On the way down the mountain, Pan Long suddenly remembered something and asked suspiciously: "Grandpa, how did the old ancestor know that I was doing chivalrous deeds? ”

Grandpa smiled: "Do you think we didn't do anything last night?"

"Huh?"

"From the moment it was decided to let you go to meet the ancestor, the Ren family has been investigating the news after you stepped into the rivers and lakes. Grandpa said, "You walked all the way with the caravan of the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce, and were commended by the King of the Nine Mountains at the foot of the Guimen Mountain; after you left the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce, you killed the bandits all the way, and you are sure that there are two groups of bandits that you have eliminated; you and your friends fought chivalrous but encountered setbacks, and your friends were unfortunately killed, and you sneaked into the enemy's house to take revenge...... We all know these things. ”

Pan Long was taken aback, he didn't expect the Ren family's intelligence network to be so powerful.

"Even, we can guess what the 'penny hero' is most likely you. ”

"Huh?!" Pan Long exclaimed, "I think I've covered it up well!"

Grandpa laughed: "No matter how well you cover up, you can't help but go with him." There are six people who know martial arts on the same road as the 'penny hero'. And you are the most likely of them all. ”

"This ...... Wouldn't I have no secrets?"

"Not necessarily, for example, the situation in Yongzhou, we only know approximately, and many of them are not clear. My grandfather explained, "Here in Yizhou, the families and heroes from all over the country have connections, and a huge and intricate network has long been formed. Not only do we exchange news, but we also often do some underground transactions. ”

"It is no exaggeration to say that in Yizhou, we may not be able to find out what the imperial court can't find, but what we can't find, the imperial court will definitely not be able to find out. What the court can't get, we may not be able to get, and what we can't get, the court will definitely not get!"

Pan Long was shocked and speechless for a long time.

He knew that the local heroes in Yizhou were very powerful, but he never thought that they would be so strong!

This is clearly above the Great Xia Dynasty!

Grandpa saw what he was thinking and explained, "Don't think too much about it. After all, the imperial court is a whole, and when necessary, it can gather the strength of dozens of counties and counties, which is incomparable to any powerful family - if we, the powerful families, really have this level of strength, then we would have rebelled long ago, and seized Yizhou to claim the king, why bother paying taxes every year, and still being controlled by the imperial court?"

Pan Long nodded, understanding what he meant.

If the powerful people of Yizhou can join forces, it is indeed far more powerful than the power of the Great Xia Dynasty in Yizhou.

However, these powerful families will not really join forces, although they have cooperation, but after all, there is still a mess of sand in their bones.

Therefore, they can have more power than the imperial court in many aspects, but if the bayonet really sees the red and fights the battlefield, it is still the imperial court that will have the advantage.

But...... If the imperial court becomes weak, the power of the imperial court declines, and it is no longer able to gain an advantage on the battlefield......

Pan Long suddenly thought of a few lines from a very famous poem in his previous life.

The Sword Pavilion is majestic and Cui Wei, one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open. Guards or bandits, turned into wolves and jackals. Avoid tigers in the morning and long snakes at night; grind their teeth and suck blood, killing people like hemp.

(I hope there won't be such a day in Yizhou...... ）

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little heavy.

I returned to Renfu in Suishan County, and it was just lunchtime. The whole family ate together, and the uncles were silent as stone people, but the children were giggling, and more than one person asked Pan Long about the situation in the north.

"Is it cold in the north, is it windy?"

"I've heard that there are a lot of youkai in the Northland, have you ever encountered a youkai?"

"Is there anything good to eat in the Northland?"

They asked a lot of questions like that.

Pan Long replied one by one with a smile, and the atmosphere at the dinner table was quite harmonious.

Grandpa smiled and watched them talk while eating, without emphasizing the meaning of "eating without words and sleeping without speaking".

Suddenly, he thought of something and said to Pan Long, "What kind of internal strength are you cultivating now?

