Volume 2 Chapter 24 Anecdotes of Cultivation
What greeted the eyes of Yi Cheng and others was a deep invisible canyon, the valley mouth was hundreds of zhang wide, standing at the mouth of the valley and looking inside, it stretched for many miles, and the deeper it went, the wider it became.
The canyon is flanked by dense forests, and the top of the canyon is shrouded in a faint purple qi, according to the understanding of these days, Yi Chengzhi Dao's purple qi is the great array laid by the powerful monks of the god transformation stage with boundless mana.
The open space where Yi Cheng and the others were located was at the front of the valley mouth, with a radius of nearly 10,000 zhang, and the open space was already full of monks at this time.
There are large and small sects gathered together, ranging in number from dozens to thousands.
There are also groups of loose cultivators or small family monks, and some are simply alone to find a corner to sit down and wait for the secret place to open.
Yi Cheng only took a general look, and estimated that there were already sixty or seventy thousand monks in the field at this time, and most of the major sects had also come, and at this time, there were monks coming one after another, and then looking for an open space to stop.
This grand scene really made Yi Cheng sigh a little, but what surprised him even more was that there were still some monks in the scene who set up stalls to sell things, and there were not a few monks who watched and buy.
I have to say that the business of these monks is still very good, at this time the secret trial is about to begin, although all the participants have made full preparations, but no one will be disgusted with a little more guarantee, maybe a magic weapon or a bottle of elixir purchased now will let them escape in the trial.
Seeing that everyone had come behind him, Mingxiu Zhenren waited for all the elders to stop behind him, explained a few words to Elder Wei and Elder Yan behind him, and then took Yun Feiyan and Elder Situ to leave the crowd and walk towards the stations of other sects.
Elder Wei saw the head of the sect walking away, and said to the disciples behind him: "There are still three days for the secret land to open, you can rest here in these two days, recuperate, you can also go and see if there are anything you need to buy, make the most preparations, okay, everyone disperse, gather here in two days, don't go far!" ”
After finishing speaking, he discussed a few words with Elder Yan, arranged for the other elders to do a good job of guarding, and found an open space to rest and meditate.
Thousands of disciples in Luoxia Mountain were ordered by the elders, some meditated and rested on the spot, and some went to buy elixir magic weapons or sell things, and the crowd gradually dispersed after a while.
Because Yi Cheng and the five of them had already said that they would go together in the secret land, they naturally wanted to be more familiar with it at this time, so they looked for a clearing place, studied the Five Elements Transformation Formation again, and sat down to rest after they were all proficient.
After a night of silence, Yi Cheng and the others were adjusting their state to meet the trial that was about to begin.
Early in the morning of the second day, Yi Cheng had just finished meditating, and practiced a set of swordsmanship under the activity, although he began to practice spells over the years, but Yi Cheng did not give up on the sword trick of asking the heart, and had a deeper understanding of the sword trick, and truly achieved the sword from the heart, and had his own swordsmanship.
When Yi Cheng finished practicing swordsmanship, Yuan Ping came to Yi Cheng's side and praised: "Senior Brother Yi, good swordsmanship, I don't know why I saw you dancing with a sword, I seem to have a sense of hearing the Tao, it can be seen that Senior Brother's swordsmanship realm is so deep, I will definitely ask Senior Brother Yi for advice another day." ”
"Senior brother said that he laughed, it's just some lowly martial arts in the mortal world, it's just a habit of many years, and the muscles and bones are moved, so that the senior brother laughs, is there something wrong with the senior brother looking for me?"
"It's not a big deal, just now Senior Sister Yan said that she was going to go to the temporary market over there to have a look, and several of us also want to see if we can exchange some useful things, I wonder if Senior Brother is interested in going for a walk together?"
Yi Cheng said that he didn't need to buy anything anymore, he had already bought a lot of pill magic weapons, and most of them were ordinary Qi cultivation stage disciples, and it was useless to buy them himself.
