Luo Qingzhou was shocked.
He wanted to put down the bronze mirror in his hand, but for some reason, at this moment he suddenly felt as if his body was frozen and he couldn't move at all.
At the same time, he felt weak all over, his body was light and swaying, like a puff of smoke about to float up from the ground.
He couldn't control his body. He stared at his distorted face in the mirror with wide eyes, and found that the face also began to float upwards like smoke.
At the same time, a biting chill came over me!
"Master! Master! There are so many lanterns hanging in Yue Ye Ting Yu Garden. Sister Qiu'er and the others said that the second young lady has gone out. When are we going?"
At this moment, Xiaodie ran into the yard with excitement on her face.
Luo Qingzhou's body trembled and he suddenly woke up.
Looking in the mirror again, his face didn't change at all except for the dim light and eerie atmosphere.
He gently shook the bronze mirror in his hand, then looked down at his body, and there was nothing unusual.
Everything that just happened seemed to be just an illusion.
but…
Is it an illusion
He knew clearly that it was not an illusion.
My back was covered in sweat, but my heart was still beating rapidly.
what is going on
Although the scene just now was horrifying, he had a vague feeling that he seemed to have entered a very mysterious and strange state.
But he couldn't explain what it was exactly.
He took a few deep breaths and calmed down his emotions a little. Then he placed the bronze mirror on the desk and turned to look at Xiaodie in the yard.
Just as I was about to speak, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my head!
His face turned pale, his body went limp, and he suddenly fell to the ground.
My head hurts so much!
"Young Master!"
Xiaodie saw this from outside, her face suddenly changed, she screamed, ran in, hurriedly helped him up from the ground, and cried, "Master, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
Luo Qingzhou covered his head with his hands, his face full of pain, and gritted his teeth to prevent himself from making any sound.
My whole head felt like it was about to split apart. I was shaking with pain, my face was pale, and I was sweating profusely.
"Master, please don't scare me... I'll go find a doctor right away! Master, wait for me! Please don't get hurt... Woo woo..."
Xiaodie was frightened and at a loss. After a moment of blankness in her mind, she hurriedly put him on the chair in front of the desk and ran out crying.
Luo Qingzhou crawled on the desk, trembling with pain and almost fainting.
After a few minutes, the severe pain eased a little.
Thinking that many people might come soon, he immediately stood up by supporting himself on the desk, put away the bronze mirror, and walked over with difficulty to hide it under the bed.
Then he got into bed and lay down on it.
The pain continued.
However, compared to the previous severe pain, it is now within the tolerable range.
Although I was shocked and confused, I didn't dare to spend too much brain energy thinking about it at this time.
He closed his eyes and calmed himself.
Not long.
There were hurried footsteps outside.
Xiaodie hurried into the room with the doctor.
Bailing and Zhu'er, Miss Qin's maid, also followed in.
Originally, they were planning to come and call Luo Qingzhou to go to Yue Ye Ting Yu Garden.
At this time, Madam and Miss Qin Er had already gone out.
The doctor was a white-haired old man in his fifties. His surname was Sun. He was the Qin Mansion's exclusive doctor. He happened to be in the mansion today, so he arrived quickly.
"Uncle, what's wrong with you?"
As soon as she entered the room, Bailing asked with a frown on her face, a worried look on her face.
Luo Qingzhou covered his head which was aching and said in a trembling voice: "Headache..."
Xiaodie hurriedly brought a stool and lit the oil lamp and candle.
The dim room suddenly became bright.
Doctor Sun sat down beside the bed, took a look at his pale face, then stretched out his hand to feel his pulse. While listening, he asked, "Do you just feel a headache? Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere else?"
Luo Qingzhou's face turned pale, and he answered with difficulty: "It's just a headache... It feels like it's splitting open."
Doctor Sun narrowed his eyes and felt the pulse for a while, then asked, "You haven't had this problem before, have you?"
Xiaodie, who was standing beside him, turned pale with fear and quickly answered, "No, my young master has always been in good health."
Doctor Sun nodded slightly, then stood up and pressed his forehead, top of the head, temples, etc. with his fingers, saying, "If it hurts where I press, just tell me."
Luo Qingzhou didn't say anything.
Doctor Sun pressed his neck again and asked, "Here?"
Luo Qingzhou said: "It doesn't hurt."
Doctor Sun reached out and opened his eyelids again, then asked, "Did you sleep with the young lady or the maid last night?"
Xiaodie hurriedly answered timidly, "No, no."
Doctor Sun asked again: "What about during the day?"
Xiaodie said shyly: "No..."
Doctor Sun nodded without saying anything else. He turned around, took out a pen and paper from his bag, walked to the desk, and prepared to write a prescription.
Bai Ling asked quickly, "Doctor Sun, is my son-in-law in trouble? What's wrong with him?"
Doctor Sun said as he wrote, "It's nothing, it's just that you've been using too much energy and your brain can't take it anymore, so you suddenly have a headache. I'll prescribe some medicine, and let you rest for a few days and recuperate, and you should be fine."
"Too much mental effort?"
Bai Ling was stunned for a moment and asked, "Doctor Sun, do you know what the reason is?"
Doctor Sun said, "If it's not from staying up late, then it's because you did something physically and mentally exhausting during the day, or maybe you didn't get enough rest recently and read a lot every day, or it could be because you often have random thoughts. There are many reasons, and I can't tell."
Bailing nodded slightly and looked at the bed.
Luo Qingzhou rubbed his head and said, "It should be because of reading. I have been reading in the house these days. My second brother sent me a lot of good books. I can't stop reading."
