On the top of Hengshan Mountain, there is a small temple that does not hang the golden plaque, there is a towering old cypress outside the temple, lush and green, and the ancient meaning is strong.

The lights inside and outside the small temple are brilliant, hanging lanterns, and there are more than a dozen men and women who look like servants and maids outside the temple, gathering in twos and threes, whispering.

There are five or six men in the temple who are drinking, the age ranges from weak crown to not confused, drinking and drinking with red faces, laughter is loud, and the wine jars that are only opened are scattered all over the ground. During the period, there were also men who drank to their heart's content, simply bare their chests and abdomen, raised their wine glasses high, turned to look at the clay statue of the young lady in the shrine, and laughed: "You are a fairy or a ghost, I am not afraid, as long as you dare to reveal your true body, I dare to invite you to drink wine in the cup! Haha, Qing Niangniang, if you are really willing to walk off the altar tonight, it will definitely be a good talk in the future, and the incense will only become more and more prosperous, I will do it first for respect!"

The drunken man burped and trembled, and raised his head to take a sip of wine, most of which spilled on his body and the ground.

Some people threatened to take down the statue of the young lady, and they would sleep with the statue tonight. These disrespectful words provoked even greater laughter.

There was a sigh in the small temple, which was inaudible.

A breeze was blowing, and everyone was drinking and drinking, and they didn't notice anything unusual.

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Halfway up the mountain, Chen Ping'an, who was practicing the sword furnace, was moved, and looked down to see that someone on the ground was carrying a branch, and it was a remnant of the Lu clan named Xie.

Chen Ping'an was about to leave the branch, when he saw the girl raise her head and smile, shaking the branch, her voice was natural and soft, "You don't have to come down, we can chat on it." ”

I saw that the girl began to run lightly, on tiptoe, jumped high, stepped on a big tree, her body ejected backwards, and stepped on another tree, so repeatedly, her body continued to rise, and she stepped on it several times, she came to the branch near the big tree where Chen Ping'an was standing, and she looked like a practitioner.

Xie Xie sat sideways on the branch, shook his feet, and smiled: "You are a martial artist, I am a qi practitioner, we are not the same." In the eyes of the Qi practitioner above the top, the person who practices martial arts is the kind of person who has no talent for cultivation, and the reason why he practices martial arts is just a helpless choice to retreat to the next best, because your martial arts are divided into nine realms, so they are teased as the lower nine streams, a bit similar to the monk who regards himself as a clear stream, and regards the martial artist as a lowly official, and in the end, both sides look at each other and feel that it is an eyesore. ”

Chen Ping'an asked, "Why did Miss Xie tell me this?"

She put the branch in her hand on her lap and said straight to the point: "Cui Dongshan is estimated to be really desperate, he burned incense indiscriminately when he grabbed a small temple, he found me privately and said that as long as you can help him say a few good words in front of you, even if you still don't agree to accept him as a student, you will give me a treasure." Of course, I coveted his ownerless flying sword, Cui Dongshan refused, only willing to give me a bamboo flute after the fact, he showed me the appearance of the flute, it is a veritable fish and insect flute, it was the palace secret of the Lu Dynasty, and it was one of the earliest contract tokens of the alliance with the founding emperor of the Lu family. I'm a woman, and of course I like everything beautiful and eye-catching in the world. Isn't this coming for you. ”

Someone disturbed, Chen Ping'an stopped practicing the stake, sat on the branch like her, sat upright, and looked at her, "Miss Xie, you go on, I'm listening." ”

Thank you smiled: "It's already finished." I used to talk about the difference between pure martial arts and mountain monks, but I was afraid of being cold, and I wanted to throw bricks and attract jade, to be honest, Cui Dongshan hit the wall and touched his nose on your side again and again, I usually watched coldly, I will feel very relieved, it is really my turn to talk to you about things, I have a headache, lest you refuse me if you don't listen to anything, then the fish and insect flute that is about to arrive will have wings and fly away. ”

Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "If Cui Dongshan asks, I will prove that Miss Xie has already interceded." If you can, can Miss Xie say something about martial arts?"

