Chapter Seventy-Four: What Is Practice?
"Hoo ......"
Under the dreamlike starry sky, a white cloud carried the Great Elder and Zhou Fan, flying at great speed, because the speed of the white cloud flying was too fast, there was a strong wind blowing in his face, which made Zhou Fan's cheeks hurt a little.
"Boom ......"
The huge sound of countless waterfalls flowing down on the fairy mountain has been able to reach the ears, the closer to the huge fairy mountain, the majestic, the ancient breath will become more and more intense, a moment later, the white clouds dragged the two to the top of the fairy mountain, and landed in a clearing full of flowers, Zhou Fan raised his eyes and looked around, his eyes reflected a magnificent building, the fairy glow was dense, the sound of the road surrounded, an ancient breath, straight into the sky, and in front of the building there was a huge stone gate, dozens of meters high, on which the shape of countless strange beasts was depicted, There are Golden Crow Day, Demon Ape Xiaotian, etc., and the top is engraved with four big characters 'Xuantian Academy' in ancient seal characters!
"Is this Xuantian Academy......" Zhou Fan licked his lips and muttered.
"Let's go!" The Great Elder didn't reply.
"Yes!" Zhou Fan said respectfully.
As soon as he stepped into the mountain gate with the four big characters of Xuantian Academy, Zhou Fan felt that his toes seemed to touch an invisible barrier, and when he turned his head to ask the Great Elder, he found that his figure had disappeared, Zhou Fan was shocked, and immediately, he found that the foot he took was gone, and then the leg was gone, when Zhou Fan took that step, after stepping into the stone gate, his whole body disappeared in front of the stone gate.
At the same time, on a circular square covered with square stone slabs, a huge stone gate was erected in the center of the square, and if you look closely, this huge stone gate is exactly the same as the stone gate in front of Xuantian Academy on Immortal Mountain, both in terms of height and the strange beasts depicted on it.
At this moment, a ripple suddenly appeared at the bottom of the center of the stone door, and then a foot appeared in the ripple, which looked very strange, and when the sole of the foot stepped on the ground, the ripples at the bottom of the portal expanded, and a figure came out of the ripples.
And the moment he entered this place, Zhou Fan suddenly felt a thick and almost viscous heaven and earth aura rushing towards his face, and his body was immediately shaken and almost overturned.
"This is ......" Sensing the incomparably majestic aura of heaven and earth, Zhou Fan couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"This is a small world opened up by the first dean, and the real Xuantian Academy is located here." The Great Elder who had already come over on the side looked at Zhou Fan, who was confused, and said lightly.
"And who was on the top of the mountain just now?" What kind of strength does this have to be to do this! Zhou Fan was shocked by the strength of the first dean, and asked puzzled.
"Except for the mountain gate, everything else outside is fake, and those buildings are just to keep the mountain gate from looking monotonous." The Grand Elder explained.
Those buildings that exude an ancient atmosphere turned out to be fake, yes, just a foil to the mountain gate! As soon as he came to Xuantian Academy, he refreshed Zhou Fan's cognition of this academy.
The small world behind the portal is extremely vast, even if Zhou Fan urges his eyes with runes, he can't see the edge of this small world.
And just when Zhou Fan was still shocked by this small world, there were three rainbow lights in the sky in the distance, and finally turned into three figures in gray robes.
At the top of the middle was a white-haired old man, with a thin face, but his eyes were focused, and the two people behind him, one holding a white jade ruler, and the other with fiery red hair, were the two teachers of Xuantian Academy who were looking at the Extreme Immortal Tablet with a glass water mirror in the main hall at that time.
At that time, the two of them found that Zhou Fan had punched a nine-colored glow on the Extreme Immortal Tablet, so when they went to report to the elders in the academy, they didn't expect that when they rushed to Xuantian City with the elders, they found that Zhou Fan had already come here, and it was the Great Elder Jun Lintian who brought him.
"I've seen the Great Elder!" The three of them all bowed respectfully to the Great Elder, even the old man.
Don't look at the Great Elder who looks like he is only forty or fifty years old, his real age is already more than eight thousand years old, and although the old man looks old, he is only more than two thousand years old.
"Hmm!" The Great Elder nodded and said, "This is the disciple I just received, Zhou Fan. ”
"What ......"
Hearing this, the three of them were all shocked in their hearts, and they all looked at Zhou Fan on the side in shock.
What is so special about this young man that he can be accepted as an apprentice by the Great Elder! Even if it was a nine-colored glow on the Extreme Immortal Monument, it should be, after all, the Great Elder also said that he knew after learning that the current senior brother of Xuantian Academy had played a nine-colored glow.
The eyes of the three of them kept scanning Zhou Fan, trying to see what was different about this young man, but they didn't find anything special after inspecting it for a long time, which made them even more puzzling.
And when the three of them inspected Zhou Fan, the latter was also observing each other, in his induction, these three people were at least the powerhouses of the palace descending realm, and even the old man in the middle was very likely to be above the palace descending palace.
"It is worthy of Xuantian Academy, the strength of the teachers is so strong!" Zhou Fan thought in his heart.
