Yang Tuo looked at Zhenwu and asked, "How long have you been with me?"
Zhenwu saluted respectfully and said: "This disciple was ignorant at first, lost his mind, and did not know the year. Since I can remember, I have followed the teacher for more than six hundred years!"
Yang Tuo sighed and said: "Your injury is in the true spirit, a source of injury, and it is difficult to heal. After all these years, I don't trust you to go out."
"Now, with the help of your heaven and earth karma, you have stepped into Taiyi, and your injury has been initially stabilized. It is easy to think that there will be no more accidents."
"But it is very difficult to recover. Although merit and luck have miraculous effects, it is too rare."
"After many years of study as a teacher, I discovered that besides merit and luck, there is another thing that also has the effect of polishing the true spirit." As he spoke, Yang Tuo paused briefly because he didn't know whether this was good or bad.
This thing is the power of incense and incense that all the gods and Buddhas in the sky are moved by.
Since the canonization of gods, gods and Buddhas have flourished in the world. In the three realms, temples have sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain, blooming everywhere.
Yang Tuo has always believed that the aspiration power of incense is too complex, which is not conducive to practice. After all, incense is poisonous. It can be said that this is the success, and it will eventually fail.
As one of the four emperors of heaven, Emperor Ziwei of Beitian Jiji, his incense in the world is also very prosperous.
But Yang Tuo never used the incense for practice, he only used it as a supplement to his divine power for consumption.
But recently, he made some new discoveries.
It has only been a few hundred years since he ascended to the throne of God, but the innate and immortal aura in the list of gods has grown a little stronger.
Although it is only an insignificant trace, its significance is extraordinary. This is the growth of the origin.
He has always believed that the growth of the origin can only be achieved by polishing the true spirit through the great road and tempering the mind in the world of mortals.
Now he discovered that polishing with the power of incense and vows was also a good idea. However, he did not think this was a good thing.
The path to immortality is endless. Once you reach the realm of Golden Immortal, it is no longer about the practice of magic power, but about the realization of great morality.
Use the Great Dao to polish your true spirit and play a role in strengthening your origin.
The realm of Taiyi is to temper the mind, brush off the dust on the true spirit, and make it see the light again.
The realm of Da Luo is to repair the mark of time on the true spirit, the damage caused by reincarnation, and make it perfect and flawless.
The realm of Hunyuan strengthens the source, allowing the true spirit to emit immortal aura, which can be stored outside and protected from disasters.
Or like the ancestor of Styx, he placed it in the sea of blood in the underworld. Or like the Great Immortal Zhenyuan, he placed it in the fetal membrane of the earth.
In the end, like all saints, the true spirit rests on the way of heaven and is immortal.
The importance of the origin of the true spirit is self-evident. If the origin is not strong enough, then the true spirit cannot be placed outside.
Only when you reach the Holy Realm of Hunyuan, you need to strengthen your origin. Before that, it was just cleaning up the traces left on the true spirit by countless years.
Whether it is the dust on the true spirit or the mark of time on the true spirit, it is a manifestation of imperfection.
Daluo Jinxian is the symbol of the perfection of the true spirit. At this point, it is necessary to strengthen the origin and prepare for the true spirit to be placed outside.
Yang Tuo's true body is no more than the Great Luo True Immortal, and he has not yet reached this step. However, the incarnation of Emperor Ziwei, after hundreds of years of scouring by the fortunes of heaven and earth, the blessings of his karma, status, achievements, and offerings of incense and vows, has already reached the level of the Great Luo Golden Immortal.
The ultimate.
He even has a piece of it, which is the incomplete true spirit cast by the innate immortal spiritual light in the sea pearl and is on the list of gods.
This true spirit is made from the immortal spiritual light in the innate spiritual treasure, and is not the true origin of life.
However, the innate immortal spiritual light is the essence of the innate spiritual treasure. It is the same as the origin of human life.
If the innate spiritual treasure is regarded as a living being, then the immortal spiritual light is its true spirit.
This grain of true spirit was stored in the list of gods, blessed by the authority of heaven and earth, and polished by the power of incense and will, so it had a slight growth.
In the Three Realms, there are only a few people who can meet these conditions. Except for the leader-level figures in the Hunyuan Holy Realm, they are afraid that they can only be counted on five fingers.
That is to say, among the Four Heavenly Kings, Western Buddhists have such a possibility. Not everyone among the Four Heavenly Kings has this opportunity.
