I am immortal

Oh, to save people into Taoism.

It seems that this Lu Chunyang's cultivation level is only average.

Old Songshu looked at the young Taoist and couldn't help but understand, so he calmed down, stroked his beard, and replied calmly:

"Easy to say, easy to say. I remember this person and will find a way to find you later."

"I will help you find this person when the time comes."

His voice paused and he emphasized: "I have lived for five hundred years."

"Absolutely no lies!"

The spirits in the mountains also laughed.

The young man thanked him and sent these spirits all the way. When he passed through the deep forest and could see the city in the hazy mist in the distance, he stopped. Qi Wuhuo did not rush on, waiting for the spirits to eat. After finishing the pine nuts in his hand, he was about to leave. The spirit of the mountain watched him go away from the high place in the mountain. The young Taoist nodded slightly and thanked him.

There is a breath flowing through the body.

He also carried the seal of the mountain god from Helian Mountain, just as Tao Taigong said.

The Seal of the Mountain God cannot mobilize the earth veins to display many magical powers and magical techniques, but it can also use the earth veins to perform the method of escaping from the earth. This place is still some distance from the capital. The young Taoist borrowed the power of this earth vein and walked step by step towards Go to Fucheng.

Behind him, Peony Jing, whose stomach was bloated from eating and had several pine nuts stuffed in his mouth, finally swallowed the pine nuts. He was satisfied and then touched his belly. He was too happy just now, but now he realized something. A very strange question. He looked at the old Shugong who had lived for more than five hundred years and was well-informed, and said curiously:

"But speaking of which, I haven't asked yet, why can he see us and hear us?"

"Didn't you say that even those Taoist priests with innate energy need to cast spells to do it?"

The old pine tree paused and was about to say something. There must be a special method. Maybe someone has already done it, but we didn't see anything during this process. We already saw the young Taoist priest in blue robes turning around and walking into the mist. When I stepped out, there was suddenly no trace.

Submerged in the rain and fog, it was difficult to see.

ha? ! ! !

The old pine trees are slow to caress their beards.

Words cannot come out.

Seeing the rain and mist, all the spirits in the mountain turned their heads and looked at themselves.

The old pine tree held on to the pine bark and said, "What's the matter? It doesn't matter. I'll ask when the mountain god comes back."

"He must know who Chunyang is!"

"Just wait."

"Wait!"

"I have lived to be five hundred years old, five hundred years old!"

"What do you guys look like?!"

"I am..."

……………………

As Qi Wuhuo walked away, he heard the words behind him, such as being five hundred years old and well-informed, that kept coming and slowly dissipated.

There are mountain scenery on both sides, and the wind blows mist, which is very cool and pleasant.

As the saying goes, if you look up the mountain, you will die, and the converse is of course the same. Rather, looking out from the mountain, you can see very far away. The city is actually very far away from here. Normally, you need to carry dry food for about 10 minutes. One day, if you are admiring the scenery on the road and get mesmerized by the scenery, you may have to spend the night in the mountains.

Qi Wuhuo finally arrived within the time of a stick of incense, relying on the magical power of the mountain gods and earth creatures to escape from the earth.

A little surprised.

According to his original estimate, although he could use his soul to drive the mountain god talisman, his vitality was weak and he could not walk such a long distance. He must take a good rest in between. When he was reading the jade book just now, he was already looking at it. Map slowly thinking about where to stop and where to rest.

It saves time now.

It's just that at this moment, there is a long queue in front of the city. Naturally, there are armored sergeants inspecting [passing the place]. Due to taxation and corvee, the court does not allow ordinary people to leave the place where they are. When passing by land, there are passes and crossings by water, and there are soldiers inspecting. Passing the pass], those who have no delinquency are breaking through, and they will be caught and punished. If they want to leave, they must have a valid reason before being given the pass.

Qi Wuhuo raised his eyes and saw what was going on in the hands of the man in the distance.

Because it was covered, only part of the text could be seen.

[Ding, male, Jiaqili, Zhongwufang, Bali Village, Yunshui Township. 】

[Going to Zhongzhou Fucheng for a casual visit to relatives and friends]

[I am afraid that I will be caught by the guards at the pass, so I will give you an excuse for not practicing.]

[The five guarantors are Uncle Cen, Wang Ergou, Zhao Shu, Zhang Liu and Wu Qi; the items they brought were all from their own homes and were not obtained by robbers or thieves]

[My younger brother, Zhao Wuliu, is the surety: After my elder brother passes away, all household corvee matters and more will be guarantored by my younger brother. If he fails to return when the due date is up, my younger brother will make up the payment]

The young Taoist pursed his lips, feeling that it would be difficult to enter the city.

If you want to "pass the prison", you must have someone from inside to report it. You must have five people guaranteeing that you will come back. You must not escape the service, but you must also have close relatives to guarantee you. If you cannot come back after the expiration date, you will be in trouble. When it's time to pay the corvee taxes, the surety will help you fill it out, and even so, there is only a thirty-day period for this [transfer].

If it expires, it must be reissued in the city where it is located. Otherwise, if you are caught by the soldiers, you will be punished.

Qi Wuhuo suddenly thought of the book "Journey to the West" in the dream. There are monks who always need to have a "clearance document" when passing a customs. But if you think about it, every thirty days when adding new people to the city, you need to have the approval of a local official to "remove". The seals and seals were all stuck to the end of the document, with one layer added every thirty days. Therefore, at the end of the day, the customs clearance documents were so thick that they had to be carried on a pole.

