Chapter 19 Introductory Examination
Watch as the men walk out of the woods. Di Yun stood in place, silent. At this time, the young man in Chinese clothes behind him stepped forward, patted Di Yun's shoulder, looked at the direction of Lao Dao's distance and said, "Brother Di's cultivation is profound and humble. It really impressed the little brother. In Xia Nangong Feng, a person from Xuanyu Mountain, went to Yukun Gate to participate in the apprenticeship ceremony this time, and hoped that Brother Di would take care of him. ”
Di Yun glanced at Nangong Feng and replied, "Don't dare, Brother Nangong praised it." In the lower Diyun, the people of the mountain. This is my brother-in-law, named Huang Shaoliang, who is from Huangyang. Like Brother Nangong, we all went to the Natu Conference in Yukun Mountain. ”
Nangong Feng glanced at Huang Shaoliang, and after bowing slightly, he continued to say to Di Yun: "Since this is the case, then why don't we go together." How about having a baby?"
Di Yun thought for a while: "In this way, Di is better to be respectful than to obey ......."
"The Great Wilderness" records: In the south of the Great Wilderness, there is a mountain named Yukun, from which Kunshui originates. Yukun Mountain is surrounded by clouds and mist all year round, and there is no true face. It is rumored that there is a fairy Taoist place on the mountain, and the statue of the true martial god!
At the foot of this Yukun Mountain, it is said that it is quiet and tranquil. People come and go, it seems to be very lively. Because today is the annual festival of Yukunmen.
The Yukun Sect has been established for thousands of years, and it is said that the person who founded the sect is a disciple of the Puritan Sect in the heavenly realm. And because of the deep channel family's way of health preservation and the extension of Huang Lao's method of immortality, the incense in the Taoist temple is prosperous and famous. As a result, many cultivators rushed here to learn from the teacher. In desperation, the contemplator Tai Qing had no choice but to divide this Zhengyang view into vipassana and outer, and all the disciples above the martial sect were included in the vipassana. and below the martial arts and miscellaneous servants, etc., belong to the appearance.
The original intention of the Tai Qing people is to stimulate the cultivation of disciples and form a positive cultivation atmosphere. But I don't want to be in retreat for a long time in recent years, and this distinction between inside and outside has gradually become the prototype of a strict hierarchy. Unless the outward disciples stand out in the once-in-a-decade festival of disciples, it will be difficult for them to enter Vipassana. As a result, the resentment of the outer disciples gradually increased, and it also objectively deepened the contradictions between the inner and outer disciples.
This also led to the grand festival of disciples every ten years, and the disciples who came to worship the Guanmen not only had to compete with other outsiders, but also had to compete with the disciples of the outer sect of Yukun Sect. And even if you stand out from the crowd, you may not be able to enter the inner door. Because if you are thirty years old in the inner gate and have not yet reached the realm of martial arts, it is equivalent to not meeting the requirements of the inner gate to accept disciples.
Such a harsh and somewhat cruel apprenticeship procedure leads to the fact that every year, there are less than ten people in the inner gate of the Yukun Sect who can successfully worship the disciples, and at the least there is no one.
Even with Di Yun's cultivation, in the face of such harsh conditions, he didn't dare to say that he would definitely be able to succeed, let alone Huang Shaoliang. Di Yun glanced at Huang Shaoliang worriedly, and secretly made up his mind that no matter what, he would help Huang Shaoliang enter this Jade Kunmen, which could be regarded as ending his own knot.
When Di Yun and Nangong Feng and their entourage came to the foot of Yukun Mountain, many people had already gathered densely under the mountain. Di Yun saw from a distance that at the entrance to the mountain below, there were two Taoists who were handing out something to everyone. After they approached, they learned through inquiries with people nearby that there were two kinds of assessments for this Jade Kun Menna disciple. The first is the assessment of the level of cultivation. All those who attend the Natu assembly are divided into ten groups, and each group has a Taoist leader to test. Only those who have cultivated to be above the Martial King are eligible to enter the second type of exam. The second type of examination is mainly an examination of the disciple's surname, perseverance, and enlightenment.
In the practice of martial arts, the surname of talent is particularly important. When Di Yun saw this, he felt the difference of this Jade Kun Gate, and he was even more determined to let Huang Shaoliang worship under the Jade Kun Gate. When they came to the entrance to the mountain pass, they lined up in turn. Nangong Feng and his entourage stayed outside except for himself.
Di Yun, Nangong Feng, and Huang Shaoliang got the number plates in turn. Di Yun got No. 7, Nangong Feng was No. 2, and Huang Shaoliang was No. 9, which means that the three of them will pass their different assessment paths. After a simple encouragement and greetings, the three of them walked on the examination channel to which their license plates belonged.
Di Yun stepped into the passage with the word Qi written on it, and after the passage was finished, there was a simple room in front of him. Di Yun looked at it and walked in, only to see that there were no furnishings inside, but there was a wooden Tai Chi Bagua diagram on the right case, and behind the case there was a Taoist sitting behind.
Seeing Di Yun coming in, the man snorted from his nose: "Inject your strength into this Taiji diagram." After absorbing the strength, this Taiji diagram will present seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple, corresponding to the seven realms of samurai, martial master, martial king, martial sect, martial honor, martial emperor, and martial monarch. After the energy is injected, the color reaches yellow, which means that the cultivation has reached the realm of the Martial King, which means that the exam has passed. Got it."
