Chapter 11: Teaching the Arts
At night at Lingyun Peak, it was quiet and peaceful, only the sound of the wind rustled and the sound of the waterfall roared in the distance......
The starry sky in the sky, probably because the clouds were too deep, was dancing and shining with the faintest light, and at this moment, the moon was clear and bright, enveloping the entire Lingyun Peak.
Moonlight poured into the room through the crack in the window, and the dim room was a little brighter.
There was only one young man in the room, and he got up in the dim moonlight and lit a candle on the table, and the fire gradually brightened, and he could almost see the whole room.
In the room, which looked relatively spacious, I saw several paintings of Daozu hanging on the walls, which were dilapidated and blurred because they had not been taken care of for a long time. In the corner of the wall on one side, there is a small cabinet, which is supposed to be used for clothes. There was a table for four people and a few stools, and a few cups and utensils such as teapots were placed on the table. There's a bed on the inside, and that's the layout of the whole house.
The whole house showed a quaint and simple atmosphere, but for Gu Nanyun, it was much stronger than the thatched hut he lived in the inn before.
And here, he feels very comfortable, thinking that it is quite rich to live alone.
Gu Nanyun didn't feel sleepy at the moment, he looked at the burning candle on the table alone, sighed slightly, and felt a little lonely when he was bored, and a wave of thoughts gradually came to his heart......
Since he joined the Yunhua Sword Sect, he has been here for two or three months, and he will continue to live here in the future. There was a voice in his heart asking himself, this is his residence from now on, is it a home to live alone? Without an uncle, it is at most a place to live now!
He didn't want to stay in the room, he wanted to go out and look around, so he pushed open the door and walked towards the long corridor in the courtyard......
After a while, he came to an open ground alone, and this was the square of Lingyun Peak.
The moon is like water, the sound of insects chirping, the smoke is still there, you can vaguely hear the gurgling water in the mountains, plus the sound of waterfalls in the valley not far away, booming and ......
On one side of the square is a long pavilion, and just above it, a huge bright moon hangs horizontally in the sky, cold and bright. A few ancient pines swayed in the night wind, and everything seemed so harmonious and indifferent!
Gu Nanyun turned his head to look at the tall building standing in the night behind him, feeling gray and magnificent at the moment.
Looking at the distant mountains, under the moonlight, hazy and mysterious......
He sat down on a stone staircase, from which he could see farther away, and his frustration gradually dissipated.
The young man on the stone steps, with a demented look, was thinking of a long past, he remembered the scene when he was about to starve to death in the snow, the snow was falling, and he was cold and hungry.
remembered his uncle, a middle-aged butcher who saved his life, a middle-aged man who often quarreled with him...... The past is vivid.
Now, if his uncle is still alive, they should all leave the ghost place of the Haiyun Inn together! Maybe they will come to the Yunhua Sword Sect together, and they will be chatting at the moment, or drinking some wine with his uncle......
The long night will be a sleepless night, and the lonely figure will silently pour out all his thoughts in the night......
The next day, the mountain behind Lingyun Peak.
On the martial arts arena, at this moment, I saw a middle-aged man in a silver robe, standing with his hands in his hands, this person was Song Beiluo. There were two disciples standing next to him, Jiang Yao and He Lan'er.
Gu Nanyun knelt down in front of Song Beiluo, and was listening carefully to the master's introduction to him about the origin of the sect, the historical process of the development of the ancestors and the Sword Sect in the past dynasties!
I only heard Song Beiluo say at this time: "Yun'er! You have become the ninth generation disciple of my Yunhua Sword Sect, and from today as a teacher, I will teach you the 'Yunhua True Method' and 'Yunhua Sword Technique', so you should get up first!"
"Yes, Master!" Gu Nanyun stood up and responded.
Then, Song Beiluo turned around, he looked into the depths of the bamboo forest in the distance, and a faint voice sounded: "In the world of Fang Jin, the vast land of Kyushu is boundless, there are many sects, and all thaumaturgical Taoism is competing for beauty, which can be described as three thousand avenues...... Among them, the techniques of the ten major sects are more exquisite, and each family occupies one side, showing the trend of Kyushu!"
