Chapter Eighty-Eight: Restudy
"The pen has four virtues: 'sharp', 'round', 'qi' and 'healthy', and all four are indispensable. So, what is 'round'?" Master Xiaobei's unhurried teaching voice interrupted Mu Xici's wanderings.
It's been half a month, but Master Xiaobei is still talking to her about the basics of calligraphy.
She listened intently for a while, and then she couldn't sit still. I often listened to it, and I called up the content of the formation in the sea of consciousness to study and figure it out.
Master Xiaobei seemed to see through her thoughts, and would ask a question every time he said the previous paragraph. Mu Xici regretted very much that she didn't store the jade slips about calligraphy into her consciousness in the first place, and whenever she was studying in the mind, she was always embarrassed for a long time because she couldn't answer.
When her left leg was almost recovered, the quiz practice was replaced with grinding ink.
The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone in the wooden house are all colorful, and Mu Xici has also been polished a few times in the same way. After being criticized by Master Xiaobei to the point of red-facedness, she found out that it was not the ink that was grinding, but the people.
Just how much water was accurately put into the inkstone according to the size of the ink ingot, she practiced for seven or eight days before she got the two words of Master Xiaobei - Shang Ke.
After being able to grasp the degree of water, she needs to learn to grind. I thought she would be able to practice this grinding in less than a week at most, but in fact she practiced it for more than a month.
Although Master Painter is a gentle person and never criticizes her directly, he is very strict with her.
When grinding ink, the ink ingot should be pinched and flattened, and then pressed and grinded slowly. Not fast, not slow. When grinding, the arm should be hung at the level of the table at all times, and the ink ingot should be held as if holding a pen.
I don't understand why I need to cultivate these things that have nothing to do with magic, so my anxiety and confusion have always plagued her.
Another week passed, and when Mu Xici gradually realized the intention of grinding ink, Xiao Bei slowly persuaded her: "Grinding ink is a quiet kung fu. On the path of cultivating immortals, cultivating techniques is important, but cultivating the state of mind is even more important. You are young and bright, but you lack composure. Static can be braked, but movement is rare to be quiet. ”
These words made Mu Xiqi blush. Her soul is not a child, but when she has been a child for a long time, her heart is almost left behind.
She was in such a hurry that she forgot that there is nothing in the world that can be achieved overnight. A cultivation foundation without state of mind experience is not solid, and it can be destroyed by the demons at any time. One step at a time is the right way.
In response, she leveled her elbows and calmly picked up the ink ingot.
When she calmed down to polish the ink, she realized that it was really not an easy task. It doesn't work if it's thick, it's not good, it's not okay if it's fast, it's not okay if it's slow. Just three hours of non-stop grinding of ink allowed her arm to rest for at least a day before she could continue to lift it.
After Mu Xici was tired and had back pain, he finally found an easy way. Condensing the aura on the wrist can save a lot of effort when grinding ink, and at the same time, condensing it on the shoulder can also reduce the burden on the elbow without feeling tired.
In this way, not only can you cultivate your state of mind, but you can also cultivate your luck, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.
Master Xiaobei is also a rare good master. After discovering that she was opportunistic and practicing Reiki, he did not criticize her for making mistakes, but praised her for her quick thinking. If the master hadn't been trapped in this ruins, he would have been full of peach and plum by now.
Thanks to this month's experience. In the following practice, Mu Xici gradually calmed his mind, abandoned his proud past of reaching Xiaocheng, and was able to concentrate on cultivation.
Mu Xici had been using a talisman pen knocked from Mu Chennan before. But this talisman is only a beginner magic weapon after all, and it is okay to draw talismans, but it is a laggard for her to practice calligraphy.
Master Xiaobei asked her to practice with sheep hair first, and if it was a small success, she would change it to wolf hair.
"If you want to get rid of your previous craftsmanship, you have to start all over again. ”
"This pen could have been free, but you were bound by yourself. ”
"Don't be anxious, every stroke is experiencing your state of mind, and you need to guard against arrogance and rashness. ”
"The study of words lies in one heart, and words are like people. So you need to think back to your heart from time to time. ”
Although Master Xiaobei has no figure, his words echo in Mu Xici's ears from time to time, polishing her state of mind little by little.
There are no four seasons in the Seven Stars Fantasy Realm, otherwise Mu Xici really wants to use winter practice Sanjiu and summer practice to describe how hard he cultivates. Because of the use of aura, she has more than doubled her daily practice time, and when the aura in her body is exhausted, when can she stop.
And the advantage of this kind of training is that her aura can not only be sent and received freely, but also more stable and even when condensed around her body, and at the same time, her cultivation has also been improved.
The only thing that worries Mu Xici is that the little fox who should be in the illusion is nowhere to be found.
Whenever he was tired from cultivating, Mu Xici would go to the Seven Star Pool to sit down. She expected the little fox to jump out and fight her as usual, but this scene never happened again.
She also asked Master Xiaobei sideways. The master comforted her, it was normal for the spirit beast to hide somewhere for three or five years without appearing when it was advancing.
In this case, she had to comfort herself that the little fox was going to advance.
During this period, she also used ancient methods to make the spirit beast egg like a stone recognize the master. Although it never broke out of the spirit beast's egg, they always had a sense between them. She could feel that this ancient spirit beast had not yet reached the hatching stage, and it was still growing in the spirit beast egg.
Everything is going in order.
After the 'book repair' was a small success, her left leg also returned to normal. At this time, Master Xiaobei finally let her start to enter the cultivation of 'refining the body'.
Her meridian bones have been transformed by cheap masters, so there is no need to worry. But there is a big problem with physical strength and reaction. Therefore, Mu Xici's daily compulsory practice is one more item to run around the existing valley of the Seven Star Illusion Realm, and he is not allowed to use aura.
The valley of the Seven Stars Illusion is about the same size as the front hall, and running ten laps around the outermost part of the valley every day is not a problem for Mu Xici. She even proposed to increase the intensity of training, but the ridiculous and sad master still slowly persuaded her to focus on gradual progress.
"Master Xiaobei, why don't you find a book of exercises for me to practice, wouldn't that be faster and better?"
"You need to know that no matter how advanced the exercises are, if you don't start from the basics, they are only superficial in terms of physical fitness. There are not a few people in the Fengming Continent who practice the physical exercises, but there are very few who really exert the exercises to ten out of ten. Fortunately, you are still at an age where you can polish, and I hope that you can truly shape the meridian bones. ”
Looking at the peach tree in front of him, Mu Xiqi reluctantly ran forward.
According to Master Xiaobei's words, she must run ten laps around the valley every day and then practice other contents. At the same time, the master also asked her to collect the flowers and plants that can be used in the valley one by one and boil them into a medicinal bath that can strengthen the body and bones.
With the continuous increase in the number of laps, this body, which was raised by a cheap master as a lady's show, even after bone remodeling, seems a little unbearable.