Chapter 25: The Taoist Grandmaster

The place where Wei Qimu was located was deeper than the inner hall of the Soul Palace. There is no one here, only an endless mess of rocks and plants. There doesn't seem to be any trouble for him.

Wei Qimu cautiously walked and searched, and after a few turns in a row, he saw a long road. This road is built on top of a boulder, and it is made of bluestone, like a knife and an axe. The area around the corridor is clean, there is no handwriting, and there are no carvings, but the inside is very dark.

Wei Qimu is now alone, and he is slightly stunned in his heart. He wanted to turn around and leave, but he was afraid that Huang Zhen would strayed into it. Wei Qimu didn't dare to bet on whether she was in it or not, so he had to make a fire and walk in.

This corridor is just enough for one person to pass through. Wei Qimu was afraid that there would be a hidden weapon, so he probed three times in one step, and he never dared to interrupt the "Clear Void and Guard God" exercise in his body. Fortunately, on both sides of the road, there are only sporadic carvings, and there are no mechanisms. Those carvings seemed to be a series of stories, and Wei Qimu didn't have time to look closely, but only roughly saw all of them - a picture of an old gentleman who looked like a Taoist priest and drove down the mountain. It's just that the beast that pulls the cart is not a horse or a cow, nor a donkey or a horse, but a tiger or a leopard, a deer or a unicorn.

After turning two corners like this, the space in front of me suddenly became larger, and it was actually a stone room one foot square. In each of the four corners of the stone chamber was a lit oil lamp, which was old, but made of the finest bronze. Other than that, there's nothing else in it.

On the inward side of the stone wall, there was the outline of a stone gate, but there was nothing like a machine hub on the bare stone wall around it.

Wei Qimu put away the fire fold, probed forward, and found that there was indeed only one stone gate that looked like a stone gate. Curious, he touched the four oil lamps back and forth, but the stone door did not move.

After a few fruitless attempts, Wei Qimu picked up a palm and slapped it towards the stone gate, wanting to try if it was possible to forcibly break it. He only used three times of strength in his first palm, but the stone gate didn't even make a sound.

When Wei Qimu was wondering, the stone door suddenly changedβ€”first a Tai Chi pattern was reflected, then a "li" character, and then a "swastika" character. In the end, the three patterns encircled the city in a circle and turned slowly.

Wei Qimu was surprised in his heart, he knew that these three patterns represented Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism respectively, but he didn't want to appear on a stone gate. He said in his heart, "I'm afraid that there is a forbidden method in the door set up with the power of the three sects, and this forbidden law may be the key to opening the stone gate." ”

As for how to break the forbidden law, he doesn't know. Wei Qimu simply picked up the Taoist "Qi Wu Xin Method" and pressed it on the Taiji diagram, only to see that the Taiji diagram suddenly lit up, and the other two patterns also stopped rotating, but there was no special movement in the stone door.

As soon as Wei Qimufu withdrew his palm, the pattern spun again. He also picked up the Confucian "Great Concentric Law" and pressed it on the pattern of the word "Li". As before, the word "li" lit up, but Shimen still didn't react.

Wei Qimu does not know the internal strength of Buddhism, he has a horizontal heart, and simply carries the Taoism and Confucianism with both hands, and presses them on the Taiji diagram and the word "Li" respectively. At this time, the stone gate was full of light, and the word "swastika" was also faintly shining. Then the light faded, and the stone gate rose with a thud!

Wei Qimu was overjoyed in his heart, and when he stepped through the stone gate, it was a downward staircase. Wei Qimu walked on the stone staircase and vaguely heard the sound of a stream flowing below.

Another bend was made, and the sight was a body of water only a few feet in diameter - let's call it a "lake" for the time being. There is a small island in the middle of the lake, not so much an island as a slightly protruding slate of stone. For the surface of the island was very flat, and there was no special bulge. It's just that there was a man sitting cross-legged on that island!

The man's hair was scattered, and he was already white and snowy. Even the eyebrows are white. His eyes were closed, and his face was as withered as the bark of an old tree. Even he was wearing only a shabby white dress.

Wei Qimu was looking at him, and the man suddenly opened his eyes and glanced at him. Those eyes seemed lifeless, but they made Wei Qimu feel extremely deep.

The old man suddenly spoke: "Are you the heir of Taoism?"

