Yun Xiang, one hundred and forty-six years old, was born in the Miaoyuan Sect. He practiced the basic technique of the Miaoyuan Sect, the Miaoyuan Condensation Technique. His highest cultivation level was in the late stage of the Condensation Realm. He was still one step away from Dacheng.
Therefore, in the end, we still failed to break through the boundaries and take that crucial step.
Once you step out, the sea and sky will be vast.
But you didn't step out?
The lifespan of ordinary people here is between one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty. Although Yunxiang is considered a great figure in the eyes of ordinary people in the late stage of the Condensing Yuan Realm, in fact, the effect of practicing in the Condensing Yuan Realm on changing the body is only
It just stops at “raising”.
It is similar to ordinary people who are pampered, good at maintaining their health, and take supplements regularly.
If there are no accidents, its final lifespan should be around 180 years old.
In other words, if he had not met Xu Guangling, Yunxiang would probably have another thirty or forty years of good life.
These thirty or forty years are the "remaining years", that is, the remaining cultivation level of the body continues to decline until it is almost gone, and then it reaches the end like a real ordinary person.
Although such cultivators are said to be from the Miaoyuan Sect, they actually have nothing to do with the sect.
Or to put it a little more rigorously, although such a person was once a cultivator, he is no longer a cultivator and is regarded more as an ordinary person.
This ordinary person came to Baiyao Hall more than 20 years ago and became a permanent member of Baiyao Hall.
There are many such people, including those from the Miaoyuan Sect, the Qinglin Sect, and even the Baihua Sect. As for other sects and even family monks in the state, there are even more casual cultivators. On the road of cultivation
After being cut off, some of them will choose to come to Baiyao Hall to "live out their old age in peace."
On the one hand, there are many monks gathered here, making it a real "activity center for elderly monks".
On the other hand, Baiyao Hall lacks everything except medicine, especially medicines for health maintenance and health care. There are many kinds of medicines, many of which can slow down the decline of cultivation.
As we all know, behind Baiyao Hall is Wanyao Sect, which is the top sect in the world. Coming to Baiyao Hall means having some relationship with Wanyao Sect. Maybe one day, you will meet someone from Wanyao Sect.
Zong’s opportunity.
Although this kind of opportunity is illusory, but if it happens...
What if this happens?
Therefore, for many reasons, there has never been a shortage of people like Yunxiang who chose to live in Baiyao Hall.
Is Baiyaotang an inn?
no.
But it can be regarded as a combination of inn + canteen + senior activity center + community hospital + park + others.
For such an existence, in this world, the Ten Thousand Medicine Sect has the exclusive title.
As a monk, you can not know about the Nine Immortal Sects, and you can not know specific sects such as Lingxiao Sect among the Nine Immortal Sects. That is completely possible and possible, but it is impossible for you not to know about the Ten Thousand Medicine Sect. It is impossible not to know about the Ten Thousand Medicine Sect.
Know those Ten Medicine Halls, Hundred Medicine Halls, Thousand Medicine Halls, and Ten Thousand Medicine Halls.
After "retiring" or "retiring" as a monk and entering the Baiyao Hall, has Yunxiang ever thought about trying to go a step further?
Thought about it.
Definitely thought about it!
How could you not want to do something that can completely change everything once you use your strength to jump over it?
And he was only one step away from jumping over.
It’s really just one step away!
But there is a saying, the heroes in the world are gone, only the years will last.
During the more than twenty years since he entered Baiyao Hall, Yunxiang has gone from being full of hope to being an old man, from being independent at midnight to looking back at the sunset, from being sad, angry and lonely to being comfortable with his own misery. Especially, he is surrounded by people like you, and
Many of them slowly accepted the reality.
It is an unconscious but terrifying force that silently, slowly, bit by bit, eats away at the heart and bones.
The heart and bones of a monk who was once a monk have disappeared without knowing how long ago. What is left is just a "Doctor Yun" who has a little name in Baiyao Hall.
After all, he is from the Miaoyuan Sect, one of the three dominant sects in the state.
After all, he has climbed to the late stage of Condensing Yuan Realm.
When I came to this Hundred Medicine Hall, among the "community of cultivators", it was easy for me to stand out.
But so what?
The crane's wings have been broken and it can no longer fly into the sky. Even if it can still beat the chickens in the competition of flapping and jumping across the river, is that something to be proud of?
Accepting reality does not mean forgetting the past.
Even if you pretend or try to forget, it doesn't mean you will truly and completely forget.
On the contrary, those young monks who come to Baiyao Hall from time to time to visit their seniors, teachers, grandfathers, etc., often remind Yun Xiang that you were once one of them!
