Chapter Forty-Six: The Tao is also a Lost Way
When Gongsun Shengyan woke up, he found himself lying on the bed, covered with a fluffy quilt, and the deaf and dumb little Taoist priest who had brought him food before was sitting beside him, looking at himself without blinking, as if he was afraid that if he looked at it for a second, he would give birth to a pair of wings and fly out of the window.
"Ahhhh......h
Gongsun Shengyan rubbed his temples and gradually recalled the scene before he fell unconscious. Zunyun Dao Chang cast a spell on him, saying that he wanted to forcibly open the seeds for himself, but the process was so painful that people would never want to go through it a second time, the scorching heat of being wrapped in flames and burning all over his body, he really didn't think that he could come back to life. I don't know if it's sweet or dead, I didn't even have a dream, and when I woke up, I immediately connected the scene before sleeping, which was seamless.
After the little Taoist priest finished the gesture, he poured a cup of hot water from the table next to him and brought it to Gongsun Shengyan. Gongsun Shengyan took the water, put it to his mouth and drank it all in one gulp, like a dry desert finally ushered in rain, ushered in a trickle, and his internal organs were full of indescribable pleasure.
He handed back the empty teacup and pointed at it for another drink. The little Taoist priest filled the teacup, turned around and walked out of the square door.
"It is estimated that he called the head of the cloud road. Gongsun Shengyan thought to himself. He drank the water again and supported his body with his elbows, feeling full of strength, not like he had been asleep for a long time. Gongsun Shengyan kicked the quilt away with his feet, turned over and went to the ground, and without tidying up, he pushed the door outside the house. The outside world is bright, and the sun is shining warmly on the Taoist temple, which is a good weather that makes people's hearts feel high.
"Gongzi Su......" Gongsun Shengyan just stretched his waist, and saw that in the corridor on the opposite corner, Zunyun Dao walked over with the soles of his feet, and the moment he looked at each other, he greeted him excitedly.
"Venerable Cloud Dao Chief. Gongsun Shengyan returned the salute and continued to stretch his tense body.
"How does Young Master Su feel?" Before Daoist Zunyun approached, he began to ask with concern.
"It doesn't feel good, it's good. How does Daoist Zunyun think I should feel?" he asked rhetorically.
"I don't feel it...... It's good if you don't feel it, and if you don't feel it, it's the best feeling. It could be seen that Daoist Zunyun was very satisfied with his answer, and he replied happily while touching the beard on his chin.
"How long did I sleep?"
"It's less than four hours, it's a short time, sometimes I go to sleep, and I don't think about it for six or seven hours, hahaha...... Young people are young people. ”
said a lot of words that didn't hurt or itch, and Gongsun Shengyan was about to fade out of his mouth. He couldn't understand why Zunyun Daoist wanted to drive his own seeds away at any cost, and he couldn't see what benefit this matter had for Zunyun Daoist, and not only was he tortured during the whole process, but Zunyun Daoist was also very hard.
"You've told me before that there are a lot of things I can't do after the seeds are opened, and it's easy to do now. But I wanted to ask what to do, and I didn't understand it at all. "Gongsun Shengyan went straight in.
"Master Su, come with me. ”
Gongsun Shengyan followed Zunyun Dao Chang and walked to a room that he had not paid attention to before, this room was poorly furnished, except for tables and chairs, there was not even a simple decoration, but there were full of books, closely arranged on the shelves, except for the side by the door, the remaining three walls were placed so that there was no gap left.
"Are you trying to teach me the technique?" Gongsun Shengyan took the initiative to ask.
"No, no," Zunyun Dao Chang smiled, "Young Master Su, look at your back again." He didn't know where to find two mirrors, one was holding it himself, and the other was handed to Gongsun Shengyan, smiling confidently.
Gongsun Shengyan took off his shirt, compared the angle with Zunyun Daochang, and easily saw his smooth and clean left back shoulder, except for snow-white skin, there was nothing.
"After the seed is opened, it has already begun to merge into the meridians of your whole body and become a part of your body. You may not know that with the power of the previous seed alone, let alone me teaching you, even if there is another person who is a hundred times more powerful than me, there is nothing to teach you. As he spoke, Daoist Zunyun pulled out a thread-bound book from the shelf, which had not been turned over for a long time, and he reached out and dusted off the pages, and the dust was fluttered all over the sky.
"If you look at this book, you can read it. Daoist Zunyun handed the book to Gongsun Shengyan.
Gongsun Shengyan took it and opened the yellowed pages, he recognized all the words written in it, but he didn't understand what it meant when he read them together.
His bewildered expression seemed to be expected by Zunyun Daoist, who said in an encouraging tone, "Look at a short section first, then close your eyes and try to appreciate it." ”
Gongsun Shengyan followed the guidance, memorized a short paragraph in his heart, then sat down on the chair, closed his eyes, and thought about the sentence in the book just now, his body and mind relaxed, as if every pore had been completely opened. With the silent thought in his mind, there was a strange aura in his body as if awakened, like a palm that was swimming in his body, pausing occasionally, adjusting slightly, and continuing to grope forward. The place where the breath goes, it is crispy and numb, as if someone is gently touching himself with soft goose feathers, full of an indescribable pleasure.
