Book 25 - Chapter 4 – Nine-Character Incantation (1/2)

Book 25 Chapter 4 – Nine-Character Incantation

His body weary, his strength exhausted, Kou Zhong climbed up the beach Unable to take it anymore, he collapsed on the sandy shore

Only after swiht did he survive to this place It did notwas, it could only help hi to evade the billows’ most frantic attack deep underwater, but not to support him endlessly for sichen after sichen; otherwise he would have to turn into a freak who did not need to breathe using hisin the relatively calm seabed for more than ten li, he had reached his li, which was also the limit of the true qi within his body When, in panic, he swam out of the water, he just realized that his true power has approached the disadvantageous condition of a lantern which oil has been depleted, while the shore was still three, four li away

It was one of the h the stor could only struggle to swi physical strength toward the shore, and had to suffer being tossed and rolled in the sea ith his body no longer able to follow its master’s wishes

Were it not for his fortitude and his continuous deter into the bottom of the ocean

When he ca hi not to be overconfident in his skill to breathe internally and dive and swim underwater in the ocean

His whole body felt like it was bitten and devoured by poisonous ants; every single cun of his skin felt like cracking This moment, if even an ordinary martial art master ca’s life

The black clouds have dispersed half a sichen ago The autuht from the clear, cloudless sky above onto his back, as well as onto his Moon in the Well, which he had almost abandoned in the sea

He felt that the mask, the treasured book, and the other stuffs wrapped in the waterproof oilcloth inside his pocket were still there, but he was pretty sure that the seawater must have penetrated the oilcloth so that the paper stuff would be soaked and destroyed

Too bad he had not read the ‘love letter’ sent by Li Xiuning and delivered to hihtest remorse, he would only deceive hih he re that when his true poas depleted, the one thing that he must avoid the ht now, he lacked the strength to even lift his finger, so he could forget about crawling up and training

While he was als and druhast, Kou Zhong raised his head to see, and under the brilliant sunshi+ne, his dazzled eyes saw a group of people – carrying hatchets and iron hoes, wearing weird-looking clothes and ornaeance to kill hi buried his face in the sand

With precious, solemn appearance, Zhen Yan Dashi+’s face radiated with saintly light, as he spoke unhurriedly, “Buddhism’s three secrets are body, ether with the thought Body is equal to the mouth, mouth is equal to the desire, and desire is equal to the body Although in names they are three, in reality they are one”

With sudden understanding, Xu Ziling said, “Dashi+ is indeed a very able person of the Buddhist school; in just a feords you have already explained the deep es in the hall very clearly”

Reverend Zhen Yan laughed aloud three times He happily said, “Laoxiu traveled all over the world, only today do I find a destined person like shi+zhu, who immediately understand with just a little bit of explanation shi+zhu needs to know that when laoxiu said that in the past there were other people who understood it, although the other party seeically, the reality was that they did not really understand, let alone using it in religious practice More often than not, they obtained the body but lost the ot the desire but abandoned the body”

Stunned, Xu Ziling asked, “Hoould Dashi+ know if I a I understand with my mouth, yet in reality I am no different than those other people?”

Zhen Yan Dashi+’s eyes fell onto his hands; s, he said, “Just nohen laoxiu spoke about the three secrets, shi+zhu’s ten fingers seehtly; evidently the secret words entered the ears, the desire was somewhat affected If you still do not understand the ht shout a feords for laoxiu to listen to”

Eht, my hands are a bit like they don’t obey my commands anymore Ha!”

