Chapter 4: The Guru's Teachings

"Well, ahem!" the robed old man straightened his throat.

"Silence!" a young Taoist priest next to the old man whispered to the students in the audience.

The overwhelming applause, as if submerged by the sea, slowly disappeared.

The old man in the Taoist robe stood up straight, looking at the students who were kneeling down one by one and were full of knowledge, and his expression was slightly serious because he needed to give a lecture, and he did not show any special emotions.

In fact, most of the people here were only raised by the Shangqing Sect in different places before they came to the Shangqing Sect.

They don't know much. Others applauded, they applauded, others stopped, they stopped.

In the Taoist temple, no one explains the world to them, because the people in the Taoist temple don't know what the world is like, they just raise batches of children from generation to generation, and the way these children understand the world is those who must learn and need to be tested in various subjects, and when they are old enough to meet the norms of the Shangqing Sect, they will be sent to participate in the assessment, and those who pass will enter the sect, and those who fail will naturally become the caretakers of the next generation of children.

And since Su Chen had that dream of becoming Su Bai, he had extreme doubts about this world, and he urgently needed to truly understand this world!

Here, only here is Su Chen's fastest shortcut to realize what kind of world this world is, and only here can he see the wonders of this world in the shortest time.

Su Chen sank his heart and prepared to listen carefully to this first class of the Shangqing Sect's master.

However, this first class had just begun, and it instantly broke Su Chen's perception of Su Bai's world.

"Since you have entered the gate of my Shangqing Sect, you will naturally abide by the etiquette of my Shangqing Sect, and so on, and your senior brother will give you the relevant spiritual slips later. The old Taoist priest, who was dressed cautiously and gorgeously, raised his hand slightly and spoke to the disciples below.

"I am your uncle, you can call me 'Uncle Shuqian', today, I am here to give you the first lesson, called "What is the Tao?"

This voice!

This voice!

As in a whisper!

It's right in the ear!

Su Chen had observed it early before entering the door, and there were at least two hundred square meters in the entire Taoist Temple!

Normal people don't use megaphones, only by shouting can everyone hear their voices, and now, an old man, speaking softly, found in Su Chen's secret observation that every disciple, no matter how far or near they were seated, everyone did not feel uncomfortable.

He can make everyone lecture like they are listening to their ears!

Su Chen was surprised and curious.

How?

Is there really a legendary Taoism in this world?

Su Chen was happy and worried in his heart!

Happily, there is a way in this world!

The worry is that this world is different from Su Bai's world, and he may really just dream of Su Bai, a person who is very similar to the real person, and the cultivation exercises he has sorted out by relying on Su Bai's dreams may be useless.

In Su Bai's world, no one could make everyone hear their voices in an instant, and it was as if they were whispering.

The opening of this moment aroused Su Chen's strong interest.

Ay!

Su Chen sighed, he really can't be greedy.

"Then let me ask you first: What is the Tao?"

The old Taoist priest called 'Shuqian' asked everyone in the audience.

Listen carefully!

When Su Chen heard the voice of the old Taoist, he quickly adjusted his state and began to listen carefully.

I saw a silence in the audience.

"Don't be afraid to say boldly, don't be afraid! If we and other seekers want to go far, we can't be afraid!"

Finally, a little Taoist priest sitting in the back row mustered up the courage to stand up, saluted to the high platform and said: "Uncle Shi, I think that [Dao] is the principle of being a human being, we use this [Dao] to live, just like I am a man, what is good to me, I will be good to him, and if it is not good to me, I will be bad to him!"

"Poof!"

A laugh came from behind the little Taoist priest: "If the [Dao] is so simple, then do we still need to stay away from the Taoist Temple and come to the Shangqing Sect to listen to the [Dao] of the senior uncle?"

The little Taoist priest who stood up blushed, hurriedly saluted the uncle who loved this smile on the stage, and whispered: "This is my way!"

Uncle Shuqian smiled on the stage: "Actually, what this little nephew said is not unreasonable, but the rules are only one aspect of him, not comprehensive!"

"[Dao] is the will of heaven, haven't you ever looked at the starry sky above the sky?

Shu Qian touched the corners of his mouth, shaking his head and nodding his head.

"The Tao is the earth on which the feet are treaded!

"[Dao] is my ideal and belief!"

"[Dao] is my burning stick!"

"[Dao] is my mouth, and he is what I say he is!"

“......”

Su Chen listened to one senior brother after another explain his thoughts, some made him think deeply, some made him stunned, and some made him feel funny but couldn't laugh at all.

Because their own ideas are not so different from theirs.

"Then what is the Word?"

Su Chen asked himself.

Seeing that everyone's emotions were aroused, he said: "[Dao] is the evil of the heavens, because the sky is boundless, is it the evil of the earth, because the earth is not locked? No, these are not enough! I have been spanning more than a million miles with my sword, and I cannot see the end of the sky, the end of the earth, and beyond the southern sea, there is no continent, which is immeasurable. This is not to say that the Tao is heaven or earth is wrong, but that we cannot explore it. ”

At this time, a little fat man who looked a little blessed, wearing a Taoist robe that was about to be squeezed by his size, stood up, raised his head and made a salute with difficulty, ignoring the ridicule around him, and asked the old Taoist priest on the stage: "Uncle Shi, I still have a question." ”

The old Taoist priest looked at the shape of this little Taoist priest, and was not annoyed by interrupting his lecture, but was slightly stunned, waved his hand, first stopped the reprimand of the disciple behind him, and then asked the little Taoist priest who stood up: "If you have any questions, you can say it!"

