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"Knowing the male and guarding the female are the streams of the world."

"Knowing the whiteness and guarding the blackness is the way of the world."

"Knowing its glory and guarding its disgrace will be the valley of the world."

Ye Zhiqiu was lying idle on a chair, holding a copy of the Tao Te Ching in his hand.

Ye Zhiqiu is 24 years old this year and is an ordinary first-year graduate student at a key university in China. However, unlike other graduate students who are busy with experiments or fieldwork, his first-year graduate student career is not stressful, so he still has time to study.

Read Chinese classics. What he said just now is the content of Chapter 28 of the Tao Te Ching.

Ye Zhiqiu is a person who likes ancient Chinese books. He always has some ideas that are different from others and even has some fantasies about various ancient books that appeared in Chinese history. He always fantasizes about finding some other ancient books from ancient books.

Something like - the ancient method of cultivating immortality.

The Tao can be said, but it is not Tao. The name can be named, but it is not named.

Ye Zhiqiu felt that someone who could write about the existence of this "Tao" must be a great practitioner in the world if he really practiced it. It's a pity that five thousand years have passed and he has never heard of a person who has become an immortal through cultivation. Until now.

, he opened his eyes wide and read the Tao Te Ching over and over again, but he couldn't see any exercises.

"The great road is difficult to understand, in the age of the end of the Dharma."

Ye Zhiqiu read Chapter 28 of the "Tao Te Ching" for a long time and murmured to himself, not even daring to speak loudly. Because if other senior fellow students heard this, they would definitely be laughed at, and they would

Being labeled as a "second grader".

It is a waste of time to be young if you don't get the second grade, but if you still get the second grade at the age of twenty-four, you are pretending to be young and a bit stupid.

"I also want to be high-profile, but my strength doesn't allow it."

Ye Zhiqiu read the small words in Chapter 28 of the "Tao Te Ching" again, and remembered that there seemed to be a technique in a novel that was related to these small words. It should be the legendary "World River God"

"Refers to", a technique practiced by a fat man who knows his destiny.

It's a pity that this still has nothing to do with him. If he can understand the "Godly Finger of Tianxiaxi" based on these words, then he can also understand a certain divine weapon "Xuanmen's Gate" based on "Xuanmen's Gate is the root of heaven and earth".

"Gate" Condensation Technique?

You just need to think about such things, and you can't even say them out loud. At most, you can just mutter a few words. If others hear you and ask what you muttered, you have to be righteous or say with a sad face: "This question is too difficult.

Won’t do it!”

"The end of the world!"

Ye Zhiqiu put down the "Tao Te Ching", got up from the chair, and came to the window. The scenery in the distance was not beautiful at all. The sky was gloomy and there was no trace of blue sky. Occasionally, smoke blew by, which seemed to bewitch people's eyes.

The smog in this big city where he is located is really serious.

"It is said that in ancient times, the whole world was filled with spiritual energy. Those Qi practitioners absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to practice, and gained great supernatural powers. Their lifespans were also very long. It is said that there are ghost spirits in the south of Chu. Five hundred years is considered spring, and five years is considered spring.

A hundred years old is autumn; in ancient times, there were great people who regarded eight thousand years as spring and eight thousand years as autumn. If what "Zhuangzi" said is true, that era was really an infinitely desirable era, unlike today

Not to mention the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, even if you really have the method of breathing in and out of spiritual energy, absorbing a breath of haze will give you a very sour taste."

Ye Zhiqiu sighed quietly when he saw the haze in the sky.

It is said that absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can increase life span and gain supernatural powers.

But if you absorb the haze of heaven and earth, you may go astray and become a demon if you continue to practice, and you will directly "ascend" if you continue to practice.

Of course, the "ascension" here is, to be more precise, death from poison.

"Although I have never practiced cultivating immortals, but think about it, it must require a material foundation. Without spiritual energy, there is only haze. If you want to cultivate a hairy immortal, you should go eat!"

Ye Zhiqiu shook his head, walked down the stairs, and headed to the cafeteria.

He had no classes today, but he got up very early. After having breakfast, he read the "Book of Changes" and "The Tao Te Ching" in the college office. In a blink of an eye, more than two hours passed, and he was able to read well.

I was a little tired, so naturally I had to go eat.

The "Tao Te Ching" is actually quite good to read. Although it is a bit mysterious to read, I can't stand the small number of words. The entire "Tao Te Ching" has a total of 5,000 words, and with the annotations of various scholars in the past, it is still very fast to read.

The "Book of Changes" is different. In the Confucian classics, the "Book of Changes" is honored as "the first of the six classics". In the Taoist classics, it is also regarded as the "crown of the three mysteries". It can truly be regarded as "the group of classics".

The head of the road, the source of the great road."

Of course, it is also notoriously difficult to understand. There are very few people who can truly understand and explain this book clearly. From ancient times to the present, there have been a vast number of treatises on the "Book of Changes".

Starting from the perspective of one's own feelings, I try to interpret the views contained in the "Book of Changes", but few succeed.

The "Book of Changes" that Ye Zhiqiu read has many interpretations, such as "Zhuan", "Xiang Zhuan", and "Wenyan Zhuan". Although he has read it for a long time, he is still not familiar with other hexagrams, and he is most familiar with the hexagrams.

This is Qian Gua.

Qian is the sky and Kun is the earth.

Ninth day: Do not use Qianlong.

Ninety-Two: Seeing a dragon in the field will help you meet an important person.

Ninety-three: A gentleman works hard all day long, is vigilant at night, is severe, and has no fault.

Ninety-four: You may jump into the abyss, and there will be no blame.

Ninety-five: The flying dragon is in the sky, which is good for meeting adults.

Chapter 9: A powerful dragon has regrets.

"I think if I were the hexagram of the Qian hexagram, I should be in the ninth line."

Ye Zhiqiu walked leisurely on campus, thinking about his own things.

The ninth line of the ninth chapter says that the dragon is hiding in the water and cannot rush into action. Replacing the hidden dragon with a gentleman means that the yang energy between heaven and earth is still lurking underground, so the gentleman should live in seclusion. Then replace the gentleman with

He himself, that is, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has not recovered, and the smog is prevailing. How can he become an immortal? He should just study honestly and find a job in the future.

"I wonder if I can wait until the day when I see a dragon in the field or a flying dragon in the sky in this life!"

Ye Zhiqiu sighed again, trying not to think about these messy thoughts.

Because the canteen is already in front.

But at this moment, he seemed to hear a being in the dark say something: "As you wish."

Ye Zhiqiu felt that he might be delusional because he wanted to cultivate immortality in his heart, or that he was directing and acting in his heart, but then he discovered that something strange happened.

A piece of paper fell from the sky.

Logically speaking, there should not be a high-altitude paper drop in front of the cafeteria, because it is a cafeteria, not a dormitory.

It's okay to leave papers in the dormitories, but it's very strange to leave papers in the cafeteria.

What's even more strange is that this piece of paper fell into Ye Zhiqiu's hand.

Immediately, the paper disappeared.
Chapter completed!