Chapter 5: Apprenticeship
The door opened, and Chiyuki stepped inside.
The room was eerily quiet, and the noise outside seemed to fall silent. Qianxue looked at this peaceful atmosphere in a daze, looked at the mysterious woman reading under the lamp, and suddenly felt that she was in that quiet cave.
"What are you doing, come here. The woman glanced at Qianxue Dao, "Let's talk about it." ”
Qianxue didn't dare to slack off, and hoped that this mysterious woman could solve her puzzle for more than half a year, so she told her story one by one.
The woman listened to the bizarre story that happened to Qianxue, and her face became colorful, first sympathy, then anger, and finally as confused as Qianxue.
She closed the book and pondered it for a while before she said, "I have heard a legend about the black and white qi that can devour objects, but it is too absurd. ”
"What legend?"
Legend has it that in ancient times, the water god Gonggong and the fire god Zhurong fought in the Buzhou Mountain, and the Gonggong was invincible, and the anger touched the Buzhou Mountain, causing the sky to collapse. Although the female snail refined the Five Elements Stone in time to make up for the sky, she was one step slower after all, and there was still a trace of black and white qi mixed into the heaven and earth, devouring all things. She couldn't refine it despite her best efforts, so she forcibly separated the black and white qi, and the black qi was sealed into the ground, and the white qi was sealed in the sky. ”
"But things must be reversed, how can this be sealed?"
"You're right. Legend has it that white gas is gradually derived from black gas, and black gas is also born from white gas, echoing each other in the sky and on the ground. From now on, there will be a trace of black and white gas in the body of the person made by the female snail, and after death, whether the soul is in the sky or into the earth, only depends on the amount of black and white qi. ”
Seeing that Qianxue was fascinated by what she heard, the woman shook her head and said: "After all, this is just a legend, don't take it seriously, there have been Yuan Infant seniors who tried to find that trace of black and white qi on their bodies, but there are only five elements of spiritual energy in the monk's body, and even divine consciousness is no exception." ”
Qianxue drooped her head and said, "But the strings in my body are indeed formed by black and white qi, how can I say this?"
"Hold out your hand," said the woman, "I want to see what the strings look like in you." But when she was about to inject mana into Qianxue's body to probe, her heart chuckled, and she said secretly: "It's better to be careful with this monster." Then he withdrew his slender jade hand that stretched out, glanced at Qianxue, and said: "There are no wonders in the immortal cultivation world, this is not a big deal, I estimate that what strings are also composed of five elements, but your cultivation is low, you can't see it." ”
Qian Xue held on to a glimmer of hope and asked, "Then can I cultivate immortals?"
"Naturally. ”
Qianxue bowed her head and said respectfully: "Master is above, disciple ......" The woman stood up suddenly, avoided Qianxue's big gift, and said: "There is one thing, you have to explain it first." I was originally a disciple of the True One Sect of Ruthless Real People, this time I went down the mountain, one is to travel, and the other is to find a female disciple with good qualifications for the master, I see that your qualifications are okay, if you really worship the teacher, you must take an oath. ”
"What swear?"
"Well, well, you just said that you will never betray the Daomen, otherwise you will fall into the suffering of reincarnation forever. ”
"Disciple Qianxue worships the ruthless real person as a teacher today, and after that, he will abide by the rules and precepts of the True One Sect, and will never betray the Daomen, and if he violates today's oath in the future, he will teach me to fall into reincarnation forever. ”
The woman nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile, "Okay, it's finally a troublesome matter." Sister, hurry up. He also said: "My name is Shu Yun, Dao number Qingzhu, what cultivation problems do you encounter in the future, you are not allowed to come to me, understand?"
Qianxue responded in a daze, Shu Yun was overjoyed, and ordered: "You go and pack your things, let's leave tonight." Qianxue was excited, packed up a few changes of clothes, and left the mountain city with Senior Sister Cheap.
Outside Deshan City, Shu Yun didn't know where to take out an inch long green bamboo, her fingers slid along the green bamboo gently, the green bamboo snorted softly, no wind grows, only a moment has been a long time, and the body exudes a faint fragrance. She leapt up and glanced back at Chiyuki. Qianxue understood, and jumped up like her senior sister.
The bamboo, which was as light as nothing, carried the two of them steadily into the air, and then flew away quickly into the distance. Qianxue nervously grabbed the bamboo, for fear that she would fall down if she was not careful. Shu Yun felt funny, but his face didn't show it, he only said: "Look at your rat gall, don't say it's my junior sister in front of people in the future." ”
Qianxue's face was embarrassed, and she puffed up angrily: "Who, who is scared?" After speaking, she tried to slowly let go of the hand holding the bamboo, and when she saw that she was still safe and steady, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Shu Yun took out two cushions, threw one to Qianxue, and sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, actually cultivating by himself. Qianxue took the cushion suspiciously, and sat up like her senior sister, and within a quarter of an hour, she felt that her legs were numb, and she couldn't hold on, so she simply lay on the cushion and looked at the scenery under the sky.
