Chapter 37: Cultivation
Unexpectedly, this memory was a whole hour, and the old man choked and swallowed the autumn wind, turned around and walked back to the cave, as if he had a plan in his heart. Seeing that Lu Yu on the side also calmed down his thoughts, he also let go of his knot.
After a while, he asked a little tentatively: "Boy, you are a teacher of Xue Qing Zhenren, don't you know how to use the true qi in your body at all?"
"Uncle, you don't know, Master was afraid that I would have hatred in my heart, so he didn't teach me any Taoism. On the contrary, I was learning medical skills from Master Baicao Sheng in the mountains, saying that I hoped that I could save the world and help the common people in the future. ”
When he heard the name of Baicaosheng, he sneered and joked: "That old man is still alive?"
Hearing him joke like this, I think that this mysterious old man should have a very good relationship with Uncle Shi, after all, Uncle Shi has been away from the world for many years, and those who still know him should have been old friends in the past.
After thinking for a moment, he said bluntly: "Boy, I can teach you some cultivation methods, do you want to learn?"
If you put it in the past, you might choose a comfortable way of living, but when you have experienced so many changes, how can you not want to. And every time I see other senior brothers practicing together, I am very greedy, but unfortunately no one is willing to teach myself, and now in this remote valley, an unknown and unfathomable master of the world is actually willing to teach himself to cultivate, without saying a word, he nodded violently.
Seeing his eagerness, he said: "When you were unconscious, I probed the true qi in your body, and you have a deep internal force but you don't urge it, just like wearing a suit of armor but not having a weapon in your hand. And now the Pure Heart Mantra you have cultivated is just like a spear, and if you can practice it to the Mahayana, you can also sweep away all the evil demons!"
completely let go of the estrangement of the old man, approached and pricked up his ears to listen carefully, and poked his heart straight at every word. Indeed, he is like wearing a suit of iron armor without a weapon in his hand, like a lamb to the slaughter, powerless to fight back.
"Speaking of this Pure Heart Mantra, I know a lot!"
"Uncle, do you still know the Heart Purification Mantra?"
seemed to recall some past scenery and deeds, and said meaningfully: "This is Yu Xiaozhen's housekeeping skills back then, I not only know but also have a ...... with him."
"And what was the result?"
With a smug face, he boasted: "Then don't say it's her Yu Xiaozhen's pure heart mantra, even with Hancang Zhenren's indisputable sword, I can also go three hundred rounds under the two of them without falling behind!"
Hancang Zhenren's deeds have also heard a lot, and he can't tell how much of it is true and how much he boasts, so he nodded suspiciously.
"I'm not saying that the Pure Heart Mantra is bad, but for you at this moment, this is also considered a superior divine skill, and it is the most suitable for your current cultivation. As for the fact that you will go mad, it's just that the foundation is too shallow, and you don't have the skills to cultivate divine skills!"
I thought about it alone for a while, my previous cultivation was all indiscriminate, but fortunately, the old man stopped in time, if he continued to practice like this, he would not explode and die. Hurriedly asked, "Then how should I cultivate?"
The old man picked up a piece of dead wood on the ground and explained while demonstrating: "It's very simple, you put this dead wood in your palm and grind it into wood with your mind without external force!" I saw his palm tremble, and the dead firewood turned into ashes and fell from the palm of his hand.
Lu Yu also picked up a firewood stick and put it in the palm of his hand, closed his eyes, and the true qi in his body gathered in his palm, and his arm trembled, but when he opened his eyes, he saw that although the stick was broken into three sections, it failed to turn into ashes.
"Every time you urge the internal force, you gather it in one place, try to condense the true qi at one point, and then explode it to produce results!" the voice echoed in the hole, but the person disappeared.
Looking around, there was no trace of the old man, and I secretly thought that this might be a master in the world, always the dragon saw the head but not the tail, and the god was mysterious. I don't care so much, this old man is quite sociable with his parents, and he will never harm me. Remove the strength from your arms, loosen your shoulders to empty your body, and then try to condense your true qi on your palms to form a cyclone. As soon as his mind moved, he opened his eyes and looked, and sure enough, although the wooden stick was not finely cut, it became large and small granules, it seemed that he still failed to understand the mystery, took a deep breath, and simply sat down next to the firewood, put a wooden stick on the palm of one hand, and closed his eyes to feel the flow of true qi in his body.
This practice is a day and night, the nightingale can always be heard in the valley at night, the sound of the turbulent river is also particularly beautiful at this moment, and the cool evening breeze on the autumn night is a little more comfortable. It was pitch black in the cave that night, only the wisp of blue light was flickering slightly, and Lu Yu sat cross-legged on the ground and forgot to light the bonfire. The caves are interconnected, and in the middle of the night, a cool breeze blows, and the wood ashes piled up on the ground are swept up by the strong wind, and they hit Lu Yu's face in a hurry, and they don't have time to wipe it off, staring at the wooden stick in their hands and falling into deep thought.
