Chapter 208 Fitness
"Lu Hanyan defeated Fang Jincheng in the Sword Forest?"
"Um."
"How could this be? At the previous banquet, didn't the disciples of the Heavenly Academy keep saying that the Fang family has a strong foundation in the Heavenly Academy, and Fang Jincheng's own cultivation is very solid, so it is a foregone conclusion that he will be admitted to the inner courtyard?"
"I was a little skeptical when I first heard it, but later I found out that the swordsmanship of the second lady of the Lu family was full of the shape of Ji You."
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"Brother, what you said had better really be the way of the sword, not some other way."
Princess Changle Zhao Yunyue was sitting in a teahouse here, having tea with three or five good sisters. They talked about going to a villa outside the city to escape the summer heat in a few days. Also at the table were several princesses left behind by the concubines of the previous emperor.
When the women got together, they mostly talked about poetry, songs, and handsome in-laws, but Zhao Yunyue wasn't very interested in any of that.
At this moment, she looked outside the pavilion and suddenly saw a group of disciples from Tianshu Academy coming down the mountain.
They came from the middle of the long street. There were a few familiar faces, but most of them were strangers. They were disciples of unknown reputation. They walked together into the Food for Immortals on the opposite side.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Yunyue frowned slightly.
The Chong Palace held a banquet yesterday and invited many disciples from the Tianshu Academy. The Lu sisters, Fang Jincheng and Fang Zhiheng were also among them.
One was to establish some useful background connections before the Autumn Fight, and the other was for the Yunzhou Spirit Stone.
King Chong has a stake in Yunzhou's Spiritual Stone Chamber of Commerce. As the transportation route of the Snow Demon Stone was changed to Fengzhou, the price of Yunzhou Stone has been falling again. King Chong intends to find out the next plan of the Spiritual Stone Chamber of Commerce through the Lu sisters.
In their opinion, Yunzhou, which relies on spiritual stones as its foundation, would not just sit and watch Fengzhou's stone transportation route go so smoothly.
But after the banquet was ready and the singing and dancing were complete, Princess Changle and Prince Chong waited for two full hours, only to find that neither the Lu sisters nor Fang Jincheng showed up.
Later, the disciples of Tianshu Academy who arrived at the scene told them that Lu Hanyan and Fang Jincheng had fought in the sword forest in the outer courtyard.
Fang Jincheng, who postponed his admission to the hospital for a year in order to avoid Chu He's edge, was completely defeated after being arranged by the elders of the inner court to have countless disciples protect him, and was nearly cut in the throat by Lu Hanyan's sword.
Afterwards, Elder Fang from Tianshu Academy hurriedly sent his disciples to take the person out of the sword forest.
Fang Zhiheng, who claimed to be a swordsmanship genius as soon as he arrived in the capital, is said to have left Shengjing early this morning.
Afterwards, the outer courtyard of Tianshu Academy was filled with voices saying that Lu Hanyan was able to enter the inner courtyard.
In fact, when Zhao Yunyue first heard the news, he couldn't believe it.
She had seen the three people in Tianshu Academy who had reached the perfection of the lower three realms this year: Fang Jincheng, Lu Hanyan and Puyang Xing.
Lu Hanyan was actually ranked last. Not to mention Fang Jincheng, who had the most solid foundation, she was not even as good as Puyang Xing. How could such incredible news come out?
Zhao Yunyue then asked someone and found out that it was Ji You who came down the mountain from the inner courtyard personally and taught Lu Hanyan the swordsmanship every day.
This incident kept her silent for a long time, and it was only today that she felt like coming out for tea.
But she herself couldn't explain what she was annoyed about, she just felt very annoyed by this kind of thing.
Princess Changle suddenly felt depressed again. She said goodbye to several princesses and took a carriage back to Prince Chong's Mansion.
Although Prince Chong is the representative of the pro-immortal faction and has been secretly meddling in matters concerning spirit stones, spirit seedlings, and even taxes and elixirs, he has always behaved like a laid-back prince and usually just spends his time appreciating flowers and composing poetry in his mansion.
Seeing his daughter coming back from outside, King Chong's right hand, which was about to raise the fish food, suddenly stopped.
Today he received a tip from the Fengzhou Agriculture official, in which he learned the estimated amount of agricultural income in Fengzhou this year. The astonishing figure left him silent for a long time.