Pan Long nodded: "That's right." ”

Grandpa frowned: "Your Pan family's family heirloom method is really not very good, if you are interested, I can teach you the heart method of the Taishang Forgetfulness Chapter." ”

Pan Long was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is this okay?"

"Of course you can, you are my grandson, the most outstanding junior of the third generation of our family - I am not the kind of fool who is nervous and shouting 'pass on the man but not the daughter, the son but not the daughter-in-law', you are so good, I teach you to be too forgetful, there is no problem at all. ”

"But...... Isn't this the secret method of the Qionglai Sect?"

"The Qionglai faction is just a loose alliance, and there are no strict rules at all. Grandpa smiled and said, "What's more, the Taishang Forgetfulness Chapter is our Ren family's own effort, what is the matter with the Guan Qionglai faction?"

Pan Long was stunned, he found that he really didn't know anything about these famous factions.

His father only told him which forces in Yizhou could not be provoked, and most of what Kong Zhang said was also here. As for the background and detailed information of these famous families and powerful families, my father may not know it himself. Kong Zhang may know, but just two bottles of wine are really not enough for people to sell such important information.

"The so-called Qionglai faction was formerly a group of people who cultivated in Qionglai Mountain. Later, when the immortals entered Qionglai, except for those who could worship under him, everyone else was driven out of several main peaks of Qionglai Mountain. Those who were not popular united and established the Qionglai faction...... I think you know all these things, right?"

Seeing that Pan Long nodded, his grandfather continued: "Since the Qionglai faction is essentially just a combination of a group of people, everyone's kung fu is naturally very different. For example, our Ren family actually belongs to the 'Daomen'. The Leshan Duan family, which also belongs to the Qionglai faction, is a branch of the 'Buddhism Gate'. As for Ling Yunfeng's 'Sword Emperor' lineage, it is the one that enters the Dao with martial arts...... Everyone's origins are completely different, it's just that they are just angry with the domineering immortals, so they are united. ”

Only then did Pan Long fully understand.

Since there is no problem in learning, of course he is willing to learn. The internal strength of the famous faction is much more reliable than the internal strength of the Pan family itself!

After the meal, his grandfather took him to the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is not large and enshrines three portraits.

The first portrait is a muscular, extremely burly man, who could not see clearly, but saw the sky above his head, his feet on the earth, the sun and the moon around his ears, and the mountains at his feet.

"This is the Yuan Shi Great Tianzun, also called Yuqing Great Tianzun. Grandpa introduced, "According to legend, he was a giant at the beginning of the world, and later evolved into a mixed element, and escaped into the void without knowing what to do." And his mixed element has been handed down, which is the source of the mental methods of all walks of life. ”

Pan Long followed behind him, saluted the Yuan Shi Great Tianzun, and offered incense.

The second portrait is of a gray-haired, withered old man dressed in a broad, shabby robe with flowing hair. Holding a cane in one hand and an old cow in the other, his face was old and bitter, and he looked a little depressed.

"This is Dao Ancestor Taishang. He learned from all the families, integrated and perfected the various mental methods that evolved from the mixed element and one qi, and established the Taiqing lineage of the Daomen. Later, when he was dying, he realized the Great Dao and became an immortal on the ground, and he was the first person in the history of my Daomen who could be verified as a 'cultivator to become an immortal'. It was from him that the Daomen could be regarded as established. ”

Pan Long followed the salute and offered incense, and bowed respectfully a few times.

The third portrait is a middle-aged man with a black beard and black hair, with a handsome appearance, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and can be called a beautiful man. This man was dressed in a scribe's robe, pinned his hair in a bun with a hosta, carried a long sword on his back, carried a large gourd, and smiled very easily, looking very happy.

"This is the Immortal Pure Yangzi, the core kung fu of our Ren family comes from a page of the 'Taiqing Jade Book', and that page of the Book of Heaven comes from his gift. That's why we respect him as the third patriarch of the Ren family. ”

Pan Long also followed and worshiped the patriarch.

He doesn't have the idea of "I am the Pan family, don't worship the ancestors of the Ren family" - since you want to learn art, you naturally have to apprentice, and respecting teachers is the basic principle of being a man.

