Chapter 8 Enlightenment

The old man stared at everyone again as he spoke, but Xiao Ling always felt that the old man seemed to look at him more intentionally or unintentionally. In fact, Xiao Ling was also very surprised when he didn't know about the old man, the old man felt a strange subtle fluctuation on Xiao Ling's body, but he knew that this kind of fluctuation did not belong to Xiao Ling. The reason why the old man didn't think of demon beasts was because according to common sense, it was impossible for people without mana to control demon beasts. However, this is still the result of the Purple Fire Ant Queen's efforts to restrain the fluctuations of the essence qi, otherwise the old man would not have a slight feeling.

"Now that you have become an inner disciple, you have to start to enlighten and cultivate from today, some of the mundane things in the past have been far away from you, and to a certain extent, you are also cultivators. Now I'm going to tell you a little bit about monasticism. By the way, you can call me Uncle Ma in the future, as long as you don't meet the requirements within three years, I will arrange your training, but if you have someone who meets the requirements in advance, you can return to your respective families or sects first and wait for the follow-up trials. The path of cultivation is an act against the sky, a life span against the sky, and an ability to go against the sky. Cultivation is to refine the essence of heaven and earth into the body, perceive the power of heaven and earth, and achieve immortality and possess huge mana. And the cultivation that is about to start is from the root, and the so-called root is the forging body, and the forging body is divided into nine layers. Forging the body is to temper the body through some special exercises, and use some natural treasures to cultivate the body and increase the strength and sensitivity of the body. When the body reaches a certain strength, with the cooperation of heaven and earth treasures, some essence qi will be produced in the body, and only after the body has these essence qi can it sense the essence qi that exists between heaven and earth and refine it. These essence qi is also commonly known as mana, and only with mana can you control some spells or magic weapons. After the forging body reaches the first level, a trace of essence energy will be generated in the body, but only after reaching the fourth level, the mana in the body is enough to control some simple artifacts, and the mind can be released. And after you reach the fourth level of forging body, you can be called a cultivator, even if you are not in the sect, or in the outside world, you can survive better. When you reach the quadruple level, you will give you the follow-up body forging exercises and some spells, and everyone can choose to stay in the body forging hall or return to their respective families or sects first to wait for the later trials. The essence qi in the four-to-sixfold body will gradually grow, and when the essence qi condenses into an air mass in the abdomen, it will reach the seventh level, and the seventh-to-ninefold essence qi mass will gradually become larger, and there are many high-level spells that can be cultivated. If the essence qi mass in the body is liquefied, then it has entered the qi gathering period, and it is truly a cultivator, and you can use the essence qi in your body to condense the true yuan fire to refine the pill or refine the weapon. But these are still far away for you, and it will take at least seven or eight or ten years. The old man said lightly.

"In addition, before you reach the fourth level, you are cultivating here, and you have also seen those large vats in front of the main hall, and after those vats are the places where you sleep, rest and meditate, and inside are the spiritual nights soaked in some special medicinal herbs, which can restore the physical strength consumed during body forging, and increase the I Ching bone washing, so that people can produce essence qi faster. These are provided for you by the sect before you reach the fourfold level. When you reach the fourth level, you will have to find and fight for your own cultivation resources. That is, the reward of the sect when you go out to find or help the sect do things. Of course, after entering the sect, some will usually be allocated, but the allocated resources are far from enough for cultivation. So, from now on, if you want to go further on the path of monasticism, you need to work harder than others and find more resources. You need not only talent, but also a resilient heart and unpredictable chances. From now on, you will sit here, and here is the fourfold cultivation method before the forging body, and you will take it to enlightenment. Remember that you are not allowed to leave the main hall until you have thoroughly comprehended it, and that it is your own business to comprehend, and you must not ask others, otherwise you will be expelled from the sect. In addition, each person will receive a Zhuyu grass every month, which is provided by the sect for free. Because it is impossible for the sect to leave mortals to serve your food. However, by the time you reach the sevenfold forging body, you will be able to partially open the valley, and at that time, the sect will no longer provide Zhu Yucao. Okay, you guys do it for yourselves. With a wave of Uncle Ma's hand, nearly two hundred pieces of ancient yellow paper flew in front of everyone, and then got up and walked out of the hall.

Xiao Ling reached out and took the piece of paper and looked at it carefully. The paper is an ancient yellow color, much thicker than ordinary paper, and the surface has a faint golden glow. There is no handwriting on it, but some strange runes will appear as the golden light flashes, but the runes are also fleeting. Seeing that everyone was unclear, Xiao Ling was a little funny, this seems to be paper, but it is not actually paper. Xiao Ling learned through Chen Li's information that this is a kind of condensed with mana to record some words, but these words are not seen with the naked eye, but need to be inhaled into the body in a special way and imprinted directly in his mind.

