Liu Li said that there were two secret books in the packet, one on how to train your spiritual sense, and the other on how to raise and practice swords. The old man knew that You Fang had such a sword. If he guessed correctly, there was something about raising and practicing swords.
The secret book must have introduced how to re-open the light and see the sun again, otherwise the sword will never be taken out. Mad Fox seemed to know what to do, but he didn't say it, so he could only place his hope in Liu Li, the "Earth Master of the Generation"
’s guidance.
One of the things that You Fang is most interested in is how to make that sword overcome the mysterious "hourglass of time" phenomenon in archeology, and gain "freedom" after seeing the light of day. Because the devilish mural world he entered in the ancient tomb was too shocking to him.
Well, consciously or unconsciously, I have connected that sword with the woman struggling under the claws of the beast seen in the fantasy.
Do the sharp claws of the magical beast symbolize the hourglass of time that is always ready to swallow the ancient sword? And does the magical world where time is like solidification symbolize the rare release of the sword sealed in the wooden box? What about the soul?
The demonic realm you see may seem absurd and bizarre, but it is not meaningless. It must be subtly related to a person's knowledge and inner thoughts.
In You Fang's eyes, that ancient sword is no longer just a cold evil blade or antique, but has a very emotional association, giving it an image deep in his heart, as if it has some kind of spirituality with vitality.
What he had to do was not only to repair an antique, it also felt like saving a life. But he was not in a hurry. He planned to completely cure the injury to his soul, reach a perfect peak state physically and mentally, and choose the best
Given the timing and environment, let’s touch those two secret books again. Now you have to act more cautiously. People grow up through lessons.
He had paid half a year's rent in advance before leaving Beijing. The place he rented was no different from when he left. It was just that there was a layer of dust in the house. However, when he came back, he had changed a lot. He cleaned up the house,
I washed all the sheets and quilt covers, and spent the next few days concentrating on recuperating the wounds of my soul.
It is not difficult to be a follower of the Dao. You Fang Yuan Shen's injury may seem troublesome, but in fact his spiritual "cultivation" is very shallow, and the injuries caused by himself are not that serious. In the morning, he went to Yuyuantan Park to practice boxing, and at noon
Practicing the Little Thunder Sound Mantra at night allows you to feel the different disturbances of the demonic realm in different yin and yang earthly environments.
The magical realm that disturbed the mind in the fixed state has changed. It is no longer a field surrounded by wind, but a solidified world where the murals have transformed. It really comes to whatever you want, and what You Fang is thinking about now is how to "rescue" that
With the sword, the inner demons of murder and arson have long faded away, and the new injuries suffered by Yuan Shen are the imprints left in the ancient tomb. From silence to gradually being able to restart the rolling thunder, it took You Fang nearly ten days to
Time has healed the wounds of my soul.
I feel so good after recovery. I am more energetic and aware than before I was injured, and I also have an indescribable feeling. I used to practice Neijiaquan successfully, but I just feel that my body and mind are full of vitality.
After this strange experience, it seemed that the surrounding environment had a spirituality that I had never noticed before, and became vivid in the strange induction.
For example, when meditating in a room, you can sense the existence of many things in the room through your "spiritual sense". You don't need to use your eyes to see or reach out to touch. It is difficult to describe this state. In short, you can feel it naturally. Another
On the other hand, his internal strength has also reached a new level, completely breaking through the stage of "energy can move at will and operating from the heart", touching the threshold of "responding to every touch, acting according to feeling", and his internal strength has increased.
It's not an exaggeration, but the breakthrough in realm was something he didn't expect.
After practicing internal martial arts to this level, they face an insurmountable barrier. No matter how hard many people practice, they can't do anything more than continue to grind their muscles and bones to accumulate experience. When they reach the limit of flesh and blood, they can't go any further throughout their lives. Therefore,
It is said that boxing is afraid of young people, and martial arts does not become more powerful as you get older. As for a more superior state, it can no longer be summarized simply by martial arts. It requires not only secret techniques, but also understanding and chance. It doesn’t mean that the master wants to teach, the apprentice can learn it.
