Chapter 5 Three-shift fax method

"I felt unwell yesterday and fell asleep. I hope Master will forgive me and not blame me." Li Daoxuan shrank his body and stood aside, looking at the old Taoist sitting in meditation. After getting up in the morning, he kept thinking about how the old Taoist would deal with him, and came here with trepidation in his heart, but the old Taoist did not say a word.

This really made Li Daoxuan a little anxious. He didn't know what the old Taoist was thinking. If he scolded him like usual, he would feel better. He was afraid that the old Taoist would remain silent and pretend to be silent.

To be honest, Li Daoxuan still respected the old Taoist priest. After all, the old Taoist priest had taken good care of him during the days he had been here.

On weekdays, apart from the problem of eating and drinking, he made a lot of small mistakes, but the old Taoist didn't blame him. Compared with the masters of other temples, the old Taoist was indeed kind.

Li Daoxuan had heard that other disciples of the Xuan Sect in Maoshan lived a very hard life, and their master was strict and often beat and scolded them. Thinking of these things, he was somewhat glad that he had traveled to a good place.

Standing in the corner and thinking about all sorts of things, the old Taoist finally opened his eyes.

He glanced at his absent-minded disciple, and his expression became even more sorrowful. He sighed and called to Li Daoxuan, "Sit down first."

After hearing this, Li Daoxuan quickly withdrew his attention and sat on the futon obediently looking at the old Taoist. However, seeing the old Taoist's stern face, he lowered his head and said nothing.

"You are sleeping in front of the Jade Emperor's palace. Do you think you are right? If it weren't for the mercy of the Jade Emperor, I would forgive your rude behavior. I want to get rid of the evil for my sect and drive out this evil." The old Taoist said leisurely. Seeing Li Daoxuan lower his head even more, he felt a little bit sorry. After all, he was his favorite disciple, and talking too much would hurt his heart. So the old Taoist decided to change the subject and comfort Li Daoxuan.

"Why did you fall asleep in the palace yesterday? Did you not sleep at night, or was there something wrong?"

"I really didn't mean it, Master." Li Daoxuan cried out in injustice. "When I was meditating, I felt a golden light appearing in my Niwan Palace, so I tried to detect the golden light, but I fell asleep immediately."

Li Daoxuan's words were half true and half false. The golden light in the Niwan Palace was true, but the statement that one would fall asleep if touched was false. In the end, it was because he used his Heavenly Eye too much that he was exhausted and fell asleep.

But he certainly wouldn't tell everything. After all, it was too shocking that he opened the Niwan Palace without opening the middle and lower Dantian. It was better for him to keep some secrets.

Thinking back to the various conflicts among sects that I had seen in movies, TV shows and novels in my previous life, it is true that where there are people, there is the martial arts world, and I don’t know much about this world. It’s not that I don’t trust my master, but my master has many disciples, and there are other Taoists who practice the same discipline in the temple.

"What?!" The old Taoist was shocked and pulled off his beard again. He didn't care about the pain and carefully checked Li Daoxuan's appearance.

His forehead was full and his eyebrows were moist and shiny. His eyes were bright and sharp, as if two suns were stuffed into his pupils. Compared to yesterday, Li Daoxuan was even more rosy and tender at this moment, and he looked like he had already entered the Dao.

"Great!" The old Taoist slapped his thigh and shouted in a trembling voice. "Great! That's great! There is someone to carry on the legacy of Baiyun Temple!"

The old Taoist was overjoyed, pinching Li Daoxuan's face and looking at him from left to right. The more he looked at him, the more he liked him, and the more he loved him. He wanted to take him in as his direct disciple right away and let everyone in the Xuanmen Dao Court know about him.

