After reading Song Fan's credibility, Zhao Ran went back and checked the credibility of each province, and found that after a trough of twenty-three or twenty-four years, Ming's credibility finally stabilized, and there was a slight increase.
The momentum has reached a value of 1.23 billion Gui.
This growth is slightly inconsistent with Zhao Ran's expectations. According to his assumption, the 25th year of Jiajing was the year when the policy of monks serving as abbots was implemented on a large scale. More than two hundred county monasteries replaced monks and abbots. Assuming that each
The county's increase of 50,000 guineas should be more than 10 million guineas more than last year, but in fact it only increased by 5 million guineas.
However, considering that this is the first year, Zhao Ran can understand that not every county abbot has received training like Songfan. For example, Zheng, Cao, and Zhuang took office very smoothly.
Growth approaching 100,000 guinea is unlikely to occur elsewhere. Everything takes time.
Overall, Zhao Ran can breathe a sigh of relief if he can reverse the downward trend. I believe that when the 1,400 counties achieve full coverage of monks and abbots, the power of Daming will be raised to the level of 1.5 billion Gui.
Can be expected.
After the Lantern Festival, Baima Court took turns to take a break as usual. Yuan Hao took charge of the affairs for the second half of the month. It was the turn of Zhao Ran and other Taoist priests to take a break.
After a brief handover with Yuan Hao, he was about to ask Taoist Nangui who was resting with half-closed eyes on the bell tower to leave, but he saw Yuan Hao giving him a deep salute: "Abbot Duocheng takes care of Quanzi, and I can't thank you enough for your kindness.
I can only show my respect here."
Zhao Ran was stunned for a moment, and then he realized, could it be that when the Zongsheng Hall conducted a large-scale search for disciples last month, Yuan Hao's son was picked away? Looking back again, it seems that there is really a child named Yuan, who was brought by Luo Zhiqing
Back at Maharaja Mountain, that silly goose would often fall into inexplicable deep thoughts, so that he was always confused about what was happening in front of him.
There were more disciples selected this time, a total of twenty-four with all the qualifications and those with no qualifications, so Zhao Ran hadn't had time to record them one by one in detail. In addition, the first month was really busy with affairs, so he didn't know this.
The child named Yuan is actually the son of Yuan Hao. It was really an oversight.
But since you have accepted someone's own son as a disciple, you can't admit that you don't know and say something like, "Oh, so that's your son." Then how can anyone trust you to hand over the child to you?
Then he said: "It's true that the tiger father has no son. The child's qualifications are extremely good. Originally, I planned to accept him as a disciple. However, my senior brother Luo liked him very much and insisted on teaching him personally, so I had to bear the pain and part with him."
Yes, haha."
Afraid that Yuan Hao would be worried, he added: "You don't know the abilities of my senior brother Luo. He is a well-known high-level cultivator in the entire Sichuan Province. He is more than a little bit better than me in practice. He has extremely high vision. He has never done it before.
When I meet someone I like, I never thought that I would be so interested in this child, tsk tsk...Old Yuan, speaking of which, I would like to thank you in turn, the Yuan family, for providing Lou Guan with such talents and beauty.
This is also the blessing of my master!"
Yuan Hao couldn't close his mouth after talking, and he just giggled.
After saying goodbye to Yuan Hao, Zhao Ran returned to the Dajun Mountain Cave to take a rest. This period of the year is the main day for him to practice. Since he once again took the Black Armored Turtle Essence and Blood Decoction that Cai Yunshen helped refine, his essence has increased again.
After a while, he can be described as a dragon and a tiger, which has exceeded the level of normal monks.
Because a black-armored turtle was captured alive this time, everyone in Lou Guan's sect benefited. Including Qu Fenghe, their respective essences increased to a certain extent, which was extremely helpful for practice.
However, Cai Yunshen also warned Zhao Ran that the compensation of Jingyuan should be limited. Taoism emphasizes letting nature take its course. Too little is not enough, and too much is not enough. Jingyuan is generated too much. If it is not used up through practice, it will accumulate in the body.
If it takes too long, it will become a poison to the body. Others say it is okay, but Zhao Ran has replenished it several times. He only replenished the black turtle essence and blood twice. Cai Yunshen is very worried about his physical condition.
Fortunately, Zhao Ran now has Guyang County and Hongyuan County with 200,000 people providing him with a steady stream of merit power, so he does not have to worry about running out of the essence generated every day, even if the merit power golden elixir cannot be used up.
It can also be consumed when cultivating the spiritual power elixir, so there is no need to worry about it at all - he is still in the Huangguan realm in spiritual power cultivation, and is eager to refine the essence.
It's a pity that the cultivation of spiritual power cannot be automatically absorbed into the sea of ââââqi like the power of merit, and it requires time to meditate and absorb. Otherwise, Zhao Ran's spiritual power elixir would have been promoted to a spiritual power golden elixir long ago.
Therefore, Zhao Ran was not worried about having too much energy and begged Cai Yunshen twice in succession. It was not until Cai Yunshen sternly rejected his third request, stating that he was "seeking death" that he finally gave up.
After taking the Xuanjia Turtle Essence and Blood Decoction twice in a row, Zhao Ran generated 168 drops of essence every day. This amount was already at the level of a monk above the refiner level. According to Cai Yunshen, it was far beyond the limit.
The physical load of his current golden elixir cultivation level.
After taking the pill, Cai Yunshen asked Zhao Ran how he felt for many days, and personally inspected Zhao Ran's bed and bedding every morning, for fear that Zhao Ran would "leak the pill". Zhao Ran couldn't laugh or laugh about this, but he also felt Uncle Cai's feelings.
The concern moved him very much.
Zhao Ran is a golden elixir that was obtained in September of the 23rd year of Jiajing. It has been more than two years since he polished the golden elixir. However, there is a big difference between the golden elixir and the elixir fetus. The cultivation of the elixir fetus is easier to predict. How long it will take to reach perfection is unclear.
It can be observed internally, but the polishing of the golden elixir is different. How to polish it to be pure, how to make the elixir round and smooth, and when to achieve the elixir to be in harmony with one's destiny, until that moment, there is no way to understand. So Zhao Ran also
He doesn't know how many more years it will take for him to develop his spiritual consciousness. The only thing he can do is to keep absorbing, tempering, and polishing it again and again.
In the second half of the first month of the first month, Zhao Ran spent his time constantly refining the massive amount of merit power and polishing the golden elixir. Of course, the cultivation of merit power is the most time-saving. It does not take much effort on his part, and there is only a little left every day.
Jingyuan is used to absorb spiritual power and cultivate the spiritual elixir. After the Jingyuan is used up, go to Xixin Pavilion to sit quietly, or give Qu Fenghe some advice.
As for the two disciples Feng Tang and Qu Fengshan, they have just started. Because their teacher Wei Zhizhen is irresponsible, Yu Zhichuan has been teaching them for the past two months, while Luo Zhiqing is also busy in the back mountain training his disciples of the Yuan family.
As for whether Yu Zhichuan and Luo Zhiqing can train their disciples, Zhao Ran doesn't worry about it. The master leads them in. The practice is personal. There is not much to worry about in the process of leading the disciples. The key lies in answering questions and solving doubts, as well as the special skills of Lou Guan after the golden elixir.
Fa. In the early days of Huang Guan, the practice of all sects in the world was actually very similar.
Therefore, Zhao Ran really let Zhao Ran practice quietly for half a month, and he felt that he had gained a lot.