Chapter 10: The Fierce Fox Hunt
In the past few days, Hong Yi lived in this valley deep in the western mountains, playing with tens of thousands of volumes of canonical books, with the great intention of forgetting all the troubles of the human world.
Valley stone room in the collection of books, than any one of the rich and powerful family's collection of books are richer, in addition to the palace's library, almost no match. Poor Hong Yi has been reading for more than ten years, borrowing books and copying books to read, where can he encounter such a situation? There was a room full of books for him to read.
"This Great Zen Temple's book library, was it emptied by you guys? How did you bring out so many books?"
After reading for three days, finally categorizing a small half of the books one by one, taking the time to rest idly, Hong Yi took his divine soul out of its shell again and chatted with the three little white foxes.
The three little white foxes Xiao Sang, Xiao Shu, Xiao Fei and Hong Yi chat chat very happy, every day brother long, brother short shouting. Intimacy is more intimate than brother and sister. The simple innocence of the foxes made Hong Yi feel deeply in his heart.
"There are a lot of books in the Great Zen Temple, we just brought a small half of them out, I also heard it from my parents, but they were captured on their way to move from Central State."
Xiao Shu was sad when she mentioned her parents.
"Zhongzhou to Yu Jing, thousands of miles, a litter of foxes relocated here, the dangers encountered on the road, but not a little bit, especially Xiao Sang, Xiao Shu, Xiao Fei they are pure white foxes. There is no bit of mixed colors on the body's fur, such foxes, even the fur, are worth a hundred gold."
Hong Yi's heart was certainly clear.
Pure white fox furs were worth a very high value in the market.
"Heaven gave foxes gorgeous fur, but did not give them the means to protect themselves, ai, but fortunately, Xiao Sang, Xiao Shu, Xiao Fei, they always have some means of self-protection, unlike me, my hands are powerless. I have to practice martial arts. The soul has to come out of the shell, to cultivate to the point of driving things, definitely not an overnight thing. It is recorded in the Taoist scriptures that cultivators who do not have a deep foundation or do not have a profound method of exercising their divine souls, will not be able to cultivate to the realm of repelling objects even in their entire lives."
In the past three days, Hong Yi had familiarized himself with the canonical books, and had understood a lot of the ghosts and gods that the readers "outside of the Six Hexagrams" had kept out of sight.
Cultivate the ten levels of God, fixed God, out of the shell, night tour, day tour, drive objects, manifestation, possession, take over, thunderbolt, Yang Shen. Hong Yi also roughly knew some of the ends.
He was now able to fix his spirit and come out of his shell, but it was only the preliminary stage of cultivating kung fu, not even considered as ascending to a higher level.
After the divine soul came out of its shell, the next step was to go out and wander away from the body.
It was like a person who left a boat to go into the water, gradually familiarizing himself with the water.
Night wandering also has many restrictions, such as the beginning of the night can only be in the dark and windless night, step by step after the soul is strong, can gradually in the moonlight night wind inside the wandering.
After the night wandering, it is day wandering.
But daytime wandering can be a lot more dangerous than nighttime wandering.
Daylight is violent, the average soul can not withstand the baptism of daylight. It can be said to see the light of death.
Wandering in the daytime is like leaving the boat and swimming in the sea when the wind and waves are coming.
This is also the reason why there are generally no ghosts or spirits that appear in broad daylight.
When a divine soul can roam in the daytime without fear of daylight, it is already strong to a certain point.
After being strong enough to be able to daywalk, the divine soul further grows and is able to drive objects. At such a point, the cultivator would be able to drive a sword to stab and kill, such as shooting with a bow. By virtue of this, they could defend themselves.
Before this, a cultivator would still have to rely on his fists and feet to defend himself.
And the stronger the body, the longer the soul can come out of the shell, like Hong Yi's own body, the soul comes out of the shell for a long time, the body will gradually weaken. If the shell for a day or two, the body will die of thirst and starvation, and if it does not die, it will have to be very sick.
Hong Yi read the Taoist scriptures for three days, and understood the art of immortal cultivation to the extent of repelling objects. As for the later manifestation, possession, seize the body, thunderbolt, Yang Shen Taoist scriptures are not recorded.
