Chapter 5, Danfang Secret Cave
Wei Wencheng did not go with Monk Tanlin in the end. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Of course, it is obvious that the ability or mana of Monk Tanlin is much stronger than that of Daoist Dai Meng, and it seems that the master is also more brilliant - Wei Wencheng is like thunder to the ancestor of Bodhidharma, and as for Tao Hongjing, he has only heard of it in the past as the author of "Ancient and Modern Sword Records", and he doesn't even know that this person is a Taoist priest - but Wei Wencheng escaped from Tongtai Temple, and he didn't have a good impression of the monk, plus-
Do you have to be a vegetarian if you become a monk? I can't bear this!
In fact, Wei Wencheng thought about it, the monk is vegetarian, or Xiao Yan's new rules for the goods, and this crooked wind has not yet been able to blow to Jiangbei. At that time, Buddhist monks paid attention to eating the "three pure meats", which refers to the meat of animals that they have not seen, heard, or suspected of being slaughtered for their own purposes, that is, as long as they are not killed directly or indirectly, the animal will only be left with a lump of meat when it dies, and eating it is not a violation of the precepts.
There is another important reason, among the myths and legends that Wei Wencheng came into contact with in his previous life, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas basically have no human taste, jumping out of the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements, it seems to be so rigid, relatively speaking, the Taoist immortals are much more at ease - for example, the "Eight Immortals" who cross the sea and make trouble in the Dragon Palace by the way.
So he finally chose to go with Dai Meng, and Monk Tanlin didn't seem to be willing to force him, so he just sighed softly: "You are still young, it is inevitable that you will have a bad choice, if you are enlightened in the future, you can go to Bear's Ears Mountain to find the son, and the door will always be open for you." β
Dai Meng was like running away, leading Wei Wencheng to talk overnight, and then walked all the way to the west mountain of Taihu Lake. I saw the white walls and green tiles in the mountains, and built a large palace view, it turned out that Dai Meng was not the only one who practiced here, but also his two senior brothers and more than ten disciples, as well as seven or eight servants and servants.
Dai Meng's two senior brothers, one Xu Huanpu and the other Duan Sique, were all amazed when they saw Wei Wencheng, and said Senior brother, you really picked up a treasure. However, Dai Meng was not happy, and hurriedly told the story of the encounter with Tanlin Monk on the way, and asked, "Shimen wants to take this son, what can I do?"
Xu Huanpu frowned and thought for a while, so he suggested that we should ask Master Zu for advice and see if there is any way to solve it. So the three brothers immediately cast a spell to help the puppet, and used a pen cut from a peach wood branch to write on the white sand table, and finally got four lines of poetry:
"If the mortal world turns the wheel, the world hides the truth alone, and the sky is like a mirror, far away. β
The three of them pondered for a long time, this probably means that the heavens are not very peaceful like the mortal world, so the ancestor has no time to take care of the affairs of the lower realm? Duan Sique said: "I contemplate the sentence 'escape from the world and hide the truth', or order us to nurture this son well, and not let him out of the meditation easily, so that he will not be captured by the Buddha." "No matter how powerful Monk Tanlin is, I don't believe he dares to come to the door, after all, we have a brother here who can resist together. No matter how bad I am, I will send a film to Wu County or even Wu County, and ask the county commander and the county guard to send troops to save me, will that thief still dare to kill and attack mortals?
When Xu and Dai heard this, they nodded again and again. Xu Huanpu immediately patted Wei Wencheng on the shoulder and asked him, "Can you read?" Wei Wencheng hurriedly replied: "Yes." "Just kidding, he was a writer in his previous life after all, how could he not know how to read? Even if he can't double cultivate traditional and simplified, it is definitely no problem to know traditional and simple writing.
Xu Huanpu was overjoyed and said: "This is easy to hear." So he took out a book from his bosom, handed it to Wei Wencheng, and said, "This ancestor made it, you can use it as a base to try to cultivate the immortal path." Wei Wencheng took a look and saw that the title was - "Guiding Health Map".
