Confucian Cultivator Under One Person

The two of them parked their electric scooters outside and strolled around the park to digest their food.

The season is just right, and the park is filled with the faint fragrance of osmanthus, which is refreshing and pleasant.

Du Xiaozhai took a deep breath and said, "It's Yueyue Gui... Big cities are just different!"

Fu Yuan was a little confused.

Du Xiaozhai glanced at him and said happily, "There are different types of osmanthus. There are golden osmanthus, silver osmanthus, red osmanthus, and moon osmanthus... The first three bloom in autumn, while the last one, moon osmanthus, as the name suggests, blooms all year round. It has a light and elegant fragrance and is more valuable."

As he was talking, Du Xiaozhai turned into the grass.

Fu Yuan was stunned: "What are you doing?"

"Break a branch... Come and help!" Du Xiaozhai was already standing under the tree, waving at him.

Fu Yuan was a little confused, but he still went over and said, "Can it be folded? This is a park, there are people watching, right? Will I be fined?"

Du Xiaozhai looked around and said succinctly: "I'll keep watch, you hurry up and break it!"

Fu Yuan had no choice but to choose a lower one, pulled down a branch, and selected a heavy bunch of flowers. He was about to pick them...

"Hey! What are you doing? You're not allowed to pick things randomly here, you know?"

Not far away, an elderly woman stood by the roadside and shouted, "Which unit are you from? You have no manners!"

Fu Yuan turned his head and saw that Du Xiaozhai had disappeared. Looking into the distance, he saw two long legs running away...

Fu Yuan: “…”

There was no other way, so Fu Yuan quickly took off the flower string, threw down a banknote, and ran in the direction Du Xiaozhai escaped.

The aunt was anxious and chased him for a few steps, but Fu Yuan had already run away.

……

At the exit, Du Xiaozhai was already waiting there, and he said with great joy, "You didn't get caught?"

Fu Yuan exhaled, shook his head helplessly, and said: "You really have no loyalty!"

Du Xiaozhai's hair was loose, so he took it apart and tied it up again. He said, "I just think you are too strict. Flaws cannot outweigh merits. No one is perfect."

Fu Yuan smiled and said, "Even a beautiful jade has its flaws, and a great sage does not shy away from small flaws. I understand the principle, but I just don't think it's necessary."

Du Xiaozhai chuckled and said, "But it's so happy!"

Fu Yuan was silent for a moment, then said, "We can't stay in this park anymore. Where should we go next?"

Du Xiaozhai pointed to his delicate nose and asked, "You're asking me?"

"You said I'm a homebody, I haven't really explored this city thoroughly... I don't know where there are any fun places."

Du Xiaozhai tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said, "The city is boring... Let's go directly to Longhu Mountain! Let's go shopping there beforehand!"

Fu Yuan: “…Okay!”

……

Fu Yuan called Xu San and told him about it. Then they went straight to the airport, bought tickets and boarded the plane.

By midnight, the two had arrived in Jiangxi and found a hotel near the airport and booked two rooms.

As soon as the sun rose, the two got up, boarded the bus, and headed straight for Longhu Mountain.

Before climbing the mountain, Du Xiaozhai took Fu Yuan to a supermarket. Fu Yuan pushed the cart and took out a few bottles of water and food.

Du Xiaozhai picked up a bunch of things and threw them into the car: salt, sugar, hot sauce, fruit knife, picnic blanket, bandage, lighter... All he needed was a tent to go camping.

After filling the bag, Fu Yuan opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing.

Longhu Mountain is a tourist attraction, so tickets are naturally required.

After buying the tickets and entering the gate, and walking along the tourist route for a while, Du Xiaozhai did something weird again. He took Fu Yuan and went off the tourist route into the mountains.

The population gradually dwindled.

As they walked, Fu Yuan suddenly noticed that Du Xiaozhai had been staring at him, and he couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's wrong?"

Du Xiaozhai said with a hint of meaning, "You have quite a lot of energy!"

The two of them had been walking for such a long time, and Fu Yuan was still carrying his backpack, but his breath hadn't even changed.

