Chapter 17 The clouds fly and the cranes dance, and the breath becomes a rainbow

The true guest of the feather will refine the qi to live forever

Lick the Danding of Huainan, and blow the Yaosheng of Jin

-- Jiexiu

Early in the morning on the first day of the seventh month, the sky was just dawning, and the thoughtful young man on the Thousand Bird Cliff had already gotten up early.

After a period of busy work, now Xingyan is fully dressed and has changed into a formal Taoist attire. After tossing by himself, he began to busily urge the two members of the door to quickly put on the official clothes they had specially received yesterday.

After a long period of hecticism, now look at the three people in the Four Seas Hall, they have a new look:

Xingyan is dressed in a dark color, wearing a crown of cupola on his head, stepping on the clouds, with a crown and a broad belt, and full of fairy wind; if he hadn't taken a closer look, he would have thought that there was a senior with high morality standing here.

And the two girls are now also dressed in plain yellow robes, with lotus clogs on their feet and a snow-colored scarf on their heads.

This elegant and light Daogu outfit does not damage the delicate appearance of the two daughters at all, but makes them more bright and exquisite.

The lecture of the Qing Palace on Luofu Mountain, which began in the middle of this time, was held in Songfengping on Zhu Mingfeng. Now, this hall master of the four seas with fluttering robe sleeves is taking the lead, leading everyone in the hall to take the road to Zhu Mingfeng.

Songfeng Ping is located in the sun of Zhu Mingfeng, which is a stone flat that covers a large area. This stone flat has been polished to be as smooth as a mirror, and to the south of the stone flat, there is a stone abyss cliff below. Around the stone lawn, it is surrounded by grassland, and the grass on it is like grass.

Outside the green and green Fangping, there are many ancient pines, which are bent and coiled branches, like a dragon. These old pine trees are covered with a staggered canopy, and the needles are green and green, and every time the mountain breeze blows, there is a breath of fresh air that fills the surroundings. The name "Songfengping" comes from this.

Among these green pine trees, you can occasionally see one or two white cranes strolling among the pines.

On the side of Songfeng Shiping near the south cliff, a high square stone platform is erected on the flat ground, which is called "listening to the viewing platform".

The listening platform is not a homonym for "listening to the scriptures". This name is rumored to come from a blind Taoist priest in the Han Dynasty. It is said that at that time, there was a blind Taoist in the Chongde Temple, who once built a house on this stone platform and lived in it, cultivating the truth and holding himself. This blind Taoist priest was born with an open-minded surname, and did not shy away from the fact that he was blind, and named the grass house where he lived "Tingjing Lu".

After hundreds of years of wind and rain, the grass house and the Taoist have been materialized, and only the name of this stone platform and "listening to the scene" has been handed down.

Now, Xingyan and the heads of the halls of the Shangqing Palace are sitting on this listening platform together. The other disciples who came to listen to the scriptures in the Shangqing Palace all sat cross-legged on the pine wind stone flat under the stage.

The lecture is one of the few grand gatherings in the Shangqing Palace in a year, so in addition to the disciples who stayed in the temple or routinely searched the mountain, almost all the Shangqing disciples came to participate, and the momentum was quite grand; from the stage, the Shangqing disciples of all generations had almost filled this huge pine wind flat, and even on the green ground under the pine trees on the side of the flat, there were also many Shangqing disciples. However, although the number of people listening to the Bible was quite large, it was in good order.

And on the high platform in front of everyone, although the awakening words are only to accompany the last seat, it is already very honorable. Because, the people sitting on the stage now, apart from him, are only the head of Lingxu, as well as the Lingting, Lingzhen, Qingming and Qingyun. In each of the halls, there were several elders on this viewing platform, but they could only stand behind them. Therefore, when I sat down, I was able to give in, and even though I sat down according to the convention, I still felt uncomfortable.

Behind the Lingxu and Lingting people, there was a pair of Dao boys, holding swords and dust-whisking weapons in their hands.

This is also the practice of the lecture meeting that Xingyan was told about only yesterday.

This practice often gives the previous Sihai Hall masters a headache. The Shangqing lay disciple hall on Luofu Mountain is already sparsely populated, and in recent years, the hall master has been "alone". Every time this lecture is held, it is inevitably a little embarrassing. Like the former Qingbai Master of Xingyan, every time before this lecture meeting, he had to temporarily go to other halls and temporarily borrow two Taoist boys to fill up the faΓ§ade.

