Cultivation Begins From The Desert

What is Zifu?

The place where the gods live.

The so-called opening up of the purple mansion by the cultivators is actually to open up a place for the soul to live in their own sea of ​​consciousness, so that the soul of the invisible target hidden in the sea of ​​consciousness can appear and have a place to live.

For humans, the soul is the immortal god who dominates everything, and the place where the soul lives is naturally the Zifu.

Those real people in the Nascent Soul stage can still exist in the world in the form of Nascent Soul after their physical bodies are damaged, which undoubtedly confirms the theory that the soul is the "immortal god" from the side.

If we use the four major stages of practice to summarize, the establishment of the Purple Mansion by the monks who established the foundation is actually a process from the stage of "refinement and transformation of qi" to "refinement of qi and transformation of spirit".

Compared with the Qi training period monks attacking the foundation establishment, although the foundation establishment period monks opened up the purple mansion, although it is not so dangerous, there are many taboos, and it usually takes a long time.

The main taboos for opening up the Purple Mansion are as follows.

First, avoid being surprised.

When opening the Purple Mansion, the most taboo is to be disturbed and frightened. Any sound from the outside world, abnormal aura fluctuations, or other disturbances may frighten the soul, resulting in the failure of opening the Purple Mansion.

Therefore, when cultivators opened up the Purple Mansion, they had to lay down multiple formations in the cave to isolate and shield all sources of external interference, so that even if the outside world collapsed, there would not be any abnormal noises in the cave.

Second, avoid confusion.

Don't be confused, the original intention is to be able to distinguish clearly when things happen.

The soul is the "immortal god" living in the human body, who can see all invisible things, hear all unhearable words, and observe all unobservable things.

Therefore, once the soul manifests, the monk will definitely see some invisible things, hear some inaudible words, and perceive some unobservable things.

But these invisible things, unheard words, and unobservable things are not things that Zi Fuqi monks can explore.

If you try to find out the origin of these things in vain, you will encounter the crisis of "Hua Dao".

What is Huadao?

To transform into the Tao with the body and completely disappear in the world, this is the Tao of Transformation!

Therefore, when cultivators open up the Zifu, they must stick to their original intentions, suppress their strong thirst for knowledge and curiosity, and make their hearts as still as water.

Third, avoid acting rashly.

When the monks opened up the Purple Mansion, when the soul manifested and returned to the Purple Mansion, there would be a vision of "mind wandering around the world".

This vision of "traveling in the world" is a good thing, and it is an opportunity for monks to touch the laws of the world at close range.

Many Zifu monks rely on this opportunity to master the key points of spells that they could not comprehend before, or suddenly have a great understanding of the key points of skills such as refining weapons, alchemy, and formation.

To put it simply, this vision of "Mind Traveling to Heaven and Earth" is an enhanced version of "Enlightenment", which allows the monks of the Zifu to comprehend many principles of practice.

But opportunities often coexist with risks.

"Walking around the world" can certainly help the monks of the Purple Mansion touch the laws of the world and understand the Dao in advance, but it will also place a great burden on the monk's soul.

In the face of the huge benefits brought by "Spiritual Wandering", many monks ignore the burden it has on the soul, and are too addicted to it, unable to extricate themselves, eventually causing the soul to collapse and dissipate, and sit on the ground.

Therefore, after the monks successfully opened up the Purple Mansion, they must not act rashly, stop as they should, and not be overly addicted to "wandering in the world".

These three taboos are the most taboo when opening up the Purple Mansion.

There are three difficulties in building a foundation, and three taboos in the Zifu.

On the road of cultivating immortals, when each big realm leads to the next big realm, there are different dangers accompanying it.

If you don't understand these dangers clearly, you can imagine how likely it is to pass through them safely when experiencing these dangers.

So the experience of predecessors is very important, very important.

Although Zhou Yang had seen the three taboos of opening up the Zifu in the classics of exercises, he only knew the taboos of these taboos, and did not know how to solve them.

Now, after studying the experience of those monks from the Yellow Shamen Zifu, he realized that the senior monks had already summed up and found some countermeasures.

For example, the first taboo, you can do a lot of articles on the place of retreat.

The cave that Zhou Yang is currently using for retreat has three layers of formations with different functions inside and outside. Once the three layers of formations are all activated, he in the cave will completely lose contact with the outside world.

Even if there was a sudden earthquake outside, he wouldn't feel anything inside the cave.

In the same way, even if the thunder strikes outside the cave, as long as the formation is not broken, he will not hear any thunder.

This kind of special retreat cave specially prepared for immortal cultivators to open up Zifu can only be prepared by a school with a long tradition like Huangshamen.

As for the second bogey, the "Requiem Grass" that Zhou Yang didn't think he could use could actually play a role.

The most dangerous thing is the third bogey. For this bogey, only "Purple Heart Chalcedony" can stabilize the monk's soul, enhance the ability of the monk's soul to resist stress, and buy more time for the monk to regain consciousness.

