Chapter 52: Five Poisons, Five Elements, and Five Spirits
Guo Shihu continued to explain:
"Furthermore, the five poisons can also be divided by the five elements. The ancients believed that the five poisons correspond to the five elements. I looked through Ancient and Modern Stories and found that it was recorded in an article belonging to a Taoist priest of the Maoshan sect. The five poisons are geckos, poisonous snakes, toads, and scorpions.
Centipedes correspond to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. This is somewhat different from the statement found in the online encyclopedia, but I think the description in this article is more accurate, or more consistent with Taoist practice theory."
"For example, it is believed that among the five poisons, venomous snakes belong to wood, and among them, green snakes are the best. This is because green snakes can be called small green dragons, and they also live in trees and grass all year round, so green snakes are wood. Toads are water.
And metal generates water, so there is also the saying of the golden toad. The golden toad has always been considered an auspicious animal and a fairy."
"Scorpions are highly toxic, especially when their tail needles sting people, which will cause severe pain, like burning. Moreover, scorpions mostly like to live in arid areas, especially desert areas, where they are the most toxic. Therefore, scorpions correspond to fire in the five elements. Centipedes are more likely to produce stones.
It also makes sense to see the seams in the earth corresponding to the elements of earth.”
"As for geckos, there aren't many legends about them, but because some geckos are golden in color, as if they have golden scales, and some are pure white like white tigers, they like to live on the eaves. In addition to preying on flying insects, they usually eat the wind and drink the dew.
Therefore, it is reasonable to think that its attribute is gold.”
After he finished describing the five poisons, he opened another page with five new visualization pictures.
"Putting aside the controversy about the attributes of the five poisons and five elements, Xiaofei, take a look at this five-spirit visualization diagram circulated by the Shangqing Sect."
Gao Jingfei looked closely and saw five visualization pictures representing the images of the five spirits.
"The Five Spirits are the five divine beasts of heaven and earth believed by the ancients of the Xia Kingdom. They are Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu and Qilin. On the basis of the Four Spirits, the auspicious beast Qilin representing the central soil is added. The Han family
Confucian scholars who speak of "Zuo Shi" all believe that the five spirits belong to the five directions, the dragon belongs to wood, the phoenix belongs to fire, the lin belongs to earth, the white tiger belongs to gold, and the divine turtle belongs to water."
"It can be seen here that during the Han Dynasty, there were two versions of Xuanwu. One was the state of the coexistence of turtles and snakes. For example, "Jingpai" records that "the bullfighting girl's empty and dangerous room bi Qisu has the body of a turtle and snake, so it is called Xuanwu."
The first kind is in the form of a divine turtle similar to a dragon turtle and a giant turtle. For example, in the legend, the dragon fishes for a turtle, Nuwa cuts the giant turtle’s four legs into pillars of heaven, etc.”
Hearing this, Gao Jingfei pointed at the five-spirit visualization picture and asked:
"Brother Hu, I know about the five spirits, but do you think the image of the green dragon and the unicorn in the middle are wrong? And the one marked here is not a unicorn but a yellow dragon."
"The statement about the Five Spirits is actually controversial."
Guo Shihu explained:
"In addition to the usual descriptions of Qinglong, Zhuque, White Tiger, Xuanwu and Qilin, in Huainanzi, there is another record of five spirits, namely Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu and Huanglong. They are also called heavenly beasts.
The five official beasts. There is no unicorn here but a yellow dragon, and this dragon is not the flat dragon that we often see now, which is in the shape of a long snake."
"Anyone with a little historical research knows that ancient dragons were actually originally tiger-like but more slender four-legged beasts, including the legendary ancestral dragon that helped the emperor fight, which was the winged Yinglong. In fact, it was similar to the Western dragon.
More similar, but without the big-bellied lizard face."
"Since the Song Dynasty, the shape of dragons has gradually evolved into snake-like dragons and round dragons. This is more like an artistic process. The reason should be for the beauty of clothing and pictures."
