On the top of Baiyun Mountain, the sun rises
Grandma walked out of the cave slowly, her face solemn.
She has been in this county for half a year, and the second-level high-grade spiritual veins of the Zhao family on Baiyun Mountain are freely available to her, but her magic power can no longer be increased.
She was at the peak of foundation building a long time ago.
It is a pity that the damaged consciousness has never been fully restored, leaving her with no possibility of advancing to the Purple Mansion.
Time passes quickly, and even monks will age.
Just now she felt faintly that her energy and blood were beginning to show signs of weakening.
If I can no longer find a way to repair the foundation, this is what I will do for the rest of my life.
She sighed softly, as if she had seen the beautiful and talented Shuimu girl from back then.
With the spiritual roots of water and wood, the Purple Mansion can be expected. The teacher at that time said this about her.
I hope Yue'er won't be like me, and I hope she will enjoy her fairyland forever. She thought silently in her mind.
At this time, a small figure in the distance was walking along the mountain road. Looking in this direction, it was right here.
She raised her breath and leapt forward, flying lightly.
"Little Shitou, you ran up the mountain early in the morning to find grandma?"
…
The child crawling on the mountain road was Yang Zhen. Two days had passed since the fight between her and Zhao Yue'er.
Yesterday, he was officially adopted by his wife as her adopted son.
The so-called formality actually means that an official from the county government came here and wrote on the replacement Yang Zhen's household registration that "in such and such a year and month, he was adopted by so-and-so", and then signed and pledged it, and the procedure was completed.
It's not very formal, and it can be modified at any time in the future. For example, if you add a sentence such as "In a certain month of a certain year, this son voluntarily became a servant," the identity of the adopted son will be invalidated. Of course, if you can step into the fairy gate, it will be a completely different story.
Yang Zhen also respectfully calls his wife "adopted mother", but this title is rarely used, and he usually calls his wife the same as everyone else.
He also learned his wife's name for the first time: Qin Wan, and also learned that he had a "foster father" whom he had never met before. This person's name is Zhao Xi. He is thirty-five years old this year. He is a mortal and a top three Jinshi in the Xu Dynasty. He is now an official in Qingzhou.
Zhao Xi has a more prominent status. The Zhao family has two major purple houses, and he is the only son of the Zhexi ancestor. More than thirty years ago, Master Zhexi was seriously injured in a battle with demons and lost all his cultivation. He took advantage of this opportunity to recruit concubines, and then he had Zhao Xi.
Qingzhou is far away from each other. According to the regulations of the Xu Dynasty, if you leave the state to serve as an official, you can visit relatives once every three years. Zhao Xi came back during spring break last year, so Yang Zhen will not see his adoptive father in the near future.
After being recognized as an adopted son, Yang Zhen's "job" in the mansion was also confirmed, and she was Zhao Yue'er's companion. Not only did he have to study geography, general history, literature, calligraphy, musical instruments, etc. with this little girl, he also had to practice martial arts together and act as a sparring partner.
This job is not easy to do, he complained secretly. He had realized that he was no match for this little girl, and he didn't know how many times he would be abused by her in the future. Thinking of this, his face twitched.
His monthly salary is twenty silver coins, which is about the same as Caisi.
However, his ability to make money is obviously unmatched by Cai Si. He will receive some reward money every night for telling stories, especially the day before yesterday, when the lady directly gave him a gold coin, which must have some meaning to make up for it.
In addition, after recognizing his adopted son yesterday, his wife gave him another ten gold coins. This was a commendation for his provision of the double-entry accounting method. In the future, this accounting method will be promoted, and there will be additional rewards.
In addition, he also has a reward from the Junguan, which is the income from the contribution of the spiritual vein. It is said that it will be a real estate in the county town. However, this is still going through the process, and it is not yet known when it will be available to him.
So he is really not short of money now, what he is short of is... spiritual stones!
There are only eight spirit drops left in the space. The little guy is about to run out of food. He has to find a way.
