After the apprentices returned to Qingzheng Courtyard after their annual vacation, the sound of reading and lively scenes resumed in the Xianling Temple. In the woods and by the creek, except for the inner layer of the mountain gate formation, there were more active figures everywhere.
Yun Qiuhe flew back to Qingzheng Courtyard the next afternoon, handed Zhang Wenfeng a contract stamped with the seal of Xuanyun Temple, and took back the other one. He was laughing and joking as usual, making bets and joking with Yue Anyan, and playing with the apprentices. The eagle went to catch the chicken.
Zhang Wenfeng returned to the bamboo house by the pool to practice, meditating and reading.
This time, more than half a month had passed, and there was no sign of the Red Silk Curse taking effect, which made him feel at ease.
The wood fire in his body slowly increases and accumulates through daily practice.
Based on the current progress, he estimated that in about three months, that is, mid-April, he would be able to save enough wood fire to expel the hidden root of the disease in his body in one fell swoop. However, there was a problem that forced him to think more.
If he practices step by step, his cultivation may not be able to reach the perfect peak of Huaqi Realm until around late June, and he can try to advance to the next level.
Even if the breakthrough is successful, there is still a gap of more than two months between the two.
He didn't want to be ordered to go to the Broken Moon Demon Forest before advancing to the Jianwei Realm. It was too dangerous.
With his shrewdness, he could not tell that Ji Shixi had a mission when he came to diagnose and treat him. Once his condition was cured, the county and city would immediately know about it and send him to the Broken Moon Demonic Forest at any time. .
It is not a good idea to reduce the concentration of wood fire. It will arouse the suspicion of Ji Shixi who is giving him the acupuncture. As a doctor, his cultivation is a level higher than his. Ji Shixi roughly knows his cultivation and wood while taking his pulse. Fire conditions are not difficult.
He must find a way to break through to the gradually declining realm before mid-April.
The usual path would definitely not work, so he had to try to find another way.
After thinking for a long time, he untied the black cloth bag, took out the Shou Xian bottle, rubbed the smooth body of the bottle and felt it for a moment, then placed the bottle at arm's length to the east, facing the east and silently reciting the sutra.
Empty your body and mind, and soon you will be in a state of tranquility without distracting thoughts.
The spiritual consciousness is hovering in the bottle, Ruoyouruowu is practicing the peach wood flying sword, closing his eyes and immersing himself in the practice.
After about an hour, he glanced at the hourglass pot in the corner. He did not get up. He withdrew his consciousness and closed his eyes again. His mind was calm and calm. He changed to the method of "keeping the mind in mind and contemplating all things".
Deep down in his heart, he always felt that guarding the bottle was not just about raising swords and soul-raising magic weapons. The mountain god might have other secrets that he had not revealed to him.
Guard the bottle with your mind and thoughts.
As time passed slowly, the bottle went from being blurry to the fine grain of the wood.
The meal bell rang in the direction of Qingzheng Villa.
Apprentices after school walked out of the practice room, training hall, custom hall and other places and cheered in the corridor. However, when they entered the east courtyard dining hall, they all became well-behaved, sitting around the dining tables, waiting for the people at their respective tables. Let's eat together.
No words are spoken when eating, and no words are spoken when sleeping.
The rules of the Fairy Spirit Temple subtly affect all apprentices.
The price for not abiding by the basic rules is to go to the Rule Hall to recite and copy scriptures.
After Yun Qiuhe sat down, she glanced around. The old cripple and other people in the dining hall were all there, but the temple master was missing. She used to find it strange that the Taoist priests of Xianling Temple and the servants ate at the same table. This was not the case in Xuanyun. Viewing is unimaginable.
Taoism cultivates the mind to be at ease, but it also talks about respect for superiors and inferiors, but it is not as strict and excessive as Confucianism.
She waved her hand to the donkey who was eating grass and drinking in a separate wooden trough in the small room next door, and said, "Go and look for the master of your temple. Everyone is waiting for him."
Other tables have already started eating.
There is another message on the table. If you wait for more than one word, you don’t have to wait any longer. You can just eat. Those who come late can only eat the leftovers. Of course, the temple master is an exception. He often forgets the time due to practice. The old cripple and the others will just eat. Will heat clean meals in the pot.
The donkey took a sip of wine and ran out of the dining hall. It didn't take the usual route and jumped directly from the north courtyard wall.
After a while, he came back and shook his head at the waiting table, indicating that he could eat as the temple master was practicing.
The old cripple actually didn't want to eat with several Taoist priests.
Being respected is one thing, but being too uncomfortable and unable to let go is the same with several other people.
He wanted to open a small table in the kitchen alone with Wei Xingde and the two cooks, drink and chat, how comfortable it would be to stretch his legs.
I'll find an opportunity to talk to my second brother later.
"Let's eat, no wait."
In the room on the second floor of the bamboo building, Zhang Wenfeng sat motionless, surrounded by a thick blue mist. The object of his thoughts suddenly turned into a vague towering tree like a mountain peak, towering into the sky and blocking out the sun.
