Lou Yaoshi opened the scroll, glanced at it, and sighed. Aunt Caihuan did the same.
Lou Xiaoyi was curious. "Mother, what's that? I thought it was a piece of calligraphy or a painting. "
Lou Yaoshi did not speak, but Aunt Caihuan explained.
"Xiaoyi, you've never worried about the family's financial resources, so you don't understand.
This is a land deed. Although it's not big, only a few dozen mu, it's the natural moat between the two villages in Lou Province. Your mother has thought of many ways to connect the two villages, but in front of these local tyrants, she has never been able to do so. Today, the Master of the Li family sent this thing. When the three land deeds are combined, it's a big village. The annual income will increase by a lot. "
Seeing Lou Xiaoyi nonchalantly nod and return to his room to rest, Aunt Caihuan snorted.
"He's used to stretching his hands. He doesn't know the burdens of the family at all. Miss, should we let him participate in the family's affairs in the future?"
Lou Yaoshi slowly shook her head. "No, he's already done very well. His personality isn't suitable for these things. Xiaoyi has grown up. In a few years, we'll see how he settles down. It won't be too late to decide then."
Lou Xiaoyi returned to his private space, the study room. Now that he had settled the matter of the imperial examination, he could answer to his mother. Of course, the rest of the time would be spent on his own interests.
In the evening, he began to cultivate Qi. After two hours, he silently observed his progress. Then, he released a dozen white sand worms and compared them after absorbing them.
With a comparison, he could know the pros and cons of each method. Then, he would know where he should focus his energy.
In terms of effect, the two methods were not much different. The effect was even better when he cultivated for four hours in the evening. However, he was also very clear that there was a limit to how much he could increase his cultivation through the spiritual vigor of heaven and earth. Even if he became more and more familiar with the Parallel Qi Formula, the spiritual vigor in this world was limited. As his cultivation increased, the two hours in the evening would become more and more useless.
However, through the use of white sand worms, there was a lot of room for improvement. For example, he could absorb 20, 30, or even 100 worms at once.
Hopefully, there were enough White Sand Worms in the Gobi Desert to last until the day he found another way to improve himself.
Now, he had another problem. How was he going to get enough money to buy the Dolphin Thread Incense?
As the young master of Lou Province, he still had some private savings. This came from various festivals, occasions, and gifts from friends and relatives. Although the master of Lou Province, Major Lou, was no longer around, his influence still lingered. His former students and old friends would even specially come to visit him whenever they passed by Pu City. Of course, they would not come empty-handed. The gifts they gave to the children were also very expensive. Furthermore, there were gifts for birthdays and festivals.
The original Lou Xiaoyi lived a simple life and did not have much to spend. So now, even though his mother had taken away most of it, he still had a hundred taels of silver left. It was enough for him to buy twenty bottles of Dolphin Thread Incense. But how long could twenty bottles last? It was hard to say. The higher one's cultivation, the greater one's consumption. Without a fixed source of income, it would be difficult to continue.
Cultivation was beautiful in one's imagination, but when one went deep into it, every step was difficult. How could it be so simple?
No matter what, he had a good start. He made a strict plan for himself. He would eat Qi at five o 'clock, train his body at seven o' clock, and absorb the White Sand Worms at nine o 'clock. After that, he would have lunch, rest, read, eat Qi at five o' clock, and absorb the White Sand Worms' spiritual vigor at nine o 'clock.
Basically, he would eat Qi from heaven and earth twice a day and use the White Sand Worms twice a day. This was because he felt that there was a bottleneck in the human body's absorption of spiritual vigor. He was not always in the best condition. The quality of absorption was not only determined by the intensity of the spiritual vigor or the number of White Sand Worms, but also the state of one's mind and body.
The effect would only be good if one rested well, ate well, and was in a good mood. To Taoists, Taoism was the foundation of nature. What was nature? To have no desires was nature. One could not be impatient, impatient, or filled with hatred. Otherwise, one would only achieve half the result with twice the effort.
