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There are so many interesting things happening in this small town now, so much so that even seemingly outrageous things are starting to happen.

On this day, the slovenly man opposite Chu Yuanxiao's house took over the town to do errands. Except for the occasional knock on the door by a poor boy, the shabby thatched house unexpectedly had a visitor. The visitor was a middle-aged man with a big shoulders, a round waist and a rough face. He was a young man, and the clothes he wore looked quite valuable, but they just didn't match the man's unrestrained and unrestrained temperament.

After the man entered the town, he first glanced sideways at the bronze bell hanging under the old locust tree, then turned his head to look at the thatched hut, and walked slowly to the door, seeming to dislike the slovenliness of the hut. It was so shabby that he didn't directly reach out to knock on the door. He just chuckled and said in a thick voice: "I never expected that the young master of the Shenhou Mansion, who is proud to come to the East China Sea, would one day hide in such a small and shabby place in the countryside, relying on people. Just knocking on the clapper to make a living, and you really think it’s been 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi!”

Unexpectedly, before the door of the hut was opened, a faint voice came out from inside, "The wind and water have changed, and it's you knocking on my door again?"

The man outside the door was obviously choked by these words, and his expression was naturally gloomy. He sneered with a cold face and said: "Hou Junchen, back then you escaped from Aolai Country like a lost dog, and then After escaping from Shijizhou, the entire Shenhou Mansion was wiped out because of you, how can you still have the nerve to survive here? If I were you, I would have found a dog hole to crawl in and die!"

As soon as these words came out, there was suddenly no sound in the thatched hut. After a long while, the door of the thatched hut was opened by Hou Junchen from the inside, and the slovenly man who was revealed had sleepy eyes and scratched his end like a chicken coop. He had the same messy hair, and then looked at the dirt that he picked out and stuck in the gaps between his nails. He twisted it into a mud ball with his two fingers and flicked it elsewhere. He didn't look at the man in brocade clothes, who looked like that. The person's face was not as beautiful as the dirt in his hands, but he said in a light and helpless tone: "Jiang Chang, if you have something to do, just say it, if you have something to do, get out of here, yin and yang should not be your style, and I am not what I used to be. That's me... Just tell me what you want to do with me!"

"Looking for you?" The strong man known as Jiang Chang sneered, "Who said I came to find you? Do you still think you are in the Shenhou Mansion back then?"

These words made the sloppy man stunned. It was also the first time since just now that he raised his eyes and glanced at Jiang Chang, wondering: "Then what are you here for? Are you here to discuss business?"

Jiang Chang snorted and sneered, and then said: "I came to pick him up by order of the sect."

"Zongmen?" Hou Junchen was a little stunned. Jiang Chang was an old acquaintance with him. He was once a lieutenant general in the army of the Aolai Kingdom in the East China Sea. Later, due to an incident in the Shenhou Mansion, which was once the sea-defining needle of the Aolai Kingdom, Hou Junchen acted as After the Young Mansion Master fled the Aolai Kingdom, the two of them had not seen each other again, so I really didn't know when he had a sect, so he asked again: "You left the army? Which sect?" ?”

While the two were talking, they suddenly heard the door of the courtyard across the street. They turned their eyes and saw a down-and-out young man coming out of the door carrying two porcelain bowls. He looked at the two of them with some confusion.

Jiang Chang glanced at the young man indifferently, then ignored him. He just turned back to look at the sloppy man and said with an indifferent expression: "Yunlin Sect, I'm here to pick up those two people who were talking about business and return to the sect."

When Hou Junchen heard this, his expression suddenly became a little strange. Firstly, he did not expect that Jiang Chang would be a good general in the third-grade dynasty army and instead entered the Yunlin Sect, which was only fourth-grade. Secondly, he suddenly remembered Su Sanzai from before. Regarding the matter of collecting debts from Yunlin Sect, he looked at the man and smiled thoughtfully: "Do they still need to come to pick him up? Are they afraid that the young man with Shuiyun will be robbed?"

For some reason, Jiang Chang's expression became a little strange when he heard this question. He looked at the sloppy man and asked, "You don't know?"

"What do you know?" Hou Junchen didn't know why.

