After the light just now, he had memorized the contents of the book. The light reflected the words in the book into his heart. However, after this incident, the divine power attached to the book completely dissipated, and it would no longer have the effect of reflecting light and making people unforgettable.

"The way of nature is God, and the way of life is immortal."

Chewing on this sentence, Qiu Yan's eyes swept across the book, and his heart was filled with insights.

"This 'god' does not refer to gods or deities, but to the mind and spirit; and 'immortal' does not refer to those who ascend to heaven, but is a metaphor for people climbing high mountains, referring to the physical body reaching the top and the immortality of the body."

The first few pages of this book talk about the general outline, which are all imprinted in Qiu Yan's heart with the light, but now he opened it and read it aloud in a low voice, spitting out word by word from his mouth-

"Nature is reason, heart, spirit, intention, and virtue; life is law, breath, qi, form, and merit. Nature and life are the basis, and we seek survival and life."

"Those who practice Taoism seek longevity and immortality first. If the Tao fruit is not achieved, the spirit will be annihilated and the body will disappear. There is no hope for Taoism in this life, so we must first prove longevity and immortality before we have the opportunity to achieve Taoism."

"As the saying goes, longevity is the key to long-term vision. If you don't live forever, no matter how far or deep you look, you are just a tree without roots and water without a source, and will eventually become a mirror image."

The book starts with the purpose of cultivation, which directly points out the goal of cultivation. The first is to live forever, and even the pursuit of the Tao can be put aside.

"Life and death, if you don't have life, what can you use to seek the Tao? This book is straightforward, but also true."

Thinking of this, Qiu Yan opened the opening and took a closer look.

The book explains the cultivation of "life and death" to a certain extent, including the method of cultivation.

"The Tao of nature is the spirit, and what is cultivated is the mind, thoughts, and soul."

Looking at the columns of text, and confirming them with the memories he just remembered, Qiu Yan gradually grasped the key to the cultivation of the Tao of life and death.

"This book says that the cultivation of the soul in the way of nature is divided into the realm of opening the orifices and the realm of condensing the soul. The first step is to open the orifices. Once you enter the realm of opening the orifices, you can be considered to have entered the door. Then you can circulate your thoughts and contact the essence of the mind and spirit until the three souls are manifested, and then you can advance to the realm of condensing the soul. This opening of the orifices and condensing the soul are the two realms of the way of nature cultivation."

Qiu Yan slowly turned the pages and read them carefully word by word.

"There are actually many different schools of thought in the method of cultivating nature, such as the method of guarding oneness, the method of storing the spirit, the method of introspection, the method of meditation, the method of silent recitation, and the method of sitting and forgetting, etc. However, the book does not introduce it in detail, but it contains a set of soul cultivation methods called "The Inner Secret of Lying God", which involves the three schools of storing the spirit, meditation, and silent recitation."

Turning to the back, it is the specific content of "The Inner Secret of Lying God", which is mysterious and mysterious. In Qiu Yan's eyes, it reflects the memory in his heart and is slightly moved.

The content of the whole method is profound, but the number of words is not large, only a few columns, and it only occupies two pages.

Behind the method, the next realm of soul cultivation, the Soul Condensation Realm, is described.

"The three souls are different and have their own differences... The description of the Soul Condensation Realm is obviously not detailed enough. Even the specific method of soul condensation is not listed. However, it is understandable that soul condensation has obviously taken a step further. Obviously, there is another mystery, and it should not be so easy for a mortal to know."

This book is not given to the original deity, but to the "mortal" of the scholar's clone. Qiu Yan still remembers this. Thinking in his heart, he turned a few more pages.

"To become an immortal in the way of life, one cultivates flesh, blood, bones, and body."

The content inside has reached the part of life cultivation.

"The introduction of the way of life in this book is very specific, unlike the mysterious "Inner Secret of Sleeping God", which even has specific training methods."

But after turning a few pages, Qiu Yan shook his head.

"However, compared to sexual cultivation, the introduction of life cultivation is detailed but not in-depth. It is mostly simple methods to strengthen the body and soul, and does not involve specific methods. But the latter part gives some future cultivation directions. This cultivation of life is mainly to strengthen the body and soul. The first step is the foundation-building stage. After practicing the dark power and internal force, it can stimulate the flesh and blood of the whole body and make the seven souls shake. Then you can advance to the soul-refining stage and condense the seven souls in turn. Unfortunately, the role of condensing the seven souls is not written."

"The foundation-building stage and the soul-refining stage seem to be able to open the acupoints and condense the soul of the way of sexual cultivation, but there is no rigorous method like the "Inner Secret of the Sleeping God"..."

After a slight hesitation, Qiu Yan suddenly realized.

"Yes, the City God gave me this book to give to my flesh and blood clone. In her opinion, my clone is just a scholar, and his physique is not strong enough. After the best age for foundation building, no matter how much he practices, he is afraid that he will not be able to practice. Therefore, although the two paths of life and death are introduced together, and the techniques of life training are also involved, the focus is still on the cultivation of the mind and the cultivation of the soul."

