Chapter 161: The Beginning of the Harvest of Disciples (Three Changes)
Yuan Shi faced the matter of accepting apprentices, so rigorous, almost harsh. As the brother of the beginning, Tongtian's attitude is completely different from that of the beginning.
Tongtian believes that the Tao is natural, all things in heaven and earth have the nature of the Tao, and in the Three Realms, all living beings can become Taoist, and all those who have the heart of the Tao can worship under his door.
Regardless of beauty or ugliness, good or evil, high or low, those who have the heart of the Tao are destined. In Tongtian's eyes, the key to enlightenment lies in whether or not you have the heart to the path.
Tongtian's idea, Yuan Shi is also somewhat in favor, otherwise he would not have set a level to test the Dao Heart, but his view of the Dao Heart is more harsh than Tongtian's.
Everyone has the heart of the Dao, otherwise everyone would not think about cultivating immortals and asking, immortality. But it is not enough to have the heart of the Tao, and it is not only the heart of the Tao that determines the future of a monk. Yuan Shi believed that the main thing that determines the life of a monk is: one life, two fortunes, three hearts, four merits, and five talents.
Without that fate, no matter how strong your heart is to the Dao, it is impossible to succeed, because you don't have that fate! Luck is equally important, those with deep luck can go further, and those who lack luck will bump and bump along the way, maybe one of them will die if they are not careful, how can there be life to the Dao?
The three hearts, the heart of the Tao here not only refers to the heart of the Tao, but more importantly, it refers to the monk himself, if he works hard enough and has the heart of the Tao, his life can be changed, and his luck can be taken.
Merit is related to cause and effect, merit is the cause, and virtue is the effect. With merit protection, along the way, you can go further.
Talent is ranked last, that's because, in the eyes of Yuan Shi, even if the talent is worse, he can turn it into a gifted person, and talent is a joke in Yuan Shi's eyes. As long as other aspects are satisfied, those who are weak in talent can also become strong. Being able to become a real powerhouse has never been a matter of talent, and although talent is also part of it, it must not be the most important.
Tongtian's selection criterion for apprentices is the heart of the Dao, is it really enough to have the heart of the Dao? Then why did Tongtian accept countless monks, known as the Ten Thousand Immortals, but in the end, there were only a few who could truly become strong?
As soon as the triple test began, countless monks rushed forward to test it, and although most of them knew that they would not be able to pass, they still had a certain luck mentality in their hearts, what if I passed?
"Brother, are you also going to go through the disciple acceptance test set by the Holy Lord?" asked a scattered immortal to a little demon beside him.
"yes, you're going too?" said the little demon.
"That's right, brother, the test on the side of the Tongtian Saint is the easiest, with your cultivation, why don't you go to the test over there, but come here?"
Sanxian asked, he looked at the little demon in front of him, and at a glance he could see that he only had the realm of refining the Void and Combining Dao, and had not yet become an immortal.
"Everyone knows that the Holy Lord is the first saint and the strongest in cultivation. The first choice is of course the Holy Lord, if it doesn't pass, it's not too late to go to the Heavenly Saint. The little demon said without thinking.
"Yes, the Holy Lord is indeed the strongest saint. The Scattered Immortal said,
"Brother, good luck, I'll go!" After speaking, he turned into a wind and flew towards the path of the hundred-level quest.
Little Demon: "......"
There are countless examples like this. Although most people have a fluke attitude, most of them end up disappointed, and very few are able to pass the first level, let alone the others.
There is no time limit for the beginning, which means that you can come to clear customs at any time.
After a hundred years of screening, there are only a dozen people who can finally pass the three levels. There are millions of monks in the flood wilderness, and there are only a dozen of them who can clear this, and this kind of probability is really not good to say.
Most of those who failed turned to worship under the Tongtian Gate, although so, Tongtian did not accept them all, he also had a choice to accept disciples, otherwise, he could be the holy master of the entire flood wilderness.