He continued: "Throughout the ages, all those who have cultivated the true Dao have had many Dharma weapons around their bodies, and they have used the power of Dharma weapons to exert their own powerful energy. There are also a few who are also bare-handed, practicing their skills, and transcendent saints!"
Song Beiluo turned to look at Gu Nanyun, and said: "My Yunhua Sword Sect has been established for almost eight hundred years, from ancient times to the present, my disciples have always been good at using fairy swords, so they use swords as weapons, and fight swords to travel the rivers and lakes!
Gu Nanyun looked curious as if listening to a story, and listened attentively to his master one by one......
Later, Song Beiluo said: "In addition to our faction's exquisite use of fairy swords, the 'Haoqing Palace', one of the ten major sects with the same reputation as my faction, is also good at using long swords, which is called magic swords!"
Song Beiluo took out a yellowed book with gold-rimmed stripes from his bosom and handed it to Gu Nanyun.
Gu Nanyun regarded it as a treasure and carefully held this scripture with both hands, and he looked at it fixedly, there were four big characters on it, and the name was "Yunhua Xuanjing!"
Song Beiluo looked at the two disciples beside him and instructed them: "In addition to cultivating diligently in the future, you two should spare time to guide Yun'er and comprehend this Yunhua Xuanjing!"
"Yes! Jiang Yao and He Lan'er bowed down at the same time, and both nodded and said.
He Lan'er seems to talk a lot, but she is well-behaved today, and Jiang Yao next to her is as quiet as usual.
Song Beiluo inhaled slightly, nodded and said to the two, "You two should retreat first!"
After Jiang Yao and He Lan'er left, Song Beiluo said to the little apprentice in front of him: "Yun'er! This Yunhua Xuanjing is the foundation of our sect's cultivation, according to the continuous correction and study of the ancestors of the past dynasties, this book is infinitely mysterious!"
He continued, "You need to study diligently every day to comprehend the wonderful methods in this book, and to cultivate the 'innate qi' and 'innate meaning'. When you comprehend the "qi" and "meaning" in the book, you can practice Yunhua swordsmanship and Yunhua true method, which is the so-called sword with qi and the trick with intention!"
Gu Nanyun replied respectfully at this time: "Master's grace in teaching art, Yun'er will always remember it! I will participate in the Dao Dharma every day, and I dare not get tired." ”
Although Gu Nanyun still didn't understand what it meant to use "Qi" to resist the sword and "Meaning" to transform the formula, he had already secretly made up his mind in his heart that no matter how difficult the cultivation path ahead was, he believed that his efforts would one day achieve results!
Song Beiluo looked at Gu Nanyun and smiled with satisfaction, he said: "Yun'er is really a sensible child, since you have entered my sect, I should teach you all the Taoism, I just hope that you will not let the teacher down in the future!"
"Yes, the apprentice must obey the master's orders!" Gu Nanyun bowed his hand.
Song Beiluo saw a dead leaf in his hair at this time, then bent down, removed the dead leaf for him with one hand, looked at him and said, "That's all for today!
As he spoke, he immediately left Gu Nanyun's side and walked straight towards the road deep in the bamboo forest over there.
At this time, the sky is dark, and the sun is three poles.
Gu Nanyun held the yellowed scripture in both hands and looked at it carefully, like a precious gift, he carefully took it into his arms, patted the shirt on his chest with one hand, and saw if it was safe, so he could leave with confidence!
There is a mountain peak connected to Lingyun Peak, it is much shorter than Lingyun Peak, almost the entire mountain is tilted, and its peak is leaning on Lingyun Peak, the two peaks, one high and one short, look like brothers, close to each other!
Between Lingyun Peak and the mountain, a huge cliff platform protruded from the sky, and the cliff platform was relatively wide in the shade of the mountain, and the end of the extension was relatively narrow.
Under the cliff is a hundred-zhang cliff, although it is a place of size, but the field of vision is extremely wide. Looking forward from the cliff platform, there is a vast sky in front of you, and below the sky is a verdant forest, a wilderness.
