Chapter 106: Breaking the Formation and Taking Ancient Books
I was stunned, this old Taoist priest has been thinking about it for so long, just to say this?
Although my Nanzhen Temple is a small Taoist temple, it is not much bigger than the ancestral hall of the big surname, but we are from the Shenxiao Sect, which is different from the Heavenly Master Dao of Longhu Mountain.
Just like Jiang Ming's Lingbao Sect, which is called the 'Fu Qi Three Mountains' alongside Longhu Mountain and Maoshan Mountain, the Shenxiao Sect is also a Taoist sect that was separated thousands of years ago. Although the Lingbao Sect is small, it has never become a temple or jungle temple for people's descendants in history!
And my Shenxiao Sect was destroyed and rebuilt, and there were only about 20 people. But the purpose of our sect is different, and it is impossible to become a temple for the descendants of other people and a jungle temple, although there are still thousands of people in Longhu Mountain.
But how can I refuse him? At the same time, you have to save people's faces. Now we are also people with families, rooms and foundations, and we can't be reckless in everything.
I pondered for a moment, then arched my hand and said, "Thank you seniors for your support." Longhu Mountain is one of the three mountains of Chinese Taoism, and it is also the largest sect in Jiangxi. How can a small temple like me get into the eyes of Longhu Mountain? ”
"Besides, the purpose of Nanzhenguan is different, Nanzhenguan wants to find a big backer, and it can only find the gate of the Shenxiao faction, so it ....... The kid didn't dare to say yes here. I also look forward to the predecessor Haihan. ”
"Hah! Ha! Ha! Ha! ......。 The old Taoist priest laughed heartily after hearing my words. Then he pointed at me and said, you are a disciple of the Fire Bell Daoist, right? I nodded yes.
"I remember thirty years ago, I went to see your master. At that time, your master was still living in half of the broken Taoist temple, and there were more than a dozen junior disciples below, dressed in tatters. At that time, I said that Longhu Mountain would pay for him to rebuild the Nanzhen Temple and accept it as a descendant temple, but he didn't agree, and blasted me out. Then he dismissed more than a dozen of his junior disciples. ”
"I can't imagine that after these thirty years, not only has Nanzhen Temple been rebuilt, but also an apprentice like you has been accepted, and your words are exactly the same as what he said back then." After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he sighed. Say it! That's it! What scriptures do you want, here is the table of contents, check which one you like, and write a number at the end. After you choose, someone will bring you to pack.
I arched my hand at the old Taoist priest and said, thank you, senior.
He waved his hand and sat back in his chair to read by himself.
I picked up a red pen and ticked all the scriptures for the morning and evening classes, and wrote a hundred books on the back. I rummaged through the books of the Shenxiao Sect about the Five Thunder Talismans, and found five or six of them, and I also ticked them and wrote the number.
The disciple next to him took the catalog, called a few Taoist children, and went separately to prepare the books. These books add up to thousands of books, and it is difficult to prepare them for a while, so I just wait slowly.
I saw that there was a catalog next to it, and I wanted to take a look, but the old Taoist held it down and said that this is a book on spells, which is very expensive!
Expensive? How expensive can it be? How much does it cost, I asked? The old Taoist priest looked at me and said:
"This is the book on the second floor, and many of them are unique reproductions, so they are very valuable. The catalogue you just ticked is on the first floor, and all of them are ten yuan a copy, and you will only be charged a production fee. ”
"The second floor is a replica of the unique and rare treasures of Taoist cultivation since history, so it costs 5,000 yuan a copy, and these unique products can't be bought outside!"
I gasped, one book costs 5,000, and if there are two books, it will top my more than 1,000 books. What book is so precious?
Seeing that I hesitated, the old Taoist priest took the two catalogs to the other side of the table. I blushed, this is too bullying! I don't have the money to buy it, can't I just look at the catalog?
I took a deep breath and said, "Senior, I also want to buy a little bit of the catalog on the second floor, not much, just a hundred!" ”
The old Taoist priest looked at me a little surprised, his eyes slipped around my face, and said Are you sure? Seeing me nodding, he gave me the catalog on the second floor.
Turning the first page, sure enough, the titles of those books were very unfamiliar, and I only knew a few books from my master's memory. But there are still more than 90 books left, and I don't know which ones to choose. Think about yourself as a Shenxiao faction, just choose the word 'thunder', the word 'fire', and ancient medicine!
I chose and chosen, and there were only more than 20 books, and then I thought of the specialties of my uncles, such as fortune telling, Kanyu, hexagram interpretation, Zhai Jiao, etc., and I also selected more than a dozen books.
There are still more than fifty copies left, and I turned my head to look at the two junior sisters, who had not dared to make a noise since they came in, and waited beside them.
