Chapter 124: The food tastes wrong?
That night Chen Jue slept extremely sweetly, as if a living being was hibernating, or as if he had returned to his mother's weight and turned into a fetus. His breath was long, and he had no dreams or disturbances. This was the innate eternal state after forming the real golden elixir.
After truly being reborn and changing one's marrow and teeth, even sleeping becomes a kind of practice. During sleep, one can return to chaos and eliminate the distracting thoughts accumulated during the day.
Just like us ordinary people, no matter how anxious, flustered, happy or any other emotions we feel the night before, as long as we have a deep sleep, we will feel like a different person when we wake up the next day.
If you stay up late and don't let your brain relax, most people will feel groggy and their brains won't function as well the next day.
This is the brain clearing out metabolic waste during deep sleep, just like Chen Jue metabolizes dirt from the pores through cleansing the meridians and marrow. It is a continuous detoxification process.
It is difficult to just enter deep sleep. Ordinary people are under great pressure in life and work, and have complicated thoughts. Many people also have symptoms of insomnia and nightmares.
When Chen Jue was a migrant worker in Hangzhou, he often woke up in the middle of the night and got up to urinate. It was difficult for him to sleep soundly again when he lay down again.
However, since he began to practice, Chen Jue felt that his sleep was becoming more and more comfortable. Although it was not as regular as when he was in school, he could enter this deep sleep state as long as he wanted to sleep. After waking up, he would no longer feel fuzzy in the head, and his energetic state could last for the whole day.
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I got up, washed up, and looked at the time. It was already past 10 o'clock. It might be because my body had just formed a "dan" and needed a long rest.
While brushing his teeth, Chen Jue discovered that the 32 teeth that had fallen out had already poked out of his gums, and were almost the same size as the 8 teeth that had grown out before.
"It grew out overnight?"
“This is quite efficient!”
Chen Jue was also shocked by the changes in his mouth. He thought he would only brush his tongue when he brushed his teeth this morning, but he didn't expect his teeth to grow out so quickly.
By the way, it is best to use a softer brush to brush your tongue when cleaning your mouth. Food residues are easily left on both sides of the tongue, which is more likely to be ignored than the gaps between teeth. You should not use a too hard toothbrush to brush your tongue, as it will damage the tongue coating and taste buds, which will damage your taste.
However, Chen Jue discovered that after forming the Dan, he seemed to no longer need to brush his teeth!
Because when you wake up in the morning, there is no bad smell in your mouth, but instead a fresh smell lingers in your mouth.
You know, most people will have a strange taste in their mouth after a night's sleep.
If you smoke frequently or get angry, your breath will make you feel sick.
When Chen Jue was a child, he often observed his family members brushing their teeth. They either retched or their gums bled from brushing, so he paid great attention to oral hygiene.
But yesterday, after the dragon and the tiger came together to form a golden elixir, Chen Jue's body returned to its original state. The body odor emanating from him was no longer mixed with strange smells, but a peaceful and strange fragrance like that of a newborn fetus.
In ancient times, when high monks and Taoist masters attained enlightenment and meditated, there was a rumor that strange fragrance would appear in the room. The changes in Chen Jue at this moment just confirmed this rumor: "Pure and untainted, it produces a strange fragrance."
If the previous sentence "Concentrate your energy and make it gentle. Can you be like a baby?" from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching was used to describe Chen Jue's complexion, then the next sentence "Cleanse your mind and be free of blemishes?" is describing his physical condition.
After the golden elixir is formed, the body cleanses away accumulated toxins, keeping the body in a flawless state. Even the breath you exhale sounds like mint chewing gum, making people feel .
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However, this long period of hibernation will still consume the nutrients and energy stored in the body.
The calcium tablets, compressed biscuits and other medicines and foods he had taken last night had been almost digested by now. Feeling empty in his stomach, Chen Jue practiced the Wudang Night Walking Technique while walking to the town.
It was too late to have breakfast now, so I had to order a table full of delicious dishes and have breakfast and lunch together.
