Chapter 103 Holy Steps
Time flies. In a blink of an eye, Chu Tian has been practicing in the underground world of the ghost city for three months.
He is like a fighter who never knows how to be tired and doesn't need to rest. He gallops around every corner of the underground world day and night, from the inaccessible soul cliff to the surging sea of stars, from the silent valley where countless people talk about tiger color to the desolate and deep cold cave Jedi, he is left everywhere. The footprints of fighting.
Fighting, practicing, practicing, fighting... Every day, he keeps repeating these two things, and he is scared to death.
The bustling world, the disturbing world, gradually faded away in the blood and fire, or even forgotten in Chu Tian's memory. Now he treks alone day and night in the underworld where demons are crying and howling, on the edge of life and death, in every breath, infinitely stimulates the potential of life, and persistently seeks the direction of the future.
He was injured, bled, and even fell into a desperate situation several times. He had to rely on the Xumi Cave genius of Dong Tianji to escape.
At the same time, the Beiming Shenfu, especially the Youshi family and the E family, did not relax the pursuit of Chu Tian, but repeatedly sent elite disciples from major families to go deep into the ghost city to carry out carpet search.
The most dangerous time, a man led by the old E Fangying of the E family was only 100 meters away from Chu Tian. If it hadn't been for the discovery of the enemy's trace in the moon seal of the Bodhi Mirror, Chu Tian would have taken advantage of the complex terrain and thick fog of the Silent Valley to hide in time, and the consequences would have been unimaginable.
On the other hand, the major forces in the ghost city, including those lonely ghosts, have also received a wanted order to kill Chu Tian. For a moment, the wind and grass and trees were all soldiers.
If the practice of three years of colorful fog is a kind of self-exilization, then the current practice is nothing more than a thrilling purgatory.
Chu Tian's power is growing at a crazy rate every day. Thousands of ghosts have been killed by Cangyun Yuanchen's sword. The wisps of essence is gathered into a tower and integrated into the flood furnace of heaven and earth day and night, condensed into bit by bit.
His heart is also tempered in this purgatory-style quenching, walking along the edge of kindness, resentment and hatred, and gradually completely immersed in the realm of Yuanming, growing strong day by day.
With the passage of time, Chu Tian felt more and more clearly that his dream of breaking through the shackles and promoting the holy level was just a short distance away. The diaphragm can be broken at the touch of the window paper between himself and Tiandao, but he always feels that he is short of the last breath.
What's wrong with this tone?
Chu Tian meditated hard and tried to find the answer from the Book of the Vatican Sutra.
The upper volume of the whole Book of Fandu Sutra is almost familiar. But it doesn't mean that you fully understand it. Just like some dishes have been tasted a hundred times, you may not be able to understand how to cook them.
In particular, Chu Tian was always puzzled by the last sentence of the "Yuanming Chapter" of the Fandu Sutra.
"The round and bright heart is unobstructed; drifting with the tide, but the heart is full of dust, so the white clouds come out, and the sea is wide and the sky."
If you just interpret it literally, I'm afraid that seven or eight-year-old children can answer fluently. However, the true meaning of heaven and Tao implied in it can't be understood by the old scholar at the age of 70 or 80.
"You are not reading, but enlightening." Dong Tianji, who has been paying attention to Chu Tian's progress, said disapprovingly.
After being with Chu Tian for a long time, Dong Tianji appreciated the young man's tenacity, flexibility and self-tachless aura. However, he can't take advantage of Chu Tian for nothing. He has been waiting for Chu Tian to beg him.
For Dong Tianji, it is not difficult to explain the meaning of this sentence to Chu Tian word by word, and even he can do more, so it is not completely impossible to guide Chu Tian to understand the charm.
But in the end, there are still difficulties. No matter how thorough and meticulous his explanation is, it is impossible to replace Chu Tian's enlightenment realm.
You can only understand by yourself.
The road must be opened by yourself.
On this day as usual, Chu Tian walked around the cold pit Jedi and hunted a lot of evil spirits according to the scheduled plan.
Strictly speaking, the cold pit Jedi is not a real cave, but a huge gully deep underground. The branches in the cave are crisscrossed. No one knows how deep and wide it is. Some people even say that the deepest part of the cave can directly reach the Northern Underworld Sea.
The cave is cold all year round, and the black snow continues all day long. The rock wall is covered with a thick layer of hard black ice. Almost no creature can survive, but it is a hidden paradise for the grievances.
Over the years, hundreds of evil spirits have naturally divided their spheres of influence. So Chu Tian was an invader wherever he went, and he was not welcome wherever he went. In addition to the terrible sound of crying and howling, he was a mountain-high and crazy siege.
In order to avoid the harassment and attack of the wronged soul, he laid a simple magic circle around him according to the method taught by Dong Tianji, and then sat cross-legged on a raised ice rock and began to meditate.
Although his skills have not been fully recovered, Chu Tian's Taoist heart is still solidified little by little, infinitely close to the peak of the realm of Yuanming. The ice and snow and cold wind outside him, and even the faint sobs and roars coming from the far away, could not disturb his will at all.
Chu Tian slowly closed his eyes and meditated on the magic formula to meditate. His mood gradually became calm and peaceful. The wind and snow in his ears roared, and the evil spirits roared slowly away until he was silent.
