On February 12, the Kaiyang Festival of the Yanhuang Ancient Calendar in Zhongzhou indicates that the new year will start from this day.

Different from the festive celebration of Dan Day, the Kaiyang Festival is a day for mortals who operate all kinds of industries to make a living, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, praying for abundant wealth and abundant grains.

Pointing to the fields that have produced and lived, wrap the farm tools with two feet and two feet and two inches of red ling, take the cooked soil in their own fields, mix them with millet, beans, hemp, wheat and rice dyed into five colors, put them in Xiaoding, burn incense and pray.

Pointing to the business owner, wrapping the abacus with two feet and two feet and two inches of red ling. The stone bucket square engraved with the pattern of chariots and horses, with built-in gold and silver two-color Quartet money, is still burning incense and praying for wealth.

There are different rules for praying for blessings in all walks of life, but in the end, it is nothing more than burning incense and praying to worship heaven and earth. Therefore, at noon on the twelfth day of February, the cities, towns, towns, and villages inhabited by mortals have a pious and solemn atmosphere in the midst of smoke and fragrance.

Qinglin Town is no exception, the residents of Xiahe District get up early in the morning to prepare for blessings, all the shops on Heqian Street have also opened their doors early, and many people in the town, who lack oil and salt at home, and have less carbon and no salary, have many people who have entered the shops early, because before noon, all the shops on Heqian Street will be closed.

Ye Bufan also woke up early, cleaned up his head and face, and the clothes on his body were neatly stretched. He looked up at the light shining in the sky, and in a trance wanted to shout to his wife to take the fine iron drill and scrub it clean, after opening his mouth, he took two steps back dejectedly, supported the big tree in the courtyard, and slowly sat down on the blue stone of the canal well.

For ordinary people, what is too big to do, with clothes on their bodies and rice in their bowls?

So the Kaiyang Festival is the most important festival of the year for ordinary people.

On this day in previous years, the family will make three dishes and three bowls, steam six blessing cakes, and each cake will be dotted with red dots, which not only means six or six great shun, but also a hearty meal that can only be eaten in the New Year's Festival after praying for blessings at noon.

The son always runs around the house in the morning wrapped in the red lings of his father-in-law, and the wife always carefully rubs the fine iron drill to shine. At noon, after a pious prayer to the heavens, they gathered around the small table and began to eat the "blessing feast", the blessing cake was steamed fluffy, the mutton stewed was soft, and it was comfortable to eat in the mouth, and it fell into the stomach to be warm.

The son will always shout diligently in order to eat more mutton, and his father and mother will shout diligently, which makes people extremely happy. The wife will only wear a red dress on this day, with some rouge gouache on her face, and after a busy half a day, she is eating "blessed food" lively, and her face can't help but be moist, looking as beautiful as the fairy in the painting.

Now, his wife and children are missing, and he has become a monk himself.

Monks are not more than the festival of the sun.

How can any monk foolishly get some incense and candle tributes, sacrifice to the invisible gods of heaven and earth, and pray for a good harvest and abundant wealth.

Gold and silver are just mundane things, and the monks can't eat enough?

Without piety and reverence, Kaiyang is just an ordinary day in the eyes of the monks.

Ye Bufan felt that he was in a mood that had jumped in the morning, and suddenly became tasteless as if he was chewing beeswax.

What's even worse is that those good memories are like a knife, cutting the soul to pieces in an instant.

He looked at the sky in a panic, stood up, and fled into the hut, closing the wooden door tightly.

He was afraid to see the sun at noon today, and he was also afraid to smell the smell of incense and candles on the street today.

There was a faint fishy smell in the dark hut. Ye Bufan didn't light the oil lamp, he sat cross-legged in the corner, and after smelling the faint fishy smell emanating from the ground of the hut with peace of mind, his thoughts had just continued a little bit before the moon, and he breathed heavily and trembled slightly.