Since then, he has stayed in Xishan to learn the Tao from the three masters. Time is like flowing water, nine years have passed in a hurry, and Wei Wencheng is already twenty-two years old - at that time, people were used to talking about imaginary years, but in fact, he was twenty-one years old. This period of time is still quite comfortable, there are many donors of the "Dragon God Void Cave Heaven", and even Wu County Taishou and Wu County Commander come to worship from time to time and offer offerings, so the Taoists in the temple eat well and dress warmly, which is no different from ordinary well-off people - Wei Wencheng has a meal of meat almost every other day because he has three heavy weapons.
And it seems that these Taoist priests do not forbid their desires, so they do not have the habit of taking dry roads, the three masters and several senior brothers will go down the mountain from time to time to travel, Wei Wencheng suspects that they are going to find prostitutes in the city of Wuxian...... He was very relieved that his chrysanthemum was preserved.
After all, he was a writer in his previous life, and although he was not an expert in ancient literature, he had a nine-year compulsory education foundation, which may be better than the foundation of ordinary scholars in this year, so Wei Wencheng memorized the "Guide to Health Map" in less than a year. The second stage of the course arranged by the masters was to study Tao Hongjing's "Tao Seclusion Materia Medica", "General Recipe of Medicine", "Hedan Medicine Zhufa Jiedu" and other works, and ordered him to be familiar with the nature of plants and trees. At the age of seventeen, Wei Wencheng began to assist his masters in refining elixir.
The third stage of the course is to study "Astronomical Star Calculation", and the fourth stage of the course is to study "True Spiritual Position Karma Diagram" and "Ascending the True Hidden Secret". Finally, there is a large tome, which is the "True Message", it is said that if you can comprehend this book, the practice is even a beginner, and then even if you don't have the master's ear to mention the face, you can also practice by yourself until you ascend to the immortal.
The only regret is that the masters don't teach him any spells. Dai Meng said: "If you cultivate the Lingtai clearly, you can naturally use all the laws." "You are still young, first lay a solid theoretical foundation, you don't have to be ambitious, and you are in a hurry to learn any techniques.
When Wei Wencheng was twenty-two years old, he had just begun to study the "True Message", and suddenly one day, the three masters called him in front of him and said that we had something to do and had to take away a few of your senior brothers - the reason was actually very simple, Xiao Liang finally perished, and the general Chen Ba first usurped the throne and established the Chen Dynasty, so he summoned the practitioners of the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism in the territory to gather in Jiankang to pray for the blessing of the new dynasty. Sandao took care of Wei Wencheng and said that you are so born to cultivate in the view, don't go down the mountain - maybe you will be arrested by the monks when you go down the mountain!
There is definitely no shortage of Guan** cultivation, you can go around casually, but there is only one place, which is the Dan room where Master Xu is still pure, and you must not set foot in it-"I am refining a new furnace of Dan, just when it is annealing, but it will be invalid if it touches the breath of the living." The door of the room is closed when you go to the lunch, and even if the sky falls, you can't enter. Remember, remember!"
But if you don't say this, Wei Wencheng actually has no interest in alchemy, but the more the master says that he will not let him in, the more his heart is like there are countless kitten paws crawling, and his curiosity is getting stronger and stronger. I think he hasn't been able to step out of the view in the past nine years, although his life is stable, but he is somewhat boring, and he wants to find some new tricks to relax. Therefore, the three front feet only walked, and Wei Wencheng stood in front of Xu Huanpu's Danfang with the back feet.
This Danfang is on the westernmost side of the palace, located in a remote area, and few people usually come except for Xu Huanpu. Wei Wencheng walked to the Danfang to take a look, only to see that as the master said, "seal the door of the room" - there is a seal. It's just that this seal is a little strange, not a fork, but a vertical one first, and then another horizontal one in a third-strong position-Wei Wencheng stared at the two seals for a long time, somewhat suspicious that he had entered a fake Dao Gate......
Of course, he didn't dare to break the seal, but fortunately, there was not only a door but also a window in this Dan room, and there was no prohibition on the window. So he quietly crept to the window, looked left and right and saw that there was no one, so he skillfully took out a knife to pry open the latch, and immediately jumped into the window.
