Before Bai Ming could sort out the chaotic thoughts in his head, Bai Qi, who was sitting at the door, seemed to hear something and turned around:
"woke up?"
Bai Ming was stunned for a moment. Brother, are you waiting for me to come back?
"While I was standing still, I vaguely heard you calling my name. I thought you were restless in your sleep and talking in your sleep."
Bai Qi didn't look surprised. The page of mountain climbing tips he got contained stories about strange things like wandering souls leaving the body.
There was a young man who was going to the mountains for the first time. He was given a pack of red paper incense. When he went home and went to sleep, he dreamed that he appeared more than ten miles away and was chased by a tiger.
When he got up the next morning, he talked to everyone he met, and his words were so vivid that the mountain people thought he was bragging. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for neighboring villages to hear stories of big insects coming out of the mountains and biting cattle and sheep.
"When I went back to the house, I didn't find you opening your mouth. You were clearly sleeping deeply. I remembered this, so I lit a stick of incense at the door.
There is a saying that mountain drivers use incense to guide the way. If you wait until the incense goes out and you still don't wake up, I plan to ask the ginsengbangzi. "
Bai Qi's face was calm, which gave Bai Ming great stability. His heart, which was originally beating wildly and could not calm down, quickly adjusted and calmed down.
"No wonder when I entered Zhuangzi, I didn't feel confused at all, and I quickly found the right path."
Bai Ming suddenly realized that the state of his soul's night wandering was like traveling on a foggy day. Everything he saw was blurry, as if he was blind.
In this case, it is easy to lose direction and fall into the dilemma of trying to beat a wall.
"Brother, I saw a lot of 'immortal families' in Longkan Mountain. Master Zhuang, Uncle Huai, and the Bird Immortal are all good people! Those from the Fox King Temple and the Tiger Temple, they cannibalize people..."
Bai Ming was pouring beans out of the bamboo tube and excitedly talked about the bizarre encounter tonight.
"Mountain gods have spirits, and they are all different. That's how it turns out."
Bai Qi thought about what Adi said and it corroborated with what he had read in Dezhen Building.
"Longting collects the spirit machine. In places other than prefectures and prefectures, if you want to practice Taoism, you can only swallow miscellaneous energy?
Tsk tsk, what a domineering method, which is equivalent to controlling the lifeline of the ascetics. No wonder martial arts schools are blooming everywhere, but there are very few Taoist temples, and I have never heard of any powerful sects. "
This world has always been full of strange powers and chaos. Bai Ming was able to learn the secrets of alchemy without a teacher, which shows that he has some extraordinary talents. It is not surprising that he caused some abnormal things.
"We have to be careful in the future to avoid making mistakes."
Bai Qi warned him that it was his negligence this time. He didn't expect that the red paper incense ashes he got from worshiping the mountain spirit could make Adi's soul leave his body. He was ignorant of night walks and almost became the meal of the Fox King and Tiger King.
"Well, Que Xian told me that if you have the first experience, you will know what to do next time. The incense burned in the temple can protect the soul from being blown away by the wind.
She also said that to truly practice cultivation, one must first take bait and enter the state of samadhi to conceive the fetus, and only then can one try to emerge from the shell of the soul..."
Bai Ming didn't hide anything and confessed everything to his brother.
"Yes, the four steps of Taoist practice are to eat food, enter into samadhi, concentrate thoughts, and channel spirits to reveal the body.
But there are many ways inside, and I don't understand them yet. Since you have the qualifications to practice Taoism, I will help you find out more when you come to the county. "
Bai Qi rubbed Adi's head. He also wanted to embark on the path of Taoism and magic. After all, that was the ability to cultivate immortality.
Who doesn’t want to live forever, fly into the sky and escape from the earth?
It's just that you have to be down-to-earth as a person. It's easy to stumble if you are too ambitious.
Since Taoist arts are only available in county towns, there is no point in acting too hastily.
Moreover, as far as we know so far, the master martial artist who combines four trainings into one does not seem to be afraid of the Taoist official.
"Anyway, martial arts and Taoist arts are not in conflict. If you stand up and nourish your energy and blood, you will have the opportunity to come into contact with them sooner or later."
Listening to Brother's explanation, Bai Ming felt very at ease, as if he was not afraid of the sky falling. He said with a silly smile:
"At the foot of the mountain, on the big tree pillar where Mr. Zhuang is sitting, there is cooked Polygonatum sibiricum given by the Bird Fairy. Brother, remember to pick it up. Mr. Zhuang also asked me, do you want to be a mountain driver?"
Bai Qi was slightly surprised. He didn't expect that he could be photographed even though he was relatively unknown in Caishen Village.
Could it be that after the Holy Body of Innate Fishing, he could also become the Holy Body of Innate Hunting Mountain?
"Let's talk about this tomorrow morning. It's very tiring for the soul to wander through the night. Get some rest quickly and get enough sleep to recover."