Let nature take its course, find freedom, and achieve great liberation. This was not just a saying. It contained the deepest truth of Taoism.
Ten days later, the White Sand Worms were all used up. Lou Xiaoyi counted the worms lying motionless in the porcelain bottle. There were about three to four hundred of them. His body's tolerance had reached the level of absorbing thirty White Sand Worms at once. Moreover, when the White Sand Worms' spiritual vigor entered his body, he no longer felt the unbearable pain like before. His body was no longer swollen. This was because his body had adapted to the spiritual vigor.
At this time, the changes in his body finally showed!
First, the most obvious change was that his vision had improved greatly. In this world, there was no concept of eye care. Therefore, the scholars in this world were more or less short-sighted. The poorer they were, the more short-sighted they were. This was because they had to save on lamp oil. It would be strange if their eyes did not go bad if they looked at a lamp for half a night.
Of course, Lou Xiaoyi did not have to suffer so much. However, his reading habits were not good. His eyes were too close to the scrolls, so he was slightly short-sighted. However, since he had succeeded in his cultivation, his vision had not only returned to normal under the nourishment of the spiritual vigor, but there were also some wonderful changes.
It was not only his eyes that had changed. All the organs in his body, such as his nose, ears, teeth, heart, arms, and legs, were more vigorous. Even his urination and defecation were much cleaner.
This was not a joke. This was the embodiment of a healthy digestive system. Even if he had to defecate, he could do it without any hesitation. One, two, three, he could leave with his pants up. He did not even have to clean his hands because there was nothing to clean!
Cultivation, Spiritual Opportunity, and the transformation of the body were imperceptibly changing with each passing day. Perhaps it wasn't reflected on the outside, but the changes within the body were obvious. This feeling was intoxicating!
Exercise was addictive because you could feel the vitality of the body. Cultivation was a change of a higher level than exercise. It was easy to imagine how attractive it was to humans. This was also the reason why once people came into contact with cultivation, they could no longer bear to give it up.
Of course, Qi Er and Li San did not count. The feeling of power obtained from spiritual objects was too sudden and too short. It did not have the process of becoming stronger by oneself.
Just like sex, what one enjoyed was the process and not just passing on one's ancestral line.
Speaking of passing on one's ancestral line, his ability had improved a lot. This was also a natural thing. The spiritual vigor would not forget about it just because it was shameful to see people. Instead, it treated every part of the body fairly. This made him start to have some expectations for Second Sister Li.
This woman had not done anything for ten days. She was playing hard to get with him. How could she know that in Lou Xiaoyi's young body, there was an experienced and wretched soul that had been immersed in the mortal world for a long time!
Lou Xiaoyi received the wholesale price of four taels of silver for a bottle of Dolphin Threaded Incense from the grocery store shopkeeper. This was not because he was bullying him with his status as a young master of Lou Province. In business, the wholesale price and retail price were different. Who else in Pu City would be so generous to buy twenty bottles at once?
During this period, Lou Xiaoyi had to speed up! This was because the most dangerous part of the Qi eating stage was the initial stage. If one could not keep up with the cultivation at this stage, the spiritual vigor would inevitably regress after the body's transformation. Just like Qi Er and Li San, they would slowly return to being ordinary people. In the end, they would just be ordinary people who were slightly stronger!
Therefore, his goal was to try his best to achieve initial success in Qi eating. This way, he could stabilize and consolidate this rare and precious situation. Then, he would slowly look for a way to progress further on this foundation.
From an ordinary person to a cultivator, this change required a large amount of spiritual vigor. This was a hurdle that he could not bypass.
This was also mentioned in the summary of cultivation in Mount Zhong. There was also a solution, which was to consume pills, such as the Qi eating pill and the Qi nourishing pill. It seemed that these things could be bought at any time and anywhere in the major medicine stores!
It was easy for him to say that. This author was also someone who played with theory and did not talk about reality!
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