Láng yá gōng, chóng yì quē.
Zuǒ cí lǎo xiān yǔ yú jí yíng miàn ér zuò, qián miàn bǎi zhe yī pǐ wéi qí, páng biān hái yǒu liǎng gè tóng zǐ, bù duàn gěi liǎng rén tiān shuǐ.
Left Cí, the elder immortal, held the white pieces in thought.
Yu Ji was somewhat distracted, slightly holding back his temper, and said: "Mr. Wujiao, Mr. Zhengyangzi has been captured by the heavenly court for more than a year. Don't you take advantage of the opportunity?"
"Not in a hurry," said Zuo Ci as he slowly placed the chess piece in his hand on the board. "Although I have spoken privately with Zhengyangzi about the matter of Chen Chong, and he has agreed to let me teach either the 'Tun Jia Tian Shu' or your 'Taiping Qingling Shu,' I still have not made up my mind yet."
Just as Yu Ji picked up the black pieces, he was taken aback, "You don't seem to be very fond of this child, but why do you suddenly become hesitant?"
Zuo Ci picked up the tea cup and took a sip, speaking slowly: "Do you not examine the character of the person to whom you hand a knife?"
Yu Ji inserted the black piece into the pile of white pieces and replied with a dismissive air, "If Zhengyangzi, who is so strict with his disciples' character, could still take Chen Chongyong as a student, what else is there to be worried about regarding his character?"
“This is not the same time as before,” Zuo Ci put down his tea cup and said: "That Chen Congyong, from Zhengyangzi's 'Dispelling Enigma and Correcting Path Song', has understood his own law and created 'Chen Master's Inner Dan Mantra'. It has a subtle aura of a founder of a school. Previously, his cultivation was shallow, so if we grant him our knowledge, he would be very pleased, and then he would promote our laws to their fullest extent. Now he is a high-level practitioner of Taoism, and I have heard that he has also refined an immortal body. As long as he has enough essence to refine into the Golden Pill, he can become an immortal. When people encounter happy events, they tend to be arrogant. It's hard not to look down on our laws. If we beg him to learn from us, it may not be taken seriously."
The boy took the opportunity to add water to the teacup.
Yu Ji furrowed his brow and said: "When should we bestow the great law upon him?"
Left Ci, who had just picked up a chess piece, suddenly burst into an inexplicable smile: "When he eats his losses."
Yu Ji helplessly said, "He has already become a high-level Taoist priest and has refined an immortal body. He also has the assistance of holy beings like Zheng Wen Shu, Lü Dongbin, He Xian Gu, etc. When could he possibly suffer losses?"
Left Ci smiled and didn't smile, "Weren't you going to calculate for a while?"
"Mm?" Yu Ji's eyes lit up, "What have you calculated out? Well, I'll calculate it for him."
As he spoke, his hands danced rapidly, emitting a series of purple gases from his fingertips that formed an eight-character shape.
Left Cí sat leisurely, without saying another word. He simply sat quietly and waited.
As soon as Yu Ji used qi to evolve the Eight Trigrams, the purple qi above them began to coagulate and ascend.
At first, the eight trigrams had no particular significance.
Suddenly, a black qi burst out from the middle and dyed the whole eight trigrams black abruptly.
Yu Ji's expression changed dramatically, and he looked up with a look of surprise, "This person is destined for disaster in the next few decades, with the last incident being in the recent days."
Zuo Ci nodded slightly and said: "When the tiger falls into a pit, it's too difficult to speak of its resilience, moving forward is easy, but retreating is hard. Expectations not met can lead to self-deceit, diseases and quarrels are bound to occur. This is a pessimistic situation where the Yang rises and the Yin descends. The heavens and the earth are not in harmony, everything is blocked. It indicates that extreme good fortune leads to bad luck, and adverse circumstances arise."
Yu Ji furrowed his brow and said, "From the trigram, it seems that his fortune is in a declining stage with many setbacks. He is troubled by enemies and unable to achieve his aspirations, prone to setbacks. If he is not careful, he might even lose his life in an unfamiliar place. However, there are ways to break this curse. As long as he can maintain his self-respect and not be corrupted by the evil, unite with those who share the same ideals, and wait for the right opportunity to present itself, naturally the situation will improve and turn around from adversity to prosperity."
"Fortune comes and goes with misfortune, and misfortune can become the foundation for fortune." Zuo Ci nodded in agreement with Yu Ji's analysis. "If he can remain true to himself and not fear difficulties, then the day he falls into a deep abyss will be the day he truly becomes an immortal."
Yu Ji worriedly said, "I fear that he may not be able to survive this disaster. What should we do if he were to fall?"
Yu Ji was somewhat worried and said, "I fear that he will not be able to overcome this calamity. What should we do if he falls?"