Xiao Ling took the paper, closed it with both hands, closed his eyes, and sensed the piece of paper in his hand with his mind. Because mortal thoughts cannot be released, but if you use your mind to feel it, it will flow in your body, although it is very difficult.

Half an hour later, Xiao Ling's thoughts that had closed his eyes had slowly reached his palms. Through the induction of his mind, Xiao Ling felt that the paper in his palm was constantly changing, and the surface was changing like water waves.

In the midst of this wave, it was as if something was about to break through the waves.

Xiao Ling sensed the things in the water waves with his heart, and slowly, another half an hour passed. The things in the waves finally broke out of the waves, and the little golden fish were shining.

As soon as the little fish appeared, it burrowed into Xiao Ling's palms. When the small fish drilled into Xiao Ling's palms, the ancient yellow paper also turned into a little yellow light and disappeared.

Xiao Yu entered his palms and quickly blended into Xiao Ling's thoughts, turning into ancient characters.

These words are not much, and they are more than 1,000 words in total. However, every word is obscure and abnormal, although Xiao Ling learned a lot of ancient characters from Mr. Zhu, but now it seems to be difficult to understand.

Xiao Ling opened his eyes and looked around, everyone used various ways to find a way to read the words on the paper, but except for Yu Xueling and Lu Jian, the others had not succeeded.

Yu Xueling and Lu Jian looked as if they were reading very easily. Xiao Ling looked at it deeply, and communicated with the purple fire ant queen in her bag, and the queen ant told Xiao Ling in her mind that there was a fluctuation of the essence qi in the two of them, although it was very small, but it did exist. In this case, Xiao Ling Zhilu said, these two people have at least forged one or two bodies, no wonder the trial was so easy. It seems that the backgrounds of the two of them are not small, because although there are many methods of forging body cultivation, mortals still can't get them.

Xiao Ling closed his eyes again, his mind sank into the cultivation method, and comprehended word by word. Fortunately, Xiao Ling knows a lot about ancient characters, otherwise it would be more troublesome to understand.

Half an hour later, Xiao Ling understood the first four sentences, about three crosses. Although it was very difficult, Xiao Ling was still very excited, and everything was difficult at the beginning.

In this way, the whole hall was silent, some were trying to read the paper, and some were trying to understand the method of reading.

In the situation of everyone's different shapes, time also passed quickly, and slowly the sky revealed a touch of fish belly white, and the night passed like this. However, looking at everyone's appearance, the harvest is still very large, only seven or eight people have not yet found a way to crack the reading, and the others are all enlightened. And in one night, Xiao Ling has already experienced more than half of it, and the harvest is very great.

These are the first two cultivation methods that Xiao Ling has comprehended, and these cultivation methods are to stimulate the potential of the body in a special way. However, these special methods were far from being comparable to the cultivation methods of the martial arts practitioners that Xiao Ling had seen in the secular world, and the intensity and difficulty were simply very different. Xiao Ling just understood this part of the situation, sometimes there was a feeling that it was not something that people did, but after slowly calming down, Xiao Ling also understood that cultivation was against the sky, and the method of cultivation was definitely not something that secular people could understand. After calming down, Xiao Ling continued to comprehend the following parts.

However, the comprehension of the following part is far more difficult than that of the previous part, and Xiao Ling's comprehension speed has also dropped by nearly half. These young men and women in the real hall all frowned, looking sad, it seems that everyone's understanding is not smooth.

In the blink of an eye, half a day has passed, and the remaining part of Xiao Ling has only comprehended more than ten sentences, and the appearance of more than 100 words is far lower than Xiao Ling's imagination. However, Xiao Ling didn't care too much, stabilized his mind, and continued to comprehend. The last few people in the main hall also cracked the method of reading, and at this time, Yu Xueling and Lu Jian stood up almost at the same time, obviously the two of them had thoroughly understood the entire ancient text.

Many people in the main hall watched the two of them step out of the hall in disbelief, and there was a hint of powerlessness in their eyes. However, Xiao Ling turned a deaf ear to this, Xiao Ling knew that the two of them had already understood these exercises thoroughly, but insisting on not coming out until now made Xiao Ling feel a little strange. It seems that the endurance of these two people is still good.

On a stone platform outside the main hall, Uncle Ma sat cross-legged on it, and when he saw two young men and women coming out, he opened his eyes and looked at the two of them with two fierce eyes.

"You've both understood it thoroughly?"

"Yes, Uncle Ma!" the two replied with their heads bowed.

"Well, since you have understood it thoroughly, let's ask you a few words, if it's okay, the two of you can start cultivating. Uncle Ma withdrew his sharp gaze and said lightly.

"Yes, Uncle Ma, please correct me a lot!" the two replied respectfully.