I said that each of you should choose twenty or thirty copies, and make up a hundred. When they saw the catalog I handed over, they couldn't stop shirking it, saying that they didn't know what to choose, and that 5,000 copies were too expensive to choose randomly.
I say it's an order! You choose! Choose what you like, or what suits your cultivation!
Seeing that they couldn't shirk it, the two took the catalog and didn't dare to start with the pen. I say choose! I don't blame you even if I chose the wrong one.
Today, I have to give Nan Zhenguan a fighting tone. The old Taoist priest watched coldly and remained silent, maybe he couldn't have imagined that a small Taoist temple could buy more than 500,000 yuan of books today.
The two junior sisters discussed, and it took half an hour to choose, and then they breathed a sigh of relief. A Taoist boy came over, and I took the bank card to him. There were many scriptures on the ground, wrapped in ropes and piled together. I'm sitting on it, and I've been in for a long time, and I don't have a chair to sit on.
When the junior sisters saw me sitting in the stack of books, they also wanted to come and sit, but they were a little hesitant for fear that the old Taoist priest would say. I said if you're tired, come and sit! I've been standing for hours. The two of them came over and each found a stack of books to sit on.
The old Taoist priest turned his head and said with a smile, young man, there are still many books on the third floor, if you don't want money, do you want it?
Don't want money? The two junior sisters covered their mouths and laughed. Said senior brother, the one on the third floor doesn't need money, you hurry up and get it.
I stood up, and the old Taoist priest handed me a catalog, and I flipped through it, but I didn't know anything. I have never heard of these titles, and I don't have them in my master's memory.
Could it be that these are books for cultivating immortals? If it is true, take it back to the master to study and cultivate, won't there be hope for him to impact the earth immortals?
"Senior, how do you hold these books? Do you really want money? Shall I take it? ”
"Where's the book on the third floor! There is a saying that the Taoist dwells there. However, you can't take the real thing, you can only take the replica, and there is a high-imitation replica next to each genuine product. ”
"But it's up to the third floor! There are many formations arranged, although they will not hurt and die, but they will trap people. After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he stroked his beard twice.
He took out a Sanqingling and said, "If you are trapped, you can't take the book away, shake the Sanqingling and someone will come to save you." ”
Is it to break the formation and take the book? This is a test of a person's understanding of the formation, and not everyone is proficient in the formation. However, in my memory, the master still knows a little formation.
I took the three clear bells, and the two junior sisters came over and pulled me, saying that it was too dangerous and that I would not be allowed to risk being embarrassed.
I said you counted the 100 books, that's 500,000! Wait for me here, I'll go back as soon as I go.
A Taoist boy came to lead the way, and I followed him to the second floor. There was a small incense burner at the staircase on the third floor, and he lit a stick of sandalwood, saying that a stick of incense would prevail, and if you come back before the incense is burned, you will take as much as you want.
I grabbed him and asked, has anyone ever gone up to the third floor to get a book before? He thought for a moment and nodded, saying yes! How could there not be? I heard the master say that over the years, no more than ten people have gone up to the third floor to get books. In addition to Zhang Tianshi, there are eight other people who have taken it!
Is the pass rate so low? Longhu Mountain has a history of more than 2,000 years! It seems that the formation here is very exquisite. Should I go up there? I'm a little hesitant now.
Dao Tong arched his hand next to him and said, Brother Dao, the sandalwood is lit, and the timer has begun, you go up! After he finished speaking, he sat down on the futon next to him.
Now that you're here, go up! Now retreat, Nan Zhenguan will not make people laugh in the future? I pinned the three clear bells to my waist and went up the stairs.
Just past the turntable, there was a sudden twist in front of me, and the stairs were gone. I stretched out my feet and probed, but it was foggy in front of me, my feet were empty, and the stairs were gone.
Could this be a hallucination? I closed my eyes and reached out again, but there was still nothing in front of me. This is strange, I came up just now and saw that there were stairs, could it be that the space I was in was switched by the formation?
Close your eyes again and use your consciousness to investigate. Grass! It turned out that I turned around and went back to the stairs under the turntable. It's foggy in front of you, and if you step on it any more, you'll be back to the place where you lit the incense.
I closed my eyes and stepped back, my heels finally touching the wooden staircase up the third floor. Turn around and step on it slowly, there are a total of eleven stairs. When I opened my eyes, I finally went up to the third floor.
Looking at both sides, there are many worn-out books on display on the third floor, and none of them are made of paper. Bamboo slips, wooden boards, tortoise shells, animal bones, sheepskins, and all kinds of gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin are made of different shapes.
I saw a roll of bamboo slips in the cabinet on the left, with a small seal written on it with gold dust, and a roll of the same bamboo slips next to it. This golden word looks very domineering and tyrant, so that's it.
I took a step forward, and suddenly there was a twist in front of me, and then a puff of white smoke rose, and when the smoke cleared, the bamboo slips displayed in the cabinet were gone, which was strange.
