Just in the Middle, You Told Me This is Journey to the West

Even a fool knows how to choose.

Therefore, after receiving Zhou Chong's "genius" evaluation, Chen Qi silently put away his fists and walked towards the study without saying a word.

Don't ask, asking is love of reading and learning!

Now he has completely given up on treatment. Originally, he wanted to experience the joy of practicing martial arts. Now that he thinks about it, he would be happier reading and hanging out.

After returning to the study, Chen Qi picked up a copy of "Book of Changes" and began to read it seriously.

"Book of Changes", one of the Four Books and Five Classics, is also one of the must-read books for Confucian scholars in this era.

"Book of Changes" is said to be written by Zhou Wenwang Jichang, and its content includes two parts: "Jing" and "Zhuan".

The "Jing" mainly contains sixty-four hexagrams and three hundred and eighty-four lines. The hexagrams and lines have their own explanations, which are used for divination.

"Zhuan" contains seven kinds of dictionaries explaining hexagrams and lines, a total of ten chapters, collectively called "Ten Wings", which is said to have been written by Confucius.

Many people may wonder that "Book of Changes" was clearly written by King Wen of Zhou, and it also tells about divination and hexagrams. It should be a Taoist classic. No matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with Confucianism. into the Four Books and Five Classics.

In fact, the reason is very simple, because in the ancient Spring and Autumn Period, Confucianism relied on "Book of Changes" for food.

Preside over various etiquettes of weddings and funerals, part-time hexagram commentary, etc.

According to legend, Confucius even personally interpreted the "Book of Changes" and praised the "Book of Changes".

Confucius said that the "Book of Changes" is good, but can the Confucian disciples of later generations say it is not good?

Therefore, "Book of Changes" was directly regarded as the holy book of Confucianism by Confucianism, the first of the Six Classics.

Therefore, as a scholar who has been admitted to Jinshi, it is not too much to carry a copy of "Book of Changes" with you, right?

Of course, Chen Qi will not tell you that he studied the "Book of Changes" hard not to pay homage to Confucius, but to try to see if he can comprehend the magic of heaven from the "Book of Changes".

In this world of Journey to the West, where people and ghosts can be counted, if you don't have a bit of magic, you really don't feel safe at all.

Chen Qi studied "Book of Changes" hard, and he didn't ask to pinch his fingers to plot against others, but only if the saints, Taoist ancestors, etc. could not plot against him.

Well, he is such a kind and easy-to-satisfy guy. .

Chapter 14

"Book of Changes" is worthy of being the first of the group of classics, and it is a book of teaching.

It is really obscure and profound.

Even with the help of the strongest reading system, it is extremely difficult to read "Book of Changes" thoroughly.

A hundred times!

A hundred times!

Every time you read, you can only get a guaranteed progress value by the system default. Every time you increase the reading progress value by one percent, Chen Qi's understanding of "Book of Changes" will become deeper.

However, even so, when he read it ninety-nine times, and then returned to re-read it, he could still perceive new truths from it.

For five whole days, Chen Qi read "Book of Changes" and completely entered a state of madness.

Except for the necessary eating and sleeping, the rest of the time is basically spent reading "Book of Changes".

His behavior at this time is absolutely neither crazy nor demonic. He is completely attracted by the Dao in "Book of Changes", and has long forgotten the original intention of studying "Book of Changes".

As the saying goes, if you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening!

On the sixth day, at dawn, Chen Qi's "Book of Changes" was read to the last page again.

"Zhouyi, the sixty-fourth hexagram, the Weiji hexagram, the fire and water are not ready, and the upper and lower ridges are left!"

""Weiji": Heng. The little fox Qianji, humiliating his tail, has no profit."

""Yuan" said: Weiji, prosperity, and softness are in the middle. Little fox Jiji, not out of the middle. Hurt its tail, no profit, no continuation of the end. Although it is not in the position, it should be firm and soft."

.....

"On the ninth day, if you drink alcohol, there is no blame. If you humiliate your head, you will lose your right."

""Xiang" said: "Drinking wine and soaking your head, you don't know how to behave."

When Chen Qi read this, there was a roar in his mind instantly, and his mind once again fell into a state of enlightenment.

When Chen Qi regained consciousness from the state of enlightenment, he felt a burst of spiritual light bursting out in his mind, which gave him a new understanding of "Book of Changes".

I just feel that the great way of heaven and earth is nothing more than this, and it is all covered in the sixty-four hexagrams of Zhouyi.

At the same time, in his sea of ​​consciousness, a picture of sixty-four hexagrams appeared out of thin air, and slowly rotated.

At first glance, I only feel that the sixty-four hexagrams seem to contain all living beings in the world, including the endless avenues.

However, when Chen Qi looked carefully, he felt that there was nothing in the picture, only chaos.

"Heavenly Mystery: Sixty-Four Hexagrams!"

Soon, information about the sixty-four hexagrams came into Chen Qi's mind.

According to ancient legend, there is a family named Fuxi, who was inspired by watching the river map and Luoshu, and realized the innate gossip, and then proved the Dao, and became the emperor of the human race.

