Netherworld Painted Skin Scroll

Chapter 7 Guang Chanzi

In the next few days, Li Wuxiang practiced "Guang Chan Zi". The Taoist book that Zhao Kui got was not complete, and many pages were incomplete, but Li Wuxiang followed the main idea of ​​the book and added his own speculation, so he did not encounter any major problems.

He felt that the content taught in the early stages of this book was not very profound. It was mainly about teaching people to cultivate their bodies, and it was a particularly biased type of teaching.

In his intuition, tempering the body should be a relatively balanced process. The skin, muscles, internal organs should all be gradually strengthened. It can even be said that the internal organs should be the foundation. Just like maintaining the health of the internal organs and endocrine system, the overall physiological condition of the person will naturally improve.

However, Guang Chanzi's book focuses on tempering the skin and flesh, and even the way of blood circulation in it will ask people to collect the vitality of the internal organs and feed it back to the body. Li Wuxiang therefore guessed that this book might be a relatively low-level method of refining qi, and also imagined the author's previous situation - in an extremely dangerous environment, facing life and death every day, so he must first temper his skin by overdrawing his essence in order to survive, and then slowly consolidate his essence.

His current situation is very similar to that of the author at that time.

In just a few days, Zhao Xi seemed to have recovered as before, and Li Wuxiang became more and more aware that he had completely underestimated her before.

Although there were not many things on the second floor of this cave, Zhao Kui and Zhao Xi did not pay attention to the cleanliness of the room in the past, so the ground was full of ashes, charcoal slag, and some food residues left over from the past. Ordinary people might not feel uncomfortable in such an environment, but these days he took a pill of Fu Yuan Bao Sheng Dan every day and practiced Guang Chan Zi diligently, his health has gradually improved, and his five senses have become more acute.

Therefore, this body, which had lived in an extremely clean environment for a long time, became increasingly unable to tolerate the clutter and various odors on the second floor, so it called Zhao Xi to tidy up the house.

The ash on the ground and in the furnace, the fine carbon residue, and the dry bones in the stone chamber were first put into sacks, then brought to the door and thrown into the sea of ​​fire outside. Zhao Xi could carry such a heavy sack on his back with just two hands, and he only needed to rest after carrying it four or five times.

Faced with such a companion who was ignorant of the ways of the world but had the instincts of a wild beast, Li Wuxiang realized that Guang Chanzi's current method of cultivation might really be the most suitable for the current situation - he had to make himself as strong as possible so that he could proceed slowly and with peace of mind.

Speaking of cleanliness, Li Wuxiang thought of water. There was also a stone pool in the corner of the second floor where Zhao Kui and Zhao Xi originally lived, and the clean water in it also seeped out from the wall.

Zhao Xi said that the fire outside would change from time to time. These days, the fire was relatively calm, but in a few days, the fire would escalate, and even more huge trees would fall from the sky, further fueling the fire. But during this process, the water seeping out of the wall would increase - from the usual slow drops to a trickle.

For more than a decade, she had been accustomed to these things and believed them to be part of the laws of the world. However, after hearing these, Li Wuxiang realized that these seemed to represent that the world was not really doomed.

Is it possible that they are in the middle of a war between gods? Listening to Zhao Xi's description, it seems that the gods are still fighting in the sky! As the fire grows, more water seeps out... Is it possible that a fire god and a water god are fighting? Then are there other places that have not been affected yet?
Li Wuxiang told Zhao Xi this speculation, but she did not seem very excited. Perhaps it was because she had no clear idea of ​​what the outside world was like.

But Li Wuxiang has already begun preparing for a long journey.

Guang Chanzi was kept in Zhao Xi's hands, so he asked Zhao Xi to show him the later contents, wanting to see if there were any useful magical powers. But he didn't know until he saw it, and he realized that Guang Chanzi's Taoist book was far more weird than he had imagined.

At the current stage of practice, using the essence of the internal organs to nourish the body is already considered an unusual approach. However, after reading the rest of the book, I realized that this Taoist book does not want people to temper the internal organs at all, but to abandon them.

The first stage of his cultivation is called "sending the true seed", which is to use the essence of the internal organs to strengthen the skin. The second stage is called "releasing the nine palaces", which is to keep the mind in the skin, and step by step imprint the various acupoints of the body into the skin. At this stage, the internal organs have begun to fail, and the skin is becoming more and more pure and perfect, which can be said to be a real golden exterior with rotten cotton inside. Then the third step, called "covering the golden clouds", is to refine the three souls and seven spirits into the skin, and then combine with other rituals to completely abandon the other parts of the body. This is equivalent to "forming the elixir" in other methods.

At this point, the Guang Chan Zi is considered complete, and a person can keep only this "skin", ride the wind, change into a myriad of forms, and absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to strengthen himself. If he can learn some other spells, according to the book, "he will become a Qing Nang Immortal".

