Chapter 10 Where are you going in a hurry? Just stay with me
Xie's house is very big.
Xie Yanyu's residence is in the west, quiet and somewhat desolate.
The residences of the other masters of the Xie Mansion are all on the east side. Although it is also quiet, it has excellent feng shui and is full of spiritual energy, making it suitable for spiritual practice.
Xie Yanyu followed the attendant and walked towards the east.
The further east you go, the more luxuriant the spiritual plants become and the more luxurious and exquisite the decoration becomes.
The glazed tiles on the pavilions and buildings reflected the sunlight, making her eyes hurt. Any glazed tile here might be more valuable than her life. She exchanged her flesh and blood. Every half month, she had to cut her wrists and let Xie Chengjin bleed like an animal to be slaughtered. This was in exchange for the title of Xie family's stepdaughter. In fact, she was not the master, neither the master nor the servant. On weekdays, she had no status to set foot on the east side of the mansion, but Xie Chengjin was born to be the master here, owning every blade of grass and every tree here.
She concealed the darkness in her eyes, no longer looked around, and focused only on the road under her feet.
Not long after, they arrived at Xie Chengjin's study.
Xie Chengjin disliked incense, so none was burning in his study. The windows on all four sides were left a crack, letting in the air. The vast room was filled with only the faintest scent of ink. He was wearing a pale blue indigo robe today, his usual color. The deep, cold color was dull and uninteresting, making him look even more like a block of ice.
Xie Yanyu raised his eyelids to look at him, then bowed gently, "Brother."
She asked, "Why did you ask me to come here?"
Xie Chengjin was writing something, sitting upright. When he saw her coming, he put down his pen.
He didn't say that it was Helan Wei who told him, but just said straight to the point: "You want to practice cultivation?"
Xie Yanyu really wanted to practice cultivation.
She dreamed of a life of luxury, of stepping on others' heads, but her physique prevented her from breaking through to the foundation-building stage. If she could cultivate, she wouldn't be so obsessed with climbing the social ladder. But she wasn't content to give up, so she hadn't neglected herself over the years, even studying pharmacology and browsing books on unconventional techniques.
I didn't mention these things to anyone on purpose, but I didn't hide them from anyone either.
Xie Chengjin asked now. Although she didn't know why he asked suddenly, she nodded: "Yes."
"Can you build your foundation?"
"Foundation established."
When Xie Chengjin heard her say that she had already established her foundation, he looked at her for a second longer.
He seemed to remember that she had not yet established her foundation when she first came to the Xie family.
Building a foundation isn't difficult. If an ordinary person were determined to cultivate and amassed all sorts of cultivation resources, they could achieve it in ten or twenty years. But she wasn't very old, and at most, she'd only been in the Xie family for two or three years. With so few cultivation resources, building a foundation in such a short time was incredibly difficult, a struggle unbearable for ordinary people. The fact that she could do it was already surprising enough.
However, Xie Chengjin often dreams from her perspective recently. Thinking of the sharp and soft thorns hidden under her skin, he strangely feels that it is as expected.
His gaze lingered for only a moment, then quickly retracted.
"Now that you've established your foundation, you should be able to start controlling the talisman." He picked up a talisman from the table, exerted a little spiritual power, and sent the talisman to her through the air: "Try it."
This is a fire starter.
After building the foundation, cultivators can control spiritual power, but the available spiritual power is limited, and they cannot even do the basic fire and water drawing. Therefore, they need to use talismans as a medium to try to control water and fire. These are very basic techniques that must be practiced during cultivation.
Xie Chengjin's cultivation was very high, he had already passed the Nascent Soul stage, so he didn't need basic things like the Fire Induction Talisman.
So this talisman was drawn by him just before she came.
The ink on the talisman was half dry, and no one knew how this man suddenly thought of teaching her how to practice. He abided by the rules. Even though he was high above her and didn't take her seriously, or even treated her as a human being, he had decided to teach her how to practice, and he would still prepare the talisman in a meticulous manner before she came.
