Chapter 366: Spiritual Thief
No one wants to be mortal.
Therefore, the questions and answers between Lu Sen and Huang Fan soon spread throughout the Song Dynasty.
From civil and military officials to peddlers and hawkers.
Everyone is thinking about how to practice.
It was at this time that a book titled "The Immortal's Qi Refining Method" began to spread all over the country.
According to the bookstore that sells it, this was specially for people to practice cultivation.
The printing quality of the book is very good, the paper is solid, the content is written in vernacular Chinese, and the explanations are very, very detailed.
For example, the term Zhoutian is explained clearly, using nearly 400 words.
If it were traditional books, what is Zhoutian would just be an ambiguous statement.
Such detailed teaching is naturally a good thing for most people.
But there are some people who just can't stand it.
Especially the children from some big families.
As they looked at the book, they could not help but gather together and mutter, "It's not elegant at all. The language used in this book is no different from that of an amateur who has only read for two or three months. The writing is not smooth and has no literary flavor. It's like chewing wax when reading it."
"Yeah!"
A group of people echoed.
"And this book even uses odd points to separate sentences. Do you think we have never read a book?"
"Yeah!"
Echo again.
In fact, everyone present understood that this book was really well written, so well that almost everyone could understand it by reading or listening to it.
This mental method is written in such a simple and easy-to-understand way that it would be impossible to write it unless one is very familiar with its contents and has profound literary talent.
Writing a book that is easy to understand is a difficult task, no less difficult than creating a famous quote.
The reason why they reacted so strongly is that the "advantages" of their hard work in studying are completely unreflected in front of this book.
Moreover, there are only a few people who are gifted in practicing, and the vast majority are ordinary people.
In this situation, spiritual practice requires more character and perseverance.
The young masters have fine clothes and delicious food, and they have everything they want. Some of them have very good character.
Therefore, after a period of time, they discovered that... their maids and servants were actually practicing faster than them.
What's going on!
They couldn't bear the drop from being on top to falling into a mud pit all of a sudden.
Some people also suggested that servants should be prohibited from reading and passing on the cultivation techniques.
But as soon as this was mentioned, it was denied by one's own people.
"A book that costs eight cents a copy is thicker than my pillow." The eldest son of a large family sighed, "You can buy it as long as you scrape together some money. It's all over the world. It's everywhere. How can you ban it?"
"But this is not a solution."
Only half a year after the cultivation method appeared, many maids and servants in his family had already resigned from their jobs.
Some even shouted: A real man lives in this world, how can he be depressed and inferior to others for long?
Upon hearing this, that person broke out in a cold sweat.
"It's fate and time. Let's win over talented people and make them our own." The eldest son smiled bitterly and said , "My family has betrothed my younger sister to a farmhand, and we are just choosing a date for the wedding. He was a farmhand before, and now he is my son-in-law."
When the young masters heard this, they all sighed.
The eldest son's younger sister was a famous beauty among them. They had previously speculated that she would be the daughter of that noble family.
The result...a farmhand!
The lamentations of the children of the noble families did not reach Lu Sen's ears.
Because the number of children from aristocratic families is too small, they cannot cause any trouble.
Less than 1% of the people own more than 80% of the world's fertile land and resources.
Originally, they had the advantage in public opinion, but they didn't dare to use it on Lu Sen.
Immortal rice, spreading spiritual energy! Lu Sen's status has long been unshakable by rumors.
Now if there is any bad talk about Lu Sen, the first reaction of the world is: Someone wants to slander Master Lu, who is it? Find him and kill him!
Inside the system door, Lu Sen was listening to the report from the family general Lao Qi.
"This book has begun to circulate throughout the Song Dynasty, except for Gui County."
"Why?"
"First, Gui County is full of malaria, and no bookseller is willing to go there."
"Secondly, the transportation in Gui County is inconvenient, and the roads are indeed difficult to travel. There are a lot of mosquitoes, poisonous insects, snakes and ants, all of which are poisonous. It is easy to get into trouble on the way."
Lu Sen nodded and said, "Let's leave Gui County like this for now. Old Qi, please send some invitations to the bookstore owners to gather at Xianyuan Pavilion in Hangzhou on New Year's Day. I will talk to them in person."
Lao Qi nodded and left.
After a few days, it was New Year's Day.
Lu Sen brought Pang Meir with him. The latter had been improving her flower burial technique recently and was in a much more relaxed mood. She was no longer as tense as before and was willing to go out for a walk and play.
All the booksellers came, almost an hour early.
As soon as Lu Sen arrived at Xianyuan Pavilion, he greeted the fourteen bookstore owners.
The basic Qi training method was able to spread throughout the Song Dynasty within half a year, and their efforts were huge and their contribution cannot be ignored.
"I'm sorry to bother you all with this matter." Lu Sen raised his glass and drank first, then continued: "According to our previous agreement, each person will receive 1,000 points to exchange for things in this Xianyuan Pavilion."
The score of one peach is one thousand points.
But Lu Sen was afraid that some people didn't want the peaches, so he proposed using points instead.
Sure enough, ten out of the fourteen people exchanged for peaches, but four still exchanged for other things.
After the items were exchanged, a bookseller suddenly said, "Master Lu, I encountered a strange thing some time ago."
"What's so strange?"
"An overseas barbarian with his servants wants to buy a large number of the books that my family is responsible for." The middle-aged businessman thought for a moment and continued, "And I can feel that they all have the aura of cultivation. Didn't you say that only people in the territory of my Great Song can practice cultivation?"
Originally, Lu Sen was just going to listen, but now he immediately became alert.
"Are they really foreigners?"
The middle-aged businessman nodded vigorously: "You can't hide it from me. I can smell the fishy smell of seawater on their bodies from two or three meters away. I am also a little talented in cultivation. I can feel that those people all have spiritual energy. Although not as good as me, they are not much worse."
This middle-aged bookseller does have a talent for spiritual practice.
Lu Sen asked: "Where did you see them?"
"Maritime Affairs Bureau! But I think they should have left long ago. After all, it happened more than half a month ago."
Lu Sen immediately stood up, clasped his fists and said, "I have some things to deal with, so I can't accompany you."
The booksellers even said they dared not.
Lu Sen immediately rushed to the Maritime Customs.
The ship supervisor here had seen Lu Sen before, and when he saw the latter coming, he immediately came over and asked with a smile: "Master Lu, I am very happy to have you here. Please take a seat here."
Lu Sen asked, "Half a month ago, a group of foreigners came here?"
"There are many foreigners coming here. Master Lu can tell me some of their distinctive features."
"They bought a lot of books, including the secret manuals of Qigong."
"Oh." The officer of the Maritime Affairs Department remembered and clapped his hands: "Those are the East Sea barbarians. I heard they came from Siam."