Bailing looked at the bookshelf in the corner and the books piled on the desk, and couldn't help but blame: "Son-in-law, even if you are preparing for the exam, you can't push yourself like this. You are weak to begin with, and you don't know how to take care of yourself. If you stay in the room reading every day, you will definitely get sick."
Doctor Sun wrote a prescription and handed it to Bailing who was standing beside him. He also looked at the bed and said, "Studying hard is a good thing, but everything should be done in moderation. Health is the most important thing. Son-in-law should go out and walk around often and exercise. If you stay in the house all the time, you will be weak and will definitely get sick often."
Luo Qingzhou thanked him in a trembling voice while lying on the bed: "Thank you, doctor."
Bailing handed the prescription to the maid behind her and asked her to go to the pharmacy with the doctor to get the medicine.
Zhu Er followed him out and said, "Then I will tell the second young lady and the mistress that the son-in-law is ill and cannot come tonight."
When only Bailing and Xiaodie were left in the room, Bailing walked to the bedside and said, "Son-in-law, you should have a good rest. Don't study or go out these few days. Stay in the room and recuperate. I will tell the young lady."
Luo Qingzhou felt a sharp pain in his head again. He closed his eyes and said nothing.
Bailing didn't dare to say anything more, and said to Xiaodie beside her: "Let's go, close the door, don't disturb the uncle anymore, let him have a good rest."
Xiaodie said "Oh", looked at her master worriedly, and followed her out of the room with concern.
After the door was closed, Luo Qingzhou slowly opened his eyes.
"Too much mental effort?"
At this time, he really felt mentally exhausted and weak all over.
But it seemed to be just a moment, and had nothing to do with reading or practicing.
Just before, he was looking at the bronze mirror in front of the window. After seeing the strange vision in the mirror, he suddenly felt a headache and fatigue.
Could it be that the mirror suddenly sucked away all his mental energy
Mental power
His heart moved and he suddenly remembered something.
I looked out the window and saw no one in the yard.
It's quiet outside too.
He immediately got up despite the pain and dug out the porcelain bottle containing the inky black liquid from under the bed.
Every time he used a drop of the liquid in here, his spirit would become extremely full and abundant. One drop could last for three days.
He immediately pulled out the cork and carefully poured a drop onto his fingertips.
As soon as the inky black liquid landed on his fingertips, it quickly penetrated into the pores of his fingertips and soon disappeared.
One more drop!
He poured another drop.
After his fingertips absorbed two drops of inky black liquid, he covered the porcelain bottle again and put it back under the bed.
When he returned to bed and lay down, he was suddenly surprised to find that the pain in his head had indeed begun to ease.
And it’s very fast!
The pain that felt like a needle prick the previous moment has quickly subsided.
A few minutes later.
There was only a dull pain in my head.
A few more minutes passed.
That trace of pain actually disappeared.
This inky black liquid is truly extraordinary.
Luo Qingzhou rubbed his head all over and could no longer feel any pain. At the same time, his spirit and strength began to recover rapidly.
He immediately got up, took out the martial arts stone, held it in his palm, and activated his internal strength.
The snow-white surface of the jade immediately lit up, and a few lines of small ink-colored characters appeared.
Strength: 50
Speed: 5
Impact resistance: 50
Mental strength: 1
Then, the values above began to change again.
The strength gradually increased from 50 to 60, 70, 80...
The resistance to impact is also gradually increasing.
Mental strength also changed from 1 to 5.
After a while, the mental strength not only recovered to the original 10, but also increased a little, and finally fixed at 11.
That inky black liquid really does increase mental strength!
However, is it really that simple to just increase mental strength
The dark blue liquid produced by the other mirror is a very magical elixir for martial arts training. It can not only help refine the skin and flesh, but it can even help temper the entire body.
And the inky black liquid produced on the opposite side simply increases mental power
It may not be that simple.
If one can only increase mental power, what qualitative effect will be produced by increasing mental power
Luo Qingzhou sat on the edge of the bed, lost in thought.
Suddenly, he thought of a strange book he had read this afternoon.
It records a short story, saying that in a certain country in ancient times, there was a man who was extremely energetic and never felt tired. One night when he fell asleep, he suddenly felt himself floating up from the bed, and then he saw that his body was still sleeping on the bed...
Luo Qingzhou was thinking about this story, and suddenly recalled the scene that happened in front of the window before.
At that time, he looked at his distorted face in the mirror and was so frightened that his body suddenly became unable to move. Then he suddenly felt his whole body become light, as if it was about to leave the ground, and he in the mirror seemed to be floating up as well.
When he connected the two things together, he seemed to have grasped something vaguely in his mind.
That book hasn’t been finished yet!
An idea suddenly came to his mind, and he immediately put down the martial arts stone, walked to the desk, and took out the book from the pile of books.
Then he took the oil lamp, sat down in front of the window, opened the book, and read it carefully word by word.
When he finished reading the short story again and turned to the next page, he saw the following words written on it: "The spirit of a person comes from his soul... A strong soul means a strong spirit; a strong soul means a strong mind; a strong mind can be divided into two parts..."
"The soul is so powerful that it can leave the body and wander alone between heaven and earth..."
When Luo Qingzhou read this sentence, there was a "boom" in his mind, as if the chaos had just begun to clear up, and everything became clear.
Could it be that the trance and light feeling I had in front of the window before was the soul about to leave the body, but because of insufficient mental strength and the lack of a strong soul, it suddenly stopped and was traumatized
At this moment, he suddenly seemed to have opened the door to a new world.
He continued to turn the pages, reading eagerly.