No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 12 Mountain Climbing
Cultivation is about practice and action.

It’s up to yourself.

It is dozens of meters high, which is neither high nor low, just as high as a dozen floors.

Xu Shun gritted his teeth, his legs trembled, and his hands were worn out before he finally climbed up this section of the cliff.

Fortunately, there were rocks on the cliff to provide assistance, and after this period of practice, Xu Shun's strength and endurance had greatly improved.

Even so, when he finally climbed up, his arms were shaking and he sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

Taoist Lan, on the other hand, was lying on the grass in an old posture, quietly looking at the white clouds in the sky.

If it weren't for his overly bloated figure and overly ordinary appearance.

Lan Daoren is simply a quiet and handsome man.

"How is it?" Taoist Lan looked at Xu Shun and asked.

"It's just a small cliff. Let's take it!" Xu Shun said, with sweat all over his forehead, making a "small" gesture.

He was also afraid when he first started climbing.

His arms were clasped tightly against the stone, and his whole body became unnaturally stiff.

After climbing more than ten meters in one go, Xu Shun looked down and felt dizzy.

That's fear of heights.

As long as people leave the ground, they will be more or less afraid. In his previous life, Xu Shun's legs and feet were trembling when he climbed the stepladder for the first time. What's more, this cliff is more than ten meters high.

Looking up, you can see a cliff about twenty to thirty meters high.

Go up?

Or go down?

He gritted his teeth and chose to continue going up.

He doesn't want to retreat.

The higher he went, the more strenuous his hands became, the more exhausted his body became, and a mess of thoughts began to appear in his mind. Laziness, giving up, fear, dependence, etc. flashed through his mind.

It was not until he climbed to the top of the cliff that he realized it was nothing special.

The cliff was not very high, and with his current skills, climbing the mountain was not that scary.

The scary thing is that the mountain is very high in his heart.

The scary thing is that he feels he is not good enough.

"When I was young, I also climbed mountains and was afraid of the difficulties of cultivation." Lan Daoist stood up and said, "Others say that the road is difficult, that is their feeling."

“Whether the road is really difficult to travel, you need to walk it yourself to know.”

Xu Shun followed with his bag and asked, "Master, is the road difficult to travel?"

"Master has been through this, so I feel that it is indeed difficult to do, but it is worth doing." said Taoist Lan.

He listened to others and tried it himself, but still said "the road is difficult."

Is the road really difficult?
You’ll only know after you’ve walked it.

We have to go on even if the road is difficult!
"No matter how difficult the road is, we have to eat! Master, what are we going to eat later?" Xu Shun felt that there was something else behind Lan Daoren's words, but he was hungry now.

He touched his stomach and followed Lan Dao Ren and said.

Ever since he reached the second level of Qi training, he felt that his appetite was increasing.

In those novels about cultivating immortals, don’t they all stop eating or only eat spiritual grains after becoming immortals?
"To eat or not to eat, that's really a difficult problem!" said Taoist Lan, scratching his head.

I would feel a bit greedy if I don’t eat, and there is nothing delicious to eat in this deep mountain forest.

"Master, do we cultivators grow spiritual grains?" Xu Shun asked, thinking of the spiritual grains he had seen in novels in his previous life.

"What is Linggu?" asked Taoist Lan.

"These are grains that are full of spiritual energy. After eating them, they replenish your spiritual energy and improve your physical condition," Xu Shun explained.

"Where did you see it?" Taoist Lan glanced at Xu Shun.

Xu Shun told the truth: "I saw it in...a book!" "That's just the writer's imagination, just like imagining the emperor using a golden hoe." Lan Dao said: "Who in the world doesn't have spiritual energy?"

As expected, those lousy novel writers know nothing about cultivating immortals!
Xu Shun heard Lan Daoren say with a smile: "If a grain has too much spiritual energy, then you have to be careful, or they will eat you."

"How is that possible? Can grains eat people?" Xu Shun didn't believe it.

"People will practice cultivation when they have spiritual energy, so what will happen if grains have spiritual energy?" Taoist Lan asked back.

"Will it...taste better?"

"...You are indeed hungry. Of course you will become a demon." Lan Daoren said with a hint of helplessness. However, he also knew that cultivators at this stage of Qi training were all very hungry.

Just like a teenager, it is the time for physical development and growth.

The body is the beginning of cultivating immortals. How can one cultivate immortals without a good body?

The Qi Refining Stage is about introducing gas while strengthening the body in preparation for building the foundation.

"Now that things have come to this, I, your master, will show you some of my skills!" Taoist Lan said with determination when he saw a pheasant flying by in the mountains.

As a master, you can't let your apprentice go hungry.

"Oh?" Xu Shun looked at Lan Dao Ren who had a serious expression on his face. He rarely saw Lan Dao Ren with a serious expression.

Or rather, this is the first time I've seen it.

What kind of cooking skills do Mahayana monks have?
Xu Shun is looking forward to it!

But soon, he discovered something was wrong.

Master, you killed the chicken and plucked its feathers, why didn’t you cut open its belly?
Taoist Lan, you just roast it like that and it’s already burnt, why don’t you turn it over!

Lan Ran, this pitch-black thing, is it something that humans can eat?
It was getting dark. Xu Shun watched Taoist Lan fiddle with something for a long time and then handed him a piece of black and sloppy thing, which seemed to be the pheasant that had just been roasted.

Xu Shun was shocked.

If you know it is roasted chicken, you might think it is torture!

No, you are a cultivator in the Mahayana stage!

you……

But who stipulates that a Mahayana monk is omnipotent and can definitely roast a chicken?
"How can the master not eat? Did the disciple eat first? Or should the master eat first!" Xu Shun respected his teacher very much at this moment.

Taoist Lan was lying next to the fire, saying, "I am already a Mahayana cultivator. Eating barbecue all day is not in line with my temperament!"

"This is what the teacher carefully made for you. Please don't let the teacher down!"

"Alas, I have killed another life today! What a sin!" After saying this, Taoist Lan pretended to recite the "Tai Shang Jiu Ku Jing" and tried to save the pheasant.

kindness?

It must be poisonous!

Now I know that eating barbecue is not in line with my temperament. Before, when I ate a roasted whole pig, I took three bites to eat a pig's head. It was so delicious!

Xu Shun held the food in his hand. Lan Daoren said so. It would be inappropriate for him not to eat it, but he was afraid that he would be inappropriate if he ate it.

Just as he was hesitating, the clouds in the sky suddenly dispersed.

The moon emitted a bright and cool moonlight, which instantly filled the sky and the earth.

Xu Shun was stunned, and saw that the moonlight seemed to be restrained, shining on the distant mountains.

A man dressed in white and with silver hair slowly flew into the sky in the moonlight.

She spun around, and her clothes moved with her. She then twisted her body in a graceful, light, agile and elegant dance, as if dancing with the moon.

"Master, there are aliens over there!" Xu Shun pointed at the people in the moonlight in the distance.

Taoist Lan followed his words and turned his head away.

While Taoist Lan was turning his head, Xu Shun threw the pitch-black thing in his hand into the distant mountains.

It’s better to give that thing to the small animals in nature!

(End of this chapter)