Chapter 8 Warm and cold human feelings refine the Taoist heart
On the Dharma platform, on the wide bluestone square, Zhang Fan and other disciples stood quietly.
The nine Zhuji elders in front of them looked at the young men and girls, and Shui Yuan was reporting to them about the situation of the new disciples.
After a while, the elders nodded, and Shui Yuan stepped aside. A cold woman in a white robe stepped forward to Leng Yue's side, and said lightly: "Leng Yue, this seat is a real person in Lingyue, specializing in the art of resisting water, are you willing to learn the Tao with me?" Leng Yue was overjoyed when she heard this, and immediately knelt down and said, "Disciple Leng Yue meets the master." ”
Lingyue smiled and said, "Good apprentice, get up quickly and go with the teacher." Immediately, the Lingyue Fairy took Leng Yue and left with the envious gaze of the young girls.
Then a purple-robed man stepped forward, came to Murong Qianxun's side, and said with a smile: "This seat is a quiet and real person, as the head of this faction, are you willing to worship me as a teacher?" Murong Qianxun said in ecstasy: "Apprentice Qianxun to meet the master." The quiet real person smiled: "Okay, come with me." Immediately, Murong Qianxun left with the head of the house.
The two disciples with the best spiritual roots were selected by the head of the sect and the Lingyue Fairy respectively, and the other seven elders sighed secretly, but they were just in vain, and after a sigh, everyone also selected several disciples to leave. Perhaps they feel that although the quality of their disciples is not good, they can surpass others in quantity.
Murong Qianji was also selected by a Zhuji real person named Youshan, that is, the fat man who was in the penultimate test was also taken by a Zhuji monk named Youren to be a Taoist boy, only Zhang Fan was the most weird, no one wanted him.
Obviously, the quality of this group of disciples is okay, even if Dao Tong is only an outer disciple. But there are also benefits. It's a pity that after the elders left, Zhang Fan still looked at the square in a daze.
"Do these elders dislike their poor qualifications? No, right? That fat man is only a little bit better than me, and he has become a Taoist child, can't I even be a Taoist child?" Zhang Fan was sad and thought silently.
"Senior brother. You can't blame me for this, you can only blame you for breaking the Spirit Trial Pillar, and the elders don't dare to ask you. Shui Yuan's voice sounded in Zhang Fan's ears.
Zhang Fan came back to his senses and said lightly: "I haven't destroyed the Spirit Trial Divine Pillar at all, aren't you imposing the crime on me?" Shui Yuan smiled: "Senior brother, although everyone knows that you have not destroyed the Spirit Trial Divine Pillar, you are the last disciple to participate in the qualification test." And it's the disciple with the worst qualifications, hey, I can't help it, senior brother. Why don't you go outside and be a miscellaneous disciple, although the aura on the islands outside is not very strong, but some spirit islands have elders in charge, and you can cultivate on the island. Usually do some sect tasks. Although there is no supply of spirit stones and elixirs, as long as you often go to sect tasks, you can still exchange for spirit pills and spirit stones for cultivation if you have enough points. ”
Zhang Fan shook his head resolutely and asked, "Senior brother, isn't there a place for the lower ones in the sect?" Shui Yuan smiled: "Senior brother don't worry, although those junior brothers and sisters follow the elders to cultivate, except for the personal disciples, the rest of the disciples spend most of their time cultivating in the Eagle Pavilion in the east. Each person has a secret room as a place to practice and live, and the junior and junior disciples have their own one. In addition, if the junior disciple does not want to go to the outer islands to cultivate. There is also an elder in the door who has no Dao Tong by his side, but he has a strange temper, if you want, you can try it. ”
Zhang Fan's heart warmed a little when he heard this, and said lightly: "Thank you, senior brother." Seeing this, Shui Yuan didn't say much, just took out a blue jade slip, handed it to Zhang Fan, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, this is a jade slip that records the general situation of the sect, you don't have a master, and you don't have points to exchange for huàn jade slips for the time being." But I happen to have a surplus here, brother, so I'll give it to you. Zhang Fan thanked: "Thank you, senior brother, Zhang Fan is grateful." ”
Shui Yuan said with a smile: "Senior brother is polite, as long as you put the jade slip on the center of your eyebrows and concentrate on the jade slip, you will know the information inside, senior brother, I have something to do, so I won't bother the junior brother." As he spoke, he rode away from the wind.
After Shui Yuan left, a faint cloud rose on Zhang Fan's face, and he secretly thought: "Power Eye! These hypocrites want to cut off my path with just a few rumors, they are really indifferent, and they have wasted hundreds of years of time in vain." ”
Having said that, Zhang Fan also knew that his qualifications might not be good, no wonder Fairy Lingyun refused to accept him as an apprentice.
