Sword Knocks The Gates of Heavens

Chapter 8 Carrying Water and Testing

“Sleep well and eat well”.

Father Li Shanzhu can teach Li Yunsheng a lot of things, these two should be the best. Even if the two of them slept in the barren mountains and mountains, they would wake up every five hours and sleep every other day, and eat three meals a day. meal.

Li Yunsheng got up early before dawn. He first picked up some millet and put it in a clay pot. He also threw three pitted red dates into it, and brought them to the stove with a small fire. Boil the ground and start cleaning the house.

The furnishings of the small wood house are very simple. There is a bed, a table, a stool, an oil lamp, and there is not even a quilt on the bed but a straw mat. It was a small room with a stove and some broken kitchen utensils, a clay pot, a rice jar, and a water jar. The rice jar was empty, but there was a small half-jar of water in the water jar, and the clay pot was used by him to make porridge.

After cleaning up, he took out an oiled paper bag from his luggage, which contained two kilograms of small dried fish. .

He cut the dried small fish into even small pieces, put it into the already hot oil pan, stir-fry it a few times and then added some spicy salt, and soon the aroma of the dried small fish began to appear. Hilltops diffuse.

A dish of dried fish and a bowl of millet porridge, Li Yunsheng ate at the table made of stumps under the big locust tree.

Li Yunsheng picked up the Qi Refinement Art that Li Changgeng had thrown to him while eating and looked at it.

Accurately speaking, this book should be called “Outer Sect Disciple Qi Refinement Art”. From the name Li Yunsheng, you can understand that this should be an entry level cultivation book. After a few glances, he put the book down. .

This is not because this book is too thin or too simple, on the contrary, this book is the basis of Qi Refinement. Many things are said very carefully, down to the names of some meridians and the time of cultivation.

Li Yunsheng put it down so quickly, but it was because he read books very fast since he was a child, and because he had no money to buy books, he intentionally wrote down what he had read since he was very young. Now, I don’t know if it’s inertia or innate talent, as long as the book is not very complicated, Li Yunsheng can basically remember it. This is a great innate talent, but Li Yunsheng’s father is so obsessed with immortals that he has no idea that his son still has the ability to remember him. And Li Yunsheng didn’t think it was an extraordinary innate talent at all, and even for a long time, he thought it was a shady trick, because he thought it was no different from stealing a book.

He drank two bowls of porridge and one third of fried dried fish, then cleared the table and went to wash the dishes.

“It turns out that the process of cultivation is to use the spirit vein as a guide, to absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into the body, and to go round and round, refining essence and transforming Qi, so it is called Qi Refinement.” While washing dishes, Li Yunsheng muttered to himself.

He has a habit of reading books. He writes it down first, and then recalls it in his mind. Compared with the books he has read in the past, this primary level Qi Refinement Art makes him feel a little unimaginable. But it was interesting, he thought it was more interesting than anything he had ever read in the world.

After washing the dishes, he had already read the primary level Qi Refinement Art and understood why Yang Wanli asked Li Changgeng to give him this book.

“If you follow the book and use different Breathing Technique methods, you can use the energy to refine the energy and use the energy as the force, so that the energy can be continuously generated, and you can complete the raise from the mountain to the mountain. upwards the task of 20 dans of water, which means that the Master is testing me.”

He washed the tableware and chopsticks, neatly and tidy, and placed them on the shelf beside the stove, looking The head secretly said: “These immortals have more twists and turns in their minds than our market hawkers.”

Next, he took out the pole and two wooden barrels from the house, and looked at the sky. It is Mao Shi, “If I go to bed at Hai Shi, I have a total of eight hours. With my current physical strength, it takes at least one hour to carry a load of water back and forth, and at most eight load of water a day.”

“So if you can bring back ten dans of water today, it means that the Breathing Technique method in this book is effective.”

Thinking about this, Li Yunsheng carried two buckets down the mountain.

The first time he carried the water to the mountain, as Li Yunsheng estimated, it took him more than an hour, but he was already gasping for breath, and it felt like his feet were tied with two large iron blocks, and he moved. It was extremely difficult, but he didn’t follow the breathing method on the Qi Refinement Art for the first load of water. He wanted to experience it himself and see if there was a real difference between using it and not using it.

