In the next few days, Qian Chao appeared in the Little Lotus Lake every day.
The scenery of this small lotus lake is beautiful, but it is far away from the residences of everyone in the valley, so few people come here.
The lake here is blue, and it can be seen that although the lake is not wide, the lake is extremely deep. A small island in the lake is surrounded by five mountains. The mountain shapes are either rugged or round and graceful. They are Jianhenling, Chicao Mountain, Baiya Peak, Xiyue Tianchi and Tiaoquan Mountain.
The five mountains are positioned like the five petals of a lotus, surrounding the lake in the middle, and the island in the lake is the lotus pod at the stamen of the lotus, so the name of the island is "Lotus Island".
Youming Valley is located in a place where spring lasts all year round. The five hills and the lotus island in the lake are full of colorful mountain flowers.
When Qian Chao first arrived here, he couldn't help but secretly praise this place as a treasure land with excellent charm and refined scenery. However, he didn't care about the scenery here. He took a brief look at the distribution of the mountains near the Little Lotus Lake, and then began to search for the spiritual veins here.
His method is very simple, and his idea is even simpler. Since this Little Lotus Lake is a gathering place of spiritual veins and the lake is not big, then I will find places to meditate and practice by the lake. If I am in the spiritual veins, Then there will be visions that you can feel when you practice.
Unexpectedly, after many days of hard work, he meditated on the five surrounding mountains and the nearby lake. His movements almost drew a big circle around the lake, but still no visions occurred while practicing.
Later, he set his sights on the lotus island in the middle of the lake.
But what if he could get over? He tested the lake water with his hands and found that the lake water was actually cold at this time. In fact, it was useless to try. Qian Chao didn't know how to swim. In desperation, he had to continue to make plans on the five surrounding mountains. Many days passed.
These days, Qian Chao travels back and forth between Xiaolianhua Lake and Youming Valley. Although it is not particularly far away, for him, he can only make one round trip a day, and it is impossible to go back to Youming Valley for lunch. Otherwise, even if he did not consider his physical strength, he would still have to consider whether he had enough time to search by the lake. So after breakfast, he hurried to Little Lotus Lake and waited until noon to look for some near Little Lotus Lake. Eat wild fruits to satisfy your hunger, and then return to Youming Valley when the sun sets in the west, otherwise you will be hungry all night if you miss dinner.
He left late that afternoon, and he seemed to faintly hear the sound of Yunpai coming from the direction of Youming Valley. It seemed that he would be late to have dinner at Chunxiang Hall anyway.
Qian Chao originally thought he was going to be hungry, but when he was upset, he unexpectedly met Lu Pingchuan who was roasting game in the woods, which saved his stomach.
Qian Chao was still at Xiaolianhua Lake for the next few days, but as time passed, his heart slowly sank.
This spiritual vein is really hard to find. No wonder my ancestor didn't put much thought into it.
"It's really hard to find!" On this day, Qian Chao was sitting cross-legged on Jianhen Rock among the five hills. The mountain was not high and the lake was not big. He had searched all over this place these days.
"It is said in the book of our ancestors that spiritual veins can be divided into three types, those that travel in the air, those that travel on the ground and those that travel underground. The five spirit sects gather all spiritual veins of dakinism. Could it be that this is also the case in Little Lotus Lake? "?" He stood up and looked at the nearby mountains and waters, "I'm afraid it's underground, do you still have to dig a hole to find it?"
It's impossible to walk on the ground. Qian Chao has already searched all over this place.
If it is done underground, then Qian Chao can give up.
Now I can only bet that the small lotus lake gathers dakini spiritual veins, the kind that travel in the air.
But even if it is a spiritual vein traveling in the air, how to find it?
Qian Chao suddenly thought of a book he had read about the art of Kanyu when he was reading randomly at home. He was not very interested in the art of phase and earth, but some of the statements about mountains, water, and wind were quite interesting. Very impressive.
The person who wrote that book believed that these three are basically related to each other. A skilled Feng Shui master can roughly deduce the location of the water veins here by seeing the direction of the mountains, and what kind of wind often blows here can also roughly calculate. In other words, mountains, water and wind can be interrelated with each other. Since these three can be interrelated, will there be spiritual veins that are also interrelated? He stood on the top of the mountain and looked around, especially when he looked in the direction of Youming Valley, a suspicion arose in his mind.
The sun was shining brightly, and it was approaching noon. The two girls, Tang Ping and Yanxuan, had also finished their exercises and opened their eyes while sitting cross-legged.
