Chapter 7: Beginning to Cultivate
When he returned to the room at night, Lin Fan, who was sore all over, was busy repairing the large and small holes in his hut, during which Zhang Hu came to help him, and the two tossed for a long time before they cleaned up the hut into a condition that was barely suitable for living.
"Oh, it's so fucking comfortable, it's been more than three years, and someone has come to accompany me, Lin Fan, you're good, I like it. ”
Zhang Hu and Lin Fan lay on the small bed that had just been propped up, picked up the wild fruit they had just picked, took a bite of it, and said with satisfaction.
"Zhang Hu, you've been here for more than three years, have you started practicing, tell me quickly, when will I start practicing" Lin Fan asked while lying on the bed, looking at the roof that had just been repaired.
"Practice? Do you still want to practice? I was the same as you at the time, and when I first came, I thought in my heart, it was all about cultivating immortals! No, after arriving here, I found that the daily task is not to chop trees and chop wood, carry water and sweep the floor, or to clean the toilet, and we are so tired that we can't straighten our waists every day, we are not like those senior brothers in the outer gate, they are all proud of the sky, they don't do anything every day, they are practice, and there are special masters. You'll find out when you've been doing it for a while."
Zhang Hu looked at Lin Fan with pitiful eyes and sneered.
"How can this be, although they are all miscellaneous disciples, but since they have entered the door of Dayan, they are people from Dayan, and they clearly said that they would let them practice before they entered."
When Lin Fan heard this, he looked at Zhang Hu dumbfounded, and his voice suddenly raised and asked.
"Hey, hey, brother, don't get excited, it's not good to lie to you, No, you can take this and take a look" Zhang Hu saw the excited Lin Fan, hurriedly dissuaded, stared at Lin Fan with a strange look, took out a worn-out book from his arms and handed it to Lin Fan.
"The Recipe for Longevity!" Lin Fan was puzzled by the secretary handed over by Zhang Hu, and he saw the three big characters on the book and whispered.
"Yes, this is the secret book of cultivating immortals, every beginner disciple has a copy, yours should wait until tomorrow when you go to hand in the task, that Wang Peel will give it to you, but don't be too excited, since you have all been thrown here as miscellaneous disciples, you must know this qualification, and why don't you have any elixir, I don't have a master, so I think about it myself, I haven't practiced it for three years, but don't say it, there are still benefits, the longer I practice, the stronger I find my body, so I have been holding him in my arms for so long without losing it. ”
Zhang Hu handed the book to Lin Fan, and his mouth kept muttering.
"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs, and saints are unkind, and people are used as dogs. Between heaven and earth, it is empty and unyielding, moving and out. It is better to keep the middle so that it can last a long time, because it is not self-generated, so it can live forever......"
Lin Fan didn't pay any attention to what Zhang Hu was saying, and soon indulged in the subtlety of the formula.
"Hey, buddy, wake up......" Zhang Hu looked at Lin Fan dumbfounded, called twice, and gave up when he found that there was no response.
"This dude...... Hey, forget it, I wasn't the same as him at the beginning, he won't be interested in a few days, Tianzuo was used as a bed, full of food and drink and stripped naked, master, I'll go back to sleep. ”
Seeing Lin Fan like this, Zhang Hu smiled, shook his head helplessly, and turned around to go back to the room to rest.
Before dawn on the second day, Lin Fan, who was sitting on the bed, finally woke up from the subtlety of the formula, looked down at the longevity formula in his hand, and couldn't help muttering to himself.
"This mantra is really mysterious, I haven't rested all night but I haven't been tired for half a day"
He found that as long as he was lucky according to the requirements of the mantra, he would always feel the breath around him slowly enter his body, and his whole body was extremely warm, and the soreness in the muscles of his whole body caused by overwork yesterday also slowly disappeared, but no matter how he guided, that breath was always fleeting in the body, and only when he ran the mantra again, would it appear. ”
"No matter, I'll meet Zhang Hu later and ask him what the situation is. ”
Putting away Lin Fan, who was full of doubts, as soon as he thought that he would have to report to the senior brother surnamed Wang this morning, a spirit got up from the bed, wiped his face with cold water at will, and hurriedly walked towards the miscellaneous servants.
