Hearing this, Su Ming's expression changed and he made a gesture of listening attentively.
Qin Jiaoxi continued: "You must have heard about the specific content of the sect assessment of our Xianxia Sect, right?"
Su Ming thought for a while and said: "I have heard a little bit about it, but I don't know the details clearly."
Qin Zhen nodded: "The Xianxia Sect's sect assessment is held once every three years. It tests the monks' character, understanding, spiritual roots and spiritual roots. Let's not talk about this, but both the character and understanding can be sharpened.
, especially the character of mind!”
Speaking of this, Qin Zhen looked at Su Ming and continued: "In order to sharpen the mind of Taoist disciples, each Taoist school in the three peaks and five realms of Lanzhou adopts different methods.
But our Yaoyuan Taoist Academy adopts the method of illusory training."
"Illusion grinding?"
This was the first time Su Ming had heard of this matter.
"Well, it's normal that you haven't heard of it. Only the disciples that the Taoist Academy focuses on can try this method. After all, opening the Heart Refining Tower costs a lot of spiritual stones.
If we support all Taoist disciples to practice together, even the Taoist temple will be a little overwhelmed."
After hearing this, Su Ming finally understood why Qin Zhen was so eager to find him.
It turned out to be for the Taoist Academy to train him, a key youngster.
If Su Ming delayed the Taoist Academy's training for him due to other matters, then the gain would outweigh the loss.
After pondering for a moment, Su Ming cupped his hands and said, "Qin Jiaoxi, I wonder how this Heart Refining Tower uses illusions to sharpen the mind of monks?"
Hearing this, Qin Zhen explained: "How do you think a monk's character should be sharpened?"
"Overcome difficulties and overcome pain?"
Su Ming said doubtfully.
"You're right,"
Qin Zhen nodded, "If a person's Taoist heart is not strong, his ability to endure pain is essentially too weak. Most of the pain in the world comes from people's desires.
Asking but not getting it, getting it but not being satisfied, will make people extremely painful."
Qin Zhen paused and continued, "Of course, the illusion of the Heart Refining Tower will not be that complicated. The pain the Heart Refining Tower makes you endure is very direct, it simply makes you feel - pain!"
"pain?"
Su Ming was slightly startled, "The pain Qin mentioned is not just physical pain, right?"
"It's just physical pain!"
Qin Zhen looked at Su Ming with a smile, "The Heart Refining Tower divides pain into four levels, from the pain of cutting the skin at the beginning, to the pain of broken bones, to the severe pain of piercing the intestines and stomach, and finally,...
The pain of tearing the soul!"
Hearing this, Su Ming couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
He could imagine that the so-called training of Taoist disciples in this Heart Refining Tower was simply a form of abuse.
But it is undeniable that once a monk can pass this kind of abnormal pain training, it won't matter if the monk's Taoism is firm.
nonsense!
If a person can bear this kind of pain, why should he worry about having a weak Taoist heart?
But Su Ming wasn't sure if he could bear the pain.
Because so far, he has never been injured in a fight with anyone. Although he was injured in his previous life, it was just a cut on his finger.
The most serious trauma seems to have been when he broke his head when he was in elementary school.
Therefore, facing the painful training in the Heart Refining Tower, he was really unsure.
If it were a fight, Su Ming was sure that it would be easy for him to take on hundreds of Taoist disciples alone.
But Su Ming couldn't guarantee his ability to endure pain.
After all, he's never tried it.
Seeing that Su Ming was silent, Qin Zhen looked at him with an annoyed look and said, "I reported your name to the Taoist Academy shortly after the hiatus period ended.
Fortunately for you, you haven't been seen for a whole month. Do you know how many times I have come to your place to look for you?"
"Qin teaches you how to forgive sins, and Qin teaches you how to forgive sins."
Su Ming repeatedly begged for mercy.
"okay,"
Qin Zhen waved his hand, "This is your identity plate when you go to the Heart Refining Tower. The location of the Heart Refining Tower is marked on the Taoist map. You can see it yourself."
After saying that, Qin Zhen didn't seem to want to say more, so he turned around and left.
Su Ming hurriedly took two steps forward and said with a smile: "Qin Jiaoxi, let me see you off."
After seeing Qin Zhen off and returning to the courtyard of his dormitory, Su Ming first put his identity plate into his storage bag, and then carefully looked at the map of the Taoist temple.
Finally, he found a place called the Heart Refining Tower near the center of the Taoist temple.
"so far?"
Judging from the distance, it was almost a hundred miles away from their dormitory area.
Even though Yaoyuan Taoist Temple is huge, the distance is really not close.
However, monks always travel at an alarming speed. To Su Ming, this distance is only a matter of a stick of incense.
The next day.
Su Ming finished practicing the "Thick Earth Kung Fu".
