Chapter 4 The ancestral house of the Mo family began to open in six years
Tang Xin'er was a little speechless for his father, who didn't know everything, but after thinking about it, there was no point in asking these questions, even if he knew, what could he do, could it be that he still wanted to avenge the extermination of the clan?
"What are you kidding!" Tang Xin'er scolded himself in his heart.
Then Tang Xin'er glared straight at his father and asked the most concerned and practical question at the moment: "Presumably, my father sent me to Luoyun Academy because he couldn't afford to pay for the test of the Five Elements Attributes, so why didn't my father let me enter Luoyun Academy, like our family's situation, it seems that we can't afford to cultivate immortals, does this have anything to do with these secrets that my father suddenly told me?"
Father Tang, who was eating, put down the chopsticks in his hand and said meaningfully: "Naturally, there is a relationship, you are the only seedling of my Mo family, and you are always inseparable from the continuation of the family." Generations of patriarchs have revitalized the lifelong wish of the Mo family, and I never imagined that my generation would see a little hope.
You don't have to worry about the exercises, our Mo family naturally has its own unique inheritance, just because dozens of generations ago, one of our ancestors made a big mistake that almost broke the Mo family inheritance, and the patriarch at that time made a family rule: In the future, those who have not reached the intermediate qualification or above are not allowed to practice the Mo family inheritance exercises, and they are not allowed to change back to the Mo family ancestral surname before they have absolute self-protection. ”
After speaking, Father Tang stood up and said, "Follow me!", and walked straight towards the backyard of the ancestral house, and Tang Xin'er obediently followed behind.
Came to the Tang family ancestral hall in the backyard, and after closing the door of the ancestral hall, Tang's father walked to the many tablets enshrined in the middle of the ancestral hall, and picked up one of them seemingly at random, and then folded the tablet in half in Tang Xin'er's stunned, and a rather vicissitudes of life and simplicity fell out of the broken tablet and fell to the ground with a "ding" sound.
Father Tang picked up the key, then stretched out his other hand to Tang Xin'er and said, "Take off the jade pendant you wear around your neck." ”
Tang Xin'er was stunned, and quickly took off the jade pendant that he had worn around his neck since birth and handed it to his father.
This jade pendant seems to be round but not round, like square but not square, the shape is quite strange, and the two sides of the jade pendant are engraved with patterns, one side is a lotus flower with five petals, and the other side is a small women's umbrella that is opened.
Regarding the origin of the jade pendant and the meaning of the pattern on the jade pendant, Tang Xin'er also asked his father, but his father only said that this was an ancestral thing, and nothing else was revealed, but at this moment Tang Xin'er consciously guessed its use.
Father Tang took the jade pendant and went around to the back of the desk for the tablet, only to see that there were exactly two small holes at both ends of the back of the desk, corresponding to the shape of the key and the jade pendant. After Tang's father put the two objects into the holes, he saw that the wall behind the desk opened a stone door silently, and the stone door looked quite heavy, but the strange thing was that there was no sound in the process of opening.
One after another shocking things in the day, Tang Xin'er felt that his head seemed to be a little insufficient, and seeing that his father had already entered the stone gate, Tang Xin'er quickly collected his mind and chased after him.
Inside the stone gate is a long corridor and a step that leads diagonally to the steps below, on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor is a stone lamp with a white lampshade, the lampshade emits a milky white light, the corridor is quite bright, but it is not clear what is shining in the lampshade.
After walking down like this for about a quarter of an hour, Tang Xin'er found that the stone steps under his feet had finally disappeared, and the terrain was no longer downward, and the front had become a straight and smooth stone road.
The stone road is not long, it is about more than fifty steps under the feet of adults, and then turns straight to the left, and Father Tang is standing at the intersection of the end of the stone road and turning left.
After Tang Xin'er walked to his side, Tang's father slowly spoke: "This is the real ancestral ancestral hall of my Mo family, and it is also the place where my Mo family's inheritance continues. On the way back from here, the patriarch of my Mo family united with several elders at that time, based on the technique of my Mo family's organs, and jointly arranged the seventh-level organ array, all along the way, there are many organs, and the Mo family ancestral hall is at the eye of this array, and this passage is the only entrance and exit of this formation.
A total of 1,610 steps need to be taken to enter the center of the array, not one step more, not one step less, this footwork is only known to the heads of the previous generations, the patriarch and a few elders.
The road behind follows me, step on my steps, you don't have to deliberately remember this footwork now, enter the ancestral hall later, bow down to the ancestors, inherit the position of the head of the family, this footwork will automatically be generated in your mind, become an unforgettable part of your memory. ”
After saying that, Tang's father didn't care whether his son understood or not, so he raised his legs and walked out.
Tang Xin'er followed his father step by step, and his father's steps were not big in each step, sometimes a few steps forward, sometimes a few steps back, if you look closely, you will find that all the steps taken do not have any overlap.
In this way, after walking through dozens of bends and forks of various sizes, Tang Xin'er, who was already sweating profusely, finally followed his father into the Mo family ancestral hall without any danger - an independent courtyard that looks like wood and gold, I don't know what material is built, the shape is quite simple, and the area is not large.
Spring goes to autumn, flowers bloom, and six years are sometimes just a blink of an eye.
Yudan City in the Snow Continent of the Immortal Twilight Continent is a city where complete cultivators gather.
It's the beginning of autumn, but the weather is unusually hot, and the scorching afternoon sun scorches a few listless vendors on both sides of the street.
In the west of the city, Binlai Restaurant, a slightly dilapidated second-rate restaurant, although it is lunch time, there is only one customer on the upper and lower floors, and the shopkeeper is bored lying on the table and turning the wine glass, in order to relieve the boredom.