The heaven and earth flood furnace operates automatically in the innate realm, refining the refined temperature collected in the past few days, and finally condensed into a pure and mellow Vandu Zhenyuan.
Chu Tian can clearly feel the rapid growth of power in his body, which is getting closer and closer to the level of his heyday.
His thoughts suddenly drifted away, and somehow he remembered the white snow in Daya Mountain, the blazing fire in Orion Village, the surging and turbid flow of the gorgeous fog mountain, as well as Beiming City and Famen Villa...
It's like a memory that touches the deep in my heart. My grandfather's stubborn and kind face, Lin Yinxue's back suddenly disappeared in the snow, Qinger's crying from the well, Luo Jia's elegant and mysterious smile, and E Shanyue's last eyes are deep and depressed - many people and things that have encountered in life, circulating It reappeared in Chu Tian's mind.
Some people have drifted away with the wind, and some people are floating in the world, but they can never escape that fate.
"Falt the clouds and flowers--"
This is a sentence that Chu Tian saw on the soaring giant tree earlier, and it is also a Zen poem.
"It turns out that life is just like this, and a hurried life is just a guest coming and going in the world. After the feast and wine, the song finally dispersed. Look at them coming, look at them getting drunk, look at them leaving..."
Chu Tianyu rose a wisp of melancholy, thinking that in the bustling world, no matter whether the emperor sells his husband and pawns, who is not drifting with the tide in the long river of fate? No matter how you fight, you can't break the fate of life, old age, illness and death.
If there is life, there will be death.
Life is the beginning of death; death is the continuation of life.
For example, if the sun and the moon rise and change day and night, there will never be an end.
It's just the heart that can change all this.
- "All actions are impermanent, it is the law of birth and death; birth and destruction of oneself, silence and destruction is a joy."
This is a scripture that Master Juedu often talked about with Chu Tian before his death. After listening to it many times, Chu Tian also roughly understood the meaning: everything in the world is erratic, and there is life and death. Only by getting rid of the pain caused by the shackles and fear of death and eliminating the confusion in the heart can we achieve real happiness.
At that time, Chu Tian's power was exhausted and lay in **, and Master Juedu accompanied him day and night, enlightened him with Buddhist scriptures and Zen from time to time.
Now this monk has gone to the world of bliss. Although the body no longer exists, the soul must have gained permanent peace and happiness, right?
Chu Tian couldn't help thinking so, and his heart moved slightly, and he vaguely realized what he had caught.
"With the tide, the heart is full of dust!"
Suddenly, Dong Tianji shouted in Chu Tian's mind, like a morning bell and evening drum to stimulate his heart: "Open your eyes!"
Chu Tian opened his eyes without thinking and was stunned to find that the scenery around him had changed dramatically.
A moment ago, it was still a cold ice cave, a gloomy ghost field. At this moment, there were green mountains and thousands of miles of clouds in front of me!
- Is this?!
It seemed to guess the doubt in Chu Tian's heart, and the voice of Dong Tianji sounded in his mind again: "Are you stupid, Xiao Chu? But this is not a fantasy, but your state of mind. Think about it carefully and see if you can understand something.
"Mor's mood?" Chu Tian stared blankly, but saw a white cloud leisurely in the distance, rising to the blue sky on the top of the mountain.
"White clouds come out of Xiu, white clouds come out of Xiu..."
Suddenly, Chu Tian's heart was shocked, and his eyes chased the unrestrained ethereal white clouds and looked at the blue clear sky.
There seemed to be a snowy electric light flashing over the spiritual platform, splitting the chaotic mind, and the sky shone down.
In the mortal world and the heart is in the holy land, what monks pursue is never the immortality of the body, but the immortality of the Taoist heart!
"This white cloud comes from the world, but there is no concern!" Chu Tian's heart suddenly opened up. Far above the sky, it seems that there is a mysterious door slowly opening to him.
"Boom!" In an instant, everything is like autumn water and white birds are annihilated. It has lost its trace but it has existed in ancient times.
Chu Tian's Taoist heart seems to have experienced thousands of centuries of Tianyun washing, and countless vulgar fireworks in the world have been refined and evaporated over and over again. The spiritual platform is like a snow-white and flawless gem, emitting pure holy light.
All the true elements in his Dantian responded and turned into a golden-red dark dragon rising straight to the top of his head.
His whole body emitted a strong and gorgeous light, and there was a three-color flower blooming above his head, holding up the golden bud in the middle of the flower.
Just for a moment, the golden buds gently trembled and opened, revealing a Yuanying sitting cross-legged.
His figure is only as big as his thumb, and his whole body is full of golden light and aura. His appearance and temperament are exactly the same as that of Chu Tianzhen. His eyes are slightly closed and his hands are formed in front of his lower abdomen to make a Sanskrit seal.
The northern underworld aura overflowing in all directions, like ten thousand countries, returned to the sea and poured into Chu Tian's body. His Yuan baby grew up so fast that he looked like a child in a blink of an eye.
The sword of Cangyun Yuanchen behind him flew up and hovered behind his head. The golden auspicious clouds surged like a waterfall all over his body, as if the whole person and the sword had melted into a part of the world.
At this moment, Chu Tian is in the secular world, and his heart is far from the world.
In front of him, the sea and sky are beginning to appear.