Experience

Chapter 115 Experience

He and Xue Baoping returned to Xue's house from the back door. As soon as he entered the small door, Xue Baoping immediately hugged him tightly: "Why are you back? Did you get it?"

"Well, I'm fully prepared now. I said before I left, I'm just going on a long trip, I'm not going to stay away forever." Li Wuxiang took her hand and looked at the house as he walked - there were still traces of water on the wall, but most of it had been renovated, it should be the former house of the Li family.

Xue Baoping lived in the middle courtyard, and the front was made into a martial arts venue. Li Wuxiang walked over to take a look and found that wooden man piles, stone locks and stone plates, wooden swords and guns were all available. It looked like a martial arts hall.

Not long after, the Chen family sent food. Judging from the expression and movements of the person who sent the food, it should be like this all the time - no wonder he felt that Xue Baoping looked much better than a month and a half ago. A body that practices martial arts, with good nutrition, bloomed all of a sudden.

The two of them ate slowly in the room, and Li Wuxiang listened to Xue Baoping talking about what happened in the past month. She was in high spirits, her eyes were full of light, and she was no longer the worried and frightened little girl when they first met.

"...There are very few people with good aptitude. I know my aptitude is not good, but there is no one better than me. Some people are like me, and they learn swordsmanship very well, but when they meditate and breathe, only three people can feel the qi, and they are all vague, and they don’t even know whether they have it or not."

"What about you? How do you feel when you meditate now?"

Xue Baoping glanced at the rice in the bowl and hesitated: "Well, that’s it. More than ten days ago, I felt uncomfortable in my stomach-"

-I would burp, have diarrhea, and fart. Li Wuxiang knew that this was in the early stage of foundation building. This was after the qi was felt, and I got the qi.

He nodded: "What about now?"

"Then I felt sore, swollen, and numb all over my body, until two days ago. Is this the Qi opening? Brother Zeng told me this."

"Yes."

"Now I feel a little uncomfortable. My body hurts. Some places where I fell and bumped when I was a child also hurt a lot. So now is it..."

"Qi rushes to the diseased area." Li Wuxiang exhaled, "You have reached the final stage of foundation building. The essence has opened up your meridians, and now it is turning out the hidden diseases and injuries in your body and curing them all. You will feel very uncomfortable at this stage, and you must endure it. You are still young, and you won't have too many hidden diseases. It may take half a month to heal. After half a month, you will be reborn and reach the stage of Qi refining."

He laughed: "Who said you have bad aptitude? It is usually said that it takes 100 days to build the foundation, but you only took two months."

Xue Baoping's eyes lit up: "Really?! So, am I not bad, but you are too good?"

"Haha, about the same."

In fact, it was because of the practice method Zeng Jianqiu gave her. That technique was also mentioned in the Shijie Collection.

The aptitude for cultivation can be broadly divided into two categories. One category is to use various common techniques in the world and rely on oneself to successfully build a foundation, which is considered good. The other category is like Xue Baoping, who finds it difficult to use normal techniques, and this category of people accounts for the vast majority.

So the technique Zeng Jianqiu passed on to her is called "Changsheng Gong". People with relatively good aptitude can use this method to easily build a foundation, treat injuries and prolong their lives. But the drawback is that after building a foundation, it is difficult to make further progress when it comes to Qi Refining.

But Li Wuxiang now understands that he must protect the Li family... Jinshui Bay.

His cultivation now depends on the power of incense and vows. Although he can attach his divine thoughts to statues elsewhere, some statues may also be occupied by spirits, and they will have to fight fiercely again. Moreover, that wisp of divine thoughts will gradually fade over time, and he can't always run around.

But there is a trustworthy town master here, people like Xue Baoping, and townspeople who respect him. If he can defend this place and make it prosperous, it can be regarded as his base - in the worst case, one day he really dies and becomes a cocoon again, and the incense here can help him turn things around quickly.

So we must avoid things like Qiu Gongfeng from happening again.

The solution is to make Jinshuiwan no longer a simple village. Many of the families and sects other than the thirty-six sects take this path - a person is lucky and steps into the threshold of cultivation, then accepts disciples and teaches the Dharma, and slowly cultivates more practitioners, so he soars to the sky and is no longer bullied.

He reached into his arms and took out the pills he got from Feiyun Temple one by one, and arranged them on the table: "I got a lot of good things. When you reach the Qi Refining stage, you can take these pills. I will teach you how to take them slowly tonight."

