Chapter 1: Blooming Youth
At night, after eleven o'clock, it was called Zishi in ancient times.
The west bedroom on the second floor of a self-built building in my hometown in the countryside.
Fang Yi was sitting on a chair with a computer desk in front of him. He had just adjusted his mindset and was clearing away all distracting thoughts.
"I have been practicing diligently since I got Mr. Chen Pu's manuscript "Mr. Chen's Inner Alchemy Secret" three years ago, but I still cannot complete the process of lowering the elixir. Is it true that cultivating immortals was invented by the ancients?"
Fang Yi's heart was in turmoil again and he couldn't calm down.
Since ancient times, immortality has been the highest ideal that mankind has ever dreamed of, and even royal nobles are no exception.
Fang Yi is no exception. Having read countless novels about cultivation when he was in school, he has always had a dream of immortality.
Time flies.
More than 20 years have passed, and I am still a member of the masses.
Although my edges have been smoothed out by society, I have never given up my dream of immortality.
Especially when he traveled to Qingcheng Mountain three years ago and accidentally got a secret book called "Mr. Chen's Inner Alchemy Secret", Fang Yi thought that his piety moved God, so he gave him a chance of immortality.
However, despite three years of hard work, he still could not complete the first level of the technique, "Jiangdan".
Fang Yi was extremely disappointed and began to question himself, "Is it because I don't have talent?"
Or maybe…
What went wrong?
He felt uneasy tonight and couldn't get rid of all distracting thoughts and enter a state of meditation.
Fang Yi had a premonition that something big was going to happen tonight.
"Practice for the last time. If it still doesn't work, then...give up this illusory dream of immortality!"
After three years of no progress, Fang Yi's patience was almost exhausted.
Perhaps because he let go of his obsession, he felt light all over, all distracting thoughts were gone, and he began to recall the skills in his mind.
"First, practice at the beginning of the local time of midnight. Eat a small amount to avoid being too hungry or too full. Wash and calm your mind. Adjust your mood and eliminate distracting thoughts. I have done all these preparations."
Fang Yi couldn't help but sit cross-legged as he recalled the past.
These actions have been repeated countless times over the past three years, and have become as skillful as eating and drinking.
Then, Fang Yi closed his eyes and concentrated, regulating his breathing to be even, and then rolled up his tongue to fix the two holes at the root of the tongue, which are the submandibular gland ducts.
Because you use the root of your tongue to hold the two orifices and hold your breath.
In the past, it was impossible to continue after reaching this step.
The exercise method states that after you hold your breath, you will gradually feel two streams of energy from the left and right Taiyang meridians rushing up from the roots of your teeth, through your temples, and then into the top of your head. You can feel the two energies intermingling, and this is one of the small circulations of the exercise.
How can Fang Yi continue to practice when he can't even feel the air?
I don’t know if it’s because I let go of my obsession tonight.
He actually felt two streams of energy emerging from the left and right solar meridians.
Under normal circumstances, he would be ecstatic.
But Fang Yi was completely immersed in it, with only pure thoughts of cultivation in his mind. How could he have any other distracting thoughts?
The two streams of energy rushed up from the roots of the teeth, reached the temples, and then slowly spread towards the top of the head.
"There are four orifices under the tongue, two of which lead to the heart, and two lead to fluids. The power of one turn is like a precious pearl, and the mountains, rivers, and universe can penetrate the spiritual body."
The mantras of the martial arts technique were flowing in Fang Yi's mind.
Gradually, he felt the two energies merging.
Fang Yi slowly opened his eyes. According to the martial art, this was a small circulation, and he would have to do it twice more later.
After a short rest, he continued his previous actions, and each time he stopped when the Qi reached the Niwan Palace.
Finally, three times were completed.
You should rest at this time and continue practicing the next day.
However, when he was practicing Qigong for the third time, Fang Yi suddenly felt a cool feeling pouring into the top of his head.
Immediately, the Qi flowed from the Niwan Palace into the brain, penetrated along the throat to the Jiaji, and finally reached the coccyx.
"Hey, shouldn't this be possible after the first successful Qigong exercise? How come I can do it now?"
