Chapter 26: Danger lurks
Just when Zuo Tianyou returned to the inn and was busy cultivating, Xia Miaoyan, who had already returned to the Xia Mansion, cried like tears in front of her father Xia Zijin, and at this time there was a guest sitting next to Xia Zijin, this guest was none other than the inner disciple of the Luochuan faction who had left the Linxian Inn not long ago, Jing Huan.
It turned out that Jing Huan and Sikong Ren settled the room fee early in the morning, and on the way back to the Luochuan faction, they still felt that there were ghosts in the inn. Thinking about it again, if you go back anyway, you will report a letter, and it will inevitably be scolded by the master, so why bother both of them to suffer. casually made up an excuse with Sikong Ren to visit relatives and friends in the city, and ran to Xia Zijin's mansion to live temporarily.
When Xia Miaoyan broke in and wanted to find Xia Zijin to cry, Jing Huan was about to ask Xia Zijin about the inn, but before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Xia Miaoyan.
Xia Zijin listened to his daughter intermittently tell the reason for the incident in a choked throat, and he was naturally very distressed in his heart, but he still suppressed his anger and asked Xia Miaoyan if she had seen any marks on that person, Xia Miaoyan thought about it and shook her head and said she didn't see it.
This made Xia Zijin feel quite a headache, if he had no characteristics, how could he find it in this huge Qinghuan City? Even if someone like him was already powerful in this city and had a wide range of contacts, it was still very difficult to find a needle in a haystack.
Xia Miaoyan saw that her father was worried, and replayed her sad voice: "Daddy doesn't avenge Yan'er, Yan'er will no longer cultivate!
"Don't talk nonsense! You are very talented, and you are the hope of your father and even our Xia family! How can you give up cultivation for the sake of a wild cultivator of unknown origin! In this way, are you worthy of what your father has taught you for so many years?!" Xia Zijin turned red with anger, and said to Xia Miaoyan.
Xia Zijin, as an outer disciple of the Luochuan faction, has always regretted that he could not enter the inner sect to cultivate.
Now I pin all my hopes on Xia Miaoyan, ******** want to send Xia Miaoyan into the inner door, to be a close disciple of Murong Lao Dao, to become an immortal as soon as possible, and to glorify the lintel for the Xia family.
But Xia Miaoyan said frustrated words and poked her father's lung tube, how could Xia Zijin hold it and not get angry.
Jing Huan, who was sitting on the side, listened carefully to Xia Miaoyan's crying, and had a trace of doubt in his heart, and wanted to ask clearly, so he persuaded Xia Zijin first: "Shibo, don't worry, my junior sister has been diligent in cultivation, and she is just talking about anger at this time." ”
After speaking, he asked Xia Miaoyan with a smile: "Senior sister, I listened to you just now, it seems that that kid's skills are not high, but he actually has a magic weapon in his hand." Can you see clearly, what does that magic weapon look like?"
Xia Miaoyan thought for a moment and replied: "When that magic weapon flew out, it was shiny all over its body, and when it flew towards me, it was extremely fast, and I couldn't see it clearly, but it seemed to be a wish." And it can also absorb true air masses, and its power is not small. ”
When Jing Huan heard this, his doubts in his heart became even greater, his whole body was shiny, he could absorb the true qi mass, and he looked like Ruyi, which was very much like the jade Ruyi he had just lost.
There is only one point that is not quite the same, if it is the jade Ruyi emitted by Jing Huan, it should be full of red light, and if it hits the opponent, it will often make the opponent's cultivation a big loss, because this jade Ruyi can not only absorb the true qi mass, but also absorb the opponent's cultivation. But Xia Miaoyan hasn't suffered much damage at all now, and her internal strength hasn't been damaged at all.
Jing Huan further asked Xia Miaoyan: "After the junior sister fought with this kid, do you know how many layers of his skills are?
Xia Miaoyan thought for a while and said, "It's just a wild cultivator at the first level of qi refining, and there is no discipline to make moves!"
When Jing Huan heard this, he secretly calculated in his heart that this wild cultivator's cultivation was extremely low, he was young, and the magic weapon he used was very similar to his jade Ruyi, although there was a slight difference in the use of it, but if a monk with extremely low cultivation used that Ruyi, the effect would indeed be different from his own hair.
It seems that this Ye Xiu, who fought with Xia Miaoyan, is very likely to be the one who stole his things, and this person may be the guy in the store.
