The morning glow stained the distant mountain peaks, and there was still morning dew in the forest, but Shao Heng was already sitting cross-legged on the eaves, breathing and exhaling at a frequency of three long and one short, and two white gases were faintly visible under his nose, like a white dragon playing in the water. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Not long after, the sun rises on the mountain, and the mountain fog gradually dissipates, only to hear the empty mountain birds, faint fragrance of flowers.

After Shao Heng finished his work, he opened his eyes and sighed secretly.

It has been more than half a year since he entered Cunwei Mountain and became an outer disciple. At the beginning of the introduction, the disciples of the acquired Tibetan essence stage are all given the same method of breathing and strengthening the body, teaching people how to rely on the breathing to strengthen the body and eliminate impurities. The Daomen is extraordinary, and for Shao Heng, it has advanced by leaps and bounds in the past six months, and it is already the ninth grade of the day after tomorrow, which makes him quite surprised.

However, perhaps it is Shao Heng's insistence on practicing the Dragon Elephant Technique, and the two complement each other and already help. Of course, it is not surprising that he himself has excellent qualifications, and he has the essence of heaven and earth spiritual things such as Jingmu Hanlian in his body.

Shao Heng originally thought that according to the previous speed, he should soon enter the innate level, but for more than a month, the qi in his body had not changed, no matter how he guided him, he could not attract the heaven and earth vitality to converge and merge with it, which made him a little puzzled.

After thinking for a moment, he decided to go to the Dexiu Monastery to ask the senior brother of the teacher.

Shao Heng jumped off the eaves, stretched his waist, cleaned up the house, changed into a clean light-colored robe, locked the residence, and went out.

Cunwei Mountain is located in the Lianyun Mountains across Shenzhou, the Lianyun Mountains stretch endlessly from south to north, until now manpower can not be completely explored poor, the mountains are like a small world, there are natural treasures, there are monsters and monsters, there are all kinds of opportunities, but also many dangers. The Lianyun Mountain Range is full of vitality, and there are many Xiuzhen sects hidden here, Cunwei Mountain is one of them, and there are countless large and small peaks of the sect, but there are only eight main peaks.

The middle of the Guiyuan Peak is where the main hall is located, and the remaining seven peaks surround the main peak with the momentum of the Beidou in the sky, which are Mingxin, Xuanwu, Biluo, Chaoyang, Zixia, Yuquan, Tianyou, where the outer disciples live, are mostly near the Tianyou Peak. Shao Heng and other male disciples lived in the Fufeng Courtyard on the mountainside of Tianyou Peak.

The Dexiu Monastery is the place where Cunwei Mountain preaches to the disciples of the outer sect to solve their doubts, located at the top of Tianyou Peak, and is built by the elders of the sect who specially opened up a vacant land with mana. Living in the sky, you can overlook the sea of clouds, there are pines and cypresses standing upright around, it seems that the place is not big, but it can also accommodate 100 people.

The monastery is open every five days, mainly for preaching the Taoist scriptures, teaching the Dharma and Taoist techniques or cultivation experience. New disciples such as Shao Heng not only have to learn all kinds of Taoist books, but also learn ancient seal runes, because the characters used in the immortal gate are all seals. Over the past tens of thousands of years, the changes in writing have changed with the sea, and now the common text for Xiuzhen is "Jade Seal Script". If you don't understand the jade seal, even if there is a high-grade immortal law book in front of you, you can only scratch your head and scratch your cheeks, and you are helpless.

When Shao Heng first entered the mountain, it took a lot of effort to gradually learn this jade seal script.

Cunweishan is very strict with his disciples, and there are no special circumstances for the first three years of the new disciples, and they are not allowed to leave the Dexiu Monastery every five days, and the teacher often assigns homework, and if they fail to complete it, they will be punished. Only those who have passed the third-year teacher assessment can freely arrange their time to participate. At the end of each year, the two masters will personally inspect the cultivation and learning results, and those who fail to pass the assessment for three consecutive years will be brushed out of the outer door, demoted to miscellaneous disciples, and receive miscellaneous servants from the sect, and there will no longer be monthly sect salaries and subsidized Yuan Jing.

