Chapter 5 The world is well versed in the path of concentration
When Fang Yu went down the mountain, it was the nineteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, although it was not a peaceful and prosperous era, but it was the first time that Fang Yu saw the great unification of the dynasty.
I thought I could see some scenes of peace and prosperity, but I never thought that although it was a peaceful dynasty, I also saw the prosperity of several big cities along the way, but the most I saw along the way were bandits and bandits. On the way, Fang Yu basically didn't have any chance to make a move, firstly, his identity was the head patriarch of the two retinues, and secondly, he also found that his kung fu was just an entourage of elites and the like in these two sects, and it was not enough to see at all! Those bandits and bandits basically didn't even have the qualifications to let the two retinues fight hard, let alone let him take action. However, Fang Yu didn't embarrass these thieves much, and only punished them slightly.
Just because I have learned a little bit along the way, although the Ming Dynasty is quite peaceful, it is a continuous natural disaster, almost the most of all dynasties! Therefore, what I saw on the way was mostly the difficulties of the people's livelihood, and I felt a lot of emotion.
At the end of June of this year, when I entered the territory of Suzhou Prefecture, I thought that I could finally enjoy the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River to relieve the depressed mood on the way. But I don't want to catch up with the great floods in Su and Song, not only did I not see the good scenery, because I didn't know the nature of the water, but I was almost drowned in the flood. A few days later, when the news was discovered, tens of thousands of people had drowned in the floods in the two prefectures!
Remembering the panic he felt when he was almost drowned, he decided to try his best to help the affected people, and immediately went to the government to turn into a fortune boy, and was very busy for a few days, and then continued on the road.
Stop-and-go, the beautiful expectations for Jiangnan have long been thrown out of the clouds. When I arrived at the Hangzhou Zongmen Branch, it was the end of July, but the scenery of Hangzhou could no longer attract Fang Yu's attention, just because I heard that Ningbo, Zhejiang, Shaoxing, and the coastal areas had a heavy wind and rain, the sea overflowed, drowning countless people and animals, and countless fertile fields were flooded.
After consulting with the people who divided the sect, it was decided to donate some of the money and organize as many relief items as possible to go to the disaster area. A few days later, Fang Yu led a team and local government personnel to the disaster area.
This trip to the disaster relief, although there was no blood of battlefield fighting, really made him a little mature, although Fang Yu always felt that no matter what others thought of him, he was just a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.
After two months before and after returning to Hangzhou, there was no fun, staying in the Hangzhou branch every day is just reading books and practicing martial arts, only feeling a lack of interest, finally moved the idea of returning to the mountain, simply let the entourage of the two and the people of the Hangzhou branch help plan a road back to the mountain that they have not walked, anyway, it will take a few months on the road, and it will take a few months to go to some places that have not been there, and it will be a long time to see and hear.
Since this time it was a route that someone specially helped plan, it can be regarded as seeing some famous mountains and rivers, so I relaxed a little and opened my eyes. It's just that it didn't take long to hear that there was a big flood in Surabaya again, and countless people were drowned, and You Xing, who had just been mentioned a little, went out again. Thinking about the suffering of the people, it is in response to the sentence: prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.
I also know that I can't do much on my own, and my ability is much inferior to that of the disciples in the sect, whether it is the ability to do things or the kung fu passed on in the door, it is far inferior to these disciples! What I take advantage of is just the status in the sect, and the inexplicable ability to retreat for hundreds of years, in fact, I am still just a young man who has only lived for seventeen or eighteen years, not to mention experience and ability, and hundreds of years of retreat have not even allowed me to increase my strength.
This thought together made the cultivation heart urgent, just because he had occupied the position of the head of the door for hundreds of years but almost never cared about things, and the person in charge of the door could only be called the acting head of the house, and he always felt that this was unreasonable. It's just that you don't care about anything, and you have to be successful in cultivation anyway! Otherwise, you can't even compare with the disciples in the sect, and you really can't say it.
The most important thing is that these two retreats made him vaguely understand that the so-called cultivation of immortals and cultivation of truth may not be just a legend, and his hundreds of years of retreat have not improved his martial arts and kung fu, it may just be that he has not taken the right path, but after so many years, he is still the same as when he was sixteen years old, which is very telling! This path of cultivating immortals is very likely to exist, otherwise his situation cannot be explained at all, and the disciples in the sect generally live a long life.
Thinking of this, I hurried all the way back to the mountain gate, preparing to retreat again, no matter what, even if it is another few hundred years, it is important to improve my ability, and only with the ability can I do more things, rather than just watching the people under my door do things.
After returning to the mountain, he discussed and explained the development of the sect with the elders of the sect, and then went into retreat again.
It's just that I didn't expect that I would come out hungry a day later, and I couldn't enter the previous state of retreat at all, which surprised the elders in the door. Fang Yu understood a little, the first two times he retreated because he felt something, but this time he took the initiative to retreat, maybe this is the so-called fairy fate. Talking about this idea to the elders in the door has won everyone's approval, and I have more confidence in the exercises in the door.
Since he couldn't enter the state of retreat, Fang Yu didn't think much about it, but he firmly believed in the theory of cultivating immortals, since he needed immortal fate, then wait. He doesn't need to worry about everything in the door, only occasionally there is a representative head of the door out of respect, who will report some things to him, and the rest of the day is also comfortable reading books and practicing martial arts. After more than a year of such days, I have read a lot of books of all kinds, but I have not made much progress in practicing martial arts, and the slow operation of the blockage of the meridians has not been solved, and it is too difficult to progress. Fortunately, I got used to it, but I didn't have to worry about it.
