Chapter 8 Medicated baths
Back in the valley, she gave him the bag that belonged to a lot of water, and went straight back to her house.
The pocket contained two sets of gray and white robes, as well as a brand new letter book and an identity jade plaque.
She hung two robes from the trusses and began to flip through the "Rules for Entry".
The first few pages are about the rules of the sect, and they are all counted down to eighty-one, including questions such as daily clothing. The latter is an introduction to the establishment of the sect, its structure, and the positions of the sect.
The Taiyue Sect is in charge of the power, and there are three elders under it, who are in charge of the three major halls of punishment, affairs, and pills. Among them, the Danyao Hall is more special, because the pills in the entire Taiyue Gate are refined by Elder Zhao of Keqing, and then sent to the Danyao Hall for sale.
Therefore, nominally speaking, the elders of the Danyao Hall are equivalent to the position of listing.
Further down, there are the personal disciples, the inner disciples, the outer elders, the outer disciples, and the miscellaneous disciples.
Except for the single spirit root disciple, every other disciple who entered the sect could only become an outer disciple or a miscellaneous disciple. If you successfully enter the sixth layer of Qi cultivation before the age of eighteen, you can enter the inner gate and become an inner disciple.
In Taiyuemen, the disciples also have a fortune, but it is calculated according to the point system.
These points are tied to the status jade card, and each time you buy something, you only need to deduct it from it.
According to the door rules, the inner disciples can earn thirty points per month, the outer disciples have fifteen points, and as for the miscellaneous disciples, they only have five points.
These points can be used to purchase pills, magic weapons, exercises, etc. within the sect, and can also be exchanged for money. As for the ratio of money exchanged, there is also a detailed ratio in the "Entry Rules": 1:100.
In other words, one point can be exchanged for a hundred dollars, which is equivalent to ten taels of silver!
Of course, after entering the Taiyue Gate, each disciple needs to go to the Affairs Hall to pick up the task three times a month, and if you don't complete the task once you reach the time limit, someone from the Punishment Hall will come to you.
If you do not receive a mission for more than three months, you will have all your money confiscated, your points will be erased, and you will be locked up for three months.
If you still don't repent after coming out, you will be directly abolished and expelled from the sect.
After reading the "Introductory Rules", it was already dark, she picked up the "Qi Induction Technique" again, thought about it, and put it down.
"Forget it, rest early, there are still a lot of things to do tomorrow."
When she was in Gufu, she developed the habit of going to bed early and getting up early, and she cherished her body very much in this life.
It's just that what she didn't expect was that a lot of water seemed to have no exhaustive energy, shouting outside early in the morning.
"Senior Sister Gu! Senior Sister Gu! ”
Gu Nian was a little irritable by the noise, and began to clean with a grudge, and after breakfast, he began to fetch water again. There is a stream a few dozen steps away from the back mountain, not far away.
She has been weak since she was a child, and carrying water is a hard work, and she is tired and sweaty after only half a tank of water, and her face is pale.
Seeing this, many people couldn't help but say: "Your body is too weak, if you go on like this, you will have to cross sooner or later." ”
Regardless of whether Gu Nian wanted to or not, he took the wooden barrel and jumped up and down to carry water to the stream in the back mountain.
This scene happened to be seen by Zhao Lao, he sighed, took Gu Nian back to the main hall, and looked at the miserable little face.
Said: "You are born with a weak body, and you are accompanied by a hidden disease, and it is almost hopeless to draw qi into the body in this life. Wang Zhixian has studied medicine with me for several years, and I think it is because I see your physical condition that I will entrust you to me."
Hearing this, Gu Nian was shocked.
She didn't expect that her physical condition would be so bad, if she really couldn't cultivate, then what was the point of her coming to Taiyuemen.
"Please also ask Zhao Lao to teach me!"
She hurriedly knelt on the ground.
If this life stops here, it is better to stay in the Gu Mansion, at least without having to work and worry-free about food and clothing.
