All that is recorded in "Notes from the Pot" are the observations and insights of a passerby, but there are also some texts that actually relate to cultivation.
For example, Passerby A introduced the fighting method of the Immortal in the Pot from the side. Throughout their lives, they will make various containers to improve their cultivation, such as bottles, jars, gourds, water jars, large tripods, etc. The higher the cultivation, the larger the container they make.
This is clearly a sect of craftsmen. Lin Chong couldn't help but complain when he read this.
Passerby A also described from between the lines the different expertise of the twenty-four immortal sects. When he was still a mortal, he never thought that "change of dynasties", "water conservancy and agriculture", "sacrifices to heaven", "matters of men and women during the leap year", and "the taste of food" were all a method of cultivation.
Passerby A sighed and said, "The affairs of the immortals cover everything in the world."
But from Lin Chong's perspective, if everything in the world can be cultivated to become immortal, then it would be better to say that everything in the world contains inspiration, and some people find ways to get the inspiration and become immortal.
"Notes from the Pot" took Passerby A ten years to write. It took Lin Chong half a day to read it roughly and half a month to read it carefully. After that, every time he read it again, he had new feelings.
Passerby A is indeed a scholar who has passed the imperial examination. The stories he writes are brilliant and every word and sentence reads as "interesting".
Lin Chong's favorite story is about the passerby and a "fairy outside the body" whom his master once visited.
The body-external immortal is also one of the twenty-four sects in the world.
The method of cultivation is to create an incarnation. Every time one goes through some worldly experiences, he can create an incarnation, while the person himself will lose the emotions related to this experience and only leave the memory.
According to Passerby A, the immortal they saw was named Wu Fu, and he himself didn't know how long he had lived.
According to Wu Fu, his oldest memory can be traced back to the battle between Yan Emperor and Huang Emperor. He was driving the chariot for Huang Emperor. At that time, all the saints and demons in the world, as well as countless immortals and gods, fought so hard that the blood flowed under the yellow sky and on the thick earth.
The master took Passerby A to live in the fairyland outside his body for a whole year to increase his knowledge. Passerby A really listened to countless wonderful stories and gained a deeper understanding of this world.
A year later, when leaving the body-away immortal to live, the master told Passerby A that in that manor, four generations of Wu Fu, his grandparents, his parents, his wife, his sons, as well as more than a hundred servants, maids, cooks, gardeners, coachmen, etc. in the manor, were all transformed by the body-away immortal himself.
At that time, Passerby A was so shocked that he was speechless. The book used three "incredible" words to express his shock.
The great achievement of marrying oneself and giving birth to oneself is even more amazing than being hermaphrodite. Isn't this equivalent to self-fertilization? If there is enough power outside the body, can a world be created?
In addition to these more than one hundred people, the master told Passerby A that no one knew how many incarnations of the Immortal Outside the Body there were in this world. Although the Immortal Outside the Body was not well-known, he was one of the most ancestor-level immortals among the twenty-four immortal sects and should not be provoked.
Lin Chong was completely attracted by the self-reproduction ability of the Body Immortal. If there was one thing he wanted to achieve the most now, it was probably the ability of an incarnation. But unfortunately, the Body Immortal Sect has only had one successor for thousands of years, and that was Wu Fu.
And that Wu Fu should be the most difficult immortal to kill in the world, because as long as there is an incarnation left, he will not die.
Wanting to seize his inheritance is simply a dream.
This truly means going through everything in the world without being tainted by it, which is completely in line with Lin Chong's life ideal of "watching the world as a spectator".
From Passerby A's description, Lin Chong could also understand why his progress in cultivation was a bit slow. It took him a year just to meet an old friend to chat and tell stories. The ten years that Passerby A had been practicing were not enough for him to meet ten old friends with his master.
Master said that the method of using the Five Blessings to gather inspiration is to use the brush to paint.
The method to become an immortal outside the body should be to record it in painting, so the master inferred that the well-known historians in history, such as Qi Taishi, Ban Gu, Sima Qian and others, might be the incarnations of the Five Blessings.
Of course, the cultivation method of an immortal sect is top secret, and the master is just guessing.
Let’s look back at Passerby A’s method of cultivation.
"Notes from the Pot" did not go into detail because it was top secret, but it did describe something, and Lin Chong summed it up a little.
Passerby A said that he followed his master around the world and set up a stall wherever he went. He sold sugar figures, made gourd lanterns, and shadow puppets, and his skills became more and more sophisticated.
His sugar figures can be shaped like phoenixes, gourd lanterns can contain birds and animals, and his shadow puppet shows are made to look like a full-scale drama.
When Lin Chong read it for the first time, he thought that the two men might be short of travel expenses and were performing to make money.
But when I read it again later, I found that when Passerby A talked about these crafts, he was always excitedly describing how 'nearly a thousand people gathered every day', 'praise was endless', and 'his skills improved'.
There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!
Combining the so-called "restraining spiritual energy" practice method, Lin Chong guessed that maybe the practice of the Immortal in the Pot was to travel around the world doing handicrafts, setting up stalls to collect praises to increase spiritual energy, and then the level of cultivation would increase?
I sigh again, no wonder Passerby A's cultivation level increases slowly, it is obviously a living profession, why does he have to eliminate monsters, that is the job of a combat profession.
The combat profession should be like the Wanfa Xianzong, where you can meditate, practice combat, and increase your cultivation.
The reason why I reread "Notes from the Pot" was that when Lin Chong encountered bottlenecks in the production of various equipment, he suddenly remembered that Passerby A had proudly said in the notes that he could carve mountains, rivers, and the country on a grain of rice. This was the result of Passerby A's practice.
Now Lin Chong has no shortage of materials, what he lacks is craftsmanship. Whether it is making chips or manufacturing various industrial parts, it requires exquisite craftsmanship.
Lin Chong wondered if he could master the skill of carving mountains and rivers on the fairy rice in the pot?
After some study, he summarized two key points of the Huzhongxian cultivation technique: one is to do the craft in front of everyone, and the other is to gain praise.
And in the entire "Notes from the Pot", there is no mention that they have to recite mantras and practice mental skills before performing and setting up stalls. It seems that inspirations from another world are everywhere and they only need to be collected through specific methods.
"Where can I find so many spectators... The humans in Xujia Village at the foot of the mountain are the closest to me in the other world. It's unrealistic to bring more than 3,000 of them to Kunlun Mountain to watch my performance... Who is so bored that they would watch me anytime and anywhere... Huh?"
Lin Chong suddenly thought that there was a real-world profession that could meet the key requirements for practicing the magic of the pot.
That is: live broadcast.