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

Chapter 682 Let Liang Ting Die
Before Zhou Sheng left, he discussed with Zhang Zhiwei again whether or not to spread the Tiantong Qimen.

They had created something spectacular, so naturally they wanted it to be known to outsiders and spread. Even if he was just a deputy, it was a great honor.

If you don't return to your hometown when you are rich and powerful, it is like walking in fine clothes at night. Even a Taoist priest like Zhou Sheng is not immune to this. It is not certain whether there are people with ulterior motives who are spying on you.

Zhou Sheng was not afraid, because this method came from a legitimate source, created by the young Taoist priest. Even if someone had ulterior motives and wanted to spy on him, would they dare to cause trouble for the young Taoist priest?
In fact, it was not difficult for Zhang Zhiwei to guess Zhou Sheng's thoughts. Although this boy was very harsh in words and often had conflicts with his younger brother Zhou Meng and several fellow apprentices, he actually had a soft heart.

He may always be protecting you and doing good things for you, but what you feel from him is harsh criticism and beatings from time to time.

Of course, his harshness was only shown towards his younger brother and fellow apprentices. In front of Zhang Zhiwei, he was still very reasonable and not harsh at all.

Considering that he might pass the secret to his fellow disciples, Zhang Zhiwei reminded him to be cautious and not pass it on randomly, so as not to harm his own people. However, if Zhou Sheng wanted to harm other people, he might consider teaching him.

When Zhou Sheng heard this, he immediately shook his head and said that this method was not something that those despicable people could practice, and he would not let some ordinary people defile this good thing.

Afterwards, he assured Zhang Zhiwei that even if he wanted to spread the information, he would report it to Zhang Zhiwei and only spread it after obtaining his consent.

Zhang Zhiwei nodded and agreed. It was not because he wanted the copyright of this thing, but because he knew how powerful it was.

That’s all I have to say. If Zhou Sheng really spread the news and harmed his own people, then it can’t be blamed on him.

Afterwards, Zhou Sheng transformed himself into an eagle and flew away. It was a long distance from Longhu Mountain to Wudang Mountain. Zhang Zhiwei felt that with Zhou Sheng's current ability, he would have to rest several times before he could reach his destination.

It is worth mentioning that the eagle transformed by Zhou Sheng still has a pair of slanted eyes, but it is much better than the original one. Perhaps after his skills become more sophisticated, this drawback will disappear.

After Zhou Sheng left, Zhang Zhiwei lived a simple life on Longhu Mountain for some time.

During this period, in addition to breathing in the Qi of the Three Elements under the tree, he was also tempering his life and preparing to cultivate the Valley Spirit.

However, in order to cultivate the Valley Spirit, you need to "get pregnant" first, which is what the master calls gathering five and combining four, gathering five elements, and combining four symbols.

The five elements are gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The lungs belong to gold, the liver belongs to wood, the kidneys belong to water, the spleen belongs to earth and the heart belongs to fire.

As for what the four symbols are, the two symbols give birth to the four symbols, and Tai Chi gives birth to the two symbols.

Tai Chi is the harmony of Yin and Yang, and Liang Yi is the separation of Yin and Yang. They can be seen as Yin and Yang. The four symbols produced by Liang Yi are Tai Yin, Shao Yin, Tai Yang and Shao Yang.

Gathering five and combining four actually means gathering the Qi of the five elements and four images in the body, which can give birth to the Valley Spirit.

This is easier said than done. After all, the five elements in the body are mutually generated and restrained. How can they be gathered together into one?

In order to achieve unity, the five elements must be adjusted. However, the "national master" has been busy for so long and has not been able to harmonize them all. He has only gone halfway and is still making gradual progress. In short, don't rush.

As for the method of combining the four symbols, after gathering the five elements, combining the four symbols is actually a natural thing. Strictly speaking, they are even carried out at the same time.

Among the five elements, fire is the sun, water is the moon, metal is the lesser yin, fire is the sun, wood is the lesser yang, and earth is neutral.

In other words, gathering the Five Elements is actually combining the Four Symbols. If the Four Symbols are not combined, the Five Elements cannot be gathered. They are originally one step.

But this step is very difficult. This difficulty is only for Zhang Zhiwei, because the master only gave him an idea but not a method.

He needs to build it from scratch to put this concept into practice.

But if the concept is mature and there is a specific method that can be applied according to the formula, then everything will be much simpler.

As for what is the formula?

The Five Thunders Method is just a formula. Although it is called the Five Thunders, it is actually the Five Qi. When the Five Qi are gathered together into one, it becomes the Five Thunders Method.

It can be said that as long as you have learned the Five Thunders Method and nurtured the Valley Spirit, you can accomplish it naturally as long as you change your mindset.

The Valley Spirit in Zhang Chulan's body might have been created using this method, following the path set by predecessors.