Ye Bufan struggled for a moment in his heart, but he still decided to think about it, and spend this long day with months of cultivation experience that he couldn't look back on, and at the same time wanted to see if he could touch the opportunity to concentrate like his hunch.

In Zhongzhou Xing, the reason why the exercises in the Qi refining period are not complicated is that the purpose of cultivation is to concentrate the mind and forge the body, as for the refining of the qi, it is just that after the condensation and forging the body are completed, before impacting the foundation building realm, the spiritual power in the dantian is compressed to the limit.

In Ye Bufan's hand, there is an orthodox Qi refining period exercise method in the cultivation realm, which has both the origin of the master and the inheritance of ten thousand years, before he practiced the "Seven Deaths and Seven Lives", he had read it in detail countless times, although he did not change the idea of taking risks, but he also had some insight and ideas.

The orthodox Qi refining period exercises, focusing on the mind and lightly forging the body, in fact, it cannot be said to be a light forging body, because in the exercises, the expansion of the meridians is also the top priority.

Because the meridians are the channels for the spiritual energy to enter the dantian spiritual tripod and turn into spiritual power, it is also the way for spiritual power to run around the body and change in countless ways. Therefore, the orthodox exercises, the so-called forging of the body, are the expansion of the meridians.

As for the rest of the body, as the spiritual power runs throughout the body, slowly warmed up, the body will become warm but strong sooner or later. Even if this process is a bit long-term, with the increase of spiritual power in the dantian spirit tripod, the spiritual power can already be released and condensed to protect the body.

But no matter how much the spiritual power increases, if you want to release the protective body, you still have to form the five elements of the spell to kill the enemy,。。。。。 It is necessary to use a more condensed consciousness to manipulate, so concentrating is another top priority.

The first strange thing about "Seven Deaths and Seven Lives" is that it is heavy forging and concentrating. Forging the body is not the expansion of the meridians referred to in the orthodox exercises, but the real refining of the body to the point that the skin is tough, the flesh is elastic, the tendons are soft, the bones are strong, the blood is boiling, and the pulse is wide.

What's even stranger is that the cultivation of the Qi refining period, if you don't rely on spiritual power to protect the body, even if you meet the requirements of the "Seven Deaths and Seven Lives" forging body. Ye Bufan had tried, but the strength of his body could not match the sharp short sword in his hand.

So in addition to the expansion of the meridians, which has a huge effect, the body that can be nourished with orthodox exercises, why does "Seven Deaths and Seven Lives" have a forging requirement like finding death?

Ye Bufan just thought of the initial "skin toughness", and his body was trembling again, and cold sweat flowed.

Using a very strange spiritual power operation method, the spiritual power in the dantian spiritual tripod is distributed under the skin of the whole body, and then the mind is suddenly cut off, so that the spiritual power under the skin becomes turbulent.

Seeing the spiritual power on the skin on his body being uncontrollably scurrying, as if being cut out of a spider web by thousands of sharp knives, the wounds were dense, revealing some white tendons and red flesh, and when he was still terrified, a drop of bright red blood immediately squeezed out of the wound.

At that moment, Ye Bufan felt that the skin of his whole body was torn into thousands of tiny pieces, and each piece was pierced with sharp needles.

Thousands of small pains erupted at the same time, and finally converged into a thick, sharp fine iron chisel, buried deep in the brain, chiseled to the top of the head one by one, trying to break through the top of the skull every moment.

That kind of chiseling blow actually shattered his desire and impulse to die sharply and continuously.

The most terrifying thing is that the strange method of spiritual power operation will always maintain a clear consciousness.

Time seemed to have stopped, and the whole world was empty, except for the slightest chiseling, and the soul was like a thousand holes.

When the pain was extreme, Ye Bufan felt a warm current in the depths of his soul, and it was this warm current that made him finally faint, and it was three days after he woke up again.

After waking up, a dark red human figure was printed on the blue brick floor of the hut, reminding Ye Bufan that he had walked back and forth between life and death. But the resilient skin all over his body made him feel like he was still in a dream that he hadn't woken up from.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, Ye Bufan has not wiped his body or washed his face for a month, and even before lying in bed, his heart is trembling, for fear that his skin will crack at any time.