Jing fantasized here, and made up his mind to stay in this Xia Mansion for two or three days, and then take the time to go to the inn to find out the news, and continue to secretly find out the whereabouts of things.
Zuo Tianyou was still studying the problem of well water in the backyard at this time.
In the fairy well of Linxian Inn, when he brewed black grass tea for Bufeng last time, Zuo Tianyou already knew a little bit of its magic through his past memories, and knew that there was a spiritual spring in this well.
Later, the blood amber space in the body was opened, and it was still stimulated by the spiritual water in this well.
But like now, looking at the wellhead, the well water in the whole well is churning and rolling, as if the whole well is boiling, which still makes Zuo Tianyou feel very weird.
Zuo Tianyou first walked around the well, and found that this well looks very ancient, the edge of the well is made of blue-black square bricks, and the inner wall of the well is also extremely smooth, and it is also made of square bricks, giving people a sense of simplicity. If you look closely, there are some strange patterns and patterns on the bricks on the edge of the well, some of which look like ancient characters, but the content is completely incomprehensible.
The Gu Eagle also saw the change in the well water in the space, and said strangely: "Could it be that the cook in the inn poured boiling water into it?"
Zuo Tianyou didn't pay attention to the small eagle, looked at it, and couldn't find the reason for the sudden boiling of the well water, so he didn't bother to study the mystery.
After all, if it wasn't for Zhang Xiaopang who had killed him in the middle of the way just now, then now the Cultivation Pill had already taken it and started to really cultivate.
After a while, I took a bath first, and then went back to my room to continue my cultivation to see if it was possible to break through the second layer of qi refining if I continued to work hard in the past few days.
Zuo Tianyou was pumping water while continuing to ponder about his cultivation in his heart.
After two or three clicks, Zuo Tianyou brought up two buckets of well water and carried them up to the second floor of the inn.
The second floor of the inn was a relatively cheap bunk room, each room only had a bed and a table and other things, there was no place for cultivation, and of course there was no place to take a bath.
But this floor has a cabin reserved for guests, specially for those who wish to wash up. The house is equipped with a bathtub and towels. Zuo Tianyou remembered that he used to take a bath in this hut, so he still carried water to the second floor today.
Speaking of which, the winter weather here is very cold, and the people in the store don't often take a bath, but the weather has been warm recently, and Zuo Tianyou once planned to wash well. But after crossing two days ago, there were many troubles, and there was no kung fu, and after practicing today, there was a sticky sweat, just bubbles.
The wooden basin in the hut was very large, and two buckets of water were poured into it, less than half of it, Zuo Tianyou ran downstairs and fetched two buckets up, and after pouring them in, he felt that the water was enough to wash.
When he first soaked in, Zuo Tianyou felt a tingling sensation in his skin, and then a tingling sensation spread to his whole body, and his skin began to redden, which made Zuo Tianyou wonder in his heart.
Is it because I haven't taken a shower for too long and my body is too dirty? Or is the well water too cold and a little irritating?
The monks in the world of cultivating immortals didn't often take a bath, one felt that taking a bath would take away the vitality and waste cultivation, and the high-level monks who had entered the Jindan stage would have some small spells for self-purification, and it didn't matter if they took a bath or not.
Therefore, in this world, the more high-level monks give people a refreshing and pleasant, full sense of immortal energy, while monks in the low-level stage often rarely bathe and clean in order to retain the true qi in their bodies and break through their cultivation as soon as possible, so the fireworks on their bodies are very heavy and the immortal aura is not strong.
However, Zuo Tianyou has traveled from modern times and has a persistent concept of taking a bath: you can't stop washing, and you can't stand it if you don't wash. So today, he couldn't hold on to the pain of sweating all over his body, and he didn't want to rinse it.
So Zuo Tianyou soaked in the bathtub, although he was constantly attacked by streams of scorching stinging pain, he still refused to come out of the water.
Is it easy to hit the second floor of four buckets of well water?! It hurts so much that I haven't washed it for a long time, and my body is too dirty! Insist on it, and it will be good to wash it after a while. Zuo Tianyou felt sorry for his struggle to fetch water upstairs, and kept comforting himself.
After about half an hour, Zuo Tianyou felt that the tingling sensation in his skin had lessened a little, and his skin was not as red as he had just now, and every pore of his skin was dilated, and a black muddy particle was secreted inside, which was washed off by hand and secreted again. After washing like this many times, there is no longer black mud secreting from the pores.
