Chapter 32, a thousand years in an instant

Liu Li said that there are two cheats in the small bag, one talks about how to exercise spiritual sense, and the other talks about how to raise a sword and practice sword. The old man knew that You Fang had such a sword, if he didn't guess wrong, there must be a way to introduce how to reopen the light and see the sky again in the cheats on sword raising and training, otherwise the sword would never be able to be taken out. The wild fox seemed to know what to do, but he didn't say it, so he could only hope for the guidance of Liu Li, the "generation of earth masters".

One of the things that You Fang is most interested in is how to make that sword overcome the mysterious "hourglass of time" phenomenon in archaeology and regain "freedom". Because the fresco demon realm he entered in the ancient tomb shocked him too much, he had already connected the sword with the woman struggling under the claws of the beast seen in the illusion.

Does the sharp claws of the magical beast symbolize the hourglass of time that is ready to devour the ancient sword? And the magic realm of time is like a freezer, does it symbolize that the sword is sealed in a wooden box and it is difficult to be free? The demon realm seen by the Yuan Shen seems absurd and bizarre, but it is not meaningless, and it must be subtly related to a person's knowledge and inner thoughts.

In You Fang's eyes, that ancient sword was no longer just a cold blade or an antique, but had a very emotional association, and deep down in his heart gave it an image, as if it had some kind of spiritual surname with vitality. He's not just trying to restore an antique, it's also feeling like saving a life. But he was not in a hurry, he planned to completely heal the wounds of the Yuan Shen, reach a perfect peak state of body and mind, choose the best time and environment, and then touch the two cheats. At this moment, the wandering side is much more cautious, and people have grown up in lessons.

Before leaving Beijing, he had paid half a year's rent in advance, and the place he rented was no different from when he left, but there was a layer of dust in the house, but the You Fang who came back changed a lot. The house was cleaned up, the sheets and quilts were cleaned, and the next day was to recuperate the wounds of the original god wholeheartedly.

It is not difficult to have a Tao as a person, and the injury of You Fang's Yuan Shen seems to be troublesome, but in fact, his spiritual sense "cultivation" is still very shallow, and the injury he caused is not serious. In the morning, I went to Yuyuantan Park to practice boxing, and at noon and at night I practiced the Xiaolei Yin Mantra to feel the difference in the disturbance of the demon realm in different yin and yang earth qi environments.

The magical realm that disturbed the mind in the fixed realm changed, no longer a field of yin wind on all sides, but a frozen world that the mural had changed. You Fang is really thinking about what he wants, what You Fang is thinking about now is how to "rescue" the sword, the demon of murder and arson has long faded, and the new injury suffered by the original god is the imprint left in the ancient tomb. From being silent to gradually being able to reactivate the rolling thunder, it took You Fang nearly ten days to heal his Yuan Shen injury.

I felt so good after recovery, I was more energetic, more perceptual than I was before the injury, and I had an indescribable feeling. Originally, I was successful in practicing Neijiaquan, but I felt that my body and mind were full of vitality, and after this strange experience, it seemed that the surrounding environment also had a spiritual surname that I had never noticed before, and it became vivid in the strange sense.

For example, when you meditate in the room, you can sense the existence of many things in the room through your "spiritual sense", and you don't need to see or touch it with your eyes. On the other hand, his internal kung fu has also broken through a layer of realm, completely breaking through the stage of "walking at will, running from the heart", and touching the threshold of "responding to touch, sending with feeling", the growth of internal strength is not very exaggerated, but the breakthrough in the realm is something he never expected.

The inner kung fu practice to this realm, facing an insurmountable barrier, many people no matter how they practice, it is just like this, it is nothing more than continuing to boil the muscles and bones to accumulate experience, to the relative limit of flesh and blood, and can not go further in their lives, so boxing is afraid of being less strong, and martial arts are not the older and more powerful. As for the superior realm, it can no longer be summarized simply by martial arts, not only the secret exercises, but also the surname and chance of enlightenment, not what the master wants to teach, the apprentice can learn.

You Fang's internal kung fu was learned from the third uncle, and the third uncle himself barely reached the threshold of "responding to touches and feeling with feelings" in his lifelong martial arts. You Fang once asked what it was, but the third uncle's answer was very mysterious, and the most profound experience was not in the fighting skills, but in the changes of the people themselves, more appropriately, the feeling of the world is different, in short, it is not easy to describe. You Fang didn't seem to understand what he heard at first, but now he finally has a little personal experience, which is really hard to describe.

If you want to cross the threshold of "responding to the touch and feeling with the feeling", and truly reach the realm of free use, there are all kinds of secret exercises, which are almost impossible to see in the public fist scripture and sword spectrum. The reason is not only because of the concealment, many of the contents seem magical and close to absurd to outsiders, and the exercises described are almost incredible, and they are indeed not suitable for public circulation, otherwise it will cause a lot of unnecessary misunderstandings. Moreover, it is impossible to practice if the realm is not reached, and some people's specious imitation is easy to cause accidents, which may bring all kinds of criticism and trouble to the public teacher.

