After returning to his disciple's residence, Mo Hua was not in a hurry to practice. Instead, he sorted out all the instructions given by Patriarch Dugu just now in his heart.
He copied all the key points into a jade slip and kept it for future reference so as not to forget it.
After that, he officially tried to practice the "God-Slaying Sword".
After some guidance from Patriarch Dugu, Mo Hua finally understood:
As expected, I practiced this God-Slaying Sword Style wrongly again!
The God-Slaying Sword is not something you can practice like that.
The so-called "killing one's soul" does not really mean killing oneself. This "cutting" means abandonment and transformation.
It is necessary to uphold a heart of seeking Tao, abandon the small self, achieve the greater self, understand the origin of swordsmanship, and achieve the transformation of spiritual thoughts and swordsmanship.
Mo Hua had a complicated mood, and then took out an ancient bamboo slip of kendo.
On the bamboo slips, the sword pattern is simple and profound.
The ancient sword intention lingers in the sword pattern.
This is the sword style...
The ink painting held one's breath and concentrated, sitting quietly in meditation, concentrating, and then began to formally visualize the "Taixu Sword Style" engraved on the bamboo slips.
Give up your ego, forget about your own swordsmanship, visualize the Taixu sword flow with an empty mind, and understand the origin of the swordsmanship, so that you can get close to the source of the sword and fully understand the Taixu swordsmanship.
After thoroughly understanding the way of swordsmanship, you can integrate the origin of the way of swordsmanship into your own soul according to what the ancestor said, and use the real "Taixu Sword of God" that is powerful enough to kill gods!
Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness has a profound foundation. He is proficient in formations and various spiritual methods. He has also swallowed up a large number of evil spirits. Through meditation, he has eliminated huge distracting thoughts.
He has even played a little bit of "Tao Heart Seed Demon".
Therefore, in terms of "mind cultivation" skills alone, Mo Hua is better than many golden elixir monks who are hundreds of years old.
He did this kind of thing very easily, "giving up the ego, forgetting the way of swordsmanship, having an empty mind, and visualizing Taixu Sword Style".
But the problem lies behind.
I have been thinking about ink painting for a long time...
In the Taixu Sword Style, the ancient sword intention was what it was before and what it is now, without any change at all.
There is no sense of "enlightenment" in ink painting.
His level of swordsmanship is still so shallow.
His understanding of swordsmanship has not increased at all.
Mo Hua looked attentive again, staring at the bamboo slips for a long time, and finally had to realize that he was lonely...
He couldn't understand the sword flow.
He didn't understand the way of swordsmanship or anything like that.
Mo Hua thought it was because he didn't put in enough effort.
The next day, after class, Mo Hua returned to the back room of his disciples and stared at the bamboo slips for three full hours.
But still nothing was seen.
The so-called secrets of sword style, the origin of swordsmanship, the avenue of swordsmanship... have no trace at all.
Mo Hua frowned, then thought about it for a moment, and then gradually understood.
The problem lies in this "ego".
Cut off the ego and become the way of the sword.
But ink painting doesn’t even have an “ego”.
The "ego" in kendo is the "incorporation" of kendo accumulated by sword cultivators since childhood, through their cultivation of spiritual swords, practice of swordsmanship, and understanding of kendo.
This is what Patriarch Dongxu calls the “small self”, but in fact, it is not small at all!
Ink Hua put himself in the shoes of Patriarch Dugu, and roughly estimated that if he could start from scratch and cultivate his swordsmanship to the level of "ego" in the eyes of the ancestor...
That should be a genius of Linghuxiao's level. He started practicing swordsmanship at a young age, practiced it for decades, or even hundreds of years, until he reached the golden elixir and achieved a small level of swordsmanship. Only in this way can he cultivate the "ego" of swordsmanship.
Only this kind of "ego" is qualified to be killed.
And with this level of "ego" as the foundation, after cutting off the ladder, you can go to the next level, understand the sword style, and climb towards the origin of the sword.
