Listening to what Mr. Wan said, Yue Fan looked at the other party in a daze, and suddenly smiled: "Grandpa Wan, you are not an ordinary person, right?"

Mr. Wan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Uh~ Why did Xiaofan ask like this?"

Yue Fan said: "I have also learned medical skills from Grandpa Wan, although I am not proficient, but I know that ordinary medical masters are definitely not as good as you, at least in acupuncture." And Grandpa Wan, your eyes tell me that you have a lot of stories. ”

"Haha~~~" Mr. Wan smiled: "Xiaofan, if it weren't for watching you grow up, I really don't believe that you are only twelve years old, not only careful, but also so sharp." ”

Yue Fan sat down and said, "Can Grandpa Wan tell me your story?"

Mr. Wan was about to reply, when Xiao Ya'er also woke up. She rubbed her eyes, looking like she hadn't woken up yet. When she saw Yue Fan, she was in good spirits, and she quickly ran over and hugged the other party, as if she was afraid that she would accidentally fly away.

"Xiaoya also got up, I worked hard for you yesterday. Yue Fan stroked Xiao Ya'er's hair and said.

Xiao Ya'er nodded and shook her head in Yue Fan's arms, and tears flowed out unconsciously.

Seeing the little girl like this, Yue Fan could only caress her head to show comfort. After a while, Xiao Ya'er stopped crying and got up from Yue Fan's arms, then ran to Mr. Wan and gestured with her hand: "Grandpa, I'll go to the fire first." So saying, he ran out of the house.

Watching Xiao Ya'er go out, Mr. Wan let out a long sigh and said, "Actually, there is nothing that can't be said, since Xiao Fan wants to hear it, then the old man will tell you about it." ”

Looking out the window, Mr. Wan slowly recalled: "I am a person from Huai'an, Jiangnan, and I was a scholar when I was young. Since I was a child, I have been determined to be a good official who asks for the people's life, but I am not with me because of the time, so I can't help it!"

After some emotion, he continued: "In the year of its establishment, the old man was reported by the Chinese Academy to serve the imperial court, and was promoted to the scribe of the Hanlin Academy because of his outstanding articles, and was also accepted as a disciple by the imperial physician in the palace at that time, and passed on the palace secret book "Medical Scripture". Everything can be described as smooth sailing, the future is bright, but after the good is over, it will be bad, because in the compilation of the "Chronicles", several points of view were put forward on the dispute between friends, so that some parties in the imperial court were guilty, and finally they were framed by their friends for many years, and the family was all put in prison......"

Looking back on the beginning, the past is unbearable.

"It was very dark there, and my parents, wife and children were tortured and died in prison, which made me feel like I wanted to die, but when I thought that I was wronged and framed by my friends, I was unwilling and wanted to take revenge. Speaking of this, Mr. Wan's heart was like a knife, and his face was sad and indignant.

Taking a deep breath, he continued: "After my master learned about this, he tried everything he could, but he couldn't exonerate me, and in the end, he couldn't, so he could only use death row to replace me and save me...... Since then, I have lived incognito. But how could I be willing to let go of the person who ruined my family, so I wanted to take revenge myself, but when I inquired, I learned that the enemy had been destroyed, and the whole family had died in the fire. ”

Whether it was crying or laughing, Mr. Wan's eyes were rosy and said, "It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous...... I was supposed to take revenge, but the enemies are dead, so what's the point of me living. Disheartened, I wandered around and practiced medicine, so I also made some friends with people in the rivers and lakes, but the rivers and lakes are also a bloody place, and none of them are peaceful. ”

At the end of one breath, my heart was full of sighs.

"Later, I met your father in the mountains, and I also wanted to have a peaceful life, so I settled down here. You know what will happen in the future. After the story was finished, Mr. Wan's face was gloomy.

The two were silent, and the atmosphere was heavy.

After a while, Yue Fan deliberately changed the topic and said: "Grandpa Wan, what are the real rivers and lakes? I heard from the storytellers in the city that the rivers and lakes are a very lively and wonderful place, and there are people and everything. He said with a look of yearning in his eyes.

