The water stretches for hundreds of miles, the land is blessed, and the water surrounds a green mountain. This is a small spiritual place with a little reputation in the Guangyuan world——
Huangshan Park.
The mountains and waters are green, but it is named after Mount Huang simply because the spiritual veins in the mountains are dominated by earth.
Three days later, Xu Zhuang appeared on the Huangshan Mountain. He walked slowly past the palaces and Taoist temples built by the seven friends, and finally stopped in front of a simple stone staircase.
Huangshan Bo Qiyou is engaged in life-threatening work, and he does not have the ability to deploy a powerful mountain protection formation, so naturally he will not leave his wealth in his lair.
What's more, Xu Zhuang is not someone who covets the meager wealth of these scattered monks. He came here for another reason.
Xu Zhuang glanced down the stone steps. Although the clouds and mist were shrouded, they could not block his discernment. After confirming that Li He's description was correct, Xu Zhuang flicked his sleeves and floated down the stone steps. It didn't take long for him to arrive. The lowest point.
I saw dozens of strange stone statues of different heights erected in a flat basin. These stone statues were all wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, as if their thin bodies were holding a huge head. There were also carvings on them that seemed to have distinct eyebrows, eyes, ears, and noses.
Xu Zhuang walked up to a stone statue, raised his hands, bowed his hands, and said, "Your Majesty, can you teach me the Dharma?"
The breeze blew between the basins, taking away a few fallen leaves. Other than that, it was peaceful, as if nothing had happened.
Xu Zhuang was well prepared and didn't take it seriously. He followed the order and asked questions one by one. When he asked about the third stone statue, the short stone statue suddenly said: "Today's lecture is about the art of earth escape."
"The earth spits out living things, and the two images are that things under and in the earth take shape. All the attributes of earth are derived from earth."
"My earth escape is not an ordinary method. I only take a handful of sand and soil, and when I cast it, I am within a short distance of the end of the world..."
Xu Zhuang raised his eyebrows slightly and listened carefully. This stone statue was obviously lifeless, let alone intelligent, but it was able to explain a strange escape technique in an orderly manner.
This is the secret that Li He and Xu Zhuang talked about. The stone statue in Huangshan Po is the opportunity for the Seven Friends of Huangshan Po, and it is also the real reason that unites them to practice here.
According to him, every stone statue here will preach a kind of Taoism, but it will only be preached to those who are destined, and each of them will gain something different here.
Because of this, Xu Zhuang went here specifically and asked about two stone statues, and finally learned the art of earth escape on the third statue.
Xu Zhuang listened carefully to the speech by the stone statue, and followed Li He's advice and asked a few questions that arose during the lecture. As long as they were not deliberately difficult, the stone statue could answer them. Although it sounded a little scripted, it was also very strange.
However, this escape technique is not very clever. With Xuzhuang's Taoism, I already understood most of it when I listened to the lecture. After interpreting the stone statue, I felt even more enlightened.
Xu Zhuang realized that he didn't even need to practice. This method was just a variant of the Earth Escape Technique, and it was also covered by the Five Elements Escape Technique. Since Xu Zhuang understood its principles, it was not difficult to perform it with just a little trial.
Even so, after the stone statue answered the question, Xu Zhuang still said respectfully: "Thank you for your guidance."
After hearing this, the stone statue didn't answer any more, and Xu Zhuang didn't take it seriously. Then he walked to the next stone statue and asked, "Your Majesty, can you teach me the Dharma?"
Hearing this, the stone statue suddenly spoke out and said: "Today I will teach you the art of flying sword fighting..."
What this stone statue was talking about was clearly the art of swordsmanship, but compared to that of Earth Escape, although Xu Zhuang listened carefully to this swordsmanship, he only wanted to enrich his own knowledge and did not gain much benefit.
Xu Zhuang still thanked him and asked more questions one by one. Except for the first two stone statues, nine out of ten of them would preach Taoism to Xu Zhuang. Xu Zhuang gradually discovered that what these stone statues said was not the same. It doesn’t matter whether it is beneficial to you or not, but they are all Tao methods suitable for your own practice.
Perhaps the conditions for these stone statues to preach Taoism are just whether they have the qualifications to practice their Taoism, so there is an illusion that they select people who are predestined to teach the Taoism.
Needless to say, Xuzhuang's qualifications are natural, he has nine orifices close to him, and his practice so far can be said to be a broad one. The variety of things he has learned is far beyond that of ordinary monks, so he seems to be particularly popular with these stone statues.
Regardless of whether these Taoist teachings are advanced or simple, this strange experience is quite new to Xu Zhuang, so he did not feel impatient. He consulted each stone statue and gained a lot. Soon he came to Before the last stone statue.
Xu Zhuang still followed the same example, bowed his hands and saluted, and asked, "Your Majesty, can you teach me the Dharma?"
This stone statue, which looked particularly tall here, slowly said: "Today I will preach, "Yuan Zun preaches the true method of Hundong."
"In the past, when the two rituals were not separated, the sky was full of darkness, chaotic and lightless, imageless and soundless, dim and dark..."
"Yuan Zun? Hun Dong?"
"Is this the way Wang Jiao practices?"
In an instant, Xu Zhuang caught two words that aroused his interest. He immediately became energetic and simply sat down on the ground and listened attentively——
"What is opened is Yin and Yang, what is destroyed is a mixed hole, what is outside is a mixed hole, and what is inside is Yin and Yang?"
Xu Zhuang frowned slightly, not because he doubted the truth behind it, but because the opening chapter of "Yuan Zun's Preaching of the True Dharma of Hundong" had lofty and profound intentions. steep drop.
Judging based on Xuzhuang's Taoism, this "Yuan Zun's True Dharma of Hundong's Teaching" may be called a Taoism that can be practiced into the Yuanshen, but it is also an inferior category among them, not to mention "Five Elements and Elements", even compared with several other biographies of Taisu Zhengzong, is far inferior.
But Xu Zhuang's brows soon widened. After all, this is a Dao method at the level of the soul. Even if it contributes to the sect, it is excellent.
What's more, the way of the Hun Cave described in it is also a change of yin and yang, which also inspired a lot of his yin and yang avenue. After Xu Zhuang listened carefully to the stone statue's lecture, he silently pondered it in his heart several times, and then asked more than a dozen questions at once.
However, perhaps because Xu Zhuang's Yin and Yang Taoism has gone beyond the scope of answering stone statues, it only answered half of Xu Zhuang's questions, and it was more inclined to the explanations in "Yuan Zun Preaching the True Dharma of Hundong", and in the end it seemed more like After the lecture time passed, I just kept silent.
Xu Zhuang was a little stunned for a moment, then he smiled and said, "That's it."
He looked up at the sky and suddenly thought: "It seems that things are over here, maybe it's time to return to Xuanhuang."
Xu Zhuang didn't feel tired after traveling all the way, but he was a little less interested. Suddenly, he thought of returning to the sect for retreat. It would be best not to be disturbed by any other chores until the Nascent Soul is completed.
He stood up, smoothed his robe at will, looked around, and confirmed that there were no other stone statues that he had not asked about. Suddenly, a breeze rose under his feet, swirling incessantly, but did not pick up any leaves, and directly lifted Xu Zhuang to the throne. After rising into the air, he went straight to Weiyun Immortal City.
(End of chapter)
