Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

Chapter 668: Collecting the Numbers of All Things in the World and Controlling the Eighteen Changes
Let’s continue the conversation… Zhou Sheng was puzzled and asked, “What does Senior Brother Zhang want to talk about?”

"Let's talk about a way to solve these problems once and for all," said Zhang Zhiwei.

Zhou Sheng reacted instantly, and said with surprise, "Could it be that Senior Brother Zhang has a way to solve the problem of using Tiantong Qimen and being attacked by the heaven and earth?"

"I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work!" said Zhang Zhiwei.

"Senior Brother Zhang, please speak!" Zhou Sheng quickly sat down, looking as if he was listening attentively.

Zhang Zhiwei said slowly: "Before, I said that the essence of this ability is 'the innate leadership of the Zhoutian, the changes of the Zhoutian, and the transformation of me into a king'."

"In this sentence, the transformation of me into a king is secondary. The key lies in the connection between the innate and the Zhoutian. The solar term disease you got this time is also because the connection between the innate and the Zhoutian was not handled properly!"

"In fact, if I think about it carefully, the connection between Xiantian and Zhoutian should not be as simple as using Xiantian variables to control Zhoutian variables. It's just that I haven't thought about this issue too deeply."

Zhang Zhiwei explained: "Because this Qimen was just something I came up with on a whim, I didn't use it very often, and the drawbacks of solar term diseases didn't come to me, so I didn't improve it too much."

“…………” Upon hearing this, Zhou Sheng suddenly felt like sitting on pins and needles.

Although he was a laid-back person who didn't care about anything and didn't fight for anything, he still couldn't help but complain in his heart, "Senior Brother, Senior Brother Zhang, that's enough, it's really enough, stop talking."

Zhang Zhiwei did not notice the change in Zhou Sheng's expression. Given his personality, he would not care even if he noticed it. He continued:
"I heard Master Henglin talk about Buddha before. When he talked about the thirty-two characteristics of Buddha, he once extended it to the sixty-four hexagrams, twenty-four solar terms, and seventy-two seasons. He also said that all the changes within the cycle of the sky can be reflected in oneself. I suddenly felt something in my heart."

"In the past, we all thought of opening the Qimen Bureau and then using our own innate abilities to control the heaven and earth's circulation. This is indeed correct, and the Tiantong Qimen is one of the results."

"But human power has its limits, while the power of heaven and earth is infinite. If you only stick to the changes in the pattern you have opened, then this is a road with no end. The bigger the pattern you open, the more Zhou Tian you control, and the more serious the backlash will be. This is a vicious circle."

"Since there is a problem, then change it. If we can't find a solution by looking outside, then we should look inside."

“Since I cannot control the entire world and become the king of it, then I will become the king of my own little world.”

Zhang Zhiwei pointed at himself and said.

This step was easy for him, as he had already reached this level a long time ago. But for Zhou Sheng, it was still a little too advanced.

Look within... transform yourself into a king... Zhou Sheng had a high level of comprehension, and he understood after Zhang Zhiwei only gave him a few pointers.

"Brother Zhang, do you mean that the center palace is not fixed under the feet, but inside the body?"

"That's right!"

After receiving Zhang Zhiwei's affirmation, Zhou Sheng opened his eyes wide. After thinking carefully for a moment, he said with a look of sudden enlightenment:

"Brother Zhang, your idea is simply amazing. Why didn't I think of it at the beginning?!"

"The Xiantian leads the Zhoutian, covers the changes of the Zhoutian, and transforms me into a king. I suddenly figured it out. In fact, our previous method should be to lead the Zhoutian in the Xiantian and control the changes of the Zhoutian. It should be to control, not cover."

"When we play Qimen, it's like playing chess. We are the chess players, the world is the chessboard, and the means we use are the chess pieces."

"But the chessboard is fixed, and the chess pieces cannot fall outside the board, so there are great constraints, and it will be difficult to deal with many scenarios."

"Besides, this chess piece is very heavy. If you carry it for a long time, you will easily get tired and become ill."

"But if we fix the center palace inside our body, then we become part of the chessboard. We can move around with the chessboard. Wherever we go, the chessboard will cover that area, and the chess pieces will fall there."

"Besides, the chess pieces are also part of ourselves, so they won't hurt ourselves anymore."

"But if you want to determine the center palace yourself, there are still two problems."