What's more, none of these three patriarchs has even one surnamed Ren, and if they worship them, even their grandfather will not have an opinion.

After worshipping the patriarch, Ren Anping took out a thin book.

"The Taiqing Jade Book is extremely wonderful, even if it is only one page, it is all-encompassing, and it records a large number of exercises and ideas. Most of them didn't mean much to ordinary people, and many of them were just messy records—probably just essays by Taishang Dao Ancestor. Studying directly against the Taiqing Jade Book will inevitably result in half the effort. ”

"In this book, after scrutiny and revision, it has almost been perfected the 'Taishang Forgetting Love' mental method, which is also the most important core practice of our Ren family. ”

Pan Long respectfully took the book with both hands.

"Wait a minute, I'll take you to the ashram, and you can practice in the ashram. Grandpa said, "There is a difficulty when this mental method is introduced, and if it is not in a special ashram, it is really not easy to overcome." ”

He didn't explain in detail, he took Pan Long out of the Patriarch Hall, circled twice, and came to the front of a room.

There were two strong men guarding the door of the house, and the eyes of these two people were shining, and they knew that their cultivation was extraordinary at a glance. And their faces were cold, even if Ren Anmin came, they didn't have the slightest closeness, and they really felt a little iron-faced and selfless.

Grandpa spoke a few words to them, and took out another waist card, and they got out of the way.

When I entered the house, I saw a tunnel, quite wide, and I didn't know where it extended.

Pan Long followed his grandfather along the tunnel, feeling that the wind was blowing in the tunnel, but he was not depressed. There are even night pearls overhead, illuminating the tunnels very brightly, not dark at all.

After walking for a while and passing through several forks, they finally came to a stone gate.

My grandfather pushed the stone door aside, and saw that there was a quiet room inside, about seven or eight steps square, but it was quite spacious.

This quiet room is divided into three parts, facing a bedroom, the space is not big, only a bed, a set of tables and chairs, the rest of the space is estimated to be not enough to do a radio exercise; on the left hand side is a small bath, and what looks like a toilet, which is obviously a place for bathing and hygiene; on the right hand side is an empty room, only a futon is placed in the middle, which is naturally a place for cultivation.

"You can cultivate here with peace of mind, I will bring someone to bring you food every day, clean up your things, and answer your questions, so if there is anything you don't understand, just stop for the time being, and don't act recklessly. ”

Pan Long nodded in agreement and asked, "Is there any mystery in this ashram, why does it need to be built underground?"

Grandpa smiled and shook his head: "Now to tell you, it is harmful." When you've cultivated enough, maybe you won't need to say it, and you'll be able to understand it yourself. ”

"By the way, this is the place where the children of the Ren family usually cultivate. Don't move around when you have time, so as not to disturb other people's cultivation. ”

"Grandpa, don't worry, I'm not an eventful person. ”

"I believe you, but I still have to tell you. Grandpa smiled and turned away, leaving Pan Long alone at the door of the quiet room.

In the following days, Pan Long lived in a quiet room, concentrating on learning the "Taishang Forgetfulness Chapter".

This mental method is very wonderful, it does not start from the cultivation of internal strength like ordinary mental methods, but focuses on the cultivation of the spirit. According to the general outline, the spirit is the greatest mystery of the human body, and it is the core key to control all the forces in the body. If a person's spirit is strong enough, not only can he get twice the result with half the effort when he cultivates anything, but he can also open the most mysterious treasure of the human body and point directly to the supreme avenue.

But its cultivation method is indeed very difficult, especially many of the tricks of regulating qi and luck, all of which belong to the type of "the eyes look easy, the brain seems to be feasible, but in fact, the hand operation only finds that it is completely impossible".

Pan Long has been cultivating for a long time, and he is dizzy from cultivation, but he has never even been able to take the first step to get started.

How to find a ray of spiritual light? This question has always bothered him.

He pondered for a long time, but when his grandfather came back, he still had no clue.

So he asked his grandfather for advice.