But now I have nothing to do, my cultivation is about to be relaxed, and I can't reach it quickly, and now that the trial is about to begin, it is impossible for me to go to retreat and cultivate, so it is better to go with them and relax.
So he said, "It's okay, I'll take a look too!" ”
Yuan Ping was also very happy to see that Yi Cheng agreed to go, so he led the way in front, and after meeting with Yan Bingling and the three of them, a group of five of them walked towards the temporary fang market in the center of the clearing.
At this time, in the center of the clearing, although it was only a temporary market, the various sects also sent many disciples to make unified arrangements, and all the disciples who set up stalls were also neatly lined up on both sides of the road, forming dozens of streets.
At this time, the total number of monks who came to the open space had exceeded 100,000, and there were no less than 2,000 disciples from each of the six major sects and four great families, and there were more than 5,000 disciples from each of the six major sects. Tens of thousands of disciples from hundreds of other small and medium-sized sect families also participated, and these only accounted for half of the total number, and nearly half of the monks were casual cultivators.
They don't have the backing of sects and families, and it's even more difficult to build a foundation, generally speaking, these monks are two types of people, one is that their qualifications are not very prominent, they are not valued by various sects, and they can only cultivate on their own, which accounts for the vast majority.
There is also a group of people with excellent qualifications, but they are unwilling to be constrained by the sect family and cultivate the truth alone.
In short, no matter what kind of casual cultivation it is, the days of casual cultivation must not be stable and secure in the sect and family, and often the disciples in the sect also look down on casual cultivation, and there are often some lowly casual cultivators who can only swallow their anger when they are bullied.
However, there are no absolutes, everything has advantages and disadvantages, although it is difficult to cultivate, but there are still many monks who are willing to cultivate alone and be at ease.
As for being bullied by the disciples of the sect family, although it is inevitable, since a Yuan Infant Scattered Cultivator slowly consumed a medium sect to death hundreds of years ago, the days of casual cultivation have not been so difficult.
Back then, a casual cultivator who only had the seventh level of Qi cultivation and his own Taoist companion teamed up with two sect disciples to hunt demon beasts and accidentally harvested a 10,000-year-old elixir.
Originally, it was a fortunate thing, although the thousand-year-old elixir in the cultivation realm was precious, it was still relatively common, but the elixir of ten thousand years was extremely rare, and this elixir was at least fifty or sixty thousand spirit stones.
According to the distribution plan agreed in advance, each of them could get at least tens of thousands of spirit stones, but under the huge temptation, the matter of forgetting profit and righteousness happened again.
The two disciples of the sect suddenly made a difficulty, and took advantage of the carelessness of the loose cultivator and the Taoist companion to severely damage them, and finally the scattered Taoist monk fell, and the scattered cultivator also fell into a Jedi when he was seriously injured, and his life and death were unknown.
The two disciples succeeded in the sneak attack, swallowed the elixir alone, and never mentioned this matter when they returned to the mountain gate, both of them were the descendants of the elders in the sect, relying on the income of that day and the support of the sect, two hundred years later, both of them succeeded in marrying the Dan, and they had long forgotten what they had done that day, and they were comfortable as the elders of their own sect.
This sect is called Jinyumen, and it was second only to the six major sects in that year, with more than 30,000 disciples in the sect, more than 100 elders of Jiedan, and one ancestor of the Yuanying Sect, and its strength was only above the four major families.
But just when the Jinyu Sect was vigorously developing and striving to be among the seventh major sects, the disciples in the sect died one after another, and the murderer was not even seen.
This situation made the whole sect both angry and afraid, because there were all dead disciples in the Qi cultivation period to elders in the Yudan stage, and as long as they left the mountain gate, they would never go back.
In the end, he had to disturb the retreat of the Yuan Infant Master and let him deal with the matter.
After the inspection of the ancestor of the Yuan Infant Stage, he finally knew that the murderer's cultivation was actually the Yuan Infant Stage, which made the Jinyumen immediately fall into a greater panic.
was attacked by the Yuan Infant Monk, even if there was a Yuan Infant Monk in his own sect, there was no sense of security at all.
