I am going to live forever in the world of mortals

Chapter 20 "Acupuncturing Taoism"

The night is like a veil, the sky is full of stars...

On the mountain behind the Taixu Temple, Zhang Xiuyuan sat in front of a newly established tomb in sackcloth and mourning.

Because the incident happened suddenly, and he directly collected the corpse of his master Zhang Yangming and put it in the grave without setting up a mourning hall, so he stayed in front of the grave.

Today is already the third day of the wake...

The aunt and junior sister have already been persuaded by him to go back to the temple to rest, and he is his son and the only male in the temple, and he is responsible for guarding the last night here...

Zhang Xiuyuan rubbed the fire paper in his hand and put it in a basin to burn, then raised his head and looked at the starry sky in a daze, his thoughts drifted away.

In the past 18 years, he has gotten used to the life of Tai Xu Guan, the crazy master, and the gluttonous and clingy junior sister...

But suddenly, the crazy master left, and tomorrow the aunt will take herself and her sister to leave the Taixu Temple where they have lived for 18 years...

A kind of confusion about the future inexplicably grew in his heart.

Before I knew it, I was in a daze until midnight...

Zhang Xiuyuan came back to his senses with a sigh, looked at the tombstone engraved with "Master Zhang Yangming's Tomb", and murmured: "Master, my sister-in-law will take me and my sister away tomorrow. Don't know when we will be able to do this." Goodbye, but your disciple has not had time to repay your kindness..."

His voice paused, as if he had thought of something, he sighed softly: "I don't know where the way is, I hope you, the old man, is a spirit in heaven, and can show me the way."

As his words fell, the little turtle in the wishing pool also swam to the copper coin printed with 'Da Yuan Tong Bao', and opened its mouth to inhale the red dust and fireworks on the copper coin...

in mind...

The disappearing picture scroll of mountains and seas reappeared, and a wisp of turbid air drifted in from nowhere in an instant, and various memory fragments appeared on the picture scroll...

Zhang Xiuyuan looked at the fragments of Master's memory on the scroll of mountains and seas, feeling a little dazed.

Looking at the life of the person in the painting as an outsider again, feeling the joys, sorrows, joys and obsessions...

Zhang Yangming's life experience is similar to Zhang Xiuyuan's to a certain extent, he was an orphan picked up and adopted by the previous Taixu temple master in a drought year.

Because of his extraordinary intelligence since he was a child, he was brought by the previous Taixu Temple as a Taoist boy, and he was very fond of him.

Later, following the acquaintance of the masters of Taixu Temple and Baiyun Temple in the previous generation, they met Ning Zizhen, who was also a Taoist boy, and the two hit it off right away.

The young Zhang Yangming is a martial arts genius with a high spirit, and he has always acted as a senior brother who protects his junior sisters.

This is also similar to the relationship between Zhang Xiuyuan and Zhang Miaoshan.

He and his junior sister have been together for many years, and they have been in love with each other. They have reached the point of discussing marriage and becoming a Taoist couple, but they are suddenly told that their junior sister has a celestial destiny, but he does not.

The master of the Baiyun temple had a private chat with him, explaining the difference between immortals and ordinary people, and only asked, "How will Zizhen deal with himself after a hundred years?" 'This sentence made him speechless.

At that time, Zhang Yangming's spirit was quite high, how could he give up so easily?
And the master of the Baiyun temple also knew this, so he deliberately stimulated him with words and made him make an oath that unless he found a fairy fate, he would never see Ning Zizhen.

He also agreed, and made an oath...

People, they will always be trapped for life by things that are too young.

The same is true for Zhang Yangming, and the matter of seeking immortality has gradually become a knot in his heart, which can also be said to be an obsession.

After breaking through to the innate level of martial arts cultivation, he felt that his martial arts had reached the end, so he began to collect various ancient books, events, and even rumors about immortal fate...

As time goes by, there is still no way out.

That obsession gradually turned into a demon.

He found "The Method of Seizing the Foundation", and he picked up Zhang Xiuyuan who has a fairy fate, but these are just introductions. He has practiced for many years and can control the greed in his heart.

until……

When he went out, he came across a family of hunters by chance...

The Orion's family had a pregnant woman waiting to give birth, and after giving birth to a daughter, it attracted the singing of all kinds of birds, and there was even a white deer holding a ganoderma lucidum, and a beast offering auspicious grass...

