Ding Kun was shocked and said: "Young Master, even if you are invincible, it is impossible for you to act against nature."
Mr. Zhang Guo said from the side: "God is so good at life, how could he deliberately block the waterway and make the world suffer? If you ask me, let me give it a try."
Mr. Zhang Guo is very popular in the capital, and they all regard him as a god-like figure. Ding Kun also respects him very much. He crossed his hands and said to Mr. Zhang Guo: "What you taught me is that people cannot use their strength in water." At that time, Grand Administrator Li and Xianggong Wei both thought of many solutions, but in the end they all failed. Young Master is able to counter a hundred with one, can he really solve a problem that thousands of river workers cannot solve?"
Jiang Shuo said: "I'm not sure now, but I always have to go to the scene to take a look. Maybe there is a way?"
After all, it was difficult for Ding Kun to disobey the young master, and it would take time to repair the winch and reorganize Qianfu's team. He made up his mind and said to Jiang Shuo, "Okay! I will personally send the young master there."
The river was surging, and Ding Kun was worried about sending someone else to escort him. He personally paddled and drove Jiang Shuo in a small boat to the Xinmen Waterway, the mainstay. Mr. Zhang Guo suddenly said: "I'll go take a look too." Without waiting for Ding Kun's reply, , jumped into the boat by himself.
Ding Kun's boatmanship skills are really impressive. He waved his oars and crossed the water. In a short time, he arrived between the main pillar and Zhanggong Island. When he looked at the water from a distance, he could only see the rolling waves. When he looked closer, he saw the formation of the current. There are several turbulent flows, and the looming stones can be vaguely seen in the center of the whirlpool. It must be the huge stone that Ding Kun said fell into the river from the main pillar mountain.
Ding Kun continued to move forward and sailed the boat into a large whirlpool. He parked the boat in a clever position so that the boat was just outside the whirlpool. In this way, he only needed to paddle twice occasionally to keep the boat spinning around the whirlpool. , there is no need to paddle hard all the time.
Jiang Shuo took off his outer robe, removed his shoes and socks, rolled up his trousers and said, "I'll go into the water and have a look."
Ding Kun hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Young master, no! The river is very fast. If you get down here, you won't be able to get up."
Mr. Zhang Guo said with a smile: "If you tie a rope around his waist, aren't you afraid that he will be washed away by the water?"
Jiang Shuo said, "Okay, let's do it like this." Then he found the rope on the boat.
Ding Kun said: "It's too dangerous after all. There's too much sediment in the river. What can you do if you can't see anything?"
Mr. Zhang Guo pointed with his hand and said, "Can you jump onto the boulder in the water? I think the top of the rock is only an inch away from the water."
Ding Kun said: "Young master, don't be careless. The peach blossom flood has begun, and the water level rises very fast in one day..."
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Shuo jumped out of the boat and landed on the boulder in the river. When he stepped on the boulder, the boulder suddenly rolled upstream strangely. Jiang Shuo lost his balance and almost fell into the water. .
Ding Kun shouted: "Young Master, come back quickly! There is indeed something weird about this pillar stone!"
Jiang Shuo, however, jumped back to the boat unharmed and said to Ding Kun: "As expected, the boulder walked back by itself, not some strange force."
Ding Kun said: "I've only heard that things fall into the water and are swept downstream by the current. How can there be any reason for them to go upstream instead?"
Jiang Shuo said: "This is true for ordinary things, but it is different for particularly heavy things when the current cannot carry them. I have heard a story that one year during the Han Dynasty, the river rose so much that the iron cables of the pontoon bridge were tied to the Mengjin Ferry. Tienniu was involved in the river. After the water receded, people fished down the river for several months without seeing Tieniu. Later, under the guidance of an old river worker, Tieniu was found twenty miles upstream."
Ding Kun shook his head and said: "A certain family has been boatmen for generations, but they have never heard of this story. Why did Tieniu go upriver?"
