In the pure silver hall, there is a white jade cloud bed, with a man sitting on it with his back to the door. He is wearing a moon-white gown with snow falling in the sky. His hair is full of silver, tied up with a silver crown with a coiled dragon.
Liang Xingyang walked over and walked around to look at the man. He was a very handsome young man with sharp eyebrows and his eyes closed, motionless.
This man had no breathing, no heartbeat, and naturally no pulse.
Next to it is a book with a blue silk cover, embroidered with the four characters "Heavenly Sword Secret Book". It has a fierce momentum and a faint murderous aura.
The book was opening to the "Elixir Formation" volume, and Liang Xingyang picked it up and flipped through it.
This "Secret Book of Heavenly Sword" is thicker than the "Xuan Qiong Zhen Jing". It is like a big dictionary. It is divided into ten volumes, and some of them talk about cultivation, starting from Qi refining, through foundation building, elixir formation, and golden elixir condensation. Once completed, everything is ready to conceive the Nascent Soul.
There are also those who talk about sword making, and they introduce at length various materials that can be used to make swords from all over the world. There are more than a thousand kinds of metals alone, as well as spiritual wood, jade, etc. There are also thirty-six sets of sword techniques, each set contains many moves. How to practice and how to apply each move is fully documented.
The rest includes alchemy, escape techniques, sword talismans, sword formations, etc. It is simply a big encyclopedia!
Relatively speaking, "Xuan Qiong Zhen Jing" is too concise and concise. It can be said that it is as precious as gold. Apart from the main cultivation techniques, sword refining techniques and some spells, there is nothing else.
Both books can only be cultivated up to Nascent Soul, while "The Secret Book of Heavenly Sword" focuses more on low-level parts. It covers everything from the two levels of Qi refining and foundation building. "Xuanqiong Zhenjing" prefers high-level parts. It writes in more detail about the golden elixir, Yuanying and other parts. The previous parts of refining Qi and building the foundation are often brushed aside.
In Liang Xingyang's view, the "Xuan Qiong Zhen Jing" is flawed. In addition to the "self-refining" part of his own three-yuan elixir method, after the golden elixir, there is also the "returning elixir" skill.
To be precise, the so-called inner elixir formed earlier is not the real golden elixir. In the three-yuan elixir method, the golden elixir is the final achievement. The golden elixir is indestructible and the elixir is immortal. But at this point, it is just that. When in the country, do as the Romans do and call them all.
Because of the skill of "returning the elixir", we can better nurture the Yuanying. When the Yuanying grows up, it will obtain the Yang God. The Yang God will shed its body, which is likened to a golden cicada taking off its shell, leaving behind a slough. The slough is different from the corpse, and the Shen When it gathers, it forms, and when it disperses, it forms Qi.
He looked through the "Secret Book of Heavenly Sword" and soon understood that this technique had more flaws than the "Xuan Qiong Sutra". Then he carefully observed the young Taoist priest on the cloud bed and found that he was not dead, but had entered. In a very deep state of concentration.
Taoist cultivation emphasizes the death of the human heart, the emergence of the heavenly mind, the death of the conscious spirit, and the emergence of the soul. The so-called death of the heart and the resurrection of the spirit.
This person's pulse has stopped, his fetal breath has reached the extreme, there is no heartbeat and pulse, his heart is dead, but his spirit has not come back to life. He is stuck in this half-dead state. He wants to go further, but his soul is not revealed. He wants to retreat, and his heart His consciousness has been lost, and the most terrible thing is that his consciousness is gone, he has no thoughts, and he doesn't even have the consciousness to live.
If no one takes care of him, over time, the body's energy will be exhausted, and he will die completely.
If someone pushes him with hands or tries to wake him up at this time, and he suddenly feels a noise from the extreme silence, his soul will be greatly shaken. It can range from mental disorder to madness or stupidity, or in severe cases, his soul will fall apart and become a vegetative state.
Liang Xingyang looked at him and said, "You are also lucky. If you met me, no one else would be able to save you!"
He jumped on the cloud bed, squatted in front of the man, pinched the magic formula with his left hand, and pointed the man's eyebrows with his right hand. He concentrated and used his energy to inject a stream of essence into the Niwan Palace, opening the passage. Later, the soul will be sent out to call the gods with the gods.
The exchange of spiritual consciousness, thousands of words, can only be carried out in one thought. In just a moment, the other party's body trembled slightly, and his heartbeat and pulse returned.
Liang Xingyang stopped the method, jumped back to the ground, and watched quietly.
