Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 58 - 55 Boiling an Eagle
58: Chapter 55: Boiling an Eagle
58 -55: Boiling an Eagle
Yuan Buyu exclaimed in surprise, his wrinkled face contorting into a puzzled expression.
Zhou Xuan glanced at the folded fan that had opened by the incense burner and the gavel that had moved, and asked Yuan Buyu, “Lao Yuan, have I achieved Divine Revelation already?”
“Just wait a moment.”
Yuan Buyu walked over to Zhou Lingyi, who was standing under the umbrella as a spectator, and said, “Class Leader, beware of eavesdroppers.”
Zhou Lingyi smiled and replied, “There’s no one in the outer courtyard’s sandpit.”
To avoid delaying Zhou Xuan from offering incense, Zhou Lingyi had already asked five senior brothers to clear the area beforehand and then dismissed them,
ensuring there was no one else in both the outer and inner courtyards.
“Still, better be careful.
I, Lao Yuan, have suffered enough from carelessness,” Yuan Buyu reminded.
Zhou Lingyi agreed.
She untied the cow bell from her waist and shook it towards the Ancestor Tree.
The umbrella-like canopy trembled greatly, shaking out many dark shadows that swirled around every corner and passage of the Zhou Family’s Troupe’s inner courtyard.
“These little dogs, nourished by the Ancestor Tree and bound by its restrictions, dare not reveal any secrets detrimental to the Zhou Family’s Troupe.
The moment they contemplate leaking information, their souls will scatter.”
With a little dog watching over every corner and passage, and their capability to keep secrets, Yuan Buyu was not worried about eavesdroppers.
He took a deep breath of relief, then shouted, “Xuanzi, aren’t you being ridiculous?!
I’ve seen the world, who achieves Divine Revelation so quickly?
Be reasonable, be reasonable…”
Despite trying to restrain himself, Yuan Buyu couldn’t help but repeatedly rant loudly, “Be reasonable,” which let him release a sigh of relief and feel more comfortable.
“Lao Yuan, did I truly achieve Divine Revelation?”
Zhou Xuan was surprised as well.
Old Man Yuan had just said that offering incense for Divine Revelation was physically exhausting and time-consuming, and even three days would be considered fast.
Yuan Buyu didn’t deny it, “The folded fan opening by itself, the gavel sounding on its own; these are indeed signs of a storyteller’s Divine Revelation, definitely no mistake… Right, tell me, when you were offering the incense, what did you see?”
Zhou Xuan described how he first felt the incense, how he induced it to grow stronger and transform it into a fire dragon, making him feel unbearably hot.
“Up to this point, everything sounds normal.”
Yuan Buyu nodded,
Zhou Lingyi, however, held a different opinion and said, “Elder Yuan, my brother is already abnormal.
When Tangkou Disciples first sense the incense, their minds are in turmoil.
Just focusing on the incense head takes a whole day, let alone inducing the incense…”
As for offering incense, Zhou Lingyi naturally had considerable authority to speak.
Yuan Buyu gave a bitter smile and said, “Class Leader, you pointed out the key issue, how could I not know?
Inducing incense relies on Perception to tightly connect the incense with one’s inner self,
like a baby’s hands and feet – although weak and not very agile, they are part of him.
Ordinary people have insufficient Perception, making their hands and feet slow to emerge, naturally it takes a day to induce the incense,
but Xuan is no ordinary person; he’s a Blood Well Spirit Communicator.
After seeing the Blood Well, his Perception is extremely strong.
Even before joining Tangkou, his Perception could compare to that of a somewhat experienced Spiritualist of the Ghost lineage.
For him, inducing incense is not too difficult!”
“Listening to Mr.
Yuan explain this, it makes sense.”
Zhou Lingyi, less familiar with the Blood Well compared to Yuan Buyu and considering Yuan Buyu’s rich experience teaching disciples from the Blood Well, understood Zhou Xuan’s unusual condition much clearer.
“Xuanzi, your rapid inducement of the incense, attributed to your exceptional Perception and gifted nature, falls within what’s normal.
At most, your talent is two or three stories higher than a normal disciple, still within an understandable range…”
Yuan Buyu is an experienced expert.
Ten years ago, he was one of the most famous old incense sticks among the storytellers.
He had seen many young people with high talent.
