Chapter Fifty-Seven: Combing Through the Jade Stone Meridians
With the forty-two pieces of jade pendants bought from the jade store, Zhao Yang returned home after four o'clock. After putting the jade back in his room, he opened the refrigerator at home and took a look. There were still many dishes inside, so there was no need to rush out to buy food. It would be fine to stir-fry two dishes casually for dinner.
Lin Xueqi was not in the living room, and the door was also closed. It's unknown whether she went out or hid alone in her room.
No big deal, Zhao Yang returned to his own room and closed the door. He walked over to the bed and picked up the box that he had placed on the bedside table earlier. He took out all 42 jade pendants from inside the box and put them on the bed.
Those jade tablets have not undergone the process of polishing, only simple cutting, so the surface is rough to the touch and lacks luster, also without the rounded glow of unprocessed jade.
The reason why Zhao Yang didn't ask the jade shop's master to help polish it was simply that he didn't want to waste time on that. These jade pendants are not important whether they are polished or not. Anyway, when he comes back, he still needs to use his true energy to tidy up the internal veins of the jade pendant.
After the tempering and 'washing' of the true energy, it can naturally become shiny and smooth, with an effect that is much better than what can be achieved through polishing and grinding processes.
He picked up a jade tablet, sat cross-legged on the bed, and immediately urged a true energy in his body to flow along the meridians of his arm, along the fingertips, and excitedly input a weak true energy into the jade tablet.
Zhao Yang carefully controlled the intensity of his true energy, always keeping it warm and gentle, not daring to strengthen it slightly. The meridians inside the jade stone were extremely fragile, if the true energy was too strong, it would easily destroy the meridians inside the jade stone, causing it to lose its "spirituality". In this way, a piece of jade would be completely ruined.
Fortunately, Zhao Yang had done this kind of work countless times when he was in 'Diyuan Xianlu'. Now, he also appears to be in control, calmly and unhurriedly manipulating the thin thread of true energy inside the jade card, slowly walking along the meridians, slowly combing, while clearing away some minor impurities in the meridians.
As the true energy combed through the jade stone's meridians, the roughness on the surface of the jade token gradually wore off, and its luster became increasingly round and smooth.
About five or six minutes later, Zhao Yang let out a small breath and withdrew the strand of true energy that had entered the jade card, stopping.
At this moment, the jade pendant that was originally quite rough to the touch and had little luster now became smooth and glossy. When touched with the fingertips, it felt as if one were caressing a young girl's skin, so fine and delicate. Moreover, upon closer inspection, one could faintly see within the jade pendant a network of extremely fine, almost indistinguishable veins that intertwined in complexity yet connected seamlessly to form a single entity.
He glanced at the jade plaque in his hand, nodded satisfactorily, and casually put it back into the box beside him. Then he picked up the second jade plaque and continued to sort out the jade plaque's veins...
Zhao Yang's control over the true energy was extremely strong, without any slight error. One by one, the jade cards completed the meridian combing, becoming smooth and round, and were put back into the box by him. Basically, it took only four or five minutes to complete the meridian combing of a jade card.
Zhao Yang has over 500 years of cultivation experience in the 'Local Immortal Land', and his control over true energy is unparalleled. If someone else were to try to refine the internal meridians of the jade stones for the first time, at least six or seven out of ten jade stones would be ruined.
More than an hour later, Zhao Yang had already arranged nearly half of the jade slips. However, his consumption was not small either. Not only did he consume seven or eight tenths of his true energy, but his spirit also felt slightly fatigued, with a few fine beads of sweat oozing out on his forehead.
Combing the jade's meridians is not an easy task, although each piece of jade does not consume much true energy, but after ten or twenty pieces, the consumption is still relatively large. More importantly, when combing the jade's meridians, one must be fully focused and cannot afford to make any mistakes, which consumes even more mental and spiritual energy.
Zhao Yang had just broken through to the 'Condensation Period' after all, and the true energy in his body was not particularly abundant, so he felt tired after a few hours.
He put down the jade pendant he had just combed and immediately closed his eyes to meditate and recover his true energy, also letting his spirit relax a bit and recover some.
More than half an hour later, Zhao Yang opened his eyes and the true energy in his body had basically recovered. However, he didn't rush to continue dealing with the remaining jade cards, but instead got up and left the room to prepare dinner. It was already after six o'clock in the evening.
Zhao Yang came out and saw Lin Xueqi sitting on the sofa in the living room watching TV.
"Huh? You're home? I thought you hadn't returned yet!" Lin Xueqi also saw Zhao Yang walk out of the room and couldn't help but say.
Zhao Yang said: "I'll be back this afternoon, just busy with some things in the room. How come you didn't go out to play? Today is Saturday."
As they spoke, Zhao Yang also walked over to the sofa and plopped himself down with a thud.
Lin Xueqi pouted and said, "I was thinking of going out to play, but that damn teacher of ours just assigned us a homework at the beginning of the semester. We have to choose an English essay and translate it ourselves, and we can't directly copy and paste from Baidu. If we get caught, we'll get zero points, it's infuriating!"
Zhao Yang smiled and said: "You won't be holed up in your room all day translating this thesis, will you?"
"That's not it, you think! So far, I've only translated less than half of it, and I still have to rush through the rest tonight and tomorrow. Unlike some people who can make a date with a beauty and run out to play!" Lin Xueqi looked very displeased, glaring at Zhao Yang. What Lin Xueqi was referring to was obviously the plan Zhao Yang made with Mu Qinglan on Penguin this morning to go out and have fun tomorrow.
For no reason, Zhao Yang was stared at and couldn't help but touch his nose, being affected by the misfortune of others, he could only admit to being unlucky.
"Alright, I won't bother you for now, I'll go cook." Zhao Yang quickly slipped away, lest he again run into the crazy girl's line of fire.
"I've already cooked the rice in the electric cooker, it should be done soon. You just stir-fry the dishes." As soon as Zhao Yang slipped into the kitchen, Lin Xueqi couldn't help but shout out.
After dinner, leave the bowls and chopsticks for Lin Xueqi to clean up, which was what they had previously agreed upon. Zhao Yang is in charge of cooking and stir-frying, while Lin Xueqi is in charge of washing dishes.
Back in his room, Zhao Yang rested for a moment before continuing to deal with the twenty or so jade tokens left on his bed.
After nearly two hours, all forty-two jade pendants were finally sorted out. However, Zhao Yang was also exhausted, his true energy almost completely depleted, his forehead covered in sweat, and a look of fatigue on his face.
Fortunately, it was finally completed. Looking at the time, it was almost ten o'clock. After putting all the jade plates in the box, Zhao Yang didn't rush to recover his true energy, but instead got up and took his clothes to the bathroom to take a bath.
It's almost time for evening meditation anyway, so it's better to wait until then and recover the true energy at the same time.
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