Chapter Eighty-Six: Ling Yanzi
I don't know how long it took, Bai Ya suddenly woke up, and when he opened his eyes, a bright light seemed to flash in the dark room. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"It's night!"
Bai Ya glanced out the window and saw that it was pitch black, only the stars in the sky shimmered faintly.
He groped around the ashram and lit the candlesticks around him, and the room was much brighter.
It was morning when I came to see Jingtai Zhenren, but the real person told allusions and anecdotes for a long time, and it was almost evening. If he meditates for a few more hours now, won't it be late at night!
When he first came in the morning, he was still in a drunken state, and his body still had a lot of old injuries, but now he was in good spirits and refreshed.
Bai Ya stood up from the futon and slowly played the Five Elements Fist indoors, and the skeleton of his whole body crackled non-stop.
The Five Elements Boxing is a fitness boxing method, and after he hit it once, his whole body was hot, he sweated, his body felt lighter, and his thinking was much more agile and active.
"Almost. ”
Bai Ya lowered his head and picked up the two secret biographies in front of the futon, hesitated for a moment, and then opened the ancient book with Wang Lingguan's codex appended.
Although it is helpful to understand the original by looking at the rubbings with existing annotations, the rubbings bear the spiritual and moral imprints of the rubbers, and once preconceived, it will be detrimental to the interpretation of the original.
This is like the ancient works of the Hundred Schools of Thought, and the understandings and commentaries of today's people are different, and some even contradict each other.
Since Liu Yu and Jingtai Zhenren gave Bai Ya this opportunity, of course, he tried the original version first with his own efforts, so that even if he didn't succeed, he would not leave regrets.
Open the cover of the ancient book, the inner page is a thin animal skin inner membrane, this material is wear-resistant and damage-resistant, can stand the test of time, is a better carrier of martial arts secrets.
The first page is the preface written by that Ling Yanzi's predecessor.
“...... Yu Ling Yanzi, who has been cultivating for a hundred years, has done nothing, and only the formation can be seen...... By the grace of the master, he gave Wang Shan's codex...... After a Jiazi, the power of the thunder can finally be accepted in the five elements of yin and yang, and the sealing of the thunder seal method is completed.
...... Ten years later, Yu Youfelt the difficulty of martial artists in cultivating the Xuan, and was inspired by his teachers and friends, using the Sealing Thunder Seal Method as a medium, so that the martial artists could personally experience the way of the five elements of Yin and Yang, so as to step into the threshold of the Xuandao......
...... Sealing the thunder seal and the heaven and earth in the mortal body, collecting the thunder in the mustard seeds, and containing the mystic art in the dantian, it can be said that the five elements of yin and yang are full of wonder......
...... Everyone else knows that Yu founded the Dafa, but they don't know that this method is based on the Dao of Patriarch Wang Shan. Everyone in the world knows the height of the crown, but they don't know that there are thousands of giant trees under the crown...... Shame on you!"
The short preface of the "Yin and Yang Five Elements Sealing Thunder Seal Method" almost condenses Ling Yanzi's half-life cultivation career, and also introduces the origin and origin of this secret tradition.
After reading the preface, Bai Ya couldn't help but be in awe of this Ling Yanzi.
This Taoist leader created such a secret tradition but still did not take credit, which can be described as a humble gentleman!
However, cultivators pay attention to one person who should not give in, and God will not take it but accept the blame. Since Ling Yanzi admired Wang Shan's Codex with only more than ten pages left, there must be something in it.
Bai Ya thought as he turned the second page, and from the second page onwards, the pages were full of pictures and texts.
The graphics in the book are basically formation orientation maps, and some are local analyses of formations, most of which are complex combinations of figures, with annotations attached to them.
These formation orientation maps are actually not the content of the Yin and Yang Five Elements Sealing Thunder Seal Method, but the pre-knowledge, just like the annotations in the appendix of the ancient Chinese texts in the middle school textbook, but Bai Ya is still dizzy and dizzy, and he only knows one or two points out of ten.
"The river is out of the picture, Luo is out of the book, and the sage is the same!"
The sage in this sentence refers to Fuxi, the ancestor of Shenzhou human culture.
Legend has it that during the Fuxi period, there were dragon horses that appeared from the Yellow River and carried the "river map", and there were turtles that appeared from Luoshui and carried the "Luo Shu". Fu Xi drew gossip based on this kind of "map" and "book", which was also the "Yi" of the earliest period.
It can be said that the Hetu Luoshu is the original origin of Chinese culture.
The five elements of yin and yang and the eight trigrams of the nine palaces are the result of the evolution of the Hetu Luoshu, which involves a lot of geometric knowledge.
What is geometry, the word geometry comes from the Greek, originally meaning land surveying, and later referred to the science of studying graphics. Geometry can be dominated by people's visual thinking, cultivating people's observation, spatial imagination and insight.
The earliest book on geometry was the "Geometry Original" by the Greek Euclid in the Warring States Period, and later in the Ming Dynasty in Baiya's previous life, it was translated by Xu Guangqi, and the word geometry appeared.
There is no word geometry in the current world of Baiya, and instead of it, there is another word - rules.
The word rule has appeared as early as the oracle bone inscription period, the rule is a compass, and the moment is a ruler. The pattern of Fuxi holding the rules and the female snail holding the moment can be seen everywhere on the ancient porcelain.
Rules and arithmetic are the two kinds of mathematical knowledge about algebraic geometry in ancient China, which have become the basic knowledge that all schools of thought have to learn today, just like the mathematical tools of Baiya's previous life.
