The Aries Cave is not big, and the one with the highest terrain and a small Taoist temple like an isolated island under the white clouds is only less than a hundred feet high.

Zhang Yi stopped while walking, counted the usefulness of some of the Aries Cave buildings, and said some of the door rules of the Aries Cave, and it only took less than half a stick of incense to the left and right, and the scripture scroll cave, which was extremely important for the door, had already appeared in front of Ding Ning.

Outside the cave is a small and crude stone hall carved out of the mountain, and the only way to enter and exit is a rope bridge that shakes a little in the wind.

The planks of the rope bridge are a little blackened, and even give the impression that they are not very strong.

The uncle who held the sword in Baiyang Cave, Li Daoji, who was chilling in front of the mountain road before, was already standing at the entrance of this rope bridge at this moment.

Zhang Yi stepped forward solemnly, saluted and asked a few words softly.

Li Daoji nodded, and then his cold and majestic gaze fell on Ding Ning's body.

"Cultivation pays attention to birth, purity and less interference, and the mental energy is spent on the perception of oneself and the vitality of heaven and earth, and the cultivation will enter the realm quickly. Therefore, all the cultivation sects are naturally isolated from the outside world. However, there is also a saying about entering the WTO in practice, some people practice in the world, have more understanding, have more encounters, and practice faster into the realm, and no matter how strong the practitioner is, he is also a human being, and he will not be a goldfish raised in the clear water pond, once he enters the turbidity of the big river, he is not very accustomed. The cave master said that you are a special case, but in the final analysis, it still depends on your cultivation and whether you have such qualifications. He looked at Ding Ning and said slowly.

Ding Ning looked at his cold eyes and said, "What Uncle Shi means is that I can go back to Wutongluo, but I must first prove that my cultivation is fast enough?"

Li Daoji frowned slightly, he didn't know how much the wine shop boy had comprehended from what he had just said, but he still nodded and said in a clear voice: "The classics in the scripture scroll cave, you can choose and study by yourself, and then your cultivation place and future practice, the cave master will also make arrangements and adjustments according to your performance these days." ”

Listening to Li Daoji's words, Ding Ning didn't have any special reaction, but Zhang Yi on the side in front of him and Nangong Caishu and several other disciples behind him were once again filled with shock and incomprehension in their hearts.

Although cultivators practice the means of using the true element to invoke the natural enemy's vitality, and in the cultivation of the true element, the principle is the same, but because each practitioner has a different physique and the five qi in the body, the various exercises for cultivating the true yuan left over from countless generations of cultivators are actually very different, and the condensed true yuan will also have some different characteristics.

More extreme examples, such as the True Fire Palace of the Great Yan Dynasty, the True Fire True Technique that only true disciples are qualified to practice, and the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi mobilized by the True Yuan can only turn into terrifying True Fire, while the only female priest of the Great Qin Dynasty is cold on the first night, and the Tianyi Sword Pavilion's Water Separation Divine Technique that she is practicing is a variety of water flows.

The combination of different exercises and sword techniques, as well as other means of invoking the vitality of heaven and earth against the enemy, also has different powers and effects.

Generally speaking, after a disciple has entered the school, the master will teach him according to his aptitude and provide some suggestions based on the potential characteristics of the disciple to help him choose the appropriate exercises and sword techniques to practice.

This selection of cultivation exercises is the first step in crossing the river by touching stones in the dark, and determines the life of a practitioner.

However, now, the Aries Cave is really special to the point of not making any suggestions, and directly letting Ding Ning choose freely.

Until Li Daoji left again and his figure disappeared from everyone's sight, Zhang Yi still couldn't believe that this was true.

However, he naturally would not go against the decision of the cave master who was respected to the extreme on weekdays, so after crossing the rope bridge and taking Ding Ning, Nangong Caishu and others into the stone hall outside the Jingshi Cave, he couldn't help but warn Ding Ning with a bitter face, "Senior brother, there are many True Yuan Decisions in the Jingshi Library, and many of them are very powerful and have their own characteristics, but you must also see if there are any shortcomings in the end, and whether they are suitable for yourself or not, so you must carefully consider it." ”

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The stone door of the Scroll Cave slowly opened, revealing a stone staircase that slowly ascended.

"When you first conducted the annual rotation stone disc test, you took the wrong one out of the five stone beads, was it intentional?"

On the way from entering the mountain gate to entering the scripture scroll cave, Nangong Caishu has been deliberately keeping a distance from Ding Ning, and at this moment and Ding Ning began to enter the cave, Nangong Caishu finally couldn't help it, took two steps, arrived at Ding Ning's side, and asked seriously.

Ding Ning didn't expect that she was still thinking about this question, turned her head and saw her curious and serious eyes, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

"You did it on purpose, just so that everyone could compare and distinguish at once, right?" His smile made Nangong Caishu see something, and her heart couldn't help but be shocked.

"I can take out four very quickly, and of course I can get all five right. Ding Ning glanced at her and said softly, "I just don't want to spend too much time." ”

"You knew from the beginning that you were going to pass that kind of entry test. Hearing his words, Nangong Caishu's brows furrowed deeply, and she looked at Ding Ning suspiciously, "This matter is too weird, because even if you know that you are a genius, it is reasonable to not have such absolute confidence, and then the Aries Cave Master actually gave you such a special case, and let you enter this Jingshi Cave to select the cultivation classics without giving any advice... To be able to pass the test of the annual ring water tray and the jade terracotta warriors at that speed, unless you have practiced with the annual ring water tray and the jade terracotta warriors countless times before, you... You can't be the illegitimate son of the Aries Cave Master, right?"

