Chapter 28: Apprenticeship
Hearing Mu Fan's sudden words, the master couldn't help but smile.
"Although the cultivators of our faction talk about fate and act according to fate, but the orthodox Taoism only preaches people, young man, are you planning to enter my Taoism?"
"What do you do so strictly, there are very few people who cultivate the Tao now, if you don't keep pace with the times and remove some rules and regulations, I'm afraid that even the Taoism will be lost in the future, besides, I heard that Taoist priests can't get married, who wants to?"
After Mu Fan's comprehensive study, this eloquence is no longer what it used to be, and no matter how he goes around it today, he has to find a way to get this "Pure Demon Heart Sutra".
"You have a point."
After listening to Mu Fan's words, the master was a little lost, and now his sect of Taoism is in decline, and most of the people in the world are more rejected, and there is not much inheritance in his generation.
What's more, he hasn't received a destined apprentice until now, and if he continues like this, I'm afraid he will really lose it.
Seeing that the master was a little loose, Mu Fan added a fire in time: "If you pass on the Taoism to me, I can also publicize it for you, you see, we have met twice by accident, this is fate."
"Are you willing to worship me as a teacher and enter my Dao Gate?", the master asked after pondering for a while.
"It's okay to apprentice, but do you have to get started? Shaolin Temple also has lay disciples, can't you just teach my Taoism in order to promote the Dao? You also know that if you don't have a secular life and management, how can you have the conditions and strength to promote the Daofa, right?"
Mu Fan himself admired his sophistry a little.
"Well, yes, the power of one or two people is indeed too small", the master remembered that he had sneaked into this building anyway, and there was no way for the security guards to hint at the benefit fee, and it was more difficult to do anything.
"Otherwise, you teach me the "Pure Demon Heart Sutra" first, see if I have the opportunity to get started, then I should relieve my current troubles and do a good deed, if I have talent, I can also consider worshipping the master's path."
Mu Fan made a concession at the right time and gave in for the final thinking guidance.
The master thought to himself, although this young man is skillful, but he really hit the nail on the head about the decline of the Dao lineage, and he also needs to change, not to mention that as Mu Fan said, the two are fateful, maybe in the future, he can really let him worship the Dao Gate and carry forward his lineage.
"I'll tell you, I can accept only the apprentice and not the beginner, but no matter how deep or shallow what you learn, you must not do evil, just according to what you said, I will pass you the "Pure Demon Heart Sutra" first, but only the formula, only say it once, see how much you can remember, whether there is a Tao fate."
"Ah, just say it once, how many words?", Mu Fan was extremely happy when he heard that the master accepted it, who knew that he was depressed when he said that he only passed on the mantra and only once again, and wanted to bargain again, but the master directly began to chant the scriptures.
"My law of the Tao, drive away evil and avoid evil, calm my mind, purify my resentment, possess the soul, save only its god, receive its benefits, and go to my bodyγγγγγγ β
At the beginning, the text was relatively simple, which was not a problem at all for Mu Fan, who graduated from the Department of Ancient Literature, but later it felt more jerky and difficult to understand, but now he has been "strong in knowledge" for a month, has undergone a lot of training, and his memory is very good.
The master chanted for a few minutes, there was a certain rhythm, the content of the chant was about two or three hundred words, and there was a faint rhyme in the sound waves.
"You try it", after the chanting, the master immediately had to assess.
"Okay, I'll try it", Mu Fan also felt that it was best to listen to the retelling just now.
"My law of the Tao, drive away evil and avoid evil, calm my mind, purify my resentment, possess the soul, save only its god, receive its benefits, and eliminate my body injuryγγγγγγ β
Mu Fan began to learn the rhythm of the master to chant, and when he sang the first few lines, the master felt that it was very good to have this feeling for the first time, and after reading twenty lines, he began to get excited.
"This kid is really fateful, he can actually write down so many at once."
But when Mu Fan finished chanting all the words of the "Pure Demon Heart Sutra" word for word, the master was completely stunned.
You must know that two or three hundred words, even if it is an ordinary text, it is good to be able to write it down word for word, not to mention this kind of mantra like classical Chinese.
"This kid was born for this, you must get him into the door"
"How about the master, is there a mistake?", a life-saving event, Mu Fan didn't want to make any mistakes.
"Very good, it's actually word for word, I see that you are indeed very close to my Taoist sect, do you want to learn other Taoist methods?
The master expressed his sincere attitude and used other Taoist methods to lure.
"Are you sure that my chant just now is exactly the same word?", Mu Fan asked again.
"Yes, word for word", the master replied affirmatively.
"Then I don't have to learn anything else, thank you, master", Mu Fan saluted a hand to express his gratitude, and directly refused to join the Daomen.
"Youγγγγγγ The master felt that he was stuck in his throat by a bowl-sized fly, and his lungs were about to be fried, and he thought to himself what kind of person this is, and then said angrily:
"Aren't you going to help me propagate the Dao? Why don't you just learn the Pure Demon Heart Sutra and stop learning it? If you don't want to get started for the time being, you can do it in the future, so you have to learn a little more, right?"
"Yes, this "Pure Demon Heart Sutra" is good, I feel much better, if I encounter other people with similar problems in the future, I will also teach him, well, I will also help you say that your Taoist sect is really learned, rest assured", Mu Fan pretended to be crazy and stupid to deal with.
Just kidding, he's just been procrastinating, and the good days, the happy times haven't really started to enjoy yet.
"Hmph, you can not enter my Dao Gate now, but as I said just now, apprenticeship is okay, you can't be untrustworthy about this, right? You don't call me master, from now on, call me master."
Seeing that Mu Fan wanted to repay the debt, the master also hardened his attitude.
Now Mu Fan was a little embarrassed, he almost forgot about it, he got someone to give advice, and he didn't say that he insisted on getting started, so there should be no problem with calling the master.
"Master", Mu Fan reluctantly called out, feeling that it was strange to call a Taoist master.
"Well, since it's my apprentice, do you have to do your best to fulfill the master's orders?" The master began to get triumphant.
"Yes, what does the master command?", Mu Fan felt that he had pitted himself in.
"You have a break from work, come to my house at least once a month, I will guide you to learn the Dao, what about me, I don't have the money to build a dojo, as an apprentice, you have to find a way to make money to prepare, didn't you say that you would contribute to the master's promotion of the Daofa?
God, this pit is getting bigger and bigger, Mu Fan is so bitter in his heart, he really wants to leave, but the words are still in his ears, he can't just slap his face immediately, it seems that Jiang is still old and spicy.
Seeing that Mu Fan was a little convinced, the master added: "Young man, the "Pure Demon Heart Sutra" that you just gave you is only one of them, if you want to achieve better results, you actually need to have an exercise to cooperate."
"What? You still need the cooperation of an exercise? You didn't lie to me, didn't you say it earlier?"
Although the previous master's words made Mu Fan embarrassed, he would not be so easy to comply, he knew that the master just wanted him to join the Dao Sect and deliberately troubled him, at most, he promised him now, and he could slowly break away in the future.
But the last sentence made his heart hang again, "Pure Demon Heart Sutra" is not enough, so what to do, he has no choice.
"Okay, I promise you", Mu Fan gritted his teeth and agreed.
The master's plan succeeded, and a smile leaked from his face, and he said in his heart, I don't know the careful thinking of this kid, I don't know it? After learning the "Pure Demon Heart Sutra", I won't do it, who doesn't know that you are coming at it, and tell you to cross the river and tear down the bridge.