"What exactly is the so-called Dao? Is it edible, can it be used against the enemy, or can it live forever?"

The old Taoist priest took a deep look at this little chubby dun, and couldn't help but show a smile, and smiled proudly: "This question is a good question, I won't investigate your fault for interrupting my speech during the non-questioning time!"

The old Taoist priest then asked everyone: "Is it okay to eat the Dao? Yes, can it be used against the enemy, is it okay, can it be immortal?"

Shu Qian was sure of three times in a row, which made the little Taoist priests in the audience riot a little for a while.

Afterwards, Daoist Shuqian tidied up his clothes and said solemnly: "These, everything in the world, is a kind of [Dao], but they are not completely [Dao].

What you think is the truth, persistence, exploration, haha! No, these are not enough!"

The old Taoist priest was like a madman, and he would wave his hands and feet when he talked about the excitement: "You need all abilities, all excellent qualities, all madness, and obsession to pursue it!

"If one day, after some of you really feel the blur of the Dao, and you think back to your present self, you will feel ashamed, because at that time, you will feel that you are so ignorant and shallow now!"

The old Taoist priest shook the wide Taoist robe, and sat down cross-legged with the support of the young Taoist robe behind him: "However, you will feel extremely lucky, because your sect is my Shangqing! We will cultivate all your qualities step by step, and this will be the platform for you to find the Dao, and it will be the beginning of your pursuit of the Dao! So today, I want to explain to you the beginning of the Dao, what is the Dao! This is the foundation of the Dao, and the door of all the Dharma!"

The old Taoist priest paused, exhaled, waved the dust whisk in his hand and continued: "The Taoist is the root of thousands of methods, and it is the wonder of all living beings. The name is famous, and the name is not very famous. 'The Tao cannot be named, it cannot be spoken, it can only be understood, it can only be vaguely guided by our forerunners, and what is finally explored is your own [Dao]!"

"Heaven and earth are called the universe, and the universe is said to be the universe throughout the ages. [Dao] is the beginning of all things, is the mother of all things, and what we seekers of the Tao seek, what we seek, is to pursue all the way to find our own [Dao], thousands of avenues, countless fates, our cultivation methods, are all for the pursuit of the Dao, is to stand on our shoulders, continue to climb upward, looking for the Tao fruit. ”

The old Taoist priest sat on the stage, and many Taoist scriptures and Taoist scriptures were quoted casually, which made many small Taoist priests who listened to the sermon cross-legged below fascinated.

Su Chen combined with the explanation of Su Qian's old Tao, and took out the knowledge related to the Dao of Su Bai's world in the dream, and found that it was slightly similar, so he was even more determined to listen.

After Chen Xu listened to the old Taoist's class, he was silent and fell into his own world, and Su Chen looked at it and was happy for him from the bottom of his heart.

This class was interspersed with all kinds of questions and interactions in the discussion of Taoist priest Shuqian, which made the atmosphere of the entire hall extremely active.

And time also slipped away quietly as the little Taoist priests and the old Taoist Shuqian talked with each other and shared with each other.

Finally, under the eyes of everyone, the old Taoist priest stood up, sorted out his relevant accessories, brought a whisk, and a disciple behind him came up to support Shuqian Laodao, Shuqian Laodao raised his hand to stop his movements.

The old Taoist priest stood up straight, straightened his clothes and said: "Today, I have a method to pass down, this method, you can learn and teach, at this time next week, I will test your progress one by one, those who pass the progress, I will teach the next method again, and the status of your senior brother and brother should also be decided!

The old Taoist priest said: "This method is the method of cultivation inspiration, it is the method of the sect's cultivation, if you use [merit points] to exchange, it takes two hundred points, today I passed it down, you and so remember well, do not disclose it privately, do not teach it privately, do not communicate privately, I will test the results of cultivation in a week." ”

Subsequently, the old Tao shouted like a song and sang: "The avenue is invisible, giving birth to the world, the avenue is ruthless, running the sun and the moon, the avenue is nameless, and all things are nourished for a long time; I don't know its name, and the strong name is called the Tao." Husband: There are clear and turbid, moving and still....... ”

The old Taoist slowly recited this scripture, but it seemed to give birth to a mysterious color in itself, which seemed hazy, deep and charming, and fascinating, and the so-called truth was in his mouth, eloquently.

Below the uncle, Su Chen listened to the song of Shu's humble and frustrating, but in a trance, it seemed like entering a fairyland, and gradually the sound of the outside world could not reach Su Chen's mind, Su Chen felt hazy and confused, but he was pure and comfortable, obviously calm and clueless, but he didn't know its source, he didn't know its beginning, there was a mysterious feeling lingering around him, Su Chen unconsciously revealed a comfortable smile.