I saw that this guest was not very old, about fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a brown coarse cloth robe slightly tattered, handsome, slightly tired, sitting at a table in the corner of the second floor of the restaurant, eating in front of the table full of delicacies, eating very deliciously and happily.
This young man is the original bald boy Tang Xin'er, who has spent six spring and autumn seasons and is fourteen years old at the moment. However, at this moment, he had already changed his name to Tang Xin and removed the word "er", because Tang Xin always felt that it was too feminine to carry the word "er", such as his childhood friend Gongxi Zi'er, who also had this word in his name, and this was the fundamental reason why Tang Xin was determined to change his name.
At the beginning, because of his young age and his father's disagreement with his request to change his name, he had to use it, but now that he has grown up, Tang Xin will not be willing to use this name again, but every time he asks his father to change his name, he is always rejected by his father, until a year ago, his father was injured and died of illness, and after he officially inherited the head of the Mo family, who may be the only one left, Tang Xin immediately changed his name.
Looking back on his journey in the past six years, Tang Xin only smiled bitterly and helplessly.
At first, he entered the ancestral hall of the Mo family with his father, and after a series of three kneeling and nine bowing ceremonies to recognize his ancestors, Tang Xin finally inherited the family inheritance of the Mo family as he wished, and officially embarked on the road of cultivating immortals.
However, the Mo family's talents have withered in the past dynasties, and they have long been unable to collect the resources of cultivating immortals, and the limited resources stored in the prosperous period of the family mean that every child cultivated means that there will be one less point.
When it came to Tang Xin's generation, he couldn't find anything beneficial to cultivation in the ancestral hall of the ancestral house except for the family exercises, which made Tang Xin extremely depressed, if it wasn't for his father, Tang Xin would have scolded his ancestors all over the place.
In fact, Father Tang only entered here for the second time, the first time was when Father Tang inherited the position of patriarch of the family, he was brought here by his father, and in Father Tang's stunned expression, he told the secrets of the family and passed the position of patriarch to him.
However, at that time, Father Tang was just an ordinary person with all five elements, and he only knew that the family had a family inheritance for the outstanding disciples of the younger generations for his use in revitalizing the family, but he didn't know that at this time, there was only one family exercise left, and nothing else.
In this regard, Tang's father had to sigh slightly, but there was nothing else he could do.
Because of the extreme scarcity of cultivation resources, coupled with the increasingly thin aura of heaven and earth for such a long time, Tang Xin finally sensed the aura described in the Mo family's exercises after sitting and cultivating for two full months, and thus officially stepped into the first realm of seeking immortals - the realm of forgetting the dust.
After crossing this threshold, the quality of all aspects of his body, such as eyesight, ear power, and physical strength, made Tang Xin excited, and also made him even more eager to seek immortals.
But after entering the Forgotten Dust Realm, Tang Xin obviously felt that his cultivation speed began to drop suddenly, so slow that it was unbearable, but he was helpless and didn't know why.
If a person who wants to become an immortal in the flesh, the first step he must go through is to break away from the earthly world and let his body undergo the first transformation, so that he can initially feel the vitality of heaven and earth.
The realm of forgetting dust also contains ten small realms, and people with general qualifications can enter the first layer of the realm of forgetting dust as long as they practice for a few months, but from the second layer to the tenth layer thereafter, the improvement of each layer requires ten years of cultivation and accumulation, but the improvement of strength brought by each layer is also extremely obvious.
When a cultivator cultivates to the tenth level of the Forgotten Dust Mirror, that is, when his own cultivation has accumulated for about 100 years, he will cross the Forgotten Dust Realm and enter a new realm, and only then can he truly begin to enter the Dao Cultivation, which is also known as the Entering Dao Realm. Cultivators who have entered the Dao Realm, regardless of their strength, have a qualitative leap in lifespan compared to the Forgotten Dust Realm.
But a mortal with ordinary qualifications, the lifespan of a lifetime is only about sixty years, even if he starts to cultivate in his mother's womb, does not eat, drink, or ask about the world, and cultivates all his life, at most, he will only accumulate sixty or seventy years of cultivation, and he can step into the seventh or eighth layer of the Forgotten Dust Realm, and it is hopeless to enter the Dao Realm in his life.
At the same time, with the improvement of the cultivation realm, the influence of factors such as qualifications and resources on the cultivation speed will become more and more obvious, and the difficulty of ordinary people's cultivation path to immortality can be seen.
After entering the first layer of the Forgotten Dust Realm and experiencing another two years of snail-like cultivation speed, Tang Xin finally couldn't bear it, knowing that if he cultivated like this, his dream in this life was hopeless.
It just so happened that Tang's father also felt that cultivating like this was indeed not a way, so after some discussion, the father and son left the ancestral house of the Mo family in Wenliu Village and began a life-long life of seeking immortals.
In the past few years, the father and son have completely experienced a life completely different from the previous comfort for their own dream of becoming an immortal and the other for the dream of revitalizing the family, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they have tasted all the ups and downs.
And because they more or less heard some rumors of killing people and seizing treasures in the immortal cultivation world, the father and son were afraid in their hearts, and deliberately distanced themselves from a group of cultivators, so that they were never allowed to cultivate.
The difficulty of seeking immortals is completely beyond the imagination of two ordinary people.
And Tang's father also encountered a bandit who was seriously injured when the father and son went into the mountains to look for herbs, and he became ill from overwork, and finally died of illness. Thinking of his father's dying words and earnest eyes, Tang Xin felt very uncomfortable.
At the same time, the death of his father also made Tang Xin understand that his cultivation must have taken the wrong path, after all, the immortals he had heard and heard since he was a child could fly to the sky, but even if he was very diligent in his penance, in the end he still did not even have the power to protect himself, which was obviously an extremely abnormal situation.