The man's eyelids twitched and he opened his eyes. His eyes were filled with sparkles. He first looked at the situation in the rooms on the left and right. His eyes paused for a few seconds on the extinguished lamp, and then fell on Liang Xingyang.
His memory initially remained on the day the retreat began. After his mind was wiped out, he had no consciousness whatsoever, not even "my"
He had no consciousness and just "frozen". It wasn't until he saw a villain flying in from the Niwan Palace and slapped him on the head that he regained consciousness.
"You saved me." He used affirmative words.
Liang Xingyang smiled and nodded: "Yes, if it weren't for me, you would stay there until your energy is exhausted and your body decays and your soul disperses."
The man calmed down, got up and went to the ground, and bowed deeply to Liang Xingyang: "Thank you very much, fellow Taoist. I am a poor Taoist, but I don't know what I call you?"
"My name is Liang Tianbao, and my Taoist name is Xingyang."
"Fellow Daoist Liang." Xuan E said politely, "This is the retreat place of our sect. The house is simple. Fellow Taoist, you can follow me to the Tianjian Fort at the foot of the mountain to discuss it in detail."
The guest followed the host, and Liang Xingyang walked out with him. The top of his head was still green, covered by billowing black clouds.
Xuan E was startled: "Where did the demon come from? He used evil methods to cover my Taixiao Peak!" He stretched out his hand to make the secret and was about to do it.
"Wait! Wait!" Liang Xingyang quickly asked him to stop. He raised his hand and collected the two Xuanyin Beast Gathering Flags and returned them to the Qiankun Bag. "This is my magic weapon. I just entered the door in order to break the ban. I had no choice but to do so." And for that.”
Xuan E's face was confused, and he looked at Liang Xingyang again. From head to toe, he was full of Xuanmen's righteousness, and there was no evil at all. But the evil magic weapon just now made him a little frightened. He couldn't imagine that it was actually This was done by the seemingly innocent boy in front of me. ap.
But Liang Xingyang saved him, and he didn't say anything else. If Liang Xingyang had malicious intentions, he could have killed him by just waving his hand casually, and he could also draw out his essence and spirit to form an evil magic weapon...
When he arrived at the gate, Ye Gaochi saw him with a face full of disbelief. He rubbed his eyes vigorously and ran over to kowtow: "Master! Master, you are still alive! That's great! Wow...all the senior brothers and sisters are running away." Already..."
"What a mess! Where have your senior brothers and sisters gone? Where are they now? Forget it, you get up first and let's go downstairs to talk." He said to Liang Xingyang, "Fellow Taoist, let me show off."
After Liang Xingyang nodded in approval, he waved his sleeves and released a ray of silver light that enveloped the three of them and flew downwards at high speed.
He also used sword talismans, but they were much more advanced than Ye Gaochi and the others.
When he arrived at the Tianjian Castle below, he found that there was no one there. Xuan E was surprised and sighed when he learned that he had been in seclusion for two years. His feeling was that his seclusion was just a matter of closing and opening his eyes. He didn't want to think that things had passed outside. More than two years.
Liang Xingyang cast a spell in the air and summoned the Six Desire Gourd of Taiyin to fly back into his hand. The two of them took their seats respectively. Ye Gaochi stood and first told what had happened in the past two years since Xuan'e retreated, and then talked about Elder Shui. Tell them what they did when they arrived, how they went to ambush Liang Xingyang and were killed back, as well as what happened during the fight just now.
Xuan E frowned when he heard this. It turned out that he also had a junior brother, Xuan Feng. There was an enemy in the Tianjian Sect. He was the famous Ancestor You Zhai among the Four Evils in Bianshan. He practiced evil magic and was very powerful. In the past, his master was To suppress and beat him, since his master passed away, it took the combined efforts of the two brothers and the defensive formation of Tianjian Castle to drive him away.
Not long after Xuan E went into seclusion, Xuan Feng was poisoned by Ancestor You Zhai, and many of their disciples also died.
Because the Five Elements Sect had long ago asked Tianjian Sect to become a branch under the Five Elements Sect, the disciples of the Tianjian Sect went to the Five Elements Sect for help. The Five Elements Sect came forward to talk to the ancestor Youzhai, but the ancestor Youzhai was afraid, so he did not continue to kill them all. , and finally there were twelve disciples left.
"That old demon from Youzhai is too much of a bully." Xuan E said this calmly, with deep anger in his tone. Later, when he heard Elder Shui asking them to ambush Liang Xingyang, he added, "The Five Elements Sect is not good either. Thing! Taking advantage of you...if Fellow Daoist Liang hadn't shown mercy, you would have been killed by him long ago. The inheritance left by the Patriarch will eventually belong to his Five Elements Sect!"
