Chapter 205: Asking the Heart

Under the intense ringing of the gloomy sky, Cao Cao Jingsong couldn't help but look up and stare for a long time, his eyes changing slightly.

When Ji You broke into the Upper Eighteen Tongxuan Realm, his heaven-human sensing was limited by his physical body, and he spent more time than others, finally barely reaching the other shore.

Because of this matter, the academy even specifically launched a discussion about "physical limitations."

The reason why Cao Cao Jingsong was so worried about his unrestrained body refinement behavior was that the underlying worry stemmed from this.

Although the elders in the academy were often disliked, their insights into cultivation were convincing enough.

Especially since Eighteen Tongxuan is only the first realm of the Upper Five Realms, and even the cultivation of a small realm is incomparably difficult, then the other realms in the future are even more self-evident.

The history of human cultivation has lasted for thousands of years, and countless brilliant talents have been born, but none who attempted to challenge the consensus have succeeded.

After all, how can one person's whim compare to the experience summarized by countless past geniuses?

But at this moment, Cao Cao Jingsong looked at the fierce sword intent under the rolling dark clouds and felt the tearing heaviness, suddenly having a clearer understanding of his current combat power.

He felt that Ji You's current combat power was really not in the scope of his understanding of realms and techniques...

This intuitive feeling was actually clearer than the message from the Si Chu Xian Ling Jian saying that Ji You blocked a punch from a Bing Wang.

With a *clang*, the sound of the iron sword trembling suddenly rang out.

A simple Dao sword suddenly flew from the room of the Teaching Tian Shuyuan, and with a *plop*, it landed steadily in Cao Cao Jingsong's hand.

In an instant, surging spiritual energy poured in, and ripples appeared on the sword body, just like the clarity after clear water washes away filth.

"Come, old man, I will take a sword from you."

"?"

Ji You lifted his sword energy high in the sky, his eyes raised slightly: "Really?"

Cao Cao Jingsong got up from the stone stool while looking at Ji You: "I, this teacher, am not very promising. In this life, I am afraid I will stop at the Rongdao Realm. If I don't spar with you one more time, I am afraid I won't have the qualification in the future."

"Then I'm coming?"

"Come."

Under the gloomy sky, the spring breeze was cool. Cao Cao Jingsong held his sword horizontally, and a trace of Dao rhyme like ripples flowed in the sword light.

He walked a different path from Ji You; he was an orthodox pure Dao cultivator. Although he didn't have the exquisite Dao techniques of the Five Great Sacred Halls, his understanding of the Heavenly Dao was still not weak.

In the outer courtyard of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, some said he was poor, some said he was big-chested, but no one said he was weak.

After all, on that night at Yecheng Mountain, he also blocked the siege of three Rongdao experts with one hand.

Seeing this scene, Ji You couldn't help but speak: "Is it that every time a long sword is in hand, there is a feeling of wanting to ask who else in the world is a hero? Honestly, I feel like I can develop the Abbot into a client."

"Rebellious disciple, you'd better live a few more days!"

Cao Cao Jingsong roared, and instantly saw a snow-bright light fiercely descend before his eyes.

The sword intent, heavy as a mountain, pressed the rain that hadn't fallen yet to splash in all directions. The strong aura slashed fiercely toward the bottom of the Teaching Tian Shuyuan at this moment, actually slashing out a magnificence that made people unable to raise their heads.

Ji You here, his sword was boiling sword intent.

Cao Cao Jingsong's beard and hair danced in the wind and waves. Looking up, he saw the more brilliant golden eyes before him, so he roared and swung his sword fiercely. His own energy also began to burst, and he swung his sword away with a *hum*.

There was thunder in that sword, wind strength, the smoothness of falling rain, and the elegance of clouds rolling and relaxing, colliding fiercely with that mountain-like sword intent.

The sound of metal and iron clashing was deafening, and in an instant, sparks flew in all directions.

At the same time, bursts of cracking sounds followed one after another.

The stone table in the Teaching Tian Shuyuan was right at the core of the intersection of the two sword intents, and it was instantly shattered into pieces. One of the broken stones, like an arrow off a string, pierced through the wall of the Teaching Tian Shuyuan with a *boom*.

With a muffled *bang*, Cao Cao Jingsong's boots heavily crushed the blue stone floor tiles under his feet.

