Seeing the Eight Calamities and Learning of the Five Grades of Immortal Realms: Upper, Middle, and Lower

When Qi WuHuo turned around and left, the Sea of Flowers behind him gradually closed, like a door closing. When Sea of Flowers gradually closed, the place behind him was like the place where Mortal World immortals practice. Fang also disappeared under Qi WuHuo's induction. Qi WuHuo walked up to the old man and handed him this Jade Slip. The old man did not show any sadness or disappointment, but remained gentle and peaceful.

Let the disciples choose their own path.

Such grand gentle compassion is too vast and vast, and to others it would appear almost heartless.

The palm of his hand brushed over Jade Slip, and the two words Yu Miao on Jade Slip disappeared. However, the old man did not smash this Jade Slip again, but handed it to Qi WuHuo. This time, his choice was different from that of the previous Senior Brother Yuyang. He said gently, "Five hundred years later, you come to see her again and ask the same question again."

"Let's see how she responds."

Qi WuHuo is thoughtful, can you wait as long as you are pursuing the path?

The old man turned around and left with Qi WuHuo, and slowly walked away. This time he did not ask Qi WuHuo how he felt. An old man and a young man walked slowly on the road outside Yu Miao's hermitage. Flowers bloomed on both sides, and the fragrance was fragrant. The flowers had grown as high as the boy's waist. When walking along the road, butterflies danced and landed on the boy's shoulders.

After being silent for a while, the young man asked, "Teacher, dao companion is this true?"

The old man shook his head and said with a gentle smile, "Of course not."

"There are many sects and methods of my Daoist sect that have been passed down, and the Dharma lineage has also spread, and slowly many opinions have been spread. But just like the misunderstanding of spirit, energy, and spirit, there are also misunderstandings of couples, wealth, and land. The word "couple" is especially profound. dao companion does not mean a mortal couple. If a couple is dao companion, why bother to create a new word?"

"Originally it's because destiny is impermanent."

"Ascetics also have to face all kinds of disasters, calamities, life and death."

"Supporting each other in illness, understanding each other in life and death, this is dao companion."

The old man joked, "In other words, we are helping each other while building the road."

"The original meaning is that we walk together on this road. If you die, I will bury you and you can move on. If I die, don't be sad. There are green mountains everywhere. Where is the way back? Bury me and continue to search for the way forward. The so-called dao companion is nothing more than that."

This sentence was a bit joking at first, but later on it made Qi WuHuo feel a great sense of vastness. In just a moment, a few words were far more compassionate than a senior sister. The young man paused slightly, looking at Teacher's back, and suddenly felt that this back was only one step away, but it was so far away.

The old man stopped and looked back at him.

He said gently, "What's wrong with Wuhu?"

Qi WuHuo shook his head. "It's nothing."

He thought for a while and asked, "Senior sister and senior brother should also know that they cannot be obsessed with fame. There is also the meaning of dao companion, right?"

The old man replied, "Yes, but [know], [hold the way], [the way]."

"But they are three different realms."

"Knowing may not necessarily lead to execution, and execution may not necessarily lead to it. The great road is not achieved by just making a wish. There are many hardships, hardships, and various tortures along the way. dao companion is needed precisely because it is easy to enter a dark room when practicing alone."

"That's why dao companion said, you must first choose people, and then form dao companion."

"Don't fall in love, love is bound to your heart; don't know it, otherwise love will be separated."

"dao companion has three combinations, which are clear mind, wisdom and ambition."

"There are also three discords: ignorance, lack of wisdom, and lack of ambition."

The old man stretched out his hand to stroke Qi WuHuo's hair, and suddenly joked, "Why, Wuhuo also wants to find dao companion?"

"Do you want Teacher to introduce you to the immortal Cui Family?"

"The banished immortal is indeed a man with a Daoist heart as strong as iron."

"In the future, if you don't rely on Heavenly Emperor's Edict, you can also rely on Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown to soar."

Qi WuHuo never expected that the fire could burn him. The look on his face was slightly stagnant and slightly red, and he said seriously, "Teacher Stop joking."

Then old man laughed loudly.

It seems that teasing this young apprentice with a pure heart will make him feel happy.

He stroked his beard and said with emotion, "dao companion is also the basis of spiritual practice. It is not for love, but for the sake of the great road, reflecting each other and supporting each other."

"Is love wrong? No, who doesn't have feelings of attachment?"

"Just a Non-Self person."

"As I told you, I am looking for Daoist friends."

"They have their own choices, and they are all right, but our way is also right."

"They go their own way, and we also go ours. There is no right or wrong, no superiority or inferiority. It is just a choice. When we are destined, we stay together for a while, and when we are not, we leave each other, but there is no need to be attached to or care about each other,"

"Dependence arises and fate perishes."

"That's all."

"Your senior sister has taken another path, so you can wait for her for now."

He led the young man forward, and Qi WuHuo gradually had some insights in his heart. However, those insights were still a bit vague, not clear enough, and not specific enough. He felt that many ideas and principles were colliding in his mind. Just when he was thinking, his own aura gradually settled down, like a hard stone with a jade inside, which was being struck by the world, and was in the process of being undiscovered.

The old man said with a gentle voice, "Let's go and see the next one..."

So young Daoist understood that this path of questioning one's true heart has not yet ended.

He said yes, followed the old man, and moved forward step by step.

This is such a long road, the length of which is determined by the experience and life of this person disciple of the Mystic Gate.

After that, there were several senior brothers and sisters, Qi WuHuo, who all went to witness it one by one.

They all have their own obsessions. Each one of them is talented and infinitely more powerful than the current Qi WuHuo. Some may be attached to the mountains and rivers and have no desire to pursue the road, or they like to play in the world and show their saints in the world. Qi WuHuo personally takes back their Jade Slip. old man will ask him every time, what is his gain?

