dejected fairy

Chapter 23 "Practice Experience"

Two days later.

"According to the general's instructions, those living dead have been moved to the back mountain, pressed down with iron soldiers, and buried in the soil."

In the newly built main tent of the rest of Dingxi, Chen Yuan was sitting cross-legged to adjust his breath, when Zhang Que suddenly came in and reported the situation: "In addition, the prefect sent someone to come and invite the general to the city, saying that they arranged a singing and dancing dinner to welcome you."

After talking about it, he couldn't help curling his lips and said: "This king was condescending before and then he was respectful. He avoided seeing him at first, but now the general is powerful, and he invites you to the banquet in a panic. You really can't wait to see the wind! General, you want to see me?" go?"

"No." Chen Yuan shook his head, he was not interested in Jincheng's customs, and there were still important things to do right now.

"I really don't want to come."

In the main hall of the city lord's mansion, listening to the reports from his subordinates, Wang Huo felt uneasy, and said to Liu Yisheng: "Earlier, I deliberately distanced myself from him, and this showed the evil results, and it was self-defeating."

"If there is a city mansion, they should be invited to come. This shows that no matter how powerful General Chen is, he is young and vigorous, and he will inevitably have a youthful spirit." Liu Yisheng is not surprised, "This is not a bad thing, but it is convenient to approach. Choose a date, student Visit him personally, and feel the temperament of this young general."

"You must be cautious!" Wang Zhuozhun warned, "Don't start a conflict, as for how to hold him up..."

"It may not be necessary," Liu Yisheng said suddenly: "If you can win over, Bai Zhenren and others will be scruples, and my lord will be able to check and balance. In this way, your influence in Longxi will also increase, and you may not be able to compete for that position .”

Wang Hui's heart skipped a beat, and he waved his hands and said that he didn't expect such things. Finally, he changed the subject and brought up another matter: "This time, Chen Tang was scared out of his wits. I heard that he couldn't get out of bed, and he often fell into a coma. Someone has already asked to resign. What do you mean, the City Lord's Mansion recommended this General Zhenwu..."

"We can't intervene in this matter." Liu Yisheng's face was gloomy, "The student just got the news, probably Chen Mian is about to take over."

"The Chen family's actions are fast enough, this will clear it up..."

Just as he was talking, someone suddenly came to report that many big families and households in the city had sent people out of the city to send greeting cards to General Zhenwu.

Wang Hui frowned.

Liu Yisheng sighed, and said: "Aristocratic families are best at climbing high and stepping down. Now that you know what General Chen is capable of, how can you hold back? Besides, the news that we plan to entertain Chen Shiji must have spread, and there is no doubt about it." Take a stand and then blame others.”

"That's right, let them go first."

The next three days were uneventful.

Thanks to Chen Yuan's prestige in the army, the soldiers of the rest of Dingxi were honored, changed their station, and their living conditions improved a little.

Chen Tang didn't show up, and there was less trouble. The Jincheng soldiers and the Dingxi Army became more harmonious because of Chen Yuan.

On the other side, big households in the city sent invitations one after another, and they wanted to visit Chen Yuan, but they were all rejected. Chen Yuan didn't intend to waste his time and energy on welcoming and sending people.

However, even if they were rejected, the big households still enjoyed it and sent people to deliver goods and materials, so that the Dingxi Army, which had suffered a catastrophe, gradually recovered its vitality.

"Today, the Li family, Liu family, and Sima family sent a lot of military rations. General, why don't we see each other?" Zhang Que held the list and asked Chen Yuan, with hesitation in his tone, "Li Dingmo also came to visit."

"No, I'll talk about it later." Chen Yuan vetoed it, and took out a list full of words, "Follow the list to get the medicine, some may not have the name, but I have clearly written the characteristics and efficacy, follow Grab, by the way, collect more books on elementary school and military exercises and send them over."

Dazed for a moment, Zhang Que took the prescription and nodded in agreement.I have more and more admiration for this young general in my heart. In the past, the children of the gilded family who came to the Northwest used to spend their days drinking and drinking and listening to music. Also find time to study the living dead.

"General, you have to pay attention to yourself."

What body do I pay attention to?I am a dead man!
Chen Yuan was puzzled, waved his hand, sent Zhang Que away, and then lowered his head to fiddle with a kit.

