Becoming a Taoist Master by Walking on the Underworld

Chapter 8: Medicine King Pile Meditation

After making all the arrangements for Chen Yushu, although Chen Baihe was reluctant, he turned around and left decisively.

At this time, Chen Yushu, under the invitation of the steward Zhou, came to a room in the backyard, took out a writing brush, and made a registration statement, saying, "What is your name, where are you from, who are your parents, and who they are? Tell me everything."

"Chen Yushu, from Beijiao Village, parents..."

Chen Yushu knew that this was a registration, a formal recognition that he was a member of the Liu Family Pharmacy. Even though he was only an apprentice, it was a recognition of his identity. He did not dare to neglect it and answered all the questions in detail.

After recording everything, Manager Zhou compared it with what he knew, nodded, and then his face became serious and he said, "Our Liu Family Pharmacy is mainly located in the county. Although this is just a branch store, we have to give it some face in the town.

Since your father has offered the precious medicine, we will naturally follow the rules and accept you as our disciple.

But it’s easy to get started, and you also have to understand the rules when you are in our pharmacy.

But don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you have the precious medicine ginseng seeds.

You must be clear about what you should do and what you should not do.

Otherwise, if we can accept you, we can naturally fire you.

Don't waste your father's hard work."

"Thank you for the reminder, Manager Zhou. I know about it."

Chen Yushu nodded. He knew the value of the precious medicine. If he sold it for money, the Chen family would live a much better life.

If it weren't for the love and high hopes for him, she would never have been willing to take it out and send him to the Liu family pharmacy.

He naturally didn't want to disappoint them.

"It's good to know."

Manager Zhou nodded and said, "Let's go. I'll have someone take you to get familiar with the situation in the pharmacy first."

Having said that, he stood up and walked out of the room first.

"Manager Zhou, I heard that after becoming an apprentice in our pharmacy, everyone can learn martial arts.

Then can I also learn martial arts?"

Chen Yushu hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't hold back his thoughts and asked impatiently.

He was very eager to learn martial arts.

Especially the repeated encounters with ghosts made him extremely insecure.

Naturally, I want to learn martial arts as quickly as possible so that I can have some ability to protect myself.

"You are anxious."

Manager Zhou smiled when he heard this and said, "The precious medicine is very valuable, it is certainly not worth it just to buy an apprenticeship qualification.

But why are there so many people flocking to it and willing to offer their precious medicine? It is because our medicine shop can teach people martial arts.

Of course, apprentices have to work, and it is impossible for them to have so much time to study.

Therefore, any apprentice who pays for precious medicine to come in will have three days to learn martial arts, and will also have a bowl of medicinal soup every day for nourishment, which can be considered a kind of compensation.

After three days, whether you have learned it or not, you still need to work.

If you haven’t learned it yet, you will have to wait until the end of each month for a teacher to come and teach you.”

Hearing this, Chen Yushu's eyes lit up.

You can practice martial arts!

And there are still three days of study time.

In addition, at the end of each month, there are also instructors who come to teach martial arts...

Although he was not sure what kind of martial arts would be taught, he was looking forward to it greatly.

"Oh, I remember you can read, right?
Then this book can be given to you directly, and you can familiarize yourself with it first.

But you don’t need to practice. If you don’t have a master to teach you, you won’t be able to learn it if your breathing and movements don’t match. It’s also easy to get a stitch in the side.”

Then, Manager Zhou took out a book and handed it to him. He then walked out of the room and waved to someone not far away, saying, "Li Hu, this is a new apprentice. You take care of him." Chen Yushu stretched out his hand to take the book, and his eyes suddenly widened.

"The Medicine King Pile Exercise!
Martial arts secret book!"

He didn't expect that the martial arts he had been dreaming of could be obtained so easily.

……

"Finally I can learn martial arts."

Chen Yushu lay on the bed, secretly excited.

At this moment, he was in a house that looked a bit simple. There was one bed, from head to toe, accommodating seven people to sleep on it. It was a real big bunk bed.

Liu's pharmacy is indeed one of the largest pharmacies in the town.

The number of apprentices was much greater than he had imagined, more than thirty in total.

There are three rooms like theirs for apprentices to rest. Of course, the environment in the other two is relatively much better. Although they also house a lot of people, they are more spacious and brighter.

Those living in his room were all apprentices who had entered the pharmacy within the past six months.

For example, the apprentice Li Hu who slept next to him was said to have come in only a month earlier than him. The apprentice who had lived here the longest was an apprentice named Xu Hao, who had been here for half a year.

Of course, there are also some apprentices who have been members for a longer time and have some spare money, or are simply locals, so they all live outside.

The Liu family pharmacy does not prohibit apprentices from renting a house outside.

As long as they come to work on time, their freedom will not be restricted.

“This is better.

When I have more money in the future, I can rent a house outside.”

Chen Yushu felt a little relieved. After all, it was a bit inconvenient for so many people to live together.

Of course, considering that he only had three taels of silver left by his father, which was three hundred coins... he naturally had no room for choice.

After all, it's free here.

He also read the "Martial Arts Secret Book".

"Medicine King Posture Meditation" - just by looking at the name, one can understand its meaning, it is a kind of posture meditation.

There are a total of thirty-six stances of standing meditation. Each stance has corresponding movements and its own matching breathing method.

If you want to master it, you have to match the movements with the standing meditation, and then assist with the corresponding breathing method, one posture at a time, and perform them freely.

Out of curiosity, he also tried it.

But... they all failed.

He didn't even master the first form of standing meditation.

Although his movements were standard, every time he breathed according to the method described in the secret book, he always felt uncomfortable, as if he was immersed in water, feeling suffocated and unable to breathe.

Often, you can't maintain it for long before the movements become distorted.

He had asked, and according to Li Hu, the sign of successful practice, that is, the real effect of practice, will inevitably be accompanied by a tingling sensation, as if ants were crawling on your body, and after a while you will be out of breath and very tired.

He didn't have this feeling at all when he was practicing.

"After all, secret books are just secret books. Without a foundation and understanding of the principles, it would be difficult to master martial arts even if you have the secret books."

Chen Yushu sighed, but was not in a hurry.

After all, he had three days to learn martial arts.

Especially from what Li Hu said, the matching medicinal soup, called Yangyuan Soup, is a nourishing medicine. It is of great benefit to people who practice martial arts and can also speed up his progress in martial arts practice.

The price is extremely high. When sold outside, one dose of the medicine costs three taels of silver.

(End of this chapter)