Chapter 161 Entering a Dream

After class, Qi Xuansu wanted to talk to Yao Pei about the bottom of Xingye Lake. After all, their two-man team had experience in cooperation.

However, the door of Yao Pei's residence was closed, and it was obvious that she was not here. Shanggong is not big, but it is not small either. There are ninety-nine library buildings and a Tianshui Yixin Building in just one Genyuan. It is not easy to find Yao Pei among them.

However, Qi Xuansu found a note stuck in the crack of the door, which read: "If there is anything, I will see you in my dream at midnight. I will not wait for you after that time."

Qi Xuansu immediately thought of the dream meeting of Qingping Society, and was shocked. He thought to himself that Yao Pei might not be a member of Qingping Society, but he soon realized that Yao Pei was not talking about the dream meeting, but the magical dream of the Taoist priest.

For the alchemists, the Yin spirit leaving the body is a very important magical power. It is temporarily free from the constraints of the body and is no longer controlled by the qi and blood. It will be easier to cast spells, and the spirituality of the soul can also get rid of various influences, making divination more accurate, so there has always been a magic to predict the future in dreams.

As a banished immortal, Yao Pei can also enter dreams.

To be honest, Qi Xuansu has never used the alchemist's dream magic, and this thing is different from the warrior's "blood and flesh derivative" magic, which requires certain skills. Although "Xuanyu" brings various magical powers like the Buddhist initiation, allowing the completed person to learn directly, as if instinctive, but skills still need to be practiced.

For example, running and jumping are instincts that people are born with, but how to run faster and jump higher requires skills and requires acquired practice.

According to the theory of Taoism, the real divine self leaving the body refers to the "Yang God", which is the last level of the alchemist before becoming an immortal, equivalent to the realm of beheading the three corpses of the banished immortal and the realm of the scattered people.

The so-called Yang Shen can be separated from the flesh and blood body and become another self-life with form and appearance. In other words, it can completely abandon its own body and exist independently in the world, fearless of any wind and thunder, which is the extreme of Yin and Yang, and the false becomes true. Or it can also not abandon its own body and form another existence with a body outside the body. All words and deeds can be free as now.

From this point of view, Yang Shen is very different from the three corpse gods. The three corpse gods are me and not me, while Yang Shen only has "me" and no "not me".

If only you can feel the form of another life, which may be tangible or intangible and can enter and exit the body, and others cannot see it, and it cannot exist for a long time without the body, it is called "Yin Shen". Yin Shen is like the body in a dream, but it is clearer and clearer than the body in a dream.

Compared with the Yang Shen, the most straightforward difference is that Yin Shen cannot take over the body, but Yang Shen can take over the body.

It is true that many alchemists have tried to take over other people's bodies before reaching the Yang God Realm, and they also have the ability to do so, but all of them come at a great cost.

One is to directly take over other people's bodies, which is very risky. If you are not careful, you may be killed by others. Even if you succeed, there will be problems with the body and soul not being perfectly matched, which will not only lead to a regression in cultivation, but also many hidden dangers. It is very likely that your cultivation will never improve again.

Another is to take over the body of an unborn fetus, which is equivalent to reincarnation. The risk is very small, but there is a mystery in the fetus, that is, after the ghost fairy takes over the body of the fetus, it is easy to lose oneself in the fetus, forget all the past, and grow up from an infant to an adult, and have to start all over again.

These hidden dangers are the consequences of the Yin God being unable to take over the body and forcibly taking over the body. If it is a Yang God, there will be no such hidden dangers. It is really like changing clothes to change the body. This is the most intuitive effect that the Yang God can exist independently without the constraints of the body, that is, the perfect interpretation of the existence of another self-life.

Under normal circumstances, the Yin God can only possess a person, just like what people call a ghost possessing a person, temporarily controlling the body of another person, confusing the mind of another person, or using another person as a host. This does not have obvious hidden dangers, so before the Taoist priests reach the Yang God realm, the best way to deal with the destruction of their bodies is not to forcibly seize the body, but to temporarily attach to something, find a host, and live in the host as a Yin God.

However, the host's cultivation cannot be too strong. If the realm cultivation is similar to the host's, then the possessed person will immediately throw out the possessed Yin God if he reacts and struggles intentionally, and the Yin God will also be seriously injured.

Qi Xuansu has had the experience of Yin God leaving his body, such as when he dealt with Yue Liuli. Compared with the Taoist priests who entered the dream realm, the Taoist priests in the Thunder Movement Realm have already gone from the virtual to the real. They can not only travel in the daytime, but also turn the Yin God into a physical entity in a short time.

At that time, Qi Xuansu grabbed Yue Liuli's wrist, leaving a dark handprint, just like the "ghost handprint" in the mouth of the people. This is a short-term solidification, which consumes a lot of mana.

Under normal circumstances, the Yin God is tangible and intangible, and cannot touch any physical objects. It is an existence between reality and illusion, which is the basis for entering dreams.

The founder of the method of entering dreams is the Taoist Nanhua Dazhenren, also known as Nanhua Daojun, that is, the "Zhuang" in "Lao Zhuang". Since ancient times, there have been only two people in Taoism who can be ranked with the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, one is "Huang Lao" and the other is "Lao Zhuang". The former is the ancestor of mankind and the emperor of heaven, and the latter's status in Taoism is roughly equivalent to that of the second sage in Confucianism.

