Confining oneself for 15 days may be difficult for many.
Chen Yun did not have this feeling. With time for good training and someone to take care of his daily life, what could be more relaxing?
Three or four days passed in a flash.
He practiced martial arts during the day and meditated to channel energy to his illness at night. His days were quite leisurely.
"Little Brother Chen, is it delicious?"
The kitchen outside seemed like a place for visiting inmates, as Master Ning asked with a smile.
Chen Yunchuan sat at the small round table. Two dishes and one soup were arranged on the table, which were spring bamboo shoots with pork, a steamed white carp, and jade green soup. White carp is Jiangtuan, and jade green soup is green vegetable bean curd soup.
Taoist cuisine is relatively light, but it also pays great attention to nutritional balance.
Chen Yun swallowed the food in his mouth and pointed at the steamed white carp with chopsticks, saying, "This fish is especially delicious."
"Ha ha, little brother likes to eat. " Brother Ning smiled and then sighed, "Too bad that after more than a month, everyone will have no fish to eat."
Chen Yunchuan was about to ask why, but then thought for a moment and understood.
Taoist thought advocates following the natural way.
According to natural laws, fish lay eggs in April and May, with many fish eggs in their bellies. If they are eaten, it is against the natural behavior. Therefore, it is not taken.
Not long after, the dinner was over.
Brother Ning took the basket and gathered the dishes and chopsticks.
After a meal, it is not advisable to exercise.
Chen Yunchuan picked up the "Founding Foundation Qigong" manual and began to study it, thinking to himself, "These past few days, every night I have been channeling energy to my illness. With the help of the white jade bead, a large part of my meridians have been opened up. Tonight, I can take the Founding Foundation Soup, and it should be able to complete the foundation building in a hundred days."
The hundred-day foundation building is almost over.
The "refining nuture into essence" technique has not been found yet.
If it were any other time, he could have found Wang Ziyi to ask for guidance on the refining nuture into essence technique.
That's true, as Chen Yunchuan is being confined, he cannot meet Wang Ziyi at all.
"I'll think about it. Let's first complete the foundation building, and if it doesn't work, let Brother Ning pass the message when he comes to deliver breakfast tomorrow morning."
Chen Yunchuan thought for a moment, then rested quietly for another hour.
Only after the food in his abdomen was digested did he take out the small copper furnace.
He took out the large bowl from the hidden recess in the furnace wall, which was filled with cooling herbal juice.
He got up and took another small bowl, pouring half of the cool herbal juice into it.
After that, Chen Yunchuan lifted the lid of the furnace and poured the steaming herbal juice into the mixture.
After doing all this, he first put away the herbal juice and the small copper furnace, then picked up the herbal juice and drank it all at once.
As usual, bitterness.
Chen Yunchuan was almost accustomed to it and put the small bowl aside after drinking.
He sat cross-legged, assuming the posture of meditation, waiting for the emergence of the power of the spiritual soup.
Wait a moment.
Chen Yunchuan felt his intestines slightly move, and then he couldn't help but let out a "pfft" sound as he farted.
Today's fart was somewhat different, as it wasn't as smelly as usual.
"Roughly put, the impurities within my body are being expelled, and thus this fart is not as pungent as before."
Chen Yunchuan felt secretly satisfied.
A warm sensation gradually rose from the lower abdomen.
As time went by, this warmth turned into dry heat, and then transformed into qi flow that actively circulated through the meridians.
Because he had taken the foundational soup twice before and had been actively practicing, most of his meridians were already open. Therefore, once the qi flowed, there was almost no resistance.
Chen Yunchuan knew that this was temporary, as his Dian and Zheng meridians still had lesions that hadn't been cleared. If true qi flowed to the lesions, it would stop.
As expected, after a while, he felt the true qi staying near the Baihui point.
The Baihui point comes from "Zhenjiu Jiaxia Jing" and is also known as "San Yang Wuhui". It belongs to the Dian meridian.
"Bai" means "much".
"Hui" refers to the place where multiple things intersect.
As stated in "Huiyuan Zhenjiu Xue": "Baihui is the convergence of the five internal organs, six bowels, extraordinary meridians, and the hundred vessels of the three yang meridians, hence the name Baihui."
In short, the Baihui point is a convergence of many acupoints in the human body.
Chen Yunchuan, after his practice for these days, knew that out of the twelve major meridians in the human body, six of them converge at the Baihui point. They are respectively the hand sun small intestine meridian, hand shao yang three qi meridian, hand yin ming large intestine meridian, foot sun bladder meridian, foot shao yang gallbladder meridian and foot yangming stomach meridian. Furthermore, these six meridians intersect with the Dian meridian that has the beauty name of "the sea of Yang Qi".
"Baihui connects to the heavens, and one point connects the whole body."
"If I can remove the disease lesions at Baihui, my foundation-building will be complete!" This thought flashed through his mind.
While he was thinking, he felt a sharp pain at Baihui.
The true qi generated by the medicinal power is constantly attacking the lesion in waves.
The sharp pain was prolonged and lingering, like the nerve pain caused by toothache, making Chen Yunchuan grit his teeth involuntarily.
Despite the pain causing sweat to bead on his forehead, he still bit his teeth and endured.
Time passed one second at a time.
One minute.
Two minutes.
Finally, as the third minute approached.
