Chapter 215: The Cave
Zhang Yu, accompanied by Xiang Chun, walked along the corridor behind the main hall until he came to the front of the Qishan Cave.
The Taoist surnamed Quan was waiting here at the moment, and it seemed that he had never left, and when he saw the two of them, he saluted and said, "Zhang Xuanxiu, Senior Brother Xiang." Then he took a step back and gave way to the entrance to the cave.
Xiang Chun said: "Senior Brother Zhang, I will accompany you here, and I won't go in." ”
Zhang Yu nodded, walked into the cave, and then walked along the passage until he came to the front of the Xuanshou Cave, and finally pushed forward, and the stone door slowly opened.
He straightened his robe and stepped in.
This cave was the place where the previous Xuanshou cultivated, and he remembered that the last time he came, it was here that he met Xuanshou Qi Yu, and this time, it was already empty.
He walked up the gentle slope until he came to the top of the high cliff and stood still, where there was a futon and a low table, and on it there was a pen, ink, paper and inkstone that he had used before, as if the original owner was still here.
He stood here and looked around, and saw that there was a stone groove on each side of the stone wall, and the size of the groove corresponded to the height of the jade.
He thought about it for a while, so he first went to the place on the left, took the Xuanyu out of his sleeve, and slowly pressed it, and after a while, he saw that the wall moved silently to the side, revealing a secret room in front of him.
He stepped into the secret room, and found that it was not a big place, three or four steps away horizontally and vertically, and there was a niche in front of him, on which was placed a fist-sized jade seal, and beside his right hand, there was a set of robes supported by a gold frame.
He looked at the robe and recognized that it was the crown of Xuanshou's clothes, which was exactly the same as what he saw on Yan Zhang that day.
However, looking at this one, it seems that it has never been worn here, and it looks more gorgeous, it should be just a dress.
He turned his gaze and came to the jade seal, and saw that there was a golden page seal beside him, and when he picked it up, he saw that each page was stamped with a seal, and there were four pages in total.
There is a gap in the center of the main seal, but there is a personal seal.
Look at the name and surname on it, the Eastern Court Protectorate from the first Xuanshou to the next three Xuanshou are all printed on this, and the specific years and months of his appointment are also described in notes, judging from the handwriting, these are written by the next Xuantou.
From the above, it can be seen that the first Xuanshou should also be temporary, mainly using this identity to help the two major governors stabilize the situation in the Eastern Court.
A year later, he returned to his home country to report on his duties. Then came the second Xuantou, who could be regarded as the founder of the Eastern Court Xuanfu, who also left after twenty years.
is the third Xuanshou Yan Zhang, and after Yan Zhang, it is Qi Yu.
He thought about it, took out a red pen from the alcove, and wrote the time of appointment on Qi Yu's seal, from the 313th year of the Great Xuan Calendar to the 374th year of the Great Xuan Calendar.
Then he put down his pen and turned the page that Qi Yu had fallen, and a new page was revealed in the chapter book.
He stretched out his hand and picked up the Xuanshou jade seal, and with the other hand, he put it firmly on the seal book, and then took out his own private seal and landed on the vacant position in the middle.
At this time, the golden page lit up slightly, and a light fell into the jade he was carrying.
He thought about it, took out the Xuanyu, and looked into his consciousness, and found that this seal appeared in it, and nodded unconsciously, so when the seal of the Xuanshou was not on his body, he could also prove his identity.
After doing this, he put the golden pages and seals back in their places, and if there was no accident, he would not touch these two things again, but only wait until the next Xuanshou came to reuse them.
After turning around here again, he saw that there was nothing left, so he walked out from here, took the Xuanyu with his hand, and the stone wall slowly closed, and then he came to the stone wall on the right side, and still opened the door with the Xuanyu, unlike Fang Cai, which revealed a downward step behind it.
He walked down the way, and after about thirty steps, he turned into a spacious grotto, and it was visible that there were lanterns on the walls around him, illuminating the whole grotto very brightly.
On the right side of his hand, there was a row of bookshelves, which were stuffed with dense jade scrolls.
He approached, took a copy and looked at it, put it back, walked a few more steps, and took another one to look at.
Judging from the year and label, this should be the document and Taoist book of the most important practice records of the Xuanxiu in the Dongting Xuanfu in the past hundred years.
He looked through it, in addition to those predecessors sixty years ago, the records of this generation, including Xiang Chun, Chen Song and others, are also placed here, as well as the Ying Yuan, who has turned to practice Hun Zhang, and the records of his previous cultivation in the mansion are also preserved.
