Su Ming also briefly introduced himself to brothers Lu Youcai and Lu Youwu.
"I've met fellow Taoist Su."
Lu Youcai and Lu Youwu smiled and formally bowed their hands to Su Ming.
Su Ming also quickly returned the favor.
In an instant, the atmosphere among everyone became much more relaxed.
"From the tone of Fellow Daoist Su just now, it seems that he doesn't know much about Yaoyuan Taoist Temple?"
Su Ming nodded: "I really don't know much about it, and I'm just going to ask two fellow Taoists for advice."
"Easy to say, easy to say."
Lu Youcai waved his hands repeatedly and said with a smile: "Actually, the criteria for selecting and recruiting monks in all Taoist academies in Lanzhou are basically the same. The cultivation level should not exceed the Qi training period, and the age should not exceed twenty years old."
"oh?"
Su Ming's heart moved slightly, "Does the Taoist Academy still have age requirements for monks?"
"Of course there is an age requirement. After all, the Taoist Academy in Lanzhou is to select disciples for the Xianxia Sect. It will definitely not recruit those who are too old. Older age also means lower potential. Even if they can be trained in the future, the cost will be too high.
"
Hearing this, Su Ming nodded understandingly.
Indeed, even if you are over twenty years old when you enter the Taoist Academy, even if you can participate in the examination of the outer disciples of the Xianxia Sect in the future, wouldn't you have to rush to your thirties?
If you are over thirty years old, even if you use the Foundation Building Pill to build a foundation, the success rate cannot reach 100%.
The Xianxia Sect does not want to cultivate such monks.
Seeing that Su Ming was silent, Lu Youwu said with emotion: "To be honest, my two brothers also stayed in Yaoyuan Taoist Academy for a period of time when they were young. Unfortunately, they were persuaded to leave by the Taoist Academy in the middle, and even participated in the Xianxia Sect disciple assessment.
No chance."
Speaking of this, Lu Youcai also shook his head repeatedly, seeming to be extremely regretful for missing out on the opportunity when he was young.
"But Brother Su, you two brothers and sisters are still young, and you still have a great chance."
Lu Youcai said, changed the topic and smiled.
Hearing this, Su Ming just smiled.
Immediately, he asked again: "Since these two Taoist friends have entered Yaoyuan Taoist Academy, I wonder what the requirements of this Taoist Academy are for selecting disciples?"
"Does this Taoist friend not know?"
"I don't know,"
Su Ming shook his head, "To be honest, my brother and sister came from Lizhou."
"Lizhou?"
Lu Youcai and Lu Youwu looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.
"Fellow Daoist Su is talking about Lizhou, which is adjacent to Dayuan Kingdom?"
"In addition to this Lizhou, I am sure there is no other Lizhou."
Su Ming smiled bitterly.
"Don't be surprised, Fellow Daoist Su. My two brothers are just too surprised. Lizhou is tens of thousands of miles away from us. If we take a detour, it would be more than 100,000 miles. It must be very difficult for the two of us to come all the way."
Lu Youwu sighed.
Seeing that Su Ming was silent, Lu Youwu continued, "Let's not talk about this. Since fellow Taoist Su has come to the border of Lanzhou, he is my Lanzhou monk."
With that said, Lu Youwu picked up the tea cup on the table and said, "I would like to use tea instead of wine to welcome Fellow Daoist Su to our Xingluo Island."
Hearing this, Su Ming and Gong Xiaocai also quickly picked up the tea cups.
The atmosphere among everyone became more harmonious.
"By the way, Fellow Daoist Su just wanted to ask what the screening criteria of Yaoyuan Taoist Academy are?"
"Exactly."
After pondering for a moment, Lu Youcai said slowly: "The selection criteria of Yaoyuan Taoist Academy are very simple. There are only three, namely mind, understanding and spiritual root."
As expected, spiritual roots are indeed one of the assessment criteria for Xianxia Sect to recruit disciples.
But what Su Ming didn't expect was that character and understanding were also included in the assessment criteria.
"Spiritual roots are the simplest,"
Lu Youcai smiled and said, "You can know the result by just doing some research. In fact, what Yaoyuan Taoist Academy really wants to test its disciples is the two points of mind and understanding.
