Personal preparation before crossing the border is very simple.
Take a bath to purify your body, rest to eliminate fatigue, and then let go of the sea of consciousness step by step until you maintain a calm, selfless, and transcendent state of mind.
Not long after Chen Yanjun returned to the house, Xiaoyue followed him and helped him fetch water and take a bath.
She is ingenious and has soft and smooth palms, and is particularly professional in bathing and purifying people.
"Speaking of which, I have never even served the young master to purify him. The madam said that the young master must agree to marry me before I can bathe and purify him... The madam is so strict with the young master, but she has no reservations about the young master."
Chen Yanjun thought to himself, this girl almost has the word "maid of the first wife" written all over her face.
It sounds like if I am practicing double cultivation with my wife tonight, I will take her in as well.
While Xiaoyue was washing Chen Yanjun's body, she babbled:
"Although the young master and the madam have not yet consummated their marriage, the Cui Mansion is no longer obstructing it. If something unexpected happens when crossing the border tonight, the madam is willing to practice marriage with the young master. The young master should not leave the root cause of illness because he is concerned about his wife's reputation."
Chen Yanjun said:
"Madam is determined. Chen will never let down Madam and Xiaoyue's love...and this family."
"Young master, you are so bad. My wife is just my wife. Why did you take Xiaoyue with you... and ignore you!"
After saying that, Xiao Yue let go with a red face, and ran away in excitement.
However, he didn't leave completely. Instead, he went to the study to make a pot of spiritual tea, and then reluctantly left.
Chen Yanjun thought to himself that it was not a big problem to accept Xiaoyue, but seeing that she was neither old nor young, he doubted whether she might have some blood relationship with his wife or ex-husband...
Because he has entered the third realm of nourishing qi, Chen Yanjun does not need to adjust his mood after taking a bath, he can just sleep.
After getting out of the bath and lying on the couch, Chen Yanjun suddenly discovered that he didn't fall asleep as soon as he lay down today.
I looked up and saw that it was only noon.
I feel a little tired when I feel tired, and I feel really excited when I feel excited, but I don’t feel nervous at all.
Although Chen Yanjun feels that he is almost certain to pass the test this time, he still seems to have some worries.
For example, Assistant Teacher Fang said that his soul was fused with poison. Although there is no poison in his blood, there may still be some in his consciousness, which might cause trouble when he clears the level...
However, he has nothing to be nervous about. If he really can't do it, he can only practice marriage with his wife in tears, enter the grave of marriage early, and lose his hazy fantasy.
At present, everything that should be topped up has been filled up, and the rest is stuck in the bottleneck, just waiting to be cleared.
"Speaking of which, since I traveled across time, my schedule has been very busy these days. It's rare that I have half a day to spare. Since I can't sleep, I have to find something boring to do to help me sleep."
With this in mind, Chen Yanjun got up, left the bedroom, and came to the study.
Picking up the spiritual tea prepared by Xiao Yue, she looked for a book on the bookshelf.
Read some boring leisure books and see if you can fall asleep while reading them.
Chen Yanjun casually took out a classic book, returned to the couch with tea, and started reading with his legs crossed.
The title of the book is "An Examination of the Origin of Immortal Qi".
Xianqi is an early term for spiritual energy.
"It seems that this is an ancient book that studies the origin of spiritual energy recovery. It was written four hundred years ago, much earlier than the Annotations on Nourishing Qi."
The author uses a pseudonym: I don’t seek immortality.
This book is a compilation of the results of his life's research and speculation before his death.
Chen Yanjun read the annotation and said that this seems to be a banned book. It was only in the past two hundred years that the imperial power was weakening that the book was unbanned among the people.
After roughly flipping through it, I found that the first half of the book is devoted to the early stages of spiritual energy recovery.
For example, poultry and livestock have become larger in size, and their temperaments have become ferocious and uncontrollable.
For example, crops and grass plants are growing wildly, but the number of flowers and fruits has unexpectedly decreased.
This resulted in poultry and livestock breaking out of their fences in the early stages of spiritual energy recovery, crops growing wildly but not producing grain, and even famine occurred for a time.
Rebellions broke out among the people everywhere.
Xuanzong had no choice but to order the Imperial Academy to add the Department of Animal Control and the Department of Medicine and Agriculture, and personally take charge of the Tianyuan Palace and build the Tianyuan Palace, where the emperor would listen to heaven and pray day and night.
At that time, Tianyuan Palace was still built on a large pillar, less than a hundred feet high.
"So, Xuanzong initially sought immortality to pray for blessings and relieve disasters, not to seek spiritual energy for immortality, and spiritual energy was not sought by Xuanzong."
Later, I don't know why it was passed down, and it became the immortal energy that Xuanzong asked for.
Fortunately, the Imperial College quickly trained a group of beast masters and alchemists, and began to cultivate poultry, livestock, spiritual grains, and spiritual wheat specifically for meat feeding...
