Chapter 63 Thinking and Choice
In the stone living room.
Yan Xiong and Miaolin who came to visit had already left, and Meng Zhou looked at an open long box on the short table in front of him.
The long box is divided into three grids, and the middle grid with the largest space is filled with low-grade spirit stones.
There are thick stacks of book volumes and classics in the grids on both sides of the left and right sides.
There are 800 low-grade spirit stones, plus two sets of inherited classics carefully compiled by the two of them. This is Yan Xiong's thank you.
Yan Xiong also apologized that this spiritual stone was far from enough to match the help Meng Zhou gave him.
Not only did he completely eliminate the elixir in his body, but his cultivation level also allowed him to rise to two levels in just over a month, from a sixth level of Qi training to the current eighth level of Qi training, which directly transformed him from a down-and-out cultivator with a life of stagnant and potential star qualified to peek at the mystery of foundation building.
Compared with this kind of grace that is recreated, no amount of spirit stones can be rewarded.
But they don’t have many spirit stones, because Miao Lin, who is not very talented in alchemy, invested a steady stream of spirit stone resources into the attempts of high-quality new alchemy again and again, and then burned it in the earth fire alchemy furnace, which was worthy of its name.
Therefore, the two carefully sorted out two sets of inherited classics and his.
One of them is the inheritance of the incomplete second-level alchemy that Miao Lin pieced together from various channels.
In addition, with Yan Xiong's long-term cooperation in the pill, Miao Lin, who is not very talented, made a detailed record and reflection summary of every success and failure.
Through these records, the growth trajectory of the first-level mid-grade alchemist Miao Lin can be clearly restored.
When introducing this part of the content, Miao Lin herself was still relatively embarrassed because these records fully exposed the fact that her talent in alchemy was extraordinary.
In general, the value of the inheritance of the second-level alchemy is much higher than that of Miao Lin’s notes, but Meng Zhou’s view is exactly the opposite.
He believes that the latter is of higher value than the former.
Meng Zhou has also come into contact with many professional inheritance classics, and he has basically read all the inheritance of Taoism that he has gained from Zhou Quan.
He discovered a big problem from it, and the bigger problem was that others except him had never realized that it was a problem.
Those inherited classics all emphasize conclusions and neglect process, or even ignore process completely.
For example, in the talisman making classics, you will tell you in detail how to draw a certain talisman, but there is no intermediate process at all.
Why is this part of the structure like this? Why are these symbol lines connected in series? What is the implicit here? How to avoid confusion in these two places?
None.
It's like a math problem, with only the questions and answers.
In addition, inherited classics have a "strengthening" mentality, which is even more straightforward than in reality.
Take the Tao of Talismanship as an example. The drawing techniques of the same talisman are different in the hands of different levels of talisman makers, and are not the same copy.
Then, everyone takes it for granted that the more sophisticated drawing techniques mastered by stronger people are more qualified to pass on as standard answers to latecomers.
Compared with the mediocre people, the path that comes out step by step will only appear crude and clumsy.
But according to Meng Zhou's thinking, the situation is exactly the opposite.
The growth records of alchemy such as Miao Lin’s notes are more valuable than those alchemy geniuses that are full of "obvious" and "well-known" alchemy techniques given by those alchemy geniuses.
Meng Zhou picked up a note and opened a page at will, which recorded a detailed record of Miao Lin's 37th failure to refine a certain pill. Yan Xiong tried various symptoms and reactions after Yan Xiong tried the pill. Based on Yan Xiong's feedback, he analyzed the reasons for the failure, the direction and specific methods of the next improvement.
Such failure records are almost everywhere on every page of Miao Lin’s notes.
"This is an alchemist with rationality and scientific thinking."
Meng Zhou has also treated many alchemists, and he would chat with them during diagnosis and treatment, and he would also learn about the characteristics of each profession.
The experiences shared by those alchemists are filled with various "feelings".
Not only alchemists, weapon makers, and talisman makers are the same.
