coobybook Chapter 415: Humanity 7 Realms
Chapter 415: Humanity 7 Realms
Xu Changshou immediately understood that it was the ancestor Xu Gan who was teaching him the martial arts.
Truly powerful martial arts techniques are not recorded in writing or on jade slips, but are passed down orally.
Xu Gan taught Xu Changshou the martial arts by the same method of oral transmission. However, he imprinted the martial arts into the bloodline of the Xu family and passed it down from generation to generation, instead of the face-to-face oral transmission.
Being able to do this is enough to show that the strength of Xu Gan, the ancestor of the Xu family, has reached a level beyond Xu Changshou's imagination.
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The second character follows immediately, and the second character is an ancient character "Tao".
The moment the word "Tao" entered Xu Changshou's mind, its notes also sounded in his mind one after another.
This feeling is very wonderful, just like being taught by a teacher in a private school, who points to a word and teaches students how to pronounce it.
But this is more profound than what teachers in private schools teach. This kind of teaching goes straight to the soul. Once you hear a word or read a character, it will be engraved in your mind and can never be forgotten.
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The way of talismans is the way of heaven and earth.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the talisman that can be used as a symbol is not the eternal symbol.
Tao is the origin of all things.
The talisman is the concrete representation of the Tao.
The talisman represents the movement of Tao.
Tao is used as a talisman.
Only when the symbol is carried in the Tao can it be regarded as the truth.
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Characters kept emerging in Xu Changshou's mind, one by one, and Xu Changshou began to understand the meaning of the characters based on the text.
Soon, Xu Changshou discovered that what the ancestor taught him was not some kind of martial arts, some kind of magical power, or some method of drawing talismans.
Instead, he was teaching him a kind of Taoist tradition.
What the Xu family ancestor taught him was very comprehensive, including the "Dao Fu Jing", experience in drawing talismans, understanding of Taoism, and the combined application of talismans and Taoism.
In short, what the Xu family ancestor taught to Xu Changshou was the Taoist tradition of the Supreme Way of Talismans.
After accepting these characters, Xu Changshou realized that his previous understanding of talismans was too narrow.
Originally, he thought that the art of talismans was to use a pen to draw talismans on paper, drawing all kinds of magical talismans.
Drawing talismans with a brush is indeed a form of talisman drawing, but it cannot represent the art of talismans.
The true Tao of Fu is the combination of "Fu" and "Tao".
Only when the talisman and the Tao are truly combined can one achieve the true talisman and the Tao.
To give a simple example, for example: Fire Thunder Talisman.
In Xu Changshou's previous career of drawing talismans, the Fire Thunder Talisman was definitely the talisman with the most terrifying attack power.
Among the ten attributes in the world, thunder is the most explosive and fire is the hottest. The Fire Thunder Talisman, which combines thunder and fire attributes, naturally has extraordinary attack power.
But when one reaches the Jindan realm, attacks of this nature will seem somewhat disappointing.
Because when a cultivator reaches the Golden Elixir realm, he begins to comprehend the great Dao of heaven and earth.
No matter how powerful the attack of the Fire Thunder Talisman is, it cannot be stronger than the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
No matter how powerful the Foundation Establishment cultivator is, he has no chance to fight back in front of the Golden Core cultivator and is completely crushed.
It is because the Jindan cultivator comprehended a trace of the power of the Great Dao.
Similarly, if one can integrate the great principles of heaven and earth that one has comprehended into the talisman when drawing it, then the talisman will be able to unleash unprecedented attack power.
What Patriarch Xu Gan passed on to Xu Changshou was the complete tradition of talismans.
It covers everything, including exercises, supernatural powers, methods of drawing talismans, and the application of talismans.
In addition, Patriarch Xu Gan also reminded in the inheritance that the Dao of Talismans is a road with no end and no predecessors’ practice. It has supreme potential and needs to be practiced by future generations to further understand the Dao of Talismans.