Looking at Ji You, after his Dao sword slashed down, his scorching spirit directly burned the falling rain on his body with a *hiss*, and his chest heaved slightly.

"Are you okay?"

"Of course I'm okay. This teacher is an expert in the Upper Rongdao Realm and your guiding teacher. My cultivation is profound. How could I have any trouble taking a sword from you?"

Cao Cao Jingsong propped his long sword on the ground and commented lightly: "That sword just now was still quite good."

Ji You weighed the sword in his hand at this time, feeling the strength of the sword he had just lifted, thinking to himself that his feeling was indeed correct.

He completed the sixteenth dim illumination before breaking into Eighteen Tongxuan. At that time, the feeling was incomparably difficult, and it seemed he had reached the end.

So when breaking into Eighteen Tongxuan, he was really limited by his physical body, unable to successfully resonate his spiritual sense with the Heavenly Dao, and couldn't get the feedback of Heavenly Dao profound light, thus failing to rise in realm.

At that time, he felt a suffocating sense of restraint, so most of his time charging the realm was spent on breaking free from that sense of restraint, struggling until he was almost exhausted, before he felt a sense of transparency.

At that moment, he felt as if something had been pushed.

He didn't think deeply at the time, just had a vague feeling, until the seventeenth dim illumination a few days ago, he found that the process was much smoother, and the tearing pain during body refinement also disappeared.

Now sparring with Cao Cao Jingsong, he also felt a significant increase in energy.

So, human cultivators are not unable to practice body refinement.

Ji You recited silently, looking at the veins bulging because of using the sword just now.

The so-called weakening of heaven-human sensing cannot be simply said to be physical limitation. Part of the reason is that the luck of the Heavenly Dao is insufficient today, and another part of the reason is that the physique is approaching the threshold of the critical point.

A body that is too strong will indeed restrict spiritual sense, but that is not a dead end.

Because body refinement... seems to have realm divisions.

The improvement of realm will increase strength; this is something even a three-year-old child knows.

The realm improvement of pure Dao cultivators is to be closer to the Heavenly Dao, and at the same time, they can get feedback from the Heavenly Dao, and their strength increases greatly, belonging to the path of seeking outward.

While body refinement is seeking inward, seeking not the Heavenly Dao, but itself.

After the heavy snow before the New Year, he not only broke through the Dao cultivation realm but also broke through the body refinement realm in order to break free from the restraint.

Thus, the body itself gave him a positive feedback, which was the increase in strength.

To put it plainly, it was that his strength became even greater.

Little Xiao Jianzhu was often hugged by him until she broke into a light sweat while hiding from the winter, saying his body was very hot, like a furnace. This was not without reason.

Because that was also a positive feedback of the increase in physical strength, because only with enough heat could a stronger physique maintain its proper activity.

Back in the Snow Region, he had to try his best to lift the forty-nine heavy mountains. Now it shouldn't be that difficult.

A little worried for Little Xiao Jianzhu, don't know if she can take it...

Yan Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi's realm is high, which is fine, but the human body is ultimately weak, and she can't take many hits.

But fortunately, she has sisters.

Shocking! Behind the behavior of a scumbag, there is such a heartwarming reason. After hearing it, more than 100,000 people called out in tears.

Ji You came back to his senses quietly at this time, sheathed his sword, and bowed: "Many thanks for the teacher's guidance."

Cao Cao Jingsong spoke lightly: "It is just the teacher's way, no need for extra courtesy."

"Regarding some matters of cultivation, I still need to go back and ponder carefully."

"Go. Just now you forcibly sparred with me, which must have consumed a lot. You should go back and rest."

Cao Cao Jingsong watched him leave the courtyard. The long sword in his hand fell to the ground with a *clang*, then he sat on the ground, took a deep breath, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

His rebellious disciple is really strong.

Although it wouldn't cost him his old life, it wasn't far off.

Ji You was walking toward the inner courtyard at this time.

After that sword slashed, the sword intent around his body had not yet dissipated. As the energy waves circled his body, the falling rain was blown far away.

At this time, he was pondering vaguely, thinking that if body refinement and realm rise together, it must be very strong, but he just doesn't know what the result will be in the end.

The most important thing at present is to maintain the balance between physique and spiritual sense.