However, as recorded within, there were many Immortal Cultivators who could not practice to the point of Divine Soul Repellent for the rest of their lives.
"There are a few preliminary methods of exercising the muscles and flesh inside the Martial Scriptures, I'd better find time to practice them. If I can train my body to be strong, my divine soul can even come out of its shell for a longer period of time."
Hong Yi made up his mind to start practicing martial arts. The Da Qian Dynasty was founded on martial arts and ruled by the written word, the written word could be used to become an official, and the martial arts could be used to confer a title. This was all indispensable to Hong Yi who had to fight for his mother's name.
Moreover, the cultivation of immortality and martial arts are all closely related. Hong Yi read three days of Taoist scriptures, but know, the soul out of the shell before those hand movements, are not useless, but exercise the physical body, breathing method of some complex things. It is also used to exercise the body.
In the Houfu, he did not have the opportunity to practice martial arts. Now here, there was finally an opportunity to do so.
Although it was said that practicing martial arts was not that simple, Hong Yi was not trying to learn profound martial arts, but rather he wanted to practice his body to be stronger, step by step slowly.
Hong Yi knew that he was still young and had enough time.
"Examining for the imperial examinations, gaining merit, making war achievements, and being knighted. These are all things to be carried out step by step. In short, first I have to make myself physically strong and change the state of having no hands."
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The first heavy snowfall in the sixty years of the Da Qian Dynasty finally came down in all its splendor.
The snow is very big, spreading goose feathers and pulling cotton wool, a ball and a cake.
Yujing City's western mountain even blew up the "white hair wind", the weather is cold and scary.
However, in this kind of weather, the deep mountains and old forests and valleys are characterized by a quiet flavor. The most suitable for reading and writing, play learning.
Outside the cold, dripping water into ice, but the valley fox living in the stone room is warm.
Because burning a few large copper pots of charcoal fire.
The doorway of the stone room also hung a cotton curtain to block the cold wind.
There were several fist-sized small openings on both sides of the entire stone room, as if they were artificially excavated. The cuts were skillfully made, just enough to let the light in and allow for airflow, but not wind.
Hong Yi was sitting in front of the stone room studying and speculating on the Martial Scripture.
On the other side, the three little white foxes, Xiao Shu, Xiao Sang, and Xiao Fei, were packing around a large ceramic pot, which was emitting a chicken aroma inside.
It was stewing chicken.
The chicken is a good mountain chicken, inside the mountain to eat pine nuts, stewed out of the flavor with the fragrance of pine nuts.
This is the wild chicken that the foxes caught inside the mountain taking advantage of the snowy pass. It was said to give Hong Yi extra food.
Inside the stone room, there is food stored, oil, salt, firewood and rice, sauce, vinegar and other seasonings are also available. He was not afraid of the snow.
Lived in the valley for a few days, Hong Yi is aware that this group of foxes completely detached from the animal life, not only reading and writing, but also learn human language, learn human planting, cooking, eating oil and salt, sleeping in the cave inside the bed, and every day, cleaning, bathing, everything is cleaned up.
At the other end of the stone chamber there were a few smaller rooms, and inside the rooms, some foxes were lazily sleeping on the ground in a lazy manner.
Although there was a litter of foxes, there was not a single fishy smell, and it did not affect Hong Yi's ability to watch and read.
Tu Lao, this old fox, although inside the stone room, but did not move at all, apparently the spirit of the gods out of their shells to roam.
On a snowy day like this, this old fox with quite profound cultivation was about to go out for a parade, firstly, to prevent hunters from riding the snow to hunt, and secondly, to exercise the power of the divine soul.
This old fox had already cultivated to the point of day-traveling.
"It's hard to practice martial arts, so many taboos. Without a teacher to guide you, figuring it out on your own, it's easy to get a fork in the road."
Hong Yi looked and closed the Martial Scripture a pang of loss welled up in his heart.
In these few days of reading and figuring out, he had roughly understood some of the truths of martial arts.
Cultivating martial arts is not an easy thing, first of all, in terms of diet, there are a lot of preoccupations. This does not count, the structure of a person's body, complex and refined, a little inattention, will go wrong. The first step in refining meat, martial arts scriptures have recorded up to hundreds of techniques, dozens of martial arts, and do not know who is better or worse, will not be deformed after practicing.
