Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 19 The Latecomers Take the Lead

Since ancient times, splitting characters into couplets has been considered one of the most difficult problems in couplets.

It requires not only breaking down characters, but also being neat and presenting artistic conception. If you have time to think about it carefully, it would be fine, but if there is also a time limit, it will be a great test of your talent.

Cui Yunqi couldn't help but think: "If it were me, how long would it take me to come up with the second line of this couplet?"

Yes, there is a time limit for answering the moon-catching questions.

A moonlight spirit, like a jade disk, hovered lightly over the lake and said with a smile, "Chen Xu, you only have ten breaths. If you can't answer within ten breaths, it will be considered wrong."

Time limit of ten breaths!

Chen Xu felt his scalp tingling. Before he caught the moon, the elf had never told him that there was a time limit for answering the questions.

He subconsciously glanced at the Food Cauldron Heavenly Book at this moment.

On Tianshu's board, his number of likes has been increasing sporadically.

Today's data is:

【Accumulated likes: 613】

[Free attribute points: 16]

[Fireworks value: 256]

Although two free attribute points were consumed previously, the total balance of attribute points at this moment has increased instead of decreased.

Chen Xu can add a few more attribute points to his spirit at any time, and with the surge in attribute points, he can greatly improve his thinking efficiency in a short period of time.

But is this reasonable?
You should know that the meaning of these attribute points added to your body is permanent.

At this time, Chen Xu's spirit attribute had reached 26 points, which was more than twice his initial attribute!
Logically speaking, with such a huge increase in the attributes of his soul, his thinking ability should be far superior to before, even reaching an extraordinary level.

Taking Qi and blood as an example, Chen Xu’s Qi and blood have now reached 24 points, so he can chop bamboo with his bare hands and make the cut smooth.

His strength is at least two or three times greater than before, and he has more energy and endurance when chopping wood with a knife.

However, in terms of his spirit, the actual changes brought about by the increase in attributes were not very obvious.

If you think about it carefully, the reason why the difference between the two is so huge may be, firstly, because Qi and blood are easier to understand and grasp than spirit and soul, and secondly, because Chen Xu learned the wood-chopping knife technique, through this knife technique, he actually controlled his own power.

To a certain extent, he truly understood what Qi and blood are!

So, what is the spirit? Does he understand it?

Chen Xu recalled his previous experiences in learning to control fire. When he thought about his calm mind, he seemed to vaguely feel a mysterious power surging and beating between his eyebrows.

The mind and intention are united, and the qi and essence are united.

In this way, see the treasures in your body and control the treasures in your body!

Chen Xu suddenly felt as if he had caught a ray of spiritual light in his soul.

The mind can run thousands of miles in an instant, and have billions of thoughts in an instant.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths...

In reality, just as the jade plate counted to the sixth breath, Chen Xu suddenly raised his eyes and said, "Water becomes turbid when there are insects, and it becomes turbid when there are fish. Water, water, water, the rivers and lakes are vast. I am right..."

"The roots are beneath the trees, the branches are above them. Trees, trees, trees, trees. The pines, cypresses, and camphor trees are densely packed."

After checking, he frowned again.

I sighed inwardly, thinking that although my second line could be considered neat, it was still lacking in artistic conception.

Behind him, Cui Yunqi was sweating profusely.

In six breaths, he also thought of using wood as the basis for decomposition. However, his idea was not as neat as Chen Xu's, and he only managed to think of half a sentence: "A tree withers without wind, a tree gives birth to a ghost and becomes a locust tree, wood, wood, wood..."

Before he could figure out the second half of the sentence, Chen Xu had already answered the question successfully.

Chen Xu took another step forward, bent down again, and picked up a small moon.

Cui Yunqi was sweating profusely. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth, reached into his sleeve pocket, took out a small pill, and swallowed it in one gulp.

His father's instructions flashed through his mind: "Yun Qi, when you go to Jichuan, based on my understanding of that old friend, if you are not the most outstanding one, he will definitely not see you.

But our Cui family needs him, and we need you to meet him. The current situation is turbulent, with evil ways appearing everywhere, and demons and monsters causing chaos everywhere. The chaotic times predicted by that great scholar forty years ago are about to come!
Your aunt is having a lot of trouble in the palace, and Zhou...he's not in Yujing, but he went south to Jichuan. There must be something fishy about this."

Cui Yunqi arrived with full confidence, and said conceitedly, "Father, in Jichuan, how could any young man compare to me?"

He didn't think that anyone could surpass him in meeting Mr. Zhou.

He could never have imagined that a shabby scholar who appeared out of nowhere would walk in front of him.

As soon as Cui Yunqi took the pill, he felt his whole body's energy boiling. Amidst the scorching heat, there was a wonderful cool feeling that rushed straight to his mind.

Cui Yunqi immediately bent down and picked up a small moon.

The moonlight in his palm transformed into four words: "It means to brush people away."

Cui Yunqi frowned in thought, and soon, his exceptionally quick mind made him realize that this seemingly nonsensical line of text was actually a sentence from "The Great Learning" that had been cut off from the beginning and the end: "This is called going against human nature."

This is a fill-in-the-answer question. It seems not difficult, but it is also a bit tricky to be simple.

Fortunately, Cui Yunqi thought of the answer, and he immediately said confidently: "The student answered, what good people hate, what bad people like, this is called going against human nature..."

After answering correctly, he took a step forward and looked up at Chen Xu in front of him.

But he saw that the shabby-dressed young man had actually been thirteen steps ahead of him!

It was obvious that Chen Xu had already walked ten steps more than him, and just took three more steps, so he was now far ahead of him.

Cui Yunqi's confidence had returned. He muttered to himself, "A gentleman hides his abilities and waits for the right time to act. The latecomer prevails! What's the big deal about being a few steps behind?"

After saying that, Cui Yunqi immediately bent down and picked up another small moon.

What was fished out this time was another numerology problem.

Cui Yunqi calculated quickly with his fingers and quickly came up with the correct answer, then took another step forward.

Chen Xu just happened to pick up another moon in front of him. The moon turned into a line of text in his palm. This time, Chen Xu also triggered a math problem.

When Chen Xu saw this question, he was stunned.

Because this is actually a...

The inscription reads: "In the past, there was a Taoist named Taixu who refined two jades, Yin and Yang, into pendants. The Yang pendant is shaped like the Li hexagram, hollow inside and square outside, with a hidden winding path inside; the Yin pendant is shaped like the Kan hexagram, with rings and knobs connected together, forming a nine-turn chain..."

This seems to be a "weapon refining question"?
No, it's not.

Chen Xu read it more carefully. "Yin and Yang overlap, the two pendants intertwined in shape, like a Tai Chi embracing a circle. How can we separate Yin and Yang without damaging the jade or breaking the mechanism?"

This, this is clearly a topology problem!

Topology in mathematics, the devil's branch of higher mathematics.

Topology was once a nightmare for many students. Even though Chen Xu was a science student in his previous life, he was still terrified of topology.

He could never have imagined that topology would appear on the moon in the mythological world.

At this moment, the familiar, crisp, and clear voice of a child rang in his ears again: "This question aligns with the Taoist theory of yin and yang, and contains the principles of spiritual practice. The teacher said that if anyone can find this question, he will be given a quarter of an hour."

(End of this chapter)