I practice the Tao by blind practice

Chapter 138 Ancient True Cultivation (First Order)

Listening to Hou Donggui's narration, Chen Hai fell into silence.

Zhang Laizi from Chenjiaping Village should be a descendant of Longhushan True Cultivator who lived among the people.

He didn't have any great skills, and he probably learned some superficial spells from Longhushan's true spells.

As for Chen Hai himself, although the Daoist book he borrowed from Zhang Laizi played a little role in his cultivation, the most important method of meditation was figured out by himself.

In the unnamed ancient book, he wanted to visualize his own patriarch, but the target of his visualization was the terrifying existence he had inadvertently glimpsed.

"Brother Hou, what about your cultivation..." After Hou Donggui finished speaking, Chen Hai hesitated for a moment, and then asked.

"Orthodox Taoist practice has different realms!"

"The method I practice can only be regarded as heresy, and there is no specific realm."

"After all, strictly speaking, the mana I possess is all borrowed. The practice I need to do is just to make my body more suitable for the borrowed mana!"

With a bitter expression on his face, Hou Donggui sighed, and continued: "Remember last time, I told you that every time we Taoists cast a spell, our luck will be damaged a little bit. Do you know, what is this? What reason?"

After saying these words, he paused temporarily, his eyes fell on Chen Hai.

Turning wildly in his head for a while, Chen Hai tentatively opened his mouth and replied, "Is it because of the borrowed mana, which doesn't belong to this world?"

"In this world we live in, if there is an ignorant will to use the power of other worlds in this world, will it dissatisfy it and have malice towards us?"

"And the external manifestation of this kind of malice is the loss of luck and the coming of bad luck?"

These words made Hou Donggui look at Chen Hai differently.

With a sure face, he nodded: "Brother Chen, the fact is, it should be just like what you said!"

"I have been thinking about it for many years before I figured it out!"

"You're still amazing, brother, you can figure out the reason if you mention it a little bit!"

"The government suppresses our Taoist sect. In fact, I can understand it."

"After all, those unknown existences in the dark, the more people believe in him, the stronger he will be."

"No one can be sure whether that kind of existence, after its strength reaches a certain level, will directly descend from illusion to reality."

"Because of this concern, if I were the upper echelon of Yanhuang Kingdom, I would also make a similar decision to attribute all incomprehensible things to feudal superstitions and sweep them into the dust of the past!"

After a long sigh, Hou Donggui added: "My patriarch of Luban's school, I can clearly feel that his strength has become weaker and weaker in recent years."

"I borrowed mana from him, and it has also become more and more difficult!"

"Perhaps, after ten or eight years, the patriarch will fall into a deep sleep because of losing his faith."

"At that time, except for the small spells such as Jiulongshui, which can still be used, other spells, even if I have the true inheritance, I can't use them at all!"

"In this day and age, many people think that I am a liar. When I really can't borrow mana, I am afraid that my name as a liar will really be worthy of my name!"

Feeling melancholy, Hou Donggui looked helpless. He looked at Chen Hai and continued, "For us Taoists, the environment in Southeast Asia is actually much better than in China."

"Some comrades once advised me to change my nationality and go to other countries."

"However, I, Hou, was born a Yanhuang man and died a Yanhuang ghost. I will not do anything to betray my ancestors and pledge allegiance to another country!"

"Considering the foreign environment, it is indeed a lot more relaxed. After much deliberation, I finally decided to immigrate to Xiangjiang."

"After all, that place also belongs to Yanhuang, and the people there, like me, also shed the blood of Yanhuang."

"This time I came to Kyoto to deal with this matter!"

"Brother Chen, if you're interested in emigrating to Xiangjiang, I'll help you with it when my business is settled!"

In the eyes of Chinese people, Xiangjiang these days is still synonymous with being tall.

Hearing what Hou Donggui said, Chen Hai was really moved.

But after thinking about it for a while, he finally rejected Hou Donggui's kindness.

After all, he owed Hou Donggui enough.

If he really agreed to let Hou Donggui help him immigrate to Xiangjiang, then the favor he owed Hou Donggui would probably be difficult to repay in his entire life.

"Brother Hou, according to what you said, the orthodox Taoist school, if you want to start practicing, you have to successfully visualize your own patriarch!"

