Cultivation starts with time management

"Don't say it so scary!" Shi Liuli slapped him hard, and said tearfully, "What if we are also trapped here for 10 years?"

"If you're stuck with my senior sister." Seeing that she seemed to be frightened, Luo Yan deliberately said seriously, "Don't say 10 years, even 100 million years, I'm willing."

Shi Liuli was indignant when she heard this: I am already suffering so much, yet my junior brother still wants to tease me!

She was about to grind her teeth, ready to take a bite out of this nasty junior, but unexpectedly, Kunlun Mirror suddenly withdrew the illusion of the flower in the mirror and the moon in the water.

As soon as this hypocritical character was withdrawn, his demeanor immediately became extremely sincere, so that Shi Liuli couldn't figure out for a while whether the younger brother said this just to divert his attention, so that he would stop panicking and frightened, or whether he was sincere. confessed to myself.

After another distance, Shi Liuli suddenly stammered:

"Well, little junior brother... I have to think about it carefully, think about it seriously... okay?"

Royan: ?

Chapter 28 Can monks not sleep?

When the two came to the side hall, they were once again shocked by the almost massive amount of books.

Shi Liuli found a corner where no one was around, took out a book from the bookshelf and looked at it for a while, his eyes seemed to be filled with whirling mosquito coils.

Luo Yan also found a book, and after reading it for a while, he felt that the author wrote it very interestingly—although he was a little bewildered.

The author claims that the reason why the Guixu Array is different every time it is observed is because it is actually three-dimensional, not flat.

Every time the monks make an observation, what they record is only a "certain section" of this three-dimensional...

Luo Yan quickly flipped to the back, and found that the author was always conjecture, without any evidence to support his point of view, so he immediately lost interest.

It seems that among the more than [-] books, there are not many that are really useful.

He came to the window of the side hall again and looked out.

The Guixu Great Formation is a large formation set up in the central courtyard, overlooking from the top it happens to be the center of the Guixu Formation.

Everyone who looks out from the window of the side hall can see the extremely complex and gorgeous formation on the ground, like a work of art woven with silver threads, exquisite and yet natural.

What's even more strange is that the formation is constantly changing, becoming more and more complicated...

"Do you understand?" Miss Shi's voice suddenly rang in his ears, interrupting Luo Yan's thoughts that were almost immersed in it.

"Uh, it's kind of interesting." Luo Yan said perfunctorily.

"Liar." Shi Liuli pouted, then continued to stare at him.

The little junior just stared at the formation for a quarter of an hour, how could it be just "interesting"?

She looked around carefully again, and found that everyone was still doing things on their own, and no one was paying attention to them.

She couldn't understand the book, and there was no entertainment around, so Shi Liuli could only sit next to Luo Yan next to him, and cast her eyes on the Guixu formation outside the window without moving.

Luo Yan came to the edge of the bookshelf and quickly rummaged through it.

Possessing the talent of hearing a thousand things, no matter which book he gets started, he can roughly know what it is talking about just by scanning a few pages.

Therefore, most of the books full of subjective conjectures and conjectures were ruthlessly skipped by him.

Only those formation books that really have something to say will be kept in his hands, and he will read each page carefully.

Although the speed of this careful reading is a bit fast - it takes about two seconds to turn each page, but the expression on Luo Yan's face is extremely serious.

And the monks around him didn't pay any attention to him.

After an unknown amount of time, Luo Yan was suddenly woken up again by Miss Shi.

"How do you look?" Shi Liuli asked.

"The books here are really good!" Luo Yan exclaimed happily, "There are several masters of formations who talked about it. I heard the master mention it before..."

"Okay, okay." Shi Liuli looked around in fear, and hurriedly pushed Luo Yan out.

The two passed by the main hall again, and saw Mr. Zhunmang sitting on the throne, holding a piece of wood in his hand, and casually carved it into the shape of a crude treasure ship with a carving knife.

Then he threw it outside at random, and saw that the treasure ship escaped from the water film, quickly became bigger and bigger, and floated upwards quickly.

Luo Yan: ...

Shi Liuli: ...

You are the one who created the Sanyu Treasure Ship that brought us in together!

