If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 27: Magical Arts, Martial Arts, and Supernatural Powers

"The Great Country of China is in the far east, 100,000 miles away from Western Shu. I have never been there, so I don't know much about the situation there.

Just talking about the Western countries, you may see many Taoist temples, but they are not Taoist palaces.

There are only Taoists in Taoist temples, and there are immortals in Taoist palaces. The real immortals are even listed in the heavenly register, and can enter and leave the Lingxiao Palace above the nine heavens, and have the opportunity to kowtow to the Jade Emperor. "

Hu Chen stroked his long beard lightly, his dignified square face full of envy and longing.

“Of course, immortals are not the only criterion that distinguishes Taoist temples from those on earth. Taoist temples are generally built in blessed caves.

Futian Cave is located in the three realms, neither in the human world, nor in heaven, nor in the underworld.

Therefore, some people call the Three Realms the 'upper realm, middle realm, and lower realm'. The upper realm is naturally the heaven, and the lower realm is the human world.

This middle world is the blessed land where immortals come and go.

The most famous blessed caves are Kunlun and Penglai, and it is said that immortals live there.

In addition to immortals and blessed caves, the Taoist Palace also has a clear line of Taoist heritage.

In other words, their masters or ancestors were clearly disciples of the Three Pure Ones.

It doesn't mean that if you happen to hear a few words of Taoism outside the Three Pure Ones' sect, you can be considered a disciple of the Taoist master.

To receive the true teachings, you need the Taoist master to nod his head and acknowledge you as a disciple, and recognize your sect as their inheritance.

There are Taoists in Taoist temples on earth who also recite the Huangting Daojing, and whose clothing and customs are almost the same as those of Taoists in Taoist temples, but their circumstances are completely different.

At this point, Hu Chen sighed deeply, "Hearing this, you must have understood how rare it is to have an immortal fate.

Other people’s Taoist palaces are built directly in the middle realm, which is not the same world as ordinary people.

The Taoist disciples who walked in the lower world all year round, such as the young Taoist Qingsong, were just ordinary boys in the Taoist palace.

Those boys were sent out on orders, how could they teach and help people become immortals?
They have no ability and no qualifications.

It is extremely difficult to meet a Taoist priest like Qingsong in the world. Most people will never have the chance to meet him in their lifetime, let alone other masters. "

Xiaoyu also sighed deeply.

I thought the dunes were wild and desolate, so it would be difficult to see immortals.

I didn't expect the whole world to be like this.

Like in the fairy tale novels, directly opening a mountain gate, recruiting disciples on a large scale, and only testing spiritual roots without any other requirements. This seems to completely not exist in this world.

"It's difficult to become an immortal, and it's hard to meet an immortal. What about those extraordinary people and their special skills?" Xiaoyu asked.

“Strange people and strange arts can be encountered in the world, even in the village streets.”

Hu Chen thought for a moment and gave an example, "In the early years, there was a 'animal-making evil case' in Lu State that shocked the Western countries. A strange man named 'Li Qing, the meat trader', used strange magic to turn living people into cattle and sheep and sold them to the demon king in the deep mountains and swamps.

The butcher Li Qing is an extraordinary person, and the evil magic he uses is of a relatively low level.

This kind of strange art is also called "demon magic".

Evil magic is easy to break, but immortal magic is hard to defeat."

After finishing speaking, Hu Chen glanced at Xiao Yu who was listening attentively and said, "Do you know what happened to the butcher Li Qing?"

"Since the case has been exposed and has become a major case that shocked the West, Zhang Qing should have been killed by some expert, right?" Xiao Yu said.

Hu Chen looked puzzled, and said: "There were ten great immortals in Lu State who were feared in the West. Among them was one immortal, 'Flag Hunting Immortal Kong Zan', who was good at the Flag Gate Escape Technique.

After finding out Li Qing's approximate location, Kong Zan planted large flags at several places where Li Qing must pass. Li Qing was unaware of what was going on and had no idea. As soon as he entered, his head was chopped off.

Flag Gate Escape is also a unique skill, which is obviously much more advanced than the skill of creating animals.

The strange arts are just not on the right path, but they are not necessarily weaker than the immortal arts and Taoist arts."

"But strange arts are unorthodox and cannot lead to immortality, right?" Xiao Yu said.

Hu Chen was very surprised. Is this innate wisdom?
Before he was thirty years old, he could not distinguish between immortal magic and strange arts. He often regarded the fantasy stories circulating in the market as immortals playing in the world, and regarded the strange arts of the "immortals" as immortal magic.