But what is there to see, but some vague fog. Looking at it, I fell asleep.
After a few hours, Qianxue opened her lazy eyes, messed up her hair, and muttered, "It's so comfortable to sleep, and the shopkeeper Wu doesn't call anyone to urge, it's really strange." She stood up and was about to go out.
"You're looking for death. ”
Qianxue was startled, the only little sleepiness left was gone, and she looked around to find that she was still on top of the green bamboo, and one foot had stepped out. She quickly sat down and cried out for danger.
She was shocked for a moment, and then asked, "Senior sister, how long is the journey?" Shu Yun said: "Half a month." After speaking, he took out a book and threw it to Qianxue, and instructed, "Don't bother me if there's nothing to do." ”
Qianxue took the book and looked at it, but it was "Introduction to Qi Training". The book introduces a basic method of qi training: the monk uses the mana in the dantian to penetrate the limbs and veins, and then he can attract the surrounding spiritual energy into the body, refine it, and transform it into his own mana to improve his cultivation.
What is the mana, Qianxue didn't know, she silently recited the mantra, looked inside the dantian, the strings were still turning, but the speed seemed to be much slower than before. She took a closer look at the dantian and found that there was a sparse and sparse light black mist in the dantian. Could it be that those fogs are mana?
Thinking of this, she tried to spread the mist to her limbs and veins according to the method in the book, but the mist was too little. She thought about it for a moment, and then carried the mist only to the palm of her hand. Sure enough, not long after the mist reached her palm, she sensed faint colorful air currents scattered around her palm, and she carefully guided these air currents into her body. After that, I quickly opened the book and looked for a way to refine it.
After finding it, she was in high spirits and hurriedly went to refine the aura that had just been introduced into her body. But there was no aura, the air flow she had just introduced into her body had long since disappeared. Undeterred, she redirects the airflow, but it happens again. She was puzzled, and no longer considered refining, only drawing the air flow into her body, staring all her energy at the direction of this air flow.
The result surprised her, the new air flow was almost completely sucked by the strings, and the strings that had absorbed a few air currents seemed to be a little faster than before.
Could it be that she worked hard to draw spiritual energy into her body to feed the strings, and then let the strings eat themselves too?
Am I that stupid? No, of course not, she thought. In the next few days, she thought hard about countermeasures, and finally lost. stared at the senior sister, thinking about the wording, the senior sister had said that she was not allowed to disturb her.
An hour later, Shu Yun felt that his scalp was numb, and he opened his eyes helplessly, and said, "What's the matter?"
Qianxue said, and the two fell into deep thought at the same time.
After another two hours, Shu Yun woke up from his contemplation, patted his head, and said, "It's really black who is close to ink, and red who is close to Zhu! With you, senior sister, I have become stupid." Qianxue hurriedly said, "Senior sister, can you think of any way?"
"It stands to reason that the strings in your body are inexhaustible, but why do you have mana in your body? ”
Qianxue suddenly brightened, sincerely admired her senior sister's intelligence, and wanted to say a few words of gratitude. Shu Yun said, "Hmph, don't bother me again, can you understand?" Qian Xue Lian said, "Understood", Shu Yun listened, meditated and cultivated again.
According to her senior sister's method, Qianxue wrapped a part of the mana in her body around the strings and isolated them in the small corner of the dantian. Re-induce qi into the body, refine, and really do it in one go, without the slightest obstacle.
Ten days later, Qianxue watched with satisfaction as the mana in her body gradually increased, and now she was already at the first level of Qi training, and the mana in her body was enough for her to cover the palms of her two hands.
She longed for a moment, and then began to cultivate again. In the past few days, she has always felt that her cultivation speed has slowed down a lot, and it has become difficult to draw qi into her body.
After another two days, she couldn't even sense the slightest bit of aura! After thinking about it, she transported the mana concentrated in the palm of her hand to other parts, but the situation was still the same. After tossing a few times, she stumbled upon the strings in the dantian that had completely stopped moving, floating quietly.
Thinking about the situation of the breath induction ten days ago, it suddenly dawned on her: the faster the string moves, the faster she can draw the qi into her body, the string stops running, she will not be able to sense the aura, but when the string moves too fast, she herself is in danger of being swallowed.
She was thinking about the various characteristics of the strings, and suddenly the green bamboo under her feet seemed to plunge into the mire, and it suddenly became a turtle speed. She hurriedly looked around, but there was only a vast white mist. At this time, Shu Yun, who had been cultivating with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and said:
"It's here!"