Plan and then act, but once you decide, you will not drag your feet and you will definitely devote yourself to it.

Therefore, that night, Zhao Dongli climbed onto the roof of his house and observed the starry sky.

The starry sky of this world is completely different from the original world, there is no Big Dipper, no Vega and other familiar stars in the previous life, but this world is not polluted, and the stars twinkle in the night sky without hindrance.

The sky is full of stars, the night sky is full of stars, and it is roughly estimated that there are thousands of stars.

The starry sky is beautiful, but it is not a beautiful thing to write down the bearings of all the stars and make a note of them in your mind.

Although I have opened up the strength of the realm, with the support of internal strength, my memory has increased greatly, and I am not easy to get tired, I still can't remember it.

Zhao Dongli tried his best to widen his eyes, and memorized with his heart, dozens or hundreds were okay, after all, he was a martial artist, and his memory was higher than that of ordinary people. But when the number exceeded 1,000, Zhao Dongli found that he had encountered a bottleneck, and he couldn't remember more star directions.

The night is not enough, so I simply remember it during the day. Zhao Dongli drew the stars in the sky on a blank piece of paper in turn, stargazing at night and looking at pictures during the day. But trying to spread out all the stars in the night sky in a moment in your mind is still not enough. And as long as it can't shine the stars into the brain in an instant, the first layer of this Yuan Gang can't be cultivated.

Unexpectedly, this Yuan Gang was so difficult to practice, Zhao Dongli returned the knife to the sheath and frowned. has a magic cheat, but he is stuck at the pass, which makes him feel a little frustrated. At this time, he suddenly had an idea, why bother to work hard, maybe there is a star map in the Eastern Continent that has been circulating in the world, and it is easy to remember a lot of the stars in the sky. And when it comes to who has the largest collection of books in Zou County, it must be his future father-in-law's family, that is, Lin Juren's home.

Thinking of this, he went back to the house to change his clothes, and then went to Lin Juren's house.

Although the armed forces in the Eastern Continent are the most important heritage, and it is also the basis for the establishment of the country, but the Great Xia established the country by force, governed the country by literature, in order to manage the huge territory, it also needs civil officials, and the selection of civil officials is different from that of martial artists, but is divided into imperial examinations and recommendations, and the imperial examinations are to test talents, raise people, and enter scholars.

Lin Juren, named Hongwen, is one of the two lifters in Zou County, and he is qualified to be an official, but Lin Juren is impatient with the deceit of officialdom, so he lives in his hometown Zou County with peace of mind, and the other lifter in Zou County is of course the county order.

Although Lin Juren has no power, he has a noble status and can be on an equal footing with the county order.

The Lin family is in the southwest corner of Zou County, and the Zhao family is in the northeast corner, close to the river, and it takes ordinary people two quarters of an hour to walk from the Zhao family to the Lin family. Zhao Dong was quite fast away from the footsteps, but it took a quarter of an hour to arrive.

Zou County belongs to Wenshui County in Yuzhou, which is itself the western border county seat of Daxia, and the west of Zou County is a vast forest, called Gucang Forest, and the west of Gucang Forest is a tall and majestic mountain range. Because there were no hostile countries, Zou County was very small and there was no garrison. The main source of income of the county is the medicinal materials and wild beasts of the ancient Canglin.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat the water, there are many merchants in Zou County who buy precious medicinal materials or rare timber, and they hire people to go to the forest to purchase nearby, and then use the boats of the Cao Gang to transport them out of the county along the river in exchange for grain and other commodities.

The ancient Canglin is very large, covering an area of thousands of miles, the hunters and herb pickers of Zou County generally move within a hundred miles, the more they advance into the depths of the ancient Cang forest, the more powerful the poisonous insects and beasts become, the jungle is more and more dense, and after the bold cross a hundred miles, very few come back. Therefore, the range of activities of hunters and herb pickers in Zou County is the default range of 100 miles starting from the edge of the forest.