If the outer disciples have not broken through the Qi Induction Period and cultivated to the refining and refining Qi stage by the age of thirty, they need to undertake the tasks of the sect and deal with various complicated matters inside and outside the mountain gate. Among them, if you can persist in cultivation at the same time, or if you have the opportunity to finally cultivate to the Zhuyuan period, you can obtain the status of a registered disciple of the inner gate. For example, the two archdeacons in charge of the Dharma transmission of the Monastery are registered disciples, one Zhou Xun and the other Chen Luo, both of whom are already monks in the condensation stage and bear the heavy responsibility of teaching the outer sect, and their status in the sect is not weaker than that of ordinary personal disciples.

Today, the seminary does not teach, but it is not closed, but there are also deacons and brothers on duty on weekdays to solve the doubts of the outer disciples.

Shao Heng stepped into the seminary and found that Zhou Xun, who was one of the archdeacons today, was on duty, so he immediately respectfully bowed and explained his situation in detail.

Zhou Xun has a clear face, a beard under his chin, a slightly dark complexion, and his hair is draped over his shoulders, sitting under Panasonic, holding a book in one hand, and thinking with his eyes closed. He heard a disciple entering the courtyard, opened his narrow eyes, and found that it was Shao Heng, so he nodded reluctantly. Shao Heng has always been diligent in his studies, and his cultivation has also improved rapidly, and he is one of the disciples personally introduced into the sect by Senior Brother Qingyang of the Inner Gate.

Shao Heng listened carefully and corresponded to his own body one by one.

Zhou Xun glanced at him a few times and said, "You already understand the point, now you can't break through, but it's not because you have poor qualifications and wrong methods." ”

Shao Heng saluted again and said seriously: "Please also inform Master Zhou." ”

Zhou Xun stroked his beard with satisfaction: "I also know a little bit about what happened before you entered the mountain, you have a firm heart to seek the Tao, and you are diligent and good on weekdays, as the so-called 'God rewards diligence', you have not wasted your talents, I am deeply grateful." It's just Shao Heng, you have to know that my Taoist cultivation is true, but I also pay attention to a 'Taoism and nature', you have an obsession because of past entanglements, and this obsession is too much, how can it come naturally?"

Shao Heng's face changed slightly, the years in the mountains passed in a flash, and more than half a year had passed since what happened in Ziyi, because he cultivated halfway, he needed to absorb more knowledge than others, and he was busy day and night, as if he had forgotten those old things. Now that he has been a little bit by Zhou Xun, he knows that he is still difficult to let go, and because of this, he is more eager for cultivation, but he has lost his course. It's just that he is still a teenager after all, and his family has changed dramatically, so it's good to be able to restrain his emotions, how can he completely forget it?

However, Zhou Xun had already pointed out the problem, so he shook his head and read the book in his hand, and no longer paid attention to him.

Shao Heng silently bowed and retreated.

How do you know that Zhou Xun sensed that he was leaving, but he opened his eyes again, sighed with complicated eyes, and thought: This son's qualifications are indeed good, but now the family in the outer gate is powerful, and even he is from a side branch of the family, so he can't be spared from the family shackles, I hope he can truly understand himself, don't be wasted in the outer door.

However, it turned out that among the disciples of Cunwei Mountain, there were many people from various families in Shenzhou, and Cunwei Mountain was famous all over the world because of the founding patriarch Cunwei Zhenren, and naturally attracted disciples. Although there are very few inner disciples under the rules of the door, the outer disciples have also been quite uneven and good in the past hundred years.

Some of the outer disciples came from nearby families that were good friends with Cunwei Mountain, and were selected, such as Shen Yuanxi; some of the ancestors were from Cunweimen, or they were selected from other nearby villages, or people in the world came from thousands of miles to ask for immortals, and they needed to pass the assessment and start to practice; and the last small number of disciples were like Shao Heng who were directly brought back by the inner disciples.

