Chapter 178 What Is It Like a Trailing Turtle in the Mud
In fact, if you remain buried in the darkness, no matter how unwilling you are, it will eventually turn into silence, then silence, and then no interest.
Decay with the vegetation.
From being buried to falling asleep, sleeping forever in the embrace of time.
This is actually the destiny curve of almost all the seniors of the Chang family.
The Chang family has been established in Annan County for almost two thousand years. During these two thousand years, countless talented and talented seniors have tried every means to break the shackles of family inheritance.
What's the result?
The result is what Chang Zhenhe is facing now, and what his grandchildren and even great-grandchildren are facing.
Break the shackles.
These words are easy to say, but how difficult to do them!
"The journey along the great road is like the sun and the moon."
The sentence at the beginning of "The Road to Qingyun" came to mind, and what emerged in Chang Zhenhe's heart was a deep and indescribable emotion.
despair?
have.
have no choice?
have.
Angry?
have.
There are many, many other emotions that Chang Zhenhe himself cannot explain.
The only thing that can be said clearly is that once I think of this matter, I feel uneasy and restless.
But, what can be done?
despair?
Why don't you die?
have no choice?
Who do you have no choice but to show?
Angry?
Who are you angry at, and who owes you anything that has wronged you?
Therefore, there are too many emotions that cannot find an outlet, but can only slowly accumulate in the darkness, and then slowly dissolve themselves in the darkness.
At the same time, what is also eliminated is the cultivator’s drive for progress.
The journey along the great road is like the sun and the moon.
But for Chang Zhenhe, this day was covered by clouds, this month was eclipsed by the sky, and it was forever covered and eclipsed.
Is it really forever?
From not believing, to being unwilling, to finally accepting my fate, it actually only took a few decades.
However, after accepting his fate, suddenly, the covered sun showed a glimmer of light, and the eclipsed moon revealed a corner of it.
The light that blooms in the darkness is the strongest!
The worn-out heart and gloomy emotions suddenly regained their strength and immediately lost control!
It really echoes the words of a certain world, "When I am dying of illness, I sit up in shock and ask the visitor where he came from with a smile!"
Chang Zhenhe didn't know where the guest came from. Not only Sihaimen, but also the entire county knew nothing about Xu Tonghui's origins as far as Chang Zhenhe knew.
Perhaps in Annan County, only Xu Yishan knows about it.
But that's not really important.
What's the key?
The key lies in "The Road to Qingyun".
Chang Zhenhe and the higher-ups in the sect had discussed it countless times. They were wondering why Xu Tonghui wrote such a thing and then submitted it to Juxing Tower.
Isn't he afraid of exposing his "secret"?
That gentleman.
Those Taoist poems.
That Qi Condensation Powder.
And that... Babel tree...
It's all a secret!
If these are not secrets, then what are?
And any one of these, in the eyes of Chang Zhenhe and all the senior officials in the sect who are aware of it, is an absolutely undisclosed secret.
It is a taboo-like existence and is absolutely forbidden to be leaked!
However, Xu Tonghui leaked it like this. It was not an accidental leak, nor was it only leaked to one or two people. In the form of a script, what did he want to do?
Do you want everyone in the world to know?
One story told everyone in the world that Juxing Tower did not have such ability, and certainly neither did Sihaimen.
If you don’t spread it all over the world, you won’t spread it all over Annan, even if it’s just all the counties and cities, you can’t do it!
But this thing is different.
Chang Zhenhe has no doubt that once this thing spreads, it will drive all cultivators crazy!
Needless to say about the human level.
Not to mention the ground level.
Heaven level...
Chang Zhenhe didn't know the scene of the heavenly steps, and he couldn't even imagine it, but he thought of the "Babeling Tree" in the storybook and what the gentleman said, "Eighteen thousand years ago, another person and I worked together to
Planted."
Can someone in heaven live to be 18,000 years old?
I am afraid……
Can't?
A little further up.
Can a saint live eighteen thousand years?