But fortunately, the current master of Zhang Hall can avoid such embarrassment: relatively speaking, now his Sihai Hall has a lot of people, and now he can make up the base of each hall to participate in the lecture meeting!

As a result, the two daughters of Qiong Wei and Kou Xueyi took on the role of serving the Taoist. Now, Qiong Wei was holding the white jade flute in his hand, and Kou Xueyi was holding the nameless sword, standing behind Xingyan.

The two "magic weapons" in their hands, the white jade flute is certainly deserved, but the other one is a little bad, but it is just that they can't find anything more like a magic weapon than it.

Today, the lecture and listening meeting in the Shangqing Palace really opened the eyes of this young man who had not been in the Shangqing Palace for a short time.

When he arrived in the middle of the day, he saw the head of Lingxu leave his seat, stand in the middle of the stage, and use a deep and clear voice to announce the official start of the lecture meeting of the Qing Palace on Luofu Mountain.

Then, in the Taoist arena on the left side of the listening platform, three or four faint bells rang out. When the last bell was about to end, a burst of silk and bamboo sounds rose leisurely, and began to play the music of the door opening altar "Welcoming Cyclamen".

The melodious silk and bamboo orchestra of Qingyue and the mellow chimes sound in harmony with each other, making this opening song sound particularly elegant and calm.

With this quiet and dusty willingness, the Shangqing disciples on Songfeng Ping seemed to be a little wandering, as if they felt that in the faint morning light outside the clouds in the east, there were immortals in Yao clothes and feathers, stepping on auspicious clouds...... Precisely:

The heavens are smiling and the rain is smiling, the moon of Yaotai is clear, the immortals are leaving the jade que, and the clouds are descending.

As soon as the song is played, the preaching of the scriptures and righteousness officially begins.

The preaching of the Sihai Hall was arranged at the end, and it was probably specially arranged by the spiritual court leader who was in charge of arranging the preaching, so that the young hall master, who was attending the lecture for the first time, could have plenty of time to observe how the elders in front of him preached.

The so-called "there is no vanity under the fame", the leader of the Taoist sect in the Shangqing Palace, which is publicly recommended by the world, is indeed not in vain. The elders of the Shangqing Dynasty who explained the meaning of the scriptures before waking up can really be described as lotus flowers, explaining the subtle and mysterious Taoist scriptures in a subtle and thorough way; whether they are interpreting the meaning of the scriptures in sentences or deducing them from the classics of their predecessors, they all speak in a clear context and are full of new ideas.

Among these Shangqing seniors who gave speeches in front of Xingyan, it goes without saying that the Lingting Daoist, who has always been known for his intensive study of Taoist scriptures, is naturally full of flying flowers and teeth, and his wonderful sentences are full of beads. In addition to him, even the master of the hall, Qingyun Dao, who was obsessed with mundane affairs, also performed extraordinary, combining the mundane things in the Pingyue Hall on the stage, interpreting Nanhua Zhenjun's canonical meaning of "every time it gets worse".

Qingyun's speech is full of plain and natural language examples, but it is also thought-provoking. At that moment, Xingyan was impressed by this old man who seemed to be the shopkeeper of the market.

Among these speeches, the one that impressed the awakening the most was the speech of the Taoist Master of the Dharma Hall. Qingming Daoist is the "Four Sons of Shangqing" who is the candidate of the Qing Palace on Luofu Mountain, and his Taoist cultivation is extremely exquisite, naturally, similar to that Qingyun Daochang, when he mentioned the principle of "virtual and real mutualization" in Qingming's speech, he took the Qi Imperial Sword as an example-

Immediately, I saw the Qingming Daoist waving to this side, and Xingyan saw that not far from him, there was a blue sword, soaring into the air and flying towards the Qingming Daoist.

To the boy's great surprise, although the flying sword of Qingming Daoist was dancing around the air in a very small range, only flying up and down around Qingming's body, the speed of the dance was extremely fast. Rao is awakening was not too far away, and he could almost only see a blue electric light, circling and flying there. And the most amazing thing about Xingyan is that the rapid sword light in front of him is like a swimming dragon, and there is no sound between the flights, and there is no sound of breaking the air at all!

"Wonderful!"

Qing Ming's exquisite flying sword control technique, in the eyes of everyone on and off the stage, they were all impressed.

Xingyan praised it in his heart, and couldn't help but glance back at the sword weapon in Kou Xueyi's hand - but he saw that his magic weapon was still a dull and dull appearance, compared with the blue sword light on the stage that moved like a dragon and snake, it looked so listless.

