Chapter Ninety-Five: The Heart Is Like Ashes

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When we talk to older elders or experienced old people, they always have some experience to talk about, whether it is right or wrong, whether it is in order, whether it is listening or not, these words will always give us some inspiration.

I remember an elder once said to me: Since ancient times, the yamen has been open to the south, and there is no reason to come in without money.

It is such a sentence that has to be summed up by many predecessors, and it can also be said that it was condensed by how many people condensed with their hard work and sweat, and it can be seen from the fact that some traitors in the shadow of the ancient court could not see how many people's lives were wasted for their own selfish desires.

I think that Zhu Yuanzhang created Jinyiwei to supervise hundreds of officials, but with the increasing power of Jinyiwei, all kinds of strange things have emerged, which is ridiculous.

A man with several small sticks in his hand stood in front of a man whose hands were chained to a large wooden stake more than eight feet high. The man holding the wooden stick smiled gloomily: "Boy, if you confess honestly at this moment, you don't have to suffer, otherwise you won't ......"

Listening to this voice, it was sharp and piercing, and the tone was quite strange, and the person who wanted to speak was no longer perfect. The sound echoed endlessly, and when he looked around, he saw that there were stone walls on all sides, only on the opposite wall was an iron door that was more than one person high, and a small window had opened in the upper half of the iron door, and it seemed that the two of them should be in a secret room.

"I said, I haven't read the scriptures!" It turned out that the person who was bound was returned to dust, but the person who spoke before was Qian Biao.

But said that Qian Biao was not angry but happy when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Boy, I'm afraid that you will say that you have read the scriptures and want to hand them over." Hehe, once that's the case, wouldn't it be fun!"

I saw that his right hand shook slightly, and the short stick in his hand opened, and it turned out that there were five short sticks, about a foot long and about a finger thick, each of which was connected by a thin rope, and two ropes were strung at each end. Qian Biao said with a smile: "There are a total of eighteen kinds of conventional torture instruments in our old team of Jinyiwei, and I will let you taste them one by one." ”

When Guichen heard him say it so easily, the killing intent in his heart suddenly rose, his eyes suddenly froze, Qian Biao suddenly fell into the ice vault, and a penetrating chill permeated his whole body, making him shiver unconsciously.

It turned out that although Guichen's true qi was lost at the moment, after all, he had practiced and killed for many years, although he was not as sharp and sharp as Fenglin, but he was also domineering and abnormal.

But after all, he was born in a factory guard, and he was used to seeing all kinds of heroes like a spring breeze, and there was no shortage of fierce and evil people, and he was frozen by Guichen at the beginning, but he immediately came back to his senses, and his backhand was a slap on Guichen's right cheek.

"Smack!" came a crisp sound, this time it hit extremely hard, and it hit solidly.

Guichen only felt a sharp pain in the right side of his face, and then his right eye couldn't see much clearly.

It turned out that Guichen didn't have true qi to protect his body, and this blow actually made half of his cheeks high and swollen, and even the corners of his eyes were bleeding.

Qian Biao lifted it lightly in his hand, and the five short sticks suddenly gathered into a bundle, only to see him suddenly stab Guichen in the abdomen, and said viciously: "How many fierce and vicious people have Lao Tzu seen! You little bastard still dare to play tricks with me?"

"Phew!" Guichen was in pain, only to feel that his internal organs were like turning over the river and the sea, he couldn't bear it, the pain was like it would spread, and gradually reached all parts of his body, tears flowed down at once, and a stream of acid water in his mouth was also spit out.

This time, it just spit on Qian Biao's face, and it just landed on his nose. Seeing that this Qian Biao should be a person who loves cleanliness by nature, when he was tortured in the prison, he also placed plain clothes, a clean basin, water, and a towel on the side.

Qian Biao came here unexpectedly, and he was embarrassed on the spot, but who is Qian Biao, how can he tolerate others doing such an insult to himself?

