Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

Zhang Zhiwei was giving lectures to his fellow students while practicing the Golden Light Mantra.

I saw him flipping his fingers, and golden light gathered above his palm like golden clouds.

As his fingertips moved, the golden light like clouds gathered into the shape of a flower bud, and then slowly bloomed layer by layer.

The golden flowers were so beautiful that even the pollen on the stamens and the fine fiber texture on the petals were displayed in great detail.

It was so realistic, just like a real flower, everyone was amazed. It looked simple, but it was extremely difficult to do.

You know, it is difficult for ordinary people to draw well even with a pen, let alone to create shapes with Qi.

This requires ultimate control over Qi, so that one can perfectly express what one is thinking. This kind of subtle control is extremely deadly in battle.

But soon, they were even more surprised. When the flower was at its most blooming, it suddenly closed and turned into an egg.

"Kakaka..."

A subtle sound was heard, and the eggshell shattered, and a little sparrow with its hair clearly visible flew out.

The sparrow flapped its wings, circled around the people, and occasionally landed on their shoulders. Whenever someone reached out to touch it, no matter how fast that person was, it would easily fly away.

The sparrows jumped and looked around, and every movement seemed full of life.

Moreover, because the sparrow was made of golden light, it appeared translucent. With the naked eye, one could vaguely see the beating heart inside and the slightly trembling internal organs.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

"A sparrow transformed from golden light actually has all the internal organs?"

"I have reached the realm of transforming into a physical form for many years. I consider myself to be quite good at the Golden Light Curse, but compared to this brat Zhiwei, it is nothing."

"This, this, this... This has already exceeded the scope of using Qi to transform into a form."

"Senior Brother Zhang, this is incredible. This sparrow is so real!" Lu Ci exclaimed.

He was hoeing the ground just now. When he heard that Senior Brother Zhang was going out to give a lecture, he dropped his hoe and ran over.

The same was true for Lu Jin, who was meditating in the monastery. After hearing what Lu Ci said, he continued:

"I even have the illusion that the golden sparrow is a living creature. Perhaps all it needs to become a living creature is a breath of innate Qi!"

"Really?" Lu Ci retorted, "Can't Senior Brother Zhang absorb the innate Qi between heaven and earth? If he gives the golden sparrow a breath of innate Qi, can the sparrow become alive?"

Lu Jin was stunned, thought for a moment, and shook his head: "I don't know, you have to ask Senior Brother Zhang about this matter."

Lu Ci grinned and said, "I'm not a very curious person. I don't care about such boring questions. If you want to ask, go ask it yourself."

"Since you don't care!" Lu Jin said, "Then why did you ask that just now?"

"I just refute you out of habit!" Lu Ci sneered.

Hearing this, Lu Jin was filled with hatred and secretly complained, "You damned hedgehog, I should have knocked you out and dragged you through the streets last time!"
He didn't want to continue talking to Lu Ci, who was like a dog that couldn't spit out ivory, and concentrated on watching Zhang Zhiwei's practice.

After flying for a while, the golden sparrow actually began to split. One split into two, two split into four, four split into eight, eight split into sixteen...

In just a blink of an eye, the original sparrow turned into a large flock, flying in the sky in a mighty force. The scene was extremely spectacular.

Everyone was frightened and stared at the scene in a daze. A little sparrow with all its internal organs intact was already unbelievable to them.

The arrival of a group now is simply beyond their understanding.

Zhang Zhiwei practiced it briefly and then stopped. With a thought, the golden sparrows flying in the sky turned into golden spots of light and disappeared.

After the drill was over, everyone who had been tense for fear of missing any details suddenly relaxed and started chatting animatedly with each other.

"Zhiwei's control is too strong. I can also use the golden light to transform into shape. But even if I just roughly outline the shape of sparrows with the golden light and give up the spirit and form, I cannot materialize such a large group." An older brother sighed.

Another senior brother sighed, "He is indeed too strong. If we don't talk about his cultivation, but only about his control over Qi, I always thought that Huaiyi was even better than Zhiwei. But now it seems that I thought too much. Huaiyi has no chance of reaching the realm that Zhiwei is currently demonstrating."

"Right, right, right. Besides, Zhiwei was just practicing. Seeing how relaxed he was, I doubt he was taking it seriously at all. This is far from his limit."

"I think so too!"

"By the way, speaking of Huaiyi, this kid has been traveling around the world for the past few years, and he comes back less and less often. I don't know how much he has improved."

"Huai Yi is a rat, so he can hide very well. I'm afraid only Master and Zhi Wei know his true colors!"

