"You want to join the army?"

"Yes. ”

"Where are you going?"

"Northland. ”

"Do you know who the enemy is outside Dingbei City?"

"You know, it's the demon clan in the 100,000 mountains. ”

"Then do you know that all the demon clans practice the Xia Lian Sect? Ordinary demon soldiers have the strength of five or six layers of condensation, and their physical bodies are extremely strong? The Northland Army is enough to rank in the top three among the Great Chu armies, but one demon can fight with the three Northland Army!"

The old man looked at the young man, his cloudy eyes seemed to have experienced the vicissitudes of a hundred lifetimes.

Yan Fang's face turned red when he was looked at by the old man, he knew something about the demon clan, and knew that everyone in the demon clan practiced the Xia Lian Sect, but he didn't expect that the combat power of the demon soldiers was terrifying.

"Do you want to go now?" said the old man, taking a puff of dry cigarette.

...

"Yes!"

"Just rely on your second-layer cultivation to survive under the demons?" the old man smiled disdainfully.

Yan Fang was stunned. He didn't expect that the old man had already discovered the secret of his secret cultivation, and he had also penetrated his cultivation at a glance.

"Don't practice the kind of Jianghu exercises that don't enter the stream, don't be in a hurry to sleep after cleaning up tonight, come with me. ”

The old man got up and went into the kitchen to get busy.

Yan Fang looked at the old man's rickety back blankly, and he hadn't come back to his senses yet.

...

...

"What are you doing there with a pestle like a stake, come in and cut taro!"

The old man's voice carried a hint of anger.

...

Yan Fang was stunned for a moment, and then responded:

"Here comes the master!"

...

There are more guests who come to Cuiming Tower to eat tonight than usual, and the three of Old Man Zhao's master and apprentice are very busy. It's time to finish your work. Yan Fang wiped the last bowl clean and put it in the cabinet and breathed a long sigh of relief. Looking at the old man Zhao who was sitting on the threshold drinking, there was hope and some apprehension in his eyes. Old man Zhao seemed to notice Yan Fang's small movements.

"Let's go. ”

With that, he stood up and walked out the door.

Seeing this, Yan Fang hurriedly followed the old man.

The old man's steps were not big, but if you look closely, you will find that the frequency is very fast, and Yan Fang trotted all the way to keep up with the old man's steps.

After about half a pillar of incense, the old man suddenly stopped.

Yan Fang was slightly stunned, and when he came to his senses, he found that he had arrived at the small stele forest on the east side of Moon Lake.

Yuezhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River, compared with the perennial war-torn border states, there are few wars, the last large-scale war disaster that occurred in Yuezhou was a hundred years ago, when the general of Yuezhou Zhenzhou rebelled, openly rebelled against Dachu, declared war on the emperor of Dachu, the imperial court sent troops to quell the rebellion in time, and the last battle to quell the rebellion took place on the shore of this Moon Lake. In order to commemorate the soldiers of the Great Chu who died in the war, people erected many nameless monuments in the east of Yuehu Lake. This is the origin of the small stele forest.

Although it is located in the center of Yuezhou City, next to the bustling Moon Lake, the small stele forest is rarely set foot by idlers.

"The old man chose this location because it is close to Cuiming Tower and no one will disturb it," Yan Fang thought secretly.

The old man turned around and looked at Yan Fang, his cloudy eyes were unexpectedly sharp, and Yan Fang felt the murderous aura that had been lost for a long time from the old man's body.

The bottom of my heart was slightly cold.

"How much do you know about the realm of cultivation?" the old man began.

"The entrance is the condensation realm, there are ten layers, but the general Jianghu method only reaches the seventh layer, the condensation realm is followed by the broken hung realm, and the broken hung realm is the burning lamp realm, and I don't know the realm after the burning lamp realm. Yan Fang replied. The description of the Broken Hung Realm and the Burning Lamp Realm is from the Canghe Heart Sutra, but after all, the Canghe Sect is only a Jianghu sect, and the content recorded in the Canghe Heart Sutra is really limited.

"After the Burning Lamp Realm is the Bitter Sea Realm, after the Bitter Sea Realm is the Futu Realm, after the Floating Tu Realm is the Dao Realm, the Optimus Prime of Great Chu, and Ancestor Chen of Fuhu Mountain is the Dao Realm. The old man spoke slowly.

When talking about Ancestor Chen, there was a trace of awe in the old man's tone that could not be concealed.

