Asking about longevity

After returning to his disciple's residence, Mo Hua was not in a hurry to practice. Instead, he sorted out all the instructions given by Patriarch Dugu just now in his heart.

He copied all the key points in a jade slip and kept it for future reference so as not to forget it.

After that, he officially tried to practice the "God-Slaying Sword"

After some guidance from Patriarch Dugu, Mo Hua finally understood:

As expected, I practiced this God-Slaying Sword Style wrongly again!

The God-Slaying Sword is not something you can practice like that.

The so-called killing one's soul does not mean killing oneself. This "cut" means abandonment and transformation.

It is necessary to uphold a heart of seeking Tao, abandon the small self, achieve the greater self, understand the origin of swordsmanship, and achieve the transformation of spiritual thoughts and swordsmanship.

Mo Hua had a complicated mood, and then took out an ancient bamboo slip of kendo.

On the bamboo slips, the sword pattern is simple and profound.

The ancient sword intention lingers in the sword pattern.

This is the sword style—

The ink painting held its breath and concentrated, sitting quietly in meditation, concentrating, and then began to formally visualize the "Taixu Sword Style" engraved on the bamboo slips.

Give up your ego, forget about your own swordsmanship, visualize the Taixu sword flow with an empty mind, and understand the origin of the swordsmanship, so that you can get close to the source of the sword and fully understand the Taixu swordsmanship.

After thoroughly understanding the way of swordsmanship, you can integrate the origin of the way of swordsmanship into your own soul according to what the ancestor said, and use the real "Taixu Sword of God" that is powerful enough to kill gods!

Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness has a profound foundation. He is proficient in formations and various spiritual methods. He has also swallowed a large number of evil spirits. Through meditation, he has eliminated huge distracting thoughts.

He has even played a little bit of "Tao Heart Seed Demon".

Therefore, in terms of "mind cultivation" skills alone, Mo Hua is better than many golden elixir monks who are hundreds of years old.

"Abandoning the ego, forgetting the way of swordsmanship, having an empty mind, and visualizing Taixu Sword Style" was something he could do very easily, but the problem lay behind.

I have been thinking about ink painting for a long time...

In the Taixu Sword Style, the ancient sword intention was what it was before and what it is now, with no change at all.

There is no sense of "enlightenment" in ink painting.

His level of swordsmanship is still so shallow.

His understanding of swordsmanship has not increased at all.

Ink Hua looked attentive again, staring at the bamboo slips for a long time, and finally had to realize that he was lonely after looking at it.

He couldn't understand the sword flow.

He didn't understand the art of swordsmanship or anything like that.

Mo Hua thought it was because he didn't put in enough effort.

The next day, after class, Mo Hua returned to the back of the disciples' quarters and stared at the bamboo slips for three full hours.

But still nothing was seen.

The so-called secrets of sword style, the origin of swordsmanship, the avenue of swordsmanship - there is no trace at all.

Mo Hua frowned, then thought about it for a moment, and then gradually understood.

The problem lies in this "ego".

Cut off the ego and become the way of the sword.

But ink painting doesn’t even have an “ego”.

The "ego" in swordsmanship is the cultivation of the spiritual sword and the practice of swordsmanship from a young age.

The understanding of kendo, all these, the accumulated "underlying" of kendo.

This is what Patriarch Dongxu calls the "small self", but in fact, it is not small at all!

The ink painting puts oneself in the shoes of Patriarch Dugu, and makes a rough estimate of what it would be like to start from scratch and cultivate the way of swordsmanship to the level of "ego" in the eyes of the ancestor.

That should be a genius at the level of Linghuxiao. He started practicing swordsmanship at a young age and practiced it for decades, even hundreds of years, until he reached the golden elixir and achieved a small degree of swordsmanship. Only in this way can he cultivate the "ego" of swordsmanship.

Only this kind of "ego" is qualified to be killed.

And with this level of "ego" as the foundation, after cutting off the ladder, you can go to the next level, understand the sword style, and climb towards the origin of the sword.

Mo Hua's heart dropped.

Now he finally understood why his ancestor had always asked him to practice swordsmanship before, saying that he was not good at swordsmanship and could not practice the spiritual sword.

What the ancestor said is actually right.

Everything is based on the "Sword Dao" when it comes to the true art of transforming spiritual thoughts into swords.

If you don’t have enough foundation in swordsmanship, you can’t transform into a sword.

If you don't have deep attainments in the way of the sword and have no small success in swordsmanship, you won't be able to kill the ego, understand the sword style, and learn the ultimate "god-killing style".

But now, I don't even have the swordsmanship of the "ego" that was killed.

