Chapter 61 The Price of the Ancestral Master
Wudang Mountain, in front of Qiongtai View.
Chen Letian had a grass in his mouth, lying on his back on the ground, and Ah Huang lying next to him. Since he met Chen Letian, Ah Huang seems to have a little Wudang dog consciousness and no longer kills indiscriminately.
Chen Letian looked at Wang Chongyang not far away, this Wudang disciple who was once praised by the rivers and lakes as the most talented in the first five hundred years and probably the next five hundred years, was sweeping the dead leaves on the ground. Chen Letian has been in Wudang for nearly a month. I saw a lot of people and things that I hadn't seen before.
The pilgrims who came to Wudang Mountain to worship incense were pious, but very indifferent. Unlike the grass house believers he had seen in the frontier. He once went to Liang Guo to get a head in disguise with his robes. In the border city of Liang State, he saw that every time the believers of Caolu talked about Caolu, they immediately wanted to kneel down and kowtow, and that kind of fanaticism made Chen Letian feel like his hair stood on end. Even some believers, when they hear the slightest bad thing about the grass hut outside, they will fight with the person who is talking with red eyes.
He couldn't understand it until last year, when he saw something similar in a new letter from his baby.
In that world, there is something called brainwashing.
As the name suggests, wipe out all the ideas in your own mind and pour in the ideas I want you to believe.
Here's how it works.
First, let me tell you something about how you can become rich as long as you work hard. This step is very important, and the brainwashed person will take you everywhere at first to see the lives of the rich. Tell you, like us, you can become a rich person like us.
Second, provide only a single source of information and cut off your other sources of information. It's like a person who could have chosen to eat an infinite number of foods, but one day, if you only offer him rice, he can only eat rice. In this case, people will gradually lose the ability to think independently, and can only passively accept the information given by one side.
Third, create group pressure and let the peers around you instill a certain idea in you every day. Even if you don't accept it for the time being, after a long time, this public opinion environment will make it difficult for you to resist.
Fourth, keep your emotions high. By singing and shouting slogans, you can't be in a calm mood. Once a person cannot calm down, he cannot think for himself.
Fifth, ritualization. Through some seemingly solemn and serious acts, the thoughts that are instilled in you are sacred, so that you can believe completely.
Sixth, practice. Let you practice with the indoctrinated thoughts, and then draw extremely biased conclusions to make the brainwashed person believe in the indoctrinated ideas even more.
It was very difficult for Chen Letian to understand at the time, but after months of thinking about it, coupled with the performance of contacting the believers in Caolu, he gradually understood something. He felt that this was a terrible technique, and the people he cultivated in this way were completely like marionettes, without his own thoughts and thinking abilities.
"Caolu, the Great Heavenly Master admired by thousands of people, it doesn't seem to be a good thing!" Chen Letian concluded.
It's better for us to be in the Song Dynasty, we can't say that everyone is a good person, but the people in power at least have a little conscience.
Compared with the believers in the grass house, the pilgrims in Wudang Mountain are completely different.
The pilgrims who came to Wudang Mountain to pay homage to incense, although they were very pious when they saw Li Zhangjiao and other real people, they could not see the fanaticism of the believers in Caolu from their eyes. Perhaps when the invaders come again, these pilgrims are also willing to give their lives to defend Wudang, but it will not be a loss like a puppet to give their lives, but a kind of 'I want to defend these real friends on the mountain who are also teachers and friends' life and death.
Chen Letian shook his head, he had been thinking too much recently, Wang Chongyang said, the heart of cultivating inaction is the heart of cultivation.
Wang Chongyang's move of swinging a broom at this moment has the charm of Taijiquan in Chen Letian's opinion, although Chen Letian doesn't know what the charm of Taijiquan is.
While sweeping, Wang Chongyang recited the mantra left by his grandfather: the action is light and introverted, the Mojiao is intermittent and researching, the left should be the right There is a virtual and real place, and the meaning is the day after tomorrow.
"Wang Chongyang, when will you teach me Tai Chi?" After this period of getting along, the two like-minded people have become extremely familiar, and when no one else is there, Chen Letian calls him by his name directly, instead of calling Wang Zhenren. Wang Chongyang didn't care, in fact, Chen Letian estimated that even if he called him Xiao Wang directly, he could accept it calmly.
"In a few days, when you're really familiar with hoes and shovels. Wang Chongyang kept the broom in his hand, and the wind slowly rose, and in this winter, the wind was as warm as spring. "Look at it, seek it with your heart, seek it with your heart, come with the wind, and go with the fate..." Wang Chongyang held a broom in his left hand and drew a circle in front of him with his right hand. The circle was the color of white clouds, clean and sprinkled.
The white circle was spun up by Wang Chongyang's fingers. The surrounding wind and the fallen leaves on the ground also rotated, and the dead leaves continued to cling to the ball, and the ball rotated faster and faster. After a while, the circle was tightly surrounded by dead leaves, and from Chen Letian's perspective, it looked like a ball made of leaves was spinning rapidly. At this time, Wang Chongyang closed his eyes slightly, and there were words in his mouth: flickering and flickering into the long, a feather is not added to the Daozang, the hand is slow and the hand is fast, and the four or two dial thousands of luck into good...