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You Fang learned Kung Fu from his third uncle, and his lifelong martial arts practice has barely reached the threshold of "responding to every touch and acting according to his feelings." You Fang once asked him what happened.
The answer is very mysterious. The most profound experience is not in the fighting skills, but in the changes in people themselves. More appropriately, it is the different feelings towards the world. In short, it is not easy to describe. You Fang seemed to understand what he heard at first.
Now I finally have some personal experience, which is really hard to describe.
If you want to cross the threshold of "responding to whatever you touch and act according to your feelings" and truly reach the state of using it freely, there are various secret techniques that are almost never seen in the public boxing manuals. The reason is not only
Because they are kept secret, many of the contents may seem magical to outsiders, and the techniques described are almost unbelievable. They are indeed not suitable for public dissemination, otherwise it will cause a lot of unnecessary misunderstandings. Moreover, it cannot be practiced until the state is reached, and some people are specious.
Imitation is prone to trouble and may bring all kinds of criticism and trouble to those who teach publicly.
The secret book on raising swords and refining swords left by Liu Li might teach these contents, right? - This is what You Fang guessed, and at the same time he also had a sense of expectation.
The injury to Yuan Shen has healed, and his internal skills have improved. You Fang is finally going to open the "secret book". Now he is much more careful in his actions and no longer dares to be careless. Liu Li said that these two secret books should be lit at night.
You can read it with an oil lamp, and you can only read it once. Could it be that you have done something to it, such as using a special ink to write, so that the handwriting will gradually fade after being exposed to light? You Fang guessed various possibilities, so let’s do what the old man said.
For once he was fully prepared.
Oil lamps are easy to make, and the easiest way is to find a bowl filled with salad oil, but You Fang went to Panjiayuan to buy a celadon oil lamp from the Republic of China period, and then went to the farmer's market on the outskirts of the city to buy vegetables for lighting.
Seed oil, the reason why he didn’t use soybean oil was because it was too smokey, and he also bought thick cotton thread used to hold shoe soles as a wick. Of course, he didn’t think about anything else. He even had a digital camera ready, so he was prepared.
, if the handwriting on the book really disappears, it’s okay to take a photo in time, right?
Old methods cannot compete with new technology. Some old tricks are easy to deal with in modern society. As long as you are prepared, you can always think of clever ways to solve them. After all, the times are progressing.
Everything was ready just ten days after he returned to Beijing, August 24, 2010, the Ghost Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as the Ghost Festival. On this day, You Fang did not eat anything except drinking tea and gargling his mouth.
I took a shower and changed into clean and soft clothes. When it was almost 11 o'clock in the evening, I turned off all the lights and home appliances in the house. I opened the windows a small crack and closed the curtains. I burned incense and washed my hands and lit an oil lamp.
Everything is in accordance with the principles of Feng Shui metaphysics. Liu Li said, "You cannot read during the day, you can only read with an oil lamp at night." Doesn't it mean that the night air in the environment is strong, the Yang air is weak, and the Yin air is dense and peaceful? Open the windows
Why should we close the curtains on the sixth floor if we open a small crack to let in the night air without disturbing the indoor wind? There is an old saying in the Feng Shui Bureau's daily life chapter: "Wandering souls can avoid peeking, and the mind should be calm. Light up the lamp and read at night with the curtains down."
, since you know your stuff, you should try your best.
After doing all this, he adjusted his breath and concentrated his mind into a state of concentration that seemed to be calm but not still. He practiced the exercises to nourish his energy and collect his mind. After the hour entered the middle hour, You Fang reached out and opened the small yellow silk bag on the table.
The two books were not wrapped together. Liu Li first rolled one of them with yellow silk, and then wrapped it around the other. Therefore, after opening it, he only saw the book outside. There were only two books in the thin volume.
There are about ten pages of common manuscript paper, bound with cotton thread. The small regular script written with a brush in the book is of course larger than the ordinary typeface. The entire "secret book" does not exceed 5,000 words.
