Xiu Erdai's daily essays

08600-Nourishment

Me: "So what should the understanding of spirit monsters and beasts at the level of transformation gods be like?"

Elder Gu Xi: "It feels like it is. You have to pay close attention to your quasi-apprentice. Before he officially becomes a disciple of Yunxia Sect and lives in Yunxia Sect for a long time, his situation may be more dangerous. He was in ignorance. He has drifted on many critical lines, such as life and death, race, appearance, and the real semantics under the surface voice, etc. He has perceptual cognitions in many aspects that far exceed his current cultivation, but those cognitions are too vain. If his real cultivation cannot be improved as soon as possible, those vain cognitions may turn him into a part of a monster."

Elder Gu Xi: "That is to say, he may be too obsessed with a single skill and cannot form a complete spiritual power system. Although he doesn't seem to be interested in powerful skills, he doesn't seem to be tempted, and he seems to be able to polish the foundation of cultivation in peace, but has he ever He has used powerful skills arbitrarily, and when his normal cultivation has entered a bottleneck period, who can guarantee that he will not miss the wantonness and ease he once had? Now that the inner demon has not arisen, it does not mean that the inner demon will never arise."

Elder Gu Xi: "A life experience that is very different from ordinary people will make a person special, and it will also make it difficult for this person to find similar references when he has inner demons. There are often examples where it is not necessarily good when you are young. If you are praised too high, if you don’t have enough psychological quality, you will lower your ceiling while being praised.”

Me: "And if you have enough psychological quality, then whether it is premature praise or premature humiliation, it will become your own strong nourishment."

Elder Gu Xi: "You can successfully use the entire Shameng as your nourishment, which is very remarkable. I can say responsibly that there are very few people who can do this. Especially you are not ignoring the Shameng, but there are many Interaction, you have strengthened yourself on the basis of accepting the Shameng, instead of just going your own way as if the Shameng does not exist.”

Elder Gu Xi: "If you just ignore Shameng and outsiders, then our Jianzong has many such disciples, and your Yunxiazong also has Tianzhuo and Gao Yi who belong to this category, but they interact frequently, participate and alienate. It's very rare."

Me: "I can't take full credit for this. Yunxiazong's indulgence to me, and my father's support for me, ensured that I would participate whenever I wanted to, and alienate if I wanted to, so I didn't let Shameng become my burden. Yunxiazong gave me the confidence to believe that no matter what I do to the Shameng, or what the Shameng tries to do to me, I can live the life I want to live."

08601-As long as it is strong enough, there will be no black history

Elder Gu Xi: "The Yunxia Sect's mascot raising technology has always been very high-end. As long as the mascot can move forward, the Yunxia Sect must be the mascot's help rather than resistance."

Me: "It's really a pity that Hua Xiao... died back then?"

Elder Gu Xi: "Hua Xiao... some things are really helpless, no matter how good the external conditions are, no matter how good personal qualifications are, but if there is a little bit of luck and opportunity, they will not be able to turn around. But I don't understand Hua Xiao very well. The regret of the admirers, because I personally don't appreciate Hua Xiao's kind of sentimental type, compared to your Xiong, Qi Xi's irascibility, and Tianzhuo's indifference are more to my appetite."

Elder Gu Xi: "In addition, although your father does not belong to the category of mascots, I also admire him very much. His boyhood is really interesting. He has encountered ups and downs and all kinds of bad things, but he can always use it in a kind way. The absolutely arrogant attitude smashed those bad hearts. Although sometimes the posture of smashing is weird, but anyway, he broke through and became a generation of power after all."

Me: "Can you give me an example of the weird smashing posture?"

Elder Gu Xi: "Did you know that he has encountered serial deception by spirits?"

Me: "Spirits can still cheat? And is it a chain? Active? Is it an accident? Is it dominated by spirits instead of being manipulated by humans? I haven't heard of it, can you tell me more about it?"

Then my communication with Elder Gu Xi was cut off.

Papa cut it off.

I tentatively asked my father: "What do you need from me?"

Dad: "It's okay, I just don't want to hear the stupid things about my past. If you insist on listening, go outside Yunxiazong, stay away from Yunxiazong, it is best to go to Jianzong's library to continue chatting with Elder Gu Xi. I am now You are using the Yunxia Sect grand formation, your communication signal is passing in and out, it is too noisy."

Me: "Then if I were in the Yunxia Sect, and I whispered about your dark history with the master, would you hear me? The two people chatting are both in the formation, so there will be no problem of passing in and out."

Dad: "When are you going to disconnect Pei Bing from the Yunxia Sect's formation?"

Me: "Don't break. I'm studying the operation mechanism of Yunxiazong's big formation from the perspective of the Nascent Soul Stage. By the way, I'll take a look at the trivia about disciples recorded in the big formation that have not been placed in the Library Pavilion, the Discipline Office, etc. Although the order is too messy It is difficult to extract and interpret, but I believe that as long as I am patient enough, I will be able to fully uncover the dark history of your youth that happened in Yunxia Sect."

