Immediately, Ah Niu began to recite the thirty-six lines of the first level of the Jade Mountains Nine Songs, the Path-Peeking Chapter. According to Ah Niu, the Path-peering Chapter had a total of 1897 sentences and 26558 words. The intelligent can succeed in three years, and the stupid can succeed in five years.
Ding Yuan thought that a stubborn person like Ah Niu would have to learn for six or seven years. He did not expect Ah Niu to say that he only used two years and three months. Ding Yuan couldn't help but feel surprised. He thought to himself that he wasn't really stupid. Most likely, he was too simple and honest, so he was seen as stupid by others.
What he didn't know was that although Ah Niu wasn't as dumb as others thought, what was more important was that this little rascal was born with a strong will and obeyed the Immortal Danyan's words without any discount. If the Immortal Danyan asked him to do it ten times, he would not dare to do it less or more than once. Even if the Immortal Danyan asked him to do five somersaults on the ground, he would never ask why and would only do it with a smile.
With such a single-minded mind, his hard work paid off. It allowed Ah Niu's cultivation to reach the "micro-observation" realm long ago, far surpassing his peers. Moreover, he was born simple and honest, without any distracting thoughts, so every time he encountered a tribulation, it was much easier than others.
The thirty-six lines were obscure and difficult to understand. Ding Yuan had to listen to them three times before he could memorize them all. He thought that the Immortal Danyan would explain the thirty-six lines in detail, but who knew that the Immortal Danyan would take Ah Niu to practice.
If it were anyone else, they might have asked. However, Ding Yuan didn't ask since the Immortal Danyan didn't want to say more. He went back to his room and sat cross-legged on the bamboo bed like the Immortal Danyan.
He silently recited the first line of the Path Scouting Chapter in his heart,'The heart gathers in the dantian to form a furnace, and the mind turns into the void of the primordial spirit' as he pondered over the meaning behind it. He knew about the Dantian, and he also vaguely understood what the term " outside the object " meant. However, Ding Yuan did not know what it meant to " start a furnace ", what it meant to " empty space ", and how to " condense " and " melt " in between.
This Path-Peeking Chapter was the introductory chapter to the cultivation of Cuiwei's Nine Songs Mantra. It could be said to be the foundation of a thousand-foot-tall building, so it was the longest and had the most words. However, these 26,558 words could be said to be pearls of wisdom. Not only could they not be replaced, but they could not be deleted or added.
When Perfected Qing Xia passed down this technique, it was only a framework. Every sentence and every word was meaningful and profound. According to the usual practice, the master should first impart the chant and then explain it to the disciple in detail. However, it had been passed down for thousands of years, from mouth to ear, and from ear to mouth. Everyone's understanding and taste were different, and mistakes were inevitable.
Therefore, the Reverend Danyan took a different approach and simply didn't explain anything to his disciples, letting them experience it themselves. As a result, those disciples who didn't know what was going on would think that their master was holding back his skills and was unwilling to teach them wholeheartedly. Since the Immortal Danyan was unwilling to explain, the misunderstandings naturally grew. Only a straightforward person like Ah Niu would worship the Immortal Danyan as if he was a god without any doubt, and instead, he would be able to deeply understand the three feelings.
Ding Yuan and Ah Niu were naturally different, but they had one thing in common: Ordinary stubbornness. Therefore, although he thought that the Immortal Danyan was deliberately making things difficult for him, the more he did so, the more unwilling he was to lower his head and admit defeat. He only bitterly sought the meaning of the thirty-six lines.
There were several times when he still couldn't figure out the meaning of those strange words in the pithy formula after thinking for a long time. He wanted to ask the Immortal Danyan about it, but when he thought of the old Taoist priest's half-dead appearance, Ding Yuan held back.
He sat quietly until the latter half of the night. Ding Yuan examined and verified everything and felt that he had understood most of the thirty-six lines of the formula. There were only a few places that he had doubts about.
He closed his eyes and hugged his dantian with both hands. He took a deep breath and began to cultivate according to the first line of the chant," Concentrate your mind on your dantian to form a furnace, and think of external objects to transform into the void."
Ding Yuan relaxed his entire body and focused his mind on his dantian. As expected, he felt a warm furnace fire jumping inside. He couldn't help but feel happy, but he couldn't feel any distracting thoughts for a lifetime.
What he didn't know was that forty days ago, he had taken the Carefree Pill and the Nine Reversal Golden Pill, which were refined from natural treasures. Moreover, the Six Immortals of Emerald Cloud had taught him the Six Directions Rejuvenation in thirty-six days. From then on, he had been reborn and had an additional sixty-year-cycle of immortal zhenqi.
If it was someone else, it would take at least a few days or at least a month to feel the rise of the "furnace". How could it be so easy?
Ding Yuan didn't care much about this. He once again gathered his mind and entered his dantian. He gradually felt that ball of furnace fire again. Gradually, his mind was completely immersed in the wonderful movement of the furnace fire, completely forgetting about the outside world.
Unknowingly, he had entered the realm of the second line of the chant," When you think of the Unclear Sky Breath, there will naturally be Righteousness in the Clear Sky." A faintly discernible and seemingly controllable warm current gradually condensed and floated upward in his dantian under the control of Ding Yuan's subconscious.
