The national teacher and Li Xuandu sat opposite each other and said, "I can't talk about being well-informed, but I invited the envoy here this time to discuss with the envoy all kinds of things about immortality. ”

Li Xuandu said: "According to the standards of our Central Plains, the national teacher is already in the realm of immortality, and he can be called an earth immortal, and the younger generations are far away from this realm, how can he discuss it with the national teacher?"

This is not true. The national teacher said: "Your Confucian sage in the Central Plains once said: 'There must be my teacher in the threesome, choose those who are good and follow them, and change those who are not good.'" He taught his disciples to learn not to be ashamed to ask questions, and I think what this sage said is very reasonable, no one in this world is omniscient and omnipotent, and there are always things that are inferior to others. ”

Hearing what the national teacher said, Li Xuandu no longer shirked, and said, "I don't know what the national teacher wants to ask?"

The national teacher said: "I think the envoy has already known that in the recent period, it has been me who has been renewing the life of Lao Khan, and I have all kinds of doubts arising from this, what is the fundamental source of these methods we are cultivating, or in other words, what is the difference between this path of immortality that we have taken under our own feet and under the feet of others?"

Li Xuandu pondered for a moment and said: "If you talk about realm cultivation, the younger generation is inferior to the senior, but the younger generation is better than the experience accumulated by many predecessors, and may be able to barely answer the questions of the national teacher. ”

The national teacher nodded.

Li Xuandu said: "The difference between martial artists and monks in the Central Plains is that martial artists pay attention to the physique, people who pay attention to physique, strong blood like big monsters, and Fangshi focus on the soul, but the soul travels like ghosts and gods, from this point of view, the national teacher should belong to the Fangshi." But the two have something in common, that is, they also pay attention to the cultivation of qi and machine. I don't know how to describe Fang Shi, I'm a martial artist, so I'll take martial arts as an example. Pure martial arts is also known as the way of human immortals, in the early stage of this way, to eat a large number of food, even nine meals a day, three cattle a day, in the later stage can devour the flesh and blood of various foreign beasts, absorb blood and gas for their own use, strengthen their own body qi and blood, and then refine and refine qi. It's just that nowadays, there are fewer and fewer strange beasts, and it is difficult to find, so pure martial arts have become very rare. Since you can't find the cannibalism of foreign beasts, you can directly devour the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, omitting the step of refining and refining the Qi, and directly refining the external Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi into your own internal Qi machine, and then filling the body with Qi to refine yourself. From this point of view, the qi and blood physique of the martial artist is far inferior to that of the pure martial artist. ”

The national teacher fell into deep thought and said, "According to what the envoy said, the difference between martial arts and pure martial arts is that there is a sequence, one refining the body first and then refining the qi, and the other refining the qi and then refining the body. In fact, many years ago, there were many pure martial artists in the Golden Horde, who were full of blood and blood, flesh and blood condensed, and had a terrifying appetite, even if they were seriously injured, they only needed to eat and sleep. It seems to me that they are not so much eating as directly absorbing others

The vitality of people to strengthen their own vitality, but in recent years, there have been fewer and fewer such people, and it turns out that this is the reason. ”

Li Xuandu said: "However, the Evil Dao Patriarch also put forward a point of view, if heaven and earth are regarded as one person, then the qi refiners who feed on the vitality of heaven and earth are actually parasitic insects in the human body, living by sucking human essence and blood. When the insect is small, there is not much harm to the human body, and the two can coexist, but if the insect is too big and sucks too much blood, it will affect the human body, and the human body will react and destroy the insects in the body, that is, the catastrophe, so the powerful insect will leave the human body at this time, that is, it will soar. ”

The national teacher said with a smile: "I have studied the various theories of the Central Plains, including the differences between Nanhua Zhenren and Yang Zhu within the Daomen, as well as the two of them derived from the two of them respectively. I believe in the Immortal Heaven, and in my opinion, the closest thing to the Heavenly Dao is the Dao Gate. ”

Li Xuandu said: "I would like to hear the opinions of the national teacher." ”

The national teacher said: "Among the hundreds of schools, the most prominent of them are Taoism, Confucianism, Legalism, Moism, Bingjia, and Zonghengjia. In my opinion, the difference between these is the perspective. Confucianism is an aristocratic view of the world, so Confucianism emphasizes the word "etiquette", the so-called cangli is honest and knows etiquette, only when there is enough grain can we know etiquette, whether it is the people who farm the land in the Central Plains, or the herdsmen who graze on the grassland, their rations are sufficient? If survival cannot be guaranteed, then what etiquette is there to talk about? Therefore, Confucianism is not the Confucianism of ordinary people, but the Confucianism of the aristocracy. And how did the nobles treat the world? The Confucian sages put forward the word 'benevolence', and then Yasheng added the word 'righteousness', and later, there were the words 'reason' and 'heart', but in any case, these are all requirements for the nobles, in the words of you Central Plains people, that is, the gentry and scholars. ”