These hunters and medicine pickers formed a local gang, which became the largest gang in Zou County, called the Canglong Gang, and their fame was quite atmospheric, but the highest martial artist in the gang was only a second-order martial artist in the Enlightenment Realm. Although the Cao Gang has its influence all over Great Xia, it is one of the largest gangs in Great Xia, but after all, this is not the key point of the river, and the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and it is the second largest force organization in Zou County.

The principle of the Cao Gang is to only operate shipping, and other aspects are not involved, but if it is an opponent in terms of shipping, then I'm sorry, the Cao Gang will mobilize elites from all over the world, and must destroy the opponent with a thunderous blow, because of this, the Cao Gang is developing smoothly in various places, because it will not occupy the original business, but with the assistance of the Cao Gang, the goods can be delivered to the designated location faster.

Therefore, in Zou County, the branches of the Canglong Gang and the Cao Gang can be regarded as allies. In the eyes of the people of Zou County, Zhao Dongli, as Zhao Fangtian's nephew, reached the high level of the Tongli realm at a young age, and his future is limitless, and his reputation in Zou County is not small.

While hurrying, Zhao Dongli nodded and smiled in response, but along the way, he found that there were three or four warriors, all of whom had fierce expressions and carried weapons, not like locals.

Zou County is a small and uneventful town, it has no other business, it is not a transportation artery, only the medicinal herbs and wild beasts produced in this ancient forest, so unless some people who seek plainness will choose to settle here. And there are even fewer foreign warriors coming to Zou County, there are no powerful beasts to hunt here, and there are no magical elixirs that can greatly increase the strength of warriors. Occasionally, warriors come here to escape or to heal when they have something sad.

Just like Zhao Dongli's grandfather, it was because he was oppressed by other branches of the Zhao family in Liangzhou that he had to move to Zou County as a last resort. The other party saw that he had also lost his self-motivation, so he did not oppress him.

But Zhao Dongli's branch dreams of returning to the ancestral land of Liangzhou all the time, but Zhao Dongli's uncle has no qualifications, and he can't reach the consummation of the Tongli realm, and although his father has good qualifications, he died with Zhao Dongli's mother due to an accident.

In Zhao Dongli's generation, his uncle Zhao Fangtian had a son, that is, Zhao Dongli's cousin, who reached the consummation of the Tongli realm three years ago, and went to Liangzhou to assess the martial arts, but he did not pass, but he did not return to Zou County, but stayed in the Zhao family's mansion and found an errand in the family. As a young man, the prosperity of Fucheng deeply attracted Zhao Dongli's cousin, and in the Zhao family, he could also see many young talents, so that he knew the gap between himself and others.

The uncle didn't have a problem with his son, so he could only put his expectations on Zhao Dongli, and Zhao Dongli did not disappoint his uncle, and he successfully reached the consummation of the Tongli realm, and he could participate in the assessment of the family martial arts hall.

I don't know what to take in the assessment? When I went back to Fucheng, I went to my cousin first to ask and be prepared. Thinking of this, Zhao Dongli left these foreign warriors behind and hurried to the Lin Mansion as soon as possible.

When I arrived at the Lin Mansion, I entered the hall and saw Lin Juren, who was in his thirties, with a majestic face, wearing a light blue robe, and sitting in front of the hall.

After Zhao Dong left, he bowed and saluted, and shouted: "Uncle Lin!"

Lin Juren nodded, motioned to Zhao Dongli to sit down with his hand, and only after Zhao Dongli sat down, did he say: "The virtuous nephew came to my house, I don't know what happened?"

Zhao Dongli said: "The little nephew will rush to the family to participate in the assessment in a few days." “

Lin Juren stretched out his hand, stroked his beard and said, "Although I am not a martial artist, I also know that the assessment requirements of your Liangzhou Zhao family are not low, are you confident?"

Zhao Dongli shook his head: "I haven't fought with the family, how can I say that I have confidence." But the little nephew will always do his best. “

Lin Juren's expression flashed with a trace of sadness, and said: "I met your father twenty years ago, and it happened that your parents returned from Liangzhou together and took the same boat, but they didn't know that they would cause trouble, and I hope that my little nephew will be careful on the road." “

Zhao Dongli had already learned from Lin Ju's mouth, when everyone took a boat back to Zou County, but unexpectedly the boat was attacked by an unknown monster on the way, Zhao Dongli's father sacrificed his life to fight with the monster, saving everyone's lives, but he was seriously injured, the medicine stone was not saved, and he died soon after, and his mother also died depressed in a few years.