I am afraid……
Chang Zhenhe didn't know if the saint could do it, but the first feeling in his heart was that he couldn't.
The lifespan of an ordinary person is about one hundred, with the majority on the left and a little to the right considered to be quite long-lived, so basically one hundred is the top.
The Qi Condensation Realm does not seem to increase one's lifespan, but only makes a person healthy, delays aging, and avoids premature aging. After eighty or ninety years, Qi and blood also begin to decline.
If the meridians are fully opened, it can last about fifty years.
It is quite common for cultivators who have mastered the meridians to live to be 150 years old.
Then there is the last realm of the human level, the enlightenment realm. Because the differences between cultivators at this level are quite large in all aspects, the issue of lifespan is not as clear as the first two.
According to the Chang family's secret family records, some of the Chang family's ancestors advanced to the realm of awakening, but in the end they did not even live to be 150 years old.
And there are not just one or two such people.
Although it is only a minority, it already accounts for 23 out of 10!
However, the remaining seventy-eight out of ten can basically live to be about two hundred years old. In other words, after entering the enlightenment realm, their life span is doubled compared to ordinary people.
What if you break through the realm of enlightenment and go from the human level to the earth level?
A breakthrough at this level will significantly increase your lifespan!
It is also a family record. According to the records, in the history of the Chang family, no one who has broken through to the earth level has a lifespan less than three hundred years old. Although there are a few losses, they are accidents and have nothing to do with the earth level.
Natural lifespan has nothing to do with it.
The longest-lived member of the Chang family lived to be a full 397 years old!
It's almost four hundred.
Considering that their family's earth-level quality is not very good, the family's seniors' understanding of the lifespan of the earth-level Qi-entraining realm is about three hundred to five hundred.
This is how it works.
Moving up the Qi Realm, there are two more realms in the ground level.
So if you achieve great success in the Earth Level, your lifespan will be thousands of years?
This is a relatively reliable guess.
And when the earth level breaks through to the heaven level, the life span...
Double it again?
In short, according to Chang Zhenhe's guess, a few thousand would be the maximum.
Ten thousand, that is an unimaginable number, almost exceeding the limit of Chang Zhenhe's imagination.
But Chang Zhenhe had no doubt at all about the "eighteen thousand years" in The Road to Qingyun. Even when he saw it for the first time, he instinctively believed it in his heart without any doubt at all!
If even a saint can live such a long life, then who can do what that gentleman did?
Isn’t this nonsense!
But Chang Zhenhe didn’t think so!
No one in the room who read that article thought so!
And the reason why there is no doubt at all is because there are so many things revealed in that short article!
Regarding Ningqi Powder, the Babel Tree, and that gentleman, they don’t know whether it’s true or false.
They also have no ability to distinguish between true and false.
But that's not all in that article.
There is "a journey on the great road, like the sun and the moon."
There is a saying "All laws are abolished, but this law will not be abolished."
There is a saying, "Heaven moves vigorously, and practitioners should constantly strive for self-improvement."
There is a saying: "The terrain is wide, and those who practice it should be generous and virtuous."
In The Road to Qingyun, Chang Zhenhe chewed these words in his heart countless times.
Every time you chew it, feel the thoughts, marvel and awe, you will get more.
But if I really want to ask, what is the biggest feeling?
It's actually very simple.
That is the realm of these words, which is beyond the realm of Chang Zhenhe and beyond the realm of his old friends.
You need to raise your head, you need to raise your head.
Only then can you see it.
Only then can we see a little deeper.
This feeling could not be more obvious or direct!
Not to mention, in addition to these, there are a total of twenty "Tao poems" in the "Qingyun Road".
Not even mentioning these Taoist poems, there were quite a few test questions in both literature and mathematics, which really surprised Chang Zhenhe.
And these are all real!
Therefore, if you ask Chang Zhenhe why he believes that Ningqi Powder exists, believes that the Babel Tree is real, and believes that the gentleman really exists as a person or exists as an "incarnation"...
Just because of those words and sentences, those things that he could understand.
Those that he can understand need him to look up to.