Ding Ning listened with interest, but when he heard her last inference, he almost fell on the stone steps.

"Miss Nangong, your associations are too rich. ”

He looked at Nangong Caishu, whose eyes were full of suspicion of light flames, and said helplessly: "A person like you who has such a rich associative ability should go to the Heavenly Prison Division to investigate the case in the future." ”

"Are you really just relying on absolute talent?" Nangong Caishu's eyes still had a look of disbelief in her eyes, and she continued while thinking: "But since you can be sure that you have such a talent, why don't you directly participate in the spring examination of each sect?" Everyone in Changling should know very well that except for sects like Minshan Sword Sect and Lingxu Sword Sect, most of the remaining sects have no prerequisites for entering the test, and anyone of the right age can participate, and with your performance today, if there is no cheating component, you can enter a better sect. ”

Ding Ning's heart sank slightly.

This is indeed a flaw that may give rise to suspicion, and there will certainly be people who will have such doubts in the future, and he must give a reasonable explanation.

He frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and said, "Practice... It's not something that everyone can think about, I didn't know at first that I had the potential to become a cultivator, until Fang Xiumu came to see me, until I met Wang Taixu. ”

"Fang Xiu Curtain Fang Embroidery Curtain of Fang Hou Mansion?" Nangong Caishu was taken aback.

Fang Qilin, one of the thirteen marquis of Great Qin, is already old and senile, but in recent years, the Fang Hou Mansion has not shown signs of decline, but has a posture that faintly surpasses the rest of the Hou Mansion, just because Fang Qilin has two enviable sons.

One of the sons, Fang Yan, is already the same as Nangong Caishu's father, and is a powerful general who guards the outer domain, while the other son, Fang Xiumu, is a well-known sword idiot, and he has no hobbies for anything other than cultivation.

Although the outside world now doesn't know what kind of realm Fang Xiumu's true cultivation has reached, at least ten years ago, many of Changling's real magnates can be sure that Fang Xiumu is the fastest cultivator among all people of Changling's age.

Even according to the speed of his cultivation to break through the realm, even the Liangxiang and Emperor Yuanwu had made a judgment, saying that among the young cultivators in Changling, he was the cultivator who had the most hope of breaking through the top grade of the Seven Realms in the future.

Above the Seven Realms is the Eighth Realm, a realm that very few cultivators have been able to achieve throughout the ages.

The characters who can get such an evaluation from the two phases and the saint are naturally a myth to look up to for Nangong Caishu.

"Who is Wang Taixu?"

Nangong Caishu took a deep breath, trying her best to calm herself, she looked at Ding Ning and asked.

"The owner of a two-story building, the owner of a gang. ”

Ding Ning looked at Nangong Caishu and said in a calm and soft voice: "Fang Xiumu has come to see me, and I know that I have good cultivation potential, but Fang Hou Mansion still gave up on me, because my body also has very troublesome problems... Later, I met Wang Taixu, who was fighting with other gangs and wanted to gamble, so I decided to gamble, and then I decided to use his arrangement to enter the Aries Cave to practice. ”

"Bet?" Nangong Caishu asked incomprehensibly, "What's the trouble with your body?"

Ding Ning looked at her: "If the premature aging body of the five qi is excessive, if there is no special opportunity, after starting to practice, it is possible to die faster. ”

Ding Ning's words were very calm, but when they fell on Nangong Caishu's ears, they were tantamount to thunder.

Her breathing paused a little, "Die faster... How fast?"

Ding Ning said: "I may live to be in my thirties." ”

Nangong Caishu's footsteps stopped.

Her face turned pale, she couldn't imagine that a young man like Ding Ning could have only ten years of life left, and he could still talk about this matter so calmly.

"So I'm not the illegitimate son of the Aries Cave Master, and he made such an exception to me, probably because he felt that no matter what I cultivated, it might be useless in the end. Ding Ning looked at her and smiled slightly, and said: "Another possibility is that he wants to see my judgment, after all, cultivation still depends on himself, he will see if I can choose the exercises that are more suitable for me with my intuition, so that I can live for a few more years." ”

Looking at his smile, Nangong Caishu couldn't speak for a long time, she inexplicably thought of a sentence, some people practice just for more glory, and some people practice because cultivation is their life.

Ding Ning continued to walk, and the stone steps that had been slanted up had come to an end, and a cave that seemed to be bathed in soft light appeared in front of him.

It is a cave with many ventilation holes on the roof.

In those ventilation holes, there should be many refractive hedron arrangements, and soft beams of light sprinkled on all corners of the cave, but they were isolated from wind and rain, making everything in this cave seem to be in an absolute state of time standstill.

The bookshelves on the four walls of the cave are full of all kinds of books.

On the side of the bookshelf directly in front of him, there was a narrow staircase that led to the inner hole.

Ding Ning officially stepped into the Jingshi Cave, and he started from the left hand side and began to look at the classics on each shelf seriously.

Nangong Caishu settled down and followed.

As a disciple of the Qingteng Sword Academy, she was fortunate enough to be able to enter the scripture collection of other sects, so she naturally had to seize every minute of her time and see as many things as possible to see if she could find something that would be of great help to her cultivation, but at this moment, most of the thoughts in her mind were gathered on Ding Ning's body.

She really wanted to know for the first time what kind of exercises Ding Ning would choose in the end.