Chapter 10: Cultivation
The first peak on the right, early morning on the second day, Chaoyang Temple.
Chaoyang Hall is the residence of Master Yanyue, the first of the Right Peak, and it is also the gathering place for the disciples of the Right Head Peak to practice in the morning every day. At this time, in the Chaoyang Palace, all the fifty-five disciples of the Right Head Peak gathered here. Luo Banxia was in the middle, kowtowing to Master Yanyue, who was sitting in the first place, and serving tea. Yesterday's time to return to the peak has passed, so Luo Banxia's apprenticeship ceremony is scheduled to be held today.
Master Yanyue took the teacup handed by Luo Banxia, took a sip, helped Luo Banxia up, showed a rare smile on his face, and said softly: "Banxia, from now on you will be the disciple of my right peak, pay attention to abide by the door rules, know etiquette and good deeds, work hard to cultivate, and carry forward the pulse of my right head peak." Luo Banxia's heart warmed, although they didn't get along for a long time, he could also feel that his master was cold as frost on the surface, but he was warm in his heart, and he promised loudly at the moment: "Yes, Master." ”
Before the disciples left, Master Yanyue stopped Ziling, and after a few words of instructions with her, Ziling also went out, and only Master Yanyue and Luo Banxia were left in the Chaoyang Palace.
The daily cultivation of the disciples of the right head peak is actually very simple, in the morning, Master Yan Yue will guide some exercises and moves, and then each disciple will find a place to participate in the cultivation by himself, generally every other month, Master Yan Yue will randomly check the cultivation of each disciple, and then guide them individually as appropriate. Luo Banxia and the other senior brothers' cultivation methods are different, the morning time is mainly to exercise physical strength, which is the basic homework that every new disciple has to do, which is intended to strengthen the body and lay a good foundation for the cultivation of the Dao Fa.
Master Yanyue left Luo Banxia and told him about the Dao cultivation of the Female Spirit Palace, "The fundamental exercises of our Female Spirit Palace are called the Three Spiritual Paths, which are the Human Dao, the Earth Spiritual Dao, and the Heavenly Xuan Dao. Generally, the human Tao is the most basic exercise, which can make artifacts attack the enemy, and the earth spirit path can go up to the sky and enter the earth, and the heavenly things fly, if the Tianxuan Dao is cultivated to the peak, it is rumored that it can attract the power of heaven and earth, and show supreme power. Luo Banxia listened attentively on the side, remembering attentively. "Due to the different talents of each person, the time taken for each level of the three spiritual paths is also different, and the time for a well-qualified disciple to reach the earth spirit path is generally about ten to fifteen years, and the time taken to reach the earth spirit path varies from one time to another. The Dao of the Human World and the Dao of the Earth Spirit are also the biggest watershed for the disciples of the Female Spirit Palace, and some disciples have spent their entire lives and have not been able to break through to the Dao of the Earth Spirit. Luo Banxia was slightly surprised, and asked in a thoughtful voice: "Master, how long did it take for the senior brother in charge to break through to the Earth Spirit Dao?" Master Yan Yue's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he seemed to be quite moved, "The young genius of the head of the sect was taken in by Senior Brother Yankong at the age of eight, and reached the Earth Spirit Dao at the age of twelve, and successfully broke through to the Heavenly Xuan Dao at the age of twenty, becoming the first person in my female Spirit Palace Dao attainment other than Senior Brother Yankong. It's a genius that I have never seen in my life. Luo Banxia exclaimed, when he was in addition to the beast, he had seen Xiao Kongqing make a move, that majesty, it did have the power to shake the heavens and the earth, and at the moment he secretly decided in his heart that he wanted to target Xiao Kongqing, and one day he could be as powerful as him.
