Three years later.
A pair of grandfather and grandson huddled in the corner of the oxcart. The old-looking old man looked nervous and warned: "Xiao Yi, don't be discouraged if you are not selected and come back to grandpa."
"Grandpa, don't worry, I will definitely become a disciple of Taiyi Sect."
The little boy who looked like he was only in his early ten years nodded firmly. He had tested his spiritual root aptitude in the city, and the rest was to pass the Immortal Ascension Conference. He felt that he could pass.
Guo Tuozi praised: "Good ambition."
"Grandpa, I asked someone to inquire about it a long time ago. The Taiyi Sect needs to take a spiritual boat for half a month to arrive. At that time, they will participate in the 'Ascension to Immortality' conference of the sect. If they are selected, they will be able to rise to great heights and never be the same again.
Need to make clay legs."
"Grandpa, what are mud legs?"
"Mud legs..."
Guo Tuozi gritted his teeth: "Mudlegs are people like us. We don't have enough food and clothing to keep warm. We don't have extra resources for practice. Even if taxes are reduced or exempted in large quantities, we can only live in shanty towns."
"Can becoming a sect disciple change things?"
"able."
"If you become a disciple of the sect, you will no longer be bullied."
"Even if it doesn't work this time, there will be another Immortal Ascension Conference. Grandpa and you will work together."
Guo Tuozi touched his grandson's little head. The practitioners at home were unable to spare any time. Xiao Yi's parents had to work to earn spiritual stones, so he had to take half a month off to send his grandson to attend the Immortal Ascension Conference.
When I heard that my son was going to attend the Immortal Ascension Conference, I didn't dare to delay at all, so I asked for half a month and gave him a full month, and also gave him some money as a gift.
They said that the salary would be paid as usual and there would be no need to worry about not having a job when you come back.
As soon as he heard this, everyone would be happy if he could succeed, and he could even become a small foreman. If not, he might not even be able to keep his original position, not to mention the expense and salary.
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Yunjing City was already lively, but now it became even more lively when I heard that the great sect was going to hold a conference to ascend to immortality.
There are many monks coming and going, and the economy of Yunjing City has improved a lot.
I don’t know why the evil spirit has dissipated. Without the harsh environment, the empty spiritual land can accommodate ordinary mortals.
Yunjing City is still expanding. After being under the direct control of the sect, many businesses are involved in the sect, which also allows the various arts of cultivating immortals to be used, whether it is elixir making, weapon refining, breeding, silk spinning, sericulture, etc.
A large number of Qi practitioners are needed to complete simple tasks.
Coupled with the peaceful environment, it also led to the rise of a large number of low-level Qi practitioners, and then every family of Qi practitioners had nothing to do but have children after food and clothing. In the past three years, a large number of newborns have emerged.
It is estimated that the next Immortal Ascension Conference is not far away.
In the past three years, Taiyi Sect has not expanded externally, but first organized the main peak and the nine major peaks. Today's Taiyi Sect, although the disciples are still the same, the interior of the mountain gate has become extremely grand and prosperous.
Full of vitality, like a growing boy.
The spirit boats of all forces arrived at Taiyi Sect's Kongtian Harbor early.
This was something that had been agreed upon a long time ago. Taiyi Sect, as the main sect of these affiliated forces, would draw 20% of the talents from their territory to enter the sect.
Only the remaining disciples can supplement them.
Everyone knows that it may not take a hundred years for these relatively independent forces to completely become vassals of the Taiyi Sect, or even become something like a sub-rudder, but that is the form.
The ancestors of the Jindan sect also serve as worshipers of the Taiyi Sect. The only way they want to resist is to leave Qianyuan and go to other places, such as Jin'ao and Kunshi Dadi, which are relatively close to them.
Instead of going out and being eaten even to the bones, it is better to hang out with the big sect. Anyway, they don't have any traditions or scriptures to pass on. As long as they take care of some true disciples, the remaining resources for practice will be abundant.
The land of Qianyuan was vast and sparsely populated, and there were countless natural and earthly treasures that did not need to be fought for. Moreover, there were large sects covering the land. Peaceful distribution was not unrealistic, at least there was no need to worry about being killed casually to seize the treasures.
