Wutong Lane in Wutong Town, Wutong Courtyard in Wutong Lane, under the Sycamore tree in Wutong Courtyard, a young man in a green shirt is concentrating on drawing an obscure talisman.

Although the young man has a mediocre appearance, his eyes are extremely energetic, and the rhythm is endless!

At this moment, the young man seemed to completely ignore the noise in the alley, the flowers falling from the trees, the amazing old man behind him, and even his own self from another world.

Time passed minute by minute, just when the last sycamore flower above his head fell, his eyes suddenly shone brightly, and he raised his sleeves to close his pen in an instant, looking at the talisman faintly revealing a red glow in front of him, and his slightly mature face showed an irrepressible joy, and sighed lightly:

"It's done!"

The young man's name is Ye Xiu, he is exactly sixteen years old this year, and everyone in Wutong Lane knows that he is the only little scholar in the Wutong Town.

Listening to Li Laodao, the shopkeeper of the Fu Zheng shop, one evening ten years ago, he picked up this kid at the door of his store, when it was pouring rain, Li Laodao came out to close the door, just saw a six-year-old child, looking at the plaque in front of his store in a distracted manner, trembling.

Li Laodao felt that this son was pitiful, so he brought him into his shop, changed into clean clothes, and gave him food.

At first, Li Laodao thought that this was just an ordinary lost child, and he was going to send him home when the rain stopped, but he didn't expect this child's speech to be extremely clever, calling himself Ye Xiu, not from Wutong Town, not knowing where he was, and not knowing where he should go.

Lao Dao felt that the young man's words were unexpectedly mysterious, and he happened to lack a scholar, so he concluded that this son had a fate with him, and took in Ye Xiu from then on.

In the past ten years, the boy has been learning talisman making with Li Laodao, and the people around him have gradually become accustomed to it, this little scholar by Li Laodao's side. Only Ye Xiu knew the secret in his heart:

I don't belong to this world, but I come from a place called Earth!

Ten years ago, I just slept and inexplicably, I came to this world, and my original thirties turned out to be a child who was only about six years old!

At that time, it was raining heavily, Ye Xiu inexplicably appeared in Wutong Alley, everything around him seemed so unfamiliar, in order to figure out where he was, he walked up along the alley, and stopped in front of Li Laodao's shop without taking two steps, because Ye Xiu recognized that on the plaque of this shop, there were two small seals written "Fu Gong"!

Seeing the familiar words, Ye Xiu was first surprised, and then doubts arose in his heart.

"Isn't this something that only exists in legends?"

Ye Xiu thought about it, he happened to meet Li Laodao who came out to close the door, after some exchanges, Ye Xiu found that he had actually crossed into an incredible world, thinking that his body was only six years old now, and he couldn't go anywhere, and following Li Laodao, he could also come into contact with this magical talisman, so he decided to stay in the talisman shop and become Li Laodao's scholar.

Li Laodao, who is over eighty years old and still alone, (often heard Aunt Wang mention it from the grocery store next door), seems to regard Ye Xiu more as his heir, so he almost teaches him all the knowledge he knows.

In the past ten years, in addition to doing chores in the store, Ye Xiu has been arranged by Li Laodao to practice drawing talismans and reading books almost all of the time.

Because the words of this world are almost the same as the words of his previous world, Ye Xiu gradually learned about the general situation of this world through the many books in the Fu Gong shop:

This is a world where the Tao is respected, the three thousand avenues that existed in the mythology of the previous life, the real existence here, the three thousand avenues, the countless paths, almost everyone here pursues their own way, once the mortal person is enlightened, he can enter the Tao with the Tao, break away from the realm of mortals, and become a cultivator.

Of course, there is also a darling of heaven known as the innate Dao body, who is born to perceive the aura of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth between heaven and earth, and become a cultivator.

According to different realms, cultivators can be divided into: Dao Tong, Taoist priest, Taoist master, Taoist sect, Dao Zun five realms, as for after Dao Zun, whether there are other realms, Ye Xiu is now unknown, but when Li Laodao was drunk, he had mentioned more than once that the peak of the legendary cultivation world is the way of heaven!

As early as when he was just about to accept Ye Xiu, Li Laodao tested Ye Xiu's qualifications, thinking of the many time-traveling novels he had read in his previous life, Ye Xiu was originally full of expectations for his qualifications.

Who knew that he was told by Li Laodao that he was not any of the five innate Dao bodies of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth!

Ye Xiu was suddenly poured cold water on his head on a cold day, and he was quite depressed!

"Alas, look at you stinky boy, the old man didn't say that you can't cultivate!"

Looking at Ye Xiu's appearance, Li Laodao said a word in a timely manner, and this sentence was like an empowerment, which rekindled Ye Xiu's hope!

"That's right! Three thousand avenues, since this one doesn't work, I'll change it!"

Thinking of this, Ye Xiu humbly asked Li Laodao for advice on the method of cultivation, looking at Xiao Ye Xiu's expectant eyes, Li Laodao was pretending to be deep at that time, took his own wine gourd from his waist, raised his head and took a sip, and then slowly spit out four words:

"Enter the Tao with a talisman!"

The so-called "entering the Tao with talismans", according to Li Laodao, is to constantly comprehend the talismans, in order to take the opportunity to comprehend the talismans, and then absorb the aura of heaven and earth through the talismans, and then carry out cultivation.

The so-called talisman is one of the most common items in the monastic world, and the cultivator draws his understanding of the Tao to varying degrees on the talisman paper made of special materials, and then injects spiritual power to make the talisman.

According to the different levels of heaven and earth mysteries contained in the talismans, they can be divided into four levels: heaven, earth, xuan, and yellow.

