The red sky covering the sky

Chapter 187 The Twilight of the Gods
Jiang Chili discovered that he was able to emit light, not the divine light when he was flying, nor the fire light when he was controlling fire, but the light of deification and assimilation.

From Jiang Chili's perspective, the surrounding Great Light Palace changed. It no longer looked like the natural way of Taoism, but was full of divinity.

This is the phenomenon of deification. Deification is roughly equivalent to enchantment, but it is more magical. It can turn ordinary copper and iron into magical iron and fairy copper, and weeds can turn into elixir.

And it comes with all kinds of strange attributes, such as fire, thunder and lightning, such natural forces, or abstract abilities such as exorcism and detoxification.

Of course, it will take a long time for the breath of God to completely infect those items.

In addition to time, it is God's initiative to infect, or it is like Jiang Chili's innate transformation.

After all, the Great Guangming Palace has been influenced by the first generation Zhu Rong for countless years, so how could it be influenced by Jiang Chili, a newcomer who had only just entered the Void Refining Way.

Of course, having reversed his innate nature, he has already crossed the path of refining the void, crossed the realm of controlling fate, and become an innate god and demon in the realm of free travel.

It was his transformation that allowed his aura to infect the Great Light Palace, turning the palace of Taoism and nature into a palace filled with the majesty of God.

After reversing the innate nature, the biggest gain is naturally to achieve the realm of great freedom, and the second is to gain many abilities.

One of them is Zhu Rong's divine blood as the basis for controlling fire, which is Zhu Rong's instinct.

The second is to eat Qi. Qi is the breath of heaven and earth. Heaven and earth are formed by accumulated Qi. Human beings rely on Qi to survive. Heaven, earth, Yin, Yang, Hui, Ming... are all changes of Qi.

Practitioners refine the Qi of heaven and earth for their own use, so they are called Qi Refiners.

The power of gods comes from heaven and earth. They are the embodiment of rules and real people. Therefore, gods can mobilize the energy between heaven and earth at will.

Before the appearance of Qi Refiners, the only people who could control the power of heaven and earth, apart from gods, were witches who represented gods.

One of the essences of witchcraft is to communicate with gods and pray to gods, thereby gaining the power of gods and using the power of gods to drive the energy between heaven and earth.

However, success is God and failure is God. Power comes from God, so he can only be controlled by God.

Even though God may not care about him, Keren will not hand over his own destiny, especially a person with great power.

Therefore, the witch who was not willing to be controlled by God came up with a method.

The practice of shamans is meditation and prayer, and the object of their prayers is God. They visualize the appearance of God and imagine according to the appearance of God, so that they can be close to the appearance of God in their hearts.

Just imagine, how can this kind of practice not be controlled by God?

Since you don’t want to be controlled, then don’t meditate on the image of God or pray to God.

Then, Qigong practitioners appeared. At first, they just changed the object of their meditation, visualizing the heaven and earth, and praying to nature.

In this way, they were able to get rid of God's control, but when they reached the end of their practice, they found that they were restricted by heaven and earth.

But the human heart will never be satisfied. Since it is restricted by heaven and earth, then break it.

As a result, Qi Refiners officially appeared. They did not need to contemplate the nature of heaven and earth, but plundered domineeringly, forcefully seizing the right to use Qi from the hands of Heaven and Earth.

The method is to eat Qi and let the driven Qi of heaven and earth become one's own strength.

In this way, they became new gods, because like the gods who control the rules of heaven and earth, they have their own "divine power".

The latest power Jiang Chili gained was breath taking.

After all, God comes from heaven and earth, and is naturally controlled by heaven and earth. God also longs for freedom. Therefore, when a qigong master who can break the restrictions of heaven and earth appears, God is the happiest.

Therefore, breathing food is also a spiritual practice.

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There are countless great ways between heaven and earth, but regarding the innate gods and demons, there is only the divine way.

