Chapter 63: Peeling Back the Cocoon (1)

"Whew!"

"Whew...... Whew......"

The empty mountain before the night was silent and there was no one in sight, only the tired birds that returned late flapped their wings and made fluttering sounds. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info And on a wild path down the mountain, there was a sudden whistle.

The whistle was sharp and bright, and it spread far away, and then disappeared into the dense foliage of the forest, and returned to peace. Gu Yu put down his finger and said helplessly: "It seems that you are really angry and ignore me." ā€

"It's okay, I'll let Xiaoqing coax you. Xiao Zhai smiled.

"Heck, are you sure it's not a fight?"

"Fighting is also a form of de-escalation, you don't understand. ā€

As she spoke, the girl shook her arm slightly, and the green snake slid to the ground like water, looking at her master in bewilderment.

"You're suffocated at home, so I'll give you a day off, and I'll pick you up tomorrow. ā€

"Sizzle!"

When the green snake heard this, he was so happy that he immediately pretended to be a dog and circled around his master. After the other party agreed, he twisted his body and swam staggered towards the woods.

Gu Yu always felt that it was amazing, and couldn't help asking, "How can it understand?"

"It doesn't understand, but it understands what I mean. My snake control technique has extremely high requirements for the spirituality of snakes, otherwise it will be just a plaything and useless. ā€

Xiao Zhai continued, saying as he walked: "My master has a white snake that has been with her for thirty years, and when she died, the snake still had a lifespan, but it got into the fire and died in the end. ā€

"It's faithful and honorable. ā€

Gu Yu sighed, remembered something again, and asked, "By the way, where is the village where you live?"

"At the foot of Changbai Mountain, Songjiang River. ā€

"Changbai Mountain?"

He was stunned, he thought it was near Shengtian, but he didn't expect it to be from a neighboring province, and asked again: "Your master has accepted an apprentice?"

"Hmm. ā€

The girl plucked a leaf, played with it in her hand, and said, "She is not very old, and she always lives alone, only the white snake accompanies her." I stayed with her for seven years, and then I returned to Sheng Tian and rarely saw her every year. When I was in high school, I was even busier, and I didn't see each other until I was dying, and I felt very sad. ā€

"Yes, without the company of his wife and children, he will be lonely after all. ā€

"Wife and children?"

Xiao Zhai glanced back and said with a smile, "When did I say she was a man?"

"Uh......"

The thing was so embarrassed that he honestly shut his mouth and walked with his head down.

It is said that the two of them got out of the thorn forest and turned halfway up the mountain, and they had already reached the safe realm, and now this wild path is used by Gu Yu to pick up goods up the mountain, and it is very familiar.

So they were not in a hurry, they walked leisurely, and it was just a little dark, and they just went down the mountain.

The surroundings are still so deserted, there are no people, only the old widower's courtyard, alone poking on the opposite side. The two of them carried bags on their backs, with scratches on their arms and legs, and a potholed dirt road under their feet.

It's quieter than in the mountains, and the hustle and bustle of the city is completely muffled, and there's not a hint of bustle.

As I walked, I felt that the sky was getting darker. Gu Yu raised his eyes and saw that the dome was like ink, pouring down, and only a bright moon hung alone in the night sky.

He suddenly asked, "You say, are there any immortals up there?"

"There are only stones and stone pits on it. Xiao Zhai also looked up.

"So what are we doing now?"

He was a little unsure, this history has evolved for thousands of years, and now science is so advanced, a single moon landing program can kill all the big myths.

"We?"

Xiao Zhai did not hesitate and said with a smile: "Of course we are creating the future!"

…………

After they descended the mountain, they found a clinic to deal with it simply. Fortunately, the thorn was not poisonous, and it was OK to apply the potion.

Gu Yu didn't book a room before, because he didn't know when it would end, so he ran to the hotel and asked for a standard room. Neither of them was very hungry and went upstairs.

He waited in the hallway for a while, and Xiao Zhai went in first to change his clothes.

White T-shirt, loose slacks, and two sandals. She was so tall, with long, straight legs, and good skin, but she never showed her legs, wore no stockings, and didn't wear tight leggings.

Gu Yu met a few times, and the bottoms were not shorter than the knee.

At this time, the two of them were sitting on the sofa, this day was considered to be thrilling, and when they returned to the world, they were very relaxed. After chatting casually, Xiao Zhai dragged his backpack, took out the documents, and said, "You take a look first, and then talk about it." ā€

"What is this?"

