Chapter 71 Niwan Secret Realm Refining Henggu
Master and servant.
One after another, we strolled toward the backyard.
In the inner city of Chenjiazhuang, with Guanyun Tower as the center, there are three mansions and two courtyards in the front and back.
In front of the building is a small lake.
This also coincides with the Feng Shui aspect of being surrounded by mountains and rivers.
The old white ape was placed in the backyard.
Same as Angry Chicken.
It's just that it is as afraid of phoenix species as a tiger, and will not want to live with it to death.
In desperation, the servants of the Chen family could only free up an unoccupied room and let it live in it.
"Master, are you looking for me?"
Going downstairs, Chen Yulou walked by the lake with his hands behind his hands.
There are patches of jade lotus planted in the lake, and countless silver crucian carp and golden carp are raised, which contrast with the Jinyu Hall.
At this time, the waves on the lake were rugged and a pool of silver sand was blown up.
Looking at the vast mist, it feels a bit like a small Dongting.
Not long after, an old man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties, wearing a gray gown and reading glasses, came quickly and stood behind with his hands lowered, saying respectfully.
“Uncle Fish is here.”
Looking away from the lake.
Chen Yulou smiled.
This is the old housekeeper of the Chen family.
He has been working in the Chen family since he was a few years old and is very loyal.
“Go hire a teacher for me in the next two days.”
“Forget about the old scholar who is pedantic and inconsiderate. You must be patient and competent.”
He gave a simple instruction.
“Master, who do you want to invite?”
Uncle Yu hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but ask.
He grew up watching Chen Yulou and knew his abilities better than anyone else. He did not dare to say that he was rich in knowledge, but he knew a lot about astronomy and geography. There were not many people in Xiangyin who were qualified to be his teacher.
“Kunlun.”
Chen Yulou didn’t hide it either.
Puzzled his lips towards Kunlun who was standing aside.
Uncle Yu was stunned, but he was an experienced man and did not show any surprise or astonishment.
He just thought for a moment and said.
"Master, I have a few candidates here. Do you think you can make a decision?"
"Tell me."
Chen Yulou thought he would get at least one. A day or two.
Unexpectedly, Uncle Yu had an idea so quickly, and he was not in a hurry to rush to the backyard.
"The first one is Chen Shufan from Yanggao Academy, a native of Jietoupu. This man is highly knowledgeable and proficient in ancient Chinese and new culture. He now runs a school in the north of the city."
"Chapter 1 The two are Mr. Zhang Bingqian. He is a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. Needless to say, he is teaching elementary school in the countryside. "
"As for the last one, Mr. Ming, you should know." br>
Uncle Yu said calmly.
Chen Yulou nodded secretly.
The first two people he mentioned were indeed very impressive and had quite a reputation in the Xiangyin world.
The former traveled around in the early years and was one of the first people in Xiangyin to enter the new school.
After returning, he founded Yanggao Academy with his own hands.
As for the man at the back, he is an old scholar, but he is not a rotten scholar. On the contrary, he is not disgusted with the new culture.
But I'm afraid it won't be easy to invite these two people.
Unless someone is sent to kidnap them to Chenjiazhuang.
But this deviated from his original intention.
"Then Uncle Ming, tell the accountant that when you withdraw a sum of money, you will treat it as Shu Xiu from Kunlun Meng School."
Chen Yulou calmly ordered.
This matter has been settled.
"Yes, young master, I will go and tell Uncle Ming right now."
Uncle Yu nodded.
No surprises.
Uncle Ming has been in the Chen family for some years. He left behind when he fled the famine.
Very knowledgeable.
Although he is unwilling to mention his origins.
But it can be seen from the daily speech and behavior that there is a high probability that the poems and books are passed down to the family. Unfortunately, in this world, there is chaos and chaos, and there are countless people who have fallen into disgrace.
Chen Yulou was somewhat impressed by him.
Because of the origin, I discussed Feng Shui with him more than once.
Rather than find two outsiders to teach Kunlun, it would be better to hire someone who knows the basics.
Don't worry, you won't let him go just because he has an innocent temperament.
The other one, he originally wanted Uncle Ming to work in the Chen family's accounting room, but unfortunately he didn't want to. He would rather rent a few acres of paddy fields and live a life of sunrise and sunset.
However, farming is not that easy.
