Chapter 352 Observation
Murong Ji's heart was pounding, a chill rushed to the back of his head, and a layer of cold sweat formed on his back. What did this sentence mean?
Think carefully!

The Zhu Xian Sword was forged from evil spirit or spiritual energy that had become intelligent, but the weapon spirit was destroyed by unknown means.

Then why can't the spiritual and evil spirits gathered in Qingyun Mountain, a blessed place, have consciousness?

"Master's wife... this..."

Su Ru exhaled slowly, "We must take this seriously, don't take it lightly!"

Murong Ji nodded with a serious expression. Then Su Ru talked about some recent events and chatted for a while. After watching Murong Ji finish his meal, Su Ru packed up and was about to leave.

When they reached the door, Murong Jiji suddenly called out to Su Ru, "Master's Wife!"

Su Ru turned around and looked at him with a gentle smile. "What's wrong, Old Seven?"

Murong Ji opened his mouth, gritted his teeth, and said, "Master's Wife, I have learned a technique to summon souls. I want to call back Master's soul, and then..."

Su Ru shook her head. She had no doubt whether Murong Ji had the ability to resurrect Tian Buyi.

"I won't let you do this. If you die, you die. What's there to be afraid of?"

"Master's wife!"

"Seventh Brother, your master died under the sword of Zhuxian. He was killed by the sword's evil spirit. Even if he survived, it would be a matter of time before he became a demon. It's nothing more than making him suffer once more."

Murong Ji was silent for a long time, until he saw Master's Wife push away the huge rock blocking the door, then he asked: "Master's Wife, you will go with Master, right?"

His voice was calm, as if he was talking about something insignificant.

Su Ru stood at the door, stunned for a while, and suddenly asked a question: "Seventh Brother, do you know how long your master and I have been married?"

"Two hundred and thirty years."

Su Ru was stunned and a little surprised. She turned around and looked across the corridor at Murong Ji sitting at the door of the stone chamber with great seriousness. She didn't know when the aura around him changed, and he became intimidating without even getting angry.

That kind of arrogance and majesty that looks down on the world is so frightening that when you stand in front of him, you will want to bow down to him.

There is also a kind of deathly loneliness.

Su Ru was in a trance. She looked again and Murong Ji was still the same, as if it was just her illusion.

"Pfft, I didn't expect you to count. Are you going to look through an old calendar from a hundred years ago?"

Murong Ji did not say anything. In order to summarize the Zhu Xian version of the Book of Changes, he flipped through the almanacs of the Seven Peaks.

"Two hundred and thirty years." Su Ru's tone was somewhat melancholy. "When I first met your master, he was stupid and dumb, just like Xiao Fan was at the beginning."

"Okay, take a rest, I'm going back too."

"Master's Wife!" Seeing Su Ru's steps paused, Murong Ji asked in a deep voice: "Master's Wife, are you here to say goodbye to your disciple?"

"Yes. From now on, Dazhu Peak and Qingyun Sect will depend on you." After the words fell, Su Ru was about to block the stone gate.

Murong Ji knelt on the ground with a thud, kowtowed, and shouted in a trembling voice, "Disciple Murong Ji, respectfully bids farewell to Master's Wife!"

He could no longer hold it in, and his snot and tears kept flowing down, so much so that he couldn't even see the last image of his master's wife, and could only sob softly.

The red dust, the red dust. Can one really transcend the red dust by cultivating immortality?

Where there are living things, there are desires; where there are desires, there is the world.

He is neither a genius nor a hero, he is just an ordinary person. In his first life, he was a social animal. In his second life, he was confused for half his life before he knew what he wanted to do.

Many outstanding people and big men led him on the road, so you can imagine what Murong Ji's qualifications are.

Now, he is asked to be detached from the world, not to be happy with things, nor sad with himself?

He can't do it, he really can't.

The next morning, when the eldest senior brother came to deliver food, he told Murong Ji the news that his master's wife had passed away.

Murong Ji was startled. Although he had prepared well, he could not eat any more food. "Big Brother, let me see my Master's Wife off."

Song Daren was embarrassed and silent for a long time before he said, "Master's wife left a last word, not allowing you to come out... Stay in seclusion for ten years."

Murong Ji nodded and said no more.

He could understand what his master's wife meant. How big a threat would it be if Daoxuan became a demon? If it weren't for his obsession to find Wan Jianyi and strengthen Qingyun Sect, most of the people in Qingyun Sect would have died.

If my strength can resist Daoxuan, then who can resist me? !
At this time, the Qingyun Sect had just experienced an attack by monsters and could no longer withstand any more damage.

In the following days, Lu Xueqi took over Murong Ji's role of keeping vigil until the funeral.

Listening to Lu Xueqi's calm words, Murong Ji finally came back to his senses. He picked up the scriptures and continued to study. This was the method of observation he had sorted out.

The method of contemplation, the method of visualizing the truth, can also be the method of contemplating the "Tao". When applied to oneself, it is a wonderful technique to understand oneself.

Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism all have their own views, each of which is different. But it is not difficult to understand, it is nothing more than four words: seek truth from facts.

What is the Tao? It is the inevitable condition for the development of all things, which cannot be changed by human will. This is what is meant by "all are straw dogs". The operation of the Tao often goes against human cognition and breaks the common sense constructed by humans. If you want to observe the Tao, you must meet one condition: seek truth from facts.

No matter how it goes against common sense, you have to accept it. Do not let your own cognition affect your judgment of the "Tao", this is "viewing the law without self".

