Chapter 16: Heavenly Sword Gate
"Xianji Primitive Sutra" is just a thin book, in fact, even the "Tao Te Ching" of a generation of Taoist ceremonies is only sprinkled with more than 5,000 words, if you only look at the shape of the characters, do not look at the meaning of the text, all the exercise books, whether it is Taoism or Confucianism and Buddhism, it is impossible to read it for too long.
For the ghost, now it is the shape of the character, and the meaning of the text is meaningless to him, not to mention that he is familiar with the original scripture by heart, just to see a rough idea, it won't take long. A minute later, Xiao Lang turned the last page and closed the book.
"Little friend, what year is it?" The ghost suddenly asked a seemingly unrelated question.
"God bless you for seven years." Xiao Lang remembered that the system date was written like this.
"God forbid, what is it?" Although the ghost's life experience is not very rich due to the cultivation of the false path, his knowledge is still very wide, but he really doesn't know what Tianyou is.
"The name of the current emperor." Xiao Lang wanted to wipe a cold sweat, the current emperor actually let the ghost say that it was a thing, although the emperor in the ordinary world would definitely not be able to defeat the monster who had practiced for more than a thousand years even if he did his best in the country, but if there was a conflict, the disciples of Confucianism would definitely not stand idly by.
"Oh, you're really a new disciple, hasn't your master had time to teach you anything?" The ghost was half helpless, half curious.
"I just came to the Burial Sword Villa and was brought here." Xiao Lang's tone was also very helpless, although even if Yan Wunuo gave him the opportunity to choose, he would most likely enter the life and death box in order to complete the spiritual root, but after all, the feeling of having a choice and a passive choice is different.
"Forget it, but I can see the "Immortal Primordial Sutra", the old man is a little relieved, it may be that the master has suffered some great disaster, fortunately, the inheritance is not endless, as long as the inheritance is not broken, there is hope for everything, change the name, although it violates the ancestral system, but I want to come from those who are in charge of worrying, I am an unsuccessful disciple, and now I am trapped here, hey......" The ghost's words were only half said, and the rest was not said to Xiao Lang.
In fact, it is not so much that he is relieved, but that the ghost is comforting himself, because even if the exercises are the same, it is possible that the master will be destroyed and the exercises will be taken away, and this situation is even worse. But there is hope after all, if Xiao Lang does not take out the "Immortal Extreme Primordial Sutra" now, then the ghost will almost certainly be seized from the Dao system of the Heavenly Sword Gate and the mountain gate will be occupied.
Xiao Lang suddenly seemed to understand something, the Heavenly Sword Sect in the mouth of the ghost soul was his true sect! Yan Wunuo said that his own division had already been destroyed, and it seemed to be similar to what happened to the Heavenly Sword Gate, and the most important thing was that the "Immortal Pole Primordial Sutra" that he started to do was handed over to him by Yan Wunuo, and it had nothing to do with the Burial Sword Villa and the head of the Wind Dao.
It's just that I don't know what the relationship between the Burial Sword Villa and the Heavenly Sword Gate is, and why the head of the Burial Sword Villa can also open the box of life and death.
When Xiao Lang was still thinking about whether to tell the ghost about his true situation, he heard him speak again: "However, this exercise is incomplete, although the essence of the old man's view is still there, but there are always some problems, and I think that the other volumes of the Immortal Extreme Primordial Sutra are also so incomplete. ”
What the ghost didn't say to Xiao Lang was actually a speculation he made from Xiao Lang's incomplete "Immortal Primordial Sutra".
With his ability, he could naturally see that what Xiao Lang had in his hand was only the upper volume, or the general outline, and there was no problem with this, because it was impossible for any sect to allow a new disciple to directly obtain a complete exercise, especially an exercise at the level of the Primordial Sutra.
Don't look at Yan Wunuo as an introductory exercise to Xiao Lang, in fact, if it is in the real Heavenly Sword Sect, Xiao Lang wants to obtain the "Immortal Extreme Primordial Sutra", even if it is a general outline, he must at least be a closed disciple of the elders of the sect, and this disciple must have proven his talent and loyalty from all aspects.
It is difficult to start, which means that it is rare, and more importantly, the ghost found that the cultivators who changed this primordial scripture to make it what it is today, all the places that were modified and deleted were related to the other two supreme exercises of the Heavenly Sword Sect, in other words, in fact, even if the disciples cultivated according to the current primordial scripture, they would not be in danger of going astray at all, but it was completely impossible to ascend to the heavens simply by relying on a primordial scripture in the future.
What does this mean? It's very simple, if it weren't for the head of the Heavenly Sword Sect or even the elders of the Supreme Sect, it would be absolutely impossible for him to have this ability, even if he was a ghost, he knew the three volumes of exercises in his chest, and he asked himself that he would not be able to reach such a level, even if he had this kind of cultivation ability, he would never be able to do it so meticulously without spending a lot of energy.
Imagine, if the Heavenly Sword Gate suddenly suffered a catastrophe and caused the mountain gate to be destroyed, the "Immortal Pole Primordial Sutra" that has been handed down will either be complete or a part of it will be lost irregularly, and there will definitely not be such a simplified version that can be said to be today.
As for who did this kind of thing in the Heavenly Sword Sect, was it his senior, senior brother, or his own junior? Under what circumstances did it take to completely separate the "Three Methods of Heavenly Sword" in order to survive the inheritance in the Gate, and the ghost has no way to speculate.
