Chapter 15: The Smoke of the Past
There is no nail in the mountain, and the years are not known.
For monastics, the concept of time is very weak.
Although Wang Yuanze has just crossed into this strange world, on this isolated mountain, there is no need to worry about cars, houses, money, etc., and the beautiful scenery of cultivating immortals has opened another door to a free and immortal life for him, so Wang Yuanze is also addicted to it every day.
Practicing martial arts, reading classics, eating wild fruits, helping to renovate and organize Taoist temples, meditating and cultivating the mind, watching the sunrise and sunset clouds rolling up and shu, accompanied by the breeze, walking with birds and beasts, and slowly having a bit of a hermit style of eating and drinking, almost completely forgetting the bustle of the city, forgetting the hard work of the previous life.
Niu Daoist took the breeze and the bright moon and the four Taoist children were busy every day.
After a period of renovation and arrangement, some parts of the Taoist temple have also begun to change differently.
The barren grass around the Taiyi Hall has been cleared, the masonry on the ground has also been rearranged, and a lot of thorns have been cut off around the places that often come and go and around a few buildings that are still in good condition, and the entire top of the mountain looks neat and clean.
And every day the Taoist priest gets up early to burn incense and meditate to do homework, and the sound of chanting the scriptures and ringing the bell and the smell of incense and candles also make the Taoist temple have some active atmosphere.
And when the cow Taoist priest does this, he will generally bring the four Taoist children, and after a period of time, the four Taoist children have also learned to have some appearance, whether they are walking and meditating, they have a little bit of the demeanor of Taoist disciples.
Time flies in a blink of an eye, the autumn color on the mountain is more intense, many trees in the surrounding mountains all turn red and yellow, and a large number of green pines and cypresses are mixed during the period, and the colors make the whole mountain look more of a full autumn color artistic conception.
The sky is high and wide, and the autumn is crisp, but the temperature on the top of the mountain is getting colder and colder day by day.
And in this month, Wang Yuanze's fists, feet, swords, and kung fu have also grown a lot.
The introductory Tuna Kung Fu finally had a feeling, as if he had touched the fur of Qi training, and felt that there was a faint trace of breath flowing in his body.
And then, as long as you open up the meridians and refine this trace of qi into the sea of qi, you will truly step into the threshold of cultivating true qi.
Daoist Niu felt incredible and excited about Wang Yuanze's progress.
Because he has practiced the introductory exercises of the Qinghe School all his life, he just feels this way.
This also shows that Wang Yuanze is really the character of the ancestor apparition, and his future achievements must be limitless, and the Niu family has respected the training and guarded the Qinghe faction for more than 1,000 years, and finally has a feeling of seeing the clouds and seeing the hardships of the day.
There are three thousand avenues and countless Xuanmen, but only one way to practice qi can live forever.
The exercises of the Qinghe faction belong to the Xuanmen Sect, and they are far from being comparable to the martial arts of some small sects or folk sects, otherwise the Seven Evils of the Green Wilderness would not have waited for ten years for the immortal treasures of the Ancestral Cave.
Even if you practice folk martial arts to the extreme, even if you become a congenital master, it only means that you can fight and resist, but you can't live forever.
This is the biggest difference between the real immortal method and ordinary martial arts.
The so-called innate master is just to force the remaining innate essence in the body into the eight veins of the Qi Jing with a simple method of spitting and refining the body, and cooperate with the operation of the twelve righteous meridians to achieve the effect of washing the hair and cutting the marrow and strengthening the body.
However, the cultivation of immortals is based on the innate essence of the essence, absorbing the vitality from the outside world to supplement itself, so that the strength will continue to increase.
Although the two methods are both cultivated by using the innate essence brought by the human body, the process is completely different, and the results are also incomparable, just like one is using coal for heating and the other is using coal to generate electricity, and the understanding and utilization of energy are not at the same level at all.
