Chapter 31 The Price of Knowledge
Silver needles are definitely not something you can practice just by doing it, and they are not poisonous needles. You can’t just stick them anywhere and they will have some effect. If you want to learn silver needles, the first thing you need to do is not to practice acupuncture, but to identify the acupoints first.
So a life-size wooden figure was carried back by Zhao Yushu.
But it's not free
"If you want to learn, sure. Twenty taels, every month." The young lady in a white medical uniform smiled happily, with her delicate and slender fingers clasped together and her palms spread out upwards.
Made is so expensive
Zhao Yushu reluctantly paid the money, and the young lady brought a large wooden man from the back storeroom: "Go back and identify the acupuncture points first, remember the name, effect, and spiritual energy flow route of each acupuncture point, and then come to me. Oh, remember to pay the money at this time next month."
Zhao Yushu was stunned: "Well, when I'm writing these things down, I shouldn't start counting the money, right?"
The young lady sneered: "What do you think?"
Zhao Yushu wanted to cry but had no tears. If I had known, I would have borrowed a book and learned it first before coming to you to pay. Now, it will take several months to memorize all these densely packed acupuncture points. A hundred taels of silver have gone down the drain.
Just as Zhao Yushu left, a girl with big eyes came in and said, "Wanwan, I see someone carrying a wooden man back again. You cheated another one."
"How can you say it's a lie? It's only natural to charge for classes. As long as he's willing to learn, I'll definitely teach him. Anyway, why are you here if you're not on duty in the library?"
"Hey, you can't be on duty every day, there are people who take turns. My eyes hurt from studying these days, can you please prescribe me some tea to improve my eyesight? You always say you will teach, but how many people can learn your method? Moreover, you are selling lessons for money without the permission of the academy, the consequences will be very serious."
The big-eyed girl was the administrator who stopped Zhao Yushu in the library and forced him to be late on the first day.
The female doctor Wanwan sneered: "You are selling lessons for money without permission? Do you have any proof or receipt?"
Well, you are awesome. The girl with big eyes rolled her eyes and thought, if your last name wasn’t Wen, would you try and find evidence?
Wanwan turned back to get the medicine. The big-eyed girl sat behind the counter with her cheek in her hand, thinking wildly: "Wanwan, why do I feel like I've seen that unlucky child before?"
"Zhao Yushu was late on the first day of school and was scolded by Liu Jijiu in public. There were few people in the academy who knew him," Wanwan answered without even turning her head.
If Zhao Yushu heard this, he would definitely want to find a piece of tofu and hit his head against it. He never dreamed that his reputation would spread so quickly. Are the students in the academy usually so gossipy?
Zhao Yushu carried the wooden man back to the dormitory, placed it casually on the empty space beside his bed, and then sat cross-legged on the bed.
The other roommates hadn't finished school yet, so he was the only one in the dormitory. It was a good time to practice.
As for the Shadow Step, its practice depends on your cultivation level. If your cultivation level doesn't improve, then the Shadow Step won't go any further. Now the only thing you can do is to get familiar with it again and again, until you can open the Shadow Realm whenever you want, without having to spend time just staring at your legs.
As for him, who has the basic knowledge of Shadow Step, the fleeting glimpses are very simple. What he needs to do is to integrate the two and truly achieve the effect of appearing and disappearing like a ghost.
So he decided to get up an hour earlier every day and practice these two footwork in the training ground when no one was around in the early morning.
The rest of the time, you need to learn something that can help you take the initiative to attack.
He originally wanted to learn acupuncture from Tan Yun, but by chance he went to the clinic and saw the acupuncture of the female doctor Wan Wan, which gave him a new idea.
The female doctor was right. When the cultivation level was low, the physical strength could not match the silver needle, and the effect of the silver needle in sealing the acupoints was far better than that of the finger. When the cultivation level was high, could I directly condense the spiritual power into a needle? If I could do it, then I could be like the prince of Dali in the TV series, running around so that you couldn't see your shadow, while firing laser cannons from a distance.
You can't beat him, catch him, or run away. Are you angry?
Having determined the short-term development strategy, Zhao Yushu breathed a sigh of relief, but there was still a very serious problem before him.
That is, Madam Xu replaced his own snow mountain, but at the same time, it made it impossible for him to make any further progress in the conventional way of practice!
In other words, he didn't know how he reached the second level of exterior scenes!
After consulting some cultivation books, I found that the only way to improve one's cultivation is to absorb spiritual energy to consolidate oneself, making one's sea of qi wider and wider, and one's snow mountain thicker and thicker. However, although one has a sea of qi, the snow mountain is gone.
Madam Xu was just floating there, and it didn't look like she could change size.
No matter how much spiritual energy he absorbed, Mrs. Xu would refuse it when she was full. She was very willful.
This is not fun anymore. I can't just stay in the first level of outdoor shooting for the rest of my life.
No matter what, there will always be a way out when the car reaches the mountain, first train yourself to be invincible
So the sound of reciting acupuncture points rang out in the empty dormitory, and from time to time someone was scratching their head in frustration and cursing.
Outside the academy, without Zhao Yushu knowing anything, the light and dark sides of the entire Dongdu suddenly came alive. Countless patrol officers poured into the streets, and countless beggars and hooligans emerged from the darkness. The power of the entire Dongdu was mobilized for a young man, but soon fell silent. Everyone paused after touching something, as if waiting for something.
Most of the buildings in the imperial city, separated from the academy by a wall, belonged to Prince Fu, including the Imperial Garden in the north.
The pot-bellied Prince Fu was sitting on a pleasure boat in the middle of the lake, flirting with his concubines while touring the lake. In the pavilion on the shore, Princess Fu was grinding tea leaves for Prince Fu, preparing to prepare a cup of good tea for him after he came ashore.
A manager stood by, waiting for the princess to ask
"How long?"
"Seven hours have passed since the Master returned."
"This Shen Dabao is really patient. Does he think he can still have another child at his age?"
“Even if the baby is born, it will be too late to teach him, and the result will be the same.”
"That means we need to ask the academy to take action."
"The academy can't do anything about it."
The princess stopped the mortar in her hand and gently knocked the tea leaves off the white jade pestle: "If that crazy old man was here, I would be a little more afraid. Since those who stay here have to save face..."
The princess stood up and looked at her father who was laughing in the center of the lake: "Wait three days."
The steward bowed and left. He did not ask what to do after three days. Since the princess asked to wait for three days, then within three days, the Eastern Capital would be at peace. Since the princess only asked to wait for three days, then after three days, even if the Emperor of the Western Capital came, he would not be able to save that
After studying for an afternoon, Zhao Yushu, feeling dizzy, ate dinner, declined Wang Yuan and Ouyang Wen's invitation to a drinking party, and returned to the dormitory alone. An unexpected man was squatting in front of the wooden man, smoking a big pipe in his mouth.
"Feng, uh, brother? How did you get into the academy?", a flirtatious man almost blurted out, fortunately he stopped in time, otherwise he would have no cigarettes to smoke in the future
The eldest brother pointed at the wooden man and asked: "Did you get it from the clinic?"
"Um"
"how much is it?"
"Twenty taels a month"
"Hahahaha"
Lao Zhao was a little angry: "Why are you laughing? This is called paying for knowledge."
The eldest brother choked on his own cigarette: "What you said makes sense. Although it is a bit expensive, if you ask me to go with you, maybe it can be cheaper."
Lao Zhao looked at him with disdain: "Why, you are a professor at the academy?"
"That's not the case, but the little medical girl who sold you her knowledge is my sister-in-law."