Li Jian has been accustomed to meditating in a pavilion on a hillside these days. It is relatively quiet and the scenery is very good, so he likes that pavilion very much.
In the afternoon of this day, Li Jian had been practicing for several days. When he was closing his eyes, he heard the sound of footsteps approaching him from far and near. When he listened carefully, he found that there were quite a few people, seven or eight of them. many.
When he opened his eyes, he saw that it was indeed the case. Eight young men from the valley were coming towards the pavilion where he was, many of them tall and sturdy.
Several people came closer and ignored Li Jian. A big man in the lead turned his face and asked, "Is it him?"
A young man in the crowd said: "That's him!"
"Hmph!" The leading young man looked at Li Jian. He and Li Jian did not come in the same carriage. Naturally, he did not know how powerful Li Jian was, not to mention that there were many people here, so he glanced at Li Jian up and down with disdain. He opened his eyes and said, "Go and take revenge. If he dares to fight back, we will teach him a lesson together!"
Li Jian smiled bitterly in his heart. There were only three people in the crowd opposite him who he remembered. Knowing that it was still the grudge they had made in the bronze carriage that day, he stood up from where he was sitting cross-legged without answering.
There were three teenagers in the crowd standing in front of Li Jian. The first one looked at Li Jian, smiled maliciously and said, "You have one too..." At the same time, he slapped Li Jian on the cheek.
What he wanted to say was "You have today too!"
There was a crisp sound of "Pah!" and the young man was seen spinning backwards and falling backwards. When he fell to the ground, he covered his cheeks and yelled at Li Jian in disbelief: "How dare you..."
What he wanted to say this time was "How dare you hit me!"
The group of teenagers were a little panicked when they saw this. Most of them didn't see clearly how their companions were slapped in the face. The young man at the head was very embarrassed, but he still didn't believe that eight people could not defeat one person, so he cursed: "You've gone too far! You have a father and no mother, see if I don't deal with you!"
Li Jian's parents died when he was young. The young man's scolding him really hurt him. He couldn't help but look cold and walked straight towards the young man.
The cloud sign sounded, and it was dinner time again.
Tang Ping and Yan Xuan were sitting together. She was flipping the vegetables in front of her carelessly with her chopsticks, but she was silently counting the people eating in Chunxiang Hall. She was counting in her mind that it was more than 20 days ago, and that money The boy always either didn't come for lunch or dinner. Even if he came, he would always be in a hurry and leave immediately after eating.
It can be seen from the boy's face that his practice does not seem to be going so smoothly. With his intelligence, it is impossible for the "Jade Sea Sutra" to defeat him, so the problem can only come from actual practice.
This practice is not difficult at all, especially in the current stage of body training, as long as you follow the steps step by step.
Only the spiritual root is the real key. If the spiritual root is poor, it will be difficult. Now it seems that Qian Chao's problem should be his spiritual root. What method should be used for this spiritual root difference?
This is really difficult to deal with. It is too difficult to make up for the innate shortcomings the day after tomorrow. Let alone myself, looking at the entire spiritual world, I have not heard of any method that can help people repair their spiritual roots out of thin air. Alas! It’s so difficult.
Just as she was thinking about it, she saw a figure move at the door of Chunxiang Hall and someone came in. She looked over and saw that it was not Qian Chao, but Li Jian who was taller than Qian Chao. She saw Li Jian walking steadily towards an empty table. In the past, he was meticulous about the case, but today there were some green grass mud marks on his robe.
After the two girls finished their dinner, they walked out together. When Tang Ping stood up, she realized that there were more empty food tables in Chunxiang Hall today than usual, and it seemed that the big guy named Lu Pingchuan was not here either. Tang Ping really wanted to help this Qian boy. After all, there were not many people in the whole valley who could say a few words. Except for Sister Yan around him, the only one left was probably that boy. I hope he can live this life. Shut it down, otherwise no one will quarrel with you in the future.
