On April 18, the effects of Kaiming Dan finally wore off.
That night, Lu Cheng lay on the bed, rubbing his jade ring, and his soul drifted to another world.
Open your eyes, it's almost dawn here.
Qingmei is lighting the fire in the stove and preparing to make breakfast.
Lu Cheng lifted the tiger skin covering his body and felt a little cold in the stone room.
At this time, it is already the 20th day of the great cold, and it will be the beginning of spring in 16 days. The beginning of spring is just the beginning of spring, it does not mean that the flowers are blooming.
In the ancient book Qunfangpu, it is said that the beginning of spring is: "Li means the beginning of construction. The beginning of spring is the beginning of establishment."
Ancient Chinese people used to regard the beginning of spring as the beginning of the year and the beginning of a new year, which is also the "New Year", and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was called "New Year's Day".
Why do the modern Beginning of Spring and the Spring Festival become two different dates?
Throughout ancient history, the Chinese Spring Festival was always counted from the beginning of spring.
In 1911, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen established the Republic of China. After he moved the "New Year's Day" to January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, he did not move the "Spring Festival" because the existence of the Spring Festival is very important to agricultural production and has symbolic significance.
But two years later, Zhu Qiqian, then Chief of the Interior, sent a letter to Yuan Shikai, then President, to determine the seasonal holidays: "It is proposed that the New Year's Day of the lunar calendar be the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival be the Summer Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival be the Autumn Festival, and the Winter Solstice be the Winter Festival."
This "Four Seasons Leave" was quickly approved by Yuan Shikai and was implemented in 1914 the following year.
Because the "Spring Festival" was transplanted to the previous New Year's Day, the Beginning of Spring celebrations that lasted for more than two thousand years gradually disappeared. The Beginning of Spring became an ordinary solar term, and the "Spring Festival" was moved to January 1 of the lunar calendar.
The "World of Classics of Mountains and Seas" that Lu Cheng went to still regarded the beginning of spring as its annual festival. In other words, there are only ten days left before the Chinese New Year.
Qingmei brought the prepared breakfast to the table.
Lu Cheng sat down and asked: "Qingmei, how many days has it been since I taught you the talisman?"
Qingmei's eyes lit up and she smiled: "I've been counting! It's already been 42 days!"
"How many talismans were made?"
"630. You turned in 150. There are 480 left."
"Prepare 100 sheets for me and I'll bring them to Wu Luo later. She should be anxious."
"Brother, I helped you get the tiger bones and vulture bones you ordered!"
"Well, leave it to me later."
After breakfast, Lu Cheng took out 10 sets of dragon skin clothes and said, "Give these clothes to Li Ju and exchange them with her for some rare things."
Qingmei asked: "Brother, what do you want?"
"Ask her for a list of spiritual elixirs, spiritual herbs, spiritual trees, spiritual bones and inner elixirs of spiritual fish and monsters that can help improve your skills, and then ask Jiong Sheng for one. If they don't have a list, you can bring the rare items Write it down and I’ll tell you what to buy later.”
"I see."
Afterwards, Lu Cheng took 100 talisman papers and 30 talismans he drew and went to Wu Luo's courtyard.
Wu Luo collected the talismans and said with a smile: "Finally, I have collected enough talismans, talismans and elixirs, and I can deal with Master Wu Sheng. For this reason, I have prepared two spiritual nourishing elixirs for you, which can be regarded as a reward for you. In addition, , I will teach you some more spells."
Lu Cheng received the "Nursing Pill" and then learned the spell from her.
After a while, he asked: "Master, as the Chinese New Year is approaching, what else do you need me to do? What arrangements does Lord Wu Shuang have? I haven't seen him for several months. Is he practicing in seclusion?"
Wu Luo said: "After he got the mulberry leaves of the Fuso tree, he made the precious Spirit Witch Pill. Every time he took a Spirit Witch Pill, he had to practice in seclusion for half a year, so he rarely came out. Not only did you not see him He, it is difficult for me to even see him! According to my judgment, he will not show up this New Year's Day. We have to wait until next spring when the flowers bloom and the monsters attack the city. If the Witch Fort is in danger and the monsters break through the vassal city, He will show up."
Lu Cheng said: "Oh, that's it. Are there any activities at Witch Fort during the Chinese New Year?"
Wu Luo glanced at Lu Cheng and said, "There is a celebration banquet, including the meat of thousand-year-old monsters and three-fruit wine. I see that your skills have improved again. Have you reached the late stage of the third level of innateness?"
"Yes, Master."
"After eating the meat of a thousand-year-old monster beast and drinking a gourd and three-fruit wine, there is hope for advancement."
"Master, what is three-fruit wine?"
"It's a spirit wine brewed from three kinds of spirit fruits. As a little witch, you can get a gourd of three-fruit wine. As a great witch, I can drink a gourd of five-fruit wine. There is also a seven-fruit wine, which is specially for Master Wu Sheng to drink. "
Wu Luo seemed to be in a good mood, and then spent another hour explaining how to draw talismans to Lu Cheng.
Lu Cheng knows everything. He can make his own talisman paper. He has a large number of talismans in his mind. He can try any one he wants to draw. Despite this, if a master is willing to teach, he is still willing to learn. After all, you can learn it as soon as the master teaches you, but the talisman in your mind needs to be tried repeatedly to understand the final effect.
Before noon, Lu Cheng came out of Wu Luo's courtyard and turned around to go to the Wu Temple in the feudal city. He felt that Wu Luo didn't have many spells left, so he planned to spend jade coins to study at the Witch Temple.