There is a name here: sit on the cliff!
A winding path winds up the mountain, and it seems that no one has walked for a long time, and it is overgrown with weeds, probably because most of the disciples in the sect fly for Edgeworth, and rarely walk.
Gu Nanyun walked along the path, and he walked alone to the thatched pavilion at the end of the cliff platform, there was an ancient tree next to the grass pavilion, like a giant umbrella covering the sky, and the shade of the tree covered the entire grass pavilion.
The moonlight was clear and cold, faint, soft, as gentle and delicate as flowing water, Gu Nanyun's eyes were a silver ocean, and the night was pleasant, which made him sitting in the pavilion have many wonderful reveries in his heart.
As the name suggests, this is the cliff of forgetting, which naturally makes people forget time and troubles.
Gu Nanyun crossed his legs and took out a scroll from his arms with one hand, which was the Yunhua Xuanjing given to him by his master during the day.
Now he was about to begin his study when the first page of the Scripture was opened, and a series of ancient words appeared in his eyes.
Just look at the scriptures and say: "The innate qi is the beginning of the vitality." The vitality is not formed, what is the loneliness? The essence is grateful and truly life, the vitality runs and the heaven and the earth stand up, and the creation is applied and all things are used. The chaotic ones are only empty in the middle of the chaos, and there is nothing outside the chaos, which is vast and indescribable. The purpose of the vastness, although the canon is not exhausted, the foundation of the mystery, and the mystical scriptures can be seen......"
After a careful reading, Gu Nanyun's head was swollen and painful, and he couldn't understand the meaning, so he turned a few pages down and read again.
It also noted: "The vitality is within the recklessness, outside the darkness, and it is born empty." In the hollow, there is too much birth. It is too unchanged and the three qi are clear. The three qi are chaotic, born of too void and standing in a hole, standing in nothing because of the hole, being born because of nothing, and standing empty because of being. Emptiness is dissolved, and nature is born in the void. The upper qi is said to be the beginning, the middle qi is said to be yuan, and the lower qi is said to be Xuan. The Xuan Qi is born out of emptiness, the Yuan Qi is born out of the hole, and the Origin Qi is born out of nothingness. Therefore, one life is two, two is born three, and the three are reborn to nine mysteries, from nine to one, which is to enter the Tao. The air is clear into the sky, the water is condensed into the earth, and the middle gas is harmonious, so as to become a person. The sun and the moon shine brightly, and the five nights are bright. In the last three days, he was born in the purity of the three qis, and he was above the supreme, and he was extremely infinite......"
With such a difficult and dry red tape, Gu Nanyun no longer had the courage to read it anymore, and even had a trace of giving up in his heart.
He closed the scroll and sat in the pavilion for a long time, remembering the determination he had made in his heart this morning, and then thinking of the recognition and expectations of his master and his brothers and sisters......
He didn't want to give up so quickly, but it was just the beginning, didn't he? After several physical and mental struggles, he immediately thought about it, and forcibly held back the feeling of rejection in his heart, and picked up the scroll again and flipped through a small half.
"Huh......"
Gu Nanyun let out a cry of surprise, he found that the front of the original sutra was a long commentary, and behind the Tao was a picture of a human figure meditating with his hands, and some patterns or words were also indicated to illustrate it.
Gu Nanyun had an idea, he was extremely sensitive to graphics and drawings since he was a child, and it can be said that he never forgot it. Looking at the patterns in front of me, I seemed to understand something, and immediately sat cross-legged on the ground, closed my eyes and concentrated, and kept comparing the shapes of the patterns in the scriptures with both hands.
After repeated comparisons and skill, gradually, I only saw a faint white filament swimming around him, faintly absent.
He only felt the faint burning pain in the dantian of the body, a stream of internal qi from small to large, this internal qi from the lower dantian, against the pulse of the superintendent upward, along the vein down, through the tail lube, the spine, the jade pillow three passes, the upper, middle, lower three dantian and the upper and lower magpie bridge, the upper magpie bridge in the hall, the nose orifice, the lower magpie bridge in the perineum, the valley road for circulation.
