The author of the book "The Book of the Dead"

Chapter 183: Inner Alchemy Avenue, Refining the Fake into the Real

"Meet the ancestors!"

Liang Ye bowed his head and worshipped. After more than 170 years, later generations saw the legendary Emperor Penglai again.

At this moment, Liang Ye seemed to be opening a thick history book with his own hands.

"No need to be polite."

The old ancestor's voice was very gentle, without the majesty of god-like authority that one might imagine.

Liang Ye looked at this young man who looked younger than himself and asked, "Ancestor, may I ask what your identity is?"

This generation's mission has chosen me. Is it my turn to write the history books myself?

Liang Yue thought for a moment and said, "As a descendant of the Penglai branch, there is no need to rush. I will live in seclusion in the mountains first and send intelligence to the human world from time to time."

"Yes!"

Liang Yue came to the familiar top of Kuaiji Mountain again.

The Golden Palace is spotless, as if someone cleans it frequently.

The objects are almost the same as they were 170 years ago, only the people have changed.

Liang Yue found a comfortable position, leaned against the wall, released Xiaotian and Xuanwu, and fell into a deep sleep.

In the dream, the soul floats to the boundless Taixu fairyland.

In the vast and boundless sea of clouds, the sun and the moon are constantly patrolling, emitting rays of light, which are swallowed and exhaled by the jade silkworm.

At the same time, the soul touched the silver thread that connected the huge bronze mountain in the dark.

The soul continuously absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon, and its sensing range continues to grow.

It will take about thirty-eight years to carry out the moon landing plan.

Only ten years have passed now, and there are still twenty-eight years to go.

There is no need to use internal energy to increase longevity, and everything becomes much easier.

During the Qingming Festival, the climate is slightly cool.

The ice and snow on Kuaiji Mountain melted, and the warm sunshine warmed the earth.

Time passes little by little.

In the fourth year of Jianlong (935), Liang Yue was forty-three years old.

Except for some marginal areas, the State of Song almost unified the Central Plains.

At the Jianhu Waterside Pavilion, Liang Yue was wearing a loose robe and his hair was casually tied up with a red rope.

Opposite is Liang Ye, King of Penglai.

One old and one middle-aged, they look like father and son.

Liang Ye took a sip of the hot wine and said, "Zhao Kuangyin banned 99% of the sects in the world and stipulated that the sects could not expand and could only open schools and recruit disciples on specific hilltops. Currently, 30 sects have been approved by Zhao Kuangyin."

"This is a good thing." Liang Yue said, "Force cannot be without control. It must be used reasonably without affecting the order of the world."

A lack of martial virtue, or an excess of it, is a disaster.

"What do our ancestors think of Zhao Kuangyin? Is it true that Zhao Kuangyin wandered around Taixu at night?"

Liang Ye was quite curious about this. After all, when the dragon descended to the world, many people saw strange visions.

He was half-believing and half-doubting before, but now that he saw the ancestor really coming down, maybe this was really the person chosen by the ancestor himself.

"Of course it is true..." Liang Yue put down his wine glass, "Zhao Kuangyin... China has never lacked overlords, there are too many overlords; but civilization is not only about overlords, sometimes a benevolent leader appears to sublimate the spirit of civilization, so that it can be complete."

Liang Yue has lived from six hundred years ago to the present. He has witnessed the ups and downs of history, heroes coming and going, and countless powerful nations rising and falling.

The once prosperous Five Barbarians have now disappeared into the long river of history.

Liang Yue realized one thing—force is not the key to continuing civilization.

A civilization that relies on military power is likely to fall apart in an instant once it suffers defeat.

Military force determines how a civilization triumphs; culture determines how a civilization thrives and faces defeat.

Only when the two are combined can we have an excellent civilization.

Everything has its own rules, and civilization has its ups and downs. Liang Yue is optimistic about the Song Dynasty.

"I see."

Liang Ye seemed to understand.

When I turned around, the ancestor disappeared again, leaving only the warm wine.

By the Jian Lake, Liang Yue stood with his hands behind his back.

The fresh mountain breeze blows across the sparkling water, bringing a burst of fragrance.

Swimming in Xuanwu Lake, Xiaotian squatted by the water.

Liang Yue spread out his palms, and there was green mist in his palms.

Wow!
The water surface broke open and ten-foot-high waves rushed into the sky.

"Water-related abilities... or rather, physical qualities."

Superpowers are not bloodline. They may look similar to bloodline, but they are not.