"Then, when the patriarchs of the Daoist sects practiced, what did they visualize?"

"You said, is there a kind of cultivator who does not rely on the patriarch, and all the strength belongs to himself?"

Chen Hai practiced all by himself.

He couldn't figure it out, and there were a lot of things he couldn't figure out.

It was rare to meet such an enthusiastic senior as Hou Donggui. Now that he had the opportunity to ask for advice, he naturally threw out the things he didn't understand.

"All the power belongs to myself? Chen Hai, what you said should be the ancient real cultivator!"

"The patriarchs of several avenues can actually be classified into the category of ancient true cultivation."

"The target of this type of person's visualization is an unknown existence in the dark, but there are too many variables in this kind of cultivation."

"After all, no one can guarantee that the target you visualize must have goodwill towards your own existence."

"Those terrifying existences in the dark, when you peeped at him, he also saw you. Maybe, he was upset and stared at you, and stared you to death!"

"In the history of my Yanhuang Kingdom, the last true person who existed was made crazy because of peeping into the existence of terror."

"That real person has great perseverance. After every madness, he can come out with his own power."

"But even so, he went mad three times in a row before he finally communicated with a kind existence and successfully obtained a chance."

"After becoming a real person, he specially named himself a name of Three Crazies, to warn future generations not to peek at those existences in the dark."

"Of course, among ancient true cultivators, there are also lucky people."

"For example, Patriarch Chen Chuan, he slept in a daze, and when he was in a trance, he actually directly communicated with a certain existence, and obtained a great opportunity from it."

"Of course, there is only one lucky person like the ancestor Chen Chuan in history!"

"On the other hand, the number of people who lost their lives because of imagining unknown existence is already hard to count!"

"As far as I know, there are at least dozens of hundreds of people who have broken the inheritance of several great gates, and those who want to regain the glory of the past and imagine the unknown existence by themselves, and have died because of this!"

"So many people have died, if you can really gain something, then that's all!"

"But in fact, among the several avenues, there is no one who can peep into the unknown existence and benefit from it!"

……

After pondering for a while, Hou Donggui opened his mouth and explained to Chen Hai.

Of course, what he said is not necessarily 100% accurate.

After all, many of the things he said were summed up based on what he knew.

After hearing Hou Donggui's words, Chen Hai was afraid for a while.

Back then, he was not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf. After getting Daoist books from Zhang Laizi, he didn't understand anything, so he started to practice blindly.

If he had known earlier, the danger of visualizing the unknown would be so great.

Perhaps, after he tried it that day and was sure that he could not visualize Zhang Tianshi at all, he would not continue to practice at all.

After all, he is the only one in their old Chen family.

His parents are still waiting for him to carry on the family line and carry forward their Chen family.

If he was careless, contemplating indiscriminately, and lost himself, how could he be worthy of his parents' kindness in nurturing him?

Of course, while he was afraid, there was still a little joy in his heart.

After all, the last three crazy real people in Yanhuang Kingdom existed hundreds of years ago.

According to Hou Donggui, isn't he, Chen Hai, the only real cultivator in ancient times in the past few hundred years after the Sanlun Daoist?
"Brother Hou, are the ancient real cultivators real people?"

"Speaking of real people, do you know what the standard for measuring a real person is?"

Refilling the empty teacup in front of Hou Donggui with a cup of hot tea, Chen Hai asked again with a curious expression on his face.

"Chen Hai, are you so curious about real people's affairs?"

"You don't want to tell me that you are also going to take the ancient path of true cultivation?"

"Let me tell you, if you don't want to seek death yourself, don't try it casually."

"The world where those unknown existences are located, I call it the real world, and some existences in the shallow layer of the real world have the same strength!"

"To visualize them, to have some connection with them, can only be regarded as heresy."

"The ancient real cultivators in my mouth, what I visualize are some real horrors in the depths of the real world. They don't need to be believed, because they themselves represent mystery!"

"For example, Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, Xuanwu, etc., if ordinary people take a look at them, it may be a great opportunity!"

"It's a pity that there are no things connected to these creatures as an introduction. If you want to successfully visualize them, the chances of successfully visualizing them may be lower than finding a needle in a haystack."

