Add some practice: start with a lucid dream

"I have no choice but to walk back to my shabby house one step at a time."

"After I returned home, the more I thought about it, the more scared I became. I thought about asking someone for help. What if I leaked the information and the child thought I was a snitch and would eat me too?"

"So I just stopped changing my pants and started sleeping with my head covered."

"But as soon as I closed my eyes, that child would pop up and stare at me. His eyes would stretch out like a toad's tongue, spit it out, and stare at me."

"When I thought about it, it felt like I was being licked by so many tongues, with thorns on them, all night long."

"I'm so scared that I don't dare to move."

"I just stayed up until dawn and the sun was shining on me before I dared to get up."

"When I got up, I saw that my clothes, quilt, and mattress were all soaked. I was so thirsty that my throat was smoking. I was in a daze. I didn't know if I was dreaming yesterday."

"I didn't dare to smell whether the quilt on my body was sweat or the saliva from my eyes and tongue, so I quickly threw everything away."

"My life still matters!"

"I heard that day that someone found the director's body at the village supply and marketing cooperative. They said it was a wolf, with all the intestines removed and only the skin left."

"There are no wolves in this world!"

"Since I was a child, I have never heard of anyone's family being attacked by a wolf."

"I don't dare to go back to the supply and marketing cooperative to watch the excitement, so I just treat this matter like a bug in my throat and swallow it."

"A few days later, that kid really came to me and took me on as his apprentice."

"He was so thin that I almost didn't recognize him!"

"But he recognized me and said I was strict-mouthed and sensible."

"Later he fed me, clothed me, and taught me how to practice Qi."

"What happened that night seemed like a lie. I didn't dare to ask, and Master didn't mention it either."

Hearing this, Chen Ze couldn't help but interrupt and asked: "What is your master's name?"

"Master only asked me to call him Master." Ji Lianyuan shook his head.

"But the second senior brother secretly told us in private that he had heard others call the master 'Red Pine Tree'."

"Second senior brother?" Chen Ze had heard from Ma Fucheng before that Ji Lianyuan had other senior brothers.

"Yes, I have two senior brothers." Ji Lianyuan nodded.
"Master took them in before me, and then the four of us lived together."

"What are you doing?" Chen Ze suddenly felt a little strange.

It stands to reason that the purpose of accepting a disciple is to pass on the legacy, to provide for one's retirement, or to strengthen one's strength.
"Traveling around, traveling around mountains and rivers. Master teaches us how to practice Qi every day, but we can't learn it." Ji Lianyuan was also confused when he said this.

"To be honest, I don't know why Master wants to take us in."

"If we can't learn from Master, we won't be angry. He says it's not our fault, it's the world's fault, and he doesn't care."

"After seven or eight years of this, master suddenly gathered us together one day and handed us three rags, saying that these were the secret books of Qi refining techniques and asked us to keep them safe."

"Then Master asked us to take us to everyone's hometown, and even disturbed the soil. He said he would help us change our feng shui and bring good luck."

"Finally, Master said that the fate has come, so he let us brothers and sisters disperse and fend for ourselves."

"We brothers and sisters discussed it. Although we have not learned how to truly practice Qi with Master for so many years, we have gained a lot of knowledge."

"Qigong happened to be popular at that time, so we just went out and worked under the guise of qigong."

"That means..." Chen Ze felt a little ridiculous,
"You have three brothers from the same sect, but you are all qigong masters?"

"These are all deceptive tricks, just to bluff people." Ji Lianyuan laughed at himself,
"But after all, our master is a person with real abilities. It's not in vain that we have followed him for so many years. We have some understanding."

"I am the latest to get started, and my qualifications are not very good. My senior brother is about the same, but I have been with the master for a long time, so he is more powerful than me."

"The second senior brother is the cleverest. I always feel that he has learned something real, but he just likes to hide it. No one can tell the difference between the real thing and the fake."

"Oh, what's the second senior brother's name?" Chen Ze thought to himself, maybe he knows him.

"Strict new, strict strict, new old and new." Ji Lianyuan replied.

Chen Ze was a little stunned.

He really knows this person!
Yan Xin, a star figure in the qigong trend of the last century, is basically one of the most popular. He is "good at" extinguishing mountain fires from a distance, seeing through aliens, and intercepting atomic bombs.

"Do you know him?" Ji Lianyuan guessed Chen Ze's thoughts and chuckled,
"It's not surprising, my senior brothers are all more famous than me."

