Chapter 18 The Twelfth Floor Works
Folklore has it that in ancient times, there were monks who became immortals and lived forever. During the reign of Qin Shi Huang, he sent the monk Xu Fu to the overseas immortal mountains to find the elixir of immortality recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "The Western Classic of the Sea" and "The Great Wilderness of the West".
This self-proclaimed Qi Refiner is a method of cultivating immortals by people with great wisdom in the Taoist Sect, based on the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", interpreting ancient books such as "Zhou Yi", "Lianshan Yi", and "Returning to Tibet".
This method is to cultivate the essence and spirit of the human body, and then form a golden pill in the body to achieve the road to immortality. Although this Qi Refiner has never heard of a Jindan Dacheng ranking in the Immortal Class for hundreds of years, there are many Qi Refiners with unpredictable magical powers, or infinite strength, or those who are as light as a swallow emerge in endlessly.
There are even one or two qi refiners walking the rivers and lakes and learning from the first-class masters on the rivers and lakes, but more than a dozen people are not allowed to get close to each other, sprinkling that boundless prestige on the rivers and lakes. However, most of the Qi Refiners have no intention of being in the human world, and only practice in the blessed land of the deep mountains and old forest caves, exploring the way of heaven.
As for the alchemist, he was degraded as a 'madman' by the people in the Taoist sect, and he stayed away. There is no other reason, the elixir of immortality has only heard of its name for thousands of years, but no one has seen it, and these alchemists are collecting genius treasures, making their own prescriptions, and testing the medicine by themselves, not to mention those who died in Huangquan because the elixir was poisonous, there are hundreds of people who have gone crazy just by eating the elixir.
However, there are a few people who can resist the temptation of immortality and longevity with heaven and earth, so in the past few hundred years, the alchemist lineage has not been broken, but has become stronger and stronger.
Of course, this alchemist is not all without gains, in the process of refining the elixir, some alchemists have also accidentally refined other strange but useful things, this 'Lei Zhenzi' is one of them.
This thing is infinitely powerful, even if the top masters on the rivers and lakes are next to one, there are no bones, which is why Cheng Yanjin completely gave up resistance as soon as he heard that this 'Thunder Falling Array' was composed of thunder shocks, one will die, not to mention a bunch, and it is not this way to die, not to mention the way this figure appears, nine times out of ten it is the legendary Qi refiner who moves mountains and reclaims the sea, and has great magical powers. Neng Neng Shen Fang is big husband, looking at the qi refiner in front of him, Cheng Yanjin comforted himself.
Following this qi refiner into a hidden cave, Cheng Yanjin was about to take a closer look at this person, suddenly his heart surged up, like boiling water, surprised, Cheng Yanjin hurriedly turned his head to look in the direction that made his blood boil, only to see that in the center of the cave, a cluster of flames was burning, and a bronze tripod was on the fire, and a puff of white smoke came out of it, and the smoke condensed but did not disperse, like a giant dragon hovering above the big ding. Looking at this big ding, Cheng Yanjin only felt ecstatic, and his breathing suddenly stopped.
Looking at Cheng Yanjin's sluggish expression, the Qi Refiner who led him in smiled proudly, pointed to the bronze tripod and said: "This furnace of immortal pill is the old man's collection of heaven and earth elixir, which took three years to refine, and now this elixir is about to be completed, so there will be this auspicious cloud canopy, boy, you are lucky, how can such a strange scene and other idle people be blessed to see!" ”
Seeing that Cheng Biting Jin was just staring at Na Ding in a daze, the qi refiner secretly scolded "Tu Baozi", but the smile on his face did not change: "You will be the old man's portable boy in the future, and there will be time to watch in the future, the old man will tell you about the rules here, lest you break things!" ”
He was there for a long time, but Cheng Biting Jin didn't listen to a word, and his eyes were full of the shadow of the bronze tripod. In his opinion, in addition to the volume of the bronze tripod in front of him is twice as large as the 'Spring Tripod', its shape and structure, and even the pattern on the tripod are completely identical, just like the imagination of a brother of a mother's compatriots.
In addition, when he first entered the cave, he was attracted by this big tripod to the blood of his body, so he couldn't imagine that the bronze tripod in front of him was one of the nine tripods, and looking at its function, I am afraid that it is the fire tripod in the tripod of the five elements. It's really 'stepping on iron shoes and finding nowhere to go, and it takes no effort to get it', I can't imagine that I can't find anything but I met here, and this old thing in front of me has done a good thing!
With the flames jumping next to him, Cheng Yanjin took a look at the qi refiner in front of him, only to see that he had gray hair, was dressed in white, and his mouth was like a river, and he looked like a master, but his narrow eyes and eagle-like nose made people know that this person was a ruthless person at a glance.
Seeing this situation, he was relieved, and although he saw a trace of hidden ferocity in the eyes of this old guy, he did not find that he had any signs of madness. As the saying goes, "those who are stunned are afraid of the horizontal, and those who are horizontal are afraid of not dying" If this old guy is also the kind of madman who refines alchemy to the point of dying, Grandpa Cheng's nine lives have also been explained here, fortunately, fortunately, this old Wang Ba has not evolved to the extent of becoming a madman.
