As he climbed up the nine worlds of Jianmu, Huwa seemed to have an illusion, as if his cultivation realm was being chipped away layer by layer. When he climbed to the ninth world, he seemed to have returned to the original state.
If you were someone who couldn't understand this phenomenon, you would think that this was due to Emperor Taihao's powerful magical power, and the nine-level immortal world created by him could cut off the cultivation levels of true immortals layer by layer. Taihao's cultivation level is indeed superb, as long as he is in
In the nine-level immortal world he created, the true immortals who ascended here were no different from ordinary mortals in front of him.
But Huwa's perception is different from this. His cultivation level has not really been cut off. On the contrary, every time he ascends to a world, it means that the cultivation level of a true immortal has been further improved. The cultivation before becoming an immortal has
The ninth level of mortals, and the nine branches of climbing trees correspond to the ninth level of true immortals.
After boarding the ninth branch of the world, his cultivation seems to have returned to the original state, but is this the first state still the same as before? Is he still the same mortal as before? What is the feeling of the first state? It is like the awakening of oneself when a baby comes into the world.
Clarity appears in chaos. For demon cultivators, it is also the emergence of a little sprout of spiritual wisdom. They can clearly feel themselves.
The means for monks to enter the first realm are often obtained from silence, or with the help of some kind of sensory condensation, such as listening behind the curtain, eliminating external interference to feel their own existence, and entering a pure state, just like a baby opening its eyes.
However, these eyes can see oneself clearly, and the accompanying supernatural powers are often like inner vision, which can detect changes in the body and mind and various subtle feelings.
People often don't know their own state, such as what's wrong, what's wrong, but after entering the first stage of cultivation, the first thing to seek verification is this.
It is difficult to describe in words that after boarding the ninth world of Jianmu, it felt like returning to the original state like a mortal. What kind of cultivation has been achieved and what kind of state of mind has been verified? But I can barely make an analogy.
For example, a monk who has broken through the three realms can control objects, which is impossible for others, which is an achievement; and a monk who has broken through the fourth realm can control weapons, which is impossible for monks in the third realm, which is a higher achievement.
It is precisely because of the differences caused by this kind of comparison that a certain monk appears to be more intelligent. It is also precisely because the achievements of a monk are that he has obtained magical powers that others do not have through practice, so he appears to be great in the eyes of others.
So this leads to a question, is achievement achieved by comparing with others?
For many things in the world, this is simply nonsense. One person makes more money than another person, has a higher official position and title, and owns a larger territory, which often means higher status and achievements. Let’s extend it a little bit.
For example, A's cultivation level is in the fifth realm, and B's cultivation level is in the sixth realm, which of course means that B is more intelligent.
But in a state where there is no way or need to compare, how to measure a person's achievements? For example, if there is nothing in the boundless and mysterious universe, but only such a person, how can he measure his achievements? In other words, if the so-called
Achievement must be achieved through comparison with others, which means that it can only be achieved by relying on the existence of others. So how can we talk about freedom and detachment?
The reason why immortals are immortals, in the eyes of mortals, is because they are immortal and have vast magical powers. But if there was such a world, everyone was immortal and mastered various magical powers. In this world, they would all appear ordinary.
, so are they immortals or mortals?
In the eyes of many mortals, if there really is such a world, it would certainly be enviable, but in this world, it is nothing more than a group of mortals with immortality and vast supernatural powers. They do not feel more detached due to comparison. And this mentality may or
Speaking of state of mind, it is the so-called shackles of mortals, or the shackles of reincarnation.
The shackles of mortals are often reflected in various literary imaginations. For example, people imagine that there is such a world with spiritual energy and secret methods to practice, such as practicing swordsmanship. The sword here is not a simple sword, but a symbol of a state of cultivation.
.Start from an ordinary swordsman, upgrade to sword master, great sword master...sword master, sword emperor, and then you can ascend.
