Chapter 4 – Under Quanzhen Sect, Part 5
The woman said, “If we just competed in literature it would be too easy. We’ll write so words on that stone using our fingers, whoever writes the best will be the winner.”
My teacher shook his head and said, “I’m not a god, how can I use my finger to write on that stone?”
The woman said, “If I can then, you’ll admit defeat?”
My teacher was forced to agree with no other option. He knew that no one on earth could do this and so exploited it and thought of a way that there will be no winner or loser, and the competition would end. He said, “If you’ve got the ability then I’ll admit defeat. If you can’t do it, there is no difference between us and we will not compete anymore.”
The woman gave a laugh and said, “Fine, get ready to be a Taoist.” As she said this, her left hand stroked the rock for a while, and after a while she said, “What should I write? Ah, the first hero who beca a man of religion was Zhang Zhifang. He gave up his na and wealth, he’s your ancestor.” She then stretched out her right hand and extended her index finger, and wrote on the stone. My teacher saw her finger touch the rock, and dust flowed from the rock, she had carved a word, he had never been so startled in his life. She wrote the first part of the poem.
My teacher had lost and had nothing to say, he imdiately moved out of the tomb and let her move in, and near the tomb he built a small Taoist temple; it was the predecessor of the Chongyang Palace.”
Guo Jing also couldn’t believe it, he extended his finger and traced the writing on the rock, the carvings were indeed written with a finger and said, “That senior’s finger kung fu would indeed frighten people when they hear about it.”
Qiu Chuji raised his head and laughed out to the sky, “Jing’er, this event could fool my teacher, and now even you. But if your wife was here, she would not be fooled.”
Guo Jing opened his eyes wide and said, “Is there so kind of trick involved?”
Qiu Chuji said, “Could it be? Who on earth has the best finger kung fu?”
Guo Jing said, “Of course it’s Reverend Yideng and his “Solitary Yang Finger”.”
Qiu Chuji replied, “Yes! But even with Reverend Yideng’s finger kung fu, it would be hard for him to accomplish this feat on a piece of wood, how would he be able to do it on a piece of rock? And could soone else achieve this? My teacher beca a Taoist and still could not figure out what happened. Later, your father in law Island Master Huang ca and visited my teacher. He knew that he was a very intelligent man and so told him the events, and asked him to help. Island master Huang thought for a while and then gave a chuckle, “I understand. I have yet to complete this type of kung fu; I’ll co back in one month’s ti.” He laughed as he left the mountain.
After a month, Island Master Huang ca back and went with my teacher to look at the rock again. When that senior wrote her poem, she ended it with “Raising people and raising books, the price is heavy?” Her aning was that she wanted my teacher to have the sa fate as Zhang Liang, leave the world and enter religion. Island Master Huang stroked the rock slab with his left hand for a while, his right hand stretched out and extended his finger and wrote a few words, he wrote everything from “Chongyang raised Quanzhen” to “Forever on Mount Zhongnan, a mist will linger”; he wrote to praise my teacher.
My teacher saw that the words were deep, and were exactly the sa as what happened last ti, and was even more startled and thought, “Huang Yaoshi’s kung fu is definitely below , how on earth did he managed to obtain such a powerful finger skill?” He was suspicious and extended his finger on to the rock and he managed to make a hole in it.
He then led Guo Jing’s hand to where his teacher had made the hole. Guo Jing felt the mark, and put his finger in it, true enough, it was as if soone had made it with their finger. He thought, “Could it be that the rock is especially soft, and not like any other rock?” He generated chi in his finger and pressed into the rock, but he felt his fingertip start to ache, the rock did not move.
Qiu Chuji laughed, “Even the foolish little boy can’t figure it out. Before the woman wrote on the stone slab, her left hand had stroked the rock for a while. She was actually holding a piece of small rock, and made the rock surface soft, within the ti it takes to burn an incense stick, the stone slab would remain soft. Island Master Huang saw through the trick, and went away to find a suitable stone to do this and then ca back to demonstrate this.”
Guo Jing didn’t say anything and thought, “My father in law’s intelligence is not below that of that senior, but where is he now?” He missed him a lot.
Qiu Chuji didn’t know what he was thinking and carried on, “When my teacher first beca a Taoist, he was still vehent, but as he read more Taoist books, he knew it was ant to be, he beca enlightened and decided to spread our sect’s na. When you think about it, if it weren’t for that senior’s plan, the Quanzhen sect would not exist; I would not be here today, and we wouldn’t know where you, Guo Jing, would be.”
Guo Jing nodded, and asked, “So what is that senior’s na, and is she still alive?”
Qiu Chuji sighed and replied, “When that senior was in the world of Wulin, she was always discreet, very few people actually saw her. Apart from my teacher, I don’t think anyone else knows her na, and my teacher never actually ntioned her na. That senior had passed away before the ti of the first Mount Hua tournant, otherwise with her martial arts and character, how can it be that she did not appear?”
Guo Jing nodded his head and said, “It must be. Does she have any descendants?”
Qiu Chuji sighed and said, “All of today’s trouble cos from this point. That senior didn’t take in a disciple during her life; she only had a maid with her. That maid did not enter the world of Jianghu, so no one knew about her, but she took in two disciples. The eldest disciple is called Li, you must know about this, in Jianghu they call her the “Scarlet Serpent Deity” Li Mochou.”
Guo Jing gave an “ah” sound and said, “That Li Mochou is vindictive and ruthless, so those are her origins.”
Qiu Chuji said, “You’ve seen her?”
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