(Preface: There is an idiom called "Uninvited Guest", where does it come from? It comes from the fifth hexagram of "Xue" in the Book of Changes. The sixth line of the Huo hexagram is "Enter the acupoint, there are three uninvited guests, and the respect will eventually be auspicious." The Huo hexagram is above and below, which is the hexagram of water in the sky. The hexagram is "You Fu (Huo is waiting, the meaning of facing), Guangheng, Zhen, auspicious, and profitable, and crossing the river."

"Present, hiding from the great rivers" I think it can be explained so simply - there is a river ahead, you can pass it, but you can pass it, so you can only cross this river honestly! In the words of the common people, it is a hurdle. Now this "hurdle" comes from the sky, and you can't escape it! As for the meaning of "uninvited guests", you can also understand it like this. "Respect is auspicious" means not to respect uninvited guests, but to respect things themselves and handle everything you need to face calmly. This is the true Confucian spirit!

Nowadays, when many people mention the Book of Changes, they think of Yin and Yang Eight Trigrams, thinking that they are Taoist metaphysics. In fact, the Book of Changes is not a Taoist book, but a Confucian classic and one of the Five Classics. Some people say that "Confucian" is "needed by people", which makes sense. Then the Huo Trigrams in the Book of Changes have a very important position in Confucianism. In this book "Shenyou", many places introduce Buddhism and Taoist practice, and not much mention of Confucian cultivation. Because these things are difficult to express, they can only be reflected in Shi Ye's "human disaster". If you are interested in the "way of gentlemen" in the world, you can read another book of my "Ghost Stocks".)

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Feng Junzi flew back and stood still: "Shiye, it's you! I almost scared me to death."

"What's wrong with you? Didn't you ask me to come? Besides, you are just a Yin God on a trip, and you are still afraid of ghosts?" I asked strangely.

Feng Junzi: "I made an appointment with you! But we made an appointment last night, and you didn't come! Not only did you not come, but you disappeared for three days. What did you do?"

It turns out that the two of us misunderstood the sentence three days later. Feng Junzi said yesterday three days later, and I thought it was today. I explained: "Sorry, I had a small accident, and I will slowly tell you... Then why are you here again today? Why are you scared by me for no reason?"

Feng Junzi: "Didn't you notice it? Just now, when you entered the bridge hole, the vines at the entrance of the bridge hole were twitched. In the middle of the night, something suddenly flew from the sky under the gloomy unmanned bridge hole, and the vines came in. Are you afraid?"

Ishino: "What's there to be afraid of for you? You've never seen a ghost!"

Feng Junzi: "I was too timid, so I sneaked out tonight to watch the video. I just watched a horror movie abroad!...Huh? Congratulations, Shi Zhenren!"

"Why did you say this? I don't have a halo now?"

Feng Junzi: "Why do I say it too? Who else said it?"

"Shang Yunfei, Sister Ziying, and A Xiu."

Feng Junzi: "It turns out that it's true. After three days, you have reached the Jintang realm. Have you ever had any adventures? Tell me quickly."

"Don't worry, tell me first how you saw it?"

Feng Junzi: "You used to go out here when the Yin God went out. Did the vines make a sound when you drilled into the bridge hole?"

"Of course not, the Yin God has no substance, will not touch the real thing, and will not have any sound."

Feng Junzi: "That's right, so you came in and said a word from the vine just now, which scared me. I thought it was a monster! I saw clearly that it was you, and then I realized that you were probably the golden elixir."

"You mean that after the golden elixir is perfect, can Yin Shen travel to touch the real thing?"

Feng Junzi shook his head: "No, Yin Shen is materialless, it cannot move any tangible objects. What moves the vines is not your Yin Shen, but the sensation between your golden soup and Yin Shen. This shows that your spiritual consciousness transforms into the essence and controls objects unintentionally. That's why I thought that your realm has arrived."

Feng Junzi said this, and I tried to reach out to pluck the vines at the entrance of the bridge, but this time there was no reaction. Feng Junzi smiled behind me and said, "This is not possible. I just accidentally controlled things. Now your Yin God is deliberately moving it, but I still can't move it. Don't try it first, come and talk about serious things."

I sat back and asked anxiously: "Feng Junzi, I saw a halo covered in my body in the Qingming Mirror. A Xiu said I should have the halo closed, how to collect it?"

