Chapter 20: Thirteen Zodiacs, Ancient Capital of Six Dynasties

Yujing City, Huangji Road.

Under the floating clouds in the middle of the night, the mountains rise and fall, like a great dragon lying in the world.

On the mountainside, several lights are bright, villas are in groups, and there are even pavilions and towers in the high-walled courtyards, which are quite ancient.

This is the wealthy area of Yujing City. Those who can live here are either rich or expensive, and ordinary people have never even heard of this place.

A white building complex, the gatehouse is round at the bottom and narrow at the top, with a protrusion at the top, looking very much like a chicken head, surrounded by mountains on all four sides, and water flowing in the distance...

This pattern is called the Mountain and Water Phoenix Sacrifice Bureau.

In ancient times, deep in the mountains, if a fox developed wisdom, it would look for a place leaning against the mountains and near the water, enter an ancient cave, and chisel out such a pattern to retreat inside, and it could become an immortal.

In the quiet front yard, the twin-tailed girl walked in angrily, about to rush to the inner hall.

At this moment, her complexion was ugly to the extreme, and she no longer had the spring breeze of the past.

"He Huan..."

Just then, an indifferent voice sounded in the cold night, causing the twin-tailed girl to stop her steps.

She turned and looked, and saw a young man wearing home clothes, sitting in the pavilion, holding a thread-bound ancient book in his hand.

"He Fei!" He Huan raised her delicate brows, her eyes dodging a bit.

"Not even calling me brother..." He Fei put down the book in his hand and said indifferently.

"You and I are not born of the same mother... what brother to call?" He Huan sneered.

"You fought with someone and got hurt. Your skills are not refined, and you damaged the immortal family you worshipped, which will lead to a backlash."

He Fei didn't even raise his head, but one sentence made He Huan change her face.

"Your Daoist attainment has reached such a level?"

He Huan's eyes flickered. She had heard from the elders long ago that this wild seed brought back from outside had great talent, but she didn't expect it to be so terrifying. Without hearing or asking, he saw through her reality.

"Refining longevity, refining longevity... everyone wants to seek longevity. If you ask about this method, the Daoist gate is respected in the world, but I don't know that my 'going out to horse' path also has a method of longevity." He Fei looked up at the sky, a hint of loneliness in his eyes.

In the eyes of the Daoist gate, "going out to horse" is just a side path, the most despised, but...

"If you don't cultivate well, I'm afraid that in the future, you will only become a great medicine for the immortal family you worship to supplement..." He Fei changed the subject.

He Huan's beautiful face trembled violently.

With this one sentence, he pointed out the great secret of the "going out to horse" immortal family.

What is "going out to horse"? Cultivating by borrowing spirits and monsters, and vice versa.

Buddhism says that the human body is naturally 500 years more Daoist attainment than spirits and monsters. In other words, animals becoming spirits need to cultivate for another 500 years to cultivate the human body status.

Because of this, "going out to horse" is both a transaction and a game.

In the end, either humans use the worshipped immortal family as a great medicine to supplement, the primordial spirit is leak-proof, and longevity is in sight.

Or the worshipped immortal family supplements humans, the magpie occupies the dove's nest, and that is the real...

Monster!!! "In the current era, spirits and monsters often appear in the world, but very few monsters are rampant." He Fei sighed.

Monsters, ghosts, spirits, and strange things are actually different things.

The so-called ghost is when a person dies, the yang energy dissipates, the primordial spirit leaves the form, and pure yin without yang is formed.

The so-called spirit is when animals and plants absorb the essence of heaven and earth, and over time they become spiritual, often with strange arts, called spirits.

The so-called strange thing is something that is not a normal category and produces strangeness. For example, old objects in the house, after a long time, gradually become spiritual and produce strangeness, which is called a strange thing.

As for monsters, they are the most special. The 【Kongdong Talisman Record】 says: Human forgery is a monster.

That is to say, monsters are the product of the combination of spirits, monsters, and humans. They have powerful primordial spirits, occupy the dove's nest, and thus possess a human body, saving 500 years of bitter cultivation.

In the Legend of the White Snake, it is said that Bai Suzhen cultivated under Mount Qingcheng for a thousand years and turned into a human, but in fact, how her human body came about, there is a question mark.

Because spirits and monsters cannot directly transform into human bodies.

The sadness of "going out to horse" lies here. Borrowing the power of spirits and monsters means having to repay the debt. Those who are miserable will lose this human body and become real monsters.

Therefore, since ancient times, the Daoist gate has always held a killing thought toward monsters, because since they have become monsters, it is equivalent to having human lives on their hands.

"From our He family's ancestor, we have worshipped the Hu immortal family, and it has been passed down to the thirteenth generation today. There are very few who can become immortals and medicine..." He Fei said indifferently.

"I just suffered a minor injury, do you need to tell me this?"

He Huan interrupted him, but her tone eased a lot.

"Did you meet a Daoist expert?" He Fei turned his head and asked.

"What Daoist expert? Just a stunned kid, I was careless for a moment."

He Huan gritted her silver teeth, and the image of Zhang Fan appeared in her mind.

"Hmm, most of the orthodox Daoist gate stay away from the red dust and live in the mountains, so they rarely walk outside." He Fei nodded and said.