The sun at this time was already blazing and dazzling, and ordinary people could not look directly at it, but in Yanxuan's view, the sun at this time was just a goose-yellow bright circle in the sky. The sun was also warm, and it did not feel dazzling at all when looking at it. No longer feeling surprised, he turned to look at Tang Ping who was stretching himself and asked: "A Ping, do those Qi-refining brothers really have to climb this mountain with much less effort than us?"
It turned out that the two women were chatting while climbing the mountain in the morning, and they said that Qi Refining disciples felt like taking a leisurely stroll on such a hill. Now, after these days of practice, Yanxuan's panting and weak legs when climbing mountains have long disappeared, which can't help but make her very pleasantly surprised.
Tang Ping laughed after hearing this, lowered her raised arms and said: "Sister Yan, what Qi Refining disciples need to learn at the beginning is the art of controlling the air. They can easily fly up such a hill. For advanced Qi Refining students, they can fly up easily. Disciples can also control their own spiritual weapons to fly up directly. In short, once you become a Qi Refining disciple, you will have fewer and fewer days of walking on your legs."
Yanxuan nodded, still quite fascinated by what Tang Ping described. Looking at Tang Ping again, she asked again: "We practice these days. You take me back and forth from one place in the morning to another in the afternoon. I never stay in one place for a whole day. You go up?" I also said once that the view of the small pavilion built on top of the waterfall is very nice, so why don’t you go there again?”
"What do you think?" Tang Ping replied.
"Let me guess, you are so busy with it, practicing is the second most important thing, as if you are looking for... looking for something?" Yanxuan was just guessing, but she was really not sure what Tang Ping was looking for. .
"Yes, Sister Yan, I do want to find something, but it's really hard to find. Well, I don't know if there is anything!"
"Aping, tell me what you are looking for, and we can look for it together."
"Haha, Sister Yan, we are just looking for it together!" Tang Ping said with a smile. Seeing Yanxuan's puzzled look, she added, "What I am looking for is the spiritual vein."
"Spiritual pulse? What is that?" Yanxuan asked in confusion.
"Sister Yan, we are just the body-refining disciples of the sect now. We are not considered real monks, but including us, those monks who refine qi and build foundations, there are also pill-forming monks like my sixth grandfather and even Higher-level monks and all of them practice cultivation. To put it simply, they absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth through practicing different mental methods. This spiritual energy is available everywhere in heaven and earth, but some places have more of it. It’s just that there are fewer places, and places with more spiritual energy are probably places with spiritual veins.”
Seeing that Yanxuan still didn't quite understand, Tang Ping stood up, pulled Yanxuan and said, "It's almost lunch, let's talk as we walk."
As she spoke, she stamped her feet and said, "There is a mountain at our feet. To put it simply, a mountain is a place where earth and rocks accumulate and rise from the ground. Look there." Tang Ping pointed to a small river shining in the sun at the foot of the mountain, " Where there is a lot of water, there is a river. Where there is not much water, people have to dig wells to find water, right?"
Tang Ping gestured to Yanxuan to look at the surrounding mountains, "Mountains are connected to each other. You see, they are next to each other. Although some are higher and some are lower, they are still connected together. These are mountains." "
"The same goes for water. Where there is plenty of water, it will become springs, streams, and then converge into rivers."
"The same is true for spiritual energy. Although there is spiritual energy everywhere in the world, there are always strong and weak ones. The connection between these strong spiritual energy is the spiritual vein."
"What does the spiritual vein look like and how can I find it?" Yanxuan asked.
"Spiritual veins have no appearance, Sister Yan, just like the wind. We see the wind because the branches and leaves of the trees are shaking, or the wind contains yellow sand and fallen leaves, so that we can see and hear it. Otherwise, we can only feel it when it blows by. arrive."
"Then how can I find the spiritual vein you mentioned?" Yanxuan asked.
"Aren't we looking for it?" Tang Ping smiled, "But this is a stupid way. Since the spiritual energy in the spiritual veins is rich, if we are in the spiritual veins, we can sense it as soon as we practice, just like drinking light If a drunkard accidentally drinks a glass of strong liquor, he will immediately choke, cough, turn pale, or even become drunk."
"When we practice in spiritual veins, we will obviously notice that it is different from usual times. At least the benefits should be much greater than usual. However, I have never practiced in spiritual veins. I have only heard about the various benefits of spiritual veins. , I don’t know what it feels like, and now I only have this stupid way to find the spiritual veins. Alas, now I really don’t know if there are spiritual veins in Youming Valley, ordinarily there should be."
