Chapter 1330 Significance

In ancient times, Buddhism and Taoism were in conflict. Buddhism and Taoism attacked each other. Buddhism scolded Taoism as corpse-guarding ghosts, while Taoism laughed at Buddhism as a ghost who would never become a saint.

This is a pleasant scolding, but each school felt sad after hearing it.

Why do people say that Taoism is a corpse-guarding ghost?

This is what happened to Xie Yali in his previous life. He practiced with his own stinky skin all his life, wanting to make elixirs and become an immortal, but in the end of his life, he ended up with nothing.

Taoism pursues "immortality", and immortality makes it easy for people to cling to "existence". In the eyes of Buddhism, all dharmas are empty. If you can't even give up a useless stinky skin that is destined to be discarded, what can you cultivate?

For example, Xie Yali used his body to make elixirs, but his life passed like a day for a hundred years. Not only did he fail to become an immortal, but he also did nothing. Isn't he a corpse-guarding ghost?

Therefore, Buddhism says that life is like a sea of ​​suffering, and the flesh is a raft. The raft is just a tool to cross the sea of ​​suffering. It is useless when you reach the other side, so only the soul is eternal.

Buddhists call the souls that have crossed over to the other side Buddha, Bodhisattva or Arhat.

Therefore, what Buddhists pursue is actually "no birth", which is exactly the opposite of Taoism.

Life and death, death and life, everything is illusion, everything is empty. Compared with Taoism's obsession with "existence", Buddhism is too obsessed with "emptiness". They practice and practice, and spend their whole lives in the green lamp and ancient Buddha, doing reduction and seeking emptiness. In the end, they don't want their lives. In the end, not only can they not become Buddhas, but they also cultivate themselves into ghosts.

Therefore, Taoists laugh at Buddhists for being difficult for ghosts to become saints.

Whether it is a corpse-guarding ghost or a ghost who is difficult to become a saint, this is a poke at the other party's heart.

However, this world is always moving forward, and contradictions are integrated with each other. Therefore, Taoism has "corpse-transmigration immortals" and Buddhism has "ascetic monks".

Taoism absorbs Buddhist theories and admits that it is possible to abandon the body and become a ghost immortal, but it is considered to be the lowest immortal.

Buddhism also absorbs Taoist theories and believes that Arhats can be achieved by training the body. But they still believe that the body is a stinking skin bag and a carrier of sin, so the ultimate goal of training the flesh is to gain spiritual freedom and liberation of the soul. Let oneself reach the realm of perfect enlightenment.

The fact is that it is difficult to achieve the golden elixir and it is far from becoming a Buddha. The most promising method for transcendence has become the "inferior method" that each other despises the most.

Sister Xie Yali practiced the golden elixir method for a lifetime in her previous life. Finally, before she died, she changed her method and practiced the Five Hells Immortal Method, which was regarded as "side door" and even evil by the orthodox Taoist sect.

This is both a helpless compromise and a struggle after despair.

If the righteous method is really a mirage, but it is the "evil method" that can be cultivated into an immortal?

Then what is righteous and what is evil?

Maybe thousands of years later, time will give the answer.

Su Yi now feels that the Five Hells Immortal Method is really evil!

It is so evil that it is anti-human.

Serious illness, pain, and the desire to die are the three elements that normal people would never pursue. However, they have to cultivate the Five Hells Immortals. These three elements have become the requirements.

So cultivating immortals really should not become the mainstream. If everyone cultivates immortals in this way, mankind would have been finished long ago.

In fact, the ancient Hinayana Buddhism is also so "anti-human". People must become monks to practice, must observe precepts, and destroy their bodies and wisdom. In the end, they seek Nirvana.

If everyone cultivates Buddha in this way, mankind would have been finished long ago.

Therefore, early Buddhism and Taoism believed that becoming a Buddha or an immortal was something that only a very small number of people with talent, immortal fate or Buddha fate, great perseverance, and great wisdom could accomplish. Ordinary people should not even think about it. This matter has nothing to do with you.

But any concept will become specious when it involves interests, and even become a fairy tale.

Later, Taoists said that you can get married and have children, practice at home, and you can still become an immortal; later, Buddhists also said that everyone can become a Buddha, you are a Buddha, you don’t need to become a monk, just chant Amitabha when you have nothing to do...

When ordinary people heard this, they thought there was such a good thing?

It's really fat intestines and ginkgo, so what are you waiting for?

So Buddhism and Taoism flourished, and the Buddhas and Taoists ate a lot and made a lot of money.

