Under One Person: Lifting the Ball to Soar

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This is the significance of the Supreme Spirit to the fairy world. As long as the Nine Spirits are immortal, the world will not be destroyed.

No matter whether they are extraordinary people or spiritual beasts, practitioners are striving upward. The path of practice is the path to heaven, and the path to heaven is naturally as difficult as ascending to heaven.

But if you gain the favor of the supreme spirit in the fairy world, it will be like climbing up a pillar that reaches the top of the sky. From then on, all you have to do is climb up step by step along this pillar of the sky.

In front of Ma Xianhong are nine paths to becoming a saint. All he has to do is choose the one that suits him best.

This is not as simple as choosing a major in college. After graduation, you can still find a job that is not related to your major.

If a practitioner embarks on a path that is not suitable for him, it will definitely be ten times more miserable than marrying the wrong wife or the wrong husband.

Even with the support of the Supreme Spirit, you can at least become a master, but if you don’t want to regret it one day in the future, you must be extremely cautious.

The supreme spirits have already revealed their own characteristics, just like a product lists all its parameters.

All that remains is to examine oneself and recognize one’s own needs and desires.

Ma Xianhong immediately locked onto Pixiu. This supreme spirit was honest and simple by nature. He was also keen on inventing all kinds of strange things and mastered the ways of material change and conversion. In simple terms, he was the god of physics in the fairy world.

If I choose Him, my weapon refining skills will definitely reach unattainable and unimaginable heights…

A huge desire keeps stirring in my heart. This is absolutely true. As long as I choose Pixiu, my life will be completely fulfilled!

However, beads of sweat oozed from Ma Xianhong’s forehead…

The hardest thing for people to see clearly is often themselves.

There seemed to be something different in the deepest part of his heart, a subtle sense reminding him to treat this seemingly obvious best choice with caution.

……

After three days and three nights of experiencing the ups and downs in analyzing his inner self, Ma Xianhong regained consciousness.

He exhaled a sigh of relief, opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the Pi Xiu. If he just looked there with his eyes, there was nothing, but if he used the viewing method of Canwei Dan, he could vaguely perceive a great phantom.

There was a hint of melancholy in his clear eyes, which then immediately turned into incomparable determination. He stood up and walked towards where the Qilin was.

Ma Xianhong clasped his fists and saluted: “Senior Lu Feng, please give me more guidance in the future!”

Lu Feng nodded: “Good.”

The Pixiu suddenly made a thunderous sound, and shouted angrily:

[Are you kidding me? Lu Feng, you cheated. This little guy obviously has the best attributes with me, why did I choose you? Did you secretly use your abilities to make things go the way you wanted?]

Qiongqi’s mocking voice was like a twisted steel bar that kept stirring and piercing straight into my heart:

[Although I think that Lu Feng is a hypocritical and pretentious idiot, but rather than believing that he has become wise and learned to trip me up in secret, I would rather believe that he has stopped being a vegetarian and started eating shit! ]

Youying’s voice was like the pure moonlight shining down:

[This is my domain anyway. If I want to influence the judgement of the Summoner, even if it’s Lu Feng, I can’t help but show some flaws.]

The laughter of Chongming’s amazing years rang out:

[Haha, it’s a bit regrettable. Although I had known that given this young friend’s situation, he would basically only be able to choose between Da Hu and Lu Feng.]

Zhulong’s words seemed to be an indissoluble darkness:

[It’s already irritating enough that the stupid long worm, Qi Teng, took first place, and now Lu Feng is the one who took advantage…]

Xiangliu’s complaints were like vines growing wildly and blocking out the sun:

[You said it was a bargain, but who can beat Lu Feng in this matter? I am not happy! ]

Ju Mang’s sigh is like a ballad expressing the cycle of birth and death:

[It is both expected and reasonable. ]

The seven supreme spirits except Lu Feng were silent, and then a feeling of unwillingness arose in their hearts, especially Pi Xiu.

It is already very difficult for an alien to find a satisfactory successor, let alone select a fellow across a world.

All the spirits knew that Lao Ma was the person introduced to Lu Feng by Lu Piao.

In their minds, if anything led by Lu Piao failed, it was because he was careless. If the final result was in line with his wishes, it was because he had arranged it in advance.

Ma Xianhong recognized Lu Feng’s result, which was in line with Lü Piao’s original expectation. Fate favored this combination, and now fate was being forced back on track.

In the eyes of the supreme spirits, they were arranged by Lu Piao!

Moreover, the “Good Comrades of China” plan that requires humans and supreme spirits to choose each other is really a very bad idea!

We are all at the same level of Jiuji, so why should you come first and I come later?

It is inevitable that whoever is recognized later will lose face more.

It was acceptable that Hu Teng had a preacher by chance before the launch of [Good Comrades in China], but now that Lu Feng got there first, he is really inferior to him!

In ancient stories, the nearly omniscient and omnipotent saints would fight over face issues. Although the supreme spirits are not that exaggerated, when the old guys get together, most of them will regard face as the top priority.

