Chapter 20: The bell rings
Chapter 20: The bell rings
In the main hall, Taoist Fu Guang sat in front of the statue.
Knowing the future and observing the future, as well as deducing the secrets of heaven, is a very important ability in the Dongji Chenguang Heaven.
It is too easy to become an immortal and live a long life in this great world. After a cultivator reaches the sixth rank, he will have a natural lifespan of hundreds of years. With the help of some special methods, it is not difficult to live for a thousand years. Therefore, except for the casual cultivators who have just entered the sixth rank, most of the sixth rank cultivators have accumulated many magic weapons and practiced many magical powers.
This also means that starting from the sixth level, unless the outcome of a battle at the same level can be decided in an instant, it will easily last for decades, hundreds of years, or even lifetimes.
Under such special circumstances, once the monks go to war, they will inevitably make plans, leave foreshadowings, set up killing situations at key locations, and so on. The ability to predict the future and deduce the past is naturally valued.
The divination method circulated in the Taiyi Jinguang Sect is Taiyi Divine Numbers, which is a very large divination system. It adopts the Five Elements and Six Periods, with 360 years as a large cycle and 72 years as a small cycle. Taiyi stays in each palace for three years and does not enter the central palace. It rotates once in 24 years and travels three periods in 72 years. One is Taiji, which gives birth to two eyes. Two eyes give birth to the host and the guest. The big and small guests and the God of Calculation make up eight generals.
Here, it is similar to the division of Tai Chi into two instruments, the two instruments give birth to four symbols, and the four symbols give birth to eight trigrams. After determining the pattern with the orientation relationship of the sixteen gods, one can predict internal and external blessings. And according to the four seasons, one can predict floods, droughts, diseases and epidemics. And by deduce the three bases, five blessings, big and small travels and two limits, one can predict the order and chaos in ancient and modern times.
The Taiyi Divine Numbers inherited in the Jinhua Sect can be regarded as a major branch of this system. Its full name is "Taiyi Yinfu Jinguanji", which is also the source of the divination method used by Taoist Fuguang at this moment.
After chanting for more than an hour and adjusting his spirit, energy and strength to the most suitable state, he stretched out a hand, and a ray of golden light appeared on his fingertips. The light spread outward and turned into a round mirror in front of him. He flipped his palm, and the mirror reversed and slowly fell, forming a circle of light in front of him. The surrounding light gathered to form a hexagram.
By pinching and pushing the fingers outwards, the hexagram will expand and become gradually complex, forming the eight gates, eight winds and eight trigrams.
Immediately afterwards, the corresponding eight divine energies between heaven and earth automatically gathered together, promoting information changes and helping Taoist Fu Guang to predict the past and the future.
A series of illusory shadows appeared in the mirror, that was Chu Tai's past.
But it was very strange that the image constructed by the information deduced by Taoist Fuguang was very blurry, as if it was there and not there, hazy, like looking at something through a foggy funhouse mirror. Not only could the specific appearance not be seen clearly, but even the specific image could not be determined.
Taoist Fu Guang frowned slightly, thinking to himself: "That's not right. Although after two days of collision, many divination methods have lost some of their mysteries under the influence of foreign laws and principles, and the accuracy has been seriously distorted due to the emergence of variables, Chu Tai is closely connected with me and has been with me for more than three years. With our auras intertwined, why can't I see clearly?"
Thinking of this, Taoist Fu Guang couldn't help but increase the injection of magic power. At the same time, a little sunlight appeared in his eyes, but he was using another magical power to explore the source.
In a trance, the image of Chu Tai in Taoist Fu Guang's eyes became a little clearer. At this time, a bell suddenly rang in his ears.
Then, a brilliant and majestic shadow, dazzling and vast, with thousands of rays of light flowing down, appeared in the mirror. Its blurry image made a movement similar to turning its head, and the dazzling light shone in the eyes of Taoist Fuguang.
The Golden Crow's mournful cry sounded, drowning out the faint sound of the bell.