Ask each time, was their choice right or wrong?

Qi WuHuo answered every time without any mistakes.

It's just that every time, young Daoist takes longer and longer to think.

When asked for the last time, young Daoist suddenly felt something and replied:

"Disciple understands."

"Each of them has their own persistence and their own choices, but there is nothing wrong with them. It is not wrong to leave a name for future generations. It is not wrong to place one's affection on the mountains and rivers. It is not wrong to have love and be willing to stay together for life. These things are just like choosing the great road. They are just their own choices."

"Who said that as vast as a great road, in the eyes of all sentient beings, it must exceed what they pursue?"

"If this is the case, the world will be boring."

The old man laughed and said, "The best."

He was quite happy and said, "Wuhuo has realized this by himself, and he has accepted this gift. If you are stubborn, this walk will have no effect except for vigilance. You and I should say goodbye here, but not now. I can talk to you a little about the heights of spiritual practice, which is worthy of the word "Qi Xuan".

old man flicked his sleeves, then sat casually under two pine trees and on a bluestone, and asked with a gentle smile:

"Can I know if I am an immortal without any doubts?"

Qi WuHuo nodded and replied, "If you travel to Beihai and Mu Cangwu, you can live forever. Divine Ability has countless wonderful methods that are indescribable."

The old man said, "Do you know the rank of immortals?"

This is knowledge that the young man did not know in the past, so he said, "Please Teacher teach me."

The old man stroked his beard and said, "Ordinary Qi practitioners have taken the wrong path. They exhale their vitality and manipulate their spirit. They only know how to cultivate their nature but not their life."

"The one who falls into the lowest category is Corpse-Released Immortal."

"Although I have three to five hundred years of life, I can't get the right path and I can't be free."

"Although he is called a fairy, he is actually a ghost."

"This is the fate of those who take the wrong path and are eager for quick success. Don't be afraid of it."

"As for ordinary cultivators, they exhale and refine Qi and practice life, but do not understand the Tao."

"In gaining a method within the Dao, I gained a skill in the Dharma. I have faith and will never waver for the rest of my life. The energy of the five elements was misunderstood and misunderstood, but the form and quality are solid. I finally reached the road of Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown. Such a state can be called Human Immortal."

Qi WuHuo suddenly understood and said, "It's senior brother Jade Yang Master..."

The old man nodded and said calmly, "A person like him has also accumulated external skills, but he is too persistent and is not even a seeking the Dao person. In the future, he will occasionally have good fortune, and he will only travel all the way for Mountain God land, along the way to the underworld is the ghost general City God, or he may receive a talisman, ascend to the heavenly palace, and become an ordinary immortal. He works hard and has no leisure all day long. He can get a pill to extend his life."

"Although he is an immortal, he is just an ordinary person. There are many officials like this under the names of various Great Emperor Lord deities in the heaven."

"In the sky, he is the official of heaven, on the earth, he is Earth Official, and in the water, he is the official of water."

old man added, "Those who are higher than Human Immortal have been able to break through these attachments but are unable to let go, have enlightened but cannot escape, and are trapped in the eight difficulties of the Tao."

"He is a talented person in heaven and earth, but he is stubborn and refuses to realize it. When he realizes it, he does not get rid of it. In the end, he succeeds."

"Can live forever, number is Earthly Immortal."

Qi WuHuo was touched in his heart and thought thoughtfully, "It's the current Senior Disciple Sister Yu Miao."

The old man nodded and said casually, "Disciple of Shangqing, although there are many disciples, 90% of them are just that talented."

"Not as good as your senior sister."

"And if she can figure it out one day, she can come out on her own. From then on, she will work hard and practice to the point of transcendence."

"Go to the point where yin is exhausted and yang is pure, and you can be External Incarnation."

"It can Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, but it can Five Qi Facing the Origin. In my mouth, you can call it a god."

"The number is Heavenly Manifestation in the Daoist sect, and the number is He Transforms and is Free in the Buddhist sect."

"Disciple of Yuqing got True Disciple's twelve disciples, but most of them are just like this."

Under the two old pines, the tone of the white-haired and white-bearded old man was as calm and gentle as ever, but everything in the world was extremely quiet.

The silence was terrifying.

I don't know when the wind started blowing, and the entire sky was covered, and the sun and moon became dark.

But the wind did not flow here, and the water flow stopped changing.

All the Land God spirits around him disappeared, as if everything was silent, and the gentle voice only reached Qi WuHuo's ears.

"As for those who have the talent of gods in heaven and earth, who practice hard to overcome tribulations, are not attached to things, but have great courage and dare to enter the three realms of tribulations."

"Either preaching to obtain the destiny of heaven and earth, or going into calamity to defeat Killing Intent and accumulate merits. When the three thousand merits are completed, eight hundred steps are completed, step by step, successively serve as Thirty-Six Grotto-Heavens, and when you return to the eighty-one Yangtian, you are a heavenly immortal. If you are a disciple of the Sanqing sect, you will be called Primordial One Qi Supreme Great Luo Heavenly Immortal. If you are not a disciple of the Sanqing sect, you will be called Primordial One Qi Supreme Taiyi Heavenly Immortal."

"Disciple of Shangqing, Disciple of Yuqing's most outstanding disciples; Western Buddha; many deities and emperors in heaven are all in this place."

Qi WuHuo was very moved when I heard it.

The old man stroked his beard and said calmly:

"But it's nothing more than the Lower Vehicle method."

So it was even more shocking.

PS:

The realm comes from "The Collection of Zhonglu's Teachings", which is a classic.

Instead of Journey to the West, it would be more like Daoist mythology.