The man in gilded clothes curled his lips looking at Hou Junchen's expression, then shrugged and said, "The Yunlin Sect received a secret message, saying that there is an unknown Jianghu force that is intercepting and killing the various sects coming out of Yanguan Town. Immortal family, the mistress of Shuixiu Lake in Jinchaizhou who left you before was stopped at the border of Dizhou and has died."

When the sloppy man heard the news, he was stunned. Then he suddenly turned his head and glanced at the unfashionable young man who was already waiting under the old locust tree on the other side of the road with a bowl. However, he could not take it back after just one glance. He lost his sight and looked at Jiang Chang again: "I don't know this clearly. I haven't left the town and I don't have so many sources of information."

When Jiang Zhang heard this, he sneered again, and his tone of voice was once again a bit contemptuous: "Then I hope you can eat and die in this wretched place until you die, and I hope we will never meet again!"

After saying that, Hou Junchen turned around and left without waiting for a reply. Unexpectedly, the sloppy man's somewhat strange voice came from behind him again: "I'd like to lend you some good words."

Jiang Zhang couldn't help but frown after hearing this, but he didn't look back or stop, and strode away directly into the town.

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Chu Yuanxiao, who was standing under the old locust tree, watched silently as the man in rich clothes slowly left, then walked out from under the tree with a bowl in hand and went to the door of the thatched cottage on the other side of the road.

At this time, Hou Junchen was still looking at Jiang Chang who was drifting away, his eyes were misty, his expression was dazed, and he never regained consciousness for a long time.

The poor young man glanced at the sloppy man's expression, hesitated for a moment, handed a bowl in his hand to him, and then asked softly: "Do you know each other?"

Hou Junchen came back to his senses instantly, glanced at the young man, then took the job from his hands, shrugged and said calmly: "We were comrades who fought side by side against the enemy a long time ago, but then... something happened, and we haven't seen each other for a long time. It’s over.”

Having said this, he turned to look at the young man and said with a meaningful smile: "He is now from the Yunlin Sect. He came here to pick up Zhang Jinhuai and the others, and I guess he may not know that you are still here." The half master who came in without recognizing them has already sealed their Yunlin Sect, and they may be sealed until death."

Chu Yuanxiao grinned when he heard this, then turned back to look at the man in brocade clothes who had walked away, and said helplessly: "When you say that, why do I suddenly feel that he might still come to trouble me..."

At this time, Hou Junchen was squatting against the wall of the hut with his rice bowl, and began to wolf down the five internal organs temple. Listening to the young man's inexplicable helpless tone, he said with some schadenfreude: "We are all on the road to death, and we still can't stop. I really don’t know what kind of unlucky luck you have! However, don’t you still have half a master who has not yet passed the apprenticeship? At worst, you will kneel down and kowtow to recognize the master! As a human being, you must live in order to survive and not be shabby!”

Chu Yuanxiao looked back helplessly at the slovenly man who started to dig his rice again, rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Why do you always sound like shit when it comes out of your mouth even though it's a good thing?"

The sloppy man raised his head and glanced at the young man while grabbing the rice. After thinking for a while, he said vaguely: "Because I haven't wiped my teeth, rinsed my mouth, washed my hair or bathed for many years. I'm used to being a stinky stone in a latrine. I'm going to die." It should be like this, why? Are you not convinced?"

Hearing this, the poor boy rolled his eyes again, shrugged and mocked: "So you deserve to be an old bachelor!"

Hou Junchen was not angry when he heard what the young man said. The two of them had long been accustomed to mocking each other without mercy, just like when Hou Junchen could say without any scruples whether the young man would kill the dead ghost buried in the grave. It was the same thing over and over again, and both of them were used to it. Instead, they laughed strangely in the next sentence, winked and sneered at each other: "Isn't that right? You have a sweetheart, but look at this proud daughter of heaven, will she be willing to pay attention to you? A poor country boy who is shabby, helpless, and has both feet on the road to death?"