He stood up again and solemnly expressed his gratitude to Liang Xingyang with Ye Gaochi. Then he hesitated for a moment, his cheeks suddenly turned red, and he asked Liang Xingyang embarrassedly: "Fellow Taoist, can you tell me how you woke me up? "
"It's very simple." Liang Xingyang told Xuan E the method just now.
After hearing this, Xuan E's face was full of
Unbelievable: "How is that possible?"
There are two major hurdles in their Tianjian Sect, one is when the inner elixir is to be formed, which is called the "first elixir tribulation", and the other is when the Nascent Soul is conceived, which is called the "new infant tribulation".
There are seven senior brothers in Xuan E's generation, five of whom have died in the First Dan Tribulation. There are nine people in his master's generation, known as the Nine Elders of Tianjian. Six have died in the First Dan Tribulation, and three have died in the New Infant Tribulation. . Even though the Heavenly Sword Sect has been inherited for more than 800 years, only two of its ancestors successfully cultivated the Nascent Soul and became immortals who could live forever. However, they also died in the catastrophe of 500 years.
They have also tried to be awakened by others in the past. Some became demented and stupid, and some died on the spot. None of them survived as they were, and they even severely injured the person who tried to awaken them. Therefore, they made a rule not to awaken them again. Just let the practitioners work hard and leave it to fate.
The method Liang Xingyang taught him was also tested by their ancestors, but it didn't work at all. As soon as the opponent's soul entered the Niwan Palace, he was startled, and the opponent's soul immediately dispersed, his soul flew up, and only a physical body remained.
Liang Xingyang said: "I read your "Heavenly Sword Secret Book", and there is no self-practice in it. First, after the soul leaves the body, all it sees is the illusion of the heavens, and it is impossible to see the truth from the false. When the opponent's soul comes, Here, the blind guides the blind, all in an illusion, intertwined with each other. The control of the mind of the two is not subtle enough, and the spiritual consciousness, priorities, and fire are all in one thought. No matter how strong or small it is, it will not work. , it must be just right and must be focused on.”
Xuan E blurted out: "What is self-refining?"
Liang Xingyang explained to him the meaning of self-refining skills. Xuan E was greatly inspired by what he heard. When Liang Xingyang finished speaking, he wanted to ask how to self-refining, but he suddenly stopped as he spoke, knowing such mysterious skills. It must be an undisclosed secret of every sect. He saved his life and gave me so many instructions. He was already being kind and righteous. If he asked about the specific steps, it would be a bit too much. It would be too shameless. .
But without asking, he felt itchy in his heart and was ready to make a move. Their Tianjian Sect has been inherited for so many years, and many of their ancestors have fallen to this point. If there is a cultivation method to make up for it, the Tianjian Sect can produce many more golden elixir masters. , even if it is not as good as the Baiyang Sect and other thousand-year-old sects, it can at least defeat the evil forces in Bianshan and shock the south of the Yangtze River!
He was feeling uncomfortable here, so Liang Xingyang continued: "Not only did you have defects when you formed the elixir, but you also had even greater defects when you conceived the Nascent Soul. There is no way to return the elixir, and you will definitely have a near-death life when you conceive the Nascent Soul."
"What? How to return elixirs?" Xuan E felt that his breathing was not smooth. "You have a way to survive the New Infant Tribulation?"
Liang Xingyang nodded: "Exactly, even if you can't get through it, at most you will lose some energy, and you can repair it in less than a year and just get over it again."
Xuan E looked at Liang Xingyang as if he were looking at some kind of rare treasure.
He hesitated, hesitated, and hesitated again, finally suppressing the impulse rising in his heart, and asked Ye Gaochi to get some food to entertain the guests. In fact, he was really hungry. After all, he couldn't help but sit down. After more than two years, most of the energy in my body has been consumed.
Ye Gaochi hurried out and soon got four dishes and two bottles of wine.
Xuan E said: "Fellow Taoist, let's try our unique brew of Taixiao Immortal Brew. It was created by the third ancestor. It is brewed with the thousand-year-old Panlong Immortal Peach from Leicheng City on the top of the mountain. Drinking it will help cleanse the yin residue in the body. Boost your vitality."
During the dinner, he asked about Liang Xingyang's origins, and Liang Xingyang also told him that his father died in office while serving as an official, his mother believed in a cult, he ran away from home at the age of seven, he refined a fairy sword at the age of eight, and so on.
After hearing this, Xuan E felt a lot relieved, especially when he heard Liang Xingyang talk about how he encountered disaster victims on the Huangting River and starved to death all over the ground. He learned the Ten Thousand Bones Return to Heart method from the White Bone Evil Ji Yan Wodan to collect the corpses of the victims.