The girl squinted at the young man's face, as if she wanted to see through the young man's roots at a glance, and said softly: "As for martial arts, I am just hearsay, and there is nothing I can't say." The reason why I know these furs is because the lower five realms of qi practitioners, nourishing qi and refining qi, in fact, still have not escaped the category of skin, flesh, muscles, bones and bodies, which is why it is called the 'lower five realms'. ”

She stretched out a finger and pointed at a few places on Chen Ping'an's body, "There are more than 300 qi points in the human body, which are connected to each other, like mountains stretching. The mud embryo realm of the first realm of your martial arts entry is to find that breath, and then help it find the most suitable qi fu acupoint for inhabitation and cultivation, and the level of talent can be reflected here. Someone must have told you about this, right?"

Chen Ping'an was listening attentively to the girl's story, and after hearing her question, he replied: "I've probably heard people talk about this before, but I don't mind hearing it a few more times, so Miss Xie, you continue, don't care if I've heard it or not." ”

The girl subconsciously patted the branch lightly, raised her chin slightly, and looked at a place higher than Chen Ping'an, "The so-called martial arts genius, one is extremely young to be able to find that breath. The second is that the Qifu acupoint it selected is not a remote location, but some key acupuncture points, which are inherently dominant, just like someone occupying a small dirt bag in the wilderness, or a mass grave that no one cares about, some people occupy the Red Candle Town, which is important on land and water, and some people directly occupy the capital of Dali, the three scenes are naturally different. The third is that the thickness, intensity, and length of this breath itself are all high and low. Otherwise, if your Qi Mansion is located in the capital of Dali, but you don't have the ability to tap the potential, it will be meaningless, can you understand it?"

Chen Ping'an said: "It's still understandable. ”

"The so-called natal flying sword of Cui Dongshan before is to say that the sword cultivation among our qi practitioners, the flying sword that is warmed up in the natal acupoint, is integrated with the soul of the sword cultivation, and the natal flying sword is out of the body to kill the enemy, that is, it is the sword of essence, and when it returns to the acupoint, it will turn into nothingness, which is very mysterious. My master once said that in fact, people's qi fu acupoints can be regarded as the blessed land under the world, and they are born with 'square inch' magical powers, so they have acquired penance, once they open up the joints, whether it is the natal flying sword, or other magic weapons, no matter how big you are like a mountain, you can also accommodate it. ”

"The second realm of your martial arts is to take the natal acupoint as the starting point, and begin to expand the road around, turning the originally rugged and narrow meridians into spacious post roads, why are there so many martial arts categories in the world? Chen Ping'an, I can see that you are now laying the foundation in the second realm, no wonder you have to practice boxing and standing diligently every day, with your speed, I believe that you will soon be able to enter the third realm. By the way, can I know where your natal acupoint is?"

Chen Ping'an shook his head and said, "No." ”

The girl wrinkled her nose and muttered, "Stingy." ”

However, as soon as she thought of the miserable experience of Cui Yun, a young man from the Dali National Teacher, the girl immediately felt that it was normal for Chen Ping'an to reject herself with such a character. Chen Ping'an's temper is ugly, it is called the stone in the pit, which is smelly and hard, and what is good is that it is tenacious and thunderous.

Chen Ping'an suddenly asked, "Why did Miss Xie say that I would be able to reach the third realm soon?"