Feng Junzi: "This kind of halo is a natural reaction to the real body moving the furnace and changing the cauldron after the Jintang realm. Ordinary people cannot see it, but practitioners with cultivation can discover it. In fact, what others see may not be the halo in the Qingming Mirror, but you can feel the fluctuations of your spirit around you. It is actually simple to collect it. You have just reached the Jintang realm. You have not yet practiced the mantras and mental methods of this state. After you are proficient in the essence, you can restrain yourself and relax. Don't worry, it doesn't take long. Just comprehend the mind and mantras of Jintang thoroughly."

"Can anyone else be so introverted?"

Feng Junzi: "You have seen Living Buddha, you have also known Fayuan, Fahai, and Hexi and Chen have also dealt with him. Have you found that they look like light bulbs?...I am not talking about the bald head of a monk... Forget it, you will know in a few days. Since you have reached this level, it is not a big problem. Now tell me, where have you been in the past three days? No matter how I look for it, I can't find it?"

I felt very embarrassed when Feng Junzi asked this. As a result, I should have told him all the time, but the Jingwu Cave Heaven is a forbidden area of ​​the Mei family for generations. It is no longer necessary for me to break in. It is reasonable to borrow it, but it may be unruly to leak it to outsiders. My own secret can be irresistible to Feng Junzi, but Feng Junzi is not surnamed Mei, and I am not suitable to reveal the secrets of the Mei family to him. Sister Ziying had already mentioned this problem at night.

"Feng Junzi, I was about to tell you something. Three days ago, I meditated under the Zhuangyuan Bridge and found Xiu Xiu's footprints. It turned out that Xiu Xiu had sneaked back. I went to find Xiu Xiu and accidentally entered a very special place. I meditated in that place, and felt that three days had passed after only a moment. During these three days, my cultivation level had broken through the Jintang realm."

Feng Junzi: "The place you are going is forbidden for the Mei family?"

"How did you know?"

Feng Junzi: "The bridge where we are and the tower not far away are all related to the Mei family in ancient times. The Mei family is said to have a blessing in the cave that has been passed down from generation to generation, and I guess it is nearby. If you go to a special place, it is probably there."

"Then have you been there?"

Feng Junzi: "No, I don't know where it is. There are many boring practitioners in the world who have secretly searched for it, but no one has found it. If you find it like this, you have to rely on opportunities to find it. No matter how great the supernatural power is, you can't get in."

"Do you want to know where that place is?"

Feng Junzi: "Since it is a forbidden area, I naturally don't want to be known to outsiders. If you discover it, you should not disclose it to outsiders unless you tell the descendants of the Mei family. I am not a descendant of the Mei family. Let's not say this. If it was discovered by myself, I would not break the rules of practitioners. If it was told by you, we both did something wrong."

"You may not be able to discover that place yourself."

Feng Junzi: "Hehe, I can follow you. As long as you don't find me, it has nothing to do with you. If the Mei family wants to settle accounts,... what the accounts are, it has nothing to do with us."

I laughed when I heard this. Feng Junzi wanted to follow me, just like he followed Xiu Xiu at the beginning. Even if he found the right place and did not have the Qingming Mirror in his hand, he could not see it or get in. Forget it, this matter is just like this for the time being. If he could really enter Jingwu Cave Heaven by chance, I can't say anything.

"Feng Junzi, let's talk about this later. I still have something to tell you and I want to ask you if I have something to do."

Feng Junzi: "What's the matter? Tell me."

He asked me to say it, but I was speechless for a moment and didn't know where to start? In just a few days, I have experienced too many things and couldn't figure it out! Feng Junzi saw that I didn't speak, and asked again: "What's wrong with you? Isn't there anything wrong?"

"There is something, there are too many things! I don't know where to start..."

Feng Junzi: "Speak from the beginning, don't worry, say it one by one."

From the beginning, where is the head? I thought about it, starting from the snuff bottle I gave to Yang Xiaokang, and talking about how to sell dates on the back door of the Municipal Party Committee compound, how to meet Mr. Gao, this is one. On my birthday, I went to Feijinfeng with Sister Ziying and Axiu on the autumn outing of Feijinfeng. I met Qiye. Later, I went back to the village alone and met Qiye again halfway. Facheng appeared and saved me. This was the second one. On the first day after the National Day holiday, I was asked by Teacher Liu and I showed her. I saw it.

My secret certificate also showed a "special function" and told her the true face of the Tang father and son... Today she gave me a watch, which was the third one. I followed Xiuxiu's footprints and accidentally discovered the Mei family's cultivation cave. When I sat there for three days and three nights, the alchemy cultivation reached the Jintang realm, which is another one. I remembered the warnings of Feng Junzi and Sister Ziying, and did not tell the location of Jingwu Cave Heaven and how to enter and exit.

