Pure Yang!

Chapter 5: The Method of Cultivation, Girl in Black

Night falls on the mountain.

It was dark, the wind was howling outside the window, there was no light at all, and everything was dim.

After returning to the room, Zhang Fan was still thinking about what the old charlatan who was selling lessons had just said. He then lay down on the bed and took out his cell phone.

"What? You can't help but want to contact her again?" Li Yishan said with contempt when he saw this.

"Some people are only meant to be met, and some stories are only meant to be treasured." Zhang Fan said expressionlessly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yishan suddenly stood up and bowed deeply to him.

"Why are you worshipping me?" Zhang Fan asked puzzledly.

"Can you please stop being sour? I'm about to throw up the food I ate the night before."

"People only feel so sad when they are in love. You will feel that all the love songs in the world are written for you... It's such a rare state." Zhang Fan said lightly.

At this moment, his mood did not seem as bad as before he went up the mountain.

"People's consciousness becomes most agitated only when they are going through the test of love and the test of life and death."

Suddenly, the old Taoist priest’s words echoed in Zhang Fan’s mind again.

“How to enter into meditation?”

At this moment, Li Yishan came over and looked at the search terms on the phone, and couldn't help but reveal a strange look.

"What are you doing? We are here for tourism. You don't really want to be a Taoist priest, do you?"

"It's an old Chinese tradition. Now that we are here, we have to experience it immersively."

Zhang Fan looked at the various posts on the pornographic book without raising his head, while Li Yishan started rummaging through the drawers.

"What are you doing?"

"Let's find the hotel's flashlight. We'll go on a night tour of Zhenwu Mountain later." Li Yishan crawled into the cabinet.

"Lao Tzu said, 'To return to one's roots is to be quiet, and this is called returning to one's destiny...If one wants to explore the essence of life, only quietness can achieve it..."

At this moment, a post caught Zhang Fan's attention. The poster's ID was [Thousand-Year-Old Monster], but his avatar was pitch black.

"The book on alchemy says that one will suddenly realize the true self, and the heavens will circulate fire, burning the golden body, and then the Tao will prove the fruit of inaction."

"The true self here is the soul..."

"The primordial spirit is not something that can be cultivated. Longevity is something that can be cultivated. The primordial spirit is innate and resides between the eyes. This small space is called the Xuanguan by Taoists, the Xuzhong by Confucianists, and the Lingtai by Buddhists. They are essentially the same thing..."

"There are many metaphors of Buddhism and Taoism in Journey to the West. Lingtai Fangcun Mountain refers to this part of the human body. Therefore, Sun Wukong can only hear the truth and practice it when he reaches there..."

"It is the same for mortals to cultivate. Only when one enters into a state of tranquility and revives the primordial spirit can one talk about cultivation."

"There's something here." Zhang Fan couldn't help but become interested and continued reading.

"In recent years, many novels, movies and TV dramas have mentioned the revival of spiritual energy. In fact, spiritual energy has never been cut off, but ordinary people cannot see it. Scientifically speaking, the human eye has 1.25 million photoreceptor cells. After generating signals, they are transmitted to the brain through the optic nerve and processed into images..."

"But the wavelengths of light that humans can distinguish are limited, and even the sounds we hear are limited in frequency..."

“So the Buddhists say that the world perceived through the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, body and mind is false, which is the saying [All appearances are illusory]…”

"If you see all appearances but no appearance, you will see the Tathagata."

"What is Tathagata? It is the true nature, the primordial spirit... It means seeing the essence through phenomena. By looking at the world with the primordial spirit, you can see many things that you could not see before..."

"When you are truly in a state of tranquility and have no thoughts, a ray of light from heaven will shine in. It can also be called spiritual energy or Buddha nature... These are just names... When you reach that state, you will know what the real world is..."

Zhang Fan stared at his phone, becoming increasingly absorbed in it. It had to be said that this OP called Thousand-Year-Old Demon had a very deep understanding of the cultural essence of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.

"Taoism emphasizes the dual cultivation of sex and life. Sex skills are self-realized, and life skills are taught by a master. The so-called sex skills are the method of entering into a state of tranquility and cultivating the primordial spirit..."