Lu Feng and Kui Teng, who cared the least about this, both stood out, while the rest more or less cared about the order and ranking.

Lu Feng was fully aware of the dissatisfaction with the losers, and looked at Ma Xianhong and asked:

“My friend, the Pixiu’s abilities perfectly match your talents and ambitions. Why are you pursuing the trivial instead of the essential?”

Ma Xianhong took out a devouring sac.

The technology of the swallowing sac has been fully upgraded. Not only has its volume increased greatly, but it also allows people to be put inside without losing consciousness.

While improving its functions, he could also make the Devouring Sac smaller than before, but he not only did not do that, but instead enlarged it to make it into the style of a Poké Ball.

“A friend of mine taught me that the most rational choices are often the most dogmatic.

How much brilliance would be lost in life if we had to follow the rules even in our greatest hobbies!”

Looking at this fake Poké Ball, Ma Xianhong said with deep emotion:

“The pursuit of artifacts is not perfection, but people-oriented. Good artifacts are those that can truly bring happiness and joy to people.

That’s right, the art of weapon refining is my lifelong pursuit, but to what extent should I cultivate it?

If my goal is to become the strongest weapon refiner in the alien world, then I can now confidently say that I already am one.

If the highest realm is the goal…”

Ma Xianhong looked in the direction of the Pixiu:

“Then, Senior Pixiu, what do you think the highest realm of weapon refining is like? Just like you, can you create everything in the world into whatever you want?”

Pixiu said sullenly:

[The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. Asking me such an abstract question, I think you are making things difficult for me, Da Hu! ]

Ma Xianhong pleaded guilty and continued to express his thoughts:

“In my opinion, creating everything as one pleases is the pinnacle of the art of refining, not the pinnacle of the way of refining.

Sometimes I look at myself and ask myself this question:

We are both different people, why do I believe in teaching everyone without distinction, while others do not teach unless it is the Dharma?

It wasn’t until recently that I figured this out.

I refine weapons, while others refine Qi.

The tools made by the tool refiner are to be handed over to outsiders for use.

Qi cultivators improve their spiritual and physical abilities and gather great power within themselves.

One focuses on the outside, the other focuses on the inside. The difference of one word is two completely opposite paths! “

Chapter 157 The Way of Common People

Ma Xianhong injected his own Qi into the Devouring Poké Ball and poured out all the contents. In an instant, a large pile of them appeared on the ground. They were all common commodities that served people’s lives in modern society and brought various conveniences.

This sac is what Lao Ma uses specifically to store daily necessities.

Ma Xianhong laughed:

“Although most of the strange people claim to be cultivators, we are all ordinary people, and in the final analysis, we are only cultivating the way of ordinary people.

I, Ma Xianhong, am just an ordinary man, but I have the audacity to discuss “ordinary ways” with ordinary people’s ideas in front of all of you great men!

What common people value most are the four words “strong, weak, number and quantity”!

If the goal of the Tao practiced by the Qi cultivator is to make no one in the world his or her opponent.

Then the goal of the weapon refiner’s cultivation should be to allow everyone in the world to use his magic weapon!”

Looking at the mess on the ground, Ma Xianhong smiled more and more happily. The pile of industrial products in front of him were just worthless junk, but if they were taken to ancient times, they would be incredible treasures!

Why is the ultimate goal of Grandpa Benzai’s practice to improve the efficiency of refining equipment?

If one day, refining tools can enter thousands of households like these industrial products and be used by everyone in the world, that would be the real magic weapon!

The practitioners who are dedicated to the way of refining weapons said:

“If the Qi cultivators are warriors and martial artists, then the weapon cultivators are craftsmen and scientists.

What martial artists seek is to prove their invincibility and supremacy through martial arts, while what scientists seek is to use their inventions to bring about world peace and equality for all beings!”

Ma Xianhong bowed from a distance in the direction of the Pixiu and said:

“If I had followed the senior, I would have made rapid progress in the art of refining weapons, but I would have strayed from the true path of refining weapons.”

Then he turned around and bowed to the auspicious beast Qilin:

“The truth that Ma Xianhong seeks is here with Senior Lu Feng. Senior’s integrity and love for all living beings and his concern for the world are the true meaning of the way to refine weapons!”

Lu Feng was very satisfied. At a glance, he saw an invisible stance holding up Ma Xianhong.

The auspicious beast of supreme benevolence praised:

“Very good! Thank you for your courtesy, fellow Taoist!”

As Lu Feng finished speaking, time and space changed, and the man and the beast had left the chaotic space and arrived at the fairyland Penglai.

Ma Xianhong looked around at the surroundings. Just by breathing here, the Qi in his body was increasing all the time. The Qi flowed through the meridians throughout his body. His whole body seemed to absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth like a sponge. The strength of his body and his Qi refining skills were significantly improved.

Being a human being, one wants to become an immortal; being born on earth, one wants to go to heaven.

Just by being in Penglai, the dream of becoming an immortal in heaven can be achieved directly.

Ma Xianhong was shocked and amazed. Then this honest man looked at the owner of this place, bowed and said directly to Lu Feng: