Chapter 16 [Working and practicing at the same time]
Ge Xian now has an additional errand. He is the guard of the ancient street on weekends and during his free time. When Chen Churui and Liu Ying are out, he will be responsible for guarding the safety of the ancient street.
The errand seems to be quite important, but the main purpose is to prevent mortals from making trouble here. If a cultivator breaks in, he does not need to take action and relies on the ancient street's own defense to resist. Even a Taoist like Zuo Dao cannot do it in a short time. Break through.
On this Saturday, he got up early and went out after breakfast. His parents didn't bother him much.
After all, his grades are now very good and stable. The class teacher said that he has a good chance of entering a key undergraduate course in the college entrance examination next year. This makes Ge's father and Ge's mother overjoyed. Although they don't know how Ge Xian got the idea, it's good if he can get it. He must be an ancestor. Appeared.
As for her sister Ge Honglian, she has gone to school a long time ago, and her eldest brother Ge Changqing rarely comes back. It seems that because her sister-in-law's family is well off and her relationship with the family is not harmonious, the two families rarely interact with each other except during the New Year.
There are now very few restrictions on him at home, which makes Ge Xian very satisfied, and he is more attentive to his studies, fearing that he will lose this kind of treatment due to his performance deterioration.
Riding on the new eDonkey, he carried a newly bought computer backpack, which contained his latest game notebook. He still hid this matter from his parents and did not dare to let them know. As for the apology from the Tantai family, I dare not even say it.
When he arrived at the ancient street, he took a walk as usual, and it took him half an hour to get to work.
In fact, it was the Shimen store that led to the barrier last time. Now that the barrier has been closed, it is just an ordinary store. There are not many goods in it. It is used for display and exhibition. It looks like ordinary ancient books and ancient supplies. Only Ge Xian understands that a small part of these are spiritual weapons with spiritual power. According to Brother Chen Churui, if these spiritual weapons are bought back and placed in the house, more than 90% of the haunted houses and noisy houses will have them. resolve.
Therefore, the things in this shop may seem inconspicuous, but they are all extremely expensive. Any one item costs tens of thousands, and the most expensive one even exceeds one million. According to Chen Churui, the things he put on display can only be regarded as inferior quality. He Zhongpin, truly good goods and store treasures will not be taken out easily. Hearing Ge Xian say that people are indeed different.
The store is equipped with all-round surveillance. There are grids on the exhibition shelves, spotlights, and glass covers. Customers cannot touch them with their own hands and can only watch them outside the glass cover. It is also powered on. If you want to buy, you only need to say hello. With a sound, the shopkeeper will naturally come out.
Ge Xian was not in charge of the store's business. After greeting the owner, Lao Luo, and a clerk, Brother Banya, he went up to the second floor, which is his "office" as the guardian of the ancient street.
Lao Luo greeted Ge Xian with a smile, and Brother Banya just nodded slightly to him, seemingly not paying much attention to the new boy.
"Shopkeeper, how come this little kid can go up to the second floor?" Brother Banya put down the rag in his hand, couldn't help but stepped forward and asked, his expression seemed unnatural.
Lao Luo was wearing a Chinese-style sapphire blue Tang suit, his hair was combed shiny, and he had two mustaches on his lips. He always liked to stroke his beard with his thumbs, glanced at Brother Banya, and said meaningfully: "Don't be so petty. Look at him, this is a person that the boss appreciates, and he can show his talents through recruiting."
"Tch, it's just a kid who walked through the back door." Brother Banya looked a little unhappy. He worked hard and didn't earn much. If any kid who the boss knew came in, his salary might be several times his own.
Seeing this, Lao Luo had no choice but to shake his head, but he did not tell the truth. He and Brother Banya did not get along well, and he knew that some people in this world could not recognize their status, and after all, they could only run for survival all their lives.
Ge Xian was not a nerd, and he felt the attitude of the two people downstairs towards him. He had a good attitude and didn't take it seriously. He just regarded interacting with others as a kind of practice.
There is a clear difference between the second floor and the first floor, similar to two worlds, and a door leading to the second floor requires spiritual power to be opened, and mortals would only think it was locked.
He stretched out his palm and placed it against the outside of the door. The spiritual power now came out of his Dantian, followed the meridians of his arm, and quickly reached the palm of his hand.
Buzz…
A tremor came from the door, producing a rebound force that made Ge Xian feel a little numb, like a lack of blood.
He did not panic, but continued to increase his spiritual power output and continuously injected it into the door. After about a minute, the numbness disappeared instantly, the door slowly opened, and spiritual energy suddenly overflowed from inside.
Ge Xian walked into it excitedly, and the door automatically closed slowly behind him.
The inner room in front of you is quite spacious, covering hundreds of square meters. It is made of a material similar to white marble. The furnishings are very simple. There are only a stone bed, a stone table and four stone benches. On the wall opposite the table There is a row of cabinets with dozens of bottles and cans on them.
