The snow was falling, and the master stood in front of the door of the Taoist temple and looked at me with a look of relief.

At that time, I suddenly understood that when he punished me to kneel, he deliberately let me accumulate cold qi in my body, and then let me soak in a vat full of medicinal herbs, and used silver needles to puncture the acupoints on my body.

I was just about to kneel down to make a big salute to the master, but the master waved his hand and said, "No need, you can do it without a teacher, and you can do it without my hard work, do you know how long it takes for ordinary people to practice the first wisp of Dao Qi?" ”

I said, "It is said that it can take as little as a year and a half, or as much as ten or eight years, or even a lifetime. ”

The master nodded and said: "With your qualifications and understanding, if you teach you the method of practicing qi from the beginning of the teacher, you can practice the dao qi within half a month, and put it in the entire dao gate, you can also be regarded as a leader, i will help you open up the qi in your body without teaching you any method of qi training, just to see how you perceive qi, now it seems that you are a veteran, why is this?" ”

"Back to the master, although the disciple did not practice the method of qi, he was often spurred by his grandfather to practice martial arts when he was a child, and he often imagined the method of simulating qi control in his mind, and he often dreamed of it. I'll be honest.

"The method you said is meditation, without practicing the method of qi, the Dao qi can be retracted and released freely at the beginning, and it can be regarded as a crooked beating, before the teacher, he said that your qualifications are the best in the entire Dao sect, but for some cultivators, such achievements are not worth mentioning, and you will naturally have the opportunity to encounter them in the future. Unlike the rest of my disciples of Taiyin Guan, your strength lies in the brain domain, and the pupil power you stimulated in the critical situation before is a certain manifestation of the awakening of the brain domain, but there is no end to learning, compared to being a teacher, you still have to learn a lot. ”

The master said and opened his palm, and in his palm was a shuffled Rubik's cube.

The master's fingers were lightly picked, the Rubik's Cube trembled, floating in the palm of the master's hand, and in the next second, the Rubik's Cube twisted autonomously, instantly restored!

The whole process, no more than a second!

I was stunned by the master's hand, because the Rubik's cube restoration needs to go through complex calculations, even if the formula is applied in a good step, it takes more than five seconds, and the master can be so fast!

"Master, I'm afraid the apprentice won't be able to reach the height of yours in this life." I said.

"Don't be discouraged, practice makes perfect, after all, you are more than two hundred years old as a teacher, your understanding is high, and you have saved a lot of trouble for a teacher, you can take these three books, and after reading them, you will burn them in your mind immediately, you are my closed disciple, and you will never accept apprentices as a teacher in the future, and you must not fall into the hands of others."

The master said and took out three books from his arms, one is called "Shangqing Qi Practice", one is called "Taiyin Secret Technique", and one seems to be the master's experience notes, after I put the three books away, the master said: "Actually, I had something before that I couldn't stand your senior brother Zhang Shigeng. ”

I was puzzled but didn't dare to speak, and the master continued: "After the promulgation of the forbidden Dao order, thousands of doors in the world were hidden, because the teachers and students were afraid that your senior brother Zhang Shigeng would use my Taiyin Dao method as a disaster if he was undisciplined after learning the skill, so he quietly sealed his qi before leaving, so that he could not practice qi for the rest of his life, but I didn't expect that he would be so seriously persecuted as an ordinary person later, and he was a registered disciple, I didn't take it to heart, but let him suffer a great grievance, otherwise he would not be able to practice Dao Qi now." ”

"It turns out that the reason why the old bachelor has been learning the Tao for many years and can't do it is because he was sealed by the master, and he can't complain that Xu Banxian's half-hanger can practice the Tao, but the old bachelor can't." I thought to myself, and said: "Back then, the master's original intention was also for the good of the senior brother, and the trend of the times was the same, so it's no wonder that the master. ”

