Wet viviparity

Chapter 469: Year, Moon in the Water
After a cultivator in the third stage of foundation building dies, it takes about six or seven years for his body to lose its vitality and develop corpse spots. Three or four years have passed now.

In the hall, next to the circle outside Ji Ming's body, there was a lake stone weighing several kilograms. There were cavities eroded by running water on the stone, with various shapes and hidden passages. In one of the cavities, there was a cistern.

There is a curl of black smoke in this furnace, which flows through the winding cavity, condenses and does not disperse. After circling the hall three times, it flows back into the furnace, and repeats this process over and over again.

This was the arrangement made by Leng Cuishan before he left, and it was for the purpose of protecting the temple. However, Qianshou'er was worried that Leng Cuishan had ulterior motives, so he stayed under the lake stone, guarding against possible changes in the lake stone incense burner.

Three or four years passed, when Ji Ming's pale skin turned rosy again and his dull hair became shiny again, all these signs indicated that Ji Ming had returned from collecting herbs.

Different colored lights flickered in his five internal organs. One could faintly see the kidney water gushing out dark springs, the liver wood producing green smoke, the heart fire burning purple clouds, the spleen earth condensing yellow buds, and the golden lungs ringing white bells. This meant the five phenomena were beginning to take shape, and it also proved that Ji Ming's first attempt at collecting herbs was a success.

"All five elements are complete."

After Ji Ming's soul landed in his physical body, he thought to himself.

When he saw the lake stone cistern and was about to raise his hand, he found that his body was as stiff as a stone and could not move at all.

"How long have I been dead?"

Ji Ming was secretly shocked. At this time, Qianshou'er crawled out from under the lake rocks, looked at Ji Ming happily with a pair of black eyes, climbed up and down on Ji Ming's body, and finally shrank and rested on Ji Ming's shoulders.

"Grandpa, the bell has rung three times.

The old demon Dinghai set up a lake stone incense burner in the hall and left. Before leaving, he said that he had to go back to the mountain to report and would come here to meet again in the future, and he would bring good wine then.

In the two years since the old demon Dinghai left, two more people have come.”

Ji Ming promoted the circulation of Qi and blood, and his body began to heat up slightly. His whole body functions became more complex and he felt his body begin to relax. He asked, "Who's here?"

"There is Moyazi and Linggu."

"Lingu?"

"Aunt Ling said that she has been training with Uncle Li recently, and now she has made some progress in Taoism and has completed Qi Refining.

She was passing by a small Maoshen temple in Jiaoerwa, east of Luoyin Lake, and heard about what happened in Taiping Mountain, so she came here to see you, Grandpa. "

"Nonsense!"

Ji Ming frowned and said, "Leiwen Mountain is deep in Luoyin Lake. She is just a perfect second level person and yet she came to take this danger. Didn't the alligator monster beside her give her a warning and not stop her?!"

“I tried to stop him, but I didn’t stop him.”

Qianshou scratched his head and whispered, "Linggu insisted on coming here. After I introduced her to the body in the hall, she said a few words here, and then I quickly sent her out when the bell rang loudly."

"That's how it should be."

Ji Ming nodded.

"What is Mo Yazi doing here?"

Qianshouer spit out a jade scroll and said, "He said he was here to deliver the latest information from the mountain for you to read. I didn't dare let him enter the hall. After he received the jade scroll, I asked him to wait outside the hall until the bell rang loudly before going back."

"well done."

Ji Ming patted Qianshou'er's head and said.

"Has it been more than three years?!" Ji Ming held the jade scroll in his hand, feeling extremely melancholy for a moment. The strong feeling of being isolated from the world and flying like a shuttle came over him and struck his soul directly.

In the past, in the dead of night, he had thought about becoming an immortal, going into seclusion, practicing some magic, and perhaps the world would have changed drastically.

However, because I always had worldly affairs to take care of, rituals to perform, and treasures to seek, I didn't have much feeling about the passage of time. Only this time of practice gave me a feeling as if I was in another world.

