Starting Cultivation During a Trip-Chapter 86 - 83: Number One Under Heaven, Three Corpses Illuminating Fate
The red candle flame remains unextinguished, Profound Yin Refines the Primordial Spirit.
In the East Suburban Cemetery, murky Yin Qi converges from all directions, igniting the white candles around Xiong Ba, while the red candle before him flares up even more.
This red candle represents his Lifebound Primordial Spirit.
The Yin Mountain Sect refines the Primordial Spirit by gathering Yin Qi from all directions, with extreme Yin giving birth to Yang, making it an alternative profound cultivation.
For this reason, this lineage often interacts with wandering souls and ghosts, observing life and death, feeling fortune and misfortune, thus forming a mysterious path.
"Profound Yin Refining True Yang... The Yin Mountain Sect indeed has unique methods."
Hiding in the shadows, Zhang Fan observes, with his current cultivation level, he can perceive some signs.
At this moment, threads of Yin Qi transform and enter Xiong Ba’s abdomen, his clothes suddenly billow, and scorching heat emanates from his back, even his sweat evaporates into mist.
This is the phenomenon of "Refining Yin into Yang."
As recorded in the "Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor," the abdomen is Yin, the back is Yang; strong Yang leads to longevity, weak Yang to a short life.
Modern people, due to lifestyle and dietary habits, accumulate a lot of damp and cold in their bodies, leading to insufficient Yang Qi, which causes various health issues, such as cold womb and spleen deficiency in women, insomnia and acne, hair loss, and lack of endurance in men.
This is a manifestation of insufficient Yang Qi.
In the Daoist Sect, there is a Health Care Method where insufficient Yang Qi can be borrowed from the heavens during summer, especially during the hottest days, by sunbathing the back. By absorbing energy through sunbathing, one accumulates Yang Qi, expels accumulated damp and cold, making the body light and healthy, and the complexion rosy and radiant. (Control time and intensity, be careful of sunburn)
This is like adding fuel to a flame, causing it to thrive, burning away evil damp and cold within the body.
Thus, Chinese medicine emphasizes "nourishing Yang in spring and summer, and triumphing over winter through long summer"; by nourishing Yang Qi in summer, one is less likely to fall ill in winter, which is why summer treats winter illnesses.
Buzz...
At this moment, the flames of the white candles around Xiong Ba suddenly tremble, and even the red candle flame in front of him dims, the Yang Qi emitted from his back unable to sustain, dispersing rather than condensing.
"Hmm? He can’t gather Yin Qi?"
Zhang Fan paused, then noticed the clue.
Although this kid is cultivating an authentic Yin Mountain Technique, he either has a talent issue or a physical problem, as he cannot sustain a constant gathering of Yin Qi, and even the transformation efficiency of the scarce gathered Yin Qi is very low.
But whatever the reason, this kind of person, to put it bluntly, lacks the talent for cultivation, at least for the Yin Mountain Technique, unlike Zhang Fan, who can break through and advance even while sleeping.
"Alas, it’s still not working after all."
Xiong Ba ceased his cultivation, looking at the dim red candle flame in front of him, letting out a long sigh and appearing very dejected.
He was born into the Yin Mountain Xiong Family, but because he lacks talent and ability for cultivation, he could only apprentice himself to a senior from the Gu Family, who is Gu Yuming.
You must understand, although the Gu Family and Ming Family are also part of the Yin Mountain Sect, they are subordinate to the Xiong Family.
Thus, Xiong Ba’s situation is self-evident, unable to cultivate the Xiong Family’s core techniques.
Moreover, even Gu Yuming could not guide him successfully, and due to an accident some time ago, has now become a total vegetable and has not awakened since.
Otherwise, Xiong Ba wouldn’t have come to the cemetery, which he fears the most, alone at dawn to practice secretly.
However, success lies in the skill, not just hard work.
Some things are destined at birth; hard work alone is not enough.
"I really am the disgrace of the Xiong Family..." Xiong Ba hung his head in frustration.
As a disciple of the Yin Mountain Sect, he has no talent on the path of cultivation in his sect. Unable to carry forward the Ancestral Master’s Dharma Lineage, he can’t even maintain the status quo, so being called a disgrace isn’t entirely unwarranted.
"Even if they share the same ancestor, individual differences exist." Zhang Fan sighed inwardly.
This kid before him pales in comparison to Xiong Qianshan, whom he encountered the previous night, though the latter isn’t exceptional, comparatively he seems like an elite.
Comparisons can lead to despair.
Seeing this, Zhang Fan lost interest and was about to leave.
"Talisman dictates and communicates, illuminates the Nine Springs. Three Souls facing the Emperor, Seven Spirits listening to holy scriptures..."
At this moment, an ethereal chant reached his ears.
"Hmm!?"
Zhang Fan stopped and looked, seeing Xiong Ba chanting incantations as if switching to another line of Dharma, with his hands forming seals, grasping Nine Vertical and One, surprisingly the Lion Seal.
"This isn’t a Yin Mountain Skill!" Zhang Fan narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing the young man intently.
This kid, from a distinguished Yin Mountain family, is secretly practicing external skills!?
"The Three Paths leave the long night, the Five Afflictions release completely. The sea of karma rests its waves, hearing the Dharma reaches humans and heavens..."
As the ethereal chant resonated, the white candlelight abruptly danced, Eight Directions of Yin Qi surged and converged, became purified around Xiong Ba’s body, transforming into ethereal energy, merging into his being.
Simultaneously, what sounded like sacred chanting echoed around him, in a trance, countless souls seemed to manifest, devoutly worshipping, listening to sermons.
"This is..."
"Taiji Du Wang, the bane of Yin Mountain!?" Zhang Fan’s gaze sharpened to a line, hardly able to believe.
It must be known, all beings in the world do not part from the suffering of life and death, and upon extinction, they wish to be reborn into bliss.
The Buddhist Sect, belonging to the Western Metal Teachings, emphasizes the Western Paradise, while our Daoist Sect belongs to the Eastern Wood Teachings, hence emphasizing the Eastern Eternal Bliss Pure Land.
The "Scripture of the Three Officials" speaks of the Eastern Pole Celestial Realm’s Relief from Suffering Court having a Longevity Realm, where there is only heaven and no hell, an ideal place for cultivation, enabling one to depart from hell, avoiding the cycle of reincarnation, forever free from suffering, journeying directly to the human and heavenly realms, transcending to the pure land, boundless happiness, coming and going unimpeded.
