After Qin Bukong left, the master slowly sat down, but he just sighed and didn't say much. I asked Master, what did you mean by what you just said? Why do you want me to study with such a person? The master said, because although Qin Bukong behaves strangely, he is a truly capable person. If you learn some techniques from him, it will only be beneficial to your future development. If you think there is something wrong with him as a person, then just don't learn how to behave like a person.
Master said that learning from him does not mean that you have to become him. You will always be yourself and this will not change. I didn't say anything, although I still didn't understand why Master wanted me to learn Qin Bukong's spells and witchcraft. Master said, I know you have a lot of reluctance and confusion in your heart now, but you have to be prepared, because from today on, you will not only have to go to the tunnel to work with Senior Qin every day, but you will also have to follow me every night. Recite the Dharma book together, and you need to slowly start to understand and learn the remaining practical skills in this class.
From then on, I made breakfast for everyone every morning when I got up. After eating, I followed Qin Bukong to the tunnel to continue deciphering the Bagua array. After the strongest door of death has been broken, although the remaining difficulties are still full of difficulties, Qin Bukong can always resolve them in different ways. Normally, Qin Bukong can open a door every two or three days. Although the ghosts in each door are ever-changing, in the final analysis, there is always only one ghost. After more than half a month, we have successively cracked the four gates: the Surprise Gate, the Open Gate, the Rest Gate, and the Life Gate. In addition to the Death Gate that was the first to be broken, there are only three gates left among the eight gates. We started to crack it in a clockwise direction. The remaining three gates are Shangmen, Dumen and Jingmen.
Breaking the formation door by door is mostly done during the day, and the master is resting at home during the day. Every few days, Qin Bukong would change the herbs for his master. The herbs were not only used for decoction, but also for making beds with dried medicinal residues. It is said that this way the medicine can be fully absorbed and get twice the result with half the effort. But maybe it's because the master's previous injury was too serious, and his recovery speed is very slow. As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain falling, and illness goes away like a thread spinning. This is probably what it means.
And every night after dinner, Qin Bukong would close the door of the back room and practice alone. I don't know what he did during this period. Occasionally, he would sneak into the tunnel without calling me and continue to think of ways to break the formation. . During this period, Qin Bukong gave me a feeling of becoming more and more courageous as he fought. It was not easy for an old man in his sixties to be so lively and vigorous. It's like a master who hasn't met an opponent for a long time, and his life is boring, but suddenly there are some opponents who can give him practice. Therefore, Qin Bukong is probably the one who lives the most fulfilling life among the three of us, because he and I both know that every time we break through, we will be closer to the final truth.
And at night when I couldn't enter the back room, Master would ask me to sit by the bed and read the formulas, mantras, etc. in his mind in the same way that I had written, and let me record them in his original words. , because writing is easier to deepen memory than reciting. Some of the methods of our sect require rituals to be completed, and rituals take a long time and require the preparation of many necessary things. As a result, there will be no chance to perform them in actual combat. Strangely enough, what he asked me to record later was very tedious, but after the master taught me the whole paragraph, he would tell me what the core part is, and what kind of handprints I should make if I encounter an emergency. , just recite any sentence in this mantra. As a result, some spells that I originally thought were not very useful and too cumbersome have now become more sophisticated again.
But the master still didn't teach me the art of making talismans. I wanted to get it because I didn't ask for it myself, and he would think that I hadn't thought carefully.
Qin Bukong, on the other hand, rarely communicates with me on weekdays. I mean when we are on the ground, but every time we start to break the formation with real swords and guns, he is always reminding me what I should do. , even if he is not that familiar with the things of my Taoist sect, he is an old Jianghu after all. He has seen a lot, so he will naturally have rich experience. So much so that later on, we gradually developed a tacit understanding.
For example, when we need the endless influx of identical ghost clones from all directions in Fangshengmen, he and I will stand back to back without any hint or reminder to prevent them from all directions, while Qin Bukong will Choose an odd or even number. For example, if he chooses an even number, then I will arrange the ghosts in front of me in ascending order of the odd numbers, while Qin Bukong will arrange them in an even number. So in the earliest days, when I heard Master talk about the ghosts I met in the Shengmen, I imagined them to be indestructible. But after working with Qin Bukong, I discovered that although they are dangerous, they are actually quite suitable for practicing reactions. Speed and adaptability.
As for the new methods that Master taught me, everyone in the industry knows that even if they are memorized, they are of little use without actual practice. Only after you have actually used it, and encounter the same or similar situation in the future, can you quickly react and use the move in your hand to protect yourself or defeat the enemy.