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"Master, the master uncle said that you should leave seclusion as soon as possible. In a few days, the sect's ascension meeting will be held." Zhou Xinglie cupped his hands and looked at the red-haired monk in black robes who was lying on a wicker chair not far away, reading a book.
The monk's appearance remained unchanged, only his black and red eyes showed some vicissitudes of life.
"The Immortal Ascension Conference will take at least a month or two. We'll talk about it then. Your uncle's search for me will probably be a complicated task, so why bother now." Tu Shanjun stood up leisurely, but did not close the book.
In the past three years, he was like an old scalper moving wherever he needed to go. Finally, he built the nine peaks and transformed the peaks according to the method he once implemented in Hunban Town, combined with the puppet machine skills of the head brother.
It was just recently that I came across another difficult problem and came to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to study it.
The puppet mechanism technique is powerful, but it also consumes a lot of spiritual stones. If you let them complete the low-level mechanical tasks, such as plowing the land, making leather, printing paper, grinding medicinal materials...
It doesn't even need the spiritual control of True Lord Nascent Soul, it can be automated by relying on the meridians left inside.
However, all the reasons are due to cost.
Using spiritual stones to complete these tasks is not as good as using spiritual stones to hire monks to do it.
It should be said that the demographic dividend brought by the monks can greatly reduce costs. Five low-grade spiritual stones can hire a disciple in the early stage of Qi training for a month, but it can only provide the puppet with a small Zhoutian.
If all were automated, a huge amount of spiritual stones would be consumed, and the land of Qianyuan did not have such a large market to dump the produced talismans, elixirs, magic tools... and other immortal cultivation products.
In this way, Nuoda's costs need to be reduced, otherwise it will not be able to recover its original cost.
If you want to make money back and grow, you need to seize other people's shares.
By then, the Dan League and the Qi League will probably have a lot of opinions.
Not only these two, but also all the sects in Xingluo Sea will have opinions. When the price is dumped, Taiyi Sect's price will be so low that they can't make it at a loss, and they will not be able to have healthy competition in the market.
They don't have a puppet master, and they don't have a sophisticated instrument like Tu Shanjun that can control millions of yin gods, so they can only keep squeezing the monks at the bottom.
The final result will definitely be a fight.
The first one to bear the brunt is their Taiyi Sect.
It should be noted that the sun did not set until it set that year.
"What kind of job is this? Did I travel to the spiritual world to be a capitalist?"
Tu Shanjun threw aside the dossier he had just written in his hand and lit it on fire.
He just said not to cause trouble, and now there is a potential factor. If he really does this, he will not be the public enemy of good and evil in the Xiaohuang Realm, but the enemy of all monks.
Even if the popularity of puppets leads to an upgrade in production capacity, the final beneficiaries will definitely be those powerful monks, while the monks at the bottom will live a more difficult life, because now they not only have to compete with people for resources, but also have to compete with puppets for job positions.
Tu Shanjun realizes that he is not a monster who wants to disturb the world.
If you can't make the world a better place, at least you can't be the cause of cholera.
"It's a pity that I didn't read Das Kapital properly before." Tu Shanjun thought of the things he had memorized, which were either used to show off or show off. Most of them were esoteric knowledge that could be used to show off.
Not to mention, it is really useful in the spiritual practice world.
The Tao Te Ching guided his Taoist career in the first half of his life, and the Heart Sutra helped him stabilize his Taoist mind and temperament. They are all good things that can be used.
Zhou Xinglie saw the book next to Tu Shanjun burning and hurriedly took two steps forward.
He said heartbrokenly: "Master, these experiences and cultivation methods are just left behind. They can also be used as a reference for future generations. Why destroy them all."
"How to practice Taoism?"
Tu Shanjun looked at the half-burned sutra scroll not far away, stretched out his hand to take it over, and said softly: "This thing can be invincible when combined with your uncle and I, but there are some things that can't be defended and it's useless."
If this thing is left to the disciples, if one of the disciples really understands it and innovates, there may be another mess that is difficult to clean up.
