novelapdf Chapter 13 The plagued monkey, give me back my Ruyi Jingu Bang!
Chapter 13 The plagued monkey, give me back my Ruyi Jingu Bang!
This Ruyi Jingu Bang is also known as the Sea-Suppressing Divine Needle Iron. However, the supernatural power I have mastered is actually made primarily of the spiritual energy that is swirling with the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The five elements in my chest, which should have been the primary material, have become secondary materials.
Therefore, the Ruyi Jingu Bang's magical power is more suitable for nurturing in the lower dantian.
With a thought, Chen Chunan stored the Ruyi Jingu Bang in his lower dantian.
Just as Chen Chunan put away his Ruyi Jingu Bang, a small head peeked out from the side:
"The Ruyi Jingu Bang? Brother, how come your magic weapon is the same as Sun Wukong's? Brother was so powerful just now, did you turn into Sun Wukong?"
Faced with his younger sister's sudden burst of curiosity, Chen Chunan was at a loss for words.
"My brother didn't turn into Sun Wukong. He just has the same name as Sun Wukong's magic weapon."
"Oh, I see."
"Once your brother understands it, he will teach you how to master the Ruyi Jingu Bang."
Hongxian shook her head: "No, I don't like the Ruyi Jingu Bang. I want the Somersault Cloud. I've never seen what the outside world is like. Father used to say that the market is so much fun, it has everything. I've never been there. If I had the Somersault Cloud, I could go out and see it every day, with my brother."
Chen Chunan affectionately patted Chen Hongxian's little head: "Then you need to cultivate well. If your cultivation level is too low, you won't be able to learn the Somersault Cloud. When your cultivation level is high enough, you can go to the market with your brother even without the Somersault Cloud."
"Yes, yes, I will definitely cultivate diligently."
"Alright, let's go back. The spirit deer meat arrived today. I'll make you braised deer meat and a secret dipping sauce. I guarantee you'll find it so delicious you'll want to swallow your tongue."
"Great! I want braised venison, a whole bowl of it!"
"There's only one pound of meat, not even enough to make a big bowl. Is Hongxian planning to eat it all and leave nothing for her brother?"
"Then I'll eat a little less and give some to my brother, um, just a small half bowl, that's the most I can give."
Seeing Hongxian's distressed expression, Chen Chunan laughed heartily, "You're such a little glutton! I won't fight you for it, it's all yours! My power has increased a lot recently, I don't need to eat this anymore."
"No, brother is lying again. You promised to give me a small bowl, and you have to finish it."
After returning home
Chen Chunan prepared deer meat for Hongxian, braised until tender, with the deer tendons even turning into a jelly-like consistency.
Then, another dipping sauce was prepared, and Xiao Hongxian ate it until her mouth was covered in red oil.
Child
Chen Chunan once again gathered the essence, energy, and spirit medicine, and through the seven returns and nine transformations, refined a bit of pure yang once more.
He then circulated his spiritual energy according to the Small Heavenly Circuit, breathing in and out spiritual energy to enhance his cultivation.
It didn't stop until almost the end of the Yin hour.
Feeling that his cultivation level wasn't increasing as quickly as he'd hoped, Chen Chunan fell into deep thought.
Cultivating the Golden Core is something that can't be rushed, but unfortunately, there's this ticking time bomb of the Liu family.
He was unaware of what the Liu family had done that day because he was cultivating.
However, discussions within the clan never ceased.
He wasn't deaf, so he naturally knew that the Liu family had come specifically to find the woman surnamed Chen with the name Ping.
They even took away 38-year-old Chen Yunping and Chen Ping, who was already married.
Then he thought about how his younger sister's name had been changed, and how the clan chief's great-granddaughter had used his younger sister's name.
Chen Chunan easily deduced most of the facts.
My younger sister is probably quite capable. I've heard my parents talk about how that old dog Liu Guisheng plotted to kill the Cui family.
It seems that some old dog figured something out and planned to take the younger sister away, but his skills were not good enough, and he only figured out that her name contained the character "Ping".
The clan had been prepared and used a substitution trick to temporarily deceive the Liu family.
But this is ultimately just a stopgap measure.
What if Old Dog Liu calculates it again?
The hatred for his parents, coupled with the impending danger posed by his younger sister.
Chen Chunan had never wanted to kill anyone so much before.
However, he only knows one supernatural power: the Ruyi Jingu Bang (Golden Cudgel). His methods are far too limited.
If I want to increase my strength, my best option right now is the magic of my clan.
However, the weakness is that with his current Qi Refining Level 5 cultivation, the power of his spells will be very small.
Secondly, I'll try to see if I can cultivate the supernatural powers that Taoists possessed in my previous life.
Thinking of the power of his Ruyi Jingu Bang (the magic staff), Chen Chunan felt that the supernatural powers he had used in his previous life were no less powerful.
The novel *Under One Person* mentions the Golden Light Mantra and the Five Thunder Orthodox Method.
These two are indeed related.
