Guang Chanzi
Chapter 7 Guang Chanzi
In the following days, Li Wuxiang practiced "Guang Chanzi". The Taoist book that Zhao Kui got was not complete, and many pages were incomplete, but Li Wuxiang followed the main idea of the book and added his own speculation, and did not encounter any major problems.
He felt that the content taught in the early stage of this book was not very profound, and it was mainly to teach people to practice body, and it was a particularly biased one.
In his intuition, tempering the body should be a relatively balanced process, and the skin, muscles, and internal organs should be gradually strengthened. It can even be said that the internal organs should be the foundation, just like maintaining the health of the internal organs and endocrine system, the physiological condition of the whole person will naturally improve.
However, the book of Guang Chanzi focuses on the tempering of the skin and flesh, and even the way of blood circulation in it will ask people to collect the vitality of the internal organs and feed it back to the body. Li Wuxiang therefore guessed that this book might be a relatively low-level Qi-refining method, and also imagined the author's previous situation - being in an extremely dangerous environment, facing life-and-death struggles every day, so he had to first temper his skin by overdrawing his essence to survive, and then slowly strengthen his essence.
His current situation is very similar to that of the author at that time.
In just a few days, Zhao Xi seemed to have recovered as before, and Li Wuxiang became more and more aware that he had completely underestimated her before.
Although there were not many things on the second floor of this cave, Zhao Kui and Zhao Xi did not pay attention to the cleanliness of the room in the past, so the ground was full of ashes, charcoal slag, and a little food residue left over from the past. Ordinary people may not feel uncomfortable in this environment, but these days he took a pill of Fuyuan Baosheng Pill every day, and practiced Guangchanzi diligently, his body has gradually improved, and his five senses have become more acute.
Therefore, this body that has lived in an extremely clean environment for a long time can no longer tolerate the mess and various odors on the second floor, so Zhao Xi was called to clean up the house.
The dust on the ground and in the alchemy furnace, the fine carbon slag, and the dry bones in the stone chamber on the first floor were first put into sacks, then brought to the door and thrown into the sea of fire outside. Zhao Xi could carry such a heavy sack on his back with both hands, and he only needed to rest once after carrying it four or five times.
Facing such a companion who was ignorant of the world but had the instinct of a beast, Li Wuxiang realized that Guang Chanzi's current practice method might be the most suitable for the current situation - he must make himself as strong as possible so that he can work slowly and steadily with peace of mind.
Speaking of cleanliness, Li Wuxiang thought of water. There was also a stone pool in the corner of the second floor where Zhao Kui and Zhao Xi originally lived, and the clean water in it also seeped out from the wall.
Zhao Xi said that the sea of fire outside would often change. In the past few days, the sea of fire is relatively calm, but in a few days, the sea of fire will surge, and even more giant trees will fall from the sky, further fueling the fire. But in this process, the water seeping out of the wall will increase - from the usual slow drops to a trickle.
For more than ten years, she has been accustomed to these things and thinks they are part of the laws of the world, but after listening to these, Li Wuxiang realized that these seem to represent that the world has not really been destroyed.
Is it possible that they are in a war between gods? Listening to Zhao Xi's description, it seems that the gods are still fighting in the sky! When the fire is strong, more water seeps out... Is it a fire god and a water god fighting? Will other places not be affected yet?
Li Wuxiang told Zhao Xi this speculation, but she did not seem very excited, perhaps because she had no clear idea of what the outside world looked like.
But Li Wuxiang has begun to prepare for a long journey.
Guang Chanzi was kept in Zhao Xi's hands, so he asked Zhao Xi to look through the contents at the back of the book, wanting to see if there were any useful magical powers. But he didn't know until he read it. After reading it, he realized that Guang Chanzi's Taoist book was far more weird than he had imagined.
At the current stage of cultivation, using the essence of the internal organs to feed the skin is already an unusual way. However, after reading the back, he realized that this Taoist book did not want people to temper any internal organs at all, but to abandon them.
Now the first stage of his cultivation is called "Fa Zhen Zhong", which is to use the essence of the internal organs to strengthen the skin. The second stage is called "Jie Jiu Gong", which is to keep the mind in the skin, and step by step, imprint all the body's acupoints in the skin. At this stage, the internal organs have begun to fail, and the skin is becoming more and more pure and perfect. It can be said that it is a real golden jade, but rotten cotton inside. Then the third step, called "Putting on the Golden Cloud", is to refine the three souls and seven spirits into the skin bag, and then combine with other rituals to completely abandon the other parts of the body, which is equivalent to the "forming pill" of other methods.
So far, this Guangchanzi has been considered a great success, and people can only keep this "skin", ride the wind, change in thousands of ways, and replenish the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to consolidate themselves. If you can learn some other spells, according to the book, "you will become a Qingnang Immortal".
