Chapter 20: First Acquaintance with Cultivation
On the second day, Li Ji got up early, swordsmanship, breathing and breathing did not relax, whether he could cultivate the truth or not, he couldn't lose his old skills.
I no longer go to the streets and alleys of Xichang to find that food, go directly to the inn too early, ask the direction and go straight to Jibei Street, Xichang is huge, and I walked for nearly an hour before I found a very recognizable Taoist palace in Xiao Erkou - a tall four-story wooden building, not gorgeous, but extraordinarily heavy, the wooden building does not have any logo, but Li Ji knows that it is here, Dao Yun is a very ethereal thing, he feels it, as if he was once around the Taoist people.
There were no imaginary guards, and they were heavily guarded, and there was only an old man at the door sweeping the floor and sprinkling water. The door is open, as if it does not refuse customers, and the occasional passerby passes by far away, in a very respectful manner.
Li Ji was bold, and his worship of authority from his previous life was also limited, so after hesitating for a while, he stepped forward, until he walked into the door, and the old man didn't care, so he put his mind at ease.
The wooden building is not decorated, it is all the original wood, I thought that there are countless twists and turns in the corridor spiral staircase, but I found that there is only one middle hall, a case in the hall, a woman behind the case, holding a book in her hand. There was no one else in the building except this woman, simple and empty, but it gave him an invisible pressure.
Li Ji straightened his sleeves slightly, walked over and took a deep look, "I'm disturbing the immortal... He really didn't know what to call the person in front of him, Daoyou, Dao Chief, Dao Gu, didn't seem to be appropriate.
The woman didn't get up, only a round out of the corner of her eye, Li Ji felt a pressure rushing to her face, slightly in the middle of the line, and her mouth became more and more cautious and respectful, "I came from the south, I heard that there is a Taoist palace in the city that is unique to the world, so I took the liberty to come here, dare to ask where is the way?"
"If you have children in the family, you can send them to the Daogong for surveying, and if you meet the conditions, you can enter the Daogong to study after paying the full fee. The woman's voice was cold.
"I haven't married yet, and I have no children, and I admire the immortals, but I am in the next person... Before he finished speaking, he saw the woman's eyebrows raised, "Ignorant people, frogs at the bottom of the well, all mortal bodies, dare to say that they yearn for the road, at your age, are you here to entertain me?" "It's another one who wants to cultivate immortals and wants to go crazy... ”
"At such an age, I really dare to think about it, fortunately, it has been the Yun Fairy sitting in the hall recently, if you change to a few other immortals, this person is only afraid that he will suffer a big loss... ”
"Look at his outfit, he must not be a local native, haha, this foreign hillbilly, but there are always a few people who come to hit the south wall every month... The people around him pointed out one after another, and they looked very happy.
It was really inexplicable, Li Ji was furious in his heart, but he also knew that there was no time to make here, it seemed that the difference between immortals and mortals was not as kind as every cultivator was like the Fa. Leaving in a huff, You was unwilling, and went around the wooden building again, and suddenly moved in his heart, and found a teahouse near the wooden building to sit down, his eyes only staring at the Dao Palace. He didn't necessarily have to gain something here, the most important thing was that he wanted to know something about the path of cultivation, but he didn't think that Kun Dao wouldn't even give him the opportunity to ask.
After a while, someone walked out of the wooden building, it was the old man who had been sweeping the floor at the door before, still carrying a bamboo basket in his hand, as if he was going out to buy. Li Ji hurriedly left the teahouse, followed from a distance, and hurried up when he turned the corner, "Old gentleman, please stay, the boy is polite... ”
"What is stopping me in this future life? The old man glanced at Li Ji suspiciously.
"Hehe, although I don't know the old gentleman, but I hit it off at first sight, why don't you find a place to have a drink, I don't know if the old gentleman is convenient?"
