The water is freshly drawn from the well. Even though the weather in Langyuan City has begun to heat up, it still feels a little cold when soaking in it. Zhou Yun shivered a few times before slowly getting used to it.
"Teacher, what should I do now?"
"Don't talk, just soak in it for now. If you feel anything special, tell me later." Zhang Yan walked to the chair next to him and sat down. He picked up a new book of unofficial history that he got yesterday and read it with gusto. At present, he is a little obsessed with some entangled past events between Beiwu Kingdom and Nanyuan Kingdom. Among them, it was mentioned that the royal family of Nanyuan Kingdom and the royal family of Beiwu Kingdom are actually cousins.
Zhang Yan was fascinated by what he saw, and he didn't turn around until the breathing in the tub next to him gradually became faster. Zhou Yun's face was already flushed, and wisps of steam were rising from his head, as if he had been soaked in boiling hot water. But the water was obviously cold.
"Teacher, I, I feel something is wrong! The water is obviously very cold, but I have been feeling hot all over since just now, and there is a feeling of being pricked by needles on my skin." Zhou Yun originally thought that he should endure it and not disturb him. The teacher was reading a book, but now that the teacher had looked over, he didn't dare to delay any longer, and quickly expressed his feelings at this time. He felt inexplicably uneasy. He felt that the seemingly innocuous medicinal bath he was soaking in might not be that simple.
Even when Zhou Yun looked at the medicinal bath he was soaking in, it was clearly just water and some fragments of medicinal materials. Even the medicinal materials had not been boiled. Why does this strange situation occur? Nothing will go wrong, right?
In addition to these feelings, after Zhou Yun soaked in the tub, he also discovered that there were some strange symbols engraved on the inside of the tub, so densely packed that the bottom of the tub was almost covered. He was also curious about what those symbols were for.
Zhang Yan put down the book in his hand with a smile and did not get up. Looking at Zhou Yun, who was blushing and looking extremely hot, he smiled and said: "This is called a cold medicinal bath. The reason is too complicated, so I won't explain it to you. , and it is not what I am going to talk about in this course. Now try to submerge your whole body, including your head, into the water, hold your breath as long as you can, and then come out for air, and so on. At the same time, you can try to operate in the water Let’s see how the martial arts skills you practice are different from your usual ones.”
"Teacher, is this going to happen?" Even though he didn't think Zhang Yan would harm him, Zhou Yun still asked worriedly. This shows that he is mentally anxious.
"Something happened? What could happen? Your father Zhou Cang is good friends with me, and he is kind to me. Do you think I will harm you? It will be good for you to be a boy as I say."
"Good teaching." Zhou Yun was a little relieved now, and then according to Zhang Yan, he started to put his head into the medicinal bath, and then held his breath and started to use martial arts skills until he couldn't hold it in any longer before he came out and changed it. Do not enter the water until your breath is stable. Repeatedly.
Strange to say. After a few times, Zhou Yun was not as panicked as before, and got used to the stinging on his skin and the heat all over his body. Even when he dived into the water and used the martial arts mental method, he would make a very subtle and strange discovery. It seemed that his skin and flesh were inexplicably changing and gaining at a speed that was beyond the normal range of the mental method. A sense of absurdity that seemed to have benefited but could not be explained gradually filled Zhou Yun's consciousness.
Forgot the passage of time. It wasn't until the burning sensation all over his body subsided, and then the normal feeling of coldness came over, that Zhou Yun came back to his senses from that strange state.
"Teacher, why are you getting cold again?" Zhou Yun blinked, feeling that he seemed to be uncomfortable with the change from hot to hot. I even feel like I like the feeling before. It's just weird.
"Haha, you kid got used to it pretty quickly. But this is good, it's easier to see the effect. From now on, you can come to my place every three days."
"Every three days?"
"Yes. Medicinal baths are too stimulating. Even with my help, they are still too strong. Therefore, every medicinal bath must be taken at intervals to repair your body. You should understand that too much is not enough, right?"
"Student understand! But teacher, what's the use of taking this medicated bath? Just now I always felt that my skin and flesh seemed to have benefited from something, but I couldn't explain clearly." Zhou Yun asked the question in his heart while putting on his clothes.
Zhang Yan also stood up from the chair and looked at Zhou Yun's skin color which had returned to normal and was no longer red. He secretly thought that this boy had absorbed the medicine very smoothly. I originally thought that I would use the magic circle in the barrel to assist absorption, but it turned out that it was not used at all. It was just used to activate the medicinal properties of the water. Does this mean that Zhou Yun would be a moderate genius if he took the path of physical cultivation?
"Clean the tub."
"Oh! Good lesson!"
"I have learned a lot of strange and weird skills. Your father knows a little about this. But "Medicine to Refining Skin and Flesh" is a different kind. The benefits are just like the name of this method, the focus is on "skin and flesh" Two words. You can understand it as a course that specifically targets skin toughness and endurance, but this course mainly uses external objects to stimulate, and then cooperates with your own martial arts skills to achieve the goal."
"Ah?! Can such an effect really be achieved?!" Zhou Yun was stunned. He has been on the road of martial arts since he was a child, and he knows very well that martial arts is difficult and that every bit of progress requires a lot of sweat and hard work. Nowadays, some people actually say that just taking a medicinal bubble bath can increase the toughness and endurance of the skin. Isn't this just improving the surface of the physical body? Can it really be done so easily?
"Of course. But don't think that this course is so easy. There is no way to become stronger easily. It's just the beginning, and the pain is still waiting for you, so you have to be mentally prepared." Zhang Yanke knows very well that medicated bath is not just a bubble bath. Otherwise, how can we be worthy of the word "refining"? The trouble is yet to come for this boy.
Zhou Yun cleaned the tub and cleaned the room before bowing to say goodbye. He was anxious to go back and tell his family that he had been enrolled in Professor Zhang's class, so as not to keep the threat of "breaking your dog's legs" hanging over him.
At noon, Zhang Yan went to see the dining hall of Jiangwu Academy, which gave him the feeling of entering a restaurant. After one meal, I was actually quite full.
"Teacher Zhang, I finally found you."
After dinner, Zhang Yan was about to go for a walk on the nearby tree-lined path to eat when he was suddenly stopped by someone. He turned around and quickly bowed and saluted.
"Junior has met the court judge."
The person who came was none other than Xiao Shu, who had led Zhang Yan in to go through the formalities before and had many connections with the army. However, Xiao Shu did not come alone, there was also a girl with a proud expression beside him.
