Chapter 13: Mistaken Steps
Because on weekdays, Chen Heyang instructed his subordinates to clean the heart building every day, and Chen Xiao's mother and son had nothing to pack, so they only put their luggage away and some servants came to invite them.
Shuang Qinghua and Chen Xiao came to the main hall, Chen Heyang sat in the center, and there was a seat next to him, Chen Heyang hurriedly said: "Madame, sit down." Pulled a chair for Shuang Qinghua to sit down, the maid served tea, and the two chatted about their respective scenes after parting.
Chen Xiao was bored when he heard it, and he didn't know what to say, Chen Heyang saw his demeanor, he didn't know what he was thinking, and said to Chen Xiao: "Xiao'er, I still have a lot to say to your mother, if you are bored, go to Zhengyuan Hall, there are some exercise books I have collected over the years, if you like it, just take it to practice, don't ask me." ”
Immediately instructed the servant to lead Chen Xiao to Zhengyuan Hall to have a look, Chen Xiao heard that the exercises learned by the teacher were too advanced and not something that he could touch now. Ning Shen Ding and Grandpa Mo's forging body technique also required the essence and blood of the Yuan Beast, and they couldn't cultivate it for the time being. Now he only has Yun Yuan Neijing and Split Yuan Palm available, which is really a bit shabby.
If the Zhengyuan Hall really had exercises suitable for him, it would be regarded as solving his temporary predicament.
Chen Xiao followed the servant through the room, and arrived at the Zhengyuan Hall with a cup of tea. This hall was much taller and wider than the main hall just now, and it was obvious that Chen Heyang was also a cultivator, so the servant retreated and turned to leave.
Chen Xiao saw that the periphery of Zhengyuan Hall was a circle of empty venues, and there was no one around. Just as he wanted to step in, he suddenly felt the vitality in his body vibrate, his hair stood on end, and his eyes flashed, and an old man in gray was already standing in front of him. Chen Xiao took a few steps back, looking at this strange old man vigilantly, and the instinctive reflex of his body told him that this old man's strength was probably only higher than Chen Heyang.
Chen Xiao calmed down, hugged his fists and said, "Old man, my name is Chen Xiao, and I was called here by the head of the Chen family." ”
The old man was rickety, his face was full of twilight, and a pair of gray-white eyes stared at Chen Xiao for a long time before he said, "I know your name, Chen Heyang has ordered someone to send a message." ”
He pointed to the field around the Zhengyuan Hall and said, "There is a defensive formation here, you are not afraid of losing your life if you break in so casually?"
Chen Xiao laughed for a moment when he heard this, and said in his heart: Since you have received the message, you can still watch me take the initiative to die.
The old man turned around and came to the periphery of the venue, stretched out his hand to inject a few rays of vitality into the air in front of him, pinched his fingers again, and drank softly in his mouth: "Open!"
Chen Xiao saw that the empty square around the hall, which was originally as calm as water, suddenly rippled, and the layers of vitality visible to the naked eye churned, and after a while, a narrow wall of qi was formed, leading directly to the main entrance of the Zhengyuan Hall.
The old man waved his hand and said, "Go in, and when you come out, you can shake the copper bell in front of the hall." ”
Chen Xiao hugged his fists and thanked him, and followed the vitality passage to the front of the hall, and the vitality behind him was surging again, and the passage disappeared after a while.
Chen Xiao pushed the door of the hall and walked in, the hall was brightly lit, and there were rows of weapon racks on the outside of the surroundings, all kinds of weapons and weapons were glowing with cold light, and there were all kinds of books, and there were three rows of bookshelves in the middle, and there was a book every few steps.
Chen Xiao looked at it from the beginning, the low-level fist of the human realm: Kaishan boxing, the low-level leg method of the human realm: turning the river leg, the low-level fingering of the human realm: breaking the yuan finger, the intermediate palm of the human realm: mixed yuan and one qi palm...
Chen Xiao looked at it for a long time, and his mind was already clear, these three rows of bookshelves, the left row is placed in the books on martial arts moves, the middle row is the cultivation of the soul, the exercises of the body, and the right row is the cultivation of vitality and some Qimen Dunjia, astrological divination miscellaneous books. And the further back you go, the higher the level of the exercises.
Chen Xiao secretly thought, I have the ability to concentrate the soul in cultivating the soul, the ten thousand beasts forging the body to temper the body, and the teacher to guide me in cultivating the vitality, but now the martial arts moves are too lacking. After thinking about it, he picked it up in the left row.
The high-level martial arts of the human realm require the strength of the Jing Yuan Realm to cultivate, and the low-level Chen Xiao couldn't look down on it, so he slowly looked at it in the intermediate area of the human realm.
Chen Xiao looked at it while walking, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he picked up a black scroll, which had five small characters written in official script: Wrong body turned into a false step.
Turning the book cover, the first page is a few lines of introduction, the wrong body into a virtual step: the intermediate light body exercises in the human realm, when fighting with the enemy, the footwork is virtual and real, making it difficult to distinguish the direction of attack and dodge, and the best combination with the close-quarters palm, fist and leg method.
That's it, Chen Xiao put it in the wrench. Among all the martial arts moves, the footwork has the fewest cultivation techniques, and it is relatively difficult to learn, and it is of course the best to be able to dodge the opponent's attack when fighting with opponents of the same level.
Chen Xiao delayed for a moment, and picked out a scroll called Bafang Rakshasa Fist, this punch method is also an intermediate level of the human realm, and the melee attack move is just used in conjunction with the wrong body and virtual step.
Chen Xiao was satisfied, and was about to leave, but heard Huo Lao's voice. He walked over to the weapon rack and opened the wooden box underneath, which was filled with strange metal materials. Chen Xiao took more than a dozen materials according to the teacher's instructions, put them in his fingers, and then left the Zhengyuan Hall.