The book of cheats for raising swords and refining swords left by Liu Li may teach these contents, right? ――You Fang guessed so, and at the same time there was a sense of expectation.

The injury of the Yuan Shen has healed, the internal kung fu has gone further, You Fang is finally about to open the "secret book", and now he is much more careful, and he no longer dares to be careless. Liu Li said that these two cheats should be read at night with an oil lamp, and they can only be read once, is there something they have done, such as writing with some kind of special ink, and the handwriting will gradually fade after seeing the light? You Fang guessed all kinds of possibilities, so let's do as the old man said, and this time he made full preparations.

The easiest way is to find a bowl to decorate with salad oil, but you Fang deliberately went to Panjiayuan to buy a celadon oil lamp in the Republic of China, and went to the farmers' market on the outskirts of the city to buy rapeseed oil for lighting in the past. Of course, it's not that he hasn't moved anything else, even the digital camera is ready, so if the handwriting on the book really disappears, it's always okay to take a picture in time, right?

The old methods can't fight the new technology, some old tricks are easy to deal with in modern society, as long as you are prepared, you can always think of a way to crack it, after all, the times are advancing.

Everything was ready just ten days after he returned to Yanjing, on August 24, 2010, the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, known as the Ghost Festival. On this day, you Fang did not eat except drinking tea and rinsing his mouth, took a shower at noon, changed into clean and soft clothes, and waited until almost 11 o'clock in the evening, turned off all the lights and appliances in the house, opened a small crack in the window and closed the curtains, burned incense and cleaned his hands and lit the oil lamp

Everything is in accordance with the metaphysics of feng shui, Liu Li said "you can't see it during the day, you can only watch it at night with an oil lamp", isn't it to require the night air in the environment to be thick and yang, and the yin qi is gloomy and peaceful? Why do you have to close the curtains on the sixth floor when you open the window with a small crack to open the night air and not disturb it indoors? There is an old saying in the living chapter of the Feng Shui Bureau, "The wandering soul is free from peeping and the mind is calm, and the curtain should be hung when reading at night".

After doing all this, pranayama and concentration entered a state of concentration that seemed to be fixed but not fixed, and practiced gong to nourish qi to collect the mind, and after the hour entered the sub-hour, You Fang reached out and opened the yellow silk bag on the table.

The two books were not wrapped together, Liu Li first rolled one of them around with yellow silk, and then went around to wrap the other, so after opening it, he only saw the book outside. The thin volume is only about 20 pages, and it is very common to have ordinary manuscript paper, which is bound with cotton threads. In the book, the font is much larger than that of ordinary lead printing, and the entire "secret book" does not exceed 5,000 words.

This book should be written by Liu Li himself, as the saying goes, the text is like its person, but You Fang felt a little surprised, Liu Li left him the impression that the gods were chattering about the old and not serious, but the calligraphy was upright and rigorous, and even with a strong and murderous penmanship, it can also be seen that it was written by a person who practiced martial arts, and the control of wrist strength when the pen was put down was very round and free.

When you open the first page, you Fang's mind is completely attracted by the content, and he turns back unhurriedly and calmly, and the speed is quite well controlled. It is true that this book can only be read once, because when opened, it decays at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, like leaves that wither through autumn, wither through winter, and turn into spring mud the following year.

The first page of the book was opened, and the speed of decay was also the fastest, and by the time the last page was finished, You Fang no longer had to close the book, and after a while, the whole book had turned into a pile of yellow and black scraps, emitting a stale smell on the table. You Fang secretly said that it was a fluke, Liu Li's means were really amazing, fortunately he had made sufficient preparations to calmly read this cheats, if he opened it casually, I am afraid that he would not even be able to turn it to the end, and it would be too late to take pictures with a digital camera.

The scene in front of me is very similar to the most extreme "hourglass" phenomenon encountered by archaeological excavators, the things taken out of the sealed ancient tombs were intact at the time, but they quickly decayed and damaged, as if a thousand years had suddenly flashed by in the snap of a finger. But the two cheats written by Liu Li are absolutely brand new, they can't be antiquities, how did he get them?

You Fang also had a natural sense of spiritual sense when he opened the yellow silk, and the book was permeated with a rich yin qi, even heavier than the yin qi of the sword in his backpack, the difference was that this yin qi floated but did not condense, and it diverged very quickly after opening. Could this be the principle of the "hourglass of time" phenomenon that archaeologists understand and overcome?

According to the general view of the academic community, ancient objects have been well preserved mainly because of the stable temperature and humidity in the environment, the absence of light radiation, lack of oxygen or isolation of the air. But whether it's science or superstition, there's one phenomenon that can't be avoided, and once these things are revealed, the traces of time that have been erased in their burial will quickly appear.

The most popular explanation is rapid oxidation, but this cannot be solved from the point of view of avoiding oxidation alone. For example, in ancient times, it was very popular to sacrifice grains, and many ancient tombs have found well-preserved ancient grains, which can be used for cooking when they are first unearthed, but will turn into char-like powder within a few minutes. If they are placed in a closed container filled with lazy gas, the rate of oxidation may be slowed down, but the hourglass of time also exists. These grains will naturally dehydrate, fibrosis, decompose and fragment in the container, and finally remain unpreserved.

