Wet viviparity

Chapter 244 Lingshan, face talk
On a cliff deep in the mountains, where there are no humans, animals or birds, there is a hut about six feet wide and three feet low.

This hut has a thatched roof and mud walls inside and outside. There are two doors in the east and south, each four feet wide, with a stove inside. A mirror is hung on the stove, and a sword is inserted beside the stove to show that it is to suppress all evil and protect the success of the elixir.

A voice came from within.

"As for the golden elixir, the longer it is burned, the more wonderful its transformation becomes.

Boil gold in fire, and it will not melt even after a hundred refinings; bury it and it will remain immortal. Taking these two things will refine the human body, and thus make people immortal. This is to rely on external things to strengthen oneself.

As soon as he finished speaking, a boy recited it again.

The voice asked, "Why?"

The boy replied, "The longer the golden elixir is refined, the more mysterious its changes become. The golden elixir will not disappear no matter how many times it is refined, which means immortality. If it is buried, it will not decay no matter how many days it is buried, which means immortality.

Taking these two substances and refining them into the body is the reason why the golden elixir makes people immortal. This is the reason why ancient monks used external elixirs to make themselves immortal. "

"The ancient golden elixir is called the Nine-Transformation Pill, and taking it will instantly turn you into an immortal.

This furnace was built by your master when he was alive. It is adjacent to a small blessed land and has a fire chamber underneath. It is difficult for ordinary alchemists to have such conditions as a starting point for alchemy. I hope you will cherish it in the future."

Inside the hut, the boy responded repeatedly under the Taoist's earnest instruction.

The Taoist priest spoke from the afternoon until the evening, until the boy fell asleep, and then he stopped, ending the day's course.

The boy walked out of the hut as if he had been pardoned. He ran into a man outside the hut, bowed and called him "Uncle Master Zhu", then hurriedly used his skill of lightening his body to go down the cliff.

The people outside the hut took a look at where the boy went, and then entered the hut and said with a smile: "Big Brother, Minghui's Kung Fu has become more and more profound. When he grows up, he will be a pillar of our temple."

The Taoist in the house sorted out the medicine residue in the furnace and the cinnabar under the jar. After a long while, he looked at the place where the boy left outside the door and said, "If the boy's mind is unstable and his heart is not restrained, he may be wise when he is young, but he may not be wise when he grows up."

"Who wasn't free-spirited when they were little?" The person who entered the abode said disapprovingly, "To suppress one's nature too early is like forcing things to grow too fast. This is just like what the master did to you back then..."

Halfway through his words, the man froze, looking embarrassed, and changed the subject, "Recently, news about the Fayan Courtyard has spread all over the temple. What is the situation there? Also, does Senior Brother have any ideas?"

"Zhu Wen, are you here to be a lobbyist?!"

When the Taoist said this, his expression was somewhat serious, but what surprised him was that Zhu Wen actually nodded in acknowledgment.

"Master is dead, his soul has returned to the wild grass. The real pillar of the temple, besides you, is the one in the other courtyard. Now he is in the period of hard work, and the temple will help him."

"Have I ever said that I would not help him?" The Taoist in the Shezhong Temple, Xuan Jing, said, "His meaning is so obvious, how could I not understand it?"

"I understand what you mean. Junior Brother Zhang is a little too hasty, and his methods are not so easy to accept."

"No!"

Xuan Jing shook the dust tail in his arms, just like Fei Huzi did when he was alive, "You don't understand what I mean. This Junior Brother Zhang has given me a lot of face, so I chose this method.

Otherwise, there is an option that I cannot refuse.

Although he did not do so, nor did he remind me of this fact, I, as the eldest brother, could not help but understand this point. "

"Ah!" Zhu Wen said in surprise, "Brother Zhang, do you have any other ideas?"

Zhu Wen couldn't quite understand this matter. In his opinion, Senior Brother Xuan Jing had always been the one holding the initiative. If Xuan Jing didn't give in on the matter of the small blessed land spiritual cave, Junior Brother Zhang could only passively accept it.