He shook the copper bell, and after a while, the vitality channel resurfaced, Chen smiled out of the passage, thanked the gray-clothed old man and turned to leave.
The old man watched his back disappear and muttered, "But I don't know what he did with a lot of refining materials. ”
Chen Xiao didn't go back to the main hall, but went back to Qingxin Xiaozhu directly, waited for his new room, locked the door, and waited for the teacher to appear.
Huo Lao raised his eyes and teased: "It's good to have a rich father, your previous bedroom is like a pig's nest compared to here." ”
He pointed to the bed again and smiled: "There are new clothes to wear." ”
Chen Xiao never cared too much about these external objects, and hurriedly took out the two scrolls and metal materials.
Huo Lao nodded and said, "I already know, you have chosen these two exercises well." He looked at the materials again and said: "Although Chen Heyang's collection is not on the table, the variety is very complete, these materials should be able to preliminarily repair the Fengwang pestle, I think there should be no decent refiners in this county, wait until you get to a slightly larger city." ”
He looked at Chen Xiao and said in a deep voice: "Now that the cultivation exercises are all available, it's time to look for the Yuan Beast, you can never become a real powerhouse by cultivation alone, and only in the fight between life and death can you continue to break through your own boundaries." ”
Chen Xiao nodded, kept the teacher's teachings firmly in mind, and picked up the wrong body and turned into a virtual step to watch it carefully.
Just when the lamp was in charge, Chen Heyang returned to his study. I saw that the old man in gray seemed to have been sitting there for a long time, holding a pair of metal-shaped balls in his hands.
Chen Heyang asked, "How?"
The old man nodded and said, "It's not bad, it's a good seedling, but the cultivation time is still short, and the heart still needs to be slowly observed." ”
After a moment of silence, he said: "The Four Clans Conference is only three months away, I heard that the Lei family and the Yelu family have produced some good seedlings, Chen Lin is only in the Sevenfold Yuan Realm now, I'm afraid there is a gap with them." ”
Chen Heyang frowned and said, "This Four Clans Conference is very important to us, tomorrow I will let Lin'er hurry up and cultivate, and ask my uncle to give him some advice when he has time." The old man in gray didn't say anything, and slowly walked out of the room with a slight sigh.
Soon after getting up the next day, Chen Heyang sent someone to invite. Shuang Qinghua and Chen Xiao went to the main hall, and when they saw that Mo Tianqing and the others were there, it turned out that the princess was leaving.
Zhongli Wanyang said to Chen Heyang: "This time the Chen family master's support, Wanyang wrote down, I sincerely invite heroes from all walks of life to help me Qin Wang, and I made a four-year covenant early, and now two years have passed, in order to succeed in this move, I still need to continue to invite capable people from all over the world to help, so as not to disturb the Chen family master." ”
Chen Heyang bowed and said: "The princess is serious, it is a great luck to be able to contribute a little to the princess in the future, and the princess will do something in the future, Chen will definitely go all out to help the princess protect the country!"
Zhongli was overjoyed, and he was polite, and he and Chen Heyang agreed to meet in the imperial capital on the fifth day of August two years later.
Chen Xiao wanted to let the black and white elders accompany the princess, but Zhongli Wanyang was afraid that it would be inconvenient for him to act, so he only took Mo Tianqing with him, and left the Chen family with the maid Qing'er, and disappeared.
Yuanyuan and his grandfather have relied on each other since he was a child, and he is naturally reluctant, but he knows that national affairs are important, so he has no choice but to shed tears.
Seeing off the princess and her party, Chen Heyang and his wife sat down in the main hall, and Shuang Qinghua took the round little hand to comfort her.
Chen Xiao hesitated for a long time and said to his mother: "Mother, the child has something to report." ”
"What's the matter?" Shuang Qinghua looked at Chen Xiao's expression and felt a little uneasy in her heart.
Chen Xiao hesitated for a moment: "The child's cultivation of the exercises needs a place near the mountains and rivers to absorb the vitality of heaven and earth, although Shanwang County is large, there is no suitable place, the child is going to find a mountain range near here to practice the exercises, the mother can rest assured, at most two or three months will come back." ”
Chen Xiao was afraid that his mother would worry: "I will take Hei Lao with me to protect the safety of the child." ”
Chen Xiao had already thought about it last night, then Chen Lin was not right, and he needed to leave someone to protect his mother, Bai Lao was steady, it was more suitable, and it was better for Hei Lao to be irritable and follow him.
How could Shuang Qinghua be reluctant to let her beloved son leave her side, and suddenly hesitated.
Chen Heyang laughed and said: "The Chen family is really a good man, madam, you are relieved, Xiao'er has grown up, how can you always hide from the wind and rain under our wings, not to mention that the black and undeparting skills are almost the same as mine, and there will be no mistakes with him to protect Xiao'er." ”
Chen Xiao has been in contact with the two elders of black and white for a few days, and they already know their names and surnames, white and black.
Shuang Qinghua listened to what her husband said, but she was reluctant to give up her son, so she had no choice but to respond. Chen Xiao knew that his mother was reluctant, so he comforted him for a long time, and Shuang Qinghua also knew his son's intentions, and carefully told him to be cautious outside.
Chen Xiao saw that his mother's mood was calm, and he did not delay, calling black and white. He told Bai Wuli about Chen Lin's behavior, and told him to be careful, so as not to let his mother be framed.
The two Bai Wuli brothers were controlled by Chen Xiao with pills, and they were both afraid and angry in their hearts. But in the past few days, Chen Xiao has never used the things of the gods to force them to do something unwilling, and he is polite to them, which also makes them breathe a sigh of relief, feeling that although this young man has low strength, there is still merit.