Not to mention talking about the sword style, its origin, and its avenue——"·

"I've been working on it for a long time, but I still can't learn..."

Mo Hua sighed, a little disappointed.

Although if you think about it carefully, this is normal.

Taixu's divine mind-turned-sword true technique is the supreme sword technique of Taixu Sect swordsmanship. If it is so easy to learn, it is not worthy of being listed as the "supreme" inheritance.

What's more, I'm not even a swordsman.

It is indeed a bit fanciful to want to learn the supreme kendo inheritance without having any knowledge of kendo.

But Mo Hua didn't want to give up.

He thought about it again and again and found that this was another "dead knot".

To cultivate the Divine Sword, you must kill your soul;

To kill one’s soul, one needs to kill one’s ego;

And to kill the ego, you need to raise a "small ego" with the swordsmanship to kill him...

If I don't have the "ego" level of swordsmanship, I will naturally have nothing to cut. From the very beginning, I will be unable to make progress.

The mood of the ink painting is complicated and difficult to describe.

This God-Slaying Sword was perfected by him.

He can't practice orthodox.

I practiced it myself, but it was not only wrong, but also hurt my soul.

Every day he kills himself with a sword, the wounds in his soul accumulate silently, and he still needs to find "spiritual essence" to repair them later.

And "divine marrow" is very scarce now. It is needed not only to repair the soul, but also to break through the later stages of foundation building.

If you think about it, it's a vicious cycle again.

If you can't learn to kill the divine sword, the day when you can kill the evil fetus will be far away.

I can't kill the evil fetus, I can't convert the disaster into divine marrow, and I can further transform my spiritual thoughts. I don't know how long it will take to break through the late stage of foundation building. I don't know how long it will take until the Year of the Monkey and the Moon of the Horse...

Mo Hua's scalp was slightly numb and he couldn't help but sigh.

But there is no point in sighing. The Tao still needs to be cultivated, the sword still needs to be practiced, and life still needs to be lived.

"Next time I go to the forbidden area, I'll ask my ancestor for advice...

Mo Hua forcibly put the incident behind him, calmed down, and continued practicing and attending classes.

Two days passed like this.

Mo Hua got up in the morning and practiced as usual. After practicing, he took out the bamboo slip as usual and used the sword intention on the bamboo slip to strike his life soul with a sword to suppress the evil fetus and refresh his mind.

This set of actions is all due to inertia.

But after he finished chopping, Mo Hua suddenly realized that he no longer needed to chopping.

This is not how you practice the God-Slaying Sword.

It’s not really about killing one’s own soul.

Mo Hua sighed again, a little bored, and then sank his consciousness into the sea of ​​​​consciousness, wanting to check the injury on his soul.

Fortunately, his soul has been used to being chopped for a long time, and although he is injured, it is not too serious.

Mo Hua breathed a sigh of relief and looked inside again, taking a look at his own soul.

On the soul, there are mottled sword marks remaining, as fine as fish scales.

These are all "masterpieces" left by Mo Hua himself and his insistence on self-cutting every day.

“Sometimes being too diligent doesn’t seem to be a good thing————..”

Mo Hua muttered in his heart, and then he wanted to withdraw from the sea of ​​consciousness.

But at this moment, Mo Hua alerted him from the corner of his eye and suddenly froze.

He saw that the sword intent still remained on the wound of his soul.

This one is nothing.

Using Taixu's sword intent to cut off his own soul and leave a wound, there will definitely be a part of the sword intent left on the wound of his soul.

This is a normal thing.

However, looking at it now, Mo Hua felt his heart tremble, as if he had an astonishing thought,

Gradually lingering in my mind.·

"Quenching the spirit with the sword, the soul of life will be cut off——- cut off the ego, observe the flow of swords, understand the origin, and integrate the way of swords——"

"Self-destruction of the soul is a method, and the final result is to integrate the origin of the sword into the soul-"

"If that's the case——"

Like a bolt from the blue, Mo Hua's expression was shocked:

Then if I use Taixu Sword Intention to kill my own soul, isn't that the same as engraving the Sword Intent in my soul? "

"The sword intention contains the origin of the sword."

"This also means that I am carving the origin of the sword into my soul through sword marks and wounds?"

"Afterwards, as long as this origin is completely integrated with the soul, won't the final effect be the same?"

The only difference is that the orthodox method of cultivating the sword is to practice the "ego" swordsmanship first, and then kill the ego to understand the sword style and integrate the swordsmanship.

As for myself, I gave up all the steps from cultivating the "ego" to realizing the sword style, and got it right in one step.

Go to Rong Jian Dao!

Kendo without ego, it doesn't matter.

