Today is the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and the flavor of the year is still strong, not to mention that if it is prosperous today, the saint is prosperous, and this capital is the top of the prosperous place among the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of the Chen Dynasty, so since the New Year, the entire capital is like a fire cooking oil, and the joy is soaring. Lu Xuan was soaked in the joy that could be seen everywhere, his expression gradually became brighter, and his mood improved.

In a short time, Lu Xuan has walked into the hinterland of the capital, and in front of him is an ancient street, called Luming Street, which is said to have existed since the opening of the Chen Dynasty and has a long history. Famous and knowing, the word Luming is taken from Yo Yo Luming, the meaning of eating wild Ping, and on both sides of Luming Street are all kinds of restaurants, food shops, everywhere flying eaves and corners, green tile carved beams, beautiful. In the middle of Luming Street, there is a new restaurant called Lu Jiaxuan, which is Lu Xuan's home.

To say that the Lu family was still a small family ten years ago, and opened a bun shop in the northwest corner of the capital, and never dreamed that it would open such a magnificent restaurant on Luming Street, but since Lu Xuan was elected to the Lingyun Sect more than ten years ago, the sect was overjoyed, and the reward was unimaginably strong, Lu Xuan's parents took this opportunity to open Lu Jiaxuan, with the diligent efforts of the family, Lu Jiaxuan is now one of the best gluttonous places in the capital.

This is a person who has attained the Tao, and the chicken and dog have ascended to heaven.

As soon as he entered Lu Jiaxuan, someone stopped Lu Xuan, saying that the shopkeeper and his wife were looking for him everywhere.

Lu Xuan went straight to the front hall to meet his parents.

Father Lu Mingxu is a loyal and honest person, he doesn't talk much, although he is not confused when he is just approaching, but he looks very honest on the outside. Mother Lu is different, she was born in poverty, she has a pungent personality, if the Lu family was poor in the past, if the Lu family hadn't shown up, maybe the family would have to beg along the street, and Lu Xuan probably didn't have that fairy fate.

At this moment, Lu Mingxu was sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals drinking tea, while Lu was crackling behind the counter.

Without waiting for Lu Xuan to speak, Lu hurriedly bypassed the counter and grabbed Lu Xuan's arm, complaining: "Xuan'er, where did you go to mess around this morning, your father and Wei Niang sent someone to find you for a long time." ”

"The child is just going out for a walk, mother, do you have something to do with me?"

Lu pulled Lu Xuan to sit at the table of the Eight Immortals, and said to Lu Mingxu: "In charge, you tell the child?"

Although Lu Mingxu was born in poverty and didn't know a single big character, in recent years, he has developed an old pedantic style, twisted three strands of beard, and was about to speak slowly, but saw Lu frowning, and said angrily: "Such a big thing, looking at your slow and leisurely appearance, you are really in a hurry." Forget it, it doesn't take a lot of effort for you, so let me tell you. ”

Lu grabbed Lu Xuan's hand with both hands and said with a smile:

"Xuan'er, my father and mother have arranged a family affair for you. ”

Lu Xuan was stunned.

He is seventeen years old this year, and it stands to reason that he has indeed reached the year of marriage, but Lu Xuan's whole mind is on cultivation, where does he have the heart to marry a wife and have children? However, looking at his mother's earnest eyes, as well as his father's pretended to be calm but a little nervous, his heart couldn't help but soften.

I have been away from home for ten years, but I want to say that I am most ashamed of my parents. Since I am destined to sink in this worldly world in the future, how can I avoid the world? If I firmly refuse, I am afraid that I will break the hearts of my parents.

After thinking about it, Lu Xuan didn't object. Seeing this, Lu was overjoyed, grabbed Lu Xuan's hand hard, and said very proudly: "Xuan'er, do you want to know which girl it is?"

Lu Xuan smiled secretly, thinking that whether I wanted to know or not, you must say it, but he still pretended to be curious and asked, "Which one?"

"It's the shopkeeper of the Drunken Immortal Residence on the other side, the young lady of your uncle Feng Sihai's family, Feng Xiaoying. ”

It turned out to be her?

Lu Xuan couldn't help but be stunned.

To say that the drunken immortal residence is the leading restaurant on Luming Street, the shopkeeper is named Feng Sihai, as his name suggests, the four seas are tight, it is said that he can even reach the heavens, and he will take care of the imperial banquet on behalf of him every three or five times. The Feng family and the Lu family are still quite related, as early as more than 20 years ago, Feng Sihai and Lu Xuan's father Lu Mingxu were the same brothers. Feng Sihai gave birth to a daughter, named Feng Xiaoying, who was only one year younger than Lu Xuan, and the two had met when they were young.

It's just that since Feng Sihai developed, the contact between the two families has been broken for a few years, until Lu Jiaxuan rises, and it is warm again. After Lu Xuan came back two years ago, he and Feng Xiaoying had also met in a hurry, although they had never talked, but they knew that Feng Xiaoyingsheng's appearance was beautiful, graceful, and he was also a well-known beauty in the capital, which impressed Lu Xuan. It turns out that the family affair that my mother said was actually her?

However, Lu Xuan felt that there was something wrong with this matter, not because of Feng Xiaoying, but because of Feng Sihai.

That Feng Sihai is clearly an out-and-out profiteer, and he can't afford to make a profit, even if he is his own daughter, he is afraid that he will be sold at a price. Although Lu Jiaxuan is now almost on par with the Drunken Immortal Residence, after all, the background is still a little thinner. Parents concentrate on business, where can they compare to the Feng family, which is half an imperial businessman? Feng Sihai really wants to marry the pearl in his palm to himself? Don't be his mother's wishful thinking.