This is the purpose of coming to see grandma at this time.
…
Seeing her grandma suddenly appearing in front of her, Yang Zhen was surprised and happy, and she hurriedly saluted:
"Good morning, Mom. I have something I want to ask Mom for advice."
"Oh, what's the matter?"
Yang Zhen hurriedly took out a stack of paper from her arms.
"This is a set of body-building exercises. I would like to ask grandma to help me with the details."
What Yang Zhen took out was the [Five Elements Body Training Technique] recorded in the wood carving last time.
Grandma did not reach out to pick it up, but asked him strangely:
"Kung Fu? Where did you get the Kung Fu?"
"It's our Yang family's technique. I remembered it in the past two days."
"Oh, show me your Yang family's skills. Is it suitable?" She smiled slightly.
In the world of cultivating immortals, it is taboo to spy on other people's skills. Naturally, Nanny had to ask clearly, even if the person in front of her was just a child.
"Of course it's okay. Without my grandma's guidance, I wouldn't know how to practice this technique." Yang Zhen answered without hesitation.
"Um."
Grandma then took the paper from Yang Zhen's hand, scanned it roughly, and suddenly her eyes widened:
"This technique of yours can actually increase the probability of spiritual roots manifesting!"
She was no longer calm, and with a wave of her hand, a chair appeared on the grass. She sat on it and looked at it carefully.
"It can indeed be improved, probably..." She knocked on the table: "It's about 10% to 30%. Ordinary people are 10%. If they are the sons of female cultivators, they can reach 30%."
"But..." She frowned slightly: "This medicinal bath only contains Scorpion King Grass and Qingyan Sand, which requires five spiritual stones, as well as these food supplements, Mountain Rat, Fire Rock Rabbit... These add up..."
Grandma shook her head, quite disappointed: "This set of techniques of yours will cost a lot of spiritual stones!"
"Mommy, didn't you say that those big families would be willing to pay any amount of money if they could cultivate a seed for cultivating immortals." Mammy quickly saw the problem with this technique, and Yang Zhen was not surprised.
"Yes, they are willing to spend money, but you have too much!" Mammy counted on her fingers: "Increase the rate to 10%. According to my estimate, the number of spiritual stones is at least 100! That's enough for ten people. one thousand!"
"It takes one thousand spirit stones to produce one immortal cultivator. Those big families who raise a thousand adopted sons only need three to five thousand gold a year, which is three to five hundred spirit stones. Your difference is three to five times!"
"More importantly, spiritual stones are far more precious than gold and silver and are harder to obtain. With these thousand spiritual stones, wouldn't it be better to train a monk in the family well?"
Yang Zhen already understood these truths. But when grandma said this, he became a little worried. She wouldn't object to me practicing this technique, would she?
After thinking for a while, he simply said bluntly:
"Mommy, I want to practice this technique."
"You..." Grandma stared at Yang Zhen: "Have you considered how many spiritual stones it will cost?"
"I have considered it," Yang Zhen said without hesitation: "This technique requires a total of nine hundred spirit stones in three stages, of which the second stage requires about one hundred and fifty spirit stones."
"One hundred and fifty spirit stones, for you, you are not short of this amount of spirit stones," Mammy sighed: "Then you can practice. If the spirit stones are not enough, I still have more than four hundred of your spirit stones here. Shi, just look for me when the time comes."
With the support of her mother-in-law, Yang Zhen's biggest goal has been achieved. He just needs his grandma's endorsement so that he can get his spiritual stone back from his wife.
Seemingly seeing what Yang Zhen was thinking, Grandma continued:
"Since you need spiritual stones, I will tell your adoptive mother to give them to you. Also, if you go to the market to purchase these spiritual objects, I will also find a monk to accompany you."
"Thank you, mama. However, I can't help the monks in the mansion with my own affairs. Now that I have the identity token of the Zhao mansion, I believe that the safety of buying things in Fangshi is guaranteed."
Yang Zhen naturally didn't want anyone to accompany him, otherwise how could he save the spirit stone and give it to Xiaocao?
