Chapter 297 Visualization Picture

Mo Hua opened his mouth wide.

He didn't expect that the cultivation world was so big, with so many cultivators, and he could be lucky enough to be the first person to try it.

Mo Hua was entangled. He didn't want to try it. Without any previous experience, he would get a stomachache if he used the wrong method.

"Then what should I do?" Mo Hua asked, "Will there be a day when my sea of ​​consciousness is eroded by evil thoughts, I lose my original heart, and really become a man-eating ghost?"

Mr. Zhuang glanced at Mo Hua, "Don't worry about it. You have eaten all the living ghosts. What are the miscellaneous thoughts after death?"

"You are at most..." Mr. Zhuang thought for a while, and thought of a word: "Eating without digesting."

"Eating without digesting..." Mo Hua thought about it and understood.

"Indigestion?"

Mr. Zhuang nodded, "You are right."

Mo Hua was relieved and asked other questions:

"Sir, where did the visualization map come from? Also, you said that the visualization map contains dangers. Is this little ghost one of the dangers? Is it the 'non-human' way you mentioned? Are there such little ghosts in all visualization maps? What should I do if I encounter them again in the future?"

Mo Hua's voice was crisp, and he asked a long series of questions in one breath.

Mr. Zhuang couldn't help rubbing his forehead.

Having a clever disciple is also a bit troublesome. He thinks quickly, so he has many questions and it is a bit difficult to answer.

Mr. Zhuang thought about it and decided to start from the most basic, so he asked Mo Hua:

"All the extraordinary powers of cultivators rely on three things. Do you know what these three things are?"

"Is it the consciousness, spiritual power and physical body?" Mo Hua replied.

Mr. Zhuang nodded, "Yes, any ability of a cultivator is based on consciousness, spiritual power and physical body."

"Martial arts is to stimulate the physical body with spiritual power, magic is to condense spiritual power with consciousness, formation is to communicate with the way of heaven with consciousness, and conduct spiritual power with formation patterns. Other categories of cultivation are also roughly the same, but the emphasis is different."

"If you encounter any strange, absurd and bizarre things in the cultivation world in the future, if you can't figure it out and have no clue, you can consider it from these three categories."

Mo Hua suddenly realized.

"The little ghost in the visualization picture has no body and no spiritual power. Is it pure divine consciousness, or pure divine consciousness power?"

"Yes." Mr. Zhuang said, "In other words, the so-called visualization picture is just a medium for carrying divine consciousness. What is carried in the picture is the residual divine consciousness of some cultivators due to fate, or the divine consciousness of some non-human things born by chance."

"These divine consciousness or divine thoughts are often called evil things or ghosts by cultivators."

Mo Hua asked: "Can these evil things and ghosts be eaten?"

Mr. Zhuang knocked on Mo Hua's little head, "Don't be greedy and think about eating everything."

Mo Hua smiled embarrassedly.

Mr. Zhuang warned: "These evil things and ghosts are also divided into strong and weak. The green-faced ghost you encountered happened to be relatively weak, so you can eat it. If you encounter a strong one, I don't know who will eat whom."

"How strong can it be?" Mo Hua was a little curious.

Mr. Zhuang's eyes flashed with deep fear, and he said in a serious tone:

"It's very powerful."

Mo Hua's expression also froze.

Even the unfathomable Mr. Zhuang felt it was scary?

Mr. Zhuang glanced at Mo Hua, thought for a moment, and thought it would be better to remind Mo Hua first.

Originally, Mo Hua's realm was low and he was far from being exposed to these things, but now he could inexplicably find a visualization picture and swallow the ghosts in the picture. Who knows what he will encounter in the future.

Mr. Zhuang still likes this little disciple very much, and doesn't want him to fall into an irretrievable situation because of ignorance and fearlessness.

"There are some dangers in this world that you can't see." Mr. Zhuang said.

"Ancient temples in desolate mountains, dusty caves, and underground tombs often inhabit some indescribable evil creatures or ghosts. They feed on people's spiritual consciousness and are good at polluting people's hearts."

"When a cultivator with weak spiritual consciousness encounters these things, he cannot see or touch them. He may not know how he died when he is about to die. Either his spiritual consciousness is devoured, or his sea of ​​consciousness is occupied by evil creatures, and he is unconsciously controlled by them and becomes a puppet like a living dead."

"There are also some beings that survive longer, with overwhelming spiritual thoughts and almost immortal. With the spiritual consciousness of cultivators, they can't even be seen at all. Some cultivators are in awe and respect them as' "Ghosts and gods', or 'evil gods', worship them. "

"But most of these ghosts and evil gods are evil in nature and have treacherous thoughts. The monks who worship them often do not have a good end..."

"Whether it is a weak ghost or evil creature, or a powerful ghost, evil god, they must have a place to live in the world. This place is the visualization map."

"That's why I told you that the visualization map contains dangers and inhuman ways..."

Mo Hua was terrified, but also puzzled:

"Are they all hidden in the map?"

Can such a large map accommodate them?

