The cold woman hesitated for a while, but finally made up her mind and spoke. After all, Chen Mo was able to kneel down because of her joke. If he had been standing, he would definitely not feel as uncomfortable as now.
She said to Old Man Qingjing: "Master, that man has been kneeling outside for more than fifty hours. With his mortal body, I'm afraid he can't bear it anymore."
"Oh, that's right. I almost forgot about it if you didn't tell me." The old man Qingjing slapped his forehead, as if he just remembered it: "How long has he been kneeling?"
"It's almost fifty-two hours." The cold woman glanced at the sky and said truthfully.
The old man Qingjing chuckled: "Unexpectedly, my disciple actually cares about that child."
A hint of embarrassment flashed across the face of the cold woman, and she quickly explained: "Master, please stop teasing me. It's just that the incident happened because of me. I asked him to kneel down, but I didn't expect him to actually kneel down..."
"On the journey of cultivation, how can you become an immortal without obsession..." Old Man Qingjing said slowly: "Forget it, give him a chance. If you see him still kneeling when you come tomorrow morning, bring him in and give him a chance. The teacher has something to say to him."
"Yes." The cold woman agreed, then left the wooden house and walked straight to Chen Mo: "If you hold on until tomorrow night, my master will agree to meet you."
She was afraid that Chen Mo would give up tonight, which would be a real pity, so she came here to inform him and said for a while that even if he was exhausted, he should be able to persist until she comes tomorrow morning.
To be honest, she was also shocked by Chen Mo's actions. If the two of them had switched positions, she really wouldn't have been able to hold on for such a long time. After all, it was almost five days without eating or drinking!
Chen Mo could no longer hear anything, and he had no feeling at all in his knees. He had entered a state of selflessness, an attitude of not going crazy or living. Giving up would mean leaving the world of cultivation and leaving what he once had. Cultivation, this is something he cannot accept no matter what.
He couldn't live without food. He hadn't eaten or drank for the past five days, and his body had been overloaded. Even the final cultivation would cause some irreparable damage, but he didn't care anymore. Chen Mo's obsession and persistence became more and more intense. Brighter and stronger...
Fifty-five hours!
Fifty-six hours!
Fifty-seven hours! !
The sun was rising, and his fingernails had been completely immersed in the flesh. The blood had flowed into a small puddle under his palm, and it was somewhat solidified. His whole body welcomed the baptism of light like a sculpture. At this moment, the coldness It was a coincidence that the woman arrived, and Chen Mo also lost all consciousness at this moment and fell heavily to the ground.
...
When Chen Mo woke up again, he was already lying on a wooden bed. There was still a faint fragrance on his body. It must have been caused by the cold woman holding him and coming to the wooden house to ask for help when he fainted. result.
"It's a pity that I'm in a coma..." Chen Mo made a rare joke with himself.
Old Man Qingjing was a thin-faced old man who liked white clothes as much as he did. Seeing that he was awake, he slowly moved over: "My child, your name is Chen Mo, right?"
"It's this junior." Chen Mo's head still hurt a little, the blood marks from the fingernails on his hands had been bandaged, and his lower body had regained his ability to move. He hurriedly bowed his hands and saluted.
"I am Sun Xing, nicknamed Old Man Qingjing. As you know, he is a casual cultivator and also a top-grade alchemist. I already know your purpose..."
When the topic changed, Sun Xing, the pure old man, said: "If you had become my disciple four months ago, based on the recommendation given to you by Mo Laogui, I would have accepted it without hesitation, but now... I have already accepted it. I have an apprentice named Chu Wushuang, who is the little girl you saw a few days ago."
"Senior, just tell me what test you have, and I, the junior, will do your best to achieve it!" Chen Mo continued to speak without any trouble, and Sun Xing spoke out what he wanted to say first.
Sun Xing, the pure old man, chuckled: "Young man understands people's hearts quite well. This test may or may not be difficult, but it depends on whether you have the understanding in this aspect..." After a pause, Sun Xing pointed to the man next to his left hand. Inside the room, he said: "Have you seen the herbal jade slips here?"
Chen Mo looked curious, got up and walked over to take a look, but he was shocked: the wooden shelves in the room were all piled with densely packed herbal jade slips! There are thousands of them!
Jade slips can be stored in storage bags. Sun Xing, the clean old man, obviously wanted to surprise him, otherwise he could have piled several storage bags in the house without taking up space.
Chen Mo took a deep breath, adjusted his mind, and said in surprise: "Senior, the test you mentioned is not that you want me to write down everything in the herbal jade slips in the house, right?"
"How is that possible?" Sun Xing waved his hand: "Of course there are more than these. There are five storage bags behind the last row of shelves, each of which contains four hundred herbal jade slips, plus the herbal jade slips placed in the room. Jane, there are three thousand and one hundred pieces in total, I have stored all my two hundred years of savings here."