Only then did he understand why Liang Xingyang himself seemed to be so pure and pure, but he possessed such an evil magic weapon.
He sighed: "I heard from Master that the magic weapons of evil and demons can affect people's minds the most. Many people are greedy for evil spells, which are easy to practice and quick, and are extremely sinister and powerful. They always think that they will not be affected by them and only use them. We are not harmed by it, but in fact it is subtle, and we indulge in it unknowingly. We have been dyed into darkness without realizing it, and we are warned not to touch it. Only people like you can truly practice these evil things. law but not being
It's really admirable to be stained at all. "
After listening to Liang Xingyang's story, he had had enough wine and food, confessed his crime and went to the other room, took a bath, changed into a sky blue clothes embroidered with white dragons, and changed his hair crown to a new one. He came back to Liang Xingyang and encouraged him. Having enough courage, he asked if he could be taught the "self-refining" technique if Tianjian Sect merged with Tianxin Sect.
The Tianjian Sect's skills have flaws, and generations of descendants have been trying to find ways to make up for them. Xuan E's practice has been the crystallization of the hard work and wisdom of all his predecessors, but it still doesn't work. If Liang Xingyang hadn't come, he would have sat there until he died. .
The Five Elements Sect came earlier and wanted Tianjian Sect to be included in the Five Elements Sect and become one of the five outer sects. He was negotiating with the Five Elements Sect and asked the Five Elements Sect to provide him with techniques to safely survive the First Pill Tribulation, even if the success rate was increased by 10%. Well, the Five Elements Sect was only willing to provide material support, but the Gong Law was not willing, so the two sides were in a stalemate, and they talked five times without success.
Although Liang Xingyang is young, he is his savior and has the means to solve the sect's eternal problems. He himself is the head of the Tianxin sect that was conferred by the imperial court. His Taixiao Peak has also become his residence. According to the laws of the Xia Dynasty, it has become a branch of the Tianxin Sect. He does not need to personally verify this matter. It can be seen from the destruction of the Dragon Saliva Valley by the Five Elements Sect.
Liang Xingyang said, "It would be better if the Tianjian Sect merged into the Tianxin Sect, but the name of master and disciple is still needed to pass on the law."
It is an established fact that Tianjian Sect merges with Tianxin Sect. Xuan E's exchange for this is equivalent to a white wolf with nothing.
He thinks that Xuan E is very good. There is only one person in the world who can "die".
People regard their own subjective consciousness as "I". The so-called "death of the heart" means the annihilation of subjective consciousness, which is equivalent to killing "I". This process is thousands of years difficult, and among a hundred thousand people, not one person can be picked out. Nowadays, it is not easy for Xuan E to achieve "death of the heart". He only needs to be taught and taught to practice his authentic Xuanmen skills.
Moreover, Xuan E's temperament was refined and elegant. He could clearly feel that Xuan E's heart was neither cold nor dry, strong on the outside and strong on the inside. He was both tough and adaptable. He was quite familiar with the sword nature of the Chunyang Fairy Sword and was suitable for sword refining.
When Xuan E heard that he would accept him as his disciple before he would teach the Dharma, he hesitated in his heart. If he didn't agree, he would also be Liang Xingyang's subordinate. Unless he refused to recognize the imperial title, if Liang Xingyang went to the capital to accuse him of rebellion, then Pull a group of people to encircle and suppress him. In the current state of Tianjian Sect, with two or three big cats and kittens, he is in danger of being destroyed. Even the Five Elements Sect can't help him.
The most important thing is that this is probably the only opportunity for the Tianjian Sect to make up for their skills in thousands of years. Once missed, it may never happen again. At least it will be difficult for him in this life. He has not yet been able to cultivate the golden elixir, but San Jiazi lifespan, and then they will die of old age...
In fact, when he was taking a shower just now, he had already thought about the possibility of becoming a disciple. Although Liang Xingyang was young, he was still the leader of a sect.
"If I become a disciple of you, I will naturally abide by my duties as a disciple and only lead the art of casting. I hope you will not be biased. You are the same as your other disciples and can teach me the method of returning elixirs in the future. .”
Liang Xingyang nodded: "That's natural."
Xuan E said, "Then I will prepare to officially become a disciple in three days. Do you want to find some of your colleagues to watch the ceremony?"
"No." Liang Xingyang waved his hand, "I don't have many comrades, and I don't care about ostentation. If you are willing, you can just become a disciple now."