"How is it?" Seeing Gongsun Shengyan open his eyes, Zunyun Dao Chief began to ask anxiously.
Gongsun Shengyan didn't answer, turned the page of the book, continued to memorize it, and closed his eyes to find the feeling just now. In this way, this breath intermittently circled his body, and he felt that the chair under him began to slowly become soft, and his body gradually sank as if he was being held up, but he couldn't feel any change in his posture, and after sinking to the height of a small arm, the chair under him had completely disappeared, and a force supported him to rise steadily. The breath in the body became stronger, no longer with occasional pauses as at the beginning, and became faster and faster, if at first it felt like an earthworm crawling through the body, now it is like a snake speeding forward. Gongsun Shengyan's bare skin was covered with fine beads of sweat that gathered into wisps of sweat over time. After a stick of incense, he opened his eyes and exhaled happily, only to find that he was still sitting on the stool as it was, but the four legs of the stool were already soaked in sweat, as if he had been fished out of the water tank.
"Dao Chief, what kind of book is this?" Gongsun Shengyan simply took off his clothes, and asked Dao Leader Zun Yun with heat all over his body.
"The basic Taoist art of refining the body, the cultivation is different, and the realm is different. Su Gongzi's breathing and pranayama are ashamed to see the old way. Daoist Zunyun didn't answer directly.
"Can you read the books here?" Gongsun Shengyan was as light as a swallow at the moment, as if he had changed his skin.
"Feel free to take it and watch it for as long as you want. It's better for Su Gongzi to continue now, and the old way won't bother much. Seeing Gongsun Shengyan like this, Zunyun Dao Chang was about to leave.
"There must be a name for this body refining technique, right?" Gongsun Shengyan was overcome with curiosity and continued to ask.
"Hey, the old Taoist book is a casual cultivation, these Taoist books are scattered collections, most of them are broken, I only know their use and don't know their names, which makes Su Gongzi smile. ”
"That'...... How can I repay you?" Gongsun Shengyan's words came from the bottom of his heart, and after learning his luck just now, he obviously felt that his body had changed for the better.
"There is no need to repay the opportunity. If everything needed to be repaid, I wouldn't have been able to get the guidance of that great power decades ago. Daoist Zunyun didn't say anything more, pushed the door out, "Wait a minute, I will arrange someone to wait for you outside the door, when you feel tired, let him bring tea and dinner." ”
Gongsun Shengyan waited until the footsteps disappeared, then he got off the stool and walked to the bookshelf by the wall. The books on the shelves were all covered with thick dust without exception, and he took out one casually, the pages of this book were also yellowed, and they were about to get raw, and a long part of the front should have been lost, so naturally there was no book cover.
Gongsun Shengyan put the book back in its place, walked to the opposite bookshelf and took out a copy casually, this one was more worn and older than the previous one, not only was there no front, but the second half was also missing a few pages.
He didn't give up, threw the book on the ground, stood on tiptoe and took three more books from the top shelf, still without a book cover.
"Let's make do with it. He said to himself in his heart, no longer rummaging through the bookshelves, but tidying up the books he had just taken out, sitting cross-legged on the ground, and reading word by word.
How did Gongsun Shengyan know that with the cultivation of the "seed" that had been forcibly broken, this aura that was wandering through his body was recovering his keen sense of Dao at an incredible speed. The day before, after the head of the Zunyun Dao, Kong Yu, broke the "seed" behind his shoulder, the soul power did not establish communication with Gongsun Shengyan, who did not know how to do magic, for the first time, and had to bump around in his body like the primitive power of the barbarian era, which made him worse than dead, of course, Kong Yu, the head of the Zunyun Dao, knew the power, at first he took precautions to use the soul power emitted by the "seed" to expand the meridians of Gongsun Shengyan, and finally connected the power of the stars in the dark room, and guided the huge spiritual sense that broke out of the shell to forcibly return to its place. The soul power that was rampaging in the body before, after cleansing Gongsun Shengyan's body like a hurricane, released very little, and what Gongsun Shengyan had to do now was to reawaken the spiritual consciousness while fusing it for his own use. Just as there is a dam that intercepts the river, there will be an inexhaustible source of water, once it needs to be released, it can be slowly spit out, and it can explode instantly.
The more I read the book, the faster I looked, and Gongsun Shengyan felt more and more relaxed. The power rushing in his body gradually stabilized, like a child facing a mountain of toys, gradually losing his excitement. The contents of these books can be memorized backwards after a rough skimming, and the spiritual sense has been completely awakened and fused, and Gongsun Shengyan faintly feels that he is getting closer and closer to Jiangnan.