Chapter 42 Root Test and Bone Selection
Master Ming Zong turned off the lamp stone and asked Zheng Qiu to close the book: "It's getting late, I'm here today. When I get back, I will recite what I said today, and I will ask questions later."
"Well, I will definitely recite it, and there will be absolutely no omissions."
Master Mingzong sent Zheng Qiu downstairs, but before Zheng Qiu left the Fangcao Building, the master stopped him suddenly.
"Apprentice, you will be taking herbal medicine for twenty-five days soon." Master Ming Zong stretched out his fingers and counted the days, "Well...it should be five days later. I will check your bones by then If possible, you should be able to practice some simple exercises to try your hand.”
"Really? I'll be able to practice soon?"
"It should be fine. The master will not supervise the herbal medicine these days, so don't slack off yourself."
Zheng Qiu couldn't restrain the joy on his face, and kept bowing to the master: "Thank you, master, I promise to eat them all, thank you, master..."
"Okay, okay, let's go back."
In the next few days, Master Ming Zong taught only the contents of the books, basically reciting and copying. Zheng Qiu felt as if he had returned to the days when his grandfather taught him how to read. In addition to the "Cloud Sleeve Medicine Record" given to Zheng Qiu for the first time, Master Ming Zong also gave him "Dry Cloud Medicine Collection".
"Ganyun Medicine Collection" is divided into three volumes, which record the medicinal materials planted and cultivated by Qianyunzong for the medicine hall.
The master told him that in fact, it was the ten peaks of the medicine hall that provided the medicinal materials for the entire sect of Qianyun Sect. The medicinal materials grown on the Fangcao Peak were not supplied to the sect. This was Elder Ming Zong's own back garden. .
When Elder Ming Zong gave up studying exercises and turned to research on planting medicine, the rest of the elders in the sect didn't understand, thinking that there is a medicine hall, so there is no need for the elders to spend effort on research.
Although the suzerain didn't stop him, he persuaded him a few times, but the elder Ming Zong confirmed the matter and refused to give up, so the suzerain had no choice but to draw another mountain for him.
As a result, Elder Ming Zong studied for decades, but he didn't come up with anything special. The disciples he accepted at the beginning also went to other elders one by one, which completely became a joke of Qian Yunzong.
No, besides Elder Ming Zong and Zheng Qiu, only Grandpa and Yunyou were left on the Fangcao Peak. There are Qianyunzong disciples passing by every day, but none of them will run to Fangcao Peak.
So Elder Ming Zong held the sapphire board that could talk to each other for three days, sometimes urging this elder to send someone to do something, and sometimes yelling at that elder to send someone to do work.
Finally, after five days, it finally came to the day that the master said, to learn the exercises. Early in the morning, Zheng Qiu excitedly ran to the Fangcao Building, eagerly looking for the figure of the master.
"Master, master! I'm coming! Where are you?" Zheng Qiu shouted as he climbed the dry ladder to the forty-fifth floor where classes were usually held.
As soon as he walked to the desk where he was attending class, a khaki streamer flashed down from the patio, it was Master Mingzong. When the brilliance faded away, Zheng Qiu saw that Master Ming Zong was holding a blue metal disc in his hand, with dense strings hanging from the edge of the disc, like a flower drum with tassels.
"Apprentice, sit still and don't move around." Master Ming Zong pushed Zheng Qiu onto the chair, took the strings outside the disc, and wrapped them around Zheng Qiu's body one by one.
"The root bone shows the integrity and smoothness of the meridians, and what is hidden inside is the body's compatibility with different types of aura. This thing is called the root bone disc, which is specially used to detect the root bone."
Master Mingzong wrapped up the string, picked up the root measuring disc and slowly turned it, and the plate immediately lit up with colorful halos, the halos were very faint, and it was difficult to distinguish without looking carefully. Then the color of the halo kept changing, only one appeared at a time.
Zheng Qiu noticed that the string was shaking slightly, and there was a tingling feeling, which was continuously transmitted from the place where the rope was wound to the whole body. This feeling wave after wave, like the waves in the river, slapping his body.
Master Ming Zong turned the plate for a while, the smile on his face gradually disappeared,
He approached Zheng Qiu, stretched out his hand to touch left and right where the string was wrapped.
After a while, Master Mingzong frowned. He checked the pelvic plate over and over again, slapped it with his hands from time to time, and finally even grabbed the plate and knocked it on the table a few times.
Zheng Qiu felt something was wrong, and asked the master: "What's wrong, master, is there a problem?"
"Apprentice, wait a little longer, maybe this plate is broken, I'll go and change it." After saying that, Master Mingzong untied the string from Zheng Qiu's body, grabbed the plate and flew out of Fangcao Building.
In less than half an hour, Master Ming Zong came back, this time he was holding a new root measuring pelvis, which was bigger than the previous one. Similarly, the master wrapped the string around Zheng Qiu, turned the plate and began to look at the root bones.
However, time passed bit by bit, and Master Ming Zong's frown never loosened. He muttered to himself: "It's strange, it shouldn't be, why can't the main meridian be found out, and the nature of breath that fits is not there. ..."
Hearing what the master muttered, Zheng Qiu looked very nervous. He was worried that he would not be able to practice, so he asked eagerly: "Master, is it because my medicine is useless? Can I still practice?"
Master Mingzong didn't answer right away, but turned the plate and thought for a long time.
After a long time, he untied the thin rope on Zheng Qiu's body, and said, "Practice Minggong needs to figure out the condition of the main meridians, as well as the nature of breath. Now you can only explore some small meridians on the surface of the hands, feet and body. I still don’t know what your main meridian is, so you definitely can’t practice Minggong.”
Zheng Qiu raised his head, his eyes were full of expectation: "Master, why can't the main meridian be detected? Then don't practice life skills, can miscellaneous skills work?"
"One possibility is that your main meridians are completely blocked, and the other possibility is that your meridians are born incomplete."
The master sat at the table and thought of a way while drinking water, "You can try miscellaneous exercises. If you can practice a little energy, it is possible to clear the blockage of the meridian or form a new meridian."
"That means I can still practice?"
"Well, but it's not easy to choose the miscellaneous exercises. You can't detect the nature of your breath, so you can only try the simplest ones. Let me think about it..."
Zheng Qiu didn't dare to disturb the master's thinking, he sat quietly, staring at his hands in a daze. After waiting for an unknown amount of time, Master Mingzong suddenly stood up and flew towards the upper floor with a streamer.
After a while, the master turned back and threw Zheng Qiu a pamphlet the size of a palm. Zheng Qiu took the brochure, only to see "Folding Flower Fingers" written on the cover, which is a skill.
"Master, this is?"
"This is miscellaneous work, the simplest type of miscellaneous work."
Master Ming Zong clicked on the cover of the booklet, "As the name suggests, the folding finger is a technique for breaking small things. It only needs a few small meridians of the fingers, and the technique itself does not require energy. Although it is a technique , In fact, it is more inclined to the technique of using fingers.”
Zheng Qiu was a little puzzled: "I can fold things now, why is this considered a skill?"