So what happens after ascension? Change the map, change the world, everyone is the Sword Emperor, the Sword Emperor in this world is equivalent to the swordsman in the previous world, so let’s start from the beginning, Sword Emperor, Sword Emperor Master
...Sword Emperor Saint, Sword Emperor Emperor, or another title, and then he can ascend and transcend this world, and his magical powers will be even greater.
Over and over again, it seems that we have seen each other before, it is still the same person and the same thing. Is this detachment? No, no, no, this is reincarnation! Reincarnation in oneself, in others, and in the state of mind. Even if you let your imagination run free, you still feel
It's in the endless reincarnation.
The true meaning of becoming an immortal is to escape from this reincarnation and realize the great freedom and transcendence. The so-called immortality and vast supernatural powers are just an appearance of breaking away from the constraints of reincarnation, rather than jumping into another reincarnation.
Is Huwa's cultivation the result of reincarnation? It does look a bit like it. He once broke through the nine realms in the human world, and climbed up the nine branches of the tree in the ninth heavenly realm, gradually proving the ultimate cultivation of a true immortal. But Huwa's feeling is...
Returning more and more to the ordinary, even returning to the original state, like a pure baby.
He is not the baby held in his hands, the immortal is already an entity of form and spirit. There is no difference between the so-called immortal and the mortal perception of the initial state, just because the Great Way is like this, and what he has witnessed is consistent with the Great Way.
If you want to prove the achievements of the Emperor of Heaven, you must have the cultivation level of stepping on the nine branches of the building tree. In this state, there is no need to rely on the existence of others to achieve status and achievements. For example, the Emperor of Heaven, he is the world. This is great freedom, and it is also the escape from reincarnation.
Detachment. This is still difficult to describe. I can only try to experience it in a way that is barely understandable.
For example, people often advise others, or some people encourage themselves that I must be strong, so strong that I don’t care about anything. But how can people have a strong self, so that they really don’t care, instead of just saying it or insisting that they don’t care?
It must rely on a rich enough inner being.
For example, the emperors of heaven and the sacred land of the emperor's hometown are themselves a process of self-verification. But this kind of achievement does not come out of thin air. They were mortals at first. They practiced step by step until now, and finally verified the great freedom and transcendence.
What is there in the world of Jianmu Ninth Branch? There is nothing! Entering here, all you experience is the clarity of inner freedom.
The fourth branch world of Jianmu seems to have nothing, but it can change according to circumstances, but it is different from the highest ninth branch world. When Huwa boarded the fourth branch world, he saw Dongting Fairy Palace, which was
Emperor Taihao was created according to the divine will of his immortal family.
But in the Ninth Branch World, Huwa has to create his own inner world, otherwise he can only leave. No one knows how to verify this level of cultivation. Everyone has their own different ways, or they will never be able to
I can't prove it. But after all, this is the sacred land of the Imperial Land opened by Emperor Taihao. Taihao also left some guidance for Huwa, and then let him make his own destiny.
How big is the world of Jianmu's Ninth Branch? Since it has nothing, it is of course infinite. The first thing Huwa saw was only a lamp.
This is a very simple and simple lamp. There is oil squeezed from hemp seeds in an earthenware dish. Half of a grass stem is immersed in the oil, and the other half sticks out of the dish, shining with a ball of fire. This is Huwa.
The first lamp I have ever seen in my life, hanging alone in a world with nothing, is a little guidance or reminder left by Emperor Taihao to Huwa.
How could this lamp appear here, and how could Emperor Taihao know so much about the origin of Huwa’s practice? This is not surprising at all, think about what the mountain god used to clear water back then? Huwa’s initial practice was very important to Taihao.
There is no secret in saying that the greatest opportunity he had in his early years was also obtained from the Taihao ruins.
When Huwa saw this lamp, his thoughts moved slightly, and then the world changed. Of course, such a lamp would not appear in the world out of thin air. It was first lit by Shan Ye, and then Huwa saw Shan Ye.
What is there in this world? There is a stone house. It is dark night outside the stone house, but there is a lamp on the table in the stone house that emits light and heat. Standing in front of the table is Mr. Shan.
