Chapter 109 Everything Becomes Strange
Li Fan and Master Yin returned to the depths of the building. After sitting down in a resting place, Li Fan explained his purpose.
"Oh? Are you asking how to break through to the foundation-building stage?" Master Yin suddenly became excited, spitting everywhere. "Fellow Daoist, you have finally asked the right person! I dare say that no one knows more about foundation-building than me!"
"I'd like to hear the details!" Li Fan asked with a smile without refutation.
At this time, the human-handed dog walked towards him upright like a human.
The forelimbs held two cups in their hands and placed them on the table.
The cup was filled with black liquid and no one knew what was inside.
The human-handed dog then lay down again and circled around Master Yin to seek credit.
"Fellow Daoist, please have some tea! This is good stuff. It's the spiritual energy bacteria community that I cultivated. If it reproduces and coexists symbiotically in the body, it can speed up the circulation of spiritual energy and enhance the explosive power of spiritual energy. It has many benefits." Master Yin took a sip as if it were a delicacy and said to Li Fan.
Li Fan swept his spiritual sense and found that there were countless tiny micro-creatures churning in the cup, with their fangs and claws bared and their appearances unique.
So Li Fan did not move his troops.
Seeing that Li Fan didn't drink, Master Yin felt a little regretful.
Without forcing it, he got down to business. He asked, "The so-called foundation building is the foundation for practicing Taoism. So, fellow Taoist, do you know what this foundation is?"
Li Fan thought for a moment and replied, "Daoji is the foundation of a cultivator's practice. After a cultivator has perfected Qi Refining, he needs to build his own Daoji before he can continue practicing. Otherwise, even if his cultivation can continue to increase, it is like a hundred-foot-high building built on sand. It will collapse with a slight shake."
When discussing academic matters, Master Yin was quite serious. He nodded and said, "Yes, before the catastrophe, there were Qi-refining cultivators who took a different approach and did not build a foundation for the Dao, but only focused on refining Qi."
"It is said that there is no limit to Qi Refining, and that one who has practiced Qi Refining at the 3,000th level can kill a Taoist master. Unfortunately, this person only practiced to the 99th level of Qi Refining, and was killed by a Jindan cultivator who was not satisfied with his ability."
"Perhaps this method is really feasible, but firstly, Qi Refining cultivators are weak and cannot withstand such a huge force. Secondly, even if they have reached a higher level of Qi Refining, they only have brute force. If they really fight with cultivators at the Foundation Establishment level or above, they will suffer too much and lose sight of the main goal."
Master Yin took a sip of tea and continued, "The ancient cultivators all learned from nature. They observed the laws of the operation of heaven and earth and comprehended the laws of the flow of the great way."
"Then, based on your own insights, you can do a poor imitation."
"Over the years, the understanding and thinking of the great Dao that a cultivator has developed has become the foundation for future cultivation."
"Because everyone has different talents and understanding, the speed and degree of harmony of cultivators in comprehending the Dao and building the foundation of the Dao also vary greatly."
"Some people can feel something in their heart in an instant and build a foundation right away. But the vast majority spend decades studying and learning but can't make an inch of progress."
“It is easy to see how difficult it is to cultivate the Dao.”
Master Yin suddenly sighed: "But that was in the past."
"If the laws of heaven and earth are likened to a towering tree, then in the past, we cultivators were all tiny elves among the tree, flying between branches and leaves, observing and comprehending."
“It’s too slow and too difficult.”
“So, after the Immortal Venerable preached, all of us cultivators turned into greedy ants. We no longer observed, comprehended, or imitated others. Instead, we directly gnawed the branches and leaves of the giant tree, turning them into nourishment for our own growth.”
"In this way, cultivation will surely be countless times faster. And the wonders of heaven and earth are just like the branches and leaves of this giant tree."
"It is a gathering of certain aspects of the laws of heaven and earth. With this rare object as a basis, cultivators can skip the process of their own comprehension and directly turn it into their own foundation of Taoism."