In this way, we still follow the previous method, and the cycle repeats, about thirty-six times.
Gu Nanyun opened his eyes slowly, his forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, and his upper body was soaked with a large patch, he suddenly felt that his body obviously had a strange feeling, his body was refreshed and full of energy, as if there was a hidden energy in his body that was about to erupt at any time.
Unexpectedly, Gu Nanyun tried it for the first time, and it was smooth and unimpeded, compared with other disciples before this, he was relatively successful, it seemed that he had some talent and luck in cultivating the "Innate Qi".
Generally, those who practice this method must hold their breath and concentrate on it, have no distracting thoughts in their minds, and be guided by the situation. Otherwise, if you are not careful, you will hurt your muscles and bones, and if you are serious, your blood will burst and you will die.
Gu Nanyun also felt at this time that as long as he did something with his heart, it was actually not difficult, and for this reason, he was in a great mood now. A wave of joy was palpable.
When he picked up the scroll in his hand and flipped it back, he only saw that the commentary on the "innate meaning" of cultivation was narrated at the back, and there was also a corresponding portrait pattern to indicate it.
Gu Nanyun has the comprehension of the front, and the cultivation method in the back has also become much simpler, so the cultivation is also twice the result with half the effort, but the first part is just a first glimpse of the way, of course, the latter is only what he imagined with his own understanding.
Time flies, and a month and a half has passed.
In the meantime, Gu Nanyun has been a warm-hearted since he was a child, he often goes to the kitchen to help with chores, as a disciple of Yunhua Sword Sect, he can't eat and drink for nothing!
In addition to helping with chores in the kitchen, he also went to the Houshan martial arts arena to watch the senior brothers and sisters practice swords every day, but after these brothers and sisters practiced swords, all of them flew freely wherever the sword came, and the time was not only short but also very fast.
For a young boy who didn't even have a sword and couldn't fly, it was already noon to take some time to come to the back mountain, and then take a little time to return to Lingyun Peak, and running back and forth like this could make Gu Nanyun tired.
His master often taught him to watch his brothers and sisters practice martial arts and swordsmanship, saying that he should observe his form and be taught by him! What he said would be of great help to his cultivation of swordsmanship in the future. He also often let him run in the morning every day to exercise his muscles and bones and strengthen his body.
These days, Gu Nanyun has to beg Jiang Yao and He Lan'er to take him to fly with the sword from time to time, wanting to see the surrounding scenery. But no matter how coquettish he begged, the senior brother and sister just ignored it, and he simply gave up.
And every night, Gu Nanyun didn't miss his homework, and he practiced alone on the Sitting Cliff, and a few hours passed.
On this day, Gu Nanyun got up early in the morning for a morning jog, and after running, he sat on the stone bench to rest.
He happened to see his senior sister He Lan'er walking towards him, only to see that He Lan'er had arrived in front of him, smiling and holding a few buns in her hands, it seemed that it was a lot colder, and there was no heat.
She faced Gu Nanyun, handed the bun in her hand to the past, and said, "Now, Xiaoyun, you were tired from your morning run just now, you didn't eat early in the morning, so your body will be unbearable, look at you are thin!"
Gu Nanyun thought that he didn't seem to have eaten much last night, and he did feel a little empty in his stomach this morning, and when he saw his senior sister handing him steamed buns, his heart blossomed and he happily took the steamed buns.
"Thank you, Senior Sister, Yun'er has long known that Senior Sister is the best for me, and Senior Brother is not as good as you......" After he finished speaking, he took care of himself and ate the buns.
He Lan'er's bright eyes glanced at Gu Nanyun, and the corners of her mouth pursed: "I know that poor mouth, I am not good to you, who else is good to you! Besides, senior brother, he didn't come today, no, he proposed to send steamed buns!"
After Gu Nanyun heard this, he suddenly realized, he smiled awkwardly, and said: "Ah! It turns out that I blamed Senior Brother for it, this is very embarrassing" After finishing speaking, he burst out laughing "Haha".
Seeing his childish nature, Helan'er couldn't help but shake his head and squatted down, wiping the beads of sweat on his forehead with the silk handkerchief in his hand.
