Chapter 1130

Shao Yong sat outside the house; he dared not go in, lest his own bad luck cause the tiles on the roof to fall off. Whether they hit his head or not was another matter, but repairing the house was very tiring!

The tiles on the roof were essentially transformed from the tomb's sealing soil; the falling of the Yin residence's tiles was actually a sign that the sealing soil was collapsing.

He died young, so naturally, he had no descendants; only during the Qingming Festival every year would his clansmen add a handful of soil to his grave.

As for dreaming of his nephew or something, it was really troublesome for the sake of the Yin residence's roof...

If the fallen tiles were not repaired with Yin Underworld treasures, one would have to wait another year.

Therefore, Shao Yong simply didn't enter the door and sat cross-legged on the ground in the courtyard. The moral spiritual light that Qian Chen imparted to him today was truly subtle, especially the theory of the Five Virtues from beginning to end; saying it was brief was truly too brief.

Using five great divine beings, figures of the Dao Zangshan Laozu and Dao Venerable level, to metaphorize the Five Virtues, even the worst, the Yellow Emperor, was the head of the Five Emperors and the master of the Primordial Divine Court.

Is it complex?

The subtlety of the Five Virtues is all in the Daoist scriptures of the five Dao Ancestors; any one of their Daoist traditions and theories, even if one spent a lifetime studying them, would be hard to grasp even a ten-thousandth, so that is too complex.

The subtlety of what Qian Chen said lies in the fact that as long as one has some understanding of the Daoist traditions of those five great divine beings, the Five Virtues from beginning to end have a blurred outline, but if one wants to study the profound parts, there are almost infinite mysteries to dig into.

Shao Yong just closed his eyes and meditated, recalling this learning of the Five Sages.

The Buddha's teaching is the most widely spread; wherever there are a few books, there are Buddhist disciples copying Buddhist scriptures. The theory of cause and effect and the nature of emptiness arising from conditions are things everyone can say a few words about. The subtlety of hidden virtue is also within it.

But the others are too difficult!

Tai Shang only has the five thousand words of the Dao De Jing, and Yuan Shi doesn't even write scriptures, only leaving scriptures for his Daoist tradition through his disciples and successors.

The Heavenly Emperor is a figure of the old heaven; although there are some indelible traces in the new heaven, they are only scales and claws. Fortunately, the Heavenly Emperor's influence on the myriad realms of the cosmos has penetrated to the bottom layer of the Great Dao, and the Heavenly Emperor himself is even the embodiment of the Great Dao.

His merits are all above the Divine Dao; it can be said that the "Divine Dao" is the Heavenly Emperor's Daoist tradition!

As for the last one, the Yellow Emperor, ancient classics like the Three Tombs, Five Canons, Eight Searches, and Nine Hills have long been lost, and even the Heavenly Realm may not have preserved them. On the contrary, the Five Emperor families of the Earth Immortal Realm and the Five Emperor Daoist traditions like the Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan might still have preserved the originals.

Shao Yong wanted to comprehend the subtlety of the Five Virtues a step deeper, but found that his wisdom was not enough.

With a slight movement, he could calculate the fierce god position of a sixth-rank Yin residence; with a slight use, he could refine the true destiny of the evil slave preparing to nurture evil that the Shao family ancestor had prepared for a long time into a destiny weapon, removing two major hidden dangers at once.

But this kind of wisdom was still not enough to comprehend the true transmission of these five sages.

Just when Shao Yong was feeling a bit restless, he suddenly remembered the heavenly sounds of that bamboo forest; just a wisp of the lingering sound lingering in his memory instantly dispelled the restlessness in his heart.

"Sigh! If only I could ask Teacher for advice all the time! If Teacher allowed it, I could sleep in the bamboo forest! Being able to be baptized by the moral heavenly sounds all the time is truly..."

"The Sage heard the 'Shao' music and didn't know the taste of meat for three months; I originally thought it was an exaggeration, but I didn't expect it to be true."

At this time, Shao Yong suddenly realized: "I'm also stupid! Isn't this the key Teacher gave me?"