According to common sense, it would take at least three months to produce such a faint trace of immortal true qi. Ding Yuan himself had sixty years of rich cultivation, so it was a piece of cake for him to find such a trace of true qi. It was like a child who had to go through painstaking training to lift a hundred jin heavy object, but a strong man in his prime could do it easily.
In fact, with Ding Yuan's current strength, it was not difficult to cultivate to the "Zhizhu" realm in one go. However, this would not consolidate his foundation, and he would not be able to carefully understand the mysteries of the first four realms. Therefore, the Reverend Danyan intentionally used the restriction of the number of sentences taught by the pithy formula to make him proceed step by step and avoid being too eager for quick success and instant benefits.
Ding Yuan didn't understand these things at such a young age, but it was also because of this that he was able to lay the foundation for becoming an immortal master.
In the state of forgetting oneself and everything else, Ding Yuan had already cultivated to the seventeenth line of the chant, but coincidentally, something went wrong here.
At first, Ding Yuan didn't know much about the 17th sentence, which said," Holding the Yuan and rushing to the earth pass, the golden water overflowing and connecting the sky shore." He just didn't want to lower his head and ask the Immortal Danyan. After practicing the 16th sentence, he followed his own analysis and forced the true qi in his dantian to reverse, but he unintentionally committed a major taboo.
One had to know that the most important part of the orthodox cultivation method was to understand the heart of heaven and conform to nature. Therefore, there was no such thing as reverse luck in all cultivation methods, and Cuiwei Jiuge of Cuixia Sect was no exception. Ding Yuan had no one to guide him, and no one to protect him, but he was bold enough to forcefully reverse the flow of true qi. If he was really a beginner without any foundation, it would be fine. Because there was almost no zhenqi in his body, he would at most vomit blood and faint. However, he just had to possess a sixty-year-cycle worth of immortal zhenqi, which was no different from poking a hornet's nest.
However, he felt a burning pain in his dantian. The sixty years of cultivation power stored in it was like a flood that had opened its floodgates. Under the stimulation of the reverse circulation of true qi, it surged in all directions. Ding Yuan couldn't help but tremble. He knew that he couldn't control Wild Horse's galloping genuine Qi, but he had completely lost control.
Ding Yuan didn't know that this was the " Qi deviation " that cultivators feared the most. He wasn't too afraid and thought that it was a small problem caused by his carelessness. Therefore, he tried his best to calm down and try to guide the genuine Qi that was wandering and whistling in his meridians.
But how could he still control himself? The genuine Qi that was originally warm like spring water became hotter and hotter, gradually burning the meridians in Ding Yuan's entire body. It looked like it was going to be out of control.
At this moment, Ding Yuan felt a warmth on his back. A palm was pressed against his Dazhui acupoint, and then a thick and round immortal zhenqi was injected into his body.
The true qi did not stop the inner breath that was surging wildly in Ding Yuan's meridians. Instead, it slowly flowed along Ding Yuan's conception and governor meridians, continuously guiding the true qi that had gone out of control. Ding Yuan gradually felt better, and the suffocating feeling in his chest disappeared.
Ding Yuan was relieved and wanted to find the trace of true qi he had been controlling just now. However, he heard the Reverend Danyan shout in a low voice behind him,"Don't move!"
It turned out that the Immortal Danyan had entered the room at some point and had come to protect Ding Yuan when he saw that he was in a bad condition.
With the Immortal Danyan's cultivation base, it was not easy for him to subdue Ding Yuan's 60 years of internal energy that had been possessed by the devil. It took him two hours to calm down and return to his Dantian.
The Immortal Danyan withdrew his palm. Ding Yuan opened his eyes and saw that the window paper was already shining with white light. It turned out that there was no time in the mountains. Unknowingly, he had already sat there for the entire night.
The Immortal Danyan got off the bamboo bed and said slowly,""Study during the day and practice at night."
"But I still haven't cultivated half of it." Ding Yuan protested.”
The Immortal Danyan ignored him and pushed the door open with a thin figure, looking a little tired.
Ding Yuan's heart stirred. He realized something and said," I had a mishap in my cultivation just now. How could he have coincidentally entered the room and seen me? He must have been waiting by the side for a long time." It's just that I'm focused on cultivating and don't know. It seems that although this old Taoist priest is strange, he doesn't just make things difficult for me. Perhaps he has some intentions.”
Thinking of this, his resentment towards the Immortal Danyan lessened a little, and his good impression of him also increased a little.
After breakfast, the Immortal Danyan left the house, saying that he had gone to play chess with some old friend. Such a strange person actually had a friend. He wondered if that friend was even weirder?
Ah Niu gave Ding Yuan a copy of Records of Seeking Knowledge, saying that it was the homework assigned by the Immortal Dan Yan and that he would take the exam after dinner. Ding Yuan picked up the 200-page book and flipped through it casually. His head grew a lot bigger, but when he thought about how he wanted to exchange this for the chant, he could only bite the bullet and bite the bullet.
After last night, he had already experienced the joy of practicing the Nine Songs of Cui Wei. Although he had only practiced the sixteenth sentence, he already felt that there was a world within it. It was fascinating and he could not stop.
