This sleep.

Chen Yuan felt that he had slept for a long time.

During this period, in a daze, Chen Yuan saw beside the bed, Chang Kongzi came to see him, his master Lu Yan came to see him, and even Qin Jiangyue, whom he had not seen for a long time, also came to see him.

They were all calling themselves beside the bed.

Chen Yuan wanted to answer them, but found that he was completely weak and speechless.

Until this day, Chen Yuan opened his eyes and sat up from the bed.

He found himself lying on the bed in the backyard room of Lu Xian Temple.

The sun is shining brightly outside the house, and the dappled sunlight shines through the gaps in the doors and windows onto the ground inside the house. The light is bright and makes the whole room warm.

The air is filled with the smell of sunshine.

"How long have I slept?"

Chen Yuan was a little confused.

He was not sure how long he slept, but he had a feeling that the time he slept would never be short.

"The wine you drank at the banquet has a really strong staying power."

Chen Yuan thought that when he left the City God's Hall, he was obviously not drunk, but was pretending to be drunk. Later, when he was sent back by the four gods of Day and Night Wandering Gods and General Shackles, he was so drunk that he immediately became drunk. He smiled bitterly.

Feeling that the alcohol was gone and his whole body felt comfortable and comfortable, Chen Yuan got up, put on his Taoist robe, opened the door and walked out.

The sky outside the house looks like noon.

The sun was setting in the west, and it looked like it was just after noon.

In front of the main hall and the gate of Luxian Temple, there are still believers and pilgrims coming to offer incense.

However, compared with before, there were far fewer believers and pilgrims, and they seemed sparse.

The old Taoist Chang Kongzi was sitting at the door of the main hall, behind a long square table, reading the fortune for a very lucky-looking woman wearing a brocade dress and gold jewelry.

Chang Kongzi held the signature in his hand and said seriously:

"This sign is the top sign. The palace is Yin Palace. The sign reads: If you want to win, you have to be very busy. I am busy competing for relatives and friends. In the end, it is like an arrow. The noble guides the noble. This hexagram is a symbol of blessing in disguise. The meaning is

It is auspicious to be in trouble, and a noble person will come forward to help. According to what my wife said, although your husband may have a small disaster, there will be no major disaster..."

After a few words, Chang Kongzi immediately talked to the woman, beaming with joy, and in addition to the original fee for signing the certificate, she also gave him a large reward.

After watching it for a while, Chen Yuan felt that it was not interesting and stopped reading.

He looked around and found that the front door of Lu Xian Temple had also changed greatly.

Before he went out for the banquet, the seven peach blossoms were in full bloom and were gradually withering. Now all of them had withered, leaving only bare branches and not a single peach blossom on the tree.

"How long did you sleep for?"

Chen Yuan once again had doubts in his heart.

When he woke up, he suddenly had a feeling that people were right and things were different.

"Fellow Taoist, are you awake?"

Just when Chen Yuan was standing at the door of the hall, a little at a loss, the voice of surprise from the old Taoist Zhang Kongzi came from beside him.

Chen Yuan stood at the door of the main hall for a long time. Only then did he realize that Chen Yuan was standing next to him to read his signature.

The old Taoist sent the woman away with a few words, and told the pilgrims behind who needed to get the signature signed that he had something to do. Then he got up and walked to Chen Yuan.

"Old Taoist priest, how long did I sleep for?"

Chen Yuan asked Chang Kongzi.

"Fellow Taoist, exactly one month has passed since the last time you went to the City God's Banquet and when you woke up today."

Chang Kongzi smiled bitterly.

"I was drunk this time, and I stayed drunk for a month?"

Chen Yuan looked surprised.

He knew that he slept for a long time this time, but he didn't expect that he slept for such a long time.

"Fellow Taoist, you don't know how difficult it was for me when you were drunk."

"The young lady who came to look for you turned out to be the daughter of the prefect. In the past month, she would come to the temple to look for you almost every few days to see if you were awake. By the way, she told me, wake up.

I must go to the city to inform her, my ears are ringing with noise."

The old Taoist took the opportunity to complain to Chen Yuan.

Only then did Chen Yuan remember that this was indeed not his illusion.

It was Qin Jiangyue who got the news that she lived in Lu Xian Temple from somewhere, so she came to look for her.