"The Xi Emperor made the zither and the Yellow Emperor made music, and further ordered the music master to bury bamboo on Kunlun to set the pitch standards. The Yellow Emperor's Daoist tradition was passed to the Five Emperors, the Five Emperors passed it to the Three Kings, and finally it returned to the Zong Zhou, and was remade by the Duke of Zhou..."

The "Book of Changes" says: "That which is above form is called the Dao; that which is below form is called the vessel."

"The Divine Dao is vast, its subtlety based on yin and yang; the form and vessel are subtle, their meaning prior to the pitch standards."

The mysterious Dao encompasses everything, its subtlety embodied in yin and yang; the subtlety of formed objects is fundamentally embodied in the pitch standards.

The Sage observed the changes of the four seasons, carved jade to record their fullness and emptiness, observed the sounds of the five elements, and cast gold to equalize their clarity and turbidity, so he followed the eight winds to proclaim the nine virtues, and harmonized the great music to achieve the political Dao.

"However, the quality of gold follows change, and its extravagance has no direction; the body of bamboo is round and empty, and its length is easy to control."

Shao Yong hurriedly entered the house, and with a slap, the tiles on the roof suddenly collapsed a small piece.

Shao Yong held a few pieces of Yin virtue bamboo, patted the dust off his body, and walked out calmly.

He looked at the slender bamboo in his hand, which was pale purple all over and had even bamboo joints, and sighed slightly. This was the Yin virtue he had accumulated in his previous life, a cluster of purple bamboo that grew in the corner of the Yin residence; even when asking a destiny master to assess his destiny, he only painfully pulled out one.

But after he stole the ghost destiny for Chen Jintian and broke his true destiny, the purple bamboo in the Yin residence withered instantly and was all pulled out by the petty people in the family.

These few sections now were what he found again after returning and using a ruthless hand to kill a clan elder.

Shao Yong measured the bamboo joints and saw that the purple bamboo joints were neither long nor short, exactly nine inches.

"Nine is the number of extreme yang, so the Huang Zhong pitch pipe is nine inches long; six is the number of extreme yin, so the Lin Zhong pitch pipe is six inches long."

Shao Yong measured the size and cut the bamboo tubes one by one. In fact, it is not that Huang Zhong is nine inches and Lin Zhong is eight inches, but that Huang Zhong is nine parts and Lin Zhong is six parts to set the size!

First there are pitch standards, then there are measures.

The reason why the Duke of Zhou remade ritual and music, and why Confucius kept emphasizing ritual and music, and said that music has the effect of correcting people's hearts and customs, is because the pitch standards are the mother of all measures. If the music notes are not correct, the measures will be chaotic; can it not be important?

Shao Yong cut twelve pitch tubes and was about to bury them in all directions.

Music has the theory of eight winds, which initially referred to which direction the wind was blowing.

The movement of heaven and earth's qi produces wind. When the south wind blows, place the twelve pitch tubes in the Li position, let them be smoked by the south wind, and thus emit sound; composing music according to this sound is the music of the eight winds.

Just after burying the pitch tubes according to the twelve earthly branches, Shao Yong was stunned.

The movement of heaven and earth's qi produces wind.

But the Underworld has earth qi but no heaven qi, so there is no wind.

But within that bamboo sea, where Qian Chen stood, there was rolling Yin wind blowing.

Shao Yong sat in place with a dazed look for a long time, and suddenly realized: "The movement of the heart produces wind! The Underworld has no sky, but it has people, so the Yin wind is produced by people and blows over. What I heard in Teacher Qian's bamboo forest was not music played by heaven and earth, but a piece of music from Teacher Qian's heart!"

"Great music has no sound... this is great music has no sound."

"His heart moves, so the Underworld responds, and the earth qi turns into Yin wind and blows over. Among the billions of green bamboos in the bamboo sea, it turns into all things and plays heavenly sounds. This tune is so harmonious, not because heaven and earth are harmonious, but because Teacher Qian's heart is like the Great Dao, incomparably harmonious."

