Vol 1 Chapter 10 (1/2)
Chapter 10
Muchun Zhenren had taken it for granted that his decision was perfect – his first apprentice was highly fickle although he always looked on the brighter side of things; while the little apprentice was prone to split hairs despite his calmness It couldn’t be better if the two busters could complement each other
Unfortunately, it turned out they were going to explode before co each other
Muchun Zhenren had no choice but to separate the Qian to have a bath and change his clothes, for he eaty froh first apprentice by droning dully the Scriptures on Clarity and Stillness again
Theirrepresentation of an “eyesore and earsore” With the figure of a weasel and the voice of a duck quacking, he resoundingly stilled the running sandglass, and irritated his first apprentice who almost rose to bite his master murderously
Yan Zheng’s forbearance was driven beyond its lied, “Master, what are you doing?”
“You are uncal to rest yourhis eyelids
When the chant was paining Yan Zhengot an opportunity to unleash his vexation He sniffed and shouted, “You incensed his clothes with sandalwood? What’s wrong with you? Is he going to become a monk?”
The Taoist childQian wanted that incense
“Change the incense to hibiscus –” Yan Zheng yelled at him
“– the heaven is active; the earth is calrew even louder
His voice was like the crunch that sew the tio hot under the collar “Master! I am not uncalm!”
Muchun lifted his eyelids and said in a placid manner, “You’re uncals, and care about whatever the incense Don’t take your third junior brother as a censer – How about this? To assist you with your cultivation, I ht for you”
Yan Zheng: “…”
The old weasel had an addiction to chanting, so he definitely meant it Could he possibly live to see to?
Yan Zheng the incense of sandalhich snantly and began carving vertical lines in the wood as though whipping a corpse
The “censer” Cheng Qian sat down silently to continue his ho next to an irritable big rabbit
Their hty and i At least Han Yuan’s being flighty affected nobody else, while Yan Zheng would always involve everyone around him
Cheng Qian started to see the benefits of being with first senior brother – there was a distinct contrast
Once Cheng Qian got serious, he could break away froraphy fro Bound in the smell of sandalwood, which seeradually brushed aside his co first senior brother
Yan Zheng in a bellyful of sulks He clamored for desserts, but felt over stuffed after that So he stood up and walked around the pavilion
But soon he found he was
left out His ht on a hassock absorbedly inquietly; he was persistently i his ugly characters carefully as if doing e his head
With the two, the atmosphere in the pavilion became so serene that it al in attendance couldn’t help but hold their breath
The serenity gave young ned hilass After chilling out for soain and got down to the monotonous routine practice
Aly, he didn’t rock the boat this tiht Yan Zhengly found today’s practice actually ended prematurely
The next few days followed the routine Every , the four apprentices would suffer the torture of listening to their
They were unclear about where their ed to find so many scriptures He read one book per day with no repetitions After Taoist scriptures there were Buddhist scriptures, and following Buddhist scriptures came his self-composed ones, whose content was unstrained and not li to frequent self-contradictions
After chanting was the swordplay practice
Yan Zheng shamelessly pretended to be well versed in the first three for, and asked his master to teach him the fourth Li Yun restrained hi trouble all over the mountain as he learned so Qian Only Han Yuan was fir on his senior brothers and destroyed every bird nest around Mission Hall heartlessly
Every afternoon, Yan Zheng char Qian either did homework next to hirass It seemed like his master had the intention to es He always saved for hi was carving the wood resentfully, he would deliberately ask Cheng Qian to take a break, and tell him several eccentric folk tales
Yan Zhengainst him, for theirQian by his side, he could sit for a little bit longer due to his influence
Yan Zheng fell into a daze when the sand ran out today, the nu in his hand Just now, he felt a ainst the wood
“Concentrate Absorb Qi into your body” A hoarse voice rang out in his ears “The great I call the departing, and the departing I call the beyond The beyond I call home… Around it moveth, and it suffereth not–”
Cheng Qian had an ability to take stock of the situation He stood up and stepped backwards spontaneously before his master asked him to In the meantime, he felt an inarticulate current of air hovered around his body for a moment, and then flowed over into first senior brother’s body like the rivers running into the sea
It was his first contact with the subterranean area behind the depressing world Cheng Qian didn’t have a clue to Yan Zhengs at that tiht now, the sun had set to the other side of Fuyao Mountain; the dimly discernible echoes reached every corner of the ies Countless different sounds converged as one and engendered a strange feeling in Cheng Qian They sounded like the re to each other across the time present He desperately tried to , but their words just flowed by hiently like quicksand in the river of time
Cheng Qian was practically obsessed
Suddenly, a hand grasped his shoulder and Cheng Qian got startled, as if he jolted out of a bizarre and htmare He looked behind and saw Muchun Zhenren dimly
Muchun’s stare fell upon hi Qian felt his face coolish He reached his hand to wipe his face, only to find that tears were strea down his cheeks
He felt aard, and was at a loss as to what had happened, so he looked at his master blankly
“The five colors combined the human eye will blind The five notes in one sound the human ear confound The five tastes when they blend the human mouth offend” Muchun Zhenren’s voice thinned into a thread and pierced into Cheng Qian’s ears “How can you be ‘free and easy’1 when you see too much, hear too much, think too much, and wish too much? Wake up! Now!”