The old man's chest rose and fell violently several times, a sound like a broken bellows came from his throat, and then slowly calmed down.
Then he stood up from the recliner, glanced at Shu Guan again, turned around and staggered into the pavilion on the right.
"Uncle Qi has been possessed by evil spirits before. Fortunately, he made a decisive decision and immediately dissipated all his cultivation, so he was able to survive. And because he had an adventure before, he has a relatively long lifespan and has been alive until now. It’s over two hundred years old.”
After seeing the old man walking into Daozang Pavilion, Mu Yao explained to Shu Guan in a low voice:
"But perhaps he once went crazy, so Uncle Qi's temper has always been a bit weird. Seventh Junior Brother, you just need to be more patient in the future."
Shu Guan nodded to express his understanding.
After waiting for about ten minutes, the old man staggered out of the Daozang Pavilion again, holding a thin silk book in his hand with an extremely solemn expression.
"Why is there only one volume?"
Mu Yao was slightly startled, then exclaimed in a low voice.
You must know that there were three methods for him to start building foundations.
Uncle Qi rolled his eyes strangely and said with a hint of ridicule:
"Second brother, do you think this is the rubbish Taoist method you cultivated? As long as the quantity is large? This is the Taoist power that Lu Zu personally cultivated back then."
Then Master Qi handed the silk book to Shu Guan with both hands.
"Boy, practice hard."
The old man looked at Shu Guan and said this.
"Thank you, Master Qi."
Shu Guan took the silk book and looked down, only to see five big characters written on the cover of the silk book:
Nine-turn Pure Yang Kung Fu.
…
Shu Guan and Mu Yao came down from the top of the cliff and returned to the half-building.
"Seventh Junior Brother, take a good rest tonight. When tomorrow starts, the master will teach you how to truly practice."
After saying that, Mu Yao turned around and prepared to leave.
"Senior Brother Mu, please wait."
Shu Guan suddenly stopped Mu Yao.
Mu Yao turned around in confusion, and Shu Guan had already bowed his head to the ground.
"Thank you Shuguan, Senior Brother Mu."
Mu Yao was a little confused, not knowing why Junior Brother Shu suddenly thanked him.
Shu Guan straightened up and smiled at Mu Yao.
I have so much to thank!
…
Dragging the bamboo box and pushing the door into his future new home, Shu Guan first walked around half of the building.
This pavilion is divided into three floors. The lower part is the living room and utility room. The middle is a quiet room for meditation. The uppermost part is the bedroom. On the side facing the cliff, there is a completely transparent window. There is also a There is a large terrace. Standing on the terrace, you can see the lake and grassland below. The scenery is excellent.
Shu Guan was very satisfied, and then started to clean it up. No one had lived here for a long time, and it was naturally full of dust. It took Shu Guan two hours to clean up the entire pavilion.
Then a little Taoist boy brought him bedding and dinner.
There are not only practitioners like their brothers and sisters in Shanji Guan, but also some ordinary Taoist priests who do chores, all sent from Taiyi Monastery on the top of Guishan Mountain.
Originally, these Taoist boys could do things like cleaning houses, but Shu Guan, who has been a mountaineer in Taoyuan Village for eighteen years, has not gotten used to this yet.
He is used to doing everything at home by himself.
Dinner is very simple, a plate of vegetables, a plate of tofu, and a bowl of rice.
Today, he first visited the brothers and sisters one by one, followed by the ceremony of choosing a path, and then spent a long time doing hygiene. Shuguan was already hungry. Although the food was light, he still wolfed it down quickly.
I guess this is Shan Ji Guan's daily diet, and Shu Guan doesn't mean to pay any attention to it.
He likes good food, but he doesn't have to.
After dinner, it was already night. Shu Guan dug out the tobacco stick left by the old cripple from the bamboo box, as well as a pack of cut tobacco made by the old cripple himself. Then he found a chair, sat on the terrace, and lit up the tobacco. , silently looking at the night scene outside.
It is vaguely visible that there are still lights on in several pavilions on the cliff, and it is unknown where the senior brothers and sisters have not rested.
There is also a light in Shu Guan's room, but there are no wires. Just snap your fingers and the light will turn on. This is the weapon refining thing of the fourth senior brother Qiu Yang. Mu Yao has already explained it to him and specially reminded him. , if the light suddenly starts to turn on or off, do not touch it, it is best to leave the room immediately.
However, Shu Guan did not turn on the lights at this time. He was smoking quietly under the bright moon and stars in the sky, listening to the sound of water flowing from the waterfall not far away.
He thought about a lot of things, but he just took the reins on his own and stopped after a brief taste without thinking deeply.
At a certain moment, Shuguan put away his cigarette rod, returned to the bedroom, and fell asleep.
…
Early the next morning, Shu Guan came to the top of the cliff with the book of Nine Turns of Pure Yang Kung in high spirits.
As soon as they reached the pavilion where the master lived, Li Zhixia's voice came from inside.
"come in."
Shu Guan stepped in and saw Li Zhixia sitting cross-legged on a futon, looking at him quietly.
There was a futon in front of him. After Shu Guan came in, Li Zhixia pointed to the futon in front of him and said:
"sit down."
Shu Guan stepped forward and imitated Li Zhixia's posture, sitting cross-legged on the futon, then took out the book of Nine Turns of Pure Yang Kung Fu from his arms and gave it to Li Zhixia with both hands.
"Master, this is the introductory skill that the disciple received yesterday."
Li Zhixia took it, glanced at it, nodded and said:
"Sure enough, it is the Nine Turns of Pure Yang Kung practiced by Lu Zu. Master has heard of its name for a long time and just saw it today."