If he mastered these things, then the Xuanxiu in the Fuzhong would have no secrets in front of him.
However, although he is now the head of Xuan, he is only doing it instead, and these things belong to the more secret part of Xuanxiu itself, there is no need, he will not look at it at will.
So he turned around and went to the other side of the grotto.
There is a long wooden shelf with a square lattice, which contains a large number of cultivation experiences of predecessors.
He only flipped through it, and most of it was sixty years old, and after that, no new books had been put on the table.
And here, he stumbled upon a scroll of visualizations.
After reading it, he realized that it was for those metaphysical visualizations that had reached the realm of elucidation, and that the consciousness hidden in the jade had not been explained in any way.
However, these things are the cultivation methods that the monks can only use after reading the third chapter, and they are not taught in the Xuanfu, and what they are now are only the accumulation of the Xuanfu in the Eastern Court in the first forty years.
He couldn't help but be intrigued by this.
After stepping into the chapter of elucidation, he didn't know what the road ahead was, and he thought that he might know after returning to his homeland, but he didn't expect to get a glimpse of it in advance here.
He took down a picture of a visualization that was placed on the outermost side and looked like it was often flipped, and saw that this was a "swirling turtle picture", and there was a note from Xuanshou Qi Yu below, so he nodded unconsciously and said, "It seems that Qi Xuanshou once visualized this picture." ”
Put this back, he took out a visualization map and opened it, this is a "raccoon" visualization map in the mysterious chapter, the figure is like a man and an ape, at a glance, it seems to be able to jump into the heart along the gaze.
This sub-diagram majors in the double seals of "mind" and "eye", and minors in the two seals of "body" and "mouth", and cultivators can make trade-offs according to different levels of cultivation.
Although this is a visualization of both offense and defense, after successful cultivation, the offensive aspect is slightly insufficient, but if it is used to assist others in fighting, it can be called an ideal helper.
In the process of looking through the annotations of those predecessors, he gradually gained an idea of his future practice.
The first and second chapters of metaphysical cultivation is a process of building a foundation, and after observing and reading the three chapters, it is necessary to unify everything, because this layer of chapters is complicated and the seals are also more, not only is it easy to go the wrong way, but also easy to distract energy, so it is necessary to find a core chapter, so as to make a beneficial induction.
Since then, all seals have been built around this core chapter.
Visualization maps are one of the most effective ways to help practitioners organize their seals and rules, and to help them stay on the wrong path as much as possible.
It's just that the visualization diagram is not something that can be selected casually, except for some special visualization diagrams, which usually need to match the supernatural organs cultivated by the cultivator himself.
And the supernatural organ is related to the positive seal that the monk cultivated before, and the choice of the positive seal was decided at the beginning, so this is in the same line.
If we take apart the cultivation path of Xuan Xiu's life, then each stage of cultivation seems to be relatively independent, but in fact, they are all closely related to the subsequent cultivation.
The path that the monk is taking in front of him also determines the path he will take in the next chapter.
After Zhang Yu turned down these visualization diagrams one by one, he found that none of them matched his own path.
This is to be expected.
He couldn't help but think about it at this time, he thought that if he could get in touch with Tianxia, he should be able to find what he needed.
But everything is afraid of what happens.
One is that sixty years have passed, and it is difficult to say what the situation is on Tianxia's side; second, his supernatural organs are shaped by the seal of the spiritual sky after all, and each supernatural organ shaped by the seal of the spiritual sky is unique, so it may not necessarily have a visualization map that suits him.
So, if you don't have a visualization map, how should you follow your path of monasticism?
He felt he needed to take some time to think about it.
He packed up the things here, walked out of the cave, and then called the Taoist surnamed Quan in and asked him to invite Xiang Chun and Chen Song.
After waiting for a long time, Xiang and Chen came to the cave mansion, and they saw that Zhang Yu was already sitting on the seat of the Xuanshou at the moment, and his expression was solemn, and he came up to salute him, and said, "I've seen the Xuanshou." ”
Zhang Yu still had a salute on the seat, so he invited the two of them to sit down, and said: "There are some things that I haven't had time to say to the two senior brothers, and the two senior brothers have guessed that among the seals passed on by Yan Xuanshou, there is a road to the third chapter of the law, and I will wait to be rubbed out and handed over to a few senior brothers to practice." ”
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