Even when Chu Zheng teaches his own experience in talisman making, it is also music. If the rhythm is within, it still has "feeling".
The common impression they gave Meng Zhou was that they regarded themselves as an art worker, and the magical instruments, elixirs, talismans or other things that were to be born in their hands were an artwork that needed to be created by them.
This is somewhat contrary to Meng Zhou's idea. He believes that instead of talking about the mysterious and elusive "feeling", it is better to sit quietly and quantify each profession, each magic weapon, elixir or the production of talismans.
Miao Lin was the first professional he met who did not talk about "feeling" but only the facts. This may be related to his average talent and "feeling" being too slow. If her talent was better, she would never take this path that seemed so clumsy.
But facts are facts.
After a brief look at these notes, many thoughts flashed through Meng Zhou's mind.
He really felt that these notes were of great value, and even if they were taken out as rewards, they were worth enough.
Then, Meng Zhou looked at another set of inherited classics compiled by Yan Xiong.
Compared with the alchemy books prepared by Miao Lin, the set of content compiled by Yan Xiong is much more complicated.
First of all, there is a fire-based practice method called "Yan Lie Jue". Although this fire-based practice method is more popular, its advantage is that it can be perfectly matched with a variety of foundation-building practice methods. In addition, its power is also quite powerful, and many casual cultivators regard it as the fundamental practice method.
There is also a spell book specially designed to match "Yan Lie Jue", most of which are fire-type spells, and there are some other spells that can complement each other.
He placed these contents at the top, but Meng Zhou ignored them the least.
He valued the following books more. One of them was the martial arts practice method he already had. The notes were much newer than the one that Yan Xiong had thrown to him on that day. It seemed that he had written them down recently.
The following book is some of Yan Xiong's understanding and insights on the poisonous path, which is also a wonderful by-product of his long-term troubles by erysipelas.
After a look, Meng Zhou's attention was attracted by the last classic.
This is a compilation of martial arts compiled by Yan Xiong, many of which are also found in the memory of the previous masters of martial arts, or can be found with highly similarities.
What made Meng Zhou’s eyes lit up the most were the special martial arts that cooperated with Yan Xiong’s strong body.
Their function is to enhance the five senses of practitioners.
For example, when listening to sound, you can distinguish the distance of the direction based on the sound in a dark environment or when your eyes are damaged, and finally you can even build a world of pure sound in your mind. Isn’t this a sound wave radar?
For example, the wolf Gu Yingshi all exercises his eyes. The former is to increase majestic shock and have a faint sense of mental attack, while the latter is to increase the ability of farsightedness and precise aiming, which is perfect for arrow or hidden weapon martial arts.
Seeing these martial arts, Meng Zhou suddenly felt a sudden illumination.
"Yes!"
"Practicing this kind of martial arts or spells is the most cost-effective and the most unmissable choice!"
Considering that this kind of martial arts and Yan Xiong's practice of body horizontal training can complement each other and achieve twice the result with half the effort, Meng Zhou's mind's plan for the next stage of cultivation gradually became clear.
I confess that I haven't even thought about the name of this martial arts horizontal practice now.
Long before the book was opened, I actually had a name in my mind, "Tortoise, Snake, Dragon and Elephant". The turtle and snake spirit that have been practiced can be regarded as its foreshadowing, but after thinking about it, I still feel that the name is too awesome and it is not suitable for the protagonist Yan Xiong to get it from Yan Xiong.
Now, in the Qi training stage, I will practice such high-end, atmospheric and high-end skills. How can I make up the foundation-building and elixir-like Nascent Soul in the future?
You can't get the higher your realm, but the more you're going back to the essence, right? The skills in the Qi Practice are called fighting the sky and fighting the earth, and the Nascent Soul period is plowing the fields and hoeing the fields...
But it must have a name?
Since naming the character Yan Xiong, I have thought about the past direction of Xingyi. I also have a general idea, but I feel that it is a bit naughty and has not been completely finalized.
Do you have any good suggestions? Please give me a reference?
Chapter completed!