After waiting alone at the door of Tingyun Pavilion for nearly two hours, Sun Fu finally saw Princess Shui Rao coming over with Xiaohong. Seeing him, Princess Shui Rao just raised her finger and waved her finger, motioning for him to enter together. The three of them came directly to the largest house in the middle, and before they had time to admire the furnishings in the house, Princess Shui Rao turned around and asked, "Sun Fu, are you willing to worship me as a teacher and practice Taoism?"

Sun Fu knelt down when he heard this: "Sun Fu is willing, please ask the princess to give advice." ”

"Okay, get up. Since you are willing to worship me as a teacher, don't call me a princess in the future, cultivators rarely have secular titles, you can call me a teacher. Princess Shui Rao nodded.

"Yes, Master. ”

"I think you're tired today, so go and rest, your room is in the courtyard on the east side. Come here tomorrow morning to see me. Shui Rao said and looked at Xiaohong and said, "Help him go to the Warehousing Pavilion, Dan Pavilion and Foundry Pavilion to get all the items, and don't hide them." Also, prepare some food for him. ”

"Yes. Although Xiaohong was a little reluctant, seeing that Shui Rao really accepted Sun Fu as an apprentice, he still decided to do these things well, because he was not Shui Rao's apprentice, but an entourage.

Listening to the east courtyard of Yunge, there are two houses and all of them are empty, Sun Fu chose the one near the middle according to his habit, after an hour of hard work, Xiaohong walked in with a big tray, three dishes, one soup and a big bowl of rice on the top plate, then a colorful waist card, and then three Dan bottles and two sets of white robes, Sun Fu noticed that the placket of this robe was embroidered with white patterns.

However, Sun Fu didn't think about it, and after simply eating this meal, he lay on the bed and forced himself to sleep, he was about to start practicing tomorrow, and he had to face it in his best state.

Early the next morning, Sun Fu came to the door of Shui Rao's room, but to his surprise, Shui Rao was already waiting for him.

Guiding him to sit on the arranged futon, Princess Shui Rao pondered for a while, and then said to him: "Starting from Zhao Tianqi, you are my second disciple, you must know this, if you see Zhao Tianqi one day, you still have to respect him as a senior brother." I have always accepted apprentices because of fate, and I don't have any plans, so there is a big age difference between you, but this is nothing, the master is the teacher, maybe you will surpass him in a few years. After that, he picked up a jade slip beside him and handed it to Sun Fu, "This is the method of practicing qi in the Xiaoyao Sect, you can put it away." But let me start with you. ”

Then Shui Rao got up and walked out of the courtyard, stood still under a begonia tree, looked at Sun Fu who followed and said: "Everything in this world has a cause, and it will eventually be annihilated, do you know why?"

"Please advise me. ”

"Because of Shouyuan. There is a saying that summer insects cannot be said to ice, and the true meaning is that the longevity of summer insects is short, and there is never winter in their world, because his longevity is only a short summer. So you see that plants and trees will flourish and wither, animals and people will have life and death, whether it is plants, animals or us humans, from the beginning of the birth of this species, there is a force in the dark that determines his longevity, so what is this force?" Princess Shui Rao picked up a begonia leaf and played with it, and asked Sun Fu.

"Could it be the power of the heavens?" Sun Fu wondered.

"Otherwise, everyone is inspired by the power of heaven and bows to worship, this is the essence of Buddhism, and the Buddha's lineage is not as simple as I said, so if you meet a Buddhist disciple in the future, you must pay three points. After a digression, Shui Rao turned back to the subject: "If we attribute the power of the underworld just mentioned to the power of the heavens, then there would be no cultivators, and our ancestors discovered something very long ago. As she spoke, she took the fallen leaf in her hand to Sun Fu, and then opened her other hand, and saw that a halo slowly appeared on her hand, and the halo gathered on Shui Rao's index finger smartly, and then she gently pointed the index finger that emitted the halo on this dead leaf, and saw that this dead leaf, which had become dark brown, was slowly changing to the original bright color, and Sun Fu found that the veins of this leaf were flowing with the same light surging on Shui Rao's index finger.

"Did you see that?" Seeing Sun Fu's attentive observation, Shui Rao asked.

"When I saw the master, that is the power that determines the longevity of all things in the underworld. Sun Fu nodded heavily at Shui Rao, indicating that he understood.

"This kind of power is called spiritual power. The halo you just saw is a concrete manifestation of spiritual power, in fact, spiritual power cannot be seen, it is formless and substantial, but it fills the whole world, but it is not uniform, but it is rich in some places and thin in others. And the amount of spiritual power contained in the body of each species directly affects the longevity of all things. Speaking of this, Shui Rao waved her hand, and the leaves in her hand, which had been restored to their best condition, suddenly turned into powder, and the little light in the middle slowly returned to Shui Rao's index finger, and then disappeared.