Neither can the physical body completely restrict the spiritual sense, isolating heaven-human sensing, nor can the progress of body refinement be maintained.

Walking with two legs of the same length is always much faster than walking with one long and one short leg.

"I remember when Ji You slashed the lion head on the street last time, his sword was about the same as Fang Fang Jincheng's cousin, far from being this strong."

"Brother Ji's hands were useless at that time. You look like you're fine, but during that time his hands were always controlled by spiritual energy, and he couldn't hold the sword himself."

Bai Bai Rulong was gnawing on an apple. Hearing Lu Lu Qingqiu's self-muttering, he couldn't help but answer: "That was sword control, this is sword holding, naturally different."

He was also attracted by Ji You's sword intent, but didn't dare to appear.

He is now hooking up with Dao companions everywhere, and the silver cost is huge, fearing that Brother Ji will commit his professional disease and hollow him out.

After hearing this, Lu Lu Qingqiu looked at the broken wall pierced by stones, feeling that the sword ringing just now was still lingering.

Originally, when that Dao sword hung in the void, they had already felt endless pressure, but they didn't expect to see the truth after it fell. The hair that had just stood up hadn't softened yet.

It turns out that the strength of Fang Fang Jincheng's sword just now was only equivalent to Ji You's sword control, and his highest sword control number was once fifty times.

The next day, the wind and rain stopped.

In the east, the red sun rose, and then the brilliant morning glow began to spray out in the sky, gradually sprinkling on Shengjing.

Ji You had just gotten up from the room when he heard a knock on the door. Opening it, he found it was a disciple of the Qin Zhangshi Yuan.

"Ji Shidi Ji, your letter."

"Many thanks."

Ji You opened the letter and looked at it. The signature of the first letter came from Xiang Kuangcheng, informing him about the repair progress of the Fengzhou official road.

The second letter came from Yuan Yuan Caiwei. She had already received the seeds Ji You sent and planted them immediately.

Actually, this gift is indeed suitable for the daughter of the Pill Sect, because besides dealing with elixirs, the pill master lineage also has to deal with medicinal materials. Cultivating a wheat seedling from Fengzhou is naturally not a problem.

Yuan Yuan Caiwei wrote to thank him, and also said she liked his gift very much and would take good care of it, waiting for its growth.

Yuan Yuanchen also attached a letter, asking him, Brother-in-law, what do you mean by only giving me a flower pot?

Ji You recalled and found that it seemed he had forgotten to send seeds and soil to Yuan Yuanchen at that time.

Sigh, this is not a matter at all.

When he was preparing the gifts, he almost couldn't remember what Yuan Yuanchen's name was.

Zhuo Zhuo Wanqiu also sent a letter, saying that their Little Xiao Jianzhu was at the critical point of breaking the realm, and after returning, she ordered the whole mountain not to be disturbed, but she temporarily came out of seclusion after receiving the gift a few days ago. After reading it, her cold face turned red, and she scolded him for being a lecher.

However, after scolding, she still carefully planted the wheat seeds and carried the flower pot into her seclusion room.

Yan Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi, this girl, is almost becoming a professional at coming out of seclusion temporarily.

The Little Xiao Jianzhu who has just opened her heart is really a bit unable to resist the temptation of beauty...

Actually, Ji You doesn't hope that she will delay her cultivation because of him, and feel regret in the future, so he plans not to disturb her recently.

Lecher?

Ji You frowned slightly, thinking to himself why she scolded him for being a lecher after seeing his gift.

After pondering for a long time, he suddenly remembered the word "seed," and couldn't help but open his eyes wide.

When he sent this gift, he never thought that sending her a seed would have any other ambiguity. Yan Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi, this woman, was actually thinking about this matter herself.

It seems that after asking her how many she wanted to have last time, she probably really considered it seriously, otherwise her reaction wouldn't be so direct and rapid.

"Miss Yuan Caiwei, long time no see. What I gave Yuan Yuanchen was just a flower pot."

"Little Xiao Jianzhu, open the letter and relax. When I sent you the seeds, I didn't think about the thing you were thinking about in your heart."

Ji You wrote a few lines of simple reply, then packed the two letters, and then looked up toward the direction of the Purple Bamboo Zen Forest.

The seventeenth body refinement ended. In order to balance the body and spirit, it was time to enlighten.

