Chapter 24: Crazy Kanlian (Part 1)
Lin Junxuan's life on the mountain has basically stabilized. When he was in the morning, he went to Kanli Palace to learn ancient seal scripts, and learned the Qimen formation during the day. If he had time, he would go to Rottao Mountain. Every time he went there, Lin Junxuan would bring a few peaches back.
Because of the practice of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Formation and the practice of the "Star Qi Reception Art", Lin Junxuan temporarily slowed down and concentrated on practicing the nine stones.
The atmosphere of training in Fangcun Sect is very strong. Every time Lin Junxuan opens the window, he can see the dense disciples of Fangcun Sect outside the hall absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth day and night. His life is leisurely. Except for Ying Donglai who occasionally comes to rush around the door, no one comes to disturb him. Lin Junxuan enjoys this kind of pure life very much.
As for Songyu, he would occasionally come to visit Lin Junxuan, check his "Ancient Seal Text" learning progress, and ask him any questions. Songyu always seems in a hurry and leaves after only one hour. Lin Junxuan felt that Songyu lived somewhere in Fangcun Mountain, but he couldn't figure out where it was.
One morning more than half a month later, Songhe stepped into Lin Junxuan's room.
"This was brought to you by your master, and you said you would need it." Songhe tied his crown, holding a lot of books in his arms.
"Is it a Taoist book sent by the master?" Lin Junxuan stood up and greeted him.
"No, you'll know it after reading it yourself." Songhe poured over the book in his arms. Lin Junxuan took half of the book and looked down. It was a Confucian "Ask for the Rituals". He used his hand to flip through the books below. There was no Taoist book in it, all of which were Confucian "Classics", "History", "Son", "Collected Collection", and some "Sanctuary" and "Notes" by celebrities.
"Your master said, these things are useful to you. Well, where are you put them?" Songhe asked.
"Master, just give it to me." Lin Junxuan stuffed the books in his hand to the coffee table, then took the books from Songhe's hand, and stuffed them together to the coffee table. After doing all this, Lin Junxuan stood up and asked, "Master, do you know where the master lives? I haven't seen him for a long time."
"Your master..." Songhe hesitated for a moment, looked at Lin Junxuan's expectant gaze, and finally said: "...he lives in Xiaoshan."
"Xiaoshan?..." Lin Junxuan said in confusion.
"Well, Xiaoshan is free from Fangcun Mountain, your master is guarding a person on the mountain, a person who is very important to him!" Songhe said with some emotion.
"Are you a woman?" Lin Junxuan thought to himself as he thought to himself, but he did not say this.
"Don't ask about these for the time being, you will naturally know in the future. Well, your master asked me to ask you if there is any need?" Songhe changed the topic.
"Haha, Master, there are not many ink strips here. Can you make some more ink strips for me?" Lin Junxuan said with the few ink strips left in the inkstone.
Lin Junxuan practices calligraphy every morning and feels comfortable. Songyu doesn't prepare many ink strips for him. He writes more often, so he will use them naturally quickly. Songhe raised his head and looked at it. There was a painting of the first mate of calligraphy and painting directly opposite the door. It was written on it, which was a sentence given to Lin Junxuan by the mysterious master: Think twice before you can take a step, and you will never look back!
There were also small pieces of rice paper on the walls on them, which were covered with ancient sages, such as "A gentleman has been thinking three times a day", "A broad view and arranging, and acquiring them, and making a lot of money" and "A knowledgeable, interrogating them, thinking carefully, discerning them, and practicing them carefully" and so on. On the desk, there was a stack of written rice paper.
"The words written by this child are not as good as those he can write at his age. Even some calligraphy masters who have been immersed in decades, may not be just like him." Songhe looked at the fonts on the wall and felt that those fonts had a straight and noble character, and they liked them quite well. He patted Lin Junxuan's shoulder, and Songhe smiled and said, "You kid writes good characters, but according to your writing style, I'm afraid half of the ink strips in the sect will be spent on you...Okay, Master will give you, well, you don't have much rice paper anymore. I'll give you more rice paper, so you won't be able to speak again when you get it, so you can just give it enough at once."
"Thank you, Master." Lin Junxuan was overjoyed and bowed.
"You kid, what kind of tribute to the adults? Haha... Okay, I'll go out to get it for you now." Songhe smiled, shook his sleeves, and walked out with big strides.
"Great sending you off to Master!" Lin Junxuan watched Songhe leave. As soon as Songhe left, a sound of a window being pushed open from outside came from behind:
"Brother, brother... hurry up, class is coming. Uncle Kanli doesn't like others being late!" Ying Donglai from the window showed his face from the windowsill and shouted inward.
"When did you come?" Lin Junxuan's face cleared slightly when he saw Ying Donglai outside the window.
