"Why has your soul come out..." Just when Hong Yi felt that his soul could not return to his body and was about to disperse, suddenly, a little girl dressed all in white ran in, hugged him and pushed him towards his body. Then, Hong Yi felt relaxed all over and sat up suddenly. There was no little girl dressed in white in front of him, but a little white fox. On the stone table was a fruit bowl with several snacks and a cup of steaming hot tea. The little white fox's eyes were looking at him, blinking. "Was it you who saved me just now?" Hong Yi asked the little white fox. "Chirp, chirp." The little white fox nodded. Hong Yi knew that his soul had left his body just now and could not return. It was extremely dangerous. Fortunately, the soul of this little white fox gave him a push. The little girl dressed all in white was the soul of the little white fox out of its body. "No wonder the world is like a sea of bitterness, and the physical body is the precious raft to cross the world. When a person's soul leaves the body, it is like jumping naked into the sea and will be finished in an instant." Hong Yi finally knew the danger of the soul leaving the body. "Chirp, chirp, chirp..." The little white fox happily circled around Hong Yi and pointed to the tea and snacks on the ground with its paws. "What's this?" Hong Yi found the dried fruits in the plate very strange. There was a kind of fruit larger than beans, with a layer of red outer membrane on the outside of the fruit. And there was a large fruit piece, which was roasted until charred. When the shell was peeled off, it was golden inside and emitted a sweet smell, which greatly increased one's appetite. Hong Yi had never seen these two things before and didn't know what they were. The little white fox chirped again, answering Hong Yi's question, but the two couldn't understand each other's language. Hong Yi looked puzzled. The little white fox chirped for a while. It seemed to know that the explanation didn't work. It pattered out and came back with a long incense stick in its mouth. It lit it and inserted it on the ground. Soon, Hong Yi was surrounded by smoke. "Chirp, chirp." The little white fox pointed to its head with its front paws and squatted on the ground. At the same time, it pointed to Hong Yi, asking him to learn from it. "Do you mean you want me to have my soul out of my body again? Let's communicate? But." Hong Yi had just experienced the danger of the soul leaving the body and was a little hesitant. "Chirp, chirp." The little white fox pointed to the burning incense on the ground with its paws again, meaning that there was no need to be afraid with the incense. "OK." Hong Yi sat well, closed his eyes, practiced the "Pagoda Visualization Method", and suddenly jumped. Boom! He saw his body again and his soul left the body. "Have you practiced before? How could you have your soul out of your body so quickly?" Hong Yi heard a voice. At the same time, he saw a girl of twelve or thirteen years old standing虚化 on the top of the little white fox's head. Dressed all in white, with flowing sleeves, her eyebrows and eyes were delicately depicted, showing spirituality among the delicacy. "My name is Hong Yi. What's your name?" Hong Yi saw the smoke around him and felt as if he was soaking in a hot spring. There was no coldness like the first time his soul left the body. "All of us in the Pure Fox Clan are surnamed Tushan. I'm Tushan Sang. You can call me Xiaosang. So your name is Hong Yi. Then I'll call you Brother Xiaoyi from now on." Xiaosang was innocent and romantic. "My body hasn't learned to speak human language yet. I can only communicate with you through the soul. This is sandalwood. It can protect the soul and is not afraid of the wind blowing the soul away. The incense offered in the temples is this kind." "No wonder gods all like incense..." Hong Yi smiled. "Brother Xiaoyi... Did you just call me Brother Xiaoyi?" Surprise flashed in Hong Yi's eyes. No one had ever called him such an affectionate name. Although Xiaosang was a fox, when her soul left the body, she was no different from a human. She was a lovely little girl. "You haven't told me why you can have your soul out of your body so quickly? Was the method you practiced just now the Pagoda Visualization Method? When I practiced this method, it took me a full month to have my soul out of my body." Xiaosang fiddled with her head. "There's nothing strange about this method. It's just to have the thought of jumping after climbing high. When people climb mountains and jump off cliffs, before they reach the ground, they are already dead, which means the soul has left the body. When practicing this visualization method, just imagine yourself jumping from a height and the soul will leave the body." Hong Yi thought. "I just read the methods of Taoist soul cultivation recorded in the Taoist Scriptures: 'Calming the mind, leaving the body, night wandering, day wandering, driving objects, showing form, possession, seizing a body, thunder tribulation, and yang god. The principle of this Taoist method of soul cultivation is simple, but it's difficult to start. Fortunately, I'm a scholar and can calm my