"But, Sister Yan, with our two qualifications, we can still enter the inner gate even if we don't have the spiritual vein. If we can find the spiritual vein, it will be a good thing. If we can't find it, it won't matter."
Hearing this, Yanxuan said: "Aping, let me ask you, you didn't actually find this spiritual pulse for yourself, right?"
"Yes, if this spiritual vein is really found, it will be the icing on the cake for us, and it will be a timely help for that Qian guy." Tang Ping replied casually.
This surprised Yanxuan. She thought that Tang Ping would be coy in her answer when she asked such a question, but she didn't expect that she would answer so generously. Yanxuan couldn't help but ask again: "Oh, how do you say it?"
"Didn't you notice? For a long time, that boy's complexion has been off. He's been in a hurry, like a debt evader. You can't even see him during meals. I guess I can force him to do it. The only thing like this is practice. With that kid's intelligence, there will be no problem in understanding the scriptures. Then there is only one thing that bothers him. It must be that his poor qualifications lead to trouble in practice. If I can find This spiritual vein can be regarded as helping him. Alas, it is a pity that this spiritual vein is really difficult to find."
"The money tide..."
Before Yanxuan finished asking, Tang Ping understood what she meant and said: "We were together when we came here. Although there were many people in the car, there were not many people who could talk. It was very boring, but That kid is quite interesting. Not only does he have a lot of clever ideas, but he can also play chess well. Well, he just loves to tease people..."
Just as she was talking, Tang Ping suddenly noticed that there seemed to be another meaning in Yan Xuan's eyes when she looked at her. She immediately understood and was immediately embarrassed. She hurriedly said, "Hey, Sister Yan, don't think too much. That guy is still here." It doesn’t catch my eye, I just think he’s quite interesting!”
"Oh," Yanxuan chuckled and nodded, then tilted his head to look at Tang Ping, and said with a narrow smile, "Ah Ping... you are engaged to someone before!" As soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't bear it. Zhu Xian laughed.
This made Tang Ping extremely angry, her face flushed with embarrassment, and she said to Yanxuan: "Sister Yan...you...see if I don't tear your mouth apart." After that, he chased after her.
The two girls were making trouble all the way from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain when Yanxuan suddenly saw something. He stopped Tang Ping and said, "Aping, look over there, what are they doing?"
Tang Ping stopped her hand and looked in the direction indicated by Yanxuan. Sure enough, she saw from a distance a dozen teenagers surrounding three other teenagers. The tall teenager in the lead seemed to ask the three of them What's the boy? I don't know what the three boys said. I saw the tall boy suddenly slapped one of them on the face and knocked him to the ground. Immediately, the rest of the people started to attack the three boys among them. Started punching and kicking.
"Ah!" Yanxuan exclaimed, "They are fighting!"
"Sister Yan, that's not a fight," Tang Ping curled her lips as she looked at it, "that's a beating. In a fight, both sides hit each other at the same time."
"They... why are they like this?" Yanxuan was afraid to look at it. The three people who were beaten fell to the ground, but the group of people surrounding them kept beating the three people relentlessly. .
"What's so strange about this? It's not the bad habit of those children from aristocratic families. They are all domineering and causing trouble. Humph! They are just a bunch of people with nothing to see. Let's go." With that, Tang Ping took Yanxuan and prepared to leave.
"This is Youming Valley. Isn't there no one taking care of this matter?" Yanxuan asked.
"Who cares, those senior brothers from the sect? They are too lazy to care. As long as no one is killed, they will not care about these things."
"But if you hit someone like that, I'm afraid it will really break them."
"Sister Yan, what should we do? Is it possible that our two daughters will go to their house to fight with their gang of gangsters? Don't worry, they also have a sense of proportion. They are all trying to win by showing off their strength, and the fights are all about saving face. It's okay for one of them to give in. .”
"Oh! It's really scary!" Yanxuan said.
Tang Ping was about to tell Yanxuan that it would be the most scary when he joins the sect and walks in the world of cultivation. If there is animosity between monks and they fight each other outside, they will never end, but after thinking about it, it is okay. , so as not to frighten her.
The two girls continued to go down the mountain, turning along the mountain road and leaving the fight behind. However, after walking a few steps, Tang Ping grabbed Yanxuan and said, "I asked why there was a fight over there. It turns out that the real owner is here." , those who hit people are a bunch of brainless people, those with brains are hiding here to watch the fun, ugh!"
