Chapter 39: The Secret Record of the Shangqing

"Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing" is commonly known as "Shangqing Secret Record", mainly including respectful invitation, contemplation, recitation of jade scriptures, recitation of praise, calligraphy and so on.

In layman's terms, it is cultivation, qi cultivation, chanting mantras and drawing talismans.

It is the most basic and important cultivation secret method of Taoism, especially the Maoshan School.

When Sigong first said it, Ye Feng really regarded Sigong as a beggar who sold secrets, but after Sigong really took out the secret record of Shangqing, Ye Feng found that things were really not as simple as he imagined.

A crumpled book, the cover is the six big characters of "Shangqing Dadong True Scripture", and there are no bells and whistles.

It's simple, but it contains vicissitudes.

The yellowed pages are followed by small notes written in a pen at the back of each word, which seem to be annotations made by Sigong's father-in-law.

Maybe the old man's education level is not high, maybe in order to make it easier for the fourth prince or later generations to understand, the annotations are mostly in the vernacular, which makes Ye Feng easier to understand.

The Taoist secret technique, the method of cultivation, is actually similar to the nameless technique practiced by Ye Feng.

They all collect the essence of heaven and earth, form a cycle in the tendons and dantians, and then use this mysterious power to strengthen their bodies.

It's just that the cultivation method of the Shangqing Secret Record is more about the cultivation of divine consciousness, and the cultivation of the Dao method is just an introductory foundation, an improvement method, and then it is gone.

Although the nameless exercises in Ye Feng's mind were mysterious and mysterious, fortunately, after Ye Feng had eaten it thoroughly, he could still find out what to do once he reached the bottleneck, after breaking through the bottleneck, the next layer was another cultivation method.

And there is no secret record of the Shangqing at all, which means that you can practice casually, anyway, it depends on time, and whoever practices for a long time will be criticized.

"Sigong, how can you practice this thing? One foundation, one promotion, and then practice casually? This thing can't become an immortal if you practice it to death, and those who can rely on this thing to become a half-immortal are all gods." ”

Sigong sighed, nodded and said: "That's true, there's no way, I remember that when my father-in-law passed me this secret technique on his deathbed, I also asked my father-in-law, and my father-in-law said that it might be that the follow-up cultivation method was lost." ”

"However, even if there is no follow-up, after decades of cultivation, according to my father-in-law's words, how can I deal with a bloody corpse, oh, this bloody corpse is the so-called purple zombie, according to the legend, it belongs to the existence second only to the drought fish. ”

"yes, it's pretty impressive. But why do I think that the cultivation methods written on this are similar to what I am practicing now?"

Ye Feng looked left and right, and felt that there was basically no difference between the principles of the two.

Could it be that now, what he is cultivating is the legendary cultivation of the true exercises?

Ye Feng's heart was beautiful, and the fourth prince coughed and said: "Ahem, this, it's impossible, isn't it? Aren't you practicing internal family skills? Although the internal family skills of national art also pay attention to qi cultivation and self-cultivation, they are completely different from Taoist qi training and internal skills. Here's how it works... ”

After the fourth prince told it, Ye Feng probably understood. To put it simply, the human body is like a computer, and internal strength and qi training methods are like optimization software, which increases the speed of the computer by constantly updating the system and optimization.

The internal power of Guoshu is like compression software, which continuously compresses the space to improve the running speed of the computer.

Although there is not much difference between the two in a short period of time, and even the effect of the national art may be more obvious, but when it is compressed to the extreme, there will always be a time of stagnation.

Optimization, on the other hand, has no end to being updated from generation to generation as technology improves.

Therefore, the Qi cultivation and internal force cultivation methods are obviously more promising.

However, with the advent of the era of the end of the law, the world has changed greatly, the internal strength, the so-called qigong, has disappeared, and the qi practitioners have also withdrawn from the stage.

Perhaps because of this, there were no more ways to advance to cultivation in the Shangqing Secret Record, because they were basically not used.