Chen Yunchuan seemed to hear a "bo" sound from the Baihui point.
The pain then vanished.
A sense of comfort spontaneously emerged.
Chen Yunchuan felt a sense of expansiveness and clarity. He felt invigorated.
He even noticed that his thoughts were moving faster than usual, as if he had "opened up" mentally.
When the disease lesion at Baihui was broken, the true qi flowed like a dam that had burst, spreading towards the twelve primary meridians.
Even though there were still some small lesions in his body, the opening of Baihui enabled the true qi flow to be unstoppable. It swept away all the disease lesions in his body almost effortlessly!
A sense of comfort, like the complete relaxation after a full-body massage, surged.
Chen Yunchuan couldn't help but groan, "Ah, it's so comfortable, I can understand why people would be addicted to cultivation."
He waited until the medicinal power dissipated before slowly ending his meditation.
Taking the foundational soup is different from active cultivation.
After actively cultivating and channeling qi to attack disease lesions, one still needs to expel impurities.
Taking the foundational soup does not require this, as the medicinal power will disperse the impurities and sink them. When taking a bowel movement or urination the next time, they will be expelled.
"The twelve primary meridians are all open! After more than a month, I finally completed the foundation building!"
Chen Yunchuan knew that he was able to complete the foundation building so quickly for several reasons. Firstly, the foundational soup was too amazing. Secondly, he had accidentally obtained the white jade bead, which, combined with being confined and having enough time to practice, allowed him to achieve double results and complete the foundation building in a short amount of time.
Without the white jade bead and if he had not been confined, it might have taken another half a month.
Joy filled his heart. This joy was not only because he had completed the hundred-day foundation building, but also because of the sense of lightness and healthiness it brought.
When a person has blockages in their body or is sick, they will have inexplicably bad moods.
However, when a person is healthy, the internal secretion of the body remains balanced, which can make their mood more pleasant.
Just after completing the hundred-day foundation building, Chen Yunchuan was filled with joy for this very reason.
But his joy didn't last long, and he soon furrowed his brow, "The hundred-day foundation building has ended, and now there is an urgent need for the method of lianggǔhuàjīng. I wonder if letting Brother Ning pass on a message to Wang Ziyi tomorrow can get the secret of lianggǔhuàjīng."
Let's worry about tomorrow when it comes.
After experiencing the need to urinate, Chen Yunchuan went to the toilet to expel the impurities, then went to bed early in the morning.
……
Oh oh oh.
The cocks crowing loudly in the temple.
Chen Yunchuan, after hearing the rooster crowing, started his exercise as he usually does after washing up.
Perhaps because he had completed his foundation building, today when he practiced martial arts, he felt extraordinarily light and strong.
"The Daoist cultivation is truly amazing. I've only just completed the entry-level hundred-day foundation building and I feel light as a feather. If I can master the method of lianggǔhuàjīng, it's said that my body will become strong. Exactly how strong that will be, I'm not sure yet. I really look forward to mastering lianggǔhuàjīng."
Chen Yunchuan stood in the middle of the room, with his elbows close to his ribs, and he threw a punch.
Huff.
He made a sound like breaking the void.
He gathered his thoughts and focused on practicing martial arts.
Three points.
Three strikes.
Three hits.
Soon, the last three taps of the martial arts practice ended.
Chen Yunchuan slowly collected his power and balanced his breath.
When his Qi and blood stabilized, he looked out the window and saw the morning sun shining brightly.
He found that he had unconsciously practiced martial arts, and an hour had already passed.
Chen Yunchuan rinsed his mouth and face.
After grooming, he took a short rest.
The sound of knocking on the window could be heard.
Following that, Brother Ning's voice, sounding like a rooster crowing, called out, "Little Brother Chen, it's time for breakfast."
"Coming."
Chen Yunchuan quickly ran over to open the window.
Squeak, the window was opened.
Brother Ning held up a bamboo basket and handed it over, "There's congee and mantou (steamed bun) inside. Eat them while they're hot."
"Thank you," said Chen Yunchuan as he took the bamboo basket, but did not immediately eat it. Instead, he stood at the window and blinked, saying, "Brother Ning, can you please pass on a message to Brother Wang Ziyi for me?"
Brother Ning, without much thought, replied casually, "Sure. What do you want me to say?"
Chen Yunchuan said, "Just tell him that I've completed my foundation building and ask when I can practice the lianggǔhuàjīng method."
"Oh, you've completed your foundation building..." Brother Ning suddenly realized, gaping in amazement, "You... you've completed your foundation building?"
Chen Yunchuan nodded and said: "Yes."
Brother Ning stared at Chen Yunchun with a look of shock in his eyes.
"You little guy, it's only been a month since you entered, and yet you've completed the hundred-day foundation building?!"
Last time he didn't count the time spent learning human anatomy, but solely focused on cultivating, which took him half a year.
Upon pondering this, Brother Ning felt a sense of frustration, as if he were being outdone by someone else. He didn't even want to talk to Chen Yunchun anymore.
Chen Yunchun had no idea what Brother Ning was thinking in his heart.
He now only hoped that Brother Ning would pass on the message to Brother Wang Ziyi, enabling him to obtain the secret method of lianggǔhuàjīng as soon as possible.
But would Wang Ziyi really impart the secret method during the time of his confinement?