"We are upright people, and we value our reputation the most. We must keep it clean, and if we want to maintain this reputation, we must protect it with our inner qualities, and do things that cannot be done for the sake of reputation.

The wounds on the face must be borne by the inside; the hatred on the face must be avenged by the inside; the ugliness on the face must be covered by the inside. Then the question is, everyone wants to be the face, who will be the inside? "Xuan Jing smiled and looked at Zhu Wen, which made Zhu Wen's heart jump, and hesitantly asked: "Me?"

"In the past, when the years were good, the rule here was that whoever became the abbot would have the honor of being the face, and the other brothers would naturally have to help maintain the abbot's reputation.

In the immortal cave, it is the attendant monks, guardian spirits, cave-guarding demon spirits, etc. who are doing this."

"Big Brother, are these all true? Why have I never heard of them? My master never mentioned these things when he was alive."

"Haha~"

Xuan Jing suddenly laughed and said, "Of course the master didn't say that. These are just some principles that I have summarized and understood on my own."

Just as Zhu Wen was breathing a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard his senior brother say, “Thirty years ago, the mount of the Musheng Star Lord, ‘Chensheng’, wanted to descend to the mortal world again. He displayed his magical powers in the southwest of our Guye Province, causing a small foreign country to not have rain for twelve years.

In theory, this matter was caused by the Saint Yishi who repeatedly wanted to descend to the mortal world to cause trouble. In fact, everyone knows that the root of this matter was that the king of that small country did not respect the Musheng Star God and did not attach importance to the incense and sacrifice to the Southern Dipper Star God.

You see, this is the benefit of the lining.

If I don't agree to Jin Tong's request today, who knows if he will do something to me who has embarrassed me.

Junior Brother Zhu, you have to understand something. If you can achieve the inner qualities, that is not a bad thing. The most frightening thing is to live to the end without achieving the outer qualities or the inner qualities. Then your life will be worthless."

Zhu Wen seemed to understand, and according to the theory of face and substance proposed by the eldest brother, he said, "So now the eldest brother and junior brother Zhang are both going to live for face?"

"I can't do it. It was okay a few generations ago, but the current Heguan can't hold up a face."

"What about Junior Brother?"

"I don't know yet. It depends on how much glory he has on his face and how much substance he has behind it." At this point, Xuan Jing suddenly laughed, "Junior brother, why don't you understand? The current Heguan can't support me, and naturally can't support him either."

"There must be a way."

Zhu Wen was a little impatient. He didn't know anything else, but he knew that the reputation of Heguan now had to be supported by the eldest and second brothers together.

"There is a way."

Xuan Jing nodded and said: “In Heming Fang, there is an evil pond, which is formed by the earth veins of the sacred mountain "Yanxu Mountain" in this Fang. More than a hundred years ago, Lu Daojun from Taiping Mountain went to the evil pond in the mountain to get a strange herb that could detoxify, and then fought with the "Stone Smoke Poison Crocodile" who was guarding the strange herb in the pond in the mountain.

That fight caused the Shatan to collapse, and the ground veins were almost turned over.

Now that many years have passed, the evil pond should have recovered a little, enough for Jin Tong to subdue the evil dragon."

"How does the effect compare to the blessed land and spiritual cave?"

Zhu Wen asked.

"Have you heard of the saying 'A sacred mountain builds a cave, and a blessed land establishes a sect?' This means that the Yin Sha of the earth veins under the sacred mountain is enough for the cultivation inheritance of a cave master and apprentice, and the Earth Sha of the blessed land can support the cultivation inheritance of an entire sect."

Zhu Wen said happily: "I will go and tell my junior brother the good news."

In Zhu Wen's view, this was a good start. As long as the relationship between the eldest brother and the younger brother was improved, their Heguan would be able to revive sooner or later.

After Zhu Wen left, Xuan Jing pulled out a letter from his sleeve, a letter that had been read many times, on which were vaguely written words such as "It has been a long time since we last met" and "I am grateful for the kindness of my teacher, Tai Sui Zhi Tong" etc.

"Junior brother, after this incident, can Heguan's importance in your heart be even one tenth of that of Master?"

(End of this chapter)