Watching his brother climb onto the kang, Bai Qi tucked in the quilt, closed the door and windows and walked out of the house.
He walked to the foot of the mountain to the south of Caishen Village, and sure enough he saw a handful of pitch-black ripe Huangjing placed on a big tree pillar.
"It is sweet in taste, non-toxic, soothes the five internal organs, removes rheumatism, takes it for a long time to lighten the body and strengthen the body, and replenishes the essence and marrow."
Bai Qi is no stranger to this substance due to the effectiveness of herbal medicine skills. It is called "fairy food" in many medicine books.
"I also know that the bird fairy is very particular about nine steaming and nine drying. He is not a monster who has lost his mind."
No matter whether Polygonatum japonica is eaten raw or used as medicine, the effect is not as good as steaming and drying. Only through repeated processing can this rare substance be transformed from raw to cooked.
Make it soft in texture, oily and glutinous, and swallow it directly to keep your appearance.
"Thank you Lord Zhuang for protecting my brother, and thank you Fairy Bird for giving me the precious medicine."
Bai Qi knew etiquette well and bowed to the big tree pillar and the dark Longkan Mountain respectively.
He didn't have the ability of his brother to emerge from his soul, and he couldn't see the transformed forms of these mountain spirits.
He put away the handful of cooked Huangjing worth hundreds of taels, turned around and walked through the night back to the ginseng harvesting village.
Five hundred miles of mountain road, in the very deep place, the sky is covered with black ink and the sun is blocked. A half-dead giant tree that has been struck by lightning leans on the mountain.
The soft branch floats gently, as if moving with the wind.
On the other side of the mountain, scales as big as millstones scraped against the rocks, making a harsh sound like gold and iron.
The miasma is billowing, and the huge black shadow is looming, coiling around the high cliff, swallowing the moonlight.
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The next day, the sun had not yet peeked out, so Xia Tou thought he had woken up early.
But outside the wide open door, brothers Bai Qi and Bai Ming were already standing in the courtyard.
"You are so talented and so hard-working, how can people like us survive!"
Xia Tou suddenly became anxious. He originally wanted to stay in bed for a while to warm the bed, but his buttocks bounced up and he hurriedly put on his clothes and shoes.
"Why don't you call me when you are practicing! It's too much. You are so sneaky and diligent that you let me sleep!"
Bai Qi swallowed slowly and stopped his posture.
The Golden Elixir Strengthening Gong, improved by Ning Haichan, seems to be even more effective in nourishing muscles and strengthening qi and blood.
He felt refreshed and breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling his mouth full of fragrance:
"There is a bowl of porridge on the stove."
Xia Tou rubbed his empty belly. He had been eating a lot of meat recently and felt that his appetite had obviously increased:
"Ah Qi, I'm afraid I won't be full, so I'd better go out and buy two drawers of meat buns. Let's share a few. It just so happens that I make a lot of money collecting herbs these days. I'll treat you!"
Bai Qi shook his head and said:
"You finish your drink first and then talk."
The shrimp head obeyed and did as he was told, finishing it in a few mouthfuls.
Not long after, he exclaimed:
"Hey, why am I so warm? It's so hot and itchy. My whole body is starting to feel hot!"
Bai Qi pointed out:
"Hurry up and stand up according to the Songshan Gate method."
Xia Tou didn't know why, and he resisted the strange feeling of his blood boiling, and began to hold his horse back and wave his fists and feet.
After about half the stick of incense passed, the fine oil mixed with the dripping sweat formed layers of sticky dirt, covering his arms, chest and back.
"Cooked Polygonatum is indeed a rare medicine. For those with poor physical constitution, it has almost a magical effect of cutting hair and cleansing marrow."
Bai Qi followed his younger brother Bai Ming to watch the fun. The two of them had more nutrients in their bodies than the shrimp heads, and their piling techniques were excellent and their foundation was thick, so they could withstand the power of cooked Huangjing.
It didn't show such an intuitive scene.
"It's time to hold on to your energy and blood! Ah Qi, I've made a breakthrough!"
The shrimp head didn't care about the stinking mess, he danced happily and ran towards Bai Qi who was retreating.
"Hey hey hey! Don't come over here!"
Before he could be happy for a long time, Zhu Ling'er suddenly opened the courtyard door and was about to step in.
Suddenly her beautiful eyebrows frowned, as if she smelled something, and her bright eyes turned to the shrimp head who seemed to have just crawled out of the manure pit.
"sorry for disturbance."
This high-ranking lady from Yihai County hid her face and retreated in a hurry.
The shrimp's head froze there as if struck by lightning, as if its face was ashen.
"Go and wash yourself off. Think on the bright side. At least you have succeeded in making Miss Zhu remember you."
Bai Qi tried to hold back his smile and consoled him.