Dad: "I have always been a weak person, and I have never turned over. The black history will be unbearable. When I am strong enough, those black history can be regarded as nourishment for my growth. I once clamored, 'Let Yunxiazong Do things according to my rules', if I die in the golden core stage, it is a joke, but if I become the elder of the precepts department, then it is a prophecy, and the listener should worship."

08602-difficult

Me: "...Father, do you feel that the way you speak to me has become less and less dignified after you entered the Nascent Soul?"

Pei Jianzhuo: "Finally, you don't have to put on airs of an elder or a guardian anymore and expose your true nature?"

So Dad's boyhood isn't over yet?

Pei Jianzhuo: "It can indeed be an eternal youth. It can be in mentality, and it can also be in appearance."

Dad: "Is it majestic enough for me to beat you up?"

Me: "Threatening to fight every now and then is not majesty, it's laziness to think of other moves. You should give priority to persuading people with reasoning, not one-size-fits-all."

Dad: "I hope you can always persuade others with reason when you get along with your apprentice, and not do anything when the apprentice is twisting."

Me: "If you twist it too far, you can still do it. You need to combine benevolence and violence. The point is, I think my apprentice is much lower than my bear, and he is more precocious."

Dad: "The forced precociousness should be eliminated for him, and let him return to his original temperament. When you raise him to act recklessly and not be cautious in everything, you will start as a protector .”

Me: "It's my luck that you dote on me so much, but I may not be so devoted to my apprentice. I think it's good for him to mature. I don't really want to take care of a rash and reckless brat."

Dad: "After all, apprentices can be chosen. If this is not the case, they can be changed. If there is any part of the selected prospective apprentice that suddenly makes me uncomfortable, I can immediately erase the identity of the prospective apprentice, and choose another one to continue to observe." The range of options is too large, and I always feel that the whole world can definitely find an apprentice who completely suits my heart, so I refuse to make any compromises, and finally make choosing an apprentice as difficult as finding a Taoist companion."

Maybe for you, who has two Taoist companions but no serious apprentice, choosing an apprentice is more difficult than finding a Taoist companion?

Me: "My apprentice candidate has basically been determined. Before the next selection meeting of Yunxia Sect, if Pei Wuyao agrees to be my apprentice, I will accept him. If he refuses or does not make a decision, I will enter the inner sect from the next session." Choose one among the disciples by lottery. What about you?"

Dad: "Same as you, not limited to being elected in the next election, skipping the step of Pei Wuyao."

Skip it and just draw lots.

08603 - Criteria for qualified monks

Me: "Is it such a joke? You can clearly observe the situation of all school-age children in the world, why don't you choose one that is relatively the most understandable?"

Dad: "As long as it is not the absolute best, they are all the same. And I can know very little from a distant observer. It is impossible to predict in advance whether it will be really suitable after a long-term relationship. Just like I actually knew very early on that the Acacia sect has ginger. Lin is such an elder, but I didn't realize that she and I were destined to be a Taoist companion until the spiritual power was deeply entangled."

Dad: "Long-distance observation is mostly rational, while personal participation is dominated by sensibility. Sometimes the two cannot be unified."

Me: "The former is the recognition of reason, and the latter is the comfort in feeling. Most people don't approve of laziness and giving up, but they will still be addicted to the relaxation brought by laziness and giving up when doing things in person. But when you really like what you do When doing things, you should also feel emotionally that laziness has taken up the time you could have enjoyed good things, which is unforgivable."

Dad: "As the cultivation level increases, sensibility and rationality will continue to be unified, but there will always be some areas that are still not unified. We strive to achieve more unity, but we must also accept the unresolved differences that have not yet been properly resolved."

Me: "Did you really plan to draw lots when accepting apprentices? There is no preset assessment standard at all?"

Dad: "The Yunxia Sect's entrance assessment standards are sufficient, and other requirements are useless. Anyway, there must be more unsatisfactory things than satisfactory ones. Children, Qi training period, it is impossible to be very firm, courageous There is only a little bit, lack of knowledge, shallow thinking, easy to make a fuss, and often repeat what others say... They are not qualified monks. How could I think that a guy who is not a monk is suitable?"

Me: "... If you set the standard for accepting apprentices as 'qualified monks', then I am afraid that the Qi training foundation building period will have to be eliminated? The Qi training period has not officially stepped into the door of cultivation at all, and there is no qualification to be judged whether it is qualified or not." ; The Foundation Establishment stage has just started, and the ignorance is jerky. Getting the "Qualified Monk Exam Paper" is at most a few points, and it is far away from passing. And Yunxiazong did not accept disciples from the Golden Core Stage."

Dad: "I personally think that only the Yuanying period or at least the Jindan peak period, which is the standard for becoming a master in the Yunxia Sect, can produce qualified monks."

That is to say, you don't want to accept disciples at all, you just want to discuss the Tao with fellow Taoists.

Me: "The other elders still have heads, do you know that you have such a bad attitude towards the issue of recruiting disciples?"

Dad: "Of course I know, otherwise why do they always want to give me apprentices? Yunxiazong has no requirements for elders to accept apprentices."

Me: "Because the other elders have already completed this project in the Yuanying stage, but you owe this debt, and of course others will watch you to pay it back. The infancy stage, which is not required to do missions, also has to pay off debts."