No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 58 Scribbled "I"

When Xu Shun returned to his yard, he happened to see Zi Su with a smile on her face.

Shiso looks quite smug.

Yesterday, he and Junior Sister Zi Yan strolled across the frozen snowfield, discussing life and the path to becoming an immortal. It seemed as if there were only the two of them between heaven and earth.

At night, he sat on the cloud-chariot with other brothers and sisters, watching the sunset and sunrise, and discussing metaphysics and Taoism.

It’s really wonderful!

What’s even more interesting is that even those senior and junior brothers who are in the Dragon and Tiger stages are quite polite to him, which makes him unconsciously feel vain.

In the past, he wandered in the world, suffering from ridicule and sarcasm everywhere. Has anyone ever looked him in the eye?
He was just about to share yesterday's tea party and interesting experiences with Xu Shun with a smile, when he suddenly realized that Xu Shun was a little different today.

It doesn't look like the Qi Refining Stage.

"Master... Senior Brother, have you started to build the foundation?" Zi Su looked at Xu Shun carefully and said hesitantly.

He had also built a foundation before, but the Qinghua School's foundation building was somewhat different from his wild fox Zen foundation building.

"Well, it started like that when we were practicing yesterday." Xu Shun nodded and said.

"Don't you need to tell the master?" Zi Su said.

"It's a matter of course, there's no need to tell Master about it." Xu Shun said, "Besides, do you know where Master is?"

In the more than one year since returning to Qinghua Sect, Taoist Lan has been elusive and they have only seen him a handful of times.

"This..." Zi Su also knew what was going on.

When he saw Xu Shun starting to build his foundation, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable and did not show off the interesting things that happened at the tea party.

A little sour, a little envious, and a little... jealous.

Damn it! He had clearly cultivated to the foundation-building stage, so how could he still be inferior to someone who had never cultivated!
"If there is nothing else, I will continue practicing sword." Xu Shun nodded to Zi Su and went to his room to get the sword.

"..."

Senior brother, you are too arrogant!
Zi Su was secretly complaining in his heart and prepared to go practice as well. He wanted to make up for yesterday's lessons.

There was a beautiful woman around me yesterday, so it was not suitable to do homework. It would have been such a spoiler!
He sat down cross-legged, listening to the sound of Xu Shun practicing sword in the yard, and made up his mind to catch up with this senior brother!
Two days later, a spirit bird came flapping its wings and delivering a message.

That was when Junior Sister Zi Yan asked her to go outside the sect and see Yuan Jiajie in the mortal world.

Legend has it that the Lantern Festival is very lively. Zi Yan was very curious as she had never seen it.

The round trip would take up quite a bit of time, which might affect his studies and practice.

The gap between him and his senior brother will become bigger and bigger!

One is Senior Brother Juan Wang, and the other is Junior Sister Zi Yan.

How should he choose?
Zi Su was in a state of hesitation. He suddenly thought of Junior Sister Zi Yan's face...

Never mind, never mind, the gap between me and my senior brother has already widened!
Anyway, these few days won’t make any difference!

Cultivation also requires relaxation and tension!
He couldn't help but write back and set a date.

This is what is meant by “knowingly”.

Knowing this, I still do it.

A few days later, Zi Yan came to pick up Zi Su, while Xu Shun continued to practice sword, waiting for the foundation to be completed.

Day after day, Xu Shun didn't know when the foundation-building would be completed, but he slowly felt changes in his body.

Although he had good eyesight in the past, he could not see the leaves on the opposite mountain from a distance. He felt that the world became clearer, and every blade of grass and every leaf was clear.

With his immense strength, he did not feel as light as a swallow, and could easily jump two or three feet. His endurance and energy also changed dramatically. Before, he would feel tired when practicing sword, but now he can practice sword for a whole day without feeling tired at all.

What's even more amazing is that he can feel things he has never felt before, such as the flow of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, evil spirits, and the energy of the earth veins.

It’s as if there are many more senses in the body, allowing one to contact the world in another way.

For example, now, under the sun, Xu Shun is keenly aware of the direction in which the sunlight hits his skin, and this direction keeps moving.

He sensed the movement of the sun!

The huge changes that took place in his body gave him an illusion that he had become a different person, no longer like a human being!

The spiritual energy accumulated from practicing Qi for more than a year caused his body to undergo a transformation!
By the ninety-nine day of foundation building, Xu Shun had completed it.

Compared to before the foundation-building stage, compared to when he was in the Qi training stage, he was more than ten times stronger.
But the changes in his body were only the foundation. Now he could absorb spiritual energy again and continue his practice!

After completing the foundation building, Xu Shun absorbed spiritual energy according to the practice method of "Qinghua Sutra".

The way of circulating spiritual energy this time was completely different from that in the Qi Refining period. He continuously absorbed spiritual energy into his Dantian.

Afterwards, the spiritual energy in the Dantian was continuously compressed in the manner of the "Qinghua Sutra", and finally with a "boom", it was transformed into a trace of magic power!
The so-called magic power of cultivation techniques is the magic power transformed from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth through the cultivation techniques of cultivators, and it is not the magic power truly mastered by cultivators.

The magic power of the technique rose from the dantian and rushed straight up to the crimson palace!

Rushed up to the Jiang Palace, and then went up to the Niwan!
As long as he is in harmony with the "I" in the Niwan, Xu Shun will be able to fully master this trace of magic power, perform various wonderful spells, and become a cultivator in the spiritual realm.

But he cannot do it now, because there is no "I" in his Niwan, he needs to visualize the "I" first.

So, that trace of magic power returned to the dantian.

To achieve spiritual enlightenment, the cultivator needs to constantly visualize "I" in his sea of ​​consciousness, and then merge "I" with the magic power.

"I" is the cultivator's cognition of the inner and outer world, the collection of how the cultivator views the world and the Tao, and the cultivator's worldview.

All the actions of the monks are based on this "I".

Inside the mud ball, there was darkness and chaos, with no up and no down, only a little bit of spiritual light floating around.

Aura is the light of a cultivator's nature, the light of his true spirit, and also the cultivator's "self".

It’s just that this “I” is confused and far from the “I” that the monk thinks of himself.

Now, I use the confused "I" to outline the "I" in the mud ball and turn the "I" into "God".

The spiritual light in Xu Shun's Niwan was about to outline "I" when it suddenly stopped.

What is the "I" in his mind like?

Is it the “me” before the time travel?
Or is it the current monk “I”?
The spiritual light moved, and a stroke was lightly drawn in the dark mud, as if a ray of light was chiseled out in the dark world.

Then the light was like a silk thread, one stroke after another, first the face, then the eyebrows and nose, and finally the whole body.

It's just... it's drawn very sloppily.

Although it looks sloppy, it is completely different from Xu Shun's current appearance.

That was Xu Shun's appearance in his previous life, not his appearance in this life.

The life before the time travel is also his life.

He was also himself before he traveled through time.

All his logical actions are based on the "me" before the time travel.

He had no reason to abandon the past.

This is the truest "me" of Xu Shun!
(End of this chapter)