Mr. Wan's mentality gradually calmed down, and said with a smile: "The rivers and lakes are not as simple as the storyteller says, there are many things, but they are very annoying, sometimes you can't see what the gap between good and evil, right and wrong is...... I once saw a group of decent masters besieging a cult person, as far as I know, it was because the cult person had a book of martial arts secrets, and those decent people heard the news and came to block and kill them under the banner of eliminating demons and defending the way. Yue Fan, who do you say is good and who is evil? Who is right and who is wrong?"

Yue Fan lowered his head and said secretly: "Father said, don't be fooled by superficial phenomena, some prey are very good at deceiving people, you think it is dying, maybe it will pounce on you when you are not prepared, so you should observe more." People are even more so, don't be deceived by the surface of hypocrisy, sometimes what you see with your eyes is not necessarily true, it seems that the same is true for Jianghu people. ”

After thinking about it, Yue Fan nodded seriously, and said: "Grandpa Wan, tell me about the things in the rivers and lakes again, I'm curious, why do others say that the rivers and lakes are wonderful." ”

Looking at Yue Fan, Mr. Wan said helplessly: "You are not a person in the rivers and lakes, it is not good to know too much, the officialdom is dark, but the rivers and lakes are violent and bloody, so you must remember that 'officialdom is like the sea turning back, and once you enter the rivers and lakes, you will never return'." After saying that, there was a sigh.

"I remember Grandpa Wan's words. Yue Fan nodded and said: "Glory and wealth are not what I want, and being able to live a peaceful life with my relatives is what I want." ”

At this time, Xiao Ya'er walked in and gestured, "Grandpa, brother, you can eat." ”

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After ―――――――――――――― dinner, Mr. Wan explained to Xiao Ya'er and left with Yue Fan.

Coming to the bank of the Liushui River, Mr. Wan said to Yue Fan: "Xiao Fan, do you know what medical skills are for?"

"Heal and save people. Yue Fan blurted out.

Mr. Wan was pleased: "That's right, although some people use it for crooked ways, his purpose has never changed. But if you want to cure diseases and save people, you must constantly explore the secrets of life, so medical skills are also constantly developing. However, so many medical giants have not explored it through the ages, so they still know very little about life. ”

"The life vitality in your body was also deduced from the description in the "Medical Scripture". Originally, it takes a long time to cultivate and recover after the vitality explodes, and the vitality in your body is formed by the collection of vitality and should slowly disappear when the vitality is restored. However, because your spiritual power is very strong, you can restrain the vitality in your body and not dissipate, and I used the golden needle to break the acupuncture point to stimulate your vitality to make it grow, and finally the vitality in your body has not dissipated, and it is still circulating in the meridians of the whole body, and it has become the current state. ”

Listening to Mr. Wan's slow narration, Yue Fan probably understood his situation, but he still had doubts: "Grandpa Wan, what is spiritual power? I haven't heard of it before, not even in the "Medical Scripture". ”

Mr. Wan replied, "Spiritual power is, in familiar terms, the power that your heart wants to release through your head. There are some strange people in the Ouchi Palace and the rivers and lakes, although their martial arts are not high, but they have strong spiritual power and different strange arts, which can kill people invisibly, making people wary of it...... For example, the Gu technique of the Miao clan in the Southern Wilderness, they will put many kinds of poisonous insects together, let them tear and devour each other, and finally only one of the most poisonous ones is left, and then feed them with their own flesh and blood to achieve the effect of heart-to-heart communication, and practice their own natal Gu. The natal Gu will lay a lot of Gu eggs, these eggs are non-poisonous and tasteless, after poisoning people with Gu eggs, even if the martial arts are strong, they can't detect it, and then use the mental power of the natal Gu to control the poisoned person, so that people have no room to resist. Of course, these Miao people generally do not appear in the Central Plains, and they do not take the initiative to cause trouble......"

