Chapter 87: Medicine Sand, Listening-Wind Knife

Seeing Chu Tianshu stayed in this wine house.

He spent an hour every morning picking out some guests who were obviously ill to treat.

In just five days, the reputation of a good physician in this wine house spread.

For the rest of the morning, he basically looked for Dao Bai Shu, who wasn't on stage, to ask about various news of this world.

He gave money, asked the old man to exclude the parts of the play, and told the news he knew with relatively high reliability.

Seeing Chu Tianshu asked while listening, and got a general idea about the differences between this world and his hometown's history, as well as the current situation of the era.

First is the difference from his hometown.

Here, during the Sui and Tang periods, there really was a person named Li Yuanba, with copper skin and iron bones, ribs like snakes, and even crossbow arrows couldn't shoot through his skin.

An eight-hundred-jin hammer danced like flying, and both arms had the power of four elephants.

This led to the early stage of the Li family's uprising being even smoother than in his hometown's history.

It wasn't until Li Yuanba threw the hammer on a cliff and scolded the sky, was struck by heavenly thunder on the hammer head, and the hammer fell back on his own head that the Tang army's situation became a bit difficult.

Before that, Li Shimin was so frivolous that he dared to take a few people to scout for news near other people's army camps.

After that, Li Shimin had to show the talent and responsibility of a main general.

Even so, the chaotic times of the Sui and Tang transition lasted two years shorter than in his hometown.

But after that, there was no existence as outrageous as Li Yuanba.

Some things about the An-Shi Rebellion were much the same.

Now in the Great Tang, after the famous Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, he experienced two emperors, Suzong and Daizong.

The current emperor is the eldest son of Daizong.

As the eldest son, he sat firmly in the position of crown prince and successfully ascended the throne, which is quite rare in the Great Tang.

After taking the throne, this person followed the advice of his ministers and implemented the Two-Tax Law, attempting to replace "taxation by head" with "taxation by assets" in the folk, which initially caused a stir in the court, but eventually it was implemented.

However, the regional warlords and military governors had already formed the tradition of father-to-son succession, and many military governors despised the imperial orders, not listening to the court's orders in many aspects such as tax law.

The emperor's orders were too tough, and instead, some military governors found excuses to take the opportunity to rebel.

Fortunately, this emperor had quite a few means, with famous ministers and generals like Wei Gao, and the Great Tang Internal Guards, which were like a net, spread all over the place, providing intelligence and successfully suppressing the rebellion.

Therefore, the current Great Tang has quite a bit of a mid-term revival atmosphere.

However, the Great Tang Internal Guard organization, after making repeated contributions, was targeted by civil officials in the court and greatly criticized.

Because the "Internal Guard" was founded in the era of Wu Zetian, it was originally one body with the cruel officials, and originally had the responsibility of supervising all officials, so it was deeply hated by all officials.

Later, the Internal Guard went through several ups and downs, was abolished during the time of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and was re-enabled because of the An-Shi Rebellion, merged with the "Bad People," and recruited martial artists from the rivers and lakes to grow.

It is said that the Nanzhao monarch Yimouxun, after being defeated in battle that year, not only fell out with Tibet and showed goodwill to the Great Tang, but also insisted on moving the capital and changing the royal city to here.

What he feared was not only the Tang army, but also to guard against the Internal Guard.

The current military governor of Jiannan Xichuan of the Great Tang, General Wei Gao, is said to be from a scholarly family. Although he is in charge of Sichuan and Shu, he is a very elegant and easy-going person.

Yimouxun had correspondence with this person, and publicly stated many times that if the person guarding Sichuan and Shu that year was also a famous minister like General Wei who could distinguish right from wrong, Nanzhao would never have had the intention of rebellion.

The Great Tang and Nanzhao were as close as father and son, but it was ruined by those treacherous officials back then.

Since he said so, his moving the capital naturally couldn't be out of consideration for Wei Gao, but could only be out of consideration for something else.

Seeing Chu Tianshu listened and listened, feeling that Nanzhao was indeed quite stable. If he wanted to fill the Qi count column, he had to pay more attention and find opportunities himself.

Of course, it's not urgent yet.

In these few days, he mainly practiced fist techniques in the afternoon.

The "Shaolin Heart-Fire Fist Frame" fist technique has already reached a feeling of being extremely rigid and fierce, yet able to turn round in a square inch.

To practice this fist technique, Seeing Chu Tianshu placed a large bath barrel in his room.

But the barrel wasn't filled with water, but sand.

Nanzhao doesn't have any desert areas, but there are sand mines.

When building city walls or some famous families building mansions, they will use a mixture of glutinous rice paste, slaked lime, and sand to fill the gaps.

There are also some jade and bronze mirror makers who use sand in the multi-layer polishing process.

Seeing Chu Tianshu bought more than half a barrel of sand and went to buy several medicinal materials, crushed them, and mixed them in.

According to the records of the "Breaking into Shaolin" fist manual, for beginners, they don't need so much sand, and secondly, they have to put the medicine sand in an iron pot and stir-fry it until it's slightly warm.

Then hang it up in a sack, pour it down from behind the neck, and scrub the whole body.

And the sand and medicinal materials Seeing Chu Tianshu used were in large quantities, and he didn't stir-fry them to heat them up.

Every day when he entered the room, he would strip naked and stand on the bath barrel.

"Hoo!!"

Seeing Chu Tianshu exhaled a long breath, his arms spread, turned, and his palms pressed against his chest and abdomen.

The sand suddenly jumped slightly, and his whole body began to sink, soon reaching his waist.

When his hands, chest, and abdomen also touched the sand, the speed at which his whole body sank suddenly accelerated, like falling into a mud swamp, "plop," and he fell straight down.

Until the sand was level with his shoulders.