mind. Ordinary people have restless minds. How can they calm their minds? If they can't calm their minds, let alone have their souls out of their bodies. Sure enough, the great Tao is simple. The cultivation of immortal arts is much simpler than the cultivation of martial arts." "Xiaosang, what are these foods? Why haven't I seen them before? Are they for foxes to eat?" Hong Yi pointed to the two things on the ground. "This is the seed brought by the monks of the Great Zen Temple from overseas. The one with red clothes is called peanuts, also known as groundnuts. The one that is roasted fragrant and soft is called sweet potatoes. After the Great Zen Temple was burned, we brought some seeds and sowed them in the mountains ourselves. These two things are easy to grow, have a high yield, and are very delicious." Xiaosang giggled. "Peanuts, sweet potatoes?" Hong Yi looked at them, reached out to pinch them, but pinched nothing. "Giggle, giggle, Brother Xiaoyi, how can you be so stupid? The soul can't pick up things and people can't see it either. Only when you reach the realm of driving objects can you pick up things. But Brother Xiaoyi, you can practice having your soul out of your body so quickly. Driving objects should come soon. Sure enough, humans are the spirits of all things. The cultivation is much faster than us foxes." "Xiaofei, Xiaoshu, come here quickly. Brother Xiaoyi can have his soul out of his body and talk to us." Xiaosang suddenly shouted. At this time, two more little white foxes came in at the door. Seeing the sandalwood burning in the stone room, they all made chirping sounds. Their bodies crouched and curled up on the ground and didn't move. At the same time, Hong Yi saw two little girls still dressed all in white. "Really. This is so much fun. Staying in the mountains every day is so boring. Unfortunately, Sister Yuanfei said we can't go outside. People will kill us if we go." "Last time, Sister Yuanfei also brought a few scholars and said she wanted to teach us to read, speak and write. But as soon as they saw us, they fainted." "I really don't understand. What are we foxes afraid of? Those people want to kill us on the one hand but are afraid of us on the other. How strange." "Brother Xiaoyi, is your name Brother Xiaoyi? It's nice to have a person. We can play together in the future. I've long wanted to go out of the mountains and find someone to play with." The two little girls chattered non-stop, surrounding Hong Yi and making him feel that little girls could be so lovely. Unlike the maids in the residence of "Marquis Wu Wen", even if they were young, they were all shrewd and wanted to strive upwards by all means. "People in the world say that foxes are cunning, but they don't know that human beings' cunning is ten thousand times worse than foxes." Hong Yi sighed. "By the way, what realm have you three cultivated to?" "Xiaosang and I have only cultivated to the stage of having the soul out of the body. Xiaoshu is a little more powerful and can travel at night. But she hasn't reached the stage of traveling during the day. She can't be too far away from her body. Sister Yuanfei said that if we haven't practiced to the realm of the yin god of driving objects, we can't use flying needles and flying swords. Then we can't go out. Otherwise, those people outside the mountains with vigorous blood essence, we can't confuse them and will be easily harmed." Xiaofei shook her head. "Flying swords and flying needles?" Hong Yi was puzzled. "Yes. After reaching the realm of driving objects, you can drive swords and needles to kill and also drive stones to hit people. Then you can protect yourself." Xiaosang said. "Then before reaching the realm of driving objects, what self-protection ability do you have?" Hong Yi asked. "Before the soul can drive objects, we can only confuse others to protect ourselves. But it's a little difficult to confuse those who are physically strong and have a firm will. Like Brother Yi, a sensible person like you, we can't confuse at all. Last time, a group of people came hunting in the mountains. Among them, there were several who were particularly physically strong. My soul saw from afar that their blood essence was vigorous like fire and I didn't dare to approach. Fortunately, we hid and weren't found by them." Among the three girls, Xiaoshu seemed a little more mature. Her speech was also logical and clear. "Well? Demons and ghosts want to confuse people. First, people's hearts must be not right or their bodies are weak and their blood essence is not vigorous." Hong Yi remembered some things recorded in the "Notes of Thatched Hut". Demons and ghosts confuse people. First, people's hearts are not right and they are suspicious and their souls will be weak. Second, those who are physically weak and have weak blood essence can also be taken advantage of. For example, people who are dying can always see demons and ghosts. This principle, Hong Yi also understood. "No wonder the way of gods and ghosts is not considered elegant. It turns out there are so many taboos." Hong Yi heard these conversations and had a deeper understanding of the immortal way of cultivating the soul. "The immortal