As for the difference between qi training and internal strength, Sigong couldn't say clearly, because he didn't know what internal strength was all about.

"Don't tell me, you kid, what you practice is not internal skills, but internal skills that have been lost?"

"Yes, what I cultivate is internal strength. ”

After hearing this, Sigong suddenly coughed violently: "Ahem, cough, cough.... , you kid, you really want to scare my old man to death. Well, since you're practicing internal strength, then maybe you can leave this cultivation method alone, and it probably won't be of much use to you. ”

"I've pondered this before, I think, this internal strength is similar to practicing qi, otherwise why did people in the past say that internal strength is called qigong? The internal force practiced is also called internal qi, anyway, it's all qi, it is estimated to be about the same, or you try, find a way to draw a talisman, use your internal force to draw a talisman to try, if it works for your kid, it will save a big thing. ”

"yes, I can try to draw a talisman. Sigong, do you have this... ”

"Of course there is, although I don't have an apprenticeship and I don't have any talent, but I can be regarded as a descendant of the Maoshan faction. You see, this is the tip of the ear of the best snow wolf king, and the most spiritual is it, which Zhang Yuting gave to my father-in-law back then. ”

"This is a thousand-year-old piece of cinnabar, which was also left by my father-in-law, and there is only this last kilogram left. There are also these five knives of yellow paper, the best mica male yellow paper, which was left by my stepfather. ”

Seeing that Ye Feng's gluttonous saliva was about to stay, the old man laughed, flipped his wrist, and put the thing on the counter.

He took out a brush from the drawer under the counter, a box of ink and a knife of yellow table paper, all of which were the most ordinary kinds, and at first glance they looked like ordinary old men who had nothing to use for themselves.

"That good stuff can't just be used by you to practice. To be honest, you can't use this yellow paper, it's a bit of a waste newspaper, you take it and practice your hands first. After practicing, try it with this yellow paper, and when you leave, these good things will be given to you, don't be greedy. ”

"I'm half an old man, it's useless to ask for these, but you can't waste them, you can use a little less of these good things, and it's not easy to buy them if you have money. ”

"When you are proficient in drawing talismans to a certain extent, then use this kind of treasure, and then the drawing will not be a talisman, but a talisman treasure, which can be used as a one-time life-saving magic weapon. ”

"Sigong, thank you. Ye Feng suddenly looked grateful.

"You're welcome, I just see that your kid is pleasing to the eye, and when I leave in the future, remember to bury me next to my father-in-law's grave, not far, just behind my house." When are you free, if you can put incense on the two of us again, burn some paper money and spend it, even if the fourth prince is not in vain. ”

"Don't worry, Sigong, you will definitely live a long life. And don't worry, you will live in our house in the future, and I will give you a pension. ”

"Don't be, boy, my old man doesn't need you to provide for me, my body is very good, it's no problem to live to a hundred. When I can't move, I'll look for you again, and don't disown the old man when the time comes. ”

"That's impossible, there are no ungrateful people in our Ye family. Ye Feng insisted on saying, and after hearing this, Sigong waved his hand.

"Okay, let's do it first, you practice your hands first, and we'll see if I'm right. If qigong can really be used as mana, then you kid will earn it. But it's also fate, it's really rare to be able to come up with such a freak as you in these years, I just don't know where you can go in the future. ”

"Take one step at a time, you said the old words, a good life, enjoy it first. ”

Ye Feng was practicing his hands on the waste newspaper while smiling and chatting.

Suddenly thinking of something, the brush in his hand paused slightly: "By the way, Fourth Prince, I always listen to your old man's mouthful of a father-in-law, what is the name of your father-in-law? Why haven't I heard from the people in the village?"

"That's, how can they hear it? Your grandfather may not know, my father-in-law left early, I still remember that it was the year before your grandfather was born, do you think what they can know? You don't know my father-in-law's name, his old man's name is Lei Gang. ”