If you don't understand Kenryu, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter if you can't understand the origin of swordsmanship.

Abandon all these steps and directly kill yourself with sword intent.

If the sword intent cuts itself, it will carve sword marks and leave wounds in the soul.

In this way, the origin of swordsmanship in Taixu Sword Style can naturally merge with the wound into one's soul!

This is a more thorough and thorough "cheating" than "kill me to become a saint"!

And only you can do this "disadvantage" -"·

Others cannot bear the blow of Taixu's sword intent.

But you can.

No one else can repair the soul's injuries.

You can do it yourself.

As for Taixu Sword Style, you don't need to understand it, you just need to integrate the original intention into your soul and use it directly.

The ancestor himself also said, "The nature of a gentleman is not different, he is good at pretending to things."

Use the law as a raft to find the great road.

Having gained the great road, abandon the law and raft.

Form doesn't matter.

Mo Hua's heart pounded.

Only now did he really have a premonition that the door to the secret of the God-Slaying Sword was gradually opening to him.

Having made up his mind, Mo Hua immediately held his breath and contemplated himself.

The spiritual mind looks at itself, sensing the wounds on the soul, and at the same time sensing the sword intent in the wounds.

The wounds were small and stinging.

The meaning of the sword is profound and difficult to erase, and the origin of the sword is constantly flowing within it.

Mo Hua endured the severe pain and directly integrated the sword intention into his soul along the wound.

This process was very painful, but Mo Hua gritted his teeth and endured it.

The ancient sword intention seeped into the wound in the soul, causing pain, but it gradually merged with the soul of the ink painting.

Like a blade, it flows into the flesh and blood and circulates in the body.

But these "blades" are also like ancient elixirs. Every time they are circulated, they transform into a wisp of sword intent, which blends seamlessly with the soul of the ink painting.

This is the fusion of the Taixu Sect's ancient swordsmanship origins and the soul of Mo Hua, which is comparable to a "god" after being transformed into Taoism.

Mo Hua's spiritual thoughts turned into swords, and he finally began to truly enter the realm of "killing gods".

After that, you only need to cut one sword every day to temper part of your origin, which will accumulate over time.

Use the flesh and blood of the soul to fuse the origin of the sword to temper the god-slaying sword.

Tempering until the day when the real "Sword of God Slayer" is born-"·

That day is the day when the evil fetus dies.

Mo Hua is in high spirits, his eyes are bright.

Then he tempered his soul for a while according to the method he summarized, and stopped for the time being.

Because it really hurts.

It hurts enough to use the Taixu sword to cut his own soul.

Now he has to melt the fragments of the sword into the "flesh and blood" of the soul, which feels a bit like "lingchi".

Therefore, he can only take it step by step and can't rush it.

Mo Hua rested for a while and recovered his consciousness.

Now that the practice of the Sword of God Slayer is on the right track, Mo Hua has time to consider another problem...

"The Supreme Way of Slaying Love...""

Mo Hua muttered in a low voice and frowned.

This is another "supreme way" that the ancestor Dugu passed on to him that night in the forbidden land of the sword tomb.

Mo Hua didn't dare to learn it.

He felt something was wrong.

The Taixu Sword of God Slashing and the Supreme Way of Slashing Love look a bit similar, but in fact, they are completely different styles.

One is a profound and upright sword art.

The other is a ruthless, extreme and weird method.

In the existing Taixu Sect's sword art, Mo Hua has never seen a record similar to "slashing love" so far.

"Also, why did Grandmaster Dugu suddenly teach me this thing?"

Mo Hua frowned and recalled.

That night, the Grandmaster looked normal, but there was always a sense of disobedience between his words.

Did something happen to the Grandmaster?

The person who "preached" to me that night, was it the Grandmaster himself?

Is there really someone, no, something, who can surpass the powerful Grandmaster Dongxu and preach to me?

Mo Hua's brows are getting tighter and tighter.

Things are getting mysterious.-

But it has been passed on, and the question now is, do I want to learn this "Supreme Way of Slashing Love"?

Mo Hua recalled the method of "cutting off emotions" one by one, and finally had to admit that this was an extremely profound, rare, and extremely powerful "law" of the great Dao.

After practicing it and understanding the Dao in it, it may be possible to really cut off emotions and ties with one thought, and cut off the world with one sword, and "cut off" everything.

But Mo Hua always felt that there was something wrong with this method.

The problem lies in the two words "cutting off emotions".

Only when people have emotions can they be considered human. If they cut off emotions and have no emotions and desires, can they still be considered human?

If they are not human anymore, what Dao can they comprehend?

Even if they comprehend the Dao, what Dao can they comprehend in a "non-human" state?

