The dinner that day was sweet potato porridge. The sweet potatoes were peeled and cut into pieces, then boiled with rice to make a pot of thick porridge. Two bowls of salty sauce were served to fill up the stomach. I heard that the inner disciples of the Xiandu Sect do not eat these fireworks and food. In order to warm and nourish the Taoist fetus and condense the sword seed, most of them eat grain, chew pine nuts, drink mountain springs, inhale wind and drink dew. Mortal food is too turbid. Heavy, not good for practice.
Xu Li assigned Yue Zhilan such chores as chopping firewood, carrying water, cooking and washing pots. Everyone thought it was a joke. According to the usual practice, the trial disciples of Qi, Lu and Zhang were each responsible for ten days of food, but Yue Zhilan Lan always took the initiative to help, and the fellow disciples on duty were happy to relax. After some perfunctory talk, he left him to work alone in the woodshed. The advantage of this was that although the disciples of Lu and Zhang had contempt in their hearts, at least on the surface Still be polite.
Cowardly, spineless, and willing to be humbled, this is the impression Yue Zhilan gives people. No one knows what he is thinking, and no one can see the scheming behind his forbearance.
Qi Yunhe comes every five days to guide his disciples in practicing the "Taiyi Foundation Establishment Sutra".
Opening up the "acquired aperture" is the first step in sword cultivation. There is a saying that there are three small passes and one bottle neck. Three small passes refers to perceiving the existence of the vitality of heaven and earth, observing the nature of the birth and death of vitality, and absorbing the vitality of the five elements and introducing it into the body. Bottleneck refers to using the vitality as a drill to dig out the acupoints.
The five disciples of Qi Yunhe's sect have different situations. Yue Zhilan is an acquired turbidity, and Wei Shiqi practices Xiaoyue Gong. These two people do not need his guidance. Qin Zhen is extremely talented and has made amazing progress. She even passed the three levels of "perception", "observation" and "entering the body" in her first practice. After that, she didn't seem to encounter the bottleneck of "opening up", Tiantu, Zhigou The two acupoints were already loose, which made him wonder. One of the Song brothers is close to the five elements of wood, and the other is close to the five elements of water. For some reason, they have never been able to sense the corresponding vitality.
Qin Zhen's seven "innate orifices" were scattered in two meridians. Qi Yunhe thought carefully and ordered her to choose one of them and dig the Zhigou point on her right arm first. The earth fire under the Kuji Spring was no longer enough to provide sufficient Lihuo Qi. He asked Wei Shiqi to take his junior sister to practice in another boiling spring.
As the days passed, the trial disciples under Tiandu Peak gradually became familiar with each other. Xu Li and Xin Laoyao were gone forever. Without these two troublemakers, they got along more harmoniously. Wei Shiqi and Qin Zhen spent more and more time at Tiandu Peak. The occasional trip down the mountain—sometimes Wei Shiqi was alone, sometimes two people together—were always in a hurry, staying the same night, or even just one night. That night, I couldn't say a few words to my brothers and went up the mountain again.
Every time he went down the mountain, Wei Shiqi brought back some game, such as pheasants, hares, deer deer, and wild boars. Yue Zhilan was responsible for washing and skinning them. The pheasants and rabbits were torn into pieces for soup and porridge, and the deer deer and wild boars were split with a hatchet and cooked on the fire. Grilled until cooked, everyone can share a piece to satisfy their cravings. The trial disciples were also greedy. They followed the example of going into the mountains to hunt game, and were stung by wasps and gored by wild boars. Nine times out of ten they returned empty-handed.
The same rice feeds all kinds of people, and some have dirty minds. Seeing that although Qin Zhen is young, she is a beautiful woman, and she is inseparable from Wei Shiqi, so she starts gossiping behind his back. The Song brothers were very upset after hearing this, and they took the opportunity to imitate their senior brother. Listen, "How shameless you are to say such things after eating our game!" Wei Shiqi laughed it off.
The Kuji Spring at the top of Tiandu Peak leads to the earth fire, which is conducive to absorbing the energy of Lihuo. This is not an unknown secret. Disciples of the Five Elements of Lu and Zhang who are close to fire, after practicing the "Taiyi Foundation Establishment Sutra" , they would all go to the Kuji Spring to practice, trying to draw away the energy of fire into their bodies. By the time they climbed Tiandu Peak, Wei Shiqi and Qin Zhen had already left Kuji Spring.
The boiling spring Qi Yunhe mentioned is located in a mountain depression a hundred miles east of Kuji Spring. The spring is gurgling, the steam is like thick smoke, and it emits a pungent sulfur smell that makes people want to vomit. The vegetation all around is withered and yellow, and the birds and animals are extinct. . In such a desolate and bad land, the Lihuo Qi was unusually abundant. Qin Zhen practiced on a bluestone upwind, staying away from the boiling spring only when resting.
You can't drink the water from the boiling spring. If you want to drink water, you have to go to a mountain stream several miles away. But with the boiling spring, it is very convenient to boil bird eggs. Wei Shiqi even thought of a way to stew meat soup for drinking. He took the stomach bag of a wild boar, cleaned it, filled it with wild boar meat and mountain stream water, tied it tightly with bark, hung it in a spring and cooked it for several hours, until the meat was cooked and ready to eat.
Wei Shiqi often left, sometimes for a long time, sometimes for a whole day and a night. Every time he came back, he was exhausted and fell asleep, as if he was in great pain. Qin Zhen mustered up the courage to ask him what happened. Wei Shiqi always rubbed her head and said it was okay, it was just cultivation, and told her not to worry. Will cultivation be so difficult? Qin Zhen couldn't imagine it.
There was no sun or moon in the mountain, so Qin Zhen finally opened the first acquired aperture, and the energy from Lihuo poured into the Zhigou acupoint, forming a small whirlpool. She was overjoyed and anxious to tell her senior brother, but after waiting for a day and night, Wei Shiqi never showed up. The big green dog came twice, left a few pheasants behind, and left again. The boiling spring was bubbling with water, and the sound was so monotonous. She had no intention of continuing to practice. She looked up at the white clouds in the sky, feeling in her heart. I thought: "Senior brother, is he looking at the same cloud as me somewhere?"