He is just a scholar, he has no ability to restrain a chicken, he just ruins people.
This is also the reason why he specifically mentioned Shuxiu.
Watch Uncle Yu leave.
Kunlun's face was already full of anticipation.
Being able to read and write was something he had never dared to think about before.
Now the shopkeeper not only found himself a spurge for self-defense, but also asked his husband to teach him how to read.
His eyes were red for a moment, and he didn't know how to thank the shopkeeper.
"Okay, if you really want to thank me, just study hard."
It seemed that I could see what he was thinking.
Chen Yulou shook his head and smiled.
Then the two of them went straight to the backyard without further delay.
Within a moment, he appeared outside a wing.
Just...
Wait for him to open the door and go in.
What he saw made him a little bit dumbfounded.
The old ape was lying on the bed with his legs crossed, and there were fresh peaches on the plate next to him.
"My life was quite leisurely."
He himself stayed in seclusion for five or six days without sleep. The old ape was quite comfortable and had already laid down.
Hear the noise.
The old ape turned around subconsciously.
Then he jumped up as if struck by lightning, standing aside with his head hanging, his face full of anxiety.
It's been really easy these days.
Compared to the precarious days in the White Ape Cave, where one meal was too late and one meal was too hard, I don’t know how many times better it was.
And as long as it doesn't run around, no one will care about it.
It is an old man, how can it run away?
This is simply a life that you can never dream of.
At first, he occasionally worried whether Chen Yulou would come, but it has been almost ten days and he has not seen anyone else at all, as if this small house has been forgotten.
The white apes have already put down their guard.
I didn’t expect him to come again.
Chen Yulou stood in the house with his hands behind his hands and looked around. Except that there was no pen, ink, paper and inkstone, it was no different from the house where the servants of the Chen family lived.
"Okay, don't look depressed."
"I won't kill you."
Seeing it trembling and frightened, it didn't dare to raise its head.
Chen Yulou sneered.
If he hadn't seen the scene in Hades where it and the mountain scorpion worked together to steal the corpse's energy from the coffin, he might have really believed it.
This old ape is smarter and more tactful than humans.
Plus a natural sense of danger.
How could you not know your situation? If you make it clear, you are pretending to be pitiful.
Hearing this, the old ape raised his head sarcastically.
However, it really didn’t dare to be careful in front of Chen Yulou.
Half an hour ago, the momentum soaring into the sky is still vivid in my mind.
By the way...
That scene just came to mind.
The old ape seemed to have thought of something, and secretly took a look at the figure not far away.
Although at this moment Chen Yulou's aura was restrained and his whole body was as still as still water, there are some things that cannot be concealed, such as the temperament in every move.
There is also a sense of oppression coming from the depths of the soul.
When it was at Pingshan, it only felt like a hill.
But now, that invisible momentum is like a huge mountain falling from the sky.
It was so heavy that it was almost breathless.
So...that noise before came from him?
The old ape's eyes widened, his expression full of fear and horror.
Yes, you can’t go wrong.
There were only two people who could give it such a sense of oppression from the beginning to the end.
One is the man named Chen in front of me, and the other is the Taoist.
However, when they returned from Pingshan, the Taoist had already separated from them and left with his junior brothers and sisters.
As for the Angry Chicken, it is no longer oppression, but pure restraint.
It has been in Chenjiazhuang for so long.
It’s not really about lying down and dying.
I observed many people along the way, but no one stepped into the path of spiritual practice like Chen Yulou.
So, apart from him, Bai Yuan could not think of anyone else who could cause such a movement as if the earth was shattering.
“Quite smart.”
Just when it was thinking secretly.
A faint laughter suddenly sounded in my ears.
Looking up subconsciously, it saw a man named Chen staring at him with a smile.
The depths of his deep eyes seemed to reflect a patch of stars in the void.
Just a quick glance.
Just make it feel like you're stuck in it.
Dong-dong-dong——
The old ape suddenly averted his eyes and felt a thumping thump under his chest.
There is a voice that keeps ringing in my head.
“It’s him.”
"It's really him!"
The old ape's mouth was dry and his face was even bitter.
It has lived for almost sixty years from the day it awakened.
Putting it in the genus of apes, it is already an unprecedented existence.
Among humans, he is not much different from Peng Zu, who attained the Tao of 800 years ago.