Even when Fu Chenghuang's great-grandfather personally told him the common sense and stories of the world of true cultivation, he was still confused until Old Master Guan gave him a wake-up call: Immortal techniques can make one immortal, but strange techniques will hinder longevity.

Only then did he gradually understand the essential difference between strange arts and immortal arts.

“It is true that strange arts are unorthodox, but practicing strange arts does not necessarily mean that one cannot achieve immortality.

Extraordinary people can practice strange skills, and so can immortals.

I will explain the immortal martial arts in detail later, and teach you the "Tiger Soul Seven Killings". You will probably be able to draw inferences from one instance to another and understand the connection and difference between the strange arts and immortal arts."

After a pause, Hu Chen continued, "I have almost finished explaining the strange arts, it is enough for you to understand the general idea.

Now let’s talk about the immortal martial arts.

It is difficult to encounter immortality, and the path to immortality is even more difficult.

It does not mean that just by leading you into the Taoist palace and giving you a complete set of cultivation techniques, you will definitely become an immortal.

In fact, most ordinary people do not have the wisdom or the immortal bones, so even if they get the immortal methods, they cannot enter the door.

Just like the same classics, some people can read thousands of lines at a glance, remember everything they read, and become the top scholar in the imperial examination; while some people study with the top scholar, with the same classics and teacher, but have difficulty even recognizing and writing. "

"Number one scholar?" Xiaoyu was surprised. China is still in the Qin Dynasty now, right? And there is already a number one scholar?
Hu Chen did not explain, but said: "After entering the pass and returning to Luodu or Yingxiang Mansion, I will invite a Chinese scholar for you. If you really can't find someone from China, you can also hire a great scholar from the Black Tooth Country.

In short, there will be teachers to teach you Chinese culture and basic common sense etiquette. "

Xiaoyu became more and more confused. What was Guan Huchen doing?
Not only did he pretend to give her the Guan family's secret manual of magical skills, he also wanted to ask great scholars to teach her.

Even ordinary great scholars look down on him. If they want a literary master from China, they will invite Heichi even if there is no Chinese. What country is Heichi? Why can Heichi great scholars be compared with Chinese masters?
With such a huge investment, the return he saw in her must be even greater. Where does the "great" come from?

Hu Chen did not have such complicated thoughts as hers, and sighed: "People are either wise or foolish, and positions are either noble or humble.

What is more precious than the chance to become an immortal is the talent and wisdom to cultivate immortality.

What is more important than talent and wisdom is fate.

Even if one has immortal bones and is born with wisdom, if one's fate is not good enough and one cannot survive numerous disasters, one still cannot become an immortal.

Those who have become immortals have already entered the heavenly register, but what about those who have not?
After all, there are more failures than successes in this world. If an immortal wants to save the world, he can accept disciples and pass on his teachings.

Those who cannot become immortals are also human beings and also need inheritance. Marrying and having children is for family inheritance, and opening a door and accepting disciples is for sect inheritance.

What was passed down was the original immortal martial arts technique.

A person who failed to become an immortal became the founder of an immortal martial arts sect. Because he had never experienced the realm and mystery of a true immortal, the immortal martial arts he created would definitely not be as good as the authentic immortal techniques passed down by the true immortals or even the Taoist ancestors.

Also, because immortal techniques can only be practiced by those without great opportunity, after some deletions, subtractions, and revisions, the secret book of immortal martial arts was created.

Even the secret manual of immortal martial arts requires extremely strong talent.

After all, those who have not completed their immortal journey are just losers among immortals, but they are still "immortals" in the mortal world.

The immortal martial arts techniques left behind by the 'Halfway Immortal' were not practiced by later generations due to their lack of talent, so they continued to delete and modify them, or only practiced a part of them, and the super immortal martial arts secrets became sub-super magic skills.

It has been declining from generation to generation, and now even a slave's son like Zhang Lai can practice the secret martial arts."

Xiaoyu seemed to understand something.

Modern society is a material world. The primary productive force is science and technology, and the secondary and tertiary productive forces are institutions and culture.

This world has gods and Buddhas, and the primary productive force is cultivating immortals. Technology may not necessarily be among the top five productive forces.

No matter in which world, if civilization wants to progress, it will concentrate its efforts and give priority to the development of the primary productive force.

In the modern world, students go to school to study, learn technology and culture.

In the world of immortals and Buddhas, students go to school and study "immortal power".

