Chapter 1: Chen Xixiang
The legacy of the Qingwei faction is independent of Qingcheng Mountain, with thousands of palaces and many disciples.
As an important pillar of the Zhengyi Alliance, the Qingwei Daoist people are extremely famous on the mountains and mountains in the Dao Song Dynasty, and since the Qingwei faction was merged into the Zhengyi Alliance, because of the prestige of the ancestral heavenly master who fought all over the Dao and Demon Dao in the past, the Qingwei faction also followed with a huge glamour, almost the power of the six states, covering the sky with one hand.
In the Qingwei faction's Tibetan scripture pavilion.
The young male and female Taoist priests who had just been selected as inner disciples three days ago stood in a bunch outside the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and counted them carefully, there were fifteen or sixteen people.
"Xixiang, I will talk to Elder Zhao again, let you choose again, the elders have also said, cultivation has always been the first opportunity, the root bone second, your root bone is not necessarily absolutely destined for your future achievements."
The speaker was a young Taoist priest wearing an indigo robe and his hair tied up with a wooden hairpin, and he was speaking in a bitter tone.
He was persuading Chen Xixiang with kind words, telling him not to give up, they were all a group of brothers who came to apprentice.
Qingwei disciples all know that guarding the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion is a matter of dissipation, and only those uncles and uncles who are old enough to break through the hopelessness will ask for this idle errand, and do the plan to retire, Chen Xixiang is only sixteen years old and has a great future. But after testing the root bones, he took the initiative to come here to relax.
There is a pond at the entrance of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, where many lotus leaves grow, and there are also a few golden lotus flowers, swaying in the wind, creating a circle of ripples.
Chen Xixiang sprinkled a handful of low-glowing granular lingmi into the pond, and looked at the dozens of carp that immediately rushed to the surface of the water to compete, jumped on the surface of the lake, splashing a drop of water, and looked carefully, those golden carp had beards on their lips that were longer than their bodies, they were dragon whiskers!
Chen Xixiang was lazy and relaxed, and said easily:
"You all have a great future, but I don't really have any idleness here, don't believe it, let's see in two or three years......"
Hearing that Chen Xixiang still had such a lazy attitude, a handsome young Taoist priest among the Taoist priests sneered:
"In two or three years? Believe it or not, in just three months, our group of people will be able to open a huge gap with you! ”
Chen Xixiang just smiled and fed the fish, but didn't say anything.
Seeing this, the handsome Taoist priest Zhao Wenjing said coldly:
"Cui Ning, you see, we kindly came to help him fight for another chance, but people are happy to waste time here, lazy life, if he really doesn't plan to fight, it's a puddle of mud, we can't help it."
His tone was aloof.
But Chen Xixiang understood that this person was doing it for his own good, and said with a smile:
"Senior Brother Zhao, don't provoke me, I really think it's pretty good here, read the Daozang on weekdays, feed the fish, this life seems very good to me."
Zhao Wenjing's handsome and fair face turned purple with anger, snorted angrily, and turned to whisper around:
"Look at his virtue, I want to take care of you, I don't care!"
In a fit of rage, Zhao Wenjing directly brushed his sleeves and turned away.
As soon as he left, several people sighed, glanced at Chen Xixiang, and wanted to say something more, but they also felt that Chen Xixiang's attitude was really his own hot face to stick to his cold ass.
Everyone is the same group of worshippers who entered Qingcheng Mountain, and they are the brothers of this generation, and they will all be a family in the future, and they already have some family affection, and they each want to help.
Three days ago, the sect test was over, and Cui Ning was the best, and he got the Dao Bell to ring nine times.
When a person stands under the bell, every ringing means that the person under the bell can at least go to a step in cultivation in the future, and has the potential to match it, and there have never been many mistakes or omissions over the years.
Cultivating to become an immortal is divided into three steps and thirteen realms, and Cui Ning's bell rings nine times, which means that he only relies on the potential of the root bones, and he will be at least a third-step Nine Realms great cultivator in the future. This is one of the best disciples in this batch.
Zhao Wenjing, the handsome Taoist who left angrily just now, is the Dao bell ringing seven times, and it is not bad.
And Chen Xixiang only has five rings.
