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Chapter 269: Past Events, Zhong Chengzi

"Shh!"

Inside a high rock pavilion in a narrow cave on the northwest cliff, an old bat demon about ten feet tall hunched over, raised a finger in front of his lips, and said to the two young Taoists in the pavilion: "A stranger has come in."

"But someone from the underworld is here!"

"No, three hearts are beating, one is slow, one is very slow, and the other is stagnant."

After the old bat demon finished speaking, he continued to listen to the sound of the heart and said slowly: "They should all be cultivators. If they have completed the middle stage of the "Five Qi Rotation" in the second stage of Qi Refining, their five internal organs will be connected, and their heart beats slower than that of ordinary people.

If you can subdue the Yang Dragon in the third stage of foundation building, and combine the Yang Dragon with the Heart Yang at the heart, then the heart is no longer the fatal weakness of the physical body, and is liberated, and the beating slows down further. "

At this point, the old bat demon paused. The two Taoist priests beside him had blue lips and asked in panic, "Uncle Fu, what is the stagnant heart you heard?"

"do not know."

The old bat demon shook his head, "Even your master Qiuqiuzi's heart did not show any signs of stagnation."

"Golden elixir?" The two Taoists looked at each other, full of fear, and said, "Could it be that the news of Master refining that Yin treasure has leaked out, and some immortal on the mountain came to take Master to Locking Dragon Well?"

"They are coming soon and will illuminate the three 'Crystal Phantom Walls'.

The material for this wall was obtained from a dragon son of Jinbi Water Palace. In the past, your master did many ugly things to please the dragon son.

This time, we have opened the lights and communicated with the spirits of the three animals and the Yin ropes several times in the mountains. If it weren't for these three shadow walls, which cover the Yin Si day and night, and make it impossible for the capable people to detect it, your master would have wasted all his previous efforts. "

"Master, you are a very advanced Taoist. Why don't you find a secluded place instead of showing off your skills in this mountain and endangering our two disciples?"

The two Taoists were crying in the pavilion, but their hands were moving quickly. They threw three crystal cards forward, and the cards immediately turned into three stone walls with ghosts and gods engraved on them, blocking the courtyard, and in front of the walls, they also transformed into stone platforms, incense tables and other real and unreal scenes.

Behind the wall, they can peek in front of it, but the people in front of the wall cannot see them or find them.

"They are coming!"

"interesting!"

Ji Ming stood behind the incense table, on the high platform, looking at the three painted walls.

In the cave, Li Muru jumped up and down, buried several Yin Cang Water Mine Pills, and saw Jin Tong below still admiring the murals, and said: "Junior brother, why don't you come and make some arrangements in advance."

Subconsciously, the two six-fingered palms were clasped in his sleeves. Ji Ming turned his head to look at Li Muru and said, "Look at these three stone walls. They are all engraved with the ghost and god images of Zhong Chengzi in the human world. The one in the middle also records Zhong Chengzi's life and deeds."

Ji Ming approached the stone wall and looked at the words on the mural in the middle. He said, "Bi Zhen Yuan Jun said: I once had a disciple named Zhong Chengzi who was my disciple. He first received the Huangting Sutra from me and then wrote this.

After learning from him, Zhong Chengzi combined the new method to create the Yin Jing Zhen Sheng Wu Zang Shang Jing. He wanted to return to the Tai Yin and seek the inner alchemy of the elixir, so he died under the stone chamber in Shanggu, Baoguang Prefecture. Twenty or thirty years after his death, a Taoist saw his bones in the chamber, and the corpses were exposed in the dark chamber.

I also saw the five internal organs in my abdomen growing by themselves, without rotting away, and there were bright five-colored hues inside.

The Taoist sighed and said, "I heard in the past that a new method was emerging in the world, which did not rely on external elixirs to achieve longevity, but on internal cultivation. Now I see that the five internal organs can be nourished to achieve immortality, and that flowers have grown out of the bones. I have seen such a person. Will this boy have the Tao but not practice it? Will he not pass the test of the Tao?"

"Yin Jing Zhen Sheng five internal organs and meridians!"

Ji Ming thought to himself.

