Chapter 12: The Transformation of Heaven (Part I)
Fang Guohuan concentrated on cultivating the way of chess in the Baiyun Cave, and time flew by, and nearly a year passed. On this day, Fang Guochuan was thinking about an extremely difficult chess move, and he couldn't figure out what to do, his qi was knotted, and his qi and blood were not smooth for a while, blocking his chest, so that he was annoyed in his heart, and he felt a heat in his throat, and he actually spit out a mouthful of blood, and then his eyes were dark, and he passed out. Fa Neng happened to come in with a food box at this time, and was shocked when he saw this, turned around and flew to report to Master Kuyuan, and the temple was alarmed, and they gathered in Baiyun Cave.
When everyone arrived, they saw that Fang Guohuan's face was pale and unaware, and the corners of his mouth were still bloodshot. Master Ku Yuan secretly scolded "sin", hurriedly took a pill and dissolved it in water, and hurriedly gave Fang Guohuan to take it. Fa Wu clicked a few points on Fang Guolian's chest and back, and then used his strength to practice qi and cooperate with the power of medicine to dissolve the blood stasis. On the second day, Fang Guohuan woke up, and everyone was relieved when they saw it, and Master Kuyuan took Fang Guohuan back to Tianyuan Temple to recuperate.
More than ten days later, Fang Guolian's injuries healed. On this day, he felt that his body was fine, so he came to bid farewell to the master and returned to Baiyun Cave. Master Kuyuan saw that Fang Guohuan had recovered, and was relieved, but also had a slight unbearable thought, fortunately, this thought was fleeting, and then taught: "The law has no phase, there is no thing, and in the future, it can no longer be confined to the momentum on the spectrum, and the mind must be contemplated in the void, rather than being persistent, so that there is the power of cultivation, and the work of subtle transformation, otherwise the transformation of the realm will not come to the demon realm, which is really dangerous, and the future chess cultivation should be thoughtless." Then, Master Ku Yuan taught Fang Guohuan several methods of breathing and pranayama, and Fang Guohuan then said goodbye to his master and all the senior brothers, and was accompanied by Fa Wu to return to Baiyun Cave.
On the way, Fang Guolian said to Fa Wu: "It's a pity, I don't know much about Buddhism, if I have the master's advanced attainments, my cultivation in chess may be more radical, and it will not deviate." Fa Wu shook his head and said: "Otherwise, although Master's Buddhism is deep and knowledgeable in the world, he can't realize the Tianyuan Transformation Realm, which seems to be the reason why Master didn't succeed." The junior and younger students are different, specializing in the art of chess, sincerity, and profound chess strength, based on this, humble thinking, enlightenment, and enlightenment of the kind of chess, when there are more opportunities than others. "Empty thoughts!" Fang Guohuan muttered a few times, nodded and said, "That's what Master taught me, if that's the case, if you don't think about it, there won't be that kind of danger anymore." It seems that the high realm of chess should put aside the normal situation and perceive it from the void and contemplation, so as to be the Fa-rectification. ”
Fa Wuzhi said angrily: "The comprehension of the junior disciple is very human, if you are committed to martial arts, you can become a generation of grandmasters." Fang Guochuan smiled and said: "Born with all appearances, each has its own merits, and if I give up the way of chess, I am afraid that I will not be able to learn other skills." Fa Wu smiled and said, "Senior brother should be a chess student." While speaking, he had already arrived at Baiyun Cave, and Fa Wu told him again, so he didn't go.
Fang Guohuan's injuries had just recovered, and he felt that the cave was deserted, and he couldn't sit still, so he walked out of Baiyun Cave and swam to Baizhang Cliff. Baizhang Cliff is the highest place of Lianyun Mountain, three cliffs, only the back leads to its top, particularly steep. It was late autumn, the sky was high and crisp, and the clouds were thin and light. Fang Guohuan's internal injuries have just recovered, and his vitality has not fully recovered, but he feels the cold air attacking people, and the slight cold invades his body, and he can't help but shiver. Walk alone and stroll in it; The trees are lined up, and the leaves are empty; The birdsong is quiet, and the sound is heard but not seen. The little beast forages for food, and comes and goes, but it has lost its time, and the mountain spring is dry, and it wants to drink the water of the past but there is nothing. Seeing this bleak scene, Fang Guohuan sighed and shook his head.
