Chapter 74 Gathering
Actually, I wasn’t surprised that the eldest sister could sit on a tiny branch and meditate. After all, she could fly. What’s that got to do with it? Besides, I heard Huigen tell me about a great monk. That great monk didn’t know anything about metaphysics, he was purely a master of martial arts, and he also had a lost skill of lightness, which could make him stand on a bamboo branch without falling. That was real lightness, and it had to be combined with a breath of internal energy, not the crude lightness that people understand now, like tying sandbags to your body…
If she can do that, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what Big Sister is doing.
What really made me feel that she was ruining the three views was that she directly responded to her own power in the moonlight. Yes, the power of the moonlight is a rare and pure yin power in the world, which is extremely beneficial for restoring soul power and the like! But how can a person directly absorb the moonlight? After all, people are not animals!
I was told a theory by my master a long time ago: yin and yang need to be balanced, and they are intertwined and powerful. If they are out of balance, the situation that happened to me when I was young will occur. The soul is strong, the spiritual awareness is strong, and the yang does not control the yin!
It seems that in order to fit their souls, human bodies or physical abilities are in a sense the weakest! Therefore, no matter how powerful a person’s yang body is, it will not be so powerful as to oppress the soul, because it cannot surpass a certain limit! Unless you use Taoist or other methods to strengthen the body without cultivating the inside, or that situation may occur…
Why can animals directly absorb the moonlight? It’s because their yang bodies can withstand it! Everyone knows that under the same physique, animals are naturally stronger than humans, both in strength and speed!
Jenny’s behavior undoubtedly broke the concept I had since childhood, or her body was strong enough to directly absorb the moonlight to grow her soul, and she could withstand it!
Everything was quiet. I leaned lazily against the tree, looked up at the stars, and found that in this forest full of the sounds of insects and animals, looking up at the sky, my heart was filled with a rare tranquility, a kind of distant thought. But after about half an hour, my rare state of mind was broken. Looking at what was in front of me, I wanted to curse: “Go to the fucking distance and tranquility!”
All this was because a colorful snake had climbed up between the branches of the tree I was leaning against. Half of its body was wrapped around the trunk of the tree, half of its body was wrapped around the branches of the tree, and its head was in a strange position, looking up towards the moon…
It was less than a meter away from me!
Yes, not all non-venomous snakes have triangular heads, but colorful ones are poisonous? But can poisonous snakes grow that big? I was speechless. At that moment, I didn’t even bother to think about logic. I just prayed that it wouldn’t suddenly remember that I was in its way and turn around to bite me!
I was trembling with fear, but I also noticed something strange under the tree. I looked down carefully, and then almost fell out of the tree. Could it be that Jenny was playing with me? Did she bring me to the zoo?
Although it was dark, the moon and stars were the only light I could see, and I couldn’t see clearly, but at least it didn’t affect my ability to see the ‘shapes’ surging under the tree. I don’t know why, but there were a dozen animals, like weasels and foxes, and they were also surrounding the big snake, which was even bigger than the one on the tree! But they were just circling the tree and didn’t dare to do anything. The only thing on the tree was the big, colorful snake, which was firmly occupying its position!
It seems that it is more powerful? Is it the boss? Its pattern is really terrifying, but I still have the mood to think like this, because I have had experience with snake spirits. I carefully approached it a little, although I don’t know why I did it. But as soon as I got closer, I suddenly felt this message, which was very abstract and had no specific text, but I could understand the meaning鈥攄on’t disturb me.
I don’t have any spiritual awareness at the moment because my soul is weak, but it can still send me messages. The only explanation is that it is very powerful! At least it is an animal that has embarked on the path of spiritual cultivation…
Jenny is probably a troublemaker who can cause more trouble than I can. I picked a random tree, and not only did an animal gathering come, but a snake spirit even came. I was helpless. I didn’t need peace and quiet, and I didn’t need to be far away. I knew that the snake spirit had no ill will towards me, and it just told me not to disturb it. I simply leaned lazily against the tree and lit a cigarette for myself. Can I smoke? Does smoking bother you, snake spirit?
But before I could finish the cigarette, a shadow appeared in front of me. Jenny had squatted down in front of me and snatched the cigarette from my mouth, taking a deep drag and saying with disgust, “I hate meditation. It’s exhausting.”
Meditation is tiring? It’s only been half an hour! But I didn’t dare to ask.
What’s more amazing is that Jenny also noticed what was going on under the tree and casually waved her hand and shouted, “Disperse, disperse…” and the animals really dispersed in a rush, including the big snake that was perched in the tree.
“It’s like watching TV isn’t a hard thing to do, it’s even a pleasurable thing to do, but if you watch TV for a long time without stopping, you’ll want to! Meditation is the same, it’s really troublesome!” As she spoke, Jenny grabbed me by the collar and dragged me to the ground, regardless of my feelings.
Although I was able to withstand the force of Jenny’s head and jump from a height of several meters, I still stumbled. Fortunately, there was a thick layer of leaves under my feet, so I was not hurt. Just as I straightened up, Jenny’s head was already walking ahead. She shouted, “Follow my footsteps, not a single step can be wrong. This is a magic circle.”
I dared not be negligent, and immediately concentrated on following her. However, the basic steps of the formation were the same, except for the changes in key places, so I didn’t have any difficulty at all, and I was even able to talk to Jenny: “Jenny, what’s going on with these animals?”
“Jenny? Hahaha… that’s a good name. I’m that young.” Jenny simply missed the point of my question. I was clearly asking a question, but she only focused on the fact that I was calling her Jenny. When I was helpless, she answered, “You know that Taoist kung fu is mainly about practicing qi. You practice pure internal qi internally and absorb the pure qi of the world externally. I am absorbing it, but you also know that absorption will always cause some changes in the surrounding qi. For example, when you eat, you first have to put the things you want to eat together, right? If I gather too much, these guys will come to eat too.”
The principle is simple and I can understand it. After all, animals are more sensitive than humans. But I still feel that I have destroyed my three views again. How strong do you have to be to cause such a reaction?
But there is a saying that goes, “You see what you see from where you stand.” The shackles of human beings, however, lie in believing too much in what they know and what they see, and being stubborn about the position they stand in, not believing in the scenery others see because for them it is unseen! This is the mentality of an ostrich towards the unknown or the unseen, either ignoring it or trying to convince yourself that it is nonsense. In a way, the wings of imagination are bound in one place, that is, the mind is bound in one place!
Where the mind cannot reach, how far do you expect the real you to go?
I find that I also have this mentality. What I have learned and what my master has taught me has already fixed my understanding. Jenny’s behavior has made me fuss over it again and again, and I even refuse to accept it, let alone imagine that I can reach that level. This is really not good. If I don’t do it right, I will produce a strong sense of self-denial, just as Jiang Yi said!
It is no wonder that Jenny said that Jiang Yi is complacent and conservative! Or is Jenny telling me to accept the natural state of things? Just because I haven’t arrived yet and I haven’t seen it, doesn’t mean that my thoughts can’t reach it? Can’t I give myself a goal?
After a long silence, I suddenly asked, “Jenny, how long does it take to reach your level of cultivation? And what is this flying thing? You can tell me, I can accept it!”