"We must attract more people in." Noticing the complex gazes of the two, Mr. Zhunmang turned his head and showed a handsome smile, "Otherwise, the speed of monks in Guixu committing suicide is comparable to that of newcomers. Much faster."

"May I ask Mr. Zhunmang, why is the treasure ship free to float up without being affected by the big ravine?" Luo Yan asked seriously.

"I don't know either." Mr. Zhunmang said frankly, "Maybe it has something to do with the material. These logs...have been piled up on the Guixu formation in the central courtyard for a long time. Maybe it is infiltrated with the power of the formation? Just like Guixu itself, it won’t sink in the big ravine?”

Luo Yan listened thoughtfully, and asked:

"Can I go to the central courtyard and see the wood?"

"Please." Zhunmang said with a smile, "However, be careful not to block the sight of the monks behind the surrounding windows."

"If you block their observation of the Guixu Formation, they may become... a little irritable."

"Of course, in Returning to the Ruins, everyone is forbidden to attack each other, and I will stop it."

"Thank you." Luo Yan bowed slightly.

When the two of them returned to the room again, Shi Liuli suddenly relaxed and stretched on the stone bed.

"Phew, I'm so bored." She covered her mouth and yawned. "It's been such a hard day, and I finally understand why those monks are driven crazy. 10 years...how did they survive?"

"Senior sister, if you feel bored, you can sleep in your room tomorrow." Luo Yan suggested sincerely.

His tone was quite sincere, but the Kunlun Mirror did not remove the illusion this time, so that when Miss Shi compared this temperament with the previous one, she immediately felt that it was wrong, and said aggrievedly:

"Are you thinking that I'm getting in your way by staying next to you?"

Royan: ?

"No, how could it be?" Seeing that Miss Shi had the urge to shed tears again, Luo Yan could only sigh in his heart, and quickly comforted her, "I feel more at ease with my senior sister by my side."

"You lied!" Shi Liuli cried.

"I'm not lying..."

"You've been buried in the book all day, and you haven't even looked at me!"

Why do you have the feeling that your girlfriend is playing petty temper and making trouble unreasonably, trying to attract your boyfriend's attention?

Luo Yan suppressed the strange feeling in his heart, and said patiently:

"Senior Sister is overthinking, I have actually been watching Senior Sister all the time."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. It's truer than sincerity. If you don't believe me, look into my eyes." Luo Yan opened his eyes brazenly.

Shi Liuli summoned up her temper, and looked at him "fiercely" for a few seconds, then suddenly remembered something, and retreated back with a blushing face.

"There isn't even a bedding here, so how are you going to sleep tonight?" She changed the subject.

"Sleep?" Luo Yan was immediately surprised when he heard the words, "Why does senior sister still have the habit of sleeping? Don't we monks just need to meditate?"

"I like to sleep, don't worry about me!" Shi Liuli glared at him a few times, and then quickly became frowning, "The bed I usually sleep on has several layers of quilts, it's so soft... such a hard stone bed, I can't sleep at all."

"But Senior Sister, I really didn't bring a bedding." Luo Yan said in embarrassment.

I can't let Ah Jing teleport me out, buy it and bring me back, right?

Even if the risk of exposing the secret is not considered, Ah Jing probably will not tolerate such an unreasonable request from Miss Shi.

Shi Liuli also thought for a moment, then suddenly said:

"Are you going to meditate through the night?"

"Yes?" Luo Yan asked inexplicably, which monk didn't spend the night meditating?

"Then I'll sleep on your lap." Shi Liuli said domineeringly, without giving Luo Yan a chance to refuse, she directly laid a pillow on his lap, which was sitting cross-legged.

Luo Yan: ...

Forget it, let her go.

The next morning, Miss Shi fell into a stiff neck.

Chapter 29 Miss Shi thinks deeply

"It hurts." In the side hall, Miss Shi clutched her neck, tears streaming down her face.

"May I get you some ice cubes?" Luo Yan sat beside the chair, hugging the incense burner and holding a book in his hand.

"It's all because your legs are too stiff!" Shi Liuli exclaimed angrily.

"Blame me, blame me." Luo Yan quickly surrendered.

In the entire side hall, there were probably only Luo Yan and Shi Liuli, sitting on cushioned chairs, wrapped in a blanket and hugging incense, reading a book comfortably.