But even so, he also accepted thousands of disciples, most of them were registered disciples, or ordinary disciples, the true transmission disciples were still the previous three, and under the true transmission, there were dozens of core disciples above the ordinary.
In this regard, Yuan Shi is extremely calm, Hong Huang has never lacked talents, he can receive more than a dozen, he is already very satisfied, after all, he is ready to take the elite route, and there are not many disciples.
He received a total of seventeen disciples, among them, in addition to the previous Guangchengzi and Yuding Zhenren, the other twelve golden immortals who expounded the teachings also gathered, they were Manjushri Guangfa Tianzun of Wulong Mountain, Fuxian Zhenren of Jiugong Mountain, Cihang Zhenren of Putuo Mountain, Jialong Cave's Fear Liusun, Taiyi Zhenren of Qianyuan Mountain, originally in Taihua Mountain, but later due to the occupation of the Ten Thousand Tribulation Demon Venerable, he chose Wuhua Mountain as the Red Sperm of the Cave Mansion, Erxian Mountain Huanglong Zhenren, Jinting Mountain Daoxing Zhenren, Qingfeng Mountain Qingxu Dao Zhenjun, Kongtong Mountain Lingbao Grand Master.
In addition to the Twelve Golden Immortals, there are also Yunzhongzi of Zhongnan Mountain, who is blessed, and a lantern Taoist who has heard the Tao in Zixiao Palace. Randen himself is a good child, but unfortunately his luck is not very good, when he first lit the lamp to listen to the sermon, it was the last time Daozu preached, and he didn't hear much, so that he still stopped at the peak realm of Da Luo Jinxian.
In addition to them, what really surprised Yuan Shi was that there was a peacock and a Dapeng bird, their names were Kong Xuan and Garuda, and it was surprising that they also came to apprentice.
Yuan Shi thought about it for a while, and then somewhat understood, the flood wilderness he was in now had become different from the flood wilderness in the original trajectory, and it was understandable that Kong Xuan and Dapeng Bird came to apprentice.
Finally, there is another person, who is a top-level immortal material Dao robbery gold opening spiritual wisdom and is a golden Taoist person. This made Yuan Shi a little surprised, he hadn't heard of this person's reputation in the original book, and it stands to reason that the person who can pass his test will not be an ordinary person.
At the same time, he was also a little relieved, this is the flood wilderness, this is a real world, not only those people written in books and recorded in stories.
These seventeen apprentices, except for the two Kong Xuan brothers and the Golden Daoist, are all the original apprentices in the original book, which makes Yuan Shi have to sigh, these people are really destined for him, he has changed the test procedure, and these people can still be involved with him.
Looking at the seventeen apprentices in front of him, the rows were all men, and there was only one woman, that was Cihang Daoren, she was transformed by a white lotus in Putuo Mountain, but she was the same as his previous apprentice Feng Xiaoyue. Yuan Shi couldn't help but sigh with emotion, it is really yang and yin decline.
At this time, he also remembered that if he had followed the original trajectory, several of his disciples had defected from the teachings and joined Buddhism. Do you want to get rid of them?
But he thought about it carefully, and then he gave up, because he knew that it was the original trajectory, and he was no longer the original primitive, and if so, he could still teach them to run away, which would be the real waste. And in the original book, they were not bent on betraying the teachings from the beginning, if it wasn't for the original and too wasted in the original book, why would this be the case?
In order for a similar situation to happen in the future, Yuan Shi established the following rules when they were apprenticed:
First, respect the teacher!
Second, don't deviate!
Third, the word of the Holy Lord is the truth, and his disciples must abide by it!
After the three rules of the door, after the disciple apprenticeship, he and Yuan Shi formed a cause and effect, and Yuan Shi is the master of cause and effect, if they want to back the board in the future, they must consider the backlash of cause and effect. Of course, this is only a temporary restriction, as for what they will do in the future, it depends on how Yuan Shi teaches his disciples.
How did Yuan Shi teach his disciples? This is still a question worth pondering.