"Moral heavenly sounds, no wonder it is moral heavenly sounds; it turns out that the principles in a person's heart can not only turn into words, but also into great music with no sound!"

Shao Yong realized, his mind following the state of mind when he heard the heavenly sounds that day.

Sure enough, when he recalled the Jiao tune, the east wind blew, which was the Tao wind, also the Yin wind turned from the Underworld earth qi, and the Jia Zhong pitch tube in the east was blown by the wind and suddenly emitted sound.

That tune was slightly high and a bit sharp!

Shao Yong sat upright and slowly adjusted his mind with etiquette until he adjusted his mind to a state that was both tense and relaxed, his heart's wisdom was clear, containing benevolence, supported by courage in his bones, and his mind was straight according to the righteous path.

The sound of the Jia Zhong pitch tube gradually became grand, loud, distant, and long.

The slight noise mixed in was incomparably clear to Shao Yong.

"Sure enough, if heaven and earth are out of tune, the wind and qi will be incorrect; if the wind and qi are incorrect, the sound emitted by the pitch tube will have deviations and noise!"

"Time is in the shadow degree, effect earth qi on the ash tube; therefore, if yin and yang are harmonious, the shadow arrives, and if the pitch qi responds, the ash flies. If the ash flies and the pitch is clear, blow and name it, then it is the middle sound of heaven and earth."

"Solar terms are measured by burying pitch tubes in the ground; when the earth qi sprouts on that day, the reed ash in the corresponding pitch tube will spray out, and this is how it is measured. Therefore, if the pitch tube sound is incorrect, it means the earth qi is chaotic, and the solar terms will not arrive according to the heavenly time, which will lead to water, drought, and locust disasters."

"Therefore, incorrect music and pitch standards will lead to disaster!"

"People live between heaven and earth, so the heavenly stems and earthly branches form our destinies; therefore, the qi of heaven and earth affects people, and people also affect the qi of heaven and earth. The disorder of people's morality will naturally affect the operation of the Heavenly Dao, the harmony of heaven and earth, and cause disasters. Cultivators' magic power sensing heaven and earth is even more obvious!"

"Using the harmonious sound of heaven and earth's operation to influence oneself, this is the subtlety of music correcting people's hearts and cultivating morality."

"The operation of heaven and earth is the Heavenly Dao; using the Heavenly Dao to correct people's hearts is cultivating morality!"

The various things said by the sages of the past surged into his heart.

At this moment, Shao Yong used the great music of heaven and earth to correct the various measures in his heart, sat upright in the Yin residence, and with the east wind playing the Jia Zhong, soon the south wind played the Rui Bin pitch tube, and the north wind played the Huang Zhong.

Shao Yong sat in the residence, unmoved by the eight winds.

The originally monotonous music gradually became harmonious, accompanied by the lingering in his heart and the flow of the bamboo sea heavenly sounds. The twelve pitch tubes inserted in the earthly branch positions of the Yin residence emitted a harmonious tune, and at this moment, Shao Yong also reached the unity of heaven and man, vaguely sensing the changes in the Underworld earth qi and the subtlety of the earth qi evolving into the twelve earthly branches.

At this moment, on the nearby house, the fallen tiles suddenly flew up from the ground and returned to the roof.

In the southeast corner, the cluster of purple bamboo that had long been pulled empty suddenly sprouted a light purple bamboo shoot, and the tip of the shoot even had a bit of tender yellow.

The decaying qi and gloomy qi of the entire Yin residence, having lost the protection of the original fortune canopy, were gradually permeated and stained by the turbid and evil earth qi, and were all dissolved in that great sound. The earth qi operated according to Shao Yong's heart, and soon, the entire eighth-rank Yin residence took on a new look, and the noise of the wind blowing the pitch tubes disappeared!

In the main residence, the Shao family ancestor looked at the bronze human-headed urn coffin in front of him with an uncertain expression, but when the music from afar entered his ears.

He suddenly shook, his expression changed greatly, and he flew to the heavy eaves of the roof. His mind, tied to the Yin residence, condensed his ghost destiny and false yin, and through the flow of earth qi, he was about to peek at that small residence.

