Chen Fan immediately decided to start practicing qi, absorbing and refining at the same time, but just when Chen Fan made a decision, the sword yuan stopped flowing in. Gone? I don't know if it's because you can only take so much of it by chance, or because the sword yuan stored in it is gone? Chen Fan took his hand away from the scabbard with some regret and sighed secretly.

Chen Fan, who had been out for a while, returned to the quiet room of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and saw that Xiao Qing was still working hard, so he didn't disturb him, closed the door of the quiet room, sat down, and visualized himself.

I saw that in the lower dantian, it turned into a golden ocean, and the golden gas was like a substance, filling the dantian, only at the bottom there were drops of pale green droplets emitting a jewel-like light, which was a true element mixed with white and green, precipitated below, and was the result of these few days of cultivation.

Chen Fan immediately withdrew from the visualization, opened his eyes and looked at Xiao Qing, and it happened that Xiao Qing also looked at it. The two looked at each other, and without waiting for Chen Fan to speak, Xiao Qing took the lead and said, "I plan to start practicing qi, you help me take care of it, don't let people disturb me." ”

"Aren't you waiting for your master to be around?" Chen Fan was stunned for a moment and said. Xiao Qing has no "citation", in case there is a mistake in the understanding of the content of the scriptures, it is not a joke.

"It's okay, Master Qi Cultivation Duan has already explained it to me, I have repeatedly recited and understood it today, and now I am the most familiar with the scriptures, and the true qi in my body has a faint surging trend, and I should enter the stage of qi cultivation in one go." Xiao Qing's eyes were firm.

"Okay, you have to be careful." Chen Fan thought for a while and said.

"Thank you."

Chen Fan was guarding the door of the quiet room, when the red sky was full of red clouds in the west, and the golden roulette wheel was about to disappear, Chen Fan heard the sound of the quiet room, and when he looked back, he saw that Xiao Qing had already stood up with great energy, and the starlight in his eyes under the two sword eyebrows was dotted, and the wheat-colored skin was faintly lustrous due to sweat, and the whole person looked handsome and dusty.

"Congratulations, it seems that you have cultivated the true element."

"Luck, it's okay." When he said "It's okay", Xiao Qing finally showed a sunny smile on his face, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, Chen Fan suddenly felt that Xiao Qing was much more cheerful.

"Next, do you plan to practice swords, or learn to move in the palm of your hand?" Chen Fan is actually a little worried about the next volume of the true scriptures, and he can't borrow them, but he can touch the light in front of him. As for the palm technique, Chen Fan felt that it was better to learn it later, since he had obtained Jian Yuan, he had to give full play to Jian Yuan's greatest advantage.

"I plan to practice palms, I have practiced fists and swords before, and I haven't learned palms yet, and I see that Master Wang's palms are very powerful, and I plan to practice palms first."

"You've practiced swords before? Why don't you see you practicing now? ”

"That's because my boxing practice is actually sword practice, Huang Shi taught me to integrate sword moves into boxing, and then turn boxing moves into sword moves, which is considered a small swordsmanship."

"Then are you a little swordsman now?" Chen Fan was a little curious about Xiao Qing's realm.

"Sort of. However, there is still a bit of a gap from Huang Shi's requirements, so I want to refer to the lower palm method. ”

It seems that Xiao Qing's swordsmanship is good, Chen Fan didn't study it deeply, and the two of them cleaned up their mood at the moment, bid farewell to the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, and returned home.

In the study, "Hou Feng, you go to Liang Mansion on Shiyuan Road tonight and help me send a post to Liang Xiu to see if he has time to get together tomorrow." After speaking, Chen Fan handed the post written on silk paper to Hou Feng.

"Yes, Lang Jun. Then Lang Jun is going to rent a carriage tomorrow? ”

"Rent one, I'll go and take leave from Master tomorrow, and wait for me at the door of the Taoist temple after you rent it."

"Yes, Lang Jun." Hou Feng took the post and went to Liang Xiu's house.

Chen Fan didn't wait long, and Hou Feng came back.

"Lang Jun, he is free tomorrow, and I will ask you to meet you in the Cuixiang Pavilion in the morning."

"What kind of place is the Emerald Fragrance Pavilion?"

"It's a restaurant, concurrently drinking tea, listening to books, and performing by businessmen, just near Liangfu."

"A merchant girl?" This is a new term, I have seen it in Du Mu's poems before, "The merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country, and she still sings "Flower in the Back Garden" across the river. But I wonder if this society refers to singing and dancing women? Chen Fan was puzzled in his heart, and not only asked.

"Yes, they are women who dance and sing, but unlike the women of the Qinglou, they are only engaged in some performances."

"Oh, what about the level of consumption?" Chen Fan has not yet been free and easy to the realm of having money to spend casually, so he naturally has to care.

"I inquired, the consumption level is not too expensive, the food price is not much different from the usual restaurant, watching the performance is just a casual reward, a few or dozens of dollars, depending on the mood of the guests."

"Yes, yes." Since you are not in Liang Xiu's mansion, you can still call for a land inspection tomorrow, and talk about it after meeting Liang Xiu. "By the way, you take these two taels of silver, you need to buy some gifts and pay for wine tomorrow." What was given was food before, and it was estimated that the money was not enough, so it couldn't be too shabby when going out, so Chen Fan gave two taels more.

In the early morning of the next day, in the main hall of the Dongyue Palace, Master Jia was sitting in the center, and Chen Fan was wearing a light blue brocade robe and standing in front of the hall, carrying ten taels of silver, and was saluting the master.

"Meet Master."

