Volume 1 [Beginning to Cultivate] Chapter 7 Strange Stones
"Knock knock knock ......" After the bell rang, a person named Spirit Stone Mine walked out of the tunnel, and not long after, Zhao Dong and the three of them also walked out of it.
Zhao Dong and the three of them looked at each other, and the three of them together only had thirty waste spirit stones, and they didn't know how much food they could exchange for.
The skinny monkey came to the square and began to exchange food, only the palm-sized steamed buns were exchanged for their miscellaneous disciples, but they could drink as much water as they wanted.
The skinny monkey came to Zhao Dong and the others, took away the spirit stone, handed them nine steamed buns, and said, "For the first time today, I will give you one more." ”
A person who only has three steamed buns can't fill his stomach at all, and you must know that the physical strength they consume is not something that these three steamed buns can make up.
"This clothes for you to change, and you can go to the toilet in the east passageway. As for taking a shower, you can go out once every two days, and you'll understand it later. The skinny monkey gave the clothes of the sect to Zhao Dong and the others, and talked about the hygiene problem.
After eating, everyone spread out the straw mats and went to sleep on the spot, after all, they were all men, and there was nothing at all.
The female miscellaneous disciples did it very differently than Zhao Dong and them, and it was much easier than Zhao Dong.
Although they were a little reluctant to lie on the straw mat with the smell of being covered in smell, Zhao Dong and the three of them, who had been tired all day, fell asleep quickly.
The next day, after waking up, Zhao Dong and the three of them continued to go to the west tunnel to mine spirit stones.
After a whole day, Zhao Dong and the three of them had only dug up twenty waste spirit stones, and they didn't get any food at all.
At night, he followed the old miscellaneous disciples out of the cave, and after passing the inspection, he came to the lake not far away.
The reason why it was still necessary to carry out the inspection was because he was afraid that some miscellaneous disciples would take the spirit stone out of the cave, after all, the spirit stone was a precious cultivation resource.
Because I was afraid that someone would take the spirit stone out and hide it for my own selfishness, I had to check it every time I went out of the cave, and I was not allowed to take anything other than a change of clothes.
There was a bright moon hanging high in the sky, and the bright moonlight scattered on the surface of the lake was so beautiful.
After stripping naked, everyone went into the lake to wash their bodies, and after two days of hard work, the slimy bodies really needed to be cleaned.
The clothes on Zhao Dong's body were no longer their original clothes, but the dust shelter clothes issued to them by the sect.
As the name suggests, dust shelter clothing can prevent dust from remaining on it, so the clothes need to be washed at all.
Lying in the lake, Zhao Dong quietly looked at the bright moon in the sky, and actually remembered his parents.
It was the first time he had left home and come to a completely unfamiliar place, and it was not certain when he would be able to go back.
"Let's go" Tian Zheng came over at this time and patted Zhao Dong on the shoulder and said, it turned out that half an hour had passed.
After getting dressed, the three of them returned to the cave, and although Zhao Dong still missed his parents a little, he still rested early.
As for those old miscellaneous disciples, they didn't go back so early, and they didn't know what else they had to do.
In this way, time flies, half a month has passed, and Zhao Dong and the others can now dig three and a half spirit stones every day.
Although these spirit stones were still not enough for them to exchange for enough food to fill their stomachs, they could already be exchanged for enough food to consume to collect spirit stones.
Zhao Dong and the others only need to go to the area of those old miscellaneous disciples in half a month, and then they can exchange for enough food to fill their stomachs.
"Zhao Dong, someone came to see you. The skinny monkey suddenly came to the tunnel where Zhao Dong was and informed him that someone had come here to see him, something he hadn't encountered much before.
Although Zhao Dong didn't know who came to see him, but since the other party came to see him, Zhao Dong also cleaned up and followed the skinny monkey out of the tunnel.
When he came to the square, he saw a man in Tsing Yi with his back to him, and the man in Tsing Yi seemed to feel something and turned around.
Looking at Lin Han in front of him, Zhao Dong didn't know what to say for a while, originally they were people from the same village, but now the two of them are the gap between heaven and earth.
"Shall we just stand here like this, why don't we find a place for the two of us to have a good chat?" In the end, it was Lin Han who broke the awkward atmosphere first.
"Yes, yes...... You see, I forgot. Zhao Dong took Lin Han to a tunnel where there was no one and sat on the ground.
After all, there is no place to go in the cave, so the only way to find a tunnel where the two of them can be alone.
"Lin Han, how are you now?" The two of them hadn't seen each other for half a month since the entrance assessment was over, and Zhao Dong also wanted to know how he was doing.
"It's not bad, I've already started cultivating. Zhao Dong, how are you doing now?" After saying this, Lin Han knew that he had said the wrong thing, but the words had already been spoken.
"That's what I've done, and you see it. Zhao Dong could only answer helplessly in the face of Lin Han's question.
"Okay, let's not talk about it. Let's eat, why bother talking about that?" Lin Han took out two roast chickens and a pot of wine from behind him.
"Well, let's eat. Zhao Dong didn't notice that Lin Han didn't have anything in his hand just now, but now he took out these foods.
Although both of them are not very old, they have learned to drink since they were young and followed their parents to hunt in the mountains.
Hunting can always be a little chilly at night, so it's normal to warm up with a sip of wine.