After washing up, Ji You went to the Qin Zhangshi Yuan, mailed the two letters, and then went to the Purple Bamboo Zen Forest, found a quiet place, and sat cross-legged.

There are many people in the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan preparing to participate in the Tiandao Assembly. Some have reached the Upper Realm for many years and have been suppressing their realms recently to seek security.

It is most secure for Ji You to participate in the Tiandao Assembly with the status of Upper Eighteen Tongxuan Realm. However, there is no need to suppress the matter of finding the opportunity to determine the Dao.

Everyone's personality is different, their background is different, and the various human experiences they have gone through are all different, so the number of distracting thoughts is not certain. It is best to be well-prepared for this stage.

The foreign immortal manors in Fengzhou won't be stable for long. Ji You feels that the current time is very valuable.

Of course, not the kind where you call your brothers to hack me.

Ji You sat idly on the top of the mountain at this time, eyes closed, and began to look inward.

This step of determining the Dao is a bit similar to body refinement. It is not seeking outward, seeking heaven-human sensing, but seeking inward, eliminating distracting thoughts, and deeply asking the Dao heart.

It took almost a whole day to see a piece of haziness, and then images of distracting thoughts began to emerge from before his eyes.

At first, it was white feet, the round, pink, and tender toes crystal clear like jade beads, cute and slender.

Then the scene turned to the room. Ji You's Dao heart was full of the moist eyes, the slightly light humming sound, and the pink cheeks of Yan Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi after their verbal battle.

At the same time, there was also the jade-like roundness he had seen many times by the stove while holding her in his arms but hadn't dared to touch.

There were also some scenes that appeared in the medicine pool of the Pill Sect. Yuan Yuan Caiwei was only wearing a bellyband and underpants, sitting in his arms, delicate and snowy, and another pair of feet after washing in the water.

Besides these, there were also some great freedoms without owners.

For example, some magnificent roundness, plump buttocks, he had forgotten where he saw them.

This is not Ji You's fault. It is mainly because at that time, it was rumored in the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan that his physique could be passed on, and then a large number of senior sisters shook back and forth in front of him, and there were also those without lining. Except for those too big or too small, there was basically no unique memory point, which was really difficult to distinguish.

This is a distracting thought from lust, the most primitive impulse of a man.

A slight thought will make one sink into it, unable to extricate oneself.

A slight touch will make it gush out, difficult to curb.

In the haziness, Ji You made a calm and relaxed appearance, constantly browsing in a state of spiritual sense, and then reached out to wipe these images away.

But those feet, roundness, and plump legs before his eyes did not dissipate because of this, but became more intense, even deriving more peripheral stories that had not really happened...

Well, people really cannot deceive themselves.

Cultivating the Dao is really good, look at it a billion more times.

The clear sky after the rain in Shengjing lasted for many days. Ji You came every morning facing the morning glow and returned wearing the stars and moon, his eyes gradually becoming perverted.

This is the negative impact of deeply asking the Dao heart. Cultivators at this stage cannot break free in a short time, and at the same time, their state of mind will be greatly affected, and their Dao heart will have a short-term imbalance.

Ji You is a bit glad that he didn't try to deeply ask the Dao heart before and after the New Year, otherwise his courage toward Yan Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi would inevitably be greater.

If that were really the case, it is estimated that the grass on his grave would sprout new buds like the wheat seedlings in Fengzhou.

"Ji Shidi Ji, your letter."

"Another letter?"

"It's still from Junior Sister Lu of the outer courtyard, but she should be the younger one. After all, no matter how big a noble family is, it cannot compare to the Chu Xian Sect, right?"

The sky in the evening was getting dark. A disciple of the Qin Zhangshi Yuan found him on the west side of the Purple Bamboo Zen Forest and handed Lu Lu Qingqiu's letter to his hand.

This Qin Zhangshi Yuan disciple was named Wen Wen Siyuan, who had sent letters to Ji You many times, which had made Ji You remember his name.

People are just like this. Once they get slightly familiar, their words will become more.

Ji You looked at him at this time, thinking to himself that you can just guess, then took the letter and opened it to look.

The letter was written by Lu Lu Qingqiu, for the matter of her sister entering the inner courtyard.

The final result of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan's Autumn Fight is combat power. Lu Lu Qingqiu saw Ji You's sword path at Bishui Lake that day, so she wanted her sister to learn the sword from him.

