Chapter 323: Those who are suitable for thousands of miles gather food in three months
The passage had appeared, and a kingdom under the sand was about to appear in front of them. The moment the passage opened, they sensed the chaotic metallic aura inside the king.
The little flower demon and Ran Bing thought it was nothing, but Lu Pingxi could sense that the ant demon's kingdom was extremely unbalanced. There were too many metallic auras in this kingdom and it was too chaotic.
Metallicity represents bravery and invincibility, and represents strength and unyieldingness, but it is easy to break if it is too strong, so the earth attribute is needed to stabilize the metalness and to nourish the metalness, but there is no earth attribute in this kingdom.
Lu Pingxi, who has reached the golden elixir stage of cultivation, has begun to gradually feel these changes and realize things that ordinary practitioners cannot understand. Moreover, he has begun to realize the help of the spiritual realm in cultivation. Recently, he has begun to study some ancient classics. As he studied these ancient books, he understood a truth.
You can practice Taoism without cultivating immortality, but you can't cultivate immortality without cultivating Taoism.
The passage had gradually formed, and the sand inside spread out. A staircase appeared in front of them. Several ant demons said respectfully: "Senior, please follow us into the underground kingdom."
This is the underground kingdom of the ant monsters. Normally, they would not invite other creatures into it, but this time the situation was different.
Since they are people authorized by the great elder, they must open the door for them and welcome them in respectfully.
Lu Pingxi and the others nodded, then walked down the stairs.
Several ant demons led the way, and soon they entered the intricate ant tunnel. The metallic aura around them became even stronger, making the little flower demon and Ran Bian feel a little uncomfortable.
In addition, countless ant demons are busy, coming and going, some are transporting supplies, some are transporting cultivation resources, and some are transporting books made of stones.
"These books," Lu Pingxi asked, "are they written by He Yao?"
When these ant demons were carrying the books, Lu Pingxi's spiritual consciousness had already swept over them. These stone books were written with a very special "voice". This voice is the smell. These stones have different smells. These smells It is fixed on the stone book by the metallic aura. If you want to understand the information on it, you have to use your olfactory organs to smell it instead of seeing it.
As far as Lu Pingxi knew, ants were originally creatures without vision and used smell to communicate. Therefore, Lu Pingxi deduced that this group of ants developed spiritual intelligence before they became successful in cultivation and invented smell writing.
This group of ants
They are not ordinary ants, but most likely treasure beast level or even spirit beast level ants.
Facing Lu Pingxi's inquiry, the ant demon did not dare not answer. It said: "Some of these books were written by the great masters of our ant tribe in ancient times, and some were written by the great elders of the past dynasties."
This ant demon didn't hide anything, and it felt that it didn't need to hide anything. This was a book written with scent, and other creatures couldn't understand it at all.
However, it miscalculated that Lu Pingxi could understand these books.
After Lu Pingxi scanned them with his spiritual sense, he understood the contents of these books. Even though these books were written with scent, it still could not prevent Lu Pingxi from understanding them. For this reason, Lu Pingxi could only attribute it to himself. The physique is gone.
Otherwise, it makes no sense, because he has never seen an ant tribe, never seen a scent book, and has never learned a scent text.
The ant demon continued to lead the way, and Lu Pingxi followed behind. He continued to use his spiritual sense to scan these stone books that recorded scent words. What surprised him was that these stone books were all about spiritual practice, and It is a book for cultivating the mind.
For example, a book called "Xian Bei Lun" records a saying that before practicing, you must first cultivate your mind. If you retreat for one month, you must first spend five days cultivating your mind and retreat for one year. You must first spend one month cultivating your mind. If you are in retreat for more than ten years, you must spend one year cultivating your mind.
This is called preparation before retreat. Be prepared and prepared, the smoother the retreat will be.
Lu Pingxi strongly agrees with this book. Yes, the bigger the task, the more preparations are needed. There is a sentence in Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou": "Those who are suitable for the wilderness will have three meals, and their belly will still be as expected; those who are suitable for hundreds of miles." ”
This sentence fully illustrates this truth. The longer the vision and the loftier the goal, the more time it will take to prepare and then go further. Lu Pingxi’s previous behavior has already been in line with the Tao, just waiting to read He understood this only after reading the classics.
When ordinary people travel far, it takes a long time to think about things before and after. It may not seem decisive, but it makes sense.
When an immortal travels far, he makes a decision in an instant, which seems very decisive. In fact, at that moment, the immortal has clearly judged the cause and effect. If he continues to travel, he is just acting according to the changes in cause and effect.
Just as Lu Pingxi was carefully checking the classics of the ant clan, the ant demon leading the way suddenly said: "Senior, the residence of the great elder is just ahead."
Lu Pingxi looked up and saw a long underground passage. At the end of the passage was an underground cave that exuded an earthy atmosphere. The cave looked very simple, and there were several ants standing at the entrance of the cave. Monsters, the ant monster at the front is a very old ant. It is different from other ants. Other ants all emit a metallic aura, but it emits an earthy aura.
At that moment, Lu Pingxi understood that this old man was the great elder mentioned by the ant demon.
"The seniors have come from far away. It would be rude for the juniors not to welcome us from afar."
Lu Pingxi was a little surprised, because it was strange for the word "discourteous" to appear in the other party's mouth. The word etiquette appeared only after Confucius and was exclusive to humans. It was not applicable to the monsters who entered the Immortal Tower in ancient times. Know what etiquette is.
But this ant understands, which is strange.
However, Lu Pingxi did not pursue this matter in detail. He asked: "You must be the great elder of the ant tribe, right? I am very interested in your magical arithmetic. I wonder if you can discuss arithmetic with me." "
Arithmetic is also called fortune-telling. This is a very profound knowledge. There is another "Book of Changes" from the ancient Z country, which was handed down from the Zhou Dynasty. Nowadays, you can search it on the Internet casually, but you can only search it. Hexagrams, but no algorithms can be found, let alone solutions.
Therefore, no matter how much ordinary people study, they still don’t know how to calculate this hexagram, let alone how to interpret the hexagram calculated by the Rapture.
It's like you have a math problem and a reference answer, but you don't understand arithmetic such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, let alone setting up unknowns, binary linear solutions, etc. So you just rely on reading the questions and knowing the reference answer, but you still don't know mathematics. How to solve the problem, so that when you encounter practical problems, you still don’t know how to answer them.
Therefore, the algorithm and solution are the top priority, and at this moment, the elder of the ant tribe seems to have mastered this algorithm.