The master sighed and said: "You thought about the words of the teacher for a long time that day, in fact, the Taiyin Concept was founded by the teacher to break some of the old rules of the Daomen, but I didn't expect to fall into it in the end, most of what I learned for the teacher and student are recorded in these three books for you, you have a high level of understanding, I don't have anything to teach you, the rest depends on your own experience and understanding, learning the Tao is different from reading, eight hundred side doors, three thousand left roads, you can't learn it in a lifetime, you can only touch the bypass, our Taiyin View is different from other sects, and there are few peopleI don't want you to carry forward the sect and spread the branches, I just hope that you can save your life and keep a low profile at all times, because people in this world are unpredictable, there are too many ways to harm people, and it is easy to dodge and difficult to defend against hidden arrows, you have to remember. ”

"Remembered the master." I wondered why the master suddenly told me so much today.

After I went home, I kowtowed to my mother to greet the New Year, and after my mother warmed up last night's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, she asked me to call Xiao Wu and the old bachelor to eat, I shouted a few times in the WeChat group and they didn't reply, and the phone couldn't get through, and when I was about to run to Nanshan to call them again, Xiao Wu and the old bachelor came down from Nanshan.

When Xiao Wu was eating, he said that Tai Shizu asked him to go back to Maoshan in the past two days to see, when Xiao Wu went to Zhongnan Mountain with his master to find Tai Shizu, and served in front of Tai Shizu for more than a year, and then lived in Zhangjiagou for half a year, and it was time to go back.

Mother heard that Xiao Wu was leaving, reluctant, he treated Xiao Wu as a son, raised for half a year, now the New Year is going to leave, feel uncomfortable, I prepared a lot of delicious food for Xiao Wu to take on the road, I saw that my mother was in pain, simply let Xiao Wu recognize my mother as a godmother, but the two were not polite at all, almost hugged their heads and cried, and there was a sense of recognition of mother and son who had been separated for many years.

I dragged Xiao Wu's baggage and suitcase to drag him away, and the sound of a mother was heartbreaking, I have never called it that since I was a child.

After sending Xiao Wu away, I thought about whether I should move to the mountain to live for a while, after all, the master is already more than two hundred years old, even if he is called a living immortal, but after all, he is not a real immortal, sometimes I see his hands will tremble involuntarily, aging is very serious, this South Mountain snow road slippery, in case of another slip and fall to death, it is a pity to have the ability of a body.

Who knew that when I went to Nanshan after dinner in the evening, I didn't see the master, so I sat in the side room and began to practice qi according to the "Shangqing Qi Cultivation Technique" given to me by the master.

It is said that this "Shangqing Qi Practice" is a method of practicing qi that has been passed down from generation to generation by the Maoshan faction, but the book given to me by the master has been changed a lot by him, and he has summarized and streamlined it over the years.

It is very easy for Taoist people to meditate when they run the Dao Qi Zhou Tian, so they often only feel that they have just closed their eyes, and when they open their eyes again, a few hours have passed.

When I woke up, it was already the second half of the night, and there were some sweat stains on my body, and I heard that the first time a cultivator had good luck, the Tao qi would expel impurities from the body when it penetrated the pores on the surface of the body, so I got up and went to the backyard of the Taoist temple to boil water and take a bath.

After taking a shower, I quietly looked through the window into the master's bed and realized that the master had not returned.

After that, I went back to the side room where my disciple lived to meditate and practice qi, and I didn't see the master come back until noon the next day.

The master does not eat fireworks in the world on weekdays, and has no contact with the people in the mountains, even if he goes to help people exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts, he is also handy, and he shouldn't not return at night, is it really halfway down the river and froze to death?

Thinking about it like this, I was anxious, and hurriedly contacted the old bachelor to come out to find someone, first looked around the vicinity of the Taoist temple Nanshan, and then looked around the roads around our village and the road leading to the town, but I didn't find the master.

After that, the old bachelor and I waited for a few more days, but we didn't see the master come back, and then I realized that the master had left without saying goodbye.

The old bachelor also said that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the master had some words with him, and now that he thinks about it, it seems that he left the Taoist temple after explaining some things.