"There is such a thing as spiritual light, if you say you have it, if you say you don't, you don't. Grandpa thought for a moment and explained, "When you exist, it exists, and when you don't exist, it doesn't exist." It's a one-minded thing. ”

Pan Long was puzzled when he heard this, and couldn't help asking: "If there is something, if there is nothing, if there is nothing, how can you 'keep one mind'?"

Grandpa smiled: "What you practiced in the past were all martial arts exercises, these exercises are down-to-earth, and you pay attention to one step at a time." But the Taishang Forgetfulness Chapter is the Xianmen Heart Method, the Xianmen Heart Method...... There's always something special. ”

"Grandpa, this is so special!"

Grandpa shook his head and said that he couldn't help it: "No way, you really have to rely on yourself." ”

Pan Long had no choice but to continue to exert enough strength to fight with the aura of "one heart".

But he kept thinking about it and was dizzy, and he couldn't find that ray of light.

After hesitating for a long time, he still made up his mind to go back to the bedroom and close the door to sleep, but in fact, he entered the fragment of the Shan Hai Jing.

In the pure white nothingness, he meditated cross-legged, determined to fight to the death with that damn "aura"!

There is nothing distracting in this place, and it is convenient to concentrate. He wanted to see if the so-called "aura" really existed.

With one mind, Pan Long really doesn't believe it.

Even though this is a world of extraordinary power, the world is still material. Even if they are ghosts and ghosts without physical objects, they at least exist objectively, and they do not change their state of existence because people believe or do not believe in them.

In that case, Aura should be no exception!

Grandpa said that this thing should be "kept in one mind", implying that he could lie to himself and reluctantly pretend that it existed. Pan Long felt that if "when it exists" can really produce the effect of "it exists", then it must be that it exists in the first place, but only after you believe that it exists, can you sense or observe it more easily.

He really can't convince himself to believe that something exists out of thin air, so he can only use ten times the energy of others, one hundred times and a thousand times, to find it little by little, and find out this thing!

He didn't know how long it had been in the pure white void world, and suddenly, his heart moved slightly, and he vaguely felt something.

So he immediately hurried back to reality, trying to grasp that feeling.

This time he was finally no longer clueless, and after spending an unknown amount of time and energy, he finally grasped that trace of feeling completely.

It was a feeling that is hard to describe, somewhere between being and not being. When you're relaxed, you can feel it, but when you're nervous and focused, it's hard to feel it.

Not only does it wander around the body, but it even drifts around it. For example, on more than one occasion, Pan Long felt it leave his body and fly in circles overhead.

"What the hell is this? What kind of pet is it?"

He was talking to himself, but he always focused on it, and he didn't dare to relax for a moment.

Trying to keep up with this feeling with the spirit is an act that is completely contrary to the normal perceptual habits of human beings. He had to concentrate on it, not even the slightest bit of slackness, but he also had to put himself in a relaxed state and try not to be nervous.

This kind of practice is probably like the so-called "colorful black", "lively tranquility" and the like, which belongs to the kind of Party A who has not learned the language well or has learned it too well, and owes Party B the grace of not killing.

Pan Long had never been Party B in his previous life, but Party A had done it more than once. He is a real person, and he tries to be as specific as possible when making requests, but there are still many Party B who will say "Boss, what are you talking about" and so on.

He remembered that there was a bald painter, quite sincere, and whenever he made a request, he would directly say, "What kind of thing do you want?

Later, Station P was walled, and I don't know where this bald guy is going to find reference materials, will he squat because of illegal climbing over the wall......

Pan Long held on to that feeling, trying to maintain it. I don't know how long it took before I was woken up by my grandfather.

"You can't practice anymore, you need to rest. My grandfather said solemnly, "If you can't find a feeling, just look for it slowly." If you practice again, you will die!"

"No, I've found it, I've just been trying to keep it going. ”

Grandpa stared at him with wide eyes, his eyes full of disbelief.

"It's only been two days, and you've been able to maintain your sense of 'aura'?!" he exclaimed, "I used it for three months!"