Can you live forever

Chapter 1 A sun comes back, the beginning knows longevity
In the 16th year of Zhengde, on April 21st, the new emperor Zhu Houcong ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.

same day.

At the foot of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, in Zhangjia Village, Zhang Xiucai's daughter-in-law was about to give birth. At this time, a golden lotus descended from the sky, dragons and tigers sang together, and the rays of light lasted all night.

Feng Xiang Patriarch, disc sue Sanqing.

Choose "Tao Te Ching" Chapter 35 "holding an elephant, the world will go" as the name, and the name is Zhang Zhixiang.

Conferred on Taishang Dadong scriptures.

Since then, Tianshi Mansion has added a little master uncle...

……

Jiajing five years, winter.

When it was snowing heavily, an imperial decree accompanied the vast imperial envoys to Longhu Mountain. In the Jade Emperor's Hall, Huang Jin, the former imperial eunuch, read out: "Following the heavens to carry the emperor, the edict says, the celestial master Zhang Yanjie slays demons and eliminates evil, and holds the teachings." Protecting the country... granting Zhengyi's education, Baoguang Dazheng, and taking charge of the world's Taoist affairs!"

Immediately, the ceremonies and music rang together, thanking the emperor for his kindness.

But Huang Jin took out another imperial decree without rushing: "... I heard that when he ascended the throne, an immortal came to the world, thinking it was auspicious, so he bestowed a gold crown with a jade seal, a purple and gold cassock, and awarded Dr. Guanglu. Then choose a day to go to Beijing."

The family was taken aback for a moment, and then they were overjoyed.

The old master patted Zhang Zhixiang's small shoulder and said, "Go."

Zhang Zhixiang went forward to receive the decree, then went down surrounded by a group of eunuchs and changed into a purple gold cassock, wearing a jade seal and a gold crown, he looked like a real fairy boy.

Huang Jin asked the painter to paint for Zhang Zhixiang, and he himself signaled to the old master, walked out of the Jade Emperor Palace, and watched the snow in the outer corridor.

The eunuch stood with his hands together, looked at the goose feather heavy snow and said sadly: "Does the old Tianshi feel that this year is too cold?"

"indeed so."

Zhang Yanyu agreed in a deep voice, and asked: "Your Majesty rewarded you generously today, but for this?"

"Exactly."

Huang Jin bowed to the north and said solemnly: "It's a severe cold, and the Qin Tianjian thought it was just the first sign. Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it has been getting colder and colder, but the real severe cold seems to be coming."

"When the weather turns cold, everything fails to harvest, droughts and floods come together, and the world is in chaos."

"Long live God wants to ask the heavenly master if there is a way to change the sky to save the common people."

The old celestial master was silent for a long time, and replied: "Poverty cultivation is simple, and it is difficult to change the weather, but before the great cold, there is a great heat, and before the cold wave comes, it must be the time when the yang energy of the world is the strongest."

"If you can get this 'return to the light', a fairy will be born."

"Maybe it can change fate against the sky and save the common people."

Huang Jin murmured: "Before the great cold, there is a great heat...how can you see it?"

The old heavenly master: "Today is the winter solstice, when the sun comes back, let's see the ashes flying in the reed tube to determine the strength of the yang."

Huang Jin: "Very good!"

……

At night, after eating dumplings, the old heavenly master looked at Zhang Zhixiang and asked with a smile, "How do you feel?"

Zhang Zhixiang fiddled with the golden crown on his head, and said with a bitter face, "I feel like I've been invited to the altar, and I don't look like myself anymore, brother, can I change my clothes back?"

Zhang Yankai accepted apprentices on behalf of his ancestors, so Zhang Zhixiang's nominal master is Zhang Daoling, the ancestral heavenly master.

The celestial masters are passed down from generation to generation, and all of them can be regarded as the disciples of the ancestral celestial masters. Therefore, Zhang Yanyi and Zhang Zhixiang, the old and the young, are called brothers and sisters.

And Zhang Zhixiang, who was born with auspiciousness, was regarded as a child who came into the world as a fairy.

In fact, it is a time traveler.

In his previous life, he was frail and sick since he was a child, and the major hospitals could not treat him. It happened that Taoist Zhang Zhishun came to build Huangzhong Palace in their Cili County.