Li Fan nodded: "I remember saying this in Theory of Strange Things."
"On Strange Things..." Master Yin sneered, seeming to be disdainful.
He continued, "If we say that the fake wonders of heaven and earth were meant to skip the process of comprehending heaven and earth..."
"Then let me ask you. Nowadays, there are cultivators who are extremely talented and do not need any rare objects in heaven and earth to comprehend these laws. His understanding of heaven and earth is extremely deep. In ancient times, he could build the foundation directly. Now, is it still okay?" Master Yin looked at Li Fan with burning eyes.
"Of course not. Building a foundation requires the wonders of heaven and earth..." Li Fan said, and suddenly thought of something and fell silent.
"Yes, the method of cultivation has been completely changed." Master Yin said in a cold voice.
"In the past, cultivators comprehended the laws of heaven and earth and cultivated in accordance with heaven. This was the law of nature."
"But after the Immortal Venerable passed on his teachings, the laws of nature were reversed. The cultivators had to go against the will of heaven and plunder the heavens and the earth..."
Li Fan whispered: "It goes against the laws of heaven and earth..."
"To prove immortality!" Master Yin continued.
"I don't know how the monks could achieve immortality before the catastrophe."
"But since the method of cultivation has been changed, the only way to achieve immortality now is to go against the laws of heaven and earth."
"The Immortal Master who preached the Dharma was the originator of the theory and the first practitioner."
"He defied all the principles of cultivation of the world's cultivators and achieved immortality. From then on, he lived as long as the heaven and earth, and lived freely and at ease."
"From now on, all cultivators in the world who want to practice can only practice according to his 'method'. How tyrannical!"
Master Yin spoke in an aggressive tone, and it was obvious that he was quite dissatisfied with this immortal deity who was spreading the Dharma.
"Go your own way, and let all living beings take this way from now on. What a great Dharma-spreading Heavenly Master..." Li Fan was deeply shocked.
This was the second Immortal Heavenly Lord he had seen.
Then, he suddenly thought of the giant statue of the old man with a tall crown on Wanxian Island.
Standing tall and independent, it looks down upon all the living beings passing by.
“Could it be that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was founded by the Lord of Law? But since the Lord of Law is still alive, how could he sit idly by and watch the Ten Thousand Immortals Island being destroyed by the red flames several years later…” Doubts arose in Li Fan’s heart.
Master Yin ignored Li Fan and continued, "Here comes the key question. Since we must rely on the wonders of heaven and earth to build our foundation now."
"So what exactly is this wonder of heaven and earth?"
“You have also read The Theory of Wonderful Objects, and you know that after a cultivator dies, he will be transformed into a wonder of heaven and earth by heaven and earth.”
"Does that mean that, when a cultivator is alive, he can also be regarded as a wonder of heaven and earth that has not yet been completely transformed?"
Master Yin spoke faster and faster, as if he wanted to reveal all the research that no one had paid attention to over the years in one breath.
"The world is like a furnace. The finished product is the formed wonder of the world. And everything in the world can be regarded as a wonder that has not yet taken shape!"
"A strange object is an aggregation of rules, but a human being is not! The human body is so exquisite and contains infinite mysteries. Why can't it be regarded as a strange object?"
"Fellow Daoist, you may also know that some cultivators will refine those mortals with supernatural powers into rare objects of heaven and earth and use them as the foundation of their own Taoism. In this way, they can take the supernatural powers of those mortals for themselves."
"I am also a human being, so am I a wonder?"
Seeing that Master Yin was getting more and more outrageous, Li Fan couldn't help but ask, "Is this your guess, or..."
Master Yin grinned: "It used to be a guess, but now..."
"It has been confirmed by me."
As he spoke, his entire body split apart along the center line.
Another face of Master Yin emerged from the internal organs, blood and flesh.
"Ten years ago, I used myself as a wonder to build the foundation of the Tao!"
The two faces inside and outside said in unison.
(End of this chapter)
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