Gui Wuyi continued: "During that time, my father worked harder to sell goods, but he also earned some savings. It's just that all this money was used by him to recruit famous teachers and famous people for me, to travel around the city, to broaden my horizons, and even to eat more than a few brothers on a daily basis. Although I was a little reluctant to go, I was young at the time, and I couldn't resist it, so I just went along with it. I secretly made up my mind in my heart that I must get fame as soon as possible and achieve my father's wishes!"

"When my eldest brother looks at me, I can feel the resentment in his eyes. This is one of his major heart problems. He married the daughter of the Zhao family in Xiuhuafang, and the wedding ceremony was simple. Not only did his sister-in-law have a complaint, but he also felt that he had lost face. In the final analysis, it was naturally my father who favored his young son and used his life savings for me. ”

"In the blink of an eye, a few years have passed, and I am still half a year away from taking the student test. However, at this time, something happened that changed the trajectory of my life. Speaking of which, although Gui Wu's face seems to be as pure as a lake, there seem to be infinite waves under this calmness.

"My father and three brothers went out to buy goods. This time, more than a month later than the agreed time, there is still no return. In the past, if you returned late for some reason, there would be a letter sent to you to settle your family. And this time, there was no news. I was secretly anxious, and I didn't have the heart to review my homework, so I went out every day to find out the news. ”

"Finally, half a month later, I heard the news of a well-informed "Xinglin Residence" in the east of Tai'an City, saying that in recent days, the elite of the Moyu Army in the capital had exterminated a group of thieves. This gang of thieves came from the border of the Daiyu Dynasty in the north, and in recent years they have been committing a series of crimes, robbing travelers between the Daiyu Dynasty and Izumo Kingdom. This gang of thieves was a little restrained in the past, but two or three months ago, they suddenly became unscrupulous, intercepting and killing three teams of merchants in Wulipu, Jiutou Street, and Daqi Town. In the end, the Mo Yu army, which was guarding the capital, was alarmed and suppressed. ”

"When I heard the news, I was shocked. Although I never helped my father take care of his business, I also knew that the place where my family transported goods was Daqi Town, 300 miles north of the city. Immediately hired a fast horse, and galloped north with a mind of seven up and eight down. ”

"It was not until the broken wooden carts, the fallen pack horses, the dark red and black, the bloodstains almost covered by dust, and the broken flags appeared before me, that I put away the one-thousandth-chance of luck and greeted this painful mourning. It is comforting to talk that the father and brother did not have a violent corpse in the wilderness, and were hastily buried on the outskirts of the town by the officers and soldiers who came to suppress the thieves. ”

"In that half a year or so, my father and brother returned to their ancestral hometown, the eldest sister died of illness, my sister-in-law remarried and ran away, and my relatives took away the only remaining wealth, and I also stopped my studies and lived in exile with my eight-year-old sister. It's also strange that many of the events during this period of time have only a general impression, but I can't remember all the details. ”

Wen Jinyuan has been listening quietly, and there is no sadness or joy in his eyes: "The world is like this. Many casual fragments of life are often timeless, and even if time is long, once they are picked up, the scene is like yesterday, and the joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness that have been truly indulged in are locked in the heart once they have passed, as if they have been erased, and can never be repeated. ”

Gui Wuyi continued: "It wasn't until half a year later that my little sister and I fainted in the wilderness of late autumn. When I woke up, I found myself lying on a stone bed. Facing the cyan eaves, covered with a coarse linen quilt, under his head is a hard pine pillow, and not far away is a fireworker Taoist priest who is looking after the fire. The surroundings were empty, but the little sister was nowhere to be seen. ”

"Ask the reason, it turns out that this is a sect of cultivating immortals called "Chongyuan Temple", even in the millions of miles of immortal sects near the Dayu Dynasty, it is only the last stream, and the master of the view is a Taoist named Changqingzi. When I was young, I was bent on fame, and the words of the gods and goddesses have never been vain, but when I saw this evergreen master crane hair and childish face, he walked like flying, and he stepped over the hall as high as seven or eight zhang with a slight jump, and he had to be greatly shaken. ”

"According to Changqingzi Dao Chang, when I was traveling far away, I saw my brother and sister fainting in the wilderness, so I rescued Guanzhong. But I accidentally found out that the two of us have spiritual roots. It's just that since then, my little sister and I have never seen each other again. ”

"I just learned that the cultivation world has a clear hierarchy, except for the direct transmission of the family, such as the five-grade sect and the non-grade small sect, only the disciples of the eighth-rank and ninth-grade spiritual roots can be included. If a disciple with better qualifications is found, he needs to be sent to a higher-level sect. What are the grades of my little sister's spiritual root, and the magic weapon that can only measure the lower three grades of spiritual roots in this Chongyuan view is powerless, at least it must exceed the seventh grade. Just when I was in a coma, this Changqingzi Daoist had already sent her to the Sanpin Upper Sect, the Chiba Gate. ”

The spiritual root is the qualification of the cultivator, and without the spiritual root, it is insulated from the immortal path. In today's cultivation world, the spiritual root is divided into nine grades, and each grade is divided into upper, middle, and lower, which is actually twenty-seven grades.