After three rounds of drinking, Lin Han said again, "Zhao Dong, you are actually not suitable for cultivation, leave here and go back to the village to live a good life." ”
"Lin Han, what do you mean by this? Could it be that I think that I, Zhao Dong, am just a miscellaneous disciple who came out of the same village as you, and I am the one who has lost you?" Zhao Dong stood up directly when he heard Lin Han's words.
"And it's not up to you whether I'm suitable for cultivation or not, I always need to try it before I know it, right?" Zhao Dong naturally couldn't just give up this hard-won status as a miscellaneous disciple.
"Zhao Dong, you know your talent yourself. It's impossible for your talent to achieve any results in cultivation at all, so why waste time?" Lin Han said calmly after taking a sip of wine, although his tone was peaceful, but in Zhao Dong's ears, it was very harsh.
"Lin Han, I'll tell you. If you're here today to make me give up, then I'm sorry it can't be. ”
"If you think I've lost your people, I won't say that we have anything to do with each other in the future, and I didn't intend to say it in the first place. Zhao Dong was originally going to have a good chat with Lin Han, but now there is no way to talk about this situation.
Lin Han looked at Zhao Dong and left a little helplessly, and Zhao Dong didn't have any retention, so he let Lin Han leave.
After Lin Han left the tunnel, a voice suddenly came from his body, "Zi Yan, I have already told you, it is impossible for you to successfully dispel his thoughts by saying this." ”
"Shut up, I'm not the Ziyan in your mouth, I'm Lin Han. There seemed to be something between the two people that Zhao Dong didn't know.
"Ziyan, it doesn't matter if you don't believe me now, you will eventually understand what I said, I hope you can clearly and decide who you are at that time. The voice didn't sound again after saying this, and it seemed to really shut up.
After Lin Han left, Zhao Dong angrily prepared to knock over the roast chicken and wine on the ground, but in the end he didn't do it and picked it up.
Without him, it's just because food is too precious for him now to be wasted.
returned to the tunnel to the west and gave the roast chicken and wine to Tian Zheng and the two of them to eat, and the two quickly finished eating.
"Brother Zhao, who are you going to see? Chen Fu asked with some envy.
"It's nothing, just a friend. Chen Fu wanted to ask something, but was stopped by Tian Zheng, and he could also see that Zhao Dong was not in a good mood now.
Although he didn't know what happened just now, he could also guess what unpleasant things Zhao Dong should have experienced just now.
In this way, time passed little by little, and a month had arrived, and Zhao Dong and the three of them left the tunnel in the west to mine spirit stones with those old miscellaneous disciples.
It's just that Zhao Dong doesn't like to be with so many people, so he found a tunnel and mined it alone.
Now the three of them can mine enough spirit stones every day to exchange for food, so they don't have to worry about not being able to fill their stomachs.
At the same time, in this month's time, they have become completely familiar with the rules here, and they only need to continue to persist for three years before they can become outer disciples.
And when the month was over, the skinny monkey gave Zhao Dong and the others a copy of the exercises of "Xuanyuan Decision" and said, "This is a cultivation method, although it will take you three years before you can become an outer disciple, but it is always beneficial to cultivate in advance." ”
The skinny monkey didn't say anything and left, leaving only Zhao Dong and the three of them to open the exercises there, although this was only the most basic exercises, but for Zhao Dong and the three of them, it was still like a treasure.
"It takes a lot of time to succeed in cultivating, and the cultivation process requires a lot of aura, so it basically takes more than a year to succeed in cultivating. An old miscellaneous disciple looked at Zhao Dong and the three of them who were opening the exercises and said.
These old miscellaneous disciples had already used time to prove the possibility of this method, so Zhao Dong didn't have any doubts.
Although it would take more than a year to succeed, Zhao Dong was not worried, because they had been here for three full years and could completely succeed in cultivating.
After cultivating for half a month, there was no improvement Originally, Zhao Dong was a little looking forward to a miracle, but how could a miracle happen so easily?
On this day, Zhao Dong was digging the spirit stone, but there was a powerful anti-shock force from the pickaxe, which was so strong that he couldn't catch the pickaxe at all.
The pickaxe flew out directly out of his hand and flew through his face and stabbed into the cave wall behind, which frightened Zhao Dong.
If there was some deviation just now, the pickaxe might have hurt him, and I couldn't believe it.
Zhao Dong pulled out the pickaxe behind his back and walked forward to see what was making him so embarrassed.
I saw a round thing embedded in the cave wall, and it seemed that only part of it was exposed, but not all of it.
This made Zhao Dong a little curious, what the hell is this?
With such a mentality, Zhao Dong dug up, this time he was very careful, so the situation just now did not happen.
It took half an hour to dig out the thing, a tall man with his hands around a wide round stone.
It's just that the appearance of this stone is very hard, and Zhao Dong can't dig it at all, and it is much harder than the stone in the tunnel in the west.
It took Zhao Dong a stick of incense to chisel off half a fist-sized stone, which was a drop in the bucket compared to the stone that was tall and his hands were wide.
Zhao Dong also needed to mine the spirit stone in exchange for food, so he didn't have the time to continue to chisel this big stone, so he could only put it aside first and wait for time before slowly chiseling.
Day after day, from hot summer to cool autumn, Zhao Dong chiseled this stone to about the same size as him.
I don't know how long it will take to finish chiseling, if there is nothing in it, just a stone, I'm afraid Zhao Dong will go crazy.
Perhaps because mining spirit stones was so boring, Zhao Dong didn't even realize that chiseling this big stone had become a thing for him to kill time.