Chapter 5: Life Extension
The life-sustaining technique recorded in Luban's book, there is another name called the seven-star lamp, which is also called the seven-star life-sustaining technique.
Legend has it that two people used it, one of which was Zhuge Liang, a strategist of Shu in the Three Kingdoms, who learned that his life was short, and when he learned that his life was short, he set up a seven-star lantern in his military tent to increase his life. But at the critical moment, Wei Yan broke into the army and kicked down the main lamp in the Seven Star Lamp, which is the natal lamp, and extinguished it, causing Zhuge Liang to fail in casting a spell, and he did not succeed in continuing his life, and died not long after.
There is also a person named Liu Bowen, who is said to have used the Seven-Star Life Extension Technique when he was seriously ill, and successfully added twelve years of life to himself, and assisted Zhu Yuanzhang to win the throne in the world during these twelve years.
Li Jun left the hospital and took a taxi for several streets, and finally found a place that sold candles, bought incense burners and incense sticks in other places, and then went directly to a restaurant near the hospital to save time, where he bought dozens of dishes.
When he returns to the hospital room, the frail Fluttershy is asleep, and he takes the dishes he bought and begins to set them in the open space of the room, placing a candle in one of the dishes.
Fluttershy's father doesn't understand what he's doing, so he walks over to him and asks, "Jun, you, what are you doing?" ”
"Uncle, I can't explain it to you, I can only tell you that doing so will save Fluttershy's life."
"Really?" Fluttershy's mother asks hurriedly.
Li Jun placed a circle of dishes on the ground, and placed a Big Dipper in the center with the dishes, and while seriously lighting the candles in each dish, he nodded and replied: "Really, but it's best for uncles and aunts not to let anyone into the ward for the next seven days, you two can trust Li Jun's words, it's best not to come in." ”
"What if the doctor comes in?" Fluttershy's mother asks.
"Not anyone." Li Jun said resolutely.
Fluttershy's mother hesitates to believe him. However, Fluttershy's father pats her on the shoulder and takes her out of the room, "The doctors say Fluttershy can't do it, so let him try, maybe his solution will work." ”
"Okay, okay."
The Seven Stars of the Seven Stars are arranged in the order of the Big Dipper, which are the Seven Stars of Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and Shake Light.
The Big Dipper is also known as the Xingjun of Relief in Taoism, which are Tianshu Greedy Wolf Xingjun, Tianxuan Jumen Xingjun, Tianji Lucun Xingjun, Tianquan Wenqu Xingjun, Yuheng Lianzhen Xingjun, Kaiyang Wuqu Xingjun, and Shaking Light Breaking Army Xingjun.
In addition, the Big Dipper corresponds to the twelve zodiac signs:
Rat, Greedy Wolf
Cow, pig giant star
Dog, Lu Cunxing
Chicken, Wenqu Xing
Tiger, Dragon, Monkey Lian Zhen Star
Rabbit, sheep, snake Wu Qu Xing
Horse, Broken Army
Fluttershy's zodiac sign is the Ox, so her natal lamp is a giant star, and as long as the natal lamp of the giant star is not extinguished for seven days, she can increase her life span by 12 years.
After lighting the Seven Star Lamp and the candles representing the star map, Li Jun wraps seven red ropes around the bottom of the dishes according to the Luban book, and then twists the other end of the seven red ropes into a strand around Fluttershy's left wrist.
After doing all this, he began to step back and forth in the open space of the hospital room in the order of the Big Dipper, a practice called stepping on the seven stars.
He walked back and forth for more than half an hour, then took out the incense burner and placed it on the ground, then took out three incense sticks and lit them into the incense burner, and finally crossed his legs in front of the incense burner and chanted the obscure mantras in Lu Ban's book, until the three incense sticks burned out.
Step on the seven stars for half an hour, burn incense mantras for half an hour, once a day for seven days, if the natal lamp is not extinguished after seven days, then the continuation of life is successful. After seven days, if the natal lamp goes out, or someone accidentally extinguishes it, the continuation of life will fail, and there will be no room for accidents during the period.