But the music was like a curtain, and his sixth-rank wandering ghost could not break in at all.

The Shao family ancestor sensed that the ghost destiny formed by the Yin residence was blocked, and his expression was even more solemn. You must know that the Shao family's Yin residences were connected into one piece by feng shui earth arts, equivalent to many Yin residences merging into the main residence. He was the master of the main residence, and the attached Yin residences could not refuse him, nor could they prevent him from mobilizing their own feng shui earth qi.

But at this moment, Shao Yong's eighth-rank Yin residence was still integrated into the main residence, not only without destroying the operation of the earth qi, but even more harmonious!

But the Shao family ancestor could not control its earth qi, and could not even sense the Yin residence's fake ghost destiny, let alone penetrate it...

"Lord Chang'an!"

The Shao family ancestor said solemnly: "You only learned from that Lord Chang'an for three days. On the first day, you said that Lord Chang'an was lecturing on morality to the destiny master Chen; destiny master Chen had evil intentions, and after hearing it, his liver and gallbladder trembled, and he dared not act presumptuously in front of Lord Chang'an, so he stole your ghost destiny and broke your true destiny and left. I originally thought you were crazy because your true destiny was broken!"

"But I didn't expect that on the day you returned, you possessed destiny Dao attainments not inferior to mine, hiding fierce gods, breaking true destinies, holding great trends, and bad luck could not hurt you, and I could not do anything to you either."

"Such destiny Dao wisdom is truly terrifying!"

"But I didn't expect that when you went to see Lord Chang'an for the third day, you had reached a state I couldn't understand. This sound, this voice... actually has a shadow of heavenly sounds. I don't understand! I don't understand! What exactly did that Lord Chang'an see in you?"

"Could it be that you are truly a natural talent?"

"I climbed the mountain for a lifetime, and you reached the top in a day. I watched the sky for a lifetime, and you ascended in a day!"

"Shao Yong! Shao Yong!"

The Shao family ancestor whispered, his voice low at first, and soon it became a shout, almost heart-rending: "Why was my true destiny broken and my ghost destiny stolen back then, and I could only sink into hell and suffer countless tortures of bad luck? Even if I rose, I paid countless prices. And you? Lord Chang'an, Lord Chang'an! Does an Immortal Qin Marquis within the Pass really have such great power? Years ago, when I listened to the destiny Dao under the Ghost Lord, I didn't have such progress?"

"Is my comprehension too low, or is the destiny great destiny master Ghost Lord not as good as Lord Chang'an?"

At this moment, the blurred music, almost like heavenly sounds, suddenly became clear.

The Shao family ancestor felt that his own Yin residence suddenly broke away from his control, laid out a feng shui formation, and integrated the prototype of the blessed land formed by various small residences. The various inconsistencies and the small conflicts of the feng shui formation gradually, gradually became inclusive, and in an instant became incomparably natural.

The sixth-rank middle-upper Yin residence suddenly rushed to the sixth-rank upper at this moment.

The gloomy qi was swept away, and everyone in the residence felt refreshed. The Shao family ancestor walked out of the house and saw the fortune-treasure ginkgo in the corner of the wall, instantly covered with countless golden fan-shaped leaves.

Every leaf was a day of Yin lifespan!

At this moment, even though a thousand thoughts were churning in his heart, he could only calm down and smile bitterly...

"If the disciple is like this, how is the teacher?"

"That Lord Chang'an is truly... unfathomable!"

If he still had some confidence and grasp of this boy he watched grow up, then for that mysterious Lord Chang'an behind him, he didn't even have the wisdom to imagine or the courage to make a move.

Shao Yong gradually woke up from the state of unity of heaven and man and found that the courtyard had taken on a new look, and even his own shattered destiny had healed countless tiny cow-hair lines, leaving only a few large cracks.

"So this is the art of feng shui, using music to explore feng shui and coordinate earth qi is so useful, why..."

"Oh!"

