If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 779 Practice
Xiaoyu and Gou Jiao were talking while jogging using Qinggong.

We set out at around six in the morning and didn't pay much attention to the time. The sun had already passed its highest point and started to move towards the west.

"Gurgle, gurgle." Gou Jiao's stomach growled for the Nth time.

Xiao Yu kept walking and turned back to ask, "Gou Sheng, are you starving?"

She didn't really care whether he was hungry or not.

But now he has become her guinea pig for studying the "Zhengqi Jue", and has been put on the experimental table. If he starves, it will affect the efficiency of practicing the Zhengqi Jue, which is something she needs to worry about.

Gou Jiao looked at the road under his feet, which was not a road at all, and sighed: "I am a little hungry, but eating and sleeping outdoors are commonplace for me.

What's more, today I have the Taoist priest to lead me, so I feel very relaxed."

They were not walking on the normal road at all at this time.

Not to mention the highway connecting to the county seat, there isn't even a mountain trail.

The path is often walked on by people, and only then can it be made into a path.

Now they were walking on weeds and rocks, which were not a road, and they could not see the road.

There are no roads, so naturally it is impossible to find a rural family to beg for food or hot soup.

Gou Sheng had often encountered this situation in the past and he just held on.

What else can we do?
"There is a small mountain village ahead. We will stay there tonight." Xiaoyu said.

"Master, didn't you say you would take me to see some demons and monsters?

We should look for it near the county town or provincial capital!

If the goblins want to harm people, they have to have someone to let them do it." Gou Jiao asked doubtfully.

Xiao Yu said with emotion: "Although it is the end of the dynasty when demons and evil spirits are everywhere, Shenzhou is still Shenzhou after all.

The foundation that the Human Emperor left for the Qin Dynasty could not be destroyed in just a few years.

There are many people near the prefectures and counties, and there are also many immortals and Taoists.

If you really want to find evil spirits, you have to do the same as before in the dilapidated temple.

It is far from the county town and the highway, but not far away, there are villages and people, and there is a road nearby that travelers must pass through.”

Gou Sheng looked around at the desolate mountains and asked, "Where are we?"

Xiao Yu shook her head and said, “We are not looking for a place, we are looking for fairies.

Unless you are so hungry that you are dizzy and confused, don't talk nonsense and just recite the classics of saints honestly.

When we reach the village ahead, there are fairies and food.”

I stopped talking nonsense and concentrated on reciting Confucian classics.

He not only recited the original text, but also followed his heart and nature, loudly expounding the principles and theories he had comprehended.

This is the specific "practice method" of "Zhengqi Jue" created by Xiaoyu.

The theoretical basis of "Zhengqi Jue" is the Buddhist "Duoxinjing" and the Confucian "Haoran Zhengqi".

But its structure imitates the Taoist method "Five Thunder Method" that Xiaoyu learned from an old farmer in the mountains of Fujian in his early years.

The "Five Thunder Method" is a method of the Heavenly Master, which can only make the primordial spirit ascend and the physical body transform into corpse.

The process of practicing "Five Thunder Method" is mainly to condense the "Thunder Talisman" in the soul.

"Thunder Talisman" is to combine the laws and insights of thunder into runes.

Use the thunder talisman as bricks to build a "Thunder Palace". The Thunder Palace is the core of the soul, and the Five Thunder Method will be complete.

Back then, Xiaoyu only got the incomplete Five Thunder Technique, and he didn't have any ready-made thunder talismans.

She must observe the natural thunder and Taoist thunder in the three realms herself, and condense the mysteries they represent into runes, which is a thunder rune.

"The Secret of Righteousness" is about comprehending the ways and principles of the human world, and condensing every comprehended principle into a "Righteousness Talisman".

Countless righteousness talismans were built into a magnificent palace in his heart. The palace suppressed the center of his soul, and the Righteousness Technique was perfected.

Xiao Yu asked about Gou Jiao's knowledge, both to test his background so as to tailor the "Zhengqi Jue" for him, and to help him sort out what he had learned so that he could comprehend the "Zhengqi Fu" next.

Now he recites the saints' classics and loudly explains the principles he has comprehended, which is to condense the "symbol of righteousness".

Xiaoyu cannot complete this process on his behalf.

It is impossible to teach him the complete Zhengqi Jue which includes a full set of Zhengqi Talismans.

Not to mention that she is a "Qin Palace PhD-level, semi-illiterate" and "immortal-level, junior high school diploma", so she has no right to teach the "truths" of casual dating.

Even though she was a well-educated scholar at the doctoral level of the Xianyang Palace, she could not directly write a ready-made "Zhengqi Talisman" in the "Zhengqi Jue".

The truths she understood may not be completely correct, and they are definitely incomplete.

