Ding Zhengyi began to receive education in family genealogy at the age of eight, until he turned sixteen two months ago and graduated from his own clan studies.

This experience not only allowed him to increase his knowledge, but also learned to empathize with life and cultivation from different aspects, which shows the necessity of ethnology education.

The Ding family's family study is built next to the family ancestral hall in the middle of the spiritual vein, covering an area of three acres, and there are three large houses, the first one is for the initiation education of the disciples in the spiritual vein, the latter one is for cultivating the children with spirit bodies in the family, and the remaining one mainly collects some classics and other miscellaneous items.

In addition to the clan studies of the descendants in the spiritual vein, the various branches of the clansmen who have moved out of the spiritual vein due to the lack of spirit bodies over the years have also built enlightenment schools in their respective gathering areas, and the teaching of enlightenment is carried out by the respected elders of the clan, and all the school-age children of the Ding family must go to the school to receive enlightenment education, and the family provides meals and books and other miscellaneous items needed for learning free of charge.

The initial age of enlightenment education is generally around eight years old, and the first two years of enrollment are spent teaching the common script of the human race in Qingyun Continent and the rules and disciplines that the family must abide by, and the next two years will allow some skilled clansmen in the family to intersperse with some skills necessary for life such as farming, weaving, and forging.

Four years later, after the children are about 12 years old, and their physical development is basically complete, the family will arrange to undergo the test of cultivation qualifications, and the children with spirit bodies will gather in the clan school at the center of the spirit vein to practice exercises and spells, and the children without spirit bodies will mostly serve as apprentices in various family industries according to their own interests.

The total number of thousands of school-age children in each batch of descendants and side branches can detect more than 20 spirits, and there are even fewer of these children with spirits who have four or more spirits.

If there are more than six spirits in the spirit, the whole clan will celebrate with great enthusiasm, and this year's clan sacrifice will be extraordinarily grand. Because children with such qualifications are enough to be sent to the Xuanshan Sect to become inner disciples, inner disciples can enjoy more sect resources, and the family will also try their best to subsidize them, and sufficient resources greatly increase the probability of cultivating to break through to the foundation building period.

Even in the sect, the number of monks in the foundation building period is not very large, and it can be regarded as the core strength of the sect. In a small sect like the Xuanshan Sect, it is enough to serve as a deacon and protect the family for a hundred years.

It's a pity that there are very few opportunities for such qualifications in the history of the Ding family, and it is common to have no such qualifications for hundreds of years, according to the family history, there are only three in total for thousands of years, and the most recent one is Ding Zhengyi's third Bo Ding Zhongdao, who entered the Xuanshan faction more than 30 years ago with the qualification of the seven spiritual knots, and finally succeeded in building the foundation at nearly fifty years, and now serves as the deacon of the outer gate of the Xuanshan faction for several years, sitting in Xuannan Chengfang City.

The prosperity of the Ding family in recent years is inseparable from the care of the third uncle, although the shops that the two families just got in Xuannan Chengfang City can only do some business with low income and high sales, or occasionally sell a small amount of the family's excess production, but they can still bring a lot of cultivation resources to the family every year.

Therefore, the welfare of the reserve disciples of the family is also much more relaxed, and the original subsidy for children with spirit bodies in the clan study of two taels of spiritual rice per day has now increased to half a catty, but don't look at the difference between two taels and half a catty of spiritual rice, it seems that the difference is not big, but in fact, in the early stage of qi training, these gaps are enough to increase the cultivation progress by five layers.

For children with spirit bodies, the initial stage of education in the clan studies is mainly to participate in the practice of enlightenment, and then to teach mantras and other cultivation skills. They are all taught by the family elders in the late stage of Qi cultivation, and the entire learning cycle is four years, with concentrated explanations every morning and individual comprehensions in the afternoon.

There is no other choice for the cultivation of the true practice, a "Qingyuan Decision" is the most classic practice of the cultivation of the foundation of the cultivation of the true world, this exercise is peaceful, the refining of the vitality is deep and smart, and it is famous for the Qingyun Continent with few bottlenecks and fast promotion.

This was originally the core of the Qingyuan Sect, the top sect in the cultivation realm, and thanks to the turmoil in the cultivation realm, it was able to allow this practice of qigong to be widely spread in the Qingyun Continent.

The elders of the family have been immersed in this practice for decades, and the family has been continuously supplementing and accumulating for hundreds of years, and their understanding of this basic practice qigong method is no less than that of those high-level monks of the sect. When teaching the exercises in the family science, they are often able to explain the obscure descriptions to the bottom of the word, and they do their best to hide their selfishness, so that these beginners can understand them more quickly and thoroughly, which is also a slight advantage that the family disciples have in the early stage of cultivation.

With the dual efforts of the family's careful teaching and some free cultivation resources, children with spirit bodies can complete the Qi training and enter the Qi training period.

In Ding Zhengyi's group of spirits, because in addition to him being a five-spirit aperture, there are only two four-spirit apertures, and the others are all qualifications below the three-spirit aperture. Therefore, his cultivation progress is far ahead, eight months of Qi cultivation into the body, a year later into the second layer of Qi training, the fourth year of the clan semester has reached the third level of Qi training, and there are not many other brothers and sisters who can break through the second layer of Qi training after completing the clan study.

It is said that it is enough to be proud of being able to achieve such an achievement when he wastes a lot of time distracted from reading the classics within the clan, at least it is quite a distance from those ordinary disciples of the outer sect of the sect. However, Ding Zhengyi didn't feel that there was anything to be happy about, even if his qualifications were slightly better, it was not enough to open such a big gap.