He was not an ordinary teenager, and after a little emotion, he didn't complain about his qualifications anymore, but read the information in the jade slip according to what Shui Yuan said.
After a while, a vast piece of information rushed into Zhang Fan's mind, and the matter of the Beiming faction and immortal cultivation suddenly appeared clearly in his mind.
Located in the vast sea area north of the Five Elements Divine Prefecture, the Beiming Sect was founded by a Yuanying monk tens of thousands of years ago, and has become one of the five major sects of the Five Elements Divine Prefecture.
Beiming Island, where the Beiming Sect Mountain Gate is located, is a rare spiritual island in the north of this Shenzhou, with a radius of tens of thousands of miles, and there is a spiritual sea - Beiming, that is, the vast blue ocean that Zhang Fan saw after entering and exiting the Great Array of Ten Thousand Waters and Hidden Dust. It is precisely because of the existence of the Beiming Spirit Ocean that the Beiming faction has prospered for tens of thousands of years.
The Beiming faction can be roughly divided into three parts, the many spirit islands outside the main island of Beiming, the countless floating sea spirit islands in the big array, and the Beiming with many spirit beasts.
The ancestor of Jindan cultivated in Beiming and was rarely born. A small number of Zhuji elders meditated on the outer spirit islands. In the north, the north side is the place where the head and the elders cultivate, the middle is the place where the head hall and the pavilion are located, the south side is the Xiuxianfang City within the sect, and the east and west sides are the places where the outer disciples, miscellaneous disciples and elite disciples and inner disciples cultivate.
A total of seven pavilions, including the Eagle Pavilion, the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, the Refining Instrument Pavilion, the Alchemy Pavilion, the Spirit Beast Pavilion, the Contribution Pavilion and the Acting Dao Pavilion, are located on the seven spirit islands around the Spirit Island where the main hall of the head is located. The Zangjing Pavilion is located due north, behind the main hall, the Alchemy Pavilion and the Refining Pavilion are located in the west, the Eagle Pavilion and the Spirit Beast Pavilion are located in the east, and the Contribution Pavilion and the Acting Dao Pavilion are located in the southwest and southeast of the main hall respectively.
The Pavilion is a place for elders of the Beiming School or disciples who have cultivated to be advanced to give lectures and lectures for disciples who have just entered the path, and it is also a place for disciples to communicate and learn from each other.
As an outer disciple, Zhang Fan had his own residence on the remote Spirit Island in the east, and he had no elders to lead him, so he could only find it by himself.
Just as Zhang Fan was concentrating on the information mentioned in the jade slip, the four silver-haired veteran swords came to the Dharma stage.
An old man in a blue robe approached and said with a smile: "Young man." Why is there such sorrow, and the word comes to us to hear it? Zhang Fan hadn't noticed anyone coming before, and he was shocked by the words. He actually looked at the four silver-haired old men in a daze, speechless.
The old man smiled and said, "Young man, you don't have to worry, we are all Jindan monks who are cultivating in the sect, you can express the sorrow in your heart, and I can guide you." ”
Zhang Fan hurriedly bowed down and said, "Thank you for the kindness of the ancestors, the disciple is a new disciple of this session." However, the qualifications are a little poor, and no elder takes a fancy to them, and is thinking about what to do in the future. ”
The four old men all burst out laughing. Zhang Fan's face was full of confusion.
The blue-robed old man smiled and said, "That's it, that's it, I'll wait for the four of us to get out of the customs once in a hundred years, and I'll meet you today." It's fate. Let's pass on the supreme method of qi cultivation of your own sect - the method of qi cultivation of the Xuanming True Water Technique. As he spoke, he lightly clicked, and a streamer did not enter Zhang Fan's eyebrows.
The four elders glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "All kinds of creation are fate, gains and losses are their own inches, how can it be an ordinary thing to cultivate immortals, go through the red dust to refine the mirror heart, haha......" laughed, and the four swords turned into four streamers and disappeared into the secluded Beiming. There was no trace of it.
Zhang Fan came back to his senses and listened to Fang Cai's old words. sighed slightly in his heart, and then walked quickly to the east.
After a while, Zhang Fan came to a small island, the island is full of fine houses, lush flowers and plants, and spirit birds are singing, which has a fairy atmosphere.
A gray-shirted handyman who was watering flowers and cultivating medicine saw someone coming, so he stepped forward and asked, "Senior brother is here to find the cave mansion?" Zhang Fan said lightly: "Yes, do you know where the outer disciples live?"