Chen Letian was stunned, his mouth open, and he didn't dare to make a sound, for fear that making a sound would interrupt this strange scene.
After a while, the speed of the ball seemed to have reached the extreme, and all the fallen leaves within a radius of ten zhang had been sucked on the ball, and the naked eye could no longer see the dead leaves on the ball, only a white-brown shadow could be seen.
After about half a pillar of incense, there were two Taiji fish that fit without gaps in the circle, one white and one brown, you chase me, I chase you, and fill the inside of the circle.
A pair of Taiji diagrams magically appeared...
Fortunately, there were no pilgrims next to this time, otherwise this scene would not have been passed down by the pilgrims who came down the mountain into an earth-shattering legend of the true martial arts.
"Open!" Suddenly, Wang Chongyang snorted lightly, and the Taiji diagram burst open instantly. All the leaves that make up the circle immediately turn to powder and scatter in the air with the wind.
Wang Chongyang exhaled lightly, his right hand slowly drooped, his cyan robe swayed slightly, and he raised his head to look at the Taihe Palace at the top of Tianzhu Peak. The retreating spring wind blew his beardless young face, which made Chen Letian's heart extremely calm, and at this moment, Chen Letian felt that Wang Chongyang was like an immortal in the portrait.
"Do you see clearly?" Wang Chongyang put the broom back in its place, walked over to Chen Letian, and sat down.
Regarding Fang Cai's scene, Ah Huang just wagged his tail and didn't even raise his head. It's no wonder that Ah Huang has been on the mountain for seven or eight years, and he has never seen any formation, of course, he is much calmer than Chen Letian, a layman who can be said to have never seen a few times of Taoist supernatural powers.
Chen Letian shook his head and sighed: "I can see it clearly, but I don't have your cultivation." He raised his right hand, summoned the true qi in the sea of qi, and pointed to the small stone in the distance. The stone staggered to a height of three or four inches above the ground.
After only a short while, Chen Letian couldn't support it, withdrew his true breath, panting, and a few drops of sweat broke out on his forehead. "You see, I just have such a little true qi, and the heaven and earth aura I breathe every day is not enough for you strong people to stuff your teeth. ”
Wang Chongyang said with a straight face: "What's the hurry? There is no quick way to do good things in the world, they are all water mills that drip through stones." ”
Chen Letian thought of his grandson's book in the grassland of Liang Kingdom, looked down at his hands, and said, "But I can't wait that long, I need to make myself strong as soon as possible, I want to go to the grassland to rescue the students who belong to the academy." ”
Wang Chongyang didn't understand, so Chen Letian told him about Sun Zishu's forced abduction by Caolu. Wang Chongyang listened to what happened, and comforted Chen Letian and said that it was only three years, and if classmate Sun could learn some skills in Caolu and come back, it would not necessarily be a bad thing.
Chen Letian said, I understand what you said, and I also know that the reason is like this, but the dignified Qingtian Pavilion Cultivation Academy students were taken captive by the grass house, and I must earn him back this face. In addition, Zishu is there, being a stranger in a foreign land, that kind of feeling...
Wang Chongyang patted Chen Letian on the shoulder and told him a story.
said that we have an ancestor in Wudang, what is the name, I forgot. Since he was a child, he has lived in fine clothes and food, and his cultivation talent is also high, and he entered the autumn realm in his twenties, but he couldn't enter the winter realm until he was eighty years old. Later, one day, a battle suddenly broke out outside Bianjing City. As the highest mountain around Bianjing, Wudang Mountain has of course become the first place occupied by the enemy. In the face of the attack of 5,000 enemy troops, Wudang Mountain faced the whole battle, and the pilgrims who could not escape side by side, and the enemy army fought for three days and three nights, and the blood flowed like a river. Although there were more than a dozen real people with advanced cultivation in Wudang at that time, after all, there were many enemy troops. In the end, only the ancestor and the little apprentice were left in the entire Wudang, and the others all died in battle.
At this time, the eighty-year-old ancestor who was covered in blood, looked at the corpses of the disciples on the ground, and could no longer control the Dao heart, looked up to the sky and roared, and after a while, stepped into the winter realm. After that, with the power of one person, he opened the Wuwei Great Array, which originally required the joint efforts of ten great cultivators.
As soon as this formation opened, the hundreds of enemy troops shrouded in the formation were instantly shattered into dust.
The enemy was immediately frightened and turned around and fled.
The crisis in Bianjing City will naturally be solved.
After the story was told, Wang Chongyang touched Ah Huang's head and said: "If it weren't for the danger in Bianjing, Master Zu might not be able to enter the winter realm for the rest of his life, but in that crisis, tens of thousands of people died outside Bianjing, and Wudang Mountain only had two lives left, and he was almost wiped out." Master Zu later said in the book he left behind, if I had known that the cost of entering the winter realm was so great, I would rather not be able to enter this winter realm in this life, the next life, and the next life!"