Chapter 477: The Path of Cultivation

Li Shaoyang was holding this thin Tao Te Ching, but he was not looking at Lao Tzu Daozun's words, but looking at the red-letter notes in it fascinated.

These notes in the Tao Te Ching are from a guy who calls himself Lu Shimen.

Lu Shimen claimed to be the head of the Ministry of Rites during the Yongle period, originally the official position of Zheng Liupin, and was responsible for entertaining foreign guests at that time in the Ministry of Rites, because he did something wrong once, he was blamed by the emperor and almost lost his life.

Director Lu felt that it was not interesting for these six-grade petty officials to be, and he was proficient in medical classics and Taoist scriptures, so he found Zheng He, recommended himself, and boarded the treasure ship to the West.

As a result, he was unlucky, and the boat he was on had an accident off the coast of East Africa, and he had no choice but to enter the "wild land". Unlike those sailors, after returning to the motherland with no hope, Lu Shimen did not live with the local "barbarians", but found a cave, and looked at the Daozang rescued from the shipwrecked ship when he had nothing to do.

According to his account in the Tao Te Ching: "I have read through the Tao Zang for ten years, and I deeply think that the way of heaven is ruthless...... Throw me into this wild and ghostly land, it is useless to ask for heaven, and there is no way to enter the earth...... The only way to read the Three Qing Taoists is to relieve boredom. ”

Lu Shimen is in that part of East Africa, he is not used to eating and drinking, and he has no other pursuits, so he can only look at these Taoist treasures. It was very boring at first, but after reading it for the first time in four years, I had a little insight and then read it a second time.

It only took two years to read through the second time, and then the third time, and the shipwrecked sailors respected him as a scholar, so they kept him eating and drinking, and Lu Shimen read the Tao Zang in addition to eating and sleeping, and it was getting faster and faster.

This person was originally a master of the Dao Classics, and he was also very smart, so after reading it like this, ten years later, he had memorized the important classics of the Daomen. In this quiet cave in East Africa, Lu Shimen gradually found a clue to the cultivation of the Daomen.

Li Shaoyang's heartbeat accelerated when he saw this, and when he turned the last page, it was a full page of self-description, which had to be thousands of words.

Lu Shimen said here: "The method of Taoist cultivation is hidden in the classics, but the method of its own sect is also the most inconspicuous, which is a set of meditation techniques sandwiched in the ancient book of the Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra. ”

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Li Shaoyang put down the Tao Te Ching, excitedly turned out the "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra" he had just read and found the page that Lu Shimen said, and sure enough, in the commentary, there was only 300 words of "Sitting and Forgetting the Sutra".

The 300 words sandwiched in the Yin Fu Sutra only talk about one thing, and that is how to meditate and breathe!

Li Shaoyang carefully copied this passage of "Sitting and Forgetting the Sutra", and then looked through Lu Shimen's notes.

This guy is probably too bored in East Africa, and he actually started from "Sitting and Forgetting the Sutra", and found a step-by-step cultivation method in tens of thousands of classics.

Li Shaoyang also finally understood that the real cultivation method of Daomen was deliberately dispersed and sandwiched in a messy scripture, if it weren't for Lu Shimen's idle egg pain, it took ten years to finally find a clue, that is, to kill him, it would not be able to find out.

After reading Lu Shimen's notes, Li Shaoyang couldn't help but put the Tao Te Ching on the bookshelf, knelt on the ground respectfully, kowtowed three times, and prayed silently in his heart: "Although Master Lu, you have been confused in East Africa all your life, and you can't find anyone to share your discovery, I have no intention of getting your inheritance today, and I am half of your disciple." ”

After he bowed, according to Lu Shimen's statement, he started with "Sitting and Forgetting the Sutra", and then "Qi Cultivation Formula", "Fangmen Law", and "Six Classics...... and even "Yin and Yang Wan**", "Shen Chanting Sutra", ......

These dozens of texts are mixed with hidden exercises, and when put together, they are the basic methods of "meditation, anger, gathering, nourishing, channeling, and merging" -- a total of six realms.

According to Lu Shimen, once these six basic realms are achieved. Then even if you get started, you have officially entered the path of cultivation, and then you will go to cultivate the classics in the Dao Gate in the future, and you will naturally have the law to follow, step by step.

Li Shaoyang's heart was itching, so he immediately took out the meditation and forgot the scriptures, starting with the simplest.

The whole article in the Sutra of Meditation is about how to meditate, it is divided into several parts, the first is to choose the environment for meditation, the requirements are that there are mountains and rivers, the peak of meditation, and there must be aura around it.

Of course, Li Shaoyang couldn't find such a beautiful place, so he sat cross-legged in the basement.

The second part of the meditation is about the posture of meditation, although the number of words is not much, but it is very detailed, the human body is divided into three parts from top to bottom, representing the three parts of "heaven, earth and man", and the requirement is "heaven and earth are peaceful", that is, to keep the upper body upright, the lower body to sit flat, and the overall momentum to be quiet and worry-free.

The cultivation of the Dao Sect does not have any specific constraints on posture, but it has high requirements in the three aspects of form, qi and spirit, so whether the person who has attained the Tao is lying or sitting, or even lying on his stomach, as long as the form and qi spirit arrive, the feeling will come.

The last part of the Sutra is also the most written and ink, which talks about how to calm the mood and achieve the realm of selflessness and carelessness. The requirement is "nothing to be tired in the heart, to reach the realm of emptiness." ”

This means to calm the mind to nothing, to reach the state of "emptiness", so that the aura of heaven and earth will smoothly enter the body, if you think of delicious food when you meditate, then you can only absorb the "qi of grains", if you think of beautiful women, then you can only get "obscene qi".