Di Yun looked at this Taiji diagram, and after a little thought, he already understood. Of the nine cultivation realms, only seven of them are tested, presumably because of the material of the Bagua diagram itself, or out of respect for the strong. The people of the Martial Monarch and the Earth Immortal Realm have no way to pass this gossip map for testing.
The Daoist saw Di Yun standing still, and urged: "That stinky boy, hurry up, there are still many people behind! Delay Dao Ye's time, see if I don't clean you up!"
Di Yun shook his head and smiled, naturally he wouldn't bother with him, so he walked forward quickly, pressed his right hand on the Taiji diagram, and injected it with five points of strength, only to see that the Taiji diagram was shining at the moment when Di Yun's strength was injected, from red to orange, and then to yellow. Di Yun waited until the yellow was about to turn green, and quietly gathered his strength, and the Taiji Diagram stabilized in dark yellow.
Seeing this, the Dao Chang stretched out his hand and touched his mustache, nodded and said, "Yes, yes, it turned out to be a high-level martial king, you are young, and your cultivation is not low." Go in, pass the second exam, and you will be my junior brother. ”
Di Yun was stunned, it turned out that these two exams were connected. Following the direction of this Taoist finger, Di Yun saw that a hole had opened in the wall he was facing when he just came in, and it was eerie and difficult to see. Under the urging of the Taoist, Di Yun had no choice but to enter it.
After Di Yun entered, he suddenly found that this place was familiar, this is, this is the Seven Bitter Paths. The stone pier and the waterhole were almost exactly the same as they had seen in the ruins. There was a piece of cotton silk on the stone pier at the door, Di Yun picked it up and looked at it, it turned out that the content of this second level of the exam was not only very similar to the Seven Bitter Paths, but also the content of the exam was exactly the same.
There are seven stone piers in front, as long as you can complete three of them, then you have reached the qualification to enter the Yukun Sect and automatically become a disciple of the inner gate. Di Yun couldn't help crying and laughing when he held this piece of cotton silk. I heard that the Daomen in the world are one family, but I didn't expect that the Daomen in the world are also the same, and even the methods of the examiners are so similar.
For this kind of exam, Di Yun naturally doesn't care too much. He took the first step, only to find that although the content and format of the exam were basically the same, the difficulty was different. The scenes and stories of his own trials on the road of seven hardships are quite realistic, and it is very easy for people to get lost in them. But the scene in this stone mound is a little blurry, and the degree of deterrence to the mind is not so terrifying.
There is naturally a reason for Di Yun's cultivation, but the more important reason is that the test here is only a copycat version of the Seven Bitter Paths, and its power is naturally incomparable. Otherwise, it wouldn't be placed here just as an exam item for introductory disciples.
Di Yun stood on this stone pier, his mood did not waver for half a minute, but after waiting for a while, he walked towards the second, and after a short time he walked to the third. After the four stone piers of birth, old age, sickness and death were finished, Di Yun did not go to the fifth stone pier, but jumped straight into the water.
Wet up the steps, Di Yun turned around and walked out of the cave. After the Dao man saw Di Yun come out, his face was full of smiles, and he was completely different from the indifference when he first came in: "Hehe, junior brother, when I came in just now, I saw that you were extraordinary and your bones were strange." You will definitely pass the exam. As I expected......"
Di Yun waved his hand angrily, interrupted him, and said to the future senior brother, "May I ask this, this senior brother, where should I go next?"
Seeing Di Yun's expression, the Dao man scratched his head in embarrassment, and said with a smile: "After you go out, turn right, and then go up the steps to our Qianshan Square, where someone will read out the list of admitted people in a while." ”
Di Yun nodded, thanked him, and went straight out of the door to the square.
Just when Di Yun had just started the exam, in the Taiqing Hall on the mountain behind the Yukun Gate, two Taoists were sitting opposite each other and playing chess. One of them had white hair and faintly fluttering like a fairy, while the other was disheveled and sloppy, which was the nameless old man Di Yun met on the road.
The beard and hair are all white, and this is the current master of Yukunmen, too innocent. It is rumored that the Taiqing Zhenren has cultivated for more than 400 years, not only is he highly virtuous, but his cultivation has already broken through the threshold of the martial saint, but for more than 100 years, for some reason, he has not advanced to the earth immortal.
And opposite him is the little junior brother of the Tai Qing Zhenren, the Taoist Xiaoyao Zhenren. Xiaoyao has been stubborn since he was a child, and he does not want to make progress. was given the name of the Tao by his master, and it also has the meaning of laissez-faire. I don't want to be carefree to witness the great changes in the master's family, the surname is converged, and the Taoist cultivation is advancing by leaps and bounds, and it has broken through the threshold of the martial saint in just a hundred years, and it has stepped into the realm of the first level of the martial saint more than ten years ago, which can be called a great miracle under the Yukun sect.
"Senior brother, this son named Di Yun, looking at his internal strength, there is a faint shadow of the Dayou Di family. If we take it in, I'm afraid we will completely offend Emperor Ming......"
Xiaoyao Zhenren glanced at his senior brother and said cautiously: "Senior brother, I have something about Senior Sister Taiwei here......"
"Bang ......" The chess pieces in the hands of the Tai Qing Zhenren instantly turned into ashes, even with his hundreds of years of cultivation, when he heard this sentence at first glance, he was shocked......
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