Chapter 45: The Keeper of the Scriptures
Later, the eldest brother agreed to Chen Fan's arrangement. The next day, the eldest brother left Gusu, and Chen Fan and Xiao Qing went to the Taoist temple to continue their practice.
The guardian of the Zhenwu Temple, in addition to guarding the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, the more important task is to protect the Taoist Temple, and the Zhenwu Temple is one bright and one dark, responsible for the safety of the temple, and secretly carry out the actions in the night, which is the real guarding force in the Zhenwu Temple. If you want to become a scripture keeper, you must be absolutely loyal to the Taoist temple, and the other thing is that your martial arts must be high.
The greater the responsibility, the more difficult the task, and the more manpower is scarce. In recent years, there have been many disputes, and the number of scripture keepers in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion has been reduced from the original twelve to eight, and Wang Yiqing is one of these eight people.
It's just that Wang Yiqing has been very annoyed recently, a year ago, the pavilion master gave a task, requiring each scripture keeper to develop three potential disciples in the temple within two years to become guardians, this guardian is mainly responsible for inheriting the Taoist secret scriptures of the true martial arts, and the other is to act as a reserve force for the scriptures, the age requirement is under thirty years old, at first Wang Yiqing thought that there was plenty of time, and it should not be difficult to recruit, but after a year, he didn't find a suitable one, either because he felt that this martial arts was poor, or that he felt that the loyalty to the Taoist temple was not enough, Or they have already been recruited by other scripture keepers. Originally, if everyone was the same, it would be nothing, but now even Li Yichen, who has never dealt with him, has recruited one, which makes him down-to-earth.
Fortunately, he now takes a fancy to Yuantong, there is only one reason, that is, Li Yichen's disciples can fight, he wants to find a Yuantong who can fight more than Li Yichen's disciples, has more potential, and has absorbed Jian Yuan, which is undoubtedly the most suitable, but how to preempt other scripture keepers and develop Yuantong into a guardian is what he has been thinking about in the past two days.
Chen Fan finished copying the psychic and psychic in the fugue today, but he didn't see Xiao Qing until the evening, and when he went to the scriptures alone, the scripture keeper on duty today was Wang Yiqing.
"Tomorrow is the fifth day, are you still going to read the book?" Wang Yiqing took the initiative to ask while retracting the scriptures.
"What's the special saying about Wu Ri?" It was the first time Chen Fan had heard of Wu Ri, and he was not only curious to understand.
"Oh, this day is arranged according to the heavenly stems of the Yellow Calendar, every sixty days for a round, where every Wuzi, Wuyin, Wuchen, Wuwu, Wushen, Wuxu these six days are called Wuri, called 'Liuwu'. Wu Ri is not true, that is, no incense, no chanting, no guests, so tomorrow everyone rests. If you want to come tomorrow, you can find me, and I will be on duty tomorrow. ”
"Then there's Master Lao, and I'm going to continue to come over tomorrow." Chen Fan said respectfully.
"It's okay, Dao Xuan can come over." If it weren't for the fact that the guardian needed to be strong in martial arts, otherwise this Dao Xuan would be good, but through him, he could contact Yuantong, Wang Yiqing thought to himself.
"Okay, thank you. By the way, have you seen Yuantong today? After Chen Fan thanked him, he inquired about Xia Yuan's whereabouts by the way.
"No, you can call him tomorrow to come along." The relationship between Chen Fan and Xiao Qing is not a secret in the Taoist temple, Wang Yiqing took the opportunity to say.
"Okay, thank you Master, then I'll go back first." Chen Fan thanked him, said goodbye to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and came to the gate of the Taoist Temple, but he didn't expect Xiao Qing and Hou Feng to be waiting at the door.
"Fa Sheng, I'm sorry, I didn't go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion today, and after I finished cultivating, it wasn't too early, so I came directly to the mountain gate." Xiao Qing greeted Chen Fan when he saw him.
"It's okay, why was your master left in the True Martial Hall today?"
"No, I was taken to the Spirit Pavilion by Master. Zhenwu Hall is a place of pilgrims to worship, usually only Taoist children receive pilgrims, the master is also there in the morning on incense chanting scriptures, usually practice basically in the Lingxue Pavilion, where the environment is good, spiritual power is more than the outside world, Master let me memorize the mantra of practicing qi tomorrow, and start practicing qi the day after tomorrow. ”
"Oh, then congratulations, you're going to enter Qi training in the next two days, faster than I estimated."
"Hopefully, it is estimated that the 26th will return to the desecration with you, and it will not be a big problem."
"By the way, tomorrow is the first day, and the Taoist temple is resting, but today's scripture keeper in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion said that he will be on duty tomorrow and can receive us."
"Okay, let's go over tomorrow."
The next day, Chen Fan got up, washed up, finished breakfast with Xiao Qing, and went to the Taoist temple together under the escort of Hou Feng. Due to the reason of Wu Ri, the Taoist temple was obviously deserted, although the mountain gate was wide open, there were no Taoist children to receive, and there were no pilgrims, Chen Fan and Xiao Qing entered the Taoist temple, and Hou Feng returned to the residence as usual.
The keeper of the Scripture Pavilion is really the same person as yesterday.
"Master, Yuan Tong and I are here, there is Master Lao."
"It's okay, Dao Xuan, this is your hand-copied scripture and the third volume of the first volume, you can take it."
"Thank you, Master."
Xiao Qing said beside him: "Master, I will borrow the first volume of the last volume. ”
"Give." Wang Yiqing was prepared early in the morning, and at this time, he did not take the scriptures on the shelf and handed them to Xiao Qing as usual, but stretched out his hand, and the scriptures seemed to appear in Wang Yiqing's hand out of thin air and sent them to Xiao Qing.