In the dark and bright moon of the underworld, Ji Ming only remembered drinking a lot and then coming back, without even having to offer the dirty golden bottle.

No wonder Master Li Zhu practiced the "Path of the Supreme Being without Emotion". In this state of breaking the attachment to the Dharma, one can best understand the true nature of all Dharmas. No matter what one learns, one will be able to understand it as soon as one learns it, and will not be repeatedly blinded by the Dharma and trapped in those ditches and bumps. In this first corpse transformation, Ji Ming felt the great benefits of this state.

While the feeling was still there, Ji Ming took away the jade slip that recorded the information in his hand. He knew that once he read the information, the various thoughts in his soul would collide and he would inevitably fall into the afterglow of this state.

Besides, it is useless to read more intelligence. If the golden elixir is not broken now, the situation will be difficult to reverse.

"Friend Li!"

Jimin shouted.

The corpse on the left stood up, pulled open the cloth on his body, raised two fingers, and poked his chest. Suddenly, a trickle of clear water flowed down from his chest and gathered into a flat pool on the surface of the jade brick. There was a shadow of the moon in the pool.

"Finding the moon in the water, the sand between your fingers,

Seeking truth in the false, flowers under the mirror.

Fishing the moon in the center of the pond without a hook,
Only those who are willing to take the bait will be successful. "

After reciting the Buddhist verses, the corpse said earnestly: "This second corpse transformation is to seek the truth in the false. Once you enter the water and moon, you can't find the truth, and you will die. In addition, you must also guard against human calamity, otherwise once the flesh body decays, even if you get the great medicine, it will be an empty dream."

Ji Ming placed the Dirty Gold Bottle beside him, chanted a formula to the bottle, and then said, "Let's begin!"

"Watching the moon."

The corpse said something to Ji Ming, took a deep breath, and ruffled the moonlight in the pool.

Ji Ming stared at the moon in the pool. The blood in his body, which had just heated up, began to lose temperature bit by bit because of the departure of his soul.

At the same time, in the Golden Rooster Mountain, where Yin and Yang are aligned, a figure in the morning light had a feeling in his heart, and wondered in his heart: "What a decisive Taoist priest, he wants to collect the Taiyin "Immortality Elixir" in one breath to achieve complete success."

As the feeling of surprise arose, calm returned to normal, just like the ripples caused by a stone thrown into a pond, which disappeared after a while.

"Looking at his clear and empty mind, who knows if he can even fish the moon out of the water. Wait a minute and point out the way forward for him and see what he does."

In the moon in the pool, Ji Ming's soul fell there, without a place to go, floating up and down, and gradually settled in one place. There was a bright moon there, shining brightly, and its light was everywhere. It was right in front of his eyes, so real that he could reach out and get it.

"This isn't the real moon!"

Ji Ming thought to himself.

There was no need to tell him my true feelings about the broken Dharma image. Just by looking at the bright moon without any "pockmarks", I could not feel in my heart that this was the real moon.

Of course, Ji Ming cannot use the lunar body in his "hometown" to understand the moon in this world.

"Herb collector, herb collector, the moon and dew are in front of you, why don't you take them?"

The sound of Kong Ming rang in his ears, and Ji Ming couldn't help but raise his hand to pick it, but he suddenly retracted it. He knew in his heart that this was an illusory moon. If he tried to pick it from the air again, wouldn't he be broken and then return to the form again? His state of mind would definitely fall back.

But where is the medicine?

There was nothing around him except the bright moon in front of him.

The bright moon slowly approached, getting closer and closer, gradually occupying his entire field of vision, and even beyond his field of vision. He could already see the jade palace in the light, and he didn't know which was the Toad Palace and which was the Gui Palace.

Looking at the approaching boundless moon, it was as if another world was crashing into him. Ji Ming's soul couldn't help but wave his hand. Ripples suddenly appeared, and scattered moonlight floated in thousands of ripples.

"Where is the medicine?"

Jimin muttered to himself.

Yin and Yang are on the same line, in the Golden Rooster Mountain, a figure in the morning light sighed: "I have fallen into the lower realms."

(End of this chapter)