Chapter 105 You Are All Abnormal
Chapter 105 You Are All Abnormal
Fu Leisheng's impression and memory of the black pot are sometimes clear and sometimes confused.
Hei Guo looked at him a few more times, and he unknowingly blurred his impression of the dog, and even blurred the role of the dog. So he resolved his misunderstanding of Hei Guo and felt that everything was normal.
He looked at Hei Guo again, and he felt that no matter what Hei Guo did, it was justified.
——Having a dog at home always has a subtle influence on some things. So he thinks it is normal for him to be influenced by the dog.
"Our country is not like the city. There are often evil spirits in our country."
Chen Shi worshipped his godmother, burned incense for Zhu Xiucai, did morning lessons, and introduced the customs and practices of the countryside to Fu Leisheng. He said, "During the day, the moon only shows a crescent moon, and the evil spirits that come out are usually weaker. Don't go out easily at night, because the evil spirits are more powerful. You must be prepared before going out. Prepare peach charms to hang around, and it's best to carry a lantern painted with five-yang thunder charms. It's best to paint a Taishan grandmother on the lantern. Remember to paint it all, and don't miss any place. You must also be careful of ghosts blowing out the lantern. Some little ghosts drill out from the ground and blow at the lantern. If it blows out, they will rush over and eat you."
Fu Leisheng took note of the key points carefully. He might have to live in the countryside for a long time, or he might never return to the county town in his life.
The countryside is safe. If you commit a crime, you can hide in Qianyang Mountain. The yamen runners rarely come to the countryside and often just search for a while and leave it at that.
He heard from Chen Shi that the private school teacher in the town had died and there had been no new teacher, so he decided to go back to his old business and open a private school in Qiaowa Town.
"…You can pick and eat cucumbers on the roadside, but you have to wash them first. You can catch a duck chased by a country girl and hold its neck to extort its eggs. You can also eat the melons in the fields over there. As long as you run faster than old lady Wuzhu, you'll generally be fine."
Chen Shi introduced them in an orderly manner. At this time, Mrs. Wuzhu came out from the melon field and asked with a smile: "Xiao Shi, did you pass the exam for the scholar?"
"I got it." Chen Shi said.
Old Lady Wuzhu then turned around, picked a few watermelons and melons, stuffed them into his arms, and said with a smile: "Xiao Shi has made great progress. If your grandfather were still alive, wouldn't he have set up several tables of wedding banquets and made it a lively occasion? Don't complain about the small amount of food, just eat it first. If you want to eat melons, go to the field and pick them yourself."
For the first time, Chen Shi felt the power of the scholar.
"In the countryside, passing the imperial examination is a very important event, and according to the rules, a banquet is held."
Chen Shi said to Fu Leisheng, "But I'm the only one in my family, so there's no need to put it up."
Fu Leisheng shook his head and said, "Scholars are useless. It's okay in the county town, there aren't many scholars, but in the provincial capital, the streets are full of scholars, and one brick can kill two. When you get to a place like Xijing, there are even more scholars, which is frightening."
"We country folk don't know. We country folk think that passing the imperial examination means you have made a name for yourself and become an official."
The two talked about evil spirits, rural customs, and gradually came to the small temple behind Chen Shi's head.
Fu Leisheng originally thought that replacing the shrine with a small temple was heretical, but Chen Shi said that the function of the small temple was the same as that of the shrine, both were places for worshipping the fetus of the god, and the shrine was also placed in the temple, so having an extra small temple made no difference.
"Moreover, the fetus is in the shrine, and the shrine is in the temple, protected from wind and rain, and incense can be burned. Isn't this more respectful to the teacher?"
Fu Leisheng thought about it and felt that it made a lot of sense.
Hei Guo admires his young master very much.
He didn't even use any magic and yet Mr. Fu couldn't notice anything unusual. He was much better than me.
In the end, the two of them talked about magic.
Fu Leisheng was a private school teacher after all, with a solid foundation. He noticed that Chen Shi's practice of Ziwu Zhanxie Sword had many subtle mistakes in his moves, so he helped him correct the posture of Ziwu Zhanxie Sword and made his force more standard.
After Chen Shi's corrections, the power of the six-stroke sword technique became even stronger.
