Chapter XXIV. Break four doors in a row

After Qin Bukong left, the master also sat down slowly, but only sighed, but did not say much. I asked Master, what do you mean by what you just said, and why do you want me to study with such a person? Master said, because although Qin Bukong behaves strangely, he is a person who really has the ability. If you learn some methods from him, it will only be beneficial to your future development. If you think there is something wrong with him as a person, then you don't have to learn to be a person.

Master said that learning from him does not mean that you have to be him, you will always be yourself, and this will not change. I didn't speak, although I still didn't understand why Master wanted me to learn Qin Bukong's spells and witchcraft. Master said, I know that you have a lot of reluctance in your heart now, and there are a lot of things you don't understand, but you have to be prepared, because from today onwards, you will not only have to go to the tunnel every day to do things with Senior Qin, but you will also have to recite the Fa Book with me every night, and you need to slowly start to understand and learn some of the remaining practical skills in this sect.

Since then, I have made breakfast for everyone every morning after I got up, and after eating, I followed Qin Bukong to the tunnel and continued to crack the gossip array. After the strongest death door has been broken, although the rest is also full of difficulties, Qin Bukong can always change the way to resolve it. Normally, Qin Bukong would be able to open a door every two or three days, and although the ghosts in each door were ever-changing, in the final analysis, there was always only one ghost. For more than half a month, we have continuously cracked the four gates of shock, opening, closing, and life, plus the first dead door that was broken before, and among the eight doors, there are only three doors left. We started to crack in a clockwise direction, and the remaining three doors were the Wounded Gate, the Du Gate, and the Jing Gate.

Breaking the formation door by door is mostly carried out during the day, and during the day, the master is at home to recuperate. Every few days, Qin Bukong would change the herbs for his master, and the herbs were not only used for decoction, but also used the sun-dried medicine residue to make the bed. It is said that this can fully absorb the effect of the medicine, and the result is twice the result with half the effort. But maybe it's because Master's previous injuries were too severe, and the speed of recovery was very slow. As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread, which is probably what is said about this situation.

And every night after dinner, Qin Bukong has to close the door of the inner room and practice alone, I don't know what he did during this period, and occasionally he will not call me, and he will secretly run into the tunnel to continue to think of breaking the formation. During this period of time, Qin Bukong gave me a feeling of becoming more and more courageous, and it was not easy for an old man in his sixties to be so alive and well. It's like a master who hasn't met an opponent for a long time, life is boring, and suddenly there are some opponents who can practice for themselves. Therefore, Qin Bukong is probably the most fulfilling one among the three of us, because he and I both know that every time we break for a while, we will be one point closer to the final truth.

And at night, when I couldn't go into the back room, Master would ask me to sit on the edge of my bed and write down all the mantras, mantras, and so on in the way he read and wrote, because writing is easier to memorize than memorizing. In our sect, there is a part of the Dharma that needs to be done to be completed, and the Dharma will take a long time, and you need to prepare a lot of necessary things, so in actual combat, there will be no opportunity to use it. Strange to say, after that, he asked me to record these things, although it was very tedious, but after teaching the whole paragraph, the master would tell me what the core part was, if there was an emergency, I only needed to pinch what kind of mudra and recite which sentence of this mantra was. As a result, some spells that I didn't think were very useful and too cumbersome at the beginning have become tall again.

But Master still didn't teach me how to play talismans, and I think it was because I didn't ask for it, and he would think that I hadn't thought it through.

On the contrary, Qin Bukong, there is very little communication with me on weekdays, I mean when I am on the ground, but every time we start to break the formation with real swords and guns, he is always reminding me what to do, even if he is not so familiar with the things of my own family, but after all, he is an old Jianghu, and he has seen a lot, so he will naturally have a lot of experience. So much so that later, I gradually got a tacit understanding with him.

For example, when we need the endless variety of identical ghost clones pouring in from all directions in Fang Shengmen, he will be back to back with me without hints and reminders at all, in case of all directions, and Qin Bukong will choose a singular or even number by himself, for example, if he chooses a double number, then I will follow the way of increasing singular numbers to remove the ghosts that appear in front of me, and Qin Bukong will follow the double number. So in the earliest days, when I heard Master talk about the ghosts I encountered in the Shengmen, I had imagined them to be indestructible, but after cooperating with Qin Bukong so much, I found that although it was dangerous, it was actually quite suitable for practicing reaction speed and on-the-spot strain.

And those new methods that Master taught me, everyone in the industry knows that even if you memorize them and don't go through actual combat training, they are useless. Only if you have really used it, and in the future, when you encounter the same or similar situation, you can quickly sit back and react, and fight out a move to protect yourself or control the enemy.