A month later, stimulated by the painful memories all the time, Ye Bufan stubbornly chose to ignore it and began the practice of forging his body in the future.

The flesh was grinded, the tendons were pulled away, the bones were shattered, the blood in the whole body boiled like boiling water in a boiling pot, and the meridians were broken inch by inch like a thick round wooden stake smashed into it.

Every time Ye Bufan felt that he was about to die, what saved his life was the warm current that was born in the depths of his soul.

Although he couldn't figure out what this warm current was, Ye Bufan knew that this should be the so-called "creation" mentioned by the mad monk in the last sentence of the jade plaque.

The "soul" that ordinary people call is the first "cornerstone" of the soul consciousness that is conceived when the human being is born in the womb of the mother.

For monks, the term "soul" is not ethereal.

All things are in harmony and become in heaven and earth. The spirit of heaven and earth begins with vitality.

Yuan Qi is the natural qi of the chaos of heaven and earth, and it is also the source of the generation of spiritual things in the world.

If you want to get the Great Dao and feather the flying immortals, in the end, you don't need to clear the source. In order to achieve this wish, the monk needs to condense his spiritual consciousness into divine consciousness, comprehend the heavens and the earth, and find the source. To put it more simply, the divine consciousness can absorb the vitality of heaven and earth.

However, in the current cultivation realm of Zhongzhou Star, there are very few people with this realm.

Before the Immortal War, in the era known as "Bright Stars", there were countless monks in Zhongzhou Star who were amazingly talented. The monk who created the Seven Deaths and Seven Lives Recipe could not be classified as a genius in the cultivation realm at that time. Because his thoughts were too crazy, he even wanted to use the idea of ignoring life and death to touch the origin of heaven and earth during the qi refining period.

Ye Bufan didn't know. This "Seven Deaths and Seven Lives" caused an unusual sensation thousands of years ago, but in the blink of an eye, it was like a meteor falling, silent without a trace.

"I, the moon has been created", the last sentence in "Seven Deaths and Seven Lives" is the last sentence left by this monk, after he successfully forged his body for the first time and really realized the vitality of heaven and earth, and then his soul disappeared before he died.

So in the end, "Seven Deaths and Seven Lives" just proves that it is possible to comprehend the vitality of heaven and earth during the Qi refining period, but the price is too huge. In that era, under the cultivation of monks who did not lack opportunities, they were able to absorb the vitality of heaven and earth by relying on the steady improvement of the realm for hundreds of years.

"Seven Deaths and Seven Lives" has become a possibility that has been sealed in the dust for thousands of years and forgotten by the current monks.

Ye Bufan didn't even know that the reason why he was able to successfully cultivate the "Seven Deaths and Seven Lives" was not because of his unique talent, nor because of his belief in ignoring death.

Relying on the pale green "silk thread" in the white spiritual power qi mass in his dantian spirit tripod.

The green flame that entered the body once made what Ye Bufan seemed impossible possible, and now Ye Bufan sat and watched inside, and the green flame was nowhere to be found.

Is the green "silk thread" in the dantian a green flame?

Ye Bufan had thought about this possibility, but why was that flame so magical? Why had it now become a "silk thread" in the spiritual power qi mass?

He knew that his knowledge could not solve the secret, so he chose to ignore it as always.

When a monk has reached the cultivation stage of Qi refining, although he can already see the slightest changes in his body by sitting and watching the internal reflection, he still cannot look into the spiritual consciousness and observe the sea of consciousness. Ye Bufan also didn't know the changes in the sea of knowledge.

In Ye Bufan's sea of consciousness void, the hanging spiritual consciousness shrank by half, from what was originally like a bright small ball of light, to what was now like a translucent drop of water.

In the void under the spiritual consciousness, the visible grass slope has stretched for miles.

The grass is green, and the yellow flowers are all over the ground.