A trace of doubt flashed through Fang Yi's mind, because this was the critical moment of his practice, he didn't have time to think too much, just controlled his Qi according to the contents of "Mr. Chen's Inner Alchemy Secret".
When this energy reaches the tailbone, a series of changes occur.
Then, another cool feeling came from the top of the head, and this air moved forward to the gallbladder navel.
Fang Yi felt warm and comfortable in his chest.
According to the introduction of the exercises, this is a sign of a decrease in true Qi.
This is not the end yet. The energy goes up along the lower abdomen to the heart.
He felt a warm flutter in his heart, as if his heart was alive.
This warm air goes up from the heart, passes through the twelve floors, and reaches under the tongue.
Fang Yi felt a slight bitter taste in his mouth.
He thought secretly, "This is a sign that courage is rising, yin and yang are in harmony, and the inner elixir is about to descend."
He became cautious at this time because it was the most dangerous moment.
Generally speaking, when practicing this technique, one must avoid being disturbed by people or animals. Otherwise, one may suddenly feel that one's body is gradually getting bigger, become mentally excited, or even have hallucinations as if houses, people, mountains and rivers are all inside one's body.
This is also one of the reasons why we should choose to practice at midnight when everyone is asleep.
…
At the same time, a miracle was also happening outside.
The night is so dark that you can't see your hand in front of you. The harsh autumn wind tears through the tranquility.
There is no bright moon and no stars.
At midnight, the colorful lights of thousands of homes gradually faded away and merged into the night.
A fire suddenly appeared in the air above an old building, flickering at a frequency similar to that of a person's breathing, but it was as weak as a candle in the wind and could go out at any time.
Suddenly, a rainbow light shot up into the sky from a small temple on the bank of the Grand Canal three or four hundred meters away in the south.
This straight, long rainbow-like ray of colorful light was extremely magical. It was only as thick as a thumb, but it penetrated between heaven and earth. Even any strong wind in the sky could hardly blow it away. It seemed to support the heaven and earth.
The rainbow light was rather dim, and difficult to capture with the naked eye at first.
But after a few breaths, the long rainbow light became brighter, almost covering the sky and the earth, like a huge wave in the sea rushing towards the fire.
Before it stopped, the rainbow light suddenly changed, spreading out and merging into the white clouds in the sky, turning the white clouds into colorful clouds!
The sky was immediately covered!
Colorful clouds rolled over the old buildings.
The horrifying scene was like the sky was falling, which was terrifying.
Colorful clouds are rolling!
Raging waves!
The sky within a mile of the entire building seemed to be enveloped in this rolling colorful world.
In an instant, the fire was about to go out.
At this moment, the colorful clouds gradually separated, and a rainbow light suddenly spread out from the center.
The obscured starlight gathers together.
When the starlight was full and overflowing, it was like the Milky Way collapsing and tilting down, rolling towards the fire.
Wherever the starlight went, it covered the small building from top to bottom all the way to deep underground.
There are stars all around, vast and boundless.
The fire seemed to have found fuel, burning fiercely and becoming brighter and brighter.
Finally, half of the sky was burning red.
If someone looked at it from a distance, they would find that the fire was extremely exquisite, just like a Taoist sitting cross-legged, and there was a bright fireball burning on the left chest of this huge fire figure.
The light of this fireball is dazzling.
Suddenly it rose up and turned into a red sun.
Immediately afterwards, the red sun seemed to be pulled by a huge force and fell downwards.
Whoosh!
The red sun fell into the abyss, making a "crash" sound.
Water and fire blend together, yin and yang are in harmony.
The red sun gradually faded its fiery glow and turned into a ball of pure and flawless light, quietly floating in the flaming figure.
When the ball of light returned to its place, it inexplicably emitted countless bright rays like streams that spread throughout every part of the fire figure.
The fire figure "opened its eyes".
The starlight also dissipated. If it weren't for the rainbow still standing between heaven and earth, it would seem as if nothing had happened.
Fang Yi is experiencing a miracle.
He felt that his "consciousness" seemed to have transcended his physical body and inexplicably emerged into nothingness.
