Chapter 5: Getting Started
Palm? Hearing this I froze for a moment did not react. To know the "master" this word I just in the martial arts novels have seen ah, martial arts novels head of those masters, each extraordinary martial arts, a person command group of heroes, it is really domineering cross the main ah!
Thinking of this, I was immediately delighted, the heart of the whole are happy flowers. I can't imagine that the old man in front of this immortal style of Taoism really has a great deal to do, by mistake I'm going to become a great disciple of the Maoshan School. Although ultimately a Taoist priest, but at least there is always the name of the master is not?
In my heart almost laugh out loud, the old man coughed, said: "Uh, that what, you do not think too much, we can be different from the Shaolin School of the Maoshan School of those martial arts sects, especially after the four old wind wave, our disciples scattered and fled, or sneak back to the countryside to live in seclusion, or fled to the outside world, and now our sect has been the past is not comparable to the present. Although the master is the head of a school, but no one under the command. Alas!"
Hearing these words, I immediately lost my heart. To know which young people do not dream of commanding a group of king's ah, but now this although wearing the hat of the head of the school, but is a bare-rod commander, this and the ordinary people have what difference ah?
But then again, not the head of the head of the door I do not care, the most important thing is that only this Zhang Zhenren can save my life, I can not be because it is a bare-knuckle head of the door, not to worship the teacher, right?
I can't not worship the master just because I'm a bare-knuckle master, right? I naturally will not let Zhang Zhenren know my heart's small, I said: "Master, you can rest assured. Now although our Maoshan is falling apart, but there will be a day, we will carry forward our Maoshan school, not let you old man disappointed!"
"Good! Good! Good! I really didn't expect you to be able to speak out with such grandiose aspirations, it's really the teacher's good fortune. As long as you can remember the oath you made today, then I have no regrets in dying!" Zhang Zhenren happy beard straight up, think is my words to his heart.
But my heart thumped, I swore? I swear?
That night, I packed my bags ready to move to live with Zhang Zhenren. But which thought, his mouth said the move will be so far, even let me move directly from Shenzhen to the Jiangsu territory of a deep forest!
During the change of how many trips on the needless to say, into the mountains of the road is not even open to traffic, and so after two hours of hiking into the mountains to Zhang Zhenren live in the place, my whole body is almost exhausted.
Zhang Zhenren's village is called the ancient village, although known as the village, but there are not a few families, extremely remote.
Although I myself was a child who grew up in the mountains, the mountains in this place were even bigger and deeper than my home in my hometown. One mountain range after another, with no end in sight, as if this world had only mountains and no plains. The mountains are full of thick bamboo and trees, just like a primitive forest, and this village called Gucun is in the deepest part of such mountains.
This place is not highway, go to the county sound city to walk more than a hundred miles of mountain road, that is not to mention the electric light telephone, because this ghost place is still ancient society.
And Zhang Zhenren's home and the village some distance, because his house was built on the cliff side of the mountain. In fact, instead of saying that it is built on the edge of the cliff, it is better to say that it is built on the edge of the cliff, because his house is built with thatched grass. Standing at the foot of the mountain to look up, I can not help but drum in my heart, thinking that if so a wind, this broken straw house will not be scraped off the cliff as a whole ah?
In my mind, generally as a faction of the head of the door, although it can not say under the believers of three thousand, but then how not to help a through the ages, a thousand years of the ancient dojo should always have it? But now I am really dumbfounded, is not Zhang Zhenren will be so lost before, I did not think that this old man mixed into such a point, alas, but also really sad.
"How? Heart lost?" Zhang Zhenren seems to see the thoughts in my heart, turned his head to me and asked.
"Lost not to talk about, after all, I am also from the mountains out, our hometown house is not better than you here. Just I used to listen to the elders talk about, said jiangsu maoshan door is very elegant ah, how how now fall broken into such a point ah?" I will be in the heart of the doubt said out.
Zhang Zhenren smiled after hearing, face suddenly showed a trace of pride, he said: "you heard of the maoshan is jiangsu jurong maoshan. Jurong Maoshan is a famous mountain, it is the birthplace of the Shangqing School of Taoism, and is honored by Taoists as the 'Shangqing Zongtan'. There are nine peaks, nineteen springs, twenty-six holes, twenty-eight pools, Jurong Maoshan mountain is not high, but as the saying goes: the mountain is not high, there are immortal is famous. Jurong maoshan then has the reputation of the first blessed land, the eighth cave!"
Listening to Zhang Zhenren this, from his description can be imagined, this Maoshan should be a very old millennium ZongTan place, the building think also extremely magnificent it. So I said: "Master, since Jurong Maoshan is so good, and you are the head of a school, then why do not you live in Jurong Maoshan, but instead of living in the mountains and wild forests ah?"