Learning a spell requires 3 jade coins.
He paid 600 jade coins and learned 200 sentences from an old wizard in the "Spell Hall".
It was difficult to record the spell in words, so Lu Cheng took out his cell phone from the jade ring, turned on the recording function, and put it in his pocket.
After another hour, he finished learning the spell and did not leave immediately.
He walked around the Shaman Temple and found that it was divided into several halls, such as the "Elixir Hall", "Fu Hall", "Spell Hall", "Sihai Hall", and "Dragon Festival Hall".
He felt a little confused: "Sihai Hall and Longjie Hall? What are these two things?"
Lu Cheng walked into the Sihai Hall and saw a middle-aged witch inside. She was wearing linen clothes and had an expressionless face. She could not tell the depth of her skills.
He didn't feel pressure similar to that of Wu Sheng. It was estimated that the other party was still a great sorcerer, perhaps similar in skill to Wu Luo.
With a sincere smile on his face, he stepped forward and asked, "Teacher, what skills are you teaching here? What does Sihai mean?"
The middle-aged witch replied: "There are four seas in the human body, the sea of blood, the sea of qi, the sea of marrow, and the sea of water and valley. Each sea has its own special cultivation method."
Lu Cheng became energetic: "I want to learn these exercises, please teach me, sir!"
"The sea of water and valley only costs 100 jade coins; the sea of qi only costs 300 jade coins; the sea of blood only costs 500 jade coins; the sea of marrow costs 1,000 jade coins!"
"I happened to bring jade coins!" Lu Cheng took out a pile of jade coins from his storage jade pendant and counted them for a while.
The middle-aged witch collected the jade coins, took out four volumes of animal skin books, and placed them on the long table in front of her.
"This is the secret to cultivating the Four Seas. You take a look first, and I will explain it to you for half an hour. How much you can learn is your destiny."
Lu Cheng opened the animal skin book and read "Water Valley Jue" first. His memory became very strong. There were only more than 200 words in "Water Valley Jue", and he memorized it at a glance.
"Water Valley Jue" is the practice of "Water Valley Sea". This is the basic technique for training wizards. Regardless of whether you are a small witch, a big witch or a spiritual witch, although you can live without food for a certain period of time, in the final analysis you have to eat and draw energy from food. This "Water and Grain Technique" can improve the conversion efficiency of food and elixirs, and can also digest and absorb food that ordinary people cannot digest.
Lu Cheng himself studied medicine and knew that digestion and absorption of the human body was a science. People have different digestion ratios for different foods. For example, the digestibility of animal protein in the intestine is above 95, that of plant protein is above 80, that of vegetable fat is close to 100, and that of animal fat is above 80. Carbohydrates are more complex, but they depend on their dietary fiber content.
The factors that affect digestibility mainly depend on how much you eat. If you eat too much and exceed the digestion limit of the small intestine, the absorption rate will be low. Is this unabsorbed part excreted? not at all! The intestinal bacteria are still waiting. When the intestinal bacteria decompose the chyme, they will emit waste gas, so eating too much dietary fiber will cause gas, and eating too much protein will cause gas.
Moreover, digestibility and absorption rate are not the same thing. Absorption rate refers to the food energy actually utilized by the human body.
The absorption rate of highly processed carbohydrates is very high, such as rice, which can reach 98%, while the absorption rate of sweet potato, which contains the most dietary fiber, is only 38%.
After practicing this "Water and Grain Technique", you can greatly expand the range of recipes, and you can even eat trees, flowers and plants!
Therefore, Lu Cheng felt that this thing was very interesting and needed to be studied in modern times.
The second volume of the animal skin book is the "Blood Sea Art", which is a method for cultivating the lower Dantian. It describes not only "blood", but also "essence", that is, "blood essence". Blood originates from innate essence, and is generated from acquired food, water, and grain; the formation of essence is also metabolized by acquired diet, so there is a saying that "essence and blood come from the same source". The profit and loss of essence and blood determines the health of the human body. According to traditional Chinese medicine, both essence and blood are the material basis of the body. Genus is the yang in yin, and blood is the yin in yin.
For Lu Cheng, this method belongs to the category of body refining. Although he is an innate master, he still needs to continue to temper the blood sea. Essence, Qi, and Shen are called the "three flowers". Sufficient essence and blood are the basis for further improving one's skills.
The third volume of the animal skin book is "Qihai Jue". This "Qihai" is not the "Qihai point", but the Zhongdantian, which is the Tanzhong point. This is a method for refining qi.
The fourth volume of the animal skin book is the "Marrow Sea Technique", which is a method for cultivating spiritual consciousness.
Lu Cheng finished reading the four volumes of the animal skin book and listened to the middle-aged witch's explanation.
The middle-aged witch explained the "Water Valley Technique" and "Blood Sea Technique" clearly and clearly, but when she explained the "Qi Sea Technique" and "Marrow Sea Technique", it was very vague. Maybe her own cultivation level was not high enough, so she was not familiar with it. The explanation of these two methods is difficult to get to the root.
Despite this, Lu Cheng still felt that it was very rewarding. He had memorized the method and could study it slowly when he returned.
He walked out of the "Sihai Hall" and came to the door of the "Dragon Festival Hall". He hesitated slightly, but still walked in.
He saw an imposing old man sitting inside.
The old man has a pale face, squinted eyes, and sits upright, as still as a mountain.
Although Lu Cheng couldn't see the opponent's skill, he could feel the power, and thought to himself: "This person is probably close to the threshold of a spiritual wizard!"