It's just that the Five Thunders Method was only passed down to the Heavenly Master. Even if the master wanted to pass it on to Zhang Zhiwei now, there was no way. He could only give some general suggestions that did not involve specific methods.

To most people, these tips may be like incomprehensible scriptures, but to Zhang Zhiwei, they just point out the direction, allowing him to grope forward.

It can be said that once he succeeded, he was no longer groping for the way of others, but he had blazed his own trail, a path that future generations could follow.

If one can reach this point, then founding a new school of thought is not enough to describe this achievement.

People like Ghost Hand Wang Yaozu, who has honed a mediocre skill to an unprecedented level, can be called a master of a school.

But his skills are only close to Tao, not the real Tao. Those who have truly attained Tao should be called saints.

"It's too early to become a saint, for now you should just be content to be an ordinary person!"

Zhang Zhiwei muttered to himself, stood up and patted the tree.

The big tree seemed to sense something, and as its branches swayed, it gathered up the bits of stardust that were hanging down like a bead curtain.

The quiet environment disappeared, and the sounds of wind, insects chirping, and birds singing outside became audible.

Zhang Zhiwei walked forward, waved his hand with his back to the big tree, and then jumped down from the top of Tianmen Mountain.

On the top of the mountain, there was only one big tree left, its branches swaying wildly towards the place where Zhang Zhiwei disappeared.

Zhang Zhiwei moved quickly and returned to Longhu Mountain in just three or two leaps.

As soon as he landed, he saw a stream of light flying towards him.

Looking closely, the real body of the stream of light was a palm-sized mechanical pigeon made of wood. The pigeon's body was covered with delicate spells, and a small bamboo tube was tied to its feet.

This mechanical pigeon was made by Liang Ting for sending messages. As a grandmaster who is proficient in both mechanical devices and talismans, isn't it easy for him to make a mechanical bird?
"Sending letters via carrier pigeons is such a simple way of communicating!"

Zhang Zhiwei stretched out his hand, and the mechanical pigeon landed on his hand, not jumping or hopping, as if it had lost the ability to move.

He took off the bamboo tube tied to his feet, pulled out the paper inside, opened it and took a look. He found that the signature was "Wu Gensheng". The content of the paper was:

"Brother Zhiwei, since we parted at Changbai Mountain, you and I have drifted further and further apart. The rumors that Yuan Jingui made up at the time caused a lot of trouble for Brother Zhiwei. I had no intention of disturbing you any further, but a disciple of yours has something to ask of you, and I happen to think it suits Brother Zhiwei's wishes. That person is Liang Ting, nicknamed White Owl..."

The letter was full of nonsense. Zhang Zhiwei took a look at it and made a brief summary.

"White Owl Liang Ting..."

Zhang Zhiwei whispered to himself. He was familiar with this name, but his impression of Liang Ting was mostly from his previous life. In fact, they didn't have much in common. "This filthy thing, just to have a good time, he actually came to me?" Zhang Zhiwei grinned, "You really don't take the road to heaven, but you break into hell."

In fact, Zhang Zhiwei understood very well that Liang Ting had been pursuing the pleasure he had been seeking but could not get.

It's simply that since he was a child, no one was willing to look him in the eye, which made him very eager for other people's attention.

If others looked at him with surprise in their eyes, he would feel extremely refreshed.

He has been pursuing this kind of pleasure all his life.

At the beginning, this kind of pleasure is easy to satisfy. After all, if he just kills someone on the street, people around him will look at him in fear, and he will feel very happy.

But as the threshold of pleasure became higher, he gradually no longer felt pleasure, because shock was only a minority in those gazes, and most of them were filled with fear.

He was very familiar with this kind of fearful look. He often saw this kind of look when he was discriminated against as a child.

This kind of look didn't make him feel good, it only made him irritated, so he became more and more aggressive.

But the more he intensified his reputation, the greater his notoriety became, and the greater his notoriety became, the less shocked he was in the looks he received.

Because no matter how evil a person like him does, everyone thinks it is normal and there is nothing to be surprised about. There is only fear, terror and contempt for him.

However, contempt and fear were the looks he had always hated the most. This was the reason why he was becoming more and more unhappy and irritated, but he was foolishly unable to tell the difference.

Because these two kinds of gazes often appear together, especially for him, a complete monster.

In fact, if he could truly understand what he wanted, change his ways from then on, and do extremely good things in the name of extremely evil, it would surely shock everyone, and he would be extremely happy.

Just like in the plot, when Gao Yingcai was fighting with the demon Eita and saw that he was defeated, he not only did not add insult to injury, but also rescued Gao Yingcai. The astonishment in Gao Yingcai's eyes made him feel extremely refreshed.

This kind of pleasure is actually very cheap, but human life should not be so cheap.

If Zhang Zhiwei was a monk, he might have saved Liang Ting and let him put down his butcher knife and become a Buddha right away.

