Chapter 17: The Daily Life of Cultivation
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Zhao Ran was already able to preliminarily retract and release when cultivating, so he meditated in the pavilion for a while, first adjusted his breathing, and then according to the requirements of the Nine Heavens Xuanlong Great Forbidden Technique, chanting, pinching, stepping, and moving qi, and in a moment, he finished refining the spell of the first chapter, and felt quite refreshed.
After Zhao Ran finished his work, Wei Zhizhen stepped forward and said, "Where did you learn this Taoist technique, junior brother? It seems to be quite mysterious, it is not inferior, it is quite good. ”
Zhao Ran smiled and said: "Senior brother smiled, I didn't know Taoism before, and no one taught me, so I learned some miscellaneous things from the five-color master...... By the way, the five-color master is the colorful brocade chicken that built a cave next to my Junshan Temple to practice, and the two uncles of Da Zhuo and Xiao Zhuo know it...... Well, this Dao technique is an access control method, and if the senior brother is interested, I will demonstrate it to the senior brother. ”
Wei Zhizhen shook his head and said: "There are thousands of Taoist techniques, each with its own subtlety, if you want to learn it when you see a good one, where is there so much work." Master often said that the end of cultivation lies in becoming an immortal, laying a good foundation for cultivation, which is more effective than learning a hundred or a thousand moves. Although the senior brother's access control method seems to be good, but the senior brother and I are relatively stupid, and I can't learn this subject well, so where do I dare to be greedy. ”
This senior brother has a very good mentality, and Zhao Ran also knows that he has a point, but if he changes himself, if he sees a subtle Dao technique, as long as he has the opportunity to learn it, he will definitely not let it go.
Follow Wei Zhizhen into the Sword Pavilion, the first floor is a hall with a radius of seven or eight zhang, about two zhang high, and there are two huge stone pillars in the middle to support the structure. Oil lamps hung on the walls around the hall, and under each oil lamp there was a recessed stone niche that did not enshrine the gods or goddesses. Rather, it is a long and short sword with different shapes.
Zhao Ran glanced at it and counted slightly, there were dozens of flying swords enshrined in this hall, no wonder this pavilion would be called the Spirit Sword Pavilion. According to Wei Zhizhen, there are nine floors in the Sword Pavilion, and the quality of the flying swords enshrined on each layer is different, and the higher you go, the smaller the number. But the higher the quality.
Zhao Ran really wanted to visit the pavilion, but he could only think about it, with his current cultivation, it would be extremely difficult to go up to the second floor, let alone the third floor.
"Master is in retreat above," Wei Zhizhen pointed upstairs and said to Zhao Ran, "the fifth floor." ”
"What floor is Senior Brother on?"
"I'm on the fourth floor. ”
"What about Senior Brother Yu and Senior Brother Luo?"
"They're all on the third floor. ”
Zhao Ran understood that this Sword Pavilion was also divided according to the level of cultivation, and at what level of cultivation he reached, he could practice at the corresponding level. If you can't cultivate but insist on breaking through, according to Wei Zhizhen's words, it will be tantamount to looking for death by yourself.
The flying swords enshrined in the first layer are all matched with the monks of the Taoist realm, and when cultivating, these flying swords will automatically attack the monks who enter this place according to the path and sword moves of the previous master, and all that remains to do is to survive in this hall with all their strength.
Wei Zhizhen told Zhao Ran to be careful when cultivating. If you really can't support it, you can sacrifice your own token. As soon as the token came out, all the flying swords returned to their respective positions, and the attack would stop until Zhao Ran withdrew the token. After telling him, he went up the stairs in the corner.
Zhao Ran took out the token and followed Wei Zhizhen's instructions. Put it in the groove on the stone pillar on the left side of the hall, and leave a part of his divine thoughts in the Sword Pavilion Great Array.
As soon as he retracted the token into the wrench, Zhao Ran felt the wind in the back of his head, and he flashed behind the stone pillar with a wrong step, and heard the sound of "dangchang". A three-foot-long flying sword hit the stone pillar, was bounced to the ground, and then fluttered twice and flew back to the stone niche, but did not enter the stone niche, only stopped firmly in the air, and the sword pointed directly at Zhao Ran, faintly as if there was a challenge.
Wei Zhizhen once said to Zhao Ran that since he worshiped under the door of the Spirit Sword Pavilion, he would normally give a flying sword, but the specific one to give was to Zhao Ran to choose by himself. These dozens of flying swords in the first layer of the Sword Pavilion were not only a tempering and test for Zhao Ran's cultivation, but also a process for him to select flying swords. If Zhao Ran takes a fancy to which flying sword, he can engrave his Jingyuan mark with the technique of making a weapon and become the owner of the flying sword.
Therefore, Zhao Ran was very interested in the first flying sword that sneaked up on him, and waited with great interest for the flying sword to strike again.
