Nightcrawler: 20 Years of Peaceful Demons

Chapter 22 Open a Window
The purpose of practice is to live forever. However, in the world, apart from those who are legendary, how many people have attained Taoism and become immortals?
So in the end, it is just a means to make the self-mind return to tranquility.

I learned through conversations that Ma Yi'ao has studied at a university, and it is also the most famous university in China, Shuimu, with a double degree in philosophy and biology. He speaks at a very high level and speaks eloquently. Insights, such a narration, let me have a clearer understanding of the world we live in.

He repeatedly emphasized one thing to me, that is, he never thought that human practitioners and night walkers need to be so clearly distinguished, or are naturally opposed.

The Master said: One yin and one yang are called Dao.

Good and evil are also the way, and good and evil originate in the heart of the human heart - "the source of turbidity is the clear, and the base of stillness is the moving. If people can always be quiet, the world will return."

He also told me that he has seen the kindest monsters and the most deceitful humans...

After listening to his narration, I pointed outside and said, "In other words, Fei Hua and Hai Ni are actually people with the blood of Nightcrawler?"

Ma Yi'ao nodded, and said yes, there are three types of night walkers. The first type is a dominant family with inheritance, the second type is mountain spirits and wild monsters who avoid the world, and the third type is accidental. , Ordinary people who are accidentally awakened—just like you, and people like this are the most pitiful, because they have no one to guide them, and they are easily excluded and discriminated against by society. Fat Hua is of the Hai pig bloodline, hungry all the year round, easy to gain weight, and Hai Ni is even more peculiar, she belongs to the water category, and they like to be in the water. They are all regarded as monsters by their parents and villagers. , Abandoned them, if I don't take them in, I'm afraid it will be the two results just mentioned.

Nightcrawlers have many blood vessels, but the most common ones are eleven, namely rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.

If you add the totem dragon of the Chinese nation, you can make up the twelve zodiac signs.

I agree with Ma Yi'ao's ideas very much, and I have strengthened my belief in following him.

Of course, I am not a blind follower. I have been in the society for so long, and I have seen many people who say they are hype, but in fact they are contradictory, and I am full of chicken and dog robbers. Therefore, in many things, we have to get along slowly, and the future will last.

The two were chatting, and Fei Hua bought cooked vegetables, including fragrant beef sauce, neatly cut pork head meat and barbecued pork topped with sauce and chili, plus some vegetarian cold dishes and shredded tofu. There is a special appetite when you go up.

Coupled with a pot of freshly steamed rice, it is rich and fragrant, and it is perfect.

During the meal, two old men who hadn't shown up came, and Hai Ni also crawled out of the big water tank. The big guys sat around the dining table in the side hall to eat, and it was very lively.

The two old people got old and lost their appetite, so they drank some specially prepared porridge and then left. Ma Yi'ao seemed to be a vegetarian and picked some shredded tofu to eat. Hua's fighting power is super strong, and she ate all the dishes on the table by herself. This is still not enough, and I can't wait to lick the oil on the plate.

Seeing her so greedy, I finally understood why little Zhong Huang was so poor at that time.

It's not from a wealthy family, so she really can't hold back her good appetite.

After dinner, the mess was naturally cleared up, and Ma Yi'ao led me to the yard and started the formal guidance.

For practitioners, there are thousands of methods, each of which is different, and this principle is also true for night walkers.

The people I met before, whether it is Huang Quanyin or Qin Liluo, are all extremely powerful, and these are not innate. Even if you have talents, you still need to go through certain methods to unlock them. , and after time and years of experience, as well as epiphany, it is finally possible to get to where it is today, otherwise it is nothing more than brute force, and it is uncontrollable, sometimes and sometimes not.

No one is born strong.

Although I have awakened the blood of the "Lingming Stone Monkey" and embarked on the first step of becoming a night walker, there is still no way to master it, and it often happens sometimes.

This requires exercise, practice, and getting used to such power, making it an instinct like breathing.

There are three thousand ways, choose one and follow it.Three thousand running water, take a scoop and drink it - as the saying goes, the one who understands you best is your enemy, and as the ranger alliance that has fought against the night walker for generations, there are naturally many ways for the night walker to practice, Ma Yi'ao The one given to me is called "Jiuxuanlu". It is a miscellaneous collection of breath adjustment, meditation, visualization, condensate and exercise techniques. It is best used to consolidate the foundation.

It's a pity that this is only a fragmented copy. From the point of view of the text, the second part seems to have many tricks, but it was torn out.

Ma Yi'ao told me that this book was passed down from his master Wang Ziping. As for the previous family, he had never heard of it. Many methods were too cruel and profound, and easy to go astray, which was torn apart by his master.

The book is written in classical Chinese, which is difficult to understand. Fortunately, there are many vernacular annotations in the margins beside it. In addition, Ma Yi'ao explained it and took good care of it. It didn't make me confused or dizzy.

