Pu Liuxuan nodded slowly, "That's right. But do you know why students in the world, once they are over eighteen years old, will never be able to enter the Imperial Academy?"
"Disciple doesn't know."
Li Ang shook his head honestly and waited for the teacher to announce the answer.
The serious expression on Pu Liuxuan's face slowly faded, and he said softly: "Because, what professors in the academy teach students is not only Confucian classics, poems and songs, but also principles of heaven and earth such as how to build roads and improve agriculture.
The academy also teaches Taoism.
The true way.
The path of spiritual practice.”
Li Ang's heart suddenly paused, as if he was standing on a cliff path full of unknown possibilities and dangers, "The way to practice...?"
"That's right."
Pu Liuxuan nodded and said: "Fly to the sky and escape from the earth, control the clouds and mist, cross rivers and seas, and even sacrifice copper pills and flying swords like in the novel, and take the heads of enemies hundreds of miles away in a hundred breaths..."
Li Ang asked subconsciously: "Isn't it Qianli?"
"Ahem."
Pu Liuxuan choked, lowered his face, and said seriously: "It's not that fast. We must respect the rules of heaven and earth."
This... the flying sword has penetrated the air. Teacher, are you still teaching me science? Do you want to use aerodynamics to improve the shape of the flying sword and increase the speed of the flying sword?
Li Ang continued to admit his mistake honestly and asked Pu Liuxuan to continue.
"Anyway,"
Being interrupted by Li Ang, Pu Liuxuan could no longer pretend to be serious. He waved his hands and said casually: "The rule that people over the age of eighteen cannot be admitted to the Imperial Palace is, on the one hand, to cut off the wishful thinking of mediocre people and avoid wasting the manpower of recruiting every year.
Material resources.
On the other hand, it is because humans are the spiritual leaders of all things and gather the essence of heaven and earth. Most people have a little bit of cultivation talent - that is, spiritual veins.
There are five invisible and intangible spiritual veins in the body of ordinary people. These spiritual veins can communicate with heaven and earth and warm and nourish the soul. Once you are over eighteen years old, all spiritual veins will automatically close.
As for practitioners, before the spiritual veins are closed, they adopt various methods to irrigate, cultivate and strengthen the spiritual veins.
Let your spiritual veins grow like saplings, continuously absorb spiritual energy from the heaven and earth, open up the sea of qi, and form a cycle, thereby mastering power unimaginable by mortals."
Pu Liuxuan said lightly: "Although everyone has at least five spiritual veins, five spiritual veins are only the most basic conditions. Even if you have the best qi-entraining technique and the best cave heaven paradise, you can't cultivate anything in a hundred years.
Come to fame.
Practitioners who can officially step into the threshold of cultivation can have as many as ten or as few as eight or nine, and at least seven complete spiritual veins - this is already a very broad standard. According to what I have seen before
According to the information, more than 50% of the school-age children in Yu Kingdom have seven spiritual veins every year."
"Spiritual veins..."
Li Ang groaned, and immediately realized that something was wrong. He often read newspapers, periodicals and books in Zhenzhou Prefecture School and had never come across such information.
More than 50% of the school-age children in the Yu Kingdom meet the minimum spiritual standards. This kind of information can be called a military secret. How did Pu Liuxuan...
"I wonder how I know this?"
Pu Liuxuan picked up the already cold tea on the stone table, took a sip, and said calmly: "I came to Zhenzhou City alone fifteen years ago, became a teacher, and became close friends with your father.
Before that, I was actually a professor at the Academy."
"ah?"
Li Ang opened his mouth in disbelief. You must know that Xuegong is the highest academic institution in the Yu Kingdom, and its status is still higher than the Imperial College.
Every student there will either join the Sixth Ministry and hold an important position after graduation. Or join the military to open up territory for the Yu State. Or, they can hide their whereabouts and engage in some secret tasks that ordinary people cannot know - such as exploring the East by boat.
The endless sea, bringing back novel products from various islands.
The Academy itself is the highest and largest mountain in the Yu Kingdom. As long as you enter it, you will not only have a smooth career in the future, but also have a strong interpersonal network, which is comparable to a fish leaping over a dragon's gate.
As for the academic professors who once taught those pillars of the empire, their status is so high that it goes without saying.
"do not think too much."
Pu Liuxuan looked at Li Ang's astonished expression and sighed, half amused, half sadly, he gently put down the teacup and said calmly: "Thirteen years ago, I voluntarily resigned from my position as a professor in the Academy and sealed off all my cultivation.
Returned to his hometown of Zhenzhou from Chang'an.
Last month, I received a letter from the Academy, reinstating my professorship.
Each academic staff member has a recommendation quota every year, and can recommend a student to skip the provincial examination in the state capital and go directly to Chang'an to take the preliminary examination of the academy."
Pu Liuxuan looked at the fallen leaves on the stone table with sad eyes and gently twirled the teacup. He did not explain why he resigned from his position as a professor in the academy and lost his cultivation. Apparently he did not want to say more.
"Your father and I have known each other for many years, and I have watched you grow up. Although you don't have any talent in poetry or singing, you are more flexible in your thinking. You might be able to pass the Academy Exam."
Pu Liuxuan raised his hand and interrupted Li Ang's surprise thank you in advance, saying: "Professor Xuegong's recommendation is just a ticket to enter.
Whether you can succeed or not depends on your own ability...and luck.
Wait here."
Pu Liuxuan stood up, walked back into the house, and came out a moment later with a dusty scroll.
Li Ang took the arm-high scroll book and waved away the dust accumulated on it, "This is..."
""Shangqing Inspiration Chapter" is the basic textbook of the academy, which is used by students to sense their own spiritual veins."
Pu Liuxuan said casually: "Actually, when you get to Chang'an, these things will be sent to you, and now you can get them just a few months earlier than other children from poor families with no background.
Those princes, nobles, and descendants of aristocratic families have been playing with this thing since they were young.
Just read it first and see if you can figure out the pattern."
'Read the pattern...'
Li Ang was speechless and choked. He opened the scroll book and glanced at it. It was full of mysterious and mysterious words.
What "starts from the essence of yin and turns to the bright yang." "The auspicious moon comes to reflect the heart."
I can't understand it at all.
"Getting started in spiritual practice depends on fate and understanding. Don't get hung up on words, but feel and understand. If you can't understand even this, how can you compare with those noble disciples who have laid the foundation for more than ten years?"
Pu Liuxuan put on the airs of a teacher and continued to nag.
The entrance threshold for the academy is not only the cultivation talent, but also the regular examinations such as scriptures, policy questions, riding and shooting, etc. If you want to enter the academy, you have to work harder.
"Okay, let's go."
Pu Liuxuan, who finally finished explaining, waved his hand, "By the way, you can come again in seven days.
Every year before the academy enrolls students, teachers and teaching assistants are sent to various state capitals to use compasses to find those school-age children with exceptionally outstanding spiritual talents - after all, those geniuses cannot be buried just because they are illiterate and cannot afford to go to state schools.
When the time comes, ask him to use a compass to help you measure the number of spiritual veins."
Li Ang, who was still immersed in the huge amount of information, kept nodding in agreement. It wasn't until he walked out of the courtyard and onto the bustling street that he realized what he was doing. He subconsciously hugged the dusty "Shangqing Inspiration Chapter" tightly in his arms.
, silently quickened his pace and walked towards home.
As I walked quickly, I was thinking, what kind of organ is the spiritual vein?
Can it be transplanted?
This chapter has been completed!