Chapter 17: Herbal Cleansing Sutra (II)

After the teacher left, Li Yan felt his breath flow freely, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly. As long as the teacher stood beside him, he would feel his breath stagnate.

At that moment, he calmed down and stopped thinking. The copper furnace could give him about an hour to practice each time it burned. He couldn't waste time. He came to the copper furnace, stood in a stance, and then stretched his hands into the blue-black air above the copper basin. He silently practiced the formula and mental method. Suddenly, the blue-black air wrapped around his hands seemed to be pulled, and split into ten black threads to drill into his fingertips. Li Yan suddenly felt like a red-hot needle, suddenly prying open his nails, just like peeling them off, and the pain pierced his heart and brain.

Even though Li Yan was prepared, he did not expect such pain. He groaned, his stance swayed a few times, and he took two steps back. The strange thing was that the blue-black filaments of qi that had been pulled by the technique did not dissipate. They stretched as he retreated, and still went into his body through his nails.

Li Yan's black robe was soaked with sweat. He gritted his teeth, concentrated his mind, moved forward two steps, stood in the stance again, and practiced the technique again. The blue-black filaments of qi were like red-hot silver needles, piercing and advancing in his meridians. Every time he advanced an inch, his whole body trembled unconsciously, and sweat flowed out like pulp.

He didn't know how long he could persist in practicing, but he was naturally tough. Although he couldn't do everything he was determined to do, he always tried his best. Time passed little by little, and later his nerves were numb. Only in his mind was the technique still mechanically running to drive the blue-black qi to wander in his body.

Outside, although Master Ji, who was sitting cross-legged on the stone table, was meditating with his eyes closed, his eyelids occasionally twitched, revealing his uneasiness. After more than half an hour, he suddenly opened his eyes and disappeared from the stone table. The stone door where Li Yan lived seemed to be opened by an invisible force.

Li Yan, who was in the room, had a dark face at this moment, and his hands and arms were covered with a layer of black air. He was unconscious at this time, and even the last mechanical operation of the skills could not be done. His body was leaning back, but the dark air was still tightly connected to his ten fingers, and formed arcs as his body fell backwards, which looked very strange. Just as he was about to fall straight to the ground, a figure suddenly came behind him, and rolled him up with one big sleeve, and shook the other big sleeve towards the ten blue-black air. With a few slight "pop" sounds, the blue-black air had been cut off from Li Yan's ten fingers, but Li Yan's body seemed to still have suction. The broken blue-black air was still like a twisting venomous snake in the air, spitting and swaying towards Li Yan's body, which looked extremely scary and weird.

Ji Junshi no longer looked at the blue-black air, and shook the big sleeve that was rolling up Li Yan. A peaceful force lifted Li Yan to fly to the wooden bed, and then slowly put him on the bed. Then he walked a few steps to the bed, his hands flew in front of his chest, and after forming a few seemingly complicated hand seals, a few blue starlights flew out of his fingertips and fell on Li Yan's abdomen.

Li Yan was in a volcano, feeling the burning pain in his body. He wanted to scream but couldn't. He was in great pain. Countless red magma surrounded him and cooked him thoroughly.

He felt that he was going to die in this volcano. Suddenly, a cool feeling rose in his abdomen. He felt that the volcano and the boundless magma slowly receded, and his mind began to clear up. When he opened his eyes, he found that he was lying flat on the bed. A teacher in a black robe stood beside the bed. He struggled to sit up, but there was another sharp pain in his chest and abdomen. He groaned and lay down again. He felt sparks flying in front of his eyes, and the volcano in his body was faintly erupting again.

Lying on the bed, after calming down, he turned his head to look at the teacher and smiled reluctantly, "Old teacher, I am incompetent and I am ashamed of my teacher's expectations."

"Haha, you don't have to blame yourself. This first time you can hold on for more than half an hour, which has surprised me. You did a good job." Master Ji smiled at him gently.