When asked what happened to Li Daoxuan, Li Daoxuan told him the whole story half-truthfully. The Taoist priest was more and more delighted as he listened. When he learned that he could touch the golden light, he said with relief: "Don't worry, don't worry. This Niwan Palace is the location of the Huangting of the human body, and is located in the center of the Nine Palaces. You must know that Niwan is the spirit of the body, the soul of the body, the life cave of hundreds of gods, the mountain source of body fluids, and the jade room of soul essence. If one can fill the emptiness in the brain with truth, the void will stand, and smoke will come out of thousands of holes. His virtue is as great as heaven and earth, and his cave is as generous as the great."

"This is the most important place in the human body. It has the function of gathering all the gods, giving birth to the gods and nurturing the human soul. Although the human body corresponds to the celestial phenomena and each has its own function, once the Primordial Spirit is born in the Niwan Palace, the soul and the spirit will be united, regardless of life or death, the yin and yang will be harmonious, the spirit will be naturally formed, and the innate will be restored. You are still young now, so there is no need to rush to open the Niwan Palace to give birth to the Primordial Spirit. First, draw the Qi into your body and temper yourself. When the material world is formed naturally and the essence is absorbed, you can help temper it with the method of the Golden Elixir to nourish the Niwan Nine Palaces."

"With the three palaces under control and the five qi in harmony, there is hope for the status of a great immortal." After the old Taoist said this, he could not help showing envy on his face. He had practiced Taoism for half his life and never expected that he would not have as good an adventure as a child. Before he even started practicing Taoism, he had already received the blessing of heaven. He cultivated to the point where the golden light appeared in the Heavenly Palace and he wanted to open the Niwan Palace. With such a situation, within a hundred years, Maoshan would have another true immortal on earth.

By then, he will be able to lead all the practitioners in the Xuanmen and revive the declining Taoism.

With this in mind, the old Taoist no longer hesitated. He planned to choose a day to start the disciple-training ceremony and personally accept Li Daoxuan as his direct disciple.

The old Taoist looked at Li Daoxuan and patted his head three times. Li Daoxuan seemed to understand something, touched his head and left.

When he returned to the house, all the senior brothers came around to ask questions. Li Daoxuan explained that his master did not embarrass him. After hearing this, the senior brothers dispersed in boredom and no longer paid attention to him.

At three o'clock in the morning, Li Daoxuan quietly got up, put on his shoes, tiptoed out of his residence, and then came to the Taoist's residence under the moonlight.

After knocking on the door three times, an old Taoist's voice came from inside the room.

"come in."

Li Daoxuan pushed the door open and looked in the dim light of the room. He saw the old Taoist sitting on the couch with an oil lamp in front of him. He was holding a book in his hand and stroking his beard to read it carefully.

Seeing this, Li Daoxuan knelt on the ground and bowed. Then he called softly, "Disciple greets Master."

"Get up," the old Taoist said with a smile. "You are smart enough to know that I called you at three o'clock in the morning."

"This, disciple has also read Journey to the West." Li Daoxuan said in a low voice.

Hearing this, the old Taoist coughed a few times to regain his composure. He put down the book in his hand and looked at Li Daoxuan seriously: "Do you know why I came to find you so late?"

"I don't know." Li Daoxuan pretended to be confused. He just thought silently in his heart that maybe the old Taoist wanted to teach him the secret method of Maoshan.

As I was thinking about this, I heard the old Taoist saying, "I called you here so late because I want to ask you why you practice Taoism."

"I am willing to be a noble man and uphold the righteous path." Li Daoxuan called out righteously. In fact, he didn't know why he practiced Taoism. He just became a Taoist priest after traveling through time. He had no other choice. Since he had no choice, he might as well continue practicing. As for what would happen in the future, he would have to wait until he had seen this world.

After all, he didn't even know what the world outside the mountain was like. He just listened to his brothers talking about how bad the mountain was and how chaotic it was. As for how chaotic it was, Li Daoxuan didn't know.

"I didn't expect you to be so sincere." The old Taoist said with emotion. "I have three methods here, which one do you want to learn?"

"Please give me some advice, Master." Li Daoxuan immediately knelt down and asked.

(End of this chapter)