Chapter 155 True Biography 1 sentence
Chapter 155 A true message
"My name is Chen Shi."
"Master Yutang, my name is Chen Shi."
"Master Xiao Xiang, my name is Chen Shi."
Chen Shi told the people in Hongshan Hall again and again that his name was Chen Shi, but no matter whether it was the incense masters, Hongshan Goddess, or Yu Tiancheng, they would write down Chen Shi's name, then forget it again and ask him what his name was again.
Everyone in Hongshan Hall was shuddering with fear.
It was as if there was a monster living in their minds that deleted the two words "Chen Shi"!
No matter when or where, no matter how deep the memory is, as long as the word "Chen Shi" is there, it will be deleted!
"The Queen calls me a scholar."
Chen Shi was helpless. Although Hei Guo had woken up, he was listless and listless. He didn't know when everyone would be in this state, so he said patiently, "Master Yu, just call me Xiucai."
"Master Xiang, just call me Scholar."
Yu Tiancheng admired him very much and said, "Xiucai, you have great talent, you will definitely pass the imperial examination!"
Someone brought a wanted warrant and a capture order for Chen Shi. When Yu Tiancheng saw Chen Shi's name on the warrant, the word "Chen Shi" automatically turned blank, leaving him with no impression, so he dropped the list.
"Scholar, I think I have studied the books of sages and have learned a lot these years, but I am far inferior to you! You have to teach me more during the days of recuperation. I will take the exam for the scholar again in three years!"
Yu Tiancheng said, "With your guidance, I will definitely become a high school scholar!"
Chen Shi said generously: "I will teach all my knowledge to the master, and I will never keep anything to myself!"
Yu Tiancheng was very happy and said to his left and right: "When I pass the exam and become a scholar, I will kill anyone who says I am the leader of the Blind Flow Hall."
Everyone around him looked worried.
Yu Tiancheng studied in the ward where Chen Shi was recuperating. It must be said that this Master Yu was very serious about his studies. He personally copied down the Analects that Chen Shi explained and recited them diligently.
During this period, several groups of yamen runners came to the door with arrest warrants and killing warrants. However, when they arrived at Hongshan Hall, they forgot the name Chen Shi. When they looked at the arrest warrants and killing warrants again, they could not recognize the word Chen Shi, so they had to go back obediently.
Everyone in the Tianmu Society had forgotten the name Chen Shi. Although they knew Chen Shi, they just couldn't say it out loud.
Since the victims don't know who the murderer is, the authorities are too lazy to investigate.
On this day, Chen Shi was leaning against the window reading the Doctrine of the Mean when suddenly a paper crane flew over and landed on the window, knocking lightly on the window frame, making a tapping sound.
Chen Shi's heart moved slightly, and he caught the paper crane, but saw words written on the paper crane. When he unfolded it, it turned out to be a letter sent by Li Tianqing from Quanzhou.
This method of sending letters is called kite messaging. After writing the letter, you have to find a special sender and pay the money. The sender will first lock the recipient's soul and breath through the token, and then activate the magic, and the kite will fly up, flapping its wings and flying towards the recipient.
If there is a thunderstorm, the kites will take shelter in caves, ancient temples, and under the eaves of houses, and will not continue flying until the rain stops.
It's okay in the countryside, but in the city you can often see such kites flying in groups, just like flocks of birds.
Chen Shi unfolded the letter and read it. He was deeply moved, so he wrote back: "Mr. Tianqing, I am glad to hear from you. I am in good health and have not been ill for many days. I have been studying the books of sages recently and my knowledge is growing. How is your mother? Please give me your regards. Yesterday, when I was sitting cross-legged, I suddenly felt crystals flying behind my elbows. They replenished my brain and the golden elixir became mysterious. At the extreme, the white elixir turned black. I did not realize that I had cultivated to the fourth level of the golden elixir. The corpse cloud in Xijing, could it be that the Creator Xiaowu stored food?"
He tilted his head to think for a moment, then continued writing: "The people of Gongzhou have bad morals, and many of them sell their people. I was shocked to hear that a certain scholar was sold to a farm when he first arrived in Gongzhou. You must be careful when you take the exam. I am waiting for you in Gongzhou, looking forward to your arrival, and hope that we can pass the exam together."
Signed: Chen Shi.
Most of his wounds had healed, and he hobbled out of the house. There was a talisman master in Hongshan Hall who was sending a letter. Chen Shi found the sender and paid the money.
