Although Mount Emei in Jiazhou is not as famous as the Five Mountains, the Miejie Shitai in The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slaying has made countless people know about Mount Emei. In fact, Mount Emei is famous throughout China because of its beauty. "Emei County Chronicles" says: "The clouds are emerald, and the hair on the temples is like a moth's eyebrows. They are thin and long, beautiful and gorgeous, so it is named Mount Emei."
Mount Emei has many historic sites and a large number of Buddhist temples. Among them are Baoguo Temple, Fuhu Temple, Xixiang Pool, Longmen Cave, etc., which are famous Buddhist holy places in China. Legend has it that Mount Emei is the dojo of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. However, the Emeishan Cave in Jiazhou is also one of the thirty-six caves in Taoist legend. It can be said that Jiazhou alone has gathered countless legends of supernatural beings from Taoism and Buddhism in China.
Yiran was born here and grew up here.
He has worked hard since he was a child and has a strong interest in all kinds of books. The difficult problems in each subject are not a problem, and there is no difficulty in drawing inferences from one example to another.
As he grew older, the teacher who taught Yiran summed up his evaluation of him in eight words: he is modest and childish, very wise but almost a demon.
Only Yiran knew that he was not worthy of being a teacher. There was no difference between him and his peers from the time he could remember. The only difference was that he liked to read. Whether it is poems, songs, stories about strange stories or local county annals, they are all the objects of interest to him.
Therefore, Yiran never leaves his hand with a Xinhua dictionary. Maybe some people don't know as many words in their lives as Yiran did when he was fifteen.
In fact, Yiran knew very well that his change started when he picked up a copy of "Tao Zang".
In places like Mount Emei where Taoist and Buddhist beliefs are prevalent, this kind of miscellaneous books can be said to be commonplace. Various antique markets and street vendors will sell such books.
Normally, when others give this kind of book to themselves, they will doubt whether they have met a liar, just like a child in Kung Fu meets a beggar who sells him the Eighteen Palms of Subduing the Dragon. No one will believe that book of Eighteen Subduing the Dragon. Palm Palm Club is a real martial arts secret book.
Although young people all have martial arts dreams, society will only continue to beat this dream until it is turned into ashes.
Yiran encountered the "Tao Zang" because he was wandering in the old book market. Coming from a not-so-rich family, the second-hand market is the best shopping paradise for my family.
No matter how new the books here are, they are all discounted by at least 40%. Most of the books Yi Ran usually reads come from here.
Yi Ran clearly remembers: that day in a store selling second-hand books, the bookstore that usually sold 50% off the retail price started selling books by the pound. Although several stores next door also engage in this kind of routine, waste paper is priced at 50 cents per catty, and used books are sold for 5 cents per catty, which seems to be a good deal. The actual final price is mostly higher than 50% off.
But this store packs a bunch of various books and sells them by the pound at a price as low as half of other stores, which has attracted the attention of many people. If it weren't for the variety of books, they might have been sold out long ago. But even so, there are still many people choosing their favorite pile.
However, no one would read the stack of books that Yiran chose. This was because the stack of books was half a meter thick, and a copy of "Tao Zang" only occupied 20 centimeters. The "gilt" dazzling but fluorescent patinated cover is extremely exaggerated at first glance. The book is very heavy to hold, and the cold touch gives the whole book a strange texture. I flipped through a few pages, and the content was bizarre. It's either about cultivating immortals and becoming gods or refining elixirs and weapons. Only those lifelike illustrations can be a feast for the eyes.
When I picked up the book, I knew why no one was interested. This book is too heavy. For those who came here to buy it, the cover and its weight distracted everyone's interest.
But Yi Ran was different. Although he couldn't help laughing at the talk about cultivation, he also aroused strong interest when he read about unheard of creatures.
Children are interested in cool things that they have never seen before. The lifelike illustrations have only one word in Yiran's eyes, handsome! very handsome!
