Chapter 14: Become an Initiate
When Master Ji said this, his pale face was already smiling with relief. He looked at Li Yan and said, "Are you willing to formally become my disciple?"
Li Yan had already made up his mind, and he didn't think about it anymore, saying "yes"
"Okay! I have always been a simple-minded teacher, and I don't like those cumbersome etiquettes. You will be considered as a disciple if you kowtow to me three times." After saying that, he adjusted his sitting posture, sat upright behind the table, with a serious face, and three fragrant incense sticks in the small tripod on the table rose in front of him, showing the style of a master.
Li Yan stood up, adjusted his coarse cloth clothes, and knelt in front of the incense table, and kowtowed three times respectfully to Master Ji behind the table.
Master Ji stroked his beard, and his pale face flushed slightly, and his smile became more intense. "Haha, okay, get up."
After Li Yan stood up, his face also showed joy. After standing up, he bowed again, and then knelt down at the table again to listen to the teacher's teachings.
Master Ji said, "Now you are a disciple of the Muying Sect, so next, I will teach you the entry method of our sect."
Li Yan was stunned when he heard this. Master Ji saw his look and asked, "Do you have any questions?"
Li Yan was stunned for a moment and said, "No, please continue to teach me."
Master Ji stopped asking when he heard him say this, and continued, "All disciples of our sect need to practice martial arts and herbal medicine. However, martial arts is the foundation for people like us to make a living, and many of the more precious herbs and flowers grow in places where people rarely go, which are not accessible to ordinary people. Therefore, the newly-entered disciples generally have to practice martial arts in the first few years. After the completion of the training, one can practice the art of herbal medicine. And martial arts are divided into internal power and fighting skills. Internal power is the mother of anggong. No matter how familiar the fighting skills are, they cannot exert their true power without the assistance of internal power. At most, they are just ordinary people fighting. But if the internal power is strong, even ordinary boxing martial arts can break mountains and rocks, pick leaves and hurt people, and have great power. Therefore, internal power is the foundation of each sect and sect, and is regarded as a treasure by the sect. "
Ji Junshi slowly told Li Yan one by one. This lecture took several cups of tea. He talked about the classification of internal power, the major sects, the division of martial arts realms, acupuncture points, meridians, etc. He took out a small wooden man with exquisite carvings. His body was naked, with red and green lines crisscrossing on it, and there were many dense dots. There were small regular script annotations next to the dots and lines. This wooden man actually drew various meridians and acupuncture points in the human body. He also explained them to Li Yan one by one.
"What is said above is the foundation of cultivation. You should remember it in detail and never make any mistakes. Now let's talk about our sect's mental method. I told you before that internal strength is the mother of ang strength, and our sect's internal strength mental method is divided into ten levels, called "Mu Yin Gong". Its power is amazing. It absorbs the grass and wood energy refined by our sect's secret method to strengthen the body, open up the meridians in the body, make the body full of energy, and the internal strength Zhoutian quickly travels throughout the body. The strong internal strength is stored in the dantian. When fighting with others, it exerts super combat power, which is incomparable to the mental methods of various secular schools. So far, the master has only practiced to the peak of the third level." Li Yan was shocked when he heard this, and his face showed disbelief. With the current martial arts of the master, he is already a foe of ten thousand people. This practice of "Mu Yin Gong" has only reached the third level. If he practices to the tenth level, wouldn't it be the ability of a land immortal? Master Ji glanced at Li Yan and continued to say slowly, "But before practicing this skill, you must first practice our sect's 'breath guidance technique'. This technique is to guide the essence of heaven and earth, and then stimulate the Dantian Qi. Only after the Dantian Qi is successfully stimulated, can you formally practice the 'wood Yin Gong'."
At this point, Master Ji smiled slightly, and flicked the sleeves of his black robe at the same time. His white and slender hands appeared on the table. In his left hand, he held a book that looked like gold but not gold, like jade but not jade. Then, in his right hand, he pulled out a piece of paper that was slightly larger than the page of the book. There were many words densely written on the paper. Obviously, this piece of paper was not a page in the book. Judging from the ink, it looked like it had just been written.
Following Master Ji's movements, Li Yan noticed that the material of the book in the teacher's left hand was peculiar. He had read a lot of books since he was a child, but he had never seen this kind of material before. Moreover, the color of one-third of the book was obviously different from the color of the other two-thirds, as if two books were glued together.
Li Yan also remembered that from the time he met the teacher yesterday until the teacher took out the paper just now, it seemed that the teacher only used his right hand. Whether it was yesterday's needle test or doing other things, he never used his left hand. He must have been holding this book in his sleeve.
This made him curious about this book. What kind of book can make a person stay with it for a moment? But he knew that these things were not something he could ask now. After all, he had just started. Maybe after getting familiar with the teacher in the future, he might be able to satisfy his curiosity.
