On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, Du Wenli and Murong Ruthless Ouyang Qin arrived one after another, Du Wenli had already resigned, and Murong Ruthless also handed over the position of head of the family to his brother Murong Wuxian. After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in advance, everyone rested separately, ready to enter the secret realm in the best condition.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, Zhang Xun led everyone into the Wufa Temple in Xicheng, which had long been deserted. Zhang Xun came to the meditation room of the Zen master who realized the Dharma and searched carefully, and it turned out that the organ was on the futon. The futon is printed with the words "the mountain is the landscape is the water" on behalf of the first realm of the three realms of Zen Buddhism, Zhang Xun was stunned at first, and then carefully observed, and felt a little awkward at a glance. The interval between the two "yes" and the left and right sides of the "mountain" and "water" is not the same, Zhang Xun pointed to the large interval with his finger, the touch is different from other places, it turns out that this place can be rotated, there are three gears are a few smaller "no", "also" words and blank. When turning to "yet", that is, "the mountain is still the mountain, and the water is still the water", the futon will move away, revealing the entrance to the passage. After entering, move the futon back to its original place, and then turn the "have" inside to a blank space, and close the mechanism.

Zhang Xun and his party walked along the passage for a quarter of an hour before they reached the end of the passage, and everyone felt that the atmosphere here was completely different from the outside world. Zhang Xun knew that this was because of the strong aura, and Murong Ruthless had a smile on his face, just now, he clearly felt that the threshold of his entry from martial arts had loosened.

The outer space of this secret realm is not small, and the houses and courtyards are complete (built by the Zen master of Wufa back then), which is enough for a small sect, not to mention that Zhang Xun and his party are less than twenty people, each of them chose their own small courtyard and lived in the secret realm.

Zhang Xun and the four ladies began to feel the existence of the aura of heaven and earth in their own courtyard, and the sign of the first realm qi cultivation period entering the realm of cultivation was to induce qi into the body. The gap between mortals and cultivators lies in whether or not they can activate the spiritual root. Spiritual roots are divided into five element spiritual roots (among them, a single spiritual root is called a heavenly spiritual root, because the spiritual root is the purest, so it can be cultivated the fastest), mutated spiritual roots (such as ice spiritual roots are mutated from water spiritual roots), and special spiritual roots (such as wind spiritual roots, thunder spiritual roots). Although the five of them have all read the biography of the drunken Taoist Xiuzhen, they have some understanding of Xiuzhen. But after all, it was the first time to come to a place with abundant spiritual energy and start real cultivation. Therefore, Yuchan, the fastest of the five people in the step of inducing qi into the body, also took ten full days, and Zhang Xun, the slowest, took half a month. (Zhang Xun is the legendary waste spirit root, a fellow practitioner of the Five Elements.) Yuchan is the fastest because she is a Heavenly Spirit Root and has a pure Fire Spirit Root, Xiaoxue took one more day to be an Ice Spirit Root, Bihe took twelve days to activate the Wind Spirit Root, and Xinlan took fourteen days to use a Wood Fire Dual Spirit Root.

Although Zhang Xun said that he had all the five elements of spiritual roots, and the difficulty of cultivation was ten times that of the Heavenly Spiritual Root, he was not disappointed, and said with a smile in the face of the comforting words of the four ladies: "My husband thinks that there are no bad spiritual roots, only poor cultivators. Xin Lan, you really don't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings! Although you are said to be a double spirit root, your attributes are good! The wood spirit root is conducive to familiarizing yourself with the medicinal properties of medicinal materials, and the fire spirit root is used to control the Dan fire, and this attribute combination is more suitable for practicing Dan! In the future, our pill will be handed over to you, the future alchemist. When Xin Lan heard this, she let go of Zou Qi's brow and smiled.

