What kind of Journey to the West is this?

"Chirp, chirp, chirp!"

The eggshell shook, and the bird's beak poked out from the crack. The eggshell crackled, and a small, three-legged yellow bird poked its head out and flew out. Its feathers were wet, and it was very thin.

——Looks a little malnourished.

It turned around and drank all the liquid in the eggshell, then crunched the eggshell into pieces and ate it into its stomach. It shook its whole body, and a hot air wave spread out, evaporating all the mucus on its body, and its body returned to normal.

The little yellow bird looked up at An Yanxia and said excitedly, "Mom!"

An Yanxia: “???”

The little yellow bird looked at the snow lion again, and was about to speak, but suddenly hesitated and said blankly: "Mom?"

It is good to practice in this world: I created a group and asked for leave

Chapter 227 was blocked and there was no progress after more than a day of review. I thought I didn’t describe anything excessive.

It’s just a kiss, and the review mechanism is so confused?

I don’t know when it will be released, so I might as well post it in the group.

I don't use social software very often. My friends in the group say that whatever I post is too abstract. Over the years, I have developed online autism and I am too lazy to do things like screen peek. So the group is simply used to make up for the files and I can just use it as a network disk.

Group number: 218526564

Then I took half a day off.

My friend invited me to a hotel that night, and I thought it was something special, but it turned out to be an e-sports room. He told me that I couldn't stand my parents' pressure to get married at home, so we sweetly duo-queued in Naraka: Bladepoint and helped me climb the ranks...

It's crazy.

I go home around twelve o'clock in the evening, and write a chapter if I have time.

If you are defeated by the sleepiness in your heart, I will add another chapter tomorrow.

May everyone be happy forever.

It's a Good Place to Cultivate in the Mortal World: Chapter 236 [Looking Back on Seventeen Years, I'm Not the Same as Before]

An Yanxia held the Golden Crow in one hand and looked at it.

Experienced farmers can tell the gender of chicks by touching their buttocks. Male ones are big and tight, while female ones are soft and flat.

An Yanxia doesn't have this ability, so she relies entirely on her discerning eyes.

Vulva on the outside and yang on the inside, she's a girl.

She said, "Call me sister!"

"mom!"

"...Forget it. I'm not related to you by blood, so it's hard to say I'm grateful for your kindness. Just call me teacher."

"Mom, teacher.....teacher!"

Feeling the scrutinizing gaze from An Yanxia, the little yellow bird shuddered and instantly realized its own position.

Divine beasts are similar to immortals. Their pure consciousness is in harmony with their primordial spirit. They are born with some awakened wisdom and have the intelligence of a seven or eight year old when they break out of their shells.

But correspondingly, it is also difficult for this kind of "innocent child" to grow up, and perhaps even after decades, they may not be as clever and smooth as ordinary people who have been rolling around in the world.

A solar spirit like the Golden Crow, even if still a cub, would never consider a human its biological mother. It could only have sensed danger and feigned a friendly and affectionate demeanor.

Weak animals like to pretend to be harmless, so that even if they are trembling with anger, they can still appear cute and adorable in front of powerful hunters and survive.

If you really treat it as a baby, you will be fooled.

An Yanxia looked at the free-range chicken and felt that its fur color was not right. She muttered, "Are you the Golden Crow?"

The little yellow bird nodded quickly.

"Can you fly?"

The little yellow bird shook its head.

"Will that turn into the sun?"

The little yellow bird shook its head again.

"What about the Spitfire?"

The little yellow bird continued to shake its head. When it shook halfway, it suddenly raised its neck and burped.

"Gluck cluck~"

A mouthful of sparks came out.

The blazing flames, burning in mid-air, actually caused the tables, chairs, paintings, and bookshelves to spontaneously combust due to the high temperature. Even An Yanxia and Xue Shier were not spared. Their clothes suddenly exploded into a ball of fire, making them look very embarrassed.

Yanxia pinched three joints of her middle finger and cast a five-knife plague curse. The fire knife circled around the room before the flames were contained.

Before Xue Shier had time to cover the exposed parts, he saw An Yanxia's eyes shining.