“...... The witchcraft of the Nanyang Enlightenment Sect is even more weird, you can use the things you have carried to find out your breath, and you have nothing to escape from the ends of the earth, unless you will hide your breath**, but this ** is very rare, and the rivers and lakes rarely come out. And it can also curse you through the things you commonly use, this kind of thing is mysterious and mysterious, there is no way to verify, and I only knew it by hearing the old lady doctor in the palace mention it before...... There is also invisibility, which can hide the body from being seen. Object control, controlling some objects to attack. Mind reading is the ability to know what others are thinking. Mind control is the ability to control the minds of others. There are also many weird **, the rivers and lakes call it an anomaly, although there are many types of these anomaly, and the attack methods are different, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they need strong spiritual power support, otherwise they will be counterattacked. ”

Hearing these strange and strange **, Yue Fan palpitated for a while, and then asked: "Grandpa Wan, since the magic requires spiritual power, I don't know if my spiritual power can do it." ”

Mr. Wan said: "If there is no one to guide you, you can't use your strong mental power, unless you can appear when your mood swings are great." For example, the last time you fought with a master, your mood exploded with vitality in a very angry situation. But your mental power is indeed very strong, I hope you can make good use of him in the future, you know?"

Yue Fan nodded vigorously and said, "I will." ”

Seeing that Yue Fan was so sensible, Mr. Wan was very pleased, and continued: "The biggest problem now is that we don't understand the purpose of life vitality, and you can't control the vitality in your body at all, but you can still continue to practice according to the previous method of spitting in the Heart Sutra. According to the records of the "Medical Scriptures" and my inference, if the vitality is very strong, there will be a qualitative change under certain circumstances and conditions, that is, the vitality in your body now, so I am sure that all the functions of your body will become very strong, and the recovery ability will be at least ten times faster than before. ”

Mr. Wan suddenly took out the knife he was carrying and slashed at Yue Fan's right arm.

Yue Fan instinctively wanted to dodge, but he still stretched out his arm trustingly.

The knife was so sharp that a long wound was cut on the arm without a feeling, and only after reacting, Yue Fan felt that the wound on his right arm was burning and painful.

That's when something strange happened...... The blood had just invaded from the wound, but before the blood could come out, the wound quickly coagulated, leaving only a red scar to prove that he had indeed been scratched.

"Grandpa Wan...... This is what you said about strong recovery ability?" Yue Fan looked at his arm in a daze, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: "This is too exaggerated." ”

Mr. Wan nodded with satisfaction: "Of course, the vitality of life is wonderful, how can it only have this effect, but it has never been discovered, and no one understands it, so you need to explore it slowly." ”

After a pause, Mr. Wan's expression turned serious: "Xiao Fan, your situation is very special, so don't mention it to anyone except your father." In the future, you will embark on a road that no one else has walked, no one knows whether this road is bitter or sweet, whether it is life or death, but I don't know if you have the courage to go on. ”

Courage? A true hunter never lacks courage!

Yue Fan's eyes froze, and he said solemnly: "Grandpa Wan, my father has taught me a lot, as a man, don't complain, so no matter how hard and difficult the road ahead is, I will definitely go on." ”

"Hahahaha-"

Mr. Wan smiled and said, "That's right, Xiaofan, although the road ahead is unknown, I believe you will succeed!"

As a man, don't complain, you should go against the destiny of heaven.

......

―――――――――――― a small hillside outside Liushui Village.

When Yue Fan returned home, he saw that his father had not returned, so he was very bored and prepared to go to the back shed of the thatched hut to chop some firewood.

As soon as he held the machete in his hand, Yue Fan was very surprised, and muttered in his heart: "How did this knife become lighter?"

Swung it twice, and it was indeed much lighter than before. After thinking about it immediately, he realized that because his vitality had become stronger, not only did his whole body have much more strength, but his reactions and feelings were also much sharper than before. The next time he encounters a master like Feng Impermanence, Yue Fan is confident that even if he can't beat him, running will not be a problem.

Of course, Yue Fan didn't know now that the speed of some light skills on the rivers and lakes was definitely not comparable to him. The so-called ignorant people are very happy, which may refer to people like Yue Fan.

