One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 396 Promise and Cage

Every autumn, the more than ten Taoist academies in Tiandu Mountain would hold a unified assessment.

The daily performance of magic practice will be assessed by the heads of each Taoist academy.

They are divided into three grades: A, B and C. If you are ranked in grade D, you will be dismissed.

The usual parts of the assessment are to communicate with ghosts, draw talismans and write inscriptions, and recite scriptures to calm the mind.

Because these people are only in the Qi Refining stage and their magic power is low, they want to protect themselves and want to be able to fight against demons and ghosts in this world.

If you want to be able to exorcise demons, kill ghosts, and eliminate evil spirits, the key is to communicate with ghosts.

To be precise, it is the synaesthesia of the world, the synaesthesia comes from various images in nature, it can drive away ghosts and spirits, and ask spirits to perform magic.

Drawing talismans and writing scrolls also need to invoke ghosts and gods, and finally chanting scriptures to calm the mind is a way to invoke ghosts and gods.

By chanting scriptures, one can make one's body and mind more compatible with a certain deity, thereby drawing corresponding talismans. At the same time, one can also refine one's own Dharma thoughts and strengthen one's own consciousness.

As for what Xun Lanyin will take the test for, it is entirely up to her. Qualified candidates, combined with their usual academic performance, will be selected and a group of them will be admitted to practice in the lower academy.

Xun Lanyin was silent for a moment, and Zhang Shiyuan lowered his head, not looking directly at his master.

"The topic of this year's assessment is 'Promise and Cage'." Xun Lanyin looked into the distance, as if she could see through time and space, and saw the scene when she was rescued by that woman.

Yun Yiqing, she could never forget this name, because she was rescued by her and then sent to Tiandu Mountain.

After that, she grew up in Tiandu Mountain, practiced in Tiandu Mountain, and grew up all the way to the present.

No one knows her origins except Yun Yiqing.

She was very grateful to Yun Yiqing, but what Yun Yiqing asked her to promise became an invisible shackle in her heart.

She knew that she was the guardian that Yun Yiqing prepared for Zhao Fuyun. She even suspected that she might be the cauldron that Yun Yiqing prepared for Zhao Fuyun.

As far as she knew, Yun Yiqing was good at divination and could plan for posthumous affairs. She had made many arrangements for Zhao Fuyun in advance. Among them, the book "Secret Words of the Heavenly Commands" was left by her in advance. It contained the methods of offering sacrifices to the Red Flame Divine Lamp. It seemed that she had already calculated that Zhao Fuyun would enter the Tao with the Red Flame Divine Method.

On this point, Xun Lanyin did not give Zhao Fuyun any guidance, but Zhao Fuyun got the lightning-struck jujube wood by chance, and then he carved a statue of the Red Flame God with the jujube wood, and then engraved spells on it, making it an excellent divine object that could help him practice the Red Flame Divine Art.

From then on, his Red Flame Fire Method became his innate method. Whenever he thought, flames would follow him. The Red Flame Fire Method entered his heart, and later he used the Fire of Tribulation to build his foundation. From then on, his fire method had a root, and he no longer needed to chant incantations to invite gods to stay with him.

Later, Xun Lanyin discovered that Zhao Fuyun's fire magic had freed him from the shackles of the Red Flame Divine Fire.

Although it still has the characteristics of the Red Flame Divine Fire, it is his own divine fire and is naturally spiritual.

In her opinion, Zhao Fuyun's fire magic has reached an extremely high level, which can be called a magic with spiritual essence.

His flame is not rootless, and the power of the flame no longer comes from the red flame, and it cannot be dispelled by someone else's spell.

The more powerful Zhao Fuyun's fire magic was, the more she understood that it would be more difficult for the other party to transform into an infant after forming a pill.

Because alone yin cannot produce, and alone yang cannot grow.

For a baby to be conceived, there must be a fusion of yin and yang.

The yin can be water, and the yang can be fire.

Of course, Yin can also be other negative substances, and Yang can also be other positive substances. When forming the golden elixir, many people form the elixir embryo in the way of Yin and Yang intersecting, which is to lay the foundation for the transformation of the infant, but he knows that Zhao Fuyun formed the elixir embryo in the way of pure Yang.

Therefore, a little Yin must be born from the pure Yang, so that it can be transformed into an infant.

It is extremely difficult to create a little bit of yin from pure yang, or to create a little bit of yang from pure yin. It is as difficult as being pregnant alone.

The fastest way is to seek help from the outside, but the infant transformation is different from the elixir formation, because when forming the elixir, there is the foundation laid when the purple palace is opened, and there is the Tiangang introduced when the purple palace is opened.

If external force is required to form a fetus, the most convenient way is to practice dual cultivation.

Cultivating both yin and yang is a way to take a shortcut, but it is by no means a side path.

There is a Taoist scripture that says: All creation in the world is nothing but the result of the harmony of yin and yang.

The highest level of dual cultivation of Yin and Yang is to define oneself as the Yin or Yang among Yin and Yang, and then find the Yang or Yin between heaven and earth, forming a peaceful interaction with them, so that one's own elixir fetus can give birth to a baby.

Practicing dual cultivation with another person is the fastest, especially when the two are equally matched.

Chi Yan and Xuan Yin are an excellent match.

Xun Lanyin had an illusion. She felt that all the techniques she practiced seemed to be prepared for Zhao Fuyun.

Because Yun Yiqing once told her: "Protect Zhao Fuyun and help him practice."

It was this sentence that trapped her here.

Because she promised, that's what she promised.

As her disciple, Zhang Shihui did not know Xun Lanyin's inner troubles. After hearing Xun Lanyin's test question, she did not think much about it.

I just thought that this was a topic that Master Xunzi discussed on human morality.

She thought about it for a moment and said, "Disciple will pass it on to each Taoist temple."

In her opinion, a monk should not worry about anything.

But a commitment means that you have to keep something in your mind all the time, and for the sake of this commitment, you may not be able to do many things.

She had such an experience when she was young. She once helped someone watch something and thought the other person would come back soon, but she had to wait for the whole afternoon. This made her unable to play with other friends for the whole afternoon. Although she finally waited for the other person to come back and received thanks, she was not happy at all.

And from then on, I made a decision in my heart that I would never agree to anything from others easily.

How difficult it is to keep a promise for a lifetime.

She couldn't help but think: commitment is shackles, commitment is a cage.

She couldn't help but look up at her master, thinking, could it be that her master also kept a promise, and this promise has become a shackle and a cage?
"Go." Xun Lanyin felt Zhang Shiyuan's gaze, and she closed her eyes again when she finished speaking.

The aura of the whole person quickly dispersed into the void. She wandered in the void, absorbing the yin and yang of heaven and earth, looking for a bit of true yang in it to accumulate for the infant transformation.

She discovered that ever since the position of the leader of the Red Flame Cult was not passed on normally, the Yang energy in this world has actually been declining. As the Yang energy declined, the True Yang that she could sense became even weaker.

(End of this chapter)