Ah, is the salute that Monk Sha is carrying turned out to be a customs clearance document?

The young Taoist seemed to have thought of something interesting and couldn't help but smile.

Others didn't understand and only saw the handsome Taoist smiling to himself.

He immediately took two steps back and pinched his fingers lightly.

The innate Qi can move as desired, but now his Qi cannot leave the body, so he can only use some ordinary methods.

He used a blind trick written in "The Record of Becoming an Immortal" and walked carefully in front of the soldier. He looked up and saw a Bagua mirror shining brightly in the city gate, facing the door. Perhaps it was aimed at evil cultivators and evildoers. He practiced it. Xuanmen's orthodoxy is the most upright. The Eight Diagrams Mirror failed to reveal him, so Qi Wuhuo walked in the city.

"Thankfully, if you are caught, you will have to do corvee..."

After entering the city, it was already dark.

The dull sound of drums could be heard in the distance.

This is the evening drum.

The big city is divided into "fangs", which is the so-called "those who live in the town are called fangs, and those who live in the fields are called villages".

Beat the evening drum at three o'clock.

A total of 600 bells are rung, and you must return to your home within the 600 bells.

The morning bell rings at three o'clock in the morning.

Those who walk during this period will be punished with forty floggings, and those who leaked out before the fifth watch will be flogged thirty. Naturally, they can walk freely during fertility, disease, death and funeral. Qi Wuhuo has no [passing place] now and cannot live at all. Entering the hotel, there were soldiers patrolling the city at night, and it was really troublesome to be invisible at all times, so I had to find a dilapidated earth temple in a building on the edge.

When I opened the door, dust fell out. The earth temple seemed to be in disrepair and was creaking.

The Tutu Temple was in a mess, with a strange smell and glances. Qi Wuhuo saw many beggars in ragged clothes with dust on their faces. He raised his head and looked at the young Taoist, his eyes dark and dusty. The lack of luster is incompatible with the strictness outside this big city.

They didn't seem to expect that such a neatly dressed Taoist would come here.

Qi Wuhuo said gently: "I'm sorry to bother you, but I want to stay here for one night. Is that okay?"

A beggar suddenly muttered twice and said: "Little Taoist priest, if you want to stay here, there are three Taoist temples in this city."

"Even if you go to the great monk's temple, they won't be able to drive you out."

"It only makes the great monk in charge of the ledger feel uncomfortable."

"However, this Tu Tu Temple belongs to Tu Tu Gong. If you want to squeeze in here with us beggars, you can. Hey, I'm just afraid of staining your clothes."

Qi Wuhuo thanked him and sat on the haystack.

The beggars crowded together to sleep, but the temperature was extremely cold after all in this winter. Even though the earth temple blocked the strong wind, the temperature was still low. The wind flew from all directions, and the beggars over there cuddled together and trembled constantly. Sitting, suffering through such days, the young Taoist priest sat in front of the statue of the Earth Temple, making secrets with his fingers, raising his hands slightly, and silently reciting the mysterious chapter in his mouth.

The spirit of oneself circulates, and the wind is blocked.

The room was slowly getting warmer.

Those in the same room who did not know their past experiences or their future path stopped trembling and could hardly sleep peacefully.

The young Taoist withdrew his spell and looked gentle. He just sat on the ground, with the cold moonlight shining on his body. He relied on the statue and took out the mountain god's practice scroll. He looked at it slowly and saw that it was clean. When he took the scroll, he touched it. With the wooden box on his waist, he thought of the girl's last words, so he pinched it with his fingers, used a breath-holding technique to block his eyes, and then pointed around, drawing a circle to cover himself.

Then he looked at the wooden box.

After opening it, it looked like an ordinary bronze mirror.

There are words flowing on it, rub it gently, and recite the words silently:

"[Method of circular light manifestation]"

The cloud patterns on the mirror surface turned into words, and Qi Wuhuo could only see them with his soul.

Recite silently in your heart.

"Look in the mirror to see the form. When you live in a small house, point to the bright, gradually close your eyes, and think about the form. At first, there is nothing to see. After staying in the middle of the night, gradually the hole is far away, and you can see your own eyes. When you think about it, your heart will be bright and enlightened. …”

I have read the entire article on magic practice.

Facing this mirror, practice according to the method recorded behind these words.

Qi Wuhuo felt that there seemed to be a faint brilliance between his eyebrows, as if he could find traces of the girl just like the magic door recorded in the mirror. There seemed to be some faint flowing lines on the mirror, and the changes in brilliance were indeed the same as before. The gray and foggy appearance is different.

Then suddenly a picture appeared.

The girl was holding her chin in one hand, leaning very close to the mirror, and seemed to be poking at the mirror with her fingers out of boredom.

To Qi Wuhuo, it looked like the girl was reaching out to poke him.

His eyes were like autumn water, and his face was like white jade, but his face was full of boredom, completely different from the cheerful look before.

It seemed that he was not here mentally and did not notice the changes here. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said: "Qi Wuhuo..."

The young Taoist replied gently:

"Yeah, I'm here."

"Huh? Huh?!!"

PS:

"Liu Dian of the Tang Dynasty" stipulates that "everywhere pedestrians, carriages and horses come and go, they must be surveyed according to the [passing place]."

The mirror method comes from "Dongxuan Lingbao Taoist Mirror Method", the author is unknown, and it comes from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

It is roughly the same as "Shang Qing Ming Jian Yao Jing" and "Shang Qing Ming Jian Zhen Jing".

Original source: the first part of "Orthodox Taoist Canon".