The tiger with wings is more powerful than the tiger in the zoo at first glance, and the turtle with eight tails is described as being more than thirty feet tall. Hey, interesting.
Looking at the descriptions of various plants, Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng seem to be a bit real. But when I read the introduction carefully, I was stunned on the spot.
Forget about the 100-year-old Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng. Anyway, the artificially cultivated Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng are very expensive, and they have to be sold by the gram!
As for the blue-blooded Ganoderma lucidum and the amethyst ginseng, they sounded very bluffing, and the detailed illustrations made Yiran feel that the author had really seen such things.
I wanted to see who compiled this book and which publisher it was, but I couldn't find anything. It was a complete "three-no" product.
Later, there were alchemy, weapon refining, various calligraphy secrets, Five Elements Bagua, etc., which made Yiran even more stunned. If there really is such a thing as cultivation in this world, then this is really a big encyclopedia. It’s just that few Chinese people in the new century believe in religion, let alone this kind of practice that appears in novels.
But seeing those extremely handsome animals, Yiran was really moved. In the end, I dragged my parents to buy this stack of books. It weighed more than 40 kilograms, and just one copy of "Tao Zang" weighed more than ten kilograms.
Yiran's parents also know that their children like to read books, and all kinds of books are welcome. Although a bunch of books are a bit expensive, and there is also a strange book weighing more than ten pounds, but compared with others of the same age, they can hold their mobile phones all day long. Playing, but I don’t know how much better it is.
Later, in school, I heard my classmates talk about how powerful they were by playing mobile games and what magical weapons they had obtained, such as machine guns and cannons. Yiran can't help but think of all kinds of creatures in the book.
A year later, I had finished reading all the books I bought on the second-hand market, leaving only "Tao Zang" that I had not yet read.
Open the Taoist canon and practice the first lesson, breathing in and out. Tuna says it is as simple as adjusting your breathing and calming your mind.
One day, Yiran suddenly encountered a problem and couldn't figure it out. When she was upset, she remembered that the book said that breathing can calm the mind.
When treating a dead horse as a living horse, Yiran tried to breathe. Although I still didn’t figure out the last question, my body and mind did become very relaxed when I breathed out.
So whenever she feels irritable, Yiran will adjust her state through breathing and breathing. It wasn't until a month later that Yiran suddenly found that her thinking on the topic had become extremely clear, and she could even draw inferences from one example. Yiran was ten years old that year and was only in the third grade of elementary school.
As for entering concentration after breathing in and out, Yi Ran was completely unable to do so.
The book records that you need to sit cross-legged, calm your mind through breathing, and guide the true energy in the body to circulate around the meridians in the body to enter concentration.
The meridians diagram of the human body is clearly remembered in my mind, but what is the process of guiding the movement of Qi?
Yiran only tried it once, sitting cross-legged for more than half an hour until her calves became numb, but she didn't feel any breath.
Then he laughed at himself, saying that he had heard of vomiting and nourishing his body to adjust his state. As for practicing meditation, I don't know if the eminent monks in the temple can do it, but I have heard that the salaries of these eminent monks are very high.
Ever since he breathed and felt its effects at the age of eight, it has become a habit for Yiran. He can calm his mind through breathing at any time.
Also starting from this year, his grades have made great progress. He was originally only average in grades, but he has become top-notch in both Chinese and English. He has an almost photographic memory in Chinese and English.
As long as his grades are good, Yiran's parents don't care if he goes to see all kinds of strange stories. For them, as long as his grades stay like this. In the future, if you get into a good university and find a good job, you will no longer have to envy others for their good food and use, and you will be able to live a good life with no worries about food and clothing.
In the blink of an eye, seven years passed, and Yiran was already fifteen years old and about to enter high school. In the past seven years, Yiran's grades have always been among the best, and it can be said that he has always been in key high schools. Daozang, which has been with me for many years and has been read countless times and has the entire content firmly in my mind, has not been read for a long time. The gilt fluorescent cover seems to have become a little dull, and the weight seems to be lighter.