Who knew that just such a small firewood stick actually made Lu Yu practice two black and white ......
On this day, I only heard a burst of joy from the cave. The old man seemed to hear the noise, and swished into the hole. When Lu Yu saw him appear, he took a few quick breaths and shouted, "Uncle, I succeeded!"
Looking at the firewood pile on the side, he had already seen that there were only three or two pieces left in the bottom, and the ground was full of ashes from broken wood. He nodded with some relief and said approvingly: "Well, that's good." Okay, let's go to the next step, you come with me!"
The two came to a waterfall on the mountainside, and Lu Yu went around the valley for the first time, and it turned out that the sound of water flowing that he heard on weekdays came from this waterfall. The water of this waterfall falls from the top of the mountain, accumulates on the mountainside, and then slowly flows down to the villages and rivers below.
Before he could take a closer look, he said, "Okay, take off your clothes, and see the boulder under the waterfall in front of you?" ”
Looking along the finger, I saw the water slapping fiercely on the boulder, the sun and the moon accumulated, and the boulder was also polished away and rounded and flattened. And the flowing water fell from dozens of meters above, and all the weight exploded at the moment it hit the ground, and the sound of "crackling~" could be heard in the distance. It's false to say that I'm not afraid, my body is already thin, and if I really sit on it, it's like a big and small stone smashed on my head, and I'm afraid for a while just thinking about it.
As if seeing his thoughts, he patted him on the back and questioned, "What, scared?"
Lu Yu shook his head, decisively took off his shoes and robe, and walked towards the boulder with the spring water. Every time you get closer, you can feel the splash of water and the loud noise, and with each beat, you will clearly see a wisp of white water vapor, which can be seen in the turbulence of the water. Gritting his teeth, he sat on the boulder with the pain, and for a moment he felt that the top of his head and shoulders were pressed by the rocks, and he was sore. When I wanted to open my eyes, I found that I was surrounded by water vapor, and my eyelids were painful, let alone open my eyes. The sound of 'crackling~' lingered in my ears, and my consciousness was gradually blurred, and every part of my body was hidden in the waterfall and water vapor. The nasal cavity and mouth were full of water, and if it weren't for the internal force, I am afraid that I would have drowned long ago. The words on the cheats flashed in my mind, and I silently recited in my heart: "The heart is as pure as water, and the water is clear and the heart." The breeze is silent, and the waves are not alarmed. ......Sitting alone, "Gradually, his limbs lost sensation, his consciousness was blurred, his body seemed to float in mid-air without weight, the turbulent water above his head was like a fallen leaf in a bamboo forest drifting in the wind, his mind was pure, and his thoughts turned into a cloud of blue light lingering around. I don't know how long it has been since my bare arms and chest were red from the spring water, but I don't know how long it has been, maybe it has been an hour or two, three or four days, dozens of days, or more than a month......
The mind turned into a wisp of smoke wandering in the body, looking at the flow of every internal force, the condensation and release of every wisp of true qi. Maybe it's been too long, and the hazy dantian can't see its appearance clearly at all, and can only feel that every wisp of cold and cold snow moon true qi is emerging from there. In this way, day after day, if you haven't come up with a countermeasure now, I'm afraid that the true qi in your body will be exhausted in less than three days, but you can't take it back, because once you don't have the true qi in your body, the rocky flowing water will completely crush you without a stick of incense.
Soon the mind was also affected, and a pain spread from the skin to the bones, and the pain spread to the whole body. Holding back the pain and thinking about the solution, he muttered the heart purification mantra in his mouth, and suddenly remembered that there was such a paragraph in the text: The sky is high and the earth is wide, and the water is flowing and the clouds are flowing. Fresh and cure, straight to make a living. To the goodness of nature, the road is natural. A thought flashed through his mind, the Snow Moon Divine Skill and the Pure Heart Mantra originated from the same source, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was kneaded with the true qi in the body, and a mouthful of Xuanhuang Qi could be recycled......
As soon as he thought of this, he withdrew all the true qi in his body, and in an instant, the waves exploded on his body, and he was afraid that he would never forget this kind of piercing pain. But no matter how intense the pain of the skin is, the mind must also be empty, and the ears hear the mountains, waterfalls, birdsongs, and beasts, and open your heart to feel the luck of heaven and earth. Maybe the skin and bones have forgotten the pain, the brain is blank as if they are unconscious, all the places on the body are no longer conscious, only the heart is still beating, the mouth and nose are still wheezing, the ears are still hearing, and everything else seems to no longer belong to them or may no longer be there.
I feel as if I am in a hollow valley, or in the forest, on the mountain, on the edge of a river......
Slowly, I seemed to be able to feel birds resting and flying away on the branches of trees hundreds of meters away, flying beasts hovering on the rocks thousands of meters away, a deer and live grass in a rocky crevice in the valley, and a stone monkey bullying a black wild cat on the mountain road......
More and more creatures come into mind, but when you look for it, you can't feel your own existence, maybe your heart is no longer beating, or maybe you have completely calmed down......