No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 61: Going to Quantai...

What on earth is Lan Dao busy with?
Xu Shun hadn't seen Taoist Lan for a few years, so he was naturally curious.

He felt like a person looking for a mentor in university.

After going through great pains to find a mentor, I discovered... that the mentor had made a fortune!
On the first day back at Qinghua Sect, Xu Shun learned from Master Lan that the fairy world was probably not peaceful now and they were going to lower the standards to allow cultivators in the Yuanshen stage to ascend.

Since my own master is a genuine Mahayana master, shouldn’t he have to consider more about what will happen after his ascension?

Although there are ancestors above us and we won't ascend up and be used as cannon fodder, we can't say for sure.

The master is fighting three people alone in the fairy world, so I guess his situation must not be very good, right?

Many absurd decisions are made when there is no other choice.

Master, you won’t be cheated when you ascend to heaven, right?
These were all Xu Shun's guesses. Lan Dao Ren was very kind to him, and he was also worried about Lan Dao Ren.

It was a rare opportunity to catch Lan Dao Ren today, so Xu Shun asked the questions in his mind.

"Ascendence? That's part of it!" Lan Daoren sighed and said, "Disciple, why do people have troubles?"

He hadn't chatted with Xu Shun for a long time. When chatting with Xu Shun, he always unconsciously treated Xu Shun as a friend of the same generation.

"Master, haven't we talked about this before? People are a collection of social relationships, and troubles are interpersonal relationships!" Xu Shun could see that Taoist Lan was indeed very annoyed.

"Yes! Interpersonal relationships!" Lan Daoren said, "During this period of time, I have been mostly socializing."

"Social engagements?" Xu Shun asked doubtfully, "Master, you can refuse!"

Daoist Lan can even refuse the sect rules in Qinghua Sect, so who can force him to attend social events?

"Some favors you can't refuse." Lan Daoren said, "Especially when others need you to pay it back, or when Qinghua Sect needs to pay it back."

He added: "During the process of cultivation, I have received help from many fellow practitioners and seniors."

Xu Shun understood that Lan Daoist was not practicing alone at home. He also needed to travel the world, make friends with fellow practitioners, and find someone to answer questions in his mind.

He also started as a cultivator in the Spiritual Transformation Stage and cultivated himself step by step to the Mahayana Stage.

In this process, he inevitably had interpersonal interactions.

Those kind-hearted seniors helped you selflessly many years ago. Now their juniors come to you for help. Who would refuse?
If you are rejected, can you get over it in your heart?

"It's just a social event, it shouldn't be that annoying!" Xu Shun asked, "Ascension should be the most annoying thing for Master."

With Lan Daoren's cultivation level, everyone will become kind in front of him, and all he hears is flattery.

Just socializing is nothing more than boring and helpless, but not annoying.

"Ascension..." Lan Daoist pondered for a moment, then said after a long while: "The monks want to ascend to the sky, but the monks in the sky want to come down. It's really..."

Want to come down?
Xu Shun asked in alarm: "Can the immortal come down? Can't the immortal only come down as an incarnation or clone?"

Unlike the fairy world lowering the standards for immortals to ascend, if the immortals can come down, it will inevitably have a far-reaching impact on the world of immortal cultivation.

By that time, the world of immortal cultivation will be full of immortals, and the Mahayana will be no better than dogs.

Any person who jumps out is the reincarnation of an immortal, and starts frying fish in the fish pond with experience of thousands or tens of thousands of years.

"I haven't seen this kind of flaw in sword moves in thousands of years."

"Such a crude thing is also called magic, how ridiculous!"

How can little Karami, who has just reached the spiritual stage, survive? Wouldn't he just become a background board for those crooked immortals to show off?

"In the past, there were some frivolous immortals who returned to the world of immortal cultivation in the form of clones or incarnations." Taoist Lan said, "There is only one such boring immortal once every few hundred years." "Are there more of them now?" Xu Shun understood the hidden meaning in his words.

"Senior Brother Lan Dai and I have already dealt with two. One escaped and the other died." Taoist Lan said slowly.

During the year, he and the head of Lan Dai carefully searched the world of immortal cultivation, looking for the reincarnations of two banished immortals.

"Escape? Can I escape from your hands?" Xu Shun asked.

He was not surprised that Lan Dao killed the immortal, but was surprised that someone escaped.

With Master Lan’s cultivation level at the Mahayana stage, is there anyone in the world of immortal cultivators who can escape from him?

The last time I met that bald donkey, it was simply because Master Lan was too lazy to chase him.

"Don't underestimate them. They are not incarnations or clones who have come to the world of immortals." Lan Dao said seriously, "They have given up their identities and cultivation as immortals to come to our world!"

"Huh?" Xu Shun was stunned.

There is actually an immortal who gave up his identity and magical powers?

"Then what are they trying to achieve? Isn't becoming an immortal the goal that many people pursue?" Xu Shun was puzzled.

"The Immortal Realm..." Lan Daoist thought for a moment, looked at Xu Shun, and after thinking of Xu Shun's maturity, he said, "The Immortal Realm is facing a powerful external enemy. The ancestor said that the enemy is very strong."

"Those immortals who secretly descended to the mortal world can still survive in the immortal cultivation world, but they will immediately have to fight in the immortal world."

Fighting means the possibility of death.

"Deserter?" Xu Shun understood.

Immortals are also human beings, so they will naturally flee from the battlefield and fear death.

"They have a very bad influence on the world of immortal cultivation." Lan Daoren said, "Senior Brother Lan Dai and I will search for them and get rid of them."

If the immortals are too powerful and escape to the world of immortal cultivation, on the one hand, they will affect the pattern of the world of immortal cultivation, and on the other hand, they will spread some words that will affect people's hearts and their cultivation.

If becoming an immortal is just to be cannon fodder in the fairyland, then what is the point of cultivating immortality?

This is a bad influence.

No matter what the future holds, monks need to practice and strengthen themselves step by step in order to face the future. If they just give up now and stop practicing, they will fail.

When the drastic changes in the fairy world really affect the world of immortal cultivation, how should we respond?
So he used socializing as a pretext to look for the whereabouts of the banished immortal.

"It's a pity that I was careless and let him escape. It will be difficult to deal with him next time we meet him." Lan Daoren said with a little regret: "We should not be careless about the methods of immortals."

Without some skills, who can ascend to become an immortal?

"If you walk by the river, you'll get your shoes wet." Xu Shun said comfortingly, "It's normal to have some ability to escape when facing an immortal who gave up everything to escape!"

Taoist Lan nodded and said, "He is not an immortal who ascended from a cultivator in this world, so some of his methods are hard to understand."

"Another ancestor, whose name was from an unknown sect, also escaped. Unfortunately, his inheritance had been cut off and no one was there to take him in, so I dealt with him."

"This is all we have left." Taoist Lan took out a scroll of silk book from somewhere and handed it to Xu Shun.

Xu Shun took the silk book and opened it. There were only two lines of poetry on it.

"I will go to Quantai to summon my old subordinates, with 100,000 flags, to kill Yama!"

(End of this chapter)