16. Departure
"Ishiji-sensei," I said, "I didn't expect ......."
"I didn't expect that either." She smiled, but frowned slightly. It can be seen that the wound is painful. "Can you believe it? This is the first time I have been injured since I went out with Queen Yan Xin on the expedition to Qiangfang. ”
Who is Queen Yan Xin? Isn't it a good woman, Wu Ding's concubine?
"Teacher," I asked, "when was that?" ”
Shi Ji thought for a moment, "About a hundred and seventy years ago! ”
Hearing this, I became more and more convinced that Shi Ji was not a human, but a goblin.
"Ishii-sensei," I asked, "why do you bleed?" ”
"I'm as flesh and blood, how can I not bleed?" She looked at me, "If it's an ordinary weapon, it really can't hurt me." But your high-grade magic weapon, my physical body is still difficult to fight. ”
"But, just now I heard the sound of gold and stone colliding!"
She finally understood what I meant, and her face darkened. "Do you think that my Dharma name is Shiji, and if I have lived long enough, I am made of stone?" She grabbed my hand and pressed it on her uninjured left leg, "You pinch it, isn't it fleshy?" ”
I didn't expect Mr. Ishiji to lose his temper like a child. Indeed, living for a long time can be the result of cultivating immortals, not necessarily goblins.
"I'm sorry! Mr. Ishiji. I hurriedly said, "Do you want me to wrap it for you?" ”
"No, wait for the wound to heal. Just wash it. ”
"So, will there be a scar?"
She smiled, "Do you know how many times I've been hurt? If every injury had left a scar, I wouldn't have had an inch of good skin for a long time. ”
The next day, during the group exercise, Mr. Ishiji increased the number of colored beads under my control to five. In this way, the total number of beads reaches the same as the number of people.
I changed back into my gymnastics uniform. Mr. Ishiji wore his usual red shirt and pants, and never showed his legs again. I don't know if her injuries have healed intact.
At the end of the solo practice, she said to me, "What I taught you, it's enough to participate in the smart competition." Is there anything else you want to learn? ”
I remembered what Teacher Taiyi said at that time, so I blurted out, "I want to learn to walk against the wind." ”
Shi Ji narrowed his eyes, "Walking against the wind is a high-level exercise. To learn it, you need to increase your spiritual power by at least five times. ”
"It's so hard!" I was discouraged.
"It's not difficult. Because it requires manipulation of the air around your body. And the spiritual power of the air is very weak and not easy to concentrate. This requires a very strong spiritual sense. If you have enough spiritual power, it is not difficult to learn at all. ”
"With your current level of spiritual power, controlling the air around you is far from enough to support your body. If you want to take it off, you can only use your mana. As I told you, the power consumption of mana is a thousand times that of spiritual power. Fly for miles in a row and your power will run out. Do you still have to learn. ”
"Of course you have to learn!" I said, "Even if you can fly a few feet in the air, you can fly!" This way I don't have to climb over the wall and climb the building, and I won't lose my memory if I fall from a height! ”
Shi Ji smiled, "Look at your little bit of talent." She waved her hand, "Change your clothes and follow me outside." ”
I changed my clothes and pants and followed her to the open space outside the courtyard on the banks of the Jiuwan River. "Come, I'll show you what it means to walk against the wind."
I saw a strong turbulence in the air around Shi Ji, causing her lower body and the scenery behind her to be slightly deformed by the refraction of light. A cloud of white vapor gathered, lifting Shi Ji's body up, and then quickly rose into the air. A moment later she turned back. White steam tumbled under my feet and landed in front of me.
"Teacher, I understand what's going on with the clouds!"
"Alright, I'll demonstrate the pure use of mana flight again." Shi Ji stretched out his arms, and his toes lightly touched the ground, jumping up lightly. It hovers in the air like a wild goose and falls again.
"Come on, you give it a try!"
"Me?"
"It's simple. Apply mana at the same time as you jump. Then how high you can jump, how high you can jump, how far you can jump, how far you can jump. ”
"It's as simple as that?"
Shi Ji smiled, noncommittal.
In this way, after many trainings, I was able to jump as high as the castle tower in the distance, crossing a distance as far as three courtyards.
"Yes," said Shi Ji, "work harder to see if we can fly across the Jiuwan River." ”
I look at the Jiuwan River with ice in the water. That's more than three yards wide!
"What's wrong? Afraid of falling into the water? Shi Ji smiled, "Then you go and change into the sleeveless tights from yesterday." In case you fall into the water, swim over. ”
Change tights? Forget it! I thought to myself, I'd rather fall into the icy water in my clothes than to fly into the air in public.
I leaped forward, and the Nine Bays River swept under me. It landed quietly less than a foot across the opposite bank. When I returned, I saw that Ishiji was no longer by the river, so I flew directly to Ishiji's yard.
"Good!" Ishiji stood on the steps and looked at me with a smile. "Tomorrow we will cross the Yellow River."
Crossing the Yellow River? It seems that Mr. Ishiji has to get me into the water.