He knew that a large part of the reason why his cultivation was progressing so fast was because his father had provided him with sufficient cultivation resources over the years, perhaps these resources were not precious, and there were not many pills to assist in cultivation, they were all common spirit valley spirit fruits, but this also almost consumed his father's savings for many years.

Putting aside these annoying feelings, Ding Zhengyi continued to recall the life of ethnology.

After the same group of children had entered the first level of the Qi cultivation period and had sufficient vitality in their bodies, the next thing the family elders focused on teaching was some simple spells.

Although these spells are simple, they require a lot of skills and countless times of practice to fully master, just like the spiritual eye technique used in daily life, which not only involves the difficulties of the divine consciousness in carving the spell mark in the dantian, but also the magic mark is transported to the eye through the veins in the body, and there are many places that need to be coordinated and balanced.

Because the divine sense during the Qi cultivation period is too weak, it is easy to make mistakes when guiding the Yuan Qi to carve the spell mark, and a single mistake will cause the mana mark to collapse as a whole. Even if you can successfully carve the mana mark in the dantian, it is not easy to send out a spell. Because when a complete spell is issued, the spell mark must be continuously operated along a specific line in different veins in the body, and in the process, it is also necessary to constantly bless the vitality into the spell mark.

When different veins are running, different amounts of vitality are blessed, and if you don't bless the power of the vitality blessing spell, it will be insufficient, and if you have more vitality blessing, it may cause the spell to backlash, and the consequences of the backlash will be the cracking of the veins, and the damage to the internal organs will take a lot of time and energy to recover.

Because of these limitations, the spells of the Qi cultivation period are difficult to be used in fierce battles, and the spells of ordinary Qi cultivators can only be used for support or the production of spiritual objects. The cultivation of spells can only be used safely under the guidance of experienced family elders under the guidance of continuous practice, although Ding Zhengyi has practiced diligently in the past few years, but he can only master a few low-level spells such as the Spirit Eye Technique of observing the level of spiritual objects, the Light Body Technique of traveling, the auxiliary Spirit Rain Technique and the Rongmu Technique of Spirit Cultivation.

As for the attack spell, Ding Zhengyi only practiced a fireball technique, and it also needed a few breaths to send it out in a stable environment, and there was no actual combat meaning.

In the last year of the clan study, the family elders will take turns to explain and teach some basic knowledge of refining, talisman making, alchemy, and formation, as the four most important cultivation skills in the cultivation realm, and every aspiring monk can not be proficient but must not be unfamiliar with it.

The Ding family was extremely limited in what they could teach in this regard, not only because each of these great cultivation skills was extremely precious, but also because cultivating these skills required a large amount of cultivation resources and ethereal talents.

Alchemy is the most difficult and expensive of these skills, even the sect can only cultivate a very limited number of alchemists, and the ordinary Xiuzhen family does not dare to think about cultivating their own alchemists, and the Ding family is no exception.

Refining, talismans, and formations are okay, refining talismans is to draw and refine mana imprints in specific spiritual objects, and the formation rules are the embodiment of Taoism nature, and the power of nature can be borrowed by using spiritual objects to build specific imprints in the natural environment.

The spiritual ore required for low-level refining, such as dark iron and refined copper, is not expensive, and if there is a mistake in refining, it can be reused in the furnace. The value of the spirit ink and spirit paper required for low-level talismans is not high, the main material of the spirit ink is the blood of the spirit beast, and the raw materials of the spirit paper are also cultivated in the family's spirit field. Building formations mostly consumes spirit stones, and practicing low-level formations uses low-level spirit stones, and a small number of formation flags can be reused, but the loss is not large.

But the limitation of talent is really not easy to cross, without talent refining tools and talismans, even if you can learn it regardless of the cost of hard work, it is meaningless if you can't make a profit, and the formation has no talent, and even getting started is delusional.

After so many years of accumulation in the family, only two people can refine low-level magic weapons, three people can draw low-level fireball talismans, and only one person can arrange the simplest spirit gathering array, these are not for profit, but for these skills to not be broken in the family.

Therefore, in addition to explaining some basic knowledge of the four major cultivation skills in clan studies, what can actually be taught is to make low-level magic weapons, shake the earth, hoe, draw low-level fireball talismans, and arrange the spirit gathering array.

Because Ding Zhengyi loves to read, he is very yearning for the magic weapons described in the book that can move mountains and cover the sea, the talisman seals that can instantly send out spells without mana, and the formations that can cover dozens of miles to resist the attacks of powerful magic weapons and spells, so he is very interested in these cultivation skills.

Seeing that his cultivation progress far surpassed that of others, and that he was quite focused on learning these skills, the family elders also opened the door to convenience, not only answering all questions, but also providing a lot of spiritual objects for Ding Zhengyi to practice.

With these conveniences, plus reading more books, maybe you should broaden your horizons, know how to think about gains and losses, or maybe you really have a little talent, Ding Zhengyi refiner didn't get started because he didn't spend too much energy in a year, but the success rate of drawing the fireball talisman barely reached one level, and at the same time, the Spirit Gathering Array could also stumble and arrange.

These results are scornful in the sect, but in the Ding family, it is a remarkable achievement, you must know that in addition to Ding Zhengyi, among this group of young monks who have been taught, the others have also discovered a monk with three spiritual skills who can refine a low-level magic weapon shaking the earth hoe.

For this reason, the elders of the family patted their chests and assured Ding Zhengyi that they would definitely ask the patriarch to help him get more rewards when he turned around, so that he could cultivate with peace of mind and improve the level of talisman and formation at the same time.

Ding Zhengyi was also very happy about this, and even wondered how the sales of the talisman seal were, and whether he could earn cultivation resources to maintain his cultivation progress by making talismans.