Along the way, until the top of the cliff, suddenly the mood waved, God grateful, the upper neighbor thousands of miles of the void, down the hundred zhang high cliff, all things in the world are in full view. Fang Guochuan seemed to have a sense of detachment at this time, in a trance, and he didn't know why. The clothes are fluttering, and the hair is like waves; Standing proudly and proudly; The blood is gushing inward, and the holes are absorbed; The form and spirit are empty, and they do not know survival and death; In the universe, it is difficult to distinguish between warm and cold; The soul is out of the body, roaming the sky; All thoughts are extinguished, and the only spirit exists, and it has entered the realm of divine sense invisibly. Somehow, Fang Guochuan subconsciously returned to Baiyun Cave following the path he had come, and sat cross-legged on the stone bed in a daze. In a trance, I seem to feel that my relatives are calling each other, and I am far away. It was as if I remembered something, and then I forgot about it.
In the evening, Fa Neng carried the food box into the cave, and when he saw Fang Guochuan meditating, he gently walked to the stone table and put down the food box, which alarmed him for fear and fear. However, when Fa Neng turned around and looked at Fang Guohuan again, he couldn't help but be taken aback, but when he saw Fang Guohuan sitting with the curtain down, his expression was indifferent, without any expression, as if he had been sitting for hundreds of years, like a stone statue, which was very different from before. Fa Neng was suspicious in his heart: "Senior Brother Mo's old illness has relapsed? Then he stepped forward and called softly: "Senior brother! Bro! After screaming a few times, Fang Guohuan opened his eyes slightly from a state of confusion, glanced at Fa Neng blankly, and muttered, "You...... Who are you? "Huh?" Fa Neng exclaimed, and took a few steps back in fright. Seeing that Fang Guolian's expression was different, he regarded himself as a stranger, and suddenly patted his head and said, "It's not good!" My brother is suffering from dementia. In a panic, Fa Neng hurriedly ran out and flew to Tianyuan Temple.
At this time, Fang Guolian was dazed, as if he was asleep, but he felt weak, he wanted to raise his arms but couldn't move, he wanted to stretch his legs but didn't move, he forgot where he was, he was looking around, suddenly fearful, alert and indifferent. Awake but feel asleep, sleep and wake up, eyes open and close, I don't know what I want, so that I don't realize it, things and I are empty. As long as millions of years had passed, Fang Guohuan suddenly felt a movement in his heart, became aware of his own existence, and immediately woke up from this state of trance and selflessness. When I opened my eyes, I saw Fa Neng staring at a pair of strange big eyes, standing in front of the bed and poking his head out to look at him, Master Ku Yuan and Fa Wu stood up from the side, their faces were happy. Fang Guolian's heart was very different, he didn't know what was going on, and said in amazement: "Senior Brother Fa Neng, why are you looking at me like this? When Fa Neng heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Senior brother, are you awake?" Not...... You okay? ”
Fang Guohuan saw that Fa Neng was a little strange to speak, and saw Master and Fa Wu standing aside, and he didn't know when he came in, he was puzzled, and he hurriedly got up to greet Master, and then asked, "Master, what's wrong?" Why are you here too? Master Kuyuan was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Juan'er, are you okay?" Fang Guohuan said blankly: "What's the matter?" What can I do? Fa Wu said: "It's okay if the junior brother is fine, we have been worried about you for the past two days." When Fang Guohuan heard this, he was surprised and said, "Two days? Senior Brother Fa Wu is saying that I have been sitting here for two days? Master Kuyuan said: "Yes, two days ago, Fa Neng reported urgently, saying that you looked different, so the teacher rushed over, and saw that you sat indifferently and unconscious, as if you had entered the realm of transformation. How do you feel now? When Fang Guohuan heard this, he was stunned and said, "I really sat for two days, but why didn't I know anything about it?" Suddenly, he recalled: "Yes, that day I wandered around Baizhang Cliff, and I felt a little trance, and I didn't know how to return to the cave, and now I woke up, but I didn't know that I had been asleep for a long time, I don't know why?" ”
Fa Wuyi said: "Looking at the look of the senior brother, it seems that there is no sleep, so I don't notice it for two days, I don't know what changes have happened inside?" Master Ku Yuan suddenly spoke: "For the teacher, I saw the demeanor of Lian'er, and I should not be disturbed by the recurrence of the old disease, so I am not disturbed, and now that I wake up, I may have cultivated into the Tianyuan Transformation Realm!" When you try it in chess, you will know the profit and loss. Fa Wu nodded and said, "Master is reasonable. "Hurriedly put the Arhat chess pieces and the ancient wood chess table on the table.