Although Niu Daoist can't practice by himself, he still has a little experience in basic cultivation, and in the process of cultivation for more than a month, Wang Yuanze asked if he didn't understand, and Niu Daoist naturally didn't dare to hide his own selfishness, and explained his understanding and experience in detail, which is also the key to Wang Yuanze's touching the threshold in just one month.
There is a big difference between having a teacher and not having a teacher, and the difference between a sect disciple and a Jianghu cultivator is even greater.
At present, although the Qinghe Sect has been broken for thousands of years, after all, the foundation is deep enough, even after a thousand years, the inheritance left by the outer disciple family who guarded the mountain gate is enough to make countless Jianghu giants and peerless masters envious, jealous and hateful.
In the exchange with the Niu Taoist priest, Wang Yuanze also had a general and clear understanding of the past and present lives of the Qinghe faction.
More than 2,000 years ago, the realm of Shenzhou was still a country called Daqin, but suddenly there was a great change in heaven and earth, the mountains and seas were turned upside down, and in order to save the common people of Shenzhou, the patriarch Wuyazi created the Qinghe faction in the Funiu Mountain near Qinghe Town.
As for why the great changes in heaven and earth occurred, Daoist Niu didn't know.
It's just to explain that there is a legend that a god descended into the world, broke out a war of immortals, and then the sky fell apart, and the sun and the moon were gone.
Mankind was almost killed and injured because of this huge catastrophe, and after this catastrophe slowly subsided, the surviving people slowly discovered that the environment they lived in had undergone earth-shaking changes, not only the mountains and rivers had expanded countless times, but also all kinds of legendary demons and monsters began to appear around them.
As human life slowly settles down, re-gathers and multiply, more news begins to circulate, it turns out that the Shenzhou they live in is just a corner of the ancient country called mountains and seas, and the ancient country of mountains and seas is so vast that it is impossible to count, there are four seas inside, and there are eight wildernesses outside, which is thousands of times more than thousands of times larger than the original Great Qin.
As for whether Shenzhou is familiar to Wang Yuanze and refers to the land of China's Shenzhou, and whether the Great Qin Empire is the Qin Dynasty that once swept the six countries in Chinese history to unify China, Niu Daoist does not know, and Wang Yuanze does not know.
When the Qinghe faction was first founded, it was like a banner of the Shenzhou human race after the catastrophe, and the people of the four wild cultivators came to vote, and for a time the Qinghe faction became famous, and soon became the first major immortal sect after Shenzhou returned to the ancient kingdom of mountains and seas, with more than ten elders, hundreds of true disciples, and tens of thousands of outer disciples, and there were some hermits and masters, plus environmental changes caused the vitality of heaven and earth to become abundant, so in just a hundred years, the strength of the Qinghe faction has increased greatly, and the realm of human immortals has reached nearly 100 people, and even some people have begun to break through the realm of immortals, and these masters of cultivation have also invested in the movement to save the common people of Shenzhou, so that the reputation of the Qinghe faction among the people is as radiant as the sun.
It can be said that after the great changes in heaven and earth, the Shenzhou human race was able to quickly gain a foothold in the harsh environment and a large number of unknown diseases and disasters, and regrouped to survive and reproduce, and the Qinghe faction contributed a lot.
But with the return of Shenzhou to the ancient country of mountains and seas, the weak nature of the Shenzhou human race as a whole was soon exposed, and there were also many immortal cultivation sects in the neighboring Mingzhou Yuezhou and the East Wilderness and Xihai, and their strength was countless times stronger than that of Shenzhou, so as foreign immortal cultivators began to enter Shenzhou, the Qinghe faction and some of the immortal sects that were originally hidden in Shenzhou were very weak, and they soon began to be suppressed and dispersed by foreign immortal cultivators, and even many ancient inheritance sects disappeared.
Because the Qinghe faction is the leading faction in Shenzhou, it has been hit and suppressed by the foreign immortal sect the most, and the Qinghe faction quickly declined after a short period of prosperity, and the disciples under the sect are also dead and scattered.
And the patriarch of the Kai faction, Wu Yanzi, was hit at that time, and left the mountain gate to go out.
