Yangzhou.

At the foot of Yuqing Mountain, away from Yuanguan Academy.

"Guarding the Tao and benevolence, and recovering Taihe. Zhicheng Xuan Yudian, Zhongzheng plays Jinke...... "An old Taoist in a Taoist uniform with a white beard sat in front of the hall, looking at the disciple reading aloud in front of him, and couldn't help but stroke his beard with satisfaction. Suddenly, he saw that among all the disciples, there was only one person sitting on the ground, bowing his head and flipping through the "Shangqing Scroll", and did not read it with others.

"Chen Yuan, do you want to read with others?" The old Taoist asked, which made the original full of reading sound stagnate, and everyone's eyes also gathered on Chen Yuan with the old Tao's question.

"Isn't this that fool Chen Yuan?"

"How?"

"Don't you know, it's the fool Chen Yuan who has to memorize even a page of the clear scroll for a month......"

"Won't it?"

The disciples were discussing, and from time to time some evil words came into Chen Yuan's ears. But Chen Yuan completely ignored the non-words of others, slowly closed the "Shangqing Scroll" in his hand, stood up, bowed to the old way, and said without humility: "Teacher, I have memorized all the numbers I sent to the school. ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall immediately burst into laughter, among the people, there may be disciples who have just come who don't know Chen Yuan, but under hearsay, they all understand that Chen Yuan is a stupid disciple who has to memorize even a page of a scroll for more than a month, how can he memorize the Yuqing faction number that the old Taoist just said?

The Yuqing faction is one of the great factions in the world, has been standing in Yangzhou, after thousands of years without falling, countless young talents squeeze their heads and want to enter this faction, although the old Taoist is only a lecturer in the outer courtyard of the Yuqing faction, but he has also seen a lot of geniuses in the faction, but no one is as arrogant as the young man in front of him. What's more, Lao Dao had also heard that this Chen Yuan was actually a stupid disciple, and it was impossible for him to memorize the number in such a short period of time. Therefore, I made up my mind that this was Chen Yuan's excuse.

"Since you keep saying that you are familiar with all the legends of my Yuqing faction, then let me ask you, which sentence is behind this 'Zhicheng Xuan Yudian, Zhongzheng Yan Jinke'?"

After hearing this, Chen Yuan thought without frowning, and blurted out: "This 'Zhicheng Xuanyudian, Zhongzheng Yanjinke' is naturally followed by 'Chong Han Tong Xuanyuan, Gao Hongding Daluo. This sentence. Before everyone could show a look of surprise, Chen Yuan continued: "I sent a messenger from the first sentence to start with 'Guarding the Tao and Benevolence, and Returning the Truth to Taihe.'" Zhicheng Xuanyudian, Zhongzheng plays Jinke. Chong Han Tong Xuanyuan, Gao Hongding Daluo. The three mountains promote the wonderful law, and the four seas surge the waves. These four words were established by Zhang Daocheng, the patriarch of my Yuqing faction, and they have remained unchanged for thousands of years, how can I not keep them in mind every day as a disciple of the Yuqing faction to show my sincerity?"

The so-called transmission number, is the faction to the disciples to take the name of the Tao, after the surname to add a word or replace a word, from the first generation of disciples have been used, such as, the first generation of disciples common name Zhang Dasan, then take its Taoist name Zhang Shousan, its disciples can be called Li Daosi and so on, generally speaking, the level of the name of the Tao determines the level of the generation in the faction, but the name of the Tao is not immutable, when the disciples in the sect have made great contributions, the sect will give a higher number of the Dao, in order to show honor. Of course, not all disciples have a Dao name, and there are countless disciples from the outer courtyard like Chen Yuan, so naturally there is no Dao name.

When Lao Dao heard this, he opened his mouth in surprise, trying to pick out some wrong words from it, but Chen Yuan's words were good, which made Lao Dao speechless, so he had to sigh and secretly put down the ring ruler in his hand.

"Bell ~ Bell ~" There was a long bell outside the courtyard, apparently the end of the morning class. Chen Yuan also ignored the surprise of others, walked straight out of the academy, and arrived at the thatched hut where he lived.

Liyuanguan had a courtyard for his disciples to live in, but the disciples who lived with Chen Yuan thought that Chen Yuan was stupid and sluggish, and they were in the way, so they teamed up to drive Chen Yuan out at that time, and Chen Yuan had no choice but to live in an abandoned thatched hut at the foot of the mountain for the time being. However, for Chen Yuan today, living in this thatched hut that no one prying eyes on is a good thing.

Although the hut is simple, it is still enough to shelter from the wind and rain. Chen Yuan entered the hut, closed the door casually, and sat cross-legged on the bed. took out the "Supernatant Volume" he had just brought and looked at it, but after only turning a few pages, Chen Yuan had to hold his head with his hands.

"Alas!"