The sword body trembled, and it flew straight towards Zhao Ran, the speed was not fast, but the quasi-head was Qijia, and it went straight to Zhao Ran's face and hit it. Zhao Ran hurriedly took a step to wear flowers, twisted his body, and flashed to the side. The flying sword pierced the air but the momentum was not exhausted, and it stabbed on the floor with a "ding" sound. Zhao Ran saw a few sparks popping out of the place where the tip of the sword collided with the floor, and his heart sank, knowing that the power of this sword stab was extremely great, and if he accidentally hit it, he was afraid that he would be hit the spot.
Zhao Ran's fighting experience is not bad, in addition to fighting with the bald donkey Jueyuan twice, he also fought a lot when he fled in the Xia Kingdom, but it was the first time he had seen a flying sword, and at this moment he was engrossed in staring at this three-foot-long flying sword, constantly pondering the skills of dodging the flying sword.
This flying sword has a lot of power and excellent accuracy, so Zhao Ran didn't dare to be careless, but after dodging for half an hour in a row, he gradually got used to it and began to try to run the Nine Heavens Xuanlong Great Forbidden Technique. Zhao Ran planned to take advantage of this opportunity to hone his forbidden technique casting skills when facing the enemy. In the beginning, he cast the spell in the adjustment gap after the flying sword returned to its position, and after he became familiar with it, he put the cast time on the way from the flying sword, and used guò to compress the reaction time to hone his casting speed.
When I practiced like this until noon, I felt hungry in my belly, so I took out the token in my finger and shook it. The flying sword immediately sensed Zhao Ran's token, returned to the stone niche with a "hum", and slowly sank in, and this morning's cultivation was over.
Zhao Ran felt exhausted and sweating profusely. He used the mana in the sea of qi to swim around his body, steamed the sweat dry, and then stepped out of the Sword Pavilion.
Back in the small courtyard, an all-knowing guest had already sent a plate of food, vegetables, cooked meat, melons and fruits were very abundant, Zhao Ran's cultivation in the morning consumed too much body and energy, and his appetite was greatly boosted, and he stuffed a plate of food into his stomach after a short time.
After eating, Zhao Ran wanted to go to Senior Brother Wei Zhizhen and ask him a few questions about the problems he encountered in his cultivation this morning, but the Omniscient guest told him that the three senior brothers had not returned in the Sword Pavilion, and they were all sent to the Pavilion for food.
At this point, it can be seen that the gap is coming, Zhao Ran can't support it after two hours of cultivation, but the three senior brothers can hold on for a whole day, and the gap between them can't be reasoned.
In the afternoon, Zhao Ran lay quietly in his room, meditating on the three inner breath meditation diagrams to restore his mana, and then pushed the door out after his mana was fully recovered, the sky had already darkened, and it was already dusk.
The all-knowing guest sent another plate of food over, waited for Zhao Ran to eat dinner, and told Zhao Ran that the head of the Qiqiao Forest, Zhu Zhimeng, had come to visit Zhao Ran in the afternoon, and knew that Zhao Ran had not disturbed after lying down and cultivating, so he left on his own. Zhu Zhimeng left a message for Zhao Ran, saying that when Zhao Ran has free time, please go to the Qiqiao Forest to meet.
Zhao Ran saw that the sky was not completely dark, so he asked Quanzhike to lead the way and go to the Qiqiao Forest.
The so-called Qiqiao Forest is a walnut forest on a small hillside, and the reason why it is called "Qiqiao" is because of the name of the faction where Zhu Zhimeng is located. Zhu Zhimeng's master is Master Liang Tengsong, who is currently the master of the Qiqiao Forest, Qiqiao is hidden, stabbed, viewed, walked, moved, flashed, and photographed seven Taoist techniques, which is a school that has been inherited for a long time in the Huayun Pavilion, and now the Qiqiao Taoist cultivation in the hall is the strongest monk, not Master Liang Tengsong, but Elder Yan Yunzhao, because he has advanced to the realm of refining the master five years ago, so he was promoted to the position of the elder of the Huayun Pavilion, and Master Liang taught the Qiqiao Dao.
Coming out of the Spirit Sword Pavilion, passing through Yunlan Gang and Huoxin Cave, almost two miles away, you came to the Qiqiao Forest. The forest is not big, just covering this hillside, and more than ten thatched huts are scattered in the walnut forest, although it looks simple, but it feels natural, and it is very rich in the atmosphere of mountain dwelling.
There is a Qiqiao forest master to greet out, I heard that it is to visit Zhu Zhimeng, to Zhao Ran said: "Zhu Dao Chang has been instructed, if Zhao Dao Chang visited, please go in to meet, after entering the forest go forward fifty zhang, the room on the left is." (To be continued......)