Yanxuan looked over and found a young man standing under a tree not far ahead with his hands behind his back. From the direction he was looking, he was looking at the group of people fighting over there.
Tang Ping took two steps forward and said loudly to the young man: "Master Qin! What's the point of watching other people fight? If a man is happy, he should fight him out with punches and kicks, and hide here far away What’s the taste of watching the excitement from a distance!”
The young man suddenly heard someone talking and was startled at first. When he saw that the person was Tang Ping, he smiled, turned around and walked towards Tang Ping from under the tree. When he came closer, he bowed slightly before saying: "What a coincidence, no I thought I could meet Miss Tang here." He didn't seem to recognize Yanxuan and just nodded to Yanxuan with a smile.
Yanxuan saw that this young man seemed to be several years older than himself. He was tall and moderately tall, with a tall and tall figure. He was wearing the green robe of a disciple in the valley and looked clean and decent. Looking at his face, the boy had fair skin, sharp eyebrows and starry eyes. He looked like a handsome young man, but she felt that he had deep eyes and deep thoughts. What made her especially uncomfortable was the aura emanating from that person. A sense of arrogance.
"Coincidence? It's not a coincidence. If it were a coincidence, I would definitely be able to see Mr. Qin command Ruoding these days and let a bunch of fools beat him to a bloody head. Maybe I would even applaud Mr. Qin. Cheers, what happened at the foot of the mountain just now was probably just a small scene, right, Mr. Qin?" Tang Ping said.
After hearing this, Yanxuan was not very surprised that Tang Ping knew the boy, but she found that Tang Ping was not polite to the boy at all. She even noticed that Tang Ping seemed to be wary and hostile towards the boy.
But the young man didn't care at all, and still said with a smile: "Miss Tang misunderstood, I have been practicing all morning, and I happened to pass by here and accidentally saw someone fighting there. It's almost noon, it's time to knock on the cloud cards. How about we go to Chunxiang Hall together?"
"No, please don't." Tang Ping refused, "Mr. Qin, we two sisters still want to live innocent lives in this valley, but we dare not have anything to do with you, so let's just say goodbye!" Yanxuan left.
"Okay... okay, then, you two girls, go slowly." The young man was not angry at all after hearing this, and even gave the two girls another slight gift.
However, when he straightened up after saluting, his eyes turned cold when he looked at Tang Ping's back.
"A Ping, you know that person, why are you so rude to him?" Yanxuan asked after walking farther away, looking back and thinking that the person wouldn't hear him.
Tang Ping did not answer her directly. She sighed and said: "If a person is stupid and knows that he is stupid, he can still live without worries. Even if he is stupid and does not know himself, such a person feels that he is great and experienced. If you can't afford to be provoked by others, you will become someone else's pawn when your head gets hot, and those guys over there who beat people are basically idiots who don't know it."
"Although those people are hateful, they are not the most hateful. The most hateful ones are those who encourage these fools to fight for themselves. Such people are used to bossing fools around, so they feel that everyone in the world is a fool."
After Tang Ping finished speaking, she looked at Yanxuan and saw that she didn't understand very well, and then said, "That man's name is Qin Suijie. He is the most hateful. He comes from a big family of practitioners, similar to our Tang family. The two families are also quite related. This Qin Suijie is a big trouble for me. Alas, it makes me tired to think about it. I can’t explain it for a while. I will explain it to you slowly in the future. In short, he is a man who loves to stir up troubles and always likes to stay out of things. Guy, even if you enter the inner gate in the future, you must be careful about him."
Yanxuan nodded after hearing this.
Just as the two girls were going to the Chunxiang Hall hand in hand, Qian Chao stood blankly next to a huge stone on a mountain ridge in Youming Valley, staring blankly at something in front of him.
It was a pheasant feather, colorful, reflecting colorful light under the sunlight.
Speaking of which, I got this feather from Lu Pingchuan. Lu Pingchuan made a lot of traps and caught a lot of pheasants. Naturally, these pheasants were roasted and then eaten by him. Naturally, this feather was plucked before grilling. down.
However, the piece of feather in front of Qian Chao is now hanging quietly in front of him. There is no string holding it on the top and no hand holding it on the bottom. It is noon and there is no mountain wind blowing, so the feather is so quiet. Hanging in front of Qian Chao.
