"Now, I will teach you the secrets of Fenghou Qimen. This will only come out of my mouth and into your ears, and no one else can know it!"

"Do you understand?"

Hu Bayi immediately understood that the Taoist in front of him wanted to teach him his true skills, so he quickly knelt down and respectfully asked, "Disciple understands!"

Fengdu Taoist nodded with satisfaction and began to explain.

"Although Qimen divination is complex, its operation does refer to the rhythm of the movement of heaven and earth, which is the so-called Zhoutian change. Zhoutian has many meanings, but Qimen divination refers to the law of solar terms between heaven and earth."

"There are 360 ​​days in a year, with five days as a period, three periods as a climate, six climates as a time, and four times as a year. There are a total of 24 solar terms, which are further divided into 72 periods."

"The 72 phases of the 24 solar terms rotate continuously, which is also the rhythm of the movement of heaven and earth. The human body is the heaven and earth in itself, and the internal body has its own circulation of the heavens."

"According to the idea of ​​Feng Hou Qi Men Nei Bian, you must control the circulation of the internal Qi in your body, and through the circulation of the internal Qi, you can control all the changes in the small world of the human body."

Seeing that Hu Bayi was listening attentively, Fengdu Daojun nodded and continued:

"Qi Men starts with the solar terms between heaven and earth. The twenty-four solar terms are divided into seventy-two periods. The outside world has seventy-two periods of transformation, and the small world in the body naturally has its own seventy-two periods, that is, seventy-two changes."

As he spoke, Fengdu Daojun pointed at Hu Bayi's body and said, "What you need to do is to control the 72 phases in your body, so as to master all the changes in yourself and turn yourself into the king of the small world in your human body!"

Hu Bayi nodded. He looked at Fengdu Daojun not far away with a serious expression on his face. He asked, "Fenghou Qimen! Fenghou Qimen? This Qimen requires people to master the structure of their own body and turn themselves into a Houwang?"

"Well, you have a good understanding. Let me first tell you the key to internal transformation."

Fengdu Taoist and Hu Bayi preached under the stone wall, and explained the key points of Fenghou Qimen to Hu Bayi in detail from another perspective.

"In other words, I have to set up a strange pattern in my body according to my own rhythm?"

After understanding it, Hu Bayi looked at Fengdu Taoist in confusion.

Fengdu Daojun nodded and pointed at Hu Bayi's heart and said, "Everything moves according to rhythm, and so does Qimen. Speaking of rhythm, the most obvious place in the body is here. Next, you have to set the center palace at the heart."

Hu Bayi looked down at his heart and asked in confusion, "But generally speaking, according to what I just learned, to fix the center palace, one must be quiet and steady. The heart is beating all the time, and its rhythm has never been still. How can one fix the center palace here?"

Hearing Hu Bayi's doubts, Fengdu Taoist sat on the bed and smiled.

"There is no such thing as absolutely static in this world. Just like a normal sorcerer's Dingzhong Palace, is the land under their feet static for them?"

"I remember what you're learning nowadays is called physics. Yes, doesn't it also say that there is no absolute stillness in the world, and everything is in motion. The choice of reference system determines the relative state of matter."

Hu Bayi was stunned by Fengdu Daojun's words, which were full of modern scientific meaning.

“You also understand science?”

"Look at what you said, how fresh it is!"

Fengdu Daojun couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "Nowadays, we all talk about science, so I must keep up with the times and advance with the times. It's not like I couldn't go out before. I already knew everything I should know."

"Moreover, the end of science may not be metaphysics, and the end of metaphysics may not be science. They are both ways of seeking truth and the truth, and there are many things that connect the two!"

"Okay, let's get back to the point. Since absolute stillness doesn't exist, let's look for relative stillness."

"Although the heart is always in rhythm, the rhythm is not static. Just as we Taoists talk about the mutual transformation and evolution of yin and yang, the beating of the heart also has a rhythm."

As he spoke, Fengdu Taoist raised his hands and practiced Tai Chi in his palms. The two forces of hardness and softness intertwined and evolved with each other, just like the yin and yang transforming into each other in the Tai Chi diagram.

"Yang produces Yin, and Yin produces Yang. The rhythm of the heart is similar to this. What you are looking for is the moment when the old force is about to die and the new force is about to be born. This moment is the most quiet and stable point relative to your body."

"Wuji gives birth to Taiji, Taiji gives birth to Liangyi, Liangyi gives birth to Sixiang, Sixiang gives birth to Bagua, and between movement and stillness is the state of Wuji!"

After saying this, he released the Tai Chi energy in his hands and pointed at Hu Bayi's chest.

"I understand."

Hu Bayi's face immediately showed enlightenment. He was about to try it, but his mind raced and he had some associations. He joked:
"If I remember correctly, this heart is also called the monkey heart. After mastering the seventy-two phases of my own body, will I be able to learn the seventy-two transformations?"

