Chapter 14 Breakthrough and Travel

In the past half year, Shi Xuan also quietly visited Fang, mother and son, and the three ghosts, and they were living a good life. Xu Tianqi kept his promise and followed Shi Xuan's instructions that day. He invited an old monk to pretend to surrender the evil spirits here. Then he donated money on behalf of the Xu family to transform the house into a temple to worship the gods who could suppress evil spirits and eliminate disasters. After praying for blessings, Pudu Bodhisattva, commonly known as Fang Yu, and the boys and girls under his seat, finally asked the old monk to hold a grand ceremony to consecrate the temple. Privately, he wrote various rumors about Pudu Bodhisattva into scripts and dramas, and spread them around the city. At the same time, he also shouldered the task of collecting Shinto teachings.

Because it was a renovation, the temple was completed in just over four months. When Shi Xuan went there, he saw that Fang's mother and son had switched to using incense to maintain their bodies, and their whole souls had lost a strong spooky smell. Even if they appeared in front of people at night, they would not be regarded as ghosts immediately, and because You cannot practice with the power of incense and aspiration. There are always two hours every day when the whole body is surrounded by smoke. If there is golden light, auspicious clouds, and beautiful sounds, the appearance will look like a real god.

Fang was very grateful to Shi Xuan and acted like a cow, but Shi Xuan didn't take it to heart. He just did it with a little effort, or even just moved his mouth. Xu Tianqi arranged most of the things. Fang and Xu Tianqi didn't think so. Without Shi Xuan's guidance on the mysteries of Shinto and the role of sacrifice, they couldn't figure out how to arrange it even if they tried. Even before that, they didn't understand why the world paid so much attention to sacrifice. Simply They thought it was an expression of filial piety to their ancestors, and they did not associate sacrifices with temple prayers.

They think so, and Shi Xuan can't stop it. He can't say that he just understood it after reading a few notes of Taoist seniors collected by Xu Laodao. This is just the most basic knowledge in Taoism, and it doesn't involve the specifics of Shinto. Cultivation issues. If I really wanted to explain, I might have to take out a few notebooks and show them to them, which would be very troublesome.

Of course, Shi Xuan did not see Xu Tianqi. This guy really stayed at home and practiced martial arts with peace of mind. He only came once with many elders in the family on the day of the temple's consecration. All his words to Shi Xuan were conveyed through Fang. Mu Jin was also pulled by Xu Tianqi to practice martial arts every day until he almost cried.

Meng Yuqiong and Xu Jinyi left Xia'an Mansion more than two months ago and returned to Luojing. According to Xu Tianqi, these two girls, especially Xu Jinyi, have been secretly inquiring about Shi Xuan's residence. However, the existence of Xu Laodao was only known to a few elders of the Xu family and the group of children who were originally sent to practice martial arts. The elders must have known about it. They can keep secrets. Those children are either no longer in the family, or they have been warned by Xu Tianqi in private. In addition, it is a secret in the first place, so they were not able to find out Shi Xuan's whereabouts until they left.

Shi Xuan was a little disappointed. Originally, he had hoped that Xu Jinyi would come to visit her after the news about the Xia family was over. It was not because she was greedy for beauty, but he just wanted to see if she had the talent, patience and perseverance to practice Taoism. If so, She can pass on Xu Laodao's tradition to her. By looking at Du Bai's memory fragments, Shi Xuan learned that Xu Laodao had always hoped that there would be someone in the family who could inherit his Taoism, but he never found one, so he gave up his wish. What Shi Xuan is practicing now is not the "Gui Zhen Jing". Naturally, I hope to find someone to pass on this tradition, and it would be even better if it could be someone from the Xu family.

Since she didn't come, Shi Xuan didn't force it. It only meant that she didn't have the opportunity. If she saw someone with talent, patience and perseverance in the future, it wouldn't be too late to pass it on.

In the past six months, Yaxing has brought people to see the yard one after another. However, Shi Xuan is not short of money now and is not willing to spend time looking for a new place to live, so he has been putting it off and planned to sell it before leaving.

At Haishi, in the dead of night, Shi Xuan sat on a futon with his legs crossed and his five hearts facing the sky. He carried the inner Qi along the route of the "Yushu Twelve Rivers, Eight Lakes and Seventy-two Great Rivers", passing through the twelve main meridians and the extraordinary meridians. The inner energy of the eight meridians and the seventy-one small meridians gradually condensed, and then under the command of Shi Xuan's will, it impacted the node of the last meridian. Although the inner energy was like a tide, the node was like a solid embankment. He blocked it there and tried three times in succession, but failed.

Shi Xuan did not expect that this last meridian would be so difficult to open. After opening the 71st meridian, it was expected that he would be able to achieve the acquired Great Zhoutian within half a month, but now a month and a half later, he still cannot open this last meridian. At the meridians. Fortunately, Shi Xuan's Qingfeng Mingyue Shen Zhenfa is still making great progress. Although he still hasn't touched the threshold of the peak of the soul-strengthening stage, his soul strength has been greatly enhanced, and he has also made significant progress in controlling his emotions, so Shi Xuan is not disappointed now. Shrouded in impatience.

