Merchants gained a lot on this trip.

The Yu family received help from Hua Lanting and invited the Holy Mother of the Divine Turtle to show their power. They took back Ninghai City, the fundamental land of the family, smashed the conspiracy of the Tu family, and avoided a man-made disaster. They experienced the great fall of ice and fire in one day. They were naturally grateful for this. Even if they gave all their gratitude, it would not be an exaggeration to repay this kindness.

Therefore, in addition to the items originally traded, the merchant obtained more than half of the inventory supplies sold and delivered by the Yu family, which was full of loads.

On the day of leaving, news came that the Holy Mother of the Divine Turtle subdued the three overlords of the East China Sea, re-established the status of the Lord of the East China Sea, and ordered the Haiyan Gang to be removed from the list. The Yu family and the Lu family continued to retain the trade agency rights. The two families immediately decided to take this momentum to work together to wipe out the East China Sea Star and restore the coastal areas to a peaceful and quiet place.

The family priest Yu is also very bachelor. He immediately announced that he donated a large amount of supplies to the front line of the fight against the invasion of the Thousand Land Continent of Shuxuan Xianzhou, entrusted the merchant caravan to set up the delivery, and included the Tujia on the transaction blacklist.

There are too many goods, and the merchants' special vehicles are already unable to load, so they have to rent many local vehicles and horses to transport them, and the convoy will go straight to the front line.

In order to prevent accidents, especially the counterattack of the Tu family who was defeated in Ninghai, Shang Chenxi, Feishu, sent a message to the Shangjiabao mobilized people to pick them up.

Xunzhen and Hua Lanting and the other four helped to escort them for a while. After the merchant arrived, they turned back to Zizai Wanxiang Gate.

Back at the door, Hua Lanting and the others were most concerned about the war on the front line.

These days, the invading enemy of the Houtu Continent launched a large-scale attack and attacked from all sides. Due to the hasty response, many sects were still waiting and watching, they were not active, causing multiple defense lines to be broken by the opponent. It was not until more sects began to participate in the battle that the situation was barely stabilized. The two sides were currently in a stalemate.

The young 60th generation disciples such as Hua Lanting couldn't help but volunteered to fight, but were still suppressed by the sect, saying that it was not time.

Elder Zhou Xi said that only more sixty generations of disciples broke through to the Five Qi Chaoyuan Realm, and a considerable number of people would consider it after reaching the Six Ding and Six Jia Realm.

Zhou Xi also made another private request, saying that it was in vain to prevent Elder Xunzhen's efforts from falling to a small realm. He asked Lin Xianjing, Yi Liunian and Zhuge Yun to enter the Seven-Star Beidou Realm as soon as possible, otherwise the battle time of the 60th generation of disciples would be postponed.

With the motivation and the pressure, Lin Xianjing and the other two worked overtime and practiced hard under the guidance of their respective main and minor masters.

The three of them have excellent qualifications and strong perseverance. Xunzhen not only allowed them to experience the feeling of flying in the air in advance, but also provided a pure and pure qi that strengthened the foundation and cultivated the essence. What is even more rare is that they can use pure heavenly thunder to expand their meridians and temper their bodies. So after a few months, the three of them reached the critical point of breakthrough.

But the barrier is the barrier, and natural things can be encountered but hard to find, especially the seven-star Beidou realm requires insight and opportunity to achieve it overnight.

The three men's teachers used all kinds of methods, some were kind to comfort and temptation, some were beaten and scolded, some were asked for medical treatment and medicine to find external forces, but they could be said to be as fierce as a tiger. When they stopped, they still stood there, and the three were stuck on the last thrust.

After a long time, seeing other brothers progressing like flying, even Lin Xianjing, who was as stable as his mind, began to become restless.

Hua Lanting was powerless to do anything about this. At the Seven Star Beidou Realm, his experiences and feelings did not apply to others.

Zhou Xi also saw this situation and was anxious. After thinking about it, he invited Elder Chen Luan, who was practicing Buddhism and Taoism.

Chen Luan asked not to make breakthroughs in cultivation, but to adjust the mentality of the three people through their insights in cultivation.