The sender asked about Li Tianqing's age and where the letter was sent. He also took Li Tianqing's letter and sniffed it to confirm Li Tianqing's spirit and breath. He folded the letter that Chen Shi wanted to send into a kite, and then performed a ritual. The kite flew up, flapping its wings towards Quanzhou.
The sender was still sitting on the mat, with mist swirling above his head, in which one could see kites flying.
Chen Shi did not leave immediately. He stood by the door and watched. He saw the kites flying in the clouds. Sometimes they would encounter strong winds and move forward with difficulty. However, they would be blown off course. The sender would then have to redefine the direction and continue on their way.
Sometimes when there is a thunderstorm, the sender has to control the kite and quickly find a place to take shelter.
Sometimes they would encounter some hawks and owls that would chase the kites, and some of the kites would be destroyed. The apprentices nearby would then note the destroyed kites, find a backup, and fold another one to continue their journey.
"Being a letter sender is not an easy job. No wonder he charges so much money." Chen Shi thought to himself.
Sending letters is a craft that requires special training methods. One must first refine the mind. Only when one can place his mind on a kite and keep it flying for a thousand miles can one be considered to have achieved some success.
The mind is divided into dozens of strands, flying with the kite for thousands of miles without dispersing. This is the ultimate achievement.
A letter sender like Hongshan Hall, who can use a kite to fly thousands of miles and still find the recipient accurately, is considered a master among letter senders. There are only one or two such people in the provincial capital.
Chen Shi staggered back to his residence. Yu Tiancheng was already waiting there. He said, "Xiucai, the blood bead I refined for you can be used to refine the second golden elixir and the second Nascent Soul. After refining, you can practice the external incarnation, which is very convenient. Your injuries are almost healed now, and you can refine the second golden elixir. I brought you the "Red Blood Incarnation Method" of our Hongshan Hall. Do you want to practice it?"
He handed over the "Red Blood Incarnation Method" and Chen Shi flipped through it, feeling somewhat confused.
Seeing this, Yu Tiancheng smiled and said, "Although this Red Blood Incarnation Technique is a magic technique and not a top-level technique, there are not many children of wealthy families who can practice this level of technique."
Chen Shi shook his head and said, "The second golden elixir and the second Nascent Soul are external incarnations. In my opinion, they are unorthodox and not worth pursuing."
Yu Tiancheng asked doubtfully, "You dislike it as a magic technique?"
Chen Shi remembered what his grandfather had said to him, and shook his head, "No. All external incarnations are the wrong path. The real external incarnation refers to the cultivator's golden elixir, primordial infant, and primordial spirit. When a cultivator opens the Heavenly Gate, the golden elixir leaves the body, and the mind follows the golden elixir, seeing what the golden elixir sees, hearing what the golden elixir hears, as if there is a second self. This is the external body. As for cultivating a second golden elixir, a second primordial infant, and a second primordial spirit in the future, it is only a path taken when there is no hope."
When the grandfather and grandson were bored, the grandfather would talk about the various secrets of cultivation, and he would also explain clearly the various taboos and dangers in cultivation.
Therefore, when Chen Shi saw the Red Blood Incarnation Technique, he felt that many people in Hongshan Hall were practicing it incorrectly.
Yu Tiancheng thought for a long time after hearing this and said, "What you said makes sense, but how difficult is cultivation? Do you know how many cultivators die every year in the Kaitianmen of the Golden Core Realm alone?"
Chen Shi was even more confused after hearing this: "Is it difficult to open the Heavenly Gate?"
Yu Tiancheng sighed and said, "Difficult? More than difficult! Let's not talk about anything else. Just in my Hongshan Hall, every year, there are three or four cultivators who have reached the Golden Core Stage and died because of Kaitianmen! As for Gongzhou City, there are probably thirty to fifty cultivators who die because of Kaitianmen every year!"
Chen Shi couldn't help but say, "It's so easy to open the Heaven Gate! Why did so many people die?"
Yu Tiancheng sneered and said, "Come with me."
He led Chen Shi to a side room, where he saw a talisman master serving a middle-aged monk who was paralyzed on the bed.
The monk had an untidy beard and stared at the roof with lifeless eyes. He didn't care about the arrival of the hall master of Yutian City.
Yu Tiancheng said: "He is Gu Yunshu, the master of the Red Mountain Hall. He is a genius of the Red Mountain Hall and the founder of the Red Mountain Hall with me. When the master of the ancient fragrance cultivated the golden elixir, he tried to open the gate of heaven and leave the body, but the blood and qi filled his brain, and he became a fool and paralyzed in bed. He has been lying here for nearly twenty years!"
