Chapter 198: A Bowl of Food
Chen An got up lightly and looked around.
This room should be the residence of the people of the Lu Mansion, the layout is very simple, six beds around a table of eight immortals, and a dilapidated cabinet in the corner, which is already all the household belongings in the room.
Out of the corner of his eye, he casually swept the table of the Eight Immortals in the middle of the room, and found that it was very clean, just like in the inn, with a white porcelain kettle and four cups of the same texture. The difference is that there is also a sea bowl and a pair of wooden chopsticks on the table.
Chen An was surprised, looked into the sea bowl, and found that it was filled with a bowl of food, and there were four gray nests on it. He was stunned for a moment, but then immediately understood that this should be the dinner that he had missed the meal, and his temporary companions had left him dinner.
He looked at a few people who were still sleeping with a strange expression, and his eyes finally fell on the big-headed man, and a warm current rose inexplicably from his heart. He lived up to his wishes, picked up the bowl, took the chopsticks, and pushed the door out. It was dark outside, and he didn't actually sleep for long, from evening to the beginning of the hour, a few hours, but it was the most restful night he slept in nearly a year.
Outside, the bright moonlight was misty by the night mist, and Chen An picked up the stone steps under the porch and sat down, picked up the sea bowl, and enjoyed his own dinner comfortably.
The dish is the most ordinary dish, but occasionally minced meat looms in the meantime, indicating that the treatment of the people of the Lu Mansion is not bad, and the head of the nest is also a large number of feet, in addition to occasionally eating some toothy sand from it, the craftsmanship and conscience of the Lu Mansion chef can barely score a high score. However, these small flaws did not affect Chen An's appetite, he sandwiched the vegetables and ate them one bite at a time.
When the power was overwhelming and the martial arts reached the peak, Chen An didn't know what kind of feelings it would be, but now a full meal and a sense of stability were the greatest happiness for him.
In fact, he is only interested in martial arts, he has been forced by fate to move forward all his life, becoming tyrannical, becoming cruel, becoming ruthless, becoming murderous, and the entire career of the dark division is a distortion of human nature.
It wasn't until he met Mu Shaoping again, until the revenge was avenged, and it wasn't until the East China Sea that everything disappeared that he truly recognized himself.
Although the pain of the past cannot be healed, the rift in my heart is slowly being bridged. The three years of living in Pingzegou were the only happy times in his life, isolated from the world, no enmity, no rivers and lakes, sunrise and sunset, occasionally seeing a few patients, studying martial arts from time to time, as well as the company of Xiaoguang and the help of neighbors, which were all scenes that he could only see when he dreamed back at midnight in the Great Zhou.
And all this ended in just three years, and sometimes Chen An had to sigh whether he was really guilty of seven killings.
The kung fu of a bowl of rice made him relive the past, licked the wound in his heart again, and swallowed it until the last bite of the nest was swallowed, and then the sadness and sorrow for no reason were over.
Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, he stroked his stomach, and took out a few pages of paper from his arms, and there were countless small characters on the dense books on the paper, which was the follow-up to the Hundred Refining Divine Soldiers. Although the previous part was left to Ji Hong and Pei Ming, he still did not stop perfecting this exercise while fleeing for his life these days.
Spread the paper on his lap, Chen An used his fingers as a pen, ignited a high temperature on his fingertips, and burned the handwriting on the paper.
What he is recording now is the insights he gained from this fight with Yangshuo.
Although it turned into a chase after just one round, Chen An's insights from it were real. The shape and meaning of the Qi Refiner is worthy of being the originator of martial arts, and it has greatly touched Chen An.
First of all, it is the momentum of the landslide and the ground crack, no, it is not the momentum, it is the real landslide and the ground crack, although Yangshuo controls the power in half of the Dongguan school field, but the scene of the landslide and the ground crack is real, even if you look at it now, you must still see the disastrous scene left. It is not a lie that the inhuman strong burn the mountains and boil the sea.
As for Chen An, he is bent on taking the real martial arts, and the worship technique is close to the rules of the Tao, and the radiation caused by the moves is very small, even if he occasionally attracts the vitality of the sea and forms celestial phenomena, the power is limited, and it is more about fighting the enemy with martial arts principles.
What's more, he was born as an assassin, and he always wanted to inflict the most damage on the enemy with the least force, believing that the celestial phenomena made the strength escape, wasted energy, and flashy. But in fact, blindly saving effort is falling behind.
The realm of celestial phenomena is not excessive, but a stage where people really understand the principles of martial arts. That is to use celestial phenomena to deduce, and only by using celestial phenomena to fully deduce the principles of martial arts can we bring out the greatest power of every move and style.
Just thinking about saving energy, controlling it in detail, and making every move accurate to the point, it is impossible to truly interpret the martial arts law, so how can you give full play to your maximum combat power.
Although Yangshuo has no martial arts laws to elaborate, he directly incarnates heaven and earth, and the Tao he shows is closer to the origin of heaven and earth, which makes Chen An suddenly wake up to his own shortcomings.
