Chapter 50: Buddhist Dharma Manifests Holiness!

Just as Duan Yu was speechless, feeling that his little thoughts that he dared not tell outsiders had been poked, the young monk finished reading the "North Dark Divine Art" and looked at the "Lingbo Micro-steps" at the end of the silk scroll for a while.

He unleashed force from his hand, turning the silk scroll into powder, stood up, and said:

"Since Donor Duan feels it is inappropriate, this monk will simply fulfill your wish and let this silk scroll never see the light of day again."

"Uh..."

Duan Yu's face froze. Seeing the silk scroll turn into nothingness, he felt very regretful, and a sense of loss arose in his heart for no reason.

Zhuang Buran ignored Duan Yu and returned the way he came, walking out of the stone chamber.

By the side of the large lake.

The young monk, dressed in white as snow, stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes flowing, as if lost in thought.

"To me, North Dark is just a chicken rib; at most, it can add another manifestation to the 'Great Vajra Divine Power'."

"However, what I value is not the ability to absorb internal energy as one's own, which is the most praised part of this martial art."

"The so-called North Dark True Qi possesses both yin and yang. The yang is as scorching as a furnace, and the yin is several times colder than ice. It has the ability to harmonize all martial arts in the world, is immune to poison, and is strong and domineering. Attacks are fierce and unparalleled, and the true qi protects the body, reflecting attacks back onto the enemy. I, Zhuang, have already obtained this."

His eyes deepened:

"Once North Dark is cultivated, the true qi in the body will form a high-speed vortex in the dantian, and every acupoint on the body will generate a vortex suction force."

"This application of acupoints seems to be able to make up for the deficiencies in the path I am walking."

"If all the major acupoints on the body have vortex suction, can I be more in tune with heaven and earth? And if I use my own original qi to guide it, can I set up a Strange Gate Formation and truly walk out a path of a sorcerer?"

While Zhuang Buran was thinking, inexplicable vortex suction forces appeared in the major acupoints of his right arm.

"The martial arts of the world are nothing more than the application of force. My 'Great Vajra Divine Power' has reached the peak in the application of physical force; I can directly take the condensation method of the North Dark vortex suction and make it my own."

About one or two sticks of incense time.

The young monk's posture was inexplicable, and ethereal mist emerged from his body. His skin became increasingly fair, as if transparent, and his whole person looked like white ice covered in cold mist.

Suddenly, the mist dispersed.

Zhuang Buran's body imagery dispersed, and his brows furrowed slightly:

"Is it that my own life tempering is not enough, or is the natural energy of this world too silent? The Strange Gate Formation has already been set up, but it cannot move the scattered natural energy within the formation at all."

At this time, Duan Yu ran out excitedly:

"Little Master, guess what I found? It turns out there really is a passage out of the valley in the stone chamber."

Upon hearing this, the young monk did not know what he thought of. His heart shook, and a happy expression appeared on his face. He muttered to himself:

"This monk unknowingly entered a barrier of knowledge. The world is a heaven and earth, and why is the human body not a heaven and earth?"

As he finished speaking, the qi in his body flourished.

He saw him guide the original qi in his body, using the acupoints of his whole body as fulcrums, and then borrowing the principle of "Nisheng Triple," turning his limbs and bones into a heaven and earth, and setting up a Strange Gate Formation here.

"The so-called Strange Gate Dunjia is composed of four plates: Heaven, Earth, Human, and Divine. The four are interrelated and influence each other. The Heaven Plate is the time of heaven, composed of nine stars, corresponding to the five elements and eight trigrams. The Earth Plate is the advantage of the earth, composed of nine palaces and eight trigrams."

"The Human Plate is the harmony of people, composed of eight gates, also corresponding to the five elements and eight trigrams. The Divine Plate is the help of the divine, composed of eight divinities."

Zhuang Buran kept deducing the Strange Gate Formation in his heart. The yin and yang eight trigrams and twenty-four solar terms determined by the gnomon were further subdivided into seventy-two hou responses, which respectively corresponded to the changes that should appear in all things in the world at a certain time within a year.

For example, the first hou of the beginning of spring, the east wind thaws the ice, and the second hou, the hibernating insects begin to stir, can also be considered a way of recording the changes of time. Therefore, the seventy-two hou are also known as the Zhou Tian number.

When he kept deducing, he used the later heaven eight trigrams, dividing by three and eight, and kept evolving the Strange Gate Formation in his body.

The twenty-four vertebrae of the human body differentiate into twenty-four solar terms, and the twelve meridians and twelve viscera and bowels form twenty-four meridians, corresponding to the twenty-four solar terms. He also evolved the five elements, corresponding to the attributes that match the vertebrae and meridians.