Master Kuyuan took the lead in black, and his hand fell to a star, and the other party said: "Juan'er, let's play a game with the teacher." Fang Guohuan was stunned when he saw the chess pieces in front of him, his brows furrowed, and he reached out to pick up an Arhat chess piece, his face was different, but he felt that his mind was blank, and he didn't know what chess was and where it fell, and he forgot all his previous chess skills for a while, and his chess strength was lost. Master Kuyuan saw that Fang Guolian was stunned with the chess pieces, his expression was dazed, and he didn't understand why, so he urged: "Zhuan'er, but use all your chess strength, let's play chess." Fang Guochuan shook his head blankly at this time, patted his forehead vigorously, and wanted to recall something from his mind, because at this time, he didn't know how to move this chess piece, as if he had never touched a chess piece, it was extremely unfamiliar.
Seeing Fang Guolian's strange look, Master Kuyuan was surprised: "Zhuo'er, is there any discomfort?" Fang Guohuan shook his head and sighed: "Master, the disciple really doesn't know what chess is and how to move. "Huh?" When Master Kuyuan, Fa Wu, and Fa Neng heard this, they were all taken aback, and they couldn't believe that Fang Guolian, who was invincible in chess in the past, could say this, but seeing his blank expression, it seemed that there was no pretense.
Master Ku Yuan was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to take the veins of Fang Guolian's two hands, and said in surprise: "The six veins are peaceful, there seems to be no difference, why did you lose all your chess strength and forget all the chess paths?" Fa Wu was surprised and asked, "Senior brother, since I have forgotten the way of chess, how can I know my master?" Fang Guochuan said: "Master, senior brother, how can you not know, it's just this chess ......" then shook his head and said blankly: "But I have never seen it." Fa Wushu said: "Since the junior brother doesn't know what chess is, can you remember what to do here?" Fang Guolian said in confusion: "Yes! What am I doing here......" frowned, as if vaguely remembering something, and then shook his head again, and for a moment he was extremely distressed. Fa Neng sighed on the side: "It's over! Finished! The younger brother suffered from heart loss again this time. ”
Fang Guolian's chess path was lost, and Master Kuyuan was puzzled, shook his head and sighed: "How can there be such a change? I knew this earlier, as a teacher, you shouldn't lead you to self-cultivation and enlightenment, and if you don't reach the realm of chess, you will lose your chess path. Master Kuyuan anxiously paced back and forth a few steps, and suddenly realized: "Could it be that Lian'er has reached the realm of sitting and forgetting?" Fa Wu was surprised: "Sitting in the realm of forgetting? What makes sense? Master Kuyuan said: "The realm of sitting and forgetting leads to the realm of forgetting chess, which is the realm of inaction." Entering the realm of non-action with the realm of doing things is a great progress in internal cultivation, and there is no reason for rejecting damage. ”
Fa Wuyi, suddenly realized: "After doing nothing, it is all for, and it should be the highest level of doing nothing in chess!" "Not bad!" Master Ku Yuan said in surprise and excitement at this time, "Do nothing and do nothing, this is the Tianyuan realm in chess!" When Fa Wu and Fa Neng heard this, they were especially surprised. Fang Guohuan saw that Master Ku Yuan, Fa Wu, and Fa Neng were all overjoyed, and said something that they didn't seem to understand, and they were even more at a loss.
Fa Neng said at this time: "Master, since the junior brother has entered the realm of forgetting to do nothing, I don't know how to quickly enter the realm of doing nothing?" So as not to scare people. Master Ku Yuan said: "No one can help with this kind of help, and he needs to wake up at home, when it is that kind of sudden epiphany." Master Ku Yuan then comforted Fang Guohuan with words, no longer mentioned chess, and then accompanied Fang Guohuan to have some tea and rice. Afraid of an accident, Master Kuyuan ordered Fa Wu to keep the Baiyun Cave, guard Fang Guolian day and night, and then return to Tianyuan Temple with Fa Neng. Fa Yang, Fa Yuan and others were very surprised when they heard that Fang Guohuan had entered a state of forgetting chess without doing anything, so they all rushed to Baiyun Cave to visit Fang Guolian.