On this day, Chen Luan brought Hua Lanting and Lin Xianjing out and arrived in a wooded forest in the Douji peaks of the back mountain.

At this time, the autumn was already cooler in the mountains, and the heat in the mountains was still about to end, and cicadas were still screaming on the trees in the woodland.

Chen Lu'an said: "This is a place where I usually practice. Today I will lend it to you. If you want to break through, if you are not hot, you must calm me down. You three, start meditating and entering into meditation."

The three of them sat cross-legged and exercised freely Wujigong.

At the beginning, they didn’t care because entering into meditation is the basic skill, and they started learning from the beginning. Over the years, they have been able to quickly enter tranquility at any time in almost any environment.

However, today is different from the past. No matter how they gather their thoughts and bring their breath, they are distracted and unable to enter the state smoothly.

Hua Lanting was watching the audience. He looked up at the trees. The autumn cicadas were noisy, sometimes rising and falling, sometimes cicadas were singing, and the sounds were heard, disturbing people's hearts.

Lin Xianjing and others also realized that they were abnormal. According to their current cultivation level, let alone cicadas, even if they beat gongs and set off firecrackers in their ears, they would not prevent the three of them from entering the state of selflessness.

This cicada is different.

Chen Luan said at this time: "Yes, this is the spiritual cicada I borrowed from Zhaoyao Peak. It is good at pronunciation and killing, which can break the body and enter the soul, and disturb people's cultivation. It is no problem to sharpen your mind and nature."

"You three of you practice the meditation and enter into meditation, then raise your ear and listen to me and listen to the sound of cicadas at the same time. If you can succeed in the end, today will be perfect."

"The senior master Geng Linmang and several lay Buddhists have written articles related to cicadas and Zen. I'll tell you the general idea."

Cicadas are the most representative insects in summer.

The word "Xia" on the oracle bone inscription is like a cicada, and this "Xia" is the beginning of ancient Eastern civilization.

It is hard to say when summer begins to sneak into life. When the scorching sun shines and the first cicada chirping sounds across the earth, anyone can say with certainty: Summer is really here.

The summer begins grandly, starting with a cicada.

There is always a cicada that leads the song first, attracting thousands of sentences of harmony, one sentence three times, with clear heights, like a golden sound and jade, endless.

Such summer is like a quatrain, with cicadas sounds, flat and flat and flat.

The two characters cicada and Zen are similar in shape, sound similar, and meaning the same.

Both cicadas and Zen have the word "single", and the two small mouths on the ancient "crawling" of cicadas are like two eyes, and are covered with thin wings like silk, which makes it look like a lonely meditator wearing a cassock.

A cicada is an insect.

Zen is a method of cultivating the mind.

When the cicadas do not chirp, they are still there.

Zen is like when a cicada does not yell, quiet. From the outside to the inside, from the calmness of the body to the calmness of the mind. In the end, even if the body moves, the mind will be quiet.

Cicadas are Zen masters, and the sound of cicadas is the sound of Sanskrit.

The cicada "hangs and drinks the clear dew." Xunzi once said: "Drinking but not eating is a cicada."

The eating habits of cicadas are indeed unique. One says that it drinks the clear dew on the leaves, and the other says that it drinks the juice of a tree. Anyway, it is a master who is "not in the world", which means that it is a bit of a noble character among Zen practitioners.

Listening to cicadas in midsummer, the cicadas chirping is the meaning of Zen without words.

The ancients believed that cicadas were noble in nature, "shewn in filth and floating outside the dust", invisible and silenced, and spoke in the world, just like a gentleman. If he didn't speak, he would make a big splash.

People like to call cicadas "cicadas".

This name is more interesting: Knowledge is great wisdom, the transparency of seeing all things in the world; understanding is great transcendence, the thorough enlightenment of no desire, no desire, no self.

Zen practitioners advocate using great wisdom to understand life and returning to the true nature with great transcendence, so that they can achieve great freedom and achieve true happiness.

A little cicada may not have thought of these mysterious things. It just lives with its original heart, not greedy or demanding.

