Meng Fuzi smiled for a moment, turned his head to look at Bai Dutou on the side, and said angrily: "Which one is chewing the root of his tongue behind his back?" ”

Bai Du's head and neck shrank, his mouth opened slightly, and he didn't dare to speak.

Just looking at his cowardice, where can he be connected with the legendary ghosts of the underworld who hook souls and teach people to be frightened?

Seeing this scene, Qi Jingzhi suddenly felt a little familiar, and couldn't help but scold: "If everyone in the world is so hard-working, then the Xiong County Order invites you to really think about it." ”

When he was thinking wildly, the old city god on the side pointed at Meng Fuzi and said angrily: "It's obviously a whining word deliberately spread by yourself, don't climb others here!" If you don't want to do any more errands in the Yin and Yang Division, go back to study and take the scientific examination as soon as possible, it must be too late! ”

"What does the old man say! Xiaguan stayed in the deserted garden on Chinese New Year's Eve, and was taken away by the demon mother-in-law, and became a living corpse for it to drive, if it were not for your righteous revenge, Xiaguan was afraid that he would still sink into the sea of misery and could not be relieved! ”

Meng Fuzi bowed to the old city god again, and his tone was respectful and brisk: "Now that I am doing an errand in front of your seat, it is too late to swear to die to repay the service, and how hard it is!" ”

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but be a little surprised, he had known Meng Fuzi for many years, and knew that he had always acted squarely, and his words and deeds were the most important and decent, and he had never seen him have such a smiling and unscrupulous side.

After Meng Fuzi showed his loyalty, he raised his hand and pointed to the young man, and said earnestly: "Boss, you have also seen my student, and I called him here today, first, because the case is special, and he needs to make circumstantial evidence; Second, he is a wild fox Zen who has just started to practice, please mention one or two, so as not to make mistakes in the future. ”

Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi was stunned at first, and then a warm current surged into his heart.

In the private school that day, Meng Fuzi had already guessed that he might have a practice in his hand, but he didn't break it, and he put on a posture of not wanting to ask questions and letting himself go, but he didn't expect to be thinking about this matter all the time, and pleaded with Chenghuang for him at every opportunity.

Faced with the rare opportunity won by the teacher, Qi Jingzhi naturally did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "Qi Jingzhi, the hunter of Songling County, has seen an adult!" ”

"No need to be polite!"

The old city god waved his hand at the young man, and said to Meng Fuzi: "You student is not a wild fox Zen! As soon as he came in, I saw that although his qi and blood were a little vain, his chest had already been filled with qi, but the cultivation time was still short, and the essence in his eyes could not be restrained, which made the old man a little dizzy. ”

Qi Jingzhi hurriedly lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, no longer looking at the four-grade righteous god in front of him.

"Hah! The old man is just joking, you kid is actually a solid-eyed child, and he really doesn't look like your teacher at all. ”

The old city god joked with the young man, then put away the already faint smile on his face, and said: "When you looked at the old man just now, your eyes were straight and your eyes were clear, which showed that your heart was selfless, and there was no fear and clinging thoughts. ”

"However, the cultivation is difficult, the spiritual qualification is just the most basic, you will suffer if you suffer a loss in the door is not high, the fortune is not thick, there is no family help behind you, and you are not included in the door wall by those famous families early, so you can only go out by yourself. If nothing else, just with your surname, if you have a little foundation in your family, you have already entered the eyes of the Demon Suppression Academy. ”

The old city god said, turned his head and looked at Meng Fuzi again, and said, "The old man is cultivating the way of God, and I really can't talk about mentioning two words." Did you mention those two sentences about the heart bones to him? ”

Meng Fuzi nodded: "I mentioned it, but the lower officials are shallow, and I was about to ask the old man to explain this word for him." ”

"What I can't understand, it's not to find chapters and sentences, and to explain words. What is this backbone......

