Chapter 1 Spending Old Age in Peace
On the ground covered with a layer of green turf, the Taoist sat on the edge, his legs hanging down in the air, and he looked into the distance. From time to time, the breeze blows in the face, cold and cold, wrapped in clouds and mist, with an ethereal atmosphere that is rare in the mountains.
Behind you, wooden houses are located, and the fields are full of greenery.
A bronze mirror hung on a high place, and countless lights and shadows were scattered when the silver and blue colors were stirring and weaving, like starlight, blurring out from the air and falling to the surroundings.
Faintly transformed into a huge barrier, sheltering.
The perspective is lifted, and only when you look down can you see the whole picture of the Taoist's people - it is a huge mountain soil, floating out of thin air, crashing through the soft white cloud sea and flying all the way into the distance.
About a thousand feet above the ground, and under the sea of clouds, a small city slowly emerged from a distance, covering the mountains, and through the eye, you could even see a team of pedestrians like ants passing through endlessly, weaving like a stream.
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Shiya County, Chen Yu came again, but this time he was just passing by, visiting Jiang Daochang, who went down to Haiyunguan, he patted the package in his hand, which was bulging, containing the five viscera related scriptures and books sent by the other party when he went up the mountain last time.
One is to visit, the other is to return the book, and by the way, ask for some news, after all, if you want to travel the world, you can't always float in the sky and not come down.
In addition to his cultivation, he also talked about tasting delicacies from all over the world.
Although Bigu has become a place where he does not need to eat to fill his stomach, his cultivation does not seek to exterminate human desires, and the satisfaction of his appetite will not hinder it.
As for the word of mouth that the grain eaters defile themselves, he doesn't know whether it's true or not, maybe there is really such a practice that pays attention to food, but Chen Yu is obviously not among them.
With the five internal organs after the transformation, it is not said that the coarse grains are eaten into the abdomen, that is, a mouthful of soil can squeeze out two taels of nutrients, and the remaining impurities and sediment are very few, and they are all discharged to the body through the pores in the breathing and vomiting, and there is no residue.
When it comes to food, it's a pity that my predecessor knows very little about this aspect in his head, and it's empty. I don't know what the special delicacies are in various places, so it's best to learn a thing or two from Jiang Qin'an first.
Stepping to the outside of the Taoist temple, the servant boy in blue and gray linen clothes greeted him at the door.
Haiyun Temple is different from Yunhe Temple, the incense here is much more vigorous, and there are lay people who offer incense and silver all the way from the east of the city.
The Taoist door here is not nonsense about incense, and there are divisions and requirements. For example, these ordinary people in front of them are usually offered long incense candles that conform to the rules, accompanied by wooden plates, and presented their own [virtue] - that is, silver money in the blessing of the Taoist priest.
The specifications here have nothing to do with the amount of gold and silver to be offered, at least in the territory of Xizhou, the uniform is regulated in this way, and this is true for all the literature, and the same is true for the daughter.
Unless the devotee has official status, or when it is a dignified ceremony, they will all be treated the same.
Of course, most of these practices can only be seen in the inherited contemplation, such as the Yunhe Temple, which has long been orthodox, and the small mountain and wild views that have long been orthodox will rarely be followed.
Chen Yu doesn't care too much about regulations when he offers incense, but if he doesn't care about it, it won't be enough, after all, the incense he uses is an extraordinary thing.
Entering the door, a mellow incense smell came to the face, and the smell was quite refreshing. He didn't wander around, but told the boy what he meant.
"Senior Brother Jiang?"
I don't know which generation of disciples the little Taoist priest shook his head when he heard this, and after knowing that the person with a dusty temperament in front of him had a relationship with his own senior brother, his vigorous face was a little more serious, but he didn't imitate it properly, and he looked immature as if he was pretending to be reserved.
"Senior brother, he has already gone to other states with Senior Brother Yue, and at this moment, he is out of the boundary of Yunzhou, and he must be thousands of miles away from here."
Did you leave, Chen Yu heard the words, saw the other party's upright posture, smiled on his face and returned the courtesy, and handed the package to the little Taoist priest after the chief salute, "There are a total of six books and scriptures, which were borrowed by Jiang Daoyou a few months ago and poor Dao, which is related to the internal organs of the five organs, most of them are said to be pharmacological meridians, and it is troublesome for the little Taoist to store them for a period of time. β
"It's okay, it's okay, this... Ahem, I know what Daoyou said, and I will definitely convey it when the time comes. β
After handing over the burden, Chen Yu went to the hall under the guidance of the little Taoist priest to offer the pillar incense, the curling green smoke was light and elegant, and the murmuring and shallow recitation in the hall gradually brushed away the dirt and delusions in people's hearts, and he couldn't help but be a little distracted.