Jiang Shuo said: "Because Tieniu was too heavy, the river water could not wash it away. Instead, it washed away the sediment behind Tieniu. The river bed was silted and quite soft, so the water quickly rushed out behind Tieniu. A big pit, the iron bull fell into the pit, and the water emptied out the sand behind it, so it rolled and fell all the way back until it was twenty miles away." This story was actually told by Li Zhuer on the Mengjin Floating Bridge that day. What he said was that he naturally thought of this story when he heard Ding Kun talk about the giant boulder moving upstream today. When he stepped on the boulder, he found that the boulder did not move backwards, but rolled backwards. He knew that the matter with Tieniu was indeed the same. Same reason.
Mr. Zhang Guo said from the side
: "Well, it is indeed true. I saw it with my own eyes. It happened in the first year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty."
Ding Kun thought to himself: It was more than 800 years ago in the first year of Yuanshou. Could it be that Mr. Zhang Guo is really an immortal immortal? Jiang Shuo knew that Mr. Zhang Guo had a humorous personality, and he didn't know which of his words were true or which. The sentence was false, so he just smiled and said nothing.
Ding Kun asked: "Even if we know the reason why the boulder is moving up, we still can't solve the problem at hand. Can we wait for the boulder to climb over the Xinmen waterway before ships can pass it?"
Jiang Shuo said: "Let me try to see if I can break the boulder. As long as the boulder is broken into small pieces that can be pushed by the water flow, it will be washed downstream, and there is no need to worry about blocking the waterway.
Ding Kun thought to himself: Everyone knows this truth, but the water here is more than ten feet deep. It seems that the size of this stone must also be ten feet. It weighs no less than a thousand pounds, and it is in the water. How easy is it to break it?
Jiang Shuo jumped onto the boulder again. This time the boulder had fallen into the pit, and a new cavity had not yet been formed, so the boulder did not move at all. Jiang Shuo slapped the boulder in the water with his palm, but once his hand entered the water, he felt most of the All the strength was dissipated by the river water, and there was no reaction at all when he hit the boulder. Not to mention that the boulder was not broken, and even his own palms did not feel pain. It was obvious that he had not exerted any strength.
Jiang Shuo tried this a few more times, but found that the harder he waved his palm, the stronger the force of the water's throw back, which only made his palm hurt, but did no harm to the boulder.
Jiang Shuo thought that he was going to return in vain today. He was sweating profusely when Mr. Zhang Guo suddenly jumped out of the boat and landed on the same rock as Jiang Shuo. He said, "Boy, are you like this?" You can’t break a stone.”
Jiang Shuo nodded and said, "Then I'll go find a chisel and try it..."
Seeing Jiang Shuo turning around and about to leave, Mr. Zhang Guo grabbed him and said with a smile: "Slow down, slow down...I heard that hundreds of stonemasons can't cut through this huge stone in the water. You just have some stupid strength, so what?" Can you break a boulder with just one chisel?"
Jiang Shuo said, "What should we do? Are we just helpless?"
Mr. Zhang Guo said: "Is it in vain that you, my boy, have practiced the Jade Jue Magic Kung Fu to the eighth level, and you can only use some outer sect skills?"
Jiang Shuo felt like a flash of lightning flashed through his heart. He looked at Mr. Zhang Guo in surprise and said, "Sir, have you ever entered the Jijin Cave?"
Mr. Zhang Guo laughed loudly and said, "This is the place where the great masters of all ages have practiced in Maoshan. Are you really a fairy cave that no one knows about?"
Jiang Shuo said confusedly: "But why doesn't Mr. Zhenyin know?"
Mr. Zhang Guo said: "Although Li Hanguang was a disciple of Sima Chengzhen, he taught Taoism at Longxing Temple in Luoyang and practiced Taoism in Songshan Mountain for 20 years. Later, Jin Shengsanlang asked him to preside over the Balcony Temple until he was old. At that time, Li Hanguang saw that Maoshan Taoism was gradually declining and its classics were scattered, so he requested an order to return to the ancestral court of Maoshan and revived Maoshan Taoism. Therefore, although Li Hanguang's Taoism was correct, his martial arts was not authentically inherited from Maoshan."
Jiang Shuo said: "I see, but no one in Maoshan has inherited the skills of Jade Jue and Shenshu?"
