As soon as the red sun rose from the eastern horizon, Qi Zicai returned to Qijia Village. On the way down the mountain, he was in a jittery mood and the sky was bright, so he walked very fast. Compared with when he went there, he saved more than half of the time.
time.
From a distance, he saw his eldest brother Qi Ziyan and several senior brothers who were exercising on the grain farm of Qijia Village, as well as his father Qi Fu who was supervising. He walked over happily, walking briskly.[]
"Zicai, how are you? Have you been deceived?" Qi Ziyan saw his third brother coming back, stopped his exercise moves, and asked with a smile. Qi Fu snorted beside him, as if Qi Zicai wasted his early morning exercise.
I was quite dissatisfied with my time.
According to Qi Zicai's usual character, he must have passionately retorted that his elder brother had wronged him, but now he did not feel dissatisfied and did not take those words to heart. He smiled calmly and did not answer his elder brother's questions.
Talking about what the senior said today, I secretly muttered in my heart, in the past, my father told me to be calm and calm, but I couldn't do it at all, but now I can do it naturally. In the final analysis, it still lies in this matter.
I am convinced that I have the truth, which is why Xiong has the confidence to not panic.
Qi Zicai's memory is not as good as that of a monk who has an out-of-body experience, so he only remembers half of what Shi Xuan said, and he speaks confusingly. Even so, Qi Fu, Qi Ziyan and others were also moved by what they heard. It's very simple.
It can be judged that it is many times better than the Taoist jade slips I bought at the store in the city!
"Third brother, eldest brother has wronged you, and I apologize to you here." Qi Ziyan apologized sincerely. Qi Zicai was able to talk about these contents regardless of previous suspicions, which was equivalent to reminding them again not to miss listening to their senior's sermons. After all, this kind of opportunity
, the less people know about it, the better. Qi Zicai’s actions just show that he takes his family at heart.
Originally, the hundreds of monks who came to the top of Zhushan to listen to the sermon today were determined not to spread the word about it, but their relatives and friends still had to talk about it, and relatives and friends had relatives and friends. That's it.
The story spread from ten to a hundred, and when Qi Zicai, Qi Fu and others went there the next day, there were thousands of monks on the top of Zhushan Mountain, accounting for the vast majority of the monks in Anxi City and nearby areas.
Shi Xuan came out of the bamboo hut and looked at the crowd of heads in front of him. Without saying much, he flew up to the boulder and started today's sermon based on yesterday's content.
The two stages of physical training and Qi nourishing are the foundation, so the monks from yesterday and in the future still understood it clearly and were intoxicated by it. Of course, there were many monks who had prepared the jade slips early and used recording techniques, and they automatically started talking from Shi Xuan.
Record it.
There were not many more beasts and birds listening than yesterday, but all of them seemed to have a little bit of intelligence. Whether they were squatting or standing, they all looked the same.
"From now on, every time I preach for five days, I will leave half an hour to answer your questions. That's it for today. Please come early tomorrow." After Shi Xuan finished speaking, he saw several monks quickly waking up from their slumber.
He opened his mouth to ask, so he said lightly.
There is a big city a few hundred miles away from Anxi City, called Sishui City. It is the place where Anxi, Mingxi, Qishui, and Jiajiang meet. The waterways are prosperous. I don't know how much more prosperous it is than Anxi City.
There is a small house in the west of the city. Zhao Xingfan is sitting in the lotus position, meditating, and imagining the glory. Since his parents passed away at an early age, he has devoted himself to cultivating Taoism, working extremely hard, and is only one step away from leaving the body.
Xingfan slowly exhaled a breath and stood up. Although he was only one step away from leaving his body, something was always missing. Unfortunately, he didn't have enough money to buy those Taoist jade slips. Did he have to sell the house? Or?
Are you going to the deep mountains and river bottoms to catch some monsters at great risk?
Boom, boom, boom, someone was knocking on the door of the small courtyard at this time. Zhao Xingfan was a little suspicious. He didn't have many relatives and friends, and he had been focusing on practicing Taoism in these years, so how could anyone come to the door.
With doubts, Zhao Xingfan left the room, walked to the courtyard door, opened the door, and saw his former neighbor Sun Dong: "Brother Sun, I don't know what you need to come to help me?" There were several servants standing behind him.
Sun Dong is a genial, white, fat and wealthy man in his teens. At this time, he smiled and raised the letter in his hand: "Sun was preparing to go to the business today to do business, and found that someone came to your former residence to deliver a letter. Haha, they didn't.
I didn’t know that you had moved here a long time ago, and Sun saw that he was on his way, so he sent it to you, brother Zhao."
Zhao Xingfan took the letter and said gratefully: "Zhao only told his relatives and friends in the city about moving here. This letter is probably from other places." As he spoke, he glanced at the surface of the envelope and saw Anxi written on it.
Cheng Qi Ziyan's name, I thought to myself, when I went to Anxi City a few years ago, I had some friendship with Qi Ziyan, but I didn't know why he wrote the letter?
Seeing that Zhao Xingfan had not read the letter, Sun Dong smiled and said: "Brother Zhao, please read the letter first. If you want to reply, Sun can help you take it to the trading house and ask someone to deliver it to you."
Zhao Xingfan thanked Sun Dong for his kindness, tore open the envelope, took out the letter paper and flicked it, and it unfolded. At a glance, Zhao Xingfan was in high spirits, his eyes were bright, and he wished he could grow wings on his back and fly away.
