Chapter 5 Medicine Garden
The middle-aged Taoist drove the flying boat and led everyone across the Hongqiao, swept over several towering peaks of different shapes, and came to a verdant peak.
The middle-aged Taoist first came to a courtyard on the mountainside, put down three people, and then took the rest of the people to the bottom of the peak and put down four people.
The place where Li Qingshan and the others fell was a forest valley at the foot of the mountain peak, and they didn't see it clearly in the air, and when they fell to the ground, Li Qingshan found that this valley turned out to be a vast elixir garden. Several mountain springs, flowing down from the mountain peaks, converge into a stream here, on both sides of the stream, several pieces of spiritual fields have been reclaimed, all planted are spiritual flowers and spiritual grasses, exuding bursts of fragrance, smell it and feel comfortable physically and mentally, and the sea of qi is ready to move.
A rather young-looking bluefriar led an even younger grayman to stand outside the garden, and when he saw the comer, he greeted him. The gray friar folded his feet and bowed his head, extremely deferential, while the blue-clothed monk held his head high, which made people feel a little perverse.
"Second uncle!" said the blue-clothed monk in a close voice.
"See Uncle!" said the Grey Friar, too, very respectfully.
"What it looks like. Call me uncle in the sect, I have already brought the person, so let's arrange it. The middle-aged Taoist frowned, as if he didn't like the blue-clothed monk, and said coldly.
"Yes, Uncle Shi!" said the blue-clothed monk with a grim expression, his body somewhat retracted, and he bowed his head.
Li Qingshan knew that he would follow this blue-clothed monk in the future, so he kept staring at him. The moment he lowered his head, Li Qingshan seemed to see a trace of hideousness flashing on his face, and he didn't know if it was an illusion.
The middle-aged Taoist didn't say anything more, snorted coldly, and then took off the boat and took the rest of the people to other places.
The blue-clothed monk stared at the departing figure of the middle-aged Taoist in the sky, his expression changed, and he said to the gray-clothed monk without looking at the four of them: "Senior Brother Zhao, you can arrange these new junior brothers." ”
With that, the blue-clothed monk also left with his hands in his hands.
The situation looked a little weird, and Li Qingshan's joy at the entrance was also diluted.
"My name is Zhao Youping, and I am a disciple of the last beginner, so you all come with me. Zhao Youping was unrestrained, his body straightened up, showed a natural smile, and his face was cordial to the four.
Seeing that Zhao Youping was quite kind, Li Qingshan's doubts dissipated a lot, and when he heard this, he followed Zhao Youping to the medicine garden.
Zhao Youping is not much older than the four of them, and he seems to be easy to get along with, so the four of them asked some questions, and Zhao Youping explained some sect things to the four of them, and slowly, Xuanlingmen had a rough outline in Li Qingshan's heart.
Xuanling Gate has three main peaks and thirty-six small peaks. The main peak is where the important temple of the sect is located, which is presided over by Elder Jindan, and the small peak is the place where the disciples practice, which is presided over by the True Transmission Foundation Cultivator.
The elixir garden where Li Qingshan and the others are located is under the jurisdiction of Aoki Peak. Aoki Peak is one of the 36 small peaks, and the main industry in the peak is plant medicine, and there are more than 10 large and small medicine gardens. Although the scale of the elixir garden where Li Qingshan and the others were located was quite large, it was the lowest-level elixir garden, and most of the disciples in the garden were miscellaneous disciples.
In the Xuanling Sect, except for a few people with outstanding talents, most of the disciples who have just started out need to start as miscellaneous disciples, or plant medicine and raise animals, or metallurgical stone refining, and only when they cultivate to reach the seventh level of qi refining can they become official disciples.
After becoming a full disciple, you are much freer, you can choose what to do independently, and you can also travel and look for opportunities. If you don't care about the cultivation materials, it's okay to practice behind closed doors, but no disciple would do that, and if you want to cultivate without cultivation materials, it's even more difficult than ascending to the sky.
