The few people were quite happy to meet each other and sat down at a beautiful pavilion by the river. The river here flows slowly, and fish jump out of the water from time to time and swim upstream.
In Song Xin's time, the Yangtze River was seriously polluted, and it was rare to see such a large group of fish. At this time, the river water is as dark green as emerald. Among the fish, you can also see groups of more than a dozen white dolphins disappearing and appearing, feasting on the fish.
Ge Xuan saw Song Xin looking at the Yangtze River in trance, and asked: "Little friend Song, have you never seen Chi?"
Song Xin came back to his senses and said, "Indeed, this is the first time we have met."
Ge Xuandao: "Well, this big Baiji fish is unique in the river. Because it can rescue people who fall into the water, the residents along the river respect it like a goddess. Every March, they will throw small fish in as a sacrifice to seek protection. .”
"That's it." In Song Xin's time, the baiji dolphin was already on the verge of extinction. No one cares that these lovely creatures have been protecting people on both sides of the Yangtze River like goddesses for thousands of years.
Ge Xuan sat down gently and asked, "Are some of my friends from the north?"
Mo Yang said: "Well, we came from the north of Jiangxia and came here specifically to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River and eat some delicacies of the south of the Yangtze River. I wonder why the immortal is here?"
"Haha, even though there is a war at this time, it is rare for a few of you to be so elegant. I don't want to take care of the trivial matters in the sect, so I just went out to play, and I happened to meet you here."
After that, Ge Xuan waved his sleeves, and a long table appeared in the pavilion. Then he waved again, and a tea set was placed on the table.
"How about tasting Lao Chan's fragrant tea? Since we are here in Jiangnan, Lao Chan should show his friendship as a landlord. I don't have anything else. I can only share the fragrant tea."
"That's great, thank you Ge Xianweng." Song Xin and the other three hurriedly thanked him.
Ge Xuan smiled and nodded, and began to make tea with his own hands. He first used his spiritual power to light a small stove that burned water, then took out a small tea cake, flicked it with his little finger, and a small piece of tea flew into a small stone mortar. He ground the tea leaves into powder with his own hands, poured it into a tea bowl, heated the water until it was 90% hot, rinsed it, and skimmed off the foam with a hairpin.
He touched the tea bowl with his hand, and the tea powder melted into the water and disappeared in an instant, leaving no trace of tea leaves in sight. There was only a bowl of green tea left. Then he poured the tea into four small tea bowls and distributed it to everyone. This process is very cumbersome and slow. Zhang Moyang and Zhang Xiuyang must have had tea before. They sat upright and were very patient and respectful.
Song Xin didn't know the rules. Seeing them sitting upright and saying nothing, he didn't dare to say a word and just watched silently.
"My friends, please." Ge Xuan said with a smile.
"Thank you Xianweng." Zhang Moyang and the two picked up the teacup, smelled it first, then took a small sip, and then put it down. Song Xin didn't understand the art of drinking tea, so he imitated the two of them at first, but later he didn't realize that they just took a small sip and then put it down. He thought they had drank it all, so he impatiently drank the tea in one gulp.
Later I saw that both of them picked it up, took a sip, put it down again, and drank the rest of the tea for the last time.
Ge Xuan didn't feel dissatisfied when he saw it. He laughed loudly and said, "Little friend Song Xin, this tea seems to be very suitable for you."
Zhang Moyang saw Song Xin drinking up the tea in one gulp, and realized that Song Xin didn't know the rules of drinking tea, so he smiled and said:
"Brother Song, when drinking tea, you should taste the bitterness in the first sip, leaving some in your throat to taste the bitterness of the tea. Then take another sip to taste the warmth of the tea. In the third sip, drink all the tea and taste the tea. It's so sweet. If you swallow it whole, you won't be able to taste the beauty of the tea."
"It seems that little friend Mo Yang is an expert in tea tasting." Ge Xuan said with a smile and twirling his beard.
"Ge Xianweng praised it. This tea is so delicious. I would rather taste it slowly."
"It turns out there are so many ways to drink tea. I'm really as rude as a cow. I drank it in one gulp and didn't taste anything." Song Xin said with a blushing face and scratched the back of his head.
Song Xin was a little embarrassed. In his previous life, he was from an ordinary family. How could he know so many rules and particularities about drinking tea.
"Haha, you just said I was a stupid cow. Look, you are the one." Zhang Xiuyang laughed.
"Little friend, it's okay, I'll just make you another cup." Ge Xuan smiled and didn't feel dissatisfied. He didn't mean to laugh at Song Xin, and patiently made another bowl according to the previous process.
This time Song Xin drank tea according to Zhang Moyang's method. After the first sip, he felt extremely bitter and felt that the tea was not delicious at all.
After waiting for a while, he took a second sip. This time, the water temperature has dropped, and the tea is warm and smooth in the throat, which is very comfortable and dilutes the bitter taste just now.
After taking the third sip, Song Xin finished the tea. This time, she actually felt it was slightly sweet.
"Well, little friend, did you realize anything from this?" Ge Xuan suddenly asked.
"Well, I can't explain clearly. It feels like when I first started practicing. When I first inhaled the mysterious energy in my body, it was extremely painful, just like this first sip of tea. When the energy merges with the true energy in the body, it feels like a sweet and bitter experience. The tea becomes a little warmer. It will be very painful before the Qi is gathered and pressed into the spiritual core. When the Qi is absorbed by the spiritual core, you will feel very comfortable. This is somewhat similar to drinking tea. It is bitter at first and then sweet. The process from bitter to sweet is like the process of cultivation, in which the body is nourished and strengthened. In my humble opinion, I am laughing at you."