Wei Qimu was secretly shocked in his heart, he was just secretly running Taoist exercises in his body, but he was seen through by this old man at a glance! Originally, there were very few people in the rivers and lakes who knew this exercise, let alone being seen through by people like this?

Although this is the case, but this is still the Soul Palace, Wei Qimu said vigilantly: "Who are you, and how do you know the skill of "Clearing the Void and Guarding the Gods"?"

The old man did not answer, but asked, "Since you don't know who the old man is, why did you come here?"

Wei Qimu thought to himself, "This old man knows "Qingxu Shoushen", could it be that he is a Taoist senior? Why is he in this Soul Leaving Palace?" He replied: "In order to save his friends, the younger generation broke into the Soul Leaving Palace and strayed into this place. ”

"Being able to break through the Maze Array and the 'Elephant Swallowing Wall' is also a young talent. The old man groaned slightly, "It's just that you are the first person to come in here in the past twenty years." This stone gate was a forbidden method jointly arranged by the heads of the three sects of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism back then, and it was necessary for people who were proficient in more than two mental methods to open this door. Since you have passed this door, in addition to the Taoist mind, there should be at least one kind. It's just that all along, the hundred schools and the three sects have strict rules, and it is strictly forbidden to spread martial arts and learn part-time, so it is ......"

The old man said no more when he said this, but just looked at Wei Qimu as if he were nothing.

Wei Qimu listened to the old man's words, and his heart was full of doubts. This old man has been here for 20 years? Also, why did the three major sects of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism set up forbidden laws on this stone gate? Each of them was in charge of each sect and sect, and they were the most mysterious existence in the rivers and lakes, and even many martial arts people didn't know about it!

And this old man is right, since the Han Dynasty, all factions of martial arts in the martial arts are strictly forbidden to spread outside, and if you bring art to join the teacher, you must first abolish the original martial arts. So basically, very few people know more than two schools of martial arts, especially more than two sects!

Wei Qimu thought to himself that the old man was afraid that he had already guessed his origin, so he no longer concealed it: "The younger generation is a miscellaneous family heir, Xiangzhou Wei Qimu, I don't know who the predecessor is?"

The old man nodded and said, "Sure enough, there are only miscellaneous families." It's just that I didn't expect that the old man could still meet the heirs of the miscellaneous family in his lifetime, could it be that this is the will of God? Little brother, the old man is a Taoist family, and the Taoist name is 'Dachengzi'. Twenty years ago, he was trapped here by Guiguzi and the Three Great Masters Sect, and all his strength was scattered in this Soul Palace. ”

Wei Qimu's heart was like a landslide, a Taoist master, this is a hundred seniors who are a generation higher than his master! I just didn't expect him to be trapped here for 20 years.

What surprised Wei Qimu even more was the three words "Guiguzi", these three words can be more terrifying than gods, and even more terrifying than gods! Powerful and unparalleled, the strategy is unparalleled, and anyone can play with the world in the applause, and there are still exist!

As for why this Guiguzi joined forces with the three major sects, Wei Qimu was not clear, although the hundred schools and the three sects had a grudge for thousands of years.

Da Chengzi continued: "Little brother, you and I are destined to meet each other, I will send you a creation, you do the old man a favor, how about it?"

Wei Qimu thought to himself, "The enemies of this Dachengzi are Guiguzi and the Three Great Sects, not to mention the four of them, any one of them is far beyond my reach." If it's to avenge him or something, it won't help you. ”

Da Chengzi seemed to see through his concerns: "You only need to bring a letter to someone for me, his name is Jian Jiangyue." If you and I are fated enough, you will definitely meet him. If you can't meet it, you don't want it. Now I will preach your Taoist true mastery "Ruoshui Dao", the old man has not accepted apprentices in his life, since you are a miscellaneous heir, there is nothing wrong with inheriting my mantle. ”

Wei Qimu still wanted to say something, but he only felt that his mind was empty, and the heart of "Ruoshuidao" was like an imprint, engraved in his mind layer by layer. This method of transmitting the gong is very clever, but it is not to forcibly improve the skill of the recipient, and he must practice it slowly.

After Dachengzi passed on the skills, he said: "Your qualifications are not bad, first practice hard here, and only after your martial arts can you get out of this Soul Palace." ”

Wei Qimu also wanted to digest it quickly, so as to enhance his own strength, and rushed out with everyone. So he sat down cross-legged on the spot and worked hard with peace of mind.