They made up more theories and principles to prove that everyone can become an immortal and everyone is a Buddha. These theories and principles are very rigorous and very reasonable.

After a long time, not only did the common people believe it, but they also believed it themselves.

These principles and theories have become truths, culture, philosophy, and guidelines for teaching people how to be good people.

No one still remembers that Taoism and Buddhism first taught people not to be human...

Become an immortal or a Buddha?

Whatever you do, just be happy.

Anyway, this is a good thing for you, me, and everyone, and it's not wrong.

Therefore, we can draw a reverse conclusion here, that any practice that is not "anti-human" cannot become an immortal or a Buddha.

In addition, it is important for people to know themselves. You must understand that becoming an immortal or a Buddha is not something that normal people can do. If you are a normal person, then be a good person and don't think about those things.

Su Yi is no longer a human being, and he looks very "anti-human" now, so there is nothing wrong with him cultivating immortality.

But even so, he can't stand it.

Some people divide pain into ten levels, and the highest level of pain is the pain of women giving birth and patients with advanced cancer.

Su Yi is now almost suffering from these two kinds of pain.

Every moment!

He clearly feels the pain that Xie Yali is suffering.

The rotten part of the abdomen is still refining the elixir. Su Yi can clearly feel that the flesh and blood there are merging with the so-called "insect fungus" and turning into powdered elixir.

The pain of this process is no less than the pain of childbirth!

The tumor in his brain was also throbbing crazily. Su Yi felt like there was a crazy renovation team in his brain, chiseling and smashing everywhere. This kind of pain made him feel like he was dying!

Ordinary people couldn't stand this kind of pain for just a moment, but Xie Yali suffered for eighteen years!

She was in this state of extreme pain every minute and every second.

She locked herself in a closed, dark and narrow space, which was called closed-door cultivation.

She let her body rot and her illness rage.

When she was hungry, believers would bring her a bowl of brown rice with salt every day.

When she was thirsty, she would get up by herself. There was a faucet in this narrow room.

If she wanted to go to the toilet, there was a urinal next to her, so she would poop and pee in it, and someone would take it away at regular intervals every day.

When her body was dirty, she couldn't take a bath, but could only wipe her body.

You would have to live like this for many years!

This is cultivation!

This is cultivation?

Can you really become an immortal in this way?

In extreme pain, loneliness and despair, people will doubt everything.

Su Yi is full of doubts now.

He had only endured such pain for less than half an hour.

But in this half an hour, Su Yi truly experienced what it meant to live every second like a year!

He began to doubt himself and everything from the second second. The more he thought about it, the more he doubted, and the more he doubted, the more desperate he became.

If doing this was futile, if this method was useless, then he felt that he was a fool, a lunatic, and a psychopath who was asking for trouble!

So cultivating immortals really requires a lot of courage and confidence. You have to be sure that you can succeed, and you can't have the slightest doubt.

Once you have doubts, these doubts will be infinitely magnified, and then you will suffer greater pain, and endure both physical and mental torture.

In this case, how can you persist?

At this time, Su Yi thought of giving up again.

Cultivating immortals shouldn't be like this.

Immortals should be free and unrestrained, breathing wind and drinking dew, and not eating grains.

They shouldn't eat, drink, defecate, and urinate in this coffin-sized secret room, and they shouldn't lie here for many years, living worse than a dog!

What kind of immortal cultivation is this?

What kind of immortal is this?

Especially when Su Yi thought that he was different from Xie Yali.

He had no chance of becoming an immortal, he just wanted to learn alchemy.

So was it necessary for him to endure such pain and despair?

It seemed unnecessary...

Su Yi had ten thousand reasons to convince himself to give up.

But in the end he hesitated and did not say the word "give up".

He endured severe pain, great torture, and extreme self-doubt every second.

"Huh? You can still hold on..." Xie Yali smiled again, "You are still quite strong."

"There is no reason for you to hold on for so long, I can't even hold on for such a short time." Su Yi gritted his teeth and endured the pain.

"You and I are different." Xie Yali said, "I insist because I can become an immortal. But what's the point of your insistence?"

"If you want to become an immortal, why do you have to insist on these?" Su Yi did not answer, but asked, "You can change to a comfortable environment, you can live in a high-end physiotherapy hospital and let your rich apprentice give you the top medical services, you can enjoy a lot of things, as long as you refine the elixir, although your body will still be very painful, but you will live a lot more comfortably, why don't you do it?"

Xie Yali was silent for a moment, and said: "The questions you asked are very interesting. I have always thought about what you said, but I didn't dare."