"What about you?"

"I don't rely on these things now, don't worry." Li Wuxiang thought for a while, "Do you still remember Zhao Qi?"

"Yeah."

"What do you think of him?"

Xue Baoping looked up at him for a while, hesitated a little: "A little pitiful, but also hateful. Many people died in the town this month. Did he... become an immortal like Zhao Kui?"

It seems that we have to wait a little longer. Li Wuxiang shook his head: "No, since he has done so many bad things, he should still be suffering."

After the two of them had dinner, Xue Baoping put away the table and made a bed for him. They sat in the yard for a while, talked a lot of gossip, and then went back to their rooms.

Li Wuxiang's room is very well-furnished, with beds, desks, bookshelves, etc., which should be arranged according to the way the Li family used to be. He found paper and pen, opened the Shijie Jiji, and wrote down a lot of common sense in it on paper.

One benefit of practicing spiritual practice is that your control over yourself becomes extremely refined. He used to not write very fast, but now when he picks up the pen, he feels like he has become the machine he was in his previous life - the speed of writing can almost keep up with his thoughts. The only thing that will be slowed down is the time it takes to dip in ink and write smoothly. . In about half an hour, he wrote more than a hundred pieces of paper, recording everything that did not involve the secrets of the Sword Sect and did not violate taboos.

He checked it again and made sure there were no omissions. Then he opened the door and looked into Xue Baoping's room and saw that the candle inside was still on.

He walked to the door and knocked lightly. After a while, he heard Xue Baoping say: "You opened the door and came in."

He walked in and found her making the bed, her back to him, wearing only her middle coat.

Li Wuxiang put the pile of paper on the table: "I wrote something for you. You can read it after I leave, but don't show it to others."

There is also pen and ink on the table, and there is handwriting on the paper. It must be that she is also practicing calligraphy. Xue Baoping hummed as he spread the bed. After placing the cloth pillow, he hesitated for a while, then walked sideways to the cabinet beside the bed, took out another pillow and placed it on the bed.

Li Wuxiang was stunned for a moment... She seemed to have misunderstood.

But it was probably his fault that he still thought of her as the little girl when he first met her. However, she is indeed no longer a little girl. After Zhao Qi took away her life, she was already in her early twenties.

Just like now——

She sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him, then slowly turned her face and took off the hairpin from her head. A head of smooth black hair fell down. It must have been just washed today, and it had a faint fragrance.

When viewed from the side, her neck and half of her shoulders were exposed through the slightly open neckline of her middle coat. They were smooth and delicate under the candlelight, showing the unique tightness of young flesh, as well as the warmth and beauty of maturity.

Then she got under the quilt and lay on the side against the wall. She turned to look at him with soft and calm eyes: "I'll take a look tomorrow morning."

Li Wuxiang was silent for a while, walked away and closed the door. Then he extinguished the candle with a snap of his fingers, took off his coat, lifted up the quilt and lay down in it.

Xue Baoping moved rustlingly in the quilt, turned around and hugged him. The middle coat has been removed, and the body is hot and soft, as smooth as satin. Li Wuxiang also turned sideways and put his arm under her pillow, hugging her in his arms.

He felt very comfortable. The heat from her body slowly soaked into his slightly cool skin, and the tentacles in her body pressed down.

Her lips touched his neck lightly and she said in a low voice: "I haven't established the foundation yet."

"Well, there's no rush." ​​He stroked her back gently, "I haven't become a human yet."

She kissed his lips: "When I refine my Qi, we will have a lot of time."

Li Wuxiang rubbed her forehead: "Where does it hurt on your body?"

"Shoulders, chest, waist."

"I'll rub it for you."

In the morning, Li Wuxiang was lying on the warm bed, watching Xue Baoping combing his hair at the table and smiling at him in the mirror, his face slightly illuminated by the morning light.

This feeling is very novel, like the first time he experienced driving, sailing, flying a plane, skydiving, or gliding. There is no purpose that makes people hate or worry, it is just to gain an experience that has never been experienced before and open the door to a new world.

In his previous life, he had lied in bed like this many times, watching another person dressing up. But at that time, he was a passer-by and knew that he would leave in a hurry soon and never see each other again. Instead, he would not understand this like he does now. They will be people who will accompany each other for a long time.