In order to live forever, it steals the energy of corpses, swallows the essence of the sun and the moon, and asks the monkeys to find a century-old elixir for it.
But even so, as of today, its achievements are limited to this.
If you want to make an inch of progress, it is as difficult as reaching the sky.
After all, not everyone can be like that old centipede, who can cultivate the inner elixir and soar into the clouds and mist, like a fairy.
And the old centipede practiced a rare Dafa in the world and swallowed the golden elixir in the elixir well.
It took six to seven hundred years to reach that point.
But why can this person named Chen make such rapid progress?
How long has it been?
Ten days?
Damn it, the sky is already the same as the earth. Bai Yuan felt unprecedentedly sad.
The gap between people.
No, it should be that the gap between him and it is so big that it makes it despair.
If you give him enough time.
The old ape can’t even imagine how far someone named Chen can go?
Feel its mental changes.
Chen Yulou couldn't help but have a flash of surprise in his expression.
I had known that this old ape was a psychic being, which was extremely rare even in the entire world of ghosts blowing lanterns.
However, he really didn't expect that this old monkey would be so smart.
By the spiritual contract planted deep in its spiritual orifice.
He could clearly feel its thoughts.
The old ape thought that he was secretly thinking about it. He didn’t know what the heavens and the earth didn’t know. How could he have imagined that what he practiced was an immortal method!
"When we were in Pingshan, Chen once said that keeping you would be useful."
"Today, I will not hesitate to give you a blessing."
Chen Yulou He slowly put away his thoughts and said calmly.
good fortune?
Hear these two words.
The old ape felt an inexplicable move in his heart.
Although it doesn’t understand what it means, it instinctively feels that it is beneficial to itself.
“Want to talk?”
boom!
The old ape, who was still wondering what kind of destiny he was, froze on the spot.
My eyes widened and I was dumbfounded.
My mind went blank.
It seems that I have lost the ability to think.
"Don't want to?"
Chen Yulou raised the corners of his mouth slightly, deliberately irritating.
The old ape then came to his senses, shook his head and nodded again and again, squeaking and sweating profusely, for fear that he would not understand what he meant.
"Okay, since you are willing, Chen will help you refine the bones in your mouth."
"But..."
Speaking of this, Chen Yulou's tone changed.
The expression also changed from calm to solemn.
The old ape got his promise, and his ears stood up. He was afraid that he would miss a word, so he didn't dare to scream.
“However, I have to make it clear to you.”
“Refining Henggu is by no means that simple. There may be certain dangers, so you must be prepared for failure.”
"Do you understand?"
Chen Yulou stood with his hands behind his back and narrated lightly.
Leave the decision in the hands of the old ape himself.
Of course, helping it refine the crossbones is only one of them, there is another more important thing to do.
That is the spiritual orifice of observing the white ape.
Let's see if we can find a way for Kunlun through it.
See it falling into thought.
Chen Yulou was not in a hurry and waited quietly.
Not long after.
White Ape seemed to have made a decision, his eyes were weathered but extremely firm, and he nodded heavily towards him.
Such a good opportunity lies before us.
If you can't catch it.
Maybe if you miss it, you will never meet again in this life.
People always say that if you hear the truth in the morning, you will die in the evening.
It felt that whenever possible, it would give it a try.
Once it can speak, it can learn to read and decipher words, and maybe... it will have the opportunity to practice human breathing techniques.
Nothing has been accomplished in sixty years.
It is not impossible to be a late bloomer.
“Okay!”
See it and agree to come down.
Chen Yulou finally showed a hint of admiration in his eyes.
In the future, White Ape will definitely be happy for today’s choice.
"Sit down cross-legged."
He ordered directly without any delay.
The old ape did not hesitate, immediately sat down cross-legged, and released his spiritual orifice.
It was different from the time in Pingshan where I was afraid of death and had no choice but to do so.
This time, it is willing.
Seeing this situation, Chen Yulou was moved.
In an instant, a majestic aura, like a river tide, rose out of thin air from under his gown.
A pair of night eyes were filled with green light.
He stretched out his finger and landed on Bai Yuan's forehead.
Boom!
It only felt that a breath that was several times more powerful than the previous one broke into its mind and went straight to its spiritual orifice.
Sense a familiar scent.
Even the faint spiritual contract started to vibrate.