The old city god groaned, walked slowly to the courtyard, and slowly paced back, and then spoke: "As the so-called belly has poetry and books, in the old man's view, the heart bone is actually a person's mental wisdom, knowledge and insight are all in one place, and such a mysterious thing is achieved, which has no substance, but it is real. ”

He looked at Qi Jingzhi with a very solemn expression: "The old man is an official, so let's use this as an analogy." The court officials should assist the lord of the country, and they should be loyal and help the world as their backbone; Parents and officials should govern the locality, and they should take benevolence and love for the people as the backbone; Wuchen guards one side, and should take helping the crisis and overcoming difficulties and making contributions on the battlefield as the backbone. Without such ambition and integrity, it is absolutely impossible to become a famous general, and the same is true for monks to trek on the path. ”

"The so-called heart bone is internalized in the heart and manifested in action, which is called the unity of knowledge and action."

Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help frowning slightly.

Lu Yunzi's memory fragment mentions that the heart bone is the spirit in the chest of Wufu. This is somewhat different from the old city god's statement, but it is faintly connected, and I don't know which explanation is more accurate.

I heard the old city god continue: "Those disciples of the high-ranking sect have been studying the classics of the sect for many years since they were young, in order to comprehend the subtle words of the ancestors of the previous generation, and only when the heart bones have a rudimentary form can they start to practice. The so-called dwelling and transferring qi and cultivating the body, the disciples of each faction who have obtained the true transmission can be distinguished at a glance only from the temperament of conversation. ”

"All in all, the heart bone is the foundation for a monk or even a sect, and the specific practice is secondary. It is precisely because of such an invisible threshold that the monk has obtained the Taoist exercises, and he dare not say that he will not be able to practice, at least it will be half the work, and the appearance is similar but not the gods. ”

Hearing the word monk, Qi Jingzhi's eyes widened suddenly, and suddenly a thought popped up.

"When the tiger spirit was still a monk, he listened to his master tell many stories about the Zen tiger since he was a child, and he was quite envious in his heart. Thinking deeper, that Tiger King found him and gave him a tiger skin, most likely because of this......"

Thinking of this, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but ask: "What do you mean by your lordship, people choose the exercises, and the exercises also choose people?" If a practitioner is fierce and domineering, it is best for the practitioner to be as temperamental as fire, and if a person is indifferent and desireless, like idle clouds and wild cranes, should he find a natural and inactive exercise, chic and elegant? ”

"That's what it means! The inheritance of Taoism is the first thing to win people! The more consistent the disciple is with his own philosophy and exercises, the higher his achievements will often be in the future. ”

The old city god stroked his palms and exclaimed: "Judging from your cultivation progress, the exercises you practice are very compatible with yourself, and this is already the envy of many people. In other words, what kind of heart bones you need for your exercises, what kind of person you should strive to become. ”

Qi Jingzhi was shocked and shocked: "In this way, wouldn't you gradually lose yourself and become the shadow of the person who founded the exercises?" ”

The old city god smiled dumbly: "How come? There are never two people in this world who are exactly the same, and naturally there will be no two heart bones that are exactly the same. Even those disciples who have been trained by high-ranking families since childhood are only similar in concept and temperament, and they are more or less different. Let's take reading as an example......"

He paused, shook his head slightly, and said, "When you read the writings of your predecessors, don't you have your own understanding, likes and dislikes? Choosing those who are good and following them, and changing those who are not good, is the right way. If you don't make a choice, or even kill your head and cut your head, wouldn't you put the cart before the horse and be stupid? Speaking of which, there was a painting master among the ancestors of your Qi family, and he left a famous saying......"

Qi Jing's heart was shocked, and he blurted out: "Those who learn from me live, and those who resemble me die?" ”

When he said this sentence, the young man was like an initiation, and he had a realization in his heart: "Yes, I want to nurture my heart and bones, which is naturally based on the "Immortal Feather Sutra", but I can't blindly cater to it, after all, I am a person after all, not a real crane." I control the exercises, not the exercises control me! ”