The furnishings in the Dan room are very simple, there are several wooden shelves against the wall, there are books, medicinal herbs, and some bottles and jars, and there is a huge copper stove in the middle of the room, and a futon is placed in front of the stove. Wei Wencheng naturally had no interest in those medicinal materials - in other words, he always felt that alchemy was a foreign way, and he had never heard that he had only heard of eating pills and eating death, and he had never heard of anyone who could really soar to immortality by taking medicine - he was just bold and reached out to touch the copper furnace. The tentacles are cold, this is all cold, what do you say about the medicine into annealing, the ghost will believe you.
The pill will be ineffective when it comes into contact with the breath of the living, Wei Wencheng has never read it in the works of the ancestors, and the masters have never mentioned it, and now that he suddenly moved out of this new setting, he doesn't need to ask where it is, it must be an excuse. But why didn't Xu Huanpu let himself into the Dan room? What did he hide here?
Wei Wencheng circled around the wall three times in a row, rummaged around the shelves for a while, and found nothing strange. Eventually, he set his eyes on the futon on the ground, and he bent down and gently lifted itβand sure enough, there were several gaps underneath, which looked like some secret door blocked with stone slabs.
Wei Wencheng couldn't help but be overjoyed, so he rubbed his hands, and immediately struggled to lift the stone slab, only to see a faint light shining from below. He was excited and a little nervous, and he dared to go down the stairs, and saw that there was a stone room about the size of the Dan room above. Looking around, I couldn't help but be surprised-
I saw that on one side of the stone room, there were four iron chains nailed, and a young woman with simple clothes and ancient style was tied to the wall with her hands and feet, and the "big" character was tied to the wall!
Wei Wencheng couldn't help but speed up the blood flow, his mouth was full of relish, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva at the moment, and said in his heart I can't see it Hey, it's really a person who can't look good, and the sea water can't fight, thinking that Xu is still thick eyebrows and big eyes, on the surface he is serious, I can't imagine that I like this kind of tone...... No wonder he wouldn't let me in!
He couldn't help but groan, wondering if he could use this as a threat...... If you think about it again, maybe once the matter is leaked, Daoist Xu will want to kill people. I don't know if the other two masters know about it, if the big guys know it, if it's just the secret of Daoist Xu, no matter how talented he is, suitable for cultivating immortals, rashly peeping into such privacy, I'm afraid his life will be in danger...... Forget it, it's better to flash people quickly.
Just turned around, and was about to escape from the secret room, when he suddenly heard the woman's weak voice behind him: "Sir...... Help me......"
Wei Wencheng felt that the blood flow was faster, so he immediately stopped, slowly turned around, and carefully looked at the woman by the dim candlelight in the room. I saw that the other party looked at the right age, with willow eyebrows and phoenix eyes, not only Peugeot, but also quite charming. Immediately he bumped into the woman's mournful gaze, and he couldn't help but feel soft in his heart.
The woman was still powerlessly begging for help, her voice was soft and moving, Wei Wencheng heard it in his ears, and he couldn't help cursing Xu Huanpu's lewd way ten thousand times in his heart. Then he asked, "Who are you, and why are you detained here?" Alas, why is his voice a little different from his usual tone......
I heard the woman say softly: "The fisherwoman of Taihu Lake will be taken into custody and humiliated by chance when she encounters one of these views...... The slave is better than death in this life, but I beg the gentleman to save ......"
Wei Wencheng couldn't help but feel his blood surge, so he put the woman down regardless of it, but as soon as he took a step, he met the woman's gaze again, and he was more boundless and charming in his sorrow, and his beautiful eyes were looking forward to it, as if he was going to melt his whole person.
Wei Wencheng couldn't help frowning-Miss, you smell a little too dusty, right? Although I didn't actually buy it in my previous life, I have seen a lot of various unspeakable videos, and none of them can compare to your charm. Can an ordinary fisherwoman have this kind of mature charm? Or are you more skilled than many teachers who are both virtuous and artistic in later generations?