This "Ruoshui Dao" has a total of nine realms, and it is magical and obscure, but fortunately, Wei Qimu has a good Taoist martial arts foundation. Moreover, Taoism is different from Confucianism, Confucian martial arts pay attention to accumulation, and those high-level martial arts do not need to accumulate and precipitate for many years in order to reach the extreme. However, Taoist martial arts pay attention to understanding, those with good understanding can move forward, and those with poor understanding will not be able to move an inch.

"The avenue is three thousand, if the water is the first. ”

There is only one sentence at the beginning of "Ruoshui Dao", but it contains endless supreme majesty and domineering.

Wei Qimu worked hard to perceive, and the center of his brain flew around. It's just because he has the most important Taoist skills in the miscellaneous family, and Wei Qimu is also the most exquisite in Taoist martial arts, so among them, the mystical classics, Huang Lao's metaphysics, he chewed a few times, and he broke them one by one.

Since it is "Ruoshui Dao", it is inseparable from the word "water" after all. Wei Qimu thought of rain, dew, rivers and lakes, wine and tea foam, and even ...... Blood, tears, sweat. Suddenly, his body opened like a dry well, and the night was bright forever.

The first weight: the beginning of the water.

The second weight: water droplets again.

The third layer: the convergence of three waters.

Wei Qimu understood three times in a row, but he felt extremely relaxed, and he knew that this was only the first stage of "Ruoshui Dao".

......

Fourth: the four rivers flow.

The fifth: the five waves rise.

Sixth: Six water waves.

He has three levels of enlightenment in a row, and this is the second stage.

Wei Qimu felt extremely difficult at this point, but he was unwilling, "If you can't practice to the third stage, I'm afraid you won't be able to exert the greatest power of this strange science." ”

Wei Qimu meditated hard, but he never found a way. He was tormented by his heart and brain, and when he was about to give up, he remembered his master's words - the reason why our miscellaneous family can stand in the forest of a hundred schools of thought is nothing more than relying on the word "borrowing". Take the strengths of others and use them for your own use.

Wei Qimu has some understanding at this point, Xunzi said, "Ascend and move, the arm is not lengthened, and the one who sees it is far away; Those who fake horses will not benefit their feet, but will lead to thousands of miles, and those who fake boats will not be able to use water, but will not be able to cut off rivers. A gentleman is not different, and he is good at things. "This world is so big, how small is one's own strength? But if you can borrow it, it will be different.

Wei Qimu didn't dare to delay, and the waterfall that flowed straight down by the tilt of the earth appeared in his mind, and the ice, snow, frost and hail condensed and mixed by the cold of the sky......

At this time, there was a roar in his body, and a more vigorous internal force rose from the dantian, and he returned to the dantian after traveling around for thirty-six weeks.

Seventh: Seven rivers move!

Wei Qimu finally passed the hurdle of the third stage, and at this time he only felt that his head was splitting, and he could not continue to comprehend at all. He simply opened his eyes and stood up, only to see Dachengzi looking at him with appreciation.

"Your comprehension is even better than I expected, and you can even practice to the seventh level at one time. Although you have some credit for your foundation, it is already very good to be able to realize the step of 'borrowing'. Dachengzi saw him wake up and said approvingly.

Wei Qimu felt the changes in his body, and the power of this "Ruoshui Dao" was sorted out by the miscellaneous mastery of "Nine Turning Pulses", and it did not conflict with the original internal skills of each family. This is also the root of the miscellaneous family's ability to learn the martial arts of all families.

He was extremely happy in his heart, but in the face of this great man, he didn't dare to slack off and insult half a point, so he saluted and said: "Thank you seniors for passing on your merits." Since the seniors are trapped here, I don't know how the juniors can rescue you?"

Although Wei Qimu couldn't find those few people to seek revenge, if he could rescue this Taoist master, he would be very happy.

I don't want Da Chengzi to shake his head when he heard this, and said kindly: "The old man's skills are all in this Soul Palace, and he is already one, and if he can't go, only Jian Jiangyue can help me." You go, I think you and I have more than that. ”

Wei Qimu sighed in his heart, although he didn't understand what it meant to be "connected to the Soul Palace", but since Dachengzi was sure that he couldn't save him, he really couldn't save him.

Wei Qimu gave him another heavy salute and turned away. After all, he still has companions to save.