"what sound……"
At the same time, Chu Tai, who had returned to his room to rest, suddenly opened his eyes, stood up and looked around. He seemed to have heard a burst of shrill bird calls, and the next second, ink ripples appeared unconsciously in front of his eyes.
【Fifteen years - I have learned a lot...】
[Fifteen years - a deep bond with the orthodox Taiyi lineage of the Great Celestial Immortal Dao...]
The two paragraphs of text reappeared, and this time they were emitting a faint golden light. In a trance, Chu Tai seemed to see the shadow of a golden crow struggling in the flames, with incomplete runes on its flapping wings. 'This is...'
Chu Tai frowned slightly and looked carefully, then he saw the runes began to combine automatically to form a new name [Ninth Grade·Announcement of the Dawn].
His energy began to fade, but when the two words "Announcing the Dawn" took shape, Chu Tai felt as if he had seen many things. These were some principles about the yang and light attributes. The Nanyan Cave Fuxiyao True Qi flowing in his body also quickly absorbed these principles, increasing his own strength and suppressing the magic power in his body that increased with the appearance of "Wandering Man".
Chu Tai was shocked and didn't know the source, but he couldn't help but continue observing. The two words [Baoxiao] changed rapidly and were promoted to a new name [Eighth Grade·Chaoguang].
When the word "Chao Guang" appeared, Chu Tai saw many light-attributed magic practice concepts.
However, this kind of gain consumed a lot of Chu Tai's own energy. In addition, his previous focus on forming the two words "Chao Guang" had already exhausted all his energy. After receiving this information, he couldn't help but feel dazed and fell asleep.
On the other side, after the Golden Crow's mournful cry sounded, Taoist Fu Guang immediately felt the constant alienation in his body. The active true Qi suddenly underwent some changes, and all the insights from the past flowed through his heart.
"Ninth-grade dawn announcement? Eighth-grade morning light?"
Taoist Fu Guang frowned slightly. He felt the extra power and these two names in his body.
At the moment of sensing the [Dawn], Taoist Fu Guang clearly felt that his physical fitness had been improved to a certain extent, his mental state had also changed slightly, and his vision had increased, although the improvements in both were too weak and basically useless to him.
But according to Taoist Fu Guang's own calculations, the strength of the spiritual change is enough to allow an ordinary person to gain a certain yang and attribute, and be able to perceive, collect and refine the corresponding vital energy more keenly. The change in vision can probably give ordinary people the ability of night vision.
Finally, Taoist Fu Guang stretched out a hand, and a ray of sunlight and purple air surrounded his hand. He muttered to himself: "This is a magic method that relies on sunlight and purple air. In theory, it can be called mysterious. It's a pity that it is not complete. There should be corresponding subsequent changes that can be further improved..."
Fu Guang closed his eyes slightly, and began to sense the changes brought about by the transformation of [Dawn] into [Morning Light].
The first thing to change was his physique, which was further strengthened as a whole, and his vitality and perception abilities also improved. He even had the ability to store a certain amount of yang and vital energy, which made his body resistant to disease and harsh environment. This ability will be further enhanced under the vital energy with tendencies of yang and light.
"No, this is not an increase, but it is similar to solidifying some of the magical powers I practiced in the past or some of the principles I learned. Is this Chu Tai's secret? The ability to solidify Dao Fruit fragments..."
Taoist Fu Guang felt that he seemed to understand the origin and uniqueness of Chu Tai's abilities. He raised his head and looked upwards at the statue of Taiyi Zhenjun, who had not done any eye-opening and had specially modified some of the decorations.
'Master, is this your guidance?'
Taoist Fu Guang lowered his head slightly and continued to chant the scriptures with mixed feelings. The sounds of the wooden fish and bronze chimes arose again, and spots of light appeared on his body, entangled with the weak golden crow shadow in his body, until the music became peaceful and sacred, and a faint light appeared outside the window.
PS: Apart from the Taiyi Divine Numbers, which have some basis in the beginning, the subsequent "Taiyi Yin Fu Jin Guang Ji" is purely made up, so just read it for fun. And then there will not be too much description of this kind of divination in the subsequent period, and it will be glossed over if it can be mentioned briefly.
(End of this chapter)