Yanxuan let Tang Ping hold her arm. She glanced at Tang Ping secretly. With her daughter's delicate thoughts, she could feel that this girl had something on her mind, which made her a little worried. However, Tang Ping didn't tell her that she was worried. It’s not good to ask rashly, hey! Forget it, let's see if this girl is still like this in a few days, I'll have to ask myself what's going on.
At this time, in the mountain forest far away from Chunxiang Hall, a bonfire was burning under the dusk. Lu Pingchuan and Qian Chao were sitting in front of the fire. On the fire were several roasted and steaming pheasants. , while Qian Chao grabbed a roasted rabbit leg and gnawed it. He looked like he was starving. He ate without any appearance, and his face was greasy. Even Lu Pingchuan found this look funny. .
Finally, after finishing one rabbit leg, Qian Chao calmed down, but he still didn't seem full, so he used his hands to tear off the other roasted hind leg of the rabbit.
Lu Pingchuan also tore a roasted pheasant in his hand. He looked at Qian Chao's eating appearance and secretly thought that this gentle little brother must be starving to have such an eating appearance, so he asked: "Brother Qian, what are you doing these days?" You keep running outside, what are you busy with?"
"I've been going to the Little Lotus Lake every day lately."
"Little Lotus Lake? I seem to have heard people talking about it, but it doesn't seem close. What are you doing there?" Lu Pingchuan asked curiously.
"It's quite far. One round trip a day is enough. I only ate a few wild fruits there at noon. I thought about rushing back in the evening, but it turned out to be too late. If I hadn't met you, Brother Lu, I would have been hungry all night again. ”
"I also want to go there and have a look. There are no big things around here, just rabbits and pheasants. There should be some good things there if it is farther away. But then again, is there anything interesting for you to do there?"
Qian Chao raised his head and looked at Lu Pingchuan. This Brother Lu was a good person. In the vague thought in his heart, Brother Lu was a good candidate. However, his practice still had not improved at all. If he took it seriously If you can't practice cultivation, how can you care about anything else?
Alas, if you don’t have enough clothes to cover your body or enough food to eat, don’t rush to help others.
However, he still said to Lu Pingchuan: "Brother Lu, I went to Little Lotus Lake for the purpose of practicing. To be honest with Brother Lu, my qualifications are really very poor and I can hardly practice, so now I am looking for a place , if I can find that place, there will be hope for my practice. If I can’t find it, it will be troublesome, and I have to... continue to search."
"Where? How about I search with you tomorrow? It's faster for two people to search than alone." Lu Pingchuan said.
"It's hard to find!" Qian Chao sighed, "I used the stupidest method, which is to find a place to meditate and practice for a while. If the place is right, you can feel it when you practice. Unfortunately, We haven’t found it yet, but if we find it, then we can get twice the result with half the effort by practicing in that place!”
"Um...how many times did you say?"
Qian Chao then remembered that Brother Lu probably didn't know a few characters, so he said: "It will be very beneficial to practice there after you find that place, and it will be much faster than practicing in other places."
"Oh, that's it." Lu Pingchuan finally understood, but he didn't care about the practice. "Well, I don't care about what you practice. At worst, I will return to my Lujiazhuang after this year. Huh, The old man must have been lying to me. He coaxed me here with two glasses of wine, and said that... this place is so good, but I think it’s nothing more than that!"
Qian Chao raised his head and looked at Lu Pingchuan in surprise and said, "One year? Brother Lu, that's not right. That day, Senior Brother Guan listened to what Tao Pavilion said that if he could not enter the inner gate after one year, he would enter the outer gate. He stayed at the outer gate. Five years. If you are still unable to practice Qi in these five years, you will be sent back to your hometown. If you don’t want to practice, you will not be able to go back until six years at the earliest. Don’t you know?"
"Ah!" Lu Pingchuan panicked at this moment, "Why is it six years, not one year? Cough! Just say that old guy can't be trusted, and it really hurts me. There will be five years after one year, why didn't I hear it? , Did I fall asleep at that time? Oh no, no!"
