Chapter 153: Asking for the Truth at the Quanzhen Rock
"Wait until I finish smoking this cigarette!" The fortune-teller ignored Chen Jue, but stood up and smoked while walking to the nearby toilet.
However, he was gone for more than an hour, and the sun began to set. The afterglow of the sunset shone on the Quanzhen Rock, giving it a golden and red hue.
There were fewer and fewer tourists nearby. After all, it was getting dark, and staying on the mountain any longer would just be freezing.
Unless you have booked a room in a mountain hotel and plan to get up early tomorrow morning to watch the sunrise over Mount Huashan.
Chen Jue, on the other hand, had been sitting patiently in front of the fortune-telling stall until the owners of the nearby convenience stores began to pack up and go down the mountain. Only then did the fortune-teller slowly come out from somewhere with his hands behind his back.
"Fellow Daoist, it's almost dark, why don't you go down the mountain as soon as possible? What's the point of relying on an old man like me?" The fortune-teller put away his previous frivolous look, stared at Chen Jue with his eyes, and sat back on the fortune-telling stall with a serious expression.
"Senior Luo, I haven't finished fortune-telling yet! I've been waiting for you to come back." Chen Jue said with a smile. When he saw the fortune-teller for the first time, he noticed his restrained temperament. It was clear that he was a master of the golden elixir who had attained enlightenment.
"What's the matter? Fellow Taoist, do you know me?" Old man Luo put away the internet-famous Eight Treasure Tea that was being sold at the stall, and then took out a golden toad with a few copper coins in its mouth from underneath and placed it on the table.
"I got to know you through Taoist Master Huang Shizhen. It just so happens that I am also a practitioner. I have had some doubts recently, so I wanted to find Senior Luo to help me resolve them." Chen Jue smiled slightly and told the truth.
"oh!"
"It turns out that it was Master Zhen's nephew who revealed the secrets of the old Taoist!"
"But fellow Taoist, since you have already achieved the Golden Elixir at such a young age and are still living in the mortal world, it is not a big deal if you have some doubts. The world is ever-changing and from ancient times to the present, few people can see through the ups and downs of this world. Even I, an old Taoist, am in it. There are billions of living beings, but why don't they still survive with thousands of doubts in their hearts?" Old Man Luo said as he looked at Chen Jue, secretly surprised at Chen Jue's practice.
In his eyes, the young man in front of him was not only a man who had attained enlightenment and formed a golden elixir, but he also had a strong, worldly aura that could not be shaken off. He was unlike those enlightened predecessors who had passed away that he had met in the past.
This is because most people who practice cultivation avoid the world in order to seek tranquility. Unless they have achieved spiritual enlightenment, they will escape into the mortal world without fear of worldly contamination.
But Chen Jue did the opposite. Although he had not yet decided on his path to Taoism, he used the worldly world to temper his mind and find his own path.
Such young people are rarely comparable, not to mention now, even in ancient times when there were many great people.
"Living in vain is not what I pursue. I just want to live my life to the fullest."
"Since Senior Luo boasts of his profound knowledge, why don't you help me with my fortune telling and take a look at my background? And help me solve the confusion in my mind?" Chen Jue shook his head and put his hand on the fortune-telling stall.
"Since fellow Taoist said so... Oh! Well! Just think of it as the fact that I didn't check the almanac before going out today, and met a fellow Taoist like you who is obsessed with pursuing the Tao. To tell fortunes for a Jindan Zhenren like you would cost me a lot of luck!" Old man Luo sighed, knowing that he couldn't avoid the young man in front of him, so he reached out and took Chen Jue's left hand to look at his innate appearance first.
There are many schools of fortune-telling, including combining birth data, calculating Zi Wei Dou Shu, reading faces with Ma Yi, judging people by their aura, fortune-telling with coins, feeling the hands and feeling the bones, etc., but it all comes down to the emphasis on innate and acquired.
In palmistry, the left hand represents the innate fortune of a person at birth. The right hand represents the acquired fortune, which represents the trend of a person's acquired fortune affected by external factors. Although the lines on the two palms are similar, there are slight differences. Only those who are proficient in this can see the reason.
If you meet a folk "expert" who only uses one hand to read your fortune, you can just pay the money and leave as soon as possible.
