The Path of Mental Cultivation

Chapter 72 The Path of Mental Cultivation

While others are already sailing spaceships and plucking stars from the sky, you're still fiddling with bows and arrows and cold weapons, thinking of shooting two rabbits. Unless you can turn it into a sun-shooting bow, if the two fight, the latter is doomed.

Guang Chengzi was not one to be foolish, so he decided to change his path to immortality and forge a new one from the traditional path.

This is not an impossible thing; in fact, Hongjun Daozu welcomes the existence of such people. As the saying goes, flowing water does not stagnate. If the path of immortality is only the one left by Hongjun Daozu, it will eventually become a stagnant pool.

Only through collective wisdom, continuous innovation, and constant renewal of the Dao can the Dao endure and last forever.

The decline of the Pangu creation cosmology was also due to the difficulty in giving birth to the Great Luo Immortals of the post-natal world, which led to its abandonment by countless post-natal beings.

Guang Chengzi's proposed transformation of the immortal path aims to fundamentally reduce the cultivators' need for spiritual energy, starting with refining their physical bodies...

The spirit and magical power are transformed into the growth of focused cultivation of the Dao and the Dao mind, which is what is known as mind cultivation.

Cultivators who only cultivate their physical body are called body cultivators, those who only cultivate their spirit and soul are called soul cultivators, those who only cultivate their magical power are called magic cultivators, and those who only cultivate their Dao heart are naturally called heart cultivators.

Compared to the previous three types of cultivators, or those who cultivate both the three bodies or even the Dao Heart, the cultivator who cultivates the mind is naturally extremely weak. After all, no matter how high one's cultivation level is, one is still afraid of a kitchen knife.

Even if you have profound Taoist skills and can control the world, but your spirit is weak, your body is feeble, and your magical power is minimal, what use is it if your Taoist skills are so high?

If you can't even hold things steady and can't speak properly, then no matter how high your intelligence is, it's just for your own benefit; it's all superficial.

It wasn't that Guang Chengzi didn't want to cultivate other things, but rather that the West now needed spiritual energy to nourish itself, and where would they get so much spiritual energy to support these cultivators? In the end, they could only turn to mental cultivation.

Naturally, Guang Chengzi wouldn't simply reduce spiritual energy to nothing. After all, without spiritual energy, one cannot expand their cultivation level, and it would be laughable if they all became ants with a lifespan of only a hundred years.

Changing one's immortal cultivation method is very easy. Moreover, Guang Chengzi now possesses the Taiyi Dao Heart, which is equivalent to a Taiyi Golden Immortal personally changing his Daoist method. With the blessing of immortality, the method of cultivating the mind has been born in less than a hundred years.

But the birth of a cultivation method is one thing, whether it can be promoted is another.

Before Hongjun's path to immortality appeared, the Dragon Clan had the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Gate Path, the Phoenix Clan had the Nirvana Feather Transformation Path, the Qilin Clan had the Earth-Born Qilin Path, and even Luo Du introduced the All Things Transform into Demons Path.

All of these attempts are to inherit the legacy of Pangu's creation of the world and pave a new path for countless beings in the future. In addition, there are many more minor paths that some great gods have privately created.

But the reason why Hongjun became an immortal and defeated all his rivals in the end, surpassing the latter, is because this path is more perfect and complete, can be walked more widely, and truly brings a glimmer of hope to all living beings. This is why it became the path that succeeded Pangu in creating the world.

Otherwise, people aren't fools; if they discover that this path is impassable, they will spread the word and discard it into the dust.

Your enemies aren't fools either. To watch you become the final winner without stopping you is like a tree using strangulation to kill its other enemies.

For example, some trees grow rapidly from the moment they are born, becoming extremely tall, not only to compete for more sunlight, but also to catch lightning, which is called a lightning rod.

When the lightning struck, it turned into ground fire, which was about to cause a fire. However, these tall trees were not afraid of the fire because they had special fire-resistant sap and escaped the calamity. But the other trees were burned to ashes, which was equivalent to clearing a piece of land.