“What I can’t understand is how you easily broke free when the divinity tried to suppress your spirit.”
“When did it suppress my spirit?” Zhou Xuan asked.
“It was when you induced the incense and the flames formed a dragon.
The intensity of the fire was driven by the divinity, who, seeing your high talent, burned an intense fire to make you suffer.
Only when half your foot is in the coffin will it voluntarily reduce the fire, wait for your spirit to recover considerably, and then reignite the intensity.
This miserable and painful process, if you can endure till the end, proves a sincere spirit in offering the incense.”
“Why does it sound like falconry?” Zhou Xuan raised an eyebrow.
“Enduring the eagle, to temper your spirit stronger, and your temperament more steady…”
After Yuan Buyu explained, he also talked about the ordeals encountered by the Tangkou Disciples when they lit incense.
Because lighting incense could last as short as three days or as long as four to five days, meditation must not stop, eating and drinking had to be done with eyes closed, continuously focusing on the image of the incense in one’s mind, not allowing it to dissipate; if it did, one would have to start over.
It was fortunate that having God in their hearts during this time meant they would not feel sleepy, otherwise, it would be even more arduous.
Some disciples couldn’t endure it, so the master would take a rattan stick and whip their buttocks and thighs, using pain to sustain their spirits.
If hit too harshly, their bottoms could split open, bleeding through their pants.
“The incense lit by the disciples, that’s not incense; those are beatings of rattan sticks, one after another.
Come on, tell me in detail, how did you escape from that fire dragon?”
“Just watched.”
“How did you watch?”
Zhou Xuan said, “I just emptied all my thoughts, all caught up with the incense, big eyes staring at the small ones, and just kept watching.”
“Just staring?”
“Uh-huh!”
“Just staring, and that worked?!” Yuan Buyu felt his brain squeezed tight, almost unable to function.
Comparing others, infuriatingly, how could God’s ignited fire be extinguished by simply watching?
At this point, it was completely beyond Yuan Buyu’s comprehension.
“If every incense hall disciple could light incense just by watching, how many beatings could they avoid!”
Yuan Buyu felt sympathy for those disciples and for himself as well; it had taken him four whole days of being hit with a rattan stick when he lit incense.
“Right, when I was lighting the incense, I encountered something strange…” Zhou Xuan recalled.
“Is that so?” Yuan Buyu perked up, slightly excited, “I knew it wasn’t that simple.
Tell me, let me find some solace in that!”
Zhou Xuan said, “When I’m thinking of nothing, I feel like I’m not standing, but sitting on a White Canopy Boat with a low table placed on it, and there’s an incense burner on the table with a stick of incense lit.”
Yuan Buyu calmed down after listening and said, “This is normal, that is your Divine Revelation Secret Realm.”
He explained that whether for Ghosts or Divine People, after lighting incense, a secret realm would appear in their hearts.
The secret realm for Ghosts is called the Zouyin Secret Realm.
The secret realm for Divine People is called the Divine Revelation Secret Realm.
“The Divine Revelation Secret Realm represents your pathway of the heart; God illuminates your road ahead through the incense, this road’s scenery, broadly speaking, is bright and sunny for Divine People, and terrifyingly gloomy for Ghosts, although it does vary somewhat from person to person.”
Yuan Buyu said, “The first stick of incense, triggered by external factors, the second one, you need to search within your Secret Realm.
Sitting in the boat, the movement of the boat represents the search for the second incense.”
After saying this, he murmured, “With the signs of Divine Revelation, and having a Divine Revelation Secret Realm, this is truly Divine Revelation, but why was your lighting of the incense so quick?”
“I thought it was too fast too.” Zhou Lingyi carefully looked at Zhou Xuan and said, “It doesn’t seem like mere high talent…”
On this point, Zhou Lingyi and Yuan Buyu agreed; it’s fine to be highly talented, but there should be a limit.
To put it in terms of basic jumping,
A person of average leg strength jumps one to one and a half feet,
A person with strong legs jumps two to two and a half feet,
Extremely talented jumpers max out at about four and a half feet,
But suddenly, if someone can casually jump ten feet high…
is that still just talent?
Even with wings, they could fly!
“Mr.
Yuan…
do you know why?” Zhou Lingyi asked Yuan Buyu.
