Along the way, Ning Caichen has begun to practice the Nine Palaces Sealing Heaven Lock. In six or seven days, Jiangqian Palace, Kan Palace, Dui Palace, Mingtang Palace, Jade Emperor Palace, and Tianting Palace can be combined. If you want to initially hide your own Qi, you must complete the integration of the four corners of the Life Palace. In other words, Ning Caichen must now connect Kun Palace and Taihuang Palace to initially achieve this.
When he was on the road, Ning Caichen thought it would take at least five or six days to complete this crucial step. However, after settling in the inn, he felt that the time had come for him to make a breakthrough. This kind of mysterious feeling is very mysterious, but this is what cultivation is like, and this kind of feeling is often more precious.
Seizing this opportunity, Ning Caichen told the waiter not to let others disturb him. He also set up several protective and warning formations, and then he sat cross-legged on the bed with peace of mind.
As soon as his spirit condensed, Ning Caichen sank into the Nine Life Palaces. As soon as he entered samadhi, he saw that among his nine palaces of destiny, the Mingtang Palace, the Jade Emperor Palace, and the Tianting Palace were covered by a mysterious force, just like a lock closing the door without leaking any breath.
"The Nine Palaces Sealing Heaven Lock is indeed extraordinary. With such an effect alone, it is no wonder that it can be ranked at the level of Taoism."
Ning Caichen muttered to himself, and then looked at the other six life palaces, but they were like connected holes, continuously scattering his own aura through the Taihuang Palace. Of course, mortals can't see it, but anyone who has achieved success in spiritual practice can detect it. It will suppress those whose realm is lower than one's own, while those who are higher than one's realm will be like a light in the darkness, extremely conspicuous.
Seeing this, Ning Caichen understood that the Life Palace is the bridge between the body and the soul, and also the channel between the body and heaven and earth. Therefore, no matter whether the monk is walking, standing, sitting or lying down, his own breath is constantly communicating among the three. The function of the Nine Palaces Sealing Heaven Lock is to cover up such conspicuous fluctuations, and by putting a lock on it, people outside the door will naturally not be able to see the reality.
"The Qian Palace locks the sky, the Kun Palace locks the earth, the Middle Palace locks the soul, and the other six palaces lock the body. The four corners of the Ming Palace include the two locks of the Qian Palace and the Kun Palace. No wonder as long as you lock the soul Locking the four corners of the Ming Palace can initially conceal one's own aura, so that's how it is." The more Ning Caichen pondered, the more he understood the mystery of the Nine Palace Sealing Heaven Lock. With this understanding, Ning Caichen no longer hesitated, and his consciousness went directly into the Taihuang Palace, and the thoughts that belonged to the earth immediately came to his face.
It is thick, invisible and has no quality, but it plays an endless and silent role. It clearly fills the entire void, and it unconsciously affects the growth of all living things, but it is invisible to people.
As his thoughts deepened, Ning Caichen thought of a passage in the "Tai Shang Liang Yi Yi Qi De Dao Zhen Jing": "Excellent Kun Yuan, all living things are in harmony with the sky. Kun is thick with things, and virtue is boundless. Han. Hongguang is great, and the goods are salty and prosperous. Kun is soft but dynamic but strong, quiet and virtuous, and then it is mastered and has eternity, containing all things and turning into light. Kun's way is obedient. It inherits the sky and moves with time. The earth's way is unfinished but exists on behalf of others. End. Heaven and earth change, vegetation grows. Heaven and earth close, all living beings hide. Those who are black and yellow are the miscellaneous nature of heaven and earth. The sky is black and the earth is yellow."
After careful consideration, Ning Caichen came to the realization. What this Nine Palaces Sealing Heaven Lock captures is "the heaven and the earth are closed, and all living beings are hidden". It closes the heaven and earth entrance of a person in another way. Realizing this meaning, Ning Caichen's palace lock moved first, showing a black color in Mingtang Palace. At the same time, a faint dark yellow color appeared in the Taihuang Palace.