Afterwards, King Wen played Zhouyi and realized the sixty-four hexagrams of the day after tomorrow. Then there was Fengming Qishan, and the Zhou Dynasty prospered.

With the help of the system, Chen Qi reproduced the sixty-four hexagrams of Heaven after King Wen in "Book of Changes".

If this matter gets out, it will definitely shake the Three Realms and attract countless immortals, buddhas, gods and demons to peek at it.

This gave him a deeper understanding of the power of the strongest reading system.

I thought it would be good to get an ordinary secret method of heaven, but who would have thought that the system would be so powerful that it could restore the sixty-four hexagrams of Houtian.

This is no longer powerful enough to describe, but really buggy.

Don't think that this is a simple matter, just like some travelers think that by reading a few lines of "Tao Te Ching", they can obtain the practice method of a sage.

Think about it and know it's impossible.

Only in the hands of Lao Tzu can the Tao Te Ching become the law of saints.

The Book of Changes, and only in the hands of King Wen of Zhou, can become the sixty-four hexagrams of the day after tomorrow!

In other words, the real method is not the text of the scriptures, but the spiritual will imprinted on the manuscripts of the scriptures.

The words in the scriptures are just appearances, like the truth that everyone understands, if it is really done, whoever does it will waste it.

To give the simplest example, even an illiterate farmer knows the principle of "the five elements inter-generate and the five elements interpenetrate", but can you use this principle to deduce the great method of the five-element integration?

Everyone knows that life and death are a reincarnation, can you evolve the reincarnation of life and death through these words, and prove longevity?

Obviously it is impossible.

Just like the "Tao Te Ching" regarded as a great classic by the traversers, the pure "Tao Te Ching" is actually the same, just like the "Book of Changes" that every Confucian scholar has a copy of. Not unusual.

However, how many people have comprehended the sixty-four hexagrams of Houtian from "Book of Changes" and the law of sages from "Tao Te Ching"?

The answer is, a no!

It is not because these two scriptures have been tampered with.

It is because the words in the scriptures are just words, and they are still the kind of words that tell the truth. There is no specific practice method, and it cannot affect the heaven and earth.

What can really affect the Dao of Heaven and Earth is the creature itself.

Therefore, for ordinary people, the so-called "Book of Changes", "Tao Te Ching", etc., are not as useful as a low-level martial arts training method.

Of course, Chen Qi who has the strongest reading system is not among them. With the help of the system, he feels that he can go back to the source and obtain the ancient sages' methods through the scriptures written by these sages.

Perhaps, this is the most buggy part of the strongest reading system.

Thinking of this, Chen Qi couldn't help but take a deep breath, and said silently in his heart: "System, practice the sixty-four hexagrams of the day after tomorrow!".

Chapter 15

Just like the basic body training technique of the human race, Chen Qi's acquired sixty-four hexagrams have also reached the level of beginners under the instillation of the system, eliminating the need to learn from scratch.

After getting started with the secret technique of sixty-four hexagrams the day after tomorrow, Chen Qi only felt that the whole world was different.

A lot of divination experience appeared in his mind out of thin air, but there was no sense of disobedience, as if he had learned it through years of hard work, and the use was smooth and smooth.

In addition, although they are both at the entry level, the secret art of the acquired sixty-four hexagrams is not the same as the basic body training art of the human race.

The latter is a martial arts body training method, even at the entry level, it needs a strong physical support, so that it can be manifested.

But the secret technique of the acquired sixty-four hexagrams is different. This secret technique belongs to the divination method and relies on one's understanding of the world.

Supplemented by Chen Qi's soul that far surpassed ordinary people after crossing, he can fully play the role of the acquired sixty-four hexagrams.

After reading "Book of Changes" and obtaining the secret technique of the acquired sixty-four hexagrams, Chen Qi's system panel becomes:

Host: Chen Qi

Realm: mortal

Cultivation method: basic human body training technique (level one, entry level), Qingshi body training boxing (small success), Houtian sixty-four hexagrams (entry entry)

Supernatural powers: none

Experience value: 1030 points

Currently reading books: none

Books entered in the library: 2!

I have to say that "Book of Changes" is worthy of being a classic written by ancient sages. Even if it is only the text and does not contain the spiritual will of the ancient sages, it still brought Chen Qi a whole thousand experience points, which made him feel like The feeling of getting rich suddenly.

"So, should we improve the basic body training technique of the human race, or the secret technique of the acquired sixty-four hexagrams?"

Chen Qi looked at the "Human Race Basic Body Refining Technique (Beginner)" and "Houtian Sixty-Four Hexagrams (Beginner)" that had been lit up on the system panel, and he fell into an extremely entangled state.

The basic body training of the human race, from the first level of entry to the first level of small success, needs to consume one hundred experience points.

If you think optimistically, with a thousand experience points, Chen Qi can completely complete the first level of the human race's basic body training technique, and maybe even reach the second level, and become an eighth-rank martial artist.

And the sixty-four hexagrams of the day after tomorrow, one thousand experience points, can only be promoted from the entry level to the small success.

Well, the sixty-four hexagrams of the day after tomorrow need a thousand experience points to reach a small success from beginners.