Chapter 39: The Way of Physical Cultivation
"Who's robbing?" The master came over in confusion. "Why are there so many chickens?"
Xi Jing explained it again, then grabbed the struggling chicken in her hand and said, "Master, Second Brother, Third Brother are all too busy to handle it. Do you want to do it?"
"Well, I am old and weak, so I can't run much. You guys continue. I will go to the study to look through the ancient books. There is still a small problem that I haven't solved." He said as he walked towards the study.
Han Yueshan was shocked by this and said, "Master, didn't you say that judging from your age, you are still a young talent in the world of immortal cultivation?"
The master sighed and walked away slowly: "People have to accept their age."
Xi Jing turned and looked at him: "Second Brother?"
"Xi Jing, you know Second Senior Brother. With his strength, it's not easy for him to catch anything alive."
She looked at her senior brother with a smile and said word by word: "I didn't tell you to catch it."
"What are we going to do?"
"Drive them over here so we can catch them."
Tao Zi looked around and warned, "A lot of chickens have run into the peach forest."
Xi Jing urged, "Second Brother, why don't you hurry over and drive them back."
"Xi Jing, tie up the chicken, and Senior Sister will go catch it too."
She said as she hurried over.
But in just one or two hours, all the chickens that could be caught were caught, and there was nothing they could do about the remaining ones that had run into the woods.
Xi Jing looked at the forest in confusion, his hands constantly tying the chicken wings. He said, "Where has Second Brother been? Only one or two chickens have escaped in this hour."
The third senior brother sat on a small stool and shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
After a while, Han Yueshan put his hands behind his back and walked out slowly: "Junior Sister, people have their own lives, and so do chickens. We can't force them."
Xi Jing squinted her eyes and looked at him suspiciously, "What did you do?"
Tao Zi noticed that there was blood on the hem of his clothes and felt something was wrong.
As expected, he slowly stretched out his hands from behind, holding the upper half of a chicken with his left hand and the lower half with his right hand. From time to time, a drop of blood fell. Han Yueshan smiled and said, "Junior Sister, look at this chicken. It is destined to be on our dinner table today."
Xi Jing's face was filled with black lines, and she said helplessly: "Then you go and... wait!"
She looked at it carefully, her expression gradually becoming worse. "This is a laying hen! Grandpa Chen specifically told me to save it for the eggs!"
Han Yueshan took a step back: "I don't know either. It's destined. Heaven has its own arrangements."
"What does this have to do with the laws of nature? It's clearly a matter of your strength. Also, why are you trying to catch it when you can just keep it away?"
Seeing that Xi Jing was about to start mumbling, he immediately made an excuse to rush to the kitchen, and Zhao Xue resigned himself to going to the woods to look for chickens.
The master popped up at this time: "A Zi, come here."
When they arrived at the study, the master took out a book that looked like some street trash and said, "Azi, let me tell you about the way of body cultivation."
"There are six realms in physical cultivation, namely, body refining, solidity, flesh forging, bone tempering, body killing, and rotation. It is different from the two cultivations of Taoism and Buddhism, and the requirements for spiritual veins are not high."
Tao Zi knew all this, but still listened very carefully.
The master flipped through the book and continued, "Taoist cultivation of the body consists of seven parts refining Qi and three parts refining the body. Meanwhile, physical cultivation of the body consists of nine parts refining the body and one part refining Qi. Your spiritual veins are damaged, but it doesn't matter. As long as you can sense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth and attract it under my guidance, you don't need to circulate along a specific spiritual vein."
She knew that when practicing Taoism, one needed to let the spiritual energy circulate in a specific spiritual vein in order to temper the spiritual vein and use it for one's own benefit; while physical cultivation required tempering the meridians. The two were very different - the spiritual vein was just a very special meridian among many.
However, Master specifically reminded him of one point: "Under normal circumstances, spiritual energy flowing through spiritual meridians does not cause pain, but flowing through other meridians does. However, your situation is special, so Master cannot be sure. Ah Zi, you must be mentally prepared."
She nodded. "Master, I understand. When does it start?"
"The sooner the better. If you're willing, you can try to sense spiritual energy today."
Looking at her master's vaguely serious face, she asked, "Master, is something bad going to happen?"
He sighed softly: "Azi, many things are hard to say, so we should prepare early."
Tao Zi didn't ask any more questions and just nodded in agreement.
The brothers and sisters who received the news were more shocked than each other.
"I heard that physical training is very painful. Master, don't you have any other methods?"
"No way, physical training? What if Senior Sister turns into a strong man? This is too unimaginable."
"The physical training is quite good. Although it hurts a bit, the strength in the hands is excellent."
To Tao Zi's surprise, her junior brother Zhao Xue actually agreed to physical cultivation. She couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
When Xi Jing knew she would attempt to take the first step that afternoon, she immediately put both chicken legs into her bowl and said, "Sister, physical training is very strenuous, so you should eat more. I'll kill an old hen tonight and make some soup for you to nourish yourself."
Han Yueshan muttered, "I can't even finish this one now."
Xi Jing glared at him and said, "You killed them, so eat more. I'll go to the city in a few days and buy some more eggs to keep as a supplement for Senior Sister."
He reminded: "Don't buy anything randomly. Find out what's best to eat during the initial stage of physical training."
Zhao Xue also joined in the fun: "How about I go too?"
The master blew his beard and glared at him, scolding, "What are you asking about? Don't you know how to ask me? You are a bunch of stupid people."
Tao Zi looked at them gently, with warmth rising in her heart. This was how a normal disciple-disciple relationship should be, instead of those so-called junior brothers and sisters still singing and dancing when she was lying in the house with her life hanging by a thread.
Thinking of this, she suddenly frowned. How could she have been so foolish before? The first hundred years were fine; they weren't beyond redemption, but the last hundred years were nothing but ungrateful bastards. Even with that man's words, she wouldn't have bothered so much.
Doubt flashed through her mind, but before she could ponder it, Xi Jing interrupted her thoughts: "Senior Sister, is there anything you want to eat? I'll buy it for you."
She was startled for a moment, then quickly shook her head: "No."
At this time, the master said, "We haven't given your elder sister any of the peaches grown in our sect. Pick some good ones for her today."
Zhao Xue blurted out, "What good stuff is this? I'm tired of eating it."
Han Yueshan gave him a slap on the face: "You're so stupid! Just because we're tired of eating it doesn't mean that Senior Sister doesn't like it. You must have become stupid from studying too much."
Tao Zi was a little amused and helpless. Tao Zi and Tao Zi, she almost didn't react.
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