Ye Xing decided to go to the second predetermined location, which was the Confucian Temple in Sage Ridge outside the east gate of Pingyuan City.

As the greatest scholar since the Song Dynasty, the Confucian Temple was named the Holy Teacher, the place where the first generation of national teachers of the Song Kingdom gave lectures, and it is indeed a sacred place of humanities.

At that time, the holy master advocated that the people should have the right to have a free surname, and in the past, only nobles had surnames, so the commoners of the Song Kingdom had their own surnames.

The Holy Master also allowed anyone to enjoy the right to cultural education, which created the splendid culture of the Song Kingdom, so the Holy Master was also the humanistic saint ancestor of the Song Kingdom.

Ye Xing is actually interested in these monuments, but the two women are different, and the two women are resolutely determined that it is necessary to visit them.

The Temple of Literature is outside the city, and the guards have never been there, and they also want to go there, and they all want to get a little bit of culture.

Five people stayed outside the big boat, and twenty-eight people separated, and those who went to play separately before and after.

The Confucian Temple is on the Dongshan Ridge outside the city, in fact, it is a hill that is not high, a bluestone road zigzags upward, it is estimated that it is one hundred and ten zhang high, and the bamboo forest is beside the slender road, which is very quiet.

Up to the top of the mountain, an old but very small building, at the end of the road, is actually a very ordinary brick and wood house, which is the Temple of Literature.

Sure enough, there is a fairy spirit, a hill that is not tall and ordinary, because celebrities once lived, it became a holy place.

The top of the hill is very flat, there is only one Confucian temple building, and there is only one old man taking care of it, but there are many, many stone monuments around.

Ye Xing and the others did not immediately enter the Temple of Literature, but first read the words of the stone tablet outside the house, and found that they were all words of praise to the Holy Master by later generations.

There are all kinds of eulogies for the ages, and they are all eulogies of famous people of the time, and if you look closely, it is a written history book.

In the end, everyone came to the Temple of Literature, the sculpture of the Holy Master is very expressive, and it is a metal statue, which has never been damaged, it is extremely complete, it is not gold or silver, and it is not made of metal.

The appearance of the Holy Master is an extremely elegant and handsome middle-aged man, pointing in front of him, holding a book in the other hand, looking ahead, not realistic, but a freehand sculpture, the lines are extremely rough, powerful, and expressive.

The walls of the house are also covered with all kinds of calligraphy and paintings, some of which are quite old, many of which have turned yellow, but they are quite well preserved.

Because the group was all his own people, Ye Xing let go of his divine sense and scanned it comprehensively.

Ye Xing vaguely had a special feeling, there was a lot of aura here, that is, the respect of countless people, the solemnity of countless years of accumulation, and the kind of aura that he was extremely familiar with.

It was the Earth Spiritual Qi, and others didn't react, because there were very few people with the Earth Spirit Root, and those who could cultivate the Earth Spiritual Method were even rarer.

Sensing that the aura came from the pedestal of the sculpture of the Holy Ancestor, Ye Xing stepped forward to take a closer look, and it was even more obvious.

Ye Xing found that the guardian old man did not follow up, so he squatted down to take a closer look, and found that there were many lines engraved on each side of the square pedestal.

Others may not understand, but Ye Xing immediately knew that this was a kind of magic circle in ancient times.

Ye Xing wanted to record this magic circle, took out the pen and paper from the space ring, and immediately rubbed it down.

When everyone saw Ye Xing's movements and knew that he had made a discovery, they surrounded Ye Xing and deliberately chatted loudly, covering all of Ye Xing's movements, so Ye Xing's small movements, and the old man guarding the temple didn't pay attention to them at all.

Ye Xing repeatedly rubbed the pattern of this magic circle and carefully rubbed several copies before he was satisfied, and also compared the rubbing with the original map in detail to confirm that it was completely consistent.

After doing all this, Ye Xing stood up to observe the sculpture and found that the book in the sculpture hand of the Holy Ancestor was still a real book.

It was a metal book, but the color was too dark, thinking it was part of the sculpture, Ye Xing's fingers moved, only to find that the book could be moved.

Ye Xing unceremoniously took down the book, and sure enough, it was a golden book, there were several pages in it, and he couldn't read the words on it clearly, so he put it into the space ring without pause.

Then, everyone chatted for a while before slowly leaving.

And the old man guarding the temple didn't notice the drooping statue of the Holy Master, and the book in his hand was missing.

Returning to the boat, Ye Xing ordered to set sail immediately, and the destination was Taihua Mountain, which was four hundred miles away from Pingyuan City in the upper reaches of the Song River.