After coming to the miscellaneous office, Lin Fan saw that Senior Brother Wang hadn't gotten up yet, so he knocked on the door carefully, stood outside the door and waited, about two quarters of an hour later, Senior Brother Wang pushed open the door and called Lin Fan in, wiping his face with a towel in his hand, while squinting at Lin Fan.
"A hundred trees have been cut down?"
Hearing Lin Fan's definite answer, Senior Brother Wang seemed surprised, but he didn't say much, picked up a package next to him and handed it to Lin Fan.
"No, I have something to retreat in the near future, your tasks are all in this, and there are some other things in it, go back and take a good look at it yourself"
Lin Fan took the package from Senior Brother Wang's hand, thanked him, and was about to turn his head to leave, when Senior Brother Wang's cold voice came from his ears.
"Give me some points recently, don't stab Lou Zi everywhere! Also, call Zhang Hu over to me!"
Lin Fan answered and hurriedly ran towards Zhang Hu's room, woke up Zhang Hu, who was still asleep, and after a few words of advice to him, he walked towards the stream behind the mountain with a bucket......
Finally, with the help of Zhang Hu, Lin Fan completed today's task near dusk, and when he looked at the water tank the size of a hut in front of him, Lin Fan kept sighing, if it weren't for Zhang Hu, who had finished his work in the afternoon, saw Lin Fan who was busy, and took out a porcelain bowl from his arms like a trick, I am afraid that he would not even be able to finish a tank of water at this time.
The two of them lay on the side of the stream behind the mountain, nibbling on the grilled fish they caught from the river, drinking their own wild vegetable soup, and talking about their life ideals.
"Lin Fan, don't say it, your skills are amazing, compared to many restaurants outside, you are really my lucky star, at least you don't have to worry about being hungry anymore."
Zhang Hu quickly ate a grilled fish, drank another bowl of wild vegetable soup, wiped his mouth and said with a smile.
"These are all things that my grandfather taught me, who adopted me when I was very young, and with him I learned how to do laundry, cook, grow millet and weave straw sandals...... Grandpa is the best person in the world for me. As soon as he talked about his grandfather, a smile immediately appeared on Lin Fan's face.
"Hey, my family used to be quite rich, in order to let me worship into the fairy gate, my father also begged a lot of people, but not long after I started, my parents and clansmen were killed by the mountain bandits, and then the sect avenged me and destroyed the mountain bandits, I have been staying in the sect, the sect is my only home......" Zhang Hu held his head in his hands and looked up at the moon in the sky, calmly said everything, and the tears in his eyes were imperceptibly seen by Lin.
"By the way, Brother Zhang, I encountered a little problem when I was cultivating the longevity technique last night, do you know?"
Lin Fan couldn't comfort Zhang Hu when he saw his sad appearance, so he quickly changed the topic and asked about the problem he encountered last night.
"That air flow is aura, you can feel the existence of aura is precisely because of the spiritual root, and it is precisely because the spiritual root can help us quickly sense the aura between heaven and earth, so the cultivation of immortals must have a spiritual root, but our spiritual root is too weak, so the aura can't stay in the body, in fact, if you look closely, you will find that there is a trace of aura residue in your body, and if you want to reach the first level of qi training, we must have enough aura in our body to support us to practice some simple spells. And now the problem we are facing is that the amount is too small, and there is no way to support us to reach the first level of Qi training, this is like you carrying water, you can only scoop one bowl at a time, but the water tank is as big as a house, how can it be full, not to mention the geometric increase in the aura required for each level of Qi cultivation realm, so the cultivation is destined to have no chance for us. ”
When Zhang Hu heard Lin Fan's question, he smiled bitterly and explained to Lin Fan.
"Okay, don't think about it, although our cultivation speed is so slow that it is almost negligible, but the benefits of this longevity recipe are actually quite a lot, and with occasional practice, you can also achieve physical fitness, it's not too early, go back and rest." ”
Seeing the silent Lin Fan, Zhang Hu couldn't bear it, and comforted him.
Under the moonlight, Lin Fan and Zhang Hu walked towards the hut shoulder to shoulder, sprinkling a little starlight through the leaves, and the shadows of the two of them were long......