Mo Hua felt a chill in his heart.
Now he finally understood why his ancestor had always asked him to practice swordsmanship before, and said that he was not good at swordsmanship and could not practice the sword with spiritual thoughts.
What the ancestor said is actually correct.
Everything about the true art of spiritual thoughts turning into swords is based on the "do of the sword".
If you don’t have enough foundation in swordsmanship, you won’t be able to transform into a sword.
If you don't have deep attainments in the way of the sword and have no small success in swordsmanship, you won't be able to kill the ego, understand the sword style, and learn the ultimate "god-killing style".
But now, I don't even have the swordsmanship of the "ego" that was killed.
Not to mention talking about the sword style, its origin, and its avenue...
"I've been working on it for a long time, but I still can't learn..."
Mo Hua sighed, a little disappointed.
Although if you think about it carefully, this is normal.
The true sword art of Taixu Divine Mind is the supreme sword art of Taixu Sect swordsmanship. If it is so easy to learn, it does not deserve to be listed as the "supreme" inheritance.
What's more, I'm not even a swordsman.
It is indeed a bit fanciful to want to learn the supreme kendo inheritance without having any knowledge of kendo.
But Mo Hua didn’t want to give up.
He thought about it again and again and found that this was another "dead knot".
To cultivate the Divine Sword, you have to kill your soul;
To kill one’s soul, one needs to kill one’s ego;
And to kill the ego, you need to raise an "ego" with the swordsmanship to kill him...
If I don't have the "ego" level of swordsmanship, I will naturally have nothing to cut. From the very beginning, I will be unable to make progress.
The mood of the ink painting is complicated and difficult to describe.
This God-Slaying Sword was perfected by him.
Orthodox, he can't practice.
I practiced it myself, but if I practiced it incorrectly, it would hurt my soul.
Every day I kill myself with a sword, the wounds in my soul accumulate silently, and I need to find "spiritual essence" to repair them later.
And "Divine Essence" is very scarce now. It is not only needed to repair the soul, but also needed to break through the later stages of foundation building.
If you think about it, it's a vicious cycle again.
If you can't learn to kill the divine sword, the day when you can kill the evil fetus will be far away.
I can't kill the evil fetus, I can't convert the disaster into divine marrow, and I can further transform my spiritual thoughts. I don't know how long it will take to break through to the late stage of foundation building...
Mo Hua's scalp was slightly numb and he couldn't help but sigh.
But it's useless to sigh blindly. The Tao still needs to be cultivated, the sword still needs to be practiced, and life still needs to be passed.
"Next time I go to the forbidden area, I'll ask my ancestor for advice..."
Mo Hua forcibly put the incident behind him, calmed down, and continued practicing and attending classes.
Two days passed like this.
Mo Hua got up in the morning and practiced as usual. After practicing, he took out the bamboo slip as usual and used the sword intention on the bamboo slip to strike his life soul with a sword to suppress the evil fetus and refresh his mind.
This set of actions is all due to inertia.
But after he finished chopping, Mo Hua suddenly realized that he no longer needed to chopping.
This is not how you practice the God-Slaying Sword.
It’s not really about killing one’s own soul.
Mo Hua sighed again, a little bored, and then sank his consciousness into the sea of ​​​​consciousness, wanting to check the injury on his soul.
Fortunately, his soul had been chopped for a long time and had become accustomed to it. Although he was injured, it was not too serious.
Mo Hua breathed a sigh of relief and looked inside again, taking a look at his own soul.
On the soul, there are mottled sword marks remaining, as fine as fish scales.
These are the "masterpieces" left behind by Mo Hua himself and his insistence on self-cutting every day.
"Sometimes being too diligent doesn't seem to be a good thing..."
Mo Hua muttered in his heart, and then he wanted to exit the sea of ​​consciousness.
But just at this moment, I glanced at the ink painting and suddenly froze.