Thank you for blurting out: "You martial arts people only rely on one breath, in the final analysis, it is at the cost of hurting the body, in exchange for killing power, as long as you want to live longer, you must enter the sixth realm as soon as possible, you can nourish the soul and divine will every day, feed the body, if you delay in the second or third realm for too long, that innate true qi will become more and more exhausted, every time you fight with someone, you are seriously injured, it is a rush of vitality, so there are countless stupid people who practice boxing and train themselves to death." It is a person who practices martial arts in the wealthy family, and can soak the body with precious medicinal materials to heal the wounds, but it is still a symptom but not a cure, and it cannot really benefit a person's soul. Although martial arts are not high, and you can't attain immortality, once you reach the pinnacle of martial arts, and enter the ninth realm or even the legendary real end, the tenth realm, then it is not difficult to live for one or two or two hundred years. ”

Chen Ping'an retorted: "That's not all right, people with good talents can ask for speed, people with poor qualifications like me, the more anxious they are, the easier it is to make mistakes, it's better to take one step at a time, not to make a mistake, then every step is useful, not to mention that I practice martial arts not to pursue those high realms, just ...... It's just about getting fit. ”

Chen Ping'an's words came to his lips and changed into a subtle statement. In fact, to be precise, Chen Ping'an was using boxing practice to hang himself.

After being secretly destroyed by Cai Jinjian in a vicious way, in addition to the blockage of the path of cultivation, Chen Ping'an's body was also uncomfortable. After the battle of Qidun Mountain, the damage was serious, and the life span that was finally increased was swept away, but fortunately, after all the way south, relying on a large number of piles and piles every day, Chen Ping'an accumulated some family foundation, and he was able to clearly feel the improvement of his body, like a broken house with a leaky body on all sides, sewing and mending, after all, it is still useful.

The girl smiled: "The speed of martial arts progress varies from person to person." If you think it's better to play steady, I don't think that's a problem. ”

Thank you as a qi practitioner, she knows nothing about martial arts, and many times she will be used to applying her practice to martial arts, although her vision is higher than Zhu He, but many subtleties are definitely not as accurate and thorough as Zhu He, a martial artist of the Five Realms. What's more, Zhu He was personally praised as a "Master" by the ancestor of the Li family on Fulu Street, and his evaluation was far above that of a famous teacher, which shows that Zhu He is powerful. However, Zhu He is limited by the background of the Li family in a remote town, and like the vast majority of martial artists in the rivers and lakes under the mountain, he firmly believes that the martial arts master of the ninth realm has come to an end, so he puts the ninth realm to the end.

In fact, above the nine realms, there is also the tenth realm, and between these ninety, the difference between one realm is very large, even greater than the gap between the sixth realm and the ninth realm.

Martial arts, martial arts, not related to the Great Dao, even if the physical body is tempered stronger than the undefeated Buddhism King Kong, it is still difficult to have great achievements, at least this short lifespan, it is a real big bottleneck, want to break, it is a fool's dream, no one can be an exception.

Because of this, in the eyes of qi practitioners, the people who practice martial arts under the mountain will be much shorter than them, and they will be fighting at the foot of the mountain all their lives. What kind of great prosperity and great climate can there be in this life? On the other hand, among the cultivators of the Five Realms, who is not a long-lived and boundless person with great hope?

Martial arts and martial arts, if you don't get involved with the Great Dao, even if the physical body is tempered stronger than the undefeated Buddha King Kong, it is still difficult to have a big future, and it will be old and decayed for a hundred years, and it will be two hundred years old, and then it will still be an insignificant dry bone.

Chen Ping'an asked curiously: "Thank you, girl, you qi practitioners, as a free-spirited mountain immortal, you also need to exercise your physique like a person who practices martial arts?"

At the beginning of the town, Ning Yao reminded him that Cai Jinjian of Yunxia Mountain and Fu Nanhua of Laolongcheng, even if they were bound by the rules forbidden by magic in the town, their physical toughness far exceeded that of ordinary people, and it was easy to kill him Chen Ping'an with one punch, and if he Chen Ping'an was not hit at the vital point, it would be difficult to kill the other party.

