Chapter 172 Dragon and Tiger Golden Body
"Oh?"
The old monk raised his eyebrows and did not slow down the chopsticks in his hand at all.
It looked more like a polite response, without any surprise in it.
"Master, you are not surprised at all?"
Liang Qu held his chin up, as if pretending to be indifferent. He thought the old monk would show some emotion.
"It is easy to recite, but it is hard to have character. If you are willing to put in the effort, it is not difficult to master the Dharma."
After the old monk finished his meal, he placed his chopsticks horizontally on the edge of the bowl, aligned with the edge of the table.
“Taoist exercises emphasize the Dantian theory. One breath sinks into the lower Dantian, then moves to the middle Dantian, and finally comes out from the upper Dantian.
Or you can go directly to the upper dantian in one step without going to the lower dantian or the middle dantian.
However, Buddhism did not talk about Dantian in the past. If people talked about Dantian, they would be considered as heresy.
It goes without saying that people’s hands are still hands, people’s lungs are still lungs, and spiritual practice is still spiritual practice.
It will happen the same way, no matter what the words are, but the way of cognition is different.
When I was young, I read all kinds of classics, history, and literature, and I passed the imperial examination. I was also good friends with Taoist fellow Ge Jianhong from Louguantai. We read Taoist texts and often sat and discussed Taoism, and we had many debates.
Is this the only way of knowing really correct? Is it really completely consistent?
Humans have five sense organs, so do they only have five senses?
Knowing different ways to understand the same thing is very helpful, so I also use the Dantian theory. "
"Master, have you ever passed the imperial examination?"
Liang Qu captured the key words.
"Things of the past."
Lao He hasn't said much yet.
Liang Qu fell into deep thought. He didn't expect that the old monk was a talented man when he was young. Passing the imperial examination was harder than practicing martial arts.
Just counting the days, the old monk must have been young during the Daqian Dynasty, right?
Could he be a successful candidate in the previous dynasty?
It has been more than 60 years since the founding of the Dashun Republic. If it were an ordinary person, even if he passed the imperial examination at the age of 20, he would be in his 80s this year, with one foot in the coffin.
The phenomena are different and the life span is long.
However, Liang Qu didn't care too much about it. The scholars of the previous dynasty did not represent the remnants of the previous dynasty.
Dashun adopted a conciliatory policy, and there would be no problem as long as there was no conflict of interest.
Only those officials who have high reputation, are loyal to the previous dynasty, and pose a threat to the new dynasty should be eliminated.
……
In a quiet room.
Five oil lamps flickered, making the room as bright as day.
This is no lie.
The lamp contains Jinming oil, a high-grade lamp oil formulated by the Ministry of Industry.
Different from ordinary lamp oil, the flame lit by Jinming Oil is bright white instead of dark yellow. It is brighter and more comfortable, and the temperature is not high so you won’t feel hot after staying there for a long time.
But the price is also high.
The lamp oil consumed by an ordinary person in one night costs three or four cents, while Jinming oil costs ten times as much.
The five-branched oil lamp is a lamp with five forked lamps, which branch out like a tree crown to expand the range of illumination.
This is equivalent to burning lamp oil for one night, which would consume nearly one tael and five cents of silver.
Ordinary officials of the eighth rank could not afford it at all, and even if they could afford it, they were reluctant to use five lamps.
Fortunately, Liang Qu is rich. Including his previous savings, his current total savings has reached an astonishing 784 taels!
If all the lamp oil is burned, it can burn for five hundred nights!
It’s no big deal to set aside a few nights to practice.
Dozens of thin wooden boards were unfolded one by one. Liang Qu hung them on the wall, sat upright on the cushion, looked around, and had a panoramic view.
Liang Qu had read most of the exercises given by the old monk while traveling by boat last night, but he resisted the urge to practice them and waited until he came back today.
If something really went wrong in front of the old monk, he couldn't just sit there and watch, right?
Looking through the entire "Vajra Sutra of Subduing Dragons and Subduing Tigers", it is quite different from "Wansheng Baoyuan". "Wansheng Baoyuan" cultivates the inner self and is long-lasting. It can prevent the internal consumption of strength and the external escape of Qi, prolong life, repair hidden injuries, and increase the spirit.