During a nap one day, I had a rare dream, although I forgot the content of the dream when I woke up, the first two feelings of feeling came again, so I said hello to the head of the house, and went to retreat.
When Fang Yu woke up again, he also felt that apart from being refreshed, his own strength had not increased much.
When I came out, I felt that the atmosphere in the door seemed to be a little wrong, and I felt a little deserted, could it be that something happened in the door during this retreat?
After walking a few places in the dungeon-like sect, he saw a person, and when this person saw him, he was ecstatic, and he couldn't speak fluently, so he had to say that he would gather the people who were still in the door first. When everyone came, Fang Yu saw that there were only ten people, and he knew that something must have happened over the years.
After listening to everyone's story, I realized that the biggest reason for my current situation is actually because of hair! Yes, it is because of hair!
After the Qing soldiers entered the customs and seized power, the policy of "keeping people without leaving hair, leaving hair without leaving people" made them very distressed, although it is said that with the ability of the disciples in the door, the idle Qing soldiers should not want to deal with them, but if they want to make a living in peace, they will not be able to come without following the rules of the Qing Dynasty, and no one in the disciples is willing to keep the braided hair according to the rules. As a last resort, he had to sell the property of the north and south sects and return to the mountain gate. It's just that the resources for so many people to survive together in the snow-capped mountains are always a big problem, and with so many people, it is not easy for the mountain gate to be as hidden as before! Not to mention that the living areas of the herdsmen on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are getting closer and closer to the mountain gate. If you want to continue to hide the mountain gate, there is no good way, you can only break it into pieces, go out and live on your own, except for a few people who stay, ordinary people have nothing to do and do not return to the mountain gate, in this case, the recruitment of future generations of inheritance disciples is almost to the point of being cut off. If it weren't for the general longevity of the people in the door, I'm afraid the inheritance would have been cut off long ago!
Fang Yu also learned that now, the sky has changed outside, the feudal dynasty is over, and now is the time for warlords everywhere to fight, and the current weapons have made their kung fu lose a lot of advantages, even ordinary people may use guns to knock them over, which makes Fang Yu also curious, what kind of weapon can make the people in the door so jealous!
Now there are only 100 people in the door, compared to only one-tenth of the people before this retreat, and less than half of the young people, only ten people are left to watch the house, and the rest are walking to the Central Plains. This made Fang Yu a little uncomfortable.
This time, when he went out of the customs, he heard the news of the change in the sky outside, as well as the weapons that could threaten the disciples in the sect, all of which made Fang Yu want to go out and have a look, but looking at this deserted sect, and then thinking of the thriving atmosphere before, he wanted to do something as the head of the sect, but he didn't know how to start. The most depressing thing is that the only ten people left in the door didn't expect him to do anything at all, not that he was not respectful enough, but it was too much change outside, not only the environment, but also all kinds of thoughts, Fang Yu, an ancestor-level figure, just wanted to accept the current world It would take a lot of time!
Distressed for a few days, I thought of the history of the sect, from the ancestor with more than a dozen people to the first generation of the head of the sect to create a sect, to now through all dynasties and generations can always be passed on, and I have occupied the position of head for many years, but almost never do anything and still have not broken the inheritance, although it seems to be much weaker now, it is just like the ups and downs of life. The dynasty has changed for so many generations, they are still there, and there is nothing to worry about and regret. And this almost full of books in the dungeon is the greatest wealth! And now, although there are only more than 100 people, it is ten times more than that of the ancestors, and under such conditions, if the inheritance is really broken and the door is destroyed, it is just luck, so why worry about it.
Thinking of this, I couldn't wait to retreat again, so I said hello to the people left behind, and without much explanation, I went into retreat!
As soon as I entered the retreat, I felt a difference, and it seemed that there would be a huge change this time.
Sure enough, after the operation of the Nine Great Zhou Tian, there seemed to be a muffled sound in the dantian, and the pure yang qi that was originally densely stored in the dantian like a substance quickly turned into liquid like water droplets, which made Fang Yu couldn't help but be happy, and what made him even happier was that he suddenly felt that he saw the situation in the dantian, watching the pure yang qi in the shape of droplets, and almost came out of the retreat! It's just because he has heard a lot of how people in the sect look inward, and how important it is to look inward, but he, the head patriarch, has gone through three retreats for more than three hundred years, and he has not reached the level of inward vision!
As more and more liquefaction occurred, the transformation speed became faster and faster, and gradually the pure yang qi in the meridians also showed signs of liquefaction, and after another nine great weeks, all the transformations were completed, and the Mingyu Pure Yang was running more smoothly than ever! Fang Yu began to feel a trace of spiritual energy seeping into his body from the outside world, and finally felt the cultivation state of the disciples in the sect!
It's just that he found that his cultivation state was still different from that of the disciples in the sect, after others liquefied the dantian, what was running in the meridians was the pure yang qi after the dantian was re-vaporized, while his own dantian was liquefied and entered the meridians was still the pure yang qi in the liquefied state. As a result, the speed of his exercises is still not as good as others, but it is also much faster!
When he reached the end of the ninety-nine-eighty-one week, he only felt a roar in his head, all kinds of sounds came one after another, and his body seemed to have opened a shackle, and the feeling of relaxation and pleasure made him unable to extricate himself and unwilling to wake up!