Myriad Realms Free Mercenaries

Chapter 274 On the Tao
Ouyang Fei Yujian returned to the valley, everyone had already woken up and was practicing in the morning, Yang Guo is living in seclusion now, although he has practiced less, it is not that he does not practice at all, every morning, he will still practice the same as others, in order to maintain the strength of martial arts diminished.

Martial arts is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Although the inner strength is innate, even if you don't deliberately practice it, the true energy will circulate on its own, and it will be endless, but if you don't practice martial arts for a long time, it will still become rusty .

Seeing Ouyang Fei return to the valley with a big burden in his hand, everyone surrounded him curiously. It happened that their morning exercises were about the same, and Mo Chou was going to make breakfast.

"Uncle Ou, what is this?" Yang Ming asked curiously.

Ouyang Fei put the long sword back to its original place, put the burden on the stone table, and said with a smile: "This is the breakfast I just went to Xiangyang City to buy in the morning, delicious and juicy soup dumplings, let's wash and eat! "

"Soup bag?" Yang Ming was overjoyed when he heard the words, and he was about to untie the bag, but Ouyang Fei patted the back of his hand, "Boy, wash your hands first, look at your sweaty hands."

Yang Ming withdrew his hand embarrassingly, turned around and ran towards the water tank.

There is a stream not far from Jianzhong, and there is a large water tank with a cover in the valley. On weekdays, Mo Chou and Si Xiao go to the stream to fetch water. Filling the water tank can be used by their family for several days.

Yang Guo laughed and said: "It's really convenient for you to be immortals flying to the sky. I'm going to Xiangyang City, and it takes half an hour to perform lightness kung fu with all my strength. You can go back and forth in the time of cup of tea."

Ouyang Fei laughed and said: "Are you envious? Then practice hard. Don't think that you are one of the five masters, and you are in the top of the rivers and lakes. If you have few opponents, you will have no motivation to forge ahead."

"With your current skill, you still have a long way to go if you want to fly into the sky and escape from the earth! Your current realm is no more than the innate realm. After innate, you can still enter the Tao, and after you enter the Tao, you can still become a saint."

"After you enter the Tao with martial arts and become a saint after transcending the ordinary, it will not be difficult to fly to the sky and escape from the ground."

"Oh?" Yang Guo's eyes lit up, it was the first time he had heard Ouyang Fei talk about the realm of martial arts, and immediately said with great interest: "Tell me carefully, what does it mean to enter the Tao, and how does it count as becoming a saint?"

Ouyang Fei waved his hand and said, "You should go wash up first, let's talk after breakfast."

"Oh!"

After everyone washed up, Mo Chou made a pot of egg drop soup as quickly as possible, and then everyone started eating steamed stuffed buns with the egg drop soup.

Because he was thinking about Ouyang Fei's theory about "Tao", Yang Guo finished eating quickly, Xiao Longnv only ate a few when she saw this, and let Mo Chou and Si Xiao go to another table to eat.

But they always attached great importance to Ouyang Fei's "lecturing", so they all stood behind Xiao Longnu and Yang Guo to listen.

The divine eagle went out to hunt food early in the morning, it was not in the valley, besides, it is a big bird, it is useless to listen to it, the way of animals is completely different from that of humans.

"Brother Ou, I don't know how to take the next step after I and Long Er turned the day after tomorrow, so you can tell brother Wei quickly, so that brother can understand the way forward."

Ouyang Fei nodded, and said: "Actually, instead of acquired nature, you have already stepped into another wider world. It is only the innate realm, but you have just stepped into the gate of martial arts. It can be regarded as the foundation of 'Tao'."

"The so-called Taoism through martial arts means that you need to comprehend the nature of the world, combine what you have learned all over your body, and understand your own 'Tao'."

"Some people enter the Tao with the sword, some enter the Tao with emotion, some enter the Tao with killing, and some enter the Tao with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and there are so many. The so-called three thousand ways, choose one and follow it."

"Taking senior Dugu as an example, he entered the Dao with the sword, and his understanding of the Dao of the sword can be divided into four realms."

Yang Guo said in confusion: "I know the four realms of Senior Dugu! They are sharp swords, software, heavy swords and wooden swords. Now I have reached the realm where grass, wood, bamboo and stone can all be equal to swords, but... "

Ouyang Fei shook his head with a smile, and said, "You have misunderstood. The four realms you mentioned cannot be called realms at all, they can only be called four stages."

"And these four stages are only before entering the Tao. In other words, these four stages are only the realm of ordinary martial arts. You are only in the state of the peak of ordinary martial arts. Although it is only one step away from entering the Tao, this step has to be taken. It’s not easy to go.”

Yang Guo suddenly realized that this was the case, so he humbly asked for advice: "Then the four realms you mentioned refer to..."

Ouyang Feilang said: "Senior Dugu's four realms are 'with a sword in his hand, but without a sword in his heart'. This is the realm of his sharp sword and soft sword."

"The next thing is 'the sword in the hand, the sword in the heart', which is the realm of his heavy sword and wooden sword."

"Going a step further, it is 'there is no sword in the hand, but the sword in the heart'. This is the so-called grass, wood, bamboo and stone, all of which can be swords."

"And in the end, to really enter the Tao with the sword, you must understand 'there is no sword in the hand, and there is no sword in the heart'."

Yang Guo was startled, and asked with great doubts, "There is no sword in my hand, and there is no sword in my heart? Where is the sword?"

"Good question." Ouyang Fei smiled and said, "There is no sword in your hand, and there is no sword in your heart, but it happens to be the highest level of swordsmanship, because after reaching this level, the sword is a person, and the person is a sword. It is the real 'human and sword in one'."

"At this level, it is no longer necessary to use swordsmanship and sword moves to fight against others. Your whole body is surrounded by unparalleled sword energy. You can cut mountains and mountains with a single lift of your hand and a single look. You can show your swordsmanship to the fullest, you don't need to fight, the opponent is already defeated."

Yang Guo's heart trembled when he heard it, and he could defeat his opponent with just one look. What kind of extraordinary state is that?
Although Xiao Longnv has always been indifferent to world affairs, she is fascinated by the realm Ouyang Fei described, not to mention Mo Chou and Si Xiao.

Ouyang Fei continued: "Of course, the way of swordsmanship is more than that. There are three thousand ways, and everyone's way is different. It's just that different paths lead to the same goal."

"Just like the way of swordsmanship, what senior Dugu pursues is a pure sword, a sharp sword, a sword that is unparalleled, and a sword that is extremely gentle."

"Uh...swords are also gentle? Aren't weapons just for killing?"

Yang Guo was stunned, but Ouyang Fei laughed and said: "That's why you are still in the realm of mortal martial arts. Swords can be used to kill people, so why can't they be used to save people? Swords can hurt people, but they can also love people."

"I just know a person who is able to excel in sword because he is able to be extremely emotional, so he can be regarded as entering the Tao with the sword, or he can be said to enter the Tao with emotion, oh! Don't ask me who that person is, that person is also Tang Wulin. People in the court, you definitely don't know."

Yang Guo rolled his eyes speechlessly, but after hearing so much from Ouyang Fei, he also had many thoughts in his heart, the most important thing is, at least he knew how to go on the road ahead.

(End of this chapter)