Old man Luo turned Chen Jue's left hand over, and then stretched out his fingers to feel the bones. He pondered for a long time before speaking: "Daoyou was born in poverty and was born lonely. His mother died before he was 20, and his father passed away. Before he practiced cultivation, he was in a daze and no one knew where he ended up."
"Your father's family is ordinary and honest, and they probably worked as farm laborers. But you are a noble family, and you have the aura of a hidden dragon. Your mother's family should be very powerful, and they are probably the descendants of the old royal family. But we are in a new era now, and there are many descendants of the royal family. The Western Capital next door is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. I am here to read fortunes and see a few descendants of the royal family every day. It is not a rare thing."
"From your accent, you are from Wuyue. You carry the aura of the Dragon King. You must have grown up in a coastal city in Zhejiang and Fujian. Your bones are clearly yin and yang. You are quick-witted and straightforward. Your five elements belong to wood and gold. Your last name should be the axe on the left ear, Yimu on the right, and Dong on the front. Together, they form the word 'Chen'!"
After saying that, old man Luo picked up Chen Jue's right hand and began to look through it. However, he could not help but sigh in amazement at the end: "Daoyou's acquired appearance... Strange! Which master set up this acquired destiny for you? You actually have such a weird appearance that is predestined by heaven!"
"Your name belongs to the element of fire, and it carries the meaning of good luck. Your name should not be 'Jue', which means determination, but 'Jue', which means awakening. Someone forced you to change it once, which directly interfered with your destiny."
"If you hadn't joined my sect early to practice and escape the five elements, I'm afraid you would still be in trouble now!"
After listening to the other party's description , Chen Jue suddenly recalled that when he was in primary school, his primary school teacher misheard the local accent of Vancouver and wrote his name as "Chen Jue" instead of "Chen Jue" when registering him. After that, he kept making mistakes and now his household registration book and ID card all use Chen Jue.
"That's a good idea, senior! I did change my name once." Chen Jue nodded, and was very impressed by the fortune-teller who guessed his name and the direction of his fortune in the first half of his life in just a few strokes.
This is a true master who has attained enlightenment, and he is indeed a scholar. I feel that this visit to Huashan has not been a wrong place.
"I have finished reading your fortune. Let me tell you another one!" Old man Luo put down Chen Jue's right hand and took three ancient bronze coins from the mouth of the golden toad.
He threw three copper coins onto the divination table. After just one look, Old Man Luo cried out in surprise, "Great! I was wondering why I've been feeling uneasy lately. It turns out that this calamity in the world has befallen you, Taoist friend!"
"Fellow Daoist, have you been in trouble recently? This is the rhythm of me dying rather than you, fellow Daoist!"
"What a loss! What a loss! It's all over! I shouldn't have told you this fortune! Unlucky star, you are doomed!"
After saying this, Old Man Luo shivered as if he had encountered something unclean. He was about to put away the copper coins and the golden toad, then fold the divination table and run away, but when he took another look at Chen Jue's peaceful face, he felt something was wrong.
He picked up three copper coins and threw them again, not believing in the evil. This time, Old Man Luo finally calmed down. He stared at the copper coins and said in amazement, "Strange! Just now, the wind and clouds changed color and the white tiger came out of the cage, but now it's the blue dragon entering the sea, and the whole world is peaceful and harmonious?"
"Could it be that I, the Taoist priest, haven't told fortunes for too long and my skills have declined?"
Old man Luo was a little bit skeptical, so he picked up the coin and tossed it a few more times. He found that the hexagrams were different each time, some good, some bad, and always changing.
Looking up at Chen Jue who was a little puzzled, Old Man Luo frowned slightly, as if he remembered something. He raised his hand and pointed to the place in the distance where the three words "Quanzhen Rock" were engraved, and sighed: "Cultivate the truth, cultivate the truth, and only when you understand your own way can you cultivate the truth."
"Fellow Daoist, you are doing the opposite. Your path of cultivation is different from that of ordinary people. You first use the false to cultivate the true, but you have not yet realized your own way! No wonder I read your fortune just now and your fate is so chaotic. It's because your mind is not determined and your path is not clear!"
"Your heart is not yet settled, and the secrets of heaven are hidden. Even I, an old Taoist, cannot see where your future lies."