Reverend Zhen Yan said, “Man’s corporeal body is like a treasured raft passing through the river of life; within it hidden the secret of the heaven and the earth My Nine-word Incantation Handprint precisely passes through the three secrets, passes through the hu the border of oneness of heaven and hu the character, na to do whatsoever hether someone has left home or still at home Whether the body is inside a kasaya [a patchwork outer vestment worn by Buddhist e into another object”

Slapping his thigh, Xu Ziling cried out in deter a sudden flash of insight and all is clear [orig murky darkness suddenly opens] I wonder if whetherit so, but toward the Gate of Eid way of life, Xiaozi does not have the slightest bit of interest I always thought that if Buddha wanted to convince his people to start obtaining proof to get the result, that Buddha , Zhen Yan Dashi+ said, “shi+zhu’s way of thinking is unique; I should say that it was you who ht and all is clear The Jiu Zi Zhen Yan is precisely, hey! It’s better to say, ‘facing the troops for battle, all are arrayed at the front’ [lin bing dou zhe jie zhen lie zai qian – 9 characters] This way it will be comparably easier for shi+zhu toblurted out, “Unexpectedly only now did Dashi+ casually think out nine words as the Nine-character Incantation?”

‘Bang!’

It wasn’t clear who had hit Kou Zhong in the head with a stick first; the strange thing was that although it was unbearably painful, the tianling acupoint on the top his head see in a thread of external qi, which he did not know froh his withered channels

‘Dang!’

The back of a hoe hit the Moon in the Well’s scabbard, but the attacker’s pal hi along with him three of his companions that they fell to the east and toppled to the west

Everybody retreated in shock

Struggling hard, Kou Zhong aze around, he found out that the crowd heavily surrounding him actually consisted of men and wo tools The clothes on their bodies were brightly colored, made of cloth, hemp, and the like, with sheepskin vest on the outside The woth was not uniform; some were so short that it reached only to their knees, soround However, whether it was trousers or skirts, they all wore leggings, both to stay warainst poisonous insects and loathsome mosquitos The woht color, adorned with a variety of tassel-like hanging-down orna really did not understand why in this kind of nasty situation he still had free tis, so he found this to be extree?” he shouted loudly

This bunch of local peasant obviously was not evil; seeing their stick and hoe failed to hurt him, they becairl stepped out fro the crowd, and spoke stiffly, “You are not a pirate?”

Kou Zhong was a that even if he was a pirate, under this kind of situation, there was no way he would admit it He hastily responded, “Not only I am not a pirate, I a with the pirates that I look like this Ha!”

The young girl returned to the group of tribal people; she jabbered a long string of words to the people crowding around her Even Kou Zhong did not understand how she could take his siar into it and translate it into a long-winded story Although the young girl could not be considered beautiful, she looked delicate and pretty like a sprite

Her sheepskin goas quite unique even more; it did not have even half a button, there were only a pair of straps co out of her back, which intersected on her chest and continued around her body back to her back and was tied tightly from the botto down just like a tail; so lively and cute

Kou Zhong was burying his face back into the sand when the girl’s voice, bri out in his ears, “Will you help us fight the pirates?”

Kou Zhong ood sleep, even if you wantLaozi [lit old man the emperor of heaven], I’ll do it”

Zhen Yan Dashi+ spoke nonchalantly, “Don’t underestimate these nine words They are actually classical quotation from ‘Baopuzi’, the canonical text of Daoist School written by the Eastern Jin’s Ge Hong [283-363, Jin Dynasty Taoist and alche the troops for battle, all are arrayed at the front; often when considering this, nothing will not be opened up for developreatly startled, he asked, “What I don’t understand is not the origin and the source of this nine-character incantation; rather, I felt it strange that Dashi+ unexpectedly thought it out at the last moment Plus Dashi+ is of Buddhist school, why did you borrow the idea fro at him for half a day, Zhen Yan Dashi+ spoke softly, “Laona was going to use this as a pretext to illustrate to shi+zhu the incantation’s heavy in spirit but not heavy in form, the key ideal place the three secrets can be put to use Besides, Buddhism and Taoism, in the end, aren’t they of the sa’s heart; nodding his head, he said, “Xiaozi benefits from the advice!”

Zhen Yan Dashi+ suddenly shouted the word ‘lin’ [lit facing; the first word of the nine above], while both hands were raised high above his head, sticking close to each other like a flower bud; the ring finger inclined at an angle, the tips of the fingers fit together

Severely shaken, Xu Ziling exclaimed, “Formidable!”