He saw that the sword intent still remained on the wound of his soul.
This one is nothing.
Using the Taixu Sword Intent to cut off one's own soul and leave a wound, a part of the Sword Intent will definitely remain on the wound of the Divine Soul.
This is a normal thing.
However, looking at it now, Mo Hua felt his heart tremble, as if there was an astonishing thought gradually lingering in his mind...
"Quenching the gods with the sword, killing the soul...killing the ego, observing the flow of swords, understanding the origin, and integrating the way of swordsmanship..."
"Self-destruction of the soul is a means, and the final result is to integrate the origin of the sword into the soul..."
"If that's the case..."
Like a bolt from the blue, Mo Hua's expression was shocked:
"Then if I use Taixu Sword Intention to kill my own soul, isn't it the same as... engraving the Sword Intent in my soul?"
"The sword intention contains the origin of the sword."
"This also means that I am carving the origin of the sword... through the sword marks and wounds into my soul?"
"Afterwards, as long as this origin is completely integrated with the soul again, won't the final effect be the same?"
The only difference is that the orthodox method of cultivating the sword is to practice the "ego" swordsmanship first, and then kill the ego to understand the sword style and integrate the swordsmanship.
As for me, I gave up all the steps from cultivating the "ego" to realizing the sword style, and went straight to the point of integrating the swordsmanship in one step!
Kendo without ego, it doesn't matter.
If you don’t understand Kenryu, it doesn’t matter.
It doesn't matter if you can't understand the origin of swordsmanship.
Abandon all these steps and directly kill yourself with sword intent.
If the sword intent cuts itself, it will carve sword marks and leave wounds in the soul.
In this way, the origin of swordsmanship in Taixu Sword Style can naturally be integrated into one's own soul together with the wound!
This is a more thorough and thorough "cheating" than "kill me to become a saint"!
And only you can do this "cheat"...
Others cannot bear the blow of Taixu's sword.
But I can.
No one else can repair the soul's injuries.
You can do it yourself, too.
As for Taixu Sword Style, you don't need to understand it, you just need to integrate the original intention into your soul and use it directly.
The ancestor himself also said, "The nature of a gentleman is not different; he is good at pretending to be inferior to other things."
Use the law as a raft to find the great road.
Once you have achieved the great road, you will abandon the law and abandon the boat.
Form doesn't matter.
Mo Hua's heart was pounding.
It was only now that he truly had a premonition that the door to the secrets of the God-Slaying Sword was gradually opening to him.
Having made up his mind, Mo Hua immediately held his breath and contemplated himself.
The spiritual mind looks at itself, sensing the wounds on the soul, and at the same time sensing the sword intent in the wounds.
The wound was fine and pungent, mixed with stinging pain.
The meaning of the sword is profound and difficult to erase, and the origin of the sword is constantly flowing within it.
Mo Hua endured the severe pain and directly integrated the sword intention into his soul along the wound.
This process was very painful, but Mo Hua gritted his teeth and endured it.
The ancient sword intention seeped into the wound in the soul, causing pain, but it gradually merged with the soul of the ink painting.
Like a blade, it flows into the flesh and blood and circulates in the body.
But these "blades" are also like ancient elixirs. Every time they are circulated, they transform into a wisp of sword intent, which blends seamlessly with the soul of the ink painting.
This is the fusion of Taixu Sect's ancient swordsmanship origins and the soul of Mo Hua, which is comparable to a "god" after being transformed into Taoism.
Mo Hua's spiritual thoughts turned into swords, and he finally began to truly enter the realm of "killing gods".
After that, you only need to cut one sword every day to temper a part of the origin, which will accumulate over time.
Use the flesh and blood of the soul to fuse the origin of the sword to temper the god-slaying sword.
He has been tempering until the day when the real "God-Slaying Sword" is born...
That day was the death of the evil fetus.
The ink painting is invigorating and the eyes are bright.