His eyes were red. "There were eight elders who founded Hongshan Hall with me back then! Now only Gu Yunshu and I are left! Do you know where the other six are?"
He walked outside and came to another side room where some tablets were enshrined.
Chen Shi looked over and saw that most of them were tablets of instructors and incense masters, as many as dozens of people.
"They're here!"
Yu Tiancheng pointed at these tablets and said, "In addition to these six people, there are forty-seven other instructors and incense masters who died in Kaitianmen!"
He said loudly: "Scholar, cultivating the golden elixir, opening the heavenly gate, and leaving the body, each step is extremely difficult, and you must be careful and cautious at every step to survive and reach a higher level! Cultivate the second golden elixir, the second primordial infant, use the blood beads to replace your golden elixir, and repeatedly practice opening the heavenly gate and leaving the body, then you can avoid this danger! If you despise the blood beads and the Red Blood Incarnation Method, there will be a spiritual place for you here in the future!"
He said earnestly: "Although this blood bead was refined by the evil incarnation of Tianmu and contains evil nature, the Red Blood Incarnation Technique is a demonic technique, but it can save lives! This kind of technique is the only one that our Hongshan Hall can come up with! This is already the best I can come up with!" Chen Shi understood what he meant.
After a cultivator reaches the Golden Elixir stage, he can use the spiritual fetus to nourish the Golden Elixir, and the spiritual fetus can help the cultivator's Golden Elixir leave his body.
But there is a huge drawback, that is, it is impossible to truly practice the Seven Returns, Eight Transformations, and Nine Returns, and the golden elixir can only temper the body outside the body. If you want to truly temper the body, you need the golden elixir to enter the body and travel inside the body, so that you can achieve the Seven Returns, Eight Transformations, and Nine Returns.
However, there is a huge difficulty in tempering the body, which is that when the golden elixir runs to the brain, the qi and blood rush into the head violently!
At this time, the Sky Gate needs to be opened. Once the Sky Gate is opened, the Qi and blood will have a way to flow out, so that you will not die from a head explosion or be turned into a fool by the impact.
Chen Shi had previously cultivated to the third level of the golden elixir, and was discovered by Yu Tiancheng, so he refined Tianmu's clone into a blood bead and let him refine the second golden elixir and the incarnation outside his body. He used the second golden elixir to first temper his body, open the mysterious gate of the brain, and open the Heavenly Gate.
Since the second golden elixir does not carry a huge amount of qi and blood, there will be no danger of qi and blood filling the brain.
After the Heavenly Gate is opened, the golden elixir will enter the brain and leave the body naturally.
"It only takes one year for you to refine the second golden elixir, and after another year, you will be able to open the Heavenly Gate."
Yu Tiancheng said, "After opening the Heavenly Gate, your golden elixir will enter your brain and leave your body, and there will be no danger."
Chen Shi shook his head and said, "Master, it is not that difficult to open the Heavenly Gate and leave the body. It can be done in half an hour at the fastest and seven days at the slowest. It is not dangerous at all."
Yu Tiancheng was so angry that he laughed: "How do you open it?"
"It's very simple."
Chen Shi came to the side room where Gu Yunshu was, sat in front of the bed, helped the paralyzed Gu Yunshu up, fumbled for a while from the Baihui point on his skull to the tip of his hair on his forehead, found the Tianmen, then suspended his palm an inch away from his scalp, and whispered: "Master Gu Xiang, can you hear me? I will use my own Qi and blood to open the Tianmen for you, and you will focus your mind on the place I point to."
Gu Yunshu froze there, unable to move, his eyes ashen.
Chen Shi gently mobilized the qi and blood, without directly touching Gu Yunshu's scalp, but instead injected the qi and blood into Gu Yunshu's Tianmen.
"Master Guxiang, concentrate your mind and imagine your skull opening outwards a little, with golden light shining through."
Chen Shi said softly, "Have no distracting thoughts in your mind. When you feel your heart beating at the Tianmen, keep your consciousness."
Yu Tiancheng looked at him, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he thought to himself: "How can it be so easy to open the Heaven Gate?"
He once met a Buddhist master, who told him that in order to open the Heavenly Gate in Buddhism, one needs to train the spine to become a pillar of heaven, imagine the spine as light, and shine through the brain. The light should shine continuously on the Heavenly Gate of the skull, and this should be done for a year without interruption before the Heavenly Gate can be opened.
Chen Shi’s method is so simple, it’s like a joke.