Master Yan Yue also introduced some general information on cultivation to Luo Banxia, and immediately taught the cultivation mantra of the Tao of the world word by word: "The beginning of the nameless heaven and earth, the mother of all things. Therefore, I often have no desire to observe its subtlety, and I often have a desire to observe its subtlety......" said for about half an hour, let Luo Banxia remember it carefully, and taught some methods on how to absorb and exhale, lead the heaven and earth to clean up into the Lord himself, and run the method of twelve weeks, before and after a total of more than an hour. Seeing that Luo Banxia had memorized it by heart, he got up and said lightly: "Go, start cultivating according to the method I said in the afternoon, and start with physical strength this morning" After saying that, Master Yanyue flicked his sleeves, turned around and walked slowly to the back hall, it should be a rest.
Luo Banxia bowed and saluted: "Yes", digested what the master said in his mind for a while, and walked out of the Chaoyang Palace.
The sun shines leisurely, the morning air brings a fragrance, the right peak is shrouded in fog all the year round, and at this time it looks blurry and dreamy against the background of the sun, looming.
As soon as Luo Banxia came out of the Chaoyang Palace, he saw Ziling waiting outside the hall. Ziling is dressed in white, in her twenties, with fair skin and a fresh temperament in the sun. Seeing Luo Banxia come out, Ziling hurriedly beckoned, Luo Banxia ran over and arched his hand: "Senior sister." Ziling snorted and said to Luo Banxia: "Little junior brother, let me introduce to you, these two are senior brothers who started two years earlier than you, the one on the left is called Xu Lei, and the one on the right is called ......" Before she could finish speaking, one person on the right had already preemptively said: "My name is Sun Zhi, please take care of me." At this time, Luo Banxia saw that there were two teenagers who were a little older than him standing next to Ziling, the young man named Xu Lei on the left had a square face and big eyes, his muscles were coiled, and he looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, but his height was surprisingly tall, even half a head taller than many adults. And the young man named Sun Zhi on the right is the same age as Xu Lei, with a thin body, like a bamboo pole, and a lewd face, this face doesn't look like a good person.
Luo Banxia hurriedly saluted and said, "Senior Brother Xu Lei is good, Senior Brother Sun Zhi is good." As he spoke, he suddenly felt that something seemed wrong, and looked up at Sun Zhi, his face twitched, and he couldn't help but smile. Ziling next to her snorted out laughing, she couldn't bear it anymore, the more she laughed, the louder she laughed, and her laughing body squatted down, trembling slightly. Sun Zhi looked embarrassed and said curtly: "I don't want to call this name either, it's all my uneducated father, I have to say anything about etiquette and etiquette, so I was named Sun Zhi, which can't be blamed on me." ”
Ziling laughed for a long time before stopping, and there was still a feeling that she was still unfinished, she had experienced this situation countless times, every time she introduced this junior brother to someone, she could make her smile on all sides, and said at the moment: "That...... Let's go, then. She still smiled a little, and her speech was choppy.
Luo Banxia was slightly stunned: "Where are you going?" Before Ziling could answer, Sun Zhi had already preemptively said: "Go and fetch water, a few of us are the latest disciples to get started, and we have to be responsible for the water supply of the entire right head peak every day, and the master said that this is to exercise our physical strength, so that we can better cultivate." After speaking, he pulled Luo Banxia and walked forward.
This Sun Zhi is a chatter and naturally familiar, and this meeting pulled Luo Banxia to chatter, and Luo Banxia followed them around the east and west, heading towards the front mountain. On the way, I couldn't help asking: "It shouldn't be difficult to carry water, no matter how you look at it, you all look sad." Luo Banxia grew up in the village since he was a child, and he didn't do much work to carry water and farm, in his opinion, it was easy to carry water, and he even thought about whether it would be a little too simple, and whether he could really exercise to get physical strength.
Sun Zhi said: "Hehe, you'll know later" took the lead in pulling Luo Banxia to the head, while Ziling and Xu Lei followed behind slowly.