From low to high, the cultivation realm is the Qi cultivation period, the foundation building period, the Jindan period, the Yuan Infant period, the distraction period, the merger period, and the tribulation period. (The division of Taoist cultivators, Buddhist cultivation has another name, and I will mention it later.) Each realm is divided into three levels and nine layers, and Zhang Xun and the five people are now the first layer in the early stage of Qi training. Although Zhang Xun can now break through the formation and enter the core of the secret realm, thinking of the cultivation inheritance in the jade pendant space, he must reach the middle stage of qi training, that is, he must have at least four levels of qi cultivation to enter and obtain. Besides, Zhang Xun still has to find seeds after all, and he can't concentrate on cultivation now. Zhang Xun asked the four ladies to continue their cultivation and go out of the secret realm by themselves to see if there was any news of seeds. The beggar gang is still very powerful, and on the third day after Zhang Xun went out, Wang Han came to Laiwu with Lu Shen, a talent of yin and yang. After asking Wang Han, Zhang Xun learned that the amorous son Pan Liang was unlucky, and was met by Ren Yanping, who was a pretty rakshasa, and was picked up, so can he still have a life? Wang Han didn't need to be screened, and directly brought Lu Shen to the original site of Wufa Temple to see Zhang Xun. Zhang Xun only asked Lu Shen two questions, and his answers had his own unique and incisive insights, so he knew that this person was right. Since it was confirmed that he was indeed a Xia State scholar, he took him into the secret realm and let him join Du Wenli, Han Xiaotong, and Bai Wen in the Xingwen Academy (Fuxing Wendao Academy, a place where the literature studied in the secret territory. Refine the text.

Another three months passed, and Zhang Xun and the four ladies ran the basic spirit decision in line with their respective spiritual root attributes every day to strengthen their qi veins. Heaven rewards hard work, the location is favorable to promote hard work, and after some hard training, you can finally run along the meridians to make a spiritual decision for 9981 days. This means that the five of them have entered the middle stage of Qi training, and their cultivation has reached the fourth level of Qi training. After the four ladies slept, Zhang Xun went to the secret room and entered the jade pendant space, and sure enough, the door was empty in the middle of the original wall. Zhang Xun walked in, there were three rooms marked with exercises, utensils, and pills, Zhang Xun chose to go out of the jade pendant space, and found that it was already the third watch. Zhang Xun thought, just break the formation and enter the core of the secret realm to explore the way, and in just a quarter of an hour, the formation will be broken. (No way, who called Zhang Xun's comprehension of yin and yang so high!) The core is the core, the inside is much stronger than the outside, and the efficiency is at least five times higher when cultivating here.

Walking out of the core area along the path, I saw Murong ruthlessly practicing there. Although it is still a secular martial art, it is obvious that it is different from the past. Zhang Xun stepped forward and said, "Congratulations to my father-in-law for entering the Tao from martial arts and becoming a cultivator. Son-in-law, there are a few exercises here, you can take them to practice!" Murong smiled ruthlessly: "Xun'er, it's really blessed to have your son-in-law here!hahaha!"

Early in the morning, the four girls woke up, and Zhang Xun took them into the core area. Take out four storage rings and hand them to them for them to use after refining. Zhang Xun chose the exercises and stunts for himself and the four ladies in the jade pendant space, and as for the spells, Zhang Xun directly put the jade slip, the magic weapon, and the pill into their respective storage rings, allowing everyone to choose according to their needs. His own exercises are "Five Elements to the Dao Gong", and the three stunts are "Easy Fist", "Lightning and Thunder Legs" and "Flowing Clouds and Rain Sword". Xinlan focuses on alchemy, mainly some medicinal material identification, alchemy techniques, heaven and earth fire, various pills and so on. Xiaoxue's exercises are "Cold Ice Gong", and the stunts "Cold Plum Liuxiang Sword", "Broken Jade Palm" and "Ice Cracked Legs". Bihe's exercises are "Wind and Cloud Change", stunts "Wind Finger" and "Meteor Chasing Moon Legs". Yuchan's exercises are "Fire Jade Gong", and the stunts "Flame Palm", "Fire Shadow Whip", and "Flying Fire Streamer Legs".