As far as he knew, Zhong Chengzi was a registered disciple of Bi Zhen Yuanjun (Lady Nanhua Huode) during his lifetime. Here it is written as an inner disciple. Could it be that Taoist Qiuqiu was praising his master Zhong Chengzi?

Zhong Chengzi was a cultivator at the beginning of the Great Xia Dynasty. At that time, the way of refining qi had already sprouted. In the Huangting Sutra written by Bi Zhen Yuanjun, the idea of ​​harmonizing the five internal organs and guiding the three flowers had already emerged. Zhong Chengzi cultivated the golden elixir in that era. By the way, at that time, the golden elixir was called the divine elixir, because the immortals before that became immortals by taking the divine elixir externally. At that time, people regarded the golden elixir as a divine elixir for becoming immortals, using the flesh as a furnace and refining it internally.

Ji Ming stared at the mural, thinking to himself, could it be that Zhong Chengzi, who almost replaced Yuan Yangzu, the founder of Qi-refining alchemy, used this "Yin Jing Zhen Sheng Wu Zang Shang Jing" to refine the golden elixir?

Behind the painted wall, a demon and two Taoists in the pavilion were also staring at him, not daring to make a sound.

"Not afraid!"

The old bat demon listened attentively and said, "He is just a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building. Among the three people, he is not the most threatening. We will quietly watch their arrangements, and when the master returns to the cave, we will cooperate with them from inside and outside."

One of the two Qiuqiuzi's disciples said, "But I think the other two seem to respect him."

In front of the wall, Yuan Lao and Li Muru both stopped beside Ji Ming and looked at the wall in the middle. Yuan Lao read the words on the wall and said, "Half of the words are missing."

"Master Ape has seen it?"

Jiming asked.

The last sentence on the wall is "Will this boy not practice Tao when he has it? Will he fail when he is tested halfway through the Tao?" It means that this boy is about to get the Tao, why doesn't he continue to practice? Or did he fail when he encountered a test halfway through the Tao?
This was obviously missing some follow-up, which Ji Ming could see.

"I heard."

The old ape nodded and said, "The following story is that the Taoist who saw that Zhong Chengzi's body was still intact took the five-colored stones from the body's internal organs and took them with him, hoping to steal Zhong Chengzi's Taoist fruit.

But I didn't expect that Zhong Chengzi would come back to life and practice the method he created. The five-colored stones that were taken away returned to his stomach and became a golden pill of [Cang] quality."

"Cang, top grade?!"

Jimin murmured.

People are divided into different classes, and naturally, golden elixirs are also divided into high and low classes.

Like the right way and the wrong way, the cultivation environment is very different, and the true methods they practice are also of different levels. Not to mention that when subduing the Yang Dragon, some people use the Yin Sha from the blessed land and spiritual caves, while others take the miscellaneous Sha accumulated from the mountains and rivers. These will affect the purity of the golden elixir.

In today's world, Taoists revere the blue sky, so they named the best elixir blue. And in the Zhongtian Dao vein, the best elixir is named Qing, which means the clearest in the Zhongtian.

As for the elixirs refined by most spirits and ghosts who believe in Huang Tian, ​​they are called Yuandan.

This is because the Qi in the Yellow Sky is turbid and chaotic, so the elixir refined by demons is called Yuandan, which is somewhat derogatory.

Of course, there are people who have achieved great success by using lower-grade golden elixirs, but those examples cannot be regarded as universal phenomena.

The old ape saw that Ji Ming was interested in the method mentioned on the wall, and said: "After Zhong Chengzi's corpse was transformed, his soul went to the underworld and transformed into a ghost god. However, it is difficult for a ghost soul to become a saint. Even if his status is high in the underworld, it is difficult for him to attain the Tao.

He was so talented when he was alive, but after his death he lost his way, so he became more and more depressed, and could not relieve it for hundreds of years, and his personality gradually became moody.

I heard that he treated his subordinates and disciples of the Yin officials by beating or scolding them, often humiliating and despising them, treating them like grass.

Jin Tong, I advise you not to provoke him."

Ji Ming nodded, indicating that he had listened to what he said, then he pulled his hand out from his sleeve, pinched a piece of Jing Gang Qi leaf between his fingers, and said, "I remember something from the past."

(End of this chapter)