Checking the silver ingot in his hand, the old man smiled deeper with the folds on his face, even if he was working in the Dao Palace, low-level handymen like them still couldn't get rid of poverty, even in a city like Xichang, ten taels of silver was enough for half a year's expenses for a family, "I'm sorry for you, I guess Gongzi you want to ask about the Taoist Palace, right? This is not difficult, you don't have to drink a lot, I still have to buy ingredients, just ask here, I can tell the little old man of the son that he will never hide his selfishness... ”
The lie in his mouth was exposed, and Li Ji's face remained unchanged, "That's the case, a certain person has been to the Tao since he was a child, he has no chance, and he has the heart to enter the Taoist palace to study, and before he said a few words, he was driven out by the Taoist inside, but I don't know why?"
"Hahaha, you are also lucky in the next life, this month is the cloud fairy who sits in the Dao Palace, compassion is in the heart, and the body is a mortal, if you change the Dao Chief, you may not be able to come out, really when the gate of the Dao Palace is always open, you can enter and exit casually?" The old man laughed and said, "Why did I drive you, but there are two reasons, one is that you are too old and does not meet the standards of the Dao Palace, and the other is that our Xichang Dao Palace only accepts female disciples, not young men... ”
Li Ji was embarrassed, no wonder the woman had a bad attitude, and she didn't listen to him explain, it turned out that her conditions were really not a little worse, "Please also ask the old gentleman to explain it clearly... ”
"Xichang City Dao Palace, only accept 13 to 15-year-old girls, if they are too young, their minds are not completed, and they are not easy to control, and if they are too old, they have already become roots, and they have lost the opportunity to cultivate. As for why only girls are accepted, the reason is very simple, a radius of thousands of miles, the closest Daxian faction to my Xichang is the Qixia faction, and the faction is Kundao, of course, you can only accept girls. . . ”
Li Ji nodded, he didn't have enough knowledge and information, so he came to the door, but he made a big mistake, "Dare to ask the old man, this palace is in the city, I don't know what rules there are? Do all the residents of the city have the opportunity to enter the palace to seek the Tao? The Qixia faction only accepts female disciples, what should those boys do?
"Hmph, you can enter the Tao? Xichang City has always been protected by the Qixia faction, of course, the Daoist Palace in the city is only for the Qixia faction network qualified disciples, in fact, not only Xichang, other places in the continent and land have good qualifications of girls Qi Xia is also accepted, three years of Dao Palace study, where is the tariff of thirty taels of gold per Chinese New Year's Eve that ordinary people can afford? Even the average big family is also painful, only the nobles in the city, the wealthy businessmen can provide for one, two... The old man smacked his lips, "As for the boy, Qi Xia doesn't accept it, other big city Dao Palaces accept it, there are countless Dao sects in the Northern Regions, after all, there are far more dry roads than Kun Dao... But Childe, you still don't have to bother with that effort.,It's useless.。。。 ”
Thirty taels of gold every Chinese New Year's Eve, nearly one hundred taels in three years, or ten thousand taels of silver, this price is really terrifying, it seems that the so-called Tao does not hinder people who are destined to be just talking, the so-called poor and rich martial arts, but this path of cultivation is much higher than the threshold of rich martial arts, "Then, after three years of study, can every schoolchild enter the cultivation truth?"
"How can there be such a good thing," the old man shook his head, "Taking Xichang as an example, there are hundreds of schoolchildren in the Dao Palace all the year round, and the Qixia faction opens a faction to accept apprentices once every three years, and only selects dozens of them with the best qualifications, so that they can have the opportunity to enter the blessed land to feel the qi and psychic, and those who can finally sense the qi psychic have never exceeded ten for hundreds of years... “
Ten years is not more than ten, that is, no more than three per year, this probability, Li Ji shook his head, this palace is really a good deal, just like grabbing money, everyone is still flocking to it, this is the charm of immortality.
Li Ji pulled the old man and asked the east and west, and the old man who asked directly began to be impatient, and only stopped when there was no more answer. After the old man left, Li Ji found a secluded teahouse, carefully sorted out today's gains, and made the following judgments...