On the second night after the apprenticeship, Li Yun came to the master. Although the renovation of the temple has not stopped, the apprenticeship of the sloppy Taoist has begun. The two of them sat on the futon that the Taoist didn't know where to find it, at this time the Taoist was refreshed, looking like a master outside the world, he looked at Li Yun and said, "Yun'er, do you know why I came here?" Li Yun said: "I don't know. It was a little strange when the apprentice first met the master, there were very few outsiders here, and I thought you had wandered here by accident. The Taoist chief laughed and said, "Definitely! I once asked you if you know who the statue in the temple is, but in fact, I am the former iron spear general Wang Zhi! Li Yun was taken aback when he heard this, and said, "Isn't that master almost three hundred years old?" Is Master an immortal? Li Yun had also heard the story of the gods and goddesses from the villagers, but he didn't believe it, and when the master said this, he couldn't help but look at the master with his eyes, and his mood became urgent.

Seeing the apprentice's expression, the sloppy Taoist said with a smile: "Haha! Master is far away from the immortals! It's just a long way to live! This world is so big, there are many strange things, and there will be many things that will surprise you in the future! Now let me tell you about Master's origins. ”

"In the last years of the previous dynasty, Master helped the people here to sweep away the bandits, so that the local people could live and work in peace and contentment, and they were grateful for my achievements and spontaneously set up a temple for me to worship. Later, when Lu Shang's army came to attack, the master refused to surrender, and the enemy was defeated and seriously injured and fell off the cliff. Fortunately, your ancestor You Fang came here to rescue him, survived, and was enlightened by your ancestor and accepted as an apprentice to learn Taoism. Since then, the master has been enlightened, playing the world, calling himself a sloppy Taoist, and becoming a carefree person! ”

After a pause, the sloppy Taoist continued: "Your master and ancestor have not succeeded in crossing the catastrophe, and the master has been concentrating on cultivation for more than two hundred years, but it is a pity that the entry was late, and the Xuan Gong was not completed. I felt that the end was approaching, so I revisited. Where I was going to come from, where I was going back, I didn't want to meet you, and it was also a fate. Li Yun suddenly realized.

"Next, I'll tell you about the martial arts and Taoism that Master wants to pass on to you." The sloppy Taoist continued.

"I was a general before I was forty years old, and I was known as a 10,000-strong enemy at that time, and the martial arts I learned emphasized the way of technical attack, focusing on fully tapping the potential of the body, and giving full play to the advantages of strength and speed to defeat opponents. Master has visited famous teachers all over the world, learned from others, and combined with his own martial arts experience, he can be regarded as proficient in all eighteen martial arts. The most essence is the flying dragon marksmanship, the bead archery, the shape of the long fist, the cloud palm, and the arrangement of troops, the art of war strategy, combined use, can be a single battle, can be a group battle, the use of wonderful, care about one heart. ”

"Ever since I was rescued by your ancestor, I have followed the study of Taoism and cultivation. The Tao is natural, and the teacher gradually integrates from the outside to the inside, and the inside and the outside are one, and you will slowly realize it in the future. The Xiuzhen sect that is a teacher is called the Dongxu School, which was passed down by the patriarch Dongxuzi who opened the school three thousand years ago. This sect is relatively loose, there is no fixed mountain gate, the disciples walk the world, observe all things naturally, and pay attention to spontaneous actions. It also recruits disciples from time to time, and most of the disciples are received by the predecessors of the ancestors when they are traveling and accidentally see talents with good qualifications and quality, so there are not many disciples. I have also accepted three apprentices in the past 200 years, and they are your three senior brothers, and if we meet in the future, we should support each other. Of course, it is not forced, everything is natural. As he spoke, the sloppy Taoist took out a jade plaque, and wrote it in ancient Chinese on both sides: "Dongxu" on one side and "Ling" on the other. The sloppy Taoist handed the jade plate to Li Yun and said, "You put it away, this is the identity token of this sect, and the person who holds the token will have its own origin when you see it in the future." ”

Seeing that Li Yun solemnly put away the jade card, the sloppy Taoist continued: "Cultivating truth is different from martial arts. Martial arts have the theory of innate and acquired, and from the acquired to the congenital, martial arts reach the realm. Xiuzhen is divided into Qi training, foundation building, knotting, transforming gods, crossing tribulations, Mahayana, true immortals, earth immortals, golden immortals, and heavenly honors. Heaven and earth arise from nothingness, Wuji gives birth to Taiji, Taiji gives birth to Yin and Yang, and then Yin and Yang merge, all things arise, and finally there are people. People have essence, qi, and spirit, and there are acupoints such as dantian, perineum, and baihui, and there are twelve meridians, eight strange meridians, and many fine veins. The meridians are intertwined, and they flow every day; The spirit and spirit are united, and finally become an immortal. Refining and refining qi is the period of qi training; Gasification into liquid, for the foundation building period; Liquefied Jindan, which is the period of knotting; Returning to the gods is the period of rejuvenation. After that, he became a Mahayana and achieved the three realms of immortals. The ancients were able to finally reach the realm of Tianzun, live with heaven and earth and be immortal, and crisscross the universe too void. Today's vitality changes, and it is unpredictable to become an immortal. The peak of the Qi training period can live for 100 years, the foundation can reach more than 300 years old, the knot can reach 1,000 years old, and the gods above are more than 3,000 years old. ”

After a little melancholy, the sloppy Taoist said: "I started late for the teacher, only reached the peak of foundation building, and failed to marry Dan, so I don't live long." You started at the age of eight, your qualifications are quite good, and you should not slack off. After all, Li Yun was young, and he didn't seem to understand, but he still nodded heavily.