It would be better to just leave the method of comprehending the "Zhengqi Talisman" in "Zhengqi Jue". What kind of "Zhengqi Talisman" can be condensed depends entirely on the practitioner himself.

Of course, as the creator of "Zhengqi Jue", Xiaoyu will harvest the "Zhengqi Talisman" condensed by all practitioners.

Now and in the future, all the "Zhengqi Talismans" that Gou Jiao has comprehended will become nourishment for her to improve and even practice "Zhengqi Jue" on her own.

Gou Jiao himself understands this.

Xiaoyu made it clear at the beginning: the two of them worked together to study and complete "The Art of Righteousness". Well, Da Vinci also said that he was doing research in a mental hospital.

Being studied is also doing research!
Gou Jiao was quite aware and made a promise at the beginning: the credit for his ability to practice the Zhengqi Jue was all due to her, and all the completed skills would belong to her, and he only wanted the "Taoism" that he already had.

One of them was creating the "Zhengqi Jue" and the other was practicing it.

No matter what their respective purposes are, they must uphold "righteousness in the world" in terms of virtue and ethics.

To study and practice this secret, one must be a true gentleman.

Xiaoyu and Gou Jiao walked another seven or eight miles and indeed saw a mountain path with residual snow.

Wherever there are mountain roads, there are people.

After turning a bald hill, we suddenly saw a few wisps of smoke rising from the bottom of the valley.

But in that village, there were thirty or fifty thatched roofs scattered in the frozen soil.

Most of the courtyard walls were made of rammed earth, and when half of them collapsed, they were patched up with thorns.

There were a few old willow trees on the outskirts with their dead branches, but green buds as big as rice grains sprouted from their tips, trembling in the cold wind.

The two of them walked across the stone bridge across the stream and entered the village.

At the bridge head there stood a stone mortar half a man's height, covered with moss. An old woman was squatting beside it, picking beans from a winnowing basket.

Pick out the stones from the beans so you can prepare dinner.

Xiao Yu stopped, took out two towel-sized flags from his sleeves, handed them to Gou Jiao, and whispered, "Now that we have entered the village, it's time to do business."

Gou Jiao opened the small banner, and on the beige brocade were written "Sai Banxian" and "Yanwangdi" respectively.

"Is this the Taoist priest's sign? What should I do? Wave the flag vigorously?"

He glanced at the old woman who was looking at them strangely, and whispered, "The villagers may not be able to read."

"So you have to shout. You should often hear people shouting 'sharpening scissors' and 'sharpening kitchen knives' in the market, just like that." Xiaoyu said.

"Isn't it too mercenary? Taoist priest, you are a master!" Gou Jiao said hesitantly.

The old woman stood up holding the dustpan and shouted, "You two outsiders, what are you mumbling about? Our Heye Village is poor, there is nothing worth your concern." "Wulian Tianzun!" Xiao Yu walked over, bowed to the old woman, and said, "Grandma, I am a wandering Taoist priest, and this is my companion, a 'wandering hermit'.

This time I passed by your precious place, firstly to ask for food, and secondly to do business with the villagers.

We can cure diseases, exorcise evil spirits, read Feng Shui, write letters, copy books, and be filial sons and break pots. "

Gou Jiao's face turned slightly red, and he pulled her sleeve and said, "Master, anything else is fine, but breaking the pot is a filial son--"

Before he finished speaking, the old woman's eyes lit up, she looked them up and down, and said, "Our seventh uncle's family is about to hold a funeral, and they happen to be in need of two filial sons.

If you cry louder, maybe I can give you half a cent each."

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "My companion has a loud voice, and I am very good at reciting the Daotou Sutra, so it will be right to invite the two of us."

"Just wait."

The old woman said this and walked quickly to a house on the roadside with a winnowing basket in her arms.

The wooden gate opened, and a young woman hiding behind it quietly peeked at the two people outside, then quickly retracted her head.

After a while, the old woman put down the dustpan, took off the rag apron around her waist, and walked out quickly again.

"Little Taoist priest, follow me!"

She turned into another path and waved to them.

Gou Jiao asked in confusion: "Is there no one in your village? Why do you choose two outsiders like us to be filial sons?"

The old woman sighed and said, "Last autumn, the wheat in the fields had not been harvested yet, and Li Tingzhang came to capture the men, saying that he wanted to go to Mount Li to help Queen Mother Zhao build a mausoleum.

There are only about 40 households in the whole village, and 55 men were taken away. What is left now?"

Xiaoyu sighed silently.

Judging from her facial features, the old woman’s son had already died on the way to Mount Li, but she didn’t know it yet.

"Uncle Qi, Uncle Qi, I found you a filial son and a Taoist priest who can recite the Daotou Sutra!"

The village was not big.

After walking only a few dozen steps, they arrived outside the fenced courtyard of another family, and the old woman started shouting loudly.