When one reaches a high level of proficiency, one can even grasp the energy of both sides and anticipate the enemy's moves.
The most peculiar thing is that such a "quiet" skill is extremely magnificent in fighting, just like a rolling river, crushing everything.
The "Vajra Sutra Subduing Dragons and Tigers" is different. It has three main characteristics: strong spirit, golden body, and ability to ward off evil.
It strengthens the Qi and blood in the whole body, improves its quality and speeds up the progress of cultivation.
The golden body is very interesting, and it also confirms why the old monk said that he is extremely suitable for this practice.
Ordinary people who practice this method can condense an ordinary golden body, train the outside and strengthen the inside, strengthen the physique, heal injuries, and mainly resist beatings.
And on this basis, the characteristics of the golden body are derived - immune to all evil!
If Qi is not right, it is evil.
Darkness, poison, evil, miasma, sinisterness, and witchcraft...all fall into this category!
The practice of martial arts increases the "essence" and weakens the influence of the outside world.
The golden body, in some aspects, elevates the "origin" several times, reaching an extremely high level in the same realm!
At this level, it has become a top-notch method of body building.
Those who possess dragon tendons and tiger bones can, based on the ordinary golden body, cultivate a dragon and tiger golden body and create the aura of a dragon and tiger!
Golden Body of Dragon and Tiger: Indestructible like diamond, with roars of dragons and tigers when attacking, frightening away ghosts and demons, and slaying evil spirits and monsters!
Ordinary golden bodies can only ward off evil spirits, but the dragon and tiger golden bodies can kill evil spirits!
A step up from ordinary golden bodies!
Of course, everything is relative. Liang Qu has cultivated the Dragon-Tiger Golden Body to an extremely high level. At his current Blood Gate realm, it would only take a poke of the finger from Master Zhenxiang.
The best thing is that rice paper turns into thick rice paper.
"call!"
Liang Qu exhaled lightly, sat cross-legged, looked at the Qi circulation diagram again, and recited the formula silently in his heart.
With the foundation of calming the mind from "Wansheng Baoyuan", Liang Qu calmed his mind in the blink of an eye and practiced according to the method.
In the west wing, the old monk was holding his rosary, turning it slowly.
The breeze blew across the tender buds of the jujube tree, causing ripples on the water.
The lights flickered.
In the rhythmic reciprocating breathing, Liang Qu was like a centipede perched on a mountain, spitting out precious pearls.
He could feel his muscles being stretched, his blood surging and boiling like boiling water, flowing through his entire body.
A surge of burning anger surged up from the tailbone to the top of the head.
It was not even the end of April yet, but it felt like the hottest days of summer. I was sweating profusely and had a tingling sensation all over my body.
It's not that something went wrong in the practice. This is the expected reaction to practicing this skill.
After a quarter of an hour, Liang Qu was exhausted and reached his limit, so he relaxed his strength.
As soon as the breathing exercise to move Qi and blood was finished, the pain disappeared instantly.
“The fact that the old monk didn’t show up means there’s nothing wrong with the way you practice.
However, unlike the increasingly vigorous practice of “Wan Sheng Bao Yuan”, this “Vajra Sutra Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger” is so exhausting that it actually feels like a breakthrough.
If a person with a weak constitution practices rashly, he might hurt himself."
Liang Qu pondered the difference between the two techniques.
One cultivates inner strength to strengthen the outer self, the other cultivates outer strength to strengthen the inner self.
The old monk was right, it is possible to practice both at the same time.
It is not easy for ordinary people to obtain a top-notch martial art, but I didn't expect that I could not only easily obtain two, but also practice them simultaneously.
He has entered the state of concentration in "Wansheng Baoyuan", and can circulate it in his body on its own. He can operate two doors at the same time without having to do two things at once.
Previously, when I was practicing the "Diamond Sutra of Subduing Dragons and Subduing Tigers", if it were not for the support of "Wansheng Baoyuan", I would have been over in less than half a quarter of an hour.
(End of this chapter)