"However, there are not so many spiritual powers in this world that are completely pure as the one you just saw, most of them exist in the form of aura, what you just saw is the aura that has been cultivated into spiritual power by me. Shui Rao looked at Sun Fu, and after he nodded to indicate that he knew, he continued: "In an extremely ancient era, our ancestors discovered this secret, so they began to think of ways to condense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to become their own spiritual power, so there were cultivators. They continue to try various methods, and then summarize, classify, and then pass down from generation to generation, so there is the so-called Taoist system, with the passage of time, the cultivators gradually differentiated, reorganized, experienced prosperity, but also experienced decline, has continued until today, has become the current sect, cave, scattered family, scattered cultivation pattern. ”

"Let's start with the aura," Shui Rao stopped and sorted out her thoughts for a while and then said: "With the passage of time, this world also produces inevitable changes due to the changes of all things in it, which is the so-called vicissitudes of life, but no matter how everything in this world changes, the massive aura of this world is almost inexhaustible, the difference is that due to the invasion, assimilation, and assimilation of various things, Compatible and even devoured, the aura has become more and more complicated from the pure aura of the ancient era, so the ancient people only needed to practice the qi, and they originally called themselves qi practitioners, but now they want to cultivate it is far from being as simple as it was at the beginning, so now people call themselves cultivators or monks, and cultivation refers to the process of cultivation, and the so-called first stage of attaining the Tao is just the pursuit of immortality that many ordinary people often mention. Since you're just getting started, that's all I need to say about the background and cause and effect of cultivation. ”

At the end of Shui Rao's words, Sun Fu felt that millions of pores in his body were opened, this was the life he wanted, compared with his previous emperor, the emptiness of being completely corpse vegetarian and not knowing where he came and went was completely filled on the first day he began to cultivate.

"Next, I will tell you about the distribution of sects on the continent and the related situation. Seeing that it was still early, Shui Rao decided to tell Sun Fu some more knowledge that he might use.

"As an emperor of an auxiliary country, I believe you should have a certain understanding of the structure of the continent, so let's talk directly about the sect of cultivation.

Monks due to the improvement of physical conditions and the assistance of spiritual power, so they can survive in almost all kinds of extremely difficult environments, so there may be monks in all parts of the world, the only criterion to identify whether they like a place is whether that place has a strong aura, of course, I just said, with the passage of time the aura has gradually changed, the so-called change is that the original pure aura is mixed with many other elements, such as the fire element, The water element, as well as the more special aura that exists in the land of extreme yin or the land of extreme yang, etc., so the cultivation methods of the monks now have also undergone major changes, that is, some of them choose to cultivate spiritual power with various elements, so that they can use various techniques more conveniently, and some extract the purest spiritual energy from various mixed aura, and then practice and transform it, and use it for their own use, I can't say which way is better, but both ways have their own advantages and disadvantages, and you have to make your own decisions on how to choose in the process of cultivation。 ”

Shui Rao motioned to Sun Fu not to think about what he had just mentioned, and then continued: "Our world is composed of two asymmetrical continents and the vast ocean in between, and there are countless small islands on the sea.

There are three monastic sects in the waters mentioned above, namely Penglai, Fengbo Palace, and the Burial Sect on the Small Continent.

On the larger continent where we are located, there are the Five Great Sects, the Twelve Cave Mansions, and the Three Hundred Scattered Cultivation Families, as well as countless scattered cultivators.

Among them, the five major sects include the Houtu Sect, the Creation Sect, the Sword Sect, the Instrument Sect, and the Xiaoyao Sect where we are located.

The Twelve Caves include the Wuxiang Cave, the Qi Sect, the One Cluster of Flowers, the Xuanyin Sect, the Wumen, the Huang Lao Sect, the Ichthyosaurus Sect, the Domineering Gate, the Crystal Cave, the Blood Pool, the Five Elements Sect and the Secret Gate.

As for the three hundred scattered cultivation families, it is actually a false finger, and there are many scattered cultivation sects in the future, and so on. They either live in Lingshan and Lingshui to cultivate behind closed doors, or they play in groups of three or five people, and they all have the Taoist lineage handed down by their predecessors, so they can't generalize.

Dividing them into various categories, in fact, it only depends on the scale, that is, the number of people, for example, the number of sects is far more than the number of caves, and the caves are more than the scattered cultivation families, as for the scattered cultivation families, there are dozens or hundreds of people, and there are only one family members. However, it is difficult to distinguish the exercises they each practice by relying on the above classification, for example, in fact, there are some scattered cultivation families that they practice in our sect, and they either seek refuge because of the geographical relationship or because they want to obtain some magic weapons or special materials that are difficult for them to obtain and sacrifice their own exercises, so this exercise has become a shared thing between the two families, of course, in addition, the plundering of the weak by the strong has always existed, so - you know. ”

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