Chapter 2 Hongmeng Taoism
Ye Tongxuan bid farewell to Ye Yongkang and returned to his cave. He opened the restriction in a familiar manner and walked in.
After confirming that the restriction was opened correctly, he sat down cross-legged and entered his own sea of consciousness.
Within the sea of consciousness, a huge purple book occupies most of the space.
Looking at this ancient and huge book, Ye Tongxuan couldn't help but think of the past.
Ye Tongxuan was originally an ordinary young man on earth who was passionate about Taoism. He fell asleep in a Taoist temple, and when he woke up again, he had already come to this world.
When he first came to this world, he was just a newborn baby, and his parents named him Ye Tongxuan.
The first time he saw this ancient book was when he was six years old, when he was opening up the sea of knowledge in his family.
The matter of Zishu was of great importance. Even to his parents in this world, Ye Tongxuan did not reveal even a little bit.
The words in the book were obscure and difficult to understand. He spent a lot of effort and searched many books. Only then did he realize that the words in the book were from ancient times.
Until now, Ye Tongxuan has only understood the first few pages of the huge purple book. As for the following content, he still cannot understand it for the time being.
The purple book is called "Hongmeng Taoist Scripture". There are not many words in the book, but it contains some important meanings. Ye Tongxuan often reviewed it, and over time, his ability to comprehend it also increased.
What's even more magical is that this huge book can refine the surrounding spiritual energy and turn it into purple energy that is more suitable for monks to practice. This purple energy is of great benefit to Ye Tongxuan's practice.
He was able to cultivate to the seventh level of Qi refining despite lack of resources, and the "Hongmeng Taoist Scripture" was indispensable.
In this world, Ye Tongxuan's mother was a monk in the early stages of Qi refining. Her mother injured her roots when giving birth to him and died soon after.
Although his father was a monk in the middle stage of Qi Refining, when Ye Tongxuan was six years old, he was seriously injured when he and his family entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountains to hunt monsters, and passed away soon after.
Although Ye Tongxuan came with memories of his previous life, it took him three years to gradually adapt to this world.
Even so, his adaptability to this world is much higher than that of his peers. Whether it is his mastery of the characters of this world or his understanding of the meridians and acupoints, he is far beyond ordinary people.
The Qi refining period is the first stage that monks go through in their practice. Qi refining requires exercising one's own spiritual energy through methods such as breath regulation or qi movement.
In the early stage of Qi refining, the main thing is to open up the meridians throughout the body so that the spiritual energy can flow freely in the meridians. For monks, the sooner this step is taken, the better.
Because as we grow older, those unopened meridians are not nourished by spiritual energy, and are gradually eroded by the turbid air of the world, eventually leading to blockage. To open these blocked meridians, a lot of resources and time will be spent.
Therefore, for monks, the sooner they embark on the path of cultivation, the better. Unfortunately, children's intelligence is not fully developed and they cannot understand the mysterious meridians and acupoints.
In addition, since they were children who loved to play, the boring meditation made them not pay attention to cultivation at all.
Normal children begin to systematically learn knowledge about cultivation from the age of nine.
At the age of eleven or twelve, he began to practice Qi into his body under the guidance of his elders, gradually opening up the meridians in his body.
When I was around sixteen years old, I started to learn fairy magic with my previous knowledge reserves and a certain foundation of practice.
Although they are all simple spells, they can be regarded as officially entering the path of cultivating immortals.
Because Ye Tongxuan has the memory of his previous life, he is mentally more mature than children of the same age, so he is a big step ahead of other monks in terms of understanding and self-discipline.
Now Ye Tongxuan has reached the seventh level of Qi refining at the age of sixteen. This cultivation speed is even a few points faster than that of a monk with three spiritual roots.
Spiritual roots can reflect a monk's cultivation potential, and the test of spiritual roots requires a soul-measuring tablet. The construction and activation of the soul-measuring tablet require a large amount of spiritual stones, and the Ye family naturally does not have such strength.
The Ye family can only roughly deduce how many spiritual root monks they have based on the experience of the foundation-building monks and the cultivation speed of the clan members.
The age of sixty is a watershed for a monk. If a monk has not entered the ninth level of Qi Refining at the age of sixty, the probability of establishing a foundation will be very slim.
Of course, if there are sufficient spiritual stones or elixirs as support, the monks still have the opportunity to forcibly build the foundation. However, such foundation-building monks are much inferior in strength.
The resources Ye Tongxuan currently enjoys in his family far exceed those of his peers. Ordinary family disciples can have the opportunity to practice at Yunling Peak once a month or once a week, depending on their cultivation potential.
But Ye Tongxuan was able to spend half of his time practicing in Yunling Peak.
The spiritual energy halfway up the mountain was all divided by the clan leader in the spirit gathering array on the top of the mountain. This spiritual energy is limited, so it is naturally given priority to clan members with more potential.
Currently, those who can cultivate on the mountainside of Yunling Peak for a long time are mostly members of the Ye family's Shou or Yong generations. These monks are currently the backbone of the Ye family, and cultivation resources are given priority to them.
Although Ye Tongxuan is currently highly valued by his family, his cultivation resources are still very scarce. Without the blessing of Zi Qi, he might still be in the middle stage of Qi cultivation.
"Hongmeng Taoist Scripture" can not only refine spiritual energy, but also refine spiritual objects such as spiritual stones.
Ye Tongxuan placed the spirit stone in the cave and refined it. After a while, he could directly use the purple energy to practice, which greatly increased the speed of practice.
In this way, he would spend half of the month practicing at Yunling Peak, and the remaining half of the month, refining spiritual energy through the Purple Book to make up for the lack of training resources.
From this point of view, Ye Tongxuan's monthly resources are barely enough.
But now that he is in the late stage of Qi refining, this method cannot support his cultivation. He has to find a way to obtain cultivation resources, otherwise, his cultivation progress will be much slower.
Ye Tongxuan sighed in his heart, how could it be so easy to obtain cultivation resources.
Some monks can exchange their skills for cultivation resources, such as refining medicines, refining weapons, or managing medicine gardens for others, and taming monsters.
Monks without skills can also contribute, such as entering the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountains to hunt monsters, or completing tasks to obtain family rewards.
It seems that there are many ways for monks to exchange resources, but for Ye Tongxuan, who currently has no skills, the only way left is to contribute.
The latter method is undoubtedly more risky, but equally profitable.
What Ye Tongxuan can be sure of is that the family is now stretched thin, and it is impossible to devote too many resources to him. Even if there are extra resources, priority must be given to the monks of the Shouzi generation. After all, they are currently the mainstay of the Ye family.
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After thinking about it, it seems that the only way for me is to work for the family. I can only exchange for training resources by taking on family tasks.
Now that he has this plan, Ye Tongxuan must also make corresponding preparations. If he accepts the family's mission, he will face dangers outside the mountain, and he must have certain means of self-defense.
Chapter completed!