Five rings is not a good result, but it is by no means a particularly bad result, the five rings of the Dao bell mean that the root bone potential can reach the first step of the Five Realms Brain Marrow Transformation Realm, but if it is an organic fate, it can also enter the second step of the innate level.
Zhao Chongyang and Ning Jiuge, who are like Chen Xixiang, did not give up directly, so they chose Zhang Shibo, who is the most proficient in teaching disciples, and the road of cultivation is full of variables in the future, who knows if there will be opportunities in the future, and there will be some creation to change their own roots.
There were so many people in the same period, only Chen Xixiang was the only one who realized that his roots were not very good, and he directly asked the "deacon's room" for an errand to guard the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
It's no wonder that Senior Brother Zhao is furious and hates iron not steel.
It's not nice to say, you Chen Xixiang are guarding the heavy earth wheel like the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion? Those magic circle talismans are not a thousand times more useful than you?
Guarding the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion sounds good, but it is actually the registration of the senior brothers in charge of the sect, the uncle and uncle who came to borrow the Taoist scriptures, plus the usual cleaning of the Scripture Pavilion and the work of returning some scattered scriptures to their original places.
As for wanting to rely on the convenience of this position to be able to freely watch the precious scriptures and exercises of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, it is a pipe dream, except for those ordinary Taoist collections that are found in the world, the real exercises and superior Taoist collections are all on the third or fourth floor, and they can only be taken out by borrowing books from the sect.
So, what can you Chen Xixiang get here? First, there will be no famous teachers and professors, and second, there will be no cultivation resources, and the only thing you can get is nothing more than the leisure time to be lazy and degenerate yourself.
Some senior brothers who had a good relationship with Chen Xixiang persuaded a few more words after Zhao Wenjing left, and found that Chen Xixiang couldn't splash water, so they all gave up, and finally glanced at Chen Xixiang and left some words:
"Why can't you persuade me?"
"Well, I'll see you in two days."
"Xixiang, take care."
Chen Xixiang threw away a handful of spiritual rice in his hand, which caused those dragon carp in the Heart Pond to rob him wildly, he stood up and said goodbye to the senior brothers, and said: "A few senior brothers, go slowly, in the future, you will definitely come to the Scripture Pavilion, we will not be rare." ”
In the end, only Cui Ning, who had a very good relationship with Chen Xixiang, was still bitter, wanting to reverse his depraved thoughts, and a thousand words finally turned into one sentence:
"I don't want to wait decades for us to come back to see you, and we will all look the same, but you will be gray-haired and an old man."
The words are very sincere and straightforward.
Cui Ning's tone was sad.
This is the most cruel thing on the path of cultivation.
Chen Xixiang seemed to be touched, looking at this brother from the same county as himself, for a long time, he smiled slightly:
"No, it won't."
Before Cui Ning was overjoyed, thinking that Chen Xixiang was moved, who expected that Chen Xixiang's next sentence made his face pale for a while:
"Isn't there a Zhu Yan Dan in the sect, I have saved some merit in the past few years, and I will try to buy one, and promise that you will come to see me again when the time comes, I am still like this."
"You ......" Cui Ning couldn't say anything more, he didn't know why this brother was so stubborn.
He felt in his heart that it was because Chen Xixiang came at the same time as me, but I turned out to be more talented and promising than you Chen Xixiang, which made Chen Xixiang jealous, resulting in too much gap, so he wanted to escape from these people, but Cui Ning hid these thoughts in his heart and didn't dare to say it, it was too hurtful.
In the end, he only sighed:
"I'll come back tomorrow to persuade you."
Cui Ning is also gone.
Not long after he left the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, he met his master, the great elder of this generation of the Qingwei faction, and the first master of the same generation, Lu Tian Dao Chief.
"Didn't you persuade?" Lu Tiandao's expression was calm: "Do you want to continue to persuade tomorrow?" ”
Cui Ning nodded gloomily.
"Don't go again tomorrow, you can't persuade me." Lu Tiandao looked at the direction of the Tibetan Scripture Building, as the first master of Qingcheng Mountain in this generation, he had already opened up the acupoints all over his body, and he could be called a human immortal in the flesh, and now he has lived for one hundred and fifty years, for this kind of person, although he has not seen many of this kind of things, it is not a few.