"You are looking for death!" Qian Biao was furious in his heart, looking at Guichen's face at the moment, he just wanted to slap him to death with one palm, but the scriptures did not arrive at this moment, if he killed him, he was afraid that he would be blamed by Xue Qingbi, so he had to suppress the anger in his heart, and said coldly: "Boy, don't blame me for not reminding you, today you are already a turtle in the urn, let's tell it honestly! Otherwise, you will feel good for a while!"

It turned out that the object in Qian Biao's hand was called "finger pinching", which was a cruel torture instrument, and when the torture was performed, the prisoner's fingers would be put into the middle gap in turn, so that the short stick would be tightened until the prisoner's fingers were clamped, and the prisoner's pain during the period could be described as miserable and heartbreaking.

Guichen moved his arm slightly, and said with a smile: "Don't treat me as a child, okay? Don't say that I don't have a scripture, but I have a scripture, once I give it to you, can I still live?"

"Hehe!" Qian Biao sneered: "I'm not afraid to tell you! If you hand over the scriptures, you will die, and if you don't hand over the scriptures, you will also die, anyway, if it falls into my hands, you don't want to live." ”

Guichen sneered and said, "The surname is Qian, let's make a bet, I bet that I will live longer than you, do you believe it?"

"Cut!" Qian Biao twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, and said with a mocking expression: "I only believe in myself, I bet you won't live as long as me! ”

"Ahh......h

But a terrible scream kept echoing in this small secret room, like a ghost crying wolf, and the truth made people cry when they heard it.

I don't know how long it took, Xie Donglai only heard the sound of chains dragging and dragging them, and hurriedly got up to look, only to see Guichen being dragged back and thrown directly on the stone bed. Seeing that Guichen had no reaction, he let Qian Biao fiddle with it, thinking that he had passed out, and he couldn't help but look at this side and frown for a while.

Qian Biao looked at Xie Donglai and sneered: "Don't worry, it won't be your turn soon!"

Xie Donglai laughed and said, "I haven't given in for so many years, do you think Lao Tzu will admit defeat in a few days?"

"Then let's ride a donkey and read the record book, and we'll see!"

Xie Donglai ignored him, just turned over and lay down and fell asleep.

There was silence for a while, and Xie Donglai got up, and when he saw Guichen still lying there, he couldn't help frowning: "Hey, boy, hurry up!"

After calling more than ten times in a row, there was no response to the dust, Xie Donglai was in a hurry, he couldn't wake up when he saw the call, so he had to slap the edge of the stone bed suddenly, and a small stone was slapped to the ground by him.

Xie Donglai picked up the stone, crushed it to the size of his thumb, looked at the location of Guichen and ejected it vigorously, and a crisp sound of gold and stone clashing suddenly appeared, but it turned out that the stone was ejected on the iron chain.

"Ahh

What he cared about the most was the burning sensation on his face, which seemed to have the power to transform people's minds, which made people's hearts ache.

Xie Donglai hurriedly asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

"I, I didn't, it's okay......" Guichen covered his face with his hands when he spoke, but as soon as he touched it, he couldn't stand the pain, so he hurriedly let go again, and when he saw that his hands were stained with blood, he couldn't help gritting his teeth and shouting: "Ah! my face is ......."

Xie Donglai listened to his words, his heart was full of anger, and he hurriedly said: "Boy, don't worry, move your body first, I think you must have been tortured by Qian Biao, at this moment your whole body is swollen, your bones are damaged, and your flesh and blood have become stiff, if you don't move, you will wake up tomorrow morning, and you will be afraid that you will die of pain!"

"Why? Why is my face bloody? and it hurts?"

Xie Donglai shouted: "Alas, it must have been the eunuch who inflicted a deadly punishment on you!"

Guichen was surprised: "Du, face punishment?"

"I just heard you say that your face is like a fire, and I think the Eight Achievements are tattooed on your face, and then smeared with gold juice, so that you will always be like this. Xie Donglai sighed and said, "This eunuch is so ruthless!"

Guichen was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "You mean that I will be like this for the rest of my life?"