The original text of the Golden Light Mantra contains phrases such as "Serving the Three Realms, Welcoming the Five Emperors, Paying Homage to All Gods, Commanding Thunder and Lightning," indicating that the two are indeed related.
Moreover, the Five Thunder Orthodox Method is called Five Thunder, but it is actually Five Qi.
While one cannot control heavenly thunder, one can still control the Five Elements.
Unfortunately, I knew too little about the Zhengyi sect in my previous life. I had only read one book on thunder magic from the Shenxiao sect and didn't know what the so-called Five Thunder Orthodox Method of Zhengyi was all about.
However, when I was practicing, I took the Kan trigram to fill the Li trigram, and its hexagram was Zhen. At that time, I seemed to have a feeling, but I didn't grasp it.
In other words, he should gain more insight into the process of water and fire in harmony each time he performs his practice, and the thunder magic should not be too difficult for him.
Ultimately, it's all about using the Five Elements.
At this time, the Yin hour (3-5 AM) has ended, and I have just finished cultivating my Red Thread and need to rest.
We'll talk about it tomorrow!
As Chen Chunan lay down in bed, preparing to pull the covers over his head and go to sleep, a strange movement in his lower dantian almost made him vomit blood.
The Mind Monkey that he had released earlier had helped him solve a big problem and even developed supernatural powers, so he couldn't bear to continue using the Five Elements Mountain to suppress it.
At this moment, it quietly went to the lower dantian and stole the Ruyi Jingu Bang that was being nurtured. Not only that, it picked up the Ruyi Jingu Bang and played with it so enthusiastically that it stirred up the spiritual energy in the dantian.
This forced Chen Chunan to quickly circulate his internal energy to suppress it.
A few moments later, Chen Chunan barely managed to calm his chaotic spiritual energy and was just about to confront the Heart Monkey.
The ape chuckled, "Good darling, good darling, this treasure of yours is mine, you rightfully belong to me!"
Chen Chunan roared, "You damned mindless monkey, do you think I'm the Dragon King of the East Sea? Give me back my Ruyi Jingu Bang right now! Or I won't be polite!"
The Monkey King sneered, "What can you do to me? You still need the Five Elements Mountain? I'm not afraid of your Five Elements Mountain now!"
As it spoke, the Heart Monkey opened its mouth and sucked away most of the Five Elements spiritual power that Chen Chunan had painstakingly cultivated!
Holy crap!!!
While Chen Chunan was busy competing with it for spiritual power, he also mobilized his spiritual power to form a five-colored spiritual power mountain again in order to suppress the Heart Monkey.
But this ape suddenly grew to the size of a mountain, holding up the Five Elements Mountain and preventing Chen Chunan from suppressing it at all.
He then directly pushed open the Five Elements Mountain and transformed into a stream of light, returning to his middle dantian.
Chen Chunan nearly vomited blood: "Damn monkey! Damn stable boy! You just wait!"
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Chen Chunan, who had originally planned to go to sleep, was now completely unable to fall asleep.
He felt something was off when Xin Yuan helped him resolve the imbalance of the five elements.
Now that he's gone to steal the Ruyi Jingu Bang from the lower dantian, Chen Chunan is completely certain that something is wrong with his mind monkey.
A Taoist poem says: "The ape's body matches the human heart."
The "mind-monkey" actually refers to one's own Daoist mind; the "monkey" in the name is merely a way of revealing the Dao.
However, the Daoist mind is always disturbed by distracting thoughts. The Daoist practice of subduing the restless mind is actually about eliminating distracting thoughts.
Just like in Chapter Fourteen of Journey to the West, the Monkey King returns to righteousness, and the six thieves disappear without a trace.
The six thieves are: the eye sees joy, the ear hears anger, the nose smells love, the tongue tastes thought, the mind desires, and the body is inherently worried.
They respectively refer to the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, mind, and body.
Human beings experience joy, anger, love, thought, desire, and sorrow due to sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and mental objects.
Therefore, one must rectify one's mind to extinguish these six thieves, which is what is meant by "the mind returns to its proper place and the six thieves disappear without a trace."
This is also part of the internal alchemy method of cultivating the mind.
But this doesn't match my situation at all!
My own restless mind is too outrageous. The first time it appeared, it was because the metal energy of the lungs was born from the fire energy of the heart. Actually, this was already a bit wrong.
Although the Neidan method also uses the "mind monkey" to refer to the Yang Qi of the heart and lungs, it is to reveal the Dao, not to actually create a monkey.
If you actually cultivate a monkey-like body with the heart, lungs, and yang energy, that would be absolutely terrifying.
Thinking of this, Chen Chunan couldn't help but feel fortunate that the yin energy in his liver and kidneys hadn't manifested as Zhu Bajie (Pigsy), otherwise he would have been really busy.
It is obvious that using the Taoist method of eliminating the six thieves to subdue this abnormal restless mind is not the right approach.
The only way to subdue it is by force, but this monkey can also steal my spiritual power and my supernatural abilities.
It seems I can't beat it now!
Chen Chunan grew angrier the more he thought about it and couldn't help but curse again: "You damned monkey, you just wait!"