Li Jian has been accustomed to meditating in a pavilion on a hillside these days, which is relatively secluded and has a very good view, so he loves that pavilion very much.

On the afternoon of this day, Li Jianyun performed for a few weeks, but when he was closing his eyes, he heard the sound of footsteps coming to him from far and near.

When he opened his eyes, sure enough, eight young men from the valley came towards the pavilion where he was, and many of them were strong and fierce.

Several people approached, ignoring Li Jian, and a big man led by him turned his face and asked, "Is that him?" ”

A teenager in the crowd said, "That's him!" ”

"Humph!" The young man at the head looked at Li Jian, he and Li Jian did not come in the same carriage, naturally he didn't know how powerful Li Jian was, not to mention that there were many people on his side, so he glanced Li Jian up and down with disdain, and said: "Go, there is revenge, if he dares to fight back, we will teach him a lesson together!" ”

Li Jian smiled bitterly in his heart, there were only three people in the crowd opposite who had an impression of him, and he knew that it was still the grudge that was formed in the bronze carriage that day, so he didn't answer and stood up from where he was sitting cross-legged.

There were three teenagers in the crowd standing in front of Li Jian, and the first one looked at Li Jian, smiled maliciously and said, "You also have ......" At the same time, a slap was drawn on Li Jian's cheek.

What he wanted to say was "You have today, too!" ”

Just listen to "Smack!" There was a crisp sound, and I saw the young man falling backwards in a circle, falling to the ground, still covering his cheeks and yelling at Li Jian incredulously: "You dare to ......"

This time he wanted to say, "How dare you hit me!" ”

The group of teenagers was a little panicked when they saw this, most of them didn't see how their companions had been slapped in the face. The young man at the head was embarrassed, but he still didn't believe that eight people would be no match for one, so he scolded: "It's the other way around! You have a father and no mother, see if I don't clean you up! ”

Li Jian's parents died when he was a child, and the young man scolded him like this, which really poked him in the sore spot, he couldn't help but feel cold, and walked straight towards the group of teenagers.

The cloud card sounded, and it was time for dinner again.

Tang Ping and Yan Xuan sat together, she casually used the chopsticks in her hand to flick the vegetables in front of her, but she was silently counting the people who were eating in the Chunxiang Hall, but her heart was counting more than 20 days, that Qian boy has always either not come for lunch or dinner, and even if he comes, he is in a hurry, and he will leave after eating.

From the look on the kid's face, it could be seen that his cultivation did not seem to be so smooth. With his intelligence, the "Jade Sea Sutra" could not be difficult for him, and the problem could only lie in the actual practice.

This cultivation is actually not difficult to say, especially in the current stage of refining the body, you can follow it step by step.

Only the spiritual root is the real key, if the spiritual root is bad, then it will be difficult, now it seems that the money tide should be the problem in his spiritual root, what method should be used for this spiritual root difference?

This is really not easy to do, the innate deficiency, it is too difficult to make up for it the day after tomorrow, let alone yourself, looking at the entire cultivation world, I have not heard of any way to help people repair the spiritual root out of thin air, alas! It's hard.

Just thinking about it, she saw a figure at the door of Chunxiang Hall moving and someone coming in, she looked over, but it was not Qian Chao, but Li Jian, who was taller than Qian Chao, and saw Li Jian walking steadily towards a food table with no one, in the past he was meticulous, but today there are more grass and mud marks on his robe.

After the two daughters finished dinner, they walked out together, and when they stood up, Tang Ping found that there were more empty food tables in the Spring Ring Hall today than before, as if the big guy named Lu Pingchuan had not come. Tang Ping really wants to help this money kid in her heart, after all, there are really not many people in the whole valley who can say a few words, except for Sister Yan next to her, the rest is probably that kid, I hope he can pass this level, otherwise there will be no one to fight with him in the future.