After hearing the four words of leisure, the girl pulled the corners of her mouth, her smart eyes were full of bitterness, and after hiding this discouragement, she patiently explained: "Nourishing qi and refining qi is the most important thing, and the body can only be regarded as a convenient one, well, it is not appropriate to say so, how to say it, a porcelain bowl can not hold ten catties of wine, but the priceless square inch, the size of a porcelain bowl, can be loaded with a hundred catties of wine, our qi practitioners are to pull the vitality of heaven and earth to pour, Sharpen the skin, flesh, bones, and blood of the body, and cast the porcelain bowl firmly. If the skin of a qi practitioner is too delicate and fragile, it will definitely ruin the great event of immortality. ”

After saying this, the girl didn't have the heart to talk anymore, and began to be silent, and by the moonlight, she turned her head to look at the scenery beyond Hengshan.

Chen Ping'an didn't disturb the girl's thoughts.

Chen Ping'an, who has no ink in his stomach, can't say it, but of course he understands this truth.

Therefore, the scene of his acupoints and breath wandering in his body now, Chen Ping'an will never reveal half a word to outsiders.

The sword qi taught by Ah Liang stopped running for eighteen stops, and he was even tighter.

In fact, the qi machine in the body that swims away like a fire dragon, changed the previous hesitant situation, and finally chose two qi mansions as a habitat, one of the "mansions" is Qidun Mountain's own hand to kill the white python, the wisp of sword qi disappeared after the trick is located, the sword qi left, that qi machine like a treasure, quickly settled in it, and stayed for far more time than the trick near the lower dantian.

Then Chen Ping'an cooperated with the breathing method taught by Old Man Yang in his early years, and tried his best to let every breath of walking and standing on the pile, and try to walk, pass, or get close to the eighteen stops and pass through the major points.

Every time Chen Ping'an practices boxing, others can see it at a glance.

But Chen Ping'an's almost stubborn way of breathing, others may not be able to see the huge effort.

Old man Yao had a remark before his death, which can make the young man in Mud Bottle Lane remember it for a lifetime.

It's yours, take it and don't throw it away. It shouldn't be yours, don't even think about it.

In the past, Chen Ping'an was poor and white, and he thought more about the latter sentence. Now that you have some family background and have begun to pursue something, then the previous sentence begins to come in handy.

I, Chen Ping'an, want to do everything that can be done well, do my best!

He often told himself so silently.

The straw sandals boy went south all the way, and the straw sandals changed one pair after another, even if he saw a lot of fresh scenery, but those who knew the truth first, big and small, came and went anyway, and there were only a few, and none of them were lost.

seems to have been poor since childhood, and the words that may be very empty and useless in the eyes of others are especially valuable on the side of the empty-handed boy in Mud Bottle Lane, and as the years go by, it will only become more and more valuable. When I am in the world, I think about them, and when no one is around, I like to take them out and chew them.

One of the classics of Confucianism, the "Great Rites", has a saying: the mandate of heaven is sexuality, the spontaneity is the Tao, and the cultivation of the Tao is teaching. Those who are in the Tao do not need to leave in a moment, and they can leave without the Tao.

One day before, Li Baohua explained this sage teaching to Chen Ping'an, and the young man in white, who usually never showed up, got out of the carriage and came to the two of them silently, and after listening, he left silently.

However, at that time, the little girl read from the book and spoke in a general and rigid manner, and Chen Ping'an was even more misty, and the two quickly skipped this section.

At this time, the girl said coldly: "Don't worry about me, Chen Ping'an, you can go first." ”

Chen Ping'an nodded and said: "Cui Dongshan said that this Hengshan is very likely to have a ghost, it's so late, Miss Xie, be careful yourself." ”

The girl smiled: "Although I am now a minor monk in the lower five realms, there is still a little bit of self-protection means at the moment of life and death, don't worry." ”

After Chen Ping'an slid down the trunk to the ground, he slowly walked forward with a stump that shook the mountain, and he was relaxed.

