"The eight masters, what is above the sword thought?"

Half a year ago, when the world of ghosts and Buddhas started to change, when Xu Xiaoshou threw this question in front of Bazun, the latter smiled: "I have been thinking about it for a long time."

"Is there any conclusion?"

Bazun shook his head in understanding: "There is a 'shang' in the divine mind, but there is no 'shang' in the sword mind. In other words, the top of the sword mind is returning to the essence, returning to the 'name'."

Name...Xu Xiaoshou always hits the nail on the head when asked questions: "Have you completed cultivation?"

Bazun shook his head twice and spoke with emotion:

"The name is like the Tao, but it is too illusory."

"Even I have to borrow the concept of sword reading and use it in a clever way. I can only get its form but not its spirit."

The name is like the Tao... Xu Xiaoshou nodded and pondered, indicating that he understood, because he also felt the same way at the moment: "It's just an itch."

"good!"

Bazun expressed his agreement and said again:

"My way is born out of fame and developed through sword thoughts."

"Therefore, I also had some pursuit and attempts at fame. However, the Tao was achieved through the thought of the sword, but I was also trapped by the thought of the sword."

"Just imagine..."

At that time, he was at the ruins of the Holy Mountain, under the ghosts and Buddhas, pointing in front of him, and what he was looking at was the Southern Territory when he first set off on this trip:

"Nine out of ten of my paths have been taken."

"The ancient swordsmanship has made me successful, the sword thought has made me perfect, and I have limited my thinking frame to the 'eight-nine'. I have long forgotten the thinking about the nature of 'name' when I first set out."

He lowered his head, shook his head and sighed: "If I let go of everything and scatter everything, I might be able to touch the essence of the Tao and gain some enlightenment, but I don't have time anymore."

He raised his head and looked at the ghosts and Buddhas: "If I stop practicing now and resume cultivation, maybe the Tao is waiting for me, but they won't wait for me, and I can't look back."

Xu Xiaoshou understands this feeling very well.

People are in the middle of the situation and are being pushed along by the general trend. Who can survive alone?

Not to mention that the Eight Masters cannot look back, even what I am thinking about at the moment is completely different from the various thoughts I had at the beginning of my cultivation.

But he knew that the Eight Masters would not stop.

If you can't succeed in practicing the name, there is more than this road leading to the great road, so he asked: "Then what have you practiced in the past thirty years after Jian Nian?"

As soon as the words came out, various images of God's Relics flashed in his mind, and Xu Xiaoshou already had the answer.

As expected, the eight deities nodded knowingly and said:

"Sword, me."

Sword me?

No, this guy, Lao Ba, not only speaks in words, but also shows the truth in every detail.

When he said these two words just now, he clearly paused...

"Sword me?"

"Or 'sword' or 'me'?"

This seems to be the same problem, but fundamentally different.

Bazun smiled knowingly, without comment, and turned to talk about something else: "Shenyi, have you taught you ancient martial arts?"

Xu Xiaoshou nodded and remained silent.

Then I heard Lao Ba take the initiative to say:

"Shenyi and I also talked about ancient martial arts, and we learned a lot."

"If the Tao is in the spirit, a hundred flowers will bloom; if the Tao is in the sword, the three realms will open."

"Both of these, you have to make a choice. You have to choose one of the three thousand great avenues or the nine ancient sword arts, practice them to the extreme, and become a god and ancestor."

After a pause, he changed the subject, and his voice became a little more appreciative:

"But in ancient martial arts, the Tao is very pure. You don't need to think too much. If you complete it step by step, when you reach the end, you will be able to obtain the position of ancestor god at your fingertips."

"So, what is the way of ancient martial arts?"

Xu Xiaoshou really knows this question.

Because God also told me, He said: "Nine palaces, eight gates, seven places and six paths, four houses, three realms, two rituals and one statue."

The eight masters nodded and added: "Missing five, Wuji."

Yes, there are indeed these two things.

"Que Wu is boxing, and Wu is Qi Quan."

"The Wuji Taishang is just an illusory concept. It is a thought left by Zhan Ancestor to further the ancient martial arts."

"Let's ignore these two for now."

Returning to the arrangement of "nine palaces" to "one statue", the eight statues elaborated:

"And from the nine to one, this 'one statue' is the realm that the war ancestors in the past achieved, which is equivalent to being named a god and an ancestor."

"For latecomers to practice Taoism, no matter how confident they are, they should not aim too high and fail to understand the Tao through the Tao - this is like using the name to understand the name, and it is too easy to go astray."

"Therefore, just like cultivating one's name with sword reading, one has to use skills to enter the Tao and then return to one's original nature. Although you may be trapped here, this is the safest way."

"As for my Tao, after communicating with God, I borrowed the concept of 'Two Yis' and decided to practice 'Sword I'."

So that's it... Now, Xu Xiaoshou completely understood.

"Jianwo" means Liangyi.

"Sword" and "I" are the black and white of the two rituals. They are both opposites and achieve each other?

Lao Ba is very ambitious!

The Eight Masters are indeed unruly people.

After Yu Guwu said "Sword I", when Bazun Shu returned to what he said before, it became easy to understand:

"The name is like Tao, the name is like a statue."

"The way of naming is too illusory and contradicts me."

"The name is passive acquisition, but no matter how roundabout my sword is, it is always proactive in nature."

It can be seen that Ba Zunzhen likes "name" very much, but he refuses it completely: "I can only get its shape, but not its spirit. It is useless to force it, so I am willing to give up."

The eight deities know how to like names, but they cannot seek names.

His words pierced Xu Xiaoshou's heart.

Indeed, sometimes when talking about everything, the only thing that can really get into people's hearts is a casual sentence:

"The name is passive..."

Xu Xiaoshou was touched.

After thinking about it carefully, the "touched" suddenly split into "too touched".

"Xu Xiaoshou, you came to me not just to ask about 'Sword Mind', right?" Bazunzhen interrupted his thinking.

"Yes, I want to practice Taoism..."

"What path do you want to practice?"

"Just now, I was still confused..."

"What now?"

"Now... Bazunzun, I want to cultivate my reputation!"

At the Guizhe ruins, under the ghosts and Buddhas, the exchange between the First Sword Immortal and the Eighth Sword Immortal has reached this point.

With the last decisive sentence, Xu Xiaoshou's whole body was filled with Dao charm, and the kendo discs naturally appeared under his feet.

There is no second set.

Only the only kendo board!

The complex and wonderful insights may be like an immortal guiding the way, or like a demonic sound penetrating the ears, penetrating from the bottom of the eyes, passing through the bones, blending into oneself, and bringing forth the new.

"Repair your name..."

The Eight Masters cannot see it, but they can sense it.

Xu Xiaoshou, realized.

His realm suddenly started to advance upward from nine-tenths of the level of transcendence, and there was no end to it.

Ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three...

Until ninety-nine!

He seems to have entered a kind of epiphany-type "virtual ancestor transformation"?
To be continued...