Du Xiaozhai said, "I've always heard that Confucianism is powerless, but now it seems that's not the case."

Fu Yuan casually said, "The six arts of Confucianism, ritual, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy and mathematics, cannot be learned without low physical strength."

Du Xiaozhai asked curiously, "But in terms of spiritual practice, doesn't Confucianism place more emphasis on the cultivation of 'nature'?"

In traditional Chinese medicine, all diseases are caused by the disorder of qi in the body or the invasion of external qi. Confucians have a sense of righteousness and are almost immune to all diseases. Moreover, Confucians cannot achieve immortality, so there is actually no need to "cultivate both nature and life."

As long as you don't get sick, you can live until death. As for accidents, you will encounter them even if you practice dual cultivation of life and death. After weighing the pros and cons, there is no need to spend a lot of effort to polish your "life".

Fu Yuan thought for a moment and said, "It depends on the need. Confucianism is good at 'learning'. They learn whatever they need. In terms of cultivation, although Confucianism emphasizes 'nature', they also consider the need and learn some 'life' skills."

Du Xiaozhai asked, "So what did you learn?"

Fu Yuan spread out his hands and said, "I learned some sword techniques, and..." He pointed to his mouth and nose and said, "I also learned a set of breathing techniques for beginners."

Du Xiaozhai suddenly leaned forward, her skin was as white as jade, flawless, her facial features were delicate, and her eyes were as clear as water.

After a moment, Du Xiaozhai suddenly said in surprise, "I hadn't noticed until you told me that you actually integrated a breathing technique into your natural breathing... How long have you been practicing this? No wonder you have such good physical strength."

Fu Yuan said, "When I was six years old, someone taught me a basic breathing method. Although I didn't master it, I have been using it ever since."

Otherwise, I wouldn’t have had such good physical strength to ride for two years.

Fu Yuan looked at Du Xiaozhai and said, "Isn't it the same for you? Your breathing has changed since a while ago."

Du Xiaozhai was somewhat disheartened and said, "That's why I'm surprised that a scholar like you actually has better physical strength than me."

Fu Yuan was just thinking about how to comfort him when Du Xiaozhai laughed and said, "My breathing method is called the 'Nine-Section Breathing Method'. Take a long breath, a short breath, and a slow breath. Then exhale through each nostril in three sections... a total of nine sections. It's also called the 'Nine-Section Buddha Breath'!"

Fu Yuan hesitated for a moment and said, "Aren't you from the Quanzhen Taoist lineage?"

Du Xiaozhai tilted his head, looking cunning, and said, "I didn't say that I only have one master."

Fu Yuan's expression remained unchanged. As expected, Du Xiaozhai was not only an outer disciple of the Quanzhen lineage of Lotus Mountain, but he was also a dual practitioner of Buddhism and Taoism.

Du Xiaozhai explained, "I am not only a disciple of Quanzhen, but also a disciple of Tantric Buddhism. This 'Nine-Section Buddha Wind' combined with the Tantric 'Seven-limbed Ruyi Sitting Method' is equivalent to Quanzhen's inner alchemy kung fu, cultivating both the body and the soul."

Fu Yuan nodded and said, "So you are a disciple of Lianhua Mountain in Kang County."

Only in Lianhua Mountain in Kang County, there is not only Quanzhen Taoism, but also Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.

Du Xiaozhai suddenly saw something and became excited. He pulled Fu Yuan's hand and said, "Come here!"

Chapter 58 The vicissitudes of life

In ten years, you can see the coming and going of spring and autumn; in a hundred years, you can witness birth, aging, sickness and death; in a thousand years, you can lament the change of dynasties; in ten thousand years, you can see the movement of the stars.

If a mortal uses the vision of one day to peek into the world that has existed for millions of years, would he be like a frog in a well?

……

No one knew how Du Xiaozhai led the way, but he pulled Fu Yuan and jogged for more than half an hour, running around in the mountains like headless flies, and finally arrived at a valley.

The two of them stopped on a huge rock beside the valley.