After the next day's indoor practice. I didn't change into my clothes and trousers, but put on a white coat directly over my gymnastics uniform, and followed Shi Ji to the bank of the ancient Yellow River three miles away.
I took off my coat and boots, put on only my gymnastics suit, and jumped up barefoot. I didn't make it to the other side, but I didn't fall into the water, but I smashed a piece of ice floe in the middle of the river.
On my return, I fell into the water three feet away from the shore. The river was bitterly cold, but it was a sandy beach, and it wasn't deep, it only reached the middle of my thighs, and I didn't even get wet with my tights.
I ran out of the water and hurried to put on my coat and boots. "Oops, I'm freezing to death! Teacher, I don't practice! ”
When I went back, I asked Shi Ji, "Teacher, when you go out, do you use mana to fly, or do you walk against the wind?" ”
"Not at all!" She said, "I'll summon Qingluan." Most of the immortals will summon flying magic weapons or mounts. Very few immortals use mana to fly or ride against the wind. ”
"Then my master is very poor?" Otherwise, why would he be so obsessed with whether I can ride the wind?
Shi Ji was happy, "If your master is poor, there will be no rich people in the world!" There are all kinds of magic weapons in his hands. It's just that I don't want to give you too much at once. ”
"Actually, when you're flying, your Qiankun Circle and Chaotian Aya can be used to borrow power. They're not a magic weapon for flying, but tripling the distance they can fly is certainly not a problem. ”
Oops, why didn't you say it earlier? It caused me to fall into the ice water and almost turn into a soup chicken.
Three days later, we finished all our training and prepared to leave for Xingyi.
"Teacher, are we really going to go by land?" A girl asked. Everyone has heard of the dangers of land routes.
"We take the waterway." Ishiji replied.
"But by water," Xiao Qian asked, "it's against the current, and we don't have to walk for many days." Is it in time? ”
Shi Ji smiled, "Can't even Mr. Shi Ji believe it?" You go home and have a reunion dinner with your family, and then get a good night's sleep. We'll leave here early tomorrow morning. ”
That night, instead of sleeping alone, I stayed in my parents' room and slept with my mother.
Curled up in her mother's arms, feeling her mother's body temperature. I had so many thoughts that I couldn't sleep for a long time.
It stands to reason that for them, I am just a substitute for their unconscious child. And I've only been in this world for two months, and I can't talk about any deep feelings for them, and I shouldn't have been so attached to them.
In my previous life, many years ago, I also slept with my aunt's family on the big kang in the countryside. Will she miss me when I die? Will it be sad for me?
The next day, we didn't go to the harbor wharf where the Lone Bamboo Jun fleet docked at that time, but gathered on the bank of the Jiuwan River behind the school park. A small, unassumingly earthy boat had stopped on the shore.
Except for Xiao Qian, who stayed in the school park, the other six students were accompanied by their parents. Although the girls were a little reluctant to part, no one cried, and they were all very excited.
Father walked up to Shi Ji, "Teacher Shi Ji, really don't need this official to send troops to escort you?" ”
"No," Shi Ji smiled, "there are many people and big goals." Ladies and gentlemen, if they are here, I will ensure that they will return unharmed and safely. ”
Everyone arched their hands, "Where, where!" With Mr. Shiji here, we are a hundred at ease. ”
"Teacher," one girl asked, pointing to the boat, "shall we take that boat?" Doesn't it look like it's going to be fast! ”
The father looked at the boat with a surprised expression on his face. "Teacher Shi Ji, isn't this the Yellow River dragon boat? Even this is something you can borrow. ”
Shi Ji smiled, "Yes! You see that my friendship with the Dragon King of the Yellow River is okay, right? ”
I took a closer look at the boat, "It doesn't look like a dragon boat in the East China Sea!" ”
Shi Ji came over and grabbed my chin, "You've been on a dragon boat in the East China Sea, right?" The Yellow River Dragon Clan is naturally inferior to the East China Sea Dragon Clan. The grade of the Yellow River dragon boat is also lower than that of the East China Sea dragon boat, although it is not the best magic weapon, but it is also a high-grade magic weapon! ”
"Well," one girl asked, "is this boat without sails, rowed?" ”
"Paddle through? Then it won't be possible by the end of the year! Shi Ji replied, "Come on, everyone get on board!" ”
The dragon boat left the river bank in the eyes of everyone and gradually moved away. After entering the mouth of the Yellow River, it turns its head between the ice floes and sails upstream, heading towards the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
Soon after, the Guancheng of Chentangguan, the villages outside the Guancheng, and everything else related to Chentangguan gradually disappeared from view. We sat at the bow of the boat, looking at the primitive barren mountains and boundless wilderness on both sides of the river, as well as the occasional wrecked fishing boat, and gradually lost the interest in watching.
"Let's all go to the cabin!" Shi Ji shouted, "Stay outside, and when you encounter bandits, you will become a living target." "Announcement: Biquge APP Android, Apple special version, say goodbye to all ads, please pay attention to the WeChat public account to enter the download and installation: appxsyd (press and hold for three seconds to copy)
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