Things have been complicated these days, and the causes and consequences are even more complicated! I tried to choose the brief description and it took almost two hours to finish it. I had a lot of questions, but I didn't know what to ask first. I wanted to discuss these things with him. Feng Junzi didn't say anything. Seeing that I stopped, he asked, "You've finished talking? It's so lively! You can write a novel."

"I just said something roughly, and if I say it carefully, it will be long."

Before I could ask anything, Feng Junzi asked me a seemingly unrelated question: "Shi Ye, how long has it been taken since you picked up the Qingming Mirror to start the path of cultivation to the great success of the Golden Elixir today?"

"Let me think about it...it should be a year, yes, I saw Liu Yiyi in the classroom for the first time this time last year."

Feng Junzi: "What month is that?"

“Short after the 11th, it was Sunday, and it seemed to be October 8th.”

Feng Junzi: "What month is it today?"

"In the morning, Teacher Liu just gave me a watch, and there is a calendar. Today is October 7th."

Feng Junzi: "You are confused again. It's already midnight! Today is Monday, October 8, 1990, the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. It's the spring and autumn of the year, no more, no less!"

"The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar calendar? No, the Mid-Autumn Festival was over last month!"

Feng Junzi: "This year is the leap month of August, and there are two August fifteenths. Forget it, let’s not talk about the calendar... Let’s ask you, you won’t realize it’s too fast in a year?"

"It's very soon? I don't know. It's all you taught me, right?"

Feng Junzi smiled: "It's hard to say. It seems that I am really good at teaching me. Originally, the order of hearing the Tao cannot be measured by the length of practice, but everything is always limited. It is really rare to achieve great success in the golden elixir in a year! I'm afraid no one can believe it if you say it. Do you know what the reason?"

"I don't know, you don't know how I would know?"

Feng Junzi frowned slightly: "The reason, first of all, is that I am a master who is very good at giving guidance from me everywhere! But just explaining this way, I may not even believe it myself. In fact, I know that the key is the heavenly tribulation! The more you practice Taoism, the more difficult it is. Not only is the Taoism realm itself difficult to break through, but more importantly, the difficulty of heavenly tribulation. Therefore, most of the time of practitioners is often spent on experiencing disasters and experiencing disasters. You have escaped the later sixth level of heavenly tribulation with a dangerous body, and there are also guidance from rare experts in the world. It is not too surprising to break through the realm so quickly... Shi Ye, do you remember how you were able to escape the sixth level of heavenly tribulation?"

"Golden Dragon Locks Jade Pillar?"

Feng Junzi: "No, it's because of the protective skills of the Golden Dragon Locking Jade Pillar! It's because of this that I'm even more strange."

"What's so strange about it?"

Feng Junzi pondered and said, "That is the skill of rebirth. You have passed the "bone-changing disaster" between the seventh floor of the four twelve-level building and the eighth floor of the eleventh floor of the alchemy. Regarding the realm of practicing the body, the first part is to relieve illness and strengthen the body, which is to refine the body; the second part is to wash the muscles and marrow, which is to reincarnate; the third part is to reborn, which is to transform the body, which is to reincarnate; the fourth part is to transform the body, which is to wander the spirit, which is to forget the emotions... In fact, I only know half of the transformation chapter now..."

"You haven't explained what you are so strange about?" I finally heard him mention the state of the last door in the "Four Gate and Twelve Level Building". Although I still don't know what the tenth and twelfth levels are, it seems that the state of the eleventh level building is called "Forgetfulness".

Feng Junzi: "Why are you anxious? Listen to me slowly! I thought you were lucky at that time, but the more I thought about it, the more I became, the more I was wrong. The practice sequences could not be random. You can't be reborn in one step, unless you have already been easy to cleanse your muscles, but my 'return' skills at that time didn't teach you at all! There can only be an explanation-"

"What explanation?" I also felt strange. Could it be that my level of practice was beyond Feng Junzi's expectations? He had never asked me about this issue, and sometimes I didn't ask.

Feng Junzi: "You have another adventure, and this adventure has nothing to do with poisonous snakes, red fruits, and floods."

He said that I, the monk, was confused: "What kind of adventure? Why don't I know?"

Feng Junzi smiled: "Actually, you are an adventure. Think about it yourself? You have natural yin eyes, which may not be a good thing. But you met a master since childhood and sealed your acupoints with golden needles. If this is the case, it would be fine, but you picked up the Qingming Mirror and met me again. This is an opportunity. In addition, your alchemy cultivation is progressing so quickly, in addition to avoiding the heavenly tribulation, there is another very important reason."