Before Zhao Dongli's mother died, Lin Juren made a marriage contract, so that Zhao Dongli and Lin Wanqing, who was three years younger than him, would marry in the future.

Because Zhao Dongli was going to Liangzhou by boat again, Lin Juren was worried.

Zhao Dongli arched his hand and said: "Thank you for the uncle's relationship, the little nephew will be careful all the way and will not be reckless." He paused and said, "The little nephew is here, and there is one more thing, I wonder if there is a star map of the stars in the sky in my uncle's collection?"

Lin Juren groaned slightly, and said, "Star map?"

At this time, Lin Wanqing, who was informed by the servant and hurried over, came in from outside the house, heard this, and said, "Isn't there a star map in Daddy's study!"

Facing Zhao Dongli again, he said, "Brother Dongli, wait a while, I'll get it for you!" After speaking, he went out to Lin Juren's study again.

Lin Juren sighed helplessly and said, "The female eldest is not staying! ”

Zhao Dongli could only smile awkwardly and said, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

"Speaking of this star map, or my mentor, he has always wanted to revise the astronomical calendar of this dynasty, so he refused the position of a high-ranking official, devoted himself to the study of the stars in the Hanlin Academy, spent ten years, made a star map, and spent another ten years to study the laws, and then improved the astronomical calendar of this dynasty. Lin Juren said, his face radiant and honored.

Zhao Dong pondered: "Uncle Lin's master is still a minister in the Divine Capital, but why don't you become an official?" He followed Lin Juren and asked, "I don't know what happened to my uncle's teacher?"

Lin Juren raised his hand and arched his hand in the southeast direction: "Since then, the teacher has become famous among the scholars, and he was personally invited by the emperor to serve as a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion. ”

Zhao Dongli was dumbfounded, Wenyuan Pavilion scholar, isn't that one of the cabinets, the pinnacle of Wenchen, can be said to be one of the few most powerful people in the Great Zhou, I can't imagine that in the future, Yuezhang will have such a big backstage, so Lin Juren must have a hidden secret in Zou County.

At this time, Lin Wanqing walked in quickly and handed the star map to Zhao Dongli.

Zhao Dongli opened it and saw that the star map was made of fine brocade as the base cloth, five feet in length and width, the bottom cloth was black, and countless white dots were painted on it, and there were many gold threads divided into pieces, and several golden seal characters were embroidered on the top "Heavens and Star Map".

Lin Juren took two steps forward, walked in front of Zhao Dongli, and said, "This is the facsimile of the letter I wrote to ask my teacher to copy." According to the master, the dotted line characters on the bottom and top of the original picture are made of special materials through a variety of methods, which can be guaranteed for thousands of years. ”

After greeting Lin Juren for a while, he told Lin Wanqing a few stories of his previous life alone, and then he was able to get out and return to Zhao's mansion.

That night, Zhao Dongli moved a table and put it in the middle of the courtyard, spread the sky star map on it, and placed an oil lamp on the side to compare the stars in the sky with the sky star map.

After a while, he found the position of the brightest star in the night sky in the star map, and searched and compared it according to the map, without any mistakes or omissions.

Now that you have the tools, the next step is the water mill exercise: as long as you memorize the areas in the star map in turn, and then combine them together, you will one day be able to remember the entire starry sky in your mind in an instant. This is a test of Zhao Dongli's memory.

In previous lives, there were Chinese people who memorized pi to the level of tens of thousands of numbers after the decimal point; There are also chess masters, who can play blind chess with more than 30 masters at the same time, which is the pinnacle of human memory in previous lives.

And now, with the continuous nourishment of internal qi, people's physical fitness is higher than in the previous life, and the memory will of course be better, what people in the previous life can do, now this heavenly star journey is only thousands of stars, Zhao Dongli has great confidence that he can complete the first layer of the "Yuan Gang", but how long it will take to complete, but it is difficult to estimate.