Ask Sword

  Chapter 41 Feeling Qi

   In the next few days, several things happened in Weizhou City.

   The first is the most important provincial test.

   After the state school exam, all candidates for this year's Weizhou city have been decided.

   After deducting those whose spiritual veins don't match and those who are over 18 years old, a list of ten people who are eligible to go to Chang'an and participate in the school entrance examination is obtained.

  Among the ten students, Zhai Yiming from the state school ranked first, Song Shaoyuan ranked second, the third to sixth were all other students from the state school, and there were also four Gongju students from other places.

According to the rules, the selected scholars such as Zhai Yiming and Song Shaoyuan all celebrated with burning tail banquets at home, and held different banquets in succession in the next few days to thank teachers, parents, and congratulate classmates and friends. Students from the same country who are taking the exam, build a good relationship.

   Li Ang didn't attend any banquets. In fact, he even turned down the banquets of the prefect's family—even though the daughter of the prefect Ji Chi also received a letter of recommendation from the Academy Tour this year, and he was a recommended student just like him.

   "When I go to Chang'an this time, I need to listen more, see more, and think more."

  In the courtyard of Baoantang, Pu Liuxuan smiled and said to Li Ang: "When I was here, the development of the academy was already changing with each passing day. Fifteen years have passed, and I don't know what new ideas and technologies there are.

   Let your senior brother take you to the Xuegong Library during the open day, maybe there is some new inspiration. "

  The public library of Yu State, formerly known as Secretary Province.

  Due to the burning of books by the first emperor, most of the books in the world were destroyed. In addition, there were only handwritten transcriptions and bamboo slips and silk books in the old days.

  Books are difficult to preserve and disseminate. Only the government can collect them on a large scale. They are hidden in the secret palace in the palace, and ordinary people can hardly borrow them.

  That's why the institution that specializes in managing national book collections is named "Secretary Province", and the person responsible for editing and correcting books in the Secretary Province is called Xiaoshulang.

  After the emergence of the Academy and the improvement of printing and papermaking techniques, the difficulty of writing books suddenly decreased, and a large collection of books was no longer the patent of the country or the rich and noble.

  Some relatively wealthy state capitals have local libraries, collecting books, newspapers and periodicals on the market at public expense every year for citizens to borrow.

"Um."

  Li Ang nodded respectfully, hesitated for a moment, and asked Pu Liuxuan softly: "Teacher, what is the sign of feeling the atmosphere?

  I have been reading "Shangqing Inspiration" for the past few days. Every time I read halfway through, I feel itching under the skin and bulging chest and abdomen. "

"oh?"

  Pu Liuxuan lowered his brows in a little surprise, "Itching under the skin, bulging chest and abdomen?

   Do you still feel that your breathing is smooth, and the time for each exhalation is longer than before? "

  Li Ang nodded, "Yes."

   "A month?"

  Pu Liuxuan's frowning brows slowly relaxed, and he said with a smile: "This is the precursor to the feeling of energy.

  The "Shangqing Inspiration" is just an introduction. Only when reading, the six organs are clean, the heart is clean, and the righteous thoughts are firm, so that the true energy is full and found in the gods, can the energy channels be unobstructed. "

   "Pure heart? Is that enough?"

   Li Ang said in surprise: "I thought it would be more difficult."

"easy to say, hard to do."

  Pu Liuxuan said casually: "Separate greed, anger, ignorance, resentment and hatred. Don't ask, don't rush, don't get lost, just wait quietly.

  Some people who don’t understand, think that calming down means not thinking about anything, letting go of themselves, finding a place to sit for a whole day,

   As everyone knows, if you want to feel angry, you have to think about it without thinking about it. While the will is extremely firm, take the initiative to restrain and suppress all distracting thoughts, and use the will to sense the existence of heaven and earth aura.

  This method must be understood by yourself. Letting others tell you to suppress distracting thoughts will only make you unable to control your random thoughts. "

   "So it is."

  Li Ang suddenly realized, no wonder Pu Liuxuan only lost a copy of "Shangqing Inspiration", without any additional notes.

   "It takes a month to sense the aura, which is not bad."

  Pu Liuxuan smiled and said: "However, sensing the aura of the world outside is just the first step. The next thing to do is to feel where your own aura is."

"Well"

  Li Ang thought for a while and asked: "Teacher, what type of thing is the spirit vein? Or, in what form does it exist?"

   "Lingmai is not like a thing, it is more like a characteristic that a person is born with, like a fingerprint on a finger, a natural birthmark."

  Pu Liuxuan explained: "The difference is that the spirit vein is bound together with the body and soul of a person, it cannot be seen or touched, and it is not a specific organ.

  To give a simple example, you can think of the aura of heaven and earth as infinite air flowing continuously,

  The human body is the flute.

  Lingmai is the hollow hole of Dixiao.

  Because of the hollow spiritual veins, the aura of heaven and earth can be introduced into the human body, and can be manipulated and influenced by the will of the monks.

   Just like the airflow passing through the flute and playing music, it generates a variety of mysterious effects.

  Excavating the original spiritual veins is equivalent to cleaning Di Xiao, so that the human body blocked by unclean things and thoughts can be clear again.

  The whole process is the initial introduction.

  Complete the initial guide, that is, feel the qi. "

  Pu Liuxuan's example was vivid and vivid, and Li Ang didn't take much effort to understand what was going on, and said hesitantly: "In other words, feeling Qi is the process of sensing the position of the spirit vein and making it unblocked?

  Is there anything special about the location of the spiritual vein? "

"Location?"

  Pu Liuxuan thought for a moment and said: "The spiritual veins are invisible and intangible, but the experience of the sages in the academy and many cases have proved that the positions of the spiritual veins of different people seem to be different.

  Concentrate on blood vessels, meridians, or eyes, hands, heart, ears and other areas.

  Some sects in the former Sui Dynasty also advocated the so-called ancient method of practice, that is, according to the position of the spiritual vein, practice different qigong methods—of course, that kind of ancient method of practice has now been eliminated by the academy. "

   "Is it possible that the spiritual pulse will appear in the head?"

  Li Ang sat up straight nervously and asked, "After I sense the aura of heaven and earth, sometimes my head hurts slightly, and the scene in front of me suddenly turns black.

   It was like having a sword in my head. "

   "Head?"

  Pu Liuxuan's eyes widened in surprise, "Are you sure?"

   Li Ang nodded heavily, "The disciple is sure."

   "How could it be? It shouldn't be."

  Pu Liuxuan frowned, and murmured: "The most common place for spiritual veins to appear is the blood vessels, followed by the heart, limbs, eyes and mouth. I have never heard of them growing in the head."

  (end of this chapter)