"Then how can one attain self-realization and tranquility?!"

When he got to this point in the post, Zhang Fan couldn't help but perk up. He finally saw what he wanted to see.

"The following is paid content, please pay 888 yuan to continue watching."

"..."

"I hate the age when knowledge is money." Zhang Fan rolled his eyes and reluctantly paid 888 yuan. After clicking to continue watching, he was stunned. The link actually jumped directly...

"Zhenwu Mountain Retreat Class... can I sign up now and use the 888 yuan voucher?"

"I..." Zhang Fan felt like he had been cheated.

He threw away his phone, took a deep breath, and calmed himself down.

"What's wrong?" Li Yishan asked upon seeing this.

"No...it's okay."

Zhang Fan shook his head, picked up his phone again and started searching on his own.

After a while, he realized that there were hundreds of ways of meditation everywhere on the Internet, including Zen meditation, contemplation, yoga, etc.

It seems that every school of thought and every religion emphasizes tranquility.

Finally, Zhang Fan chose the most common Taoist method of sitting cross-legged and breathing and began to try it.

It is simple to say. Cross your legs, clasp your hands together, place them three inches below your navel, close your eyes slightly open, and press your tongue against the roof of your mouth... The key to these movements is to listen to your breath...

"Between one breath and the next is called breathing...When your mind is full of distracting thoughts, focus on your breathing..."

“This is the method of [one thought against ten thousand thoughts].”

Zhang Fan remembered the key and sat cross-legged. At first, he wondered if his posture was standard. Then, all kinds of distracting thoughts started to flood in. The time they had spent on campus, the good memories of the two of them... came flooding in like a tide, creating a huge gap with his current situation.

Immediately afterwards, pain, sadness, anxiety, fear... and other emotions also flooded like a flood, making Zhang Fan feel very uncomfortable, with fine beads of sweat oozing from his forehead.

"If you enter between the two levels, your consciousness will be the most agitated..."

The old Taoist priest's words echoed in his mind again. Zhang Fan gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and tried his best to focus on the rhythm of his breathing. Gradually, his surging emotions calmed down a lot, and his chaotic thoughts also dissipated one by one...

Zhang Fan's breathing became steady and long, and he felt his body relax a lot, soft and warm...

Just as it is said in the Taoist books, if you concentrate your energy and reach the level of softness, can you become like a baby?

Although it has not reached that point, it is also a very special and rare feeling. Gradually, Zhang Fan felt that a ray of light came from outside the body and entered his eyes which seemed to be slightly closed.

"When all thoughts cease, your consciousness will return to tranquility... When the light from heaven shines through, you will be able to see a world you have never seen before..."

The old Taoist's words flowed through my heart.

"It's done... I'm done..."

There seemed to be a voice resounding in Zhang Fan's heart, revealing his joy.

"The hotel's flashlight is really bright..."

At this moment, Li Yishan's voice rang in his ears.

"Damn it... I knew it..." Zhang Fan cursed in his heart and suddenly opened his eyes.

It was a dark and windy night, the mountains were chilly, and the ancient palaces and temples appeared before our eyes like a sleeping beast. There was no light at all around, and the unknown seemed to be hidden in the chaos.

"Where...where is this?"

Zhang Fan was stunned. Wasn’t he still in the hotel just now?
He was greatly shocked and walked towards the palace hidden in the darkness. When he looked up, he saw three large, ancient characters:
Nanxuan Palace! ?

"Is this Nanxuan Palace?"

Zhang Fan showed a look of surprise. It took him and Li Yishan three and a half hours to climb to the Golden Summit during the day. How did he get here from the hotel in such a short time?

"This……"

Zhang Fan was a little panicked. He turned around suddenly, and suddenly, the hairs all over his body stood up.

There seemed to be a figure standing on a mountain path not far away...

Zhang Fan's face changed slightly. In the faint moonlight, he could see clearly that it was a young girl with short hair that reached her ears and shoulders, fair skin, an ethereal temperament, and she was dressed in a black brocade dress.

"Is it her!?" Zhang Fan was stunned. That was the girl in black whom he saw in the worship hall of Zixiao Palace.

(End of this chapter)