After reading it, Yue Fan was overjoyed, holding a firewood knife and waving it constantly......

After a while, there were two tall piles of firewood in front of him.

......

On the other hand, Li Tan did not rush to Ningxian County until the sun was in the sky due to the inconvenience of his legs and feet. Then, according to what Yue Fan said, Chai He was sent to Suji Teahouse.

Seeing that it was Li Tan who came to deliver Chai He, Su Fanghao also felt strange, and only after asking did he know that Yue Fan was seriously ill, so his father helped him to deliver it. Su Fanghao admired Yue Fan's personality very much, so he asked someone to prepare some tonic medicine for Li Tan. However, Li Tan was an upright person, so he rejected Su Fanghao and expressed his gratitude, Su Fanghao saw that he insisted, and he didn't force it anymore.

Li Tan limped away step by step, the thin and straight back couldn't bend anything, Su Fanghao saw this, and there was a burst of admiration in his heart.

......

Around noon.

After chopping the remaining piles of firewood, Yue Fan has been sitting cross-legged at the intersection of the hill and waiting for his father to come back, although the scorching sun is in the sky, but Yue Fan does not feel hot, and from time to time he still plays with his silver white hair, only feels that the warm sun shines on his body, and he can't say that he is comfortable, so he unconsciously closes his eyes and breathes according to the method of spitting in the "Heart Sutra".

In summer, the scorching sun shone on Yue Fan's skin, and there was a feeling as if it was being absorbed, constantly converging on him. After a while, Yue Fan's whole body skin emitted a faint white light, flowing on his body as if it was last night.

At this time, Yue Fan did not perceive the condition of his body, but was completely immersed in a warm ocean. He clearly felt that the mass of life vitality in his body was swimming rapidly, and after a while, it swam all over the meridians of his body, and every time he cycled, the air mass would be a little larger, although this growth rate was difficult to detect with the naked eye, but Yue Fan could clearly feel it, and it was very comfortable and enjoyable.

After the vitality circulated in the meridians of the whole body for a few turns, Yue Fan suddenly remembered the method that Grandpa Wan had taught him, "practicing the spirit and cultivating life", and used his spiritual power to guide the vitality in his body. So while feeling the flow of vitality, Yue Fan kept thinking about controlling this group of vitality to stay in his left hand, repairing the injured meridians, and kept reciting the mantra of the "Heart Cultivation Sutra" in his heart.

Yue Fan wanted to try his best to stop the constantly circulating Yuan Qi, but the Yuan Qi was still wandering through different meridians on its own, which made Yue Fan helpless for a while, but he didn't give up and focused more on guiding the Yuan Qi.

......

After a while, it still didn't work.

It really couldn't, Yue Fan could only ignore it for the time being and continue to spit out.

......

I don't know how long it took, Yue Fan gradually felt that the aura around him was getting clearer and clearer, as if it was directly reflected in his heart. The bird's call is so bright and crisp, the call of knowing is also like close to the ear, and the surrounding grass and trees are also well understood, the whole person seems to be integrated with the surrounding environment, the spirit is light and fluttering endlessly, drifting farther and farther, and soon to the bottom of the hillside.

Yue Fan, who was in the fugue, suddenly saw his father limping step by step not far in front of him, and just wanted to step forward, but his heart throbbed, and he immediately came to his senses. When he opened his eyes, he found that he was still in the same place, and he muttered in surprise, "What happened just now?"

If someone in the martial arts knew that Yue Fan thought of "the unity of heaven and man" as a dream, maybe he would be beaten to death!

Yue Fan was puzzled in his heart, and unconsciously stood up and wanted to look down the hillside, just when he saw that his father had just arrived at the foot of the mountain, he was surprised in his heart: "Is it difficult that the dream just now is true?

"Forget it, it's better to ask Grandpa Wan next time. Letting go of the confusion in his heart, Yue Fan walked down the mountain.

......

"Daddy!"