Then he tempered his soul for a while according to the method he had summarized, and then stopped for the time being.
Because it really hurts too much.
Using Taixu Sword Intent to kill your own soul is painful enough.
Now we have to melt the fragments of the sword intention into the "flesh and blood" of the soul, which makes it feel more or less "Lingchi".
Therefore, we can only do it step by step and don't rush it.
Mo Hua rested for a while and regained his consciousness.
Now that the cultivation of the Divine Sword is on the right track, Mo Hua is free to consider another issue...
"The Supreme Shang Qingdao..."
Mo Hua muttered in a low voice and frowned.
This was another "supreme Tao Dharma" taught to him by Patriarch Dugu that night in the forbidden area of ​​the Sword Tomb.
I don’t dare to learn ink painting.
He felt something was wrong.
Taixu Divine Sword and Taishang Qingdao may look a bit similar, but in reality, they are completely different styles.
One is the profound and upright swordsmanship.
One is a ruthless, extreme and eccentric method.
Among the existing secrets of swordsmanship in Taixu Sect, there has been no record of "cutting love" in ink paintings so far.
"Also, Patriarch Dugu, why did you suddenly teach yourself this thing?"
Mo Hua frowned and thought back.
That night, the ancestor looked as usual, but there was always a slight sense of disharmony between his words.
Could it be that... something happened to the ancestor?
Was the person who "preached" to me that night... the ancestor himself?
Is there really someone, no, something, that can transcend the powerful Ancestor Dongxu and preach to him?
Mo Hua's brows furrowed more and more tightly.
Things are getting weird...
However, it has been passed down, and the question now is, do you want to learn this "Tao of Taishang's Killing Love"?
Mo Hua recalled this "emotion-killing" method one by one, and finally had to admit that this was an extremely profound, extremely rare, and extremely powerful "law" of the Tao.
After you practice it and understand the Tao, you may really be able to "cut" everything with a single thought or a single sword.
But Mo Hua always feels that there is something wrong with this method.
The problem lies in the two words "killing love".
Only when a person has feelings can he be considered a human being. If his feelings are cut off and he is ruthless and has no desires, can he still be considered a human being?
If we are no longer human beings, what kind of enlightenment can we have?
Even if the Tao is realized, what kind of Tao will it be if it is realized in a "non-human" state?
"Ancestor...could he be lying to me?"
"Or is there something bad that's secretly lying to me?"
"Do I still want to learn?"
…
Mo Hua touched his chin, thought about it, and thought it should be possible...try to learn it first, after all, this is the method of "enlightenment".
But you can’t learn everything, because there must be some mystery in it.
Take the essence and discard the dross.
To put it simply, just watch and learn.
The profound meaning of "cutting love" taught by "Dugu Patriarch" came to Mo Hua's ears again:
"There is nothing in the heart, cut off the self, unite humanity, integrate the law of 'cutting out', use the body as a sword and the soul as the sword, the sharpness is unrivaled, there will be nothing in this world that cannot be cut!"
This sounds very powerful and can be learned.
But "cut off all your earthly emotions and reach a state of being ruthless, selfless, without attachment, without desire..."
This is a bit weird, you can learn from it by watching.
Mo Hua then tried to practice the "Tao of Taishang's Love Killing" according to these methods.
He began to cut off his emotions.
No thoughts, no attachments, no thoughts, no intentions, no ego...
Cut off the feelings...
His face gradually changed from gentle to cold, and even contained a hint of cold ferocity.
It seems that everything in this world is an obstacle to his pursuit of the Tao, and everyone must be killed.
He, his relatives, his friends, his teachers, and everyone he loves will all be killed...
Only by killing everyone can one attain enlightenment.
Mo Hua couldn't help but whispered:
"Only by killing everyone... can we gain enlightenment..."
"Kill all..."
"cut……"
The mood of the ink painting is blank, the face is distorted for a moment, and then begins to blur, and the facial features are like makeup after "removal", dissolving and disappearing bit by bit...