And all of this cannot avoid the name Ji You.
In the second year of Taiwu, at the entrance ceremony of Tianshu Academy, there were three people who completed the lower three realms. Two of them were children of immortal families, and the other was a private cultivator from the countryside who was admitted as an exception.
The only one he did not choose has come to where he is today, and can even influence the selection of the next batch of students in the inner courtyard of Tianshu Academy.
King Chong has made many investments in his life, some of which he made money on and some of which he lost money on.
The only thing that made him feel unacceptable was that the dinner that year was a drop in the bucket, not even as much as the money he spent on feeding the fish, but Ji You was not invited to attend.
In addition to Prince Chong and Princess Changle, the outer court disciples of Tianshu Academy were also talking about the sword duel in the bamboo forest, so much so that this year's outer court autumn finally received enough attention.
After all, unexpected things are the things that are most likely to cause discussion.
But in fact, although everyone was talking about Lu Hanyan and Fang Jincheng, most of the content was actually discussing Ji You.
The inner court disciples were also discussing him, but the content of their discussion was somewhat different from that of the outer court disciples.
They also heard about the fight that involved Qiu Dou being hospitalized.
And Lu Hanyan, who was in that turmoil, did not seem to learn the sword art of Lingjian Mountain from Ji You. What she learned was only Ji You's own sword art. In the eyes of the inner courtyard disciples, this was the most thought-provoking...
After the bright spring day, the weather becomes hurried all year round, and the fragrant breeze brings the heat overnight.
Then the sun's shadow lengthened quietly, and the sky lost its spring powder, leaving only a clear blue dome. Occasionally, flowing clouds broke through the stagnant clouds, and the mottled shadows of the trees would shatter into dancing spots of light all over the ground.
Meanwhile, Fengzhou’s first transportation road has been repaired, and Danxia County, as the first stop, has become the largest transit point for the Snow Demon Stone.
Subsequently, a large number of high-quality spirit stones were sent to the Central Plains, causing the prices of Yunzhou Stone and Zhongzhou Stone to fall again.
This year, Fengzhou will get what it wants, wind and rain.
So wherever you look, you can see lush green everywhere.
On the other hand, the barbarians have been accustomed to attacking the North at this time for many years, but this year they have been slow to arrive.
The court of Daxia could not help but discuss this phenomenon. Some people were on guard, but others felt that the barbarians had lost their will after a thousand years of unsuccessful siege.
This view is not groundless, because according to the political logic of the human race, the barbarians sought an alliance with the demon tribe last year probably because they had lost their morale after years of attacking and therefore thought of seeking external help.
However, the demon tribe did not fulfill the barbarians' wishes, so their remaining spirit was completely destroyed.
This seems to be a good thing for the human race.
However, a group of vigilant people, led by the Sixianjian, believed that the barbarians' obsession that had lasted for a thousand years would not disappear in such a short period of time.
But it is safe, indeed extremely safe.
At this time, Lu Hanyan had already gathered the sixth mysterious light. Compared with Fang Jincheng who had not made any progress, her chance of winning increased again. She also never stopped practicing swordsmanship and had always been very hardworking.
At this time, in the sword forest of the outer courtyard, Lu Hanyan was holding a Taoist sword, and the bamboo leaves in the sword forest were rustling as she danced.
After the battle that day, Fang Jincheng felt insulted and never came to Jianlin again. This place became a little quieter.
Ji You was standing at the entrance of the sword forest at this time, watching Lu Hanyan dance with the sword with longing eyes.
There was no follow-up to the private fight in the inner courtyard. Neither Lu Hanyan nor Fang Jincheng received any substantial punishment. However, more and more people in the courtyard wanted to learn sword from him, but he rejected them one by one.
He had agreed to teach Lu Hanyan swordsmanship in order to resist the influence of Shen Daoxin, and he was still continuing because he felt that since some things had been done, they should be done from beginning to end.
Besides, Lu Hanyan's figure is perfect, with nice breasts, nice buttocks, a slender waist and long legs, so it is a pleasure to watch her dance with the sword.
There is no man who doesn't love the beauty of women. A serious man like him will appreciate it even if he doesn't have any lustful thoughts.