"Then what is your senior brother's name?" Chen Ze searched many famous qigong masters in his mind.

"Zhang Baosheng." Ji Lianyuan confirmed word for word,
"The bow is long, the treasure is precious, the victory is victorious. Zhang Baosheng is victorious."

Another "top" Qigong master!
We met Chen Ze again!
Zhang Baosheng is known as the first superman in China. He holds Kunlun in his hand and drinks the Yangtze River. Kuafu is a generation below him. He once participated in a qigong research project hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is quite famous.

Good guy, I can't help but think that all these famous qigong masters come from the same family!

"Speaking of which, our senior brothers, we said goodbye at that time, and we haven't seen each other for decades."

"To this day, I still don't know what will happen to them."
Ji Lianyuan sighed with emotion.

Most likely not doing well. Chen Ze answered in his mind.

Although they did not pay attention, most of the "masters" did not end well after the craze passed and they were exposed.

Of course, this is what they deserve.

"I look back and think about it again. No matter how I think about it, the last thing Master left for us is that each of us has a residual copy of Qi Refining Technique."

Ji Lianyuan finally got to the point.

"Have you seen other fragments?" Chen Ze asked.

"I took a look at the two senior brothers, but I forgot about them a long time ago." Ji Lianyuan shook his head.
"We, our senior brothers, will each have a copy and keep it each for safekeeping."

"But I still remember that the complete secret book should be four copies."

"The fourth and most important part, Master did not give it to us, but hid it in a place."

"What do you mean?" Chen Ze felt more and more strange, and he couldn't figure out the purpose of this "red pine nut".

"I forgot." Ji Lianyuan seemed to be joking.

However, knowing that what he said was absurd, he quickly added,

"Actually, I remember it at first."

"But then I told Wang Lin about the place and asked him to help me take care of Houde, so I forgot about it."

"Wang Lin did it?" Chen Ze asked with a frown.

"No." Ji Lianyuan denied Chen Ze's guess.

"It's my master's method."

"As soon as I tell that place, I myself will forget it."

"I tried asking Wang Lin to repeat that location with me every once in a while."

"I can remember it when I first heard him talk about it, but as time goes by, I will slowly forget it. I don't remember how I forgot it at all."

"Later, Wang Lin was released from prison and no one told me again. Of course I gradually forgot about it."

"Can't you find a place to write it down?" Chen Ze silently wrote down the "red pine nut" in his mind.

Such cunning methods are rare.

But having said that, it is understandable that Ji Lianyuan would not tell other inmates the location of the treasure in order to keep it a secret, but it stands to reason that he could secretly record it himself.

"Of course I have remembered it." Ji Lianyuan was also helpless, "But this kind of forgetfulness... how should I put it, as time goes by, I will completely forget the recording location itself."

"I will forget which page I wrote the address on and where I hid it. Even if I see that page again and see those lines, I can't remember it."

"There's always a way, right?" Chen Ze subconsciously started to find fault.
"Although you don't remember the specific location, since you still remember such a thing, there should be many ways to remind yourself."

"For example, after you write the address, you can continue to write down things on this basis. Remember where you put something important, so that you can connect them one by one. You can't forget them all, right?"

After Ji Lianyuan listened patiently, the look of helplessness on his face became even worse.

"I should have tried, I tried every method, but in the end, maybe it was too complicated, or maybe something happened."

"In a place like this, you never know when things will be lost or messed up during ward rounds."

"I guess if I missed any part, I'll forget it all."

"Anyway, one day, I realized that I couldn't figure out where I had recorded the location."

"But." Ji Lianyuan gasped,

"I didn't forget it for a long time, so I looked for it desperately."

"Fortunately, when I was taking a shower, I found a line of writing on my body that hadn't been completely washed away by the water. I hurried back and wrote down the remaining half a line again."

"Then you have to forget it later?" Chen Ze already had a premonition of what Ji Lianyuan was going to say.

"I forgot."

"I knew then that I had to stay with myself."

"So when I went to sew clothes, when the guard wasn't paying attention, I used the needle on the sewing machine to pierce the ink refill and color it, and then tattooed the half line of words on my hand."

"You really have the guts to do it." Chen Ze was slightly moved.

"Haha. What's the matter? I'm afraid that I'll need this half line of words again, but I won't be able to come up with it."

"It's a pity that the guards discovered me before I finished tattooing. Later, I saw that I was too careful and I didn't have the chance to finish tattooing the rest of the words."

