Chapter 6: The Initial Cultivation of the Spiritual Root and the Thick Soil

In Feiliu Valley, Shangguan Yunmu Ran stood on the edge of a medicine garden, and it was the old monster Zhao who stood opposite, Zhao Lao Monster pointed to a wooden house in the garden and said: "You will live here in the future, just take care of these three acres of medicine garden for me, what should you do at other times, in addition, you can take a good look at this book yourself, there are various medicinal herbs and planting methods in it." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½β€

Zhao Laowei said and took out a book from his arms and handed it to Shangguan Yun, Shangguan Yun took it and saw that it had the words "Fairy Materia Medica" written on it, it looked a little old, and there were many wear and tear on the pages and cover.

"Your name is Shangguan Yun, right, you remember that you can come and go as you like to other places in this valley, only the cave where I live under the cliff opposite, you are not allowed to enter without my permission. Okay, you go and clean up and live first, and then water the medicine garden for me, and if you don't understand anything about the rules of the lower house, go and ask Deacon Ji. After saying that, Old Monster Zhao didn't care if Shangguan Yun had anything to say, and went back to his cave mansion.

After Zhao Laowei left, Shangguan Yun reluctantly walked into the wooden house behind him, and found that the wooden house was also clean, two rooms inside and outside, a table and two chairs outside, which was considered a living room, and there were two boxes in the inner room to hold things, a wooden bed, but there was no cover, fortunately, Shangguan Yun was also from a poor background, so he didn't care, and went out after reading it.

This Feiliu Valley is a long and narrow valley, surrounded by not too high hills, high in the east and low in the west, there is a small waterfall hanging on the cliff in the north in the valley, and below it is a stream half a zhang wide, from which the Feiliu Valley gets its name. The exit of Feiliu Valley is in the east, from the bottom of the valley along a bluestone path up the steps, about 600 steps can go out of the valley, and then walk more than three miles, you will arrive at the square of the lower courtyard of Changchun.

When Shangguan Yun found the Deacon's Mansion, Ji Jiu was happy when he saw him: "If you don't come again, I'm going to look for you, how about it, Elder Zhao is not difficult for you, right?"

"It's okay, Deacon Ji, you still have to tell me what I should do first, where to learn the immortal law. Shangguan Yun scratched his head and said.

"Don't worry, this is a dress for you, try it. Deacon Ji took out a set of gray robes from the cabinet behind him and handed it to Shangguan Yun.

"It's a little bigger, but it's not time to recruit disciples, so I don't have small clothes" Looking at the obviously longer robe on Shangguan Yun's body, Deacon Ji said helplessly.

"It's okay, I'll change it myself, thank you Deacon Ji!" Shangguan Yun took off his robe and said with a smile at Deacon Ji.

"Well, well, you follow me, and I'll take you to visit the lower courtyard. ”

When the sky gradually darkened, Shangguan Yun finally returned to his residence in Feiliu Valley, and Deacon Ji took him for two hours to introduce all the places in the lower courtyard. Such as the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, the Deacon Hall, the Medicine Pavilion, the Listening and Lecture Hall, the Yanwu Palace, etc., although it is only a lower courtyard, everything here makes Shangguan Yun, who has not seen much of the world, excited.

Of course, Shangguan Yun also carried two baked cakes in his arms as dinner, because many of the disciples in the lower courtyard had not yet started to open the valley, and many things such as clothes and food still had to be bought for silver, and as a new disciple, he still had two dollars of silver to receive every month, two hundred yuan of money, saving flowers, it was still enough to eat, you must know that this is the Changchun Gate, the treatment of disciples is still good, and the junior disciples of many sects have no money to receive at all. Of course, Changchun Gate also charges a fee for accepting disciples, according to Deacon Ji, ordinary disciples have to pay three taels of silver to get started, but because Shangguan Yun is a specially approved disciple, it is exempted.

The moon slowly climbed up, Shangguan Yun hugged the new bed, he didn't fall asleep for a long time, looking at the moon outside the window through the window lattice, he had complicated emotions in his heart. You know, he is not yet fourteen years old, but he is already an orphan, all the drastic changes in the past period of time, and now he is just able to calm down and think, and embark on the road of cultivating immortals, which makes him feel a little longing in his heart, although this feeling dilutes the sadness in his heart, but what will happen tomorrow? Who knows? At this moment, this little boy clearly felt a strong feeling of loneliness.

Before dawn the next day, Shangguan Yun got up, because he remembered that Zhao Laowei had not done anything about asking him to water the medicine garden yesterday, and he was afraid that Zhao Laowei would be mad, so he got up when the sky was slightly bright, found a flat pole and two buckets in the garden, and went to the small waterhole under the waterfall to fetch water. Fortunately, the waterhole is very close to the medicine garden, only a few hundred steps away, but the area of the three acres of medicine garden is not small, Shangguan Yun stopped and picked dozens of times, and it took nearly two hours to water the medicine garden together.

Old Monster Zhao had already gotten up, or he hadn't slept at all, and when Shangguan Yun had just finished watering the garden, he appeared with a glare.