Just as he thought of this, he suddenly saw a fingernail-sized spot in front of Gu Yunshu's head beating rapidly, as if there was a small heart hidden underneath!
Yu Tiancheng was stunned.
Suddenly, a bright light appeared in Gu Yunshu's eyes. Two lines of turbid tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes. As he shed tears, his body shook, as if he was crying.
Yu Tiancheng was surprised and delighted, and hurried forward, only to see Gu Yunshu's tears streaming down his face, his body shaking more and more violently, and suddenly he shouted from his throat: "I'm suffocating!"
After saying that, he opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of black blood.
"Yun Shu, you can speak now!"
Yu Tiancheng was extremely surprised and held his hand, but he only felt that Gu Yunshu's hand was becoming stronger and stronger.
Chen Shi retracted his hand that was hovering above Gu Yunshu's head and said, "Concentrate your consciousness. The golden elixir will slowly rise up, pass through the twelfth floor (throat tube), and enter the brain. Concentrate, don't be distracted, and be sure to go slowly."
Gu Yunshu sat on the bed, motionless.
Gradually, light came out from his throat, illuminating the fragile bones of his throat.
There are twelve cartilaginous bones, like twelve-story buildings.
The golden elixir slowly rose up layer by layer until it reached the mouth and tongue.
"Close your mouth, put your tongue against the roof of your mouth, and let it enter your nose."
Chen Shi continued to give instructions.
There was light shining in Gu Yunshu's mouth, illuminating his teeth clearly. He saw a golden pill going up along his tongue and entering his nasal cavity.
At this time, a white light shot out from Gu Yunshu's nose. It was about a foot long and it moved hesitantly, sometimes long and sometimes short.
After the golden elixir passes through the nasal sinusitis, it enters the brain.
The brain is also called the Jade Court and the Heavenly Court. The light of the golden elixir illuminates the brain extremely brightly. Various brain patterns are reflected in the air around Gu Yunshu, forming a strange scene of a heavenly palace!
Chen Shi continued, "The golden elixir moves along the midline of the brain. Do not enter the left or right sides. If you enter, you will die. When you reach the Heavenly Gate... leave the body!"
He let out a low shout, and suddenly the humble room was filled with light as bright as day, and a golden elixir jumped out from the sky gate above Gu Yunshu's head, radiating light!
Chen Shi breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Look, Hall Master, it's that simple to open the Heaven Gate and make the golden elixir leave the body! The aptitude of Master Gu Xiang is indeed extraordinary. It only takes half an hour to open the Heaven Gate and make the golden elixir leave the body."
Yu Tiancheng was stunned and murmured, "When I opened the Heaven Gate and left the body, I practiced for two years..."
Gu Yunshu looked at the golden elixir in front of him, tears streaming down his face.
He practiced for twenty years.
I didn't expect that it would only take half an hour to open the Sky Gate and produce the golden elixir!
"Scholar, how do you know how to open the Heavenly Gate?" Yu Tiancheng asked hurriedly.
Chen Shi said: "That's what my grandfather taught me."
Yu Tiancheng was stunned for a moment, then humbly asked, "May I ask who your grandfather is?"
"Chen Yindu from Huangpo Village."
Yu Tiancheng tried hard to recall, but he had never heard of this name. He then said, "Many teachers and incense masters opened the Heavenly Gate, but died after a few years. Why is that?"
Chen Shi remembered his grandfather's teachings and asked, "After they open the Heavenly Gate, will they lock it?"
Yu Tiancheng was stunned: "Do you still need a lock?"
"If you don't lock it, your Yang energy will be lost, and if your Yang energy is gone, you will die."
Chen Shi taught him everything his grandfather had taught him, and said, "Even if the Yang Qi doesn't flow, the Yang Qi in the body will become less and less, and it will not be able to cover up the Yin Qi in the golden elixir, and you will be struck by lightning during a thunderstorm."
Yu Tiancheng's mind buzzed with excitement. Indeed, many instructors and incense masters were killed by lightning during thunderstorms!
"True transmission is just one sentence, false transmission is ten thousand books..."
His tears fell like rain, and he murmured, "I didn't expect that leaving the body and reaching another body would be so simple. We did it wrong...hahahaha, we all did it wrong!"
——Note: Don’t follow the method in the book to open the Heavenly Gate. It doesn’t say how to lock the Heavenly Gate, and I don’t know how to lock it! The method of opening the Heavenly Gate in the book is Pang Heming’s method. It can be opened, but don’t practice it.
(End of this chapter)