Strangely enough, he didn't sleep for even half a minute last night, but now he wasn't tired at all. Instead, he felt hale and hearty and full of energy.
Just like yesterday, Ding Yuan was holding a book on an ancient tree by the pond. He took off his socks and dipped his feet into the water, reading the sentences in the book.
The Book of Knowledge was written by the sage Wen Dingzhang more than 1,300 years ago. It was specially designed for those who were new to writing to study and increase their knowledge. As such, the words he used were not profound, but simple and clear. It was not difficult for Ding Yuan to read it, but unfortunately, his mind was filled with the thirty-six lines of the formula. He was even thinking hard about the true meaning of the line," Holding the Yuan and rushing to the earth pass, the golden water overflowing to connect the sky shore."
The sun was slowly setting in the west. It was already noon, and Ding Yuan had only read three pages, which was a far cry from yesterday. However, he was not in a hurry. At least, he had not cultivated the latter half of the thirty-six sentences.
Suddenly, he heard a clear cry,""Hey!"
Ding Yuan was stunned. He looked up and saw the girl he met at the Immortal Temple yesterday. Today, she had changed into a red dress, which looked exceptionally bright in the clouds. The parrot named Cai obediently perched on its master's shoulder, staring at him with its small eyes.
When Ding Yuan saw her, he remembered what happened in the Purple Bamboo Forest. He lowered his head in annoyance and continued reading.
The young girl waited for a while and saw that Ding Yuan was ignoring her. She bit her lip and said,"Hey, your name is Ding Yuan, right?”
Ding Yuan glanced at her coldly and finally said,""Why?"
"You bullied my Cai 'Er the day before yesterday, and you haven't apologized to it."”
"You came for this?" Ding Yuan sneered.”
The young girl nodded lightly. Actually, she did not know why she had secretly come to find Ding Yuan. She only felt that it was too easy for him to let her off after making her look so miserable that day. He also felt that although this wild brat was detestable, he had an indescribable special temperament. At least, he would not blindly flatter him like those fellow disciples around him and would not dare to disobey him at all.
Ding Yuan lowered his head and looked at the book. He said indifferently,"I won't apologize to a beast. Besides, it was the one who teased me first.”
"Bad thing! Bad thing!" Cai immediately shouted.”
Seeing Ding Yuan lower his head again, the young girl was angry. Although she was only twenty-seven years old, she was already a budding beauty. When the surrounding young men saw her, they all tried to look at her a few more times, but this wild boy treated him as air.
However, for some reason, her snow-white cheeks turned red as she whispered,""Even so, you couldn't have pressed me to the ground that day. She's a girl.”
"You were the one who started it," Ding Yuan said.”His tone softened a lot.
The young girl did not expect Ding Yuan to still not admit his mistake. She stomped her foot angrily and said,"Why are you so unreasonable?”
"What? You want to teach me a lesson again?" Ding Yuan snorted. Why didn't he bring the three bodyguards?”
The girl was silent for a moment, then gently bit her cherry red lips and said softly,""They were all cultivating. I sneaked out without telling Father.”
"If there's nothing else, you can leave. I still have to read."”
The young girl couldn't help but become angry again. She had been adored by everyone since she was a child. She didn't know why she had to compromise and lower her voice today. Who knew that the other party didn't appreciate it and wanted to chase her away instead. However, although he was angry, he could not move his feet.
Seeing that Ding Yuan had cast his gaze on the book, she also glanced at it and could not help but ask in surprise,"Isn't this Wen Dingzhang's 'Records of Seeking Knowledge?' Why are you reading this book?”
The young girl had no intention of asking, but she had hurt Ding Yuan's self-esteem. He sneered and said without even lifting his eyelids,"This is a book read by a wild boy, so it naturally doesn't enter your Eldest Miss's eyes.”
The young girl blushed again." I didn't mean it that way. I meant that Grandmaster Dan Yan should be teaching you our sect's cultivation method. Why would he give you such a book to read?"”
This question was also what made Ding Yuan angry. He replied indifferently,"You don't need to be so concerned about my matters.”
The young girl's expression finally changed, and she said angrily,"You-"
Ding Yuan raised his head and looked at her with his aloof and clear eyes. He asked calmly,"What about me?"
The young girl's eyes met Ding Yuan's, but the words that were about to come out of her mouth were difficult to come out. In the end, she stomped her foot and said hatefully,"Wild brat, I don't want to see you again!”
After saying that, he turned around and ran out, almost bumping into Ah Niu, who was carrying water back.
The parrot circled its master's head a few times and scolded Ding Yuan,""You don't know what's good for you. Bad thing, bad thing!”
Ding Yuan was in no mood to read after being disturbed. Coincidentally, Ah Niu walked over and asked blankly,""Little Brother Ding, what is your niece here for?”
"How would I know?" Ding Yuan replied unhappily.”
Ah Niu said,"But I saw that she seemed to be crying. Was it because the mountain wind was too strong?"”
"You said she cried?" Ding Yuan asked.”
Ah Niu scratched his head." I don't know if he's crying, but he shouldn't be." She was Martial Uncle Ji's most doted granddaughter. Everyone treated her like a little princess. Who dared to make her unhappy?”