The two most proficient in rules and calculations are the Mo family and the Taoist family, as well as the peasant family that was almost annexed by the Mo family.
However, the basis of these two schools of mastery of rules and calculations is different, the Mohists are because of the making of tools, and the Taoists are because they are easy to learn.
Bai Ya's mathematics in middle school can only be said to be average, and it has been more than 20 years now, and it has long been returned to the teacher, so it is a little difficult for him to look at the harsh formation knowledge of the five elements of yin and yang now.
He sighed after turning a dozen pages, feeling a little depressed.
This thing really tests his mathematical skills, and he didn't bring the system elf when he crossed over, so this time it's a break.
However, if he can't read it, he can't understand it, and he has to keep turning until the last ten pages.
In the last ten pages of the cheats, there is finally a difference. First of all, the paper material is different, it looks more old and simple, and the picture and text on it are dark gold. This is the blood word gold text, that is, the essence of blood mixed with gold powder instead of ink.
The creation of the blood character golden text is not Taoism, but Buddhism.
Buddhist monks often use the blood of the tip of their tongue mixed with gold dust to write scriptures to express their devotion to the Buddha.
In the Wuxing era after the great fission of heaven and earth, the hundred schools of thought, including the Taoists, suddenly discovered that the blood character gold text mixed with the essence blood of the cultivators could better integrate the Taoist meaning and spirit, so the cultivators of that era began to use the blood character gold text in large numbers to write their own works.
However, this method of writing is too heavy on the body of the author, and it is difficult for even a warrior to bear it in a short period of time, so the time to complete this kind of work will be very long, often in units of ten years.
Today, there are many substitutes for the blood character gold script, especially the rubbings of the martial arts, and the blood character gold script will no longer be used.
"Is this the codex written by Patriarch Wang Shan?"
Bai Ya gently rubbed the corners of the pages with his fingers, carefully browsing the harsh and difficult ancient texts on it, and a sense of historical vicissitudes came to his mind.
Wang Shan's era was converted into the previous life of Baiya, which also belonged to the late Northern Song Dynasty, and the Shenzhou world belonged to the early Wenxing era, and the script used was similar to the seal script of the late Qin and early Han dynasties.
Bai Ya's previous life had no foundation for the seal Liwen, although he had studied in the Taoist temple of Jianzhifeng in this life, but he could only barely understand the meaning in relation to the context, and there were many rare words that he didn't know.
"It seems that I am going to live up to Master Liu's expectations!" Bai Ya shook his head secretly and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Now that he was sure he couldn't read it, he relaxed.
However, Bai Ya did not give up studying this secret book, Jingtai Zhenren gave him ten days, and now it is less than half a day, and it is too early to give up.
What's more, he is not completely incomprehensible, even if he can only understand one or two points out of ten, it can always give him a preliminary understanding of the five elements of yin and yang.
He hasn't forgotten that he will go to the "Changdao Realm" next. That immortal demon realm was full of all kinds of formations, and if he wanted to suffer less, he had to study it more seriously now.
"This place seems to be able to figure out ......"
As Bai Ya calmed down, some of the simplest formation patterns began to be slowly understood and comprehended by him. Just understanding these graphs often requires calculations. His mental arithmetic ability was relatively poor, so he had to take out a pen and paper from the quiet room and lie on the ground to calculate.
"Chirp~"
When he was awakened by a crisp birdsong, he suddenly realized that it was already bright outside the window, and sparse human voices began to be heard in the distance.
"It's already dawn!"
Bai Ya threw down the pen and twisted his hard neck, making a crackling sound.
"Is there anyone out there?"
"Uncle Qingyuan, what do you command?" a clear voice immediately sounded outside the quiet room.
"A certain ...... Is it possible to take a bath here?" Bai Ya opened the door of the quiet room, only to see a fifteen or sixteen-year-old Taoist boy waiting outside.
"And ...... What's your name, were you here all the time last night?"
"Xiao Dao Mingjia, it was the junior brother Ming Jing who kept vigil yesterday, and Xiao Dao just came to replace the junior brother in the morning. Dao Tong looked at Wen Wen Jing and looked at Bai Ya curiously, "The Guan Master has instructed that Uncle Shi should not leave here except for the small courtyard where the meditation room is located. For the rest of the people, only the master, Xiaodao and junior disciples can enter and leave the courtyard. ”
"Oh, can you go to the small courtyard to practice boxing?" Bai Ya was happy, he heard what Jingtai Zhenren said yesterday, and he thought that he would stay in the quiet room all the time.
"I guess so...... As long as you don't leave the small courtyard!" Ming Jia nodded hesitantly, "In addition, there is a mountain well in the small courtyard, if Uncle Shi is not afraid of the cold, he can also wash his body with well water." ”
Bai Ya breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there was water, although it was winter now, as long as he finished practicing boxing, he didn't have to worry about the cold well water.
After practicing boxing and taking a cold shower, Bai Ya only felt that he was alive again, and he was once again immersed in the sea of formation graphics.
For the next seven days, White Cliff was fully engaged. Although the pace of formation study was slow, and he often could only comprehend one or two simple formation diagrams in a day, he still felt his slow progress.
Jingtai Zhenren did not come over except for the first morning, and in the next six days, he would come over on time to solve his doubts.
Because of the relatively small foundation, the questions asked by Bai Ya are very simple, and some of them are still rare characters in Wang Shan's codex. He felt embarrassed to ask a simple question, but he immediately found that Jingtai Zhenren was not disappointed, and he immediately put his mind at ease.
This continued until the eighth day, when a change struck after White Cliff had once again spent the night studying the cheats......