The great movement of the palm is not only a profound illusion, but also an unpredictable palm technique, a palm swing, like a hundred palms, a thousand palms attack, people can not be guarded against, avoid unavoidable, is one of Wang Yiqing's proud martial arts.
Chen Fan and Xiao Qing saw each other, and both of them were stunned at the same time. Chen Fan almost shouted "magic", but fortunately, the Qi Cultivation Kung Fu arrived home and did not say it. And Xiao Qing had heard of the high level of martial arts and the ability to take things from the air, although he was surprised in his heart, he didn't forget to take the true scripture from Wang Yiqing's hand, and said: "Thank you master, I don't know what to call the master?" ”
"The poor Dao surname is Wang, and the Dao number is clear."
"I don't know how the master was able to suddenly conjure the true scripture just now?" Seeing that Xiao Qing didn't ask, Chen Fan not only interjected on the side, but also vaguely guessed Wang Yiqing's intentions, why he only showed it when Xiao Qing took the scriptures, this is a typical knife watching people.
"This is a kind of kung fu, which is called the great movement of the palm of the hand, and when you practice to a high depth, you can take things from the air." After speaking, with a wave of his hand, the palm prints flew in an instant, and a wall appeared in front of the two, and the palm prints condensed into a wall, just when the two of them were dazzled, the palm prints disappeared, and a book appeared in Wang Yiqing's hand, and the words exposed outside were "The palm of the hand".
"Master, I wonder if this book is intended to be borrowed from us?" Seeing that the other party took out the secret note, Chen Fan asked without hesitation, Quan Dang didn't know that the other party might just want to show Xiao Qing.
"This is the mastery of my scripture pavilion, only people in the pavilion can practice, I wonder if the two of you plan to join?" If he didn't want to borrow it, Wang Yiqing wouldn't have taken out the classics, of course, the target was not Chen Fan, but Xiao Qing, and now that the two of them were there, they had to bring Chen Fan to ask.
"But we already have a Master?" This must be asked, or Chen Fan said.
"This doesn't matter, those who join the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion are all disciples of the Guanzhong, naturally some of them have masters, as long as they don't betray the Taoist Temple, they can deceive the master and destroy the ancestors, and they don't need to worship the master in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion."
"It's as simple as that?" Chen Fan was a little unconvinced.
"Of course, there is also an obligation to be responsible for inheriting the Taoist scriptures and classics and maintaining the honor of the Taoist temple."
"Can the two of us join, then?" The conditions were not harsh, Chen Fan decided to tie Xiao Qing to his chariot, to be precise, to rely on Xiao Qing's big tree to join the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
"This also depends on ability, there is another condition for entering the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, that is, you must be able to fight, whether it is swordsmanship, Taoism, martial arts, formation, poisoning, as long as you can show your extraordinary talent in battle, you can join the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion."
"Master, if we are willing to join this Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, I wonder if we can read the classics in the master's hand first?" Chen Fan continued to ask.
Wang Yiqing didn't answer Chen Fan's words, but looked at Xiao Qing and asked, "I don't know what Yuan Tong thinks?" ”
"What Gang Daoxuan expressed is the same as I think."
"Is Yuantong going to join?" If Yuantong plans, then naturally you can watch it first, if Yuantong doesn't plan, then naturally can't, Wang Yiqing thought to himself.
"I want to."
Wang Yiqing was overjoyed in his heart, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "If Yuantong is willing to join, then you can watch it first." After speaking, he handed the secret note to Xiao Qing.
"I'm being ignored!" Chen Fan complained in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face.
"Thank you, Master." Xiao Qing took the classics, and then asked, "I wonder if we can join the Scripture Pavilion?" ”
"This doesn't count, to join the cabinet, you must also pass the assessment and be recognized by the pavilion master. But this is not in a hurry, the two fill out an application, after filling in, there is a three-month inspection period, mainly for the investigation of the Taoist faith, after passing the test, the test is to assess the combat ability, after passing, you can officially join the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. ”
The two filled out the form, and Wang Yiqing secretly rejoiced in his heart, he was still very optimistic about Xiao Qing. The two left Wang Yiqing, and as usual, found a quiet room, and read the scriptures together, of course, today Chen Fan is copying.
In the afternoon, Chen Fan, who had finished copying the last paragraph of the iQue, saw that Xiao Qing was working hard, so he did not go to watch "The Great Movement of the Palm of the Hand", but got up and left the quiet room and came to the Zhenwu Hall alone. There was really no one in the hall, and the faint coolness of the True Martial Sword came clearly, lingering around Chen Fan, as if reminding it of its existence.
Looking at the statue of the Emperor Zhenwu, Chen Fan slowly stepped forward, stretched out his left hand to the sword of the Emperor Zhenwu, and a cold cold surged into the body along Chen Fan's left hand, Chen Fan was excited in his heart, and immediately guided the cool air to rush towards the dantian, and at the same time his eyes looked at the scabbard, but he did not see any golden light.
Chen Fan suddenly remembered what his master said, only by reaching the psychic realm can he perceive the color of the spiritual power in the outside world through his divine sense, in other words, when the hall master Xu saw the golden light overflowing from the scabbard, it was likely to be seen with the divine sense, not the eyes, and he had not cultivated to the psychic realm, so he naturally couldn't see it, so in fact, as long as the hall master Xu was not there, the possibility of being discovered was very small. Thinking about it, even if someone got the sword yuan before, it was possible that because they were not discovered, the person concerned would not be able to cultivate the truth, and the opportunity was wasted. Just when Chen Fan was thinking wildly, a feeling of bloating came, which suddenly brought Chen Fan back to his eyes.