Xuan E felt that it was too hasty and insisted on waiting until three days later. He personally packed up the Dingjian Pavilion at the back for Liang Xingyang to live in: "This is where the master lived when he was alive. It will be used as your residence from now on."
"You will let me live in your former teacher's yard?"
Xuan E sighed: "When my master was alive, his biggest wish was to supplement his skills so that he could produce a few immortals who would attain the Nascent Soul and become immortals. Unfortunately... I will never forget that my master finally went to the thunder. The look in my eyes when I was in seclusion in the city, now that you are here, you have fulfilled my master’s lifelong wish.”
Liang Xingyang stopped being polite and moved into Dingjiang Pavilion. He did not wait here for three days. Instead, he returned to Feixiao Peak Xuanqiong Cave and took Liang Lingbao and Xia Cunxu over. If the Jianghu colleagues were not looking for them, his family still had to join in. Let’s recognize each other together.
Hearing that his brother was taking on another apprentice and a grandson, Liang Lingbao was very unhappy. He rolled his eyes and looked at Xuan E and Ye Gaochi with full hostility.
Xuan E felt confused and thought to himself: Why does this young master hate me so much? I haven't offended him either.
In the blink of an eye, three days later, in Tianjian Palace, Xuan E formally kowtowed to Liang Xingyang, recognized his master, worshiped Liang Lingbao as his uncle, and then worshiped Xia Cunxu as his senior brother. Ye Gaochi followed, calling him master, uncle, and uncle.
After the apprenticeship banquet, in the sunny afternoon, Liang Xingyang formally taught the Dharma for the first time in Tianjian Palace. He told several disciples word for word the method of cultivating the mind and refining the self. Corresponding to the foundation, building the foundation has three levels and nine layers of skills, and refining the self also has it.
In the past, he taught people, such as the thirty-six children rescued from the Golden Lantern Sect, all the techniques of mind-controlling. He never taught it to others later, and he never taught Liang Lingbao and Xia Cunxu as carefully as he does today.
When Xuan E heard it from the front, he thought it was nothing. It was just focusing on one place, concentrating and fixing his mind. The further he got to the back, the more he felt it made perfect sense.
It is easy to understand the truth of mind training. Once the window paper is pierced, the most difficult thing is to practice it and start from every thought.
Liang Xingyang lectured for several days, finishing the exercise of self-discipline in one go and teaching everyone to practice it separately: "Refining the mind cannot be completed overnight, but needs to be polished from time to time. Over time, it will develop into a habit. There is no need to force yourself, it will happen naturally." When your mind is as calm as water, your kung fu will be perfected."
Others just paid it off. After hearing this, Xuan E had a feeling of enlightenment. He suddenly realized the truth and returned to his palace to practice. He did not come out for seven days in a row. Ye Gaochi was worried and asked Liang Xingyang to go in and take a look. Liang Xingyang When I walked in and took a look, I was immediately happy: "Your master is about to form an elixir!"
Xuan E is only half a step away from cultivating the golden elixir. Because the human heart is hard to die, even if he keeps telling himself that his heart cannot be moved, he still tells himself that he is first and will not die.
In order to reach the state of mind-death, the Heavenly Sword Sect imagines using the fairy sword to cut off one's own soul, cutting oneself into seventeen or eighteen pieces in the void, and using the mind sword to completely eliminate oneself. Xuan E was even more ruthless. During the visualization, he cut himself into pieces, and then Ling Chi beheaded him. He repeated it thousands of times, and finally formed a conditioned reflex. When his mind moved, the sword of his mind came to kill him.
This set of techniques was created by the tenth generation ancestor. Once the people of the Tianjian Sect enter a state where the spirit of death is not alive, no one dares to escape into it and awaken the soul. If they awaken the opponent's Intention Sword to kill themselves, He was hit hard.
Liang Xingyang's meticulous control over his mind and consciousness did not touch his sword, but easily awakened him. This was also the reason why he was so shocked that he was willing to become a disciple. In his opinion, Liang Xingyang's Taoism was not only about techniques. A step above, but at least one level higher!
Seven days later, Xuan E came out of seclusion. His whole temperament and demeanor had undergone qualitative changes compared to before. He was extremely excited: "Master! I have cultivated the golden elixir! I have finally accomplished it..."
He had been stuck in the pill formation process for more than ten years, thinking that he would be able to break through the barrier in one fell swoop through accumulation of knowledge, but he ended up sitting in a deadlock for two years.
The kung fu of "self-refining" is indeed effective. The Tianjian Sect has been passed down for more than 800 years and the first calamity that killed hundreds of senior ancestors has finally been overcome!