There were only parents in the room, so Lu Xuan euphemistically questioned it.

The Lu couple glanced at each other, but this time it was Lu Mingxu who said in a deep voice: "You don't have to worry about this matter, the marriage of children has always been the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, I called you here today just to inform you, and tomorrow I will find the Zhao family's mother-in-law to be the matchmaker, but in fact, it is just a formality, and I and Senior Brother Feng have already planned this matter." Lu also said a lot of benefits to Miss Feng on the side, and said that Feng Xiaoying said that it is rare in the sky and difficult to find on the ground, and I can't wait to get married this year and hold my grandson next year.

Lu Xuan was a little unbearable, so he could only smile and nod bitterly.

—————————————

It was night, after dinner, Lu Xuan sat quietly in his room and breathed for two hours, until he came out of Lu Jiaxuan in the dead of night.

On one side of Luming Street is a canal, which is said to have been opened in the previous dynasty, and it is still an important thoroughfare, and it is very prosperous on weekdays, and it is not quiet until late at night. Lu Xuan came out of the back door, and within walking a hundred steps, he came to the edge of the canal, and found a smooth rock with a familiar road, and sat down cross-legged.

In the two years since he left the Lingyun Sect, Lu Xuan has practiced here every day, and this place is full of water and energy, which is an excellent place to cultivate the true recipe of the Jade Pool.

According to legend, the true recipe of the jade pool is the ancient immortal method obtained by the coincidence of the master of the Lingyun Sect without Yazi, the so-called Qiongqiong jade - pulp, the water is the pool, and it is the world's first-class water system exercise. The true recipe of the jade pool is divided into nine layers, it is said that when you cultivate to the realm of nine layers, you can turn your hands into clouds and cover your hands for rain, although it is not a dragon body, but it has the ability to travel clouds and rain, turn over rivers and seas, and it is almost the flow of immortals. In the past, Wuyazi cultivated the true recipe of the jade pool to the seventh-layer realm, and he was already unparalleled in the world and reached the peak.

It's just that since Wu Yazi disappeared, the most outstanding figures in the Lingyun Sect can only cultivate to the fifth layer realm, and people have passed it on by word of mouth, this jade pool secret has a big secret, only Wu Yazi knows, but now it is lost.

Lingyun Sect Master Chu Wuye had high hopes for Lu Xuan, and naturally taught him everything, but poor Lu Xuan was far from even reaching the first level of the Jade Pond True Technique.

Facing the Taotao Canal, Lu Xuan could feel the abundant water vapor, but he was not in a hurry to cultivate, but took out a small bamboo pipe from his arms. The bamboo tube was shaped like a pen holder, and when the lid was opened, there was a three-inch-long gold needle inside.

The gold needle is simple and rough, as if it was formed naturally, and the tip of the needle is not very sharp.

Lu Xuan pulled out the golden needle with two fingers, then took a deep breath, and aimed its sharp point at his Tianling acupoint, twisting it like acupuncture. I saw that the old wound on the top of his head had not healed, and the flesh and blood were blurred as soon as the golden needle moved, and a trace of blood flowed out.

There was a great pain that spread in an instant, and it was not just the pain of the flesh, but the pain of the bone marrow. The golden needle seemed to be about to shatter his Heavenly Spirit Cover, which made Lu Xuan's head split.

This is not an inspirational method of stabbing the head cantilever beam, and Lu Xuan also knows that he is suffering.

When he was in the Lingyun Sect, since Chu Wuye gave up on Lu Xuan, the whole sect thought that Lu Xuan was hopeless, but Lu Xuan himself had never really died. He locked himself in the library like a madman, trying to find a way out of the vast collection of books in the Lingyun Sect.

Although the Lingyun Sect has lost its former glory, its heritage is not comparable to that of ordinary immortal sects, and there are no less than 10,000 copies of various secret methods in the library pavilion, and although Lu Xuan is unbearable, he is still nominally a closed disciple of Chu Wuye, so he has the right to read the top exercises. However, the more top-level exercises are, the more commanding they are, how can there be a solution to Lu Xuan's fundamental problem? So Lu Xuan had to go from top to bottom, from top-level exercises all the way to introductory exercises, and even those prose miscellaneous notes that no one had read at all, and finally he found a broken book called "Opening Up Method".

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a broken book, Lu Xuan almost found it from a pile of almost rotten books, even if he asked the steward of the library pavilion, no one knew where the so-called "Pioneering Law" came from. The name of this exercise is loud, and the content is also jaw-dropping, it is said that it can use the method of acupuncture in the mortal world to open up acupoints, and this road is wider, attracting spiritual power to naturally multiply. Lu Xuan has only one Heavenly Spirit Acupoint open up and down his body, if he can use the opening method to widen it, it should be beneficial to his cultivation.

However, at that time, several uncles in charge of the affairs opened it and looked at it, and all of them said that this was nonsense, and that the acupuncture points were intangible things, so how could they be opened up with needles and stones? If you do what this book says, I am afraid that you will either die or be injured. I can't say that this book of evil words and misleading people must be the work of speculation of mortal people, and I don't know what era was brought back by a disciple who did not open his eyes, and it was buried in the dust.

The uncles wanted to destroy the "Opening Law", but Lu Xuan seemed to have found the last straw, and only after begging did he save the broken book and take it out of the library pavilion.

For Lu Xuan, even if this development method is a mouthful, he will not give up this slightest opportunity.