Chapter 19: The search for relatives is unsuccessful
Huang Jin smiled bitterly, secretly said that this kid is still young, and sighed: "Thousands of miles to find relatives, but when you arrive, you don't look for it, isn't this nonsense?" Forget it, I'll explore the situation first, if people are hospitable, it's not a trip in vain. ”
Seeing that there were a few young Taoist priests outside the mountain gate, Huang Jin stepped forward to salute: "Excuse me, inquire about a long one, I don't know the number, I only know about forty, people from the north, commonly known as Zhao." ”
A priest thought for a while and said: "There are two Taoists surnamed Zhao, who are more than sixty, and there are many young Taoists surnamed Zhao under the age of thirty, but there are no about forty." ”
Just as he was talking, an older Taoist priest came over, and several people hurriedly said, "Hello, senior brother." ”
"What's the matter with you?" The man who was called the senior brother asked, and the Taoist priest replied, "This good man wants to find a Taoist master who is about forty years old and has the common surname Zhao. ”
"Sixth Uncle Xuanjing, the common surname is Zhao." The man known as the senior brother said lightly.
Several Taoist priests laughed: "It turns out that the stupid uncle's surname is Zhao." ”
"Presumptuous! Don't be unreasonable to your uncle! The man who was called Senior Brother immediately glared and reprimanded.
After reprimanding a few young Taoist priests, the man immediately changed his smiling face, turned to Huang Jin and said, "In Xia Zhen Yuanzi, what is the matter with finding Uncle Shi?" ”
Huang Jin replied: "Contemptible Huang Jin, just looking for relatives on behalf of friends, please recommend." ”
"Looking for relatives? Oh oh, this ...... Uncle Shi is away all the year round, and rarely returns to the Taoist temple. The Taoist priest named Zhen Yuanzi groaned and asked cautiously, "What is the relationship between your friend and uncle?" ”
"Hmm...... When will he come back, my friend is very anxious to see him, after all, he has walked more than a thousand miles. Huang Jin replied non-sensitively.
"Well, the last time I came back was two years ago...... If there is something I can convey on my behalf, in the common name Yang Xiong. ”
"Then you don't have to."
Huang Jin informed Zhao Chuan of the situation, and helped Zhao Chuan analyze that he felt that there was something inside, because when the Taoist Zhen Yuanzi heard that he was looking for relatives, his attitude immediately changed greatly, and he also reported his common name, which made people puzzled.
Huang Jin saw that Zhao Chuan was silent for a long time, so he said that since he was not looking for someone, you should come with me.
Zhao Chuan said: "Since I don't know when the person will come back, I think I'd better go back and forget it, so let's separate." ”
Huang Jin saw that Zhao Chuan was determined to break up, so he had no choice but to agree, he hesitated for a long time and took out fifty taels of silver tickets and handed them to Zhao Chuan, and Zhao Chuan did not refuse.
Zhao Chuan's trip was not in vain, at least he knew that there was indeed such a person, the road number was Xuanjing, it was not necessary to say that he was stupid, as the saying goes, if he is wise, he has his own means of self-protection, who is the enemy of the Zhao family, grandpa did not say, he did not want him to take revenge later, so as not to die.
Grandpa Tai's original intention was to just hope that Zhao Chuan could survive and keep his bloodline, and even told him to be incognito and not even let him say what his name was, it seems that the enemy's strength is too strong, otherwise Grandpa Tai, who has been secretly cultivating for decades, would not be so worried and afraid.
Is the strength of the enemy really that terrible? Now that he has cultivated to the level of the gold layer, he can release his aura, he can look inward at himself and others, and he is keenly aware of it within three miles, and it stands to reason that he has achieved a little success.
Zhao Chuan thought about it for a long time, and felt that it was better to be careful, there was no harm in being low-key and stealthy, and then find out the truth of the tragedy of the family feud first.
But it is not easy to find out the truth, because this matter can not be openly inquired about, and then say that he has just entered the world and does not understand anything, it seems that the only hope now is the third uncle, first find a place to settle down, and then think about what to do in the future.
There is a small town at the foot of the mountain near the Taoist temple, named Xintang Town.
Zhao Chuan felt that the surrounding environment was good, he could practice in seclusion, and he was close to the Qingfeng Temple on the mountain, so he could inquire about the situation of the third uncle at any time, so he found an inn to live temporarily
After a few days, Zhao Chuan bought a few clothes in the town, got a slanted shoulder bag, and found a pharmacy to buy two pairs of medical silver needles. Now there are less than a hundred and fifty taels of silver left on his body.
Although there is a jade plate given by the Han family for unlimited withdrawal of silver, Zhao Chuan doesn't want to eat soft rice, at least not in his style yet.