To put it mildly, Fluttershy's parents are also dead horses, after all, the most famous cardiologist in the country is powerless and has issued a death notice, and the couple has no choice but to trust Li Jun to let him try.
It went on like this for three days, during which nothing happened, except for a few candles on the periphery that went out, everything went according to the expected pattern.
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As time passed, those candles on the periphery began to go out one after the other. By the sixth day, only the seven candles representing the Big Dipper were still lit, and the candles were faltering and looked as if they would be extinguished at any moment.
On the seventh day, that is, at two o'clock in the afternoon of the last day, two candles of the Seven Star Lantern were extinguished one after another, namely Wenqu Star and Lian Zhen Star, and Wuqu Star also showed signs of extinguishing.
"It's the last day, don't go wrong, the natal lamp must not go out......" Li Jun is very nervous now, he has been staring at the few candles that are still lit since the afternoon, rubbing his hands back and forth, so nervous that his eyes are sore, and he doesn't dare to rub his hands, for fear that he will open his eyes and see that the natal lamp is out after rubbing.
From morning to night, Li Jun didn't eat a mouthful of food, and he didn't dare to drink a sip of water, for fear that someone would enter the ward and blow out the candle when he came back from the toilet.
At more than eleven o'clock in the evening, there was less than half an hour before the success of the life continuation technique, and in addition to the natal lamp, there were two candles that were lit, and Li Jun always said that he was a little relieved at this time.
Fluttershy's parents have been guarding the outside of the ward for the rest of the day, eating and sleeping in chairs next to them, and even going to the bathroom, with little rest for almost seven days.
At 11:45 p.m. on the last day of the seventh day, the husband and wife were so sleepy that they leaned back in their chairs and fell asleep unconsciously, but it was so coincidental that a male nurse in his thirties happened to come to the door of the ward on rounds.
Dead trees don't make forests, no coincidences don't make books, accidents always happen when you don't expect them, if you know that accidents are about to happen, then it's not called an accident......
The male nurse doesn't wake Fluttershy's parents and slowly opens the door to go inside, but when the door opens, a gust of wind blows through the hallway, and although the wind is not very strong, it can almost be said to be inaudible, but it still blows the flame of the candle that is about to go out, and it seems to be extinguished when it is small.
"Damn, close the door!" Li Jun was suddenly shocked, raised his head and glared at the male nurse who walked in, and shouted in a deep voice.
The male nurse was startled by his voice, and closed the door a little hard in a panic, so a strong wind blew in the moment the door closed!
Seeing this, Li Jun cursed a few times in his heart, and hurriedly went over to protect Fluttershy's natal lamp with his body, and the flame was blown and shook a few times, but finally it was not extinguished.
"Whew...... Finally, it was not blown out by the wind. Li Jun glared at the overwhelmed male nurse, looked at the candle that was still lit, and suddenly sighed in his heart, but before he could finish his breath, the accident happened again.
The male nurse wakes up Fluttershy's parents outside with the sound of the door closing the door, and when they see that the life-renewal operation is still more than a minute away, they think something has happened to their daughter in the hospital room, so they open the door and run in to check.
As you can imagine, the husband and wife ran in like the wind, and even the freshly lit candle was estimated to be blown out by the wind they rushed in, not to mention the candle that could be extinguished at any time, leaving only a trace of flame.
Li Jun hurriedly covered the candle containing the natal lamp with both hands, trying not to let the wind blow, but in the end, the candle was extinguished, and it was less than ten seconds before the success of the life renewal technique, which made him very angry and instantly lost his mind.
"Your uncle, I have to kill you today!" Li Jun rushed to the male nurse like crazy, grabbed the opponent's neck with his left hand, and punched the opponent in the face with his right fist, directly beating the opponent to the ground unsteadily.
He scolded while beating, he was very strong in the madness, and the male nurse had no power to fight back when he was beaten, so he could only try to protect his head.
"It was a success, why would you be here to make trouble, if it weren't for you, Fluttershy wouldn't have died!"
"What!" Fluttershy's parents don't know why Li Jun hit the male nurse and try to walk over to persuade them, but when they hear Li Jun's words, they immediately stop and turn around and run to their daughter Fluttershy's hospital room to check on them.