Du Xiaozhai stared intently into the valley with his clear eyes, his expression filled with wonder, as he exclaimed, "How lively!"

Fu Yuan looked at the empty and deserted valley with a surprised expression. There wasn't even a bird here, so how could it be so lively?

Looking at Du Xiaozhai again, I found that there seemed to be a light shining in her eyes.

The eyes, which were already extremely clear, were now like stars twinkling in the clear night sky, making people intoxicated by them.

Fu Yuan suddenly remembered that there were not only those who had acquired supernatural powers through cultivation, but also those who were born with supernatural powers!

However, the innate superpowers displayed in the original plot are mainly telekinesis. In addition, Feng Shayan's Hundred-Step Fist can go straight into space... What about other innate superpowers?

As if he knew what Fu Yuan was thinking, Du Xiaozhai stared into the valley without blinking, saying, "I am a congenital extraordinary person, born with a pair of wise eyes."

Wisdom?

The first thing that came to Fu Yuan's mind was a song: Lend me a pair of wise eyes, let me see this chaos clearly, clearly and truly...

Du Xiaozhai explained directly: "Buddhism has the saying of 'Five Eyes and Six Supernatural Powers'. The five eyes refer to the physical eye, the heavenly eye, the wisdom eye, the Dharma eye, and the Buddha eye. The six supernatural powers refer to the eye-eye, the ear-eye, the mind-eye, the life-span, the spirit-realm-span, and the leakage-free eye.

The eyes of wisdom among them are my eyes."

After a pause, seeing that Fu Yuan did not ask, Du Xiaozhai continued to explain: "The naked eye is the world that ordinary people can see. The heavenly eye can not only see the world in front of them, but also see the extremely far and the extremely near. When you cultivate to the extreme, you can see anything that exists in the world, no matter where it is.

The wisdom eye is different from the heavenly eye. It adds a dimension of time to the three-dimensional space, allowing it to see the past and the future...but it can only see, not see through cause and effect, so it cannot change anything."

Fu Yuan suddenly realized and said, "So when you say the valley is bustling, are you talking about the valley's past or its future?"

Du Xiaozhai said, "It was in the past! Judging from their attire, it must have been during the chaotic period several decades ago. Someone was waiting there, and then three Taoists came, one of whom even beat that person... After that, many more people came... More and more people came..."

After listening to Du Xiaozhai's description, Fu Yuan couldn't understand anything at all.

But seeing the changing expressions on Du Xiaozhai's delicate face, sometimes nervous, sometimes sudden, sometimes regretful... Fu Yuan couldn't help but feel itchy.

Fu Yuan simply sat down where he was and began to calm his mind.

……

The heart is sincere and the righteous energy fills the heaven and earth.

Fu Yuan only felt that the whole world was quiet, time seemed to have stopped, the breath was so subtle that it was undetectable, and his mind had nowhere to rest, and could only wander between heaven and earth with the great spirit.

The vast and majestic energy filled the valley, and everything in the valley was reflected in his mind.

The coming and going of spring in the valley, the birth, aging, sickness and death in the valley, the changes of sun and moon in the valley, the vicissitudes of life in the valley... everything is imprinted in the heart through the great energy.

At the same time, Fu Yuan followed Du Xiaozhai's "wisdom eyes" in his heart and saw the scene that Du Xiaozhai saw.

"It's really lively!" Fu Yuan closed his eyes and couldn't help but sigh.

Du Xiaozhai stared with a pair of sharp eyes, smacking his lips, and said, "Isn't it? I just don't know what happened to attract so many strange people to gather here... Eh? Can you see it?"

Fu Yuan closed his eyes and did not answer directly. Instead, he said, "That person should be Wu Gensheng, the former head of Quanxing Sect. The three Taoists who came later were Zhang Qingjing, the previous Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain, and Zhang Zhiwei, the current Heavenly Master..."

"Where's the short guy?"

"Zhang Huaiyi, right? The Qi Body Origin Flow that's been making a lot of noise in the alien world lately is his."

"He's Zhang Huaiyi, Zhang Chulan's grandfather... He looks silly."