At that time, Wu Yazi was already a master of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
This kind of cultivation is already a top existence in the Divine Immortal Sect, but compared to the level of foreign immortal cultivation, the gap is too big, and any disciple of any sect or wild cultivator scattered immortal in those places has this level, as for the more powerful, he already disdains to bully the immortal world colleagues in Shenzhou.
Therefore, for the Qinghe faction, which is second to none in Shenzhou, it is natural to usher in ruthless ridicule and ridicule, kicking the mountain gate and smashing the field in an endless stream, and they can't fight and can't escape, so in this aggrieved situation, a large number of humiliated Qinghe faction disciples left, and the entire Shenzhou immortal cultivation world was also a gloomy fog.
Wu Yazi left as soon as he was ruthless.
No news has been heard from this one again.
The second-generation head of the town, Shui Qing, who was left to guard the mountain gate, also disappeared after an outing.
The two patriarchs of the Kai faction disappeared one after another, making the already crumbling Qinghe faction even worse, and the three generations of heads Chen Quan broke through to the true spirit realm through hard work, and got the support of the newly rising Zhongnan Dojo, so that the Qinghe faction was breathing for more than two hundred years again, and later Chen Quanzhen also left the mountain gate after two failed to impact the god realm and went out to look for the two ancestors, and there was no news again.
Three successive generations of leaders have disappeared, and there are fewer and fewer masters, and the Qinghe faction can no longer support it, and soon the tree will fall apart.
Another hundred years later, the Qinghe faction can no longer see the immortals who ride the clouds and mist, and the mountain gate was also destroyed by the immortals who later sought revenge or coveted it, and then later, the Qinghe faction was left with only some outer disciples who were reluctant to take care of the ancestral foundation, this time is more than a thousand years have passed, the pattern of the land of Shenzhou has changed again and again, and the exchanges between Shenzhou and other places in the ancient country of mountains and seas have become more and more frequent, but the Qinghe faction is becoming more and more dilapidated, until it is almost to the point where the inheritance is almost cut off.
And the successive generations of leaders are also getting more and more watery.
When the patriarch of the Kai sect Wu Yazi founded the Qinghe faction, it was only in the Kaiyuan realm, but when he left, it was in the spirit realm, and even if this level was at the bottom of the other immortal cultivation sects in the ancient kingdom of mountains and seas, it was the highest in Shenzhou.
The second-generation patriarch Shui Qingrou was only in the Dan Yuan Realm before he disappeared.
When the third-generation patriarch Chen Quanzhen left, the realm was the highest, and it was already the realm of the combination of gods and spirits, and it was second to none in the entire Shenzhou Immortal Sect, but because of his departure, the Qinghe faction, which had signs of Zhongxing, still did not survive.
But the later head of the house was not good.
The next few generations of leaders still have the inner disciples of the true lineage, but none of them broke through the realm of refining qi and transforming gods, some went out and encountered accidents, some gave up halfway, and two failed to sit in the Danyuan realm.
Later, because of the fight between the inner disciples, some people were killed and some fled, the position of the head changed back and forth, and one person was changed in five years and ten years, after the inner disciples died, the outer disciples also began to be the heads, and their cultivation became worse and worse, and now Wang Yuanze took over as the head of the sect, and he became a mortal who was not even an outer disciple.
The rise, glory, and decline of the Qinghe faction were just a flash in the pan compared to the long history of the ancient kingdom of mountains and seas, which was so long that almost everyone didn't know about it.
And Niu Daoshi, the Shenzhou monks who have never seen the real immortal figures, don't know what other immortal sects are like at all, but just abide by the ancestral teachings and guard this dilapidated mountain gate, hoping that one day the senior ancestors can return and make the Qinghe faction brilliant again.
Wang Yuanze's sudden appearance and rapid progress made Daoist Niu see hope at once.
Therefore, recently, the Qinghe faction has become more energetic and full of confidence in rebuilding.
And just when the Niu Taoist priest was full of confidence and Wang Yuanze also felt that his confidence had increased greatly, the troubles of the big boss also followed.