"Alas~ I have to go to the Scripture Pavilion again, or visit Brother Qingming......"

The flying sword light in front of him was really magical, and he had to have some illusions about his strange sword weapon.

After about two hours, it was finally his turn as the last preacher.

After listening to the announcement of the Daoist of the Spirit Court, this hall master of the Four Seas Hall of Baoxia Peak stiffened his head, got up and came to the middle of this listening platform, ready to start his first formal speech in his life.

Before walking to the middle of this listening platform, Xingyan still felt quite confident:

After a few days of assault drills, as long as the manuscript in my heart is preached in a decent manner, even if it is not brilliant, it will not be very ugly.

This vague confidence was maintained until he reached the center of the listening platform. And when he really stood in the middle of this lecture stone platform, Xingyan suddenly realized that something was wrong:

Just now, he didn't feel anything, but when he really became the focus of everyone's attention on this pine wind flat, he felt that it was a little difficult to even speak.

Now, looking down from this high listening platform, I saw that on this vast pine wind flat, the black pressure was full of disciples of all generations in the Shangqing Palace. I glanced away, and suddenly I felt that everyone was staring at me tightly. Immediately, Xingyan felt dizzy for a while, and now it became a little difficult to breathe!

Of course, in fact, the actual situation at this time is not as bad as it seems to be imagined. Because, at this time, at least half of the young disciples had no eyes on him:

After Xingyan left from the seat, they could finally see Quan Kou Xueyi's graceful figure!

However, the young man standing in Taichung did not notice such a favorable situation at all. This young man, who was a small boy in the market more than four months ago, is now in turmoil, and he can't help but lament in his heart:

"That's it, now I know what the real public is ...... eyes on."

However, this awkward silence did not last long. was stunned on stage for a while, which can be regarded as a mistake in advance and retreat, which is very ugly. Sensing this, Xingyan began to calm down, thinking that this ugliness had already come out anyway, so why not let it go?

So, the elders on the stage began to shake their heads, Qiong Wei Xueyi began to be anxious, everyone in the audience began to laugh secretly, and more and more people shifted their attention to the disciples of the preacher, and when the new young hall master of the Shangqing Palace finally began to speak!

It's just that although Xingyan began to preach, he also stammered, and the original drafts in his heart had long been nowhere to go. Now the preaching in the mouth of the master of the Four Seas Hall, if you listen carefully, it is simply a casual and unorganized speech.

It's just that no one cares about such a relatively inferior speech at this time. The generous elders on and off the stage were greatly relieved to see that this young man who only became the master of the hall by chance could still say so many words in front of hundreds of disciples in the Shangqing Palace. Everyone only thought in their hearts that as long as the young hall master started to speak, and then came somewhere, then this lecture meeting would be considered a successful end.

As for the young disciples in the field, most of the male disciples were already absent-minded, and the fairy on the stage, the few female disciples, either secretly resented that the senior brother next to them was not attentive to the lecture and was inattentive, or the surname Suo also followed them to look at the young woman in the Sihaitang on the platform, and secretly compared various parts of her appearance with themselves in detail......

All in all, now everyone on the pine wind flat no longer cares about what the young man on the stage is actually saying. Basically, in the minds of almost everyone, this lecture is over.

But the young man on the stage with a sweat on his forehead didn't think so. said that he was the most familiar and at the same time the most simple scripture, but Xingyan began to think in his heart:

"No, I'm the last person to preach in this lecture, and if this is the case, it will simply ruin this whole exquisite lecture event!"

At the moment of the event, Awakening finally began to regain his usual composure.

"How can I make a big difference in my messy speech?"

Xingyan continued to be at a loss for words, but he couldn't help but think nervously in his heart.

Suddenly, the sword light that flashed an hour ago seemed to suddenly turn into a spiritual light, flashing in the young man's mind!

"By the way!!Why not do that?!"

"Anyway, looking at this situation, it can't be worse; why don't you just try the skills that you have learned? Although it is only an occasional thing, and you are not yet skilled, you must try it anyway, and maybe you can come back to life!"

After thinking about this, Xingyan's mind has completely settled down at this time.