This is left behind by the desolate people he killed before the battle. It looks like a small ball, but there is actually a universe inside.

"There is another universe in this kit, about one foot square, the space is not big, but it is more convenient. Moreover, even in the world of caves, objects similar to universe bags and storage rings are very rare. Why, there is such a thing, it is really surprising."

The kit was an unexpected harvest. At that time, Chen Yuan was out of the idea of ​​thieves not leaving... to search for loot. After searching, he did not expect that the man was empty and cleaner than the mountain god. He was very disappointed. When he got up to leave, he found it not far away. This kit was obviously dropped by the desolate man.

There are a lot of gold and silver treasures in the kit, but what Chen Yuan really values ​​is a sacrificial Gu Bowl and a notebook.

Holding the thin booklet, looking at the four words "Experience of Practice" on the cover, Chen Yuan was silent.

In the past two days, he spent most of his time studying this notebook, during which he also learned to memorize Daning characters with the primer.

The author of this booklet was not Xie Tuyin, the evil cultivator who was beaten to death by him, but a Taoist priest named "Lin Youzhi". Picture printed in hand, it is worth scrutinizing.

Lin Daoshi did not introduce himself too much, but only mentioned at the beginning that he is a disciple of a hermit sect. He traveled in the northwest, recorded mountains, rivers, and seen thousands of auras. In this notebook.

What Chen Yuan read was mainly the practice part, not much in content, but concise and to the point, he explained clearly the Nine Layers of Martial Arts, Xiantian and Grand Master, and even talked about the secrets of Taoism.

According to the information he got from "Practice Experience", the goal of this world's Nine Levels of Qi and Blood is to open the essence of the lower abdomen, which can indeed correspond to self-cultivation and foundation building.

Therefore, Chen Yuan's focus is mainly on the part after Jiuzhong, that is...

"Once you enter Xiantian, your essence is like the sky."

According to the book, it is extremely difficult for a martial artist to set foot on the Xiantian. Even a ninth-layer warrior who has experienced the thunder calamity, who can truly grasp the essence and mystery, break the shackles, and set foot on the Xiantian is one in a million.

But even if you set foot in the innate world, there is still a difference from the refinement monks in the cave world——

"In the world of caves and voids, refining monks need to condense the five viscera and the twelve orifices. Here, the innate warriors cultivate the five viscera and condense the nine orifices. Without the three orifices, even if the refinement is complete, they will not have the power of the ten phenomena. Most of them only have seven. The pattern of elephant and eight elephants, even because of the impurity of the skills, the strength is even lower, but, in general, innate warriors can correspond to refining monks."

After the innate martial artist, it is the "innate great master".

Chen Yuan also heard others mention the great master more than once.

In the part of the book, Lin Daoshi used a lot of words such as "said", "heard", and "rumor", which is not as detailed as the description in the innate part. It can be seen that the author himself is not a great master, but just summed up what he heard.

But for Chen Yuan, this is enough.

"It says that the great master is one of heaven and man, can move mountains and rivers with energy, and has a long lifespan. This is similar to the situation where a monk who transforms gas opens his dantian gas reservoir, evolves a sea of ​​​​qi, and internally refines true energy. Moreover, a monk who transforms gas has a sense of spirituality. Sensing can release true energy and pry the vitality of the outside world, so that the power of the spell is greatly increased, but it can also correspond to the air-moving mountains and rivers."

The great master is the gas-transforming monk corresponding to the void world.

Together with the great master, the innate warrior is a complete refinement and transformation of qi.

As for whether there are subtle differences, it is impossible to find the answer from "Experience of Practice".

However, what really surprised Chen Yuan was that Lin Youzhi wrote later: "The great master is not the end of martial arts. In the prosperous age of practice three or four hundred years ago, he had a more advanced realm. Once he broke through the shackles, he could transcend the physical body." , has all kinds of incredible powers, even breaking through the void, soaring in the daytime!"

"Break the void and ascend in the daylight?"

Chen Yuan's eyes changed slightly.

What realm, want to ascend just like me?
"I have been refining myself to build a foundation, refining essence to transform Qi, refining Qi to transform gods, and refining gods to return to the void. After hundreds of years of cultivation, I thought about refining the void and joining the Tao. But according to this note, people in this world break through refining After refining Qi, there is a way to ascend? What ascended? Where did you ascend? Did you join the path?"

