Under One Person: Starting with the Dual Cultivation of Body and Soul

Lu Jin exclaimed in surprise, "Chang'an, is your temperament so calm and composed?"

Li Chang'an stood up and said with a smile, "Grandpa, this is indeed a very good form of cultivation."

At this moment, Lu Lin peeked out from behind Lu Jin, looking at Li Chang'an with a surprised expression:

"Senior Brother Chang'an, you've been meditating for so long on your first attempt at cultivation. Didn't you feel scared at all?"

Lu Lin would go back to cultivate with Lu Jin at night, and since Lu Jin had been guarding outside for two days and one night, he naturally followed suit.

Li Chang'an looked at Lu Lin and smiled, "It was a little bad at the beginning, but it got much better after you entered a meditative state."

Upon hearing this, Lu Lin said with admiration:

"Wow, that's amazing! The first time I went in, all I felt was anxiety and unease, and I couldn't enter a meditative state properly."

Li Chang'an laughed and said, "Actually, I was also influenced. When I entered meditation, I entered a state of greedy meditation."

Lu Lin looked at him in shock: "Greedy meditation only occurs in the state of detachment from joy and bliss during meditation. Senior Brother Chang'an, is your meditation skill that high?"

Here we go again, that feeling I had when I first met Lu Lin.

Li Chang'an looked into Lu Lin's eyes.

He quite appreciated those genuinely admiring glances.

This benefit is not a feedback from the conscious mind, but a feedback from the primordial spirit.

Do I care about what others think?

No, that's not right. Li Chang'an overturned his previous idea.

He doesn't care about what others think.

Instead, they enjoy the respect of others.

He feels a genuine joy when he is admired.

Thinking of this, Li Chang'an suddenly remembered Liang Ting.

That eccentric, perverted man from Quanxing who spent his entire life pursuing pleasure.

He enjoyed too much sensory stimulation, but perhaps his threshold was set too high; he always felt that the pleasure was fake and lacked something.

Therefore, in order to find the most genuine and heartfelt joy, he sought help from Wugensheng.

To make him feel good, Wugensheng used the Heavenly Demon Spell on him, making him immerse himself in the inner world and enjoy extreme bliss, but even so, he still felt it was not enough.

Helpless, Wugensheng could only take him to experience all walks of life and search for the joy that came from his heart, but they couldn't find it even after two years.

Just as the Tang Clan masters were ambushing the leader of the Hiei Mountain ninja, Liang Ting, the wicked and evil Quanxing demon, suddenly intervened and killed several Japanese pirates who had invaded China.

Then, he saw the astonished looks in the eyes of those righteous people who hated him to the core after he did good deeds.

That look in his eyes suddenly made Liang Ting, whose threshold for pleasure had been raised so high by false happiness that he could hardly feel any joy, feel incredibly happy.

It was a completely different kind of exhilaration, a genuine, heartfelt exhilaration.

At this moment, Liang Ting suddenly realized that the pleasure he sought was not arson, murder, robbery, or rape and abduction, but rather the shocked looks in the eyes of the world when they looked at him.

The pleasure he seeks is actually about showing off in front of others!

Showing off in front of others is not a derogatory term.

If only he had understood this sooner.

He wouldn't be the wicked and evil so-called "Quanxing Demon" he is now.

With his talent, he could have become a grandmaster praised and respected by all, but due to a single wrong thought, he became a villain despised by everyone.

Am I really the same as Liang Ting, the sorcerer of Quanxing? Li Chang'an felt inexplicably ashamed.

But then he remembered Confucius, who traveled around the states with hundreds of students.

These students bowed and worshipped Confucius every day, revering him as a god, and Confucius was willing to teach his disciples...

Confucius's level of understanding was certainly not for the sake of so-called empty fame; he must have felt that this was a joy that came from the bottom of his heart.

Even Confucius couldn't escape worldly customs, let alone me.

Thinking about this, Li Chang'an suddenly realized that this wasn't actually a bad habit.

Overall, he's still better at killing than Xiao Zizai, and better at sharing than the Old Master's big mouth... no, I mean his big mouth.

As Li Chang'an was pondering, Lu Lin asked curiously:

"Senior Brother Chang'an, how did you do that? Is there a secret?"

Li Chang'an came to his senses and said:

"There's no secret to it. I just did what my grandfather said. When feelings of unease and fear arise..."

"I didn't think about fighting it, nor did I think about running away; I just quietly watched it."

"Slowly, they disappear. After they disappear, you naturally become still, and you can enter a state of deep meditation more easily."

Upon hearing this, Lu Lin said, "That's what I do too. When I focus on these thoughts without responding, they dissipate, but when I begin to meditate, they reappear at some point."

"That means you're not calm enough," Li Chang'an said.

"Then how can I achieve stillness?" Lu Lin asked again.

Li Chang'an said, "Grandpa suggested a method, which is to imagine what it feels like to return to infancy, or even to the womb."

Lu Lin quickly said, "Grandpa also mentioned this to me. But what is it like to go back to infancy, back to the womb? Senior Brother Chang'an, could you describe it to me? I've never been able to grasp that feeling."

"I can't quite grasp this feeling either," Li Chang'an thought for a moment and said, "but I've found a new way."

"A new method?" Lu Lin's eyes lit up. "Could Senior Brother Chang'an share it?"

Lu Jin was standing next to Li Chang'an and Lu Lin while they were talking.

He watched silently as the two little ones chatted back and forth.

This harmonious atmosphere among fellow disciples inexplicably reminded him of his days cultivating at the Sanyi Sect.

How similar that time is to the present.

But Li Chang'an's next words made him uneasy.

Li Chang'an said, "Sure, this method is to treat yourself as a corpse, as a dead person."

"Why would you treat yourself like a corpse, like a dead person?" Lu Lin asked, puzzled.

Li Chang'an explained, "When a person is in the mother's womb, they are not yet born. If they are not born, it doesn't count as being born."

"At this point, although the body is alive, the consciousness is still very confused; it is a state between life and death."

"Although the body of a dead person is dead, their consciousness has not completely dissipated, which can be considered another kind of state between life and death."

"The state of being in the womb is untraceable, but the state of the dead can be traced. There are even methods to experience the state of near death and find that feeling."

"I felt there was some connection between the two, so I gave it a try, and it actually worked."

"Although I still haven't been able to enter a true state of complete absorption in stillness, I have greatly improved my level of meditation."

Upon hearing this, Lu Lin looked at Li Chang'an with a mixture of shock and admiration.

I was able to think of this method.

Senior Brother Chang'an must be a genius.

But... how can one experience that feeling of being on the verge of death?

He fell into deep thought.

At this moment, Lu Jin muttered to himself, "Treat yourself as a corpse, and seek another kind of feeling between life and death."

Li Chang'an's words made him think of many things.

Why do so many people break through their limits during life-or-death crises?

Is it because this state is similar to the state of a naturally born infant?

Isn't that the logic?

But then he remembered his master's last words.

Life is the root of death.

The dead are the root of life.

Life and death are mutually dependent.

Isn't this a perfect match?