Chen Yulou ignored it, his face looked more serious than ever before, and he repeatedly observed its spiritual orifice with the help of spiritual energy.
Although he had done something similar before.
But it just passed by in a flash.
I planted a spiritual contract and retreated.
Not like he is concentrating right now, not daring to look down upon the acupoints, veins, and even the flow of breath.
Moreover, while observing the white ape's spiritual orifice.
Chen Yulou also looks inside himself.
Distinguish the difference carefully.
I don’t know how long it took, but finally there was some understanding in his eyes.
Although apes are similar to humans, they are not the same species after all.
People have no spiritual acuity.
But there is a similarity, that is the Niwan Palace located deep in the mind.
This is what cultivators call the upper Dantian.
There are similar sayings among martial arts practitioners.
The ancient Qi practitioners passed down the Six Secrets of the Human Body, the most important of which is the Secret of Niwan.
By absorbing the energy of heaven and earth and opening up the six secrets of the human body, they can strengthen the energy, blood, spirit, and soul, until they can communicate with the changes of yin and yang, refine the cave, and achieve immortality.
He saw this record in an ancient book.
It is a pity that the Qi Practitioners disappeared as early as the Qin Dynasty and are no longer seen in the world.
However, from their practice methods, we can also get a glimpse of the mystery of Niwan Palace.
“So... Niwan is in chaos, and his spiritual wisdom is not enlightened.”
"Is Kunlun probably encountering this problem?"
Chen Yulou muttered to himself.
It seems that I heard his vague words.
The white ape closed his eyes tightly and subconsciously opened them.
“Relax your mind.”
"Don't move."
With a slight shout, the white ape dared not act randomly, so he quickly held his breath and sat down at attention.
Chen Yulou urged the majestic spiritual energy to flow from its spiritual orifice to the mouth orifice and throat bone.
I have long heard that the reason why all the beasts in the world cannot speak.
It’s because there is one more horizontal bone in the mouth than a human being.
Just refine it.
However, it sounds easy, but it is very difficult to do it.
Even if he is a white ape and has a deep understanding of human nature, he cannot refine it by himself.
But for Chen Yulou, it is not difficult.
At least.
It is much simpler than observing spiritual orifices.
Not long after, he saw a transverse bone the size of a finger bone in the white ape's mouth.
Just press it between your mouth and throat.
So much so that it can only make a squeaking sound.
And cannot form a complete discourse.
"So this is Henggu..."
Chen Yulou raised his eyebrows, and something strange flashed in his eyes.
Now, he has already been able to look inside himself.
This is the first time I have seen such an amazing thing.
It’s really hard to imagine how you can endure having an extra crossbone in your mouth?
but.
This thought is fleeting.
There was no time to express too many emotions. Under his urging, the majestic Qingmu spiritual energy had already wrapped around Heng Gu.
"Green wood is immortal, all living things, refine!"
I muttered silently in my heart.
That spiritual energy seemed to turn into a flame in an instant.
The horizontal bones wrapped in it are constantly being smelted.
This process seems slow, but in fact it only takes less than a moment.
Aoki's longevity skill, except for the lack of killing power, is the best in every aspect.
This is because he didn't dare to act too harshly, for fear that something might happen.
Otherwise, a mere white ape's bones can be refined away with just one thought.
Huh——
Until the horizontal bone melts away completely and disappears into nothingness.
Chen Yulou then took back the tidal wave of Qingmu spiritual energy.
The tide returns to the sea of air.
The majestic aura around him also gathered momentum.
He let out a long breath.
Then his eyes fell on the nervous old ape, "Okay, let's see if you can speak?"
Gudong!
The white ape, who had been waiting anxiously, suddenly opened his eyes with a look of disbelief.
It even thought it was just a blink of an eye.
Is this the end?
But facing Chen Yulou’s deep eyes.
But it made his panicked heart calm.
Subconsciously, I secretly took a few deep breaths, and kept recalling the way humans spoke in my mind.
In Baiyuan Cave, it had countless interactions with mountain people and merchants.
Now he has moved directly into Chenjiazhuang.
Human voices can be heard every moment.
And it has been practicing secretly for countless times.
Gathering up his courage, the white ape exhaled slowly.
The next moment.
A hoarse old voice suddenly sounded in its ears.
"White... white ape."
(End of this chapter)