My two brothers were persuaded to quit by Yaoyuan Taoist Academy because of their lack of understanding."
"Character, understanding?"
Su Ming frowned.
"Um,"
Lu Youcai nodded, "Compared to the spiritual roots that can be directly detected, Yaoyuan Taoist Academy has prepared many tests to test the mind and understanding of the disciples in the Taoist Academy.
The character of mind mainly includes the monk’s temperament, will, and even his character.”
Su Ming nodded, he understood this very well.
If the Xianxia sect only values qualifications and not character, and all the disciples it recruits have bones in the back of their heads, wouldn't it mean that they are spending a lot of resources to support the enemy?
Or, the monk may have excellent spiritual roots, but he spends three days fishing and two days drying nets during cultivation without any effort at all. No matter how good his talent is, it will be wasted.
Immediately, Su Ming asked again: "What does understanding mean?"
"Comprehension is even simpler. It refers to the monk's ability to comprehend spells and spells."
"Magic charm?"
Su Ming couldn't believe his ears. Could it be that a large sect like the Xianxia Sect was also a sect that focused on techniques rather than laws?
Seeing Su Ming's expression, Lu Youcai explained: "We don't quite understand why the Taoist academy instructors want to assess our ability to comprehend magic spells.
But according to rumors, it seems to be related to the monk’s promotion to the golden elixir stage in the future and the realization of supernatural powers.”
In the Qi training stage, Xianxia Sect has already considered the promotion of sect disciples to the Golden Core stage in the future.
I have to say, I really thought long term.
Su Ming always felt that he thought about things in the long term, but compared with the Xianxia Sect, he felt that he was still far behind.
After such detailed calculation, Su Ming felt that he did not have an advantage in any aspect.
Thinking of this, he quickly asked: "As for the monks with special talents, will the Xianxia Sect recruit them separately?"
"Of course!"
Lu Youwu smiled and said, "If you have the talent for alchemy, the Xianxia Sect will almost ignore all assessment standards and put you directly under the door."
"Alchemy."
The expression on Su Ming's face changed slightly, "What about the weapon refiner?"
"The Xianxia Party doesn't seem to attach much importance to the weapon refiners,"
Lu Youcai shook his head, "Fellow Daoist Su, you also know that the magic weapons refined by weapon refiners are only second-level high-grade ones at most. For the Xianxia Sect, the effect of second-level magic weapons is really too low.
When monks reach the golden elixir stage, they will use their own natal magic weapons that they have refined, and the magic weapons have almost no effect, so..."
Lu Youwu on the side added: "What my brother said is not entirely true. In our generation, we heard that a second-level weapon refiner was specially recruited to join the Xianxia Sect.
By the way, there are also formation masters. If fellow Daoist Su has talent in formations, he will also be recruited by the Xianxia sect."
After hearing this, Su Ming finally had the most basic understanding of Yaoyuan Taoist Academy.
Ordinary disciples can only be recruited by the Xianxia Sect if they pass the three assessment criteria of mind, understanding, and spiritual roots.
Monks with special talents, such as alchemists, formation masters, and weapon refiners, may be directly recruited without passing the examination.
Of course, the Xianxia Party pays less attention to the weapon refiners, and the number of special recruits is limited each year.
Unlike an alchemist, as long as you are really talented in alchemy, you can receive as many Xianxia sects as you want.
After talking about Yaoyuan Taoist Temple, the two brothers Lu Youcai talked about Xingluo Island where they grew up.
However, Su Ming showed little interest in Xingluo Island, because according to the two Lu Youcai brothers, Xingluo Island was just an insignificant one among the many fairy islands in the Yaoyuan Water Realm.
Only because it is closest to Yaojiang City, it is more lively and prosperous.
But also because it is the closest to a mortal city, it is inevitably contaminated with a lot of worldly atmosphere, which is not conducive to monks' practice.
Unlike Tianshu Island, where Yaoyuan Taoist Temple is located, it is surrounded by tens of thousands of fairy islands, large and small, and is rarely visited by mortals. It is the real paradise of cultivation.