"Boy, it's not bad, keep up the good work, it's okay today, you go and do your own thing, remember, the book I gave you should be studied hard, you can ask me if you don't understand." After saying that, Old Monster Zhao turned back to his cave mansion.

Shangguan Yun rested for a while, got up from the ground and walked to the courtyard square, he was still worried about what Deacon Ji had told him yesterday, he had to go to the trial hall in charge of the disciple's entry and promotion assessment to test his spiritual root, and then go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to get the exercises that suited him. The trial hall is on the east side of the lower courtyard square, Shangguan Yun quickly found it, and when he walked to the trial pavilion, he saw a bunch of disciples wearing Taoist robes gathered at the door, it turned out that today was exactly fifteen, it was the monthly trial day stipulated by the door, these disciples were all lined up to come to the Dragon and Tiger Pavilion in the hall to challenge the trial, in order to test their skills, Shangguan Yun had not changed into a Taoist robe, he was still wearing his hunting clothes, so a group of disciples also looked at him curiously, and a few of them also discussed.

"Where did that little guy come from, is he a disciple in the door?"

"Little guy, what are you doing here?" At this time, a Dao Master at the gate of the Trial Pavilion asked Shangguan Yun.

"I am a disciple who came yesterday, and Deacon Ji asked me to test the spiritual root. Shangguan Yun hurriedly bowed to the responsible Dao Master and took out his identity jade plate.

"Oh, your name is Shangguan Yun, Deacon Ji has already told me, you can come in with me. After the Dao Master finished speaking, he led Shangguan Yun into the Trial Pavilion.

"Come, put your left hand here. The Taoist pointed to a crystal pillar in the center of the hall.

Shangguan Yun hurriedly stretched out his left hand and put it on a recess on the crystal stone pillar, only to see that the Taoist chief pressed it somewhere on the base of the stone pillar, and a cloud-like light rose on the crystal stone pillar, first gold, then cyan, blue, red, and finally yellow light. Shangguan Yun only felt that there was a sudden suction force on the crystal stone pillar that firmly sucked his hand, and then there was one air flow after another pouring into his body from the palm of his hand.

The light on the crystal pillar changed for a while, and finally only red, yellow, and gold were left, with the yellow light being the most dazzling, the red one being the second, and the golden one being the weakest.

"Fire, earth, and gold are the three spiritual roots, and the earth is the strongest, followed by fire. ”

"Not bad. The Dao Master who helped Shangguan Yun test said with a smile to Shangguan Yun, take this to the Hidden Scripture Pavilion to find exercises suitable for your cultivation, and then handed Shangguan Yun a wooden card with words written on it.

When chatting with Deacon Ji yesterday, Shangguan Yun already knew that not all people in this world can cultivate, although the spiritual root corresponds to the five elements, and everyone has it, but most of the people in this world have very weak and messy spiritual roots, that is, the void spirit root, which does not have growth, and cannot be cultivated successfully at all. And among the people who have true spiritual roots, most of them are four-attribute spiritual roots, three-spirit roots, and their cultivation is relatively slow, and only those with dual-attribute spiritual roots or single-attribute spiritual roots are the best among those who cultivate, and they are much faster to cultivate than others, and they are also easier to succeed in the later stages of rushing. And those extremely rare mutated spirit roots, such as thunder attribute and ice attribute spirit roots, are even more superb, and they are the most valued among all sects. Therefore, although his three spirit roots are good, they are not of the highest grade, but he can cultivate, Shangguan Yun is already very happy.

As for so many disciples of the Void Spirit Root who wanted to learn the Dao, I heard Deacon Ji say that they all only had a registered identity, and most of them were learning basic talismans, practicing health preservation techniques, and basic pill practices, so they all went down the mountain. It's just that what Shangguan Yun didn't know was that he himself was originally a void spirit root, but the Nine Dragons Vermilion Fruit he took had already transformed his body, and the benefits brought by the Nine Dragons Vermilion Fruit would not be known until later.

Coming out of the trial hall, Shangguan Yun went straight to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion in the lower courtyard was located in a mountain col, surrounded by lush trees, but it was also quiet.

When Shangguan Yun came out of the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, he was somewhat disappointed in his heart, he originally thought that he could go in and choose a good selection and choose a powerful immortal method, although he didn't know if it was powerful or not, but he could always guess it by looking at the name. As a result, when he handed his test results to the deacon of the Scripture Pavilion, the deacon just glanced at it quickly, and then took out a copy of "Thick Earth Formula" from the shelf behind him and gave it to him, saying that he was a beginner disciple, and there was nothing to choose from in the exercises, so just use this to lay a foundation. Shangguan Yun wanted to say a few more words, but the deacon suddenly said to him very seriously: "Don't underestimate this "Thick Earth Technique", he is very good at laying the foundation exercises, young people should not be too ambitious。。。。。。 Then Shangguan Yun could only bow his head and remain silent.

After receiving the exercises, Shangguan Yun was not in a hurry to return to Feiliu Valley, and after going around a few places in the lower courtyard and recognizing the way, he went straight to Fenghua Town, which was ten miles away from the lower courtyard. Deacon Ji told him that if he needed to buy something for everyday life, he could go there to buy it, but he went there for his own purpose today.