Yan Xuan let Tang Ping hold her arm, she peeked at Tang Ping, with her daughter's delicate thoughts, she could feel that this girl had something on her mind, which made her a little worried, but Tang Ping didn't say that she didn't want to ask rashly, hey! Forget it, look at it for a few more days, if this girl is still like this, I have to ask what is going on.

At this time, in the mountains and forests far away from the Spring Ringing Hall, a bonfire was burning under the twilight, Lu Pingchuan and Qian Chao were sitting in front of the fire, and there were a few roasted browned and steaming pheasants on the fire, while Qian Chao was grabbing a roasted rabbit leg and gnawing on it, it seemed that he was hungry, and he didn't have any grooming at all, and his face was greasy, even Lu Pingchuan felt funny when he saw it.

Finally, after a rabbit leg was gnawed, Qian Chao's mind stabilized, but he still didn't look full, so he tore the rabbit's other roasted hind leg with his hand.

Lu Pingchuan also tore a roasted pheasant in his hand, he looked at Qian Chao's eating appearance, and secretly said that this little brother of Sven must be hungry if he can have this eating appearance, so he asked: "Brother Qian, what have you been running out these days, what are you busy with?" ”

"I've been going to that little lotus lake every day lately."

"Little Lotus Lake? I think I've heard people talk about it, but it doesn't seem to be close, so what are you doing there? Lu Pingchuan asked curiously.

"It's quite far, it's almost the same as one back and forth a day, I only ate a few wild fruits there at noon, and I thought about coming back at night, but it turned out to be late, if I didn't meet your brother Lu, I guess I would be hungry all night at night."

"I'd like to go over there, too, there's nothing big around here, just rabbits and pheasants, and there's a little bit of good stuff there. But then again, is there anything fun you go there? ”

Qian Chao raised his head and looked at Lu Pingchuan, this Brother Lu is a good person, in the faint thought in his heart, Brother Lu is a good candidate, but his cultivation still hasn't improved at all, if he really can't practice, where can he still care about anything else?

Alas, if you don't have clothes and food, don't be in a hurry to help others.

However, he still said to Lu Pingchuan: "Brother Lu, I went to Little Lotus Lake to practice, don't hide it from Brother Lu, my qualifications are really poor, and I can hardly practice, so now I am looking for a place, if I find my cultivation in that place, there is hope, if I can't find it, then it will be troublesome, and I have to ...... Keep looking. ”

"What place? Otherwise, I'll look for it with you tomorrow, and it's better to find two people than one. Lu Pingchuan said.

"It's hard to find!" Qian Chao sighed, "I used the stupidest method, which is to find a place that is convenient for meditating and practicing for a while, if the place is right, you can feel it when you practice, but unfortunately you haven't found it, if you find it, then we can really get twice the result with half the effort when we practice in that place!" ”

"Uh...... What times do you say? ”

Qian Chao then remembered that this Brother Lu probably didn't know a few big characters, so he said: "It's that it will be very beneficial to practice there after finding that place, and it will be much faster than practicing in other places." ”

"Oh, that's right." Lu Pingchuan then understood, but he didn't care about the cultivation, "Cough, what is the practice, I don't care, it's a big deal that I will return to my Lujiazhuang after this year, hmph, the old man must be lying to me, coaxing me here with two glasses of wine, and saying that this is ...... How good it is, I don't think that's it! ”

Qian Chao raised his head and looked at Lu Pingchuan in surprise and said, "A year? Brother Lu, no, that day Senior Brother Guan listened to Tao Pavilion say that if you can't enter the inner gate after a year, you will have to enter the outer gate, stay in the outer gate for five years, and if you can't enter the qi refining in these five years, you will be sent back to your hometown, if you don't want to practice, you will be able to go back after six years at the earliest. Don't you know? ”

"Ahh Lu Pingchuan panicked at this time, "Why is it six years, isn't it one year?" Cough! Just say that the old thing can't be believed, and it really hurts me, a year later, there are still five years, why didn't I hear it, did I fall asleep at that time? Oops, oops! ”

Qian Chao couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and secretly said that if he could find that place, he would definitely pull this Brother Lu and let him practice well, although this person was not very bright, but he was still a very interesting person.