"In the end, I could only read two words in my hand."

"Maybe it's because I've been looking at it for too long, decades. You can see it when you lower your head. I can remember those two words without looking at them now."

"Those two words are."

"Qin, Ling."

"Qinling." Chen Ze repeated again,
"Which Qinling?"

Qinling Mountains can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense.

The Qinling Mountains in a narrow sense only refers to the Qinling Mountains in Qin Province. It has a long history and is home to famous mountains such as Huashan Mountain, Zibai Mountain, and Lishan Mountain.

Among them, Zhongnan Mountain, the most famous one, is revered as a Taoist holy land and is known as the "Immortal Capital".

In a broad sense, the Qinling Mountains is a geographical concept given by later generations, starting from the Kunlun Mountains in the Western Regions in the west to the Dabie Mountains in East China in the east, spanning almost half of China.

"I only remember these two words, and forgot everything else." Ji Lianyuan said he was helpless.

Chen Ze continued to make insinuations and asked many questions, hoping to help Ji Lianyuan recall.

But they all ended in failure, and Ji Lianyuan's tone didn't sound like he was lying.

In this dream, no matter how skilled the actor is, it is difficult to hide his true emotions, not to mention that Ji Lianyuan has no reason to hide it.

"That's right." Chen Ze asked him to confirm whether he had encountered any special organizational forces related to the extraordinary world in recent years.

Chen Ze is already suspecting that the force he is currently targeting may have existed for many years and has been pursuing something involving extraordinary power.

Ji Lianyuan couldn't give any valuable answers to this. He was not really an insider, so his knowledge was limited after leaving the master.

"But." Ji Lianyuan replied uncertainly,

"I misunderstood my apprentice back then, and then I misunderstood him again."

"Looking back, I always feel that something happened too coincidental, as if someone was targeting me and wanted to lock me in."

"But I can't find any basis, and I can't figure out who I offended would target me like this."

"I understand." Chen Ze wrote this down.

In the end, Chen Ze had no choice but to give up and exit the dream.

In the prison cell, Ji Lianyuan woke up and turned around, only to find that the roommates around him were still sleeping soundly, and not long had passed.

So he turned over, skillfully pulled the quilt over his head, exposed a little gap, and quietly looked at his palms under the light.

The strange mark that appeared earlier has disappeared.

After staring for a while, Ji Lianyuan turned his hand over, and there was a line of writing on the thick fleshy back of his hand, which looked like a tattoo and a scar. He could only vaguely make out the crooked word "Qinling".

Outside the prison, Chen Ze withdrew his gaze and walked towards the depths of the prison.

Thump thump thump thump
A burst of slightly hasty footsteps followed him.

"Chen, Mr. Chen." Wu Jiagui was a little flustered and didn't even dare to speak loudly.
"Why did you bring me here?"

"Huff—" A loud snoring sound like thunder almost startled Wu Jiagui.

"Don't worry." Chen Ze confessed without looking back.
"No one can see you and no one can hear you."

Besides, with Wu Jiagui's face, if someone really wanted to see him, he would not be the first one to run away.

Seeing this, Wu Jiagui did not dare to say anything more, but his footsteps became smoother and smoother, and he even looked at the surrounding environment curiously.

He had never visited such a place.

Not long after, Chen Ze led Wu Jiagui through many twists and turns to another prison area.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but the lights are obviously the same as before, and it's even quieter.

But as soon as he stepped into this place, Wu Jiagui felt that the atmosphere here was more depressing.

Chen Ze had a list of names in his hand that he didn't know where to find, and he was searching from cell to cell.

Until he suddenly stopped.

Wu Jiagui didn't pay attention and almost bumped into him with an ouch.

"Mr. Chen?"

Chen Ze pointed to the iron fence in front of him that was no different from other prison cells.

"arrive."

There was only one person in the cell, and he was not sleeping at this time. He was just sitting on the bed and leaning against the wall, staring at the ceiling.

The rings on his feet made his identity obvious.

Death row.

Chen Ze opened the door and walked in as if there was no one around.

Wu Jiagui didn't know why, so he simply followed in.

The two stood in front of the death row prisoner together, and the other was still unconscious, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

Gulululu——

Chen Zechao threw a charm behind him.

In an instant, Wu Jiagui felt like he was being dragged into a coffin, the door panel was nailed shut, and he was completely cut off from the original environment. (End of chapter)