"Don't dare?" Su Yi understood a little bit.

"Yes, I dare not." Xie Yali sighed, "I have to endure the pain, I have to make pills, and I have to give up all desires. This is what the immortal law requires me to do. The immortal law does not say that I can live in a sanatorium and use modern medicine to relieve pain, nor does it say that I have to find ways to enjoy life, so how dare I mess around?"

"Cultivating immortals is a very difficult thing. How dare I not be serious? Not rigorous? If I fail in the end for such reasons, what am I doing?"

Su Yi said slowly: "This is probably the meaning of my persistence. I don't know if there are other ways to become an immortal, but I can personally experience the hardships and pain of becoming an immortal in my lifetime, which is a very meaningful thing for me."

"Does it hurt?" Xie Yali asked.

"It hurts so much! Damn it!" Su Yi cursed.

Xie Yali laughed happily.

"You are really an interesting person." This is not the first time she has said this.

Su Yi began to learn to make pills.

Although she did not do it herself, it was actually no different from operating it herself.

Xie Yali spends most of his time every day refining pills, refining the Five Hells Pill.

This thing is very slow in effect, and there is no definite "efficiency".

Sometimes the "insect fungi" produced are a lot, and the quality is also very good, and sometimes only a little is produced, and the quality is not high.

Xie Yali told Su Yi that the reason is whether the heart is sincere enough when refining the pill, whether it is pure and free of distractions.

If the heart is not sincere, pure, and firm when refining the pill, the grade of the pill will be poor.

Usually the refined pills are stored in Xie Yali's soul.

This is also the biggest feature of the body and mind furnace. Unlike other inner alchemy methods, the pills are stored in the dantian of the physical body after they are made.

This Five Hells Pill is refined every day and consumed every day.

The refined pills are transforming and sublimating the soul, fading the mundane air, and transforming into immortals.

Only after the soul is sublimated to a certain level can one be qualified to start killing people and demons, pass through the Five Hells, and become an immortal by taking the blame.

If the soul is not up to standard, you can never become an immortal no matter what you do. This is the meaning of alchemy.

But usually Xie Yali does not use all the pills she refines for herself. She will take out some pills of poor quality and let her disciples store them in a special way for other uses.

And the material state of this pill is "insect-born fungus".

The reason why the result of "insect-born fungus" was detected by scientific instruments is because this Five Hells Immortal Pill is active, so tiny and active organisms are "insects" in the eyes of science.

Because the pill contains the ingredients of Xie Yali's rotten flesh and blood, it presents the form of "mold".

So it became the so-called "insect-born fungus".

This pill is condensed from the essence of Xie Yali's spirit, energy and spirit. Anyone who absorbs this pill into the body will be controlled by Xie Yali.

Su Yi is now a being with strong mental power, but he was pulled into the virtual world by Xie Yali and felt pain. It was difficult for him to tell whether it was true or false. The reason was this pill.

Although Su Yi was not controlled by Xie Yali, if he were an ordinary person, he would definitely be played around by Xie Yali.

This is the crushing of lower creatures by higher creatures, and there is no solution at all.

Ordinary people can't even understand the reason behind it.

Xie Yali did not keep all the details of the alchemy method, formula, and steps.

This is actually one of the core secrets of the Five Hells Immortal Method.

But what is the point of Su Yi learning such a method?

He can't become a Five Hells Immortal, and there is no need to refine such a pill.

Even Xie Yali thinks that Su Yi is doing something that is meaningless.

"This is actually the biggest difference between humans and immortals." Su Yi said to Xie Yali, "Humans usually do a lot of meaningless things, some of which even seem stupid and have bad results, but humans will do them. But immortals won't. So I am a human, but you can become an immortal."

"That makes sense." Xie Yali likes to listen to Su Yi's words.

Or, she likes to talk to Su Yi.

"I have said more than you in my two lives." Xie Yali said to Su Yi, "I feel relaxed and happy talking to you, but this shouldn't happen. This is human desire and should be forbidden."

"What should I do then?" Su Yi asked.

Xie Yali thought about this question for two whole days, and she didn't say a word to Su Yi during these two days.

However, she still picked up Su Yi on time at noon every day to "share" her physical feelings, one hour a day, no more and no less.

On the third day, Xie Yali said to Su Yi: "I like talking to you because you can help me become an immortal. Anyway, I will go through the five hells and lose my humanity in half a month. It's meaningless for us to say anything now."

"You are right." Su Yi smiled.

Is it really meaningless?