"By the way, Brother Lu, where are the feathers of your pheasant?" Qian Chao asked suddenly.

"Unplug it and throw it away, what do you want it to do, oh, over there." Lu Pingchuan pointed in a direction.

Qian Chao nodded, and he was going to take a look at it and pick up a few pieces to take with him.

"Oh, by the way, Brother Qian, have you offended anyone in this valley?" Lu Pingchuan, who was munching on chicken, suddenly thought of something and said to Qian Chao.

"Oh?" Qian Chao's heart moved when he heard this, and he immediately asked, "What happened?" ”

"Well, it's not a big deal, you often run out these days, and a few times I got up late, I saw a few boys sneakily surrounding your house, and secretly looked inside from the doors and windows, and I scolded a few times before running away, and I don't seem to have seen those guys recently."

Qian Chao nodded, if this young Ming Gu said that he had offended anyone, it would be one, Qin Suiyu, who was severely offended by him on the bronze carriage, listening to this Brother Lu say this, eighty percent of the people who beat their own ideas were this person. It turns out that this Qin Gongzi has never forgotten himself! It seems that we will have to be a little more careful in the future.

"I have offended a man, but not in the valley, but on the way here." Then Qian Chao told Lu Pingchuan what happened on the bronze carriage, but hid the part of Tang Ping in it.

"I see, I don't like these guys, a group of birdmen who are not male or female, and I will help you send them away next time you meet them."

Speaking of Qian Chao, he has been very hard these days, and that night he felt that his cultivation was hopeless, so he wanted to open the red cover book given by his ancestor Qian Shoulin to take a look at it, ready to learn from the old ancestor's cultivation methods.

However, the cabinet was also opened, and the burden was untied, but he looked at the book with the red cover in the baggage, but his heart was very unwilling.

It's only been a few days, are you going to give up?

On weekdays, he still prides himself on being extremely smart, so is there no way to do it now?

Qian Chao is usually either naughty or well-behaved, but in fact, his personality is quite similar to his father, and he is very stubborn in his heart, and finally the stubbornness in his heart prevails, and the outstretched hand does not open the book but ties the furoshiki again, and closes the cabinet.

But when I thought that after a few days of cultivation, I was still trapped by my own spiritual root qualifications as before, and I sat for a few days without any benefit. What followed was the persistence in my heart that disappeared little by little.

opened the cabinet again and untied the burden, but Qian Chao hesitated again, he was not a wandering person, but this matter was related to his evaluation of himself in his heart, so he was still struggling in his heart.

I'm not convinced!

He tied his baggage again, closed the cupboard, and fell asleep in bed in the middle of the night.

However, how to get angry with yourself, there is no way to remedy your bad spiritual root, and some congenital deficiencies cannot be solved by being ruthless yourself.

A few days later, Qian Chao, who had tried various methods, was really desperate, his body was like a piece of rotten wood, and he would not have the slightest reaction to the "Jade Sea Sutra" no matter what, he was really anxious, his eyes were red, and his mouth was sore.

Standing in front of the cabinet in his room for the third time, Qian Chao insisted on compromising and struggling for a long time in his heart, and finally thought that there was only one year in this Youming Valley, and a year would pass in a blink of an eye.

Thinking of this, Qian Chao finally opened the burden, but when he faced the red-covered book, he struggled in his heart: with this first time, there will be a second time. This time, the book of the ancestors may be able to help themselves, but what about later? The ancestor can only help himself this time, can he not find someone to help him when he encounters difficulties in the future?

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and you will be defeated at the beginning, so how can you muster up your strength again in the future?

Eventually, he reached inside, but instead of the red-covered book, he took out another one.