Ji You felt that the kind of person who could truly act like a gentleman and not look at women sideways would only appear in Gouzi literature.
"Master Ji, do you think my sister has a high chance of entering the inner courtyard?"
"Fang Jincheng is so skilled, he looks strong but is weak inside. If he can't even enter the inner courtyard, then my swordsmanship is too poor."
Ji You yawned, and spoke as if he hadn't slept for days: "Don't worry, the things you accumulate through hard work will not deceive you."
Hearing this, Lu Qingqiu couldn't help but feel relieved.
For some reason, even though so many people in the courtyard said that her sister could enter the inner courtyard, she still felt a little suspenseful. However, she seemed to be able to believe it only after getting Ji You's confirmation.
At this moment, Lu Hanyan's swordsmanship suddenly stopped.
Then she turned to look at Ji You, called out "Senior Brother" in a hoarse voice, then reached out to pick up the wooden sword beside her, handed it to Ji You in a serious manner, and then danced with sword flowers again.
Seeing this scene, Lu Qingqiu couldn't help but spit with a red face.
My sister's butt has become much smaller in recent days, and is not as plump and firm as it was when she was fighting with me that day.
Seeing the wooden sword that was just handed to me, I can be sure that the perky buttocks that day must have been caused by Master Ji's beating...
Lu Qingqiu had never seen Lu Hanyan being beaten, but he had a brain, so he naturally imagined his sister with her hips raised, waiting to be beaten...
At this moment, she couldn't help but recall her sister's look of reluctance and sparkling eyes after learning sword every day.
The two sisters grew up together and knew each other very well. Because the younger sister was the youngest daughter in the family, she was deeply loved by her parents, so she was even more cold and arrogant than herself.
When she was at home, even her parents didn't dare to say harsh words to her, let alone anyone who dared to hit her.
As a result, this time when she learned sword from Ji You, it was as if she was expecting to be spanked, which really made him, as an older sister, feel a little uncomfortable.
Because the last time I sent the bellyband, if Ji You accepted it, then my sister would have to call him brother-in-law, and then it would be a mess...
At this time, Ji You was also looking at the wooden sword in his hand, weighing it for a few times, wondering if Yan Shu would like it...
I'll try it next time, if I survive.
Lu Hanyan's sword practice continued until the afternoon. Ji You left first and went to Cao Jinsong's yard on the way.
Lao Cao knew that Ji You's condition had been relieved. Now he didn't even dare to show off his good tea, let alone money.
The last time Ji You came, he said he didn't believe anything and only drank Gao Sui. Finally, he took out a bag of spiritual tea from the cupboard.
Cao Jinsong thought to himself that if that was the case, then you might as well be a demon possessed by a Taoist.
When others take the wrong path, they enter the evil path, but when you take the wrong path, it seems like you are entering the right path.
"The incident in Jianlin had a profound impact. It is said that Elder Fang said in the inner courtyard yesterday that Tianshuyuan has always been a pure Taoist practice since ancient times. We should follow tradition and should not use swordsmanship to decide the outcome of the autumn fight. Otherwise, it will be no different from Lingjian Mountain."
"But Elder Fang's proposal did not receive much response."
“Although the Yunzhou Lu family does not have a high talent for cultivation, they started with spirit stones and have deep roots. They are not so easy to mess with. Many of the aristocratic families in the courtyard have been friends with the Lu family for hundreds of years.”
"If it were you, I think the rules of Qiu Dou would really have to be changed. That's why people always say that good talent is not as good as good background and feet."
"But did Elder Fang make things difficult for you in the inner courtyard?"
Ji You picked up the teacup and put it to his lips and said, "I don't rely on the inner courtyard to take elixirs, I don't accept taxes from the immortal sect, and I don't even go to Zizhu Zen Temple to attain enlightenment. What can he do to me? Steal the bricks on my wall?"
Cao Jinsong was pruning the osmanthus tree in the yard. After hearing this, he couldn't help but turn around and look at him.
From the time he paid back the money until now, when summer has arrived, almost a month and a half has passed, and Ji You has really not tried to attain enlightenment again.
He thought Ji You had come out of it, but now it seems that he might have encountered bigger problems.
But he had covered up the previous hints by making irrelevant remarks, and Cao Jinsong didn't want to force him to speak again.