Ding Yuanxin thought to himself, so what if I provoked him? "What's her name?" she asked casually.”
Ah Niu thought for a moment and said,"I think she's called Ji Xueyan, but very few people call her by her name directly."”
Ding Yuan replied with a soft "oh" and no longer spoke.
That night, the Immortal Danyan didn't come back until after dinner. Ding Yuan memorized the five pages of the Record of Seeking Knowledge that he had memorized during the day, but he wasn't as fluent as he was yesterday.
After Ding Yuan finished reciting, he thought that the Immortal Danyan would ask Ah Niu to teach him another five lines of the pithy formula like yesterday. Unexpectedly, the old Taoist asked,"What does 'truth' here mean?”
Ding Yuan only cared about memorizing the whole day. He didn't think too much about it and was tongue-tied on the spot.
The Immortal Danyan gazed at him with his deep and clear eyes and said slowly,""Today doesn't count. We'll do it again tomorrow."
"Why?!" Ding Yuan protested.”
"Reading, not memorizing!" The Immortal Danyan replied lightly.”
With that, the old Taoist priest led Ah Niu out of the house, leaving Ding Yuan alone in the kitchen.
Ding Yuan returned to his room and sat down on the bamboo bed."Old Antique, do you think I'm easy to bully? You're deliberately making things difficult for me, but I won't lower my head and beg you!”
After thinking for a while, his anger gradually subsided. He sat cross-legged and closed his eyes to enter meditation again.
This time, it was much smoother and more proficient than last night. Very quickly, he cultivated to the seventeenth line of the chant," Holding the Yuan and rushing to the Earth Pass, the golden water overflowing to connect the sky and the shore." Ding Yuan had learned his lesson from last time and was much more cautious. He concentrated on his dantian and slowly guided the wisp of genuine Qi to flow with the current, not daring to rashly reverse it.
Under Ding Yuan's control, the faintly discernible zhenqi slowly circulated and unknowingly made three rounds in his dantian. Suddenly, it came to a halt and floated in the air, gradually condensing into a ball that spun in his dantian like a small ball.
Ding Yuan was shocked, thinking that something had gone wrong again. The warm fire in his dantian seemed to be unable to withstand the weight of the small ball. The small ball could not help but sink slowly and hit the ground. Ding Yuan didn't dare to move. He carefully guided the small ball. However, he felt a heat in his abdomen. The small ball had touched the bottom and melted into the true energy stored at the bottom of Ding Yuan's dantian.
Before Ding Yuan had the chance to think, the Yang Qi dissipated and the Yin Qi rose. A clear stream of water rose from the spot where the small ball had melted. It was so cool that it was uncomfortable. The clear stream quickly flowed to both sides, like a river flowing in his dantian, straight to the peak.
Ding Yuan was delighted and thought to himself, Looks like this is the so-called overflowing golden water.”
It was also because of Ding Yuan's deep blessings that the heavens blessed this child. Although he didn't know the meaning of 'Earth Pass' and 'Heaven's River', nor did he know the meaning of' Gold Water', he managed to successfully pass the second trial with the help of his spiritual mind, resolving the first pass in the Path-peering Chapter.
He carefully tried to control the clear stream, concentrating all his thoughts on it, patiently guiding it to move upward in the direction of the fire in his dantian.
After several failures, Ding Yuan finally controlled this clear stream. He suppressed the joy in his heart and focused on guiding it above his dantian.
After that, the 19 lines of the mnemonic chant were like a hot knife through butter, and they were successfully completed without much trouble. By the time Ding Yuan finished his cultivation and opened his eyes, a ray of dawn had already shone on the window paper.
He stretched his body and felt refreshed. He did not feel any numbness even after sitting cross-legged for a night, so he was in a good mood. He thought to himself, Although these thirty-six lines are a little confusing and are deliberately mystifying, they do have some meaning. It turned out that meditating and cultivating like this was quite interesting. No wonder so many people wanted to cultivate some immortal technique. No matter what, he had to think of a way to get the chant from the old Taoist priest. Hmph, the more he wants to make things difficult for me, the more I have to fight for this!”
He went out of the bamboo house to the kitchen to wash up, but only saw Ah Niu alone. He couldn't help but ask,"Ah Niu, where did the old Taoist priest go?”
Ah Niu scooped a bowl of porridge for Ding Yuan and said,"Master has already left. Before he left, he told me to tell you that you don't have to study this morning.”
Ding Yuan was stunned. He vaguely felt that there was a conspiracy behind this. He asked,"Has the old Taoist priest changed and become kind-hearted?”
Ah Niu widened his eyes and said,"Master has always been very good." He was afraid that you would be tired and boring if you kept reading, so he wanted you to practice writing in the study in the morning. Every time you practice a page, you can change a chant.”
Ding Yuan scratched his head like Ah Niu and mumbled,""This old Taoist priest has the most tricks.”He turned around and walked out of the kitchen.
Ah Niu was wiping the table when he suddenly heard Ding Yuan's voice from the study next door.""Old Daoist, you win!"
It turned out that Ding Yuan was holding a three-foot-long iron pen with a black iron ball hanging from the end, but he had to write Xiao Zuan!