He took a look, noticed the red pen mark first, and asked, "This is the time?"

"Well, I've broken it down into four phases in chronological order. ā€

"Oh......"

He nodded, and read it under the lamp.

The first manuscript, judging from the chronology, should be more than 2,200 years ago in the pre-Qin period. And the first sentence at the beginning of the manuscript made his heart skip a beat:

"Yu Wen ancients have real people, lifting heaven and earth, grasping yin and yang, exhaling ** breath, independent guarding the gods, muscles are one, so they can live the world, there is no end, this way is ......"

Gu Yu couldn't help but raise his head and look at Xiao Zhai. The girl held her white porcelain cup and drank the water one by one, ignoring it.

He wanted to ask, but he held back and continued.

……

In other words, what Xiaozhai sorted out is the development of the entire Taoist system.

As soon as we mention it now, it is the Quanzhen and Zhengyi factions, the Quanzhen Cultivation Inner Dan, and the Zhengyi Cultivation Talisman, and it seems that there is no other way. In fact, before the Tang Dynasty, there were few records of Neidan.

Xiao Zhai takes the pre-Qin period as the line and divides the first stage, called the antiquity period. It contains two parts, before and after the spring and autumn.

Before the Spring and Autumn Period, there was no saying of immortal Taoism, only humanity. Heaven walks the way of heaven, earth walks the way of the earth, and people walk the way. Heaven and earth are born because of people, and the avenue is used by people.

There are four kinds of humanity, True, Supreme, God, and Holy.

True people transcend the Three Realms, can stand for eternity, sit back and watch the universe live and die, and will be called immortals in later generations.

To people in heaven and earth, beyond the life limit, can live forever, and will be called earth immortals in later generations.

The gods and men are wonderful, although they may not be exempt from premature death, but they have a long life, and they will be called immortals in later generations.

The saint carries the essence, nourishes the whole life, can live to the fullest, and the future generations will be called human immortals.

There is another kind of special, cultivating the Yuan God without dying, but it can manifest during the day, turn things into bodies, have the realm of earth immortals, and have no body of earth immortals, and later generations are called ghost immortals.

After the Spring and Autumn Period, the immortal road rose, humanity declined, some were lost, some were hidden among the people, and they were scattered into the hands of the immortals. The two phases are mixed, thus deriving a series of Dao methods, such as the Sword Immortal Method, the Yin Immortal Method, the Divine Refining Qi Method, and so on.

During this period, cultivation is still based on physical immortality, and the form and spirit are all wonderful.

There is very little information in this part, Xiao Zhai is only circumstantial evidence, and there are many speculations, but she emphasized one point: the so-called Dao is simple, and the cultivation methods of ancient monks are extremely simple, and there are absolutely no such messy things.

The second stage is more than 1,700 years ago, which is called the Gu Immortal Period.

The Tao further declined, and Bigu and Qi became the main means of cultivation. It is recorded in the Taoist scriptures: "The herbivore is good at walking and foolish, the meat-eater is powerful and fierce, the grain-eater is wise but not long-lived, and the qi-eater is immortal." ā€

Another classic describes: "The person can contain jujube kernels, and he can not eat for five years and ten years." He can also be angry, and his body will not waver, and he will be like a dead man, and he can reach half a year for a hundred days. ā€

To put it simply, it is not to eat, but to feed on the aura of heaven and earth.

Although it is weaker and cumbersome than in antiquity, it is still orthodox. Practitioners can live hundreds of years, have a young appearance, and rarely look old. The Mighty One can be sanctified in the flesh, and the sun will ascend to heaven even to the chicken and dog.

And in the same way, it was also at this stage that the Wai Dan technique began to emerge gradually.

Waidan, that is, alchemy. There are three volumes of "Taiqing Golden Liquid Divine Pill Sutra", emphasizing that only by taking the golden pill can we be complete with the sky and live forever.

This argument is completely contrary to the humane system.

But what is even more strange is that at the end of the Han Dynasty, a guy named Wei Boyang wrote a book "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Deed", which systematically expounded the theory of Inner Dan and Outer Dan for the first time.

Not only that, but he also denounced all the Taoism other than Neidan as heresy, calling it "rebellious and deprived of cardinals", and it is a side door that cannot live forever.

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