Lord of Earth Fiend

Chapter 16 Sword Practice and Confucian Temple Contemplation

Facing the rising sun and accompanied by the cool breeze, Chen Jin walked back to the city with his books on his back.

As he walked, he recalled the scene of killing the corpse dog last night, and he had some insights in his heart.

He visualized and practiced "Eight Swords of Yongzi", it is impossible to learn all of them at the first hand, and he has to progress step by step. At this stage, he mainly practices the first three moves.

The point is stabbing, the horizontal is cutting, and the vertical is chopping.

They are stabbing sword style, cutting sword style and splitting sword style respectively.

Sword-slashing and splitting-sword styles pay attention to a "strength".

Destroy cleverness with strength, destroy the dead and the dead.

When the strength is enough, the aura will be self-generated, can cut gods, can split mountains, and will be invincible.

This requires solid foundational support in the realm of martial arts, and there is not much room for speculation.

In contrast, the core point of the stabbing sword style lies in one word: "accurate"!
Not an inch, not an inch.

It is not difficult to be accurate when dealing with dead objects; but when facing living creatures, living people, it is not so easy to hit the opponent's vitals with one blow.Unless you are successful in the way of swordsmanship and have cultivated the legendary "Sword Intent", then you will be able to lock your mind instantly, and you will be 100% hit.

It's just sword intent, how can it be easily condensed?

Chen Jin stopped suddenly, he saw a tree beside the road.

Autumn is here, and when the wind blows, the withered and yellow leaves fall from time to time.

Looking at the erratic fallen leaves, Chen Jin's mind flashed, and he thought of a good way to practice swords.

He immediately walked over, put down the book, and found a straight dead branch as thick as a thumb on the ground.

Use dead branches as swords and fallen leaves as enemies.

Thorn leaves!
The wind is erratic, and the fallen leaves are erratic. It is not easy to stab and pierce it.

After this exercise, Chen Jin was immersed in it, forgetting to hurry and time.

There is no one in the wild, it seems that he is the only one in the whole world...

Snapped!
The dead branch couldn't hold on any longer and exploded.

Chen Jin stabilized his figure and let out a long breath.Where he was standing, there were fallen leaves all over the ground, one by one, many of them were pierced, but some of them were intact.

Dead branches are not real swords after all, and his cultivation is far from reaching the state of perfection. It is already extraordinary to be able to stab so many fallen leaves.

Smiling slightly, he looked up at the sky, it was getting late.So he carried the book on his back and entered Gaozhou mansion before the city gate was closed.

I went directly to the Confucian Temple of the Academy of Education, and saw a group of craftsmen beating there, demolishing this and that.

Chen Jin was taken aback, and hurried up to ask.

It turns out that the Confucian Temple needs to be remodeled and refurbished.

South of the Five Ridges belongs to the borderlands, and the pen and ink culture is shallow. For nearly a hundred years, Su Xiaowen is the well-deserved No.1 Confucian in South of the Five Ridges, with high morals and high prestige.

Therefore, many places in Gaozhou Prefecture have Su Xiaowen's pen and ink.

Now that something happened to him and he died tragically in prison, all the inscriptions, pens and ink on him had to be scraped off, removed, and replaced.

The first to bear the brunt is the Confucian Temple of the Academy.

At dusk, Chen Jin couldn't help sighing sadly as he looked at the Confucian Temple, which was completely changed beyond recognition.

Fortunately, the main building of the Confucian Temple and the layout of stele arches have not been damaged, and the method of conception can still be used, but the effect will be affected to a certain extent.

He decided to live nearby.

Around the Confucian Temple, the alleys are deep, and there are many rented houses at affordable prices.

In fact, the consumption level of the entire Gaozhou capital is not high, and it is not comparable to those prosperous state capitals.

It didn't take long for Chen Jin to choose a quiet house, which was not big, with a small yard. There was a jujube tree growing in the yard with fallen leaves.

I signed a lease document with the owner's house, paid three months' rent, and moved in with my bags.

