Chapter 7: Unconvinced
Master and apprentice are one of the closest relationships in this era, and for monks, they are second only to faith.
Buddhism talks about the law of fate, and in Yuangang's view, Li Xuan and himself inherit the relationship for the mantle disciple.
Yuan Gang treated himself as if he was a combination of a loving father and a strict master, not to mention anything else, when he woke up in the morning, he found that Master Yuan Gang was boiling chicken soup outside.
The reckless mountains, rare birds and beasts, ginseng and yellow essence are of course everything, but the reason why these things are so precious is naturally because they are difficult to hunt and pick, and they need to consume Tiduo's human spirit.
Blood monk Yuangang went deep into the forest for himself, and this pot of pheasant ginseng soup can be described as extremely precious.
On the one hand, Li Xuan secretly congratulated himself that he imitated the rogue Kenshin at that time and could shock Yuan Gang in one fell swoop, if he was just pitifully taken back to the mountain by Yuan Gang, or just accepted as an ordinary disciple, let alone being taken care of by the master, but bothering to take care of and please the master is the life to live every day!
On the other hand, Li Xuan also felt a little guilty in his heart, after all, he was clever, and his real self did not reach the realm of seeing through life and death and having great compassion.
He now thinks about getting stronger every day, and then finding the remnants of those black-clad killers, as well as the mastermind behind those killers, and killing all those bastards!
Therefore, he decided to devote all his energy to cultivation, so as to avoid Yuan Gang's admiring and expectant eyes.
"Apprentice, you are gifted and strong, but you are also prone to internal and external imbalances, so the teacher is now teaching you Arhat meditation, I hope you can learn by heart. After breakfast, after letting Li Xuan learn a scripture first, Yuangang was very simply ready to teach Li Xuan the basic martial arts of Longxin Temple Arhat Zen meditation.
Li Xuan naturally nodded solemnly and cheered up.
Arhat meditation may sound like a meditation method, but it is actually a movement method similar to yoga, corresponding to the eighteen arhats with a total of eighteen postures.
In the Dragon Heart Temple, only the little novice who is highly regarded will be taught, and if this basic martial art cannot be cultivated to the fullest, he is not qualified to cultivate superior skills.
Li Xuan nodded secretly in his heart, this martial art is not a pure external skill, it cannot immediately improve physical fitness, nor can it be used to cultivate true qi, but the eighteen posture mudras can truly communicate the inside and outside of the body and mind, and from the very beginning, people can experience what is both internal and external.
"The movements should be standard and the breathing should be even, but you must remember that the arhat meditation is based on the heart and the body, and the center of gravity is not heavy. After demonstrating all the eighteen poses, Yuan Gang specially advised.
Li Xuan nodded, and began to sit cross-legged, his hands knotted with fearless seals, ready to start practicing the first posture of Arhat meditation.
The Martial Arts Divine Stone can directly raise a martial art to the realm of mastery, but the premise is that this martial art must be learned, which means that Li Xuan must remember and be able to put these eighteen postures out.
It doesn't have to be very standard, it can also have flaws, what Li Xuan wants to pursue now is to remember all Zen sitting postures as soon as possible, as long as he can remember all Zen sitting postures, he can improve through martial arts Divine Stones.
Wisdom Fist Seal, Treasure Bottle Seal, Vajra Wheel Seal, after a few exercises, Li Xuan felt that the seal seemed to be the most difficult point, so he simply sat on the bed first and began to practice the seal.
"Hey, the essence of Arhat meditation is the unity of body seals, you are actually taking a crooked path by doing this to facilitate the memory seal!" Just as Li Xuan was struggling to remember, an imposing voice suddenly came from in front of him.
Li Xuan raised his head and saw a tall young man standing in front of him, his eyes wide and full of contempt.
"Hello. Li Xuan nodded and continued to practice the seal with his five fingers crossed.
Although he didn't know who this young man was, he could hear Master Yuangang's voice outside, so naturally he didn't have to worry about any danger.
"This treasure bottle seal is too non-standard!" the tall young man continued to accuse Li Xuandao in his heart.
"I'm sorry, can you please show me it again?" Li Xuan also felt that he had made a mistake with this handprint, but he really couldn't remember it in his head for a while.
"The Aquarian Seal should be knotted like this!No, you should not cultivate the Aquarius Seal alone, but you should cultivate it together with Zen meditation, so that you won't go the wrong way!" The tall and strong young man first demonstrated the correct knotting method of the Aquarius Seal, and then angrily let go and shouted: "That's how Master Yuangang instructed me at the beginning, why didn't you, a personal disciple, do not do what your master asked!"
"Oh, thank you for teaching me the Aquarius Seal. Li Xuan took advantage of the deep memory in his head, and hurriedly printed several times to deepen his impression, as for the words of the tall and strong young man, he directly took it as a deaf ear.