It's really hard for him, he only stayed in the celestial realm for two or three months, and then he reflected the external scene, and his understanding of the celestial phenomena was too superficial;
Even the collection of Lingshu Guan can't help much at this point, after all, the strongest there are only two Yuan Ling martial artists, even if their ancestors have been brilliant, where can they be brilliant, it is already amazing to be able to produce one or two exterior scenes, and the level of books left by these people is really limited and tight.
Fortunately, Chen An has a strong learning ability and can absorb knowledge from his opponent, but that's all, it is impossible for the opponent to sit down and analyze all kinds of shortcomings with him, or even he doesn't even have a decent martial arts opponent.
Defeating Gao Han himself was inexplicable, and fighting with the people of the Kite Jie and Jiang family was also a one-touch escape, and the next thing was to entangle with a group of immortal cultivators. It's a miracle that he's still able to improve in this situation.
Chen An sat on the steps at the bottom of the corridor, writing non-stop with his right hand, and pointing at his left hand like a sword, slowly gesturing in the air.
With his gestures, his fingertips were sometimes filled with clouds and mist, sometimes scorching heat rising, sometimes frost and snow flying, and sometimes electric light flickering. In comparison, in the past, he only knew how to extract Gengjin sword qi from the sea of vitality to face the enemy, and these self-created moves were too rough. But these are things that there is no way to do, who told him that he doesn't have a inheritance and relies on self-enlightenment, even the main cultivation of the Hundred Refining Divine Weapons is also a self-created martial art.
The moon turned and the stars moved, the night became more and more intense, it was nearly four o'clock, Chen An finished recording, and felt it carefully, then folded the paper and put it back into his arms for preservation.
Just as I was thinking about whether to go back to make up for sleep or just enjoy the moon in the courtyard, a noisy sound suddenly came from the front yard.
Chen Anxin was vigilant, he toed a little, jumped on the courtyard wall, looked in the direction of the front yard, and saw a crowd all the way into the front door of the Lu Mansion as if they wanted to spend the night, and at this moment they were negotiating with the porter, and the father and daughter of the Lu family were also alarmed, bypassing the wall and coming to the front door.
Chen An's body was relieved, but although it had nothing to do with him, he still hid his figure and leaned forward again for the purpose of controlling the environment as much as possible.
It seems that this group of people did not specialize in delivering goods here, but merchants passing by, and they just wanted to spend the night in the Lu Mansion. Chen An heard the conversation between them and the father and daughter of the Lu family clearly, and the only trace of uneasiness in his heart was completely relieved.
In fact, the last trace of uneasiness was not for the group of merchants who wanted to stay overnight, but for this Wang Liang Town and this Lu Mansion.
After all, this is not another place, but a dangerous place, the infernal ghosts with frequent demons and ghosts, a small town suddenly appeared on top of the endless wilderness, how could Chen An not think about it.
However, now it seems that there are still merchants who know to stay here, so there should be no problem here, as for why it did not appear on the map provided by Yao Qin, there should be other reasons, such as Yao Qin's intelligence lagging, or the town is too small to leave traces on a rough map, these are all possible.
The father and daughter of the Lu family looked reunited, and they were also warm-hearted people inside, and they did not shirk the wishes of the businessmen, and happily welcomed them in, and also arranged them in the West Chamber, in the courtyard next door to Chen An and others.
Chen An didn't want to alarm others, and before going back, he just glanced at the group of people at the end.
This group of people is nothing special, they look like normal businessmen, except for a richly decorated carriage in the middle, there is only another strong man dressed in fur and placket that makes Chen An look twice, after all, Kite Jie is dressed like this, and now he can't help but pay more attention to Chen An when he sees it here.
However, this is also within the normal range, because there is a Yu tribe in the northwest of the Mountain Ghost Country, and its clothing and appearance are generally the same as the grassland people in the central realm. Otherwise, how could Chen An and Iris Jie come all the way here, I am afraid that as long as they are in the Xianmen Dao vein, which has a stronghold in the world, they already know their whereabouts.
Therefore, Chen An was indeed a little surprised when he saw that person at first glance, but in an instant, he looked at it with a normal heart.
After they moved in, the courtyard next door was noisy again, but it didn't last long, after all, it was the time of the fourth watch, and it was not far from dawn.
Chen An didn't pay attention to them, and returned to the corridor to sit down on the steps with his knees hugged, after dawn, everyone went their separate ways, what was there to worry about, even he didn't prepare until dawn, and planned to wait for the entire Lu Mansion to be completely quiet, he set off overnight, and left here unconsciously, after all, after such a fuss in Yangshuo, this is not a safe place.
Listening to the thin man Lao Qi's bragging during the day, he already knew in his heart where this place was, and what else was there to entangle with these worldly people, and it was the best way to deal with it without saying goodbye.
After a while, the sound came, and at the fourth correction point, Chen An stood up, tidied up his robe and was about to set off, just at this moment, there was a door knock behind him, he turned to look, but saw the thin man Lao Qi walking out.
Chen An collided with it, quite embarrassed, and was about to explain, but strangely found that Lao Qi in front of him was blind, his movements were stiff, and he walked down the corridor to the outside of the courtyard like a walking corpse, as if he hadn't seen Chen An standing in front of him at all.
This strange scene made Chen An stunned, what is the situation?