However, the identity of this old guy is a bit strange, although the Daomen is mysterious in the rivers and lakes, but Cheng Yanjin heard him say a lot of Daomen secrets when he contacted the former prince Yang Yong in the prison, according to him, since Qin, there are many branches of the Daomen, among which the madness of the alchemist and the power of the refiner are the most famous.
However, these two branches of the same lineage of the Daomen do not look at each other, the alchemists look down on the cultivation methods of the qi refiners, thinking that the Jindan Avenue is purely farting to pollute the air, while the qi refiners despise the alchemists, the cultivation needs to be gradual and gradual, just want to ascend to the sky in one step, you think you are Chang'e, say that you ascend to heaven, you will ascend to heaven. These two factions are hostile to each other, and both believe that their own cultivation method is the right path, and the other is purely crooked.
Therefore, the two factions do not interact with each other, even if they meet on weekdays, they are also cynical, and even fight. But now Cheng Biting Jin met a qi refiner who can do alchemy here, how could he not be surprised, could it be that the limelight has changed in the past ten years, and the mouse has also been a bride for cats!
What Cheng Yanjin didn't know was that the Qi refiner in front of him was an elder of Lao Junguan, the true preaching branch of the Daomen, the law name Yin Ruin, this person was originally an authentic Qi refiner, this cave was discovered when he traveled all over the world, originally the two branches of alchemy and qi refining have different cultivation methods, although there are a number of good Ding furnaces and rare treasures for alchemy in this cave mansion, he didn't pay attention to it when he first arrived.
It's just that when I was cleaning the cave later, I accidentally touched the mechanism and found a secret room, which contained the "Shennong Hundred Herbs Sutra" and the alchemy experience of the owner of the cave.
At the beginning of the furnace, in order to be afraid of being attacked by someone while he was refining the pill, he used Lei Zhenzi to lay down this 'Thunder Falling Array' outside this cave, and only then did he rush out when the formation was touched, ready to kill people and extinguish his mouth, but he changed his mind only after seeing Cheng Biting Jin.
His furnace of longevity pill is based on the "Shennong Baicao Sutra" recorded in the hundreds of high-grade elixirs, including a hundred years of shou wu, a thousand years of ginseng and the like, although they are all non-toxic tonics, but there is no absolute in the world, sometimes two non-toxic drugs can also be combined into a pair of highly poisonous, so after seeing Cheng Biting Jin, he moved to let Cheng Biting Jin give him the idea of testing the medicine, anyway, this person is not very skilled, and he will kill him after using it.
Seeing Cheng Yanjin listening to him absentmindedly, Yin Ruzi secretly sneered, the elixir will be released in eleven days, and then this kid will kill him even if he has nothing to do after testing the medicine, and let him be arrogant for a few days. Thinking of this, Yin Ruzi changed his words, and said to Cheng Yanjin with a pleasant face, "It's not too late, after eating these dry foods, you can go to this stone room to sleep, and wait for me in front of this Danding at noon tomorrow!" ”
Glancing at the old guy in front of him with a weasel expression of greeting the chicken, Cheng Yanjin took the dry food and walked into the stone room hesitantly. This night he tossed and turned, but where could he sleep, his heart was the surprise of seeing the fire for a while, and the worry of his fate for a while, until the sun rose, and then he fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes, the time shown on the hourglass was already evening, and he quickly got up and walked out of the stone room nervously, and came to the Yin Ruin who was staring at Danding.
To Cheng Yanjin's surprise, he was not angry at his late arrival, but said calmly: "After sleeping for so long, your stomach is hungry?" There's some dry food there, go eat some and come here to talk! ”
After filling in a few mouthfuls, Cheng Yanjin came to Danding's side, and Yin Ruzi glanced at him and asked, "Have you eaten enough?" Seeing him nodding, Yin Ruzi barely showed a smile, "Since you are the old man's boy, you can be counted as half a disciple, and the old man will teach you a Taoist method, so that you can strengthen your body and prolong your life." ”
Said took out a scroll from his sleeve, and slowly unfolded it, "You can look carefully, this is the old man exhausted his life's energy, from the ancient book "Lianshan Yi" from the exercises, the old man called it 'Twelfth Floor Taigong', the exercises have a total of twelve layers, corresponding to the twelve canons of the human body, each meridian of internal force circulation, this exercise is one layer deeper, and the internal force is doubled.
You are still a layman now, and the practice route of this first layer of the exercise method will be walked by the old man with internal force in your body a few laps, you feel it carefully, and then follow this fixed route every day. After saying that, he beckoned Cheng Yanjin to sit down cross-legged, ready to help him do his work.
Listening to the old guy's command, Cheng Yanjin sat down without hesitation. He is not afraid that this old guy will take the opportunity to make a bad move, with this old guy's ability, he will kill himself with one finger, how can he still use his black hand. It's just that the ancients have a saying that makes sense that "nothing to do, but no traitor or thief", this old guy is so enthusiastic to help himself, but he doesn't know what he wants, he has no money and no power, and now he can only take one step at a time!