At this moment, the young man suddenly remembered the last statement that the girl in white had mentioned when she did business with him for the second time. At that time, due to the sudden movement from the Zhu family in Zhenxi, there was no communication between the two. The topic was finished, so at this moment, he automatically filtered out the slovenly man's ridiculing and ridiculing words like a deaf ear, then walked over and squatted beside the man, regained his serious expression and whispered softly: "Someone told me before, no matter what The road is not completely hopeless, and there is a rumor that..." The young man suddenly felt stuck, and he was so excited at the time, how did he say that sentence?

"Enter the Tao with your own body, fellow practitioners of the Three Paths." Hou Junchen picked up his rice, raised his head and glanced at the young man lightly, and added the eight words to him naturally, as if he didn't need to think about it.

Hearing this, the young man turned his head and looked at the sloppy man, and said in surprise: "You also know?"

Hou Junchen rolled his eyes, turned his head and glanced at the young man angrily, and said, "Of course I know, but do you know why I didn't tell you about this?"

"It's difficult?" The young man naturally gave an answer like a question. The girl in white had already said that no one who has embarked on the road to death since ancient times has successfully renewed his life, so the answer is naturally obvious.

"It's difficult?" Hou Junchen had already finished the full bowl of rice in a short time. He turned his head and looked at the young man with a half-smile, and sneered: "You think it's all just the word 'difficult'? There are nine continents in the world, The territory is endless and vast, and the number of cultivators in it is as vast as a cow's hair! But there are so many people, and except for a few people, all the rest can't even cultivate a single road. Understood! Now you still want to get started with only three ways? Do you think you are God? Let me ask you this, throughout the ages, of all the people who can be seen in the annals of history, no matter how amazing and talented they are, there is no one. Is it just called 'difficult' to do something you've done before?"

As the sloppy man spoke, he put his empty rice bowl on the ground, then sat down on the ground. He habitually pulled off a piece of thatch from the wall of the thatched house behind him and began to pick his teeth. He hummed: "Three Religions" Do you know? Among the nine continents in the world, except for Linyuan Academy, which does not belong to one family and can only be regarded as a joint force of rivers and lakes, the three first-grade mountain sects that are at the top in real strength, do you think? Are the ancestors of their three families powerful enough? Are they amazing enough to have countless talents? But even those three have only achieved two paths. They are not fellow practitioners, but they have only taken one of the paths to the human world. At the end of the road, he then turned around and picked up another road. This was already the pinnacle of the human world, and no one would come after him for countless years. Besides, except for the last generation of human emperors in ancient times who had already disappeared. , it can be regarded as unprecedented! Do you think you have any advantage over those three? Do you still want to be a fellow practitioner of Sanjing? What is the difference between saying it and not saying it? "

Probably due to the strict rules of the Immortal monks, this sloppy man originally acted casually, but when he mentioned a certain three powerful men who stood above the sky, he did not directly mention the names of those three people. Suddenly he changed his posture, threw away the thatch in his hand, then clasped his hands together and muttered: "I'm sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, I have offended you. I also ask the three ancestors to be magnanimous and don't argue with me..."

On the long street, the wind was gentle and the sun was bright, and suddenly the spring breeze came, and the young buds and green grass rustled.

The young man glanced at this sloppy man who suddenly had an eccentric attitude, and then at the copper bell opposite the old locust tree that was slowly swaying due to the breeze, and felt a little chill on his back for no reason.

After a moment of silence, the sloppy man looked up at the warm sunlight around him, smiled softly, then turned to look at the destitute young man again, and said, "Do you still want to give it a try now?"

Hearing this, the young man unconsciously scratched his head and smiled bitterly, then turned his head and looked through the gap between the low earth walls used to surround the city as the town entrance, looking at the town three miles east of the town. At the foot of Zhelongbei Mountain, there are two unclear small earthen mounds standing on both sides of a small mountain mound.

He stared for a long time, took a long and deep breath, then looked back at the sloppy man and said with a smile: "Do I have any other choice?"

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When playing against Shuixiu Lake before, the girl in white, Li Yuyao, briefly mentioned it once. In short, in a general sense, the path of spiritual practice is three paths, which are the three paths of "three paths of fellow practitioners" that she later mentioned. , energetic.

Today, after hearing the words "give it a try", Hou Junchen, a sloppy man, sighed after being silent for a long time, and chose the Eight Classics to explain all the details to the young man in detail.