Chen Yuan sighed, with his qualifications, he just read a few pages of the Shangqing scroll, and he had a headache and couldn't stand it...... Thinking of this, Chen Yuan subconsciously held a jade bead with a crystal moist body from his arms and rubbed it gently, and suddenly, a cool meaning came from the jade bead, making the consciousness that had become irritable gradually calm down, and Chen Yuan's eyes also became clear. When he looked at the Shangqing scroll again, the originally obscure sentences in it became clear and clear, and the pages that he turned one after another were deeply imprinted in Chen Yuan's mind.

Chen Yuan played with the jade beads, and couldn't help but recall that a month ago, a bright light flashed in the sky of Yuqing Mountain, and then fell into the back mountain. Chen Yuan walked up again to take a closer look, and found that there was a jade bead embedded in the meteorite, emitting a crystal light, and he couldn't resist curiosity, Chen Yuan went up and picked off the jade bead, pinched it in his hand and examined it carefully. Who would have thought that a stream of air suddenly came out of this jade bead, rushing straight towards Chen Yuan's head, and the fragments flashed, Chen Yuan suddenly had a headache and fell to the spot. When he woke up again, it was already dark all around, and the jade bead in his hand had become dim.

During that time, Chen Yuan seemed to have a very real dream, in that dream, Chen Yuan was an executive of a company, dealing with a large number of documents all day long, and the work of three points and one line dragged down Chen Yuan's body, and finally, on a quiet night, Chen Yuan died suddenly in front of the computer screen in his office.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan couldn't help but fall into deep thought, who was he? Was the Chen Yuan in the dream himself in his previous life, or was another Chen Yuan taking away himself?

There was a burst of coolness from the jade bead in his hand, looking at the Shangqing scroll on his lap, Chen Yuan couldn't help but smile, no matter what, he was no longer his former self, so why not abandon his troubles and concentrate on the Tao?

Thinking about it like this, Chen Yuan felt a burst of relief in his heart, and the two memories were perfectly fused together, and there were no longer obstacles.

However, Chen Yuan thought of another question.

Chen Yuan was born in a wealthy family, and his family was superior since he was a child, and he had no worries about food and clothing, but the secular dynasty stipulated that businessmen were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, which means that Chen Yuan was not allowed to enter the official career in the future, and could only become a Jia merchant like his father Chen Yumin, and continue from generation to generation. However, his father Chen Yumin was not reconciled to this, and wanted his son to get ahead, so he spent most of the family wealth to send his son to the outer courtyard of Yuqingguan, hoping that one day his son would be favored by the immortal master and enter the immortal path.

But the original Chen Yuan's qualifications were really not very good, and it took several days to read the basic books, not to mention that there was no cultivation method in the outer courtyard at all, only some old Taoists taught them some rules of the Yuqing School and some information about cultivation, and the real cultivation exercises were only available in the inner courtyard. So since he was sent to Liyuan Guan at the age of twelve, it has been four years, and Chen Yuan has basically learned nothing except chopping wood and boiling water, rote memorization.

'Pleasant and guarded form, nourish form and refine refinement, accumulate refinement and transform qi, refine qi into a foundation, build a foundation for Dan, and the avenue can ......be expected' Looking at the description of cultivation in the Shangqing scroll, Chen Yuan couldn't help but fall into a reverie, he had learned from the old Taoist that cultivation can be divided into these realms, namely opening the pulse, practicing qi, building the foundation, Jindan, Yuanying, transforming the gods, cave void, crossing the tribulation and other realms, as for what is above the tribulation, the old Tao who answered his question at the beginning only had a disdainful word:" That's already soaring to the upper realm, is it possible, can you still cultivate to that realm?"

Chen Yuan came back to his senses, carefully tasted the experience of the past four years, and found that he was really too stupid before, and several old Taoists coaxed the stupid Chen Yuan to read those books that were not half useful. In fact, if he wanted to enter the inner courtyard to learn the exercises, Chen Yuan could only think of two ways. The first is to get a ranking in the annual outer court examination, and you will be recommended by the old Taoist in Guanzhong to enter the inner court. Chen Yuan thought that the last time the outer court exam was just three months ago, Chen Yuan was still a stupid one at that time, and the natural results were also the existence of the crane tail in the view, and the next big exam will have to wait until next year, which is obviously impossible, you know, the best age to open the pulse is between the ages of twelve and eighteen, after the age of eighteen, the meridians in the body are formed, it is difficult to open the pulse again, and Chen Yuan can't afford to spend a year, so the first method is absolutely not feasible.

The second type, and the most difficult one, among the disciples of the outer courtyard, as long as you can climb the Dao Cliff on the other side of Yuqing Mountain, climb to the top of the cliff from the bottom of the cliff, and ring the Dao Bell, the people in the inner courtyard of Yuqing will hear it, and someone will naturally pick you up. Of course, it is very difficult to climb the Askist Cliff, and if you are not careful, you will fall down and break your bones, so that in these decades, no one has even entered the inner door in this way. However, at this moment, Chen Yuan could only enter the inner courtyard and obtain the cultivation method through this method.

Chen Yuan clenched his hands, although he was successful in his previous life, it was not the life he wanted to live after all, he finally came here, and when he saw the legendary cultivator here, he couldn't help but yearn for it...... In any case, I will enter the inner court!