"Zhi Qiong, this life is short, but you have to enjoy yourself early. I just realized it too late, and I wasted so many years on my practice.
What we practice is for the principles of heaven and the right path in the world, but the real principles of heaven and the right path are right here between heaven and earth.
Zhiqiong, I always thought that Goulan in Beijing was the best, but now I know I was wrong. I was really wrong!
Goulan in ten directions is the head of Goulan, and the principles of heaven and earth are all here!"
"Brother Qian, let's talk in another place!" Xu Zhiqiong became alert, Qian Limu's sage realm was about to pass.
"Zhiqiong, I want to sit there for a while. I feel like I have gained a new understanding of spiritual practice."
Xu Zhiqiong glanced at the stage and saw that a new batch of dancers were about to take the stage.
Xu Zhiqiong pulled Qian Limu up and said, "Brother Qian, let's take a short rest. Cultivation cannot be achieved overnight."
"Zhiqiong, I have really realized it. I don't want to leave yet. Please wait until I finish this song..."
Xu Zhiqiong quickly pulled Qian Limu out of the hook fence.
Once the sage realm has dissipated, it will be even harder to get Brother Qian to come out.
"Brother Qian, what was agreed before..."
Qian Limu sighed: "Zhiqiong, it doesn't matter whether you learn skills or not, as a brother, these are all illusory means, and they are not the foundation of practice. The foundation of practice lies in the artistic conception, and the artistic conception is in the ten directions...
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"Brother, I haven't mastered the artistic conception yet. I need to learn some ethereal methods first. Where is the right place for us to go?"
Seeing Xu Zhiqiong's insistence, Qian Limu sighed: "I want to take you to Zhonglang Pavilion, where there are more medicinal materials, but I am afraid that you will learn the sixth-grade skills and attract Feng Shaoqing's jealousy. It is better to keep this matter secret, and
Choose a place nearby, don’t go too far away from Goulan.”
Don't want to get too far away from the hook, that's the most important thing.
Qian Limu's heart was still ticking.
According to Qian Limu's request, Xu Zhiqiong first rented a house.
The houses in Luzhou are much cheaper than those in the capital. A house in the capital is worth a thousand yuan, and this is just a small house.
A house with two courtyards in Luzhou only costs more than a hundred yuan. In addition, the war in Yongzhou also had a big impact on Luzhou. There were many empty houses, which could be rented or bought. Find a large area.
Qian Limu went back to the Punishment Department and brought back a sack of medicine for wounds. He went into the house to take a look, and then measured the distance from here to Shifang Goulan. He repeatedly praised: "This place is good, this house is good."
How much is the price?"
Xu Zhiqiong smiled: "Don't ask about the price. If my brother likes it, I will buy it and give it to him."
Xu Zhiqiong was a fifth-rank official. His monthly salary (salary) was thirty-two taels, and his monthly supplementary allowance was fifty-two taels, plus tea, wine, cooking supplies, fuel charcoal, salt, entourage, horses, and envoys.
Money (entertainment expenses) and a series of subsidies, easily more than one hundred taels per month.
This house only cost one month's salary, so I bought it as a personal gift to Brother Qian.
Xu Zhiqiong found the landlord and immediately gave him cash. The landlord was delighted and handed over the house and land deeds on the spot, and also gave Xu Zhiqiong all the furniture in the house.
Qian Limu liked the house, but was not satisfied with the furniture. He went to a furniture store and bought a large bed and a set of high-quality silk bedding. After all this, it was already dusk in the blink of an eye.
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Brother, let's talk about the possessions to make a living later. Let's do serious things first!"
"This is serious business!" Qian Limu put the medicine bag aside. Xu Zhiqiong thought he was going to boil medicine and hurried over to light a fire.
Qian Limu waved his hand and said: "No need to light the fire, this is a patent medicine. You can have a few drinks with me first."
After the food and wine were prepared, and the two of them had eaten and drank enough, Qian Limu said, "Go and lie down on the bed and adjust your breath."
It turns out that this bed and bedding were specially prepared for Xu Zhiqiong.
What are you doing lying on the bed?
Don't you need to cook it in a big pot?
Qian Limu really didn't bring a big pot. He burned a piece of soothing incense and said to Xu Zhiqiong: "Brother, our Taoist sect's sixth-level skill is called Zhonglang Wuwei.
When we reach the sixth level, our combat power has greatly increased. We can punish evil and promote good. We cannot be timid and should be fearless, so we have this skill!"
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Brother means that this skill is for courage?"
Qian Limu shook his head and said: "Skills are not used to gain courage, but to exchange courage for skills. The greater the courage, the more profound the skills!
As for what your skills are, I don’t know, every Suozhonglang has his own sixth-grade skills."
