"Hey, are there really monks practicing oral skills here?"
Looking at the monk sitting cross-legged at the mouth of the glacier valley in the distance, facing the storm and chanting sutras with his eyes closed, Chu Fan's expression froze.
Because he still couldn't figure it out, he wanted to find a glacier valley mouth with less wind. As a result, he searched all the way and found this place.
"The stories in the book are actually true..."
After murmuring something, he did not disturb the other party, but found a sheltered place to sit down and observe from a distance.
The monk was young, about eighteen or nineteen years old. Although he was wrapped in several monk's robes, he still looked thin.
Especially on this vast expanse of ice, in this blinding wind and snow, he was like a small boat on the turbulent sea, incomparably insignificant.
"Let's see how long he can last!"
It was difficult to endure such a wind and snow even just standing at the mouth of the glacier, let alone chanting sutras all the time, so Chu Fan felt that the monk would not be able to hold on for long.
An hour passed.
"If he continues like this, he won't die right there!"
Chu Fan murmured in a low voice, his tone no longer as firm as before.
Two hours passed.
"If you keep chanting, won't his mouth dry up?"
Chu Fan, who couldn't sit still even in the sheltered place, was distracted by his thoughts.
Three hours passed.
The monk was still chanting sutras in the cold wind, just like at the beginning, and the expression on his face was neither sad nor happy.
"Been taught a lesson!"
After bowing to the monk from a distance, Chu Fan turned and left.
At this time, Chu Fan had already realized that the previous six days of training to open his ear acupoints had caused him to unconsciously develop the desire to take shortcuts.
However, there are no shortcuts in the path of spiritual practice.
You can find a suitable cultivation environment, or you can ask others for cultivation techniques and experiences, but for real cultivation, no one can do it for you. You can only go on step by step by yourself.
Returning to the entrance of the glacier valley before, Chu Fan smiled leisurely: "If the monk can do it, so can I!"
Immediately, like a monk, he sat at the mouth of the glacier valley in the wind and snow, then took out the "Essays on Alchemy" borrowed from the library and started reading aloud.
The cold wind and ice slag poured into his mouth in large gulps, making it impossible for him to calm down and read a book. His thoughts kept diverging, but he had to restrain them one by one with difficulty.
Very hard work!
Very hard work!
But it’s just hard work.
Upon seeing this, the Yuguang Mirror floated in front of him, blocking the wind and snow for him.
But he smiled and pointed to the book in his hand: "Just bring some light!"
The Yuguang Mirror swayed and floated above his head, like a desk lamp, projecting a soft mirror light onto the book page in his hand.
Time passes slowly and inadvertently.
Gradually, Chu Fan did not need to consciously operate it. The energy in his body began to circulate naturally in his body like instinct, resisting the severe cold.
At the same time, his thoughts were gradually immersed in "Essays on Alchemy". Although the voice he read aloud was not loud in the wind and snow, it was steady and powerful.
"This section is really interesting. You have to choose a day to make elixirs. If you can't choose an auspicious day, wouldn't it mean that you won't be able to make elixirs..."
"Is the alchemy furnace so important..."
"Similar to weapon refining, this alchemy seems to be a systematic discipline. If you are not careful, the medicinal materials for alchemy will be wasted..."
Although the knowledge in "Essays on Alchemy" is not deep, it is extremely broad in scope and covers almost all aspects of alchemy. It gave Chu Fan, who could only barely make the 'Qi-Building and Strengthening Pills', a completely new understanding of alchemy.
After reading the last page, he felt quite regretful.
After reading this "Essay on Alchemy", his doubts about alchemy not only did not decrease, but became more and more.
After chewing a 'Bi Qi Jian Ti Pill', he took out the "Gu Fang Lu" also borrowed from the library and continued reading aloud.
Different from "Essays on Alchemy", the content in "Ancient Prescriptions" focuses on the study of various incomplete ancient prescriptions.
The author of this book seems to have unique insights into alchemy recipes, and has his own theory on the selection of main materials, auxiliary materials, and medicinal ingredients for alchemy.
"Just like refining weapons, elixir refining also requires the coordination of yin and yang, and the interplay of the five elements..." After a pause, Chu Fan put down the book in his hand: "Fortunately, I didn't mess around, otherwise, that red fruit would have been destroyed.
I wasted it!"
After finishing reading "Ancient Fang Lu" again, Chu Fan exhaled and looked up at the sky.
Only then did I realize that I had been reading all night at the entrance of the glacier valley in the wind and snow, and the sky had turned white again.
"Hey, it's not that difficult!"
Chu Fan chuckled lightly.
At this moment, his face suddenly stiffened and he froze on the spot.
Because he found that even in the wind and snow, he could speak easily, and he could even control his voice to converge into a line and extend out in the wind and snow.
"The orifice of the mouth...is opened?!"
He couldn't believe it.
The six days of practicing to open his ear acupoints were a great surprise to him. He never thought that he could open his ear acupoints in just one night.
This is too incredible!
"Is it because I entered the state of 'forgetting both things and myself', and because of Zhu Guo, that I was able to practice my orifices overnight?"
After recalling it carefully, he vaguely remembered that in the latter half of the night, he indeed could no longer feel the wind, snow and severe cold.
All the confrontations with the wind and snow have become the instinct of the body. The true energy runs independently in the acupuncture points. Every acupuncture point in the mouth orifices is like water flowing naturally, and it is logically connected by the true energy one by one.
Considering that the sensual Prince Rui can easily reach the level of seven or eight orifices, it can be seen that taking a red fruit is a great help in the orifice refining stage.
"This is going to be troublesome..."
Practicing his orifices all night long was so shocking that he didn't know how to explain it.
His colleagues in the Qingfeng Academy did not know about his six-day practice to open the ear orifices. Everyone thought that he had accumulated some knowledge before. After all, he had stopped cultivating the three orifices for several years.
But just yesterday the ear orifices were opened, and today the mouth orifices were opened. This cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences. And there are too many secrets in him. If too much attention is attracted, Yu Guang will be exposed easily.
The secret of the mirror, or 'glazed species'.
At this time, a picture appeared on the damaged mirror of the Yuguang Mirror.
In the painting, two children, a boy and a girl, kneel on the snowy field, worshiping the sky devoutly. In front of them, there is a small bowl with fresh fruits and vegetables in it.
"Aren't these the two children from yesterday?"
Chu Fan was startled, then smiled slightly, and let Yu Guangjing take away the fruits and vegetables from the bowl in front of the two children without anyone noticing.
Then while chewing fruits and vegetables, he said: "I happen to be hungry!"
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...
On the snowfield.
After prostrating, the younger brother asked his elder sister in a low voice: "Sister, can the gods hear our thanks?"
My sister is not sure either: "It should be okay!"
Suddenly, the younger brother pointed to the small bowl in front of him: "Sister, bowl... bowl..."
My sister looked over and found that the offerings in the bowl had disappeared without a trace...