"wrong!"
After a while, Mo Hua suddenly woke up.
He covered his face, stopped all thoughts, and used "meditation" to forcibly stabilize his mind.
After a full stick of incense, I finally recovered from this state of mind of "cutting my emotions and enlightening the Tao".
Mo Hua has lingering fears.
"This thing is so powerful and terrifying..."
He almost, really cut off all his feelings.
Mo Hua frowned.
Once he cuts off his emotions, annihilates himself, and loses control of his spiritual thoughts, he doesn't dare to think about what he will become.
"Death of love..."
The ink painting is deep in thought.
You can cut off a little bit of love, but you can't cut it all off.
"Cutting one's emotions" is for the sake of enlightenment, rather than actually killing one's emotions for the sake of killing one's emotions.
If they were really killed and stopped being human beings, the problem would definitely be even bigger.
He realized this in his heart when he devoured the divine marrow, transformed his divine consciousness into Taoism, and merged divinity and humanity.
Since divinity and humanity can be integrated, then the Tao of "Zhan Qing" should also be integrated.
"We can't kill them all, some feelings must be retained..."
"The nurturing kindness of parents should be kept in mind..."
"Master's kindness in preaching must never be forgotten..."
"The uncles, aunts and friends from Tongxian City, the friends I have made along the way, the senior brothers, sisters and junior brothers from Taixu Sect, the sect elders, Mr. Xun and Patriarch Dugu..."
"And Aunt Wan, Yu'er, Uncle Gu..."
After Mo Hua thought about it, he realized that there were quite a few people he wanted to remember...
Communicating with others and deriving feelings of affection are also the basis of a person's emotional existence.
If we give up, sooner or later people will lose their original intention and become empty and numb.
"We need to find an anchor point..."
However, there are too many people to keep in mind along the way, and it is difficult for Mo Hua to find an "anchor" to judge the degree of "cutting off love".
Father, mother, master, cause and effect are too heavy, and the bond is too deep.
Because the bond is so deep, even if the relationship is cut off, it will be the last "cut" and it is not so easy to forget.
But once you really forget, it means that you have already reached the source without knowing it.
It means that your own humanity is hopeless, and it is too late to turn back now.
Other people can also be the "anchors" for killing love, but Mo Hua is always afraid that he will be too busy and be careless for a moment, and he will be "killed".
Once it is cut off and the friendship is severed, it will be completely forgotten.
In this way, if we meet again in the future and others know us, but we secretly cut off the "friendship" and completely forget about others, it will be very embarrassing.
"Who should I use as the 'anchor' for killing love..."
Mo Hua was a little confused. After thinking about it for a long time, he suddenly came up with a good idea:
"Little senior sister!"
Use your little senior sister as the anchor point for your own practice of "Tao Shang Qing Dao".
When I am practicing, I occasionally think about my little senior sister.
If you feel that your feelings are weakening, it means that something is wrong with your practice.
If the feelings are still there, it means that you still have your "human nature" and your feelings as a human being have not been lost.
And as long as the human nature is there and the desire to seek the Tao is there, there will be no problem.
There is actually a lot of "dross" in other human natures that can be eliminated.
Greed, anger and ignorance lead to resentment and hatred.
The mind is as unstable as a mayfly, and the desires are like the churning of sea water.
All other distracting thoughts about fame and wealth can be eliminated.
After cutting off these miscellaneous desires, washing away the worldly world and seeing through the superficial appearance, the Taoist mind becomes pure and the aspirations become firmer.
With this method of killing emotions, one can cultivate the "Tao of Supreme Love-killing" which "seems to be ruthless but has feelings".
Mo Hua felt happy in his heart, but then frowned again.
But in this way, does it mean that I have practiced incorrectly again?
Mo Hua thought about it and thought it didn't matter.
"As long as you can practice..."
Anyway, it’s not once or twice.
