Dinner that day was sweet potato porridge, which was peeled and cut into pieces, boiled with rice, boiled into a thick pot of porridge, and served with two bowls of salty sauce. I heard that the inner disciples of the Xiandu sect do not eat these fireworks and food, in order to warm the Dao fetus and condense the sword species, most of them open the valley, chew pine nuts, drink mountain springs, suck wind and drink dew, and the food in the mortal world is too turbid, which is not conducive to cultivation.

Xu Li assigned the chores of chopping wood, carrying water, cooking rice, and brushing pots to Yue Zhilan, everyone thought it was a joke, according to the convention, the trial disciples of Qi, Lu, and Zhang were responsible for ten days of food, but Yue Zhilan always took the initiative to help, and the fellow on duty was happy to be idle, and after a perfunctory mouth, he left him alone to be busy in the firewood room, the advantage of this is that although the disciples of Lu and Zhang Ermai are disdainful, at least they are still polite on the face.

Cowardly, spineless, and willing to be cheap, this is the impression Yue Zhilan gives people, no one knows what he is thinking in his heart, and no one can see the scheming behind his forbearance.

Qi Yunhe came once every five days to instruct his apprentices to practice the Taiyi Foundation Sutra.

Opening up the "acquired acumen" is the first step in the introduction of sword cultivation, there is the so-called three small passes and one bottleneck, the three small passes refer to the perception of the existence of the vitality of heaven and earth, the disposition of the circulation of the vitality of the birth and death, and the absorption of the five elements of the vitality into the body, a bottleneck refers to the use of the vitality as a drill, chisel to open the holes.

The five disciples under Qi Yunhe's sect are in different situations, Yue Zhilan is an acquired turbidity, and Wei Qiqi cultivates Xiaoyue Gong, and these two people don't need his guidance. Qin Zhen is extremely talented, and his progress is extremely fast, and he has even passed the three small levels of "perception", "observation", and "entering the body" in his first cultivation, and after that, he does not seem to have encountered the bottleneck of "opening the body". The Song brothers have one person with five elements and five elements with water, but they have never been able to sense the corresponding vitality.

Qin Zhen's seven "innate apertures" were scattered in the two meridians, Qi Yunhe considered it again and again, and ordered her to choose one of them, and first dig the right arm branch ditch hole, the earth fire under the bitter spring was no longer enough to provide abundant fire qi, and he instructed Wei XVII to take his junior sister to another boiling spring to cultivate.

As the days passed, the trial disciples under Tiandu Peak gradually became acquainted, Xu Li and Xin Laoqi never returned, and without these two troublemakers, they got along more harmoniously. Wei Qiqi and Qin Zhen stayed in Tiandu Peak for longer and longer, and occasionally the next mountain—sometimes Wei Qiqi alone, sometimes two people together—were also in a hurry, and every other night, or even overnight, they couldn't say a few words to their senior brothers, and then went up the mountain again.

Every time he went down the mountain, Wei XVII brought back some game, pheasants, hares, roe deer, wild boars, Yue Zhilan was responsible for washing and peeling clean, pheasants and hares tore up and cooked soup and porridge, and roe deer wild boars were split with a firewood knife and roasted on the fire, and everyone could get a piece to satisfy their hunger. The trial disciples also had greed, and they went into the mountains to hunt game, but they were stung by wasps, arched by wild boars, and returned empty-handed nine times out of ten.

Seeing that Qin Zhen is young, she is a beautiful embryo, inseparable from Wei Seventeen, and began to gossip behind her back, the Song brothers were very angry when they heard it, and seized the opportunity to learn it to their senior brothers, "It's shameless to eat our game and say such things!" Wei Qiqi smiled.

The bitter spring at the top of Tiandu Peak is open to the earth and fire, which is conducive to absorbing the qi of leaving the fire, which is not a secret that no one knows, the disciples of Lu and Zhang Ermai and the Five Elements of the Fire will go to the bitter spring to practice after they get started with the "Taiyi Zhuji Sutra", and try to draw the qi of the fire into the body. By the time they reached Tiandu Peak, Wei Qiqi and Qin Zhen had already left Kuji Spring.

The boiling spring that Qi Yunhe said is located in a mountain col 100 miles east of Kuji Spring, the spring is bubbling, the steam is like thick smoke and mist, emitting a pungent smell of sulfur, the Chinese want to vomit, the grass and trees are withered and yellow, and the birds and beasts are extinct. Such a desolate and evil land, but unusually abundant from the breath of fire, Qin Zhen cultivated on a bluestone upwind, and only stayed away from the boiling spring when he rested.

Boiling spring water can't be drunk, and if you drink water, you have to go to a mountain stream a few miles away to draw it, but with a boiling spring, it is very convenient to cook bird eggs, and Wei Qiqi even thought of a way to stew meat soup to drink. He took the stomach pouch of a wild boar, cleaned it, put it in wild boar meat and mountain stream water, tied it tightly with the bark of a tree, hung it in the spring and boiled it for a few hours, and the meat was ready to eat.

Wei Qiqi often left, sometimes for most of the day, sometimes for a day and a night, and every time he came back, he was exhausted, and fell asleep, as if he had suffered great pain. Qin Zhen plucked up the courage to ask him what was going on, Wei Qiqi always rubbed her head and said that it was okay, just cultivation, and told her not to worry. Could cultivation be so difficult? Qin Zhen couldn't imagine it.

There was no sun and moon in the mountains, Qin Zhen finally chiseled open the first acquired aperture, and the qi from the fire poured into the branch ditch, forming a small whirlpool. She was overjoyed and anxious to tell Senior Brother Sù, but after waiting for a day and a night, Wei XVII never appeared. The big cyan dog came twice, dropped a few pheasants, and left again, the boiling spring was bubbling and splashing, and her voice was so monotonous and boring, she didn't have the heart to continue cultivating, she looked up at the white clouds in the sky, and thought, "Is Senior Brother in a certain place, looking at the same cloud as me?"