It may be prosperous for a while, but it will begin to decline at the moment of its peak, and it may even disappear overnight.
He sighed softly: "I just want to become an immortal in a stable way, and I don't want to be a 'savior'."
Immediately he looked at his cheap disciple, stretched out his hand and said, "How are you doing with your new practice? Are you still adaptable to the new magic weapon? How is your alchemy level? Do you have any doubts about your practice?"
The master asked four questions in a row. Zhou Xinglie immediately felt embarrassed, and he cupped his hands and said, "Returning to the master, this disciple has transferred to the sect's 'Taiyi Lihuo Tu', and relied on the elixir given by the master to prevent his cultivation from deteriorating."
"Alchemy is still mediocre."
"I'm adapting to the magic weapon just fine, but I feel like there's something missing." As he spoke, Zhou Xinglie took out the soul flag. He always felt that he could use this magic weapon, but he couldn't fully control the sacrifice.
"This is normal."
Tu Shanjun did not explain to his apprentice.
He came up with the idea three years ago while making fortune cards, and later did not use his disciples for experiments.
After research, he dismantled the silk threads on the side of the banner, used the evil spirit to complete it, and then integrated it into the magical weapon to monitor whether his disciples were using the magical weapon to kill innocent people indiscriminately.
"In terms of practice, disciples do have a lot of doubts. The so-called fire of the five elements exists in the heart, the heart..." Zhou Xinglie talked about all the doubts in his practice, and most of them were some problems in his recent practice.
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Tu Shanjun first answered those questions.
With his current level of cultivation, answering these questions is like solving problems for primary school students.
What he needs is not to tell them how many ways to solve it, but how to get to the essence simply and clearly, so that the disciples can understand the principles of practice by drawing inferences from one example.
It is also Tushanjun’s interpretation of his own path.
"In practice, you need to know that the principles are true, and you also need to unite your knowledge and practice."
"Master, are you saying that you know the correct principles and you still want to practice them?"
"Too obvious."
"The unity of knowledge and action allows you to use your body to nourish your mind, feed your body with your heart, and harmonize your 'nature' and 'fate' to achieve success. This is not a flat form, but an upward spiral of strengthening."
"Knowledge is the heart."
"Okay, body."
"As your mind becomes stronger, your body will also become stronger."
"As your body becomes stronger, so does your mind."
"The way of life..."
Zhou Xinglie walked out of the Sutra Pavilion in a daze. The master's words were simple and easy to understand, but he felt that he understood, but he also felt that he did not understand. It was the master's unique way of practice. If you learn it, you will live, if you repeat it, you will die.
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Tu Shanjun stood quietly in the tower of the Sutra Pavilion. There was another general guideline for his practice that he had not told Zhou Xinglie, and that was to practice by borrowing lives, because he had already lost his life and could only borrow lives from others.
"My way is not perfect yet."
He had a realization during this sermon. If he wanted to complete the general outline of the Tao, he would need at least two sentences, and a total of four sentences.
Of course, it’s not Hengqu’s Four Sentences.
Maybe someone can use it as a general outline, but it is not the general outline of his practice.
What he can do is, 'unify knowledge and action, practice through life,...'
Looking inside the body, the Nascent Soul sitting in the Dantian shines with light, and a lotus with some strange rhythm seems to be formed below the Nascent Soul sitting cross-legged.
The dark golden cassock old ape sitting cross-legged in the sea of consciousness illuminated the sea of consciousness with a pair of dark golden eyes. His ears moved, and then he withdrew his magical powers and sat cross-legged on the lotus platform of the sea of consciousness again, with a blood jade gourd hanging on him.
waist.
Tu Shanjun also felt that it was quite magical. The so-called 'True Meaning of the Demonic Ape' he had obtained seemed to be getting stronger with him, just like the magical powers would become different as he understood them.
He immediately smiled and felt that he had fallen into a misunderstanding.
How could the Demon Ape stagnate? This is his way of thinking. It is the fundamental mental method and the reflection of the soul. It would be strange if it never changes.
This chapter has been completed!