Another hard idea is that the medical skills passed on by Xiaotian cannot be wasted, and the exercises that have been transformed by the medical saint must also be practiced, and theory and practice must be combined.
Zhao Chuan found this inn, paid the room fee for two months in advance fifty taels, and asked the shopkeeper to send a pot of water, don't disturb if you have nothing to do, and carefully study Xiaotian's "Acupuncture".
This set of "Acupuncture" is subdivided into: Nine Xuan Needle Method, Nine Chaotic Needle Method, Nine Quack Needle Method, Nine Ghost Needle Method, Ghost Doctor Eighteen Needles, Nine Divine Needle Method, Divine Doctor Eighteen Needles, Nine Holy Needle Method, and Thirty-six Needles of Holy Doctor.
Xiaotian said that the Nine Messy Needle Method seems to be a messy needle, but in fact, there is a great mystery that can cure all kinds of folk diseases, and the Nine Ghost Needle Method can cure incurable diseases, ghosts and demons.
In less than half a month, Zhao Chuan has learned the Nine Ghost Needle Method, and the Five Elements Divine Skill has been cultivated to the fifth level of the water layer.
It turns out that the water layer is characterized by increased speed and agility, and its body is as fickle as water. This so-called water is amorphous, and the body is amorphous.
Zhao Chuan has liked to run since he was a child, and before the catastrophe, he had to run for an hour every day to practice martial arts, and now he runs even faster. I went out and tried it, and the hares and pheasants were easily caught.
On this day, he was practicing, suddenly someone knocked on the door, Zhao Chuan opened the door and saw that it was the second shopkeeper, it turned out that there was no movement for a few days, and he was afraid that something would happen, so he came to take a look, Zhao Chuan explained that he was too tired to travel from the north and needed to rest, so he could rest assured.
It seems that the inn is not a good place to practice, go out and go around, go out early and return late in the next few days, go into the mountains to find a place to practice martial arts during the day, and come back to practice medicine at night.
Another half a month has passed, and Grandpa Tai's Five Elements Divine Skill has been cultivated to the full level of the water layer, and the medical skill Baicao decoction has also been roughly cultivated.
It's just that the cultivation of this water layer is too strange, and every time he cultivates in the water, he can have a good effect, Zhao Chuan finally understood that it was no wonder that Grandpa Tai wanted to dig a hole under the ancient well, it turned out that it was also to get close to the water.
However, Zhao Chuan cultivated the five layers of the five elements of the five elements, such as gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, in the order of the layers, and now although he has completed the first three layers, he only stops at the ninth level of the water layer, and no matter how much he cultivates, he can't cross the ninth level of the water layer and enter the fire layer.
Zhao Chuan suddenly remembered that the ghost master had said that this set of five elements of divine skills created by Grandpa Tai could be mixed and practiced between the five layers, and it could also be practiced repeatedly, did it mean that the layers could not be practiced progressively?
But how do you do it if you want to mix it? What should I do if I want to practice repeatedly? Zhao Chuan didn't know.
Zhao Chuan only understood that Grandpa Tai said that as long as you learn the lowest level of kung fu, the others will upgrade themselves as long as they cultivate, but this self-upgrade is only passed in layer by layer.
The most terrible thing now is that even if you work hard to cultivate, you can only reach the ninth level of the water layer when you level up, and you will never advance further, what's going on?
Alas, the practice has reached a bottleneck, and it seems that without the master's follow-up and guidance, it is still not possible to wander around alone.
On this day, Zhao Chuan practiced hard for another day, but his kung fu still made no progress, so he had to sigh and go down the mountain to the town.
Zhao Chuan understood that every time this Five Elements Divine Skill passed through a level, the acupoints on his body would open one, and with each level he ascended, the acupoints on his body would connect themselves into a meridian, and the true qi would automatically run along this meridian.
Now there are already three meridian routes on this body that can be run, but after the automatic upgrade, the first two meridian routes are automatically blocked, and I don't know how to operate if I want to open them.
Zhao Chuan thought sullenly as he descended the mountain.
Thinking about it, Zhao Chuan felt that it was not possible to go on like this, should he go back to the Panlong Mountain near his hometown to find the ghost master Xiaotian for guidance.
But Grandpa Tai said on his deathbed that he would never come back, but if he didn't go back, he couldn't continue to practice, what should he do?
It seems that martial arts have only been suspended for promotion, and it is estimated that the current water layer martial arts cultivation is not a big problem to save lives.
Then, it seems that the only way to practice the medical skills taught by the ghost master Xiaotian is to practice below.