I can only close my eyes again and diverge my consciousness. It turned out that I was switched the space again, and it turned in a different direction. Isn't this a rehash of the same old tune? Just this broken formation, you still want to trap me?
With his eyes closed, he walked directly to the bamboo slips, picked up the two rolls of bamboo slips, and weighed them in his hands. In the world of consciousness, you can feel that the real product is different from the imitation, the real product has an aura overflowing, and the imitation has no aura at all except for the image.
I put the imitation on the shelf, and the real thing is in my arms. Open your eyes again and walk to another counter.
This counter has a big rhino horn on it, which is the horn above the bridge of the rhinoceros nose. It is smooth as a mirror, and there are many small characters engraved with fly's heads. I don't know what kind of scripture this is, but when I open my eyes and look carefully, a few of the words are like a bird in a simple pen.
This should be the bird seal in the early stage of the Chu State? The state of Chu is more than 2,000 years away from now, right?
I was just about to reach for it, but suddenly a bowl-sized python's head stretched out from behind the counter, spitting out letters. Oops, my mother! What the hell is this? The snake's head startled me. Hurriedly took a few steps back, quickly closed his eyes and diverged consciousness.
it! This turned out to be a real snake! A large spotted python with a thick thigh was coiled behind the counter. It's a real snake, then it's not a formation, am I robbing it? Or kill it and get the rhino horn?
There is not much time for a stick of incense, and if I waste time with this snake, I may not get a book.
Although there are thousands of books here, if you can't get them, you won't be blessed! Thinking of this, I recited the Five Thunder Mantra and forced out the strength of my right palm, and the two ligatures of 'Five Thunder' immediately became golden and prosperous.
Just as I was about to slash the spotted python to death with one palm, the python retracted its head in one fell swoop. Maybe it could feel the faint thunder, and it was afraid that I would really kill it with one palm, so it hid.
I closed my eyes, and I could feel it slipping away in a panic. Just go, take the five thunder palms out, and there is no danger. Looking at the rhino horn on the mahogany shelf, I shifted the position of the replica with the real thing, and grabbed the real thing in my left hand, which was cold. Again the consciousness is released, and the person comes to the staircase turntable at once.
The Taoist boy below raised his head and looked at me in surprise, he rubbed his eyes and looked again. Not to mention him, even the entire Longhu Mountain people couldn't imagine that I would actually be able to penetrate the wall. Of course, you can't just tell someone.
When Dao Tong saw me appear, he was still holding a rhino horn in his hand, and he was still bulging in his arms, knowing that I must have gained. He turned his gaze to Sandalwood.
I also set my eyes on sandalwood, which was the size of a soybean, and it was about to go out. It's dangerous! If you are greedy, when the time comes, all of them will be invalidated, and you will not be able to get a single one.
When I went down to the staircase, I blew out the sandalwood in one go, shook the rhino horn in my hand, and said thank you!
When he reached the first floor, the Taoist boy whispered to the old Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest was startled, and then he stood up suddenly and looked at me incredulously. Although he was a little unhappy in his heart, my strength was there, and he didn't dare to break his word.
He arched his hand and said, Congratulations, little brother, you are the tenth person to get the books on the third floor. It's really a great cultivation, dare to ask the little brother's name?
I said it was Shenxiao Pai Nan Zhenguan Chen Daheng!
When the old Taoist priest heard this, he said haha, "I have been guarding the 'Tibetan Scripture Pavilion' for almost fifty years, and you are the second person I have seen to get a book." The eight people who got the book before were the 'Tibetan Scripture Pavilion' that I guarded before, and it seems that it is really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves!
He said that since you got the book, you need to make an outbound registration, so that he can have a business. Then he said that he would ask Dao Tong to help me wrap the books.
I said that it was okay to register, and the bag would be free, so I'll take it like this! Actually, I'm afraid he'll drop my bag.
Holding the rhino horn, he wrote his name in the registration book with one hand.
The old Taoist priest looked at me with a smile and asked me softly how I got the books.
I said I'll just walk over and get it! I don't know how to form a formation, so I'll take which one looks good!
Then his face changed suddenly, and he looked at me as if he had eaten a dead fly. He said that these formations are the culmination of the formations of the past dynasties of Longhu Mountain, and not everyone can break them. Even if Zhang Tianshi made a move, he could only break one-third of the formation with a stick of incense, not all of them.
I shrugged and said I didn't take it all! I just saw that the bamboo slips and rhino horns were good-looking, so I took them. Besides, I'm only twenty-six years old, do you think I really know how to form?
I've only been learning the Tao for a few years, and even a genius can't have time to learn the formation? Could it be that your formation has been damaged by bugs? Let's go kill the insects!
The old Taoist priest finally got angry, gritted his teeth and snorted heavily, flicked his sleeves, and quickly ran to the staircase, and climbed upstairs.