Shu Guan was slightly startled, does this mean you don't know how to master it? Then how can you teach me how to practice?
As if she could tell what Shu Guan was wondering about, Li Zhixia continued:
"In our inheritance of Shanxi Kuan, many times it is the master who leads the door, and practice depends on the individual. After all, everyone has different talents and roots. If the master can practice it, the disciple may not be able to practice it. If the disciple can practice it, the master may not be able to practice it. For example, my master is practicing the Way of Thunder, your second senior brother is practicing the Wood Way, the Five Elements Way, and your third senior sister is practicing the Sword Way."
"Of course, the master will explain to you in detail the qi-moving cultivation formulas recorded in this book of Nine Turns of Pure Yang Gong, but the subsequent practice is entirely up to you to figure out and understand on your own."
...It turns out that you basically have to study by yourself...
When Shu Guan was thinking this, he heard Li Zhixia continue to say:
"Before I teach you the Nine Turns of Pure Yang Kung Fu, my master will first tell you what it means to practice Taoism."
"The so-called Taoist pursuit is to seek immortality. Only by realizing the deeper way of heaven and integrating one's body with the Tao can one obtain eternal life. As for the various Taoist magical powers, they are just derivatives of the pursuit of immortality, not the cultivation of Taoism. fundamental."
"But after practicing, people of my generation will eventually transcend the world and gain all kinds of powerful powers, no longer the same as ordinary mortals."
"As for the powerful source, firstly, during the years of practice, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is introduced into the body and infiltrates the physical body, so that the body of us practitioners continues to change. However, due to the different techniques we practice, this change also depends on the person. On the other hand, in the previous Yuan Hui, there were some techniques that specifically tempered the physical body, which were enough to allow practitioners who practiced those techniques to conquer mountains and seas with just their physical bodies."
"But what really makes us practitioners become more powerful than ordinary people are mainly various Taoist techniques. The essence of Taoist techniques is to use the spiritual energy in the body as a guide and rely on the Taoist meaning of the Tao we cultivate to guide the world. With his aura, he can do all sorts of incredible things.”
"The higher the practitioner's Taoist realm and the more Taoist ideas he understands, the more powerful the Taoist techniques will be."
Shu Guan listened carefully. What Master Li Zhixia was saying now was all common sense in practice, and for a new practitioner like him, he naturally needed to understand it in advance.
Well, it is equivalent to saying that "Tao" is the key, the key to levering the power between heaven and earth.
Listen, think, and make your own insights.
At this time, Li Zhixia paused for a moment, then asked Shuguan a question.
"When you chose the path yesterday, did you understand your Taoist heart?"
Daoxin?
What Taoist mind?
Shu Guan was a little confused. Yesterday, he looked through his memories in his Book of Wisdom Eyes for a long time, and then twelve doorways appeared on the wall. Other than that, he didn't seem to see anything else.
Li Zhixia continued to talk.
"As long as you understand your own Taoist heart, you don't need to tell me about it, but you have to remember that this Taoist heart is the most important thing on your future path to immortality. On the way to seek Taoism, you must not forget your original intention."
Is it so important?
But I don’t know what my Taoist heart is at all!
"Master, what will happen if you forget?"
Shu Guan asked with concern.
"Obsessed."
"This is the real reason why we practitioners go crazy."
"The great road is so high and difficult to predict. Only by being in harmony with our own Tao heart can we truly become our own Tao and drive the power of Tao."
"And once you forget your Taoist heart and do things that go against your own Tao, you will become obsessed."
"Ordinary people who do things against their will may just blame themselves, but those who practice Taoism often go crazy when they do something against their will."
"It's just that there are too many temptations on the way to practice, especially when one has mastered power far beyond ordinary people. Very few people can always maintain their original intention. Forty-five out of ten people who practice Taoism will not be able to escape the disaster of being possessed by fire. Lao Qi, yesterday I The teacher said that the path of spiritual practice is extremely dangerous, but in fact, the teacher has not explained it clearly."
"The biggest danger on the road to spiritual cultivation comes from oneself, from whether one can always stick to one's Taoist heart on the long road to immortality."
"My great-uncle, Qixia Master, five hundred years ago, and those fellow disciples who were my masters at that time, all because their Taoist hearts were shaken, they finally went crazy and became possessed, and their bodies and Taoism disappeared."
So, Shu Guan finally understood the true meaning of being possessed.
Then his face turned slightly pale, and he didn't even know what his Taoist heart was. Does that mean that he would go crazy at any time in the future?
Before coming to Shanjinguan to worship as a disciple this time, Shuguan had wondered why there were so many hidden practitioners in the world. The world had not yet been brought into chaos by practitioners. Is there some force restraining those practitioners? By.
Now Shu Guan finally understood what was restraining him.
One is the power left behind by the original heaven like Shan Ji Guan.
Another thing is the power of the practitioner's own Taoist heart. The fear of going crazy makes most practitioners dare not mess around.
For example, a figure like Fifth Senior Brother An Zichun, with his divination skills, would be able to get the glory and wealth at his fingertips in ordinary people's society, but doing so might go against his original Taoist aspirations.
As Li Zhixia explained, Shu Guan slowly began to have a clearer understanding of the world of practitioners.
Finally, Li Zhixia finally picked up the book of Nine Turns Pure Eye Technique and solemnly said to Shu Guan:
"This Nine-turn Pure Yang Technique, if it is based on the previous grades, is a true heavenly immortal technique. It can not only temper the body, but also cultivate spiritual energy. With this foundation, it can make your Dao foundation deep enough. The opportunity to achieve the realm of immortality, of course, means that this opportunity only existed before the Seventh Yuanhui."
"Okay, my teacher will now officially explain to you the formula for this exercise."
