Lyu Qingchen smiled and asked, "What do you want to know?"
Ning Que thought about it for a long time and said, "I want to know … what is cultivation."
Lyu Qingchen smiled and said, "You are really greedy."
Ning Que said without any embarrassment, "Then … can you tell me how many states there are in cultivation and what are the different abilities in different states?"
"It's still a choice beyond my expectation." Lyu Qingchen smiled and said, "You know, although ordinary people don't know about these things, it is not a secret after all."
"Not a secret is still a secret." Ning Que answered with a smile, "I will keep it for you."
"Alright." Lyu Qingchen laughed and asked after a short pause, "Do you know Haotian Taoism?"
Ning Que looked at this South School Wayfarer of Haotian Taoism and nodded.
"I was born in the South School of Haotian Taoism and was ordered to travel around the world. People often call us Wayfarer of School. So since you want to know something about cultivation, I will start from Haotian Taoism. "
"Haotian Taoism worships Haotian and is the only orthodox cultivation in the world. Because Haotian shines on the world, everything in the world can breathe with it. This breath is the Breath of Nature or Primordial Qi I talked about last night. So Haotian is the beginning of everything."
"Humans are originally one of the myriad of beings. Living in ignorance in this journey of heaven and earth, Haotian gave us a revelation, and we began to understand the principles of nature and creation. Therefore, we use our minds to control the Qi of Heaven and Earth and do all kinds of mysterious things. This is cultivation.
"The road of cultivation is long and arduous. It is a test of willpower. This road is divided into five stages, which are the five states you mentioned."
"The Initial State is called the Initial Awareness State. It means that the cultivator's psyche is released from the Ocean of Qi and Mountain of Snow and understands the existence of the Breath of Nature. "
"The second state is called the Perception State. In this state, the cultivator can touch the Primordial Qi floating in the world and live in harmony with it. He can even communicate with it. "
"The third state is called the No Doubts State. It means that the cultivator can understand the rules of the Primordial Qi flowing in the world and make use of it. The so-called Sword Master and Talisman Master refer to this state. "
"The fourth state is called the Seethrough State. Cultivators who enter this realm are able to merge their consciousness with the primal energies of the universe. For a Psychic, this means that they can use their consciousness to attack their enemies. If they stay in this realm for a long time, they may be able to make some special moves. "
"Young man, you don't have to look at me like this. I did enter the Seethrough Realm. Unfortunately, I barely managed to step my right foot into the Seethrough Realm when I was old. Now I'm running out of oil and my lamp is about to run out. I probably don't have any hope to drag my other foot into the Seethrough Realm in this life. Otherwise … it wouldn't have been so troublesome to kill a Great Sword Master that night."
The light from the oil lamp in the carriage was dim, as if the carriage was really short of oil. Lyu Qingchen said with a smile, and then looked down at his left foot, sighing that time never waits for him.
"The fifth state is called Knowing Destiny."
"The so-called Knowing Destiny means knowing your destiny."
"Cultivators who enter this realm do not just understand the laws of the primal energies of the universe on the surface, but grasp the laws of the primal energies of the universe in essence. They understand the connection between Hao Tian and all things in nature, and understand the origin of the world. Only those who enter this state can be regarded as the real Tao. "
Ning Que listened to these things with great interest. When he found that the old man had finished, he quickly raised his hand and asked, "Sir, is there a higher state above the five states?"
"Why do you think so?" Lyu Qingchen looked at him with interest.
He answered, "If cultivation is really a long road, then there must be no end to this road. In fact, there is no road in this world that can't be walked, so I think there must be a higher state."
"Young man, you can't even enter the Initial State. I didn't expect that you didn't get depressed, but became more interested."
Hearing the old man's scolding, Ning Que smiled even more innocently and said, "Let's just say that I'm studious."
"I've never seen a man who is as studious as he is lecherous." Lyu Qingchen smiled and said.
Ning Que praised him in his heart, and then spread out his hands and corrected, "Then it's not studious, it's curiosity."
Lyu Qingchen pondered for a long time, and then raised his head to look at him and said slowly, "It's said that there are many mysterious states above the Knowing Destiny State, but there are only two in the Classics. One is Tianqi, and the other is Limitless."
"The so-called Tianqi means that a cultivator can directly listen to the revelation of Haotian, worship the Divine Skill of Haotian Taoism, and temporarily borrow the power and light of Haotian in the realm of emptiness. Haotian shines on the world. Even if it's just a wisp of power and light, it can be imagined how powerful the state is."
Ning Que thought of a Great Divine Power in the world, with his white robe fluttering in the wind, and a light beam falling from the clouds. With a wave of his hand, the clouds rolled and the mountains shook. He couldn't help but be shaken, and his voice became slightly hoarse.
"Limitless … what kind of state is it?"
"The Classics only recorded that such a state had once appeared in the world, but there was no specific description. There was only a brief description: Follow the heart's desire to be limitless."
Lyu Qingchen frowned slightly, but his face was calm and peaceful. He said slowly, "According to my guess, in the so-called limitless state, the sages' psyche can reach thousands of miles away … How magnificent it is."
Follow the heart's desire to be limitless … Ning Que was deeply moved by these seven words. But was it limitless or limitless?
Vaguely, he seemed to capture some kind of bold temperament hidden in these two words, which was not as leisurely as the old man, but just extremely free and unrestrained.
"As for the limitless … maybe the Academy has more records about it."
Lyu Qingchen looked at the young lad's dazed face, and said with emotion, "Grand cultivators who can enter these two states must be sages. Although there is an old saying that a sage will appear every thousand years, it has been many years since a sage appeared in the world. So these … are just myths and legends. Don't think too much about it."
Ning Que bowed again to show that he was enlightened.
The old man smiled and said, "I thought you would ask about the famous Grand Cultivators and Unworldly Sublime Beings in the world. It seems that young men should be more interested in these things, but I didn't expect you to ask about these."
Ning Que put his hands on his knees, and after a long silence, he looked up at the old man and answered seriously, "Knowing about the strongest people in the world means nothing to me now. They are eagles flying high in the sky, and I am just an ant crawling on the ground. They don't care about me, so I don't need to care about them either."
"Then … why do you ask about these cultivation basics?" The old man looked at him with a strange expression.
Ning Que answered seriously, "Those Grand Cultivators will not appear in my life in a short period of time. However, when I enter Chang 'an, it is very likely that I will meet some relatively ordinary cultivators, such as the Great Sword Master like the scholar in the green robe. I can't cultivate myself, so I have to figure out what cultivation is and how they fight …"
"What is your purpose?" The old man's flowery eyebrows slowly raised, as if he was very interested in his answer.
Ning Que lowered his head and smiled. Then he raised his head and answered calmly, "If I am forced to fight with cultivators in the future, what you have taught me today will be very helpful for me to defeat them."
"An ordinary person fighting with a cultivator who can mobilize the Qi of Heaven and Earth? And you want to defeat them? "
The old man stared at Ning Que's eyes and murmured repeatedly. Suddenly, his eyebrows trembled, and a burst of extremely joyful laughter burst out from his skinny body, "Hahahahaha!"
The laughter gradually stopped. The old man looked at Ning Que, who was gradually embarrassed, and said with a smile, "Very bold, I like it."
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