Journey to the West: Interpretation and Teaching Disciples

Chapter 3
What the old Taoist passed on to Zhang Xing was a method called "Basic Practice in the Small Realm" and some knowledge about the practice of talismans.And what Zhang Xing has to do this time is to sort out the knowledge about talismans.

The last time Zhang Xing took a quick look, he found some common talismans: fireball talisman, quicksand talisman, diamond talisman, earth escape talisman, invisibility talisman, and so on.

This time Zhang Xing carefully sorted out and found some more brilliant and powerful talismans: Fire Dragon Talisman, Nine Sons Continuing Star Talisman, Sky Thunder Talisman, Zixiao Thunder Talisman, Five Elements Escape Talisman, Golden Body Barrier Talisman, etc.

But in general, talismans can be divided into three categories: attack talismans, defensive talismans, and auxiliary types.According to his own classification, Zhang Xing sorted out the talismans passed down to him by the old Taoist priest, and then put them aside and ignored them.Instead, he looked at the exercises passed down to him by the old Taoist.As Zhang Xing, who has been bombarded by the modern Internet, he naturally knows that "cultivation is the foundation, and talisman is just a support on the road of practice. Without cultivation, you can only become a piece of loess in the end. You must know that 'supernatural powers are invincible to the sky'."

Zhang Xing opened the "Basic Practice Method of Small Realm" and saw at the beginning that he wrote "Tao can be said, very Tao. The name can be named, it is very famous." Just looking at Zhang Xing, he felt as if he had fallen into an inexplicable Dao state Walking through one's past and present lives one by one, there is a kind of spiritual sublimation. "The right thing is 'Once you know your own body, you will learn your past.'" From this moment on, Zhang Xing truly possessed his identity in this world——Zhang Xing, a young man from a mountain village.

After understanding the cause and effect, Zhang Xing couldn't help looking at the twelve characters again.Zhang Xing also read this sentence in his previous life, and also read some understandings of this sentence on the Internet, but now that he thinks about it, he feels that those understandings are nothing but fallacies!

Turning over the first page, I saw the words on the second page, "Those who cultivate Taoism eat Qi. Those who eat Qi live long and live, and the door of all wonders is mysterious."

"The practice of qi is to inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth, meridian meridians inside, and stay in the dantian, where the mind is moved and the qi is stored."

Zhang Xing flipped through the pages one by one, until the last page made his eyes shine.Ever since Zhang Xing knew he had traveled to the West, he had several distressing questions.And the question of cultivation realm is one of them, I didn't expect to see it here.

I saw that it was written on the last page|"After Hongjun Daozu preached, there are a total of five states and twelve levels for monks in the world, and each level has three periods. , the three levels of Yuanying are the small realms of the five realms, and the small realms are the foundation of practice, so practitioners should be careful."

After reading this book, Zhang Xing did not practice in a hurry, but recalled the content recorded in the book again. After making sure that he remembered correctly, Zhang Xing put on a posture of five hearts and began to practice.

Zhang Xing felt the aura around him as soon as he started the exercise.With the operation of the exercises, the spiritual energy enters one's body through the mouth and nose, then passes through the meridians and passes through the dantian, and then most of the spiritual energy returns to the outside world through the mouth and nose, and only a small amount of spiritual energy remains in the body.

Afterwards, Zhang Xing ran the exercises over and over again to absorb the aura from the outside world, and then spit it out after a week of running in the body.After running for five weeks, Zhang Xing stopped the operation of the exercises.

It turned out that it was already dawn outside, and Zhang Xing had practiced all night unknowingly, and the result of this night was that Zhang Xing had a strand of aura the size of a hair in his body.

Zhang Xing sat up from the bed, stretched out his hands, and pressed his legs. Although he practiced all night, he didn't feel tired at all. He couldn't help but lament the benefits of cultivation. He had just practiced and it was so beneficial. No wonder he was a highly cultivated monk. It takes tens or hundreds of years to cultivate.

Zhang Xing sorted out the thoughts in his mind, opened the door and walked out.As soon as he walked out of the room, Zhang Xing found that he saw things more clearly and meticulously than before, and his mind seemed to become clearer.

Zhang Xing took a few steps to the hall and found that his mother Zhang was making breakfast in the kitchen, his father Zhang Peng was arranging the tools for going into the mountain today, and his younger sister Yuner was teasing the little rabbit that Zhang Xing had caught for her.Looking at all this, Zhang Xing thought that in his previous life, as the only child studying far away, it was difficult for him to appreciate the love of his parents and the love of brothers and sisters.

