Within the Shouzhuo Monastery

Name: Within the Shouzhuo Monastery
Author: Yibei You

守拙观中

by Yibei You (亦北游)

Status: Completed
Length: 500k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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Chen Shouzhuo was born during the famine years of the Republic of China. He lived through war, hunger, and the pain of losing loved ones, while his body was ravaged until it became “a cauldron riddled with holes.” At the dilapidated Shouzhuo Temple in the Qinling Mountains, he encounters his Daoist fate and turns a century of China’s turbulent upheavals, from the suffering of the Republic of China and the flames of the War of Resistance to the founding of the nation, reform and opening up, the technological boom, and the pandemic of the new century, into the “outer furnace” and “heat” of his alchemical cultivation. Guided by Daoist Master Xuanchen, he holds fast to a broken scripture and a humble heart, tempering body and mind through extreme hardship. He uses his body as a cauldron, history as medicine, and suffering as the true flame, probing the mysteries step by step. After passing through Foundation Building, the Circulatory Cycle, Gathering Medicine, and Core Formation, he finally touches the realm of Refining the Void and Uniting with the Dao in the virtual age. Within Shouzhuo Temple is an Eastern parable that bears a century of national change through flesh-and-blood alchemy. It tells the legend of how one insignificant person, amid the tides of history, refines the dust of tribulation into an immortal golden core. The undying flame in his furnace is a profound meditation on the resilience of life and the eternity of the Great Dao.

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