The joy on Zhou Sheng's face disappeared, he frowned and said in a deep voice:
"First, in which part of the body is it fixed?"

"Second, how do we transform the Xiantian Controlling Zhoutian Transformation into the Xiantian Covering Zhoutian Transformation?"

"After all, if you place the center palace in your body, it means that you become part of the chess game."

"If you want to control the power of heaven and earth, you must make the changing numbers of heaven and earth submit to your body. This is a rather troublesome matter!"

After listening to what Zhou Sheng said, Zhang Zhiwei smiled and said, "It's not that troublesome. You are a senior sorcerer and are best at deducing the changes in the Zhoutian number."

"I am a senior...king, and I am most proficient in all the changes in the human body."

"If we work together, and combine the inside and the outside, then it will be fine, right?"

In fact, Zhang Zhiwei could do all this by himself, but it would require reading a lot of numerology classics, which is very time-consuming. It would be better to go directly to Zhou Shenglai.

When Zhou Sheng heard this, he was immediately overjoyed: "With Senior Brother Zhang's inner cultivation skills, there will definitely be no problem. Although I dare not say how good I am in numerology, I have quite a bit of experience in the deduction of the Zhou Tian numbers. Senior Brother Zhang will take care of the inner things, and I will take care of the outer things. We will definitely be able to succeed!"

What do you mean I'm in charge of the interior and you're in charge of the exterior... Zhang Zhiwei felt weird.

"By the way, Senior Brother Zhang, where do you think the central palace should be located in the human body?" Zhou Sheng asked again.

Zhang Zhiwei said: "In ordinary Qimen, the center palace can be used to determine the opponent's feet, or your own feet. There is no such thing as a fixed position, so any part of the human body can be determined."

"But when opening the Qimen, one needs to be fully aware of the variables of the Zhoutian. In the human body, the Yuanshen is the most peaceful and can see through everything. Setting the Zhonggong at the Yuanshen, that is, the Niwan Palace, is undoubtedly the best choice."

Fixed on the primordial spirit... Zhou Sheng was thinking about what Zhang Zhiwei had just said, was it feasible?

The center of the body is fixed. Although it is no longer controlled by the outside world, every part of the body is still in operation. The moment the center of the body is fixed, it needs to be quiet. The soul is indeed the quietest part of the body, but...

He suddenly thought of something terrible, a trace of cold sweat appeared on his forehead, and he quickly reminded:
"Brother Zhang, you can go to the Central Palace but not the Yuanshen. The Yuanshen is indeed very quiet, but after a myriad of ever-changing situations are set up above the Yuanshen, it can no longer be quiet."

"At that time, the myriad changes in the Zhoutian numbers will come one after another."

"And the Yuanshen is the essence of the upper elixir, the place where thoughts are, if it is confused by these myriad changes, wouldn't it be doomed to eternity?"

Really? Wouldn't it be better if I didn't get obsessed with it... Zhang Zhiwei thought about it for a moment and nodded:
"What you said makes sense. I was thinking the wrong way. You don't have the realm of inner sage and outer king. Your mind cannot sit high on the spiritual platform and not be disturbed by all delusions. If you really listen to what I said just now, it will be a very bad thing in your soul."

Zhou Sheng: “…………”

What's going on? From what Senior Brother Zhang said, if I use my Yuanshen, I'll die, but if he uses his Yuanshen, it's fine? Is the difference between people so big?
Zhou Sheng was shocked and felt mixed emotions.

In fact, many things are like this. Some people think they are as simple as eating and drinking water.

But for some others, it is an insurmountable chasm that they cannot cross even if they spend their entire life trying.

Just like in the plot, Zhou Sheng and Wang Ye learned Fenghou Qimen easily without encountering any difficulties, and they did not expect that there would be difficulties.

But this easy thing actually stopped Hong Yin and others for their entire lives, which was something Zhou Sheng could never have imagined.

And now Zhang Zhiwei did not expect that choosing the wrong empress would cost the life of Zhou Sheng.

"Since the soul cannot be fixed, where do you think it should be fixed?" Zhang Zhiwei asked Zhou Sheng.

Zhou Sheng thought for a moment and said, "Except for the soul, basically anywhere is fine. However, every part of our body is in motion, and any motion must have a rhythm."