In the modern world, the junior high school entrance exam is divided into different streams, and the college entrance exam is divided into different levels.

The best high school students go to high school, and the poor students go to technical schools.

From high school to university, it needs to be further divided, and those who are capable should study the foundation of the primary productive force - theoretical science.

Those with weaker capabilities can consider how to improve productivity - transform the latest scientific theories into technology and thus improve the "technological level".

Those with weaker abilities should study how to concretely implement the primary productive force - highly skilled workers.

Those who are even worse off will focus on second-rate productivity, such as systems and culture.

Even worse, study how to make people who study the first, second and third productivity comfortable - service and management.

If this model is followed, technology and society will inevitably move forward steadily in a linear manner.

Of course, you can violate the above rules, use personal connections to build relationships, and disrupt the selection system based on ability and wisdom.

Letting idiots do scientific research, well, they don’t have the ability and can’t even get in the door, but you can let idiots lead scientific research teams, and let even idiots be the makers and maintainers of the system.

Anyway, there is only one result in the end: the restart of dynasty change.

If one day, one of the gears of reincarnation breaks and the dynasty can no longer continue, it will simply be a different race that rebuilds civilization. The world will definitely not be destroyed, and the earth will continue to rotate even if all people die.

In the ancient world with immortals and Buddhas, priority is also given to the development of the primary productive force, and the development model is basically the same as the above, except that the primary productive force has changed.

The operation of society still revolves around the primary productive force.

The most outstanding talents cultivate immortality, those with slightly less abilities study strange arts and immortal martial arts, and those with the weakest talents act as a part of the "spirit of all things", becoming a drop of ink in painting the colorful world of humanity. In other words, they just live as mortals honestly.

Immortals are smarter and should not be trapped in restarts and reincarnations, right?

Xiaoyu thought so in her heart, but she also felt that the world of gods and Buddhas would not be pure and simple.

Could it be that humans have been the protagonists of this ancient world since the beginning of the world?

Before the human race, were there other races that collapsed, broke the gears of reincarnation, and were unable to continue reincarnation, so that new protagonists of the world were replaced to build a new civilization?

After the human race, will there be other races that rise to power and become the protagonists of the new world?

"Finally, it's the innate magical power."

Hu Chen asked her to think for a moment and digest the previous content, then he spoke again, "Tao is born from nothingness, and Qi is the source of all Qi."

He picked up the pen and wrote "炁" and "气" on the paper.

"I know that what I said is not right, but for us mortals, we can simply understand that everything in the world is made up of Qi. All tangible objects and intangible rules are Qi and all have Qi.

The name "Qi Refiner" directly shows the essence of cultivation.

The purpose of cultivating immortals is to cultivate "immortal energy". "Immortal energy" exists in famous mountains and rivers, blessed caves and grottoes. It can be absorbed by cultivators and may also be integrated into the human body.

Monks cultivate immortal energy and become immortals, and can drive the immortal energy to display great supernatural powers.

If a certain kind of immortal energy does not need to be absorbed by humans after birth, but is directly integrated into the human blood, even if one does not practice immortal cultivation, as long as one awakens the "energy" in the blood, one can display great magical powers like immortals.

This is the origin of the innate supernatural powers.

The innate Qi differentiates into thousands and thousands of kinds of Qi, and different "Qi" have different "spiritual powers", and the magical powers awakened by different spiritual powers are also different. "

Hearing him say this, Xiaoyu subconsciously looked at Hu Chen's dark eyes that were as bright as stars.

Hu Chen nodded gently, "Yes, my Immortal Eye is a great magical power of the pupil technique."

Xiao Yu was puzzled: "If the origin of the immortal's eye is the 'Heavenly Eye Spirit', which is a kind of energy, then all immortals can absorb the immortal energy and practice this magical power?"

Hu Chen laughed proudly and said, "If that's the case, then magical powers are worthless. In fact, let alone magical powers like the Immortal's Eye that must be born with, many great magical powers that can be cultivated later in life are still not practiced by most immortals.

Pangu created the world. The clear air rose up to become the sky, and the turbid air sank to become the earth.

All things on earth evolved from turbid air, but there is more soil and less gold on the earth, and the spiritual ore for forging magical weapons is extremely rare.

The innate Qi transforms into tens of thousands of kinds of Qi. Of course, it is impossible for each kind of Qi to be the same amount.

Some qi is as abundant as soil, while some qi is as scarce as gems.

'Supernatural power and inspiration' is an extremely rare 'immortal energy', so it is called 'inspiration'. "

(End of this chapter)