Xie Donglai nodded silently, and sighed in a low voice: "Even if someone wipes the gold juice for you in the future, your cheeks are also damaged, and you will never be able to return to the same as before!"

"How can this be?" Guichen had already gotten up, but at this moment, he let out a breath, and fell back to the stone bed, only to see him muttering to himself: "Then what should she do......?"

"Don't be discouraged first!" Xie Dong came to see him like this lost soul, so he had to try to comfort: "Actually, we are not helpless, but we are just ......"

Seeing that there seemed to be a turn for the better in his words, Guichen got up and asked, regardless of the pain in his body, "Is there any way?"

"Huh?" Xie Donglai pondered for a while before saying: "According to what I think, your new injury is not long ago, and the gold juice has just been poured on for only two or three hours. ”

Guichen smiled bitterly: "Senior, what you said is equivalent to not saying it, I was relieved by that Laoshizi to dissolve my true qi, and I have no internal strength at this moment, how can I remove the golden juice?"

Xie Donglai took a few steps closer and said to Guichen in a low voice: "Let me tell you the truth, this Jiejin Dispersion can walk with the bloodline, so any martial arts are useless, I know that the Taiyi Heart Sutra you practice may not be an ordinary martial art, but I am afraid that this poison cannot be easily dissolved." But the fetal breathing technique I practiced is different, it can put people in the state of a fetus, so as long as you learn the fetal breathing technique, you can make your blood veins in an almost static state, and then you can use the exercises to dissolve it, wouldn't it be easy!"

"It's like we usually add sugar to the tofu flowers, and a few more stirs can fill the whole bowl of tofu flowers. Guichen lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly said: "I see, that's the case! It turns out that he slapped me back then because of this reason......

"Hey!" Xie Dong came to see that he was confused at this time, and couldn't help but hurriedly say, "What do you kid think?"

"Hahahaha!" Guichen smiled: "I know how to resolve this dissolution!"

Xie Donglai snorted coldly: "What do you kid know again?"

Guichen seemed to be in a good mood, and even beat the beat, and said with a smile: "I was also poisoned many years ago, and I was seriously injured, and then my father slapped me, I have always held a grudge, and now I think that he used this method to save me at that time!"

Xie Donglai was surprised: "He knew this method many years ago?"

Guichen ignored the pain and nodded: "It's a pity that you won't be too vain, and I don't have a scripture to teach you, otherwise you can use this method!"

"Well, it seems that you really don't have a scripture. Xie Donglai pursed his lips and said, "Let's not mention this matter for the time being, I'll teach you fetal breathing first!"

"Alas!" Guichen sighed: "Originally, I should have exchanged the scriptures with you, but unfortunately my practice of this martial art is different from ordinary people, I can only use it, I can't practice!"

Xie Donglai waved his hand and said, "Since you are his child, it doesn't hurt for me to pass on the fetal breathing technique to you!"

Guichen shook his head and said, "Since my predecessors have the grace of passing on the art to me, then I naturally can't hide it from you!" He paused for a moment before he said: "There are countless people who practice the Taiyi Heart Sutra in Guiwang City, but almost all of them focus on one kind of strength, and they are all according to the map, step by step in order to be safe. But I'm different, I'm my father directly passed on my too weak eight strengths, these forces have grown up with me since childhood, and I grew up together, they have been protecting me to grow up safely for many years, until in recent years I have really been able to control them, and turn them into my own true qi, my father has never taught me the change of strength, and he has not shown me the scriptures at all, so Xue Qingbi asked me for the scriptures, and I said that what I didn't tell was the truth. ”

