After packing up the books, Baiyunlou saw that in addition to two small wooden boxes, there was also a long wooden box at the bottom.

He took out the long wooden box, opened it, and saw that it was a dragon scale sword over two feet long.

Baiyunlou hurriedly grabbed the sword in his hand and fiddled with it for a while. The sword had a simple appearance and excellent workmanship.

I had long heard that each of the Dragon Scale Swords at Longquan Villa was carefully tempered, and only a few were produced in a year. I didn’t expect that my father would come back with a fully polished sword this time. It was really amazing.

After playing with the Dragon Scale Sword for a while, I opened a small wooden box and found an inkstone inkstone. Next to the inkstone on the inkstone, there was a lifelike carving of a little mouse about to drink ink.

Opening the last wooden box, there was a piece of sapphire, the size of a fist, round in body, with one side relatively flat, and its tentacles felt cool to the heart. I don’t know what the purpose of dad giving this sapphire was, but it seemed like a good paperweight.

After finishing tidying up, I picked up the newly arrived book beside me and went to the recliner to read through it. When it was time for dinner, the cook brought lunch to the study.

Dinner is the main meal for the Bai family. Mr. Bai has been resting in the bedroom at noon. When it's dinner time, he specially asks the cook to call Baiyunlou over for dinner.

At the dinner table, Mr. Bai looked at Bai Yunlou opposite with joy and said: "Yunlou, you have grown up now and have your own fame. I will certainly be happy if you can be named on the gold list in the examination in two years, but in these two years

There are a lot of people smuggling goods, and I have seen a lot of strange things. The records in the books you usually read are probably not all lies. Judging from the things you like, you should not be interested in fame. "

Mr. Bai picked up the wine glass, handed it to Baiyunlou, and continued: "The box of things I gave you today is a gift for your journey."

"Traveling far? Where to go?" Baiyunlou asked puzzledly.

Mr. Bai had a drink before saying: "This time I passed by Jiangnan Mansion, and I happened to catch up with the spring recruitment of Xinlu Academy, which is held every three years. I have already signed up with your merit. Xinlu Academy has many subjects, and there are many teachings. You can go

Take a look and think it opens your eyes."

Baiyunlou was speechless and choked, you are my father, everything has been arranged clearly, what else can I say.

But he still said: "I've been a little idle recently. Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. It's time to go out for a walk. But dad, what's the origin of the piece of sapphire you gave me?"

Speaking of this piece of sapphire, Mr. Bai became interested. It turned out that at the entrance of Fucheng Commercial Street, a woodcutter selling firewood was selling this piece of sapphire.

Because the texture of this piece of sapphire was so abnormal that no trace could be left behind even though he tried his best to chop it with a hatchet, the woodcutter asked for fifty guan, but he didn't sell it for a long time.

Mr. Bai happened to meet it and remembered what the young master at home liked, so he bought it. According to the woodcutter, this sapphire was picked up while cutting firewood in the mountains to the west.

Mr. Bai was in a good mood tonight, so he drank with him and had a good time.

The moon and stars are sparse, and the night is as cool as water.

Baiyunlou didn't feel sleepy, so he went to the study, lit two oil lamps, picked up the book on the desk and continued to study.

After watching for a long time, Baiyunlou became drowsy with alcohol and fell asleep on the recliner.

The first taste of wine, even though it was just sweet and refreshing rice wine, made the young man so drunk that he drifted back to sleep.

The full moon was setting in the west, the night was deep, and the sleeping Baiyun Tower seemed to be feeling hot and dry. Half asleep and half awake, I took the sapphire from the table and pressed it on my forehead.

The refreshing coolness and a high degree of drunkenness made the young man's consciousness fall into a hazy state of stillness, as if he was floating in chaos. At a certain moment, a blue light suddenly flashed from the sapphire and jumped into the young man's eyebrows.

The blue light entered the sea of ​​consciousness of Baiyun Tower and turned into fluorescence and scattered around. The originally chaotic sea of ​​consciousness had a slight glimmer, and the fluorescent light spread to a radius of one foot and gradually stopped.

Strange phenomena gradually appeared in the sea of ​​consciousness. The turbid air sank and the pure air floated up. This sea of ​​consciousness with a radius of one foot seemed to separate the heaven and the earth.

The sinking turbid air gradually condensed into a sea of ​​clouds below, floating like a dark dream.

The rising clear air seems to have spirituality, gathering and dispersing at times, like breathing in and out.

The scattered gleaming light is floating with the clear air, floating and sinking in the sea of ​​turbid air and clouds. The area within ten feet is alive with the flickering light, but outside it is still chaos.

As dawn approaches, the alley next door wakes up, the morning stalls on the street open, the sound of cold water pouring into the pot, the crackle of firewood on the stove, and the sound of hurried footsteps from getting up in the morning drift across the courtyard wall in the distance, passing through

Crossing the window lattice, I woke up the boy on the recliner, and Baiyun Tower woke up.

The cool breeze blows on your face, and your body and mind are clear. This is what Baiyun Tower feels like at this moment.

Pushing open the half-closed wooden window, I looked at the starry sky outside the window, which was deep and vast, and listened to the sounds of the city in the distance, which were chaotic but full of vitality.

This world is still the same as before, but it seems much clearer and more vivid.

At this moment, Baiyunlou's thoughts were clear and pure. Looking at the sapphire paperweight in his hand under the starlight, he seemed to feel that the sapphire was a bit more intimate.

This is something I have never experienced before in my drunken dream. This feeling is subtle and clear. The more I look at the sapphire, the clearer my sense of intimacy becomes.

Although I didn't know what happened, I was sure it was because of the sapphire. I raised my hand and applied the sapphire on my forehead between my eyebrows. The originally ethereal feeling became clearer, my eyebrows felt slightly swollen, and the feeling of closeness became stronger.

After holding the sapphire from a distance, the sense of closeness gradually weakens, but when you close your eyes, you can still detect the general direction, just like the feeling of hearing the voice and identifying the position. When you hold it ten feet away, this sense of closeness has disappeared.

After several attempts, there was indeed no other abnormality, so I put the sapphire in a wooden box and put it away. I will slowly think about it when I have time.

Ever since I was a child in Baiyunlou, I have loved reading about supernatural beings, and occasionally I would go to teahouses to listen to storytellers telling stories about gods and ghosts. The country of Daxia has been in existence for more than three thousand years, and has gone through ups and downs, but there is something mysterious about it.

The power is protecting the country of Daxia, allowing the country of Daxia to stand firm to this day.

Baiyunlou has long had a vague feeling that this world is not just the mortal world, and his trip to Liuyun Temple two years ago also confirmed it. Last night when he was drunk and dreaming, his mind had changed due to the sapphire. Although he was surprised, it was not unacceptable.

Baiyunlou calmed down slightly, sat cross-legged on the futon, and gradually calmed down.

In the past, I also learned some methods of meditating and entering concentration from some ancient books, but there were always superficial thoughts and distracting thoughts that disturbed my mind, and I couldn't enter the method. I didn't expect that today I could achieve it overnight, calm, pure, and transparent.

The mind gradually converges and focuses on the sea of ​​consciousness located one inch between the eyebrows as described in the Tao Sutra.

Suddenly, my mind entered a bright place. After my slightly turbulent mind calmed down, I finally saw this small world clearly.

The bottom of my mind is like clouds and mist, and my mind is gently floating on the clouds and mist. There are dots of green light on it, flickering slightly. Needless to say, this is my sea of ​​consciousness.
Chapter completed!