"That's fine. If a store bullies you, or passes it off as inferior, just tell me, and then grandma will personally go to help you get justice!"
With Mammy's words, Yang Zhen felt reassured.
"Please help me, grandma, to find out what I need to pay attention to when practicing this technique." Yang Zhen continued.
"good."
At this time, the sky was already bright, and Grandma took the body-building technique and continued to study it carefully. Yang Zhen stood aside and waited quietly.
After a while, grandma put down the exercise:
"There are two questions. First, are these Five Elements Spiritual Beasts used as food supplements recommended by the practice itself, or are they added by you yourself?"
"Most of them are examples in the exercises, but some of them are not seen in the market, so I added them myself according to the five elements."
"You boy, you are so ignorant and fearless," said the nanny with a smile: "The five elements are mutually reinforcing and restraining each other, and the balance here is difficult to grasp. If you choose the wrong spiritual beast, problems will arise. For example, you, the Fire Rock Rabbit, although you are a Fire Rabbit, system, but sometimes earth-type variants appear, so you must pay attention.”
"Let's do this. I'll help you draw up a new list of five-element monsters, all of which are found in Shuyang County."
Yang Zhen was overjoyed and quickly thanked her.
"Second question, the most important thing about this technique is actually the exercise. I don't think you wrote it down in it. Do you still remember it?"
"Remember, there are a total of thirteen exercises in this set of gymnastics. I have learned the first four exercises. Although I don't know the next nine exercises, I have not forgotten the key points of the map."
There are thirteen exercises in this exercise, the first four of which need to be learned in the first stage. In the second stage, you need to learn three more postures, and the last stage is six postures.
The day before yesterday, Yang Zhen found out that he had completed the first phase of training, so she tried it after returning home, and sure enough, she found that he could also do the first four exercises of gymnastics.
"That's good. You can practice the first four postures for me to see."
"This..." Yang Zhen said hesitantly: "The technique says that you need to eat monster beasts first, and then you can perform this set of gymnastics with the flesh and blood spiritual energy provided by monster beasts. Otherwise, it will damage the muscles and bones in the body."
"You kid, sometimes you think too much. If you are asked to demonstrate, just do it." Grandma was slightly unhappy.
Yang Zhen had no choice but to demonstrate, with his eyebrows furrowed and his limbs constantly twisting up and down, back and forth, somewhat like Indian yoga.
With these movements of his, you can clearly feel that every muscle and joint is being stretched until the body is stretched to the extreme.
Soon, Yang Zhen's muscles began to ache, her body couldn't help shaking, and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
At this moment, a cool breath suddenly came in from the shoulder. As this cool breath filled the whole body, the aches and pains disappeared one after another.
Yang Zhen turned around and saw that one of her nanny's hands was resting on his shoulder.
"This cool feeling must be spiritual energy." He seemed to realize something.
He continued to perform the exercises. At this time, he no longer had the uncomfortable feeling just now. His whole body was full of joy, as if he was feeling unfinished after playing a football game.
After finishing the exercise, Mammy continued to press her hands on his shoulders. After a while, she let go and said, "This technique is indeed wonderful. Part of the spiritual energy is absorbed by your flesh and blood."
Mortal flesh and blood cannot absorb and hold spiritual energy. It must be washed over and over again through the movement of spiritual roots.
"With this technique, even if a mortal without spiritual roots exercises every day, his physical fitness will eventually reach the level of a Qi-training monk, and his lifespan will be the same as that of a Qi-training monk."
"But, again, it's too expensive. Either eat the flesh and blood of monsters every day, or you need a monk to pour spiritual energy into him every day to practice."
"Those who can use this set of techniques can only be those big families that particularly value the inheritance of their children. It seems that your ancestors of the Yang family have a good inheritance!" Mammy finally said with emotion.
PS: The plot of being adopted as an adopted son was originally written in one chapter, but was later deleted. Writing it this way now can make the novel more concise.