This gave rise to the Four Mindfulnesses of Buddhism: viewing phenomena as without self, viewing the mind as impermanent, viewing feelings as suffering, and viewing the body as impure.

For Taoists, it is the art of introspection, which takes "Tao and Heaven have the same origin" as its foundation, and uses the human body to conform to the laws of heaven and earth and to follow the operation of Tao.

Murong Ji closed the book and turned to look at Lu Xueqi, who was handling things with a wooden face, like a student who couldn't understand what the teacher was saying in class.

Murong Ji smiled and continued to look at the method in his hand.

Buddhism explains these things more comprehensively, but the others are a little less interesting.

The Buddhist methods of observation can be roughly divided into four categories: the view of true emptiness by bringing the environment back to the mind, the view of the wonderful existence of the environment from the mind, the view of the wonderful use of true emptiness, and the view of the perfect harmony of the great mirror wisdom.

Under these four major methods of contemplation, if we further subdivide them, we will find the secret methods of various Buddhist sects, such as the Zen view of freedom and the five aggregates in the Heart Sutra, and the Zen view of oneness in the Diamond Sutra.

The Huayan School's Perfect Enlightenment View, the Tiantai School's Tenfold View, and so on.

Murong Ji tidied up his desk, sat cross-legged in meditation, and carefully felt his whole body, following the meridians to reach every part of his body.

There was nothing at the beginning, but as I went deeper and deeper, my soul and spirit rose high in the spirit platform, without any movement or thoughts, and I looked at my own body as vast as the sea and as large as the mountain.

There are repeated black evil energy and spiritual energy hidden in it. What's worse, the spiritual energy and evil energy transform into each other, unknowingly corroding Murong Ji's body.

The spiritual energy and the evil energy actually both have spirituality! But they are not used by Murong Ji!
My heart couldn't help but sink.

His heart was moved, and he instantly got out of that state. When he came to his senses, Murong Ji's face turned pale. He checked his whole body carefully, but did not find anything abnormal.

[There really are countless evil spirits hidden in this body! ]

It won’t be a problem when I’m in my prime, but once I’m weak and my will is declining, my fate will probably be no better than that of Puzhi and Daoxuan!

Suddenly, I thought of Puzhi. How could a great monk not get rid of the evil spirit in his body? Tianyin Temple has very powerful means of getting rid of evil spirits.

Look at Zhang Xiaofan, the evil spirit in his tarsal bones was completely removed by the Tianyin Temple's magic array. As for Pu Zhi... he ended up being possessed by a demon.

Murong Ji rubbed his forehead. If Pu Zhi's possession by the devil was the inevitable result, then Zhang Xiaofan and himself would not be able to escape either.

It was not until then that he understood why the founder of Qingyun Sect gave up the practice of evil spirits. It was really hard to guard against! Who would want to be miserable in their later years?
Murong Ji's face became darker and darker, and Lu Xueqi also cultivated evil spirit!

I looked up at Lu Xueqi. She had finished her work and was reading a book.

Murong Ji walked forward and put the Guanfa into her hands, "Take a look at this scripture and practice well."

Lu Xueqi looked at him suspiciously and glanced at the scriptures. "Observation method?"

Murong Ji nodded, returned to the bed and sat cross-legged. Now he had only one way out, and that was the Samadhi True Fire.

If one can perfect the cultivation of Samadhi True Fire, perhaps one can eliminate one's own hidden dangers.

Thinking of the Samadhi True Fire, Murong Ji thought of thunder magic. In his understanding, the best thunder magic schools were the Zhengyi Longhu Mountain and Shenxiao Sect.

Moreover, Xiaozhufeng's Divine Sword and Thunder God Technique is quite unique. If Lu Xueqi can master it, wouldn't it be...

Murong Ji suddenly smiled. The husband and wife were both capable of thunder and fire. If they exchanged their origins, both of them would benefit greatly.

He did not understand the thunder method of the Zhengyi Longhu Mountain, but he understood the thunder method of the Shenxiao Sect. As a branch of the three talisman sects, the Shenxiao Sect had its own unique thunder method.

Although there was no Lin Lingsu to destroy Buddhism in his previous life, thanks to Su Shi, his relationship with Lin Lingsu has always been very good.

After carefully recalling the contents of the "Cross Heavenly Scripture", Murong Ji wrote down the sutra. After the ink dried, he placed it next to Lu Xueqi.

The most important thing for Murong Ji now is the Samadhi True Fire.

He practiced day and night for an unknown amount of time, but the Samadhi True Fire had already reached Murong Ji's requirements.

The first thing he did was to burn his own body to eliminate the hidden danger.

Evil spirit energy itself is not harmful, but if it becomes spiritual, it can be a big trouble.

When he woke up again, it was Lu Xueqi who woke him up. He looked up dazedly, and Lu Xueqi's cold face appeared before his eyes, making him feel inexplicably refreshed.

Just as he was about to tease her, he saw Xiao Yicai, senior brother Song Daren, and Qi Hao outside the door.

Murong Ji's face froze. He wanted to have a triathlon with Lu Xueqi right away.

"Senior Brother Xiao! Senior Brother Qi, Senior Brother."

Looking closely, he was startled to see Xiao Yicai wearing a dark green Taoist robe with gold cloud patterns. This was... the sect leader's uniform!

Murong Ji bowed and said, "Congratulations, Senior Brother Xiao, for taking over the position of Sect Leader."

(End of this chapter)