"It's not long before I saw my uncle in your room, I didn't dare to speak... Hurry up!" Ying Donglai said anxiously: "...Don't you want to be punished by the uncle of Kanli Master to listen outside the Kanli Palace?"
Kanlizi only accepts a few disciples this year, and there are a few more ten today. Among the ten people, the most arrogant one was Dongfang Yu. Once this guy was late for some reason, but he didn't care and rushed to Kanli Palace without any haste. The old man was in the lecture hall. When he saw Dongfang Yu Shanshan walking in, he roared on the spot, and made Dongfang Yu stand at the gate of Kanli Palace to listen to the class! That was the most embarrassing time when Dongfang Yu came up the mountain. His face turned red when he stood at the door. He appeared in a noble family, with a arrogant temperament and a sense of superiority in his innate sense of seniority, but the old man valued the most seniority in the Fangcun Sect. When the old man spoke, he was dissatisfied but didn't dare to move!
"I understand." Lin Junxuan smiled, grabbed a peach from the table, and walked out. When the two hurried to Kanli Palace, the old man barely walked to the edge of the cushion. Seeing the two people walking in, they looked up at the two people, their lips moved, but they still said nothing.
The two of them knew that they had escaped the disaster, breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down on their respective cushions.
"You have been to Kanli Palace for more than twenty days, and you will be taught ancient seal characters in a few days. You have all selected them from your peers, and your qualifications should be less than a little worse. If you can't learn this, you can only say that you are really not suitable for practicing Taoism. Then you can get out of Fangcun Mountain one by one," the old man glanced at everyone coldly and said stereotypedly: "You can only recognize ancient seal characters at present. If you want to master them, you will have to practice diligently in the future. If you don't do this, you will also forget your light over time."
Unlike usual, today the old man did not take out any books from his arms. He put his hands on his knees and said seriously: "Today I will not talk about new ancient seal characters, but only the role of ancient seal characters in the cultivation of Taoism."
"I said the day you first came that the pronunciation of ancient seal characters was summarized by the predecessors of Taoism who understood the truth of heaven and earth. These ancient seal characters had great power. However, at that time, there was another sentence I didn't say - it was useless to simply know the pronunciation of ancient seal characters. In the past eras, the method of practicing Taoism was open, and ancient seal characters were also common words. But not all people were suitable for practicing Taoism and could endure the pain of loving Taoism. So some people became common people. In this way, the inheritance of ancient seal characters was divided into two parts, the Taoist world and the common people."
"The lifespan of ordinary people is short, and the things of their ancestors are passed down from generation to generation, and they gradually forget them. They thought that ancient seal characters were too complicated, so they created 'list script', while ancient seal characters were only passed down by the royal family that was regarded as orthodox. However, although these people mastered the pronunciation of ancient seal characters, they did not have great ability. The reason is that they did not have magic power in their bodies!"
"It's useless to understand ancient seal characters simply because you have magic power. What I want to teach you today is to correctly use these ancient seal characters. You will definitely be able to use them during your practice. These things are very complicated, so please look at them with your heart," the old man formed a strange posture in front of him with his hands: "I can see them clearly!"
"First gesture" the old man made a handprint and suddenly shouted: "[Read]!"
The sound fell, and the wind suddenly broke out in the Kanli Palace. The strong wind shaking the Kanli Palace. The ten people expected that there would be such a move. Dongfang Yu, Ying Donglai and others snorted bitterly, and were first swept up by the strong wind and hit the wall behind. Li Xuanfeng didn't support it for long before he was blown to the wall, and his body was fixed to the wall in a large shape. Lin Junxuan was the last one to be rolled onto the wall.
"The second gesture," the old man had no intention of stopping, and formed another handprint and shouted loudly: "[Soldier]!"
Before the ten people on the wall could react from this accident, they felt the violent wind disappear, and instead a gentle force surged from under their feet to lift them up and suspended them in the air.
"The third gesture, '[fight]'!" The mana in Kanli palace fluctuated sharply, and the third word from the old man was revealed. In Kanli palace, a light flashed, and ten people and the old man disappeared.
Ten people suddenly appeared in the air thousands of feet above Fangcun Mountain, and Kanlizi appeared opposite them. The old man used to be serious and rigid. His sparse hair was flying in the wind. The old man looked a little crazy. He laughed and said, "You little guys, you guys, you didn't obey me, and today you were just going to be the one who was going to do it."
His palm suddenly slapped hard on the void on his body, and the old man shouted: "[those]!"
'ah!--'
Everyone screamed and was swept by a powerful force, flying towards the sky like a cannonball. Among the ten people, the highest skills were Lin Junxuan and Li Xuanfeng, but even the two of them had not learned the Taoist technique of taking off the air. They all felt the cold wind whistling from their ears, and the scenery in their eyes quickly retreated backwards, which was very exciting!
Chapter completed!