With the master by my side, I first recited the thousand-word "Jiuxuanlu" in my heart, and then under Ma Yi'ao's guidance, I began to concentrate my breath and gradually try to grasp the power in my body. live.

At the beginning, this matter was like catching a chicken. You chased it away, and the chicken flew like a dog. However, after mastering the method, you can master it even if you don’t deliberately condense your emotions.

When I calmed down, heat flowed from all parts of my body immediately, and condensed under the guidance of Ma Yi'ao.

Later, I didn't even need Ma Yi'ao's help, and I was able to drive by myself.

For me, this is a very novel thing. As time goes by, I feel more and more the gathering of power, the five senses become clearer, and the power becomes controllable, which makes me more confident about myself. Physical cognition has grown rapidly, and confidence has gradually accumulated.

Seeing my changes, Ma Yi'ao couldn't help being a little envious.

He said to me: "Bloodline is really a good thing. It took half a year for Fei to get started, but you can achieve it overnight-of course, everything is fair, and the price you pay for becoming a nightcrawler is far higher than her."

We communicated from the evening until after [-] o'clock at night. After Ma Yi'ao asked me to try condensing Qi again, he said to me: "Everything in the world is about a balance. Your physical strength is limited. At this moment, it has reached a critical point." , and what is important in practice is to stretch and relax, and you can't do it alone, otherwise you will suffer internal injuries. Today's practice will stop here. I will take you to the room to rest. Before going to sleep, you can use the visualization Dharma, immerse your mind in it."

At this moment, I am a little excited, and I still have more ideas, but what Ma Yi'ao said is also reasonable, so I nodded in agreement.

The one assigned to me was a room on the second floor, which originally belonged to the strong man Wang Hu, but after the accident that day, his whereabouts have been missing, so I was allowed to stay here temporarily.

After washing my face, I went back to my room to rest, sat cross-legged on the bed according to the method taught by Ma Yi'ao, and then stared at a picture on the last page of "Jiuxuanlu".

This picture is a complex starry sky, because of the engraving, the printing is very rough.

But even so, when I stared at it, I felt a mass of breath surging in my chest, as if following the distribution and dissociation of the starry sky, I fell into a wonderful state of emptiness and tranquility.

Entering such a state is called meditation.

This is to enter a kind of fuzzy boundary that is close to waking and sleeping, let one's body get a quick rest, and turn one's body into a container, trying to absorb the energy that drifts between heaven and earth.

These energies are called "Qi" in Taoism, and "mustard seeds" in Buddhism.

As for the scientific statement, is it a particle, or what?
When I was dreaming at night, in a blur, I seemed to hear someone whispering in my ear. As for what it was, I seemed to remember it at the time, but when I thought about it, I was still confused.

When I woke up the next day, I was drenched and my bed was soaked in sweat.

Ma Yi'ao's guidance, coupled with the remnants of "Jiuxuanlu", seemed to open up a new world for me. In the next few days, I have been devoting myself to this matter, trying to make Nightcrawler The power generated by the blood is integrated for my own use, and the effect I have gained is surprisingly good. The power is constantly accumulating, and the five senses are becoming more sensitive, allowing me to understand the world more deeply.

In addition to laying a solid foundation, Ma Yi'ao also took the time to teach me the art of fighting.

The so-called fighting is fighting with people. Now that it has risen to the level of "skills", it is naturally different from street fighting. There are many methods and genres here, not the ostentatious ones I knew before, including the soft and soft Tai Chi... Many of the methods are long-proven killing techniques, not just fancy fists and embroidered legs, they are very sophisticated.

Maybe it's because of the blood of the Nightcrawler, I'm quite talented in these things, basically I can understand everything, and I can even draw inferences from one example, which surprised Ma Yi'ao, and even envied him.

And even so, the time is still too short, let alone Ma Yi'ao, I'm not even Fei Hua's opponent, every fight with her ends in my failure.

And every time, I was crushed by her, unable to move at all.

She seemed to do it on purpose.

This move was a little bit of taking advantage of the suspicion of eating tofu, which made me even more depressed. However, in order to gain enough practical experience in a short period of time, I had to bite the bullet and join hands with Feihua again.

It is precisely because of my hard work and persistence that as time goes by, I have begun to be able to stand in a stalemate with Fei Hua without being too embarrassing.

Just when I was rejoicing at my rapid progress, a man came and broke the peace.

The person who came was Martin, a middle-aged man with mischievous eyebrows and a sloppy body.

It seemed that he hadn't brushed his teeth or took a bath for many days. As soon as he entered the yard, a lingering stench immediately flooded into my mouth and nose, making me feel like vomiting.

But seeing this person, Ma Yi'ao stepped forward and hugged him tightly.

He said, "Here you come, brother."

(End of this chapter)