After half a month like this, Fang Guohuan was still in that state of forgetting to do nothing, and everyone became a little anxious, worried that Fang Guohuan would continue to "do nothing", but he would really do nothing. Master Kuyuan was also very worried in his heart, but the matter had come to this point, and there was no other way but to wait and see the changes. Fang Guochuan often laughed with his senior brothers who went to visit him in Baiyun Cave, if he talked about chess, he was at a loss, and he often held an Arhat chess piece to the chess table in a daze, sometimes he seemed to have an understanding, and then shook his head and sighed bitterly. Fa Wu was on the sidelines, and he couldn't bear it in his heart, but he couldn't do anything about it, and every time he used words and chess pieces to induce, it was useless, so he had to take care of it carefully.
On this day, Fa Neng sat on the steps in front of the main hall of Tianyuan Temple and was stunned, and suddenly there was a crisp sound of knocking on the temple door from outside the mountain gate. This temple is far away from the world, in the mountains, and few people come in a year, who can this be? Then he got up and opened the temple door, and when he looked out, he saw a young man in Tsing Yi standing outside the door, sixteen or seventeen years old, with a very bright look.
Fa Neng exclaimed in his heart: "Good spirit individual!" He hurriedly clasped his palms and saluted: "What do you have to do with this donor?" The temple does not accept pilgrims. The young man hugged his fists and said, "May I ask the little master, this is Lianyun Mountain?" Fa Neng responded: "Yes, a radius of dozens of miles is where Lianyun Mountain is located." The young man was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Ask the little master about someone, has there ever been a son named Fang Guolian in your temple?" Fa Neng was stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart: "Isn't it a friend of Guolian's junior brother who came to look for him?" However, the junior brother is in a state of forgetfulness at this time, and it is not appropriate to see outsiders, and the master has also instructed to prohibit any interference, so let's go back to him for the time being. Thinking of this, Fa Neng said to the young man: "This donor, this temple lives far away, never receives outsiders, and there is no one the donor is looking for, please go back." But he secretly said in his heart: "The monks don't speak, and the senior brother of Guolian is in Baiyun Cave and not in the temple at this time, so it is not a lie." ”
The young man looked disappointed at this time, and then asked, "I wonder if the little master has ever heard of this person?" This Fang Gongzi has extraordinary skills in chess, and said that he would come to Lianyun Mountain. Fa Neng hurriedly said, "I haven't heard of it!" I've never heard of it! Look elsewhere for the benefactor. After speaking, he hurriedly closed the temple door. When the young man saw this, he was disappointed and said, "I'm tired." "I arched my hand and turned around. Fa Neng closed the temple door, turned around and thought: "I don't know if this matter is right or wrong, but at this time, it is not appropriate for Senior Brother Guolian to see outsiders, so let's talk to him in the future, I don't know if I will be wrongly blamed?" While thinking, he went into the main hall.
In fact, the young man in Tsing Yi who was looking for Fang Guolian in front of Tianyuan Temple was Luo Kun, Luo Kun returned to the Central Plains after experiencing an adventure with his master Yao Wang Gu Sichen in Kanto, and traveled around the world with his master, looking for the location of Lianyun Mountain. I found a few places with the same name, but there was no news about Fang Guolian. Every time he was disappointed, Luo Kun's passion for finding Fang Guohuan increased day by day. Gu Sichen secretly marveled at Luo Kun's deep friendship with Fang Guolian, and he was also a little moved. In the past few years, the master and apprentice have traveled all over the world, practiced chivalry, and applied medicine to save people. Luo Kun was introduced by his master and got acquainted with many strange people, and grew up in the rivers and lakes. This time, the master and apprentice traveled to Dongting Lake, inquired about the location of Lianyun Mountain, and because Gu Sichen was going to visit an old man, he made an appointment with Luo Kun and met in Gejia Village on the sandbank island of Dongting Lake in the future. After Luo Kun said goodbye to his master, he came full of hope, but was blocked by the unknown Fa Neng.
Luo Kun was disappointed, and he traveled in Lianyun Mountain, met several woodcutters and hunters, and when he inquired, he said that he didn't know, and he was very disappointed in his heart, and he walked around in the mountains freely. Occasionally, on a high mountain opposite, there seems to be a hidden cave, and when I see several monks coming in and out, Luo Kun knew that it was a monk in Tianyuan Temple, but he didn't pay attention to it, but he didn't know that Fang Guolian was in the cave at this time. Luo Kun swam in Lianyun Mountain for a whole day, but found nothing, so he knew that he had found a vacancy again, remembered that he still had an appointment with his master, sighed a long sigh, and turned back to Dongting Lake.