Therefore, if you use "Purple Heart Chalcedony" to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion, not only will it increase the chances of success in opening up the Purple Mansion, but you will also gain more benefits from "Shenyou Tiandi" than if you don't use it.

But even so, Zhou Yang didn't intend to use that "Purple Heart Chalcedony".

He is very confident in the strength of his soul, confident that with the strength of his soul, even if he does not use "Purple Heart Chalcedony", the benefits he will get will definitely not be inferior to those who use it.

Therefore, after deciding to attack the Purple Mansion, he used the Dongfu Token to open all the formations, so that the Dongfu was completely isolated from the outside world from now on, and even the sound transmission talisman and the messenger flying sword could not enter the cave.

After doing all this, he sat cross-legged on a thousand-year-old cold jade bed in the depths of the cave, and officially began to try to attack the Zifu.

The first step to attack the Zifu, Yunshen.

As the initial stage of "refining Qi and transforming God", the Purple Mansion period has already involved the cultivation of the soul level. Before opening the Purple Mansion, the foundation-building monks need to use special secret methods to consume mana to nourish and accumulate the soul, so that the originally dormant soul will be active. stand up.

The time required for this step can be long or short, depending on the cultivator's own situation.

Some can do it in as little as a month or two, while others can take as long as a year.

Zhou Yang's soul is as powerful as he thought.

It only took him twenty-five days to complete the level of "Yunshen".

After completing "Yun Shen", Zhou Yang's most intuitive feeling is that his body is empty and weak, but his spirit is as vigorous as fire, extremely excited and active, and his thinking is very divergent.

He knew that this was caused by the agitation that could not be released after the soul was awakened.

This restlessness will disappear completely only after the Purple Mansion is opened up and the souls are allowed to live in the Purple Mansion.

At this time, he was not busy with the next step, but took out a third-order "Bigu Pill" and swallowed it to make up for the consumption of his body.

After his body was not so empty, Zhou Yang started the second step, opening the mansion.

To open a mansion is to open up the residence of the Purple Mansion.

The time-consuming of this step is also uncertain, it varies from person to person, and there is no fixed number.

Many immortal cultivators who failed to open up the Zifu fell on this step.

The process of this step is not complicated to say, that is, the cultivator mobilizes mana to rush into the Shenting Cave, and builds a dojo in the snail shell, and builds a mansion in it that can accommodate the soul.

This step is easy to say, but extremely difficult to do.

First of all, Shenting acupoint is the most important acupoint in the human body. It is called "Upper Dantian" in practice, and it is more important than Qihai acupoint "Lower Dantian" on the lower abdomen and Tanzhong acupoint "Zhongdantian" on the chest.

The upper, middle and lower "dantians" respectively correspond to the human body's energy and spirit, and any problem in each place will directly ruin the future of a cultivator.

Qihai acupoint is where the "lower dantian" is located. Immortal cultivators step into the Qi training period to open this acupoint as a place to store mana.

Tanzhong acupoint, as the "Central Dantian", is the place where the essence is stored, and the essence and blood of the immortals are stored here. If this place is damaged, the lifespan of the immortals will be reduced, and the immortals will be killed directly.

The Shenting point, as the "upper dantian", is the place where the gods live, and the soul of the immortal lives here, governing the whole body.

Usually, when cultivators are cultivating, their mana will automatically bypass the Shenting acupoint to avoid hurting the important acupoints here.

But when opening up the Purple Mansion, mana must be actively poured into it.

Compared with ordinary monks, Zhou Yang undoubtedly has a great advantage in this step, that is, when he was taken away by Xue Youming, the Shenting acupoint was expanded by Xue Youming with mana.

At this time, he carefully mobilized a bit of mana and poured it into it, and rushed towards the location of the soul. Although every step was startling, he felt that it was going well.

But after he injected a certain amount of mana continuously, he felt that the Shenting acupoint was a little overwhelmed, so he immediately withdrew his mana and suspended his actions.

In this way, every once in a while, Zhou Yang would mobilize his mana and inject it into the Shenting acupoint to open up wasteland, and then withdraw his mana to rest when he was tired.

After such a land reclamation operation that lasted for nearly a month, he finally "saw" his own soul.

The soul of ordinary people is just a little firefly, which cannot be seen clearly.

And for a monk like Zhou Yang, who has built a nine-level foundation, his soul has grown to the point that it looks like a torch, with all five senses in his body, no different from a real person.

Zhou Yang's spirit is a bit more special than ordinary monks. Apart from having all five senses, his spirit also has traces of golden flames turning into robes attached to it.

"Why is this fire so similar to Qianyang's real fire? Could it be that when the blood ghost seized the house, the remaining power after Qianyang's real fire backfired was absorbed by the soul, so there is such a layer of fire that ordinary monks don't have? ?”

Zhou Yang "looked" at the appearance of his soul, and his mind was full of thoughts, and soon he thought of the reason for the special nature of his soul.

Of course, these are not things he should consider now. What he should do now is to build a mansion around the location of the soul and let the soul return to its place.

It's just that when he was about to do this, he encountered the second biggest taboo when opening up the Purple Mansion, and he was not confused.

The second is delivered.