This is not the first time that Shen Lian of Taiwei Pavilion has come in. He has known a long time ago that he can only enter the second level by returning the elixir.
He didn't know how to get up there then, but he does now.
It's very simple. He thought about going to the second floor and went in naturally. Because it is so simple, it is very mysterious. It already involves the mystery of time and space, which Shen Lian can understand now. A thought flashed across his mind. If his cultivation reached a certain level, could he appreciate the subtleties of time and space and return to his original place
How he came here is completely unclear now.
This thought flashed through his mind, and he began to look at the second floor of Taiwei Pavilion without thinking too much.
The second floor is a closed space, but this space is very bright, there is no blazing light, it is all very soft light, but the source of the light cannot be found. Shen Lian also discovered a wonderful thing, he has no shadow. .
Because there is light in all directions and above and below, shadows do not exist. Light and shadow originally coexist, but here there is only light.
The space was very vast, and there were many jade slips floating densely. Shen Lian took a jade slip, and a dense amount of information poured in. Finally, he understood that what was recorded in it was a Taoist method - "Tai Shang Chunyang" "Qi Lian Jue".
When Shen Lian released his grip on the jade slip, the jade slip floated back, and the information that had previously been reflected in his mind also dissipated little by little.
This is not surprising. The more powerful the Taoist formulas and magical powers are, it is useless to just memorize them by rote. Unless they are understood and digested, it will be impossible to remember them at all.
If Gu Caiwei hadn't already introduced Taixu Shence, she wouldn't have been able to teach him.
As for the jade slips here, they cannot be taken out, not by anyone. On the one hand, it is a rule, and on the other hand, it is also because the things here cannot be taken away, because the jade slips are not real objects, they are just a manifestation of the information in them.
Unless you can understand it, integrate it, and turn it into your own knowledge.
As long as you can enter the second floor of Taiwei Pavilion, you can read and browse the Taoism, magical powers and other records in the jade slips at will.
But to take these things out, especially exercises and the like, you have to work hard to understand and digest them.
The time of a Taoist cultivator is very long, but also very short. The things recorded here are very powerful and cannot be mastered by reading them once. Even if one has the talent to integrate several Taoist methods and practice them together, one does not know how much energy will be wasted.
Practicing several exercises at the same time is usually because your own exercises are mediocre. Finding some similar ones to practice at the same time may shed new light on your own Taoism.
Because there is never the best method, only the method that suits you best.
Everyone has different qualifications and temperament. Even if they practice the same Taoism, regardless of whether the progress will be fast or slow, there will be some differences in the final result.
Taoism is just a seed. What kind of tree it will eventually grow into depends on you and your fate.
No two trees are exactly the same, just because they practice the same Taoism, there will be many similarities, and the differences lie in some details.
Shen Lian likes it here very much. As his cultivation level gets higher and higher, he can learn many common Taoist skills with just a glance. However, things that are easy to learn are actually of little benefit to him.
It's like a person who has studied arithmetic for many years, and then asks him to learn something as easy as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Even if it is very easy, it is not interesting.
However, Shen Lian did not pay attention to these jade slips for the time being. They were surrounded by smooth-looking jade and hung with pictures of Dharma. On the statues were figures one after another, some of whom were dressed as Confucian scholars. , some people are standing with swords in hand, some people are wearing square scarves and enjoying themselves among the mountains and rivers, some people are holding wine glasses and seem to be drunk but not drunk. There are all these, but none of them are the same.
Each Dharma image has a unique charm.
These Dharmas are like the immortal immortals of Qingxuan Dynasty, there are a total of forty paintings.
Shen Lian also looked at his master, Fairy Zi Ling, but her image showed two people, one in green shirt and one in purple shirt. Their faces were the same, but their expressions were very different.
Qingshan's face was as cold as ice, while Zishan's mouth raised slightly, showing a hint of cunning.
Shen Lian also saw the Dharma portrait of the old Taoist priest. In fact, he was not sure at first because in this Dharma portrait, there was a rather quiet Taoist priest with a butterfly dancing beside him. It was lifelike and seemed to be coming to life. .
Shen Lian suddenly remembered a sentence in his mind: "In the past, Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, a lifelike butterfly. He said that he was suitable for his ambition and did not know Zhou." Suddenly I feel like I'm in a state of confusion. I don’t know that Zhou’s dream is Hu Dieyu, and Hu Die’s dream is Zhou Yu? Zhou and Hu Die must be different. This is called materialization. '
The meaning of this sentence is somewhat similar to how he was transformed into a caterpillar after being glanced at by an old Taoist priest, but there are many differences.
The old Taoist priest has emerged from his cocoon and become a butterfly, and now he has even reached a higher level. But Shen Lian has not yet detached 'I' from objects.
Each Dharma image has a different charm, and the profound and unspeakable truth in it makes Shen Lian look happy, frowning, laughing, and beating the ground.
All kinds of emotions went through my mind for a while, and finally I was sweating profusely, feeling haggard, and then I woke up as if from a dream.
He fell down next to the last Dharma statue. This Dharma statue was also of a woman. Shen Lian looked ordinary at first glance, but upon closer inspection, he felt that she had various poses.
This is the founder of Taixu Divine Strategy - Patriarch Qingshui.
Fairy Zi Ling had previously made a painting of Tan Yun Xian Ying, using it as a portrait of Patriarch Qing Shui. Now it seems that the two have the same purpose.
The white clouds have thousands of postures, and the clear pool is still, just like the woman in the painting. At first glance, there is no special charm, but if you savor it carefully, you will find that there are thousands of postures in it. Just like Tao gives birth to one, gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things.
After viewing this Dharma image, Shen Lian's mind gradually calmed down, and he felt as comfortable as "lying down and watching the clouds all over the sky without moving, not knowing whether the clouds are in the east or east of me."
In fact, if the others in Qingxuan knew that Shen Lian came in for the first time and actually looked at all the forty statues, they would be shocked and speechless.
Because Qingxuan's elixir-returning monks have always entered Taiwei Pavilion, Chen Jianmei also came once before going down the mountain, but he just looked at the statue of the ancestor of the Invisible Sword Technique.
There are also people who are curious and have tried to look at the statues of other ancestors. There are less than twenty pictures at most, and they have to be mentally exhausted.
Shen Lian has finished observing forty times, and his mind is so strong that perhaps no one in Qingxuan's descendants has appeared in the past.
Shen Lian himself probably doesn't know the bottom line of his soul power, because "Shangqing Lingbao Naturally Locks the Heart and Concentrates the True Solution", as long as he practices, he will strengthen his soul, and he has not yet encountered a barrier that he cannot overcome.