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Immediately, Ah Niu began to recite the thirty-six lines of the first level of the Jade Mountains Nine Songs, the Path-Peeking Chapter. According to Ah Niu, the Path-peering Chapter had a total of 1897 sentences and 26558 words. The intelligent can succeed in three years, and the stupid can succeed in five years.
Ding Yuan thought that a stubborn person like Ah Niu would have to learn for six or seven years. He did not expect Ah Niu to say that he only used two years and three months. Ding Yuan couldn't help but feel surprised. He thought to himself that he wasn't really stupid. Most likely, he was too simple and honest, so he was seen as stupid by others.
What he didn't know was that although Ah Niu wasn't as dumb as others thought, what was more important was that this little rascal was born with a strong will and obeyed the Immortal Danyan's words without any discount. If the Immortal Danyan asked him to do it ten times, he would not dare to do it less or more than once. Even if the Immortal Danyan asked him to do five somersaults on the ground, he would never ask why and would only do it with a smile.
With such a single-minded mind, his hard work paid off. It allowed Ah Niu's cultivation to reach the "micro-observation" realm long ago, far surpassing his peers. Moreover, he was born simple and honest, without any distracting thoughts, so every time he encountered a tribulation, it was much easier than others.
The thirty-six lines were obscure and difficult to understand. Ding Yuan had to listen to them three times before he could memorize them all. He thought that the Immortal Danyan would explain the thirty-six lines in detail, but who knew that the Immortal Danyan would take Ah Niu to practice.
If it were anyone else, they might have asked. However, Ding Yuan didn't ask since the Immortal Danyan didn't want to say more. He went back to his room and sat cross-legged on the bamboo bed like the Immortal Danyan.
He silently recited the first line of the Path Scouting Chapter in his heart,'The heart gathers in the dantian to form a furnace, and the mind turns into the void of the primordial spirit' as he pondered over the meaning behind it. He knew about the Dantian, and he also vaguely understood what the term " outside the object " meant. However, Ding Yuan did not know what it meant to " start a furnace ", what it meant to " empty space ", and how to " condense " and " melt " in between.
This Path-Peeking Chapter was the introductory chapter to the cultivation of Cuiwei's Nine Songs Mantra. It could be said to be the foundation of a thousand-foot-tall building, so it was the longest and had the most words. However, these 26,558 words could be said to be pearls of wisdom. Not only could they not be replaced, but they could not be deleted or added.
When Perfected Qing Xia passed down this technique, it was only a framework. Every sentence and every word was meaningful and profound. According to the usual practice, the master should first impart the chant and then explain it to the disciple in detail. However, it had been passed down for thousands of years, from mouth to ear, and from ear to mouth. Everyone's understanding and taste were different, and mistakes were inevitable.
Therefore, the Reverend Danyan took a different approach and simply didn't explain anything to his disciples, letting them experience it themselves. As a result, those disciples who didn't know what was going on would think that their master was holding back his skills and was unwilling to teach them wholeheartedly. Since the Immortal Danyan was unwilling to explain, the misunderstandings naturally grew. Only a straightforward person like Ah Niu would worship the Immortal Danyan as if he was a god without any doubt, and instead, he would be able to deeply understand the three feelings.
Ding Yuan and Ah Niu were naturally different, but they had one thing in common: Ordinary stubbornness. Therefore, although he thought that the Immortal Danyan was deliberately making things difficult for him, the more he did so, the more unwilling he was to lower his head and admit defeat. He only bitterly sought the meaning of the thirty-six lines.
There were several times when he still couldn't figure out the meaning of those strange words in the pithy formula after thinking for a long time. He wanted to ask the Immortal Danyan about it, but when he thought of the old Taoist priest's half-dead appearance, Ding Yuan held back.
He sat quietly until the latter half of the night. Ding Yuan examined and verified everything and felt that he had understood most of the thirty-six lines of the formula. There were only a few places that he had doubts about.
He closed his eyes and hugged his dantian with both hands. He took a deep breath and began to cultivate according to the first line of the chant," Concentrate your mind on your dantian to form a furnace, and think of external objects to transform into the void."
Ding Yuan relaxed his entire body and focused his mind on his dantian. As expected, he felt a warm furnace fire jumping inside. He couldn't help but feel happy, but he couldn't feel any distracting thoughts for a lifetime.
What he didn't know was that forty days ago, he had taken the Carefree Pill and the Nine Reversal Golden Pill, which were refined from natural treasures. Moreover, the Six Immortals of Emerald Cloud had taught him the Six Directions Rejuvenation in thirty-six days. From then on, he had been reborn and had an additional sixty-year-cycle of immortal zhenqi.
If it was someone else, it would take at least a few days or at least a month to feel the rise of the "furnace". How could it be so easy?
Ding Yuan didn't care much about this. He once again gathered his mind and entered his dantian. He gradually felt that ball of furnace fire again. Gradually, his mind was completely immersed in the wonderful movement of the furnace fire, completely forgetting about the outside world.
Unknowingly, he had entered the realm of the second line of the chant," When you think of the Unclear Sky Breath, there will naturally be Righteousness in the Clear Sky." A faintly discernible and seemingly controllable warm current gradually condensed and floated upward in his dantian under the control of Ding Yuan's subconscious.