Huwa seemed to be the child again. In fact, as a true immortal, he was already a physical and spiritual being. At this level, all the descriptions he had had were the same as he was at this moment. It didn't matter what he looked like. Shan Ye stood in front of the lamp and was looking at him.
Said to himself
"There was no lamp in the world until someone created it, and then there was something called a lamp. But no matter whether people don't know what a lamp is, if they use plates, grass stems, and hemp oil in this way, it will appear
, and then you can give it a name, such as a light.
In other words, before there were any lights in the world, lights actually existed. It just depends on whether people know about it, and whether they can discover it and light it up. From this point of view, before everything in this world appeared, it actually existed.
They all have a reason for their existence, otherwise they would not appear. The mystery between all things, no matter whether we know it or not, or how much we know, it is always there."
This passage was indeed too profound for Huwa at that time, but it was exactly the state of mind after entering the ninth world of Jianmu. Huwa stood in the stone house, bowed to Master Shan, and formally faced this
The world, but suddenly there was a mysterious feeling, and the Nine Heavens Immortal World seemed to have undergone inexplicable changes.
This change does not come from Huwa, but from the Nine Heavenly Immortal Realm. If a true immortal wants to leave after ascending here, there are two ways. The first way is everywhere. You can leave at any time or be expelled by Emperor Taihao.
, the other way is to step through the world of Jianmu Jiuzhi and transcend, just like Mr. Cangjie and other immortals once did.
Huwa now feels that the Nine-Level Immortal Realm is closed. This situation has happened before, but at that time Huwa was outside the Nine-Level Immortal Realm, and all he sensed was that the Nine-Level Immortal Realm had disappeared.
The disappearance of the Nine-Level Immortal Realm means that people outside cannot sense its existence. But for the people in the Nine-Level Immortal Realm, nothing has changed; for a true immortal like Huwa, it also means that
The outside world ceased to exist, and only remained in his own memory and knowledge. What was even more special was that Huwa found that he could not get out, not to mention leaving the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm, even if he wanted to return to the Eighth Branch World.
impossible.
This means that Huwa cannot leave this world, let alone move to the lower realm, and cannot even feel what is happening in the outside world. This situation has not happened before in the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm, but Huwa did not expect that he is still here
In the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm, Emperor Taihao came just now. Isn't this a trick? He was trapped in a cage of heaven and earth.
Presumably, the fairy boy Jumang should have appeared in the human world again. His appearance in the human world corresponds to the disappearance of the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm. What is this fairy boy wandering around to do?
Does this mean that Emperor Taihao has left the Nine-Level Immortal Realm? Of course not. The Nine-Level Immortal Realm is still here, which means that Taihao is still here, because the Emperor’s Divine Land is Taihao’s form and spirit. But from this moment on, Hu
I'm afraid I won't get a response from Taihao's appearance. Everything in the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm naturally operates according to Taihao's state of mind.
Huwa has never figured out what kind of existence Fairy Boy Jumang is. Maybe it is a method of verification by Emperor Taihao, but Huwa's own cultivation has not reached that point yet, so he can only barely understand 1 and 2. Huwa now
If you want to return to the human world, you must first leave the Nine Heavens Immortal World, and the only way to leave the Nine Heavens Immortal World is to step through the Jianmu Ninth Branch World.
Otherwise, Huwa will have to wait for the Ninth Level Celestial Realm to reopen, otherwise he will not even be able to sense what is happening in the outside world. It is unknown when the Ninth Level Celestial Realm will reopen. It may be possible for hundreds or even thousands of years. If Huwa wants to
The more reliable way to go out is to walk through Jianmu Jiuzhi yourself.
What does Emperor Taihao mean by this? Does he not want him to interfere in human affairs, or is he testing his cultivation? Or is he trying to see if the ninth level of the Immortal Realm can contain him?
At this point, Huwa had no choice but to take the initiative to cut off his impatient thoughts. If you want to break the ninth world of Jianmu, it is not like building a mountain and building a road. There is no clear time and it will never be broken until the state is reached.
, time is meaningless, and there is no need to be anxious. Now that we have come here, it is time to let everything go. (To be continued...)