In the end, he is still a person who does not admit defeat, but this long night is long, he is so troubled by the troubles in his heart that he has no sleep, and he can't sleep left and right, it is better to read this book that the ancestor said can be read to relieve boredom, and the practice will continue tomorrow.

The cover of this book is a blue silk silk, and on it is a few words in the handwritten handwriting of his ancestor named Qian Shoulin, "Five Spirits Notes".

The content recorded in the book is very miscellaneous and scattered, and it can be seen that Qian Shoulin has nothing to do after returning to the Qian family from the Five Spirits Sect, and he writes down what he thinks. Qian Chao read very quickly, and silently subdivided this ancestor in his heart.

In his opinion, Qian Shoulin's main records are divided into three categories: first, detailed records of various rules and taboos in the Five Spirits Sect; The second is that in order to earn more things called "spirit stones", the disciples of qi refining have to go to a place called "Jingshiyuan" in the sect to receive dispatches, and most of the records here are where Qian Shoulin has been to the Jingshuyuan over the years, what properties they have, what are their values, what risks they have, etc.; The third is a record of how he was injured.

Reading this, Qian Chao knew that his ancestor hated a person named Yin Kuang.

This Yin Kuang, along with Qian Shoulin and three Qi Refining Cultivators, went out to run errands for the Worship Academy, but they encountered danger on the way back, and they encountered a demon beast known as "Red Xiao". This kind of monster beast is fierce and abnormal, it is beyond the five of them to be able to fight, when the red ray raided, the situation of that Yin situation was the most dangerous, Qian Shoulin couldn't bear to come with his partner to die in the mouth of the demon beast and came to the rescue, who knew that after Yin Guan escaped from danger, he and the other three monks saw that the red spirit was invincible, and they abandoned Qian Shoulin and fled regardless of each other! Helplessly, Qian Shoulin had to fight with the red ray, and finally escaped with a serious injury, but he was also seriously injured, and the dantian was the most seriously injured, and the road of cultivation can be regarded as coming to an end.

Seeing Qian Chao here, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it seems that this good person really didn't do it casually. Thinking of this, he wondered what if he had to work for the temple in the future and encounter danger outside. After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't help but scold myself for being stupid, I haven't even thought about my own cultivation yet, what's the use of thinking so far!

The rest of the records are some anecdotes that this Qian Shoulin has seen and heard others say in the sect for many years, which is also interesting.

One of the things that interested Qian Chao the most was Qian Shoulin's record of the spiritual vein, which is the foundation of cultivation, although the monk's practice is to absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, which is found everywhere in the world, but the spiritual vein is where the spiritual energy is thicker than everywhere else.

For example, there are famous mountains and rivers all over the world, in short, mountains and water veins, and this aura naturally also has spiritual veins, but it is just ethereal and difficult to find.

According to Qian Shoulin's memory, the Five Spirits Sect is a rare place where the spiritual veins gather, and it seems that there are five major spiritual veins gathered here, so the predecessors of the Five Spirits Sect only opened a sect here after knowing this treasure land, and the sect is also full of talents, including countless high-level monks.

The benefits of this spiritual vein, Qian Shoulin himself has not experienced it personally, but he recorded in the book that monks can open up a cave to live in on their own since the foundation was built, and if the cave can be built according to a spiritual vein, then it will be of infinite use to practice in it. However, in the book, Qian Shoulin also said that most of the spiritual veins gathered in the Five Spirits Sect seem to be empty spiritual veins, and the five sects in the sect can only be used by high-level monks.

This Qian Shoulin's spiritual root seems to be similar to Qian Chao, and he has not made much progress after years of penance, so naturally he will not have access to the spiritual vein.

However, when this Qian Shoulin recorded the benefits of the spiritual vein for the monks, there was a sentence that made Qian Chao's heart flutter.