The disciples of the family have always been high-minded and look down on the rest of the disciples, Shen Yuanxi is just one of them, he and the Shen family had a lot of discord in the past, so although he has a high status in the inner gate, he is not liked by the rest of the disciples of the family, and there are many enemies;

It's just that people who cultivate the truth, but they are scheming in their hearts, and Shao Heng lives in a simple place, but he doesn't know this. On the contrary, Fang Shaobai obviously felt that several of his people were isolated by the disciples of the same period, and gradually figured out some meanings.

Since there are many disciples of the outer gate, the cultivation resources obtained by them are also more convenient than others, and the top ten in the outer gate examination can enter the inner door to become personal disciples. In the first few times, the top ten places were mostly occupied by the disciples of the family, resulting in a clear distinction between the inner doors.

There are even some disciples with good qualifications but scarce resources who are often deprived of their thirties and cannot enter the inner gate.

As for the regulations of the sect, before the age of thirty, it is said that if you break through the qi induction period and reach the refining and refining Qi by yourself, you will directly become the inner sect, but there has only been one Shen Yuanxi in the past hundred years.

Although Zhou Xun was born in a side branch of a family, he was also deeply blessed by the sect, and he was a little dissatisfied with the control of the family. Therefore, when the Qingyang Dao Chief, who had never asked about the affairs of the outer gate, suddenly brought back a few disciples with good qualifications to introduce them to the outer gate, no one said anything at the inner gate, but the outer gate stirred up a thousand waves with one stone.

Whether it is a disciple of the family or a person who is dissatisfied with the family like Zhou Xun, they all secretly wonder: Is the elder of the inner gate finally dissatisfied with the status quo of the outer gate, and intends to use this to rectify the outer gate?

Therefore, Shao Heng and the other eight people who entered the school together attracted attention from all parties in every move. It's just that Shao Heng's residence is remote, and he rarely interacts with people, but his life is quite peaceful.

Shao Heng didn't know what others were doing, his residence was far away from the rest of Fufeng Courtyard, and he occupied a bamboo forest, which was swaying in emerald color all the year round, and it was very cold.

He returned to the house, silently thinking about the past, a few traces of dazed color flashed on Qingjun's face, the Yidu bloody case was a pain in his heart, and it was also the source of motivation for his daily practice. Now he knows that he is in a hurry, but he doesn't know how to let go of his obsession, and after thinking about it, he is a little impetuous.

Suddenly, a chill came from his heart, and he reached into his arms and touched a string of cold jade, but it was the jade fish bracelet that Xiao Yu had lost in the past. Shao Heng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled lightly at the corner of his mouth, a pair of curved and playful eyebrows seemed to flash in front of him, he stroked the chubby jade fish hand, and thought: I don't know what the little girl is doing now, I don't know when I can return it to her in person. He thought about it, put the bracelet on the wrist of his left hand, and covered it with a sleeve robe, this jade fish was very chubby, and if he didn't look carefully, he only thought it was a beaded chain.

There was a chill at his wrist, and Shao Heng only felt that his mind was much clearer.

He knew that it was useless to think too much at this time, so he simply took out a pen and paper and began to copy the Tao Te Ching in jade seal script. Writing jade seal inscriptions involves the circulation of qi in the body, which needs to cater to the meaning of the words, and is also a practice. At the same time, copying the jade seal text also requires concentration and calmness, but it is one of the shortcuts for newcomer disciples to quickly enter the meditation.

Shao Heng's state of mind slowly calmed down, and gradually entered the realm of forgetting things and me, and the qi in his body flowed with the eight veins of the Qi meridian and the acupoints around his body, and continued to grow, although it was a little stagnant, it was much better than before.

When he copied "The good is like water, and the water is good for all things without fighting ......", he suddenly woke up and recited it silently several times. Shao Heng thought that when Master Zhou mentioned "too much obsession, how can it come naturally?", the four words "water comes naturally" are extremely important, could it be that there is another deep meaning?