This year, Yi Ran accidentally felt that after breathing for a long time, there would be a slight flow of heat in the Dantian below the navel. I encountered a difficult problem and suddenly discovered it through breathing and calming down for a while, with my mind shaking.
The content about entering samadhi suddenly appeared in Yiran's mind, and every sentence and every word was clearly visible. Immediately sit cross-legged and let your mind guide the flow of Qi through the instructions recorded in the book. That is to say, try to use your own thoughts to control the movement of the hot air in the meridians. Although the ball of heat was like a toddler, almost uncontrollable, moving extremely slowly or even intermittently.
But Yi Ran, who discovered the new world, was not discouraged and controlled the heat step by step.
I don't know how long it took, but after Yiran finally guided the hot air to complete a circle in the meridians that he had memorized, he was suddenly shocked. The hot air instantly connected head to tail to form a large circle. In the words of "Tao Zang", it means that the true energy circulates to form the heaven and earth, which is for the purpose of refining the energy.
From then on, Yi Ran was shocked to discover that there were cultivators in the world, and he had already taken the first step.
The world suddenly became clear to him.
But Yiran suddenly remembered that it was recorded in the book that ordinary people could enter meditation and refine their Qi within a few months, which was really shocking.
After that, Yiran would climb Mount Emei every weekend. One is to exercise, the other is to try his luck to see if he can find any more records about cultivating immortals, and the most important thing is that the feeling on the mountain makes Yiran very comfortable. It is easier to enter a state of concentration, and it is easier to guide the flow of Qi with the mind. As a result, climbing mountains every week became Yiran’s favorite sport.
This kind of life has been going on for another seven years. The biggest gain of these seven years is that I have been admitted to the number one university in Jiazhou and will graduate with honors. The life my parents want me to live is right in front of me.
Winter is over and summer has not yet arrived. May is the best time to visit the famous mountains and rivers. The weather is beautiful and the weather is beautiful on Mount Emei. There are countless tourists. Yi Ran, who is full of energy and beaming with youth, is also one of them.
At first glance, Yiran is not the kind of fitness guru with explosive muscles. But carrying a big bag, he kept surpassing the climbing crowd and worked hard to reach the top. This mountain road has been traveled thousands of times, with a maximum altitude of more than 3,000 meters. It may be a challenge for other tourists, but for Yiran, it is a familiar road.
Most people come here to take selfies and check in, but Yiran comes here because she can feel nature more quietly.
Although it is said in "Tao Zang" that I can't use any of the techniques that can be used by practicing Qi, the biggest benefit that entering samadhi brings to me is that my body becomes stronger and my thinking becomes clearer. After all, this society needs talents with high IQs. , rather than a god who can call the wind and rain.
I chose an off-the-beaten-path peach forest, took out the book "Tao Zang" that I hadn't read for a long time, but each word and illustration were engraved in my mind, and I read it gently.
Except for the fact that the fluorescence on the cover of this book has dimmed, the slightly yellowed pages have not changed at all. When I think about the changes this book has brought to me, I can't help but sigh.
I persisted in breathing for seven years, and entered samadhi for another seven years. Although he has never seen any other strange beasts, heavenly materials or earthly treasures, he can't use any spells. But it does make my mind clear, and I have gained enough, and I should be satisfied.
Sitting cross-legged on the stone, put Daozang on your legs and breathe gently.
Running his zhenqi around the sky, Yiran suddenly felt horrified, and a horrified expression appeared on his face. The true energy that I was used to always looming suddenly suddenly surged like a flood, constantly washing away the meridians.
The swelling and cracking of the meridians made Yiran's face muscles twitch in pain, and at the same time, endless waves poured into his body from his Dantian.
Yiran suddenly discovered that the source of the change in the true energy was the Daozang on his legs. The wisps of breath emanated from the book, and after entering the Dantian, it instantly turned into a flood that wanted to destroy the world.
It was at this moment that Mount Emei was covered with dark clouds, thunder and lightning, and the thick dark clouds brought endless depression.