The original very simple outer boxing gave the teenager a little bit of flowing inner atmosphere.

The girl grabbed the branch and patted her knee gently.

The young man in white stood hauntingly on a nearby high branch, which was the place where Chen Ping'an had originally set up a sword furnace pile, the branches under his feet swayed gently, and the young man's figure rose and fell accordingly.

Cui Yun faced the outside of the mountain, and with a wave of his hand, a bamboo flute spun and flew towards the girl to thank her, who reached out to catch it, looked down, and had a complicated look.

Xie Xie asked: "Along the way, nearly twenty years, if even the national teacher can not see through Chen Ping'an's heart? According to your instructions, let me talk to Chen Ping'an blindly, allow me to think of what to say, but what can I talk about?"

The young man in white looked into the distance and said softly: "When Chen Ping'an sees me, the spirit of the whole person will instinctively shrink, like a pass, and when he sees the wolf smoke warning, he will be closed for martial law." Usually, he and Li Baohua are relatively sincere, but it is not enough, someone needs to talk to him about some weighty homely words. ”

Thank you tentatively asked, "Where does the National Teacher want to determine Chen Ping'an's real bottom line?"

The young man replied to the question, with a pained look on his face, "The old man has imprinted some words on my soul. All I know for the time being is that they magnify a certain emotion of mine to the extreme, and it seems natural, and it looks really scary in retrospect. If it weren't for Old Man Yang reminding me, I might still take it for granted. ”

The girl smiled: "Do you want the national teacher to learn to treat people with sincerity?"

Cui Yun didn't turn his head, and said indifferently: "Little girl, I advise you not to say cool things, my patience has a bottom line." He Chen Ping'an, I can't help it, otherwise he would have died a hundred times. As for you, a little creature who can only go with the flow, a poor creature who has no one to put up a monument and grave when he dies, if I really want to crush you now, it will be a matter of one kick. ”

The girl was silent.

Cui Yun twisted his wrist with one hand, "Yu Lu is much smarter and more likable than you." ”

The girl didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore.

may have been too steady along the way, and the words and deeds of the young man beside her were too absurd, which made her despise and not know it.

The young man's eyes were confused, and he said to himself: "The Tao is high, the Dharma is far, and the rules are big." It can be said that each of them has established a religion at its own level, and how can the other hundred schools of thought compete with these three schools? How can they establish a religion? Is there really not a little chance? Do you really want me to learn from Qi Jingchun, and from the old man's knowledge portal, I can rely on knowledge and learning to become independent? But the problem is that I did this at the beginning, and I even felt that I had found the right path, but the old man, you slapped me to death. What the hell do you want from me?

Once again, the boy couldn't help but have tears on his face.

At this moment, in the eyes of the girl Xie Xie on the side, there was no longer the slightest funny meaning, but he wished that he was deaf and had not heard anything.

The young man turned his head with tears in his eyes and said with a smile: "Little bitch, you owe me another life, remember, you have to pay it back later." ”

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When Chen Ping'an returned to the cowhide tent, he suddenly had a big head.

An unfamiliar face appeared in the ranks.

She wears a white dress, her skin is better than snow, her lips are blue, and her temperament is quiet, not like a living person.

The woman was sitting by the campfire and was playing chess with Lin Shou. And the Yin God, with a blurred face, sat cross-legged on the side, staring at the situation on the chessboard.

Li Baohua also squatted aside, the little girl didn't have the consciousness of watching chess and being silent, whether it was Lin Shouyi or a strange woman, she had to comment on anyone who fell.

Only Yu Lu guarded the carriage and did not approach the campfire.

Chen Ping'an was a little stunned, what is the situation?