Patriarch Chen is the national teacher of Great Chu, the master of Fuhu Mountain, and also the strongest person in Great Chu, Great Chu can become the most powerful country in the world, standing for more than 300 years without falling, largely because of the existence of Patriarch Chen.

Yan Fang has also heard of the legend about Ancestor Chen.

If Da Chu is compared to a building that reaches heaven, then Patriarch Chen is the largest and thickest pillar that holds up this building.

The people of Great Chu may not know the name of the Great Chu Emperor, after all, for more than 300 years, the Great Chu Emperor has changed twelve, but no one does not know the name of Patriarch Chen, because for more than 300 years, the patron saint of the Great Chu Empire has always had only one from beginning to end:

Chen Tianyi!

"Of course, these realms are still too far away for you, you can cultivate to the tenth layer of the Qi Condensation Realm first, and then talk about other things," the old man said indifferently.

"Don't practice the Jianghu Exercises you practiced before, even if you practice to the seventh layer of Qi Condensation, you will not be the opponent of the most ordinary Demon Soldier of the fifth layer of Qi Condensation. Start practicing this today. ”

The old man took out a blue thread-bound book from his arms, the book was very old, the cover was crumpled, the pages were yellowed, and there were oil stains on the corners of the book, which were splashed by the old man when he was stir-frying...

Yan Fang took the old book from the old man's hand, and on the cover of the book, he wrote four big characters with a brush: Guanshan Miscellaneous Talk. Yan Fang roughly flipped through the book, and found that the name of this book was very appropriate, and it was really a miscellaneous conversation, and the book recorded some of the author's insights in chess, tea art, medical skills, feng shui, casting and cooking skills. Among them, the largest amount of space is recorded in casting, followed by cooking.

Yan Fang was confused after reading it, and looked at the old man suspiciously: "Old man, did you take the wrong book?" The content of this book is quite complicated, but it has nothing to do with spiritual practice. ”

The old man didn't seem to be surprised at all by Yan Fang's doubts, and said silently: "You take a closer look, the content of the book is related to cultivation everywhere, the book is lent to you for seven days, if you still haven't understood it after seven days, you don't need to think about cultivation, you can be a cook in Cuiming Building with peace of mind." ”

After saying that, he turned around and left.

Yan Fang watched the old man's rickety figure gradually disappear into the night, and he was a little angry in his heart, but more powerless.

"Old man, you can't make your words clearer, throw away the life essay that I don't know which birdman wrote on a whim and leave..."Yan Fang scolded secretly.

...

Three days have passed, Yan Fang in addition to eating, sleeping and doing chores, the rest of the time is reading books, Yan Fang loved to read books in his previous life, history books and famous novels will read a little, of course, the most he reads is a variety of online novels, after coming to this world, because he does chores in the back kitchen of Cuiming Building every day, he has no chance to contact books. There are only two books that I have read completely, one is a recipe written by Old Man Zhao... There is also a copy of the Xuanhe Heart Sutra that was hand-copied overnight that day.

Maybe it's been too long since I've read a book, Yan Fang fell into it when I saw it this time, although it's just a life essay that I don't know from which hand, but in Yan Fang's opinion, this essay is like an encyclopedia of this world, feng shui, medicine, geography, chess, casting, cooking... Everything, everything. And the author has his own unique views on these aspects. While Yan Fang was watching, he also had to sigh at the author's extensive knowledge.

For example, in terms of geography and humanities, the book uses more than ten pages to describe in detail all corners of the world, the states of Great Chu, the Eastern countries, millions of barbarian frontiers, 100,000 mountains, and the Xisai Plateau are mentioned in the book, and the climate, diet, customs, mountains and rivers are mentioned in various places. It's simply the "Xu Xiake's Travels" of this world.

Another example is cooking, Yan Fang has been in the back kitchen with Old Man Zhao since he was a child, although his cooking skills are average, his ability to identify is still good, it can be seen that this author is also a master chef and has a very high theoretical level, the same dishes are more detailed than those recorded in Old Man Zhao's recipes.

So in Yan Fang's eyes, this author can definitely be regarded as an all-rounder.

What gave Yan Fang a headache was that although the content of this essay was very good and comprehensive, and the author's level was also very high, three days had passed, and he had already flipped through this essay several times, but he still did not understand the connection with cultivation.

"Click"

The back kitchen, Li Dafa, is chopping vegetables.

"Alas"

Yan Fang let out a long sigh.

I simply threw the book on the bed and went out to help.

"Senior brother, I'll come today. ”

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