Chapter 040: Subtleties (Part II)
The hall has not yet been quiet, and many girls are still crying, but fortunately, the handymen have come in and are busy cleaning up the mess.
Guan Xiao was stunned this time, a good thing? Did the hero make a mistake in saving the beauty? Alas, it seems that he is destined not to eat a meal of peace, so he has to put down the bowl and go out. As I passed by the two little girls, one of the children had recovered a little and whispered, "Thank you, big brother." ”
Guan Xiao subconsciously glanced down, facing him was a pair of tear-stained eyes, which frightened Guan Xiao this time, and hurriedly lowered his head and followed the three generations of disciples out.
Bypassing the two courtyards and entering the gate of the apse, he took a look, and Guan Xiao was a little drumming in his heart.
In the middle of the hall, there were six second-generation disciples sitting side by side, and nearly 20 third-generation disciples were sitting on both sides, and Yan Caiju, who had dealt with Guan Xiao before, was in a lower position. It is said that all the cultivators who have seen a lot of knowledge should not be shocked by honor and disgrace, and their hearts should be like water, but now this is obviously not the case, and everyone's faces are gloomy.
The second-generation disciples held a piece of snow-white rice paper in their hands and looked at each other, Guan Xiao didn't know what was going on, and the hall was silent for a while.
A piece of rice paper was passed around, and almost all the disciples walked around, and in the end, the second-generation disciple led by him snorted coldly and threw the paper coldly towards Guan Xiao - the middle was more than two zhang away, and the paper seemed to have no weight at all, and after rolling in the air twice, it fell straight in front of Guan Xiao.
Guan Xiao looked down and was completely stunned.
Before the second day of February every year, more than 1,000 people go to the Heavenly Master to worship the master, and on weekdays, there are no less than 1,000 young people who are interested in the Xiuzhen Hall of Nanlong City. How to digest these new forces, or more precisely, how to select real and potential disciples among them, undoubtedly, this is a difficult problem that all major Dao sects such as the Heavenly Master Sect, Shushan, and East and West Kunlun need to face. In the cultivation realm, often one or two outstanding disciples can make the entire sect prosperous for a hundred years.
Therefore, in terms of selecting disciples, each millennium sect has its own uniqueness. For example, the dinner party of the Heavenly Master's teaching.
In the entire assessment process of the Heavenly Master's Teaching, this extravagant meal occupies an extremely important position, and only disciples above the second rank have the opportunity to enjoy it - this exam, there are two halls in total, the third-class disciples of B, C and D are in one hall (note, there are no first-class disciples at present), and the first-class disciples are in another hall, and in each key part of the hall, the magic weapons of sound transmission and form transmission are placed, and they can be seen clearly in the back hall.
In other assessments, each assessment only assesses one content, but in this meal, three items are assessed at the same time, and moreover, they are three items that are crucial to cultivating true qi cultivators and cannot be avoided at all.
Therefore, in the process of cultivating true qi and refining qi, one must face two completely different tests, internal and external, and the outside is the famous Heavenly Tribulation, and every cultivator, according to the different paths, will face the thirty-nine, sixty-nine, and ninety-nine heavenly tribulations. If the tribulation fails, the whole body will be destroyed and re-enter reincarnation, or the three souls and seven spirits will be blown away under the Ninety-Nine Thunder Tribulation, and they will disappear cleanly from then on.
Most non-cultivators, even most of the Qi Refiners who have just entered the Dao, don't know about the "within" test on the path of cultivating the True Qi Cultivation - the reason is very simple, any outbreak of the Thunder Tribulation is earth-shattering, and any Qi Refiner who faces the Thunder Tribulation is like thunder in the cultivation realm, so whether it is failure or success, it will spread rapidly in the new land, and the fame of the Tribulation has successfully covered up the "inner" test.
In fact, more than ninety percent of the cultivators did not fail in the end - they had no chance to face the tribulation at all, except for some people because of their talents, and more than sixty percent of the others fell to the test of "inside" in advance.
The so-called "inside" is, in a word, the "inner demon"! This is the innate demonic obstacle of human beings, including all intelligent beings, and it is also the most fundamental and effective way to prevent species from acting against the sky.
Specifically, there are three so-called demons.
One of them is greed: men are greedy for power, women are greedy for money, and the world is bustling with fame and fortune. In the process of cultivation, there are often all kinds of hallucinations in the heart - this is the invasion of the demons in the heart, using money, power, fame and fortune, doing everything, once the mind is shaken, the light is the way to retreat, or the worst is simply falling into the demon path, and becoming the mouth of the demon lord.
The second is color: There is an old saying that "heroes are sad to pass the beauty pass", in fact, not heroes are also sad to pass the beauty pass, even including women, since ancient times, many people have fallen on the ****. In the process of cultivation, especially for men, the heart demons will conjure up countless beauties, trying all kinds of charming, **** temptation, and eventually lead to the collapse of the breath.
The third is fear: Cultivating the true qi and acting against the sky is like walking on a single-plank bridge on a hundred zhang cliff, surrounded by inner demons from the sound to the scenery, completely according to the weakness of the cultivator's nature, he conjures up what he is most afraid of, and uses it to erode his mind, and the furnace collapses.
What's even worse is that these three heart demons usually do not appear, and only when the cultivators of the true qi enter the most important juncture such as reconciling the dragon and tiger, catching the hurdles and filling in the gaps, these heart demons take advantage of the void to enter, and at the critical juncture, they send the cultivators into the eighteenth layer of hell in one fell swoop!
The Heavenly Master taught this meal, first using the delicacy, especially the meat of the thousand-year-old Jiao Demon, as a temptation to see if these disciples could control their reason in the face of this rare great tonic delicacy in a hundred years.
Secondly, those women who are almost **** are testing the concentration of the disciples, if they can't control their scheming now, then they don't have to look forward to how to resist the demons at the critical juncture of qi refining.
In the end, those tigers and lions were just to test the resistance of these young people around ten years old to fear, at that time, the second-generation disciples of the head of the apse had already seen that Guan Xiao was extremely calm in the face of food, beauties and lions, and even better than most of the third-generation disciples who had cultivated for decades. Therefore, at the last moment of the test, he specially instructed the beast control master outside the main hall to drive the tiger and lion to pounce directly on Guan Xiao.
Note: The profession of animal controller existed before the Qin Dynasty in China, and it not only raised fierce beasts but also dragons. And this profession has always been in the service of the emperor from its birth to the end. Later, the Great Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms and the Western Zhou Dynasty, and although the Qi Refiners did not save the Zhou Dynasty, they brought all the royal family surnamed Ji and the people in the court to Middle-earth and established the Eastern Dragon City.
Everyone couldn't imagine that Guan Xiao actually killed two fierce beasts in one fell swoop, and the two beast control masters outside the main hall almost died of broken hearts because the beasts they controlled were killed!
"Guan Xiao, you can explain. Leng Ziyun, the second-generation second-class disciple at the head, asked in a deep voice.