This is the way things are in this world, no matter who wants to admit it or not, people always have high and low, such as their earthly origins and the roots of their spiritual path.
Some people are thrown far away by others at the starting point, and they are basically destined to be unable to catch up with others, in such an environment, some people will choose to work hard, and want to change their starting point through hard work the day after tomorrow, and counterattack out of the world, while others will have no reason to work hard because they have seen the useless results of the efforts early.
This kind of thing mostly happens to some middle-aged people in the mortal world, who feel that they have seen through life, and no matter how hard they try, they can't change anything, and there are very few young people like Chen Xixiang, who lose the motivation to pursue and become lazy at a young age.
But Daoist Lu Tian didn't care either, he didn't seem to be surprised and could understand.
He saw that Cui Ning still looked back from time to time from the stone steps in the mountain to the direction of the Scripture Pavilion, and sighed:
"Separated by a mountain, there are two worlds."
Chen Xixiang chose to spend the rest of his life in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
Cui Ning worships him as a teacher, he has good talents, and he is the most powerful professor of this generation, and he is the most selfish professor in this generation, so he will not be able to say that he will be the head of Qingwei in the future, and he can even hope to compete with that Heavenly Master for the position of the sect leader of the Zhengyi Alliance.
After Zhao Wenjing and the Taoist priests returned to the palace, they also got a similar statement from their master, which is also the elders cutting off some fate for them in advance, so as not to leave some unnecessary cause and effect in their hearts.
Under a pear tree in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, the pear blossoms fluttered and fell in the heart pool.
In the pool, it was not only the pear tree that was reflected, but also Chen Xixiang, who was lying on the stone with a leisurely pillow arm, holding an ordinary Taoist collection taken out of the scripture building.
An afternoon passed.
After reading this Dao Collection, he immediately sank into the sea of knowledge, and looked at the jade disc in the sea of his own knowledge, which had crossed over from the earth with him.
In the sea of knowledge, among the jade plates that seem to have rippling water, lines of ancient handwriting are reflected, which is the content of the "Water Burial Sutra" that he read.
It seems that all the contents of this Daozang have been printed into the jade plate.
Chen Xixiang remembered the lines of words that flashed on the jade disc when he crossed: "Three thousand avenues, should transform the heavens, Daozu jade dish, educate the immortals", but after he crossed over, it was dead and silent, only once he accidentally read an idle book and found that the jade disc would absorb the knowledge in the book.
After absorbing it, the aura of the disc center expanded a little, and it seemed to be awakening.
Later, after many attempts, he found that reading some Taoist scriptures was more helpful for the expansion of the halo, that is, the awakening of the jade plate, because what was recorded in the Taoist scriptures was usually the principle of heaven and earth, the laws of nature.
Therefore, after he worshiped Qingcheng Mountain, he chose to take the initiative to come to the Scripture Pavilion.
Jade Disc didn't know how long it would take, and how much knowledge of this Dao Sutra would absorb before he could awaken.
Crossing and Jade Disc is his biggest secret, and he has no relatives in this land, no one trusts him, and he can only be very careful to ensure that his major secret is not discovered.
By the heart pool, Chen Xixiang was reading the second Taoist scripture, his eyes slowly raised, and he looked at the disciples on the opposite side of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and said softly in his heart:
"It's not that I want to disappoint you, I don't want to find a good master, it's really this Hidden Scripture Pavilion, it's really the best place for me."
Taking advantage of this position, he can supplement the Heaven and Earth Principles in the Tao Sutra for his Jade Disc without attracting anyone's attention, so that the Jade Disc can awaken, which is very safe.
Although he lost the opportunity to teach the famous teacher of Qingcheng Mountain, he did not think that once the jade disc with the name of "Three Thousand Great Roads, Yinghua Heavens, Dao Ancestor Jade Plate, and Enlightening Immortals" was opened, it would be weaker than the benefits brought to him by a certain famous teacher of Qingcheng Mountain.
As a result, Chen Xixiang read the Taoist scriptures, and half of the cold and summer passed in a flash.
All the way up to ......
Half a year later on this day.