Qian Chao couldn't help but shook his head after hearing this, secretly thinking that if he could find the place, he would definitely pull Brother Lu and force him to practice hard. Although this person was not very bright, he was still a very interesting person.
"By the way, Brother Lu, where are the feathers of your pheasant?" Qian Chao suddenly asked.
"Pull it out and throw it away. What do you want it to do? Oh, over there." Lu Pingchuan pointed in the direction.
Qian Chao nodded and would go and pick up a few pieces to take with him later.
"Oh, by the way, Brother Qian, have you offended anyone in this valley?" Lu Pingchuan, who was chewing chicken, suddenly thought of something and said to Qian Chao.
"Oh?" Qian Chao heard something in his heart and immediately asked, "What happened?"
"Well, it's nothing serious. You often run out these days. A few times when I woke up late, I saw a few boys sneaking around your house and peeking in through the doors and windows. I was I scolded them a few times and then ran away. I don’t seem to have seen those guys recently.”
Qian Chao nodded. If he had ever offended anyone in Youminggu, there was only one Qin Suijie who he had severely offended on the bronze carriage. Hearing what Brother Lu said, he was 80% offended by him. It's this person. It turns out that Mr. Qin has never forgotten himself! It seems that I still need to be more careful in the future.
"I did offend someone, but not in the valley, but on the way here." Qian Chao then told Lu Pingchuan what happened on the bronze carriage, but included Tang Ping's part in it. Part of it is hidden.
"So that's what happened. I don't like these guys either. They are a bunch of male and female birds. I will help you get rid of them next time you meet them."
Speaking of which, Qian Chao had been working very hard these days. That night, he felt that there was no hope for his spiritual practice, so he wanted to open the red-covered book that his ancestor Qian Shoulin had given him before he left, and read it, preparing to learn from it. An ancestor’s way of practice.
However, the cabinet was opened and the bundle was untied. He looked at the red-covered book in the bundle but felt very unwilling to do so.
It’s only been a few days, are we about to give up?
I usually pride myself on being extremely smart, but is there nothing I can do now?
Qian Chao is usually either naughty or well-behaved and clever, but in fact his character is quite similar to his father, and he is very stubborn at heart. In the end, the stubbornness in his heart gained the upper hand, and he stretched out his hand without opening the book. I tied the furoshiki again and closed the cabinet.
But who would have thought that after another few days of practice, I was still the same as before, trapped by my own spiritual roots and qualifications, sitting there for several days without making any progress. What followed was that the persistence in my heart disappeared bit by bit.
Opening the cabinet again and unpacking the baggage, Qian Chao hesitated again. He was not a hesitant person, but this matter was related to his evaluation of himself, so he was still struggling in his heart.
Not convinced!
I tied the baggage again, closed the cabinet, lay on the bed and fell into a deep sleep after being angry with myself in the middle of the night.
However, no matter how angry he is with himself, there is no way to remedy his poor spiritual roots. Some innate shortcomings cannot be solved by being violent.
A few days later, Qian Chao tried various methods and was really desperate. His body was like a piece of rotten wood, and he would not have the slightest reaction to the Jade Sea Scripture. He was really anxious. Red eyes and sores in the mouth.
Standing in front of the cabinet in his room for the third time, Qian Chao struggled with persistence and compromise in his heart for a long time. Finally, he thought that he only had one year in Youming Valley, and one year would pass in the blink of an eye. If he couldn't practice, would he really be able to practice? Do you want to go to the outer door?
Thinking of this, Qian Chao finally unpacked the baggage, but when facing the red-covered book, he struggled in his heart: after this first time, there will be a second time. This time my ancestor's book might be able to help me, but what about in the future? The ancestor can only help him this time. Shouldn't he have to look for help everywhere when he encounters difficulties that he can't solve in the future?
Everything is difficult at the beginning. You will be defeated at the beginning, so how can you muster up your energy in the future?
Finally, he reached in, but what he took out was not the red-covered book, but another one.