Next, Uncle Ma asked the two of them some cultivation methods in ancient texts, and the two of them answered them accurately. However, Uncle Ma was not surprised, Uncle Ma touched a piece of jade in his hand, feeling the slightest fluctuation on the jade, he understood that the two of them were covering up the mana in their bodies. It seems that it should be the kind of treasure that doesn't know the way, aren't these two people from those two families?

"Forget it, if it were the people of those two families, these things would not be the master of my ability. Uncle Ma thought in his heart, and waved his hand to let the two choose a big vat to cultivate, because according to the rules of the sect, only young men and women who have not yet cultivated are accepted.

There is a large vat every more than ten zhang or so in front of the hall, which contains most of the dark green water liquid, and the water exudes a faint fishy smell. And around the large vat, there are all kinds of equipment, these equipment rooms assist in forging body cultivation, and there is also a small light array emitting a faint white light curtain to cover this large vat and these equipment. Yu Xueling and Lu Jian each chose a large vat that was a little more on the side, and stood in the light curtain to check the equipment and the water in the vat.

The sky was slowly darkening, and the night was slowly falling, and Xiao Ling had already thoroughly comprehended the first three exercises. And there was still silence in the main hall, since Lu Jian and Yu Xueling walked out at noon, no one in the hall had gone out, and obviously no one had understood the entire ancient text.

Night fell, and the hall was pitch black. And in this dark hall, nearly two hundred subtle breathing sounds came out in a low voice, and only by listening to these breathing sounds can you know that there are nearly two hundred people here. Although these two hundred people have Zhu Yucao to support their physical strength, after all, it has been a day and a night, and the spirit is still unbearable, and some of these young men and women still can't support it.

"Bang", someone fell to the ground in the middle of the night, I don't know if it was too sleepy and fell asleep or something else. The others were silent, and no one came to help or look. After all, these young men and women who have come to this point may have a much stronger heart than most adults, and no one cares who falls.

Xiao Ling heard that someone had fallen to the ground, opened his eyes and looked at the dark hall, stood up, and walked in the direction of the fallen person. After groping for a few steps, he heard the sound of heavy breathing on the ground, Xiao Ling bent down and reached out to hug a petite body on the ground.

Xiao Ling hugged his petite body and walked outside the hall with his feelings.

One step and two steps, a short distance, Xiao Ling walked for a quarter of an hour, and saw a little night light exposed in the gap in the hall door, Xiao Ling forcefully opened the hall door and walked out of the gap.

Outside the hall, Uncle Ma opened his eyes and saw Xiao Ling coming out with a figure in his arms.

"Uncle Ma, she's fainted and needs some help. Xiao Ling said in a low voice.

"You're Xiao Ling, right! Don't you know that if you take her out and take her out, it will delay your enlightenment time? And don't you know that people who cultivate the Tao of the Tao should have a heart like a mirror and ignore external objects? What do you do is a bit contrary to the path of cultivation! Moreover, if you faint and wake up by yourself, how can others intervene? Besides, where are you now? If you don't do well, you will be expelled from the sect if you leave the main hall for no reason!" Uncle Ma's voice was a little low and a little displeased!

"Uncle Qiqi, the disciple of the Gongfa has just finished his enlightenment, and when he heard the sound of this sister falling to the ground, he felt that it might be inappropriate, so he took him out, and begged Uncle Ma to treat him. If there is any fault, please punish the disciple by Uncle Ma!" Xiao Ling thought about it and replied, but he was still a little surprised that Uncle Ma was able to remember his name, but when he first entered the hall, everyone reported their names one by one. In fact, what Xiao Ling didn't know was that cultivation could not only strengthen the body, but also make people deaf and clear.

"Oh, if the enlightenment is completed, I won't punish you, it's a simple matter of healing. But do you know that the Dao, the matter of cultivating the Tao must not be interfered with by foreign affairs, how can you achieve the Great Dao by being easily moved by foreign affairs like you?" Uncle Ma's tone softened slightly.

"Uncle Huima, the disciple is young, and he still can't fully understand the matter of cultivation! But this sister has just started through the trial like me, and now she can be regarded as a fellow disciple, and the disciple can't do it anyway to see this fellow sister faint and ignore it. Please also ask Uncle Ma to forgive the disciple's impulsive mistakes!" Xiao Ling replied without much thought.

"Well, yes! Seeing a fellow student sick and ignoring it is indeed not something that a young man can do. Actually, I don't mean to blame you for being able to do this, you can do it recklessly, and you are an upright person! Okay, you put her here, and I will treat her! You go find a place to cultivate! But you have to remember what I said, although the path of cultivation is cultivation, it is also the cultivation of the mind, and only when your state of mind is strong can you go further!" Uncle Ma looked at Xiao Ling with a strange look in his eyes.