Broken mirror to practice Taoism

Xue Yuandao first explained to Taoist Ling Yue where he was going, and then he led Ergou up from the house in Dongluozhuang.Ergou actually didn't spend much time in Dongluozhuang, so he didn't know what kind of places there were in Dongluozhuang.

In the middle of the snow field, there is only one road all the way up the mountain. This is the only place in the mountain that is not covered by snow.

"Master, why can there be four seasons on Lingyue Mountain?"

Ergou wanted to ask this question when he first came here, but he was not familiar with Xue Yuandao at that time, so he didn't ask.

I saw Xue Yuandao hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Lingyue Mountain is also one of the five element formations, probably because the formation disturbed the four seasons on the mountain, it was formed alone."

Ergou was a little surprised by this answer, "Is Lingyue Mountain also one of the Five Elements Formation?"

Xue Yuandao nodded.

"Master, what exactly is this five-element formation?"

Xue Yuandao shook his head, "As a teacher, I don't know."

"Is there anything else Master doesn't know?"

"Yes." Xue Yuandao replied affirmatively, "There are too many things that I don't know clearly as a teacher."

This road is not too long, and it will be there after walking for a while.The place where the two are located is surrounded by snow-capped mountains, and in the middle of the mountain there is a lake with a thin layer of ice on the lake.The lake is surrounded by white snow, there are no creatures here, it is very peaceful.

The path ended in front of the two, and Xue Yuandao led the two dogs onto the snow.

The footprints of the two were left in the snow, breaking everything that had existed before.The sun is still overhead, but the snow here has not melted at all.

Standing in the snow, Xue Yuandao's breathing gradually became weaker. If Ergou didn't pay attention to feel it, he would hardly notice Xue Yuandao's existence.Slowly, Ergou felt that the aura around Xue Yuandao had completely dissipated and merged into the air, and Xue Yuandao was clearly in front of him, but he couldn't feel the presence of Xue Yuandao.

"A person's cultivation of the Tao is to pursue a state. From the time of entering the Tao, to the Qi Condensation Period, the Foundation Establishment Period, and the Alchemy Period, these are all to lay the foundation for the subsequent spiritual energy. And when it comes to the Nascent Soul Stage, it is the real foundation of these foundations. The spiritual energy has been used." Xue Yuandao turned his head and said to Ergou, his voice was clearly in front of him, but even so, Ergou still couldn't feel his presence, "Therefore, there is only one thing that Yuanyingqi pursues, It is to be integrated with one's own weapon."

"Merge into one?"

Xue Yuandao nodded, then pulled out nothing from his waist and threw it into the lake.In an instant, the entire lake disappeared in front of Ergou out of thin air.

"Noneness is to turn everything into nothingness." Xue Yuandao looked at the huge gap left by the disappearance of the lake, and said to Ergou, "At first, he just turned the sword body into nothingness, and then used the sword body to control the surrounding aura to turn it into nothingness. , the last is to change form into formlessness, which is the use of nothingness.”

"Master, what about my real image?" Ergou asked excitedly.

"This is up to you to figure it out yourself."

"Fumble?" Ergou asked suspiciously.

"The name of this sword is Real Shadow, and it can transform things and nothingness in the shape of a sword." Xue Yuandao pointed to the two dogs, "It's just that each person's perception is different, just like the Xueyou sword passed down by Xue Lingdao. In each generation of Taoist masters, there will be different perceptions."

"What do you mean?"

"For example, the Taoist Xuefeng you have come into contact with, the Xueyou sword he used is similar to my nothingness, and he integrated the sword into nature. At that time, he integrated the human and the sword, and the sword was in harmony with nature. Therefore, even if he is in front of you, you can’t see him.” Xue Yuandao disappeared in front of Ergou as soon as he finished speaking, but his voice still rang out from that place, “As a cultivator, eyes are not the only thing we can see. The way of perceiving the position of the other party, or rather, for those who practice the Tao, the impression brought by vision is precisely the chief culprit that hinders our correct judgment."

Er Gou stretched out his hand, but he couldn't feel Xue Yuandao's figure where the voice came from in the air.

"Master, did you really disappear?"

"No." Xue Yuandao's figure appeared in front of Ergou again, "The teacher is here, but because you are disturbed by what your eyes see, you can't find my position."

"That's it!" Ergou smiled, "Master is amazing."

"Continue to tell you." Xue Yuandao was not happy with Ergou's praise, but continued to teach Ergou, "But the previous Taoist master of Xueling Sect also held Xueyou sword, but he was the same as Taoist Xuefeng. It is a completely different way to achieve the unity of man and sword."

"In what way?"

Xue Yuandao didn't speak, but the lake that disappeared behind him suddenly returned.Nothingness returned to his hands, and he put nothingness into the scabbard.However, many swords like nothingness suddenly appeared around him. These nothingnesses coiled around him, and then disappeared into the air. The surrounding snow was blown by a strong wind, and all the snow was blown into the air.