Hearing this familiar shout, Li Tan's body was shocked, and he looked up at the front, only to see Yue Fan walking up quickly and hugging himself!

Li Tan was very excited now, and suddenly had a feeling of rebirth, as if the world was full of hope.

Holding Yue Fan and gently stroking the silver-white hair, Li Tan felt uncomfortable. Seeing your child gray before her own hair is unbearable. However, seeing that Yue Fan was fine now, it made him feel a lot more relieved, and everything else became less important.

......

Inside the hut, Yue Fan recounted the events of the day he was injured.

After listening, Li Tan asked calmly, "Has Xiao Fan ever thought about revenge?"

Yue Fan nodded and said, "I thought about it, but then I didn't want to." ”

"Why?"

"Because I can't be fine, I still have relatives to take care of. Yue Fan said heavily.

Li Tan said: "If something happens to Xiaofan, I will definitely avenge you, even if you do whatever it takes, you have to make the enemy pay the price." ”

This sentence shook Yue Fan's heart, but he didn't say anything, just nodded firmly at his father, his eyes were full of warmth.

"Tianxingjian, men should strive for self-improvement; Don't forget to be strong when you're most difficult, and be brave when you're most confused. Li Tan said slowly, at this moment, he was like a real hunter.

"Don't forget to be strong when you're in the most difficult times, and be brave when you're most confused. ”

Carefully comprehending his father's words, Yue Fan's eyes flashed with a trace of essence.

Then Li Tan took out a bright red stone from his arms, handed it to Yue Fan and said solemnly: "This is the 'Danxin Stone', the ancestor of our Li family, only an excellent hunter deserves to have it." You're a good hunter now, so it's yours now. ”

Yue Fan nodded and took the "Dan Heart Stone" and looked at it carefully. This "Danxin Stone" is the size of a finger, cool to the touch, the whole body is bright red and flawless, the stone is strung with a hemp rope, it looks monotonous, there is no beauty but it is very unique, Yue Fan likes it very much, and hurriedly hangs it on his chest and caresses it gently.

......

―――――――――― night, Yue Fan sat cross-legged on the kang bed, practicing the method of life cultivation that Mr. Wan would follow.

In the past two days, Yue Fan has been practicing the "Heart Sutra", and has worked hard to control the life vitality in his body with his mental power. But after practicing for a long time, it just didn't have any effect, and there was no longer the feeling of the fugue that I had last time.

Yue Fan now feels a headache, very painful. The constant consumption of mental energy made him feel more and more sleepy, and his head became more and more painful, but he had no intention of giving up, and he still insisted on constantly controlling his vitality. Again and again from sleepiness to pain to pain to awakening, and then to ......

Hang on......

Compared to the pain of the last golden needle breaking, the pain this time is completely different. Last time it was physical pain, but this time it was mental torment......

Countless mental torments made Yue Fan even more crazy, as if he wanted to challenge the limits of life, completely ignoring the bearing capacity of his body, gritting his teeth, and continuing to exert pressure, his whole body flashed white, and his silver white hair rose without wind, looking extremely arrogant.

......

"Smack!"

Yue Fan's body shook slightly, and he suddenly heard a soft sound, as if something was broken in his head. The pain disappeared, and only the surroundings were clearly reflected in my mind. My father was resting, the wind blew the leaves, the insects chirped, and everything was so clear.

Finally, with continuous attempts and efforts, the speed of the vitality in his body slowed down, although it was only a little bit, but it filled Yue Fan's heart with joy and excitement. How many times of hard work and patience have finally come to fruition, can it not be exciting?

Of course, the most important thing is not this achievement, but it confirms that the method that Mr. Wan deduced is correct, that is to say, the path he is taking now is correct, as long as he persists, then he will be able to fully control this vitality, it is only a matter of time.

Yue Fan's body had already reached the limit of what he could bear, but Yue Fan's persistence again and again allowed him to finally exceed the limit of his bearing, which made this challenge lay a solid foundation for his future cultivation.

After feeling that it was enough, Yue Fan did not continue, but silently recited the "Heart Sutra" and slowly breathed.

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