Xu Yishan started practicing at the age of eleven, and at the age of twenty-six he achieved great success in condensing energy and broke into the Tongmai channel.
From beginning to end, it spans sixteen years.
The Xu family can be considered a big family. Generally speaking, those children of the Xu family who are talented will take about twenty years to open their veins.
Xu Yishan was four or five years ahead of schedule.
At that time, he didn't understand the significance of these four or five years. He even felt that he was no different from his brothers in the family! He had failed to live up to his teacher's teachings.
But the teacher said with a smile: "Yishan, yes, this is faster than when I was a teacher."
At this time, Xu Yishan smiled slightly as he recalled the scene back then.
Four or five years is indeed not a long time. If you look at it at the current level, it is only a matter of seconds.
If he hadn't been unable to break through through practice in recent years, normally a longer retreat would have lasted more than four or five years.
But this is now.
This is based on the fact that his earth level has been greatly improved and his life span has been greatly extended.
But for an ordinary person who is new to spiritual practice, four or five years is too long and too precious!
Entering the Tongmai four or five years earlier than others, he gained not only the "extra" four or five years, but also the best years to enter the right path of practice!
In this world, all the children of top-ranking families and those who are powerful in heaven, those who are the true seeds of cultivation, are fighting for these four to five years or even one or two years!
One year in this age group cannot be exchanged for ten years or even a hundred years in other age groups!
In a practitioner's life, the most important foundation for practice begins when the practitioner is still ignorant of things, and most likely ends when the practitioner is still ignorant of things.
It sounds a bit absurd to say it, but it is reality.
If you want to achieve great cultivation, you must be born into a noble family and receive the inheritance of earth and heaven.
Apart from this, there is no other way.
This is the path of luck.
If there is no luck, what will happen if the bones, endowments, etc. are extremely advanced? It will just be a hundred years of time, and then the grass and trees will rot together.
"Practice is easy, practice is difficult, practice is like climbing a heavy mountain."
"The road is smooth, the road is dangerous, and the road only lies within a thin line."
Looking back on the initial period of spiritual practice, Xu Yishan picked up a pen and wrote this on the paper.
Imitate the style of "Tao poetry".
Those four or five years, those years of "fighting", "stealing", and "robbing" from God provided him with excellent and excellent conditions for the next stage of practice.
After completing the Qi Condensation and entering Tongmai, Xu Yishan started his first trip in his life under the guidance of his teacher.
From Zhongzhou, go to Beidi.
When they arrived in the north, what Xu Yishan saw was snow flying all over the sky.
Heavy snow.
The size of the snowflakes was bigger than his wide-open eyes.
That snowfall lasted for less than half a month.
During those ten days, and in the first few days, the teacher took him for a walk through the barren mountains and ridges.
They either climbed to the top of the mountain, or slid against the wind and snow along the smooth slopes until they reached the bottom of the stream.
"Condensed Qi is great, and you are not afraid of cold or heat."
At that time, Xu Yishan was confirming this sentence.
Among the ice and snow, what Xu Yishan felt was not cold, but just coolness and extreme refreshment.
The young man, who was already in his twenties, shouted like a child, and his high-pitched voice echoed in the mountains. Of course, he couldn't actually swing very far. The sky was filled with snow, making the world quiet.
But that didn't affect Xu Yishan's interest at all.
He also rolled around in the mountains like a child, and even rolled himself from the top of the mountain all the way down.
After more than ten years of diligent practice and hard work, after breaking through the most important first level, my body and mind were released, and the joy and satisfaction I felt were beyond words.
In the next few days, they lived in an abandoned cabin in the mountains.
A fire actually started.
Inside the cabin, a bonfire was blazing, and there were hares waiting to be hunted on the wooden frame. The fat was moistened from time to time and dripped into the pile of the bonfire.
Outside the cabin, heavy snow continued to fly all over the sky, carrying the howl of the wind.
"Yishan, how do you feel?" One day, after a full meal, the teacher asked with a smile.
Xu Yishan was stunned for a moment, then answered truthfully:
"good!"
"Very good!"
The teacher smiled with a smile on his face, and then, as if he was speaking casually and yet with a serious heart, as if he was speaking to Xu Yishan, yet as if he was just mumbling to himself, he said softly:
"This is what a monk is, this is what cultivation is."
"We live between heaven and earth, using the earth as our bed, the sky as our quilt, time as our river, and our body as our raft."
"Whether it's going up or down, it's a life."
After saying this, the teacher really asked Xu Yishan: "Yishan, do you want to go with the current or against the current?"
Downstream of course!
However, after Xu Yishan answered like this, the teacher's next words were: "Submission is the bottom, and disobedience is the top. All living beings are submissive, but I am the only one who is rebellious."
After hearing this, Xu Yishan was suddenly enlightened and confused.
At this moment, the teacher continued to say to him:
"Yishan, you have entered Tongmai."
"More than ten years have passed by in a flash. When I took you in as my disciple, you were just such a tall little boy." The teacher stretched out his hand and made a gesture on the top of Xu Yishan's head.
Xu Yishan was sitting at this time.
"Now that you have grown up, you need to make some decisions of your own."
"Regarding the practice of channel-opening stage, there are three ways for me as a teacher."
In a daze, Xu Yishan sat upright.
"The first way is for my master to send you into the spiritual realm, supplemented by elixirs such as Tongmai Powder, so that you can achieve great success in opening up the meridians as quickly as possible and enter the realm of enlightenment."
"The second way is that you stay with my teacher and practice normally. Apart from teaching you the secret method of unblocking meridians, my teacher will not give you any other help. This is also the path that my teacher took back then."
When he said this, the teacher paused.
"Teacher, what about the third way?" Xu Yishan said.
"The third way..." the teacher muttered, "This is a path that even my teacher has never taken, and the risks involved are really unknown."
In the end, Xu Yishan chose the third path.
The price is that although he was promoted to Tongmai at the age of twenty-four, it was not until he was seventy-nine that he achieved the level of Tongmai and achieved enlightenment.
It took a full fifty-six years!
In the family, many of his peers have already advanced to enlightenment over this long period of time.
"Second brother, you still have Tongmai? Hahaha, it's nothing. You have such good qualifications, and you were accepted as a disciple by Senior Mo. Logically speaking, you shouldn't. Could it be...?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? It's only a matter of time for Brother Yishan to wake up! Look at you one by one, you are so short-sighted!" The person who said this said it almost fifteen years later.
To Xu Yishan, who still had a clear pulse, he said something completely different:
"Yishan, can you tell Senior Mo that I also want to become his disciple? I guess, hehe."
He didn't say what happened next.
But sometimes, words don’t have to be spoken, eyesight, expression, etc. are all expressions, and they can be very obvious and powerful.
At that time, there were many people present.
Once upon a time, when Xu Yishan was there, all the stars were shining over the moon.
He is the moon, others are the stars.
And when time passes, a small Tongmai is among the many enlightenments...
Or the stars are shining over the moon.
Who said he was the disciple of a heaven-level monk?
However, the situation of "Gong" at this time is completely different from that of Gong back then.