"The wonder of the spiritual vein, Meng Tong can also accept it", isn't this Meng Tong referring to his own disciples who are refining their bodies in the Youming Valley? Qian Chao saw this and confirmed this before and after in the book.

It's just that where to find this spiritual vein, he shook his head.

Continue to read, Qian Shoulin also recorded that in addition to the Five Spirits Sect, there are several small spiritual veins gathering around, and there are several place names listed behind, it seems that those small spiritual veins converge, Qian Chao looked at those place names one by one, they were all unfamiliar, but when he saw a place name, Qian Chao felt his heart hit his chest a few times.

Little Lotus Lake.

Isn't Little Lotus Lake near Youming Valley? Why is it a place where spiritual veins converge?

Qian Chao lifted his head from the book and turned his head in the room to look in the direction of Little Lotus Lake.

There is a spiritual vein, there is a spiritual vein there!

The wonder of the spiritual vein, Mengtong can also accept it!

But how to find the spiritual vein, Qian Chao flipped through the book in his hand, and there were, and recorded some of the places where Qian Shoulin went out to do things for the Worship Academy, "Senior Brother once said that the spiritual vein is the place where it travels, and it should be tried by the light of the fish, and if the fish eye has light, the spiritual vein is also." If there is no light, you can also try it, and if the feathers hang but do not fall, it should be regarded as a spiritual vein."

Seeing this, Qian Chao was a little puzzled, with this means to find the spiritual vein, then why didn't his old ancestor Qian Shoulin go to find a spiritual vein to practice? More than a hundred years of time is still a Qi refining cultivator?

With these questions, Qian Chao continued to read Qian Shoulin's "Five Spirits Notes", and finally he understood that his old ancestor had not found the spiritual vein, but he had no intention of looking for it at all. In addition to going out to practice in the sect every day, the qi refining disciples put almost all their thoughts on how to get a few more spirit stones and pills, speaking of cultivation, the strength of the spiritual energy in the Five Spirits Sect is enough for the disciples to practice, and they don't have to bother to find the ethereal spiritual vein.

The so-called spiritual veins are places where the spiritual energy is rich and continuous like mountains and water veins.

The distribution of spiritual veins is like the wind seen in daily life, for example, a certain place blows a south wind all the year round, when the south wind will pass through this place every year, the size of the wind, and when the wind will stop have a certain number, which can be detected by people and can also be recorded on paper, and basically will not change. This spiritual vein is the same, and it has to follow the same route for many years, but it is difficult for ordinary people except monks to know it.

In addition, these spiritual veins are also divided into large and small, the large ones are like the so-called five spiritual veins that converge into the Five Spiritual Sect, the smaller ones are the spiritual veins that converge into the Little Lotus Lake, and the others are some small details of the spiritual veins, such as a big tree, with a trunk, branches, and twigs and leaves. This trunk can be compared to the great spiritual veins of the Five Spiritual Sects, the branches are the spiritual veins of the Little Lotus Lake, and the rest of the branches and leaves are small spiritual veins.

When the wind passes, the trunk does not move, and the branches do not shake gently, only the twigs and leaves dance with the wind.

The spiritual veins that Qian Shoulin is talking about are just small spiritual veins like twigs and leaves, these small spiritual veins come and go, and they are difficult to find, and if they can be found and used well, they are often of great benefit to monks, especially low-level monks.

Qian Chao put the book back into the bag, closed the cabinet, and lay on the bed, but in the quiet night, his heart was as noisy as the market.

Little Lotus Lake actually has a spiritual vein!

How far is Little Lotus Lake? It doesn't seem to be far away, but over a mountain beam.

Can I find it?

If you don't look for it, of course you can't find it

How to find it, can you get it from the fisheye? I've never heard of anything, what does the fish look like, and is there anything in the nearby river? Fishing nets or fishing rods?

Feathers? Can other bird feathers be used? How I catch birds, it seems that I can catch birds with a net.

Eventually, he fell into a deep sleep.