On the wall with a ventilation window on the other side of the bed, there are some daily necessities, such as food, fresh water, etc.
In addition, on the other side of the wall on the same side as the cabinet, in the corner, is the bathroom.
The whole room gives people the feeling of a training room, and at the same time, because of the addition of some modern items, it forms a unique style that combines ancient and modern times.
Ge Xian put his backpack on the stone table and walked around the inner room. He had been here once before, when Chen Churui brought him in, but he was in a hurry and didn't take a closer look.
At this time, he was the only one, so he naturally had to observe carefully.
"Hey, is this the rumored spirit gathering array?" Ge Xian discovered that the stone table was actually located in the center of a pattern. The ground looked flat, but in fact it had special lines and dents, forming an array pattern.
These lines and dents are not obvious, and coupled with the luster of the white marble, they cannot be found without careful observation. Ge Xian happens to be a meticulous observer.
The Spirit Gathering Array is very rare, at least in the secular world. In Chen Churui's words, the number of cultivation places in the secular world that can have the Spirit Gathering Array can be counted on one hand.
The ancient street happens to be one of them, which makes Ge Xian also curious about the real background of the ancient street. What kind of existence is the ancient street? Why are practitioners with extraordinary strength like Chen Churui and Liu Ying stationed here, and why are they set up? A large amount of protection, as well as spirit gathering arrays, etc., made Ge Xian, who was familiar with the ancient street, discover that in fact, what he saw was just the mask on the ancient street, but he had no chance to see the true appearance under the mask. See.
"Forget it, forget it, I'm just a small person, there's no need to know so much. Sometimes knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing." Ge Xian thought about it and gave up on exploring the true face of the ancient street for the time being.
Soon, he came to the stone bed and sat down cross-legged, making a gesture of breathing.
A chill came out the moment he sat on it, rushing straight up through his skin, making him feel cold all over.
"It's really cold!" Fortunately, Ge Xian was already prepared. When he sat on it for the first time, he jumped up.
Chen Churui told him that this stone bed would be of great benefit to his cultivation and would allow him to practice twice as long as others.
The stone bed is made of a relatively rare material called "cold jade", which is not available in the secular world. Whether the cultivator is sitting on it or lying on it, he needs to continuously exercise his skills to resist the invasion of cold air. At the same time, he can refine the invading cold air to slowly increase his spiritual power and ultimately improve his skills.
The spirit gathering array will continuously draw the thin spiritual energy from the outside and transport it to the cold jade bed, keeping the practitioner in a state of practicing. In this way, the practice will naturally get twice the result with half the effort, and people will practice subconsciously even when they are asleep.
Liu Ying also reminded him that when he can't feel the cold and can deal with it easily and turn the cold into spiritual power, he has broken through to the late acquired stage. The next step is the peak. After the peak is the innate. This realm is what he yearns for. The lowest level of cultivators in that world.
Ge Xian knew that he had just broken through the second level of Xiaoyao Jue and entered the third level. His cultivation level was in the mid-acquired stage and was still far away from the later stage. If he only followed the previous cultivation progress, he might not be able to break through in another ten years. to the later stage.
Now with the strong support of Chen Churui and Liu Ying, he believes that he may be able to break through to the late stage within three years, no, maybe within a shorter period of time.
Ge Xian clenched his fists and secretly swore that he was too eager to become an innate strong man.
Ever since he was inexplicably targeted by Tantai Qi and a killer was sent, Ge Xian was extremely afraid. Once he or his family were killed, he didn't know if his family would be destroyed.
A desire to become stronger and a strong desire to protect one's loved ones emerged. He does not regret starting the path of cultivation, and he also understands that in this world, even if you are not a cultivator, you will get into trouble with some powerful beings. Only when you become stronger can your opponents take advantage of them. If they dare not touch you, the Tantai family will is the best example.
As he moved his skills and spiritual power circulated through the meridians in his body, after a long week, the biting cold seemed to have eased a bit. His brows were still furrowed, and he tried hard to endure the torture, but his heart became more determined.
The third level of Xiaoyao Jue, the meridians that penetrate the brain, is more difficult and dangerous than the internal organs, but the benefits are also more abundant.
Once the meridians of the brain are completely opened, his intelligence, acumen, insight, imagination, etc. will make a huge leap forward, similar to an enlightenment. At the same time, his whole body will be able to have unobstructed meridians from head to toe and truly be connected. As one body, they can communicate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and perform real magic.
At the moment, he is using the spiritual power he has refined as power. Although it is basically enough to deal with mortals, he will be very dangerous once he encounters a dangerous situation, such as his opponent using a thermal weapon.
If you want to weaken or withstand the lethality of thermal weapons with your physical body, you must break through to the realm where you can use magic. When you reach the innate level, it seems that you can ignore the lethality of conventional thermal weapons. That realm is something he still dare not imagine.