Sighing, Hou Donggui picked up the hot tea in front of him and took a sip.

After explaining to Chen Hai for a long time, his mouth was indeed dry.

After taking a few sips of tea, his lips were just moistened, and Chen Hai had already opened his mouth again: "Brother Hou, there may be leeches in the depths of the real world?"

He asked this question subconsciously. In his opinion, whether it is the real world or the spiritual world, it is only a difference in terms of names.

The more Chen Hai listened to Hou Donggui's ancient true cultivation, the more he felt that he was talking about himself.

"How do I know if there are leeches among the terrifying creatures in the depths of the real world?"

Rolling his eyes, Hou Donggui responded angrily: "I have never entered the real world, so how do I know what it looks like inside?"

"I just know that only those who can freely enter and leave the real world can be called real people."

"What I'm telling you is a little bit of experience that I've pondered over the years, through exchanges with my colleagues, combined with anecdotes from some ancient books."

"Well, what I said is not accurate at all, and it may not be certain!"

Looking like an old god, after saying this, Hou Donggui picked up the hot tea in front of him and took a few more sips.

"It turns out that Brother Hou, like me, also likes to think about it!" With a strange expression on his face, Chen Hai secretly laughed a few times.

When we came to Baihu Tea House, night had already fallen.

Chatting with Hou Donggui, before I knew it, it was already midnight.

Inside the school, it is no longer possible to enter.

However, Hou Donggui had already considered this point, and helped Chen Hai to open all the rooms in the nearby hotel.

Of course, the two of them have their own room, so it is impossible to sleep with enough feet and sleep together.

The next morning, the two exchanged their cultivation experience for half a day.

The way of cultivation, wealth, spouse, law, and land, if chosen properly, can make a person's cultivation more effective with half the effort.

Chen Hai really benefited a lot from the exchange with Hou Donggui.

In the universities of Yanhuang Kingdom, since [-], all new students must go through at least half a month of military training.

The Kyoto University of Political Science and Law, where Chen Hai studied, had military training for as long as a month.

It's a queue again, and it's standing in a military posture. After a day of training, some spoiled students can't bear it at all.

Standing in a military posture and fainting, Chen Hai and his team had already appeared several times.

As a child from the countryside, although Chen Hai is not strong, he is used to hard work since he was a child, and just a military training is not a problem for him.

In a blink of an eye, it was already the tenth day of military training.

On the playground, Chen Hai stood up straight against the scorching sun like a javelin.

Their instructor is an active soldier named Yang.

This Instructor Yang is not tall, almost the same as Chen Hai, with dark skin and very strong bones.

He walked among the team he led, and when he saw someone whose military posture was not up to standard, he would step forward in time to help him correct it.

Not far away, there were two more soldiers who looked like soldiers, walking towards this side.

Seeing Instructor Yang, the two stopped, waved at him, and signaled him to come over.

Trotting forward, Instructor Yang gave a military salute to the two of them.

Several people whispered for a while. Although they didn't know what they were talking about, they could see that Instructor Yang kept nodding his head.

"Who is Chen Hai, come out!" Back in front of Chen Hai and the others, Instructor Yang swept the crowd in front of him and yelled.

"Looking for me?" Chen Hai was taken aback for a moment, and then he quickly replied: "Here!"

Trotting all the way, ran in front of Instructor Yang, he stopped and saluted him.

"You are Chen Hai? The chief is looking for you, hurry up and go there!" Instructor Yang nodded and said after looking Chen Hai up and down.

"Is the chief looking for me?"

Dazed in his heart, before Chen Hai could react, the two soldiers coming from behind, one on the left and one on the right, walked up to him and motioned him to leave with them.

Under the guidance of the two, in less than 10 minutes, he had already appeared at the door of an office.

After the two soldiers led Chen Hai here, they just guarded the door and did not step into the office.

In the office at the moment, there is only a man in his 30s, wearing the rank of lieutenant colonel, who is walking back and forth in the office with anxiety on his face.

"You are Chen Hai? The divination you gave to my sister, saying that within half a month, there will be a catastrophe, and life and death will be difficult to decide?"

Seeing Chen Hai, the man looked eager and walked up a few steps.

He looked directly at Chen Hai and asked in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)