The miscellaneous servant was slightly shocked when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "Senior brother, but there are no spirit stones?" Zhang Fan said lightly: "A person who cultivates immortals, with the aura of heaven and earth as the source of Taoism, why should he be as greedy as a mortal?"
The handyman said with a smile: "Senior brother's realm is profound, and my junior brother admires it." However, if the senior brother does not have a spirit stone to pay, he can only open up a cave and retreat by himself like our miscellaneous disciples. Zhang Fan said lightly: "My heart is like a mirror, why should I be afraid of red dust? ”
The handyman smiled and said, "Senior brother, please come with me, our residence is on a smaller spirit island, the Blue Hill, outside this Blue Island. Although there is no strong aura of Oshima, there are several brothers and sisters living there, and there is everything for food. Everyone has cultivated immortals for many years, although it is difficult to reach the realm of foundation building, but there are also first- and second-level cultivation of qi training. Although Senior Brother is an outer disciple, he must not be favored by the elders, right? Although our Lanqiu is not famous, we all have a second-hand unique skill, if you don't dislike it, you can cultivate with us, how about it?" Zhang Fan smiled: "Thank you, Senior Brother." ”
Then the two of them left quickly, and in a blink of an eye, they crossed the Hongqiao and came to a spirit island within a radius of several miles.
Seven or eight rugged wooden houses are scattered in the forest, and patches of spiritual medicine fields and grain fields are scattered all over the island.
Seeing this, Zhang Fan was slightly shocked, and hurriedly asked the miscellaneous servant: "Senior brother, why did you become a farmer like a mortal, isn't this putting the cart before the horse?"
The miscellaneous servant smiled and said: "Senior brother is really joking, the reason why we miscellaneous servants can cultivate in the island is to plant spirit valleys and spiritual vegetables for the disciples in the sect who have not yet entered the foundation building period, breed spirit beasts, and assist them in cultivating, otherwise how can we, the disciples who have not passed the three levels of entry, enter the sect to cultivate immortals?"
Zhang Fan smiled bitterly, his heart was sad, and he thought: "It turns out that the immortal cultivation world is also like the mortal world, and it is difficult to be truly pure!"
Seeing this, the miscellaneous servants smiled and said: "Senior brother, there is no need to sigh, the world of cultivating immortals is a world that is more cruel than the secular rivers and lakes martial arts, there are people here who can cultivate immortals and live forever, there are people who work hard for food and clothing, some people can turn the world upside down with a snap of their fingers, and some people are not as weak as spirit animals." We who cultivate immortals only talk about immortality, only about life and death, so why do we need to care about such trivial things?"
Zhang Fan said with a smile: "That's it, that's it, since Zhang is in the quagmire, just keep his heart, why care about that absurd and bizarre thing? Let's go." With that, he and the handyman came to a wooden house that looked a little old.
The handyman smiled and said, "Senior brother, this wooden house is where one of our dead senior brothers lived before his death, and no one has lived in it since he disappeared. If the senior brother doesn't dislike it, let's live here temporarily. In the future, in addition to cultivation, the senior brother can open up the spiritual field by himself, plant the spiritual valley and spiritual vegetables, use them for cultivation or use them to redeem the contributions of the huàn sect, go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to borrow jade slips, go to the Alchemy Pavilion to exchange for spiritual pills, go to the Cultivation Pavilion to exchange for magic weapons, and even go to the Spirit Beast Pavilion to buy spiritual beasts. In short, within the sect, with the contribution of the sect, you can buy the things you need for cultivation, but ......"
Zhang Fan said lightly: "I know, you don't need to say much." Seeing this, the handyman moved his heart, took out a few bags of Linggu from the storage bag on his waist, and said: "Senior brother, senior brother will give you three bags of Linggu, you can eat two and a half bags, and plant the remaining half of the bag in the spiritual field you have opened up, and within three months, the Linggu will mature, and then you will have spirit stones and a source of contribution." Senior brother, I was just doing the task, and I couldn't delay, so I took my leave. With that, he walked away quickly.
Zhang Fan looked at the back of the departing handyman, sighed long, and said: "That's it, why should I be different? Now that the little master has fallen in Pingyang, he will be patient for the time being, and he will never eat the Spirit Valley until his cultivation is successful." There are so many spirit beasts in this immortal cultivation realm, and the little master will turn all of them into the rations of the young master's immortal cultivation, haha......" He laughed wildly and put the spirit valley into the Bibo ring, and then pushed the door into the house. (To be continued......)