But the snow drifted into the air before it fell back to the ground, and then another gust of wind condensed them into an ice sculpture.

The ice sculpture was much taller than Ergou and Xue Yuandao. Standing at the bottom of the ice sculpture, Ergou couldn't see the whole shape of the ice sculpture clearly.

"Master, what is this?"

"Use people as swords, and swords as people." Xue Yuandao explained, "There is no need to draw the sword, the sword is in the heart."

"Ah!" Ergou suddenly realized, "Is this what Master used to deal with that Eastern Pluto at that time?"

Xue Yuandao nodded, and then continued: "The previous master of the Xueling Cult replaced himself with a sword, and replaced others with a sword, as long as every place she walked, there was snow falling."

Ergou thought for a while, and couldn't help shivering all over, "Then the people around her must die of cold?"

"Indeed." Xue Yuandao nodded, "But there is an advantage."

"What's the benefit?"

"At that time, Taoist Xuefeng needed to use snow to melt objects in the duel with you, and then melted into the heavy snow. But if you want to break his trick, you only need to turn the surrounding snow into nothing in an instant." Xue Yuandao continued, " But if the previous Taoist master comes, even if she is a teacher and turns all the surrounding snow into nothingness, she herself will be a sword, and she can continuously use all the surrounding aura for herself. As long as the aura continues, her home field will not be interrupted. .”

"It seems very powerful."

Ergou said so, but he didn't understand it.

"Now, you have actually mastered it initially."

"Is it to transform the real shadow into a different appearance?" Ergou asked Xue Yuandao.

"Well. The beginning of the unity of human and sword is to achieve the unity of heart and sword. Only when the heart is in the sword can the sword be controlled. The reason why you can continuously transform the real shadow into the appearance you want is that Because of the unity of the heart and the real image."

"So it is."

After Ergou replied, he took out the real shadow from his waist.He didn't really understand what Xue Yuandao said, but he wanted to try it.

At the moment when he held the real shadow in his hand, a memory flashed in his mind but quickly disappeared.The limbs moved unconsciously, the surrounding mountains suddenly ignited, and all the lake water disappeared, turning into magma.

What was once a world of ice and snow has now become a crater that may erupt at any time.And the only thing here that has not been completely melted by the flames is the ice sculpture made by Xue Yuandao just now.

"Master, is it like this?" Ergou asked Xue Yuandao happily, holding the real shadow in his hand.

Xue Yuandao nodded, "But you are still not enough."

"not enough?"

"Have you seen this ice sculpture?"

"I saw it."

"This is a task entrusted to you by the teacher." Xue Yuandao looked at the ice sculpture, and said to Ergou, "You are here to meditate, what you have to do is to turn this ice sculpture into white snow again."

Ergou was a little embarrassed.

"It's not completely melting it into water, but turning it back into snow, covering every place here."

Xue Yuandao's voice was next to Ergou's ears, but it always carried the same echo of the second one.

Ergou recalled the echo, then smiled naturally and replied: "Okay."

As long as it was something Xue Yuandao asked him to do, he would never refuse.

"As a teacher, there are still some trivial matters that need to be taken care of, but I will definitely come to supervise you every day."

"Ah."

Xue Yuandao looked at Ergou, and wanted to say something, but couldn't think of what to say, and finally had to say, "Work hard."

"Yes, Master."

After explaining, Xue Yuandao walked down the road alone.Ergou was around the magma, but he didn't feel the hot temperature.The ice sculptures around him are much taller than Ergou, and Ergou can't even see the whole picture of the ice sculptures.

Suddenly, I really want to know what the ice sculpture that Xue Yuandao made looks like.

Thinking of this, Ergou started to get busy first.Although Xue Yuandao told him a lot, he didn't find anything really useful.If he just melts the ice, then as long as he has enough strength, he can completely turn the ice into water with the real shadow's fire.

But what Xue Yuandao asked for was not only that.

To turn ice back into snow...

Ergou sat on the magma stool and kept thinking.

Fascinated by his thoughts, he stretched his hand into the magma uncontrollably.He immediately retracted his hand reflexively, but found that there was no pain in the hand that touched the lava.

How is this going?

Ergou looked down at the real shadow at his waist, but found that the real shadow had disappeared.

When he looked up again, there was a person exactly like himself sitting on the magma in front of him.

Ergou raised his hand, and the "Ergou" in front of him also raised his hand.

"Are you me?"

"I'm not you."

"then who are you?"

"I don't know either." The "two dogs" in front of him said, "But I know, I belong to you."

Ergou looked at "Ergou" in front of him incomprehensibly.

"You don't remember me." said "Two Dogs" on the lava, "but I remember you."

"Do you remember anything?"

"The time is wrong, what I have experienced is wrong, but the fact that I belong to you has not changed." "Ergou" on the lava stretched out his hand and pointed to the position of Ergou's heart, "Just remember... "

"What do you remember?"

"Remember how to use me."