This book should have been written by Liu Li himself. As the saying goes, the writing is like the person. However, You Fang was a little surprised. Liu Li left the impression on him that he was a talkative and unruly person. However, his calligraphy was upright and rigorous, even with a strong tone.
The chilling writing style can also be seen to be written by a martial arts practitioner. The control of the wrist force when writing is very smooth and smooth.
After opening the first page, You Fang's mind was completely attracted by the content. He flipped through page after page in an unhurried and leisurely manner, and his speed was controlled quite well. This book can really only be read once, because after opening it
After that, it decays rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like leaves withering through autumn, withering in winter, and turning into spring mud in the next year.
The front pages of the book were opened first and decayed the fastest. By the time he finished reading the last page, Yu Fang no longer had to close the book. After a while, the whole book had turned into a pile of withered, yellow and black debris.
There was a smell of staleness on the table. You Fang secretly said that it was a fluke. Liu Li's method was indeed very good. Fortunately, he had made sufficient preparations to read this secret book calmly. If he had opened it casually, I am afraid that he would not even be able to read it.
I couldn't even reach the end of the page, and I couldn't even take a digital camera to take a photo.
The scene in front of me is very similar to the most extreme "hourglass of time" phenomenon encountered by archaeological excavations. Things taken out from the sealed ancient tombs were intact at the time, but soon decayed and damaged, as if something suddenly flashed at the snap of a finger.
Thousands of years have passed. But the two secret books written by Liu Li are definitely brand new and cannot be ancient relics. How did he do it?
When You Fang opened the yellow silk, his spiritual sense also had a natural reaction. The book was permeated with strong Yin Qi, which was even heavier than the Yin Qi of the sword in his backpack. The difference was that the Yin Qi floated and did not move.
It is condensed and disperses very quickly after being opened. Is this the principle of the "hourglass of time" phenomenon that archaeologists understand and overcome?
Mr. Wu once discussed this phenomenon with You Fang. According to the general view of the academic community, ancient objects are well preserved mainly because the environment has stable temperature and humidity, no light radiation, lack of oxygen or isolation of air. However,
Whether it is science or superstition, there is a phenomenon that cannot be avoided. Once these things come to light again, the traces of the years they have been erased in burial will quickly appear.
The most popular explanation is rapid oxidation, but this problem cannot be solved simply from the perspective of avoiding oxidation. For example, in ancient times, it was very popular to use grains as sacrifices. Well-preserved ancient grains have been found in many ancient tombs. The fresh ones when they were unearthed were almost ready to be taken.
Go cooking, but they will turn into coke-like powder within a few minutes. If you put them in a closed container filled with inert gas, the oxidation rate may be delayed, but the hourglass phenomenon of time also exists. These grains will be in the container
Natural dehydration, fibrosis, decomposition and fragmentation, and ultimately the original appearance cannot be preserved.
But not everything is like this. By chance, some precious cultural relics can be preserved intact, but it is difficult to explain this kind of chance. It is difficult to repeat different situations, and different materials are different. You Fangze
I explained to Mr. Wu the reasons for the material, not with modern chemical theory, but with the Five Elements theory in traditional Feng Shui metaphysics.
The utensils belonging to the five elements of wood are themselves formed by the energy of life and are sealed by the yin energy. Once they see the light of day and are rushed by the yang energy, the energy will be lost quickly and the speed of decay will be the fastest. A Tang Dynasty sandalwood handle unearthed from the underground palace of Famen Temple in Shaanxi
This happened to the double-eared six-ring tin cane, and the handle was not preserved.
As for the five-element metal objects sealed by Yin Qi, the situation is similar. When they are washed away by Yang Qi in the external environment, they will also decay quickly. Just like the entire burial time has passed in a snap, the damage will be different depending on the material.
They are also different, but most of them are much gentler than the five elements of wood objects. For example, the chemical properties of gold are very stable and will not change even for thousands of years, so it can be well preserved even after going through this process.