Soon, the civil disaster was eliminated.
Folk worship of Xuanzong reached its peak, reputation reversed, and the legend of seeking immortality and becoming an immortal gradually spread.
It is worth mentioning that by the time the book was written, shadows of strange beasts had already appeared.
However, the author does not believe that the strange beasts are the resurrection of the mythical beasts of the mountains and seas, but that someone has spliced different spiritual beasts together.
Alien beasts are probably monsters spliced together artificially by someone in order to seek immortality.
There were insinuations in his words, and he almost cursed Xuanzong and the Imperial College...
The author believes that the revival of Xianqi probably has nothing to do with the Li Tang Dynasty. It may be due to the annexation of land under separate feudal towns. The Li Tang Dynasty was extravagant and indulgent, pampered its treacherous ministers, and ignored the sentiments of the people, which resulted in a natural punishment.
He also predicted that these spiritual beasts and strange beasts would one day turn into monsters and ghosts and cause harm to the world.
From the details in the book, Chen Yanjun could see that the author had average talent. He said he did not seek immortality, but in fact he could not seek immortality.
"In this way, the author will inevitably have a rejection of cultivating immortals. There are many conspiracy theories in the book, which is evident from his anger. It was only after Eunuch Qiu took control of the government that this banned book was able to see the light of day. It has the taste of deliberately smearing the Li and Tang dynasties."
There are a lot of conspiracy theories at the back of this book, and they are extremely obscure.
Chen Yanjun didn't know the situation at that time. He knew he was insinuating, but he didn't understand the specific content of the insinuation.
In the second half of the book, there are even hexagrams and nonsense such as pushing back pictures...
“It’s an excellent book to help you sleep!”
However, as for the strange beasts that may be the result of man-made pursuit of immortality, Chen Yanjun thinks it is really possible.
I thought I had traveled to the peak of the Tang Dynasty, but I found out that it was already on the edge of doom.
"There are too many unstable factors in this world, so we must work hard to speed up our practice!"
Saying this, he fell into a deep sleep.
…
When Xiaoyue woke me up, the moonlight entered the window, crickets chirped and it was almost midnight.
Chen Yanjun finished washing and went out with Xiao Yue.
Walking out of the house, the moonlight is like water tonight, and the wind blows the fragrance of medicine. It is a good night.
I looked up and saw that the stars were as bright as a sand table, and the moon was full and slightly waning... It wasn't a big problem.
"Are you nervous, Master?"
"I'm okay."
"Xiaoyue is so nervous."
"Why are you nervous?"
Xiao Yue is afraid that the young master will be too successful in passing the test, so he will not practice double cultivation with his wife tonight, but she is also afraid that the young master will accidentally fail the test, so she is struggling here...
"Women always have trivial things that worry them!"
The two of them walked around the secret door in the corridor, walked lightly to the center of the main house, and walked into the purple bamboo forest surrounded by them.
The moonlight was shining, the breeze was blowing, and I went deep into the winding bamboo forest path, brushing aside the mist of birds and the bamboo branches blocking my face, and arrived at the edge of the pool in a blink of an eye.
The pond is shrouded in water mist from clear birds, and is surrounded by rugged black rocks, shadowy grass and dense purple bamboo.
Beside the pool, there is also a very eye-catching white cherry tree. The cherry blossoms fall like flying snow, petals disappearing into the pool water.
This time, the water in the pool was as transparent as sapphire and exuded a faint medicinal fragrance.
The taste of the medicine is different from last time. It is obviously much cleaner and not too bitter.
The Chongguan Formation is formed in a circle around the bank of the pond and is a solid engraved formation composed of eight black stones.
The surface of the black stone is engraved with dense and complex spiritual patterns, glowing with a bright blue light.
The center is connected to the formation eye of the house-protecting formation, ensuring that the concentration of spiritual energy in the pool reaches its peak in the human body.
On the shore of the pool, the moonlight is sparse and the blue light is clear.
Madam and Qiu Zhuo were sitting cross-legged. They had both changed into close-fitting green clothes, with bare faces facing the sky.
Under the mottled moonlight, the lady's face is solemn, her appearance is beautiful, her charm is still unparalleled, and she is a magnificent sight.
Without the makeup on her face, she looked even more beautiful and pure, like a girl taking a bath. Chen Yanjun couldn't move his eyes away.
Qiu Zhuo was the same as usual. She had always shown herself without makeup, but now she was wearing a close-fitting green dress, which slightly showed off her slim figure, but could not conceal her freshness.
Xiao Yue on the side is also sweet and lovely, petite and elegant, generous and lovable.
Chen Yanjun's face was slightly tinged as he tried to remember.
I thought to myself, what great things did I do in my previous life to achieve such blessings in this life?
Until I heard the lady’s solemn voice like a full moon hanging in the sky:
"Young master, let's get rid of distracting thoughts and let's get started."