A sect needs a lot of resources to develop, and the medicinal materials of the spirit stone vein are indispensable, and even if the Yuanying Ancestor is strong, it is impossible to take care of every place.
In the end, he had no choice but to recall the disciples who were outside, and declared that he was willing to negotiate with the Yuanying monk, and he didn't know how he offended the other party, and he was willing to make amends.
But the result was that Jin Yumen was shocked, and the monk did not appear at all.
A few months later, the Jin Yumen sent his disciples to mine and collect medicinal materials, but the disciples who were sent out did not survive.
Every time the ancestor of the Jinyumen rushed to the accident site, he only saw the corpses of his own people.
After such a few times, the disciples of the Jinyumen no longer dared to go out of the mountain gate, so they could only stay in the mountain gate, but the resources of the sect were limited, and it would be difficult to continue for a year or two if they sat on the mountain and ate the mountain empty.
And when they ask for help from other sects, those sects are just happy to see them weakened, and none of them are willing to help them.
Just when the Jinyumen was in despair, the Yuanying monk stood up and declared that as long as those disciples broke away from the Jinyumen and no longer regarded themselves as disciples of the Jinyumen in the future, they could avoid the scourge of killing, otherwise they would definitely be killed by themselves as soon as they left the mountain gate.
As soon as these words came out, the Jinyumen was shocked, waiting for death in the mountain gate, and if he left the sect, he would not be able to get out of the mountain gate alive.
As time passed, after a few years, the spirit stone elixirs of the Golden Jade Sect had been exhausted, and many disciples began to sneak down the mountain.
At the beginning, the sect also brought those disciples back to be severely punished, but as the number of people increased, there were no spirit stones in the sect for the disciples to cultivate, so they could only let them leave.
Seeing that a large number of disciples in the sect had lost a large number of Jinyu Sect, the high-level leaders of the Golden Jade Sect finally took out the treasures of Zhenshan and asked for help from other sects, and finally found the perpetrator under the search of the three Yuan Infant Monks.
Originally, the Yuanying Monk of the Golden Jade Gate wanted to refine the soul of this person, but although the Yuanying Monk was only in the early stages, the spells he cultivated were extremely skillful, and although he was defeated by the three Yuanying Monks, it was no obstacle to protect himself.
In desperation, the Golden Jade Sect could only compromise with it, although the loose cultivator was unwilling to let go of the Golden Jade Gate, but he could not take advantage of the three Yuanying monks, and finally promised not to seek the bad luck of the disciples of the Golden Jade Sect.
However, he told him what happened that day, and asked the Golden Jade Sect to hand over the two monks who killed his fellow Daoist to him.
Although the Golden Jade Sect Ancestor was unwilling, he could only grit his teeth and agree, and promised not to trouble the loose cultivator again.
The matter came to an end, and the loose cultivator finally got his revenge and tortured and killed the two monks who had forgotten their righteousness back then, and the Golden Jade Sect has declined since then.
After the death of that infant ancestor, he was completely reduced to a third-rate sect.
It turned out that the loose cultivator did not die in a catastrophe that year, and happened to fall into the cave of an ancient monk, and obtained the exercises and pills left by the ancient monk, and finally succeeded in marrying a baby.
Since then, all major sects have also restrained their disciples not to bully the scattered cultivators too much, so as not to follow in the footsteps of the Jinyumen.
The destructive power of an unconcerned casual cultivator is too great, they have no scruples, and they can't beat it and run, which really makes these sect families tremble.
The reputation of the Scattered Cultivator was also remembered by future generations after this, and the Scattered Cultivators were even more worshipped as gods.
Now that hundreds of years have passed, if that loose cultivator fails to break through the Transformation God, he is afraid that he will have exhausted his lifespan, but his great name has still not been forgotten - Hua Yuan.