Just when Gu Nanyun was halfway through eating, He Lan'er saw that his eyes began to slowly turn red, and he looked like he was about to shed tears.
He Lan'er touched his forehead with her hand and asked with concern: "What's the matter, Xiaoyun, is it that the master is too strict with you on weekdays, and the master and his old man are also good for you......"
Just as she didn't finish speaking, she was interrupted by Gu Nanyun.
I saw him shaking his head violently, a little aggrieved, with a look of emotion on his face, he said: "It's not Master's reason, Master treats me very well!"
Helan'er looked at him with interest, "What's the reason for that, look at the way you were about to cry just now!" After saying that, she stretched out a hand and pinched Gu Nanyun's nose.
At this moment, Gu Nanyun was quite uncomfortable, and said with some crying: "I have no father or mother since I was a child, and then my uncle adopted me, since he left, I thought I had no other relatives in this world." But now, Yun'er knows that there are also senior sisters, senior brothers, and masters, you are all my relatives......"
"Fool, we will always be by your side......" Helan'er comforted him with both hands in her arms.
Gu Nanyun lay lightly in Helan'er's arms, feeling this warmth, his senior sister loved and cared for him like a big sister, so that he had a sense of family affection and happiness that he had never felt before......
I don't know when, a middle-aged man walked over at this time, the man looked deep-sighted, his face was grim and solemn, and he was awe-inspiring, and the person who came was Song Beiluo.
At this time, He Lan'er and Gu Nanyun saw the master coming over, they both got up and walked over, bowed and said, "Meet the master!"
On the martial arts field, Song Beiluo looked at Gu Nanyun and said, "Yun'er, you have been cultivating your innate qi for half a month, can you let the teacher see how you are cultivating?"
After Gu Nanyun heard this, his little face was a little stunned and a little nervous, after all, this was the first time his master had checked how well he was cultivating, if he didn't perform well, he was afraid that both his master and his sister would be disappointed.
He stood still, hesitated, and finally he had to do his best to behave well, hoping not to be disappointed.
I saw Gu Nanyun walking to the side, farther away from them, sitting cross-legged on the ground, so his body showed the momentum of luck, his palms were spread out, and he made a few gestures in the air, but he saw that his whole body was surrounded by a trace of white light and mist, enveloping his body.
Then, when Gu Nanyun felt an invisible gas gathered in his palm, his forehead sweated slightly, his hands were raised and put on his chest, looking at a few green bamboos not far in front of him, so he hit the green bamboo with both palms, and a strong air flow shot out from the palm of his hand, hitting the green bamboos heavily, only to hear the sound of "pop", the green bamboo shook violently, and the bamboo leaves scattered all over the place.
When Helan'er, who was staying on the side, saw this scene, she kept clapping her hands.
After Song Beiluo saw it, he nodded, and said with satisfaction: "Yun'er, it seems that you have mastered the most basic know-how, and you will definitely cultivate diligently in the future!"
He continued, "Next, you can cultivate the innate intention, but you have to remember! These two methods of 'qi' and 'yi' need to be cultivated at the same time, and the two complement each other. When you have cultivated to a certain level, the teacher will naturally be able to teach you the Yunhua Sword Technique and the Yunhua True Method!"
Speaking of the "Yunhua Xuanjing" on Gu Nanyun's body, it is the immortal magic left by the ancestor Yunhua Shangxian of the opening school. The "innate qi" and "innate meaning" in the scriptures are mysterious, profound and profound, and have great creation, and their laws are not limited by the realm, but there are deep and shallow theories.
For cultivators, the depth and shallowness of the cultivation of the two methods of "Innate Qi" and "Innate Intent" will directly affect the maximum power of the "Yunhua Swordsmanship" and "Yunhua True Method" in the later stage. Even the head master of the world's Dao Dharma, Venerable Yuan Xuzhen, has not yet comprehended the mysteries in the scriptures.
And other veteran-level figures only comprehend the subtleties in the scriptures, and this alone is enough to be invincible and proud of Kyushu!