He thought for a moment, and simply walked outside. A few days ago, Shao Heng stumbled upon the deepest part of the bamboo forest behind the house, forming a small canyon according to the mountain, and there was even a waterfall hanging from a high place in the deepest part of the canyon, which meandered down to form a small pool, with strange rocks, lush vegetation, and no traces.

Shao Heng walked to the waterhole, looked at the water flowing from a high place, felt the strong moisture here, and his face was a little wet. He meditated on the chapter on goodness like water, and sat cross-legged on the strange rock beside the waterhole to meditate and breathe.

Although the water flow here is small, the sound of the water is endless, I originally thought that it was difficult for me to calm down, but I didn't know that I had settled in the sound of the water flow, and the qi in his body that had been quite stagnant for half a month was also active again.

Since then, in addition to going to the Dexiu Monastery every five days, Shao Heng spit out and practice under the waterfall during the day, and transcribe the "Tao Te Ching" in the house at night, the qi in the body is full little by little, and the anger in his heart has disappeared without a trace, and the so-called obsession has also been dissipated little by little in the repeated copying of "The Essence of Kindness as Water".

Shao Heng felt something in the dark, knowing that the day of breaking the pass was not far away, and he was even more leisurely, and even let go of his daily cultivation of breathing, only thinking that he was a hermit living in the mountains, only making tea alone, listening to bamboo, and having fun with the waterfall, without asking him about anything.

The scorching sun hung high in the sky, and the summer was coming to an end, but the heat did not decrease in the slightest, and there was not a drop of rain throughout the summer. Rao is like this, the air in Fufeng Courtyard is stagnant and there is no trace of wind, and it is even a little difficult to breathe.

In such a hot afternoon, Shao Heng hid alone by a waterhole deep in the bamboo forest, lying high on a boulder, with layers of dense branches and leaves above his head, without a trace of sunlight penetrating. Due to the hot weather, the water flow of the waterfall is only a finger's wide, but it also brings a little coolness.

At this moment, for some reason, the air is getting more and more dull, and even this place seems to be stuffy, but Shao Heng faintly feels some moisture on the tip of his nose.

Suddenly, there was a thunderous explosion in the sky, and at the same time, Shao Heng's heart suddenly moved, he opened his eyes, his eyes were as bright as paint, he changed from lying down to sitting, closed his eyes on his knees again, and practiced his qi by the waterhole and exhaled, the two qi in his body continued to alternate, and the breath under his nose was like two white dragons.

Shao Heng knew that the moment he had been waiting for a long time to break through the barrier had finally arrived with this summer thunderstorm.

At this moment, the qi in his body is like a galloping horse, and it is like being contaminated with water vapor between the breath, sometimes like a big river surging, sometimes stagnant. There is no sorrow or joy in his heart, he sticks to his thoughts, no matter how the qi and the qi collide back and forth in his body, he only firmly stabilizes his mind, and repeatedly exhales the aura here for three short and one long.

There were bursts of thunder in the sky, the sky and the earth changed color in an instant, the dark clouds pressed the top, the lightning was like a sharp sword to cut the heaven and the earth, the purple electricity traveled the sky, the air was filled with heavy moisture, and the waterfall pool was especially prosperous. The thunder became more and more dense like a drumbeat, but the rain did not fall for a long time, and Shao Heng's internal qi machine was also drumming like thunder, but he didn't know where to vent.

A flush swelled up on his face, but the situation was a little bad at the moment, his own cultivation had reached the top level, and he had months of concentrating on refining his state of mind, and he could step into the next step at any time, just one opportunity away. How do you know that today's sudden change in the wind and clouds has caused nine days of thunder, which is normal and unhindered, but Shao Heng's situation at the moment was triggered by the thunder and broke through in advance. The wind and thunder between heaven and earth are the most unpredictable, manic and violent, but at this moment, Shao Heng's internal qi is also different from the calm in the past, but like the waves of the sea, impacting the meridians in the body, if the mind is shaken or still collided by the qi machine, not to mention that there is no hope of breaking through, it may even hurt the tendons and affect the foundation of future cultivation.