"This is a great talent for alchemy! The flames in the cauldron are pulsating at tens of thousands of degrees. Even the gods have to arrange two Taoist children to serve with fire and wind magic. God is really helping me. The fire this Golden Crow spits is comparable to the fire Laojun spent seven days raising!"

"Alright, alright, you'll report to the alchemy room from now on. You'll have to practice for four or five hours every day. How can a dignified Golden Crow be unable to control its fire breathing? After you're done, I'll personally test you."

When the little golden crow heard that the sky was about to fall, it stretched its neck and cried out in protest.

Practicing for four or five hours a day, isn’t that torture?

Yan Xia thought about how she had become a bad parent, and immediately reflected on herself. She sighed and said, "No! How can I let my child do such a thing?"

Xue Shier also nodded and said, "Yes, she is still young!"

The little golden crow nodded repeatedly and called out happily a few times.

"Then you should practice first. It won't be too late to talk about this after you transform. You must swallow saliva and absorb qi for six hours every day without delay. Wash and eat at the Mao hour. Practice absorbing qi at the Chen hour. Practice for two hours until noon. Continue absorbing qi and practicing at the Wei hour until sunset. At night, do the same..."

"By the way, I'll have a weekly test every other week. A monthly test every January, and a major test every six months. These will test the results of your practice..."

"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp!"

"Why are you protesting? This is how I got here... Oh, you said you can't practice at night without the sun, so go guard the elixir... Xue Shi'er, why are you pulling my arm?"

Xue Shi'er glared and said, "You've made her practice for six hours a day!"

An Yanxia stuck out her tongue.

It turns out that the learning experience of middle school cannot be applied mechanically.

Whether you practice cultivation or study or work, humans are not animals. How can you sit still for more than ten hours a day? Oh, animals don’t have to work for more than ten hours a day.

It can be seen that the intensity of work of office workers and middle school students can no longer be called cattle and horses, but should be called worse than cattle and horses...

An Yanxia taught the child in accordance with his aptitude and changed the practice time to one and a half hours in the morning and one and a half hours in the afternoon, giving Little Jinwu a happy childhood.

At night, An Yanxia taught her a breathing method she created. The little golden crow was overjoyed and chirped to thank her teacher for teaching her. She also asked An Yanxia to give her a name.

This scene suddenly reminded An Yanxia of Sun Wukong becoming a disciple of Bodhi Patriarch in the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon.

She couldn't help but ask, "What's your last name?"

The little Golden Crow shrank his head and said, "Master, I was born in the sun, awakened in the human world, and do not have a sex."

"Since you don't have a surname, why not share mine? You are the essence of the sun's true fire. Your fire nature is ethereal and rising. You must overcome this in your cultivation. How about I give you the character 'Ning'? Then you can be called: An Ningran."

"Then I'll be called An Ningran, just An Ningran!"

Seeing the little yellow bird jumping and dancing in front of her, the sunset and flowing water in Kanyang Mountain gradually emerged in Yanxia's pupils.

The girl who had once searched hard for the dharma in vain had now become an immortal who had created her own dharma. Those years of aimless pursuit of immortality now seemed like a teardrop in the corner of her eye, which only added a bit of beauty to her appearance.

The good way is: Enlightenment and meditation are also easy, suddenly you will become an immortal after a sudden realization. Before leaving, it is better to look back at where you came from, where clouds fly high and water flows into the river.

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Yanxia passed on the three volumes of breathing techniques from Jinwu Ningran, and she was also seeking for the truth herself.

The elixir must be transformed seven times and returned nine times. This is not a state of mind, but a general term for practicing qi and refining the spirit until returning to emptiness.

However, the Xuanyuan Great Pill Art does not mention how to start practicing Qi cultivation at all. It only mentions a few phenomena, which can be tentatively called realms:

The first is constant tranquility, which means maintaining a constant state of concentration without distracting thoughts. The alchemy classics also contain many misleading terms, sometimes referring to constant tranquility, sometimes to entering a state of concentration, and sometimes to the meeting of the three schools or breaking through the void. These various metaphors are mysterious, but in reality, they simply mean a pure heart and a single-minded pursuit of the Tao.

The second is Flying Golden Crystal, which is to refine the innate qi from the dantian, pass through the elbows and fly up to the head, completing a small circle.