"So, I can practice our sect's skills now," Li Yan said with some twisted face.

"Of course, but although you feel uncomfortable now, you still have to refine the medicinal power of the plants and trees you just absorbed. Otherwise, these medicinal powers will stay in your body, which will do you no good. And only after refining, these medicinal powers belong to you and you have completed a practice."

Li Yan naturally knew this. The teacher had said that the practice was divided into two steps every day, absorbing the medicinal power of plants and trees, and then refining it for your own use. After 49 days, you can enter the first level and generate internal force. From then on, the body will be based on this, and there is no need to absorb the medicinal power of plants and trees. Just practice continuously.

Li Yan took a breath, endured the burning pain in his body, slowly sat up, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and began to circulate the mind to refine the medicinal power in his body.

After seeing this, Advisor Ji turned around and quietly retreated, then sat cross-legged on the stone table outside the house again. After sitting down, he muttered to himself in a low voice, "This boy has a strong character, but it is hard to say whether he can remain calm and peaceful after refining the medicinal power." After he said this incoherent sentence, he seemed to fall into deep thought.

From that day on, Li Yan began a painful journey of practicing medicine day after day, refining the power of the medicine to strengthen the meridians, but the time he could stay awake while the medicine entered his body was getting longer and longer. As time went by, although the power of the medicine increased by nearly double every seven days, the pain of the medicine entering his body was gradually reduced. In addition to the first few times when Master Ji helped him to resolve it, he could practice completely on his own in the later period. This was due to the increasing strength of his meridians. The meridians before were like a delicate pipeline. When the power of the medicine was forcibly torn open and expanded, it was naturally painful. As the power of the medicine was refined into the body, the large and small meridians in his body were slowly growing and expanding. Several major meridians have become thick and tough, and the pain has been greatly reduced.

"Huh" Li Yan took a long breath and ended today's exercise and refining. He did not stand up, but still sat cross-legged. After opening his eyes, he frowned and felt a surge of irritability in his heart. He had to take another deep breath. As his daily practice progressed, he found that his mood became more and more irritable, as if there was a ball of fire running up and down in his body, which made him very upset.

He also asked his teacher, and Master Ji Jun told him that this was due to the body cleansing of the medicine. Strong medicine can create strong meridians. Only with such a physique can the fierce skills of this sect be driven. After entering the first level after 49 days, this situation will improve. In the future, as the skills deepen, this situation will completely disappear.

After hearing this, Li Yan thought about the teacher's world-class martial arts and felt that it made sense, but he still felt uneasy in his heart. He had no clue every time he thought about it.

Putting aside these thoughts, Li Yan felt irritable again. This irritability has begun to make him unable to keep his heart and return to the origin every time he practices.

Li Yan stood up and pushed the door open and walked out. It was already dark. He was very upset, so he walked in the valley. Since he started practicing, he had been busy practicing every day, so he had no time to rest. But today, he just wanted to vent his irritability, so he couldn't stay in the room.

He walked aimlessly in the valley, the autumn wind in the dark night blew on his face, and the cool breeze blew on his face. He felt that the boredom in his chest disappeared a lot, and he couldn't help but take a few deep breaths of the cool breeze in the wind. He walked slowly in the valley. The valley was not very big. After turning half a circle, he came to the pool. He felt a burst of coldness. His heart was cold, and he felt that the breath in his body was smooth and his spirit was greatly lifted. He walked a few steps quickly to the edge of the pool. The coldness was even stronger, and his chest was already very comfortable. Li Yan was overjoyed and simply sat down by the pond. He sat there for half an hour. When he stood up, the heat in his body had completely disappeared, and then he felt tired. He went back to his room and fell asleep.

When the dawn came, Li Yan woke up from his sleep and felt refreshed. In the past twenty days of practice, with the changes in his body, he had not fallen asleep like last night for a long time.