But he is a Taoist priest. He can persuade himself to let go, but he will not persuade others to let go. For people like Liang Ting, he will only take them down!
Liang Ting has done all kinds of evil in recent years for the sake of so-called pleasure. All the vicious words in the world seem pale and powerless when applied to him. Such a person does not deserve the chance to reform himself.

Moreover, since what he pursues are the pairs of astonished eyes that the world looks back at him with, even if he changes, one day, when everyone gets used to him doing good things and is no longer astonished, he will return to his current state.

"Since you want, I'll grant you death!"

Zhang Zhiwei stretched out his hand and took out a pen that he usually used to draw talismans from his wallet. He wrote a few big words on the back of the note - OK, let him come to Guifeng Peak in Goyang to die!
He did not let Wu Gensheng bring Liang Ting to Longhu Mountain. Even if he really had no intention of besieging the other side, I am afraid Liang Ting would not dare to come.

Guifeng is a famous mountain a hundred miles away from Longhushan, located between Sanqingshan, Longhushan and Wuyishan. The whole mountain looks like a huge turtle with its head held high, so it is called Guifeng.

Zhang Zhiwei stuffed the note into the wooden tube and tied it to the pigeon's feet again. The moment he stuffed it in, the pigeon, which had been perched motionlessly on his hand, suddenly flapped its wings and flew away.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhiwei turned around and went to Tianmen Mountain to wait for Wu Gensheng and Liang Ting to die with him.

At the same time, Zhang Huaiyi, who had been keeping an eye on Zhang Zhiwei not far away, noticed a stream of light flying up from Zhang Zhiwei's hand, and then his senior brother was about to leave. He thought something was going to happen, so he ran over and asked:
"Brother, what did you release?"

Zhang Huaiyi moved, and Tian Jinzhong, Lu Ci, Lu Jin and others also ran over.

There was nothing that Zhang Zhiwei couldn't ask, so he immediately said:

"Someone down the mountain wants to challenge me to a fight, and I'm going to go."

"Brother, you actually want to fight with others privately. I will tell our master." Zhang Huaiyi said seriously.

Zhang Zhiwei glared and said, "If you go, I'll beat you up!"

"Since you are forcing me, then..." Zhang Huaiyi's serious expression collapsed: "Then I won't tell Master."

Zhang Zhiwei waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter even if Master knows. This is not a personal grudge. This is to eliminate harm in the martial arts world. Master will only give a thumbs up and praise us if he knows."

Lu Jin asked: "If that's the case, which evildoer in the martial arts world is so bold as to challenge Senior Brother Zhang?"

Lu Ci rubbed his hands and said quickly: "If you want to challenge Senior Brother Zhang, you have to get past me first. Let me go and meet him!"

These days, he practiced very hard. During the day, he would hone his skills and practice such kung fu as Ruyi Jin and Hubao Leiyin.

At night, he would transform into a crazy tiller and go down the mountain to till the fields crazily.

During this period of time, he had already plowed all the fields of the Tianshi Mansion. Now he had run down the mountain to help the tenants plow the fields. The noise was so loud that the entire Shangqing Town was talking about it.

As for rest, Lu Ci would usually sneak in to sit in meditation and listen during the morning and evening classes in the Tianshi Mansion. Although he said he was listening, he was actually just sleeping.

During morning and evening classes at Tianshi Mansion, the Pure Heart Mantra, one of the eight great mantras, is recited to calm the mind, so that disciples can better achieve a quiet state for practice.

Sleeping in this state is also an excellent choice, allowing you to enter a deep sleep and recover yourself.

Under such high-intensity training, Lu Ci's life cultivation has made great progress, and he is looking for an opponent to test it.

Zhang Zhiwei looked at Lu Ci who was eager to try and said with a smile:

"This man is notorious in the martial arts world. He is a great master who possesses both mechanical devices and talismans. Liang Ting, the White Owl, are you sure you want to give it a try?"

"I..." The excitement on Lu Ci's face froze, and he said awkwardly, "I just regret that I am not strong enough, so I won't try to be strong."

He looked at Lu Jin next to him and said, "Old Lu, haven't you been practicing that damn Saint Thief recently? Your strength has greatly increased. Why don't you give it a try?"

Lu Jin glanced at him and said, "If you don't go, I won't go either!"

"Since none of you are going, I'll have to take action," said Zhang Zhiwei.

"With senior brother taking action, it will be easy to capture the enemy. Let's set off now!" Tian Jinzhong said eagerly.

Zhang Zhiwei said: "Don't panic, this kind of thing is better to share with others than to enjoy it alone. Go and call more fellow disciples to come. On the surface, only a few of us will go, but in fact, most of our lineage will follow!"

Tian Jinzhong was shocked and put his hand on his neck: "Ambush them?"

Zhang Zhiwei reached out and pushed Tian Jinzhong's head down, causing him to stagger:
"Don't learn from Erbi. I want you to go and watch the show. After all, he is a double master. Let him show you a few skills. Maybe you can gain something."

(End of this chapter)