Ji You naturally knew what Cao Jinsong was thinking. He was so abnormal in the past few days. Now looking back, it was indeed very obvious. Instructor Cao must have a lot of things he wanted to ask, but he held back and didn't say anything.
He was grateful for Lao Cao's concern for him. After all, there were not many people in this world who could treat him like this, so he took his tea with a heart full of gratitude.
"Evil disciple!"
"Too much tea is not good."
"???"
Ji You walked along the mountain carrying the tea leaves. After returning to the inner courtyard, he went straight to the courtyard of Fairy Zhengxin.
He Lingxiu announced a few days ago that he would go into seclusion in order to devote all his energy to reaching the upper realm of Rong Dao.
So Wen Zhengxin also began to retreat, and it has been seven days since then, and he has not returned.
Everyone in the inner courtyard knew that they were competing with each other, and they also knew that when Wen Zhengxin was competing for the position of personal disciple, he was actually unwilling to accept the defeat.
Before the retreat, Wen Zhengxin asked Ji You not to go back and to help her look after the yard. So Ji You did not go back to her own yard.
I brewed tea, drank it and sat idly for a while, until the sun set and the night began to surge in along the long mountain ridges like a tide, revealing a few stars.
Ji You put down the teacup, felt the evening breeze, then walked into the Zen room, picked up the cushion and threw it on the bed.
Then he unbuttoned his outer robe, sat cross-legged in the room, and clasped his hands in his arms.
In an instant, the spiritual energy all over the mountain seemed to have found a home, and it gathered together madly with him as the center.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is originally invisible and intangible, but when it becomes concentrated to a certain level, it will transform into a deep indigo blue color.
At this moment, countless indigo air currents were lingering around Ji You's body, like nimble snakes. Following his breathing, they rushed into his body madly, and then overflowed from his shattered spiritual essence.
At first it was like a gurgling stream, subtle but tenacious, and then it gradually gathered to form a rushing river, rushing towards his limbs and bones.
When his body was completely filled with spiritual energy, Ji You moved his mind, using the spiritual energy as a blazing fuel. A raging fire instantly ignited in his body, and the flames rushed out of his body uncontrollably.
This is the twenty-first moment of inspiration.
The deepest obsession in his heart was like a stubborn stone with deep roots. He could neither untie it nor forget it easily.
Therefore, he could not determine his path, nor did he dare to question his conscience any more. His path to Taoism had reached an end.
As a practitioner, reaching this point is a dead end.
But according to the previous judgment, if physical cultivation can also improve its realm, then Ji You still has a way to try.
So he has been practicing body training recently, for the nineteenth time, the twentieth time...
Unable to examine his conscience and unable to integrate into the Tao, this is his only way out.
At this moment, a piercing pain surged through his limbs and bones, as if he was being pierced by countless steel needles at the same time.
The severe pain instantly covered Ji You's forehead with fine beads of sweat, and his lips suddenly turned as pale as paper. His shoulders began to tremble violently and uncontrollably, and he couldn't help but let out a series of cries of pain.
The feeling of restraint that I had once broken free from when I was enlightened now came back to haunt me like a ghost that would not go away.
However, Ji You, who had experienced such a situation once, was not panicked at all. Instead, he felt a little happy.
Because feeling this suffocating feeling again just proved that his previous judgment was correct.
The path of body training is no different from the path of Taoism, and must have its own realm divisions.
He was now almost reaching the threshold of the next realm, so the feeling of restraint was so strong, as if there was a pushing force preventing him from moving forward.
Ji You endured the severe pain all over his body, held his breath, and tried his best to break free from the feeling of restraint.
As a result, all the muscles in his body tensed up subconsciously, like a fully drawn bowstring, and a rapidly swirling energy gradually formed around him, whistling around his body.
As he held his breath and exerted his strength, the spiritual fire burning in his body began to become more violent, and began to burn from the inside out.
Then a more intense pain appeared, as if the bones were broken.
This is not an illusion, because when the body becomes strong enough, it must be equipped with harder bones.
Ji You already had tinnitus at this time, but the sound was not just a buzzing sound, there was also the sound of bones rubbing against each other, and the intense pain caused him to clench his teeth.
In just a few breaths, Ji You was already sweating profusely, and his undershirt was instantly soaked with sweat.
