Chapter 9: Cultivating and Waiting
He walked around the formation twice and tried many times, and finally, Chu Chen determined that he could not enter the formation from other places at all, and could only enter from the front of that big tree according to the footwork taught by Shizun.
When he entered the formation for the second time, Chu Chen found that the air inside it had become very special, with a hint of coolness, giving people an extremely comfortable feeling.
"Come here tomorrow, we will clean up the weeds here, and then transplant the spirit grass we found. After staying in the formation for more than ten minutes, Chu Chen only felt refreshed, and he felt that this place was very clean, which was obviously different from the outside, but he couldn't answer when he asked Chu Chen to say what was different, or where it was clean, but he just felt like this.
Talking to himself, Chu Chen walked out of the formation.
At this time, the sun was setting, and all the birds were returning to their nests, looking at the sunset, Chu Chen took a deep breath, he knew that from today onwards, his path would be different from others, he was no longer a mortal, but a monk in the mouth of the master!
Stepping on the afterglow, Chu Chen embarked on the way home.
When I got home, the sun had sunk and it was getting dark.
"Brother, where have you been? My mother and I almost went to look for you!" As soon as he arrived at the door, Chu Xin, who was looking around, finally saw Chu Chen, and hurriedly greeted him, holding Chu Chen's arm and saying, for fear that he would disappear.
"It's just that you've been lying down for a long time, and you're going out for a walk, and your mother isn't worried, right?" Chu Chen explained, glancing into the room and asking.
"Uncle Nine saw you go to the mountains, if you haven't come back after a while, I will go to the mountains with my mother to find you. Chu Xin said.
"I smell the fragrance of fish, where does the fish come from?" Chu Chen smiled embarrassedly, and said that next time he would definitely not come back so late, his nose smelled the fragrance of braised fish, and he couldn't help but move his nose and asked his sister.
"I caught it from the pond!" Chu Xin straightened his chest and raised his little head, and said proudly.
Behind Chu Chen's house, there is a small fish pond, raising some grass carp, carp, crucian carp or something, I remember that since he was in junior high school, he boarded in school, and every week when he came back from vacation, his mother would catch a fish from the pond to make for him to eat.
Smelling the familiar fragrance and thinking back to the past, Chu Chen couldn't help but have a sour nose, Mom, you are so good to your son!
"Mom, my brother is back, I'll just say, my brother will definitely come back in a while. As soon as he entered the door, Chu Xin shouted to the kitchen.
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, come out with the dishes and chopsticks, and get ready to eat. Chen's mother said happily in the kitchen, seeing that her son hadn't come back so late, and he had just woken up, she was really afraid that something would happen to her son. Now that I'm back, I finally don't have to worry anymore.
The food was still the same as before, and Chu Chen ate very happily, but when he looked at his mother, whose temples were white and the calluses on her hands were so thick that she couldn't tell that it was the hands of two women, Chu Chen felt sad again, and she didn't know how much she had suffered in the past year......
After eating, Chu Chen personally sent food to his father who was lying on the bed, took care of him after eating, and at the same time, had a good chat with his father for a while.
"Hopefully, those elixirs will bring Dad back. Chu Chen came out of the room and said in his heart: "No matter what method you use, you must let Dad recover!"
After chatting with his mother and sister for a while, Chen's mother asked Chu Chen to go to sleep, after all, he only woke up today and needed a good rest, Chu Chen knew his mother's concern, so he didn't say much, and went straight to "sleep".
Back in the room, Chu Chen did not sleep, but cultivated the exercises that Master Venerable had left in his mind.
First of all, he memorized the mantra and then practiced those complicated seals, but no matter how hard Chu Chen practiced, he couldn't finish a set of seals in one go, but he was not in a hurry, take his time, he believed that as long as he practiced more, he would definitely be able to master it.
He practiced until one o'clock in the morning in the middle of the night, when Chu Chen felt tiredness hit him, his eyelids were heavy, and he had to stop and sleep.
As soon as it was dawn the next day, Chu Chen got up gently, put on a bamboo basket on his back, brought a hoe and a woodcutter, and went out.
"Hello third grandfather!" As soon as he went out, Chu Chen saw that the third grandfather living next door was sitting at the door smoking a dry cigarette, and when he heard Chu Chen calling him, he said to Chu Chen with a smile: "Xiao Chen, get up early in the future and exercise more, it will be good for your health." ”
"Eh, okay, I'll get up early every day to exercise in the future, goodbye to the third grandfather, I'll go for a walk in the mountains." Chu Chen nodded, and then waved.
The birds had already come out to feed, and the golden rays of the sun were already shining out from behind the mountains in the east.
"The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency by losing more than it loses, so the void is better than the real, and the lack is better than the surplus...... Luck dantian, superintendent and ...... Only the vacuum has no self, and then it can be reborn and deified......" Chu Chen walked while reciting the mantra of the exercise, but unconsciously, he entered the mountain, along the way, in addition to reciting the mantra and heart, Chu Chen would also have a free hand to practice the seal, after last night's practice, he now feels that those complicated seals are not so difficult to twist.
After coming to the location of the formation and entering the formation in a specific direction, Chu Chen did not stop at all and began to clean up the space of more than ten zhang.
"Hey, these plants and trees look obviously more vibrant than yesterday, could it be because of the convergence of heaven and earth aura that Master Zun said?" Looking at the weeds that were obviously more tender than yesterday, Chu Chen couldn't help frowning, thinking so in his heart.
What Chu Chen saw was true, the weeds in this Spirit Gathering Array were indeed more tender than yesterday, and this was due to the convergence of heaven and earth spiritual energy.
It took almost an hour for Chu Chen to completely clean up the space of more than ten zhang, fortunately, there were no stones here, they were all earthy.
After clearing out the clearing, Chu Chen didn't care about resting, put on the bamboo basket again, picked up the hoe, and went to dig the spiritual grass he found yesterday.
This time and again, almost two hours, originally, Chu Chen didn't need so much time, but he was afraid that the hoe would hurt the rhizome of the spirit grass, so he was very careful when breaking the soil, basically each spirit grass was gently planed out layer by layer, so it took a lot of time.
Returning to the formation, he carefully planted the spirit grass, and it took about another half an hour, and after doing all this, the sun had already climbed into the sky.
"I have to go back quickly, or my mother will be worried again. Out of the formation, glancing at the sun in the sky, Chu Chen hurriedly rushed home.
Sure enough, when he got home, he saw his mother and sister waiting for him at the door.
"Brother, what's wrong with you, you ran out early in the morning, causing my mother to worry about death!" The younger sister said dissatisfiedly to Chu Chen, but there was no blame in her tone, but after coming over, she took down the hoe on his shoulder for him.
"Mom, I'm sorry, you didn't get up when you got up in the morning, so I didn't tell you, which made you worried. Chu Chen looked at his mother apologetically.
"Hungry, let's eat. Mom took the bamboo basket on his back for him and said, "It's just right, don't walk around, if something happens, what do you want your mother to do with your father." ”
"Mom, I'm fine, you don't have to worry, I'll tell you when I go out in the future, and I won't come back too late." Chu Chen comforted his mother, he could feel that his mother was very worried about him and wanted to blame him, but she was reluctant, and all her anger could only be piled up in her heart.
"If it weren't for the third grandfather saying that you went to the mountains, we would have thought you were missing!" Chu Xin said beside him. Chu Chen smiled apologetically.