Of course, Xiao Xiuer's promotion had nothing to do with that Heavenly Lord, but that Heavenly Lord did set his sights on Annan, and had a considerable degree of interaction with Annan.
At this moment, he was holding the second chapter of Qingyun Road in his hand, and opposite him, Xu Yishan was sitting.
The two of them don't look like masters and apprentices, but like brothers.
Well, Xu Yishan is like an elder brother, and the opposite side is like a younger brother.
However, "brother" is very reserved, while "brother" is very free and easy.
After reading the storybook, the young man was silent for a long time.
Xu Yishan was not surprised, because he had the same reaction after seeing it before.
And he feels that it is normal for any cultivator in the world to have such a reaction after reading this book. If it were not a similar reaction, it would be abnormal!
After a long time, the young man, Mo Tiankui, finally looked away from the storybook with his somewhat dull eyes, and then sighed softly.
"Yishan, how did I teach you when you first started?" Mo Tiankui asked.
Xu Yishan smiled with respect and admiration on his face, and then said: "Master, you let me know what 'Yishan' is."
"Actually, I'm just teaching you to focus." Mo Tiankui smiled, "Focus, as long as you keep focusing, no matter what you do, the result will not be too bad."
At this point, Mo Tiankui changed his words, "But it's just not too bad. There are many things where concentration alone is not enough, far from enough."
"For example, practice."
Xu Yishan nodded.
He should be the one who feels this most because he has been witnessing it for the past two hundred years.
In the family, there are many seniors and juniors of the same generation, and there are so many dedicated people.
But practice is not just about concentration.
Pretty much focused.
Some people go through their whole lives without even breaking through to the Qi Condensation Realm, and they have already turned into a piece of loess.
This was the case for one of Xu Yishan's cousins. When he was a child, this cousin often played behind his butt. But a hundred years later, sitting in front of her grave, he could only pour a glass of water and wine and remain speechless.
Some only stop at clearing the meridians.
When I was a child, a cousin was praised by many elders for his good deeds. But later, what shocked people was that despite all the efforts, this cousin failed to break through to the realm of enlightenment, so that his family became members of the clan.
Not a big laughing stock. Of course, no one would laugh in his face.
Later, the cousin married, had children, and took over several shops in the clan.
Some people achieve enlightenment, but they remain there throughout their lives, unable to break through the limitations of human beings and earth.
There are many such people in the clan.
Why so many?
If we talk about it now, it is because this is the biggest "fate" for people in their family.
What stops at condensing energy is that my talent is too poor.
What stops at opening up the meridians is that you are not talented enough.
No matter how talented they are, with their family's inheritance and resources, it is absolutely impossible for them to fail to reach the enlightenment realm.
And stop at enlightenment...
Although it still has something to do with talent, in fact, it doesn't have much to do with it anymore.
Something else replaces concentration and talent as the main determining factor.
But after breaking through the human level and reaching the earth level, we still faced the same problem.
Many practitioners in Annan County, such as Gu Huaimin and others, are like this.
Focused?
As Master said, this is just an introduction and the first step on the road to spiritual practice.
But this road is more than just one step.
It’s not just two steps or three steps.
It's ten steps, a hundred steps, a thousand steps, ten thousand steps...
Thinking about the content of the second chapter of The Road to Qingyun, and briefly recalling what happened in the first chapter, Xu Yishan probably knew why the master said this.
But then, to Xu Yishan's surprise, the master did not immediately mention what was in this second chapter, but told him something about the world of cultivation.
"Yishan, the earth under our feet is actually not flat, but round, you know, right?" Mo Tiankui asked.
"I know, when I was young, I was taught in the family school." Xu Yishan nodded.
"There are mountains in Annan, and you must have climbed to the top of the mountain more than once. The bigger mountaintops are actually flat ground, so even on the top of the mountain, sometimes all you see is just flat ground, just like the land beneath our feet.
"
Xu Yishan nodded again, indicating that he really understood what the master said and that the ground under his feet was round but not flat.
Mo Tiankui made a move with his hand, and a stone flew over from the top of the rockery in the small courtyard. In the process, it adjusted into a circle, and then landed on the table between the two of them like a feather.
Mo Tiankui stretched out his hand and drew a curved line on the stone ball with his little finger.
"This is Nanzhou where we are." Mo Tiankui said, pointing to the lower part of the sphere roughly divided into upper and lower parts by the line.
"Master, there are only two continents in the world: North and South? Our South continent is much smaller than Beizhou?" Xu Yishan asked.
That line is not in the middle of the stone ball, but at the bottom, and the area divided by the circular line that goes around the entire stone ball only accounts for about one-third of the entire ball.
"I don't know much about the situation over there." Mo Tiankui shook his head, "I haven't gone out to find out more about it."
Xu Yishan nodded.
I didn’t understand it because I didn’t need to.
The vision of a cultivator is very narrow. As far as he is concerned, if he hadn't been sitting in Annan for hundreds of years, he wouldn't know about too many things.
And after looking through the whole of Annan, Nanzhou and even Wei State, not many people know about "Nanzhou".
The territory of Wei State is divided into five states: east, west, south, north and middle, but this is only the division within Wei State. It is enough for monks or non-monks in Wei State to know these divisions. Even if they know the situation outside, it is of no use.
The vast majority of them will never leave the country of Wei in their entire lives.
So, even if you know what’s going on outside, what’s the use?
Especially for practitioners, useless things are a burden.
There are so many thoughts about burdens, how much more time do you have to focus on spiritual practice?
Mo Tiankui stretched out his hand again and pressed his thumb on the carved out Nanzhou part of the stone ball, making a dent.
A total of five dents were made by him in different positions.
"These are the five spiritual realms in our southern continent. According to the more common saying in the spiritual world, they are also called the five holy places." Mo Tiankui pointed at the five pits and said, "The location may not be very accurate, but it roughly looks like this."
Xu Yishan nodded.
Mo Tiankui stretched out his little finger again, and clicked a small dot not far from one of the pits.
"This is our country, Wei."
Knowing Wei State, the pit on the edge of Wei State is obviously the Holy Land of Dayao Mountain. Looking at the distance between the two that are almost next to each other, and then looking at the distance between the five pits, Xu Yishan couldn't help but be speechless, "Master
Dear, Nanzhou is so big!"
"It's not very big." Mo Tiankui pointed to the line drawn earlier, "It is said that the circumference of this continental line is about 140,000 miles."
Speaking of this, Mo Tiankui had a smile in his eyes and some memories, "This line also has a common name among many heaven-level monks, called the 'Heaven-level patrol line'."
"Throughout the ages, many monks in Nanzhou, after becoming heaven-level, would walk this line in a circle, alone or in pairs or three. The opposite side of this line is the sea, so it is called the 'Sea Patrol Line'
.”
"Master, can't you see the island on the opposite side?" Xu Yishan asked curiously.
"Even if you climb to the top, you will see nothing but sex." Mo Tiankui said.
"Actually, it's not just **." Mo Tiankui added, "There are many locations on the sea patrol line. You can also see islands of various sizes near or far offshore."
"When I was a teacher, I landed on several islands."
"Islands in the sea, whether inhabited or uninhabited, are generally in the same situation. They are nothing to behold and lack spiritual energy."
"However, the taste of various sea fish is quite delicious, better than those on land."