Li Wuxiang frowned as he read the book, thinking that it was most likely a cult book from some evil sect, otherwise it wouldn't be so weird. But after thinking about it for a while, he decided to practice it, even if there was another Taoist book, he still had to practice it. Because this cult book had an advantage that he couldn't refuse.

According to Zhao Kui, any cultivation method requires a lot of resources for the practitioner to consume. For example, in the past few days, thanks to the three Fu Yuan Bao Sheng Pills, he was able to gradually regulate the turbid qi and chronic diseases in his body, allowing his body to barely enter a state suitable for cultivation.

But if you continue to practice other methods, you will need more and more money to help you practice. Although Guang Chanzi also needs to be consumed, what is consumed is the essence of the internal organs that have gradually grown over more than ten years and contain a person's innate Qi - in the current situation, it can almost be considered self-sufficient.

Ten days later, Zhao Xi's attitude towards him gradually changed. At first, he was not close to him and was a little wary, but then he gradually became relaxed and easy-going. He gradually asked Li Wuxiang about the origin of the "external evil". After the two of them cleaned the stone room together, he lit a fire in the furnace every day and demonstrated to him how to use the remaining ingredients to refine the "marching pills" he ate downstairs, making the room full of smoke and making him frown.

After another month, Li Wuxiang knew that he had completed the first step described by Guang Chanzi.

According to the time recorded by the dripping water of the clepsydra, it should be early morning. Li Wuxiang was regulating his breathing according to the Taoist book - he imagined that his whole body was emitting a faint golden light, and asked the breath to be inhaled from the nostrils, passing through the Tiantu, Yutang, Zhongting, and falling into the lower Dantian. After that, he did not ask the breath to continue to move to complete a complete cycle, but imagined that the breath would spread from the Dantian along the veins to the limbs and bones, and then dissolve into the skin.

When Li Wuxiang usually breathes in and out like this, he needs to exhale slowly after contemplating it. But at a certain moment, when he contemplated it like this again, he suddenly felt a slight stagnation in his chest and abdomen, and then his body felt light and cool, as if the many acupoints that blocked the chest and abdomen cavity before were all dissolved at once - when he inhaled this breath into his lower dantian, his skin felt slightly warm, and he exhaled all the breath again.

He felt a thought in his mind, and regulated his breathing nine more times. He felt his skin all over his body relax and feel comfortable, and his chest and abdomen felt empty, as if there was a sound of thunder. He knew that he had reached the state described in Guang Chanzi, "the true seeds are radiating everywhere, and the nine palaces are truly empty."

He didn't expect it to be so fast. Zhao Xi said that Zhao Kui once told her that it would take an ordinary person at least a year to reach this stage, and even if they were extremely talented, it would only take a little over a month, but she had already taken just a month.

Perhaps it was because the original owner of the body had been taking that kind of "marching pill" for a long time, and there were some precious medicinal materials in it. Although he was starved to death before and his body was weak, his physique was extremely pure. And he had lived in a daze for a long time, so his mind could be called pure. The two complemented each other, plus what I speculated, there might be a battle between gods and spirits outside, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was full, so it could be so fast.

The stone room had been rearranged. When he cleaned it last time, he pushed the screen back from its original position and moved the wooden couch to the front. Zhao Xi slept on the wooden couch and watched the marching pills being refined in the furnace. He used the robes of the "officials" and an empty sack to make a bed for himself on the ground, and now he sat on this bed.

Li Wuxiang slowly opened his eyes, and with a little effort from his legs, he immediately jumped up from the ground. At this moment, he felt as light as a swallow, and couldn't help wanting to find an open space to run wildly, or to punch a few times quickly. This was the effect of Guang Chanzi's "Fa Zhen Zhong" realm.

Not only his body, but also his five senses seemed to have become more acute at this time. However, this was not something to be happy about for him, because Zhao Xi had been refining the march pills for the past month, and even when he was sleeping, the furnace was burning reddish charcoal slag to warm the unfinished pills, so there was always a smell of smoke in the room, and it was even more pungent at this time.

Normally at this time, he would go to the door and push it open a crack to take a breath. Although there was a sea of ​​fire outside, and huge trees often fell from the thick fire clouds in the sky, it seemed that because of the restriction outside this cave, the wind blowing in through the door was warm but not dirty.

Li Wuxiang walked to the door again, pushed the stone door open a crack, took a few breaths, then closed the door and walked to the screen again.

Now he was able to completely fast, and from today on, he planned to teach Zhao Xi the complete breathing method of the "fazhenzhong" realm as agreed. At this time, the girl was sleeping on the wooden couch, curled up, as if she was afraid of something in her dream, but she kicked the thin blanket made of sack aside.

Li Wuxiang smiled and was about to go over to cover her with a blanket. But just as he was about to take a step, he stopped, and after a moment of stagnation, he felt a chill running from his back to the top of his head.

He smelled a very faint scent. A very faint...bamboo scent.

(End of this chapter)