"Brother Song is indeed a smart man, he can understand such meaning at once." Zhang Moyang praised.
"Song Xin, you directly let the true energy and mysterious energy fight in the meridians without the help of elixirs and talismans?" Zhang Xiuyang said in surprise.
Song Xin nodded, "Aren't you?"
"Song Xiaoyou, do you recognize Yu Ji?" Ge Xuan suddenly asked.
"I met an old Taoist priest who taught me this method when I was in a dark prison. I have been practicing this method without any problems, and I feel very comfortable."
Song Xin decided not to reveal the news about Yu Ji to outsiders.
Ge Xuan did not doubt his words, but laughed, "This is in line with his temper, haha. It seems that Yu Zhenren is still alive in the world."
"It turns out that Brother Song learned this method from Master Yu Ji. We really made a mistake."
Zhang Moyang was very surprised that Yu Ji entered the realm of real people earlier than his master Zhang Daoling.
"Brother Xiu Yang, Brother Mo Yang, how do you practice Qi?"
"The Qi training of our Wu Dou Rice Cult is similar to yours, except that after inhaling the Xuan Qi, we need the help of the Qi Nourishing Talisman so as not to damage the meridians. The final step of being absorbed by the spiritual core is the same as yours. Our teaching The inner nourishing qi talisman is the foundation and everyone can make it.”
Zhang Xiuyang said, taking out a few talismans engraved with strange patterns and handing them to Song Xin.
"It turns out that this is a qi-nourishing talisman." Song Xin looked at it and read the "Medical Divination Talisman Chapter" in the "Jade Seal Record" in the sea of consciousness. He found that this qi-nourishing talisman was recorded in it, and also recorded the production method and details. Material.
"It seems that the cultivation methods of monks in the world are really varied and different." Song Xin said, and at the same time, he secretly planned in his heart that if he could ask two people to make talismans in the future, he would have several more ways to save his life.
"Well, yes, Master Yu Ji once taught this method to Lao Chan. Lao Chan also tried it, but he gave up because he couldn't bear the pain. After all, Xuan Qi is an external thing and contains impurities. Inhaling it will cause damage to the body. The difference in the techniques of each sect lies in how to eliminate damage." Ge Xuan said with a smile.
"Later I switched to using elixirs to assist in Qi training. I finally found a path that suits me."
"That's it. Thank you for clarifying my doubts. I would like to ask, Ge Xianweng, how troublesome is it to refine this elixir?" Song Xin was curious. It's not that he hadn't checked the elixir department in "Jade Seal Record", but because of his cultivation level Not enough to view the steps and methods of alchemy.
Although there are alchemy scriptures that can be read, I can't understand the method of refining them, and I can't make elixirs at all. I happened to meet Ge Xuan, so I asked him for advice.
Ge Xuan said: "Since my little friend is asking, I don't want to hide my secrets. Refining elixirs requires the combination of the inside and the outside. The inside is the sea of spiritual core consciousness, and the outside is the elixir furnace, flame, materials, and elixir scriptures. The temperature of ordinary flame elixir refining If it is not enough, you need to use spiritual energy to help raise the temperature. If you use ordinary fire to make elixirs, not only will you not be able to extract the essence of yin and yang and the five elements in the materials, but you will also be poisoned.
Divine consciousness is to control the strange fire or Dantian fire, refine the essence of the five elements of various materials into liquid form, and then use the divine consciousness to blend them to form elixirs. In the past, some incompetent alchemists used ordinary fire to make elixirs for people to eat. As a result, the people who took the elixir not only had no effect, but ended up being poisoned and died. "
Song Xin suddenly realized, "That's it. No wonder I saw some elixir prescriptions. In the elixir scripture, many materials seemed to be highly poisonous. It turns out that spiritual energy is used to assist the flame to extract the essence of the five elements in the materials and neutralize the toxins. Listen to the old man It’s very difficult for me to say this, let alone the actual alchemy.”
"Well, that's how cultivation is. It's good for a monk to be proficient in one discipline." Ge Xuan said.
"I heard from the master that any practitioner who is proficient in alchemy will have a spiritual consciousness that is much higher than the spiritual core, and some can even surpass several realms. Only in this way can the alchemy fire be controlled smoothly," Zhang Moyang said.
"Immortal, what does this alchemy furnace look like? Is it big?" Song Xin was very curious.
"Alchemy furnaces can be big or small. If it is a magic weapon or a spiritual weapon, it can be changed as you wish." After saying that, he took out a small furnace the size of a dove egg from his arms. It looked very simple and exquisitely carved on the outside. Ge Xuan placed the single stove on the table and moved his spiritual energy to the tip of his finger, and the stove became one foot square.
"This is the alchemy furnace." Song Xin praised.
"Well, this is a spiritual weapon. It can change as you wish, and it can also make it as big as a hill." Ge Xuan laughed, shrank the alchemy furnace, and placed it in his hand.
Song Xin was wondering when he would be able to obtain such a spiritual weapon. But thinking about it, even if I encounter it, it will definitely be worth a lot of money, and I don’t have the money to buy it.
The three of them were chatting when a large group of people came behind them. They turned around and saw that it was Sun Hao and his group that they had met in the shop before.
When she saw a few people here, she took only two maids and rode over.
"Mr. Mo Yang, I didn't expect to meet again so soon."