"Dao Xuan, you are here, you don't need to be polite to me."

"Thank you, Master. By the way, yesterday Yuan Tong and I both entered Qi training. Although Chen Fan had entered the Qi practice two days earlier, he still said that the time was the same as Xiao Qing.

"Oh, that's good. Can the practice of qi still go well? Master Jia complimented.

"It's going well, but there are very few true elements that have been practiced."

"Don't be in a hurry, now there is less spiritual power in the air, and the true yuan that is practiced is naturally less."

"There should be inconsistencies in the true element attributes obtained every time, for example, Yuan Tong got the sword element, and after refining, he got the metallic true element, so how can he get the desired attribute true element?"

"There are three main methods, one is the treasure of heaven and earth, such as the spiritual source pearl, which is conceived by heaven and earth, contains chaotic qi, is the mother of all things, and can be changed to any attribute as needed; The second is to rely on the natural environment, such as the land of volcanoes, which can increase the true element of fire, and the land of ice and snow, which can increase the true element of water; The third is to use the power of the formation, such as the Five Elements Formation of Baiyun Temple, which can gather the spiritual power of the five elements, and the inner spiritual power is abundant, and the five elements are balanced. ”

"Is there a technique that can drain the excess true element from the body, or only absorb the required spiritual power to form the true element to achieve attribute balance?"

"I haven't heard of this teacher, under normal circumstances, the true yuan enters the meridians, causing people to generate strength, and after the strength is exhausted, the true yuan will still slowly return to the lower dantian of the human body; As for the inhalation of spiritual power, it enters the human body with the gas, and I have never heard of absorbing some kind of spiritual power alone. ”

"Thank you, Master. The disciple also has one more thing, which is to take a few days off to visit friends in Xiagusu, and to go home, and come back on the 29th to participate in the registration of new students. ”

"Also, I've been in Gusu for a long time, it's time to go home and have a look, go, be careful on the road."

"Thank you, Master."

Chen Fan said goodbye to his master and went out of the Taoist temple, Hou Feng had already rented a carriage and was waiting at the door.

"Let's go to the study first." Chen Fan commanded.

"Okay, I don't know which study Lang Jun plans to go to?" The coachman asked.

"On the way to Cuixiang Pavilion, did you pass by a good study?"

"Yes, Jing Fang Zhai, a famous study in Gusu, which is complete and the price is fair.

"Okay, let's go there first." Chen Fan and Hou Feng got into the carriage and went to the study.

The façade of Jing Fangzhai is relatively wide, with a look of more than ten meters, due to the relationship of time, Chen Fan did not plan to go more, After entering, a little er walked forward.

"The guest officer wants to buy something?"

"Yes, what books do you have?"

"There are four books and five classics, some are made of bamboo slips, and some are copied with silk paper, I don't know what kind of Lang Jun wants?"

"Is there a chess game?"

"Yes, there are "Yi Zhi" and "Go Fu".

"Yi Zhi" and "Go Fu" Chen Fan knew that he discussed the idea of Go, which is a relatively basic thing, and for Chen Fan now, there is no need to look at it again, so he immediately asked: "Is there any "Rotten Kepu"?" "If the study has it for sale, it's best.

"This one doesn't."

"Is there a "Grass and Trees"?"

"No, what Lang Jun said is a legendary chess game, not to mention a small shop, even the entire Gusu study, which is not sold."

"Do you have any other games here?"

"Yes, there is also this chess scripture, which introduces the rules of Go, does Lang Jun want to read it?"

"That's not necessary. How much is "Zhou Yi"? "Zhou Yi" belongs to one of the Five Classics, and some stores sell it.

"What material?"

"What is the price of bamboo slips and silk paper?"

"Bamboo slips, fifty wen; Silk paper, one hundred and twenty texts. ”

The price is not cheap, this "Zhou Yi" is one of the Five Classics, although I haven't read it before, but I also know that it is made by Zhou Wen Wang Jichang, the word is about 5,000, and a few pages can be done, but the price is much more expensive than modern times, is it the reason why it needs to be copied manually? It seems that it is not easy for poor people to study. Chen Fan came to the study, in addition to buying things, he also came to increase his knowledge, so he asked casually.

"How do you sell the four treasures of the study?"

"On the guest officer's side, the price of different materials is different." Xiao Er led Chen Fan to the front of the table where the four treasures of the study were placed, and the price was written with a small bamboo piece next to the item. Chen Fan finally chose an inkstone for Dean Lu, which was a three-legged stone inkstone with auspicious clouds, and a grinding ink stone, priced at 500 Wen; For Liang Xiu, the four treasures of the study, the paper used for writing is silk, one for four texts, bought fifty sheets, and built thirty pieces of pine ink, one hundred and fifty pieces of wolf hair, and two hundred pieces of inkstone, which is eighty more than the one for Dean Lu, and mainly expressed his gratitude for the promotion of the nineteenth road.

After shopping, Chen Fan and Hou Feng took a carriage to Cuixiang Pavilion, the appearance is not magnificent, but it is also grand, there are two stone lions at the door, the entrance is the lobby, a platform is set up in the middle, there are stairs on both sides, a bit of a feeling of entering the theater.

"Do you plan to listen to books, listen to music, or eat?" A junior second person stepped forward and asked.

"I made an appointment with a friend, his name is Liang Xiu, is he here?"

"Oh, Liang Langjun has arrived, please come with me."

Chen Fan and Hou Feng followed Xiao Er upstairs.

"Liang Langjun, someone is looking for you." In front of a private room, Xiao Er pushed the door and said.

Chen Fan walked in.