The higher the grade of the spiritual root, the rarer the number of people becomes. The number of people with a nine-rank spiritual root is ten times more than the sum of those with a first-rank to eighth-grade spiritual root, and so on. Generally speaking, the five-grade spiritual root is already an extremely rare good talent and beauty, and in the vast area west of Baizangzhou, only the first-class sect Minghai Sect is qualified to include the disciples.

"Of course, my little sister's spiritual root qualification must not be above the fourth grade, otherwise I would already be the same as her in the Chongxiao Pavilion. At this time, she was not sure which sect of the first to third rank of Baizangzhou she was in. In this sect, once a disciple is promoted to the true lineage, he is no longer one person, but can carry a surname and a surname. Although I have long since stopped thinking about revitalizing the family, one day I will achieve the true inheritance and find my little sister, which can be regarded as one of the motivations for my painstaking practice for more than ten years. ”

Wen Jinyuan nodded slightly.

Cultivators are not ruthless, there is one person in a family who has a spiritual root, and it is true that the immortal path is different, and it is impossible for the person who embarks on the immortal path to do something for the fame, fortune, glory and wealth of the ordinary people. However, in this life, the responsibilities and feelings of parents, children, husband and wife, and brothers cannot be abandoned at will, and they all need to follow the principles of nature. What's more, since this little sister is responsible for the spiritual root and embarks on the path together, it is even more righteous to support her.

Gui Wuyi continued: "When I heard that my spiritual root qualification was under the eighth grade, I couldn't help but feel gloomy in my heart. Chang Qingzi said, although the eight-rank lower spiritual root is only the twenty-fourth rank, it can actually be regarded as the top tenth. But I knew it was just a reassuring word from him. Just as I was determined to take the imperial examination before, no more than one-tenth of the vast number of scholars could be admitted to the examination, but a mere student is still too far away from the title of the gold list and the glorious lintel. The spiritual root under these eight grades, if you want to say what kind of immortal cultivation avenue you want, it is naturally just a fantasy. ”

"For example, in a small sect like Chongyuanguan, there are dozens of disciples in the Guanzhong, and ninety percent of them are nine-rank spiritual roots, except for the qualification of the master of the Guanzhu Changqingzi Daoist who is the eight-rank spiritual root, there are only two monks who have been in the beginning for twenty or thirty years are the qualifications of the eight-rank spiritual root. And I turned out to be the third person after these two. It's just that these two seniors don't seem to be able to endure the penance in the view, and they have a little bit of true qi two or three levels of cultivation and travel all over the world, and Changqingzi is helpless here. ”

"Therefore, Changqingzi persuaded me to cultivate me as a descendant of the sect. According to him, after decades of hard work, you can get two or three hundred years of life. When the time comes, it's up to me to go and stay. If you stay, you can inherit the mantle of this sect, and once you are lucky enough to have a spiritual cultivation, you can win the status of a five-grade sect, and there will be infinite benefits when the time comes. If you don't want to stay, in the rolling red world, with a little bit of cultivation, you can recruit a monarch, a city lord, and a county guard, and do some secular things such as fasting and Jiao rituals, exorcism and ghost drawing, and looking at the wind and suppressing evil spirits. ”

"I naturally have no interest in inheriting the Chongyuan Concept and impacting the Five Rank Sect. But as he said, if you can have a little bit of cultivation and become a guest of the monarch of a country, it is indeed better than the long road of the imperial examination. So he had no choice, so he became a disciple of Chongyuanguan. Ordinary people are eleven or twelve years old, and their hearts are very poor. And I am probably suffering from the chaos of my close relatives and the collapse of my family, but my mind is quiet and solemn, which is very suitable for the path of cultivation. ”

Just like that, before I knew it, another half a year had passed. Whenever I fell asleep late at night, I always seemed to dream of a two-inch golden fish circling around me. When he raised his hand to catch the goldfish, the goldfish suddenly penetrated through the roof and could no longer be found. I had the same dream for seven days in a row, and I just said that I had made a mistake in my practice, and I didn't care. ”

"On the night of the eighth day, I continued to wake up from a sleep, and I could not settle down. Not long after falling asleep, I suddenly woke up from my dream, only to see that there was indeed a two-inch goldfish, which seemed to be real and not real, and seemed to be illusory, swimming around on his face. ”

I touched my cheek to make sure I wasn't dreaming, and I couldn't help but be startled, and I reached out to catch the goldfish. However, the goldfish was so agile that it suddenly jumped a few feet. At this time, three feet in front of me, I don't know when, a figure appeared. ”

The two-inch goldfish immediately burrowed into this person's sleeve and was never seen again. There was an ethereal and clear voice in my ears: this esophageal spirit fish was sensitive, but it was uncertain, and it was delayed in returning, and it turned out that it had encountered a unique "jade tripod misstep" image, which made Bao Ling confused. ”