Chapter 219 New Year Gift
A few days before the New Year, Mo Hua went to visit Mr. Zhuang early in the morning and brought some New Year gifts, all prepared by Liu Ruhua herself.
Mr. Zhuang didn't need spiritual stones and spiritual tools.
Liu Ruhua thought for a long time and didn't know what to give, so she could only follow the convention and make more delicious food to show her feelings.
Liu Ruhua started preparing ten days in advance, and was busy until now.
There were different monsters such as cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs, different parts, different flavors of braised meat, and colorful cakes made from different grains, as well as wine brewed from osmanthus, peach blossoms, and wild fruits in the mountains.
Even Mr. Zhuang, who was used to eating, was a little surprised.
"So much, how can I finish it?"
Then he tasted them one by one with great interest, occasionally frowning and asking "What kind of meat is this, I have never tasted it..." Occasionally, he nodded and praised: "This tastes good."
Mo Hua was on the side, chatting with Mr. Zhuang.
He told Mr. Zhuang which monster meat it was, which spices were added, and how many hours it was cooked on high or low fire.
Or he asked some small questions about the formation, and occasionally talked about some interesting things in the city.
Many things were told to him by An Xiaofu.
An Xiaofu is now the shopkeeper of Fushanlou. He deals with diners every day and gossips with others. He has heard a lot of stories. When he is free, he chats with Mo Hua and tells Mo Hua the stories with exaggeration.
Mo Hua found it interesting and told it to Mr. Zhuang. Mr. Zhuang listened with relish while drinking and eating meat.
After chatting for a long time, Mo Hua saw that the bamboo room was quiet and secluded, but it was inevitably lonely, so he asked:
"Sir, are you going out to see the New Year? It's very lively outside."
Mr. Zhuang seemed to have been staying in this Zuowangju, either taking a nap in the bamboo room, watching the water on the bridge, or sitting in the yard, looking at the mountains, the breeze, the morning sun, and the sunset.
Mo Hua had never seen Mr. Zhuang go out.
Mr. Zhuang smiled, "It's quiet here, I don't like noise."
"Oh." Mo Hua nodded, "Then am I disturbing you by talking to you?"
Mr. Zhuang shook his head, "Too quiet will be boring, it's good to talk to you."
Mo Hua was relieved.
The breeze blew through the room, the bamboo forest rustled outside, and the flowers and plants swayed.
Mo Hua and Mr. Zhuang chatted for a long time, and the crisp and mellow voices intertwined and disappeared into the mountains with the wind.
Until seeing that Mr. Zhuang looked a little tired, perhaps because he ate too much and felt a little sleepy, Mo Hua stood up and said goodbye:
"I won't disturb you to rest, my mother also made some rice cakes, which are sweet, soft and sticky. I'll bring them to you in a few days."
Mr. Zhuang smiled, "Go."
Mo Hua said goodbye to Mr. Zhuang, and found Mr. Kui again, and gave him some New Year gifts.
Mo Hua knew Mr. Kui's preferences.
Although Kui Lao looked old, he didn't like to eat soft and sticky things. He liked to eat crispy things and things that made a sound when he ate them.
Therefore, Mo Hua sent some crispy snacks and a few boxes of pine nuts, some with original flavor, some with five-spice flavor, and some with spicy flavor.
Kui Lao put all the things into his sleeves, took out the chessboard from his sleeves, and glanced at Mo Hua.
Seeing that it was still early, Mo Hua nodded, "Come!"
The breeze floated, the fallen leaves drifted, and the sound of chess pieces falling in front of the courtyard came one after another.
The two bad chess players played five-element chess for half a day.
In the evening, Da Hu and his friends called Mo Hua to watch the demon fighting play.
They were the ones to perform in this play, and in addition, there were Da Ping and Da Zhu from the weapon refining shop.
The swords and rattan armor used for the play were ready-made, and the props for dressing up the monsters were borrowed. Da Hu and his friends wanted to join in the fun and earn some tips.
Originally, Dahu and Daping were to play the role of the demon hunters, because they were demon hunters.
The demon beasts were to be played by Dazhu and several disciples from the weapon refining business, but Dahu and his three brothers thought that Dazhu and his disciples did not play the role well, and the demon beasts looked stupid, like idiots, so they played the role themselves.
The demon beasts in Dahei Mountain are very fierce, and stupid ones are not good.
So in the end, Dahu and his three demon hunters played the demon beasts, while Dazhu, a weapon refiner, played the demon hunter.
The performances of the few people were quite good.
Mohua stood aside, applauded them, and gave them rewards.
The onlookers also joined in the fun, and took out some broken spirit stones as encouragement.
After the performance, Dahu and his brothers took Mohua to find some places to eat and have fun, and played while strolling.
Dahu has reached the seventh level of Qi Refining, which is considered a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining.
Mo Hua then humbly asked, "What should I pay attention to when breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining?"
He is now at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and the next step is the seventh level of Qi Refining, which is the late stage of Qi Refining.
Although his cultivation method is different from Da Hu's, he can listen to his opinions and refer to them so that he can have a better idea.
Da Hu scratched his head, "Just practice normally, and then you need some spiritual objects. My cultivation method uses Luoyang Grass and Molten Fire Stone, and with some elixirs, you can break through."
"Is it that simple?"
"Not every breakthrough can be successful. I'm lucky, otherwise I would have to try a few more times." Da Hu said.
Shuang Hu on the side said: "I only failed once, otherwise I would be in the late stage of Qi Refining now."
"What should I do if I fail?"
"Continue to practice, save spirit stones, buy spirit objects and elixirs, and then try to break through again."
Shuang Hu said indifferently, "Anyway, as long as a cultivator does not die, he will keep doing this kind of thing, unless you accept your fate, or you are too poor to have spirit stones, or you have a family and the burden is too heavy."
Mo Hua nodded, "It sounds simple, but it's not easy to persist, and persist for a lifetime."
Xiao Hu said worriedly: "The main reason is that some spirit objects are too expensive, and it's not easy for casual cultivators to buy them. Some of them can't even be bought. After a breakthrough, they are all consumed. If you fail, you have to buy another one."
Da Ping and Da Zhu also nodded, "That's right! Where do casual cultivators get so many spirit stones and such a wide network of people to buy those spirit objects."
Everyone was a little worried.
Mo Hua was also worried, and suddenly remembered that he didn't need any spiritual objects or spend many spiritual stones to practice Tian Yan Jue, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The bottleneck of Tian Yan Jue is in the sea of consciousness and in the formation, not in the spiritual objects.
He chose this technique for this reason.
Mo Hua secretly thanked himself for his foresight.
But then he thought again, although the breakthrough of Tian Yan Jue doesn't require spiritual objects, it does require solving the puzzle formation.
The puzzle formation is profound and complex, obscure and changeable, and it is not easy to solve it.
The Great Dao is relatively fair, and it won't let you pick up any loopholes.
I just don't know what the puzzle formation in the sea of consciousness is like this time...
Mo Hua silently calculated in his heart:
"I have already refined the sixth level of Qi, and it is estimated that it will not take long before I can perfect the sixth level of Qi training. When I try to break through, I will know what kind of puzzle formation I have to solve this time."
Thanks to Wangshui Lunlian for the reward~