"That's true. Take wandering around the martial arts world for example. When Zhiwei was wandering around the martial arts world, we could still hear some legends about him from time to time in the mountains. But Huaiyi was different. He disappeared as soon as he went down. There was no news at all. If he hadn't replied to my letters regularly, I would have even suspected that he was up to something!"

"By the way, Zhiwei, do you know what Huaiyi is doing recently?" asked an older senior brother.

Zhang Zhiwei pondered for a moment. To be honest, he really didn't know what Zhang Huaiyi was doing.

In the past few years, he asked once or twice, and each time Zhang Huaiyi told him a lot of things, such as how much evil had been punished and how much good had been promoted. It seemed that he had covered every detail, but it was missing some key things.

Realizing that Zhang Huaiyi was unwilling to say more, Zhang Zhiwei did not ask any more questions.

"Yes, Brother Zhiwei, Huaiyi has had less contact with us recently. Do you think he has made some new friends down the mountain? I heard that people down the mountain like to become sworn brothers!" A fellow apprentice suddenly spoke up.

Zhang Zhiwei glanced at the fellow apprentice and said with a smile, "Whether he has made any bad friends, I don't know. You can ask him next time he comes back!"

"It's useless to ask him, this kid is very secretive," the junior brother sighed, "However, life down the mountain seems to be very exciting. I don't know when I can go down the mountain to gain experience."

Zhang Zhiwei said: "It's enough if you have reached the level of cultivation. If you want to go down the mountain to gain experience, then practice hard!"

"Brother Zhiwei, I also want to practice well, but it is always difficult for me to calm down completely. I always have many distracting thoughts after entering into meditation for a short time, and I am about to be distracted. Is there any way to calm down completely and practice?" The junior brother asked. This question was difficult for Zhang Zhiwei. As long as he wanted to practice, he could put aside all distracting thoughts and concentrate on practicing. As long as he wanted to be quiet, he could quickly enter a very high level of quiet state.

To him, his junior fellow student's question was like a person who is often constipated asking a person with unusually smooth bowel movements how they defecate. Wouldn't it be that when the feeling comes, it just slithers out, right?

This can't be taught. Do you have to explain in detail how the muscles around the anus move when defecating?
He found it difficult to give an answer, so he pushed Lu Ci out.

Seeing this, the junior fellow hurriedly went to ask Lu Ci. Lu Ci was a famous ground-hoeing devil in Longhu Mountain. They all knew that Lu Ci was practicing the ground-hoeing skill taught by the senior fellow.

They all know how to hoe the ground, and they usually practice it when doing farm work. They don't practice it at other times.

In recent years, because of the presence of Lu Ci, the crazy ground-hoeing maniac, they have had fewer opportunities to hoe the fields, and so the number of times they have practiced the skill of ground-hoeing has also decreased.

The reason why they don't practice hoeing skills is not because it is not effective, but compared with the Golden Light Mantra and the Dragon and Tiger Inner Alchemy, it is too tiring. After all, one only needs to meditate, while the other requires working in the fields.

Although it was difficult for them to stick to something, Lu Ci persisted day and night, rain or shine, for several years. Naturally, they admired Lu Ci.

Seeing that Senior Brother Zhang's fellow apprentice was asking for his advice, Lu Ci did not refuse. He pondered for a moment and said:
"You asked me how I did it. Actually, I have to thank Senior Brother Zhang for this."

"That time I asked Senior Brother Zhang about the way of cultivation. It happened that Senior Brother Zhang was working in the fields at that time, so he taught me the hoeing skill and told me to hoe the fields well, and then he left."

"Senior Brother Zhang is the person I respect the most. I will listen to his words. So I picked up the hoe and began to practice the hoeing skill seriously. I also felt the benefits brought by the hoeing skill."

"But I still don't understand what the hoeing technique has to do with the cultivation path I asked about. However, even though I had doubts in my heart, I still hoeed the ground as Senior Brother Zhang said, and I hoeed the ground for a whole week."

"On the seventh night, when I was hoeing the fields, I suddenly became dazed and a golden cloud appeared before me. The cloud claimed to be the Tao. If I could catch it, I would understand the way of cultivation."

"I was possessed by some strange spirit. I threw away the hoe and rushed towards the auspicious cloud, but I missed it. The auspicious cloud was so fast that it retreated far away in an instant."

"I was so anxious that I jumped up and down on the spot. I tried everything I could to catch it, but I couldn't. It was as if the auspicious cloud could read my mind. Whenever I had an idea, it would avoid me in advance."