Fu Leisheng was shocked.
The Ziwu Zhanxie Sword has a power and distance limit, and it cannot be improved once the limit is reached. I didn’t expect that Chen Shi could continue to improve it!
After his guidance, Chen Shi's sword power became more powerful than during the county examination. During the county examination, Chen Shi's stabbing sword style could reach more than eighty feet away, but now it can reach a hundred feet!
Fu Leisheng calmed down and said, "Chen Shi, your Ziwu Zhanxie Sword has a longer range, but the farther the distance, the worse your accuracy. Beyond a hundred feet, the target is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, so you need to practice your accuracy often."
He used his sword energy to cut a dozen wooden stakes and set them a hundred feet away. He placed pebbles on the stakes and said, "You should practice your spell accuracy. When you can hit the target every time, practice while running. When you can still hit the target every time, practice hitting fast-moving objects. If you can still hit the target every time, then you will be able to kill the enemy with ease."
Chen Shi's Ziwu Zhanxie Sword was extremely powerful, but he lacked basic training, so he began to practice immediately.
"Black Pot, your little master hit a pebble, so you go over and pick up a new pebble and put it on the wooden stake." Fu Leisheng ordered.
Not long after, he saw the dog busying around, and was surprised.
Looking closely, he saw pebbles exploding one after another on the wooden stakes a hundred feet away. It turned out that Chen Shi's sword energy reached a hundred feet away and hit the pebbles accurately!
The dog was busy placing pebbles.
"So fast?"
Fu Lei was horrified, but saw Chen Shi running again, running faster and faster, making sword gestures with his hands and stabbing with the sword continuously!
"Pop!" "Pap!" "Pap!"
Pebbles exploded one after another from a hundred feet away, still with great accuracy, never missing a target!
Fu Leisheng picked up a pile of pebbles, put them in his pocket, and shouted, "Chen Shi, a hundred feet away!"
Chen Shi understood, and the two of them started running at the same time, a hundred feet apart. Fu Leisheng walked like a snake, his steps turned and twisted, his body movements were erratic, and he kept throwing up pebbles.
Chen Shi ran after him, passing through the dense forest. When he saw pebbles flying, he stabbed out with his sword.
Out of ten stones, seven or eight can be hit.
From practicing in the morning to noon, Chen Shi was able to improve to hitting the target nine times out of ten, and sometimes even ten times out of ten.
Fu Leisheng was a little tired and shook his head, "No more practice, no more practice. Chen Shi, how did you do it?"
“Wherever the eyes see, the heart sees.”
Chen Shi said honestly, "When my mind is there, my spirit is there. When my spirit and sword energy are in harmony, they never fail. But sometimes I have distracting thoughts that interfere with my spirit. For example, a sudden thought will cause the sword energy to deviate a little."
Fu Leisheng was even more shocked and cried out, "You can control the sword energy with your spirit to a distance of a hundred feet? Wait a minute! Black Pot, Black Pot, come here!"
The black pot came over.
Fu Leisheng carved a wooden sign, wrote a line of words on it, and asked Hei Guo to run a hundred feet away with the sign in his mouth. He said, "Chen Shi, use your mind to look at the words on the sign. Can you see them clearly?"
Chen Shi tried hard to concentrate, and suddenly he was surprised and said, "I saw it, vaguely, it seems to be the three of essence... energy... and spirit. The three of essence, energy and spirit are combined!"
Fu Leisheng exhaled a breath of turbid air and murmured, "It is indeed the five words 'the combination of essence, energy and spirit'. The combination of essence, energy and spirit is a crucial step in the nine transformations of the golden elixir and the transformation of the elixir into an infant. The golden elixir must be used as a seed, and the essence, energy and spirit must be combined into the golden elixir before the golden elixir can be transformed into a yellow bud. When the yellow bud grows, it becomes the Nascent Soul. I have read many books, searching for the mystery of the Nascent Soul, but they all seem to be true but not true."
He shook his head. He had been searching for the Sanhe formula so hard but had never been able to refine it, but he had never expected that Chen Shi had accidentally refined it!
"It's very easy to refine the three combinations."