The so-called "jing" corresponds to the first step of martial arts, which is what people often call martial artists. They practice the physical kung fu of hard bridges and hard horses. What they pursue is the immortality of the physical body. They live as long as the heaven and the earth. The heaven and the earth are immortal and I am immortal.In terms of cultivation level, there are a total of twelve realms, namely the first realm of muscle refining, the second realm of bone refining, the third realm of body refining, the fourth realm of strength gathering, the fifth realm of concentration, the sixth realm of martial arts, the seventh realm of wind control, and the eighth realm. Realm of Mount Mountain, Nine Realm of Heavenly Man, Tenth Realm of Martial Saint, Eleventh Realm of Martial God and Twelfth Realm of Martial Emperor.

There is also a saying that these twelve realms are classified into four stages, and each three realms are classified into a major stage, because the difficulty of crossing borders between major stages is often more difficult than that of small realms, and the watershed is higher. Therefore, this classification method divides the martial arts path from low to high into three realms of body training, three realms of soul condensation, three realms of innateness and three realms of divine martial arts.

Speaking of the word "qi", this line corresponds to the Qi practitioner. The main method of practice is to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and refine it for one's own use, supplemented by comprehending the great avenue of heaven and earth, and finally pursuing the ascension. It is said that after reaching the end of the road, you can continue. If you take one step forward and can ascend to the real heavenly fairy court and rank among the immortals, that will be another story.

In terms of realm division, in fact, the three paths are almost the same. They are all twelve realms in total, and they are also four major stages. The first realm of Qi Practitioner is to build the foundation, the second realm is to practice Qi, the third realm is to practice Xiao Zhoutian, and the fourth realm is to practice God. , five realms of divine sea, six realms of Great Zhoutian, seven realms of golden elixir, eight realms of Nascent Soul, nine realms of immortals and ten realms of asking questions, eleven realms of hearing the Tao and twelve realms of combining the Tao.

The major stages from low to high are the Little Zhoutian, the Great Zhoutian, the Three Realms of Immortal and the Three Realms of Hedao.

Finally, there is the word "god", which corresponds to spiritual cultivation, focusing on cultivating spiritual power, pursuing the immortality of the soul and consciousness, speaking the constitution of heaven, and following the law.

The realm of spiritual cultivation is the first level of consciousness, the second level of soul refining, the third level of soul condensation, the fourth level of divine consciousness, the fifth level of divine will, the sixth level of spiritual consciousness, the seventh level of divine elixir, the eighth level of divine infant, the ninth level of divine being, and the tenth level of yin spirit. The eleventh realm of Yangshen, the twelve realms of Yuanshen.

The major stages are divided into four, the three realms of enlightening the gods, the three realms of nourishing the gods, the three realms of ascending to the gods and the three realms of the gods.

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The sloppy man explained until the end that he felt that it was a lot of nonsense and gave him a headache. He finally let out a sigh of relief, then turned his head and looked at the bewildered young man beside him, and joked with a smile. : "Look, I don't know which bastard designed this practice system in the first place. It's so full that you can't even put in the effort! The people in the Jiuzhou Immortal Family in the world today are very similar to these. There are various theories about the origins of things like Tiantiao. Some people say that it was made by the last human emperor who has disappeared for the New Year. Some people say that it was made by the God who never showed his face. Some people say that it was made by God who never showed his face. This has happened since the beginning of the world. Anyway, no one has seen who the bastard is, and no one can change this set of things. It can only be used like this for thousands of generations... I just have nothing to do occasionally, and maybe I will do it in the future. After tea and dinner, on and off the wine table, with one foot on a stool and one hand holding a wine bowl, foaming at the mouth and splattering with saliva, he finished a set of wild speculations about his origins, and then added angrily, "This dog is not a human being. It's so complicated just to embarrass anyone, so forget it."

The big-headed young man was silent for a long time, took a deep breath, then looked at the sloppy man and asked: "Then how can I embark on these three roads?"

This was a good question. The slovenly man who asked the question made the slovenly man narrow his eyes slightly. He turned his head and glanced in the direction of Zhenxi thoughtfully, and then did not look back. He just replied softly: "This matter , you have to ask some people you really should ask!”

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(End of this chapter)