Facing Hu Bayi's seemingly imaginative question, Fengdu Daojun smiled and said mysteriously: "Who knows? My specialty is not Fenghou Qimen either."

"Okay, I'll protect you. Now try to establish the center palace in your body."

"Yes!"

Putting aside the fantasies in his mind, Hu Bayi sat on the bedding with his head up, all distracting thoughts gone, and he entered a state of meditation in the blink of an eye.

"Boom! Boom!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!!!"

Hu Bayi circulated the Qi Men circulation according to the Feng Hou Qi Men method. He looked inward, listened to the sound of his heartbeat, felt the rhythm of his heart, and tried to find the moment when the old strength would disappear and the new strength would be born.

"Boom!"

"It's now!"

He immersed himself in the rhythm of his heart and soon found the steadiest and quietest moment.

Qi circulates in the heart and determines the center palace.

In the blink of an eye, a strange pattern was generated from the center outward, covering Hu Bayi's entire body.

The four plates of nine stars in the sky plate, nine palaces in the earth plate, eight gates in the human plate and eight gods in the divine plate are all located in the other four organs of Hu Bayi's body according to the human body's solar terms.

Water comes and goes from the sky plate and falls on the kidneys; the ground plate is set in the direction of the dragon and falls on the spleen; the human plate dispels evil and welcomes good, hides wind and gathers it, and falls on the liver; the god plate turns into thunder when it calls, and turns into gas when it sighs, and the mouth contains the law of heaven, and falls on the lungs!

"The Xiantian leads the Zhoutian, and the changes of the Zhoutian will turn me into the king!"

Hu Bayi adjusted his own solar terms according to Fenghou Qimen's method. He adjusted the Qimen pattern that had just been fixed on his body, and the solar terms rotated. The seventy-two solar terms were all under his control.

It’s a long story, but everything that just happened happened in a short moment.

"It's done!!!"

Hu Bayi exclaimed.

Fengdu Daojun looked at the delighted Hu Bayi and said with a smile: "I will give you another skill!"

A drop of black gold blood appeared in his palm. Fengdu Taoist pushed his palm forward and used mysterious means to directly penetrate into Hu Bayi's heart.

The moment the blood fell on the center of Hu Bayi's heart, it turned into a black-gold Qilin, and took control of the plate that suppressed the center. Hu Bayi's appearance changed immediately, his skin and flesh turned over, and the mysterious light surged, and he also turned into a Qilin, showing the appearance of black scales, blue horns, and golden pupils.

Hu Bayi raised his hand in confusion and looked at it, but this look scared him. He looked at the pitch-black unicorn claw and was immediately surprised.

"Here, a mirror!"

Before Hu Bayi could react, Fengdu Taoist condensed a water mirror out of thin air.

The water mirror fell in front of Hu Bayi, reflecting Hu Bayi clearly at this moment.

"Qilin!"

Hu Bayi looked down at the Qilin head with ferocious teeth and horns in the water mirror and shouted in surprise.

Fengdu Daojun smiled and said, "This is the essence of the Hell Kirin of the Underworld. The Kirin is the spirit of the central earth, a beast of good fortune and luck. The Hell Kirin is a variant of the Earth Kirin. It can help you find the land and investigate the dragon veins. Everything will be clear. It also has the ability to step on souls and eat ghosts. It will help you a lot!"

"Okay, let's try to use the method again to see if we can change ourselves back to normal."

"Oh, yes, Fenghou Qimen, Fenghou Qimen."

Hu Bayi, who had transformed into the Prison Kirin, sat up on the ground, closed his golden eyes, and readjusted the structure according to the internal method.

"Change!"

A dark golden light shone from Hu Bayi's body. As the light surged, Qilin's body was constantly pulled and soon turned back into the original Hu Bayi.

However, Hu Bayi's clothes became tattered, and he also had a black unicorn tattoo on his upper body.

"Okay, take this dress and wear it first!"

Fengdu Daojun sat up straight again and looked at Hu Bayi. After seeing that Hu Bayi had changed back to normal, he threw a set of clothes in front of him.

Hu Bayi put on his clothes quickly. He reached out and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He felt a little unbelievable and touched his face and body.

"Phew, I was so scared. I thought I couldn't change back."

“Amazing, really amazing!”

Fengdu Daojun looked at Hu Bayi's frightened expression, and the corners of his mouth twitched, and he obviously wanted to laugh: "Why, didn't you just say that you wanted to learn the 72 transformations? Why are you so scared after the transformation?"

"Could it be that Ye Gong loves dragons, and is just talking?"

Hu Bayi didn't care about the teasing of Fengdu Daojun. He smiled brightly, obviously looking like he had gotten an advantage and said.

"How can I not be panicked when I suddenly turned into a Qilin? Now I understand the function of Fenghou Qimen. I am even happier now that I have mastered this ever-changing method."