Bloodline is something passed down from ancestors. Occasionally, descendants with superior qualifications will awaken their bloodline, and this ability will be inherited.

The alien is more like a random physique, which is born from the baby's embryo's induction of heaven and earth. This random ability cannot be interfered with by the outside world and is a completely random state. With superpowers, aliens can become stronger and have corresponding abilities.

Liang Yue is currently only imitating the operation of this power and cannot fully master it.

In ancient times, strange people were born with divine bodies and could be accepted as disciples by the corresponding gods.

"Human immortals, heavenly immortals, earthly immortals, divine immortals, and ghost immortals. The paths are clear, but why is there no consistent method from beginning to end?"

Liang Yue thought for a long time.

After digging up the ruins for so many years, he realized one thing: the wide variety of methods in ancient times actually had no unified realm.

Different methods have different realm divisions. For example, the realm of Fire Master Fang Hui is divided into fire body, fire fairy, etc.

Other methods of cultivation also have their own realms.

The realms of these cultivation methods do not correspond.

The realm of some cultivation methods, the life span increased by entering the door may be higher than that of the peak human immortal, even though a human immortal can defeat ten thousand such cultivators.

“Whether it is innate or acquired immortals, they are essentially too dependent on innate essence. Perhaps this is the reason for the destruction of civilization.”

By the Jian Lake, Liang Yue sat cross-legged in thought, like a huge rock, motionless.

I can’t make the same mistakes again.

The life span of the fifth life is 220 years. The celestial bloodline may not be able to last until that time, so the path of cultivation must be reintegrated.

"How will you know if you don't try?"

Liang Yue closed his eyes and pondered. All his past knowledge and skills flowed through his sea of consciousness.

The divine consciousness is released outward, and the divine consciousness of thousands of feet can sense the wind, water, earth, and light of nature.

People living in the world cannot be separated from the outside world.

Whether it is the ancient monks or the modern human race, once the external environment changes, it is easy to be destroyed.

At this point, no matter how strong you are, you will encounter similar problems.

After a long time, Liang Yue felt a sharp pain between his eyebrows. Excessive thinking made him feel exhausted.

He took out a Yinzhu Pill.

This pill is azure and transparent, and has the ability to replenish the soul.

"The external environment can complement one's own needs. Whether it is the spiritual energy era or the Dharma Ending Era, we cannot do without the support of the outside world."

Liang Yue thought.

Pills are the greatest use that cultivators make of the outside world.

There is nothing that a golden pill can't solve.

"Ok?"

At this moment, Liang Yue had an idea.

Golden elixir, external elixir, internal elixir...

He thought of the inner alchemy thought that had been popular since the early Wei and Jin dynasties.

"Inner elixir... small world..."

Liang Yue paced back and forth with disheveled hair, looking like a madman, as if he had realized something.

Isn't the inner energy of a warrior also something that is sought within?

The innate, great innate, and even the Zhenwu realm where the internal energy forms a pill.

It is true that the human body depends on the outside world, but is it possible that the inside can become a small world of its own? Or form an inner elixir?
Although it cannot be completely isolated from the external environment, it can at least hold on for a long time. Unlike other cultivators, they will become weak once their spiritual energy is destroyed.

From then on, Liang Yue studied the art of inner alchemy seriously.

Study the ideas proposed by predecessors, as well as the internal martial arts skills that I didn't think highly of at the time.

"Even if the times change, geniuses are still geniuses. Ge Hong, Bao Liang, Tao Hongjing... their cognition cannot see the essence of the world, but they are also geniuses in practicing Taoism."

As spring goes and autumn comes, Liang Yue is covered with thick dust, like a statue of heaven and earth.

While breathing in the essence of the sun and the moon and preparing to land on the moon, he was also thinking about the road ahead.

There are still twenty-three years until the moon landing.

This day.

whoosh...

Beside the Sword Lake, the statue shed dust, revealing a person.

The man opened his eyes and his vision became clear.

"The way of inner alchemy is combined with the way of martial arts, and one seeks within. The Xiantian and Great Xiantian can be the Qi training stage. Going further, the internal force is combined with the supernatural power to form a special true essence, which is the foundation building stage."

Refining Qi, building foundation, golden elixir...

This is the path Liang Yue created by combining the ideas of his predecessors. It is just an idea and has not yet been verified.

"It may be possible to turn the false into the true in the future. This lineage of methods is called - Cultivation of the True."

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(End of this chapter)