Although talismans are extremely common items, high-level talismans are extremely rare, and most of the items that ordinary mortals and low-level cultivators come into contact with are yellow-level talismans.

The role of the talisman has become varied according to the different Dao methods contained in it, including attack talismans, defensive talismans, medical talismans, and so on...

Talismans can be said to be one of the most commonly used items in the cultivation world, and even gradually developed into a special industry, and this shop of Li Laodao is a shop specializing in selling all kinds of yellow-level talismans.

After understanding the method of "entering the Tao with Fu", Ye Xiu began a ten-year meditation, during which Ye Xiu indulged in the study of Fu Dao every day, except for the necessary time to help take care of the shop and serve Li Laodao's daily life.

In the first year, Ye Xiu studied more than a dozen kinds of talismans sold in the talisman shop, tried various ways to comprehend, but still had no clue, let alone enlightenment, not even a trace of heaven and earth aura.

The distressed Ye Xiu seemed to have walked into a dead end, he didn't think about tea and food every day, and his already thin body was even thinner!

Unexpectedly, this Li Laodao saw Ye Xiu like this, but he was very happy, sitting under the plane tree every day, drinking leisurely, while looking at Ye Xiu who was thinking hard under the tree and nodded.

One day, Ye Xiu sat under the tree as usual and pondered, and Li Laodao, who was lying on the rocking chair on the side and pretending to sleep, suddenly opened his eyes and turned his head to Ye Xiudao:

"Little leaf, come on, go get me some wine again. ”

Ye Xiu raised his head helplessly, and muttered in a low voice:

"Isn't it a gourd a day on weekdays? Why is it gone in less than half a day today!"

Li Laodao listened to Ye Xiu's muttering, he was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly, untied the wine gourd on his waist that he would carry with him every day, raised his head and drank the small half of the gourd wine that was still left in the gourd, and then threw it to Ye Xiu casually:

"Go now!"

"What a crazy old man!"

Ye Xiu was helpless, so he had to smile bitterly, picked up the big gourd that was not commensurate with his size, got up and walked towards the Zhendong Wine Factory.

The small wine shop is located in the easternmost part of Wutong Town, the same as Li Laodao's Fu Zheng shop, the only one in the whole town, Ye Xiu will go there on time every evening to give Li Laodao a drink, every time it is full of gourds, a year's time, Ye Xiu has long been familiar with the road.

Ye Xiu, who was walking on the road with his head down, was continuing to think about the talisman just now, but suddenly heard a very rhythmic grinding sound, and after careful identification, this sound actually came from Blacksmith Zhang's blacksmith shop.

This is a sound of polishing metal, and the strange thing is that Ye Xiu feels that this sound is not only not harsh, but as if it has some kind of magical power, which makes people can't help but want to find out.

So Ye Xiu followed the source of the sound and looked towards the inner courtyard of the blacksmith shop, only to see that the sound turned out to be the sound of a blacksmith sharpening his sword!

This blacksmith is one of the two strange people in Wutong Town (and the other strange person is Li Lao Dao who took Ye Xiu in!), this person rarely speaks on weekdays, Ye Xiu rarely sees him speak, and even if he speaks, he never speaks more than two sentences! In addition to striking iron every day, he is nesting in the yard to sharpen his sword.

Ye Xiu has also encountered blacksmith Zhang sharpening his sword many times on weekdays, but he feels that today seems to be different from usual, a whetstone is like a swimming fish, shuttling back and forth around a steel sword, although it seems to be out of order, but it seems to follow a certain trajectory, every blade is polished just right, as the movement in his hand becomes faster and faster, the originally dull steel sword gradually becomes sharp.

And the originally rugged blacksmith Zhang also seemed to have changed a person at this time, as if he was integrated with this sword, this whetstone, and even the entire inner courtyard, and his eyes revealed a look of understanding.

This blacksmith is actually enlightened!

"Ten years to sharpen a sword!"

Somehow, Ye Xiu suddenly thought of this sentence from his previous life, and his mouth moved freely, and he couldn't help but sigh lightly.

And with this sigh, Blacksmith Zhang, who was originally focused on enlightenment, suddenly had a bright and generous light in his eyes, and the whetstone in his hand was like a phantom, and countless starlights flashed with the steel sword in an instant, and then he heard a long sword groan!

The sword has been made, and the man has also entered the Tao!

"It's a good ten years to sharpen a sword!"

Blacksmith Zhang laughed heartily, looked at the door gratefully, looking for the person who made the sound, although he entered the state of enlightenment just now, but he encountered a bottleneck, if it wasn't for the finishing touch of the person just now, I'm afraid I still can't break through today.

After seeing that the person who had just instructed him was Ye Xiu, who was only six or seven years old, Blacksmith Zhang was obviously stunned, but he quickly recovered his nature and bowed deeply to Ye Xiu:

"Thank you for your advice!"

Ye Xiu just let out an "oh", and ran towards the tavern with excitement, just as Blacksmith Zhang realized his enlightenment just now, he also solved the doubts that had plagued him for a long time.

"Yes, it's exactly ten years to sharpen a sword! Others can sharpen a sword in ten years, why can't you! Before, I was too anxious, blindly wanted to ask for it, and studied more than a dozen talismans at the same time, but I forgot the truth that greed can't chew too much!"

Since that day, Ye Xiu has selected the most common fireball talisman for enlightenment, in order to empty himself, the way of enlightenment has also been simplified from complex, just every day according to the talisman drawn by Li Laodao, transcribed over and over again, and finally the hard work paid off, and ten years of training finally had the previous scene!

With the success of his initiation, Ye Xiu finally has the qualifications to step into the cultivation world, and he will be greeted by a new and wonderful world!