After the master left, I and the old bachelor began to concentrate on practicing qi, "Shangqing Lian Qi Decision" is the foundation of Taiyin Guan Qi training, "Taiyin Secret Technique" is a unique mastery created by the master, with my current Taoism is not qualified to practice the above Taoism, and the master's notes are only this one, he told me to burn after reading and not to pass on, I don't know what the old bachelor was passed on by the master, and I didn't dare to inquire, so I repeatedly read the three books left by the master every day, until they were completely memorized before I dared to burn them.

This lasts for three months, until the beginning of spring, when the snow melts and new shoots sprout on the trees.

The villagers of Zhangjiagou were still a little scared when they learned that the master was gone, after all, there were so many evil things in the mountains before, and there were many evil things in the old forests in the mountains, but fortunately, the reputation of me and the old bachelor had already spread throughout the mountain, and the master came to accept us as a disciple this time, so the people of the village also came to me and the old bachelor for anything.

I and the old bachelor are both out of the division together, during which I helped the villagers solve a lot of things, but the people in the mountains don't have much money, and it would be good to earn a few dozen yuan on a trip, and sometimes you have to post it upside down in addition to eating.

For example, a child in a family was scared out of his soul, and when the child returned home, he didn't eat, drink or talk, and the family thought he was poisoned, so he hung up in the hospital for a long time. Seeing that it was not good, I heard others say that they were coming to me and the old bachelor, and after I went with the old bachelor, I saw that the child was scared and lost his soul, and the strange thing is that the soul was not called for a long time.

Generally, this kind of soul is either called the soul with fire paper or is to send stamps, and now the soul can't be called, it must be something to detain, and after inquiring in the village for a long time, I learned that the child went to the dead child ditch a few days ago.

In many parts of the countryside, there are ditches for dead children, especially under the bridge, where dead babies wrapped in swaddling clothes are often exposed to the wilderness.

Why are those people so cruel that their children are not buried in the soil, but just thrown away?

Because it is rumored that the resentment of the dead baby is great, and it will die before it has time to enjoy the good life in the world, if it is in the ground, it is easy to have resentment towards the biological parents, so that the biological parents will give birth to a dead baby in the next child, and if the body of the dead baby is directly exposed to the sun, the resentment will be purified by the sunlight of the mother of all things, and no longer bring bad luck to the parents.

I opened the eyes of the old bachelor to find the soul of the child in the ditch of the dead child for a long time, it was a few dead babies who were very resentful and grabbed the ankles and did not let him go, the old bachelor coaxed those dead babies for a long time and did not let go, and finally helped them burn paper and exceeded, just to make magic weapons cost more than 500 yuan.

When the child's parents saw that they wanted a thousand, they took back the twenty dollars they had given us, and called us liars.

It was not easy for us to find a child to testify and save him, but he couldn't remember what happened after the child's soul returned to his body, so the money was not caught in the end, and the person was still holding his stomach.

The old bachelor and I could only think that we had done a good deed without asking for anything in return, and then we ignored it when someone called us to call the soul.

At that time, my Taoism was already a little hot, and I heard Xiao Wu Dao Dao in the primary stage of entry, and when I could feel the purple qi in the sun, I was considered a qualified Taoist family.

After a few months of hard work, I found that when I faced the rising sun in the morning, I could feel a touch of purple qi in the sun, which drove Shangqing Lian Qi to incorporate purple qi into my pores, and transformed it into Dao Qi that was several times more powerful than when I usually meditated and practiced Qi.

After I dreamed of Xiaobai once, I got up and took out the tin box that Xiaobai had left for me.

Xiaobai said that when I practiced the first wisp of Dao Qi, I could open the iron box.

I think maybe I should go to Chungju as Xiaobai said to investigate, and strive to see Xiaobai again sooner.

Inside the box is the relics left by Xiaobai's master, I probed the Dao Qi into the iron box, and with a slight twist, the iron box opened in response, and it was a copper token.

The token has three ancient seals written on it.

City God's Order.