This feeling is very wonderful.
He could clearly "see" his own body sitting cross-legged on a chair in the bedroom on the second floor of a small building not far away.
Everything in the room can be seen clearly.
Several unknown insects could be clearly seen crawling on the wardrobe, computer desk, curtains and even under the bed.
Fang Yi's "eyes" seemed to have the ability of perspective and could penetrate thick walls.
Looking around, the night is exceptionally dark tonight. If I use my naked eyes, I'm afraid I won't be able to see anything two meters ahead.
However, Fang Yi saw it very clearly.
Two sparrows snuggled in a bird's nest on the branches of two Metasequoia trees, and a middle-aged couple on the second floor of a building on the other side of the river were laughing...
Even...wind currents, river water, and the particles that make up all matter!
What surprised Fang Yi the most was that he could observe that these particles were connected into "lines" and intertwined with each other, just like a bunch of small spider webs formed an extremely huge web, extending to the sky and even to the depths of the universe with endless stars.
It was as if he had penetrated the origin of matter.
It is extremely spectacular, majestic and grand.
Fang Yi couldn't help but marvel.
At the same time, endless questions arose in his mind.
Suddenly, I felt a ball of light in my heart, like the sun falling into the lower dantian, which was a manifestation of the descent of the inner elixir.
The first chapter of Mr. Chen’s Secret of Inner Alchemy describes the lowering of the elixir as having the effect of curing all diseases and increasing physical strength.
In ancient times, if one could cultivate to this level, it would be considered as the initial stage of golden elixir and one could be called a golden elixir immortal.
And just now, after three years of hard training, Fang Yi finally reached this step, which allowed his mind to transcend the physical body and emerge in nothingness. This is also called the soul leaving the body in "Mr. Chen's Inner Alchemy Secrets", which is a supernatural ability that only those who have reached a certain level in the alchemy path can possess.
There is no doubt about these.
What is puzzling is that there is no difference between tonight and the past three years, except that there has been no progress in my meditation practice. I was about to finish my practice, but suddenly, my body seemed to be infused with a huge amount of powerful energy by an external force, and a golden elixir was forcibly condensed.
"What's going on?"
Fang Yi was a little confused.
But before he had time to think about it, a scorching rainbow light came and wrapped up the dew-drop-like golden elixir that he had cultivated for three years, and it was blown away and fell rapidly towards the southern bank of the river. Then it disappeared without a trace.
Fang Yi was greatly shocked. The golden elixir he had just cultivated was taken away by someone?
He was suddenly shocked and angry and no longer had time to think about it. He followed closely and appeared near the red light in an instant.
Looking down, I saw the only temple in the village, where Wong Tai Sin was enshrined.
"Could it be that there are also cultivators in the temple who took advantage of the opportunity to seize my golden elixir?"
Fang Yi was extremely anxious and thought again, wanting to break into the temple.
Suddenly, a loud "boom" exploded deep in his soul!
The sound was like thunder, but there was something different about it, more like the roar of some animal.
What made Fang Yi feel terrified was that this roar seemed to have a certain destructive power on his soul. Just because of the roar just now, his "thinking" almost lost its stability and split apart and scattered around.
"What a terrible roar!"
Fang Yi didn't dare to covet the temple anymore, his thoughts retreated like a tide towards where his physical body was.
The next moment, he suddenly opened his eyes in the bedroom, and a "bright light" flashed inexplicably in the dark bedroom, and then went out.
"What was that roar just now? It was so terrifying?"
Fang Yi was somewhat doubtful, and suddenly remembered that in Mr. Chen's Inner Alchemy Secret, there was a description of the dragon's roar like thunder, "Could it be... that was the dragon's roar just now?"
As soon as this idea came to his mind, he found it both ridiculous and funny.
Where did the dragon come from in the world?
But then Fang Yi asked himself doubtfully: "Could it really be a dragon?"
Since, according to Mr. Chen's Inner Alchemy Secrets, he is a Golden Elixir True Person and he can even leave his body, so what's so strange about the existence of dragons in the world?
"The temple is not far from my home, it is on the southern river bank. I will go and see who has taken my golden elixir."
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