After figuring this out, Qiu Yan turned the page of the book back to the page that recorded "The Secret of the Sleeping God".

"In this case, let's not be distracted for now, and study this set of methods first. If you can achieve something, it can be regarded as a foothold for the practice of this world."

"The Secret of the Sleeping God" is abstruse, and it slightly touches on Taoist terms, and also quotes many classics and historical books that Qiu Yan has read.

Fortunately, Qiu Yan had memorized the words in it with the light of divine power. After inheriting the scholar's flesh, all his original memories can be mobilized.

Skimming over the embellished words, he quickly grasped the key point, and his fingers followed the words and moved on the page -

To preserve the spirit, to preserve the spirit in the body. The spirit resides in the five internal organs and hundreds of joints of the lady, lying in 36,000 orifices, ten as one, preserve it every day, continuously, never forget, and the original heart does not move.

Staring at this sentence, Qiu Yan pondered silently and soon understood the general meaning.

"The spirit in the body is not a god, but the mind. People have limbs and bones, and they can control them with a thought, that is, the mind reaches all parts of the body. This method of preserving the spirit is to make these thoughts and minds concrete, imagine them as "gods" one by one, and then..."

Thinking of this, his eyes fell on the following sentences -

Meditate on my spirit, the light in the spirit shines on the whole body, the mind moves, and gathers in the sky.

"This paragraph refers to moving the imagined 'god' to the top of the head in imagination. The mind is invisible, so you must first imagine yourself as a god, and then use your imagination to move the god. Every step is illusory and beyond imagination. If I hadn't come to this world and really become a local god, I would probably not believe it at all."

Thinking of this, he raised his hand and turned a page. His eyes fell on the last few columns of text, which were some formulas that the cultivator needed to recite silently in his heart when he was meditating.

"This paragraph is to completely standardize the process of meditation and meditation. The so-called formulas are like Shang Jun's law and Sun Wu's order. They are enforced and restrain the mind and thoughts to prevent the thoughts from flying around and eventually having no effect."

Just like the Qigong practitioners must control the Qi Yuan in their bodies, there are also methods and laws for cultivating the mind and nature. It is not a chaotic imagination, otherwise it is easy to have scattered thoughts, which will cause amnesia in the mild case and soul injury in the severe case.

"This method of control is indispensable for both life and death cultivation. Buddhists call it the Dharma Wheel, Taoists call it the Zhou Tian, ​​and Confucians call it the Xing Ting."

After reading "The Secret of Sleeping God" several times, Qiu Yan gradually got an idea.

"The principles and methods are mysterious, but the key is to put them into practice. Let's try it now. The first step is to get rid of distracting thoughts..."

Do it as soon as you think of it. He sat cross-legged, clasped his hands, and placed them on his knees. With a thought, he drove away the distracting thoughts in the mind of the scholar's clone.

It is not easy for ordinary practitioners to achieve this step. They often have to do a lot of actions and try repeatedly to enter a state of tranquility. The city god also gave a cloud of smoke to help Qiu Yan calm down, but Qiu Yan's original body is a god, and it is easy to withdraw his mind and thoughts from his clone, so he did it in one step.

After entering a state of tranquility, it is to imagine the god in the body.

Qiu Yan's mind changes, and he meditates on the five gods first.

The five great gods come from the "Zhen Gao". The book given by the City God says: "The five great gods refer to the two hands, two feet, and the head."

This "Inner Secret of Lying God" is about the gods in the body. The five great gods are the general outline. You have to imagine that there is green air on your head, red air on your hands, and white air on your feet.

This step is not difficult for ordinary people, but human hearts are limited. It is barely possible to think about the five great gods of the limbs and head, but if the number increases, it is inevitable to lose sight of one while focusing on the other. The "Inner Secret of Lying God" requires you to imagine 3,600 gods all over your body!

This is not something that ordinary people can do. To achieve the truth, you must be in deep thought without any distractions. You must practice meditation into an instinct, and then imagine it every day and keep it in mind all the time. It will take several years, more than ten years, or even decades to achieve it.

If Qiu Yan is just an ordinary scholar, and wants to practice the "Inner Secret of Lying God" to get a result, he will never have time to study for the imperial examination in the future.

Fortunately, for Qiu Yan, this problem did not exist. As he thought about it, white light emanated from the scroll on the table next to him, covering his whole body and falling like a water curtain.

The next moment, dots of light appeared all over his body, under his flesh and bones, like stars.

Soon, as he silently recited the formula, the light moved slowly, along the surface of his body, quickly gathered to Qiu Yan's head, and condensed on the top of his head.

Under the sky above his head, the light became more and more intense.

Gradually, it approached a critical point.

Trance!

Qiu Yan's original body and clone were both in a trance at the same time. The white light covering his body swayed, and then a ball of light jumped out from the sky!

The ball of light was bright at first, then dimmed, and finally disappeared.