Zhang Zhenren said, "As the saying goes, Buddha and Taoism are one family, and our Taoism is also divided into two sects. Jurong Maoshan is the obvious sect, while the master is the secret sect."
I said, "What tantric sects of the obvious, I was almost confused by you."
Zhang Zhenren gave me a brain crash: "Forget it, can't make sense with you. I'll tell you this, the Hinayana Sect teaches reasoning, first letting you understand reasoning, and then practicing. On the other hand, our Tantric Sect teaches spells, first passes on your teachings, and then lets you realize the Way."
I understood when I said that, isn't that one is teaching theory and the other is teaching techniques. I said, "I see, the Hin Sect is the school, focusing on theoretical knowledge, while the Tantric Sect is the factory, focusing on techniques."
Zhang Zhenren rolled his eyes and didn't pay any more attention to me.
Soon, we arrived at the thatched hut. Approached a look, this thatched although it looks shabby simple some, but this thatched house cover in the cliff side, but also really have a few points of seclusion in the world outside the feeling.
Inside the thatched hut is also extremely simple, is a few commonly used daily utensils, nothing else. Of course, the top of the house of a celestial master statue is extremely conspicuous, below the statue is up an altar, a incense burner is extremely simple, think it is a few hundred years old antique.
Into the house, Zhang Zhenren told me to kneel in front of the altar of the celestial master, and then burned incense, read a few words, as to what he said, I did not hear clearly. After reciting, he then said to me, "My school is a talisman school, majoring in talismans and incantations. If you acquire my Maoshan magic, besides the general content of exorcism and cure, catching ghosts and settling down the house and cultivation, my school also has many other spells that are highly powerful and divinely effective, such as being able to send Yin soldiers and Yin generals or ghosts and spirits, and also serving heavenly soldiers and generals, and other spells. So my maoshan magic is the most powerful in Taoism, can be said to be all magical ability, in order to prevent disciples use magical ability to do wrong, worship into my disciples, character to have absolute guarantee, must be very loyal and honest, filial piety, compassionate people can learn, in order to ensure that the secret law of my school by the traitors to learn to harm the world!"
I nodded, this I naturally know, because I have also heard that Maoshan magic is very powerful, drawing charms and reciting incantations just like the gods. So I said, "When will you start teaching me these spells? Will you pass them on to me tonight?"
Zhang Zhenren glared at me and scolded, "Now that you haven't even finished worshipping the master, you want to learn the secret Maoshan spells, how can it be so easy!"
I thought about it, so I smiled embarrassedly. At this time, Zhang Zhenren said: "Maoshan secret method is not so easily will be taught, think of when the teacher to learn the road, at the age of seven years old into the mountain under the door of the master, after twenty years only through the master of my character inspection, the master only then taught me the secret art of Maoshan, so that you have to be patient and slowly learn."
Hearing this, my mouth is wide open, twenty years to complete the character examination, then I shall not wait until almost forty years old to learn spells? What the hell is this rule ah, this is not purely play tricks on people? Heart that disappointment needless to mention, if not to see in their own life still need to save the old man in front of me, I must be scattered legs down the mountain.
Zhang Zhenren saw my lost look, smiled, said: "But your situation is different, you are now the calamity is approaching, so the character examination before worshiping the master does not have to be so long, you only need to swear in front of the ancestor, will not use the learned spells to harm people on the line."
"Really?" I was greatly pleased in my heart, so I hastily initiated an oath to the Ancestor Master.
When I finished swearing, Zhang Zhenren suddenly smiled wistfully, looking straight at me with goosebumps. Such an immortal old man smiling unkindly looked really unbearable.
I said: "master, you are this is not I have something on my face, see you laugh".
Zhang Zhenren said, "Nothing, you are now the one hundred and ninth generation disciple of this sect, the master announces to you three commandments that this sect must abide by!"
Hearing this, my heart thumped, finally understand why he looked at me smiling unsuspectingly, think this so-called commandments must not be a good thing.
Sure enough, then Zhang Zhenren said, "My Maoshan Sect's disciplinary precepts have three major rules, which are no lust, broken clothes, and no wealth. No prostitution is not to be close to women, which means that to become a disciple of Maoshan, you must be extinct; broken clothes is not to wear neat clothes, there must be holes in the clothes; extinct wealth is not to hoard wealth, not to leave overnight money. Anyone who joins my Maoshan discipleship must first abide by these three major rules."
Hearing this I really dumbfounded, in my cognitive head, this maoshan Taoist seems to be able to get married ah, how can not be close to the female sex? And also can't wear good clothes, also can't have money? This does not wear good clothes can also be a little bit, after all, the same old clothes to wear, as long as the pockets of money can still live in a moist. But this absolute wealth can really enough absolute, as the old saying goes, although the money is not everything, but no money is everything. You say that no money that is not equal to waiting for death?