According to common sense, it would take at least three months to produce such a faint trace of immortal true qi. Ding Yuan himself had sixty years of rich cultivation, so it was a piece of cake for him to find such a trace of true qi. It was like a child who had to go through painstaking training to lift a hundred jin heavy object, but a strong man in his prime could do it easily.
In fact, with Ding Yuan's current strength, it was not difficult to cultivate to the "Zhizhu" realm in one go. However, this would not consolidate his foundation, and he would not be able to carefully understand the mysteries of the first four realms. Therefore, the Reverend Danyan intentionally used the restriction of the number of sentences taught by the pithy formula to make him proceed step by step and avoid being too eager for quick success and instant benefits.
Ding Yuan didn't understand these things at such a young age, but it was also because of this that he was able to lay the foundation for becoming an immortal master.
In the state of forgetting oneself and everything else, Ding Yuan had already cultivated to the seventeenth line of the chant, but coincidentally, something went wrong here.
At first, Ding Yuan didn't know much about the 17th sentence, which said," Holding the Yuan and rushing to the earth pass, the golden water overflowing and connecting the sky shore." He just didn't want to lower his head and ask the Immortal Danyan. After practicing the 16th sentence, he followed his own analysis and forced the true qi in his dantian to reverse, but he unintentionally committed a major taboo.
One had to know that the most important part of the orthodox cultivation method was to understand the heart of heaven and conform to nature. Therefore, there was no such thing as reverse luck in all cultivation methods, and Cuiwei Jiuge of Cuixia Sect was no exception. Ding Yuan had no one to guide him, and no one to protect him, but he was bold enough to forcefully reverse the flow of true qi. If he was really a beginner without any foundation, it would be fine. Because there was almost no zhenqi in his body, he would at most vomit blood and faint. However, he just had to possess a sixty-year-cycle worth of immortal zhenqi, which was no different from poking a hornet's nest.
However, he felt a burning pain in his dantian. The sixty years of cultivation power stored in it was like a flood that had opened its floodgates. Under the stimulation of the reverse circulation of true qi, it surged in all directions. Ding Yuan couldn't help but tremble. He knew that he couldn't control Wild Horse's galloping genuine Qi, but he had completely lost control.
Ding Yuan didn't know that this was the " Qi deviation " that cultivators feared the most. He wasn't too afraid and thought that it was a small problem caused by his carelessness. Therefore, he tried his best to calm down and try to guide the genuine Qi that was wandering and whistling in his meridians.
But how could he still control himself? The genuine Qi that was originally warm like spring water became hotter and hotter, gradually burning the meridians in Ding Yuan's entire body. It looked like it was going to be out of control.
At this moment, Ding Yuan felt a warmth on his back. A palm was pressed against his Dazhui acupoint, and then a thick and round immortal zhenqi was injected into his body.
The true qi did not stop the inner breath that was surging wildly in Ding Yuan's meridians. Instead, it slowly flowed along Ding Yuan's conception and governor meridians, continuously guiding the true qi that had gone out of control. Ding Yuan gradually felt better, and the suffocating feeling in his chest disappeared.
Ding Yuan was relieved and wanted to find the trace of true qi he had been controlling just now. However, he heard the Reverend Danyan shout in a low voice behind him,"Don't move!"
It turned out that the Immortal Danyan had entered the room at some point and had come to protect Ding Yuan when he saw that he was in a bad condition.
With the Immortal Danyan's cultivation base, it was not easy for him to subdue Ding Yuan's 60 years of internal energy that had been possessed by the devil. It took him two hours to calm down and return to his Dantian.
The Immortal Danyan withdrew his palm. Ding Yuan opened his eyes and saw that the window paper was already shining with white light. It turned out that there was no time in the mountains. Unknowingly, he had already sat there for the entire night.
The Immortal Danyan got off the bamboo bed and said slowly,""Study during the day and practice at night."
"But I still haven't cultivated half of it." Ding Yuan protested.”
The Immortal Danyan ignored him and pushed the door open with a thin figure, looking a little tired.
Ding Yuan's heart stirred. He realized something and said," I had a mishap in my cultivation just now. How could he have coincidentally entered the room and seen me? He must have been waiting by the side for a long time." It's just that I'm focused on cultivating and don't know. It seems that although this old Taoist priest is strange, he doesn't just make things difficult for me. Perhaps he has some intentions.”
Thinking of this, his resentment towards the Immortal Danyan lessened a little, and his good impression of him also increased a little.
After breakfast, the Immortal Danyan left the house, saying that he had gone to play chess with some old friend. Such a strange person actually had a friend. He wondered if that friend was even weirder?
Ah Niu gave Ding Yuan a copy of Records of Seeking Knowledge, saying that it was the homework assigned by the Immortal Dan Yan and that he would take the exam after dinner. Ding Yuan picked up the 200-page book and flipped through it casually. His head grew a lot bigger, but when he thought about how he wanted to exchange this for the chant, he could only bite the bullet and bite the bullet.
After last night, he had already experienced the joy of practicing the Nine Songs of Cui Wei. Although he had only practiced the sixteenth sentence, he already felt that there was a world within it. It was fascinating and he could not stop.