He has only seen such visions in ancient books about Xianyuan, and people who have such visions are also called 'immortal fetuses'.

It is said in ancient books that the "immortal fetus" is the reincarnation of an immortal, with a natural spirit. After practicing, it is not only free from shackles, but also favored by the world.

People in the mountains and fields can't keep their mouths shut. The Orion publicized the vision of his mother-in-law giving birth. It's okay in the countryside. Everyone just talks about it after dinner, but after the news spread, it was quickly noticed by interested people.

The Orion family soon encountered evil spirits...

There are even evil spirits fighting to snatch the "fairy fetus" who is still in its infancy.

It was at that moment that Zhang Yangming realized what kind of world he was in, and his obsession with Xianyuan became more and more serious.

In order to snatch the "fairy fetus", the evil spirits meet to fight, and no one cares about him, a little mortal.

He took advantage of the chaos and fled back to Taixu Temple with his infant 'immortal fetus', which was also the beginning of his step into the abyss.

The evil thoughts growing in his heart became more and more difficult to control. For more than ten years, he could barely maintain a balance that was not controlled by the evil thoughts...

But how can people's hearts stay the same?

Therefore, the balance he maintained did not last long. As time went by, his mind was gradually affected and controlled...

Until, he met Ning Zizhen...

The arrival of the white moonlight seemed to shine a ray of light into his already dark heart, and the phrase 'Do you not want to see me, or do you not want to see yourself' was like a slap in the face, making him wake up as if he had just woken up from a dream? .

At the same time when he realized this, he also knew that the evil thoughts in his heart were no longer under his control, so he had the will to die.

In order not to worry my junior sister, I deliberately made a point of proclaiming that I still have a few years to live, and sent her away...

Then I choose to face myself in the quiet room, and also face the evil thoughts that have troubled me for many years...

And the only thought he had before going to the quiet room to face the evil thoughts was to be ashamed of his ancestors and to break the inheritance of Taixuguan...

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The manifested memory fragments on the scroll of mountains and seas gradually dimmed, and some small characters in ancient seal characters emerged instead: get a wisp of 'mortal dust and smoke and fire', stick to the three-grade cause and effect of the characters, and give it to a book of "Acupoints and Taoism".

In a daze, Zhang Xiuyuan had an extra ancient book in his hand.

On the cover of the book is a diagram of the acupoints of the human body, which looks like a sky full of stars, which makes people feel dazzled when they look at it.

He opened the book full of anticipation, but before he could take a closer look, he saw the lines of small characters and various patterns in the book seemed to come out of a torn book, and turned into a flash of spiritual light that penetrated into the center of his brow.

And he just felt dizzy and dizzy, as if a vast amount of knowledge was imprinted in his mind...

In an instant, the ancient book "Acupoints Demonstrating Taoism" became blank sheets of paper, and even the diagram of human acupoints on the cover of the book disappeared.

Then, the ancient books that turned into sheets of white paper turned into handfuls of fly ash and dissipated between his fingers.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiuyuan closed his eyes as if he had realized something, and received the complicated knowledge that suddenly appeared in his mind.

Strictly speaking, "Acupuncturing the Way of Acupuncture" is a book on Taoism and medicine, which records various intractable diseases and human acupoint diagrams of various meridians, and the most important method of controlling acupuncture with qi.

All kinds of difficult and miscellaneous diseases and the acupuncture points of the human body are not listed for the time being. There are more than a dozen acupuncture methods recorded in the general outline of the method of controlling acupuncture with qi alone!

He was dazzled by the needling methods such as golden needle points, Linggui Feiteng, Ziwu Liuzhu, big and small Zhoutian, ghost gate thirteen needles, and the corresponding treatment of diseases.

Master Zhang Yangming was able to gain a great reputation in the Jiangnan Mansion in the early years. Apart from his excellent martial arts practice, it was because of his superb medical skills in acupuncture points!

However, the 'Golden Acupuncture Acupuncture Point' is only one of the many acupuncture methods recorded in "Acupuncturing the Way of Acupuncture"!

This……

Zhang Xiuyuan couldn't help being in a trance after receiving the "Acupoints Demonstrating Taoism", sighing secretly that this method is so profound that it is close to Taoism.

When he thought that he had no cultivation level behind him, his face froze again. After all, he didn't even have 'Qi', so how could he use Qi to control the needle?
It feels like knowing that there is a golden mountain sitting under the buttocks, but there is no tool to dig it, it is absurd...

(End of this chapter)