Xin Lan went to the alchemy room alone and began her alchemy apprenticeship. Zhang Xun, Xiaoxue, Bihe, and Yuchan each chose a secret room to begin retreat and practice. Exercises are the foundation, as the saying goes, "If you don't practice martial arts, you will end up empty." "It's the same with Xiuzhen. Zhang Xun's divine sense entered the jade slip, looked at the "Five Elements to the Dao Gong", and scrutinized it word by word, and when he confirmed that he had fully understood this exercise, a week had passed. When he began to practice, Zhang Xun first practiced separately from gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and every time he completed a line, he would go out for two or three days, first, to take a good rest, combine work and rest, and second, to inquire about the information of the outside world, and see if there was any progress in the affairs of the beggar gang and Murong Villa. Due to the exposure of the conspiracy of King Qin, the entire Wenchang Continent has undergone tremendous changes. Although the war has not started at present, the undercurrent is surging, and the hermits and masters have been born one after another, and Zhang Xun judged that the literature of the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, and Qin came from these people. Zhang Xun entrusted the Beggar Gang and Murong Villa to help him keep an eye on these people and provide him with information to analyze who the literary genre was. Not to mention that there is really a harvest, when the last line of earth practice is out of the customs, Wang Han came and said one thing to Zhang Xun, saying that there is a scholar named Song Ping of Zhao who has a heroic and righteous spirit, and truly achieves "the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, the mighty cannot be bent, and the rich and noble cannot be lewd." "I was killed by an adulterer, and I still wrote a "Song of Righteousness" in prison. In order to calm the anger of the people, King Zhao had to pardon him, but he was allowed to leave Handan that day. Zhao Guo couldn't stay any longer, and the helmsman in Handan sent him to Wang Han in Suzhou two months ago, Wang Han thought that this Song Ping might be the person Zhang Xun was looking for, so he told Song Ping about Zhang Xun's establishment of the Xingwen Academy. After Song Ping and Wang Han arrived in Laiwu, Song Ping said to Wang Han: "Brother Wang, I don't know something, so I'll go to the Drunken Immortal Building first, if that Bachelor Zhang intends to recruit, let him go to the Drunken Immortal Building to solve my doubts!" Wang Han was helpless, so he had to come to Zhang Xun alone.

Zhang Xun went to the Drunken Immortal Building and asked the running hall to take him to see Song Ping. Song Ping looked like he was in his thirties, and Zhang Xun opened his mouth and said, "Brother Song, if you have any questions, you might as well say them and we'll discuss them together." Song Ping said: "I would have set my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch." I am devoted to the country, and the country will not allow me. Wouldn't it be treason for me to come out again to do things? Zhang Xun said: "Brother Song, I think you confuse the meaning of the words "country and king." It's not that the kingdom won't let you, but the king won't let you. As for the treason you mentioned, I don't know where it came from, isn't it still the Zhou Dynasty now? It's just that the vassal states don't recognize it. And the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time. At present, the rise of Qiang Qin and the catastrophe of Wendao are the time for Brother Song to work hard. It can be seen that the meaning of the existence of our scholars is to establish a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a life for the people, to continue to learn for the saints, and to open peace for all generations. Does Brother Song think so?" After listening to this, Song Ping stood up and bowed deeply to Zhang Xun, and said, "Mr. Zhang, the student has been taught. Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years. Students should strive for the revival of literature and Taoism for the rest of their lives. Zhang Xun brought Song Ping into the secret realm and sent him to Xingwen Academy, and then retreated again.

Zhang Xun is now at the sixth level of qi refining, and it took half a year to practice the five elements alone, and the next thing is to fuse. Another year has passed, and Zhang Xuncai has practiced the Five Elements to the Dao to a small success, that is, the Five Elements are initially compatible, which is already very remarkable. Zhang Xun's cultivation has reached the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Period, and he can build a foundation at any time. However, Zhang Xun has only practiced exercises for more than a year, and has not practiced stunts yet. Zhang Xun is ready to wait for his three stunts to be practiced until Xiaocheng and then start to build the foundation.

There is only one type of literature left in the Qin State now, and it is a coincidence that the literature of the Wei State is also a descendant of the Taigong, named Jiang Xiongbing. This person is also a distant relative of the Jiang Gang Leader, and the Jiang Gang Leader personally sent him here. At that time, Zhang Xun was still in retreat, and it was Song Ping who took him out of the secret realm to take him to Xingwen Academy. Zhang Xun met Jiang Xiongbing when he left the customs, as his name suggests, this person is the best at using soldiers. There is still half a year before the day when King Qin raises his army, so he will go to Xianyang in person. But the fate of the dust, it is also good to concentrate on cultivating.