Soon turning back to his thoughts, he said goodbye to the little Taoist, did not stay here for long, and turned to leave.
Looking at the free and easy back, Xiaodao with a crooked square crown touched his forehead, and stood still with his burden in his arms.
Acquainted with Senior Brother Jiang...... He must also be a very powerful Taoist leader.
Curious in his heart, he wrote down the three words Yunheguan, the little Taoist priest couldn't bear it, and trotted all the way to ask the elders of the sect.
The aftermath had nothing to do with Chen Yu, and after returning the books, he couldn't find out about the famous and brilliant delicacies of several nearby county capitals for a while, so he walked to the old place, planning to sit in the teahouse and wine shop.
It just so happens that in such a place where the three religions and nine streams gather, there will be no shortage of news.
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Half a day later, a blue light rose from the ground in an invisible corner and soared into the clouds.
Falling back into the floating field, and after waiting for his feet to become solid again, Chen Yu unlocked the illusion technique, but saw that the spirit text flew away into brilliance and disappeared into the surrounding formation.
On the waist, there are two more bags than when you enter the city.
He untied one of the bright yellow ones embroidered with peonies, opened the corner upside down, and after shaking it twice, four or five small oilskin paper seals floated out.
The core swelled, but when it was opened, it was a pile of seeds.
"Ling Qizi, Aso, Dang Chen Qing, Meat Turtle ......"
These were purchased in the city before, each of them was very fresh, and Chen Yu specially selected them, so it was clear how the vitality under his eyes was.
There are no stillbirths, all of them are full.
The four types of drugs on the hand also have their own characteristics, and their effects are very distinct. Compared with picking and planting in Qingtai Mountain, Chen Yu is now more willing to change the planting method when he has time in the medicine field.
"There is only one-third of the floating field under our feet, which is inferior to the size of the medicine field behind the hospital, and the space is limited, so it needs to be used well."
It is certainly not advisable to plant and cultivate indiscriminately, and he will divide it according to the medicinal effect of the medicinal grassland, and the wounds will be healed, and the strong qi peiyuan will be returned to the strong qi peiyuan.
In this way, we will replace the previous way of seeing one species at a time with the direction of medicinal power, and strive to cultivate spiritual plants that meet expectations.
It's just that there is a problem here, the alienation of the plant after the spiritual release sometimes does not completely follow the existing path, but stops the waist and inserts a new effect.
He also considers this, and will make some attempts when the time comes, and if the direction of mutation can be properly guided, it will undoubtedly have a great impact on the entire cultivation process.
"There is a trade-off, but fortunately, due to space problems, the difficulties and encounters in planting have been predicted."
Yuanling root, Lingshi radish, mangosteen, etc. have occupied a number of positions in advance, and there are actually very few places that can be used to cultivate new plants.
Chen Yu brought back the four medicinal seeds, in fact, he preferred immature seedlings, so that the cultivation time would be greatly shortened, and he would not have to start from the spirit seed stage.
But after searching all over Shiya County, there are a few plants, either the category does not match, or it is dry and has no activity at allβeven the spiritual liquid will not come back.
I had no choice but to choose among the seeds.
Walking on the field, he was thinking about how to plan for this floating field, which did look a little messy now. On the other end, the information about bringing back the herbs that I had heard in the medicine shop came to mind.
Lingqizi is a kind of flower, the planting conditions are not difficult, and there are four petals dotted with white spots after growing, which is plain white and lovely.
It is useful to stop bleeding and dissolve stasis, and has a good muscle-building healing effect when used externally for injuries. This is somewhat similar to the flatfish peach blossom he cultivated, but the peach tree has been cultivated from seed for too long, and the spirit peach fruit tree behind the courtyard has not blossomed and borne fruit so far.
And ordinary peach blossoms want to mutate, firstly, the spiritual power is consumed too much, and secondly, it is always not very convenient, and it takes more than half a year to have a batch of harvests, and when they grow up, they will die, and no matter how many peach trees there are, they can't hold such a toss.
Therefore, even if the effect of Muscle Generating Peach Blossom Powder was not bad, in view of the above reasons, he still first selected medicinal herbs that could heal his wounds and cultivated.
"Qingtai Mountain has not been successful, and I hope that the floating fields can be transferred."
For the next half of the day, he stayed in the field to plan, took an area and left it for several kinds of medicine, and on the side was mangosteen, green and swaying, reflecting the slender and long shadow of the Dao.
Because there was no deliberate push, the floating field fluttered not fast, the speed was moderate, the sunset was golden, and rows of waves dragged out between the sea of clouds.
After about a hundred miles, the sky suddenly changed, and gusts of wind whistled and blew, exploding loudly in the sky. Soon the rain fell, and the formation flickered, unloading the rain to both sides, and the inside was not damp for half a minute.