The wind blows the leaves and waves, which is extremely magnificent.
The tree-like Yuan Qi in his Qi Hai Dantian changed accordingly, absorbing external spiritual energy to strengthen himself.
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Although the process is slow, it is far faster than usual.
The sun and moon rotate, and the fairy view remains the same.
The apprentices read and recite scriptures, reclaim wasteland with hoes and shovels, practice, play, and do homework in an orderly manner. Most of the apprentices go to the practice room to practice boring flat stabbing in their free time.
Yun Qiuhe flew from the east and found Yue Anyan who was instructing his apprentices in sword practice.
"There is a case. I wonder if you are interested in going with me. Zhu He and his people have already set off in advance." Yun Qiuhe briefly explained the case and said with a smile, "There shouldn't be much danger if you follow me. , if it’s your family’s visitor, that’s not necessarily the case.” She joked at the end.
Yue Anyan did not hesitate, nodded in agreement, and said, "When will we leave?"
She knew that Yun Qiuhe was taking care of her out of kindness.
At present, Huaqi Realm monks are springing up like mushrooms in Xiling County. Taoist priests have made breakthroughs in many Taoist temples, and have gone to the Daolu branch to assess Sanren and apply for the Keqing Law Enforcement Guard.
In the words of the temple owner, it is because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is getting stronger and stronger.
Furthermore, the Daolu Branch distributed two qian of Qingqi Powder to all registered Taoist priests in the entire county who were under the age of thirty-five and had achieved acquired cultivation. As for whether to use it or not, it was up to the Taoist priests themselves.
"You tell the Second Senior Brother that we have to rush there as soon as possible."
Yun Qiuhe was also called Second Senior Brother Zhang Wenxing, following Yue Anyan. Now that there were many monks in the Daolu Branch who could go on missions, of course she had to give priority to taking care of Yue Anyan and took a special detour to make this trip.
She took over the alchemy contract signed with Xian Ling Guan, which made the master gain a lot of face in the sect. Both the Zuixin Pill and Zishenling Pill were urgently needed medicines at this stage.
Yue Anyan found his second senior brother, and after a few words, he and Yun Qiuhe headed north.
The second senior brother scratched his hair. He didn't know when the temple leader would be released from seclusion, and his junior sister had to go out on a mission. Everything fell on him at once. He was not afraid of the tedium, and waved to Wei Jingjie and He He, asking them to pay more attention.
Inside the Bamboo House.
Zhang Wenfeng woke up from his visualization practice. The moonlight was bright outside.
Glancing at the clepsydra, I saw that the sand had long since leaked out, and I don’t know how much time had passed.
Looking inside to check the sea of consciousness and cultivation level, the ancient book of the sea of consciousness is looming, and no new magical powers appear. The tree of Yuan Qi in the body has become more condensed, and the cultivation level has increased.
This time, he kept his mind inwardly, and the transformation from visualizing the bottle to a big tree was completed naturally. It was influenced by the subconscious of the last time he visualized the word "wood".
The majestic tree transformed from the character "木" in Chinese characters was so impressive to him.
Several times in the past, when he wanted to use big trees as a source of visualization, he found that he couldn't capture it at all and couldn't rely on it for visualization.
This time, it may be luck, or it may be the reason of the bottle, and my wish was successfully achieved.
He didn't know the passage of time during the visualization, and regarded himself as a part of the towering tree. He stood upright and stayed silently and thoughtlessly for a long time.
Absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth, being baptized by thunderstorms, being bitten by insects and ants, and watching with cold eyes the life below is gestating, growing, flourishing, and finally withering and dying.
All these, empathizing with each other, left the slightest impression.
After waking up at this time, there are countless subtle inspirations flying like dust, chaotic and disorderly.
He didn't get up in a hurry, savored and pondered until the moon was in the sky, put away the bottle, walked out of the room, the moonlight shone on him, and looked into the distance while holding on to the bamboo railing.
He found a way to practice the "Forgetting the Green Wood and Returning the Alchemy Technique" from the complexity. He had to get close to the trees and even cultivate plant seeds, allowing his cultivation to improve rapidly through the inadvertent touch of life.
For him, just sitting and practicing went against the original intention of this Wood Walking Technique.
The word "青木" is the true meaning.
Green is evergreen, and vitality is always there.
He wanted to understand that the green wood winding technique he had learned was actually a kind of "attunement technique". Different from the attunement technique of Shinto incense, the wood element attunement uses its own wood energy to stimulate the life potential of plants to achieve its goals. .
He has mastered a different "initiation" than before, and can "give" his meager wood energy just right. To what specific step he can achieve, he still has to slowly explore and accumulate experience.
The other side of enlightenment is claiming. He can claim the vitality of trees through "counter-initiation".
“The way of heaven is to make up for the excess of damage and make up for the deficiency.
The way of man is not like that, if the loss is not enough, there will be more than enough. "
The words of Taozu are full of mysteries. If he demands too much, he will be destroyed.
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