The sloppy Taoist continued: "What I told you just now is all basic knowledge, you just started to learn, and it is normal for you to not understand it now, and you will continue to understand it as the Dao is profound. Speaking of this, he paused and asked Li Yundao, "How are you studying in Mengxue?" Li Yun replied: "The disciple has basically mastered reading and writing, and the content taught by the teacher is also known, so you don't have to go every day." I can borrow books from my husband and study at home, and I can ask questions regularly. "That's great. Basic literacy grammar is also useful and helpful for your understanding of the Tao, and should not be wasted. You can find time every day to study and be useful in your future life. The sloppy Taoist said, and Li Yun nodded yes.

The master and apprentice rested for a while, drank some tea, and the Taoist continued to preach. He said: "From today onwards, I will start teaching you to practice, starting with the basics and practicing as you learn. Meditate and practice qi in the morning and evening, practice boxing in the morning, rest for half an hour at noon, read for an hour in the afternoon, and then practice marksmanship and archery. In the future, when the martial arts are first completed, then learn the art of war and formation. Medicines can assist in cultivation, and you will also have to learn to practice pills in the future. ”

The sloppy Taoist walked to his bedside, and he didn't know where to take out a scripture book, he handed the scripture book to Li Yun and said: "This is the main Taoist scripture of this sect, the "Cave Void Sutra", you should keep it, you must not lose it." This skill is divided into nine levels, the first three can be cultivated to the peak of Qi training, the middle three can be cultivated to the peak of foundation building, and the last three can be cultivated to the peak of Jiedan. After the achievement of Jindan, the practice method of cultivation is the "Taixu Sutra", and he has never seen it as a teacher. It's just rumored that after the "Cave Void Sutra" is completed, it will show where the "Taixu Sutra" is. The Taoist took out another book, which was full of nudes of human bodies, and each drawing of the human body was marked with dots and lines, and the names of the dots and lines were marked with words, and they were densely packed. The Taoist said: "This is the meridian diagram of the human body, you have to memorize it in the shortest time." To practice Qi is to merge the spirit and qi, so that the qi runs along these lines. First of all, the dantian is filled with internal qi, and then it runs along the veins, opening up the meridians of the whole body, and then building the foundation successfully. ”

The sloppy Taoist sat cross-legged on the futon, posed in a posture of five hearts, closed his eyes slightly, and seemed to be asleep. After a while, he opened his eyes, asked Li Yun to sit cross-legged with his eyes closed, and then said: "People have upper dantian, middle dantian, and lower dantian, which are three very important points in the head, chest, and abdomen. After speaking, the Taoist touched Li Yun's forehead, chest, and lower abdomen with his hand, and said, "This is where the three dantians are located. The first step is to feel the presence of qi in the lower dantian, and to have a sense of qi. After having a sense of qi, then use the mind, that is, the spirit, to guide the qi to run along the second vein of Rendu, and slowly run the whole body to form Zhou Tian. ”

Li Yunpan sat for a while, his legs were a little numb, and Dantianzhong didn't feel anything. When I opened my eyes, I saw the Taoist open his mouth and said, "Master, I don't seem to feel qi?" ”

The Daoist seemed to have expected Li Yun to ask this question a long time ago, and he continued: "The initial perception of qi is the first difficulty. To feel the sense of qi, do not be impatient, you must clear your mind, be calm in body and mind, be completely in a state of relaxation, eliminate distracting thoughts, try to be consistent with the environment as much as possible, enter a state of concentration, and perceive the existence of your own qi in the stillness and non-stillness. You are still young, you have few distractions, and you will have a sense of qi very quickly. ”

The Taoist asked Li Yun to continue to close his eyes and perceive, and at the same time used the Dao method to help Li Yun. Li Yun gradually relaxed, and in the cross-legged sitting that seemed to be asleep, he seemed to hear a faint voice, "Relax...... Relax", with some kind of magic, let yourself tap your teeth, the body and mind are quiet, and gradually feel the presence of warm qi in the center of the lower abdomen. Gradually, the whole body felt warm, as if a person was bathing in warm hot water, and it was as if he had returned to the fetal period, and it was very comfortable. Slowly, the warm air flow flows, starting from the lower abdomen dantian, descending to the perineum and tail acupoints, and then going up, along the back of the Du vein to the top of the head Baihui acupoint, passing through the upper dantian, tongue bridge, larynx, along the middle dantian back to the lower dantian. After the completion of this weekly cycle, the whole body becomes more and more relaxed, and the qi circulates automatically, and the air flow seems to grow with the operation. The Taoist looked at Li Yun's state and couldn't help but smile.

As if he had a feeling in his heart, Li Yun slowly woke up from his state of calm. "How does it feel?" The Taoist asked with a smile. Li Yun thought about it for a moment and replied, "I feel a sense of qi!" After the body and mind are settled, I feel that the dantian in the lower abdomen is slightly hot, and there seems to be an airflow. The air flow is unexpectedly fluid, and the whole body is as comfortable as taking a hot bath. The Taoist said, "Good! Remember that feeling! I just used my mana to help you settle down and guide your qi along the meridians, so that you can feel it directly! But this is temporary, and it is not yet the operation of your own real formation of qi. In the future, you should study the scriptures carefully and cultivate diligently, so that your internal qi will gradually become stronger, step by step. There are small Zhoutian and big Zhoutian on Sunday, and when all your Sundays are opened, the qi will turn at will, and the practice of qi will be considered complete! ”

Li Yun's heart was surging, and he knelt down again and thanked: "Thank you, Master!" Disciples must practice hard and live up to Master's expectations! ”