As if he didn't see the curiosity in Li Yan's eyes, Master Ji handed the paper full of words to Li Yan and said, "This is our sect's 'breath guidance technique'. I will teach you now, and you can study it carefully later. If you don't understand something, I will answer your questions. This breath is divided into innate and acquired. When a baby is in the mother's womb, it is innate breath, and it can breathe without mouth and nose. After the person is born, he breathes through the mouth and nose, which is acquired breath, but also loses the innate breath." This explanation took another quarter of an hour. After finishing the explanation, Master Ji stopped talking and looked at Li Yan who was thinking with his head down. Occasionally, he picked up the little wooden man and the "breath guidance book" to comprehend it carefully. Then he put his hands together, hid them in his sleeves, placed them on his abdomen, and closed his eyes to meditate.
Li Yan spent half a day comprehending this, and finally made sure that he had memorized the method of practicing and some key meridian routes, and then he was relieved. He was originally afraid that he had never touched the inner strength before, and if it was too profound, he would have many problems, and he would be embarrassed in front of the teacher. Now he felt that he understood it correctly, and he was relieved. He thought about it and thought, "Maybe it's just the entry method."
Looking up at the master, he said a little awkwardly, "Teacher, I feel that I can initially understand this entry method."
Master Ji opened his eyes and smiled at Li Yan, then slowly asked a few key points. Seeing that he answered fluently, his face was very satisfied, "Then from today, you start practicing this method. I estimate that in three to five days at least, and ten days and half a month at most, you will be able to stimulate The Qi of Dantian has been released. This paper of the mental method has been recorded. Please let me destroy it. It is not that I am worried about you. This is the common practice of all the major sects in the world. In addition to the original books of the skills, everything else is passed on orally. Occasionally, there are only a few words and pieces of paper, which must be destroyed immediately afterwards to prevent these papers from being accidentally lost or stolen by bad people. Even the original books of the mental method can only be kept by the head of the sect. "
Li Yan didn't feel anything wrong when he heard this. Thinking from his perspective, he also understood that things like this that the sect relies on for survival could not appear on paper casually, so that the major sects would have no secrets.
He handed the page of "Qi Guiding Technique" back to the teacher respectfully. Master Ji took it with a smile and put it in his sleeves. As for how to deal with it, Li Yan would not ask more about these things. Then, Master Ji pointed at the wooden man with the meridians painted on it and said, "Take this. This is something that needs a long time to be familiar with and memorized." Li Yan took the wooden man on the table as ordered, but he guessed that the wooden man was just carved more delicately. Every martial arts sect should have such introductory things. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain these invisible and intangible meridians and acupuncture points with just words. Then he said goodbye to Master Ji and left the stone house. After watching him leave, Ji Junshi narrowed his eyes and looked at the gate. After a while, he sighed and said to himself, "His aptitude is much worse than the last one. I don't know how long it will take him to reach the peak of the first level. I have less and less time, and it is more and more difficult to suppress this poison. Sigh!" After that, he waved his right sleeve at the gate a few feet away, and the gate closed silently. If Marshal Hong saw this, he would be shocked. Even the top masters of the current martial arts world cannot do it so easily from a few feet away. If you have to do this, you must be at least a master of the realm, and the distance must be reduced by about half. After the qi sinks into the dantian, the internal force will surge out to do it, but in that case, the gate is probably broken into pieces.
After doing all this, Master Ji stretched out his left hand from his sleeves, and the book that looked like gold but not gold, like jade but not jade and the page of "Breath Guidance Technique" appeared on the table. He skillfully turned the book to the one-third point with a colored dividing line and placed it flat on the table. He placed both hands on the back half of the opened book and silently practiced his profound skills on it. After a while, the book did not react at all; then he changed the direction of the book several times, horizontally and vertically, inputted internal force into it or knocked it, but the book remained the same; finally, he made another strange move, picked up the book, and placed the back two-thirds of the book on his forehead, just like a scholar who would put the book on his forehead when he closed his eyes and thought when he encountered a difficult problem. As if he was thinking, he just lay there motionless. After a long time, a sigh was heard in the room, "It still doesn't work. I've tried various methods in the past few years, but I still can't open it. How many levels do I need to practice to have this opportunity? If this book contains a method to cure the fire poison in my body, it's just alas." After sighing, he picked up the piece of paper with "Breath Guidance Technique" in his right hand, and without any movement, the paper suddenly caught fire and turned into ashes in an instant. "Internal Qi turning into matter" is a myth that has only been heard in the rumors in the martial arts world. Even the top masters in the martial arts world today can only turn objects into pieces or powder using internal force, but no one can create fire out of nothing.