After all, he is still a person who refuses to admit defeat. However, during this long night, he was unable to sleep due to the turmoil in his heart. He might as well read this book that his ancestors said he could read to relieve his boredom. The practice will be done tomorrow. continue.
The cover of this book is made of blue silk, and on it are the words "Notes of the Five Spirits" handwritten by my ancestor named Qian Shoulin.
The contents recorded in the book are very miscellaneous and scattered. It can be seen that Qian Shoulin had nothing to do after returning to the Qian family from Wuling Sect and wrote down whatever came to his mind. Qian Chao read very quickly, and silently broke down the details for this ancestor in his heart.
In his opinion, Qian Shoulin's main records are divided into three categories: first, detailed records of various rules and taboos within the Wuling Sect; second, Qi refining disciples' requirements to earn more things called "spiritual stones". Go to a place called "Jingshiyuan" in the sect to receive the mission. Most of the records here are where Qian Shoulin has been to do missions for the Jingshiyuan over the years, what each property has, how much it is worth, and what the risks are. ; The third is a record of how he was injured.
After reading this, Qian Chao knew that his ancestors deeply hated a man named Yin Kuang.
This Yin Kuang, Qian Shoulin and three Qi Refining monks went out to do errands for Jingshiyuan. As a result, they encountered danger on the way back. They encountered a monster called "Red Mandrill". This kind of monster was so ferocious that the five of them could not defeat it. When the red mandrill attacked, Yin Kuang was in the most dangerous situation. Qian Shoulin couldn't bear to kill his companions at the mouth of the monster, so he went to rescue him. Unexpectedly, Qian Shoulin came to rescue him. After Yin Kuang escaped from danger, he and three other monks saw that Chi Mandrill was invincible, so they abandoned their money and Shoulin and ran away independently! Helpless, Qian Shoulin had no choice but to fight with the red mandrill. He was seriously injured all over his body and finally escaped with his life. However, he came back seriously injured, and the Dantian was the most seriously injured. This path of cultivation has come to an end. After the master's efforts were fruitless, he asked the master in desperation to return to the Qian family.
Seeing Qian Chao here, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It seemed that this good man really didn't do it casually. Thinking of this, he also wondered what he would do if he had to work for Na Jingshiyuan in the future and encountered danger outside? After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't help but scold myself for being stupid. I haven't even scratched the surface of my own cultivation yet yet I think so far ahead. What's the use?
The rest of the records were some anecdotes that Qian Shoulin had seen and heard from others over the years in the sect, which were quite interesting.
Among them, what interests Qian Chao the most is Qian Shoulin’s record about spiritual veins. This spiritual vein is the foundation of spiritual practice. Although monks’ practice is to absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, this spiritual energy can be found everywhere in the world. But the spiritual vein is where the spiritual energy is thicker than anywhere else.
For example, there are famous mountains and rivers all over the world. In short, they are mountains and water veins. This spiritual energy naturally also has spiritual veins, but they are elusive and hard to find.
According to Qian Shoulin's records, the Wuling Sect is a rare place where spiritual veins gather. From what people say, it seems that five major spiritual veins converge here. Therefore, the seniors of the Wuling Sect established a business here after knowing this treasure place. The sect established its sect, and as a result, numerous talents emerged within the sect, including countless high-level monks.
Qian Shoulin has not personally experienced the benefits of this spiritual vein, but he records in his book that monks can open caves to live in after building the foundation. If a cave can be built based on a spiritual vein, then among them The benefits are endless when you practice it. However, Qian Shoulin in the book also said that most of the spiritual veins gathered in the Five Spirit Sect seemed to be Dakinist spiritual veins, and only high-level monks of the five sects in the sect could use them.
Qian Shoulin's spiritual roots seemed to be similar to Qian Chao's. He had made little progress after years of hard training, so naturally he was no longer connected to his spiritual veins.
However, when Qian Shoulin recorded the benefits of spiritual veins to monks, he said something that made Qian Chao's heart beat.