The spiritual fire that was running through his body was still swaying as if it was trying to refine it.
"Junior brother?"
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Wen Zhengxin returned home in the night. Seeing that the yard was empty, he couldn't help but shouted, but found no one answered.
So she took a light step and walked into the house, and instantly heard a series of soft cries of pain.
What did you do in my house...
Wen Zhengxin moved his feet and looked quietly towards the door, then was slightly startled.
There was only Junior Brother Ji in the room, not the Second Miss Lu as imagined.
After a while, the whistling sound gradually stopped. Ji You held onto the door frame and came out of the room weakly.
His whole body was wet, and he was obviously exhausted. Even his lips were pale and bloodless.
He panted slightly for a while, and when he looked up, he saw Wen Zhengxin walking out of the room with a few dresses in her hands.
"Why are you back, Senior Sister?"
"Change your clothes. What are you...doing?"
Ji You picked up the cold tea that had been placed in advance and took a sip: "Practice."
Wen Zhengxin had never seen him practicing body cultivation before, so he stared at him for a long time: "Are you practicing body cultivation?"
"Um."
"Instructor Cao told you before that you shouldn't practice physical training anymore. It was already very difficult for you to break into the Tongxuan Upper Realm, not to mention that the next step is to cross a great realm."
Wen Zhengxin knew that he had never been to Zizhu Zen Temple again, but he didn't understand why he suddenly gave up meditation and instead began to practice body training urgently. He felt puzzled.
Fairy Zhengxin did not stay for too long. She took her clothes and left the courtyard. Before leaving, she told him with a worried look on her face that he must be cautious.
After Ji You agreed, he watched him leave, then rested for a long time, and sat until his sweat dried before returning to the room. After entering into a state of meditation, he began to let his mind fly.
As the progress of body refining continued to accelerate, the constraints of his physical body on his spiritual thoughts became greater and greater.
If he fails to add more flour or water in time, his spiritual consciousness may not be able to leave his body.
Although Ji You will no longer use his spiritual thoughts to gain enlightenment, his sword-controlling skills still rely on his spiritual thoughts.
At this moment, his golden divine consciousness continued to struggle, and then emerged from between his eyebrows with difficulty, continuously climbing into the endless void. He felt a heavy feeling as if being suppressed by a mountain, which made his speed of soaring into the sky extremely slow.
Half an hour later, Ji You collapsed completely.
The physical training just now only consumed his strength, but at this moment his spirit was also squeezed to the limit.
Ji You felt like he was drained of energy. Before he came out of his trance, he fell into a deep sleep.
In the next few days, the temperature in Shengjing began to rise, and the taste of summer had already emerged, and it would not be until the evening that the temperature dropped slightly.
Every night, the courtyard of Fairy Zhengxin would be surrounded by surging spiritual energy, rolling endlessly in the air, and this lasted for seven days in a row.
Each time is more intense than the last and lasts longer than the last.
During one rainy day, even the raindrops flying in the sky were blown into a mess.
Seven days later in the evening, as the last ray of setting sun set, the night came quietly.
There has been rain and mist in recent days, so the night is not bright and even the stars are blurry.
Fairy Zhengxin came in the night and returned to the gate of her own courtyard when the last ray of setting sun disappeared.
She would come back every seven days to change her clothes and sometimes catch up on some sleep.
She had just stopped in front of the door and raised her hand. Before she pushed the door open, she saw a bird perched on a tree flap its wings and fly into the night as if frightened.
Wen Zhengxin was startled for a moment, and then he felt a surge of heat surging out of the courtyard, which was much hotter than the summer heat.
Ji You was sitting in the yard at this time, his forehead was covered with sweat, and a mysterious light was surging on his skin. There was a faint golden light in his eyes, and his full chest kept rising and falling with his panting.
On the twenty-third micro-photography, he once again broke through the restrictions he had encountered before, and the strong sense of restraint disappeared.
At this moment, he clenched his fists, feeling that energy was constantly bursting out of the cells in his body, making him unable to restrain the urge to swing his fist and crush the evening breeze in his hands.
A more obvious feeling was that he felt his mind trembling along with the hot flesh, as if it was stuck together, and then a feeling of enlightenment of the world kept echoing in his mind.
(End of this chapter)
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