Chapter 81: Bamboo Staff and Straw Sandals are Lighter than Horses (Fourth update of release, requesting subscription and monthly ti

After listening to the ancestor's explanation of thunder magic, Yunqi was also relieved. When the true malevolent Qi rushed the apertures, he really thought his Dao path was cut off. Now, besides escaping from the disaster, the Dao path could also have room for maneuver, which was truly joyful.

However, soon, Yunqi thought of another question. His physical body was necrotic, so how could he practice thunder magic?

At this time, he heard Ancestor Tongxuan say to Wen Sukong,

"However, given his current situation, let alone practicing Dharma, even walking is difficult. Sukong, you teach him the Staff Liberation Method. The rest doesn't need the old Daoist to ramble anymore. Go, go, don't disturb my quiet cultivation."

Ancestor Tongxuan flicked the whisk, and Yunqi only felt a blur before his eyes. When he saw clearly again, he saw the stele of "Zhan Biyun's Bamboo Hiding Place."

It was actually back to Mount Mingyue.

No surprise appeared on Wen Sukong's face. She beckoned again, sending the red cloud and Yunqi's physical body to the bamboo pavilion, while she sat on the prayer mat outside the bamboo pavilion.

Yunqi, who had been turned into a spiritual body, also sat down beside the master, and heard Sukong say,

"Just now you also heard that the ancestor wanted me to teach you the Staff Liberation Method. This is the secret of Mount Mingyue. But it just so happens that you have opened the heart mansion and can become my true disciple. In the future, you don't have to call me Master; you can call me Master."

Yunqi was happy and replied, "Yes, Master."

"This Staff Liberation Method is actually a method of borrowing a corpse to return the soul, but it sounds more elegant. This 'corpse' is not a real corpse, but a bamboo staff."

Wen Sukong explained to Yunqi,

"The founding ancestor said: 'Only the bamboo's attainment from heaven is the clearest.' He believed that bamboo is born from the clear Qi of heaven and earth. Clear Qi in heaven is wind, in water is lotus, and on earth is bamboo. He also said: 'Between heaven and earth, it is only empty and connected, just like the bamboo tube connecting Qi, connected without bending. When Qi comes, it connects; when Qi goes, it does not accumulate.'"

"The founding ancestor believed that bamboo is the best spiritual body, capable of hiding Qi and connecting Qi, eating wind and drinking dew. So he created the Staff Liberation Method, using the bamboo staff to imitate the human body's apertures, and then the primordial spirit resides in it. Thus, skipping the Fifth Realm from the Fourth Realm, he immediately achieved Staff Liberation Immortal ascension, which is the first class among corpse-liberated immortals."

Wen Sukong said.

Perhaps because it was too mysterious and whimsical, listening to these words from Wen Sukong was somewhat difficult for even someone with Yunqi's talent to understand.

Staff Liberation ascension?

And skipped the Fifth Realm?

What kind of talent was this founding ancestor?

Wen Sukong looked at Yunqi, "You have seen a staff corpse."

Oh, that's right!

Yunqi immediately remembered the Dharma test on the first day of entering the mountain! He finally chose a bamboo staff with human limbs!

But he didn't think so much at the time!

Unexpectedly, the fate fell to this moment!

"You chose the bamboo staff, so you shouldn't be repulsed. This is the most important point in the Staff Liberation Method. You must not think that the bamboo staff is a dead object. I have always thought that people are people and objects are objects, so I have never grasped the essence of the Staff Liberation Method."

"Most of the disciples of Mount Mingyue through the ages have been like me, so the Staff Liberation Method has been buried, only used as an external incarnation. The ancestor specifically named me to teach you the Staff Liberation Method instead of other magic in borrowing a corpse to return the soul, which also shows that he has hope for you."

Yunqi nodded, indicating he understood.

"The Staff Liberation Method used now is to place your soul in the bamboo staff. From then on, you will walk as a bamboo staff, practice thunder magic, and then transfer the accumulated thunder essence back to the physical body until the physical body recovers."

Yunqi nodded again. This sounded too mysterious.

"Actually, I didn't want you to come into contact with the Corpse Liberation Method too early. The Corpse Liberation Method is different from the Primordial Spirit Dao. The Corpse Liberation Method is to understand the essence of the physical body's treasures, then according to the person, recreate a spiritual body, the primordial spirit sheds the old shell, resides in the spiritual body, and then ascends. Therefore, mortals are dull, seeing immortals abandon the corpse and leave, calling it a corpse-liberated immortal."

