Unlimited employment

Chapter 11【Stealing Mastery】

The next morning, Chen Sheng was taken to a side courtyard to copy scriptures.

After arriving here, he realized that the copyists of the Sutra Repository did not work inside the Sutra Repository.

Although he felt a little disappointed, Chen Sheng was not anxious.

I'm not afraid of thieves stealing, I'm afraid of thieves thinking about it. As long as he is still in the imperial temple, he will have enough time and opportunity to steal my skills.

While talking to the young monk who was leading the way, he took the opportunity to steal a sachet from the person, and quietly returned it when they parted.

With such perseverance, day by day, and with accumulation over time, sooner or later one day the Thief profession will be revealed.

After all, when it comes to stealing, thieves are professionals...

Only after he officially started the work did Chen Sheng understand why the scriptures in the Yuhuang Temple became gifts given to each other by the powerful and wealthy.

The paper they used to copy Buddhist scriptures was actually the extremely valuable Jinsuli paper, which was coated with white wax inside and out and polished, and then dyed with chemicals to make it yellow. The paper was thick, with a rough texture, fine and smooth, and could be preserved for a long time, with excellent writing effects.

Even after thousands of years of vicissitudes after the book was completed, the ink on the paper will still be the same as before.

Ink also includes colored inks such as gold, silver, and cinnabar; medicinal inks with added medicinal herbs to prevent insects and have a refreshing fragrance; and pine soot ink suitable for writing, etc.

Because the materials were expensive and a single mistake in writing would render the entire sheet of gold millet paper useless, the temple punished copyists for making mistakes in writing.

If a piece of paper was destroyed, a fine of fifty coins would be imposed. If six pieces of paper were copied incorrectly, the three coins of monthly salary would be confiscated.

Therefore, this job is not easy.

Fortunately, there are rewards as well as punishments. The top three copyists who copy the most scriptures every month will receive extra silver rewards.

Chen Sheng wrote very seriously throughout the morning and it took him an hour and a half to copy out six pages of the Heart Sutra.

Although I don’t know whether I can finally create a [Scripture Copyist] profession in the future, what use can the talents and skills of this auxiliary profession have?
But Chen Sheng didn't care. It's always good to have many skills. The time flow rate of 1:300 in the two worlds gave him enough time to learn any ability that would be beneficial to himself.

I calmed down and wrote the small official script characters on the paper stroke by stroke, and soon it was lunch time.

The free meals are simple, just a large bowl of rice and a portion of cabbage and tofu for adults, and a small bowl of rice and half a portion of cabbage and tofu for children.

This amount was definitely not enough to fill him up, so he simply gave all the food to Zhu Chongliu and Zhu Chongqi who had just finished sweeping the floor.

He walked alone to the back door of Yuhuang Temple, secretly plucked all the leaves from a maple tree in the forest on the back mountain, and ate until his stomach was full before returning to continue his shift.

In the afternoon, I slowly copied ten copies of the Heart Sutra, stole some of my colleagues' belongings several times, and then secretly returned them. In the evening, I distributed dinner to my younger brothers as usual, and then had a hearty meal in the back mountain. The day's chores were finally over.

After returning to the monk's room, the younger brothers, who were tired after a day of work, were already snoring and sleeping soundly on their beds.

Although I said before that I would teach my younger brother martial arts.

But they have been malnourished since childhood, and they need to take good care of their bodies for at least a few months before they can start formally practicing martial arts. This cannot be rushed at all.

In the dark room, Chen Sheng took off his shirt, revealing his strong muscles.

Without turning on the lights, he just moved silently in the darkness like an old man practicing Tai Chi, his feet tapping the ground and slowly swinging his fists.

During this process, his muscles were stirring like steel bars tied together, constantly relaxing and tightening. His skin soon turned bright red and his whole body was covered in sweat.

It fully mobilizes the Qi and blood to circulate throughout the body, digests the leaves in the stomach and intestines, transports nutrients to the limbs and bones, and nourishes the muscles, bones, skin and flesh throughout the body.

The stars are hidden and the moon is hanging in the sky.

Chen Sheng practiced until his strength was exhausted, a layer of sticky sweat accumulating on the floor of the room. He stopped only when he was completely exhausted. He went through the usual physical training methods in the "Hand Combat Martial Arts Manual" and was about to go to the courtyard to wash up when he noticed a new profession appear on the profession panel.

Name: Chen Sheng (Zhu Chongwu)

【Age】：15/65
[Occupation 3]: Warrior
Level: Lv1 (1/100)

Talent: Mind's Eye

skill:
Hand-to-Hand Combat Martial Arts Level 1 (1/100)

Gale Blade Record Lv1 (1/100)

"Not bad. Back in the main world, I practiced martial arts for half a year before finally achieving the martial arts apprentice profession.

Now, with the experience gained from the last martial arts training, he was able to replicate the profession in just half a month.

Moreover, the martial arts talents of this world are surprisingly different from those of the previous main world."

Chen Sheng focused his will on the words "heart and eyes" on the panel, and suddenly a sense of enlightenment arose in his heart.

Mind's Eye: By understanding the structure of the human body and sensing the body's Qi, one can predict the actions of others, anticipate the enemy's moves, and sense the coming of autumn even before the cicadas arrive.

"Compared to the healing body and digestion skills that aid in martial arts training in the main world, this seems to be a combat-oriented talent."

Chen Sheng turned his head and looked at Zhu Chongliu and Zhu Chongqi in the room. Although he did not have the skill of [seeing the living and the dead] in this life, his sight seemed to penetrate the darkness, clothes and skin, and sensed the movements of their muscles and bones.

Not only every breath and heartbeat, but even the subtle blood flow and gastrointestinal movements were clearly seen by his eyes in some mysterious way.

Such vision can be described as divine and clear, and it exists in the person.

……

The awakening of his martial arts career did not affect Chen Sheng's peaceful life. He still copied scriptures, stole, ate grass, and practiced martial arts in the temple every day.

After several days of frequent practice of observing people with his heart, he inadvertently made a new discovery.

In the unique vision of the mind's eye, there was actually some kind of airflow in the bodies of a few monks in the temple, which was constantly circulating.

Although they are all air currents, they give people different feelings. Some are as warm as a bonfire, some are as cold as ice, some are as sharp as weapons, some are as thick as the earth, as vibrant as plants, and as light as the wind... Chen Sheng guessed that this should be the internal force cultivation system of this world.

Maybe it’s because I’m in Buddhism.

The nature of the inner strength of the monks in Yuhuang Temple tends to be hot, gentle, calm and heavy. Among them, the monk Jueyuan has the hottest, calmest and most powerful inner strength.

It looked as hot and explosive as the sun, yet extremely mellow and yang. Moreover, if other people's internal strength was like a trickle, his internal strength gave Chen Sheng a feeling of surging like a surging river.

After discovering this, Chen Sheng would secretly observe the flow of Monk Jueyuan's internal energy while copying books every day.

It took him three months to memorize the entire set of complex exercises exactly.

Finally, try practicing, visualizing in your mind a stream of air flowing silently through the complex network of the eight extraordinary meridians and the twelve regular meridians.

After meditating like this for several days, an internal force of the same nature was actually born in his body.

A new martial art called [Nine Yang Holy Art] has been added to the martial arts profession on the panel.

(End of this chapter)