In the middle of the night of early spring in 1992, it was warm and cold, people were still drunk and dreaming of death, and occasionally a few pedestrians hurried by on the street, and no one paid attention to the "corpse" on a small hill by the Xiangshui River. This "corpse" has a big head, its eyes, nose and mouth are full of bruises, the sternum is broken, and the abdomen is collapsed.

Ye Zifeng looked up at the midnight sky, the sky was unusually high, as far away as the stars and the moon were about to fall, and the stars and the moon were exceptionally bright. Ye Zifeng looked down at his "corpse" on the ground again, the "corpse" was still lying on the small hill by the Xiangshui River, just like this, facing the brilliance of the stars and the moon, without a trace of vitality.

Ye Zifeng knew that this was the scene when his soul left his body when he was dying. I've read it more than once in books before. The book says that when a person is dying, his soul can see his body when he leaves the body, and he can see the grief of his relatives and friends. The book also says that people can see the past of their lives when they are dying, why don't they see it? As soon as he thought of this, Ye Zifeng saw the old Taoist master.

Ye Zifeng saw himself and the old Taoist master sitting on a boulder in a mountain peak and canyon, Ye Zifeng saw that he was only three or four years old, the old Taoist master was wearing a green shirt, old but very clean, and his hair was also very clean, but his expression was hazy, which made people not real, and there was a feeling that he was very close to you and far away. Ye Zifeng sat opposite the old Taoist master and listened carefully to the old Taoist master's nagging:

"To the extreme, keep quiet. All things work together, and I look at it. There are many things and things, and each one returns to its roots. In the final analysis, it is said to be quiet, and it is called revenge. Returning to life is said to be normal, and knowing is often said to be clear. I don't know the usual, I know the common face if I do it in vain, I know what I do, what is the public is the whole, what is the whole is the sky, what is the way is the way, what is the way is long, and I am not dead. ”

"Heaven and earth are eternal, so heaven and earth can last long and long, and those who live with their lives can live forever"

"Carry the camp and hug one, and you can be inseparable. Dedicated and soft, can be like a baby"

The voice of the old Taoist master was far away but very sonorous in Ye Zifeng's soul, and Ye Zifeng felt that the soul that was about to disappear gradually solidified and no longer disappeared. Scenes from the past flashed back to life.

The memory in the depths of Ye Zifeng's soul began at the age of three.

Three-year-old Ye Zifeng and the old Taoist master live in the canyon of a mountain peak, far from the city, and even the nearest village is more than an hour away. A sheep intestine trail along the foot of the mountain, after bypassing a boulder, suddenly the peak turns, you can see a forest, through the woods is the Ye Zifeng and the old Taoist master's home, the so-called home is the old road with trees to build two wooden houses, a stream around the canyon, in front of the wooden house to gather a clear water pond. Ye Zifeng often heard the old Taoist master say that here is not only a good environment, but also better feng shui, the green dragon is affectionate, the white tiger hangs its head, the vermilion bird leads the way, the Xuanwu watch, and what is even more rare is the pond surrounded by this stream, and the Tibetan wind gathers qi.

The old Taoist master always had a confused look when he spoke, and with the green shirt, it seemed to be about to dissolve into the background, as if he had just come out of the background, giving people a sense of unreality.

Between the wooden house and the clear water pond, is a vacant land, a piece of grass does not grow in the white land, in the center of the white ground, there is a huge bluestone abruptly lying horizontally, every day at the meridian hour, the sun and the moon will shine directly on this big bluestone, if you pour water on the bluestone at this time, the bluestone can clearly reflect the appearance of the sun, the moon and the nebula.

In Ye Zifeng's memory when he was three years old, he meditated and breathed face-to-face with the old Taoist master at noon every day, in order to attract the aura of heaven and earth, and the essence of the sun and the moon into the body, and meditated and vomited day after day, but there was no reflection of the slightest aura, and even caused the air to vibrate. It is better to punch for an hour and recite the "General Outline of the Daozang" or "Shaking the Dragon Sutra" and "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Scripture" several times. ”

"You know what!" The old Taoist master always said very solemnly at this time: "This "Nebula Jue" is something left by the ancestors, it's not that you say it's useless, it's useless, I haven't been able to attract the aura of heaven and earth into the body for decades, I can't prove that you can't, if you can't, it can't prove that your apprentice can't in the future?" It's just the end of the day. In short, this method of drawing the aura of heaven and earth into the body must be correct. ”

Later, the old Taoist master was teaching Ye Zifeng cultural knowledge, and when Ye Zifeng understood gravity, he asked the old Taoist master more than once: "If gravity is right, then there must be something wrong with your method of meditation and spitting, according to the gravitational theorem, the gravitational relationship between large objects and small objects is always that small objects are attracted to large objects." Compared with heaven and earth, it is an elephant and an ant, compared with the sun, moon and stars, even ants are inferior, how can that person attract the aura of heaven and earth, and even the essence of the sun, moon and stars into the body? ”

"You're sick, I think I'm old when I graduated from Yanjing and studied at Harvard, but I accepted a stupid apprentice like you." The old Taoist master sighed and said, "Can you compare like this? How do people compare heaven and earth? And the stars and the moon? Can it be compared like that? When you meditate, breathe, and meditate, all the heavens and the earth are in your sea of consciousness, who do you say is bigger? How big the heavens and the earth are, how big is the sea of your knowledge, can't this attract the aura of the heavens and the earth? ”

"Therefore, the Tao is great, the sky is great, the earth is great, and the people are also great. There are four major domains, and people live in one of them. ”

"Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the law of nature"

The voice of the old Taoist master sounded sonorously in the depths of Ye Zifeng's soul, at this time, in the sky of Xiang City, the moon was silky, and the starlight was shining, moistening Ye Zifeng's soul, Ye Zifeng's soul was becoming more and more condensed, exuding a kind of crystal clear brilliance, bathed in this trace of starlight and moonlight.

On this night, no one noticed the abnormality of the stars and moon in the sky of Xiangshi.

That night, no one noticed that a "corpse" by the Xiangshui River was coming back to life.