Then, he took a look at the situation on Guangyuan Island through the Hall of Immortals, and found that people like Wu Laoshi were still reclaiming land on the island, so he took back his consciousness.
After thinking about it, Su Ming decided to go to the Heart Refining Palace first.
Since he decided to join the Xianxia Sect, Su Ming must pass the Xianxia Sect's sect examination.
Otherwise, if you continue to be a casual cultivator, other than that, subsequent cultivation techniques will be problematic.
This is true not only of the Xianxia Sect, but also of the major sects in Daqian and the Immortal Cultivating Families, which block information on the techniques.
Even the Xianxia Sect, which Su Ming considered to be extremely enlightened, was blocking information on cultivation techniques.
Just like in the Taoist library.
There are various Qi training techniques and foundation-building techniques emerging one after another, but there is no foundation-building technique.
In Tianshu Daofang City, foundation-building techniques are also very rare.
And once it appears, it will soon be bought at a high price.
After Su Ming looted the Zhangjia Fort, he got a lot of the Zhang family's treasures, but the Zhang family's most powerful technique could only be practiced to the third level of foundation building.
Not only was the technique incomplete, but it also did not match Su Ming's spiritual root attributes.
Therefore, Su Ming had no intention of switching to this technique.
It was precisely because of the blockade of cultivation techniques by the higher-ups in the world of immortality that Su Ming wanted to join the sect.
"It's a pity that my wordless heavenly book can only deduce the techniques, not the exercises."
Shaking his head, Su Ming stopped thinking about it.
As long as you join the Xianxia Sect, it is not difficult to solve the problem of skills at all.
Su Ming ran all the way, the wind blowing in his face.
Soon, a seven-story pagoda appeared in front of him.
"arrive."
Su Ming thought secretly.
Approaching the Heart Refining Tower, Su Ming saw Taoist disciples constantly coming in and out of the tower.
When each disciple entered the Heart Refining Tower, they looked as if they were facing a formidable enemy and were nervous. However, the faces of the disciples who walked out of the Heart Refining Tower had expressions of relief.
Comparing the two, Su Ming was stunned for a moment.
He knew that the pain this Heart Refining Tower caused its disciples to endure was definitely more exaggerated than what Qin Zhen said.
Of course, Su Ming could also choose to give up.
But since he has made up his mind to join the Xianxia Sect, he will never give up.
Although the paper puppet technique allowed Su Ming to stand at the pinnacle of the same level of monks, he could even fight across levels.
But in the final analysis, the paper puppet technique is still a technique to protect the Tao, and it cannot make Su Ming achieve Taoism and become an immortal.
If you want to go further in your cultivation, you still have to rely on yourself after all.
The Taoist mind is a crucial part of cultivation.
He can protect monks from inner demons during their cultivation.
"Nameplate."
Walking to the gate of the Heart Refining Tower, a foundation-building monk in charge of guarding said with an expressionless face.
Su Ming respectfully handed over the nameplate.
The foundation-building monk in charge of guarding checked the nameplate and Su Ming's identity. After confirming that it was him, he raised his head and said, "Is this your first time here?"
"Senior, this is my first time."
Nodding, the monk responsible for guarding the Heart Refining Tower returned the nameplate to Su Ming and gave instructions: "After entering the Heart Refining Tower, find an unoccupied secret room and hang the nameplate outside the door of the secret room."
"yes."
Su Ming suppressed his curiosity, put away the nameplate, and walked into the Heart Refining Tower.
When Su Ming walked into the Heart Refining Tower, he didn't expect that he would meet an acquaintance.
"Brother Luo!"
After Su Ming saw Luo Xiao, he quickly walked up and said hello.
"Brother Su."
When Luo Xiao heard someone calling him, he turned his head and saw Su Ming, his eyes a little surprised.
"Where have you been this month? Teacher Qin is looking for you everywhere."
"It's hard to put it into words."
Su Ming smiled and shook his head, "Brother Luo, have you been here many times?"
"Well, there are indeed quite a few times."
When Luo Xiao said this, there was still a hint of fear on his face.
Obviously, he was severely tortured by the Heart Refining Tower.
The expressions of the disciples that Su Ming saw outside the Heart Refining Tower were exactly the same.
"Brother Luo, can you tell me what this Heart Refining Tower is like?"
Hearing this, Luo Xiao smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Su, it's better not to ask. We'll find out when you get in."
Luo Xiao obviously didn't want to talk about the painful memories.
See the situation.
Su Ming cupped his hands and said, "Okay, let's talk about it later when we go out."
Luo Xiao nodded, and the two began to search for the secret room of the Heart Refining Tower.
The Heart Refining Tower has seven floors in total.
There are nine secret rooms on each floor, and the entire Heart Refining Tower has a total of sixty-three secret rooms.
For a Yaoyuan Taoist Temple with over 100,000 disciples, the mere sixty-three secret rooms for training the monks' Taoist minds are indeed a bit few.