Chen Shi was quite puzzled and said, "I practiced the Seven Refinements of the Big Dipper, and then condensed the golden elixir. After seven returns, eight transformations and nine returns, I naturally achieved the combination of essence, energy and spirit."
He did not think it was difficult. The Seven Refinements of the Big Dipper tempered the bones, heart, blood, flesh, skin, spirit, and spirit. Yaoguang tempered the spirit. He had been practicing hard these days, and his spirit had become extremely strong without him realizing it. His blood and qi had also been tempered a thousand times, and now he could be said to have a holy fetus body!
He had originally cultivated a holy fetus, and his physical body was a divine fetus. Now he had achieved a Dharma body, with Qi and blood flowing throughout his body. He could cast magic spells at will, and everything went as he wished.
Fu Leisheng asked: "What is the Seven Returns?"
Chen Shi said: "After cultivating the golden elixir, the golden elixir will be refined into fine wine and jade liquid, which will restore the veins, qi, blood, essence, bones, marrow, body and spirit."
"What are the Eight Transformations?"
"When the pulse is changed, it stops like death. When the qi is changed, the qi gathers and condenses. When the blood is changed, the blood becomes white and milky. When the essence is changed, it forms a pearl. When the bones are changed, the bones become like red jade. When the marrow is changed, the marrow turns into black frost. When the shape is changed, the body becomes clear and wonderful. When the spirit is changed, the spirit becomes incomparable."
"What is the Nine Returns?"
“The golden elixir returns the kidneys, heart, liver, lungs, spleen, elixir, qi, essence, and spirit.”
Fu Leisheng was stunned, he stood there stupidly for a long time without moving, only two lines of tears streaming down his face.
Chen Shi was surprised. Seven Returns, Eight Transformations and Nine Returns were clearly included in most of the skills written on the stone tablet outside the True King’s Tomb. They were not unusual things. Why was he so distraught?
“This is the method of refining the great medicine!”
Fu Leisheng burst into tears, and suddenly laughed out loud, his laughter sounded like crying, "This is the method of refining the great medicine of the human body! This medicine does not need to be sought from outside, just refine it internally, seven times, eight times, and nine times, and the great medicine of the human body will be formed! There is no need to buy a panacea to break through the barrier, and there is no need to look for a higher method!"
He looked like a madman, crying and laughing.
"I have been researching for twenty years, twenty years! I always felt that the Qi and blood were not enough to break through the barrier after the ninth transformation of the golden elixir. I thought I needed to refine the spiritual elixir as a great medicine to break through the barrier, but I didn't expect that the golden elixir was the great medicine!"
"Golden elixir is a great medicine!"
He knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, "I have wasted twenty years! I should have cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage long ago, but I wasted twenty years! How many twenty years do we have in a lifetime? But it's not too late!"
He jumped up, stupidly and foolishly, and shouted: "With the seven returns, eight changes and nine returns of the golden elixir, I can plant the golden elixir, produce yellow sprouts, and cultivate into a Yuanying!"
"Chen Shi, you are my mentor, I kowtow to you!"
"I'll knock a few more!"
"Dog, I will never doubt you again! I kowtow to you!"
He was acting crazy and Gou Zi was very surprised. He kowtowed to him a few times in a very formal manner.
Fu Leisheng refused to give in and insisted on knocking his dog, so the man and the dog knocked their heads against each other. I would knock back as many times as you knocked my dog.
Chen Shi stood quietly by the side, waiting for him to return to normal, feeling a little surprised.
"Seven Returns, Eight Transformations, Nine Returns, aren't these things included in normal exercises? Have you never seen them, Mr. Fu?"
After a long time, Fu Leisheng finally came to his senses from his madness. Thinking of his own misconduct just now, he couldn't help feeling embarrassed.
"Well, Chen Shi, you guys should not tell anyone about this."
He hesitated and said, "I will still be teaching in town in the future. If this gets out, people will laugh at me."
Chen Shi smiled and said, "The signs of heaven and earth are all my images. It is better to rely on myself than to rely on gods or ghosts. If the golden elixir is not a great medicine to break through the barriers, why refine it? Is it just for fighting?"
Fu Leisheng regained consciousness and felt extremely ashamed. He said, "I didn't teach you much, but you taught me a lot. I am not worthy of being your teacher."