"This dark disease of yours is left in the abdomen, resulting in excessive congenital yin qi, and it is really difficult to cultivate!"
When Gu Nian heard this, he was not calm for a moment.
didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly kowtowed again: "No matter what the method, as long as it can suppress the cold qi in the disciple's body, the disciple is willing to give it a try!" ”
"Please sir teach me!"
Seeing that the old man was unmoved, Gu Nian had to keep kowtowing, one, two, three......
The sound of thudding in the wooden house kept ringing, and she didn't stop even though the kowtow broke and the ground was red and bloody.
Zhao Lao looked at the girl and was silent.
The teenage man's cheeks were full of determination, and blood ran down the bridge of his nose, cutting the corners of his mouth, wetting the robe.
"That's it!"
Looking at this scene, Zhao Lao's eyes couldn't help but be a little touched, and he couldn't bear it.
"I have a pill here, called 'Blood Removal Pill', this pill is quite domineering, you need to take it with the help of a medicinal bath, you must not have the slightest distraction when taking it, otherwise the bleeding of the seven orifices is light, and there is even a danger of exploding and dying."
Zhao Lao took out a black porcelain bottle from his cuffs and put it on the old wooden table, and looked at Gu Nian: "Would you like to give it a try?" ”
"Disciple Gu Nian, thank you master!"
Zhao Lao shook his head: "You and I don't have the relationship of master and apprentice, I won't teach you anything, all this is your own choice." ”
"Recently, you have been practicing normally, and as for the medicinal bath, I will inform you when I am ready."
He left a sentence and left simply.
Gu Nian watched the other party leave blankly, and finally landed his gaze on the porcelain vase on the table, his gaze firm.
……
The night had not yet faded, and the pale blue sky shrouded the distant mountains.
Gu Nian sat by the window, with an oil lamp lit on the wooden table, looking through the Qi Induction Technique, frowning, and couldn't let go for a long time.
"Spit out, breathe also. Boasting about breathing, spitting out the old and accepting the new, just for longevity. Exhale three inches to the heel, the four doors are closed, and the qi machine is ......"
She was puzzled, she would only draw a scoop according to the gourd, and this sitting would be an hour, but it had no effect.
The book says:
When I first sat quietly, I only felt that my heart was fluctuating and my blood was rolling. Later, I felt that it was difficult to keep distracting thoughts, and my body and mind were calm. It can be done as soon as it comes, and it is cut off when it is born. Over time, the thoughts in my heart are like a trickle, and I don't stick to it.
As the saying goes: the mind is accessible.
Gu Nian was noncommittal.
So she was ready to use the stupidest but most effective method in her previous life.
That's morning reading!
Ancient people liked to revel in life, and Gu Nian was the same, if he cultivated immortals just for the sake of cultivating immortals, then cultivating immortals would completely lose his meaning.
So in the next half month, the work of carrying water was basically taken away by a lot of water, and he would always pat his chest and say:
"I'm from the countryside, I'm in good health, what kind of qi induction technique makes my head dizzy, it's better to work easily."
In this way, in addition to eating and sleeping every day, Gu Nian reads books and meditates, and sometimes goes to learn pharmacology from Zhao Lao.
On this day, she was reading a book in the courtyard, and when she was reading "If you gather qi, you will live, and if you die, you will die", Zhao Lao came to her again.
"The medicinal bath has been prepared, bring the pill I gave you, and follow me to the alchemy room."
Gu Nian's spirit was shocked.
She hurriedly packed up the book, followed behind Zhao Lao, and came all the way to the alchemy room.
The alchemy room is located on the far right, and unlike the other rooms, the entire room is supported by giant wood and surrounded by stone walls.
There is a three-legged giant tripod in the room, half a person is tall, because of the perennial fire, the outside of the big tripod is pitch black, and the pattern on the tripod has been covered by burning ashes.
There were long wooden tables on both sides, on which were placed all kinds of iron porcelain jars and grinding tools, and she was dazzled to watch.