After waking up, Li Yan stood in front of the table, looking at the mist swirling over the pond outside the window, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and then he walked quickly to the teacher's stone house. When he arrived in front of the stone house, the familiar and gentle voice of Master Ji Jun came out, "Come in, then come in."

Since Li Yan started practicing, he rarely came to the teacher's place. Basically, the teacher would guard him outside his house after preparing medicine every day.

"Yes, teacher," Li Yan's face condensed, and he walked in quickly. When he entered the house, he found that the teacher was still sitting cross-legged behind the table, holding the book that looked like gold but not gold, like jade but not jade in one hand, and looking up at him with a smile. But he didn't know why, every time he saw the teacher, he always felt that his breath was not smooth.

"Hehe, you look good today. It seems that you have discovered something in the valley." Master Ji looked at Li Yan in front of him and said with a smile.

"Teacher, do you know why the disciple came here?" Li Yan asked in surprise.

"You should have discovered that the pool can relieve the heat in your body, right?" Master Ji smiled.

"Yes, teacher, it turns out that the teacher knew the effect of the pool a long time ago." Li Yan asked.

"Of course I know. Half of the reason why I chose this valley as my residence was because the water in this pool has some strange cold effect."

"Then, teacher, why don't you let the disciple practice there?" Li Yan asked hesitantly.

"Haha, the entry method of our sect is really a bit overbearing, so this situation will occur when our disciples practice at the beginning, but there are many general solutions. For example, immersing yourself in your own hobbies to restore your state of mind to peace, such as playing the piano, blowing music, calligraphy, etc.; another is to use external forces to directly offset the fire in the body, such as ice and stone, snowy mountains, cold ponds, etc." At this point, Master Ji paused and glanced at Li Yan.

Li Yan did not ask further questions, he knew that the teacher would give him an answer soon.

Seeing Li Yan's calm demeanor, Master Ji couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "This child is very quiet and thoughtful."

Then, he said, "The reason why I didn't let you practice by the pond right now is that when you first start practicing, you should rely on your own endurance to fight, so that you can better hone your character; if you rely on external objects at the beginning, then as you practice later, the effect will become lower and lower, and it will delay your own practice. Therefore, I didn't tell you these things, fearing that you can't resist the temptation and give up your own practice."

After hearing this, Li Yan thought to himself, "So there is such a reason. These many solutions cannot be used lightly." Then he bowed and said, "Disciple knows I was wrong."

Ji Junshi waved his hand, " This is not your fault, it's just that the master didn't say it clearly. "Then, he pondered for a moment and said, "Well, judging from your practice these few days, you should have reached a certain bottleneck, but you should not practice at the water pond for the time being. The master will use other methods to help you eliminate the abnormalities that occur during practice. When you sprint to the first level in 49 days, you can practice by the water pond. The effect will be best at that time. If you enter the first level, you can practice there for a long time. "

Li Yan was delighted when he heard this, "What method did the teacher use?"

"You will know when you practice today." Master Ji smiled slightly, but did not explain.

Li Yan smiled bitterly in his heart and had to say goodbye and leave.

After several hours, when Li Yan took the medicine into his body, he began to sit cross-legged to refine the medicine. Soon, the hot air was churning in his body. After Li Yan suppressed it several times, he slowly couldn't suppress it anymore. His mood could no longer be calm, and his restlessness became more and more churning.

At this moment, a burst of piano music suddenly floated in from the window outside the house, like the autumn moon on the lake, like the rising jade rabbit in the east, and just like the breeze in the forest gently blowing the branches and leaves, and suddenly like a girl whispering, and then like the morning dew that enlightened the heart. Li Yan suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and his irritability gradually disappeared, and his mind slowly became clear.

He immediately understood what method the teacher used. It turned out that the teacher's piano skills were so profound that he could turn the sound into a state and make people's mind clear. At that moment, he didn't dare to think about it anymore, and he concentrated his mind and slowly entered a state of selflessness.