Shao Heng understood the problem in his body at the moment, but he was still not arrogant or impatient, and controlled the flow of qi in his body with a gentle breath. But I thought in my heart, what about the Nine Heavens Thunder, since today's opportunity has come down for me to break through, this is my opportunity!

At that moment, his eyes were even brighter, like a cold star flashing, and he sang aloud: "The thunder shook the mountains and forests, the wind and rain were like rain, and the idle song stepped on the clouds to reach the gate of heaven, and watched our generation seek the truth!"

As soon as the words fell, a huge purple electric dragon snake in the sky slashed down somewhere in Tianyou Peak, as if it alarmed the clifftop rocks, and rolled down from both sides of the waterfall to the pool, splashing with splashes. With this light, the thunder rolled in the distance, and after the clouds surged, the heavy rain poured down, and the heat instantly dissipated without a trace, but oozed a trace of cool air.

And Shao Heng's body also changed suddenly, and the qi engine was stagnant after being blown up by thunder, as if a bigger storm was brewing. Shao Heng originally wanted to concentrate more on controlling the qi machine, but suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, "Taoism is natural".

He muttered to himself, "The Tao is natural, and the law is the world", and suddenly he realized. He has lived and practiced in this place where water vapor is abundant all year round, and there is naturally a trace of water flow in the qi. Shao Hengfu was so heartfelt that he no longer controlled the qi in his body, and sure enough, the qi gushed out again after a lag, washing the eight veins of the strange meridians in his body, and the momentum was quite violent, but it was not unbearable for him. Moreover, under such washing, Shao Heng's meridians actually grew a little stronger.

And after a week, this qi machine soothed, no longer raging, like flowing water, it naturally operated in the body.

Every time the qi machine runs, it gathers and huddles at the dantian, and then spreads out to the whole body, so that the reciprocating cycle is endless, and it is all up to the qi to swim by itself. And Shao Heng himself has been immersed in a wonderful realm, completely forgetful, and there is a bit of a secret image of heaven.

After circulating the qi machine a total of 360 times, it gradually rushed like a river again, rushing up and down the whole body and repeatedly agitating, constantly impacting the 365 points in the body.

Shao Heng let it go, his mind was empty, and he saw that the qi machine was getting stronger and stronger, and finally when he condensed the dantian again, all converged and gathered in one place. The next moment, the pores around Shao Heng's body opened, and he drilled into a stream of cool and warm meaning, washing the eight veins of the Qi Sutra, like a rain descending to repair the damaged part before, which is the heaven and earth vitality that contains the spirit of water virtue here.

Shao Heng can't look inward at this time, but if he can look inward, he can see that the meridians of his whole body are not only wider than before, but also have a crystal polish on the surface, which is very human.

After these vitality qi drilled into his body, he also circulated in Shao Heng's body three hundred and sixty times, and finally converged on the dantian. In an instant, the dantian changed, and the qi that had been dormant before touched these heaven and earth vitality, melting like snow, and interlocking with the vitality silk, becoming one, and there was no separation between each other.

And Shao Heng only felt that the points in his body were all shocked, and his eyes were originally gray because of the dark clouds, but at this moment, his eyes were like bright light, and he could clearly distinguish the surrounding grass and dust, and there seemed to be a sound of Qingyue in his ears, and the sound hit the dantian, bubbling hot, and the pores around his body were all dripping with joy.

Shao Heng raised his head, his handsome face was a little blurred by the rain, and he was drenched from head to toe, but there was no trace of embarrassment, but he was refreshed, and a layer of crystal color appeared on his face, and he looked like a dusty person next to the steaming waterfall.

Shao Heng subconsciously clenched his fists, only to feel that there was infinite strength in his fist, his body was as light as a swallow, and he rose several feet high on the ground with only a slight leap, and finally came to his senses: he had already drawn qi into his body and stepped out of the first step on the road of the avenue!