Chapter Twenty-Seven: Crazy Scientific Practice
At this time, Jiang Liao could never have imagined that many years later, this nameless town would be named after himself. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Jiang Liao knew the purpose of Xu Feng's trip this time, and knew that Xu Feng would never forget the ten thousand taels of gold. When he went out this time, he only brought sixty taels of silver, and Xu Feng put twenty taels in the Rejuvenation Hall at once, which made Jiang Liao very uneasy.
Xu Feng didn't care much, he had never looked at money in his previous life, and at this moment, he regarded making money as a task, and he was full of confidence and ambition.
This is a real world, and the real cannot be more real. It's not like in the novel, when the heroes of the rivers and lakes enter the store and shout: two taels of beef, a pot of soju. You must know that beef is very expensive, a better soju is even more expensive, and the heroes of the rivers and lakes are also people, and they also need vegetables, rice, oil, salt, and food, drink, and Lazar.
It's not like what was written in some online novels that Xu Feng had read in his previous life, as soon as the cultivator appeared, he collected the vitality of heaven and earth, absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, and made a breakthrough every few days, and killed the enemy when he met it. The easy thing in the world is all men's blood!
In this real world of cultivation that Xu Feng felt, it was really cruel and dangerous, and he couldn't help but think, it was better for Xu Feng, who had been crazy before, although sometimes he was demented, and he had someone to take care of his life, so he didn't have to face so many tricky things, which was really good.
On the way to Sendai, Xu Feng tried to become enlightened more diligently, according to the ordinary records in the "Daoyuan Fu" and the methods taught by the Taiyi Daoists, he collected his mind, closed his eyes and contemplated the heart, and devoted himself to the Tao to experience all things in the world. Since then, there has been nothing else in the world, whether it is in the carriage, or in the inn, or even in the flow of people, Xu Feng has tried to become enlightened, and he is obsessed.
There are really many similarities between scientific research and practice, as the so-called dilemma in the world, reading and boxing. Reading and boxing are solid, and there can be no falsehood, reading is like scientific research, boxing is like practice, and what is needed is hard work and seriousness.
Xu Feng, who has always been accustomed to being clean and tidy, is obsessed with cultivating like a demon, and has no intention of taking care of himself, and once his beard grows wildly, his hair is dirty, and his clothes are sour!
Along the way, Xu Feng realized the Tao while thinking, and wrote down many thoughts and notes about his cultivation, most of which were explored and studied from the perspective of science in his previous life. There are also explorations about this world.
For example, compared to the people of the earth, why are the people of this world able to practice?
Regarding this issue, Xu Feng carefully marked it in the back:
- The composition of the air breathed is not quite the same, and it has been determined;
- The magnetic field of the planet (if it is a planet) is different, doubtful;
- Gravity and tidal forces are different, and there are serious doubts;
-- The structure of the human body is different and doubtful.
For example, why can't some people in this world practice, while some people are able to practice?
Xu Feng's annotation on the back of this question is: "According to Taiyi Dao's oral statement, Long Qianqiu, the dean of the Dongcheng Academy of Yingdu, can tell whether a person can practice or not. There is another sentence at the end, "According to the Taiyi Daoists, this is determined by God." (!)" followed by my own inference: everyone has different IQs, and the ?...... caused by the growth environment.
Some of the more in-depth questions were also carefully recorded in the notes. For example, how the various exercises are performed through true qi, or vitality and aura. There is no answer to this question yet, but there are several scenes at the end of the question, and each scene has a large section of annotations.
The first scene is the feeling and detailed description of Xu Feng's battle with Shen Yilang, the dragon and phoenix of Sizhou, focusing on the peculiar shape of Xiao Hei when facing the cultivator's attack, the severity and distribution of the pressure and injuries he suffered.
In the second scene, the Iron and Stone Dao Chief's own feelings when he made a move, from the sound he heard, the speed of the movement he saw, the speed of the flow of vitality, and the strength of the hit object.
The third scene is a detailed description of the strange exercises of the gray-eyed Zen master. It is followed by N large "?".
The fourth is about the Dry Wood Flame brothers and sisters, in which the swinging of the sword into a cage is compared in various ways with the divine attack of the Gray-eyed Zen Master wielding the Zen staff.