Many of those juniors are very shallow in cultivation. They are generally in the early to mid-term of the Condensing Yuan Realm. In the mid-term, they are already quite impressive. When they come to visit, they often face seniors like them with respect and even awe.
But at that time, Yunxiang often only had one idea.
Junior, junior, you don’t know how much I want to change places with you!
Even if the cultivation level is not high.
Even if he is young, reserved, timid and timid.
And Yunxiang also believes that the old guys around him have the same idea!
But in the end, this kind of thinking can only make you feel sad, and this kind of sadness cannot be expressed in many cases.
Who do you reveal it to?
Day after day, year after year.
There is not much energy left in daily life, only one kind of understanding is born.
If back then, from the very beginning of practice, I had worked harder and worked harder, would it have been...
Will that level be skipped?
But this is also a meaningless realization. When a few old friends occasionally talk about this topic, they are just joking with each other and having fun.
Then.
Then, Yunxiang met that "what if".
That night, after verifying and verifying, confirming and confirming that he could really continue to practice, Yunxiang cried.
This 146-year-old little old man cried like a child who was only 1.46 years old.
It's just that the child's cry is unbridled and loud, and there is no sadness in the cry. It is just a verbal expression, "crying instead of sound", while Yunxiang's cry is both suppressed and unrestrained.
If you suppress it, you don't dare to cry out, otherwise it will make a big joke.
Indulgence means letting go of all the joy, anger, sorrow, and joy in this form of suppressed crying, and letting go of the wind, frost, rain, and snow of a lifetime.
That night, in silence, the tears flowed, wiped away, as if they flowed endlessly and could not be wiped dry. That night, the tears not only wet his face, wet his front, but also wet him.
A body and a lifetime.
That night, looking back in the mist and mist, Yun Xiang saw everything in his life.
I have seen everything in my life, but I still cannot see through the future, let alone grasp it.
But what does it matter?
Now that the opportunity has really come, then bet your whole body, mind, and life on it!
That night, Yunxiang worshiped the sky, the earth, and the young man who brought him this opportunity. These three short prayers lasted from midnight to dawn.
During these three prayers, Yun Xiang's tears gradually dried up.
Tears fell into my body and into my heart, as if they melted away and then rose up, turning into clouds and clouds. In the vast clouds, Yunxiang ushered in the sunrise that day.
Same time.
The same sunrise.
But everything, everything, is different!
Then the sun rises and the moon sets, the sun sets and the moon rises. Before you know it, almost a year has passed.
On this night, Yun Xiang's mind inexplicably drifted from the previous silence and immersion, and he seemed a little restless. Then, he inexplicably remembered the night he cried.
I am...
What happened?
Yun Xiang didn't know what was going on, but in this state, it was useless to practice forcefully. He simply lay there, eyes open and looking at the dark roof without thinking about anything.
Before I knew it, the night passed.
The window turned white.
Yunxiang got up, washed up, and then came to the courtyard and started morning exercises as usual.
Young Master Ye only taught him the formal methods of practice, but he did not teach him the methods of harmonizing the body such as morning exercises. He also said to him, "What you are practicing now is very good and there is no need to change it."
This one practiced by Yun Xiang is one of the basic exercises inherited by Miaoyuan Sect. It has a short but formal name, called "Chaoyang Left, Middle and Right Eight Bows".
Bowing is similar to praying or saluting. In this kind of squatting, crouching, saluting, praying, and worshiping movements, the waist is used as the axis and the spine is used as the column. In the orderly reciprocating rotation of the axis and tilted column, the exerciser's body is
All the Qi and blood in the body can be better circulated and harmonized.
Yun Xiang has practiced these movements for more than a hundred years, and is naturally extremely proficient.
But today, there seemed to be something wrong with his consciousness, mind, or body.
It was obviously an extremely skilled movement that could be done very well by relying solely on physical instinct without using any brain, but unfortunately, after completing the two movements, the whole person stood there motionless.
I stood here for a long time.
It took him a long time before he came back to his senses.
"Oh, I'm doing morning exercises."
"What happened to me just now?"
Confused, Yunxiang gathered his mind again and continued the third pose. However, after completing the entire third pose and switching to the fourth pose, Yunxiang froze again unconsciously.
But this time, there was something different about the daze.
His right leg is heating up!
It was like there was a wisp of hot oil or fire oil, poured from his chest to his lower back, and then poured down on his right lower back, regardless of front or back, towards his entire right thigh, causing his entire right leg to have an obvious pain.
Burning sensation, especially in the bend of the right leg behind the knee, as if there is direct hot water flowing there.
The swing caused Yunxiang to bend his right leg slightly unconsciously, as if he was trying to "get out" the back of his knee.
And then, the burning heat slowly extended to the soles of the feet.