"Let's go!"
The Great Elder on the side suddenly spoke, and in an instant, with a wave of his hand, a ray of light enveloped Zhou Fan's body, and the two turned into black shadows, disappeared in front of the three teachers, and headed towards the real Xuantian Academy.
Left behind the three who were still in shock.
After a while, the Great Elder took Zhou Fan to appear in the depths of this small world, Zhou Fan stared at it, and saw that the mountains in front of him were clustered together, with clouds and mist, and above the mountains in the clouds and mist, there were palaces, simple and vicissitudes, and there were many figures exuding a powerful atmosphere, flying through the air.
After a while, the Great Elder took Zhou Fan and appeared in front of a palace called Lintian Temple.
"This is my residence, but I don't usually stay here, so you can live here in the future, and if you don't feel popular, you can also go to the cadet area to live." The Great Elder said lightly.
"I think it's nice and quiet." Zhou Fan looked at the Lintian Hall in front of him and said.
"Well, come in!" After the words fell, the Great Elder pushed open the gate of the palace and walked in.
After Zhou Fan entered, he also walked in, the interior of the Lintian Hall is very large, about hundreds of square meters, there are nine huge pillars distributed in the hall, which are inlaid with a lot of glazed crystals, these glazed crystals emit bright light, illuminating the entire hall very brightly.
On both sides of the main hall there are two huge bookshelves standing against the wall, on which thousands of books, bamboo slips, etc. are placed.
The Great Elder walked to the center of the main hall, where there was a futon, and the Great Elder slowly sat on it, raising his eyes to look at the disciple in front of him.
"What do you think practice is?" The Great Elder said suddenly.
Hearing this, Zhou Fan was stunned in his heart, and after a moment of silence, he said solemnly: "I think cultivation is a kind of exploration of the human body. ”
After hearing this, the Great Elder did not make any comments, nor did he say whether Zhou Fan's words were right or wrong, but asked this time, "Then what are you practicing for?" ”
"I don't know!" Zhou Fan thought for a while.
"Hmm!"
"Cultivation, not only the improvement of the realm and strength, but also need to know, what is cultivation, the books on the shelves in this hall, there are a total of thirteen thousand five hundred and eighty-seven volumes, including the use of runes, some miscellaneous notes, and some supernatural powers, etc., from now on, what you have to do is to read all these books, and before you finish reading, you are not allowed to step out of the main hall, understand?" The Great Elder said with a solemn face.
Hearing this, Zhou Fan's eyes widened, and he glanced at the bookshelves on both sides, when did he have to see this!
"After you've finished reading these books, I'll start teaching you to practice officially!" The Grand Elder chuckled.
"Yes!" Zhou Fan bowed and said.
When Zhou Fan raised his head again, the figure of the great elder on the futon had disappeared at some point.
"Hey, what's going on!" Zhou Fan has a dejected way.
Immediately, in the next five days, Zhou Fan did not step out of the Lintian Temple for a single step, and kept reading, fortunately, he had a lot of food reserves in his storage bag, otherwise he would have to starve to death.
In the past five days, Zhou Fan has read more than 3,000 books and bamboo slips, and the knowledge in them has brought Zhou Fan a lot of inspiration, and at the same time, it has also made up for some of his cognition of cultivation.
At this time, Zhou Fan was sitting in front of the bookshelf, holding a piece of beast jerky in his mouth, and watching a book called the origin of supernatural powers in his hand.
Suddenly, on the futon in the center, the figure of the Great Elder slowly appeared without any warning, so Zhou Fan, who was focused on reading, did not notice the appearance of the former at all.
"Ahem!"
The Great Elder coughed lightly.
This sudden cough was so loud in this empty hall that the books in Zhou Fan's hands almost fell.
Zhou Fan hurriedly got up, and after finding out that it was the Great Elder, he hurriedly saluted and shouted, "Master! ”
"How much have you watched?" The Great Elder asked.
"I've read 3,700 volumes!" Zhou Fan replied.
"Well, then let me ask you, what did you discover about the practice from these books?" The Grand Elder asked again.
"Runes are a simplification of the rules of heaven and earth, and cultivation is the control of the rules of heaven and earth." Zhou Fan replied.
"Keep watching!" The Great Elder didn't seem to be very satisfied with Zhou Fan's answer, and after saying a word, he disappeared again.
After another three days, the Great Elder reappeared in the main hall and asked Zhou Fan the same question, and the latter's answer was: "Cultivation is the evolution of life......
It's a pity that this time it still failed to satisfy the Great Elder, and after that, every once in a while, the Great Elder would appear, and every time, Zhou Fan's answer did not meet the Great Elder's expectations.
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed, and the new and old disciples in Xuantian Academy have been enrolled for half a month, but Zhou Fan is still reading in the Lintian Palace.
"Whew, I'm finally done!" Zhou Fan sat cross-legged on the ground and put down the last book in his hand.
"What is practice?"
The voice that would appear every once in a while sounded in Zhou Fan's ears again.
"Cultivation is the cultivation of the mind!"
"Looks like you've finally got it!"