"Hey, did you hear me!" The tall young man's anger soared, and the knuckles of a pair of fists pinched made a crisp sound, and he couldn't wait to pounce on him and punch Li Xuan into a pig's head!
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Outside the cabin, Blood Monk Yuangang was chatting with a middle-aged man with a generous figure and extraordinary clothes, and when he heard the sound of a sudden rise inside, Blood Monk Yuangang couldn't help but look back at the house.
"Senior brother, you're really here!" The middle-aged man couldn't help but exclaim in surprise when he saw Yuan Gang's involuntary worried expression.
"What's true?" Yuan Gang turned his head and asked.
"I thought you were compassionate, senior brother, but I didn't expect you to really want to take that child as an apprentice!" The middle-aged man's face was still full of incredulity.
"This son is destined for me, I not only want to take him as an apprentice, but also take him back to Longxin Temple. Yuan Gang responded seemingly flatly.
"Go back to Longxin Temple!Senior brother, are you crazy!" The middle-aged man almost jumped up and shouted, "Is that kid the bastard of the senior brother!"
"It's not worth it to have an illegitimate child!, my descendant disciple, the second disciple of the first seat of the Prajna Hall is worth it!" Yuan Gang's expression was resolute, and there was a faint momentum that broke out of his body and hung high in the air.
Bastards are not worth it!
The first seat of the Prajna Hall is worth passing on the disciples again!
These two sentences were like thunder in the middle-aged man's heart, making him speechless for a while.
The blood monk Yuangang is an outcast of Longxin Temple, and living in seclusion in the mountains and wilderness can still ensure the peace of the second half of his life, but if he dares to return to Longxin Temple, the consequences will definitely be nine deaths, otherwise how can Longxin Temple lose face!
As Yuan Gang said, even for his illegitimate son is not worth it, and the reason why he dares to face the hellish situation in the future is for the future Taoism of Longxin Temple!
The middle-aged man, as a hero, has been in a high position here for several years, and has already cultivated a very deep city mansion, thinking that in the future, for the change of the Taoist Longxin Temple, it is the change of the entire dynasty, he can't help but tremble, and his back is drenched in cold sweat.
"Senior brother, I already know your intentions, but that kid in the back room is also clumsy, and his martial arts practice is also quite aggressive, but he can really carry his brother's great wish?" The middle-aged man hesitated for a long time, knowing that an ordinary boy with the heart of a blood monk would not be put into his heart at all, and he couldn't help but wonder where he was sacred.
"Senior brother, do you remember the Buddha of the Divine Mountain?" Yuan Gang did not answer, but asked him.
"My Longxin Temple patriarch Master Shenshan taught the Nirvana Sutra, when the first seat of the Prajna Hall was in the first Bodhi Temple to argue about the wind flag, as soon as the wind moved, as soon as the flag moved, the Master Shenshan said: not the wind moves, not the flag moves, the benevolent heart moves. "The middle-aged man was born in Longxin Temple, so he naturally knows everything about the ancestors.
"This kind of Buddha can't be said if it's not a person of great wisdom! Even if you have cultivated for thousands of years, you can't say such Buddha principles, and after all, you have a shallow relationship with my Buddha. Yuan Gang recalled Li Xuan's sentence that no matter whether it is a killer or a human trafficker, it is just a corpse after death, and he became more and more determined.
"I finally met someone who was destined for my Buddha, and I naturally couldn't let it go. Yuan Gang said solemnly.
"Uncle Shi, I, Ma Yunsheng, have worshiped Buddha since I was a child, disciplined myself and guarded my heart, and I recognized myself as inheriting the mantle of Uncle Shi, but I didn't expect Uncle Shi to be ready to entrust the mantle to the person inside, Yunsheng was not convinced!" After being angry with Li Xuan in the room for a while, the tall young man came out and saluted Yuangang.
"What do you want?" asked Yuan Gang with a nod.
At that time, his martial arts were abolished and fled to this place, thanks to the help of his junior brother Ma Dahao, who was a lay disciple of Longxin Temple and had no intention of escaping into the empty door, but the third son, Ma Yunsheng, was a young man who wanted to become a Buddha.
Ma Yunsheng repeatedly came to plead with his apprentice, but Yuan Gang never agreed, but only instructed him to sit in Arhat meditation perfunctory last year.
At this moment, Ma Yunsheng saw that he had accepted apprentices, and it was normal for him to have such a reaction.
"I don't understand if I have a fate or not, but the meditation of the disciples of Buddhism is the foundation, the foundation for developing a pure mind and realizing Bodhi. Yun Sheng wants to stay on the mountain to watch, if Li Xuan is still unable to enter meditation within a month, he also hopes that the master will give Yun Sheng justice. The tall young man Ma Yunsheng said righteously.
"Okay. Yuan Gang nodded in agreement, full of confidence in Li Xuan.