"The world of the living has a sky and a sequence of time, and earth qi moves with the sky, so exploring feng shui with music needs to be done at the corresponding solar term and time. In this way, one can only listen to the five tones and twelve pitch standards to explore earth qi feng shui once a year, so it is naturally not as fast as looking at the changes of heavenly stars and the terrain of dragon veins!"

"But the Underworld is different. The Underworld has no sky, only people. The qi of heaven and earth does not move; only earth qi moves because of people. Therefore, the Yin wind is produced by people and blows over."

"The influence of people in the world of the living on the qi of heaven and earth is very small; only when people gather into countries and cities can they slightly influence the qi of heaven and earth, so the destiny and actions of the Human Emperor and Son of Heaven will cause disasters. But the Underworld is formed because of people, with earth but no sky; the so-called 'sky' is just formed by fake people, so people have a great influence on the Underworld earth qi. The feng shui of Yin residences must be formed because of people."

"Destiny masters in the Underworld look at feng shui, and are more heavily influenced by the world of the living."

"That's why they use their own heart plates to simulate heaven and earth, by observing the various positions of Yin residences, sensing the rise and fall of dragon veins in the world of the living, and by piecing together the destinies of countless ghosts to simulate the operation of the Heavenly Dao and the operation of the sun, moon, and stars."

"But in reality, in the Underworld, people are the most important, and destiny is the most important!"

"In the world of the living, human destiny is formed by heaven and earth, but in the Underworld, the entire Underworld is formed because of human destiny. Therefore, only this place can gestate a destiny cultivation system!"

"Strange, using the music-measuring-earth method, using sound and pitch standards to weigh true destiny, balance feng shui, measure ghost destiny, and degree Yin virtue; could it be that the predecessors, those great destiny masters, really didn't think of it?"

Shao Yong touched his chin, feeling a bit suspicious.

But after all, he had never seen a real great destiny master, so he could only suppress this doubt in his stomach.

Just thinking that when he used his heart to generate the eight winds and drive the pitch tubes, and then used the Dao of pitch standards to weigh and sense the earth qi, he realized that in Anlu County, many Yin residences were under the command of the Wei Chenghuang's blessed land, and there were also many inconsistencies.

He sensed all the filth and dirt hidden within.

Just didn't know if the Wei Chenghuang was deliberately indulging it, or...

And he sensed that in the direction of the Judge's Office, a large red star was rising from afar.

The red qi brought by it shrouded Anlu; that red qi was clearly auspicious and joyful, but for some reason, he felt that outside Anlu County, on the vast land of the Underworld, countless gloomy qi machines seemed to be surging over.

That qi machine was ominous, and in the gloom, there was a kind of filthy cyan color.

"Strange, why is there always a feeling of tribulation qi lingering and lurking when sensing Anlu with music? But it seems to be deliberately covered by someone! I see that tribulation coming from the north; the Underworld has no sky, but I see a large star rising in the Judge's Office, and there is also a large white star in the north, dropping a wisp of extremely terrifying evil qi from afar."

"That red large star seems to be the Heavenly Joy Star, and the white large star should be the Heavenly Wolf Star!"

"Although the earth qi of Anlu County is stagnant, it is generally smooth, but there is a large emptiness locking it outside Anlu County. Could the tribulation come from outside?"

Shao Yong tried the method of reconciling pitch standards for the first time and did not carefully sense outside his own Yin residence.

Many things were viewed in a general way!

But if the great tribulation of Anlu County was imminent, how could the Wei Chenghuang and the Judge not see it more clearly than him, a person whose true destiny was broken? But now the Wei Chenghuang and the Judge had no reaction, and Shao Yong didn't know if he had heard wrong.

Even though he used heavenly sounds to correct his mind and confirmed that the heavenly sounds of all things echoing Qian Chen's heart were indeed the key to cultivating morality, heavenly sounds and the righteous path could clarify wisdom, nourish benevolence, upright hearts, and gestate courage.

But that feeling of tribulation looming over his head still could not dissipate.

It even became heavier and heavier, beginning to press on his heart, making him feel like he couldn't breathe.

Shao Yong had to get up, preparing to go out and check...

(End of chapter)