According to the scriptures, Li Shaoyang pressed the tip of his tongue between his upper and lower teeth, inhaled three times, and then exhaled once, gradually calming his heart and forgetting those troublesome things. What is the end of the world, Xiangjiang negotiations, Wang Yaoji, Zhao Ling'er...... Forget all of that.

In a strange sensation, his breathing became slower and slower, but the breath grew longer with each swallow.

The first realm of meditation is about breathing and swallowing, while the second realm of "anger" is about choosing from the absorbed aura of heaven and earth, giving up dross and choosing the most essence of aura for swallowing. In this way, the number of breaths decreases, but more and more essence is absorbed.

After repeating this, when you reach the state of "vitality" and then return to your original breathing speed, you can get a large amount of heaven and earth essence every moment.

It's a pity that there is no essence of heaven and earth in the basement where Li Shaoyang meditates, only a cloud of moisture.

Li Shaoyang's breathing became slower and slower, because he couldn't get the so-called essence of heaven and earth, he was immersed in meditation, gradually blocking the external pores, and relying on a strange breath in his body to swallow out.

Even what he didn't know was that this breath was the "spiritual power" from the little finger of his left hand.

In fact, when he got this system and comprehended the spiritual mindfulness technique, Li Shaoyang had a strange and mysterious power in his body, this power came from the golden light of the little finger of his left hand, but he didn't know the method of swallowing, and this time he finally obtained the method of cultivation from the Taoist classics, so this mysterious power finally entered the orderly cultivation.

Swallowing again and again, it was completely carried out in the body, and this originally rough spiritual power was gradually diluted, and then started from the little finger and scattered all over the body.

Li Shaoyang only felt that his abdomen and even all parts of his body seemed to be full of qi, he was like a balloon-like word that swelled from the inside out, but he was meditating, unable to open his mouth and spit it out.

He panicked in a state of sleep, and if he exploded like a balloon like this, what would he do?

But the more I thought about it, the more I couldn't open my mouth to breathe. In this way, the breath in Li Shaoyang's body swelled more and more, so much so that he felt like a hydrogen balloon floating.

At the most critical moment, there was a rumbling sound in his stomach, which suddenly reached the limit, and a surging whistling sound came out of his mouth.

This whistling sound lasted for more than half an hour, emptying the exhaust gas in his body, and Li Shaoyang suddenly felt a little different. Now when you breathe out and breathe, the breath in your body can instantly travel all over your body, which is very similar to the original "spiritual thought" skill, but spiritual thinking is chaotic everywhere, but this time it is an orderly and heavy wandering, as if the body meridians are also breathing with themselves.

It feels ...... It turned out that he broke through the three small realms of meditation, anger, and qi gathering in one breath, and directly entered the stage of "nourishing qi".

It's really amazing, the breath that is growing and growing in my body is actually the golden light from my fingers, this kind of cultivation method can be said to be a combination of systems and exercises, unprecedented.

Li Shaoyang was thinking about it when there were three gentle knocks on the door outside, it was Isabella's code, and someone was looking for him.

Li Shaoyang pushed the door out and looked at Isabella who was guarding the door for himself with emotion.

Isabella hurriedly said: "It's been three days, Wang Fengyue has looked for you several times, but this time I can't stop you." ”

Saying that, she was still a little worried: "I heard movement inside just now, are you okay?" ”

Isabella heard the whistle after her success, and Li Shaoyang said softly: "It's okay, I'll go up to see Feng Shao, help me prepare first, I want to take a bath." ”

His whole body is now stinking, and when the gas just now turned into a whistling sound, he was forced out with some dirty things in his body.

After taking a bath in a comfortable wooden barrel, Li Shaoyang saw Wang Fengyue refreshed. This guy is tired, he hasn't even shaved his beard, and he looks very embarrassed.

Li Shaoyang sat down slowly, motioned for Jiu'er to serve tea, and then asked, "Feng Shao, what's wrong with you?" ”

Wang Fengyue looked at him in surprise when he came out, and couldn't help but say at this time: "You are seriously ill, why do you look different from before." ”

Li Shaoyang smiled: "What's the difference?" ”

Wang Fengyue touched the stubble on her chin: "I can't say it, but it's just different, it's like ...... It seems like...... By the way, it's as if the treasure has been opened. ”

This metaphor is very appropriate, Li Shaoyang invited him to sit down and drank a cup of tea peacefully.

Wang Fengyue reluctantly settled down, rested for a while before gritting her teeth and said: "That woman came out, fuck, it's really unlucky, I'm investigating the matter of the Nine Dragons Sect, and she actually came out!" ”

Li Shaoyang was confused: "Which woman?" What does it mean to come out? ”

Wang Fengyue said hesitantly: "It's Wang Yaoji's woman, she has been in retreat in my practice room these days, and she came out yesterday morning, and she was very arrogant as soon as she came out. ”

Wang Yaoji has just come out of retreat, no wonder there is no news of her these days.

Li Shaoyang looked at Wang Fengyue: "You are also interesting, you were expelled from the house by the old man, and now you are still doing things for the Wang family." ”

Wang Fengyue touched her chin embarrassedly: "You know, in fact, the old man is also in a dilemma now, his old man told me, let me listen to you." ”

Li Shaoyang pondered for a moment: "Since this is the case, then I'll go for a trip." ”