Shi Xuan stopped breathing, calmed down the emotions that had just surged, and then clarified his thoughts and entered concentration. He planned to practice today's visualization lesson before practicing Qi.

The bright moon was shining down and the breeze was blowing around him. Shi Xuan felt that his soul was getting stronger and more ethereal as he was nourishing and removing impurities again and again. He felt that his divine consciousness could control every corner of his soul and everything was under his control.

Shi Xuan was suddenly alert, his thoughts suddenly heightened, and he looked down at his soul. Unexpectedly, he almost went crazy because of the impatience in his heart. During the visualization, if he could control every corner or a similar feeling, then It's a sign of obsession.

Fortunately, Shi Xuan has always cooperated with the practice of visualization on the method of recognizing the true spirit and collecting thoughts according to the true method of the gods, so he was able to be alert and get rid of his thoughts at the critical moment. After waiting for a moment and calming down, Shi Xuan started to visualize again.

After the visualization, Shi Xuan did not expect that after this near-death experience, his soul would become more transparent, with a faint light emerging. He had not expected to reach the peak of the Zhuanghun Stage, but now he seemed to have touched some thresholds, and no longer lost his direction like before.

After coming out of the meditation, Shi Xuan did not move his internal energy immediately, but stood up in the small room and performed a set of small boxing techniques collected by Master Xu, the Silk-Channel Fist. The fist wind was restrained, and the footsteps moved. After a set of boxing techniques, Shi Xuan's head was slightly sweaty, but his spirit was extremely calm.

Shi Xuan saw that after the previous set of boxing techniques, his body and mind were adjusted to the best, so he sat cross-legged again, closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing, and moved his internal energy again. During this Qigong exercise, Shi Xuan restrained the thought of opening up the meridians, as if he had forgotten it, and simply controlled the movement of the internal Qi.

Shi Xuan felt that his twelve meridians were twelve rivers, and the seventy-two rivers flowed into the river continuously, while the eight lakes regulated the rivers and the lakes. If there was more water in the river, the river water would flow into the lake, and if there was less water in the river, the lake water would flow into the river; if there was more water in the river, the river water would flow into the lake, and if there was less water in the river, the lake water would flow into the river. In the breath, the body seemed to become a complete whole, but there was a flaw that was conspicuous there.

Naturally, the internal Qi accumulated and rushed to the last meridian. Shi Xuan's soul, which had just become much stronger, could control this internal Qi more easily than before, making it thinner and faster to rush to that node. Shi Xuan seemed to feel a boom in his body, and the accumulated internal Qi had already opened that node, expanding and nourishing that meridian. Shi Xuan endured the tingling sensation and let the internal energy pass through this meridian, and finally rushed back into the river. The true energy in the body circulated endlessly, as if the arm was moving, and it was free and easy.

Controlling the internal energy to calm down, but not interrupting the natural circulation of the internal energy, this is one of the signs of the acquired great circulation. If the internal energy can circulate on its own, it will not be afraid of cold and heat, and it can naturally defend itself when encountering an enemy. Under normal circumstances, there is no need to deliberately mobilize the internal energy when making a move. Every move is natural.

Shi Xuan opened his eyes and felt that the dim and swaying candlelight in front of him was warm and stable. He seemed to be able to hear the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves, the water, and the clouds in the distance, see the small vortex in the air, see the flying dust, and sense the movement and movement in various places in the small courtyard.

Finally, the acquired great circulation was achieved, and it was finally time to leave here.

Although it was time to leave here, Shi Xuan still had a lot of things and items to deal with, so he couldn't leave for a while.

In the next few months, Shi Xuan was busy dealing with the sundries in the yard and consolidating his cultivation. Because he only needed to take away two sets of clothes (including the one on his body), silver, the Guizhen Sutra, talismans, mirrors, special incense sticks, and several utensils used for rituals and several Taoist notes, there were many other sundries that needed to be dealt with. For example, Shi Xuan took the clothes and personal belongings of Xu Laodao to his grave and burned them, and then paid homage to him as a farewell.

The materials for the talismans have all been transformed into talismans during this period of time. In addition to the sixteen talismans left by Xu Laodao, Shi Xuan has also drawn about thirty of them himself. Together with the talismans that Du Bai had drawn before, there are a total of sixty-five. However, the talismans were not placed in the package, but were classified and placed in the secret pockets of the sleeves of the Taoist robe, waist and arms for easy access.

Shi Xuan destroyed all the utensils used to boil medicinal soup and hold medicinal baths, and then took them to the suburbs and buried them all using the technique of gathering soil. In short, all the utensils related to cultivation were handled in this way. Shi Xuan gave away the extra clothes and other things to beggars on the street.

In addition, when Shi Xuan brought people to see the yard again three months later, he did not bargain and sold it according to the buyer's offer of 270 taels of silver. After submitting the deed and paying taxes at the government office, plus the proceeds from the pawnshop, Shi Xuan finally got 229 taels. In this way, Shi Xuan had a total of 235 taels of silver and some copper coins.

In this way, one day in March, Shi Xuan carried a package on his back and followed the crowded crowd out of the gate of Xia'an Prefecture, leaving the place where he had stayed for more than a year and embarking on his journey to seek immortality and Taoism.