"At that moment, I suddenly realized that the path of cultivation was something that was out of reach. I was about to give up, but suddenly I remembered what Senior Brother Zhang said, to hoe the land well."

"So, I stopped thinking about the auspicious cloud for the time being and focused on hoeing the land. During this process, perhaps because I used too much force, the hoe flew off the handle and hit the auspicious cloud exactly, smashing it directly."

"I was stunned for a moment, and then I walked over to try to grab the auspicious cloud. The moment I touched it, I suddenly woke up with a start."

"The moon was shining brightly in the sky, and I was still in the field. There were no auspicious clouds symbolizing the path of cultivation, and the hoe in my hand was not broken. Everything that happened before seemed to be an illusion."

"But I know that's not the case. I've followed Senior Brother Zhang all over the country and have seen him have sudden enlightenment a few times. I know what it feels like."

"Without a doubt, that was my sudden enlightenment. I realized the way to practice. After that, I started to practice the Digging Skill, and it was as if I was assisted by God. Since then, I have made Digging Skill my main practice."

"This matter is a bit too bizarre. Telling it to others may only make people laugh!"

Lu Ci glanced at Lu Jin and continued, "Besides, since it was Senior Brother Zhang who asked me to do this, Senior Brother Zhang must know the reason. Senior Brother Zhang, who is so big... um, people who like to chat didn't tell anyone, so I didn't tell anyone either."

This kid was about to say that I was a big mouth... Zhang Zhiwei glanced at Lu Ci, but he was not angry, because he was a big mouth.

But Lu Ci thought too much. He didn't have any deep meaning in asking him to hoe the fields. He just wanted him to help hoe the fields for a while and then tell him not to think about so many messy things. If he had the free time, he might as well improve his life.

Unexpectedly, this guy Lu Ci was lucky enough to have an epiphany! However, since Lu Ci believed this, there was no need to expose this matter.

Zhang Zhiwei narrowed his eyes and folded his hands tactically.

After hearing what Lu Ci said, the fellow disciples exclaimed that it was incredible. Then, they asked Lu Ci what was the path of cultivation that he had suddenly realized.
Lu Ci said: "This is not a big truth. The so-called way of cultivation is actually to let go of all delusions and concentrate on doing your own thing!"

When the crowd heard this, although there was no booing, there were still some sighs. How could they not know this truth? But knowing is easy but doing is difficult. There is a huge gap between knowing and doing!

Then, they looked at Zhang Zhiwei again: "Brother, you can help Lu Ci to realize it with just a few words, why don't you also show the way to the junior brothers!"

Upon hearing what his fellow apprentices said, Zhang Zhiwei became restless. The little secret he had just kept could no longer be kept, so he told his fellow apprentices what had happened.

When they learned that Lu Ci had misunderstood Zhang Zhiwei's meaning and had accidentally come to an epiphany, they immediately sighed that this was truly a case of coincidence.

Having said that, they also know that there are no shortcuts in spiritual practice, and the only way is to concentrate on doing their own thing well.

Everyone was no longer confused, but Lu Jin was still confused. He stood up and asked Zhang Zhiwei:
"Brother Zhang, I have been practicing the third level of Reverse Life for the past few years. With Master's guidance, I have made rapid progress. I can even feel my progress every day."

"But gradually, I feel that my cultivation speed is getting slower and slower. Although I know that the difficulty of cultivation is progressive and there will be bottlenecks, I still want to ask Brother Zhang for advice."

Zhang Zhiwei thought for a moment and said, "I have never encountered the situation you described."

Lu Jin's eyes darkened, and then he heard Zhang Zhiwei change the subject: "But I might be able to give you a little advice."

Lu Jin was overjoyed and quickly pricked up his ears, afraid of missing any details.

Zhang Zhiwei said: "My master and Master Henglin of Shaolin Temple are close friends. They often discuss Taoism and Buddhism."

"He told me a Zen story about two monks who were from the same school and both had seen through ignorance."

"One day, two monks saw a dead man on the road, and one of them buried the dead man."

"But the other monk was indifferent and walked away."

"Someone saw this and went to ask their master why both of them had attained enlightenment but their methods were completely different?"

"Their master replied that when people die, dust returns to dust, and there is not much difference between being above ground and underground. What is buried is compassion, and what is not buried is liberation."

"The reason I told you this story is that burying or not burying is actually not wrong. There is no fixed answer. The same goes for the three levels of reverse rebirth that you practiced."

"You always stare at the left gatekeeper, and want to follow his steps with every step. This is being obsessed, and it's wrong." (End of this chapter)