"Legalism is very good, Lao Khan likes Legalism very much, because Legalism looks at the world from the perspective of the emperor, so Legalism and Confucianism are somewhat similar, they both belong to the ruler, but they are very different, they belong to the emperor and the nobles within the ruler. The Central Plains is a kind of rule advocated by Confucianism, and the "law" advocated by Legalism is also a rule, the law is not a certain code, but a means of rewarding and punishing meritorious deeds, so as to implement the will of the emperor, so the emperors of the past dynasties favored Legalism, and Legalism has never died. ”

"Whether it is Confucianism or Legalism, they all represent rulers, is there a doctrine that represents ordinary people? I think there is, it is the Mohists, so there will be a dispute between Confucianism and Mohism, how can the nobles and ordinary people get along on an equal footing? The Mohists are more like a craftsman, there is a sect in the Central Plains, called the Taiping Sect, which is good at the art of organs, and what is the most important thing about the organs? It is precision, it is mutual cooperation, I have been to the Central Plains when I was young, and I have seen the watermills of the Central Plains. Windmills, in fact, these are some simple mechanisms, what is the key to using these mechanisms?

It is practical, and practicality must be preceded by good looks. The meaning of the institution itself is to change its own situation, if the weather is dry, some people will ask the dragon king for rain, but the Mo family is to build a canal to change the predicament of drought. Therefore, the Mohists advocate the simplicity of 'etiquette', and do not believe in the mandate of heaven and ghosts. ”

"The soldier is simpler, that is, from the perspective of the general to look at the world, so the soldier is often mixed with Confucianism, because the general is mostly aristocrats, of course, there are differences, the soldier does not pay attention to 'benevolence', it pays attention to how to mobilize troops, how to attack the city and plunder the land, the soldier is indispensable, but it can never dominate the world. ”

"Zonghengjia is a group of lobbyists, speculators, and emperors make good use of this way, that is, through various means to make all parties in a balance, and then seek the weakness of human nature, help the weak and suppress the strong, and make profits from it. ”

"Finally, there is Taoism, why I like Taoism the most, because Taoism is beyond the scope of human beings. Whether it is an emperor, a nobleman, a general, a craftsman, or a lobbyist, they are all in the realm of people, but Taoism can jump out, which is commendable. Confucianism has sages and sub-sages, Taoism has Taishang and Nanhua, Taishang is from the perspective of the way of heaven to see the world, so the lack of humanity can be seen clearly, Taishang said: 'The way of heaven is more than enough to make up for the deficiency, and the way of man is not enough to give more than enough.' What is the way of heaven? The way of heaven is the law of the change of the sun and the moon, the passage of spring to autumn. What does this mean? The way of heaven is average, using the excess to make up for the deficiency, while humanity is to use the insufficient to feed the superfluous, that is, to use the common people to support the nobles, and the people are already poor, but they still have to support the rich nobles, this is humanity. Therefore, humanity cannot last long, and the way of heaven can be eternal. This is also the reason why no matter how Confucianism tinkers, there will always be chaos in the world, and now the chaos in the Central Plains is not a correction of humanity by heaven. Nanhua tells a story in the "Nanhua Sutra", which roughly means: "There is a country in the left corner of the snail, whose name is Touch, and there is a country in the right corner of the snail, whose name is Manshi, who are fighting each other for land, and the number of corpses that have fallen is too many to count, and it took fifteen days for the defeated side to withdraw its troops and return." "If the Immortal Heaven looks at the strife in the world, what is the difference between the Great Wei and the Touch Clan, and what is the difference between the Golden Horde and the Barbarian Clan?"

Li Xuandu once listened to Sikong Da Sacrificial Wine in the Vientiane School Palace to talk about the rise and fall of the country from a Confucian point of view, and now he listened to the Golden Horde National Master from a Taoist point of view, which was completely different, and he was greatly benefited, and said sincerely: "The national teacher is a scholar of heaven and man, and the younger generation is taught." It's just that people are human beings after all, not the gods of heaven and earth, and the so-called things hurt their kind, and heaven and earth can not care about the death of thousands of people, because they are not of the same kind, but people can't care less. ”

The national teacher said: "It is precisely because of this that we ask for immortality, and finally detached. ”

Li Xuandu said: "In this case, why should the national teacher renew the life of the old Khan?"

The national teacher shook his head and said, "If you seek detachment, you will fail to attain detachment." If you are already detached, why ask for more?"