"The Primordial Spirit Dao believes that the physical body is only a place for the primordial spirit to reside, a post station, a guest ship. It refines the power of the primordial spirit. After the primordial spirit is consummated, it ascends only by the primordial spirit, leaving the remains in the human world. Actually, logically speaking, this is the true corpse-liberated immortal."

Sukong also exhorted Yunqi, "After your soul resides in the bamboo staff, you will find that spiritual Qi operates better than the physical body, but you must not be greedy for this feeling. You have only just known the First Realm, let alone seen the mystery of the Second Realm's life-embedded. So you must not linger, and you must not neglect the fundamental Inner Elixir Dao practice."

Wen Sukong spoke sincerely, and Yunqi nodded.

Seeing this, Sukong also nodded slightly, and with a wave of her large sleeve, a bamboo staff appeared in front of Yunqi.

The bamboo staff was seven feet long with seven joints, straight up and down, jade-green in color, slightly transparent. One could see the top and bottom two joints were hollow, while the middle five joints were filled with talismans, emitting five-colored brilliance. The second joint of the bamboo staff grew two bamboo branches, and the last joint also grew two bamboo branches at the bottom, each branch tip growing five leaves, looking quite like limbs. And the first joint of the staff had seven holes, corresponding to the seven apertures, and each hole was also filled with talismans.

Yunqi looked familiar; it was almost the same as the bamboo staff he saw on the day he entered the mountain.

"This is the bamboo staff I prepared to refine as an external incarnation, but it's cheaper for you first. Just attach yourself to it. Don't think about anything in your heart, just treat this as your physical body."

Yunqi bowed and thanked his master, then took the order, and slowly lay down on the bamboo staff.

And after Yunqi attached himself to the bamboo staff, Wen Sukong pinched several dozen Dharma seals in a row and hit them into the talismans in the bamboo staff.

The talismans representing the five viscera and seven apertures released dazzling brilliance, and after the brilliance dissipated, the talisman paper at the eye aperture flashed and flashed.

"Are you awake?"

Master Sukong asked.

The bamboo staff stood up, and the talisman paper at the throat aperture brightened, "Yes, disciple feels no different from the physical body, just a bit cold."

Wen Sukong looked at the bamboo staff, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart. No matter how much effort she spent refining this bamboo staff, she had always regarded it as a backup. She still thought this was an object, a dead object, so she naturally felt a little uncomfortable and self-blaming for Yunqi turning from a living young man into a cold bamboo man.

Perhaps this was exactly the reason why she couldn't cultivate the Staff Liberation Immortal.

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Wen Sukong thought so in her heart.

"You get used to it first. If you feel uncomfortable in your heart, you can tell me, and I will think of another way. With the number of true malevolent Qi in your physical body, I'm afraid it won't be dissolved in three or five years."

Wen Sukong still opened her mouth to persuade, even though it was the ancestor's intention to let Yunqi practice the Staff Liberation Method.

Yunqi shook his head upon hearing this. He smiled, "A wise man has long chanted, 'Bamboo staff and straw sandals are lighter than horses, a straw raincoat in the mist and rain spends a lifetime.' Now that I have the lightness of a bamboo staff, isn't it a beautiful thing?"

Wen Sukong was finally relieved upon hearing this. She also smiled. She felt that she always underestimated this disciple. After thinking about it, she said:

"Now that you have opened the heart mansion, you are my true disciple, formally entering my Mount Mingyue Dharma vein, and it is time to give you a Daoist name."

The bamboo branches on the bamboo staff moved, forming a bow. He said, "Please give me a name, Master."

"I had already thought of taking a 'Bo' character for you, taking the meaning of being indifferent to fame and wealth and being quiet and far-reaching. 'Bo' is by the water, and it is also the sound of 'Bo'. You first opened the heart mansion, using water to reconcile Yin and Yang. With Cheng as the surname, 'Bo' is the sound of returning to the sect."

Yunqi felt it was indeed good.

"However, when I look at you again, I find that your indifferent heart has long been possessed, so taking the 'Bo' character is not beautiful. It is better to borrow the character of the wise man in your mouth and take a 'Zhan' character, meaning high and far, hoping that you will use your heart as your eyes on the path of cultivation, look far away more, and not be confined to temporary hardships. What do you think?"

Sukong said gently.

The bamboo person also chanted gently in his mouth, and the eye apertures gradually brightened,

"Zhan, Cheng Xinzhan, good, good name, Xinzhan bows and thanks the master!"

I am quite satisfied with this chapter. I don't know what the book friends think. I read the last few paragraphs several times and changed them several times, and finally I was satisfied.

This scene was thought of when I wrote the first chapter. I really love this "Ding Feng Bo" poem.

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