Bai Zeqing was overjoyed, now he could officially become a disciple! He was no longer just playing around with his shameless shouting!
"Yes, Master!"
She immediately responded, then went to the desk to find paper and pen, carefully wrote down the Geng Tie, and then brewed new tea. She knelt upright in front of the Taoist priest, raised the tea cup above her head, and said loudly: "Disciple Bai Zeqing, bow to my mentor.
!I sincerely ask my mentor to teach you, teach you and resolve your doubts!”
She didn't know how to become a master, but she still did it, and she felt that the principles were pretty much the same.
The corner of the Taoist priest's mouth twitched, he tapped the Geng Tie neatly placed on the table, took the tea cup, took a sip, put it down, picked up the Geng Tie, stood up, patted Bai Zeqing's shoulder, and said: "Follow me.
Come." Then he walked out.
Bai Zeqing hurriedly got up and walked up the steps for two hours until he reached the clearing at the top of the mountain.
At this time, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The Taoist priest looked at the sky and said to Bai Zeqing: "Kneel down."
Bai Zeqing's feet were so weak from climbing the mountain that he couldn't say anything at this moment, so he knelt down, holding his hands on the ground and panting.
"Kneel down!"
Bai Zeqing quickly stood up and knelt straight.
The Taoist priest waved the Geng Tie in his hand, and when it flew a little higher, the Geng Tie started to burn.
"Wow!" Bai Zeqing secretly praised: "This is much better than the busking tricks in the city."
The Taoist priest put his hands together, formed a seal, and said to the night sky: "Disciple Li, choose Bai Zeqing as the thirty-seventh generation single disciple of Xuan Dao Sect. Heaven and earth serve as a guide!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud thunder on the ground. Bai Zeqing was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground. Thinking of the lightning and thunder scene in Po Tao Temple, he secretly said "normal operation" in his heart, and took a deep breath to calm down his beating heart.
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The Taoist priest simply said to her: "Bye!"
Bai Zeqing concentrated her mind, faced the sky, the earth and the bright moon, and faithfully performed the three bows and nine kowtows.
The Taoist said: "Get up."
After Bai Zeqing stood firm, the Taoist priest's index finger gently touched her forehead.
The slightly cool touch stunned Bai Zeqing, but this time it was not as fleeting as the time when she opened her eyes, but stayed on her forehead and heart.
The Taoist priest said sternly: "I teach you the mountain doctor's astrological divination, but the technique is based on external force and the heart is the basis. I hope that from today on, you will remember that you are a disciple of Xuan Dao Sect, and you need to put the continuity of the world's people first."
Bai Zeqing didn't understand everything, but with a heavy heart, she said seriously: "Disciple, please follow Master's teachings. So..." She frowned slightly and paused. She couldn't understand that sentence now, and she might not be able to do it, but
There was one thing she could do, so she said: "Only follow Master's orders."
The Taoist priest didn't bother to correct her, so he used a little force on his fingertips.
The next second, Bai Zeqing felt a warm current coming from the center of her eyebrows and flowing to her limbs. She felt that all the aches and pains in her body had disappeared, and for a moment she felt that her whole body was full of energy, as if she could run a few more hills without feeling tired.
She remembered what was written in the storybook and asked: "Master, master, have I washed my essence and cut my marrow? Did I become a top master in the world overnight?"
The corner of the Taoist priest's mouth seemed to twitch, and his eyes drifted away to look at the fool again: How could he accept this product as his disciple? The ancestor will not kill me, right? Is it too late to return it now?
Bai Zeqing was already very familiar with the Taoist priest's expression, and he immediately said with awareness: "Master, I will read less of the script and practice hard."
The Taoist priest nodded and said: "It's just to open up the sea of qi so that you can sense the spiritual energy, so that you can visualize and enter concentration."
Aura? Bai Zeqing quickly closed her eyes and sensed the Zhou Dynasty, but there was no difference. What is visualization, and how to enter samadhi?
"Master, I don't feel the spiritual energy. Is it because it hasn't been connected yet? How about you try again?" He said and put his forehead against his finger.
"There is no one-step formula for achieving success in anything, especially in cultivation. You have to rely on yourself."
The Taoist priest withdrew his hand in disgust, wiped it on his Taoist robe again, and then said: "Go back. Don't you know how to draw thangkas?"
Bai Zeqing was greatly surprised: "Why, master, don't you teach me the puppet spirit technique? Shouldn't we be sitting here cross-legged and meditating, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, visualizing, or breaking through the realm or something?"
You promised to read less of the storybook? Forget it, I can’t wash out what I’ve already read from my mind.
The Taoist priest was too lazy to pay attention to her, so he walked down the mountain first and said as he should: "Paint thangkas to make money. First."
Bai Zeqing caught up again and felt that her footsteps were much lighter. She felt happy and couldn't help asking: "Master, master, can we walk with swords? Oh, there is no sword. Let's go back and earn money to fight hard."
A handful! Then, fly back? Or teleport like you did when you came back? Master..."
The Taoist priest rolled his eyes, looked at the sky and secretly regretted: Master, it seems that I was really wrong.
Sure enough, not accepting disciples is the right decision. Unfortunately...
The Taoist priest closed his ears and quickened his pace.
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Early the next morning, the little novice monk who came to call for morning classes ran up the steps, turned around the flower garden, and saw two people, one tall and one short, in the yard outside the layman's room in the first ray of sunshine in the morning.
One is squatting in front of the easel in front of the flower garden, the other is sitting at the round stone table in the courtyard, one is concentrating on painting, and the other is concentrating on carving stones.
The little novice monk stood on the steps dumbfounded, saying "Donor, it's time for morning exercises." He couldn't say anything.
While he was stunned, he saw that the Taoist priest had just finished carving a formation stone, put down the carving knife, and looked up.
The little novice monk was startled, and immediately stood up straight and shouted: "Amitabha." Bai Zeqing was so frightened that his writing became chaotic, and his lines froze in place.
Bai Zeqing quickly put away her pen and took a closer look. Fortunately, she was using the leaf hook method①, and the stroke point happened to be in the middle of the leaf line. It was not irreparable, so she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Bingzhuye spent a whole night drawing before she basically completed the outline. If one stroke was ruined, she would immediately explode on the spot.
She put down the little wolf hair stained with green flowers, rubbed her wrists, looked at the little novice with some reproach and aggrieved, and said: "Little master, what are you calling? You scared me."
She remembered the purpose of the little novice monk's visit, and quickly said to the Taoist priest: "Master, can I stop going to do morning exercises today? I have been up all night!"
The Taoist priest turned to look at her and said: "Go early and come back early. With your current energy, you can complete the coloring without sleep for three days."
Bai Zeqing: "???" She stayed awake for three days? Is she still alive?
The Taoist priest saw through her thoughts at a glance and said: "Don't worry. I won't die. Are you tired after not sleeping all day?"
Indeed not.
Is it because of the spot on my forehead after my apprenticeship last night?
But……
I always feel like something is wrong.
The Taoist priest added nonchalantly: "And you won't be hungry, and you will save time on eating."
Bai Zeqing looked at the Taoist priest Yun Danfengqing's expressionless eyes, and felt a chill in her heart: So before this thangka is completed, she has to stay awake, eat or drink? And she also has to do morning exercises and evening classes?
She felt a little hopeless for a moment.
Note ① Leaf hooking method: One of the hooking methods in Thangka is a method specially designed for hooking leaves. It is characterized by sketching out thicker leaf circumference and thin and numerous leaf veins. The leaf circumference line should be thick and thick in the middle.