With the appearance of these black and yellow colors, the hole-like Taihuang Palace slowly converged and closed, and the breath of the Nine Life Palaces gradually became invisible. Ning Caichen's clear and transparent physique just a moment ago seemed to be stained. Without the filth, he looks like a normal ordinary person, with no difference.
"It's done."
Ning Caichen opened his eyes and laughed. The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, which seems to be unconnected but actually connected. It is indeed a good method. He stood up and looked at himself in the bronze mirror. A sickly middle-aged man appeared in the bronze mirror. His aura was like that of a mortal. Ning Caichen nodded with satisfaction. The disguise could only be hidden from ordinary people. But now that he was going out like this, unless Montenegro came in person, he would not be able to rely on his spiritual consciousness alone. To find yourself, in the huge capital city is no less than finding a needle in a haystack.
"Now it's time to go out and find out the news. If you can still be discovered like this, you will be out of luck." Ning Caichen smiled complacently, opened the door and walked out.
The inn is very deserted and there are not many people coming and going. Ning Caichen looked at it and knew that he couldn't find what he wanted here, so he went out. As soon as I went out, I realized that something was really wrong in the capital. The streets were empty, with few vendors and vendors. Even if there were people coming and going, they were all in a hurry, with sad faces on their faces. At first he thought it was because this was not a busy area. He walked several streets in a row and it was always like this. Only then did he realize that something must have happened in the capital.
As he walked, he looked around and saw that a lot of the ground was cracked, and the houses on the street could be seen from time to time.to collapse. He pondered: "What happened in the capital? Why does it look like a mess? Could it be that there was an earthquake?"
After looking for several places, we finally stopped at a teahouse. There are many more people here than in other places, but they are all sighing. It seems that the situation is not as good as other places. Ning Caichen walked in, found a table and sat down.
As soon as the waiter saw someone coming, he hurried over and said with a flattering smile: "Objective, would you like some tea?"
Ning Caichen nodded and said, "Let's have a bowl."
After taking a sip, Ning Caichen almost spurted it out. The taste was really unpleasant. When I looked at the tea in the bowl, it was turbid, as if it had just been drawn from the Yellow River. Ning Caichen frowned slightly, what kind of shop is this? How dare you serve this tea to people. But when he glanced around, he found that all the tea guests were drinking with gusto, and he couldn't help but feel even weirder.
The middle-aged man sitting at Ning Caichen's table raised his eyelids, glanced at him, and said, "Brother, you have just come to the capital."
Ning Caichen nodded and said curiously: "Well, how did you know?"
The middle-aged man chuckled and said, "It goes without saying, I'll know it just by watching you drink tea. If you don't believe me, ask the people here."
Ning Caichen said: "Is this what you are talking about?"
The middle-aged man drank it all in one gulp, put down the big bowl, and then said: "That's natural. Our capital city had an earthquake some time ago, six or seven days ago. A large area of ??houses collapsed. It is said that even the imperial city had several earthquakes. The place collapsed, and I don¡¯t know how many people died. If you had come a few days ago, you would have seen corpses being carried all over the city. It was so miserable, you wouldn¡¯t believe it.¡±
Having said this, the middle-aged man stopped. Ning Caichen was stunned and was about to ask when he saw the middle-aged man staring at the tea in his bowl. Ning Caichen understood, beckoned and asked the waiter to pour a bowl for the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man took a sip, and then said with satisfaction: "The earth dragon turned over, it is inevitable that the dead people and the houses collapsed. But now, even the wells have problems. They are either buried or have no water. A few of them have The water was the same as the water brought from the Yellow River. It was full of sand and soil. In this way, people all over the city rushed to carry it. But the water was limited after all and could not withstand the rush. Finally, the imperial court issued a decree saying that the water supply would be limited. , and sent a large team of people to guard the few remaining wells. It can be said that now every household has only a handful of people with normal water supply. Thanks to some connections with the owner of this tea house, I come here whenever I have spare money. ."
Hearing this, Ning Caichen already understood that after the emotional earthquake, the water supply was tight and there was trouble. When something like this happened, no wonder everyone drank it with gusto even though they knew the water was turbid.