Master Dao has extraordinary medical skills, but due to various reasons, he once made an oath that he would never practice medicine again in this life.

But I can't bear the child's early death.

So he took him in Huangzhong Palace, taught him "Eight Parts of Vajra Kung Fu" and "Longevity Kung Fu", and massaged him every day to improve his Qi, only in the name of practice, instead of practicing medicine.

However, the Taoist priest was old for a long time, and passed away in only three years.

The root cause of his illness has not been cured. He was only eight years old at the time. Although he practiced diligently every day according to the instructions of the Taoist master, his illness was acquired innately.

Before he died, he held the circle of heaven and earth in his hand. He regretted that his fate was not enough, and he failed to cultivate Taoism, but he didn't want to open his eyes again, he was already a baby...

Time flies.

Five years have passed, and Zhang Zhixiang has accepted the fact that he has become the little master's uncle of Tianshi Mansion. He can make up for the regrets in his previous life, and he cherishes this opportunity to seek Tao very much.

if it is possible.

He didn't want to go down the mountain, let alone the emperor's reward, but the old celestial master patted him on the shoulder and said: "Before we became immortals, we were still in the world, so we couldn't escape the vulgarity. After the imperial envoy left, we changed our clothes." Bar."

"Brother, do I really want to see the emperor?"

"Your Majesty loves metaphysics, you will naturally be treated as a guest of honor when you go, and you can just go for a leisurely stroll."

"How can it be so easy..."

Zhang Zhixiang muttered, but the old celestial master smiled and didn't plan to help him, but changed the subject and asked, "Can you still recite the thousand-character text?"

"Ok!"

His father in this life is called Zhang Baichuan, a scholar, so he taught him to read since he was three years old. After reading all three hundred thousand, he began to recite according to his words: "The heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, and the universe is prehistoric. Su Lie Zhang."

"Cold comes and summer goes, autumn harvests and winter hides."

"Run Yu is a grown-up, Lu Lu tunes Yang."

Zhang Zhixiang was still waiting to recite it, the old heavenly master interrupted him by raising his hand, and asked, "What is the explanation for Lulu Tiaoyang?"

Zhang Zhixiang replied: "Lv Guan and Lu Guan can adjust yin and yang."

"According to legend, in the time of the ancient Yellow Emperor, the twelve rhythms were determined, and the scale was determined by the twelve rhythm tubes. The longest is nine inches, and the shortest is four inches and six minutes. The first 'son'."

"Today is the winter solstice."

"Bury the twelve rhyme pipes obliquely in the soil, leaving only one hole flush with the ground, put the ash from the burning of the inner film of the new reed in the pipe, and then seal it with bamboo film. When the sun comes back, the 'Huang Zhong' will The reed ash will break through the bamboo membrane and burst out."

"This is due to the rising earth's qi."

"Therefore, music can adjust yin and yang and determine solar terms."

"Father said."

"The importance of etiquette and music lies in this."

"Music is the foundation of the country. All weights and measures are determined by the 'Yellow Bell'. There are six classics in ancient times, and the poems and books are easy to enjoy. It is a pity that the "Le" has been lost since the Qin Dynasty, so people today do not know the existence of the flying dragon. God."

The old celestial master stroked his beard and praised: "Your father is a man who reads books and seeks to understand."

Zhang Zhixiang smiled bitterly and said: "Father often said that learning these things is useless for the imperial examination, but every time he couldn't help but read these books, but he couldn't read the classics, righteousness and prose, so he couldn't pass the Juren examination."

The old celestial master jokingly said, "How could studying be better than cultivating immortals? Look, aren't you Doctor Guanglu, the first-rank official title?"

"I'm not rare."

"Ha ha……"

After laughing, the old heavenly master looked towards the yard and saw that Huang Jin had come, so he took Zhang Zhixiang's hand and said, "Let's go, go and see Yiyang Laifu, our imperial envoy can't wait."

Yiyang comes back at the winter solstice.

It was still early, but Huang Jin couldn't sit still, so he could only go to wait outside the climatic room first. It was obviously cold wind, and Huang Jin, who was standing under the pavilion, was also full of enthusiasm, looking forward to the great heat before the great cold.

The climate room is a three-story stacked house, so it looks very tall from the outside.