The rest of the monks were all red-eyed, stooped, with loose hair, and they violently turned the pages of the book over and over again, looking like they wanted to tear it into pieces.

In the side hall here, most of the books are observation logs about the Great Formation of Guixu, and a few are notes left by some formation masters for those monks with zero foundation to learn the way of formation——Luo Yan concentrates It is the latter that is read.

In addition, there are very few books, which are the diaries left by some monks who have the habit of writing, recording their life stories and the atmosphere of the times, and Miss Shi uses them to pass the time.

"Junior brother." Shi Liuli said suddenly, "Why do most of these ancient monks mention hostile sects or even enemy monks in their diaries?"

"Accordingly speaking, whether a monk can finally achieve the Tao depends on his own practice? Why are you always shouting and killing?"

"Senior sister is right." Luo Yan was secretly surprised, when did Miss Shi start to be interested in history?I also know that I have read history and thought, "It's just that practice is not so simple."

"The so-called wealth, law and land are indispensable, and they are essentially a competition for resources for cultivation. On the basis of conflicts of interest, it will lead to more intense hostility and confrontation."

"For example, the battle between the human race and the demon race in ancient times was because the demon race wanted to eat human flesh and blood, and the human race wanted the inner alchemy of the demon race."

"Another example is the dispute between Chanjiao and Shutiao in ancient times. It was because of the need to 'teach without discrimination' and 'open the door to all wonders', which threatened the interests of Chanjiao..."

Shi Liuli seemed to understand but half understood, but she managed to understand one thing, which was the root of all evil: "conflict of interests".

"Look at the ruins again." Luo Yan said earnestly and kindly, "Everyone is trapped here and can't get out, and the time is almost infinite, so bored that they are going crazy."

"At this time, the original conflict of interest is not important. The most important thing is to escape from here as soon as possible. Therefore, the human race and the monster race can keep the same water without interfering with the river. "

"So that's how it is." Shi Liuli suddenly realized, and asked again, "Then if one day, my junior brother, your interests conflict with the interests of everyone in Tiangongfang, will you choose to betray everyone?"

Luo Yan was shocked out of his wits, did he discover my identity as an inner ghost?

But soon, he saw again from Shi Liuli's expression that she didn't mean to test or doubt at all at this moment—in fact, she was just asking casually.

Miss Shi is really good at talking.

"Cough cough." Luo Yan coughed and said sincerely, "Senior sister, if this happens, I will definitely sacrifice my own interests to protect the interests of everyone in Tiangongfang. Because the master will definitely compensate me afterwards. "

Shi Liuli choked up immediately, because if Luo Yan didn't say the second half of the sentence, she would definitely question that this conflicted with the previous statement that "conflict of interest determines everything".

Thinking about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with what I said, my father really thinks highly of him...

Thinking of this, Shi Liuli blushed again, and quietly hid her face behind the book.

What she is reading now is a diary written by an ancient female monk.

Due to the arrangement of the sect, this female monk became a Taoist partner with a senior brother she didn't like.

Therefore, in the diary, there are full of contradictions between the lines: on the one hand, she can't bear the character habits of this senior brother, but on the other hand, she has to admit that the status of this Taoist companion has brought a lot of benefits to her practice.

Reminiscent of the last time her father suggested that she try to get along with the son of Xuandu's head teacher, Shi Liuli instinctively resisted and irritated.

If his father insisted on marrying him, like the female monk in the diary, what should he do?

Compared with it, being with the junior brother didn't seem like an unacceptable choice.

Thinking of this, Shi Liuli was a little shy and uneasy, because this thought was too frivolous, how could she have such unreserved thoughts?

It's all my fault!What are you talking about? If you are stuck here, as long as you are with me, you will be happy... How can you say that to Senior Sister!

There was a sound of "pa", but Shi Liuli picked up the thick book and smashed Luo Yan's head gently as if to vent his anger.

Royan: ?

"Read carefully!" Shi Liuli scolded him, widening her eyes.

How did I offend her... Luo Yan thought helplessly.

Relying on the characteristics of a thousand enlightenments, his learning efficiency is extremely high.The books I have read have piled up into a hill behind me, and my understanding of the way of formation is improving by leaps and bounds.