The Qinghua Emperor of East Pole and the Changsheng Emperor of Antarctica, both of whom came from the Shao Chan sect, have no such possibility. The two of them did not put their true souls into the list of gods.
Grain
Therefore, there is only the name of a god, but no reality of the god, so we can still follow the path of the gods. True spirits do not have the protection of the list of gods, and they may not have discovered the ability of incense and vows.
However, with Yuanshi Tianzun behind them, they should also know this secret. Otherwise, Yuanshi Tianzun would not plan for them to be the emperor.
It's just that without the protection of the Conferred Gods List, you need to be extremely careful when polishing your true spirit.
It was only after Lao Tzu taught Yang Tuo the method of transforming three pure states into one qi that he finally understood some of its secrets.
This method of transforming Qi into the Three Purities is not just a simple incarnation method, it is also a corpse-killing method in the Holy Realm of Hunyuan.
The growth rate of the true spirit is very slow. Even if it is polished by the Great Way, it will take endless years to support it.
Therefore, the method passed down by Taoist ancestors to kill three corpses and attain Taoism is another shortcut.
Use the innate spiritual treasure to cut off the bodies of the three corpses. Then the immortal spiritual light in the innate spiritual treasure can be refined into the true spirits of the three corpses.
In the end, the three corpses are killed, and then their true spirits are combined into one, and they can reach the sky in one step, and the true spirit will be strengthened to the level where it can be placed in the way of heaven.
This path is the Three Corpses Enlightenment Method, and the difference is the Enlightenment through merit and the Enlightenment through force.
Enlightenment through merit is to use merit to bless the true spirit. Merit is a reward obtained from heaven and earth, and can directly strengthen the origin of the true spirit.
Proving the Tao with force means directly polishing the true spirit with the Tao. The time and mana required are both unimaginable.
The goals of the three are the same, so in the process of practice, it is not either one or the other, but all three go hand in hand.
The ultimate goal is to strengthen the source to the point where it can be placed in the void. Then, by using supreme magical power to place the true spirit on some immortal existence, the practitioner can become truly immortal.
Even the direct disciples of the saints may not be able to learn the secrets of becoming a saint unless they have actually reached that stage.
Nowadays, the news that incense and vows can polish the true spirit has not spread yet, and I don't think so yet.
Once this news spreads, the competition for incense and power will become fierce and turn into a fierce battle of faith.
No wonder there are no such rumors in the outside world. Firstly, not many people know about it, and secondly, the insiders are deliberately controlling it.
If we really encounter those who are only interested in self-interest, we may treat all living beings as livestock and herd the world.
Once this happens, the world will be in trouble!
Yang Tuo is also because of his high position and power, and his true spirit is protected by the list of gods, which isolates him from most influences.
Coupled with the help of the enlightenment method of transforming three pure states into one qi, he just became aware of it.
For ordinary people, it may not be possible to discover it even if it takes thousands of years. Even if they feel that they have made some progress, it will be attributed to the progress of their own practice.
Suddenly, Yang Tuo wondered whether the great rise of Buddhism in later generations was also related to this factor. People in Xuanmen were rich, even if they had innate spiritual treasures.
You can use the innate immortal spiritual light in the innate spiritual treasure to increase your own origin.
However, Western Buddhism is poor and spiritual objects are scarce, so it will rely heavily on this method.
Yang Tuo's idea is still somewhat biased, after all, he is not yet a member of the Hunyuan Saint Realm.
The reason for the prosperity of Buddhist incense is not to directly polish the true spirit with the power of incense. After all, they do not have the protection of the list of gods.
Instead, it uses the method of the golden body, receiving the power of infinite incense and fire, to directly give birth to a little immortal spiritual light from nothingness.
It is also a helpless and flexible move to use the golden body as an innate spiritual treasure and use the infinite incense and wish power to create a little spiritual light.
Who made the West barren? If there really is an innate spiritual treasure, why should we use this workaround?
However, the amount of incense and willingness required for such a method is not a small amount. It is just a matter of looking for a glimmer of possibility among countless impossibilities.
Difficulties are difficult, the way is the most mysterious!
How can it be so simple to become a saint? Even if all the requirements are fully met, it will only turn completely impossible into maybe impossible.
In the end, there was only a slight possibility of becoming a saint, but it was still almost non-existent.
However, isn’t that what all sentient beings pursue, an almost impossible path to transcendence?