Mr. Zhang Guo blew his beard and glared, saying: "Why is there no successor? Didn't you learn it? The great master before Sima Chengzhen once said that God will find someone to pass on the magical skills contained in Jijin Cave. If the talent is not enough, If people learn it, it will only increase their troubles, so it is better to just let it happen."
Jiang Shuo recalled that when Li Hanguang heard that he had practiced the magical skills in Jijin Cave, he not only did not blame him, but also asked him to keep it a secret and not tell anyone. It came to mind that Mr. Zhenyin did not know anything about Jijin Cave, but that he had a very high level of Taoism. How could he resist the temptation of this peerless magical skill? He didn't even want to know how to enter Jijin Cave.
Jiang Shuo sincerely praised: "I see, Mr. Zhenyin is indeed a great master... But I accidentally destroyed the Jijin Gate, so future generations can't enter. What should I do?" He was always thinking about the Jijin Cave Gate. Being destroyed, I couldn't help but sigh again.
Mr. Zhang Guo said: "Boy, you don't have to worry at all. Those who are blessed in the future will naturally have a way to enter. When the fate comes, even the underground palace hidden under the Nine Springs will be revealed due to the earthquake. What do you have to worry about? ?」
Jiang Shuo nodded silently, and then asked Mr. Zhang Guo: "Does the Jade Jue Divine Skill actually have the ability to break rocks underwater?" With the Jade Jue and Shen Shu Kung Fu, Jiang Shuo was already turning over and over.
I've memorized it like a proverb, but I can't recall any mention of this kind of kung fu in the sutra.
Seeing him in a daze, Mr. Zhang Guo cursed, "I thought you were so smart that you could practice Jade Art to such a high level, but I didn't expect you to be an idiot."
I think the last time Mr. Zhang Guo asked Jiang Shuo to push him off the donkey was to measure Jiang Shuo's kung fu, so at first Jiang Shuo couldn't push him down. It wasn't until he used the jade technique that he suddenly flew out. Now that I think about it, don’t the Kung Fu and the Jade Jue Magic Kung Fu come from the same source?
He hurriedly crossed his hands and said, "Please teach me how to break the boulder, sir, so that it can benefit the boatmen and Brother Qianfu."
Mr. Zhang Guo said: "Since you have learned the Jade Art, you should know the way of "controlling Qi with spirit and uniting form and spirit" - being in harmony with Dao can lift heaven and earth, grasp yin and yang, spur wind and thunder, and drive away gods and ghosts. The carriage rests on the flowing clouds, looking forward to the platform of Wenchang. "
Jiang Shuo wondered: "Doesn't the unity of form and spirit mean the unity of inside and outside?"
Mr. Zhang Guo shook his head and said: "Boy, you are confused. If the inside and outside are just one, how can you raise heaven and earth and drive away gods and ghosts?"
Jiang Shuo thought to himself: Isn't this just a metaphor? It is impossible for humans to really drive away ghosts and gods.
Seeing Jiang Shuo's confusion, Mr. Zhang Guo knocked him on the head and said, "Young man, you haven't figured it out yet. Your body is "form", isn't the stone "form"? If you have "qi", shouldn't the stone be the same? "Qi"? It is said that Qi generates all things. If Qi can connect oneself with external objects, what is the difference between a stone and tofu? What is the difference between a body as solid as gold and iron and a body of flesh and blood?"
Jiang Shuo was enlightened by this blow, and his heart suddenly became clear. He squatted down in the water, stretched out his hand to touch the boulder in the water, closed his eyes, and felt all kinds of energy from heaven and earth pouring in, like the majestic excitement of the river. The Qi has the condensed and restrained Qi of the huge rocks, and the vigorous Qi of the trees on both sides of the strait. When he opened his eyes, he seemed to see a faint halo of light emerging on the water and the mountains and forests. This was the energy of all things in the world emitting!
Jiang Shuo closed his eyes again and pressed his hand on the boulder. The energy in his palm resonated with the energy of the boulder. The boulder suddenly let out a roar from within, and then completely collapsed!