"Haha, it seems like it's a good thing? Brother Zhao." Sun Dong asked casually.
Zhao Xingfan was excited and answered directly: "This is a letter from fellow Taoist Qi in Anxi City. It says that on the top of Zhushan Mountain in Anxi City, there is a senior with supernatural power teaching Taoism publicly. Ha, this is Zhao's opportunity. Now
There is hope for a breakthrough!”
"Lecture Taoism in public?" Sun Dong frowned. "Let's not say whether this is true or not, but Sun, who has been a neighbor for many years and has watched you grow up, Brother Zhao, has to remind you a few words about cultivating Taoism.
You have spent a lot of money, so you have sold your mansion and moved back to this ancestral home. It is better not to be brave and continue to practice. It is the right way to keep fit and enjoy life with peace of mind."
Zhao Xingfan retorted: "For Zhao, practicing Taoism means enjoying life."
Sun Dong hated iron and sneered: "Hey, enjoy life. Although Sun is just exercising to strengthen his body, he has been doing business for so many years and has heard that once he embarks on the road of monasticism, it is extremely dangerous, monsters, and evil spirits
Even if you are lucky enough to survive, you will have to run around for a little spiritual grass or a little material, risking your life again, and there will be intrigues among colleagues, and they will often stab you in the back. This kind of life is tiring.
Aren’t you tired? From Sun’s point of view, it’s not as comfortable as living a mortal life like Sun, so what’s the use of practicing Taoism?!”
"How is that possible?! Practicing Taoism can lead to immortality!" Zhao Xingfan couldn't find anything else to say to refute, so he could only answer this point.
Sun Dong shook his head and said: "Eternal life, what's the point of this kind of painful immortality?! It's not as good as Sun's life where he and his wife are together forever, their children are happy, their wives are virtuous, and they wear gold and silver! Brother Zhao, listen to Sun.
Just a word of advice, find a wife, have a baby, and enjoy family happiness, which is much better than that nagging monasticism!"
Zhao Xingfan was speechless for a moment and could only shake his head and said: "Zhao has made up his mind. He will pack his luggage immediately and go to Anxi City."
Sun Dong sighed and said, "Only when you regret it in the future will you understand what Sun said today."
On the top of Bamboo Mountain, the moon and stars are few and far between.
After several months of preaching, Shi Xuan has talked about the content of exercising the body and nourishing the Qi to entraining the Qi.
Zhang Liu, Wan Chengfeng and a dozen other Qi-entraining monks gathered together, their expressions were anxious and expectant, hoping that Shi Xuan would come out immediately.
Wan Chengfeng walked a few steps, but still couldn't calm down in his heart, so he had to smile bitterly and said: "I wonder if the seniors will talk about the secret method of entraining qi to advance to magical powers? Or should we just start from the beginning and talk about the previous content."
Zhang Liu was also uneasy: "It's difficult. This is the key to establishing a small sect. Senior shouldn't be so generous. He himself is only in the realm of supernatural powers. Moreover, major business houses have written on Taoist jade slips
The most profitable thing is the secret method of channeling qi to advance to magical powers. If the seniors teach it publicly, it will ruin people's wealth and inevitably lead to death. Their backers are all those golden elixir masters."
This was quite reasonable, and the people who said it couldn't help but nod their heads, but when they thought that their family urgently needed the secret method to advance to the magical realm, they became dejected.
While they were talking, they saw Shi Xuan come out of the bamboo hut and get on the big stone, so they each sat down cross-legged and waited anxiously.
Shi Xuan looked around at the monks below. Because they had begun to practice the exercises, each of them had some luck, but not many. They were almost the same as the monks from the four major sects who had been taught the true method. However, Shi Xuan was still in seclusion.
I feel that if I really finish teaching these two lineages, I will have some unexpected benefits.
"Today I'm going to talk about the method of entraining qi to advance to magical powers." Shi Xuan spoke slowly.
Zhang Liu, Wan Chengfeng and others opened their eyes wide and were both happy and angry.
The cold wind was biting and penetrated deep into the bones, but thousands of monks and those beasts and birds on such a huge mountaintop were silent, not even moving, and listened intently to Shi Xuan's sermon.
The bright moon was setting in the west and the sun was rising in the east. Shi Xuan stopped his sermon and said, "Today is the time for questions. If you have any questions, please get up and ask."
Zhang Liu, Wan Chengfeng and other Qi-Entraining Realm monks were hearing the key point, but they didn't expect that Shi Xuan would stop immediately. They all scratched their ears and cheeks, feeling itchy.
But since their seniors are on top, they dare not be disrespectful. If they are not allowed to listen to the sermon tomorrow because of this, they will regret it.
After Shi Xuan answered the questions for half an hour, he saw a foreign monk who had been listening for many days stand up.
Zhao Jingfan saluted and said: "Excuse me, I have a question, but it is not related to spiritual practice. I don't know whether I should ask it or not?"
"Ask." Shi Xuan nodded.
Zhao Xingfan grimaced and repeated Sun Dong's words, and then said: "Junior knows that what he said is wrong, but can't find the words to refute it, because the path of cultivation is indeed what he said. Please teach me, junior."
How should I answer?"
Shi Xuan said calmly: "Shut up and practice. After twenty years, you can ask him again."
Xingfan didn't expect Shi Xuan to answer like this, so he could only decide to do it in doubt.