In the past, when the heaven and earth first opened, the emperor organized the way of heaven, opened up the sky, built the heaven, and unified the gods of heaven and earth. With the practice of the innate gods and demons as the core, he established the Shinto practice system and opened the prelude to Shinto's power over the heaven and earth.

Then, after being perfected by the Emperor of Earth and even the Emperor of Humanity, the Shinto practice system once became the most popular practice method in the world, pointing the way forward for the gods.But with the development of Shinto, disadvantages began to appear.

The innate gods and demons descend according to the Great Way of Heaven and Earth. Mountains, rivers, wind and thunder, rain and snow...etc. are all manifestations of the Great Way of Heaven and Earth, and the innate gods and demons are born to control these great powers of heaven and earth.

Man follows the earth, earth follows heaven, heaven follows Tao, Tao follows nature, Tao follows nature, so Tao is nature.

And what is God?Nature is God, heaven and earth are God, and innate gods and demons are nature and God.

The practice of God means that God and Tao are the same.

The metaphysical is called Tao, and the metaphysical is called utensils.

Tao is formless, formless, and cannot be explained in words, while utensils are concrete and tangible. All tangible things in nature are utensils.

All things and scenes in the heaven and earth are utensils, and these scenes are images of the Dao, the existence of the Dao, and the embodiment of the Dao. Therefore, the utensils come from the Tao, and the Tao is hidden in the utensils.

Gods who come from nature do not need to practice. They are born with the ability to control tangible things with invisible power. Therefore, gods and Tao are the same.

But just because you don’t need to practice doesn’t mean you can’t practice. There is no shortage of people who want to make progress, and the same goes for gods who want to make progress.

After all, the powerful gods are only a minority after all, and they naturally do not need to practice. The weak gods make up the majority, and they are weak and long for power.

Therefore, God took the enlightenment as the basis and began his own spiritual practice.

But how to understand it requires God.

This God is not that God, but the Yuan Shen, the Consciousness God.

The Yuanshen is the innate nature, the innate Yuanshen is also without thought and care, natural and ethereal, it is the innate nature.
To put it bluntly, it is an innocent heart, without thoughts or thoughts, motionless or still.

But if you can't think, how can you understand the Tao and how can you practice? In this case, you need to know the spirit.

Those who know God are thoughtful and thoughtful, spiritual but not empty. They are the acquired gods.

The so-called consciousness is the spirit of thinking, the activity of human thoughts.

The key to spiritual practice is to take the soul as the basis and use it to recognize the soul.

Use the innate spirit to control the acquired consciousness, and use the various principles learned and understood the day after tomorrow to return to the origin and strengthen the innate spirit.

In practice, knowing one's mind and one's nature is the most difficult thing.

Even if they are innately divine, they are still born with seven emotions and six desires in all sentient beings, within the human realm.

Therefore, even gods will be trapped by the seven emotions and six desires, and will be blinded by all kinds of internal demons and external obstacles such as cause and effect, disasters, etc.

As gods, they will not go against nature. Their emotions and desires are also natural. They will not resist, which puts gods into an embarrassing situation.

If you want to see your true nature clearly, you have to go against the nature that gave birth to them, but if you want to go further, you must do this, which is very contradictory.

Going against nature means going against their original intentions, which makes it even more impossible to see their true nature clearly.

This is the shortcoming of Shinto. There are very few gods who can clearly understand their hearts and minds.

The path that cannot be achieved is a dead end. Therefore, the appearance of the Qi Refiner and the birth of the Qi-eating method made the gods ecstatic.

If they want to see their true nature clearly, they have to step down from their divine position and lose their divine power. However, it is undoubtedly a fantasy to ask people who have had power to give up their power.

Therefore, the breath-eating method, which can refine the energy of heaven and earth and master the power of heaven and earth, has become a life-saving straw. They do not need to lose their divine power and can take further steps.

Except for those gods who were powerful enough, many weak gods gave up their divine status and became Qi Refiners.

This is the twilight of the gods.

(End of this chapter)