Zhou Sheng placed his hand on his chest, feeling the vigorous vitality coming from his heartbeat, and continued:

"The most rhythmic part of our body should be the heart."

"To fix the center palace here, all you need to do is capture the moment when the old power is about to die and the new power is about to be born. That moment is the most stable."

"Moreover, the heart is the king of the body and mind, which just fits the general principle of leading the Zhoutian in the innate way, covering the changes of the Zhoutian, and transforming me into the king."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhiwei nodded and said, "The King of Body and Mind... is not wrong, but the general outline is a bit too vague and it is difficult to point out the direction for practice. To really put it into practice, you have to do it yourself."

"Now that the position of the central palace has been determined, the next step is to sort out the numbers of the changes in the heaven and earth so that they can be returned to the innate in the body."

Hearing this, Zhou Sheng said: "The variables of the Zhoutian are endless, but the variables of the human body can be traced. If we want the Zhoutian numbers to return to the innate and be commanded by the innate, we must start from the innate. This depends on Senior Brother Zhang!"

"Easy to say!"

Zhang Zhiwei placed his left hand on his heart, and with a thought, the strange situation expanded by nearly a thousand meters. All changes in the situation were within his thoughts. At this moment, even if the Zhoutian numbers had not yet been fully submitted to him, he could clearly feel the influence of the solar terms between heaven and earth on himself.

The structure of the human body is similar to the structure of heaven and earth, but the two are not equal. They are in a mutually influencing relationship.

It's like the changing of seasons, from winter to spring, and from spring to flowers blooming.

In spring, it is the Jingzhe season, also known as the Dragon Raising its Head. At this time, thunderstorms are abundant. When the spring thunder sounds, the number of Zhoutian becomes more vigorous, which will suppress the innate number of people.

Therefore, many people will get sick when the seasons change, and this is called solar term disease.

The weaker the body's structure, the deeper the impact. This is why the elderly are more likely to get into accidents when seasons change.

Many ways to maintain health are to do the right thing at the right time.

For example, drinking tea at the Shen hour and drinking wine at the You hour are all for the purpose of making one's own pattern close to that of heaven and earth, and achieving the unity of man and nature.

In this way, the innate and the Zhoutian are synchronized, the two do not conflict, and the latter will nourish the former instead.

At this moment, although Zhang Zhiwei started the game inside his body, he did not use any means to move the four plates.

Therefore, the number of Zhoutian has no effect on him. After all, he himself is a part of heaven and earth.

But if he starts to use some means to move the four plates now, the Zhoutian technique will disrupt his own operation, and this will be more serious than if the central palace was opened outside the body.

Because the central palace is outside the body, your means of controlling the situation is the innate twenty-four solar terms generated from your own twenty-four vertebrae, and only the innate twenty-four solar terms are affected.

This effect is minor and will not be fatal in the short term.

But if after the Central Palace is opened inside the body, one still manipulates the four plates at will to perform certain actions as before, then it will affect the entire small world of the human body.

If you have good luck, you will have many disadvantages. If you have bad luck, the small world of the human body will collapse in an instant and turn into a pool of rotten meat.

Therefore, at this time, we should do the opposite and stop moving the four plates of the pattern of heaven and earth. Instead, we should move the four plates of our own pattern and adjust our own pattern to be synchronized with the pattern of heaven and earth.

This process is actually similar to what those health experts do, which is to use one's own innate changes to cover up the variables of the Zhoutian.

The innate and the Zhoutian are the same. The changes in the Zhoutian will only nourish oneself, and there will be no solar term disease.

But this is a very troublesome thing. The Zhoutian technique has infinite changes. You have to adjust the innate nature to align it perfectly, just like you are solving a big Rubik's Cube.

The method of using the solar terms to adjust the four plates is the basic formula of the Rubik's Cube. As long as you keep putting it together and connecting them little by little, you will eventually be able to piece it together, but it will take a long time.

But if there is a Rubik's Cube master who knows the business, he can solve the Rubik's Cube for you in no time with his eyes closed, without following the formula.

And Zhou Sheng is this master.

"Zhou Sheng, I need your help. Next, I will draw the situation of my own pattern in the form of a strange situation."

Zhang Zhiwei said: "You open the Qimen Imaging Method to observe the Zhoutian pattern, and then command me to adjust myself and collect the Zhoutian numbers."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Sheng immediately activated the Qimen Manifestation Method and began to observe this huge Qimen with Zhang Zhiwei's heart as the center and a coverage area of ​​nearly a thousand meters.