Mr. Zhuang shook his head, "Although it is called a visualization map, it is not necessarily a map. Some murals, stone statues, strange patterns, etc. may all be visualization objects, but cultivators are used to calling them "visualization maps."

Mo Hua nodded, and couldn't help but feel that his eyes were opened.

Without Mr. Zhuang's guidance, he would never know these cultivation knowledge. If he really encountered a powerful ghost, he would probably die without knowing how he died.

Mo Hua asked: "Is this knowledge also common sense of cultivation?"

"These are not common sense of cultivation," Mr. Zhuang said, "but secrets of cultivation. These are secrets known only to some ancient families who are proficient in spiritual consciousness, or ancient sects that inherit the formation. Ordinary cultivators are not aware of them."

Mo Hua nodded frequently, and took these rare secrets of cultivation seriously in his heart.

Except Mr. Zhuang, no one can tell him these.

"Do you understand?"

"I understand," Mo Hua said, and then he remembered something, "But..."

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Mr. Zhuang said helplessly: "Ask if you want to, don't hold it in your heart."

Mo Hua smiled brightly and said: "Thank you, sir!"

Then he began to ask: "When I saw this visualization picture, I saw a Taoist boy at first, and then I saw that the Taoist boy became a little ghost. Why is that? Does each visualization picture have two appearances?"

Mr. Zhuang looked at Mo Hua in surprise.

He never mentioned such a subtle point, but Mo Hua could think of it by himself. He is indeed very talented and has a high level of understanding.

Mr. Zhuang smiled slightly and said with approval:

"Everything in the world has both appearance and true nature, and the visualization picture is even more so. The various scenes in the picture are its appearance, and under the appearance, there is the true nature of the divine mind."

Mo Hua continued to think along the lines of Mr. Zhuang:

"The little Taoist boy in the visualization picture is the appearance, and the green-faced ghost is its true nature?"

Mr. Zhuang nodded, "Yes."

"Are all visualization pictures divided into appearance and true nature?"

"Yes, but it can't be divided so simply." Mr. Zhuang patiently explained:

"For some pictures, the appearance is the true nature, and In some pictures, the true appearance is just a deeper appearance. "

"Appearance true appearance, true appearance appearance..."

Mo Hua thought for a while, feeling a little dizzy, and asked:

"How can I distinguish?"

Mr. Zhuang raised his slender fingers and said slowly:

"First, rely on your spiritual consciousness. If your spiritual consciousness is strong, stronger than the spiritual consciousness of ghosts or evil things in the visualization picture, you can see through its truth."

"Second, based on experience, the more visualization pictures you see, the more you can intuitively distinguish some truth from falsehood and see through some appearances."

"Third, rely on your understanding of the way of heaven. The more you understand the way of heaven, the more you can understand it. The deeper you go, the closer you get to the essence of the Great Dao, and the more you can see the true nature hidden under the surface. "

"Of these three points, the first point is the most direct, the second point takes time, and the third point is the most difficult."

"Comprehension of the Way of Heaven..." Mo Hua pondered for a moment, wondering: "How can I improve my understanding of the Way of Heaven?"

Mr. Zhuang said: "First, the mind, and second, the tempering."

Mo Hua frowned, thought carefully for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up, saying:

"Meditation improves the mind, and the formation sharpens the understanding?"

Mr. Zhuang didn't expect him to understand it at once, and nodded: "Yes."

Mo Hua After thinking about it from beginning to end, he gradually understood:

"My spiritual consciousness is strong, and because I meditate and draw formations every day, my understanding of the way of heaven is also deeper, so I unknowingly saw through the true nature of the green-faced ghost. The green-faced ghost got into my sea of ​​consciousness and wanted to eat my spiritual consciousness..."

"But..." Mo Hua looked puzzled, "The third master's spiritual consciousness is also strong, why didn't he see through the true nature of the visualization diagram?"

Mr. Zhuang said lightly: "Although his spiritual consciousness is stronger, his mind is too greedy, and his understanding of the way of heaven is too poor, so he naturally can't see through it."

Mo Hua understood.

It seems that the mind is still very important, otherwise it is easy to be blinded by lard, be blinded by appearances, and fail to see through the true nature of things, thus going against the way of heaven.

After this conversation with Mr. Zhuang, Mo Hua understood a lot and said sincerely, "Thank you, sir!"

Mr. Zhuang looked deep in his eyes and asked, "Do you know why I tell you so much now?"

"Because I asked you..."

Mo Hua said silently in his heart, but he knew that since Mr. Zhuang asked so, it must not be that simple.

He can ask, Mr. Zhuang can answer or not.

There are many considerations for Mr. Zhuang to answer more or less, and what to answer.

Mo Hua reviewed Mr. Zhuang's answers in his mind again, and felt that what Mr. Zhuang answered was related to "Spiritual Consciousness" and "Heavenly Dao".

But why he said this, Mo Hua didn't understand for a while.

Mr. Zhuang saw that Mo Hua seemed to be thinking about something, but his little brows were tightly knitted and his expression was a little confused, so he stopped keeping him in suspense and asked meaningfully:

"Building the foundation is to build the foundation of the great Dao..."

"Have you thought about what kind of foundation to build?"