Then, using the principle of the eight trigrams, dividing by three, corresponding to three vertebrae and meridians, he obtained the trigram images and assigned the five elements attributes.

After Zhuang Buran finished everything, he realized inexplicably:

"Mastering the seventy-two hou within the Strange Gate Formation is mastering the rhythm and laws of the constant changes of all things in heaven and earth, which is equivalent to mastering the changes of all things in the world."

He was stunned for a moment and stood on the spot for a long time.

Duan Yu, not far away, was confused. He felt that this young monk must have some kind of hysteria, muttering and not knowing what he was doing. The momentum he revealed made him feel terrified, even more afraid than when he fell off the cliff earlier.

Suddenly, he felt a warm current filling the surroundings.

He saw the weeds by the side of the large lake competing to sprout, bud, bloom, and spit out stamens. Then, dozens of small flowers appeared on the grass, red, orange, blue, and purple, competing for beauty.

Duan Yu was dumbfounded and rubbed his eyes hard, thinking he was hallucinating. It was clearly the time of the fourth or fifth month, and the flowers had already withered. How could they be reborn in an instant?

"Almost did useless work. I didn't expect the natural energy of this world to be so inert. I actually couldn't use original qi to control the Strange Gate and use the so-called Strange Gate sorcery. But by mistake, I evolved a set of techniques."

Zhuang Buran's eyes drooped, and his feet shook slightly. A vine fell into his palm, and a burst of earthy yellow force emerged. The vine gradually dissipated and turned into a vine seed.

As the earthy yellow force became more intense, the dark green vine flew into the sky like a blue dragon, climbing all the way to the cliff.

The young monk leaped up, as if riding a dragon and ascending.

Duan Yu was so surprised that he couldn't speak:

"Buddhist Dharma... Manifests Holiness!"

Three days later.

In a sparse forest on Wuliang Mountain.

A big man with an ugly appearance, the more you look at him, the more you feel that his facial features, body, limbs, and even his clothing and dressing are extremely inappropriate, looked carelessly at a girl with a beautiful and refined appearance and a graceful figure.

The former was the Nanhai E Shen, Yue Laosan, one of the Four Great Evils, and the latter was Mu Wanqing.

"Since you are my apprentice's wife, I, the Nanhai E Shen, will naturally not make things difficult for you. But if that kid refuses to beg me to take him as an apprentice, then you are not my apprentice's wife."

Yue Laosan laughed wantonly:

"Hahaha, I, the Nanhai E Shen, usually see a beautiful girl like you, and I usually sleep with her first and then kill her, twisting her neck. Only then is it the most enjoyable!"

Mu Wanqing did not take Yue Laosan's words to heart at all, but spoke with worry:

"My Duan Lang doesn't know martial arts at all. If you throw him on the cliff and he accidentally falls, you won't have such a good apprentice anymore."

"That makes sense." Yue Laosan let out a long whistle, and two yellow-robed men came from the hillside not far away.

After they finished bowing and saluting, he gave an order, and the two left after receiving the order.

Suddenly, a light cry like a gossamer arose, the sound was mournful, as if a woman was crying.

Yue Laosan immediately cursed:

"The mourner is here again."

Immediately, a figure flew down. She was in a light green long shirt, with long hair, about forty years old, and had a rather beautiful appearance, but there were three bright red bloodstains on each side of her cheeks, drawn straight from the bottom of her eyes to her lower cheeks, as if they had just been scratched by someone. She was holding a two or three-year-old boy in her arms.

"Wonderful, wonderful, I didn't expect that in the wilderness, there would be such an outstanding beauty."

A figure appeared in front of Mu Wanqing like smoke, flying like a ghost.

This was a man who was extremely tall and thin, and his face was also terrifyingly long.

The person who came was Ye Erniang, who committed all kinds of evil among the Four Great Evils, and Yunzhonghe, who was extremely vicious.

"Old Four, this is my apprentice's wife, you are not allowed to reach out."

Yue Laosan hit him fiercely, and Yunzhonghe dodged lightly to the side, just about to speak.

In the forest, vines grew strangely and wildly. Several people could not hide the suspicion and panic on their faces, and they made moves one after another, but they saw the vines could be broken and then reconnected. In the blink of an eye, they became more and more, and the forest, which was relatively sparse, turned into a deep mountain forest.

"Sigh, this monk has been practicing here for several days, and you are the most noisy."

Just when Yue Laosan and the others wanted to tear off the dense vines around them, they suddenly heard a voice from above. Looking up, they saw a young monk in white, lying on a bed made of vines.

He had an extremely handsome appearance, with a lazy smile on the corner of his mouth. It could be seen that he used a vine as a belt, and an inexplicable demonic feeling could not help but well up in their hearts.

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