But he can already be sure that the master must have suffered a great calamity, and the practices of the people in the sect should have only succeeded in preserving one-third of the inheritance, that is, a "Immortal Pole Primordial Sutra", because if the other two books have also been handed down, then what Xiao Lang is now in his hands should be the "Xuanqing Thirteen Chapters" that is more suitable for new disciples to practice, rather than this primordial scripture that directly points to the origin of the Immortal Dao.
But even if all of them are retained, after such a modification, what are the three methods of the Heavenly Sword still called? What else can it be regarded as a Heavenly Sword inheritance?
The ghost knew that since the people in the door had taken such painstaking efforts, there must be their difficulties, but he was not present after all, and from his own standpoint, what was the point of this kind of inheritance?
Expect this incomplete "Immortal Pole Primordial Sutra" to revive the majesty of the Heavenly Sword Gate that day?
The three methods of the Heavenly Sword are divided into three, and the best result is nothing more than to pass them down at the same time, turning the Heavenly Sword Gate into three sects that have nothing to do with each other, from this level, the inheritance of the Heavenly Sword Gate has actually been cut off.
Not to mention, in fact, there is a worst outcome, even the ghost himself forces himself not to think about that aspect - if it is really the autumn of life and death, the elders in the sect are forced by the pressure of the soldiers to relieve the Dao and are unwilling to hand over the Dao system, so they have changed out so many incomplete Heavenly Sword Three Methods and handed them over to the opponent.
Then the relationship between the person's teacher in front of him and his own teacher is quite delicate.
But what choice should you make?
Xiao Lang didn't know that the ghost in front of him could see so many problems from a fragment, but listening to his tone, it seemed that he had the ability to complete the original scripture.
Although it is said in the introduction to the exercises that the incomplete version does not affect cultivation, since there is a complete one, who still holds the incomplete version as a treasure?
"Is there a way for the seniors to complete him?" Xiao Lang asked directly, he didn't know that the ghost was actually thinking about all kinds of things in his heart, so he asked quite directly.
"This is nature, the Immortal Extreme Primordial Sutra is the most fundamental and the most essential exercise of my Heavenly Sword Sect, the old man has pondered it for hundreds of years, how can it not be clear?" When the ghost said this, his tone unconsciously brought a hint of pride: "Do you have a pen and paper?" Although the old man is not sure whether your master and the Heavenly Sword Sect are in the same line, if he just helps you complete the exercises in this volume, it should not violate the ancestral teachings, and it should be regarded as repaying you for helping me solve my doubts. ”
The ghost was actually quite hesitant now, and he didn't have the ease in his tone, but he didn't want to show it in front of Xiao Lang.
Teaching the exercises to outsiders, how can it not violate the etiquette of the ancestors? The light is to face the wall for a hundred years, and the heavy is to be expelled from the mountain gate.
The ghost who punished or something was no longer afraid, he was afraid that there was no mountain gate to expel him.
"Yes." Xiao Lang took out the pen and paper from the Qiankun bag, but he was secretly glad that he didn't listen to Yan Wunuo's words at that time, if he threw away these so-called miscellaneous things, would it be possible to let Xiao Lang endorse the book now?
"There is a mixture of things, and they are born from nature...... Wait, what did you write? As soon as the ghost read two sentences, he realized that Xiao Lang had written something wrong.
Xiao Lang read it again, there were only eight words in total, and he didn't write it wrong.
"It is a mixture of things, born from nature." As soon as Xiao Lang finished reading, he realized that there was a mistake in his own place, and the words he used were common in reality, but here, this kind of simplified Chinese characters were no different from ghost drawing characters in the eyes of cultivators.
But the problem is that I can write simple traditional Chinese characters myself, but obviously, what the ghost lets me write is just like the words in the "Immortal Primitive Sutra".
How could this Xiao Lang?
"This is the text of my hometown, so it's easy to remember." Xiao Lang could only explain like this.
"So, in your hometown, there are several ways to write the word 'Dao'." The ghost asked slowly, making Xiao Lang hear a tone of Kong Yiji.
"One." Xiao Lang said honestly.
"It seems that your so-called master has hardly taught you anything other than this broken primordial scripture handed over to you, so good." This sentence, the ghost only said in his heart, and in the face of Xiao Lang, he had other words.
"It's really nonsense, can you be regarded as a word, how can it be used to record the "Xianji Primordial Sutra", there are a total of nine ways to write the word 'Dao', how can your kind of text be expressed clearly?" The ghost has an attitude of reprimanding the illiterate, which is not at all like the previous respect.
Also, Xiao Lang's identity was his one-word teacher before, so he naturally needed to be respectful, but now, the ghost is definitely worthy of being Xiao Lang's half mentor, the master and the apprentice, how can he not be strict.
"What should I do?" Xiao Lang is also blindfolded, Baoshan is in front, so he won't let himself go home empty-handed for this reason.
In fact, Xiao Lang didn't know that the records of the exercises of various sects used this kind of "Taoist text", this kind of text, not only read syllables, but also need to be read, different glyphs, the meaning of the expression is also slightly different.
Not to mention Xiao Lang, now there are tens of millions of players in the [Fantasy World], who knows?
Of course, others have never encountered this kind of problem, so naturally there is no need to worry about it like Xiao Lang. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ps: Ask for tickets, ask for collections