It was because of his pursuit of harmony and ascension that he was turned into ashes, and this is how the current story came about, which was somewhat... broken.

"In the realm of the cave, qi-refining monks gather five qi, supplement their life, condense and accumulate true energy, and finally achieve the flawless golden elixir, and then the elixir rushes to the top, opens the Baihui Shenzang, opens the Niwan Palace, and begins to transform the spirit. "

"The cultivator who transforms the spirit is to comprehend the hidden treasures of the gods. After condensing the knowledge of the gods, can the spiritual thoughts grow, and also have the root of the soul, can cast spells, and can travel outside the world. Refining out the aura of life."

"But no matter whether it is refining Qi or transforming gods, how can the entire realm of refining Qi and transforming gods have anything to do with breaking the void and ascending in the daytime?"

Ever since he escaped from the bottom of the valley, Chen Yuan has noticed that there are quite a lot of strange things in this world, but until this moment, he didn't notice any traces of chiseling.

However, Lin Youzhi was just hearsay after all, and after mentioning one sentence, there was no more content. Even if Chen Yuan wanted to figure it out, he had nowhere to go, so he could only turn his attention to the second half of the notes——

This part involves Taoism and a kind of "ancient literary conception".

Chen Yuan has always wondered why Qingling's master and apprentice, Qiu Jingzhi, Zhiguang monk, and even many monsters can cast divine thoughts, manifest human forms, and drive talismans and Taoism without refining Qi to transform into gods?
But the answer in the book disappointed him greatly.

"No weird changes, special sacrifices, or derivation of gods..."

According to Lin Youzhi, the so-called Taoism can only be performed by those with spiritual veins, and spiritual veins are predestined, those with veins are born with it, and can breed spiritual thoughts, those without veins will be ignorant for a lifetime, and have no chance of immortality.

As for the article on thoughts, the content is sparse and ordinary. It is nothing more than reading articles, concentrating thoughts, visualizing the scenes in the article, and condensing the consciousness of the mind, which is of no use to Chen Yuan.

After reading "Practice Experience" again, he closed his eyes and meditated.

"Spiritual thoughts and Taoism have actually become the theory of numerology. They are born with age. They can also be strengthened through contemplation, but there is no system. It is like a cheat outside the martial arts system. It is a minority Human talent, but there is no way to advance, it is similar to the way of protecting the Tao."

The answer disappoints Chen Yuan, but it also means that the humane practice in this world seems to have a low upper limit, and even the great master is only at the level of refining and transforming qi to complete perfection.

"But the specifics will not be confirmed until I confirm it. And it is wrong to say that the upper limit is low. It is not clear what the Shinto is. This note only says that the three counties of Longxi, Qinchuan, and Beidi belong to the Xiyue Shenting. Not much to say. The deer head mountain god is quite weird, is it an exception or a common phenomenon?"

The fact that Chen Yuan asked Zhang Que to go to the city to grab the medicine was also reported to the case of the City Lord's Mansion, and even the prescription was clear.

Looking at the prescription, Liu Yisheng frowned.

"Did you find anything?" Wang Hui asked beside him.

Liu Yisheng pondered: "There are a few medicines whose names are different from what the world knows, but their effects are clear. I don't know if they have other meanings."

"Some kind of secret signal?" Wang Hui became nervous, "Is he secreting the song with someone?"

Liu Yisheng stared at the prescription and made a decision.

"Prepare the medicinal materials he needs, and the students will visit tomorrow!"

The next day.

"Liu Tongpan, wait a moment, I will report to the general."

Being led by Zhang Que to sit in a tent, Liu Yisheng recalled what he had seen and heard along the way in the camp.

"The camp is chaotic, there are no rules, and the subordinates do their own things..."

"This young general has lived in seclusion for three days in a row, and has hardly left his camp. He has gone to the back mountain to play with the living dead at most. I can probably grasp his temper."

"It's probably because he's not good at training soldiers, and he's not keen on military matters. Instead, he likes rare things. He's the same as the nobles of the capital's family, but his martial arts cultivation base is too high, and he may have a talent for Taoism, which covers up these..."

Thinking about it, he sat upright, confident.

　Next chapter in a few minutes...

　　
　
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