But not everything will be like this, in the case of chance, some precious cultural relics can also be preserved intact, but it is difficult to explain this kind of chance, different situations are difficult to repeat, and different materials are not the same. You Fang explained to Wu Lao the reason for the material, not with modern chemical theory, but from the five elements theory in traditional feng shui metaphysics.

The five elements belong to the wood utensils, itself is formed by the vitality of the qi, sealed by the yin qi, once the sky is seen again by the yang qi, the vitality is quickly lost, and the speed of decay is also the fastest. This situation occurred in a Tang Dynasty sandalwood handle double-eared six-ring tin staff unearthed in the underground palace of Famen Temple in Shaanxi, and the handle part was not preserved.

As for the five elements of gold artifacts after being sealed by the yin qi, the situation is similar, by the yang energy in the external environment, they will also decay quickly, just like the entire burial time has been completed in a snap of the fingers, and the damage is different according to the different materials, but most of them are much more moderate than the five elements of wood, for example, the chemical quality of gold is very stable, even if it is not the same for thousands of years, so even if it has undergone this process, it can be well preserved.

As for the earthy artifacts of the five elements, they are not afraid of being rushed by yang qi, but there is a strange phenomenon of "annealing" in the environment where yin qi is sealed. The most typical is pottery, experienced archaeologists know that when they open a dark ancient tomb and find that there is pottery inside, such as Tang Sancai, they can't be picked up directly by hand at the first time, because the utensils at that time may be very soft, or even broken when pinched.

Wu Lao has encountered this phenomenon, once entered the tomb excavation site, the archaeological team next to him reached out to touch a terracotta figurine, but the finger directly poked into the terracotta figurines, and the utensils were as soft as wet mud that had not been fired. If this happens, it means that this tomb is very well sealed and has been very old.

The way to deal with "annealing" is to try not to touch it, and wait for the air in the tomb to circulate, and the outside yang energy will gradually seep in, and the pottery will harden again, which is called "tempering and returning yang" in the jargon of the book. Some tomb robbers do not understand this, so they inadvertently destroy many precious artifacts in the process of robbing tombs.

Even more interesting is jade, which also softens its surface in an environment where yin qi is sealed, and the process is not so obvious than that of pottery. For example, the hardness of Hetian jade is very high under normal circumstances, and ordinary knives are filed, but if it is taken out from an ancient tomb that has been sealed for many years, and a knife is used to scratch it, it is likely to leave obvious nicks like scratching the tabletop, which indicates that this jade is "annealed" in burial.

If you want to speed up, you can use the method of "water and fire attack", which is to set up a large pot and put water, and cook it for a few days and nights to return to normal hardness. These phenomena are not easy to explain, but it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, because it exists objectively.

Although methods such as tempering can protect things such as pottery, they cannot protect many of the paintings on the surface of pottery, and other artifacts in the ancient tomb will also be damaged. Therefore, the most effective way for modern archaeologists to protect many known ancient burials is to seal them in situ, and there is no completely effective means of preserving artifacts after opening. In the fifties of the last century, under the instigation of Wu Han, Guo Moruo and others, the country opened the tomb of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty is a lesson, many precious cultural relics have not been well preserved, influenced by the dogmatic ideas of the time, many "mysterious" phenomena in the excavation process have not been recorded.

The communication between You Fang and Wu Lao was very rewarding to each other, and I felt a lot. They only mentioned the three caste artifacts of wood, metal, and earth in the five elements, as well as the two castes of water and fire, why didn't they say it? Because water and fire are invisible, a demonstrative pronoun often said by the Chinese is called "east and west" instead of "north and south", because the east belongs to wood and west belongs to gold, tangible things, while the south belongs to fire and the north belongs to water, the invisible phase.

Today, seeing this secret book decay and shatter in front of his eyes, You Fang recalled the discussion with Wu Lao, it seems that many artifacts that should have been decayed have been preserved for thousands of years, and the reason is probably that they were infiltrated by the rich and static yin qi, and they were stagnant and angry. The so-called "vitality" is different from the simple concept of yin and yang in Feng Shui, it refers to a kind of spiritual surname in the environment that grows, grows, and changes, and dialectically contains the meaning of going from birth to death - this is the concept full of vitality.

When the separation of yin and yang never changes, anger will also stagnate. This is not only the reason why many artifacts have been preserved for a long time, but also the reason for their rapid decay after they have regained sight, and the two are actually the same, at least they can be explained in the metaphysical theory of Feng Shui, let alone investigate whether this explanation is really scientific.

There is knowledge inside and outside the book! In addition to the method of exercising spiritual consciousness recorded in the cheats, even in the process of opening the cheats, people with a heart can learn a lot of things, for example, You Fang has figured out a lot of problems that he thought about before, but it is a pity that he can no longer communicate and discuss with Mr. Wu Pingdong.

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