Nanhua Daojun said: "In the past, Zhuang Zhou dreamed of being a butterfly, a butterfly, and thought he was happy and didn't know that he was Zhou. Suddenly he woke up, and he was Zhou. I don't know whether Zhou dreamed of being a butterfly or the butterfly dreamed of being Zhou. Zhou and the butterfly must be different. This is called materialization."

The essence of it is to wake up from the dream with the Yin spirit after entering the dream, while the main body is still sleeping soundly. This is a difficult point, but Sun Hewu mentioned this point when teaching Qi Xuansu how to control the madness of the "demon knife", and Qi Xuansu has some experience. Then use the dream as a medium bridge to connect the two dreams, and go from your own dream to the dream of others. The advantage is that it is more hidden. Except for the owner of the dream, it is almost difficult to be discovered by a third person. The limitation is that others have to dream too. In this regard, martial artists are almost dreamless, and Qi cultivators even use meditation instead of sleeping, which is not very meaningful in practice. ..

If Qi Xuansu's previous Yin spirit out of the body to fight with others was for the sake of seeking reality, and even temporarily condensed into a physical entity to hurt people. Then the Yin spirit travels in the dream, it is to seek emptiness, to the extreme, existing between thoughts, as if it is just an illusion.

For Qi Xuansu, he has had the experience of meeting in dreams, so it is not difficult to be familiar with such skills.

When it was almost midnight, Qi Xuansu took out a little "Returning Soul Incense" from his "Silver Red Fish Talisman", lit it, and soon fell into a dream.

Because there was no fish talisman to guide him, Qi Xuansu did not go to the dream meeting this time. After waking up from the dream, he looked down at the upper palace of the Wanxiang Taoist Palace from a peculiar perspective, which the West calls "God's perspective".

Under normal circumstances, people can only see what they can see. Due to the twisting of the neck, they cannot see their backs, the top of their heads, the back of their heads, etc., but at this time, the perspective is free from the constraints of the human body and can be rotated at will. Everything can be seen from a high third-person perspective, even if this perspective is still limited by the position of the main body, because the main body is in the Wanxiang Taoist Palace at this time, Qi Xuansu can only overlook part of the Wanxiang Taoist Palace, but it is comparable to the gods overlooking the world. No wonder the West calls it "God's perspective".

He can even see himself sleeping cross-legged through the barriers of the wall and roof.

In this perspective, Qi Xuansu can also see hazy and illusory "bubbles", as if separated by a layer of fog, or as if ice flowers formed on the glass window. He can only vaguely see the swaying figures and the changing scenes, but he can't see clearly. That is probably a dream, which really makes Qi Xuansu see what "dream bubble" means.

Qi Xuansu probably figured out one thing, he should also be in a "bubble", looking out through the "bubble", and this special perspective is due to the "bubble".

Qi Xuansu also found that with his current realm, if there is no special medium such as the fish talisman as a traction, he can only leave the main body for about 20 miles at most. Within a radius of 20 miles centered on the main body, Qi Xuansu can go up to the sky and into the ground, travel thousands of miles in an instant, pass through walls and houses, and do whatever he wants. He can also jump directly from a dream to another adjacent dream.

No wonder many Taoists mess around in dreams, forcing the Taoist sect to repeatedly warn against using dreams to do evil. Once discovered, they will be severely punished. This is also a kind of killing intention with a sharp knife in hand.

Qi Xuansu looked towards Kun Garden, where there was no "bubble". Obviously, the assistants had long since gotten rid of the "low-level interest" of dreaming. At this time, they either did not sleep, or replaced sleep with meditation, qi training, etc., or simply had no dreams all night. Zhen Garden and Dui Garden are the residences of high-quality Taoists, and there are few "bubbles". On the contrary, there are many large and small "bubbles" in Xun Garden and Xia Gong.

Qi Xuansu did not dare to approach Kun Garden. God knows whether he will be discovered by the immortals. He went to Xun Garden, which is closer, first, and planned to find someone to practice with.

While shuttling in Xun Garden, he suddenly saw the dream of an acquaintance.

Lu Shuihan, a descendant of the Taiping Dao Lu family. He and his two companions are the best among the younger generation. Lu Shuihan is now a fifth-rank candidate for the chief priest, while Bai Yuru and Zhao Huang are sixth-rank candidates for the chief priest. The three had a little "misunderstanding" with Zhang Yuelu in the past and were taught a lesson by Zhang Yuelu.

Qi Xuansu hesitated for a moment and quietly entered Lu Shuihan's dream.

This is a luxurious private manor. Lu Shuihan is standing with his head down, his fists clenched, full of humiliation and unwillingness.

There are many children of noble families around, also standing, with different expressions.

Only one person can sit, and he even has two women of quite good looks in his arms. Judging from the temperament of the two women, they are probably not women of love, but daughters of the same noble family.

The man and woman sitting there were flirting quietly. The man's face could not be seen clearly, but the woman was smiling sweetly. The three of them were very bold and ambiguous. They were not embarrassed at all in public, which opened the eyes of Qi Xuansu, a conservative country bumpkin who had not seen much of the world. He had to sigh that these children from aristocratic families knew how to have fun.

At the same time, Qi Xuansu could also clearly feel the anger, unwillingness, and frustration of the owner of the dream, Lu Shuihan, and roughly understood what kind of dream this was.