“Woof woof woof~~~”

"Uncle Seven" hadn't come out yet, but a skinny old yellow dog rushed out of the house first, barking at the stranger.

"Wangfu, get out of the way!"

An old woman in her fifties, dressed in mourning and with a pale face, drove away the old yellow dog, stood on tiptoe to look outside for a while, then welcomed the old woman, Xiao Yu and Gou Jiao in.

After some greetings and inquiries about the man's background and name, the woman told her family situation: her second son was killed by a wild beast yesterday. After searching for him all day, she only found a few bones.

The eldest son was doing corvée labor, the second son never married, and had no sons or nephews.

I am willing to pay a fee to hire a filial son. Tomorrow morning, he will break a pot and cry at the grave. After the grave is buried, the employment will end. Dinner will be provided, and breakfast is only half a bean cake.

Uncle Seven is the old woman’s father-in-law, his surname is Cai.

Cai Qigong had lost his son long ago, and now he was seeing his son die again. He couldn't bear it and fell ill.

Xiaoyu left Gou Jiao at Cai's house and carried a large backpack on his back, first walking around the village and then around outside the village.

When I came back, the backpack was full of messy "weeds".

She skillfully sorted the medicinal herbs and hung them under the eaves of the Cai family's house to dry.

Then he pulled his friend, who had eaten pickled vegetable "bean rice", and said to the Cai family: Go out of the village to help Cai Laoer summon his soul.

She is a "radish Taoist priest" now, and her job is to summon souls and comfort souls.

"Master, you haven't eaten yet?" Gou Jiao was tired and a little excited. "Did Cai Qigong's grandson get killed by a demon?"

We walked along the mountain road from around six in the morning until dusk.

After finally eating a bowl of pickled vegetable and bean rice, I really wanted to lie down in the woodshed and have a good sleep.

Too tired.

But he also understood why Taoist Radish brought him out.

He is about to see a more exciting and enjoyable scene.

More importantly, tonight is different from last night.

He practiced the "Art of Righteousness" and wanted to test his strength in front of the evil spirits.

As long as he thought of this, no matter how tired he was physically, his spirit could not help but become excited.

Xiaoyu still held the wooden stick and led him along the barren mountain path where frost had begun to form.

"Do you still remember the profound meaning of the Righteous Qi Jue that I taught you? What should you do when facing evil spirits?"

Gou Jiao was stunned for a moment, the excitement on his face quickly disappeared, and he ignored the fatigue of his body.

"Don't pretend to deny the existence of demons. When it comes to understanding demons, you have to follow objective facts.

But knowing is one thing, but don’t let evil spirits live in your heart.

Just like being in a desert in the dark night, your heart can still be as bright as the midday sun. "

His eyes became calm and focused, and it was as if an empty house was built in his mind, and another self was sitting in the empty house reciting the teachings of the "sage".

Xiao Yu nodded slightly. Gou Jiao was not only a little "naturally intelligent", his wisdom was like the roots of a thousand-year-old poplar tree, thick and strong, but buried under the soil and had never been developed or discovered by anyone in the past.

Now that he has obtained the "Art of Righteousness", it has only taken him one day from creating the method to practicing it, but he has already gotten the hang of it!
Simply unbelievable.

This is the heart secret, not the internal energy. It is very exaggerated to master the internal energy in one day.

It took Xiaoyu more than a month to practice the "Xiong Long Gong" to develop internal energy, and he also cheated by using the "Kunpeng Wisdom".

After walking around for more than twenty miles, Xiaoyu stopped in a valley around 9:30 in the evening.

"Gou Sheng, what is the most important thing in reading the books of sages?" she asked softly.

Gou Jiao knew that a more exciting scene was just ahead, and his mood was almost broken by excitement and panic again.

He stared at the dark valley under the sparse starlight, swallowed his saliva, and said, "The most important thing about reading the books of sages is to truly grasp the principles that the sages want to teach us through the text."

Xiao Yu shook her head and said, "It is important to understand the truth, but it is far from the most important thing.

If you only understand the principles but cannot put them into practice, and do not put them into practice in your daily life, it is better not to understand the principles.

I don’t understand, but I can still remain humble and honest.”

Gou Jiao bowed and said sincerely: "Please give me some advice, Taoist priest."

"Unify knowledge and action!" Xiao Yu said, "As long as you can achieve unity of knowledge and action, even if you fail to understand the meaning of the sages at the time, or the words of the sages are wrong, it doesn't matter. Practice will help you verify and correct the truth."

Gou Jiao seemed to understand something and said, "I understand. I will go find the evil demon now."

"I understand. Is it possible?" Xiaoyu said.

"How do you know you can't do it if you don't try?" Gou Jiao said.

Xiao Yu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Go ahead. There is a thatched shed ahead with some big stuff inside."

(End of this chapter)