The tourists who were taking selfies a second ago suddenly changed their expressions and hurriedly found a place to take shelter from the rain. The weather forecast is clearly sunny, but the sudden thunder and lightning brings as much distress to tourists as heavy dark clouds.
Tourists with a good attitude took pictures of the lightning and thunder scene with their mobile phones, and wrote a joke, "Who is the Taoist who is going to escape the tribulation here?"
The moment Yi Ran noticed the dark clouds above his head, he felt that the dark clouds and thunder and lightning were coming towards him. This was the Foundation-Building Thunder Tribulation recorded in the book.
It’s just that the book states that the difficulty of this lightning disaster is relatively low, and those who are proficient in magic and have magic weapons can easily survive it.
However, I have nothing and know nothing. Even though I insisted on entering samadhi, I never felt that I had made much progress in my cultivation. I still didn't know that I was still tens of thousands of miles away from building the foundation.
But why is it suddenly necessary to build a foundation?
This seems not to be a surprise, but to be frightened.
In the eyes of all the tourists, a spherical lightning flashed across the sky and landed nearby. Lightning swept across the woods, and the peach trees that had grown for who knows how many years exploded instantly. Some fragments continued to be broken down by the lightning, and some were shot out. Towards the tourists in the distance and towards Yiran who is close at hand.
Seeing the wood fragments flying towards them, the tourists all tried their best to dodge, but many people were still hit, and the scene was filled with tragedy.
At this moment, some sharp-eyed people discovered that there seemed to be a figure in the peach forest that was struck by lightning. Only in this disaster. No matter whether it is intentional or not, there is no way to save that person.
At this moment, Yiran looked helplessly down the mountain. There were his close relatives over there. He thought that the benefits of cultivation would be enough to make him far better than ordinary people and lead a prosperous life, not to mention becoming a god.
I just didn't expect that before my parents could live a good life, I would have to take the first step. There were countless scratches on his body caused by sawdust, and his lower abdomen was pierced by a nearly thirty centimeter piece of peach wood. My mind gradually became heavy and no longer as alert as usual.
The world gradually became darker, and there was endless regret in my heart. I regretted that I had no time to repay my parents, and I didn't even have the chance to say I was sorry.
At dawn, the breeze blew the dark clouds away, and the lightning came and went faster, but this sudden disaster caused huge damage to the scenic spot.
The emergency rescue team quickly arrived at the scene and rescued the injured.
In subsequent reports, a red thunderstorm disaster occurred on Mount Emei, and rolling mines occurred due to the influence of the magnetic field. It caused serious damage to the historical buildings and natural environment of Mount Emei. At the same time, one person was missing at the scene, dozens of people were seriously injured, and countless people were frightened.
Yiran's parents knew about his habit of climbing Mount Emei every week. When they learned that the only missing person was their child, they were so distraught that their hair turned gray overnight.
He was said to be missing, but in fact he was dead, and his body was not found! The tragedy of the white-haired man giving away the black-haired man has happened again. The once humble child in the eyes of countless teachers and future geniuses died because of natural disasters!
I don't know how long it took, but Yiran regained consciousness and was surprised to find that he was not dead. The peach tree that was originally inserted into his lower abdomen fell to his feet, and he felt as if he was in another world.
He reluctantly opened his eyes and looked around, but first he found that he had shrunk, going from twenty-five to eight years old.
That is to say, because the body becomes smaller, the peach wood originally inserted into the lower abdomen will fall aside.
Although this reason is far-fetched, it is the only explanation Yi Ran can think of.
Just when Yiran didn't have any strength to get up, a scene appeared that made Yiran's pupils suddenly shrink.
A white-haired old man wearing a robe and holding a stick flew from a distance.
That’s right, it flew here!
Unlike a bird that relies on its own wings to fly, the old man is more like standing on something, which is carrying him from far to near.
I wanted to think about something more, but suddenly my mind felt heavy. In endless shock and doubt, my eyes were so heavy that I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