Ji You thought to himself that it wouldn't work.

With my current state, your sister might not learn the sword, but she could learn quite a few postures.

He replied to Lu Lu Qingqiu, stating that it is known to the world that the sword path of Lingjian Mountain cannot be passed on to outsiders. Lingjian Mountain didn't say that cultivators outside the sect couldn't trespass in order to show the exquisiteness of their sword path, so he learned the sword in a justified way.

But if it were passed on to others by him, it would ultimately be not very good.

However, Ji You still wrote down some understandings of martial arts, sword control methods, how to better use spiritual energy to cooperate with the sword path, and the process of exercising spiritual sense, handed it to the Qin Zhangshi Yuan disciple for transfer, and said that if there were problems in a few days, he could guide them.

These things were originally his, so it couldn't be considered eating inside and out.

Ji You sent away the Qin Zhangshi Yuan disciple, looked outward, and looked at the clouds rolling and relaxing in the sky.

Actually, he knows how to briefly discard these distracting thoughts with simple and clever operations, but he always feels that it is not his own ability.

He has always had extremely high requirements for himself, otherwise, being a person would have much fewer bottom lines.

Such days lasted until a clear night, Ji You's spiritual sense asked the heart again, and it didn't take long before it bloomed with brilliance, wiping away all these images with a saintly posture.

Short is short. People cannot have too high requirements for themselves.

After all, he has no intention of flying up, nor does he need to fight his nature so strongly.

The only thing that makes him feel a bit heartbroken is that the Little Xiao Jianzhu of Lingjian Mountain and Yuan Yuan Caiwei are a bit miserable in his mind...

Ji You muttered to himself, and a piece of golden light appeared before his eyes, and the yellow and white energy surged constantly.

After lust, is it professional heart?

Ji You sat idly on the top of the mountain for a long time, until the dawn rose, and then walked down the mountain with fierce light in his eyes.

"Wang Jiaoxi Cao."

"Why are you here again? How is the search for the opportunity?"

"Rob some money to spend."

"?"

"Rebellious disciple, do you have some dialect accent?"

Ji You soon let him know that this was not a dialect problem, but a comprehension problem, then walked around the outer courtyard holding a money bag, seemingly looking for something.

Bai Bai Rulong was planning to go out in the men's dormitory, suddenly felt cold in his heart, and couldn't help but reach out and flip through the almanac.

In the afternoon, Ji You floated down the mountain and went to Xiang Kuangcheng's residence...

Lust, professional heart.

After that, there were vanity, desire for victory, pride, and complacency... one by one emerged.

But compared to the former, these distracting thoughts were much simpler to suppress. The most dangerous one was when pride and complacency emerged, and he went to the Heavenly Book Hall alone, intending to develop the Abbot into a client.

The Heavenly Book Hall was empty, the old man was not there, and in the breeze surrounding the hall, there was only a whisper left by Ji You.

"Fortunately, you ran fast."

Then he also saw the nursing pavilion in Fengzhou, saw the old locust tree where many old farmers hanged themselves in the bright autumn day, as well as the skeletons that died of hunger and cold in the heavy snow, and the children who were thin and yellow.

This is the reason why he chose to cultivate, it is his original intention.

Can the original intention be considered a Dao heart?

Ji You muttered, but soon felt a surge of anger affecting his emotions, so he wiped it away in a hurry.

Just at this moment, a river bend appeared in the haziness of his Dao heart.

Green willows, white embankments, river surface.

Seeing this scene, Ji You's smile instantly froze, and his face gradually turned pale.

Then countless splashes appeared in his vision, constantly splashing out from the lake surface, the sound of *plop* following one after another, one here and one there.

A boy who looked a bit like him sat on the road, then climbed up with a pale face, and fled in a panic along the river dam.

Asking the heart is a kind of looking inward, even more realistic than memories.

He could see the panic and helplessness on the boy's face, and his fists gradually clenched into a ball.

After the elixirs of the Pill Sect were bestowed, more people came to the Purple Bamboo Zen Forest to participate in the Dao. Most of them were refining elixirs, but at this moment, many people couldn't help but open their eyes.

This kind of attention stemmed from that moment just now; they discovered that a rich murderous aura was emanating from the depths of the bamboo forest.

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