"Needless to say. Xie Donglai raised his hand to signal him not to say any more, and only said: "Today, it is also a last resort to pass on your fetal breathing technique, and you have listened carefully: all living beings have qi, and life is in qi, and the reason why all living beings have consciousness and movement is the use of qi." If there is no air, it cannot move, and it will become a dead thing. All those who are stupid do not have spirits, and the spirits are gods, and sex is hidden in God, and there is no god as the master, then it is like wood and stone, and what is it if it is not death? However, this qi and the gods are endowed with the heavens, and they are molded by the heavens, so they want the gods to be at ease, just like the pregnant woman who is pregnant, giving up her qi, so that the qi can return to the root and hide, and there is no reason to do it. Knowing that the divine qi can live forever, clinging to nothingness, in order to nourish the divine qi, if there is no qi, the god is helpless, and if there is no god, there is no master. Since God is the Lord, there is air movement when God moves, and if God does not move, then Qi does not move, like a shadow follows the form. Although the scriptures clearly say that the spirit and qi are at the same time, and the yin and yang are in two columns, but the merit of cultivating the Tao is only in the unity of yin and yang, and sticking to nothingness, that is, to the extreme, to keep quiet, and it is also a means of unity......"

Xie Donglai spoke for half an hour, during which he talked and talked carefully. Guichen listened to him for a long time, and found that this article is the same as the Taiyi Heart Sutra, all of which are about the principle of divine energy, and he has already secretly paid attention to it, he has been practicing the Taiyi Heart Sutra for a long time, and practicing this fetal breath technique is simply a matter of course, and the result is twice the result with half the effort.

Only two hours have passed, and Guichen has already practiced this fetal breathing technique, Xie Dong was also amazed when he came to see it, and said: "You kid is really a genius! I have spent two years practicing this fetal breathing technique, and it has only taken a little success, and you only used two hours, it is really incredible!"

Guichen said with a smile: "I'm afraid it's still the effect of the Taiyi Heart Sutra! This martial art is exactly the same as the Taiyi Heart Sutra, both are Taoist principles, and it is not difficult to understand." But now that I've practiced it, let me try. As soon as he finished speaking, he ran the fetal breath technique, so that the qi and blood in his body were stagnant, and then he sat cross-legged, running the residual true qi in his body, holding Yuan Shouyi, and the true qi slowly running.

A full hour passed, and when Guichen opened his eyes again, the person was very different, and there was a glow in his eyes, which made Xie Donglai dazzle and avoid.

Xie Donglai looked at him in surprise, and when he finished his work, he said in surprise: "Are you okay?"

"It's no big deal!" Guichen moved slightly, nodded with a smile, and then bowed deeply, and said: "Thank you seniors for passing on my secret skills, I have recovered my strength at this moment, but the flesh wounds on my body are still a little swollen and painful, alas!"

It turned out that he suddenly remembered the marks left on his face, and he felt a little lost in his heart. Xie Donglai listened to his sigh, he didn't understand it at first, but after thinking about it, he already understood, after all, Guichen is still young, if he has this face, I'm afraid he won't be able to calm down anymore, right? ”

When he returned to his thoughts, he actually laughed out loud, and only stopped for a while, he saw Xie Donglai staring at him, with a puzzled look on his face, so he explained: "I see, thank you seniors for your guidance." That day, Xue Qingbi said that my martial arts were just learned from my father, and it seems that I have to integrate what I have learned here!"

"Here?" Xie Donglai said unhappily when he heard that he was going to practice here: "What are you crazy about, kid? You mean to fuse my martial arts with your father's?"

"There are few people here, and no one else comes to disturb it, of course it's a great place!" Guichen shook his head and said, "Oh!

"What? Do you still know the talisman of the Heavenly Master's Mansion?" Xie Donglai was horrified in his heart, you must know that the Heavenly Master's Mansion has always been included and not passed on, so it is impossible for outsiders to use this unique art.

Guichen shook his head slowly, and said in a deep voice: "It's not a secret, the talisman I learned is not from the Heavenly Master's Mansion, but from the senior Li Yi who created the Taiyi Heart Sutra!

Xie Donglai thought for a while, but shook his head and said: "In my opinion, this Xue Qingbi and Qian Biao are only here for cheats, if you and I will plan it, let's ......."

The voices of the two of them slowly lowered until finally they were like mosquito sounds, and they could no longer be heard!