After walking for a short time, they arrived in front of the front mountain water house, which was not far from the Chaoyang Palace, and they could walk for about twenty minutes. The water room is a very spacious wooden structure building, Sun Zhi pushed open the wooden door, making a soft squeak, Luo Banxia just stepped in, and smelled a smell of seawater. I saw that there was a huge pool of water in the water room, and there were more than a dozen half-human-high wooden barrels next to it, and there was nothing else.
At this time, Ziling and Xu Lei also arrived at the water room, without a moment of rest, Ziling signaled Xu Lei to start work, and then turned to Luo Banxia and said: "Little junior brother, you are optimistic", Xu Lei received the order, walked a few steps forward to the edge of the pool, and his whole body lit up with white light, and luck hit the water. Layers of ripples appeared above the surface of the water, and after a while, a column of water rose into the air under Xu Lei's control, condensing into a huge water ball in the air. Xu Lei made a move with his left hand, and a scorching flame immediately rose under the water balloon, scorching the water balloon. I saw that the water in the water balloon was gradually boiling, and wisps of white water vapor seeped out from the periphery, Xu Lei's right hand was not idle, and he controlled the bucket to introduce the water vapor little by little, and in a moment, a large bucket was already filled with clean water.
Xu Lei's movements were done in one go, and he was obviously extremely proficient. Luo Banxia was stunned as he watched from the sidelines, he felt that he was careless, this work of carrying water was far from being as simple as he imagined. Ziling came over and patted him on the shoulder, and said: "The bottom of this pool is hollow, and the bottom is the sea, and there is a spell performed by the ancestors in the Nuling Palace, which will suck the seawater from the sea every day, and when the pool is full, the entrance will be automatically closed, so that the water will not flow out backwards." Luo Banxia was secretly surprised, and only felt that the Female Spirit Palace technique was really wonderful. Ziling smiled and said, "So junior brother, your work every morning is to use mana to turn into clear water, and then pick it up on the kitchen in the back mountain, and today when you practice for the first time, just pick two buckets of water." ”
Sun Zhi watched and laughed lively, he suffered a lot when he carried water for the first time. Luo Banxia nodded and said, "I'll try" So he also learned Xu Lei to draw a gourd in the same way, and recalled the trick taught by the master this morning, the real air around his body rotated, condensing the white true qi, but his true qi compared to Xu Lei's, it was simply compared to the sun, only a faint faint white mang, tossed for a long time, barely filled one-tenth of the bucket.
Ziling watched from the side, not in a hurry, and pointed out Luo Banxia from time to time, while Xu Lei and Sun Zhi had already shouted, each filled two buckets of water and left. Before leaving, Sun Zhi also said to Luo Banxia: "Little junior brother, we have a heavy task of carrying water, so we won't accompany you to explore slowly, take a step first, and we will come back later." Luo Banxia smiled and said yes, and began to work hard to condense the water vapor again. After tinkering for most of the morning, he finally filled the two wooden barrels with water, and of course, Ziling secretly helped Luo Banxia a lot in order to make it easier.
During this period, Xu Lei and Sun Zhi went back and forth several times, and the water supply of the right peak today was completed by the two of them, and Luo Banxia basically didn't help much. They didn't say much, they were in the same situation as Luo Banxia when they first entered the door. In the swaying all the way, Luo Banxia finally successfully transported two buckets of water to the Houshan Kitchen Reservoir, although the water room is not far from the Chaoyang Palace, but there is a distance from the kitchen. After completing today's morning exercise task, Luo Banxia simply ate lunch and then returned to the room to slump down, he was exhausted in the morning, he finally knew why carrying water was to exercise his physical strength.
After a nap, the strength is slightly restored. In the afternoon, Luo Banxia didn't go out, he carefully felt his meridians in the room, and began to practice according to the exercises taught by Master Yanyue, and in the process of cultivation, he could already see a trace of white light rising from him. Luo Banxia is talented, these basic exercises are not too difficult to master, and he quickly found the trick in them, which can be regarded as a formal introduction, and the next thing is to rely on tireless hard work to cultivate.