Xie Yanyu curled his lips, feeling it was absurd and funny, then lowered his head and took the talisman.
She mobilized her spiritual power and tried to control the talisman.
The next second,
A spark of fire leaped up from the talisman paper.
This was Xie Yanyu's first time controlling a talisman, and it seemed very successful.
She used her spiritual power to ignite the flame, letting it dance back and forth twice on her fingertips, and then she was ready to withdraw her hand.
However, just when he was about to stop, something unexpected happened -
The spiritual power in her body suddenly went out of control and poured into the talisman frantically!
The flame was drawn by the spiritual power and burned rapidly in almost the blink of an eye, trying to burn through the entire talisman!
Xie Yanyu tried to throw away the talisman, but her spiritual power and hands were out of control. At this time, she could not control herself at all. Not only could she not throw the talisman away, but her fingers kept closing, as if she wanted to hold the talisman tighter, and she even made a little attacking gesture, wanting to fall on Xie Chengjin.
She was a little anxious, and tried to hold her hand with her other hand.
But Xie Chengjin was faster.
He quickly held her wrist to stop her movements.
The incident happened quickly and ended quickly. The next second, as her hand was held down, the fire was extinguished as well.
He noticed that the spiritual power in her body was running wild, so he held her hand still and inserted a little spiritual power into her body to sense the direction of her spiritual power.
There was a moment of silence in the air.
Xie Yanyu quickly reacted and apologized: "Just now, I didn't control my spiritual power and almost hurt my brother. I-"
As she spoke, she pulled her hand back.
However, before he finished speaking,
Xie Chengjin applied a little force and held her wrist down again: "Don't move."
Xie Yanyu paused.
Because of his palm pressing on me, I could feel some uneven scars on his palm, which had a rough touch.
Xie Chengjin continued to sense the flow of spiritual power in her body.
Perhaps it was because the fire almost burned her just now. Even though the fire was out now, the temperature of her skin was still very high. He pressed her wrist, and the heat from his palm was very strong, accompanying the beating of her pulse, so that he was distracted for a moment and noticed the touch of her wrist. It was very delicate, like fine jade, and it was like a vine, entwined and attached to his palm, as if once he noticed it, he could not get rid of it.
He lowered his eyelashes,
After a while, he sensed her spiritual power flowing backwards and said calmly: "The meridians are stagnant and the spiritual power is flowing backwards. If the meridians are not opened, you can only build the foundation at best."
He withdrew his hand and pulled out a manual from the side: "Open up the Qi channels first. Memorize it."
This mental method can indeed help her open up her meridians. Xie Yanyu had thought about memorizing the mental method before, but these were secret manuals from aristocratic families, and she couldn't even steal them.
What's more, her inability to practice was indeed caused by the blockage of her meridians, but this was not the main reason. Even if her meridians were unblocked, she would probably only be at the initial stage of the Golden Elixir, so she gave up the idea of practicing.
Now Xie Chengjin gave her the secret method. In the past, she would probably still recite it carefully.
But now, the system told her that she could become an immortal after completing the plot, so she felt there was no need to go far. So she took the mental method from Xie Chengjin a little perfunctorily, stood up and saluted him: "Thank you, brother."
She held the secret method and looked at Xie Chengjin.
Feeling that Xie Chengjin was not prepared to say anything more, he said to leave: "I am sorry for offending you today, brother. I will take my leave first."
She said and walked out.
Xie Chengjin asked her, "Where are you going in such a hurry?"
Xie Yanyu was still thinking about going to Helan Wei.
But she wasn't ready to tell him the truth, so she said gently, "I'm not going anywhere. My brother gave me the Heart Sutra, and I want to memorize it quickly, so I'm going back to memorize it."
Upon hearing this, Xie Chengjin looked up at her.
His eyes were dark and emotionless, but when he looked at people like this, he seemed to be able to see through all of their thoughts.
He just looked at her quietly for a while.
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Xie Yanyu seemed to hear him sneer very softly, very lightly and briefly, a little chilling, like an auditory hallucination.
Then he heard him say calmly:
"Just carry it here."
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