"I have also joined the Jianzong. Those on the table are from a book called Shijieji of the Jianzong. The Jianzong has rules and the Shijieji cannot be shown to you, so I recorded some for you. "

Li Wuxiang lifted up the quilt and slowly got dressed: "I'm going to leave soon. I want to go to the parish with the people from Jianzong to do something. Zeng Jianqiu will also go. Jianzong... As I told you last night, the parish Other than that, no one would want to mess with Jian Zong, but——"

Xue Baoping looked at him in the mirror: "Will it be dangerous?"

"Small things - but this kind of thing is just generally speaking, when the conflict of interests reaches a certain level, there is nothing in the world that cannot be messed with. I said yesterday that I passed by by chance, and you will also say the same in the future - I have some friendship, But the binding is not too deep, and your skills are learned from the Ranshan Sect."

"You asked Chen Xin to convert another house into a Taoist temple, and worship Taiyi in it... By the way, I just remembered last night that Zeng Jianqiu drew a portrait for you before, and asked the town to go to Qingjiang to build a statue of Taiyi, right? ? "Is it done?"

"Originally it was done, but the town owner sent Chen Xiaodao to look at it. He came back and said that the statue was not well made and looked like the statue maker himself, so he made it again. Then we moved here again, which delayed the matter. It’s down, and it’s just the way you drew it.”

"Yes. After it's done, we'll worship Taiyi in the temple. Let's name it... Baoxiang Temple." He saw Xue Baoping stunned in the mirror, then pursed his lips and smiled.

"It is said to the outside world that this is the Taoist temple stationed by Ranshan in Jinshuiwan. The people inside are called Zhang Guan. After building the Taoist temple, they go out to travel again."

"Yeah. Don't you tell Chen Xin yourself?"

Li Wuxiang laughed: "It's better if I don't see him often. If I see him too much, it's easy to lose the sense of mystery and majesty."

He put on his clothes and sat quietly on the bed. He waited until Xue Baoping had combed his hair before speaking: "Okay, I'm leaving. The things I brought for you are in my room. Please eat the cakes quickly on the way. Been gone for about ten days."

Xue Baoping came over and hugged him for a while: "You must come back during the Chinese New Year."

Two hours later, Li Wuxiang and his horse took a passenger boat and headed west along the Jinshui River.

After leaving the river bend, we passed through a series of low hills, with towering cliffs on both sides. The dense trees on the cliff cast shadows, almost completely blocking the sun, as if the river had become a dark river.

After this section, the mountains rise again and the river becomes narrow, making it impossible for the passenger ship to move forward. So Li Wuxiang got off the boat and rode on horseback, slowly looking for the marks left by Pan Muyun and Helianji, and continued walking along the river. After walking like this for another five or six days, the upper reaches of the Jinshui River turned into a huge waterfall, flowing down the mountain with a deafening roar.

He knew that the mountains in front of him, running east-west and stretching endlessly to both sides of the earth, were the mountain ranges that Lu Renjia mentioned.

Ordinary people would turn east from here and walk more than ten days to Sanhe Pass. From there, the road would take three days to pass through the mountains. But the swordsmen were obviously impatient to take the long way around, and the sword marks left behind were carved on the dark green cliff in front of them. So Li Wuxiang also followed the mark and climbed up the mountain. He spent two days and one night in the mountain climbing to the top of one of the peaks.

It was noon when we reached the top, and there had been heavy rain in the morning, so the sky was clear and the view was excellent.

He looked far into the distance from the snow on the top of the mountain and saw that to the north of the Chishan Mountains was an endless plain. The river meanders like a giant dragon, and a few white clouds float low, casting large shadows on the plain.

A little closer was a meadow, and further away was a vast forest. Even further away, at the end of the horizon that he could only vaguely see when he had to squint his eyes, there were some scattered things that looked like villages and towns.

Lu Renjia said that after crossing the mountain range, it would take another half a month to walk before we could see the villages and towns again. But those villages and towns were not considered parishes yet. They had to walk further north for ten days and then cross the Cangjiang River to reach the edge of the Wuyue Zhenxing Sect parish.

Calculating this way, it is about a month and a half from the most remote part of the diocese to Jinshui Bay. Therefore, for the Liubu Xuanjiao, the location of Jinshui Bay should be considered remote and safe.

So Li Wuxiang supported Jin Tangzi, took a deep breath, and then another breath, and so on, slowly making his body expand, then he sealed his seven orifices, jumped up, and drifted down the mountain.