"However, the Daoist gate has many branches. From ancient times to the present, alchemy methods have been passed down, thousands of them... If you meet people of this path in the future, you still have to pay attention."

"I also know some Daoist inner alchemy methods. I worship the immortal family, not necessarily worse." He Huan was arrogant. "Ordinary inner alchemy methods are fine, but there is an inner alchemy method in the Daoist gate that is extremely special and domineering. If you meet it, you must retreat three houses."

He Fei changed the subject and said suddenly.

"What?"

"Reverse Immortal Method."

"What is the Reverse Immortal Method?" He Huan showed a puzzled expression.

"Since ancient times, heaven and man have been different, but under the Great Dao, there is a glimmer of life... Cultivation is the glimmer of life left by the Great Dao to mortals..." He Fei said in a deep voice.

Ordinary inner alchemy methods are still within this glimmer of life, whether it is supplementing the essence of the sun and the moon, or supplementing external medicine to refine the body...

However...

"In ancient times, a group of Daoist priests discovered that different inner alchemy methods have different efficiencies in converting true yang after gathering medicine, and the purity is also different, and the speed of primordial spirit absorption and growth is also different..."

"They discovered that under this glimmer of life, even if you study hard, it is difficult to break through the limits of heaven and man, so..."

"This group of lunatics took a different path..."

"How to take a different path?" He Huan couldn't help but ask.

"Follow the path to become a human, reverse the path to become an immortal... Jump out of that glimmer of life." He Fei said in a deep voice.

As he spoke, he pointed to his chest: "Normal people, heart fire is on top, kidney water is on the bottom. If you refine for a lifetime, the fire will burn dry, and the kidney water will not rise any waves..."

"But if it is reversed, heart fire is on the bottom, kidney water is on top, reverse displacement, Kan and Li intersect, Li fire can boil the kidney water, essence and qi curl like smoke, disperse into the four limbs and hundreds of bones, directly connecting to the heavenly spirit primordial spirit..."

"The Dao can be expected, the immortal can be achieved..."

"This kind of thing..." The more He Huan heard, the more shocked she became.

The human body is naturally formed. In this way, isn't it going against the sky?

"Follow to be a human, reverse to be an immortal... This kind of inner alchemy method is a Daoist secret, orthodox Xuan Sect, extremely domineering, and is the nemesis of the monster and evil path. If you meet it, you must retreat three houses." He Fei warned again.

"Don't worry, being able to pass on such an inner alchemy method must be a Daoist successor, far in the deep mountains... How can those old Daoist priests be willing to put him in the red dust to mix, and be polluted by this turbid world?" He Huan whispered, and Zhang Fan's figure in her mind could not be dispelled.

This grudge is settled.

"You wait for me, it's best to pray to gods and worship Buddha not to let me meet you."

In the following days, Zhang Fan spent every day at home throwing resumes and looking for work.

College students in June and July are the least valuable. He threw out fifty or sixty resumes, almost all of which sank into the sea.

Besides that, he locked himself at home, practicing the 【Source of North and South Sects】 method hard.

This inner alchemy method is indeed special. After practicing for only a week, Zhang Fan felt that his strength was much greater, his six senses were more acute, and lying on the bed, he could even hear the aunts at the entrance of the residential area chatting about gossip.

However, in the past few days, he dared not continue to practice. Every time he performed the work, by noon, he felt his upper body cold like frost, and his lower body hot like fire...

Regarding this, Zhang Fan knew that Daoist kung fu, especially when it reaches the deep level, cannot be practiced blindly. It must be pointed out by a master, otherwise, it will be disabled and become a vegetable at best, and lose his life at worst...

Regarding this situation, he immediately called Daoist Pojie to humbly ask for advice.

"You practiced 【Source of North and South Sects】?"

A burst of astonishment came from the other end of the phone.

"What's wrong? Can't practice?"

"No... nothing..."

After a short silence, Daoist Pojie listened to Zhang Fan's question.

"You said you only practiced for ten days?"

"Only ten days and there's a problem... Daoist Pojie, is the inner alchemy method you practice the same as mine? Is there any senior brother or sister on Zhenwu Mountain who also practices this method? I want to communicate with him and ask for experience." Zhang Fan asked.

"No... no one..." Daoist Pojie was silent for a long time before saying: "You only practiced for a few days, this is normal. Young man, don't be impetuous..."

"Originally, your talent is not high, practice slowly, don't let the conscious spirit be agitated."

"I understand." Zhang Fan breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that his kung fu was not enough. As long as he didn't practice wrong, it was fine. He thanked him repeatedly and hung up the phone.

At this moment, on Zhenwu Mountain, Pojie held the phone, as if petrified, his face full of strange colors.

"Senior Brother Pojie, why are you standing here?"

Just then, Xia Weisheng walked from afar. Seeing Pojie like this, she couldn't help but ask.

"The tripod furnace is in place, Kan and Li intersect... He... he actually succeeded?" Daoist Pojie came back to his senses, his face full of shock, subconsciously looking at Xia Weisheng.

"What succeeded?" Xia Weisheng was confused.

"Evil... this kid... is too damn evil!" Daoist Pojie shook his head repeatedly.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 21 =====