No wonder, judging by what Qin Zhen said, this spot is very precious.
The Heart Refining Tower is basically open twelve hours a day.
Only one disciple in the secret room can leave before the next one can come in.
But the strange thing is that the secret room of this Heart Refining Tower never seems to be full.
Su Ming and Luo Xiao walked to the sixth floor and found a free secret room.
The two of them each found a room, hung their nameplates outside the secret room, and walked straight into the secret room.
Su Ming walked into the secret room and found that the secret room was empty. There was nothing except a futon in the middle of the secret room.
Su Ming went straight to the futon and sat down.
Immediately, Su Ming felt that his consciousness was in chaos.
But the next moment, his consciousness became extremely clear again.
Su Ming began to feel like a knife was cutting his skin.
pain!
Soon, a feeling of pain returned to Su Ming's mind.
It's just that the pain on the skin is still within the tolerance of Su Min.
But then the pain started to get worse.
The knife began to penetrate from the skin to Su Ming's muscles little by little, and then began to cut open his muscles little by little.
Although Su Ming knew that the pain was just an illusion.
But the feeling of pain was truly reflected in his mind.
But the better thing about the Heart Refining Tower is that once a disciple cannot bear the pain caused by the illusion, it will directly kick the disciple out of the illusion to prevent the disciple's Taoist heart from being hurt.
"It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!"
Severe pain hit Su Ming like a tsunami.
Almost drowning his consciousness.
But the strange thing is that Su Ming gritted his teeth and persisted.
You know, the pain he is suffering now is already the pain of Ling Chi.
When ordinary people encounter this kind of pain, they will fall into fainting in an instant.
Although the monk's will is stronger than ordinary people, it was his first time to exercise and he would never be able to endure Su Ming for so long.
After enduring the pain of Ling Chi, Su Ming gradually found that he had adapted to this kind of pain.
Even his consciousness, which was about to become blurred, gradually became clear under the torture of this pain.
"It turns out that as long as people are not defeated by the first wave of pain, people's will will become stronger and stronger!"
There was a different kind of light in Su Ming's eyes, "This is the meaning of sharpening one's Taoist heart!"
Su Ming endured Ling Chi's pain for a whole stick of incense, and seemed to find that Su Ming had adapted to Ling Chi's pain.
The illusion of the Heart Refining Tower continues to change.
"The next step is the pain of sawing bones, ah!!!"
Su Ming let out a crazy roar.
Compared to the pain of Lingchi, the pain of sawing bones was more than ten times more painful.
"I, I, I."
Su Ming felt that his consciousness was gradually blurring.
But there was still a voice in his heart that kept shouting, "Hold on! Hold on!"
Until his consciousness completely fell into darkness.
"call!"
"call!"
"call!"
On the futon, Su Ming suddenly opened his eyes.
Then he suddenly jumped up from the futon as if he was electrocuted.
"The pain of sawing bones is too terrifying!"
Su Ming murmured.
He has been able to enjoy the pain of Ling Chi and maintain a clear consciousness.
But the pain of sawing bones was simply unbearable by Su Ming's Taoist will.
Even if he keeps brainwashing himself to make himself persist! Keep persisting!
But it's useless. Although the ability to endure pain can be exercised, once the limit of pain tolerance is exceeded, the consciousness will collapse.
Su Ming wiped his sweaty forehead, straightened his clothes, opened the door and walked out of the secret room.
Outside the secret room.
Luo Xiao was already waiting here.
When he saw Su Ming, he looked quite surprised: "Brother Su, why didn't you come out until now?"
"What's wrong?"
Su Ming looked at Luo Xiao with a strange expression.
"Do you know how long I've been waiting for you?"
Before Su Ming could speak, Luo Xiao lowered his voice and said, "For half an hour!"
After saying that, he looked around and pulled Su Ming out of the Heart Refining Tower quickly.
Walk out of the Heart Refining Tower.
Knowing that the other party had something to say, Su Ming looked at Luo Xiao quietly.
Sure enough, Luo Xiao said mysteriously: "Brother Su, do you know? If you persist for one more incense today, you will break the historical record of Yaoyuan Taoist Academy!"
Luo Xiaoyu would never stop talking if it was not surprising.
"Breaking the record?"
Su Ming looked at him confused.
"What do you think?"
Seeing Su Ming's nonchalant look, Luo Xiao continued, "Brother Su, you can't survive the second level, right?"
Hearing this, Su Ming shook his head: "How is it possible? The pain of sawing bones was so terrifying that I could only hold on for less than a cup of tea before I lost consciousness and withdrew from the illusion."
"hiss!"
Luo Xiao took a breath, "You actually held a cup of tea in the second level!"
Su Ming didn't quite understand, and asked with a strange expression: "Is it difficult to support a cup of tea in the second level?"