As for the earthy artifacts of the five elements, they are the most special. They are not afraid of being attacked by Yang Qi, but they have a strange "annealing" phenomenon in an environment where Yin Qi is sealed. The most typical one is pottery. Experienced archaeologists all know that when opened
If you find pottery in a dark ancient tomb, such as Tang Sancai, you cannot pick it up directly with your hands at the first time, because the utensils at that time may be very soft and even break when pinched.
Mr. Wu encountered this phenomenon. Once when he entered a tomb excavation site, the archaeological team members nearby reached out to touch a pottery figurine. As a result, his fingers penetrated directly into the pottery figurine. The object was as soft as unfired wet clay.
If you encounter this situation, it means that the sealing condition of this tomb is very good and it has been quite long.
The way to deal with "annealing" is to try not to touch it, wait for the air in the tomb to circulate, and the outside Yang Qi to gradually penetrate, and the pottery will harden again. This is called "tempering to return Yang" in the book. Some tomb robbers don't understand.
As a result, many precious artifacts were inadvertently destroyed during the tomb robbing process.
What is even more interesting is jade. Its surface will soften in an environment where Yin Qi is sealed. The process is slower than that of pottery and is not so obvious. For example, Hetian jade has a very high hardness under normal circumstances, and ordinary knives cannot file it.
But if it is taken out from an ancient tomb that has been sealed for many years, if you scratch it with a knife, it will probably leave obvious scratches like scratching on a table. This means that the jade was "annealed" during burial.
The speed of "tempering back to Yang" of jade in the natural environment is very slow. If you want to speed it up, you can use Cemen's "water and fire attack" method, which is to put a large pot with water, light it and cook it for a few days and nights.
Return to normal hardness. These phenomena are not easy to explain, but it doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not, because it exists objectively.
Although methods such as tempering and returning sunlight can protect things like pottery, they cannot protect the paintings on many pottery surfaces. At the same time, other objects in ancient tombs will also be damaged. Therefore, modern archaeologists have finally analyzed many known ancient burials.
The effective method of protection is to seal them in situ. There is no completely effective way to preserve artifacts after they are opened. In the 1950s, under the instigation of Wu Han, Guo Moruo and others, the country opened the Dingling Tomb of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty. This is a lesson.
Many precious cultural relics were not well preserved. Affected by the dogmatic thinking of the time, many "mysterious" phenomena during the excavation process were not recorded.
The exchange between You Fang and Mr. Wu was very fruitful and touching. They only mentioned the utensils with the three attributes of wood, metal, and earth in the Five Elements. Why didn't they mention the two attributes of water and fire? Because water and fire are invisible.
, a demonstrative pronoun that Chinese people often say is called "East and West" instead of "North and South", because the east belongs to wood and the west belongs to gold, which is a tangible thing, while the south belongs to fire and the north belongs to water, which is intangible.
Today I saw this secret book rotting into pieces before my eyes. You Fang recalled the discussion with Mr. Wu. It seems that many artifacts that should have been decayed have been preserved for thousands of years. The reason is probably that they were penetrated and stagnated by the strong and still Yin Qi.
The so-called "qi" is different from the simple concepts of yin and yang in Feng Shui. It refers to a spirituality that arises, grows, and changes in the environment. It dialectically includes the meaning of going from birth to death -
—This is a concept full of life.
When yin and yang are isolated and no longer change, the vitality will also stagnate. This is not only the reason why many utensils can be preserved for a long time, but also the reason why they decay quickly after they see the light of day. The two are actually consistent. At least they can be explained in the theory of Feng Shui metaphysics, let alone
To investigate whether this explanation really has scientific reason.
There is knowledge both inside and outside the book! In addition to the methods of training spiritual awareness recorded in the secret book, even the process of opening the secret book can allow a thoughtful person to learn a lot. For example, You Fang figured out many of the problems he had thought about before.
It's a pity that I can no longer communicate and discuss with Mr. Wu Pingtong.
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