Then, Zhang Zhiwei stretched out his finger, golden light spread from his fingertips, and drew an extremely complicated compass-like pattern in the air.

This is the pattern of his internal structure.

Although Zhou Sheng had the secret of Qimen imaging and could see the changes in the strange situation, he could not see the pattern in Zhang Zhiwei's body.

Now that Zhang Zhiwei had drawn it, he had a reference and could immediately start directing.

"The ancients set up poles to measure shadows. At noon on the summer solstice, there was no shadow, which was the extreme yang. At noon on the winter solstice, the shadow was the longest, which was the extreme yin."

"Yin and Yang and the four seasons are the beginning and end of all things, and the basis of life and death. A year of 360 days is divided into 12 months, and a month of 30 days repeats itself. Five days is called a period, and three periods are called a qi. Therefore, there are 24 solar terms and 72 periods in a year."

"These 72 phases are also called 72 changes in the Book of Changes, which is what we call the 'number of changes in the celestial sphere'."

"The Book of Changes says that Heaven is one, Earth is two, Heaven is three, Earth is four, Heaven is five, Earth is six, Heaven is seven, Earth is eight, Heaven is nine, Earth is ten... This is how changes are made and ghosts and gods act."

"The number of Qian's strategies is 216, and the number of Kun's strategies is 144, totaling 360. On the day of the due date, the number of strategies in the two chapters is 1,520, which is the number of all things."

Zhou Sheng kept pinching his knuckles and kept saying:

"What we call the universe can be summarized in the Book of Changes. In the Book of Changes, among the sixty-four hexagrams, yin and yang are divided into thirty-two, and thirty-two multiplied by the two hundred and sixteen of Qian's hexagrams is six thousand nine hundred and twelve, and multiplied by the one hundred and forty-four of Kun's hexagrams is four thousand six hundred and eight. Adding the two together, we get eleven thousand five hundred and twenty, which is the 'number of all things'.

"Brother Zhang, you want to master the seventy-two transformations and control the rhythm of the movement of all things in the world. This is a tedious task."

"We have to change it one by one."

"First is the first transformation. The number of the Great Derivations is fifty, and its use is forty-nine. Divide it into two to represent two, and hang one to represent a mountain..."

Zhang Zhiwei followed Zhou Sheng's instructions and successfully completed the first transformation.

After completing this transformation, he suddenly felt that he could transform into something else.

However, he did not try it because Zhou Sheng had already started talking about the second change.

Zhang Zhiwei suppressed his thoughts and continued to collect them.

"The third transformation..."

"The fourth transformation..."

……

……

"The eighteenth transformation..."

Zhang Zhiwei performed eighteen transformations in succession. When he was performing the eighteenth transformation, it seemed as if an electric current was passing through his body.

He suddenly shuddered, and felt in his heart that he could transform into any human form.

With this thought in mind, Zhang Zhiwei looked at Zhou Sheng in front of him. Black energy emerged from his body, twisting and changing little by little.

Soon, he turned into a little Taoist priest with a pig kidney face, mung bean eyes, and a bitter expression, which was exactly what Zhou Sheng looked like now.

However, the Taoist robe on his body did not change, and his body was much taller than Zhou Sheng, which made his Taoist robe hang loosely on his body, looking a little funny.

However, at this moment, Zhou Sheng obviously didn't bother to observe Zhang Zhiwei's clothes.

Suddenly seeing Zhang Zhiwei transformed into himself, he was startled and stumbled back a few steps, speaking incoherently:

"Brother Zhang, what are you doing?"

Zhang Zhiwei pondered for a moment, and said in Zhou Sheng's current tone:

"After taking back the Zhoutian variables, not only can I control the four plates without any backlash, but I can also become a being within these variables."

"Among them, the Eighteen Transformations alone can encompass all the variables of a person."

At this moment, a phrase suddenly popped up in his mind: Girls change a lot when they grow up, and he couldn't help but complain in his heart.

"No wonder, all along, when I see little girls growing up and becoming prettier, I always use the expression 'girls change a lot when they grow up' to describe them."

"It turns out that the Eighteen Transformations does not refer to just eighteen years old, but is derived from the number of changes in the Book of Changes."

(End of this chapter)