His parents in this life let him realize what is called "a father's love is like a mountain, and a mother's love is like an ocean." So Zhang Xing cherishes this kind of family feeling very much.

After eating, while his father was out hunting and his mother and younger sister were out to wash clothes, Zhang Xing went to the village teacher, Mr. Zhang's house.

This Mr. Zhang is considered to be Zhang Xing's family. When he was young, he was a petty official. Later, because of the failure of the official struggle, he went home to teach.All the children in the village go to school with him, and Zhang Xing also studies with him, but Zhang Xing didn't come here recently because of the holiday. This time he came here to get some yellow paper to draw amulets.

The school is at Mr. Zhang's house. Zhang Xing came to Mr. Zhang's house within a few steps. After the notification, Zhang Xing came to the hall of Mr. Zhang's house. Seeing Zhang Xing coming, Mr. Zhang asked, "Little monkey, why are you here?" ?”

"Sir, I met a Taoist priest in the back mountain. He asked me for some things to draw talismans. I thought he was pitiful and agreed, but I didn't have yellow paper at home, so I had to come to Mr. Zhang's house to borrow some." Zhang Xing heard Mr. Zhang's inquiry Had to make up an excuse.

Hearing Zhang Xing's answer, Mr. Zhang frowned and said, "Little monkey, you have to study hard! Don't hang out with these people all day, I still have some yellow paper in my study, go and get it."

Hearing Mr. Zhang's promise, Zhang Xing hurriedly walked across the hall to the study. Sure enough, there happened to be a stack of yellow papers on Mr. Zhang's bookshelf. When Zhang Xing finished taking the yellow papers and walked back, he saw a man in a white robe, A young man with a scholarly crown, a handsome face, and a rich spirit like jade.Zhang Xing nodded to him and left, and the young man also nodded and continued to walk towards the school. Zhang Xing, who had just said goodbye to Mr. Zhang in the hall, heard faintly the sound of reading from the school behind.

Just as Zhang Xing was about to draw a talisman when he returned home, he suddenly felt that the temperature had risen a lot. Just when Zhang Xing was puzzled, a burst of red light suddenly appeared from the back mountain, dyeing the whole village red. Zhang Xing hurried out of the house to look at the back mountain. At the same time, many villagers looked towards the back mountain.I saw that the back mountain was wrapped in a piece of red light, and a red lotus flower could be faintly seen floating in the red light.This reminded Zhang Xing of the legend about the village, and the purpose of staying here with the old Taoist.

Suddenly, two beams of light flew out of the red light, one was purple and the other was red, and the two beams of light disappeared as soon as they came out.The purple one showed a person that Zhang Xing had expected—the old Taoist, and a strange monster appeared in the other brilliance.I saw that the monster looked like a tiger, but it had a pair of horns, and instead of stripes on its body, it had fiery red fur all over its body.It looked weird.

In the sky, the old Taoist looked at the monster in front of him in surprise and said, "Sacred Fire Beast! I didn't expect you to be guarding this red lotus fire."

"Roar!" The only response to the old man was a voice similar to a tiger's roar.After the monster roared, it spewed a flame towards the old man.

When the old Taoist saw the flames flying towards him, he just threw out a talisman. After the talisman flew out, it turned into a cloud and collided with the flames from the monster. Immediately, the attacks of the two were canceled out.After the old Taoist threw out the talisman, he threw out another talisman and flew towards the monster.

The talisman turned into a purple bolt of lightning in the air and struck at the monster. The monster found that the lightning was coming and couldn't dodge it, so it had to resist with its body.And the old man took this opportunity to fly towards the red lotus in the red light.Just when the old Taoist touched the red lotus, the monster rushed up. Seeing that the thing it was guarding was about to be taken away by others, it hastily spewed out a stronger flame at the old Taoist again.

This time, the old Taoist didn't turn his head back, and directly threw out a talisman, and at the same time took the red lotus from his hand.The monster's attack had just arrived, but a burst of golden light appeared from the old Taoist body to block it.Then the old Taoist rode the cloud and flew away, and the monster saw the old Taoist who stole from him, so he rode a cloud to follow, and disappeared in an instant.

The moment Lao Dao took the red lotus away, the red light in the sky also disappeared, leaving only the destroyed Red Lotus Mountain.

After Zhang Xing witnessed this battle, he had a deeper understanding of the world of this fairy man, and at the same time, he was more eager to gain power.

(End of this chapter)