There are three gates left, and the first one we will face is called the Hurt Gate. Just like the literal meaning, it means that there will be injuries and bloody disasters. In Qimen Dunjia, there is a difference between "dynamic response" and "static response". The detailed explanation may be quite esoteric. To put it simply, when the injury door and doors of various attributes are combined with each other, it is easy to cause and produce the result of. The so-called "dynamic" and "quiet" represent the meaning of "subject" and "guest", one is active and the other is passive.
Among the eight gates, only the Sheng Gate, Xiu Gate, and Open Door are auspicious, and we passed through them with great force. The remaining five gates are all unlucky gates, plus the Shang Gate is responding to movement and silence. There was not a single bad move in the combination, so Qin Bukong and I actually studied it for many days and didn't dare to take action rashly.
When I encounter a bottleneck, I just feel relaxed. If none of the previous five doors is broken, we will get a Vajra Prong and a dry tree root accordingly. The dry tree roots are easy to deal with and set on fire. Even if the door is broken, the Vajra Prong will actually Each one is different. Some are long and some are short, some are thick and some are thin, some have cross blades, some have triangular blades, and the Buddha statue on the handle of each handle is also different.
Qin Bukong's explanation for this is that this Bagua secret room was built thousands of years ago, which should be the early Song Dynasty. Due to the promotion of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, many things from original Buddhism were brought into Han Buddhism, such as this Vajra prong, or devil-subduing pestle. However, the Song Dynasty was an era that advocated Taoism, so many of the strange people who emerged during this period were skilled in martial arts. They used weapons from primitive Buddhism to form formations, but used Taoist magic gates for reinforcement, just like in the An Eastern lock is hung on a Western door. The door is still a door and the lock is still a lock. It is the combination of strength and softness that allows these formations to exist safely for thousands of years.
During the period when I encountered bottlenecks, I was relatively free, so I had more time to study with my master. So if Qin Bukong is the most fulfilled person, then I am the busiest person. Because not only do you have to break the formation, you also have to study, and you also have to buy food and cook.
But during this period, the relationship between Gan Mu and I has significantly eased. Because the Vajra Prongs I obtained before are all piled up under the wooden shelf that Gan Mu likes to cross, sometimes when I need to use the things in front to find clues, because I am young and quick, I always end up being ordered by Qin Bukong to run errands. That person, the first few times I went to the Vajra Prong, Ganmu always bared his teeth and refused to let me get close, but after I rewarded it with a few pieces of meat and bones, it was no longer so cruel to me.
During the time when I was stuck in the wound door, I could even reach out and touch Ganmu's triangular head, and occasionally make silly jokes with it. For example, I would ask it how you felt when Fahai took care of your sister; or ask it if I would think I was Xu Xian if I held a paper umbrella and stood next to it; or ask it if it was bored at home every day. He won't be able to make silly jokes like snake essence disease to pass the time.
Master's condition also goes up and down, which gives both Qin Bukong and I a headache. And Master and I both know that at least Qin Bukong did his best to restore Master's body.
This state lasted for more than half a year. In a blink of an eye, summer came again, and one night it was really hot and unbearable. Master kept complaining about the heat in bed, so I helped him sit in the alley at the door, because there was a long and narrow alley outside the door, which was relatively ventilated. The moonlight was good that day, which meant that the next day was going to be very hot. Master was sitting there and suddenly asked me, what do you think are the big differences between Master and Qin Bukong?
I replied without thinking, of course, it’s all about character first. Master, you are upright and soft-hearted, so you will not resort to unscrupulous means in many things. This also limits your own development, but this is not a bad thing. But Qin Bukong is very radical and will try every means to do anything. Even if those methods may seem a bit disdainful to us, we have to say that he does get twice the result with half the effort...
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Master. Master said, he was not talking about this, but about the way to deal with the same thing. After all, everything in me was taught to me by Master, so my method is , are also completely consistent with Master. So I answered Master that there are still some differences. For example, the ghost we met in Xiumen was formed by gathering thousands of happy spirits, and living people would inevitably be affected. This was very similar to the "happy ghost" we had encountered before. , but this one is much more powerful. According to our method, we usually hold the tiger's mouth with the left hand, recite the Wuchang Sipingjue three times and tap the teeth. This is the fastest way to prevent oneself from being controlled by the ghost's emotions, and Qin Bukong is even more Simple, he just needs to hold the sword in his hand, stamp his feet seven times in a row, shout "capture", and make a cross on his chest with the sword.
The more I talked, the more excited I became, and I gave many examples of this difference to Master, but Master kept looking at me with a smile, and that strange look in his eyes suddenly made me realize that Master's method towards Qin Bukong actually had nothing to do with it. Interest, and the reason why he asked me this was to let me understand that unintentionally, I had learned so many of Qin Bukong's techniques that were different from ours.
