Ji Shenxiu for a few more days.

It happened that Yan Qingci had just finished his training and came out. Ji Ziyue was eccentric and started to target Yan Qingci again.

"Qing Ci, your master has created a path to refine the mind. I've already walked it once. Do you want to try it?" Ji Ziyue tempted.

"What is the path of cultivating the mind?" Yan Qingci asked curiously.

Ji Ziyue immediately took Yan Qingci to the Heart Refining Road, and Wang Zizai did not stop him. Wang Zizai believed that Yan Qingci would definitely be able to pass it, but he was not sure how long it would take.

Wang Zizai took out three Buddhist scriptures, namely "Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch", "Diamond Sutra", "Lotus Sutra", and a page of "Heart Sutra", which was only more than 200 words long.

Among them, "Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch" was written by Zen Master Huineng. It talks about the practice of becoming a Buddha with one's mind and achieving sudden enlightenment.

The Diamond Sutra, the Shurangama Sutra, and the Heart Sutra belong to the Prajna Sutra, which take emptiness as their core idea and talk about dependent origination and emptiness. The Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra are even more condensed versions of the Prajna Sutra, sweeping away external appearances and breaking internal attachments.

The prototype of Sun Wukong's master, Patriarch Bodhi, is Subhuti, one of the ten great disciples of Buddha, who is known as "the best at understanding emptiness", so the monkey is named Wukong.

These were what Wang Zizai had read before he traveled through time. After he achieved the Golden Elixir stage, he gradually recalled them all and wrote them down from memory, including Taoist scriptures, Buddhist scriptures, and Confucian classics.

Wang Zizai handed it to Ji Shenxiu and said, "If you read these scriptures carefully and study them every day, you may be able to attain the supreme enlightenment, and you may even become an immortal before us."

"Thank you, sir." Ji Shenxiu took the scripture, bowed to Wang Zizai, and then went aside to comprehend the scripture.

Wang Zizai turned his head to look to the side, and saw Shi Wuwei looking at him eagerly, and suddenly he realized.

He smiled and said, "It's my fault. I promised to teach you the Emperor's Scripture when I got back, but I forgot. How about this, I let you pick one yourself?"

Shi Wuwei grinned instantly: "Hehe, Master, how embarrassing!"

What the Immortal Mountain has the most now is the Emperor's Scripture. Not to mention the Blood Phoenix Scripture, there are already a lot of supreme scriptures in the original forbidden area of ​​the Immortal Mountain alone.

Wang Zizai took out all the imperial scriptures that could be passed down and let Shi Wuwei choose one for himself, which made Shi Wuwei very happy.

In less than half an hour, Yan Qingci and Ji Ziyue came back, with Ji Ziyue looking frustrated.

"No wonder you accepted Qingci as your disciple!" Ji Ziyue said.

Wang Zizai did not respond, but just smiled with relief.

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(End of this chapter)