“What’s the reason?”

Feng Junzi: "I have fought with Qixin. She is one of the top disciples of the Seven-character generation under Zhongnan Gate. Even among the Ze-character disciples of Zhengyi Sect, if you have Qing Mingjing help you, you are not far from her now. But think about the other person, that Qiye. If Qiye was not a match for Qixin five years ago, then with his current cultivation level, is it considered diligence and speed? There is an experience between you two that is the same, and you both got the same thing."

"You mean Sister Ziying's Huangya Pill?"

Feng Junzi nodded: "The fruit itself is a treasure in the world of cultivation, but the yellow phyllum pill is much more precious than the fruit. It not only requires other precious spiritual medicines to be matched, but also requires masters to refine it. If you are not careful, a furnace of elixirs may be ruined. Han Ziying refined two furnaces of yellow phyllum pills, one furnace is because of you, so I won't say that. The other furnace was given to the seven leaves, and the seven leaves must have hidden their own personalities and not all handed over to the master. He has been in seclusion for three years, which is definitely related to the help of Huang phyllum pill."

"Don't you already know the reason? What else is strange about?"

Feng Junzi: "You got the Huangya Pill after you became the Golden Dragon Locking Jade Pill. What I wondered about is who cleans your muscles and marrow? Don't say you don't know, I didn't even see it! If this is true, this person is too clever!"

"You didn't see it?"

Feng Junzi: "If I could see something else I couldn't figure it out? At first I suspected it was Grandpa Jin from your village. But I had been to the old man's house, and I gave him a spiritual mastiff and left a snuff bottle. From beginning to end, I didn't see anything wrong with this old man. I was just an ordinary old Chinese doctor with no trace of a practitioner. I shouldn't be able to miss it, so I wondered who it would be?"

It turned out that the snuff bottle I gave Yang Xiaokang was from Feng Junzi to Grandpa Jin. Later, Yang Xiaokang got this snuff bottle and helped me sell dates to Grandpa Jin. The causal cycle was really clever. I told Yang Xiaokang that snuff bottle was given by an old Chinese doctor in our village, and it was unexpectedly arguing! But I don’t care about this issue now, so I asked: “Who do you doubt now? Who in the world will secretly help me clean my muscles and marrow if I have nothing to do?”

Feng Junzi: "Even I didn't find out, don't think about it yourself, let it go. Tell you about this mainly to answer so many doubts you just now. You came to me tonight because you encountered so many things. Are you very strange? You may not be able to encounter these things in your lifetime, and you have encountered them all in just one year! Have you figured it out? I told you the reason."

"You mean--human disaster?"

Feng Junzi: "By the way, it's human disaster! You can escape the heavenly disaster in your practice, but you can't escape the human disaster in the world. Think about it, these things are not caused by you, and you are not a person who causes trouble, but they all come to you, and you can't escape even if you want to! Moreover, the strangeness of human disaster is that it comes from your mind and nature. Even if you knew about today's situation, if you look back, you will still face today's incident. Think back, is that happening?"

Feng Junzi asked me what would happen if I came back and did it again? I also asked myself, if I came back and did it again, it would be the same. Is this a human disaster? I asked again: "If these are my human disasters, will there be too many?"

Feng Junzi smiled: "It's your fault! You have achieved great success in the golden elixir within a year, and your practice can be called rapid. How many people will be there for you? That's why you encounter so many things! Today I just want to tell you the reason so that you can't figure it out and think that you have too many things in the world. This is called gains and losses."

"What should I do?"

Feng Junzi: "I can't say this either. The only way to go through the disaster is to face it calmly and do what you should do one by one. Don't think too much about the cause and effect, because even if you know the answer, things can't be avoided. This is very painful for an ordinary person and not easy for a practitioner, so it's better not to ask. However, your current situation reminds me of a question."

“What’s the problem?”

Feng Junzi: "Your realm has reached Jin Tang. I have finished teaching the mental methods and formulas of the first two gates of the four gates and twelve levels. But now I can't rush to teach you the skills of fetal movement in the third gate. Let's talk about it when you handle the things in front of you, otherwise, the human disaster will come again, and I'm afraid you will be too busy. I can tell you that between Jin Tang and fetal movement, this great heavenly tribulation is called the True Vacuum Tribulation. Many people in the alchemy practice this life may end here, and the corpse may be disintegrated, or they may be reincarnated and reincarnated, or they may have achieved enlightenment. Many generations of alchemy have also ended here, which shows that this great heavenly tribulation is not so easy, and it is probably not easy to go through this human disaster."
To be continued...