Seeing Chu Tianshu used the Immortal Power to shake open the sand to facilitate his sinking, but the amplitude was very small, and it didn't look very obvious on the outside.

Now, except for his head, his whole body was trapped in the sand, and the influence caused by his power exertion became clearer.

The tiny sand grains were always jumping.

Seeing Chu Tianshu's breathing was very fine, and the sand wouldn't be sucked in by him.

But every inhalation was very long, fine, long, and silent, and one had to be maintained for more than three minutes.

After inhaling, he held it, and it would be a full quarter of an hour before he exhaled.

His body seemed motionless, but in the sand, every moment, he was making the muscles on his body bulge and expand, and the internal organ power exertion and heartbeat sound were just right to match the rise and fall of the muscles.

"Whoosh, crackle, crackle!!" "Whoosh, crackle, crackle!!"

The sound of the sand was one after another.

It was clearly sand, but it seemed like a tide; for a while, it would rise higher, and for a while, it would fall.

Seeing Chu Tianshu's power exertion made all the sand move.

They generated heat in the process of rubbing against each other, and because they were all leaning against each other, with a thick wooden barrel outside to restrain them, the heat couldn't dissipate.

The temperature of the sand in the barrel gathered higher and higher, gradually exceeding body temperature.

This is why Seeing Chu Tianshu didn't use an iron pot to stir-fry the sand.

His kung fu had already reached this level, so practicing the "Breaking into Shaolin" fist manual was naturally directly entering the hall, and he could start from the high-level difficulty.

Fourteen hearts, fourteen furnaces.

This fist technique wants to practice the flesh into the power of fourteen furnaces, although it only refers to the blacksmith's furnace of the Ming Dynasty, which cannot be compared with the steel-making furnace of later generations.

But it also has to achieve "flesh scorching sand" to be considered on the right path and start grasping the essence.

The sand was getting hotter and hotter.

Air surged from the gaps in the sand below, and expanded upward due to heat, even causing the most superficial sand to slightly appear in two or three places bubbling.

This state was too hot.

Other places were fine, but the lower yin was currently slightly weak and couldn't withstand such temperature continuously.

Seeing Chu Tianshu slowed down the frequency of his flesh power exertion, and after a while, continued to exert power.

He practiced until evening, and a waiter walked outside the door.

Through the paper pasted on the door, the waiter felt the heat coming from the guest room, which was completely different from the temperature outside.

But after these few days, the waiter was also familiar with this matter, raised the towel on his shoulder, wiped his forehead, and said: "Guest, Brother Cheng is back."

A response came from inside the door.

It was Seeing Chu Tianshu who asked them to notify him every day when Cheng Xiazi Cheng came back.

A moment later, Seeing Chu Tianshu, with a rosy face, wearing a blue cloth embroidered robe, walked out.

His hairstyle also changed; he learned from the people here to tie a bun and place it in the center of his head.

However, he wasn't skilled at tying it, and there were always some hair strands hanging down from his forehead, temples, and even the hairline on the back of his neck.

By the time he walked to the lobby, he saw Cheng Xiazi Cheng drinking there again.

"As usual, bring two steamed fish, and anything else is fine."

Seeing Chu Tianshu smiled, "I'll eat with Brother Cheng."

These few days, he had also been paying attention to the "Blood-Refining Weapon Art." The first thing he thought of was that headless swordsman.

Since the swordsman was dead, perhaps he could buy his cultivation method from his family with money.

But Seeing Chu Tianshu found out after asking that the swordsman was once a guest at a high official's mansion, and the Blood-Refining Art was obtained from the high official, so it must not be passed on, and it was impossible to have a book left behind.

Even the swordsman's son only knew the "Endurance Method," which is a fist technique similar to opening the orifices and practicing strength, and didn't understand the Blood-Refining Weapon Art.

Then, if he wanted to get the Blood-Refining Weapon Art, Seeing Chu Tianshu's other target was Cheng Xiazi Cheng.

It's just a pity that his eyes were completely ruined.

Even with Seeing Chu Tianshu's medical skills, there was no way to treat him.

He could only think of other ways to see how to buy or how to exchange.

"Yo! Why did you only drink half a bottle today?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu sat opposite and poured himself a cup, skillfully drinking two sips and then stopping.

This is the best amount; one can taste both the sweetness and the slight spiciness. Any more, and a bitter taste would rise to the root of the tongue.

Cheng Xiazi Cheng really performed abnormally today, and he hadn't finished the first bottle of wine yet.

He faced Seeing Chu Tianshu, as if he could see Seeing Chu Tianshu.

"You invite me to dinner every day, making me more and more worried, afraid that one day you will sprinkle some anesthetic in the wine and sell me."

Cheng Xiazi Cheng said casually, "So I've changed to savoring it carefully now, I have to taste if there is any drug taste."

Seeing Chu Tianshu smiled: "You should have seen it these few days. With my medical skills, it's not difficult to make money. Why sell an interesting friend? Are you very valuable?"

Cheng Xiazi Cheng snorted: "Maybe, I'm really quite valuable."

Seeing Chu Tianshu asked strangely: "Oh? Did you suddenly find out today that some rich relative sent someone to your door, asking you to inherit the estate?"

"You're talking weird again."

Cheng Xiazi Cheng shook his head, suddenly grabbed his knife, and laid it horizontally in front of him.

Seeing Chu Tianshu raised his eyebrows, his body didn't move, watching the knife lay horizontally less than five inches in front of him.

"Clang!"

Cheng Xiazi Cheng pressed his thumb, and a little bit of the blade was exposed from the scabbard.

"Aren't you curious about the sword soul? Then take it and see."

"The name of this knife is Listening-Wind."

As soon as the words fell, he let go of his hand directly.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 88 =====