After glancing at the outside sky, it was dark and gloomy, and it was estimated that he had arrived in a thundercloud area, he thought about it, and controlled the floating field to rise again.
The magic circle was reinforced, and at the same time, the magic mirror was infused with mana and spirit, and it was not until the entire empty island-like behemoth broke free from the storm and thunderclouds and went to the top before it settled down.
"It seems that the weather has a great impact on the operation of the floating field, I thought that I could resist one or two with the help of the formation, but the strength seems to be a little insufficient, and I slightly underestimated the great power of heaven and earth."
Chen Yu pondered that it might be more secure to superimpose two sets of formations, one to restrain the wind and the other to carry the impact.
Thoughts floated in my mind, and I definitely couldn't come up with a way for a while, and most of the talismans brought by the mountain had been buried in the soil, and they had become part of the formation early.
"If you want to add protection, counting on the dozen or so talismans left in your hand is far from enough, you have to find a place to replenish it."
Fortunately, the talisman is easy to make, and both wood and bamboo can be used.
It only takes some mana to nourish one or two.
Moving on, although he didn't see Jiang Qin'an, he had been in the teahouse for nearly two hours, and he had a general understanding of the current situation under the mountain.
In the Shiya area, due to the fact that the local factions gathered together to do a 'bandit and eliminate demons' before, the three layers inside and the three layers outside were swept through, and the bandits were much less troubled.
Coupled with the advent of the blessed land, a large number of foreign warriors broke in, and after a long period of chaos, many people who did evil lost their lives because they collided with foreign strongmen.
Then there was the movement of the Daojun Immortals who Chen Yu had made earlier to eliminate harm for the people, and for a while, there was unexpected peace in Shiya.
This point is not obvious to the Lifu men who wander in the tavern, but those merchants who go south and north are deeply aware of it, and they often mention and sigh when they sit in the teahouse.
He was not very interested in this, but mainly inquired about some people who had seen and heard well, such as whether there were supernatural legends in various places, or special plants, and even some gluttonous delicacies that could not be tasted in the surrounding realms.
The latter is the point.
Remote places also have the temperament of remote places, and after paying a few bowls of tea and wine, a lot of information was gathered.
Most of them are confined to the western state, and few people know what happened outside the state.
"The foreign states are fighting inexorably, and now even the group of wild and evil people with pasty heads are running to the surrounding remote state capitals, lest they be unable to avoid it, and the trade routes will be cut off, and it will be ten days and this month......
There are traders sighing and sighing, the products in the Shiya area are particularly rich, there are quite a lot of medicinal plant mountain goods, in previous years, at this time in the past, there were already many people flowing, the traffic was busy, there were countless merchants, and even exported to the Central Plains, Jiangnan and other places. Like now, there are only three or two of their big cats and kittens left, and they can only run errands around a few nearby counties.
If you go a little farther, you may be attacked by bandits and strongmen, or the chaotic people will collide, and some of them will be unlucky, and the goods here have just entered the city, and the county lord will accompany several large families to take people to seal them up in less than half a moment.
Reason? What else do you need, the skin is torn clean!
If you want to say that the merchants didn't want to move around and resist, it wouldn't be enough, but it's a pity that the sky is collapsing, and the girder can't stand it for a day.
Each house sweeps the snow in front of the door and rests on the frost on the tiles of others.
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Chen Yu sat on the wooden pier, looking at the wind and clouds on both sides, as well as the pitch black of the surging flow below the floating field, the lightning and thunder were like silver snakes jumping, and the momentum was not small.
He thought about it for a while, and it seemed that the grievances and grievances of those people were still floating in front of him, and after thinking about it, he decided to go to the next county to visit Uncle Liu.
Recently, the situation has been turbulent, there are not many letters exchanged, only a month ago I heard that the old man's body bones are getting worse and worse, when he encounters cold rain and wind, he will be sore, numb and painful, and his shoulders and knees are even weaker and weaker.
This trip to take a look, in the past, he was short on money and did not cultivate many usable spiritual plant medicines, but now it is different, Chen Yu deliberately brought a few pairs of prepared medicine powder when he left the Taoist temple.
If the combination technique is not as sophisticated and subtle as that of the old doctor, it is better than the medicinal power after mana warming and extraction, and the essence of the medicinal power is incomparably incomparably after several rounds, even if the weak physique can be effectively absorbed, and the effect is mild and does not hurt the body.
"Recuperate your physique and spend your old age in peace."
Chen Yu can't do more, I just hope that this master will not be as sick and painful as the rest of the martial artists in their later years, and enjoy a few years of family fun in the master's house.
(End of chapter)