Li Wuxiang frowned when reading this book, thinking that this thing is most likely a cult book from some evil sect, otherwise it shouldn't be so weird. But after thinking about it for a while, he decided to practice this thing, even if there is another Taoist book at this time, he still has to practice this thing.
Because this sect cult has an advantage that he can't refuse.
According to Zhao Kui, any cultivation method requires a lot of resources for the practitioner to consume. For example, in the past few days, thanks to the three Fuyuan Baosheng Pills, he was able to gradually regulate the turbid qi and chronic diseases in his body, so that his body could barely enter a state suitable for cultivation.
But in the future, if it is another method, more and more resources will be needed to help practice. Although this Guangchanzi also needs to be consumed, it consumes the essence of the internal organs that have gradually grown over more than ten years and contain a person's innate qi - in the current situation, it can almost be considered self-sufficient.
In this way, after another ten days, Zhao Xi's attitude towards him slowly changed. At first, he was not close and was a little wary, but then he gradually became relaxed and easy-going. He gradually asked Li Wuxiang about the origin of the "external evil". After the two of them cleaned the stone room together, he lit a fire in the alchemy furnace every day and demonstrated to him how to use the remaining ingredients to refine the "marching pills" he ate below, making the room smoky and fume-filled, which made him frown.
After another month, Li Wuxiang knew that he had achieved the first step in Guangchanzi.
According to the dripping time of the clepsydra, it should be early morning. Li Wuxiang was following the breathing and regulating breath recorded in the Taoist book - imagine that the whole body is slightly golden, and let the breath be inhaled from the nose, passing through Tiantu, Yutang, Zhongting, and falling into the lower dantian. After that, he did not let the breath move again to complete a complete cycle, but imagined that the breath was dispersed from the dantian along the veins to the limbs and bones, and then into the skin.
When Li Wuxiang usually breathes in and out like this, he needs to slowly exhale after contemplating. But at a certain moment, when he contemplated like this again, he suddenly felt a slight stagnation in his chest and abdomen, and then his body felt light and cool, as if the many acupoints that blocked the chest and abdomen cavity before were all dissolved at once - he inhaled this breath into the lower dantian, his skin felt slightly warm, and then he exhaled all the breath.
He moved his mind and adjusted his breath nine more times. He felt that his skin was loose and comfortable, and his chest and abdomen were empty, as if there was a thunderous sound. He knew that he had reached the realm of "all over the true seeds, the nine palaces are empty" as described in Guang Chanzi.
He didn't expect it to be so fast. Zhao Xi said that Zhao Kui once told her that it would take at least a year for ordinary people to reach this stage. Even if they have excellent qualifications, it would only take more than a month, but she had already taken this "more than a month".
Perhaps it was because the original owner of the body had been taking that kind of "military pills" for a long time, and there were some precious medicinal materials in it. Although he was starved to death and weak before, his physique is extremely pure. And he has lived in a daze for a long time, so his mind can be called pure. The two complement each other, plus what he speculated, there may be a battle between gods and spirits outside, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is full, so it can be so fast.
The stone room has been rearranged. When he cleaned it last time, he pushed the screen back from its original position and moved the wooden couch to the front. Zhao Xi slept on the wooden couch and watched the marching pills being refined in the furnace. He used the robes of "officials" and empty sacks to make a bed for himself on the ground, and now he is sitting on this bed.
Li Wuxiang slowly opened his eyes, and with a little effort on his legs, he immediately bounced off the ground lightly. At this moment, he felt that he was as light as a swallow, and couldn't help wanting to find an open place to run wildly, or to punch a few times quickly. This is the effect of Guang Chanzi's "fazhenzhong" realm.
Not only his body, but also his five senses seemed to have become more acute at this time. However, this was not something to be happy about for him, because Zhao Xi had been refining the march pills for the past month. Even when he was sleeping, the reddish charcoal slag was burning in the pill furnace to warm the unfinished pills, so there was always a smell of smoke in the room, and it was even more pungent at this time.
Usually at this time, he would go to the door and push the stone door open a little to take a breath. Although there was a sea of fire outside, and there were often huge trees falling from the thick fire clouds with thunder and rolling in the sky, it seemed that because of the layer of restrictions outside this cave, the wind blowing into the door was not dirty except for the warmth.
Li Wuxiang walked to the door again, pushed the stone door open a little and breathed a few times, then closed the door and walked to the screen again.
Now he can completely fast, from today on, he plans to teach Zhao Xi the complete breathing method of the "fazhen seed" realm as agreed. At this time, the girl was sleeping on the wooden couch, curled up, as if she was afraid of something in her dream, but she kicked the thin quilt made of sack aside.
Li Wuxiang smiled and planned to go over to cover her with the quilt. But just as he was about to take a step, he stopped. After a moment of stagnation, he felt a chill running from his back to the top of his head.
He smelled a very faint smell. A very faint... bamboo fragrance.