Three thousand trees have a branch to live in; the vast world has a clear wind and a roar, which is enough.

Cicadas are also Zen, one is the sound of nature and the other is the inner practice.

A cicada is also a lifetime of Zen.

The life of a cicada can be described as numerous as disasters.

Cicada eggs are laid on the eyelets of branches and have to avoid the snatch of food before they have the chance to hatch. The nymph has just seen the light and has to rush into the crypt before cooling down to perform a new "cultivation".

This is a dark and long wait.

Even common cicadas have to last for two or three years. They have longevity among insects, some have grown to five or six years, while some species are willing to wait for seventeen years!

If you are lucky and have not been dug out from the ground for such a long time, the cicada will usher in another transformation - feathering.

The old shell under the ground will begin to crack from the top of the head to the center of the back of the chest and back, and the soft new body will break out, spread its wings tremblingly, feel the flow of air, and start a real life - at this time, there are only a few weeks left before its death.

The waiting for years is just for a season of high songs.

It spent most of its life underground, and in the end it only had a few dozen days of brilliant life under the sun. Thinking of this, you don’t feel the uniform cicada chirping annoying. Accumulating the enthusiasm of a lifetime and venting it in a short time, how can this sound not be loud?

In its life, it has experienced darkness and light, bondage and freedom, crawling and spreading its wings, dullness and singing... and transforming layer by layer between the two doors of life and death.

The cicada contains the power of life, which is the explosion after silence and the success after accumulation.

Born as a human being, who has never fallen into the soil like a cicada, and who has never been like a cicada, wearing hard armor to fight and conflict?

If you understand the chirping of cicadas, you may understand life.

Monk Tang Sanzang, a scholar from the West, was a golden cicada son in front of the Buddha, and was a cicada in his previous life.

It is rumored that Sakyamuni was preaching under the Bodhi tree. There was a golden cicada on the tree, with the sound of the Sanskrit lingering, and the cicadas kept chirping, disturbing the gods and Buddhas. The Buddha waved his hand and waved the golden cicadas into the world.

In fact, whether it is a holy monk or a mortal, you will always encounter a period of dull and long suffering in your life, like a black hole, and you cannot see the end, but it is this time that is about to usher in the growth period of transformation.

The sufferings in life are the time to practice.

The worm becomes a cicada is the rebirth of the body.

When a person enters Zen, he is the nirvana of the soul.

Believe that the cramped confinement outside the body is breaking, and the wings that are nurtured in the heart are about to be broken.

Zhuangzi once told a story that an old man with a hunchback used a bamboo pole to catch cicadas is as easy as picking up things. So when someone asked him the secret, he said that he had the truth, and the so-called enlightenment was nothing more than training. Tie stones on the bamboo pole until he reached a state of "entering meditation".

What is that state? "The body is like a tree, without a trace of a living person's breath, only the pair of cicada wings in his eyes, focusing on his mind."

When catching cicadas and meditating, you must enter into meditation. From the initial restlessness to the separation of body and mind, looking at yourself, and looking inward, and finally you can enter into meditation.

Summer without cicada songs is lonely. But with cicada songs, some people always think it is noisy.

In hot weather, the cicadas are boiling, from morning to night, never stopping. Especially at noon when you are sleepy, the more you are, the more it is more troublesome it is, and as it is disturbing, it will fall asleep.

It’s not the cicada that makes a fuss, it’s our hearts.

Being able to calm down and listen to the cicadas in this chaotic sound and heat is a kind of meditation.

In ancient times, when Buddhists were meditating, they would always choose to sit under trees and in the mountains and fields, accompanied by the sound of cicadas, and practice calmness and samadhi.

The sound of cicada becomes Zen.

Before breaking through the ground, a cicada had already sat in the darkness for many spring, autumn, winter and summer in the dark. Maybe three years, maybe ten years, sit quietly, wait, and constantly shed the old capsids. Every time shed, the annual rings on the tree would be one more round, and time passed a little.

The cicada sheds left on the treetops are traces of old hard practice.
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