Even trees that can't be moved have this mechanism, let alone these great gods?

Only a path that is perfect to the extreme can convince these enemies to give up and not even want to fight anymore, knowing that it is just a waste of time.

But Hongjun had the ability to create a perfect path, while Guangchengzi did not have such supernatural powers.

"This path of mental cultivation can only fool those who don't know how to cultivate. If they were to awaken their memories of their past lives, the first thing they would probably do is return to the East and start cultivating the immortal path again. Thinking about this path of mine is just a waste of time."

Guang Chengzi sighed inwardly. He wasn't exactly a saint, willing to nurture these remnant souls for nothing. He originally intended to use this opportunity to seek reincarnation and see if he could become a Yama, the King of Hell.

Now, for the sake of his path to the Taiyi realm, when he ejected these remnant souls, he did not shield them from the cleansing of the Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao directly washed away their memories.

Of course, this is only a mystery in the womb. When these people ascend to immortality, they will immediately awaken to their past lives and receive the blessings left behind. At that time, their path of spiritual cultivation will probably be abolished.

Thinking of this, Guang Chengzi couldn't help but complain: "Can't the Heavenly Dao be cleansed a little more? It would be best to shatter all their past life memories, leaving only fragments. Otherwise, after they become immortals, will they still be themselves? I should have cooked a pot of Meng Po soup."

Although there is no longer any Houtu reincarnation, reincarnation is real and is controlled by the Heavenly Dao itself.

When a cultivator dies, without special means, destroying their soul will not harm their true spirit. These true spirits are taken away by the Heavenly Dao and used for reincarnation.

If Heaven truly possesses merit and karma, it can naturally discern good and evil. Therefore, these true spirits will undergo a simple judgment to determine whether they become beings capable of cultivation or become beasts, unable to cultivate and utterly lacking aptitude. It is all up to Heaven to decide.

The Heavenly Dao will naturally cleanse these remaining memories of true spirits, but this cleansing can be seen as a seal. Once one becomes an immortal, this seal will naturally be lifted.

That is, to awaken past life memories.

Guang Chengzi's problem was that even if he could deceive these people for a while, once they became immortals and awakened their memories of their past lives, they would immediately abandon the path of spiritual cultivation.

However, this is understandable. If Guang Chengzi were replaced by these people, he would probably make the same decision.

Just as Guang Chengzi was troubled, a series of great fluctuations came from the heavens again. Just like before, countless auspicious signs suddenly erupted, sweeping across billions of miles of the primordial world. Even in the west, Guang Chengzi could see the mesmerizing spectacle covering Mount Buzhou.

"Master is back?"

Guang Chengzi murmured, realizing that this was the end of the second sermon, and the three thousand mortals in Zixiao Palace had returned.

His heart stirred, but in the end he did not get up to return to Kunlun. After all, his trip was for training, and he also needed to find a few new disciples for Yuanshi Tianzun.

The trials aren't over yet, so why go back? It's better to stay here and contemplate the path of self-cultivation.

"Although I have never met this young friend before, his aura seems strangely familiar, expressing the universe and the self. I once heard Senior Sister Nuwa mention that Senior Brother Yuanshi had a disciple. Could it be young friend Guangchengzi?"

Just as Guang Chengzi was pondering, a gentle voice suddenly came to his ear. He trembled and knew that the person's magical power must be incredibly great, otherwise how could they break through his layers of perception and the shielding of several top-grade innate spiritual treasures on his body?

But from the fact that this person addressed Yuanshi Tianzun as his senior brother and Nuwa Niangniang as his senior sister, it was clear that he was also one of the mortals in Zixiao Palace.

In the West, apart from those two, there are probably no other worldly people.

Guang Chengzi looked in the direction of the sound and saw two Taoists standing nearby. One of them was looking at him with a smile, while the other was curiously observing the millions of cultivators below.