Ghost Master Xiaotian's set of medical skills is divided into five parts: "Acupuncture", "Decoction", "Dan Pill", "Tuina Massage" and "Medical Essentials and Miscellaneous", these things have already been put into Zhao Chuan's mind by Xiaotian with his mind, and the rest only needs him to learn and practice slowly, and now he has also learned the part of "Decoction Medicine", and "Acupuncture" feels that he has almost practiced it.
However, Xiaotian also said that the cultivation of medical skills should be combined with theory and practice, but the higher the cultivation of kung fu, the higher the medical skills, and the so-called medical and martial arts are not separated. Alas, it seems that if you have a chance, you still have to continue to practice martial arts to advance! Zhao Chuan was conflicted, thought about it for a while and came back around, very annoyed......
The way down the mountain is easy to walk, but Zhao Chuan stops and stops because he has to make way for others.
The reason for giving way is that there are a lot of dignitaries who go up the mountain to seek the Tao at this time, they are carried by the lower people with a sedan chair or a slide bar, they go up the mountain at this time to listen to the immortal scriptures at night, it is said that there are immortals who come to talk about how to live forever or become immortals in the middle of the night recently.
Zhao Chuan smiled secretly, thinking that this was nothing more than Qingfeng Guan cheating money in the name of cleverness, if this was the case, then the Taoist priest on the mountain would have already ascended to immortality and ran out.
Someone else's money is someone else's, people can spend it as they want, what does it have to do with being deceived by others? Rich people are willful.
Thinking of money, Zhao Chuan suddenly thought that he didn't have much money, these days he patronized and practiced every day, either practicing martial arts during the day or learning medicine at night, how could he have the opportunity to meet patients to see a doctor and make money?
The road down the mountain is actually very wide, but it is not easy to take a sedan chair, because the sedan chair up the mountain has to be carried by at least four people.
Zhao Chuan finally dodged a sedan chair carrying up the mountain, he stared at it for a long time, feeling that these people were really boring.
Seeing that the sun had set, Zhao Chuan felt a little irritable, he didn't want to practice medicine tonight, he wanted to go back to the store quickly to take a bath and go to bed.
Zhao Chuan saw that there was no one around, so he stepped like flying, ran a few steps, and felt that the Qiankun bag in his arms was always bumping up and down with his body, and he suddenly remembered that there were still a lot of things in this bag.
There is a Dan furnace given to him by the ghost master Xiaotian, and there is also something that the grandfather gave him that he can't use for the time being, and he can only use this bag in the future. So what are these things? Will it help the cultivation bottleneck that he is experiencing now?
Grandpa Tai just said that when he has the ability, this bag will recognize the master, and now that he has cultivated to the ninth level of the water layer, it is time to recognize the master, but what should I do to recognize it?
Well, I'll have to find someone who knows how to ask. Zhao Chuan thought as he ran.
He was running down the mountain, and suddenly heard the sound of crying on the road down the mountain, and a few cloud climbing steps ran down the mountain, and saw a carriage on the road, and there were several figures beside the car.
When I got closer, I saw an old man lying on the ground, a boy crying beside him, and not far away a fierce man with a crying girl was walking towards the woods.
It's really boring when a rabbit came running, just to relieve boredom, Zhao Chuan thought of this and walked forward in a hurry.
"Hey, what's going on?" Zhao Chuan shouted.
The fierce man looked back at a strong guy, and his eyes glared: "Get out, otherwise you will die!"
Zhao Chuan is not afraid of him at all, he is just a strong ordinary person.
Zhao Chuan had already arrived, pointed at the girl and said, "Put her down first!" ”
Dahan stretched out his hand and punched, Zhao Chuan gently dodged, Dahan stepped forward and punched again, Zhao Chuan didn't dodge far, it seemed that he couldn't reach it by a millimeter, and the big man was already angry after more than a dozen punches, so he had to throw down the girl and chase Zhao Chuan.
Zhao Chuan motioned for the girl to go quickly, and then turned around and ran, the big man was only a few feet away and couldn't catch up with him, the more the big man chased, the more angry he became, so he ran for four or five miles and chased to the edge of a cliff.
The big man was so tired that he was about to vomit blood, and the big man bent over and panted, "Boy, you run, you're dead!" ”
Zhao Chuan faced the man and said, "Big brother, go back, fight for a while, that girl ran away!" ”
"You wait for me to catch your breath for a while, and I'll kill you!" After saying that, it was a punch.
Zhao Chuan flashed slightly, and the big man had already rushed off the cliff, and the cliff was not two or three feet deep.
Zhao Chuan shouted below: "Big brother, how is it, is it okay?" Come up and hit me! ”
Zhao Chuan shouted for a long time, but there was no response.
"Hey, I said big brother, you jumped off by yourself, don't blame me, you ignore me again, I'll go?"
Zhao Chuan shouted a few words and shook his head.
"Okay, if you ignore me, then I'll leave and won't play with you!"