Li Huai quickly ran to Chen Ping'an's side, and whispered: "This sister, very bright, as soon as we met, she confessed that she was a ghost from the Qingniangniang Temple on the top of the mountain, because she liked to play chess the most during her lifetime, and now there are a lot of literati and scholars who are exploring the seclusion and drinking and having fun in the small temple, she was upset by the noise, so she went down the mountain for a walk, and just saw Lin Shouyi there after reviewing, she couldn't help but want to play a game, she was willing to take out a lone chess game and give it to Lin Shouyi as a reward. After some interrogation by the Yin God seniors, he felt that it was not a big problem, so he agreed to her. ”

Chen Ping'an has no understanding in chess, and because he is afraid of making mistakes, he likes to play slowly, so Lin Shouyi doesn't like to talk to Chen Ping'an after he has two chess friends, Thank You and Yu Lu. Chen Ping'an knew that he was not a chess player, so he didn't go to study deeply, but Lin Shouyi, often playing music alone during breaks, was so lonely that he looked like an old monk, and at first glance he was cultivated by family learning.

Chen Ping'an walked to the bonfire, did not get close to the chess game, and added a handful of firewood, but even Lin Shouyi, who was playing the game, raised his head to look at Chen Ping'an, and the cold young man's face was a little apologetic, after all, the Yin God who traveled with them, after the turmoil of the wedding girl ghost, explained to them in detail that all the incense gods and spirits of all walks of life who were not included in the mountains and rivers of the imperial court, no matter how high their cultivation was and how good their reputation was, they could only be classified as ghosts and ghosts, which was no better than a helpless ghost like him.

Chen Ping'an waved his hand and smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, you continue." ”

The female ghost was extremely absorbed in playing chess, twisting a sunspot with her fingers, against her chin, and her brows were furrowed.

Obviously, the female ghost's chess strength will not be too high, otherwise Lin Shouyi will not have the upper hand.

Chen Ping'an sat alone a little away from the bonfire, and secretly glanced at the Yin God, who smiled and nodded, signaling not to worry, this woman couldn't make a storm.

Chen Ping'an was completely relieved.

This Yin God should have been outside the Da Li Yefu Pass, so he would have separated from them, and then returned to Longquan County by the same route. But he temporarily changed his mind and said that he would send it again, not for Old Man Yang's orders, but for a little selfishness.

Chen Ping'an didn't know what to do, and his attitude towards the Yin God was very insistent, so he agreed.

Chen Ping'an began to practice the sword furnace again.

When the boy opened his eyes, he found that the Yin God was sitting beside him, with his back to the people and ghosts who were playing chess and watching chess, and he looked at Chen Ping'an with a smile.

Chen Ping'an asked, "Is there something wrong?"

Yin Wu hummed and said slowly: "I'm going back soon, I'll say goodbye to you first." ”

Chen Ping'an nodded.

Yin Wu suddenly shouted Chen Ping'an.

When the young man was a little confused, his eyes suddenly widened, and he saw a slightly familiar face, revealing a real face of the Yin God, quickly stretched out his fingers, made a silent gesture, and soon returned to the strange scene of his previous blurred and swaying appearance, and the Yin God resounded in the young man's heart lake with secret techniques, and said softly: " Xiao Ping'an, thank you for helping me take care of Xiao Cang for so many years, I am very grateful, you also gave that loach to Xiao Cang, I really don't know how to repay you, really, if I can, I am willing to give you this life, but I can......'t do it"

Chen Ping'an's eyes were a little red, and then he grinned.

The kind-hearted young man was sincerely happy for Gu Cang.

But he couldn't help it, he was a little sad himself.

Yin Shen stretched out his fist, pounded his heart, and said with a smile: "Chen Ping'an, I believe in you, one day you will go to the highest and farthest place!"

Chen Ping'an didn't know how to answer, the figure of this Yin God had passed away quietly.

This year, Chen Ping'an was fourteen years old.

The teenager Cui Yun is fifteen years old. Lin Shou was 12 years old, Li Baohua was 9 years old, and Li Huai was 7 years old. Yu Lu was fourteen years old. Thank you thirteen.