“How great would it be if I could really perform seventy-two transformations like the Monkey King?” Hu Bayi imagined.

Fengdu Daojun shook his head and said, "Spells are born from Taoism and should be used for Taoism. Now that you have experienced the ability of Fenghou Qimen to change, you should also think about the deep meaning behind it. It's just that you haven't read much of the Taoist scriptures, so your knowledge is a bit shallow."

"Of course, it's normal for your age, but you have to pay more attention to theoretical practice in the future."

When Hu Bayi heard this, he immediately realized that the Fenghou Qimen mentioned by Fengdu Taoist should have something deeper than the art of transformation.

He immediately asked Fengdu Daojun sincerely: "Please teach me!"

Fengdu Daojun smiled and said modestly: "Everyone has his own understanding of idle talk, just take it as it is. I actually just read more scriptures on basic cultivation and gained some insights based on Fenghou Qimen."

After a while, he said, "Hu Bayi, you must have heard of Journey to the West when you were a child, right?"

In the world of Under One Person, Journey to the West is not simply a mythological novel. In the eyes of those practitioners, this book contains the truth of practice, and the descriptions are very vivid, which is particularly suitable for explaining the way of practice to future generations.

The Taoist Master of Fengdu intended to give him some advice using the Journey to the West.

Hu Bayi nodded. Although he was a little confused as to why Fengdu Daojun was talking about Journey to the West, he still said as usual: "Of course I have heard of this. After all, there were many storytellers when I was a child, and Fatty and I often listened to stories on the overpass."

Fengdu Daojun nodded and said, "Well, do you still remember the scene where Master Subhuti taught Sun Wukong how to avoid the three disasters?"

Hu Bayi listened to the words of Fengdu Taoist and recalled the story of Journey to the West in his mind.

The method to avoid the three disasters was mentioned in the second chapter of Journey to the West, three years after Master Subhuti passed on his skills to Sun Wukong.

One day, when Master Subhuti was preaching, he suddenly called out Sun Wukong and asked him how his practice was going. Sun Wukong replied that he had a good understanding of the Dharma nature and took into account the root and the origin, which meant that his practice was on the right track.

The master then introduced the three disasters and told Sun Wukong about the three major calamities of thunder, fire and wind. Sun Wukong was so frightened that he immediately asked for ways to avoid the three disasters.

Based on this, Patriarch Subhuti proposed the thirty-six changes of the Tiangang number and the seventy-two changes of the Disha number.

Sun Wukong was greedy, so he asked his master for the Seventy-two Earthly Transformations, which enabled him to transform into thousands of forms and avoid the three disasters.

Thinking of this, Hu Bayi scratched his head and looked at Fengdu Daojun, and asked: "Are you trying to say that my Fenghou 72 Transformations are a way to avoid the three disasters?"

Fengdu Daojun rolled his eyes and said, "You kid, you don't understand the point. Think about why Master Subhuti said that Sun Wukong couldn't learn the art of transformation before he taught it to him."

In Journey to the West, before teaching the art of transformation, Master Subhuti said that Sun Wukong could not learn it because although he had a human-like body, he had a crooked face, a concave cheek, a pointed mouth, and no cheeks.

Sun Wukong touched his face and said that although he had no gills, he had a white bag, which was almost the same.

"Bodhi Patriarch said that Sun Wukong has no gills, but what's the point of that?"

As he spoke, Hu Bayi touched his cheek, looking very puzzled. After all, he was not a true Taoist monk, and he was a latecomer, so he did not quite understand the secret codes in the Taoist scriptures.

Fengdu Daojun said: "There is some metaphor between the cheek and the plain bag. The character for cheek has a moon on the left, a meat character on the right, and a character for thought on the right. There is a field character on the top and a heart character on the bottom."

"What this means is that flesh refers to the physical body, and thought refers to the true, sincere and down-to-earth practice of the unity of body and spirit."

"The word su in sudai has the same pronunciation as the word shu, which means that Sun Wukong's attitude of learning and seeking the truth seems to be very ambitious, but in fact he is only working hard on the level of shu. This is also the reason why he is so greedy to practice the 72 transformations of the earthly devils."

"That's why the monkey was so inexperienced at the time, just like you now. The internal methods of Fenghou Qimen are the foundation of cultivation, and some transformation techniques and external methods are just means to fight against the enemy!"

“People who practice cultivation may hear about the Great Way at first, but their sins are heavy and their blessings are thin. All the hardships change their original intentions and they can only achieve small successes. They cannot achieve the Great Way completely. They can only achieve success with one method or technique in the Great Way and live a happy and long life.”

"Do you know?"

Fengdu Daojun looked at Hu Bayi opposite him with a confused look in his eyes, then seemed to have listened and became thoughtful.

(End of this chapter)