After a short rest, he went down the mountain again.

This time when he was carrying the burden up the mountain, he began to follow the breathing methods taught in the book, trying to keep the pace on his feet in line with the rhythm of his breathing. Although he could not be proficient, he took the first step. Step Li Yunsheng noticed that every time he breathed, there was an extremely comfortable and cool airflow gushing out from the soles of his feet, instantly dispelling all the fatigue on his body.

It works!

Li Yunsheng’s heart was always calm, and an ecstasy surged.

I have never experienced the shock of hearing about “immortal”. Although what I have learned is only the basic foundation, Li Yunsheng seems to have a kind of foot on the lotus and straight up. The feeling of blue sky.

As he became more proficient in using the method of breathing luck described in the book, and his steps became lighter, his curiosity about this Immortal Mansion became more and more vigorous, and he had no real sense of immortality. , but I am very curious about the way that people can obtain immortality. This thirst for knowledge that has been suppressed throughout childhood has finally exploded at this moment.

However, on the first day, Li Yunsheng did not complete the task after all. Even with the help of the breathing technique, he only finished the selection of nine tans of water. Because in the previous calculation, he did not take into account the fatigue value of his body, the body after picking up the first load of water is different from the body after picking five load of water, and… even if he has the breathing technique Help, the muscle skeleton of his body could not withstand such high-intensity labor.

Li Yunsheng is a very polite person. He knows his strengths, and he knows his weaknesses even more. He stopped when he finished picking the ninth load of water. Carry a few burdens, but in that case, his body will collapse soon, it is better to step by step, and then complete the task after he has practiced the method of breathing luck and his own movements more proficiently.

And what Li Changgeng told him was three days.

Actually, in Li Changgeng’s opinion, Li Yunsheng couldn’t stay for a day, and even he had to spend a lot of energy to carry twenty dans of water from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain. It is nine dans a day, and twenty dans are poured when there are not many things. The 20 dan is just a casual remark. He has seen this kind of Aristocratic Family pampered young master a lot, not to mention 20 dan, just saying that they can’t stand it if they carry water and live on the mountain, and they can’t wait to run home immediately father and mother complained.

As soon as the autumn harvest arrives, the people at White Cloud Temple are too busy to forget the sun and the moon. Three days passed in a blink of an eye, Li Changgeng was carrying several bundles of rice into the rice drying yard of the White Cloud Temple. As soon as the rice was put down, he saw a middle-aged man walking towards him.

The man is very short and stocky, with many patches on his clothes but very clean.

“Yo, Eldest Senior Brother, it’s been a while!”

Li Changgeng greeted him with a smile on his face.

“I’m dirty, and my clothes are not well-dressed. This is in the temple, not your home. What if I meet a guest who comes to the temple? How many times do you want me to say it to make it longer? Remember?”

Li Changgeng, who is more than eight feet long, was scolded by the Eldest Senior Brother who was less than five feet tall and dared not lift his head.

“The Little Junior Brother that the Master brought you in a few days ago, he is also from Ying Province like you. He has no relationship here, so he doesn’t know anything about Immortal Mansion, so the Master is not available. , then let me tell you, you can take more care.”

Eldest Senior Brother finished speaking earnestly and walked directly past Li Changgeng.

“Aiya!”

Li Changgeng slapped his head sharply, then ran towards the mountainside, ramming down the mountain path like a mad cow.

When he came to the foot of the mountainside gasping for breath, a scene in front of him made him start: I saw a little boy carrying two buckets of water halfway up the mountain, at an extremely light pace , trotting along the winding mountain road.

When he realized that the child was Li Yunsheng, Li Yunsheng had already disappeared into the lush forest.

“It’s so fast!”

Li Changgeng sighed with emotion, thinking that he not only misjudged the identity of this child, but also misjudged his skills!

And just as he sighed, an even more shocking thing happened.

On the top of this mountainside, the towering old locust tree “bloomed”. In the whole green mountains, the small white flowers are like the stars in the Nine Heavens. Although they are small, they are particularly eye-catching.

I have changed it many times, I am sorry…

—2016/9/30 4:50 am

(End of this chapter)