Eternal Tranquility

He had some vague understanding. Buddhism has three methods of practice: precepts, concentration, and wisdom: catching the mind is precepts, precepts produce concentration, and concentration produces wisdom.

The previous levels test a person's character and whether the six sense organs are pure. After letting go of all the connections, when you reach this level, you should stop worrying about the connections and sit in meditation to practice Buddhism.

Although Liu Qinghuan did not enter the Buddhist sect, the Taoist sect was not much different from this. The most important thing in a cultivation career is determination. Whether you can concentrate on cultivation also determines how far you can go.

He emptied all distracting thoughts and slowly fell into concentration.

Time has lost its meaning at the bottom of this well. Every time Liu Qinghuan opened his eyes from trance, all he faced was the moss-covered stone wall at the bottom of the well and a small patch of sky above his head.

Sometimes, he would feel bored and lonely and walk around the stone chamber a few times.

After all, this well was not a place where he felt safe, and it was inevitable that he would not be able to meditate.

If the time here was the same as outside, then he wouldn't have to look for the bloody purple toad. Zhao Xian must have died with only a pile of bones left.

Over the years, Liu Qinghuan felt that he had turned into a stone at the bottom of a well. He was originally a person who practiced asceticism. After getting over the initial discomfort, he quickly adjusted his mentality and just started another retreat to practice.

I don’t know how long it took, but it was so long that Liu Qinghuan’s cultivation reached the peak of the middle stage of foundation building.

Based on the difficulty of the Foundation Building Chapter of "Zuo Forgetting the Immortality Sutra", his cultivation level can actually reach the peak in the middle stage, which also shows that he has stayed in this well for a long time!

Finally, one day, Liu Qinghuan, who was in deep concentration, felt something in his heart and opened his eyes: Medicine Buddha's compassionate eyes were still looking at him.

A faint joy surged in his heart, finally escaping from the illusion! Glancing to the side, he found that the other two people were still in trance and had not woken up. It seemed that they were still trapped in the illusion.

Liu Qinghuan looked at the stone platform. The stone platform was clean without a trace of dust, just like when he entered the illusion. It seemed that not much time had passed outside.

The closed stone door is still closed. However, Liu Qinghuan had just come out of the "door" and already understood that the existence of the door was just an appearance of entering the illusion.

He looked inside himself, his face became a little ugly, and his cultivation was exactly the same as when he went in! The cultivation that took decades to cultivate was not brought out?

Just when I was unhappy, huge waves suddenly surged in the spiritual sea, and a large amount of spiritual power poured in! At the same time, his cultivation level was rising steadily, and he soon reached the peak of the middle stage of foundation building.

Fortunately, okay, if his decades of practice in the illusion were in vain, he would probably have the idea of ​​tearing down the Buddha statues in front of him.

"Ah!" Lele suddenly shouted, and Yigulu got up from his seat: "I finally came out, I thought I would die in there!"

She walked in circles in the stone room, as if she had stopped moving: "It suffocates me to death! I have stayed in such a small room for decades!"

Yan Hua also opened his eyes almost at the same time, and his face turned red rapidly when he saw Lele.

Liu Qinghuan looked at Yan Hua with interest. Lele was just chattering, so she didn't notice his reaction.

Liu Qinghuan reminded: "Lele come back quickly and sit down. The spiritual power cultivated inside will return later."

Sure enough, their cultivation level began to rise steadily, Lele directly reached the middle stage of foundation building, and Yan Hua reached the later stage of Dzogchen.

"Oh, if I had known I would have played less in there, my cultivation level has only increased so much." Lele shouted, with a look of pity on his face.

"Haha, then I'll lock you up for a few more decades." Liu Qinghuan laughed.

When Lele heard this, she quickly shook her head: "No, no, no, I will go crazy if you go in again!"

Among the three of them, Liu Qinghuan's cultivation base has increased the least. However, his mental method is probably several times more difficult than the other two, and he is extremely satisfied with being able to reach the mid-term peak.

Lele proudly took out a string of rosary beads and said, "Look, I got this inside!"

I saw that the rosary beads were made of Bodhi wood, nine in total, and each one was engraved with a seated Buddha. It was a very good Buddhist instrument.

Yan Hua also got a magic pestle.

The three people exchanged various experiences and found that they were similar to each other, but in slightly different forms.

The last thing Lele entered was a stone room that she described as a prison cell. There was nothing except a window that she couldn't even reach out. Yan Hua was more peculiar. He actually entered a Buddhist temple in the end, which was better than the two of them.

"At least there is a Buddha statue accompanying you." Lele asked curiously: "What kind of Buddha is it?"

Yan Hua pointed to Amitabha Buddha on the stone platform: "That's him."

Liu Qinghuan touched his chin: "Well, it seems that Fellow Taoist Yan is destined to be a Buddha."

Lele rolled her eyes and let out a laugh like a string of silver bells: "Yan Mumu, do you want to be a monk?"

Yan Hua shook his head in shock: "I don't want to be a monk, as a monk can't marry a wife. I..." As he said that, he looked at Lele, and his face started to flush again.

"I'm going to marry you!" Lele was unhappy and ignored him: "Liu Qinghuan, where should we go next?"

"Let's get out of here first."

The three of them flew away from the hole and kept it as it was before Liu Qinghuan said: "I am still rushing to save people. There is no Blood-stained Purple Toad here, so I can only go to the big Xiuxian City to look for it. Think about other ways."

"What poison are you trying to cure?" Lele asked.

"Bi Tangsi is a kind of green silk made from thousands of silk..."

"Bi Tangsi, you should have told me earlier!" Lele rolled her eyes: "Such a big poisonous alchemy master is standing in front of you, and you still have to come to this barren mountain, causing me to be imprisoned for decades!"

Liu Qinghuan said in surprise: "Are you a poison pill master?"

Poison Alchemists are similar to Alchemists, but they focus on poisons. Due to long-term exposure to poisonous substances that even monks cannot withstand, most of them have haggard faces and their bodies will show abnormalities.

Lele looked like a pink and cute little girl. How could Liu Qinghuan have imagined that she was a poison pill master.

"Otherwise?" Lele put her hands on her waist and said arrogantly: "Otherwise, where do you think those pills to hurt people come from? It's just Bi Tangsi, I can remove it easily, and asking you to cover it for so long is a waste of time! "

Liu Qinghuan was ashamed. He had not known him before, and it was impossible for him to tell a stranger his purpose of going to Qiyun Temple.

The journey after that was simple. Originally Liu Qinghuan just wanted to ask her for an antidote, but Lele insisted on getting it herself, so the three of them headed back to the capital of the Song Dynasty.

A month later, the three of them rushed to Songjing. Before entering the city, Liu Qinghuan felt something strange and stopped at a distance.

I saw a large number of soldiers surrounding the gate of the capital, and they searched the passers-by very carefully. If anything was wrong, officers and soldiers would immediately surround them with arms crossed.

It looks like something has changed in the city!

Liu Qinghuan said to Lele and Yan Hua: "To avoid causing trouble, we'd better hide ourselves before going in."

"Haha, there's something fun to watch again." Lele said excitedly.

The three of them turned invisible and flew in directly from the gate of Songjing City. As soon as I entered the city, I felt that the whole city was noisy. Most of the people walking on the originally bustling streets were missing. Teams of soldiers were constantly patrolling back and forth.