"Is the ancestor - is he lying to me?"

"Or is there some bad thing that is secretly deceiving me?"

"Should I still learn it?"

Mo Hua touched his chin, thought about it, and felt that it should be possible - try to learn it first, after all, this is the method of "enlightenment".

But you can't learn it all, because there must be some mystery in it.

Take the essence and discard the dross.

In short, just learn by watching.

The "cutting off emotions" secret taught by "Old Ancestor Dugu" floated in Mo Hua's ears again:

"Empty your heart, cut off your self, unite humanity, integrate the law of 'cutting off', use your body as a sword,

use your soul as a sword, and be sharp and unmatched. There will be nothing in the world that cannot be cut!"

This sounds very powerful, you can learn it.

But "cut off all your worldly emotions, and reach a state of no emotion, no desire, no self, no thought,

no thought, no attachment-·."

This is a bit strange, you can learn by watching.

Mo Hua tried to practice "The Supreme Way of Cutting Off Emotions" according to these methods.

He began to cut off his emotions.

No thoughts, no attachments, no thoughts, no heart, no self---·

Cut off emotions---·

His face gradually changed from gentle to indifferent, and even implied a hint of cold cruelty.

It seemed that everything in this world was an obstacle to his pursuit of the Tao, and everyone had to be killed.

He, his relatives, his friends, his teachers, and the people he loved, all had to be killed—·

Only by killing everything could he attain the Tao.

Mo Hua couldn't help but whisper:

"Only by killing everything· could he attain the Tao—

"Kill everything—···

"Mo Hua's mind was blank, his face was distorted for a moment, and then began to blur, his facial features were like the powder after "removing makeup", dissolving little by little, disappearing———

"No!"

Mo Hua suddenly woke up after a moment.

He covered his face, cut off all thoughts, and used "meditation" to stabilize his mind.

It took a full incense to recover from the state of mind of "cutting off emotions to realize the Tao".

Mo Hua was still frightened.

"This thing is so powerful, and so scary———·

He almost really cut off all his emotions.

Mo Hua frowned.

Once he cut off his emotions, his self would be annihilated, his mind would be out of control, and he didn't dare to think about what he would become.

"Cut off the emotions——"

Mo Hua pondered in his heart.

You can cut off some emotions, but you can't cut them all off.

"Cut off the emotions" is for enlightenment, not just for the sake of cutting off emotions.

If you really cut off all of them, you will stop being a human, and there will definitely be bigger problems.

He realized this in his heart when he devoured the essence of the spirit, transformed his consciousness into the Tao, and integrated the divinity and humanity.

Since the divinity and humanity can be integrated, then the "cut off emotions" should also be able to be integrated.

"You can't cut off all of them, some emotions must be left——"

“The nurturing grace of parents should be kept in mind——·——·

“Master’s kindness in preaching must never be forgotten————·

"The uncles and friends from Tongxian City, the friends I have made along the way, the senior brothers, sisters and junior brothers from Taixu Sect, the sect elders, Mr. Xun and Patriarch Dugu..."

"And Aunt Wan, Yu'er, Uncle Gu————·

After thinking about it in Mo Hua, he realized that there are really many people he wants to remember——"·

Communicating with others leads to feelings of friendship, which are also the basis of a person's emotional existence.

If we give it up, sooner or later people will lose their original intention and become empty and numb.

"You have to find an anchor point...

However, there are too many people to keep in mind along the way, and it is difficult for Mo Hua to find an "anchor" to judge the degree of "cutting off love".

Father, mother, master, cause and effect are too heavy, and the bond is too deep. Because the bond is too deep, even if the love is cut off, it is the last "cut", and it is not so easy to forget.

But once he really forgets, it means that he has reached the source without knowing it.

It means that one's own humanity is hopeless, and it is too late to turn back now.

Other people can also be the "anchors" for Zhanqing, but Mo Hua is always afraid that he will be too busy and be negligent.

It was really "cut off".

Once it is beheaded and the friendship is ended, it will be completely forgotten.

In this way, if we meet again in the future and others know us, but we secretly cut off the "friendship" and completely forget about others, it will be very embarrassing.

"Who should I use as the "anchor" to cut off my feelings?"

Mo Hua was a little confused. After thinking about it for a long time, he suddenly came up with a good idea:

"Little senior sister!"

Use your little senior sister as the anchor point for your own practice of "Tao Shang Qing Dao".

When I am practicing, I occasionally think about my little senior sister.

If you feel that your feelings are weakening, it means that something is wrong with your practice.

If the feelings are still there, it means that you still have "humanity" and your friendship as a human being has not been lost.

