Chapter 29: Back to Basics

Li Ji is not discouraged, he is ready to fail thousands of times, at this time, perseverance is the most important thing, not to mention that he is an adult in his twenties, even those Taoist children and children have no one to flinch.

Persistence is persistence, the method still has to be talked about, and it turns out that the brutal way last night had no effect. So he began to constantly change the rhythm of cultivating the spiritual qi channeling, or concentrating the qi at sunrise and sunset, or resting to fully pursue the quality of the qi, or continuously feeling the qi to try whether there was a surprise after mental exhaustion, everything he could think of was done, ten days later, Li Ji looked at his reflection in the Yudai River blankly, with a stubble on his face, full of exhaustion, and he finally realized that if he did not make changes, his path to the Tao would probably end here.

Li Ji is not the only one who is in a bad state, in fact, most of the Dao children are exhausted, and even a few young Dao children were sent out of the blessed land because they couldn't bear the pressure. Even if everyone tries so hard, ten days later. Still not a single one has succeeded. The stone wall is not only the perception of spiritual wit, but also the heart and tenacity of a person. . . The deep meaning of the Daomen, in fact, is not so simple...

Sitting on the bank of the Yudai River, Li Ji calmed down and pondered some questions repeatedly: What do I need when I come to this world? Is it to sit in a stone cave like a stone and meditate all day long just for the ethereal road to becoming an immortal? What is the meaning of such a road? There is no food, no women, no friends and family, no laughter and scolding... If cultivation is like this, even if he really cultivates to become an immortal, what happiness can he have, but it is just an eternal and emotionless stone, is this what he wants?

What do I like?Happiness, freedom, uninhibitedness, this is essential, I actually like women too, why not?I also like money, it is better to have a big house in a beautiful place, and I can go home when I am tired of traveling the whole world... If I could only live for a few decades with all this, which would I choose compared to being a stone with an infinite lifespan?

He took out the dagger and shaved his beard clean in the nearby river water, and the cool river water made his thoughts clearer. 'So be it,' and turned and walked back to town.

The town in the blessed land of the Crescent Gate is named Gukou Town, the town is not big, about two or three thousand people, all kinds of shops in the town are well equipped, and there are several large and small food shops. The chefs in the town are average, but they can't stand the good ingredients, and the vegetables, beef and sheep produced in the blessed land taste different from the outside, as if they have some kind of inspiration.

Unlike a few days ago, Li Ji enjoyed the blessed food this time, and after walking out of the restaurant, he slowly wandered around the streets of the town. It's not that he plans to give up his feelings, give up cultivation, he just wants to use his own way.

Speaking of sleep, since the crossing, he has never felt that meditation and pranayama can replace sleep, and to be honest, it can indeed nourish the spirit, restore energy, and improve the quality of sleep, but it cannot really replace sleep. In a place like a cave, there is no bed, no quilt and no door, and there is no difference between sleeping in the wilderness, how can such a rest adjust the physical state. Therefore, Li Ji's first purpose in entering the town was to find a place to sleep.

There are no inns and inns in Taniguchi Town, because they are not used, and there are neither merchants nor relatives in this place. Therefore, Li Ji can only see if he can find a home where he can stay, this place is extremely expensive, and it may not be easy to stay overnight. Before he set out from Shuangcheng, he had about a hundred or ten taels of gold on his body, and nearly a thousand taels of silver, and he refused to treat himself badly all the way, and now he has less than a hundred taels of gold left, and five hundred taels of silver, which is not loose.

It is not easy to find a house, too rich may not be able to live, too dilapidated and disgusted, to be clean, little to do, it is best not to have children to disturb, so I found a few houses, I am not very satisfied, so when I walked to the west of the town, a separate courtyard attracted his attention, the courtyard wall was painted bright yellow, and the monotonous gray of other houses in the town, there was more of a breath of life.

Li Ji knocked on the courtyard door, no one answered, and after a while, he increased his knocking on the door, but no one answered. I really like this courtyard in my heart, and when I saw that the courtyard door was empty, I pushed it in, and shouted in my mouth: "Is there anyone in the house?"

'Wow... "People didn't see it, but what they saw was a piece of water, it may be that the people in the house are used to doing this, this basin of water splashed is really urgent and accurate, the incident happened suddenly, Li Ji didn't expect that there was such a danger in the blessed land of the dignified immortal family, Rao is he is agile, half of his body has already been splashed, and the smell of the water seems to be a little strange...

A young woman stood in front of the door with her waist crossed, her body was plump, her skin was as white as fat, but her curved eyes showed a fierce light, and she glared fiercely at the uninvited guests outside the door...

"You mother-in-law, it's so unreasonable, how indiscriminately, you splash people with water... Li Ji was furious, if it weren't for the fact that there was a woman in front of him, I was afraid that he would have stepped forward and acted roughly.

"Entering someone's house for no reason, you are not a traitor or a thief, you thief still dare to bite back? Believe it or not, I smashed your dog's head... The woman's momentum was not weak at all, and she dragged out a stick from behind her with one hand...

"Rhetoric, reversing black and white... Other Hughties, my clothes are just new, but you have to compensate me... "It's not that Li Ji is stingy, he only brought two sets of clothes when he entered the blessed land, one set has been dirty after wearing it for ten days, and he has just washed it today and hung it on the railing of the plank road outside the cave, where is there a change of clothes? Everything in this Gukou Town is expensive, and he doesn't want to go to the ready-to-wear store to be the big complainer.

"Lose your clothes? The thief really dares to think... The woman laughed and said, "When I call the Taoist, I have to do you the crime of trespassing on the house... To be honest, did you thief send the old king of Zhenbei to steal clothes and things?"

"What is the old king's head and the old plum's, but I don't know... Li Ji suppressed the anger in his heart, this woman was entangled, but the rules of the blessed land, he couldn't really compare with her, "I came in this time to send apprentices to feel the spirit, this time I just want to find a place to stay, just now I knocked on the door and called someone, you don't say you didn't hear... ”

"The thief has come to deceive people again, since you have come to be angry, don't stay in the stone wall, what are you doing in the town?" Also, most of the Taoist children are in their teens, like you, the eldest, which sect will want you?" the woman looked disdainful.

Someone mentioned his qualifications again, Li Ji couldn't bear it, "Lao Tzu is willing, how can I be at such an age? I can't ask for the Tao? Lao Tzu doesn't steal or rob, he comes in openly, and the Daomen is also recorded, Senior Brother Fayuan gave Lao Tzu the anger to cross, can he do a fake? What about entering the town? Who stipulates that Dao Tong can't enter the town? Lao Tzu has not become an immortal, so he has to eat, drink, and sleep, where can he go if he doesn't come to the town? Lao Tzu wants to go to the Crescent Gate, does he let Lao Tzu in? You mother-in-law, unreasonable, vicious, I don't know what swill to stain my clothes, Lao Tzu is this set of clothes, is it possible to go out wet like this? No, today Lao Tzu will not leave, do not accompany Lao Tzu's clothes, even if the Taoist comes, I will not follow... ”

Li Ji put a gun and a stick, Lao Tzu and Lao Tzu gave a short vent, the woman looked at him for a long time, but couldn't help but sneer, most of her fierce appearance was just pretending, as a native of Gukou Town, of course she knew that there would be a lot of Taoist children who couldn't bear the hardships and would go into the town to spend the night, as for age, there are no surprises in the world, not to mention Li Ji, who is in his twenties, used to be a dying person in his seventies and eighties, and there are also people who fight to get wealth through the joints, which is not strange at all.