Moreover, Hong Yi also understands that the Qian dynasty compiled the "martial arts scripture", there are also afraid that there are a lot of unsubstantial places.
Thinking about it, Hong Yi was not good at practicing indiscriminately.
"It seems that this martial arts course is really difficult to get into. No wonder the imperial examination of my Da Qian Dynasty canceled the bow and horse shooting art. Where would the average person, have the opportunity to practice? It's better to wait for Miss Yuan Fei to show up and then find her to ask for details, a scholar is not ashamed to ask."
This group of foxes did not know martial arts, martial arts were for human body cultivation, they fox body, and they could not cultivate it.
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West Mountain.
In the midst of the snow chaos, a group of people on horseback, with hounds, carrying bows and wearing gorgeous leather cloaks entered the mountain.
This group of people were clearly princes and nobles of extreme status and money.
This was evident from the horses they rode.
Inside these horses, the smallest ones were more than a zhang long and eight feet tall, spewing strong white air in the wind and snow, their eyes open even to the wind and snow, without a hint of fear or coldness. Strong and powerful horse body, long and slender hooves, not a bit of color, shiny hair, all show that these horses are not ordinary species.
If it is the Daqian Dynasty good at horse breeding people can see, these horses are extra-territorial fire Luo country's "fire cloud horse", because the whole body dark red, running as if the fire cloud, so named.
This kind of horse does not eat grass, all the time to use eggs mixed with soybean feeding, and pay a lot of attention, in the Daqian Dynasty, such a horse each horse should be equipped with three to four grooms, day and night care. Not ordinary people can afford to raise.
But this kind of horse running up, but also extremely swift, endurance is very strong, carrying people travel thousands of miles a day, but also through the spirit of people, encounter the master will not leave. Is the rich princes, marquis, uncle family not hesitate to spend thousands of gold to get the good thing.
A group of people into the mountain, riding a horse is two men and two women, in addition there are a few wearing thin, but in the cold but not the slightest fear of the people behind the horse, these people eyes cold and proud, walking like the wind, follow the horse does not fall behind in the slightest.
Obviously, these people were all guarding experts kept by the princes and dukes.
"County princess, the day before yesterday, I heard news from the palace. Aunt Yuan was enthroned as an Imperial Noble Consort for some unknown reason."
Among these four people, one of them was a teenager, who was none other than the "Little Duke of Li", Jing Yuxing.
The other woman was Hong Xuejiao.
There was also another pair of men and women who were even more honorable and graceful. Men and women are wearing a pure white fox skin cloak, snow fell to the cloak above, gently shake, are automatically rolled down, as if it is not stained lotus leaf skin.
This woman, is the jade capital city in the Prince Rong's princess, the emperor gave the title Yongchun. Yongchun County Lord.
As for the man, he was extremely tall, with a high nose and eagle eyes, and although he was not as poised as Jing Yuxing, he had an intimidating aura all over his body.
This was Prince Cheng's worldly son, Yang Tong.
"Listening to the news coming out from the eunuchs in the palace, it was the Emperor who occasionally asked all the concubines what was the biggest thing in the world, and all the concubines didn't have a satisfactory answer, and it turned out that Consort Yuan said that reason was the biggest, which made the Emperor's dragon's heart so happy that he was crowned as the Imperial Noble Concubine."
County Lord Yongchun answered Jing Yu Xing's question.
Woof, woof, woof .......
Just at this moment, more than ten hounds running in front of them barked violently, at the same time, between these hounds barking and barking, their whole body arched up, their hairs stood up straight as if they were porcupines.
Each of these hounds are small calf size, sharp teeth, fierce demeanor, seems to be a lion in general.
This is the "mastiff", three or four mastiffs can tear a tiger!
Now four pairs of men and women came out to hunt, enough to bring more than ten mastiffs, showing the prey ambition of the mind.
"Discovered the pure fox den?"
Prince Cheng's son, Yang Tong, raised his hand towards the horse, and a longbow was taken in his hand.
"Pure foxes have spirituality and may have some tricks up their sleeves. But this time still can't escape from us. This group of mastiffs, however, have the ability to see through ghosts and monsters."
