Chapter 23 (1/2)
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Chapter 23: Asking for advice on Cultivation
When Lu Feng was done venting, he unexpectedly went to see whether the thing the old man left behind was any good. On it was a line of words, “Frozen Heart Sutra, Cultivating. I obtained a page of this heart sutra and now I give it to you.”
When he read this, Lu Feng’s previous aggrieved state immediately changed as he said, “This is still good, old man you really didn’t break my heart.” On the inside, Lu Feng knew the Old Man cared for his wellbeing. That was why he would leave behind a heart sutra for him, so no matter how Lu Feng cultivates in the future as long as he doesn’t have a heart devil, he would not run into any problems cultivating.
When Lu Feng looked to the back of the heart sutra, he saw a lot of text. Just taking a glance made him have a headache, “What I hate most is wordy things, is this what I use to cultivate ah.”
Lu Feng understood that if he didn’t use this then the heart sutra would just be wasted. He helplessly started reading the first paragraph. Once he went through it a couple of times, he found out that the words weren’t as hard to comprehend as the words on Earth. Turns out he could just learn and apply it at the same time.
He then sat down cross-legged and murmured, “The Frozen Heart Sutra is divided into three parts, one part is about protecting the dantian, the second is about protecting the fleshly body while the third is protecting the mind. The dantian ought to be the place for gathering spiritual qi around. The fleshly body should be the body while the mind should be about the spiritual aspect?”
Regarding this topic, Lu Feng only knew as much as an ordinary person. Towards cultivating, he has nearly no knowledge on it and the old man never taught him anything. Thus, he has to figure it out by himself. According to the Frozen Heart Sutra, the proper way to use spirit qi was to revolve it around the body.
What made Lu Feng surprised was that when he sat cross legged on the stone bed, he could feel a cold qi slowly flowing towards his internals. It felt like when you opened the refrigerator and the cold air was flowing towards him. This made him wonder, “How is this happening.”
Curious, he tested it out a couple of times. Turns out that whenever he rotated the qi around his internals that is when the cold qi from the stone bed would flow into him. When this cold qi flowed into his internals, the spirit qi in his body becomes more concentrated. Feeling this, Lu Feng tightly clenched his fists and found out that his strength had increased.
Lu Feng muttered, “Is this what it means to have a breakthrough?”. Lu Feng truly did not know and just continued in this manner right till the cold qi was not flowing out from the stone bed anymore. The words on it had also disappeared.
This caused Lu Feng to be completely stunned, quickly flipping over the stone bed he found out that the text the old man had written faded completely. This made him curse out, “d.a.m.ned geezer, so stingy. He was not afraid I won’t be able to learn it, what happened if i forgot?”
The now not-rejoicing Lu Feng had already committed the three parts to memory. He still hasn’t comprehended them though and is unable to bring out the full power. He sighed, “Time to go back then and find time to slowly comprehend these three parts.”
Lu Feng turned around and observed the surroundings before sighing and sadly leaving. He knew that the old man won’t return, he now could only leave the place.
It was already night time when he returned back to his wooden house. He didn’t expect to sit idly on the mountain for the rest of the day. Surprisingly he did not feel thirsty or hungry which he did not understand whether it was due to cultivating.
Then the white cat abruptly jumped onto Lu Feng’s shoulder and was rubbing Lu Feng’s head. This made Lu Feng slightly annoyed, “My hair has been messed up thanks to you, quickly get off.”