Xu Feng regarded every contact with cultivators as extremely precious, and greedily recorded every contact one by one, studying everything about them. It's like a scientist who caught an alien studying aliens. Xu Feng himself also had a brief experience of enlightenment, and in his diary, he repeatedly compared his feelings with the feelings of fighting with cultivators, and pondered, every time he had a little experience, it was like making great progress in the experiment, and he was happy for a long time.
On the dense papyrus, dozens of pages have been recorded, Xu Feng embellished them together with needles and threads, compiled them into a notebook, carefully stored them in a flannel bag, and carried them with him, so that he could easily remember that point and replenish it in time.
If you are obsessed with something that interests you, you will feel that time flies. After more than ten days of traveling, Sendai is about to arrive.
The Great Xia Dynasty has been peaceful for thousands of years, and in the long years when there were no dynastic wars and super sect battles, money has almost become the standard for measuring human affairs, and it has become a regulator of the relationship between various forces.
Profound Taoism means strength, strength means power, power means money, you can have no strength, you can't practice, you can have no power, you can't be an emperor and general, but if an ordinary person wants to go beyond the ordinary, the stepping stone is wealth. The sect that has mastered the cultivation resources of the world recruits secular disciples, and when they enter the door, they ask for a tribute of 10,000 taels of gold.
Indeed, as the Taiyi Taoist said: If you want to practice, bring silver! Therefore, this is a world of rampant materialism, and Xu Feng can only focus on silver and Sendai County.
Sendai was chosen because it was a famous trading city-state on the mainland, a place where countless goods gathered, and merchants gathered to become rich all over the world.
The more such a city-state, the more open and open it is, which means that there are more opportunities to make a fortune, and the broader the stage for showing one's ability, which is the same as the fact that people gathered in megacities in previous lives.
A large river with a width of 100 miles lies in front of Sendai Castle, and from a distance across the river, you can see countless urban buildings that stretch for dozens of miles, towers that reach into the sky, markets that stretch for miles, Taoist halls with round bottoms and square roofs, and houses lined with trees......
What a prosperous city lying between heaven and earth!
At a glance, on the bank of the river for dozens of miles, there are countless majestic bridges erected on the river, and it really leads to Sendai Castle.
Countless bridges, magnificent, like blood vessels leading to the heart, the waves under the bridge, countless large and small ships, competing to pass. This spectacular sight is unique to Sendai, and it is exactly that: thousands of bridges and flying frames, thousands of boats competing for the current.
Even before entering Sendai Castle, it is already full of people, and the trees on both sides of the bridge are planted with wooden ponds, and the trees are evergreen all year round, even in the cold winter, showing the abundant financial resources of Sendai Castle and the broad spirit of being a city of wealth in the world.
There are small traders and vendors who set up stalls under the trees to sell some tea and snacks to provide a final rest for tourists entering the city.
Xu Feng also visited many ancient city ruins in his previous life, thick ancient bricks, tall city walls, giving people a sense of majesty, but Sendai Castle is different, this big city has no city walls at all, some are just magnificent momentum, open mind. There are no walls, the essence of trade is deep, and free circulation is the highest principle of wealth. Xu Feng couldn't help but sigh.
The first thing to solve is accommodation. At this time, Xu Feng was strictly speaking an unemployed young man. Sendai County reminds Xu Feng of a famous article by a famous writer in his previous life, but he studied in Sendai, but he came to make money.
Xu Feng shook his head, drove away the unfashionable thoughts, and walked along the most prosperous Luoying Street, while keeping an eye on the city's roads, while thinking about a suitable place to live.
Trade creates wealth, and wealth separates the high and the low, and a piece of accommodation in the eastern part of Sendai Castle is also divided into upper, middle, and lower wards in the style of trade.
Needless to say, the upper area is smooth sailing, the terrain is high, the vision is broad, and the people who live are either rich or noble.
In the central district, there are generally some prosperous shop owners and wealthy idlers with a certain industry.
The lower area is the most filthy, with low shacks irregularly one after another, narrow alleys are messy, and sewage flows sideways on the ground, and the stench is overwhelming. Here live the lowest laborers and the poor, carrying goods, working part-time, running rivers and lakes, and even some poor prostitutes.
Xu Feng only had twenty taels of silver left on him, which was enough to buy a cottage in the lower district and rent for two years in the central district, but Xu Feng just stared at the upper district with the best conditions, and walked all the way to the best and most expensive place.