"It turns out that even Patriarch Xu Gan didn't reach the end of this road."
Xu Changshou began to think.
Ever since he entered the world of cultivation, he had never heard of the art of talismans. The spiritual talismans in the art of cultivating immortals were just a minor skill.
Of course, I have occasionally seen ancient talismans, but those ancient talismans cannot be considered true talismans.
Therefore, Xu Changshou seriously suspected that the art of talismans was the Xu family's patent, and it was even possible that it was a path that the ancestor Xu Gan had explored himself.
However, this is just Xu Changshou's guess and cannot be trusted.
This time, Patriarch Xu Gan taught him a lot of things, which can be divided into three categories: martial arts, Taoism, and talismans.
But no matter which category it is, it is only a part of the inheritance, not the complete inheritance.
Taking the martial arts as an example, the martial arts taught by Patriarch Xu Gan was exactly the "Da Dao Fu Jing" that Xu Changshou had practiced before. However, this martial arts method was still incomplete and could only be practiced to the initial stage of transformation.
There is no subsequent practice for the Spirit Transformation Realm.
The same goes for Taoism and talismans. They can probably only be used until the initial stage of transformation into a spirit, and there is no inheritance after that.
After accepting the Taoist inheritance from his ancestors, Xu Changshou gained a preliminary understanding of the outline of the Great Dao.
There are three realms in the Tao: heaven, earth and man.
They are: the human realm, the earthly realm, and the heavenly realm.
There is not much introduction to the Earthly Realm and the Heavenly Realm in the inheritance, and the main introduction is to the Human Realm.
The division of humanity is extremely detailed, with a total of seven major realms, collectively known as the Seven Realms of Humanity.
The seven realms of humanity are: awakening, subtlety, manifestation, small success, great success, acme, and perfection.
They correspond to the seven major realms, namely, Golden Elixir, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Refining Void, Fusion, Mahayana, and Tribulation Crossing.
And each major realm is further divided into four minor realms.
For example, the four small realms of the state of awakening are: the first level of awakening, the second level of awakening, the third level of awakening, and the fourth level of awakening.
Each small realm corresponds to a small realm in the cultivation system.
Another example:
The early stage of Golden Elixir corresponds to the first level of Awakening.
The second level of Juexiao in the middle stage of Jindan.
The third level of awakening in the late Jindan period.
The golden elixir is perfect and reaches the fourth level of enlightenment.
The first level of the early Nascent Soul stage.
Entering the second level of micro in the middle stage of Yuanying.
The third level of the late Nascent Soul stage.
The Nascent Soul is perfect and reaches the fourth level.
At the initial stage of transformation, one level is manifested, and so on...
Cultivators begin to practice Taoism from the Golden Elixir realm. If they want to break through the realm of cultivation, they must first break through the realm of Taoism.
Therefore, in the future, before breaking through any realm of cultivation, you must first break through the realm of Taoism.
Before breaking through the Dao realm, even if the cultivation level has reached perfection, as long as the Dao realm is not broken through, the cultivation level cannot be broken through.
It is difficult to break through the realm of cultivation, and it is even more difficult to break through the realm of Taoism.
Breaking through cultivation requires resources and time.
To break through the realm of Taoism, one needs understanding and opportunity.
The laws of nature are something extremely mysterious. Sometimes, people get stuck in a certain state for decades or even hundreds of years.
Sometimes, all it takes is an epiphany or a special experience to achieve a breakthrough.
So far, there is no complete way for people to practice Taoism, and everyone's way of breaking through Taoism is different.
Under normal circumstances, the better the spiritual roots, the better the talent, the better the talent, the better the comprehension, and the better the comprehension, the faster the breakthrough of the Tao realm.
At this time, Xu Changshou's cultivation was at the early stage of Golden Core, at the first level of Dawn. Therefore, if he wanted to break through to the middle stage of Golden Core, he had to break through the realm of Taoism first and comprehend the second level of Dawn before he could break through to the middle stage of Golden Core.