Immediately, on this pine wind flat, the sound of pine waves that was originally full of ears was suddenly overshadowed by a clear voice:

"The master of Qingyun Hall said today that he had explained the principle of 'every time it gets worse', and his awakening words sounded very exquisite. The way of heaven is selfless, and the more you get to the subtleties, the more you can comprehend the mystery of the way of heaven. Brother Yun Dao has already explained this very thoroughly, so I won't repeat it. ”

Speaking of which, the words that suddenly became extremely clear finally attracted everyone's attention. The little girl on the stage didn't feel anything, but Kou Xueyi knew that now that she, the young hall master, had finally regained her due look.

Just listen to this Four Seas Hall Master continue:

"I won't say much about it, but now I'm just setting an example. Before I entered the Tao, I had worked as the lowest musician in the world, but it was such a low thing that I experienced and confirmed some Taoist righteousness. Please allow me to give you a brief rehearsal to see. ”

On the stage, the master of the Sihai Hall, who donated his mountain to join the church, had previously worked as a musician who did not belong to the "Shinong Industry and Commerce" and the like, and this matter was well known. Everyone was curious about what this young man, whose eloquence had suddenly changed, was going to demonstrate.

"In the flute, I realized some Taoist truth. ”

Oh! I was going to play the flute. All the disciples in the audience, looking at the jade flute that the little girl was holding in the hands of the little girl on the stage, all suddenly realized.

It's just that Xingyan's next move was unexpected by everyone, including the little Qiongwei who was about to step forward and hand Di'er to his brother:

I saw that the young man who said he wanted to perform the flute did not turn back to get the jade flute in the little girl's hand. Now, the young hall master raised his hands to the side of his face, and his fingers pointed out in the void, as if he was holding a flute in his hand.

And the people of Lingxu and Lingting who were closer to him were surprised to see this young man with strange behavior, closing his eyes and staring at his eyes, the corners of his mouth moving slightly, as if he was pouting at the non-existent flute hole.

"This Hall Master Zhang, who has just calmed down, how can he ...... again?"

Just when everyone didn't know why, they all heard clearly, and in the sound of the pine wind, there was a clear and graceful flute sound, which was rising leisurely.

"W-...... this?!"

Coincidentally, all the surprised and surprised eyes on this pine wind flat converged on the young man standing on the high platform:

The melodious flute sound that floated into his ears actually flowed out from between his fingers hanging in the void like flowing water!

In addition to the euphemism and elegance, the indescribable peace and tranquility are just like the spring rain that sneaks in with the wind, which unconsciously makes the listener calm and calm.

The difference between Xu is performance before and after Xingyan is is too great, and now not only the young disciples in the audience were dumbfounded, but even many of the senior elders in the audience who had seen all kinds of big scenes were also shocked by the sound of the flute conjured by the void of Xingyan at this time.

Everyone re-evaluated the young hall master of this sect in their hearts. Looking up at the clear and fluttering figure of Xingyan in the mountain wind, there was almost no time left to think about his female disciple at this time.

It can be said that the flute music played out of thin air is no less effective than the previous flying sword lightning.

And the demonstration of this hall master of the four seas does not seem to be over yet. Just when everyone was attracted by the sound of this flute, they suddenly heard a few clear crane chirps, and saw several white cranes with red-crowned snow feathers, either descending from the cloudy sky or coming out of the pine forest, and descending in front of the young man.

The sound of the flute is ethereal, the shadow of the crane is fluttering, in the amazed eyes of all the Shangqing Daoists outside the Sihai Hall, these fairy birds invited by the flute, their wings stretch and stretch, and they dance with the sound of the flute, and between the flute steps, there is an indescribable elegance and calmness.

At this time, it was the sky high and the clouds were faint, in the eyes of everyone in the audience, the young man standing on the high platform, with a crown and a broad belt, fluttering sleeves of his robe, dancing around the fairy birds around him, and the clouds and sky behind him, coupled with the clear and smooth sound of the empty flute, for a while, I only felt that among all the preaching today, this last one was the most exciting--some disciples began to secretly praise the Lingting Master who was responsible for planning the scripture meeting in their hearts, and this unexpected finale was arranged with such good intentions......

Just when these people were thinking and imagining, the young man in the "finale" of this time had stopped playing in the void.

When the last wisp of aftermath dissipated, Xingyan met all the eyes of the audience looking at him, and said calmly:

"Fellow Daoists, this is the true meaning I have realized in the market: existence and non-existence, harmony between sound and sound, and harmony between high and inferior. ”

"This is the end of my speech at the Sihai Hall, and I would like to thank you for your patience!"

With that, Xingyan bowed down, and then the sleeves of his plain robe fluttered, and he greeted the two flower-like smiles and returned to his seat......

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