You'll get used to it if you tilt it crookedly.
When he thought of this, Mo Hua felt calm in his heart.
Then he began to formally slay his emotions and realize the Tao, and slay his own emotions according to the method passed down to him by "Dugu Patriarch".
After beheading for a while, he meditated on the little senior sister.
If the feelings are not weak, it means that you have no problem cutting it off.
If you feel that your feelings have faded, then stop for a moment and reflect on the way you just "cut off your feelings" to see if there is anything wrong.
Until the young senior sister's exquisite beauty came to mind clearly again, and she continued to realize the truth.
Seek justice from heaven and preserve human nature.
In this way, with "Little Senior Sister" as the anchor, Mo Hua's practice of "Tao Shang Qing Dao" deepened little by little...
Of course, he has not forgotten the Taixu God-Slaying Style.
Every morning, he first used Taixu Sword Style to kill his own soul, allowing the origin of the sword to deeply merge with the wound of his own soul.
In the evening, he practiced "Tai Shang Qing Tao" again.
According to this supreme "enlightenment" method, understand the way of "killing love", and then integrate this way of cutting love into the sword with spiritual thoughts.
In this way, he cultivated the "Taixu Divine Sword" and the "Taishang Love Sword" at the same time.
These two methods were both "accidentally" learned by him. Now that they are mixed together and practiced together, what will eventually be cultivated? The ink painting is not clear, but after thinking about it, I feel that it should not be too weak.
At least there is hope for killing the evil fetus.
Mo Hua nodded slightly.
His requirements are not high, as long as he can kill evil fetuses...
…
There is no sun or moon in cultivating the Tao.
Because of the addition of two new "methods" of practice, the time for ink painting every day is tighter and the tasks are heavier.
He has to practice, he has to go to class, and he has to give formation lessons to thousands of junior brothers and sisters from the three mountains of the same lineage.
During the break, we have to learn formations, learn the Divine Sword, and practice the Love Sword.
Mo Hua has no distractions, focusing on cultivating the Tao, without caring about others for a moment.
But on this day, while Mo Hua was practicing Taishang's Way of Killing Love, suddenly the cause and effect started to change.
Gu Changhuai's pale and bloody face suddenly appeared in his mind.
Mo Hua was stunned.
"...Uncle Gu?"
Mo Hua thought for a moment and felt something was wrong, so he took out the messenger and sent a message to Gu Changhuai:
"Uncle Gu, are you okay..."
No response.
Mo Hua waited patiently for a long time, but Gu Changhuai still didn't reply.
"What's going on..."
Mo Hua frowned, remembering what Uncle Gu mentioned about the blood-sucking demon sect, the dozen or so golden elixir demon cultivators, and the Dao Tingsi mobilizing manpower to encircle and suppress the demon cultivators during the Chinese New Year.
"Are you carrying out Dao Tingsi's mission and cannot use the messenger order, or..."
"Uncle Gu, will he be fine..."
Mo Hua felt a little uneasy in his heart.
…
Night falls.
Cheongju Castle.
Several Gu family monks were driving a carriage in a hurry. They were covered in blood, their eyes were anxious, and their foreheads were covered with cold sweat.
When the carriage entered the city and arrived at Gu's house at a fast pace, one person immediately jumped off the horse, without caring about anything else, and hurriedly shouted:
"Hurry up! Someone is coming! Go and ask for the Alchemy Elder!"
The originally quiet Gu family suddenly became noisy.
After a while, the elder of the Gu family's alchemy master arrived and opened the curtain of the bloody car, and saw the blood stains all over the car.
And Gu Changhuai was lying in the carriage, half of his Taoist robe soaked red with blood, his face was pale, and he was unconscious.
His Yintang was completely dark.
"The evil spirit entered the brain, and the hall was dark..."
The pupils of several Gu family elders immediately trembled, and their hearts felt cold.
"This is...a sign of death..."
Chapter completed!