However, when the boss served the local specialties, Chen Jue felt that the food in front of him was not as delicious as before. Instead, he had a vague feeling of rejection in his body while eating.
"Boss! Did they change the chef in the store?"
"The food was fine in the past few days, why does it taste different today?" Chen Jue was a little confused.
"No! He's still a master! Doesn't it taste right?"
The owner of the local restaurant also felt strange. Since there was only Chen Jue at the table, he couldn't make a comparison, so he could only apologize to Chen Jue, went upstairs to find a pair of bowls and chopsticks, put some dishes into his own bowl and tasted a few bites.
“That’s the taste!”
"Handsome guy, did you eat ginger and garlic and your mouth taste bad?" The owner of the local restaurant asked in confusion.
In fact, this is because after forming the elixir, Chen Jue's body is spotless and flawless, and is continuously detoxifying, so he needs to use the "fasting" technique to nourish the elixir.
In ancient times , some highly skilled practitioners would regularly eat air and drink water when they reached the Jindan stage, for a period of time to excrete toxins from the body, and then resume eating.
Because there are impurities and tiny toxins in food, they cannot be completely eliminated by the body's metabolism alone and can only be eliminated through the method of fasting.
For example, the Wudang founder Sanfeng was recorded in the History of Ming Dynasty that he could eat a bushel of rice in one meal, but he could also go without food for several months and survive only by swallowing air and drinking dew.
This is like practicing kung fu to become "immortal". If you practice fasting without practicing kung fu, your stomach will shrink or even perforate, and your intestines will become adhered due to lack of food support.
If you want to practice fasting, you need to use the secret method of swallowing air to stimulate the stomach and intestines, and keep the stomach and intestines moving without adhesion and perforation. This is why there is the rumor that "Master Sanfeng did not eat worldly food in his later years."
However, although the information Chen Jue had at hand included classics from Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and medicine, and even the practice methods of inner alchemy, there was no practice method similar to Bigu Kung Fu.
Therefore, although he had formed a pill, he still retained the living habits of a normal person, eating, drinking, and sleeping.
"The taste hasn't changed? That might be my illusion... sorry!" Chen Jue was a little surprised. He took a few more bites and it seemed that it still tasted the same as before, so he continued eating with confidence.
After clearing the table of food and feeling full again, Chen Jue stood up to pay the bill.
However, after being asked by Chen Jue, the owner of the local restaurant felt embarrassed. He thought that his chef had played cards for too long last night and was not in the right state this morning, so his cooking skills had gone wrong. He also confiscated all the money for Chen Jue's meal.
Because Chen Jue came to eat every day during this period, he could be considered a regular customer of this Wazhen local restaurant. Taking into consideration the reputation of his restaurant and not wanting to lose Chen Jue, a big eater who always ordered a large table of food every time he came, the boss gave Chen Jue a 40% discount as a favor.
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After paying the bill, Chen Jue walked slowly back to Wazhai.
The Wudang Night Walking Technique that he had learned on the way was actually perfected by itself!
After several days of practicing through mountains and forests, Chen Jue finally mastered the third type of light skill.
An unfamiliar neural current surged throughout his body, and Chen Jue felt his eyes become brighter and flashing brightly under the midday sun.
I looked up at the sun for a few times, and I didn't feel any pain!
He turned his head and looked at the Wa Village not far away. It had yellow earth walls, a gray roof, and a few old men sitting in a house chatting and smoking dry cigarettes.
The birds flying over the back mountain and the field mice popping out of the grass to store winter food were all in Chen Jue's sight.
"Not only has my myopia been completely cured, but even my vision can be trained to this level?" Chen Jue was somewhat happy. Who doesn't want to see more clearly, see farther, and capture more subtle changes in the environment?
After taking a quick look at the notes behind the Perfect Night Walking Technique, a state of [no distinction between day and night] came into Chen Jue's sight.
[No distinction between day and night]: Traveling day and night, with clear vision.
Status Effect: This status can greatly enhance the player's visual ability, allowing him to perform Qinggong at night with the same night vision effect as during the day.