way of cultivating the soul has too many restrictions and is difficult to start. Moreover, it is too dangerous. No wonder it is not popular in the world, while the way of martial arts is flourishing." Originally, to cultivate the soul, the first step is to calm the mind, stabilize the mind, and drive away all distractions. Then, one can have the soul out of the body through visualization. First, calming the mind, stabilizing the mind, and driving away all distractions. Such conditions are not achievable for ordinary people. Even if one can do it and have the soul out of the body, it is like a person who doesn't know how to swim jumping into the sea from a boat and immediately suffers a disaster. Hong Yi estimated that many practitioners would have their souls disperse during the cultivation when having the soul out of the body. And even if the soul is out of the body, there is still no self-protection ability. It is not until one can drive objects that one gradually has the ability to protect oneself. This is much different from practicing martial arts. One can easily knock down one or two people after practicing martial arts for one or two months. "No wonder when the Taoist Scriptures recorded the visualization methods, they didn't mention lighting an incense stick. It turns out there was a malicious meaning hidden, which was to let the practitioners die." Hong Yi again figured out the drawbacks and even the deliberate malice of some cultivation methods recorded in the Taoist Scriptures. The Taoist Scriptures were compiled by the Great Qian Dynasty by collecting all the classics in the world. The Great Qian Dynasty did not want people to cultivate immortal arts, as it would disrupt the rule of the dynasty. "As a result, there may also be many deliberate omissions in the Martial Classics. But I think there should be two versions of the Martial Classics and the Taoist Scriptures. One version is in the royal library, and the other is the one circulated among the people. Moreover, the emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty probably thought this was still not appropriate, so he ordered a ban." Hong Yi did not read books blindly but tried to figure out the thoughts of the authors, even their life experiences. Even more, he had to figure out the time when the book was written, investigate what kind of environment the author was in when writing the book, what state he was in, and what his mentality was like. Only in this way could he thoroughly understand a book and communicate with the author spiritually. Now, with a little thought, he understood that although the two books, the Martial Classics and the Taoist Scriptures of the Great Qian Dynasty, were profound and extensive, there were also many inappropriate places, and even places that deliberately led people to death. "No wonder in the Martial Classics, the highest realm only reaches the Martial Saint, but there is no Human Immortal!" Having figured out the problem, Hong Yi's heart was clear. "Xiaosang, Xiaoshu, Xiaofei, do all of you in the Pure Fox Clan cultivate according to the methods in this Taoist Scriptures?" Hong Yi suddenly asked. "Yes. At first, it was like this. But several elders died due to going astray in their cultivation. Later, Mr. Bai came once and said there was a problem with this Taoist Scriptures. So he gave some instructions to Mr. Tu." Xiaoshu replied. "Mr. Bai? Who is Mr. Bai?" This was the first time Hong Yi heard of Mr. Bai. "Mr. Bai is called Bai Ziyue. He is very famous. He is one of the eight great demon immortals in the world." "What are the eight great demon immortals in the world?" Hong Yi asked. "They are the eight most outstanding and powerful ones besides humans. But I don't know either. I just overheard Mr. Bai and Sister Yuanfei's conversation by chance last time." Xiaoshu shook her head again. "Hey, the incense is about to burn out. Brother Xiaoyi, it's better to have your soul back in your body. Otherwise, you won't be able to bear it. When your soul becomes stronger, Brother Xiaoyi can also go out and play with us. Later, Brother Xiaoyi, you can also go to the towns and buy some things for us to play with, okay? I really want to go to the towns to buy things." The souls of the three foxes and one person returned to their bodies. Hong Yi opened his eyes. There was nothing in front of him except three little white foxes looking at him, blinking. The conversation of the three little girls just now seemed like a dream. "Chirp, chirp." The three little white foxes chirped again and held up the dried fruits on the stone table and sent them to Hong Yi. Hong Yi cracked open a peanut and it was indeed crispy and fragrant. Peeling the sweet potato, it was also sweet in the mouth. He had never eaten such good things before. Taking a sip of the steaming hot tea, Hong Yi looked at the three little foxes jumping around and thought of the three girls calling him Brother Xiaoyi when his soul was out of his body. A warm feeling welled up in his heart. Such warmth could not be felt in the residence of the marquis, where human feelings were as cold as swords and frost.

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