"A herbal jade slip contains brief introductions to a hundred kinds of herbs, including growth patterns, cycles, properties of herbs, etc. I don't ask much of you, just memorize them all. Is three months enough?"
Chen Mo was dumbfounded. He had just woken up and received such shocking news. There were more than 3,000 jade slips, multiplied by one hundred, which is more than 300,000 herbs! !
He also needs to write down a series of things such as the appearance and efficacy of these herbs within three months. Such a request is no different from throwing him into a spirit stone mine and letting him escape again! !
He really wanted to ask this pure old man if he could do it?
As if seeing through Chen Mo, Sun Xing said slowly: "Do you think I am making things difficult for you?"
Facing such an old fox, Chen Mo still acted too young. He could only lower his head and say politely: "Senior is too worried, junior will do his best!"
"Well, this is best, but you have to know that my disciple only took three months to understand the contents. If you are not as good as a woman, I will still accept you. Is it necessary?" Sun Xing gently touched his palm and said in a calm tone.
Chen Mo was silent. He didn't expect that the cold and cold woman who seemed to be inhumane could have such a good memory. He underestimated her. If there was a chance, he must ask her how she remembered.
Sun Xing continued: "Your health is no longer serious. Just rest for a while. This place is about a hundred feet north of the waterfall. You can stay here for a while, but don't run around. After all, there is more than one here in the valley. I will take control of the meridians problem and you will not let it get worse during this period of time."
Chen Mo naturally clasped his fists and said yes. Sun Xing reminded him that he would check it out in three months and then left.
...
Returning to the wooden house under the waterfall, Sun Xing immediately summoned Chu Wushuang, a cold woman, and had some things to explain to her.
"Disciple, you have been your master for more than four months. How many of those medicinal herbs and jade slips have you remembered?" Sun Xing said slowly.
Chu Wushuang's face turned red: "Master, this disciple has failed to live up to the master's instructions. Until now, he only remembers those medicinal herbs and jade slips on the shelf, about a thousand of them. He has embarrassed the master."
Son He said that he has memorized more than 3,000 jade slips and must not let them slip."
Chu Wushuang is not an idiot, so he said: "Master, did you ask him to carry those medicinal herbs and jade slips?"
"Yes," Sun Xing, the pure old man, laughed strangely: "The child suffered from damage to the earth's yin veins. He treated it as an ordinary evil and took many useless antidotes. The impurities in it blocked the spiritual veins in his body. If you can ask me to come here, I would like to borrow a Huaqing Pill to embark on the path to immortality again."
This is an injustice to Chen Mo. There is not only Yin Qi in the mine, but he would have died countless times if he didn't take the antidote. It's just that he didn't figure it out later and took some more antidote by mistake...
"It turns out that he is also a cultivator..." Chu Wushuang thought secretly in his heart, not knowing what he was thinking about.
"During this period, please don't go over and carry the herbal jade slips. I naturally have other tasks for you as a teacher." Sun Xing changed the topic and discussed other things with her.
...
The following days were really miserable for Chen Mo. He opened his eyes and closed them all looking at those medicinal herbs and jade slips. Even the time to eat was squeezed out of nowhere. He had read dozens of them roughly in the past few days. The jade slip was put down impatiently.
He found that these things were completely disorganized. Just take a jade slip and see that there were not only herbs but also other plants. He originally remembered one type, but when he was about to think of it, he suddenly switched to trees. Suddenly he The memory is messy.
This was nothing. He also found the seventh page of one of the jade slips. The Ningxin flower depicted on the jade slip was mature at night, accurate to the quarter of an hour. He had written it all down, and he would turn to page 20. On the page, a medicinal herb that looks exactly like Ningxinhua appears on it again. This flower is called Ningshenhua, and it actually matures at noon!
He thought that Sun Xing had written it wrong or mixed it up, but if he looked carefully, he saw that the stamen of Ning Xinhua was only a little larger than that of Ningshenhua. If he had just glanced at it, he would have recorded both. Mixed, it takes more time to memorize.
This was pretty good. On the fifth day, Chen Mo also saw seven or eight herbs that looked almost the same. Their names were also very different. However, upon closer inspection, there were subtle differences. This made him almost fall asleep on the spot. collapsed.
In seven days, Chen Mo only memorized the contents of twelve jade slips, and the error rate was very high. If calculated this way, he could only remember about 120 jade slips in three months, which is three months away. Compared with the total number of more than a thousand pieces, Chengdu cannot reach...
"It is necessary to ask that cold woman, but the relationship with her... is really not good!" Chen Mo had a headache when he thought of this. He was purely to observe the details on this woman's dress, but unexpectedly he was regarded as a As for the prodigal son, it would be better not to explain this kind of thing, so I can only bite the bullet and do it.