Each floor of the house has only one door, and they face north and south. Not to mention all the gaps in the house are blocked, and the outside of each floor is covered with thick curtains to ensure that the innermost house is absolutely windless.

The twelve rhythmic pipes in the room will react in every solar term.

After each observation, some disciples will take away the old Jia ash, add new Jia ash and seal it, waiting for the next observation.

At the time of the winter solstice, the yin qi between the heaven and the earth is the most heavy and the yang qi is the weakest, but it is the trend of a yang coming back and forth, so the earth's qi surges the most intensely.At that time, the "yellow bell" will make a sound of "buzz", and the reed ash in the rhythm tube will also burst out of the bamboo membrane at the same time.

To judge whether there is a great heat before the great cold, the old heavenly master only needs to listen to the "buzz" sound of urination and defecation.

It's too early.

The old master asked Zhang Zhixiang, who was shivering from the cold: "The coming and going of the yang is the opportunity for the heaven and the earth to turn from the cathode to the yang, and the returning and returning of the yang in the human body, do you know what it is?"

Zhang Zhixiang shook his head, he didn't learn it before, so naturally he didn't understand.

The old celestial master folded his sleeves and said: "The inborn is yang, the acquired is yin, one yang comes and goes, and the beginning returns to the innate."

"Back to the innate?"

Old Heavenly Master: "Golden Dan Dao, the method of pure yang. The innate qi is the true nature of human beings. In the mother's womb, it is the innate nature. After birth, the innate nature has been lost. The foundation is built in a hundred days, without omissions and flaws, and one yang comes. Recover, heaven and man sprout."

"That's right."

"A little bit of Yuanyang ignites the original qi, and all the yin begins to fade away. The original qi returns to the innate, and from then on, longevity can be expected."

"Little brother, do you wish to live forever?"

Zhang Zhixiang naturally wants to live forever.

But the old heavenly master just stroked his beard with a smile, and did not teach him the way of golden elixir. When he was puzzled, the great eunuch Huang Jin smiled and said: "Little fairy, there is another meaning in the return of the sun."

"Energetic and full of energy, without desire."

"You are the same as our family now, you can't fix it."

Zhang Zhixiang suddenly realized, and asked: "Then I have to be an adult before I can practice?"

The old celestial master smiled and said, "Normally speaking, 16 years old is the Qian Gua, which belongs to the time of pure yang, and it is best to start practicing at this time."

"in addition."

"Men go to the end of two or eight days, eight or eight days to end; women, two or seven days to reach the end, seven or seven days. Although it does not mean that you can't practice before and after, it's just that the effect is not satisfactory."

Zhang Zhixiang asked suspiciously: "In that case, senior brother, why are you asking me now?"

A gust of cold wind blew, and the old celestial master in a single-cloth Taoist robe floated like an immortal. He looked at the climate room with deep and wise eyes, and said: "To practice the Tao, you must first learn the Tao. When the time comes, the Tao will appear, and you should observe it."

"Junior brother, remember."

"Heaven and earth have great beauty but don't talk about it, four seasons have clear law but don't talk about it, all things have reason and don't talk about it. Saints, from the beauty of heaven and earth, reach the truth of all things. Therefore, the perfect man does nothing, the great sage doesn't do anything, and observes the world That's what it is."

"The Tao is not in my mouth, nor in the collection of classics and history, but in the world."

"Yes."

"I watch the heaven and the earth, and the sky and the earth watch me."

Between the words, Zhou Tian’s cold wind and heavy snow were stagnant, then the old Tianshi walked out of the pavilion, stood in the wind and snow, and there was no snow on his body, he turned around slowly, and invited Zhang Zhixiang: “Come on, come out! , Come to Senior Brother."

Zhang Zhixiang was stunned.

He walked out of the pavilion slowly, avoiding the wind and snow...

Huang Jin covered his mouth in shock, and then his eyes were full of surprises, the little fairy has never learned any Taoism, and he can be the same as the heaven and the earth, he really deserves to be a fairy who came to the world!
There is a great heat before the great cold, and the birth of a fairy can save the world.

Zhang Zhixiang is an immortal sent from heaven to Daming!It is God's blessing to His Majesty!
God bless Daming!

All blessings to Ming Dynasty!

(End of this chapter)