"As for the difference between Qilin and Huanglong, I don't think there is much difference. Qilin is generally considered to be a dragon species, and the forms of mythical beasts such as Qilin, Pixiu, ward off evil spirits, and Tianlu, do you think they are similar to the dragon images of the Han Dynasty and Pre-Qin Dynasty?
Very similar, the only difference is that they have more or less horns or a scaly tail, and the style of the head is different."
Gao Jingfei saw the pattern created by Guo Shihu and found that there was really not much difference in it.
"I see, Brother Hu, you are really knowledgeable."
Then, without waiting for Guo Shihu to blush at the praise, he asked again:
"Brother Hu, do you mean that when we practice in the future, we will give up the visualization diagrams in the Five Poison Magic Skills and focus on this set of Five Spirits Visualization Diagrams?"
Guo Shihu nodded:
"That's right, look at the meridians and acupuncture points marked in this Five Spirits Diagram. After connecting the dots and lines, they basically coincide with the meridians running route of the Five Poisons Divine Art. They are just different from the Five Poisons Visualization Diagram!"
"So I think they are all acupoints involving the five internal organs and meridians, but the emphasis is on different acupoints. There is a 98% chance of using the Five Spirits Visualization Chart instead of the Five Poisons Visualization Chart without causing any problems. As for the rest,
That negative chance can be almost eliminated, and I think we won’t be so unlucky.”
In terms of cultivation, Guo Shihu still has some ambitions. He does not intend to limit himself to the heretical martial arts secret book of Five Poison Magic. Instead, after solving the problem of what is and what is not, he is ready to develop closer to the cultivation of immortals.
And due to the certain connection between the Five Poison Divine Skills and the Taoist method of cultivating the five internal organs in the Huangting Sutra of the Shangqing Sect, this idea has a relatively high success rate.
Gao Jingfei heard what Brother Guo said and felt that there was no problem. Moreover, to him, the Five Poison Magic Techniques were only the foundation-building techniques of the country. The low level made it easy to trial and error.
Even if there are some problems in practice, you can always abandon them in time. As long as you have restorative medicines and props on hand, you are not afraid of damage.
Of course, the most important thing is that the image of the five spirits sounds and looks much taller than the five internal organs visualized by the image of the five poisons.
The two decided to give up after discussing it, and unanimously decided to change the visualization diagram and meditate on the five spirit forms.
Moreover, the two of them have just completed their first formal practice, and have just mastered the prototype of the chapter of Lung God Haohua. It is relatively easy to change the visualization diagram. If the Five Zang God has completed most of the visualization, then
It would be troublesome to change it again.
The impatient Gao Jingfei immediately began to try, quietly turning on the effect of the concentration amulet, and then while he was in a state of mind, he memorized the white tiger picture that belonged to the lung god in the Five Spirits Visualization Chart, and then sat down and practiced quietly.
Seeing Gao Jingfei try, Guo Shihu, who had already had ideas in his mind, was not in a hurry. On the one hand, it was also to protect Gao Jingfei and avoid any problems during his practice. After all, although he speculated that there would be no problem in changing the visualization diagram, but in case
Woolen cloth.
Therefore, Guo Shihuo did not immerse himself in cultivation. Instead, he sat in the living room and took care of Gao Jingfei, while also playing with the bottles and cans he bought.
In fact, Guo Shihu was still a little hesitant about whether to refine poison and cultivate poison.
After all, in the inherent impression given to people by novels, movies and other works, poison makers are evil wizards who wear rags, play with poisonous snakes and insects all day long, and look ugly and evil.
But after much thought, he couldn't resist the temptation to improve his strength and was ready to try the techniques of cultivating poison and refining poison in the Five Poisons Secret Book.
Although these two are basically the standard configuration of villains and evil characters in novels and people's inherent impressions, he also excused himself in his heart.
"Whether cultivating poison or refining poison, they are just external means and will not affect one's heart. There is no distinction between good and evil abilities. The only difference is human heart. My heart is truly kind and beautiful, and I am a good person...
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Sure enough, 2D is good at self-regulation or self-hypnosis.
Of course, he is more afraid of mice but not so afraid of insects, which is also the biggest reason why he chose this.