Strangely enough, he didn't sleep for even half a minute last night, but now he wasn't tired at all. Instead, he felt hale and hearty and full of energy.
Just like yesterday, Ding Yuan was holding a book on an ancient tree by the pond. He took off his socks and dipped his feet into the water, reading the sentences in the book.
The Book of Knowledge was written by the sage Wen Dingzhang more than 1,300 years ago. It was specially designed for those who were new to writing to study and increase their knowledge. As such, the words he used were not profound, but simple and clear. It was not difficult for Ding Yuan to read it, but unfortunately, his mind was filled with the thirty-six lines of the formula. He was even thinking hard about the true meaning of the line," Holding the Yuan and rushing to the earth pass, the golden water overflowing to connect the sky shore."
The sun was slowly setting in the west. It was already noon, and Ding Yuan had only read three pages, which was a far cry from yesterday. However, he was not in a hurry. At least, he had not cultivated the latter half of the thirty-six sentences.
Suddenly, he heard a clear cry,""Hey!"
Ding Yuan was stunned. He looked up and saw the girl he met at the Immortal Temple yesterday. Today, she had changed into a red dress, which looked exceptionally bright in the clouds. The parrot named Cai obediently perched on its master's shoulder, staring at him with its small eyes.
When Ding Yuan saw her, he remembered what happened in the Purple Bamboo Forest. He lowered his head in annoyance and continued reading.
The young girl waited for a while and saw that Ding Yuan was ignoring her. She bit her lip and said,"Hey, your name is Ding Yuan, right?”
Ding Yuan glanced at her coldly and finally said,""Why?"
"You bullied my Cai 'Er the day before yesterday, and you haven't apologized to it."”
"You came for this?" Ding Yuan sneered.”
The young girl nodded lightly. Actually, she did not know why she had secretly come to find Ding Yuan. She only felt that it was too easy for him to let her off after making her look so miserable that day. He also felt that although this wild brat was detestable, he had an indescribable special temperament. At least, he would not blindly flatter him like those fellow disciples around him and would not dare to disobey him at all.
Ding Yuan lowered his head and looked at the book. He said indifferently,"I won't apologize to a beast. Besides, it was the one who teased me first.”
"Bad thing! Bad thing!" Cai immediately shouted.”
Seeing Ding Yuan lower his head again, the young girl was angry. Although she was only twenty-seven years old, she was already a budding beauty. When the surrounding young men saw her, they all tried to look at her a few more times, but this wild boy treated him as air.
However, for some reason, her snow-white cheeks turned red as she whispered,""Even so, you couldn't have pressed me to the ground that day. She's a girl.”
"You were the one who started it," Ding Yuan said.”His tone softened a lot.
The young girl did not expect Ding Yuan to still not admit his mistake. She stomped her foot angrily and said,"Why are you so unreasonable?”
"What? You want to teach me a lesson again?" Ding Yuan snorted. Why didn't he bring the three bodyguards?”
The girl was silent for a moment, then gently bit her cherry red lips and said softly,""They were all cultivating. I sneaked out without telling Father.”
"If there's nothing else, you can leave. I still have to read."”
The young girl couldn't help but become angry again. She had been adored by everyone since she was a child. She didn't know why she had to compromise and lower her voice today. Who knew that the other party didn't appreciate it and wanted to chase her away instead. However, although he was angry, he could not move his feet.
Seeing that Ding Yuan had cast his gaze on the book, she also glanced at it and could not help but ask in surprise,"Isn't this Wen Dingzhang's 'Records of Seeking Knowledge?' Why are you reading this book?”
The young girl had no intention of asking, but she had hurt Ding Yuan's self-esteem. He sneered and said without even lifting his eyelids,"This is a book read by a wild boy, so it naturally doesn't enter your Eldest Miss's eyes.”
The young girl blushed again." I didn't mean it that way. I meant that Grandmaster Dan Yan should be teaching you our sect's cultivation method. Why would he give you such a book to read?"”
This question was also what made Ding Yuan angry. He replied indifferently,"You don't need to be so concerned about my matters.”
The young girl's expression finally changed, and she said angrily,"You-"
Ding Yuan raised his head and looked at her with his aloof and clear eyes. He asked calmly,"What about me?"
The young girl's eyes met Ding Yuan's, but the words that were about to come out of her mouth were difficult to come out. In the end, she stomped her foot and said hatefully,"Wild brat, I don't want to see you again!”
After saying that, he turned around and ran out, almost bumping into Ah Niu, who was carrying water back.
The parrot circled its master's head a few times and scolded Ding Yuan,""You don't know what's good for you. Bad thing, bad thing!”
Ding Yuan was in no mood to read after being disturbed. Coincidentally, Ah Niu walked over and asked blankly,""Little Brother Ding, what is your niece here for?”
"How would I know?" Ding Yuan replied unhappily.”
Ah Niu said,"But I saw that she seemed to be crying. Was it because the mountain wind was too strong?"”
"You said she cried?" Ding Yuan asked.”
Ah Niu scratched his head." I don't know if he's crying, but he shouldn't be." She was Martial Uncle Ji's most doted granddaughter. Everyone treated her like a little princess. Who dared to make her unhappy?”