Seeing that Chen Shi was still in high spirits, he suddenly remembered something. Just now, when Chen Shi was practicing sword, his true energy was maintained at the peak state, and he had almost no time to rest and recover his breath!
"How powerful is his Qi cultivation? Even a cultivator at the Golden Core stage can't withstand such consumption!"
Fu Lei was in doubt. Students at Wencai Academy who practiced this magic often had to stop and rest after practicing four or five swords to slowly recover their energy. They had to eat and drink well while recovering their energy. If the family was not well-off, the children would not be able to keep up with the meat and eggs, which would delay the progress of their practice. If they could practice twice a day, they were considered to be from a well-off family.
Even if one obtains a divine fetus and passes the imperial examination, one cannot release sword energy at will throughout the day, and one needs to replenish the depleted true energy.
When one cultivates to the Golden Core Stage, one cannot waste one’s true Qi at will.
For example, Fu Leisheng, whose golden elixir has reached the ninth level, would also use up his energy if he wasted it as recklessly as Chen Shi did, and would have to replenish his energy after practicing Ziwu Zhanxie Sword for a whole morning.
He has a divine fetus that can regulate his true qi, but it is still so fast. Chen Shi doesn't have a divine fetus, but his qi recovery speed is so fast that it is amazing.
"Could it be a problem with Chen Shi's cultivation method? He has cultivated to the Golden Elixir without a divine fetus, which shows that his cultivation method must be wrong."
Fu Leisheng's head buzzed, as if a spring thunder had struck his head, making him dizzy. "But why is there a method of using the human body as medicine in his technique, but not in the orthodox technique I practice? Not only does my technique not have it, but Mr. Zeng's technique also does not have the content of using the golden elixir as medicine!"
The method Mr. Zeng practices is a high-level method taught by the Li family, so why doesn't it have a golden elixir as medicine? Why does one need to refine another elixir to help break through and become a Nascent Soul?
Fu Leisheng didn't dare to think about it too much. The more he thought about it, the more horrified he felt.
When the two returned to the village, they saw that the villagers of Huangpo Village were preparing a banquet. The food was already cooked and they were waiting for them to come.
"Our village has finally produced another scholar in all these years. Old Chen is no longer here, but we have to celebrate!"
Grandma Yuzhu smiled and pulled Chen Shi to the table, letting him sit in the main seat, and said with a smile, "Mr. Fu, you are a learned man, sit here!"
Chen Shi was flattered and tears streamed down his face. Fu Leisheng also felt the enthusiasm of the countryside.
The black pot was also on the table, and the villagers didn't find it strange that they were eating at the children's table.
During the dinner, the old lady Wuzhu, who had studied for a few years, told Chen Shi a story about a man named Zhou Chu who killed three evil spirits that were causing trouble for his neighbors. She said meaningfully, "Xiao Shi, you are a scholar now. Think about what you should do?"
"To exorcise the evil spirits in our village, I only charge three taels of silver!"
Chen Shi patted his chest vigorously and assured the villagers, "After I become the master, I will use less force when I bully the villagers!"
The villagers wanted to curse, but when they thought about how other masters had used a lot of force to bully them, while Chen Shi, as a master, had to use very little force, they all calmed down, smiled happily, and had a great time at the banquet.
In the afternoon, Granny Sha came over with a basket, smiling, followed by a big bearded man and a green sheep that walked on two legs.
When Fu Leisheng saw the blue sheep walking on two legs, he didn't feel anything was wrong.
"Most sheep and dogs in the countryside are like this," he thought to himself.
"Xiao Shi, the new temple for the mountain king has been built. It's time to invite the mountain king to live in the new temple and light incense for the consecration." Grandma Sha said with a smile.
Qingyang nodded repeatedly and said in human language: "You can no longer use the tiger to do evil!"
When Fu Leisheng heard the sheep speaking human language, he was a little dazed. He looked at the black pot and felt that something seemed to be wrong.
Black Pot glanced at him, and Fu Leisheng regained his sanity. He thought, "It's usually like this in the countryside. There's no need to make a fuss. Yes, I'm a little abnormal. I keep imagining things."
(End of this chapter)