With the sunlight shining in from the small window, Zuo Tianyou found that his skin had become very bright, and his complexion was more ruddy and healthy, and it was very smooth and elastic to the touch.
Zuo Tianyou couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart that the effect of bathing is not magical!
But at this time, looking at the bath water in the bucket, it turned out to be a bucket of dirty water.
Zuo Tianyou was patronizing and washing it just now, how could he have thought that the things that were washed would be so dirty! I couldn't believe my eyes!
The water was too dirty, and of course Zuo Tianyou was unwilling to stay in it for a moment.
He jumped out of the bathtub, got dressed again, ran upstairs and downstairs several times, changed a bucket of clean well water, and soaked in the water again.
This time, instead of making people feel extremely hot and stinging like the bucket of water just now, they felt a stream of breath surging back and forth in the entire bucket of water, squeezing into every inch of skin and pores on Zuo Tianyou's body.
Zuo Tianyou thought that there was a spiritual spring in this well, and this water was also extremely spiritual water.
At the beginning, the feeling was not strong, the longer the soaking time, the more the aura was absorbed into the pores, and slowly streams of aura passed through Zuo Tianyou's tendons, pouring into various organs little by little, and the five internal organs were wrapped in aura, especially the wall of the dantian became stronger and thicker.
The aura continued to flow into Zuo Tianyou's body, and he simply sat cross-legged in the bathtub. Breathing and breathing, breathing and meditating, Zuo Tianyou introduced the true qi scattered in various parts of the tendons and veins into the dantian little by little, making the dantian strong again.
In the breathing and breathing, Zuo Tianyou felt that the tendons and veins in his body were also a lot stronger, and this time when the true qi was circulating all over his body, there was no longer the feeling of the tendons hanging by a thread in the past.
After pranayama and qi adjustment, Zuo Tianyou slowly opened his eyes.
This bath is different from the general body washing, Zuo Tianyou found that he seemed to have drained all the dirt in his body, and the whole person seemed to be reborn, and he felt completely different from the past.
In fact, this feeling is the feeling of cultivating the body of an immortal cultivator, which is called forging tendons and washing the marrow. Ordinary cultivators can't use this water to refine their bodies, because this water is too strong, and powerful immortal cultivators can use pills to refine their bodies, and they don't need this water. So this level is only used to make tea during the day. Only Zuo Tianyou has a special body and can use this water to refine his body.
Generally speaking, refining the body can make the muscles and bones of an immortal cultivator stronger, the muscles and veins stronger, and even the inner wall of the dantian more thick and elastic.
All the magical transformations in the body take place after a bath. It turns out that the fairy well in the backyard still has such a magic.
However, Zuo Tianyou was very puzzled why this young man grew up in this inn since he was a child, but he did not improve his skills because of the well water in this well.
Zuo Tianyou pondered for a long time before discovering that there was a well in the front street and the backyard of the inn. The well on Front Street is a large well shared by several households. In general, the water used to wash cups, plates, dishes, bed sheets, table curtains, or the kitchen guys in the store to wash their faces and bathe is from this public well on Front Street.
This small well in the backyard has always been used to brew all kinds of fairy grass tea. In the early years of the shopkeeper's life, it was a rule that the water from the well in the backyard was only allowed to be used to make tea for guests.
Zuo Tianyou has not been here for a long time, and the memory of some details has not yet awakened, so he didn't ask just now and took a few buckets of water in this well to take a bath.
But the shopkeeper knew that the water from the well in the backyard had aura, so why didn't he allow the original young man to use it? Didn't he raise this young man single-handedly? Zuo Tianyou was still full of questions.
With this question, Zuo Tianyou continued to search for memories. I thought about it for a long time before I found the answer.
It turned out that a long time ago, there was a young man who fetched the water from this well to take a bath, but as soon as he soaked in the water, he jumped out in pain, and he wailed in pain, and the skin of his whole body seemed to be burned, red, swollen and peeling. Later, this thin young man died because of this.
Zuo Tianyou judged with his current medical knowledge that this young man probably died because of ulcers on the skin all over his body and severe infection.
But in any case, the water did not make him feel like he was burned. This point made Zuo Tianyou quite puzzled.
It seems that this well water is very in line with my temperament, and it helps me to cultivate immortals, except for the stinging pain on my body when I just washed, now there is no problem at all, I can often use this well water to bathe in the future, not to mention the dirt, but also to increase the true qi, a good thing!