The Confucian Temple was under renovation, it was not open, and it was impossible to get in, Chen Jin thought, he just took advantage of this time to practice more swords.

He has become somewhat obsessed with practicing swords.

I couldn't get a real sword for a while, so I went to buy a bamboo stick.Although bamboo sticks are not as good as real swords, they are more convenient and portable.

With a bamboo stick in hand, he not only stabbed fallen leaves in the yard, but also took the initiative to kill rats, cockroaches and other pickled living things. When eating, he even used chopsticks as swords to stab flies and mosquitoes...

Stabbing and stabbing, there is no need to eat.

While practicing the sword, he searched for people, walked all over the streets and alleys of Fucheng, looking for news of A Jin's whereabouts, but unfortunately found nothing.

Maybe, she really had to escape from Gaozhou Mansion.

A few days later, the Confucian Temple was almost cleaned up, and the craftsmen withdrew, so they could go in to visit and worship.

But not everyone can get in.

Chen Jin put on a blouse representing a scholar's fame and a scholar's hat, and stepped in.

This Confucian Temple has been here several times before.But this moment is completely different from that moment, regardless of purpose or emotional state.

The method of visualization is to observe first, and then conceive and meditate.

At the moment, he regards the entire Confucian Temple as a secret book to figure out and refer to.

What can be seen and how much can be understood will be turned into the interior landscape materials for repairing the Confucian Temple of Niwan Palace.

The method of visualization is mysterious and mysterious, not everyone can visualize it, nor can it be seen from everything.

The inner landscape of Yuanshen and the reference object of visualization should reflect each other to form a logical relationship.

For example, Chen Jin owns the Confucian Temple. If he went to visit other temples, such as the Martial God Temple, the Chenghuang Temple, and the Dragon King Temple, he would not be able to match them at all.

It's not professional.

There may also be problems, or even madness, just as the preface of the "Sanlijing" said: "It is a disaster if it is not a ghost or god."

Chen Jin has the blessing of "San Li Jing", and his comprehension is enough, but the Confucian Temple in Gaozhou Prefecture is small in scale and poor in foundation, and because of Su Xiaowen's incident, it has been tampered with beyond recognition, making the literary spirit bleak and losing its aura.

These factors have a great influence on the visualization effect.

During this process, Chen Jin tried many methods: writing for meditation, burning incense and paying homage, meditating and conceiving ideas, etc., but with little success.

After several days of hard work and contemplation, I finally only repaired a tile on the roof of the inner landscape temple.

too difficult.

However, it is not easy to enter the hall.

The last time the "Rejuvenation Visualization Map" was completed overnight, because the entry-level ones had completely different levels of difficulty.

Chen Jin thought, if he moved to another state capital and visualized the Confucian Temple elsewhere, he wondered if the effect would be better.

But there is no way now, the entire Gaozhou Prefecture is just such a Confucian temple.

At the same time, sitting on the mountain and eating nothing, the money on hand is about to bottom out.

There is not much money at all, except for the monthly fee, the rest is income from selling books.

The rent has been paid for three months at a time, and I don’t have to worry about having no place to live. In terms of food, I eat three or four meals a day, and every meal is full of meat, and the money is like water.

Gotta find a way to make money.

But what should I do?
Possessing a reputation as a scholar is considered a decent status. You can sell calligraphy, and you can also be a school teacher, a knife and pen official, and a litigator...

It's just that Chen Jinzhi is not here now, and his identity is quite sensitive, if he is not careful, he may cause trouble again.

As for the connection with the second uncle, when the predecessor was there, he was self-proclaimed, looked down on merchants, and the relationship with the second uncle was a bit tense...

After thinking about it, Chen Jin found that making money was a bit more difficult than thinking about it.

Hey, in past and present lives, as long as people are still alive, they can't escape the trouble caused by the word "money".

The Taoist priests are right: to practice is to spend money, if you don’t have money, you can’t eat enough, and you can’t move an inch.

　It is difficult to move forward without following up, it is difficult!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)