And as long as the human nature is there and the desire to seek the truth is there, there will be no problem.

There is actually a lot of "dross" in other human natures that can be eliminated.

Greed, anger and ignorance lead to resentment and hatred.

The mind is unsettled, and desires are like the churning of sea water.

All other distracting thoughts of fame and fortune can be cut off.

After cutting off these miscellaneous desires, washing away the worldly world and seeing through the superficial appearance, the Taoist mind becomes pure and the ambition becomes firmer.

In this way of killing one's emotions, one can cultivate the "Supreme Love-Severing Way" that "seems to be ruthless but has feelings".

Mo Hua was delighted, then frowned again.

But in this way, does it mean that I have practiced incorrectly again?

Mo Hua thought about it and thought it didn't matter.

"As long as you can practice——"

Anyway, it’s not once or twice.

You get used to it.

When he thought of this, Mo Hua felt calm in his heart.

Then he began to formally slay his emotions and realize the Tao, and slay his own emotions according to the method passed down to him by the "Dugu Patriarch".

After beheading for a while, he meditated on the little senior sister.

If the feelings are not weak, it means that he has no problem in beheading.

If you feel that your feelings have faded, then stop for a moment and reflect on the way you just "cut off your feelings" to see if there is anything wrong.

Until the young senior sister's exquisite beauty came to mind clearly again, and she continued to realize the truth.

Seek justice from heaven and preserve human nature.

In this way, with "Little Senior Sister" as the anchor, Mo Hua's practice of "Tai Shang Qing Dao" deepened little by little...

Of course, he also didn't forget the Taixu God-Slaying Style.

Every morning, he first uses Taixu Sword Style to kill his own soul, allowing the origin of the sword to deeply merge with the wound of his own soul.

At night, he practiced the "Tai Shang Qing Dao" again

According to this supreme "enlightenment" method, understand the way of "killing love", and then integrate this way of cutting love into the sword with spiritual thoughts.

In this way, he cultivated the "Taixu Divine Sword" and the "Taishang Love Sword" at the same time

These two methods were both "accidentally" learned by him. Now that they are mixed together and practiced together, he will eventually cultivate something. The ink painting is not clear, but after thinking about it, he feels that it should not be too weak.

At least there is hope for killing the evil fetus.

The ink painting slightly tilts the head.

His requirements are not high, as long as he can kill evil fetuses...

There is no sun or moon in cultivating the Tao.

Because of the addition of two new "methods" of practice, Mo Hua's time is tighter every day and the tasks are heavier.

He has to practice, he has to go to class, and he has to give formation lessons to thousands of junior brothers and junior sisters in the three mountains of the same lineage.

During the break, we have to learn formations, learn the Divine Sword, and practice the Love Sword.

Mo Hua's mind is focused on cultivating Taoism without any distractions.

But on this day, when Mo Hua was practicing Taishang's Way of Killing Love, suddenly the cause and effect started to change.

Gu Changhuai's pale and bloody face suddenly appeared in his mind.

Mo Hua was stunned.

"—Uncle Gu?"

Mo Hua thought for a moment and felt something was wrong, so he took out the messenger and sent a message to Gu Changhuai:

"Uncle Gu, are you okay——"

No response.

Mo Hua waited patiently for a long time, but Gu Changhuai still didn't reply.

"What's going on?"

Mo Hua frowned, remembering what Uncle Gu mentioned about the blood-sucking demon sect, the dozen or so golden elixir demon cultivators, and the Dao Tingsi mobilizing manpower to encircle and suppress the demon cultivators during the Chinese New Year.

"Are you carrying out the task of Daotingsi? You can't use the messenger order, or——."

"Uncle Gu, will he be okay?"

Mo Hua felt a little uneasy in his heart.

Night falls.

Qingzhou City.

Several Gu family monks, driving a carriage, are hurrying on their way. They are covered in blood, their eyes are anxious, and their foreheads are covered with cold sweat.

When the carriage entered the city, it rushed all the way to the Gu family. One person immediately jumped off the horse, not caring about other things, and hurriedly shouted:

"Hurry up! Come! Go and invite the elder of the alchemy!"

The originally quiet Gu family immediately became noisy.

A moment later, the elder of the alchemy of the Gu family came, opened the curtain of the carriage with the smell of blood, and saw the bloodstains all over the carriage.

And Gu Changhuai, who was lying in the carriage, half of his Taoist robe was soaked in blood, his face was pale, and he was unconscious. His forehead was black.

"The evil spirit entered the brain, and the forehead was black--"

The pupils of several Gu family elders immediately trembled, and their hearts were cold.

"This is-a sign of death--"