Xu Zhiqiong was stunned: "Are sixth-grade skills also innate skills?"
Qian Limu still shook his head: "Six-level skills are not natural skills. They include your talent, your cultivation, the foundation of our Taoism, and your own preferences. Half of the skills are accumulated, and the other half are self-created. Yes, the final skill you develop depends on your understanding!"
Xu Zhiqiong opened his eyes wide, he did not expect that the sixth-level skills would be so complicated.
This is a self-created technique based on a combination of innate conditions, acquired practice and one's own habits.
Since it is a self-created skill, shouldn’t we be more prepared?
Should I develop a complete plan based on my own characteristics?
What are my characteristics?
First think about the characteristics of the Judge's Way: fast speed, slightly weak strength, special talents and skills, the ability to absorb other people's energy, and some items that are not too heavy and bulky.
Let’s think about the characteristics other than the Judge’s Path: I have cultivated Yin and Yang and have an eighth-level cultivation level. I have also cultivated the famous master’s level, but I have no level for the time being.
Under such conditions, what kind of skills can I create on my own?
You really need to think about this matter carefully.
"Brother Qian, I do feel that it's a little rushed. Why don't you go sit on the Goulan and let me plan it carefully?"
Qian Limu shook his head. He understood Xu Zhiqiong's thoughts: "Planning is in vain. Although half of the skills are self-created, this self-creation does not come from your original intention, but from the deep, untouchable place of your heart."
This is too abstract.
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Brother Qian, can you make it simpler?"
Qian Limu said: "When you learn the sixth-level skills, you have to go into the deepest state of mind, and pass three levels in a row in the deepest state of mind.
After passing the first level, you will be able to practice sixth-grade skills. Regardless of whether they are good or bad, you will be much better than a sixth-grade middle man without any skills."
Xu Zhiqiong asked in surprise: "Are there any sixth-grade middle men who have no skills?"
Qian Limu smiled and said: "I'm not trying to scare you, brother. In our Taoist sect, only 30% of the skilled Suo Zhonglang are skilled, and the remaining 70% of the Zhonglang are unskilled.
These people haven't even passed the first level, so naturally they haven't learned the skills. Without sixth-level skills, they can't be promoted to fifth-level, so these judges will only be sixth-level in their lives."
Xu Zhiqiong blinked and said: "You failed to break through the level, but you can't break through again?"
"No! It's just this one chance! After trying it once, the meridians were changed, and the cultivation has been finalized!"
Xu Zhiqiong swallowed his saliva and suddenly became nervous: "Brother Qian, what kind of level is this that is so difficult to break through?"
Qian Limu said with a serious look: "The first level is to meet someone who makes you very afraid. This person will bring about a very difficult matter. Not only is it difficult, but there is no way to resolve it. Who is it and who is it?
No one knows, because this person comes from a place that is out of reach of your mind, so it is useless for you to prepare.
In the second level, you meet a person who makes you extremely afraid. You can't guess who that person is. You have to try your best to fight with this person. In the process of fighting with this person, you will realize the sixth level.
skills,
If you lose, the sixth-grade skills will be finalized. If there is a tie, the sixth-grade skills will be improved to one in a hundred. If you win, not only will you be one in a hundred, but you can also pass another level!"
Xu Zhiqiong asked: "What does the third level look like?"
"I don't know! It is said that there are no more than three people in our Taoist sect who have passed the third level. I am not that lucky," Qian Limu said.
"I fought hard for three days and three nights in the second level, and I tied with that person, and the sixth-grade skills were finalized. Although they are only one in a hundred, how many sixth-grade judges are there in total? I have never met any judges of the same grade.
I have been against my opponents, and even Feng Jing'an is afraid of me. Brother, you have to fight for your reputation and make one in a hundred at any rate!"
Xu Zhiqiong hesitated for a moment.
Qian Limu smiled and said: "What's wrong, brother? Are you afraid? If you don't even have the courage to break through, then I advise you to practice for two more years. But this person, the older he gets, the less courageous he is. It's better to be bold while you are young."
You’re so sexy, let’s give it a try!”
Xu Zhiqiong picked up the wine bottle, took a big sip of wine, lay down on the bed and said, "Let's fight!"
"Okay!" Qian Limu exclaimed in admiration, "Brother, let's agree, you break through the barriers in your mind. The people and things you encounter all come from the fear in your heart. Only by overcoming fear can you become a fearless master.
But when you get beaten, even when you get a knife, it's real. If you can't bear it, you only need to relax your mind and you can come out alive!"
Xu Zhiqiong said in astonishment: "If I can break through the barrier in my state of mind, can I still die in it?"
Qian Limu opened the sack and said, "Why else would I have prepared so many medicines for injuries? It is not uncommon for a lieutenant to die trying to learn a sixth-grade skill. Brother, you must do what you can within your ability!"