Cultivation can become an elite disciple if you reach the eleventh level of qi refining, and the gap between the elite disciple and the official disciple is even greater, and the elite disciple can assist in taking care of the middle industry such as the medicine garden where Li Qingshan is located, and get a small share of the profit.
The elite disciples are followed by the true transmission disciples, and the true transmission disciples are fixed at thirty-six, which is the same as the number of Xiaofeng, and the disciples below the Jindan stage in the door can compete for the position of the true transmission. Unless there are special circumstances, the selection of the true lineage is carried out once every hundred years, and generally speaking, only the best of the foundation building monks can become true disciples, and if they become true disciples, they can take charge of a small peak, and all the products produced in the peak can be used for it. Monks who have not been able to become true disciples can choose to rely on the true disciples to help take care of the affairs of the peak, or go to the main peak to take charge of each hall.
After the true disciple cultivates the golden pill, he automatically becomes an elder in the door and manages the affairs of the door. As for the Yuanying Ancestor, the people of the sect are called the Taishang Elders, and there are two of them in the Xuanling Sect, who do not pay attention to the affairs of the sect, and it is difficult for ordinary disciples to see them.
The Xuanling Sect has a strict hierarchy, and the dress is exquisite, the miscellaneous disciples wear gray clothes, the formal disciples wear white clothes, the elite disciples wear blue clothes, the true foundation building monks are red, the ordinary foundation building monks are green clothes, and the Jindan elders are purple.
Zhao Youping's cultivation at the sixth level of qi refining is still a miscellaneous disciple, and the blue-clothed cultivator just now is called Xu Hongyuan, an elite disciple, and the manager of the medicine garden. And the monk in Tsing Yi who brought Li Qingshan's four people to Aoki Peak is called Xu Tu, who is the deacon of Aoki Peak, and the peak master of Aoki Peak is called Xu Ce. Li Qingshan thought in his heart, and faintly felt that the Xuanling Sect was not the same as the Immortal Sect he thought in his heart.
Through chatting, Li Qingshan also knew the names of the other three, the young man with the same weak water spirit root as him was called Hao Daqing, and the other two young people with weak wood spirit root were named Zhang Jinsong and the other was called Zang Bai.
It didn't take long for Zhao Youping to take the four of them to the foot of the mountain deep in the medicine garden.
At the foot of the hill there are eight adjoining wooden houses, each of which is less than half the size of a mossy roof and is evidently some time old.
"This is where we live, the third and fourth rooms and the last two are unoccupied, you can choose any one. Zhao Youping pointed to the wooden house.
After a little discussion between the four of them, Zhang Jinsong and Zang Bai chose the two wooden houses in the middle, and Zhao Youping chose the penultimate wooden house at the end, and the last one naturally became Li Qingshan's residence.
"It's not too early, I wanted to take you to the Dao Law Pavilion to have a look, it seems that it's too late today, so you can go there on your own in the future." New disciples can choose a volume of introductory exercises in the Dao Dharma Pavilion, and I suggest that you don't rush to receive the exercises, and wait for a while to get used to them and understand what kind of exercises are suitable for you. Our low-level monks inevitably cannibalistic fireworks, the canteen is on the mountainside, it is easy to find, and the place with the most people to eat is it. The service in the garden is divided into two time periods, once in the morning and once in the evening, and the specific affairs will be told to you by other senior brothers tomorrow, remember to come early. Zhao Youping said some daily things and left.
After Zhao Youping left, Li Qingshan and the four of them also said goodbye to each other and walked into their respective wooden houses.
Li Qingshan walked into his wooden house and found that the room was also very simple, with no furnishings, a set of wooden tables and chairs in the front room, and a bed and a lotus root ball for meditation in the back room.
Li Qingshan sat on the futon, thinking about the events of the past two days, and his expression was a little dazed. Li Qingshan felt that everything was like a dream, and he entered the Xuanling Gate in a daze, and after all, he got what he wanted, and the old ancestor should be very happy.
It's just that this Xuanling Gate doesn't seem to have the same family power as the rumored immortal cultivation paradise outside, and he seems to be doing things for the Xu family, and more importantly, Xu Hongyuan doesn't feel like a good person from afar.