In Ren Ning's family, his parents opened a small supermarket and a three-bedroom house in Yongan County, which is an ordinary family of three.

When Ren Ning returned home with a large bag and a small bag, he found that there was no one at home, and after he put down his things, he did not go directly to the small supermarket to see his parents.

Instead, they prepared meals at home and wanted to surprise their parents.

Not to mention, in the past few months, in the Lotus Temple, although most of the time he has few opportunities to eat meat, but he cooks every day, and with the guidance of the old Taoist, he unknowingly practiced a good cooking skill.

At least, he feels very good about himself.

In the past, although I said that I could cook, I would be able to eat it. In the Lotus Temple, the old Taoist didn't eat much, but he pointed out a few words of cooking skills from time to time, and he practiced it unconsciously.

When he made four dishes and one soup, there was the sound of picking out the key and unlocking it outside the door.

The door opened, and it was none other than his mother, Li Mei.

Li Mei was startled at first, and when anyone opened the door and went home, they suddenly found that there was one more person in the house, and then they scolded with a surprised smile: "You stinky boy, why did you run back without making a sound, scare me!" ”

She came back to cook, and when it was ready, she took it to the small supermarket to eat with her husband, but when she got home, she saw her son coming back.

"Haha, Mom, are you blaming me for not saying hello in advance and breaking the beautiful two-person world between you and my dad?"

Ren Ning stepped forward, took Li Mei's hand, and made a joke.

Li Mei smiled and said, "Go, you kid, what nonsense, dare to make fun of your mother and me, is it itchy?" ”

"It's you, what kind of Taoist work did you go to last time when I heard you say? I can tell you, you are not allowed to become a Taoist priest, I am waiting to hold my grandson! ”

"When are you bringing a girlfriend back?"

Sure enough, parents all over the world are the same, and if their son comes back for the New Year and doesn't talk a few words, it will be related to lifelong events.

Ren Ning took his mother's hand and sat down, and then said, "Didn't I explain to you last time, I went to work in the Taoist temple, but I didn't become a Taoist priest." Moreover, not all Taoist priests can't marry wives, you see, hasn't Zhang Tianshi's family been passed down for dozens of generations? ”

In fact, in the past few months, he feels that it is not very good to be a Taoist priest, at least there are not so many messy things.

Nowadays, people generally believe that the Zhengyi Church is a layman who is a Taoist priest, and the Quanzhen Church has a monastic system after learning other religions.

In fact, it is not.

The system of ordination existed in the Han Dynasty, and the Zhengyi Church had a system of ordination, but you can choose to become a monk or not to become a monk.

The lotus view happens to belong to the Zhengyi Sect.

In other words, if he apprentices at the Lotus Temple and becomes a Taoist priest, then he can marry a wife or not.

It's just that it's too cumbersome to explain specifically, and he's really not a Taoist priest, at least not yet.

He didn't cheat on his mother.

The mother and son chatted for a while, and Ren Ning proposed: "Mom, why don't I go and replace my father, and you eat first?" ”

Li Mei waved her hand, rejected his proposal, and called her husband directly: "Lao Ren, close the store, come back for dinner, your son came back and made a table of dishes." ”

Not long after, Quan Feng, the director of the family, came back happily.

Small supermarket not far from home.

The family happily sat down to eat together, and Ren Ning felt very satisfied.

Sometimes he goes to the small supermarket to help, sometimes he helps at home, occasionally goes out to hang out, meets his former classmates and friends, and the rest of the time he sits more in his room.

It's not about hiding and watching some small movies or something, it's about practicing.

Yes, practice.

What Fu Tiancheng taught him, the set of boxing techniques called Bagua Lotus Palm is not very convenient to practice in the room, but like the aggregation pile gong used to gather qi, as well as the meditation internal strength, there is no problem at all to practice in the room.

Especially the pile gong called the aggregate pile, the more he practiced, the more he wanted to practice.

Without it, it's fun.

When he practiced the polymerization pile for a week, a small faint true qi mass had already gathered in the dantian, although it was like smoke and fog, it was very thin.

Okay, it's still very thin, but it's a lot richer than it was at the beginning. Moreover, every time I practice, the dantian is warm and very comfortable.

So far, except for the feeling of warmth when practicing, there is nothing else miraculous, such as a stroke of luck, he can open a monument and break a stone with a wave of his palm, he can't do it at all.

But, it's a good start.

He's not in a hurry at all, just take your time.

There was no miracle, but he could clearly feel that his body was getting better and better day by day, and his energy was getting more and more energetic.

One day, when he was meditating and cultivating internal strength, he inadvertently held the bronze mirror in his hand, and found that there was a trace of cool breath coming from the bronze mirror, and then the true qi in the dantian turned rapidly, startling him.

Fortunately, it only accelerated the rotation, but nothing else happened.

After observation and verification, he found that as long as he held the bronze mirror in his hand while meditating, he could accelerate the rotation of the true qi mass in the dantian, and then the true qi mass would become more condensed.

Therefore, in addition to strengthening the cultivation of the polymer pile, Ren Ning would hold the bronze mirror in his hand every time he meditated.

Finally, on the morning of the Lantern Festival, he cultivated the aggregation pile as usual, and did not hold the bronze mirror, but the true qi of the dantian was spontaneously running, reaching the state of "the dantian is blazing, and the two kidneys are decoctioned" as mentioned by Fu Daochang.

After a while, a wisp of true qi was separated from the dantian, downward, backwards, and rushed towards the tail pass.

Originally, this kind of thing, Daoist Fu had already told him that in the foundation building stage, the true qi penetrated Xiao Zhoutian, and he needed to go through three levels.

That is, the tail Lu Pass, the spine pass, and the jade pillow pass.

Under normal circumstances, every level will be stopped, and it will take a certain amount of time to rush through, and sometimes it is normal to be stuck for ten days and half a month.

Ren Ning was already mentally prepared in this regard.

Who knows, the true qi rushed to the tail lull pass, he only felt a tingling itch at the tail lug, and then, a stream of heat continued to surge upward, from the tail lube to the life gate, and then to the spine, without the slightest stagnation.

This is not over, after the true qi reaches the spine, the true qi mass in the dantian is bulging again, and more true qi flows out of the dantian, entering the Du Mai, and the body is shocked, breaking through the spine barrier.

It wasn't until in front of the Jade Pillow Pass that the strength slowed down and stopped in front of the Jade Pillow Pass.

Good guys, straight open two levels!

As long as you break through the Jade Pillow Pass again, the true qi will go up to Baihui, and then return to the dantian along the Ren vein, then you will have completed the process of the true qi penetrating Xiao Zhoutian, and then the foundation building will be completed.

Ren Ning suppressed the joy in his heart, slowly collected the gong according to the requirements of the exercises, and the true qi retracted back into the dantian, but found that the total amount of true qi had increased inexplicably.