There are three doors left, and the first one we will face is called the wounded door. As the name suggests, it means to be wounded, to be bloody. In Qimen Dunjia, pay attention to the difference between a "dynamic response" and "static response", which may be more esoteric to explain in detail, simply put, it is the result that this injury door and the door of various attributes are combined with each other, which is easy to lead to and produce. The so-called "movement" and "stillness" represent the meaning of "master" and "object", one is active and the other is passive.

Among the eight gates, only the three doors of Shengmen, Hugh Gate, and Open Door are auspicious, and they have been passed by us like a bamboo, but the remaining five doors are all fierce doors, plus the injured door is under the combination of dynamic response and static response, and there is no one step of fierceness, resulting in Qin Bukong and I have been studying for many days in a row, and we dare not act rashly.

When I encountered a bottleneck, I just happened to be relaxed. Before the five doors, if one was not broken, we would get a vajra and a dry tree root, the dry root is easy to deal with, set fire to it, even if the door is broken, but the vajra is not very different. Some are long and some are short, some are thick and some are thin, some are cross blades, some are triangular blades, and the Buddha statue on the handle of each handle is also different.

Qin Bukong's explanation for this is that this gossip secret room was built thousands of years ago, at that time should be the early Song Dynasty, due to the promotion of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, many things from primitive Buddhism were brought into Han Buddhism, such as this vajra, or the demon pestle. However, the Song Dynasty was an era of advocating Taoism, so during this period, many of the strange people who emerged during this period were skilled in mathematics, using weapons in primitive Buddhism to form formations, but using Taoist Qimen to reinforce, as if hanging an oriental lock on a Western door, the door is still a door, the lock is still a lock, and the combination of rigidity and softness can make these formations exist for thousands of years, and they are all safe.

And during the time when I encountered a bottleneck, because I was relatively idle, I had more time to study with Master, so if Qin Bukong was the most fulfilling person, then I was the busiest person. Because not only do you have to break the formation, but you also have to study, and you have to buy vegetables and cook.

It's just that during this time, the relationship between me and Ganmu has been significantly eased. Because the vajra pegs I got before were all stacked under the wooden shelves that Ganmu liked to coil, sometimes when I needed to use the things in front of me to find clues, because I was young and fast, I always became the one who was called by Qin Bukong to run errands, the first few times I went to the vajra, Ganmu always bared his teeth and didn't let me approach, but after I treated it with a few pieces of meat and bones, it was no longer so fierce to me.

During the time I got stuck in the door, I could even reach for the triangular head of Ganmu, and occasionally make some boring jokes with it. For example, I would ask it how you felt when Fahai cleaned up your sister before; Or ask it if I stand next to it with a paper umbrella, will it think that I am Xu Xian; Or ask it if it will be bored at home every day to pass the time.

Master's condition was also good and bad, which gave me and Qin Bukong a headache. And Master and I both know that at least in the matter of recovering Master's body, Qin Bukong has indeed done his best.

This state lasted for more than half a year. In the blink of an eye, it was summer again, and one night it was really hot and humid, and Master was crying out in bed again and again, so I helped him to sit in the alley at the door, because there was a long and narrow alley outside the door, which was relatively ventilated. The moonlight was nice on that day, which meant that the next day would be a hot day. Master sat and sat down, and suddenly asked me, what do you think is the big difference between Master and Qin Bukong?

I didn't even think about it and replied, of course it's big, first of all, the character will be superior. Master, you are upright and soft-hearted, so you don't do anything unscrupulous about many things, which also limits your development, but that's not a bad thing. Qin Bukong, on the other hand, is very radical, and will do everything he can, even if those methods will be a little disdainful in our eyes, but I have to say that it is indeed twice the result with half the effort...

Before I finished speaking, I was interrupted by Master, who said, he didn't say this, but the way he said to deal with the same thing, after all, everything in me was taught to me by Master, so my methods and ways are completely the same as Master's. So I replied to the master that there are still some differences, for example, the ghost we met in Xiumen is made of gathering thousands of joyful qi, and the living will inevitably be affected, which is very similar to the "happy ghost" we have encountered before, but this one is much stronger, according to our method, it is generally to buckle the tiger's mouth with the left hand, recite the five constants and four equals three times and knock the teeth, this is the fastest way to keep himself from being controlled by the ghost's emotions, and Qin Bukong is even simpler, he just needs to hold the sword in his hand, and after stomping his feet seven times in a row, he shouts "captivity", Draw a cross on your chest with your sword.

The more I talked, the more I gave many examples of this difference, but Master kept smiling at me, and that strange look suddenly made me realize that Master was not actually interested in Qin Bukong's methods, and the reason why he asked me this was to make me understand that I had inadvertently learned so many different techniques from Qin Bukong.