Ding Yuanxin thought to himself, so what if I provoked him? "What's her name?" she asked casually.”
Ah Niu thought for a moment and said,"I think she's called Ji Xueyan, but very few people call her by her name directly."”
Ding Yuan replied with a soft "oh" and no longer spoke.
That night, the Immortal Danyan didn't come back until after dinner. Ding Yuan memorized the five pages of the Record of Seeking Knowledge that he had memorized during the day, but he wasn't as fluent as he was yesterday.
After Ding Yuan finished reciting, he thought that the Immortal Danyan would ask Ah Niu to teach him another five lines of the pithy formula like yesterday. Unexpectedly, the old Taoist asked,"What does 'truth' here mean?”
Ding Yuan only cared about memorizing the whole day. He didn't think too much about it and was tongue-tied on the spot.
The Immortal Danyan gazed at him with his deep and clear eyes and said slowly,""Today doesn't count. We'll do it again tomorrow."
"Why?!" Ding Yuan protested.”
"Reading, not memorizing!" The Immortal Danyan replied lightly.”
With that, the old Taoist priest led Ah Niu out of the house, leaving Ding Yuan alone in the kitchen.
Ding Yuan returned to his room and sat down on the bamboo bed."Old Antique, do you think I'm easy to bully? You're deliberately making things difficult for me, but I won't lower my head and beg you!”
After thinking for a while, his anger gradually subsided. He sat cross-legged and closed his eyes to enter meditation again.
This time, it was much smoother and more proficient than last night. Very quickly, he cultivated to the seventeenth line of the chant," Holding the Yuan and rushing to the Earth Pass, the golden water overflowing to connect the sky and the shore." Ding Yuan had learned his lesson from last time and was much more cautious. He concentrated on his dantian and slowly guided the wisp of genuine Qi to flow with the current, not daring to rashly reverse it.
Under Ding Yuan's control, the faintly discernible zhenqi slowly circulated and unknowingly made three rounds in his dantian. Suddenly, it came to a halt and floated in the air, gradually condensing into a ball that spun in his dantian like a small ball.
Ding Yuan was shocked, thinking that something had gone wrong again. The warm fire in his dantian seemed to be unable to withstand the weight of the small ball. The small ball could not help but sink slowly and hit the ground. Ding Yuan didn't dare to move. He carefully guided the small ball. However, he felt a heat in his abdomen. The small ball had touched the bottom and melted into the true energy stored at the bottom of Ding Yuan's dantian.
Before Ding Yuan had the chance to think, the Yang Qi dissipated and the Yin Qi rose. A clear stream of water rose from the spot where the small ball had melted. It was so cool that it was uncomfortable. The clear stream quickly flowed to both sides, like a river flowing in his dantian, straight to the peak.
Ding Yuan was delighted and thought to himself, Looks like this is the so-called overflowing golden water.”
It was also because of Ding Yuan's deep blessings that the heavens blessed this child. Although he didn't know the meaning of 'Earth Pass' and 'Heaven's River', nor did he know the meaning of' Gold Water', he managed to successfully pass the second trial with the help of his spiritual mind, resolving the first pass in the Path-peering Chapter.
He carefully tried to control the clear stream, concentrating all his thoughts on it, patiently guiding it to move upward in the direction of the fire in his dantian.
After several failures, Ding Yuan finally controlled this clear stream. He suppressed the joy in his heart and focused on guiding it above his dantian.
After that, the 19 lines of the mnemonic chant were like a hot knife through butter, and they were successfully completed without much trouble. By the time Ding Yuan finished his cultivation and opened his eyes, a ray of dawn had already shone on the window paper.
He stretched his body and felt refreshed. He did not feel any numbness even after sitting cross-legged for a night, so he was in a good mood. He thought to himself, Although these thirty-six lines are a little confusing and are deliberately mystifying, they do have some meaning. It turned out that meditating and cultivating like this was quite interesting. No wonder so many people wanted to cultivate some immortal technique. No matter what, he had to think of a way to get the chant from the old Taoist priest. Hmph, the more he wants to make things difficult for me, the more I have to fight for this!”
He went out of the bamboo house to the kitchen to wash up, but only saw Ah Niu alone. He couldn't help but ask,"Ah Niu, where did the old Taoist priest go?”
Ah Niu scooped a bowl of porridge for Ding Yuan and said,"Master has already left. Before he left, he told me to tell you that you don't have to study this morning.”
Ding Yuan was stunned. He vaguely felt that there was a conspiracy behind this. He asked,"Has the old Taoist priest changed and become kind-hearted?”
Ah Niu widened his eyes and said,"Master has always been very good." He was afraid that you would be tired and boring if you kept reading, so he wanted you to practice writing in the study in the morning. Every time you practice a page, you can change a chant.”
Ding Yuan scratched his head like Ah Niu and mumbled,""This old Taoist priest has the most tricks.”He turned around and walked out of the kitchen.
Ah Niu was wiping the table when he suddenly heard Ding Yuan's voice from the study next door.""Old Daoist, you win!"
It turned out that Ding Yuan was holding a three-foot-long iron pen with a black iron ball hanging from the end, but he had to write Xiao Zuan!
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