Xu Zhiqiong gritted his teeth: "I've written it down!"
With my talent, it would be no problem to pass the first level.
Qian Limu nodded and said: "With the appearance of a bottomless abyss, the intention is to go along the Du Channel, along the Ren Channel, through the Chong Channel, into the Dai Channel, into the Yang Channel, back to the Governor Channel, and then into the Yin Channel..."
Xu Zhiqiong thought about the image of the bottomless abyss, and his thoughts wandered among the eight channels.
The bottomless abyss became increasingly clear. Xu Zhiqiong stood beside the cliff and looked at the bottom of the abyss.
First, there was clear dust and rocks under the feet, and then there were mottled cliffs made of rocks. The cliffs continued to extend downward, with some weird lines on the gray rocks, all the way to the thick fog at the bottom of the abyss.
The outline of part of the rock can be seen in the thick fog, and beneath the outline is an unexplorable darkness.
Is this the fear in my heart?
It doesn't seem like a big deal.
I'm not afraid of heights.
In the darkness, there was a figure that seemed to be moving back and forth, and the mist fluctuated slightly with his figure.
Someone climbed up from the abyss against the cliff.
Xu Zhiqiong took two steps back and prepared for battle.
This person makes me very afraid.
This person will bring about a very difficult thing!
Not only is it tricky, it’s also unsolvable!
Who can make me so afraid?
Since I came to Daxuan, there are not many people who really scare me.
We fought a battle with Mr. Xing, and also played tricks on the emperor.
I hacked a prince to death with my own hands, and even became brothers with the second elder of Canglong Palace!
We have hacked to death hundreds of evildoers!
Just tell me, what do we have to be afraid of?
While thinking about it, Xu Zhiqiong's foot slipped, as if he had stepped on something.
When I looked down, I saw it was a watermelon.
There is not just one watermelon, there are watermelons all over the ground.
Why do so many watermelons appear?
A man climbed up from the abyss. He was strong, with short hair, high cheekbones, small eyes, a big nose, and a smile on his face.
"Is this melon guaranteed to be ripe?"
Is this the fear in my heart?
This is not a person of this era at all!
Do the fears from the previous life also count?
Xu Zhiqiong didn't think much, he smiled.
That's it? This is the first level?
Is it this difficult?
No matter which era he came from, in Xu Zhiqiong's eyes, this crew-cut man was really not worth mentioning.
Isn't he just a ruffian? What's so difficult to deal with?
Is this enough to stump 70% of the judges?
Xu Zhiqiong shook his arm. With his fighting power today, it would not be a problem to beat such a ruffian a hundred and eighty times.
Wait, my hand can't move.
Both hands lost feeling and could not move.
Seeing the short-haired man approaching slowly, Xu Zhiqiong wanted to take a step back, but he couldn't move his legs.
Use the yin and yang energy to trap him first!
No, not even the yin and yang qi can be mobilized.
He couldn't move his whole body, the only thing that could move was his mouth.
The fear from the depths of his soul appeared, and Xu Zhiqiong knew what would happen next.
This short-haired man would pick up a watermelon knife and stab Xu Zhiqiong hard.
It would be fine if it was just one stab, but this crew-cut man came from Xu Zhiqiong's heart. If he didn't follow the fixed routine, he would probably stab Xu Zhiqiong to death one after another.
"Then, what, big brother, do you want to buy melons?" Xu Zhiqiong was sweating.
"I'm just asking you, does this melon stay ripe?" The crew-cut man looked at Xu Zhiqiong with his eyes lowered.
"My melon is pretty good!"
"I just want to ask you, will this melon stay ripe?" He repeated this sentence repeatedly.
“Choose for yourself!”
"I'm just asking you, does this melon stay ripe?"
The flat-headed man stood in front of Xu Zhiqiong.
Xu Zhiqiong looked at him with wide eyes.
What else could I do but look at him?
When you can't move and can only speak, what words can you use to convince him?
This question seems to have no solution.
It seems that all we can do is wait for death!
Is it true that you can’t even pass the first level?
Wait, don't panic, it's enough to be able to speak.
Xu Zhiqiong looked at the flat-headed man and smiled: "I don't have a knife."
The man still repeated the same sentence: "I ask you if this melon stays ripe?"
Xu Zhiqiong said slowly:
"I sell watermelons, so I should have a watermelon knife."
Make a reasonable argument.
"You can stab me with my watermelon knife."
Reasonable inference.
"I don't have a knife, so you can't stab me."
Unreasonable inference.
The short-haired man was stunned, his expression distorted.
Xu Zhiqiong laughed loudly, and the crew-cut man stepped forward and knocked Xu Zhiqiong to the ground with a punch.