"Meng Tong can also receive the wonders of spiritual veins." Isn't this what Meng Tong is referring to, isn't he his own disciples who are training in Youming Valley? When Qian Chao saw this, he confirmed this by comparing it with the book.
But, where could he find this spiritual vein? He shook his head.
Continuing to read, Qian Shoulin also recorded that in addition to the Five Spirit Sect, there are several small places where spiritual veins gather in the surrounding area. There are also several places listed at the back. It seems that these are the places where small spiritual veins gather. Qian Chao looked at the place names one by one, and they were all unfamiliar. However, when he saw a place name, Qian Chao felt his heart pounding against his chest several times.
Little Lotus Lake.
Isn't Xiaolianhua Lake near Youming Valley? How come there is actually a place where spiritual veins gather?
Qian Chao raised his head from the book and turned his head in the room to look in the direction of Little Lotus Lake.
There are spiritual veins there, there are spiritual veins there!
The wonders of spiritual veins can be received by Meng Tong!
But how to find the spiritual veins? Qian Chao flipped through the book in his hand and found out. In the record of Qian Shoulin going out to work for the Jingshiyuan, he recorded some "Senior Brother once said that the place where the spiritual veins run should be in response to the light fish." By visual inspection, if there is light in the fish's eyes, it is a spiritual vein. If there is no corresponding light, you can also test it with a feather. If the feather hangs without falling, it should be a spiritual vein."
Seeing this, Qian Chao was a little confused. If he could find spiritual veins in this way, why didn't his ancestor Qian Shoulin go find a place to practice spiritual veins? Still a Qi-refining monk after more than a hundred years?
With these questions, Qian Chao continued to read Qian Shoulin's "Notes of the Five Spirits". Finally, he realized that it was not that his ancestor had never looked for spiritual veins, but that he had no intention of looking for them at all. Qi refining disciples, outside of their daily practice within the sect, put almost all their thoughts on how to get a few more spiritual stones and elixirs. Speaking of practice, the spiritual energy in the Five Spirit Sect is enough for the disciples to practice. , no longer need to spend time looking for that elusive and elusive spiritual vein.
The so-called spiritual veins are places where spiritual energy is rich and continuous, just like mountains and water veins.
The distribution of spiritual veins is like the wind that we see every day. For example, in a certain place, the south wind blows all year round. When will this south wind pass through this place every year, the strength of the wind, and when will the wind stop? There are certain numbers, which can be noticed by people. It can also be recorded on paper and will basically not change. The same is true for this spiritual vein. It has to follow the same route for many years, but it is difficult for ordinary people except monks to know.
In addition, these spiritual veins are also divided into large and small ones. The large ones are like the so-called five major spiritual veins that converge into the Five Spirit Sect. The smaller ones are like the spiritual veins that converge into the Little Lotus Lake. As for the others, they are some details of the spiritual veins, such as a plant. A big tree has a trunk, branches, twigs and leaves. The trunk can be compared to the great spiritual vein of the Five Spirit Sect, the branches are the spiritual veins of the Little Lotus Lake, and the remaining twigs and leaves are the small spiritual veins.
When the wind passes by, the trunk does not move and the branches do not sway lightly. Only the twigs and leaves dance with the wind.
The spiritual veins Qian Shoulin mentioned are just small spiritual veins like twigs and leaves. These small spiritual veins come and go and are hard to find. If they can be found and made good use of, especially for low-level monks, The monks often benefit a lot.
Qian Chao put the book back into the bag, closed the cabinet, and lay on the bed. In the quiet night, his heart was as noisy as a market.
Little Lotus Lake actually has spiritual veins!
How far is Xiaolianhua Lake? It seems not far away, just over a mountain ridge.
Can I find it?
Of course you won't find it if you don't look for it.
How to find it? Where can I get it from Yingguang Fish Eye? Something I have never heard of. What does the fish look like? Are there any in the nearby river? Fishing net or fishing rod?
Feather? Can other bird feathers be used? How do I catch birds? It seems that I can catch birds with a net.
Eventually he fell into a deep sleep.