Because it was a bit noisy to start the steam power, Ye Xing only let the sail be used, and took advantage of the fact that the wind direction changed a little in the afternoon, adjusted the sail direction, and the big ship left the dock gently.

Ye Xing and the three of them checked the metal book on the deck, the cover and the inner pages were made of an unknown metal, but the cover was thicker, and the inner pages were much thinner.

At a glance, I thought it was just a book, but it wasn't actually a book, but Ye Xing's hand was extremely sensitive, and when he touched the cover, he had already found that there were words, which were very shallow dents, but they were all black.

Under the sun, Ye Xing took out a knife and gently scraped off the black paint on the cover, there were a few relatively large ancient characters, which were a variant of the text of the previous dynasty, some distorted writing, and now Ye Xing can understand it, and the words on it are "Taixu Imperial Spiritual Formula".

Then Ye Xing scraped off all the black paint on the inner pages of about a dozen pages, and finally revealed the full face of this metal book.

In fact, the cover has been engraved with small characters, but the black paint covers all the words, and then each page is engraved with small characters on both sides, all of which add up to more than a dozen pages of a book, and there are thirty sides on both sides of a page, but the words are particularly small.

The three of them took a rough look at the words engraved with needles on the cover of this book, and knew that this was the secret method of the inheritance of a sect called Taixu Sect in ancient times.

According to the introduction on the cover, it should be owned by a powerful sect in the ancient world, and its exercises have been recorded, from Qi refining to Yuanying's exercises at all levels.

From the introduction of the general outline of the exercises, Ye Xing knew that the class behind the refining of qi. According to reports, it is divided into five stages: the gas refining period, the foundation building period, the Jindan period, the Yuan infant period, and the transformation period, each stage has nine layers, and theoretically a total of 45 layers. Each layer is a 100-fold gap in cultivation from the previous layer, not only the gap in the capacity of true qi, but also the gap between spirit and supernatural powers.

The difference between life and death is the difference between the higher and lower levels, that is, there is also the difference between the high and low levels of the same level, that is, the difference between the advantages and disadvantages of the exercises at the same level, and the distinction between supernatural powers, skills, and skills.

Therefore, cultivators generally do not fight, and a conflict is a situation of life and death, and it is precisely because of a slight gap that life and death are divided.

Cultivators pursue immortality, so they are more life-sparing, and they are more reluctant to get involved in various conflicts, and in the cognition of cultivators, everything in the world is just the survival life of ants.

The general outline of "Taixu Imperial Spiritual Formula" mentions that people at the peak of the Qi refining period can live for more than 200 years, the peak of the foundation building period can live for more than 500 years, the Jindan period is 700 years old, and the Yuan Infant period is a thousand years old, and when it comes to the god transformation period, it is a real land immortal, and ten thousand years is also possible.

To cultivate truth is to cultivate life, to cultivate destiny, to change the destiny of heaven with one's own cultivation, in order to seek immortality.

Although people in the god transformation stage will also die, compared to ordinary people, it is really an infinite life.

What you need for cultivation is immortal roots, exercises, and resources, all of which are indispensable.

The key to the early stage of cultivation is resources, and the core of the middle stage is the exercises, and the higher you go, the more you go to the top, the immortal root, that is, the personal qualifications, is decisive, and without qualifications, no matter what exercises and resources you have, they will be useless in the end.

The general outline mentions the exercises and pills that are cultivated to the Yuan Infant Period, but after entering the Yuan Infant Period, there is no exercise, relying on one's own enlightenment, understanding the laws of heaven and earth, and finally transcending the laws of heaven and earth is to transform into gods.

The three of them are now familiar with these ancient characters, so the general outline is to the effect that they understand it, and they are all very surprised.

Who doesn't want to live forever? But I also know that this is impossible, but dreams can be had!

Ye Xing said solemnly, "I'll put it away first, and slowly understand all the words before I can start cultivating, otherwise if something goes wrong, our lives will be lost." It must be kept secret, and it must not be revealed, and everyone knows about its crimes. ”

The two girls nodded solemnly, and Qin Xinyue said, "Ye Xing, you have studied it well, and then teach us, we are your disciples!" ”

Ye Xing sighed, and asked the two girls to learn the "Ethereal Spirit Technique" they passed down first, although there were only exercises of the fourth layer of the Qi refining period.

Now the 4th layer is still deduced by Ye Xing based on each person's own situation, and it is not the same as the original exercise, but it is indeed the method of entry, and it is reliable after Ye Xing's repeated tests.

Ye Xing himself continued to cultivate the method of breathing, and he must completely hide his breath, even high-level monks can't see through it, low-key is actually a means of self-protection, and it is also necessary for the survival of cultivation.

Of course, cultivating immortals is also very difficult, but it seems that he finally has a goal.