"No, who told the magistrate's daughter about the news about me at Lu Xian Temple? No one told her that she couldn't come here."

Chen Yuan looked at the old Taoist priest Kongzi, with suspicion in his expression, and his meaning was self-evident.

Seeing that Chen Yuan had already guessed it, the old Taoist priest Kongzi looked a little embarrassed, so he told what happened after Chen Yuan went to the City God's Banquet that day and left Lu Xian Temple.

After he finished speaking, he said: "Old Taoist, I saw her anxious expression and thought she was a good friend of yours, fellow Taoist, so I told her the news that you were living in Lu Xian Temple. Who knew she would cause a trouble?"
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Then the old Taoist took advantage of the opportunity and asked with an expression of watching the excitement:

"What is the relationship between this young lady from the magistrate's family and Taoist Fellow Taoist? Why has Taoist Fellow Taoist never visited her in the prefect's house after being in Lujiang City for so long? That young lady from the magistrate's family has been looking for fellow Taoist.

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After Chen Yuan heard about it, he knew about it, and he couldn't blame the old Taoist priest for taking advantage of it.

He said: "We can barely be regarded as good friends. This young lady from the prefect's family and I both encountered monsters in Qinghe County and almost died. We were later rescued by the master. It may be that we shared the same sorrow, so this lady from the prefect's family was

Miss, you also regard me as a friend."

The old Taoist Chang Kongzi suddenly realized why the young lady from the prefect’s family had been looking for Chen Yuan.

Then the old Taoist took the opportunity to say: "Since you have woken up, why don't you go to Lujiang City to meet this young lady from the prefect's family?"

Chen Yuan shook his head: "No need, as you said, the other party will come to Lu Xian Temple in a few days, and we will eventually meet."

What he was more worried about at this time was actually how to explain it to Master Lu Yan.

He said he went to the City God's Banquet, but ended up getting drunk. He slept for a month, which delayed his teaching and study.

If he were Lu Yan, he would not spare his disciple lightly.

At this moment, the old Taoist Zhang Kongzi said again: "By the way, fellow Taoist, a few days ago, the craftsman Xu San also came to the temple to look for the fellow Taoist when he was drunk, but I didn't let him

Go into the backyard."

Chen Yuan wondered: "Why did he come to me?"

He originally saw Xu San performing the stunt of "knocking frogs and listening to music" on the street, and came up with the idea of ​​making friends with Xu San.

Who knows that the other party thinks that he is coveting his unique skill of "knocking frogs and listening to music".

Since then, he has talked about the idea of ​​making friends with this person.

Changkongzi said: "It seems that something happened and I needed help from a Taoist friend. I heard that the Taoist friend went to a banquet and was drunk for more than twenty days, so he left looking like he was lost."

Chen Yuan responded: "I understand."

He didn't take this matter to heart. Since he was drunk and asleep when the other party came, it proved that the other party had no destiny with him.

After chatting with Chang Kongzi for a while, Chang Kongzi continued to sign at the entrance of the hall, then turned and returned to the backyard.

"No, how come my cultivation has improved so much all of a sudden?"

Chen Yuan returned to the backyard, sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, and was about to meditate for a while, but found that his cultivation level had improved a lot. He opened his eyes, and a hint of joy flashed in his eyes.

The vitality and essence in his body, which was originally extremely full, was actually improved again.

Not just a little bit, but a lot improved all at once.

It was so much that Chen Yuan felt that he had reached the limit of his body's capacity.

Now it is no longer enough to use the word "full" to describe it, but it can be called vigorous.

In addition, the vitality and essence in the body are no longer distinct, but have begun to blend together, showing signs of fusion.

"This is almost the end of cultivation!"

Chen Yuan said in surprise.

He thought of what his master Lu Yan and Mr. Huolong had told him.

The so-called alchemy realm is when the essence and vitality are combined and refined into a light, pure and qualityless mixture of essence and qi, which is then refined into the alchemy, also known as the God of Grains.

In the "Tao Te Ching" written by Taoist ancestor Laozi, there is a saying that "the god of grain is immortal and is called the mysterious female".

Although he has achieved great success in the Qi-eating Realm, this is a level of cultivation that he acquired in a daze and slept for three years.

He originally thought that he would need at least a period of practice before he could reach the threshold of the Alchemy Realm.
To be continued...