After a long time, his mind was pulled back to reality.

"Where is this? Why am I here? Who saved me? He looked around the cave.

The entrance to the cave is small and narrow, just enough for one person to come in; The cave is very spacious, at least the size of a basketball court; On the stone wall above the head, there is a picture of Tai Chi Yin and Yang fish.

He sat up slowly and looked deeper into the cave. There are also small caves in many directions in the depths of the cave, and each small cave seems to be connected. The direction of each small cave is like the direction of the eight trigrams.

He had read books on gossip and Taoist doctrine and had a strong interest in gossip. He thought quickly: "Could it be that this is the Immortal Family Dojo?" Am I being saved by someone from outside the world? ”

"Coo, coo, coo," a crisp bird call came from the entrance ......of the cave, and a large eagle entered. At this moment, the eagle eagle was holding two red mountain fruits and slowly approached the back soil.

Hou Tu didn't feel scared about the eagle, because they had already met last night. He could really feel that the eagle was very kind to him. It should be raised.

"Goo, goo, goo" The eagle eagle walked to Houtu's side, put the mountain fruit in his hand, and then swayed to the depths of the big hole.

"Huh? It's two big red peaches," he opened his mouth to bite down.

At this time, the eagle cooed and glanced back at the back soil, and then continued to walk forward. As if he understood the meaning of the eagle, Houtu immediately put away the peaches, followed him, and walked to the north of the cave, and then entered another small cave. In the small cave, there is a meandering stream, the water of which is babbling and crystal clear.

The eagle owl glanced back at the back soil again and stuck his head into the water. As it drank water, it tilted its head and washed its fur with the water of the stream.

Houtu immediately understood that the eagle was doing a demonstration for him and teaching him how to wash his face with stream water. He felt so warm, and immediately walked over, picked up the stream with his hand, and learned to wash his face with a bang. Then he began to wash the peaches with the water of the stream. The peaches here were so fragrant and sweet that he couldn't help but gobble them up.

When he was full, he began to chat: "Eagle Master, where is your master?" ”

The eagle eagle did not squeak, but signaled to Houtu and followed him to a small cave in the northwest direction. Judging from the layout inside the small cave, it is obvious that this is a place to chant Buddha and cultivate the Tao.

On the stone wall of the cave, a huge Buddha is carved; Next to the Buddha, there are carvings of Guanyin Bodhisattva, Maitreya Buddha and Jizo King Bodhisattva, among others. On the stone floor in the middle, there was a large futon, which looked like it was some years old. Directly in front of the futon, there is a shrine on which a Taoist god is enshrined.

Under the shrine, two books are neatly arranged, one is the Diamond Sutra and the other is the Tao Te Ching. These two books, which Houtu has read, are works of self-cultivation.

Among them, the "Diamond Sutra" is a Buddhist classic, and its main role is to enlighten wisdom and help people to quit greed, hatred and other troubles. The ideas of selflessness, emptiness, and dependent arising can make people realize the essence of the self and the reality of the world. It describes meditation practices that can help one to increase concentration and thus calm one's mind.

The Tao Te Ching is a book of the thought of the sage Lao Tzu that Taoism follows, telling people how to understand the world, the universe and even the way of heaven. And know oneself from the way of heaven, through knowing oneself without self, to cultivate virtue, to respect the principles of heaven, so that knowledge and action are all in the way. If you can follow the way of heaven, do nothing and do nothing, and even know the way of heaven.

Houtu clearly remembers that Grandpa Jiang said that Taoism's inaction is not really inaction, but doing something and not doing something, and what he does is in line with the laws of nature and society, so it leaves no traces, it looks like inaction, but it is actually doing it in accordance with the way of heaven. And the enlightenment of the Buddha's fixed wisdom is not really an epiphany, but to sit on the qualitative nature and gain enlightenment, and after a long time of enlightenment, you will suddenly understand it thoroughly.

Anyway, these things are very profound, and Houtu seems to understand them. But he firmly remembered one sentence: no matter which sect or religion, there is actually no difference in metaphysics, so it is called "ninety-nine to one" in Shenzhou.

"Buddhism and Taoism are originally a family, so there is no separation of families," Hou Tu said, and he knelt on the futon reverently and bowed three times to several Bodhisattvas and the Taoist gods on the shrine.

After kneeling and bowing, he followed Dadiao to a small cave in the east, this small cave is a study, and there are many books in the study, including "Iron Sand Palm", "Shaolin Stick", "King Kong Fist" and "King Kong Gong" and so on. At this time, Houtu didn't like to fight and kill, so he wasn't interested in these martial arts books.

The eagle eagle understood his thoughts, so he took him to another small cave.

This small cave is supposed to be a storehouse for storing grain, and there are some sun-dried sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, mountain fruits, etc., which can be eaten for a long time. In Houtu's view, the owner of this should have gone out to travel.

Subsequently, the eagle took him to several other small caves, which contained a weapon room, a martial arts training ground, a place to make meals, and a Chinese herbal medicine room.

The last place they came to was a small cave, a large bedroom with all the bedding in it. There are slate beds on the ground, there are plank beds, there are mud slab beds, and you can sleep on each of them.

"Eagle master, come and rest together" Hou Tu beckoned the eagle, walked to the wooden bed he liked, and immediately lay down. Although the eagle eagle could not speak, it could understand the meaning of Houtu, and he walked to the clay bed and lay down.

After a while, the eagle owl fell asleep. Its snoring was like a lullaby, and Houtu was unconsciously taken into a dream.

In the dream, he saw a bald Taoist with a long beard. The bald Taoist introduced himself to him: He was originally an old monk of Shicheng Temple, but later he had no choice but to leave Shicheng Temple because he liked to practice Taoist exercises.

He said that the Taoist exercise he likes to practice, called "Tianlong Gongfa", is a top-notch divine skill that he occasionally obtains. He didn't want such a top-level divine skill to disappear from now on, so he wanted to teach the "Heavenly Dragon Technique" to Houtu, a total of eighteen levels.

Two hours later, when he woke up from his dream, the eagle had already left the cave to forage for food. He recalled the situation in the dream, and it was still vivid. To his surprise, he was able to immediately recite the first part of the "Heavenly Dragon Exercises".

He hurried up and went to the study. I rummaged through the bookshelves and found the book called "Yin and Yang Bagua", and began to learn and familiarize myself with some basic knowledge of Yin and Yang, the Five Elements and Bagua.

Subsequently, he turned to a book of "Shicheng Temple", which introduced some information about Shicheng Temple. Shicheng Temple, located in the platform of Shicheng Mountain in the south of the Yongfeng of Lingjiu Mountain, is surrounded by mountains on three sides, such as the city and outline, so it is called Shicheng. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are gods and nuns who have knotted in this house to enlighten Zen, after passing away, his ashes were built and stored in a tower, so the local people call his grass house Shicheng Nunnery.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was a high monk who once traveled here, marveled at the blessed land made by this day, and then built a temple with a fate, which is called Shicheng Temple. The temple property of Shicheng Temple once reached 1,000 acres, and there were hundreds of monks, which belonged to the prosperity of the temple.