The third is to steal the secrets of heaven. When the innate qi flies up to the spiritual platform, one can steal the secrets of heaven. The alchemy classics say that at this time one can see the innate qi clearly, and thus illuminate the primordial spirit in the dark. Stealing the secrets of heaven is also the most dangerous step in cultivation, and it is a great catastrophe.

The fourth is the "Mind Monkey," which the Xuanyuan Great Elixir Sutra says is another name for the innate energy falling into the dantian. An Yanxia thus speculated that the so-called innate energy is the mind monkey, the material carrier of thought.

After all, cultivating immortals does not follow the physical laws of the earth. People can become ghosts after death, and even have three souls and seven spirits. This shows that whether the brain or the heart dominates thinking, people's thoughts do exist and have material manifestations.

In this case, how to cultivate the innate qi is the key. The alchemy formula says that the first step is to be constantly quiet and peaceful, and Yan Xia also plans to start with concentrating the mind.

But the question is what then?

How do you fly the golden crystal? How do you steal the secrets of heaven or calm the ape? There's no method.

She did have some knowledge of life sciences, but applying that to this world would undoubtedly be like using the sword of the previous dynasty to kill an official of the current dynasty, which would cause big problems.

An Yanxia pondered over it for four or five days, and read through books on alchemy such as Zhouyi Cantongqi and Sanyuan Danjing, but she still couldn't find a specific method.

At this moment, Monk Fa Rong came to visit with a happy look on his face and the "Theory of Sitting and Forgetting" he had compiled.

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Oh no! My friend was playing a platinum game of Naraka: Bladepoint and reached red temperature. He opened a bottle of wine to quench his thirst but ended up drinking two glasses and then got drunk on tea, saying it was for health reasons... so I came back an hour early to write.

The leave is over and updates will be resumed.

Cultivation in the Mortal World is a Good Place: Chapter 237 [Yanxia Attains the Dao, Niutou Obtains the Dharma]

It’s time to go to sleep and find a pillow. This volume of “On Sitting and Forgetting” comes at the right time.

The "Prajna Sutra" that Monk Fa Rong originally devoted himself to studying was originally a method of wisdom, and it had many similarities with the Nanhua Sutra. After verifying each other, he actually integrated Buddhism and Taoism and came up with a new thing called: Sitting and Forgetting Zen.

The naming is somewhat subjective, but An Yanxia doesn't care about the name and focuses on adopting what is available.

This volume on the Zen of Sitting and Forgetting combines the Zen methods of contemplation and meditation with the methods of openness and forgetfulness, advocating the cultivation of the mind and character, an open mind and inaction, and the state of emptiness and non-existence of form and body. It begins by stating: "Those who sit and forget, abandon form and enter the true self."

He divided the Zen method of sitting and forgetting into seven small realms and five large realms, corresponding to the five times and seven phases. The last step is to forget both the self and the world, and to unite the mind with the Tao.

A hint of Buddhism.

Yan Xia said, "This is Buddhism, not Taoism. Taoism follows nature, and life and death are equally important. How can one abandon the body to cultivate only the mind?"

Monk Fa Rong said, "Respected Master, I do not believe in Buddhism, nor do I believe in Taoism. I only believe in faith."

Yan Xia wanted to persuade him, but soon she started laughing.

As for matters of spiritual practice, let the practitioners themselves understand them.

She turned to discussing the Dao and teaching the Dharma with Fa Rong. After absorbing Fa Rong's Zen method of sitting and forgetting, An Yanxia also incorporated many contents of "Zhou Yi Can Tong Qi", "San Yuan Dan Jing", "San Yi Zhu Shu", and "Huang Tian Tai Ping Jing" into it.

Independent of Fazhong's method of sitting and forgetting Zen, a theory of "sitting and forgetting the body and spirit" came into being.

An Yanxia used this version of the Zuowang method to explain the dual cultivation of nature and life, and according to the cultivation phenomena provided in the Xuanyuan Dadan Sutra, he divided the realms into three major realms, nine minor realms, and the cultivation method of the first realm.

The three major realms are to refine Qi, refine the spirit, and return to emptiness.