Mo Xiaoxian was born during the reign of Emperor Xiong Du of Tian'an of the Great Chu State. At that time, he was a doctor in the Ministry of Industry. He was a middle-level official with mediocre performance in all previous examinations. He passed the Jinshi examination at the age of twenty-four and served as an official for almost twenty years.
There was still one step left before the court meeting, and he still had to stand at the foot of the steps outside the palace - such a figure was really inconspicuous in the great Chu country at that time where there were so many talented people.
However, during the rebellion launched by Xiong Hao, the king of Dongshan County, almost all the important ministers loyal to Emperor Tian'an were slaughtered. Naturally, the remaining rebellious wallflowers could not be reused by Xiong Er, the God-blessed Emperor. On the contrary, Mo Xiao, who was neither good nor bad, was
Waiting for people to stand out.
Of course, this has something to do with Mo Xiaoxian himself. When Xiong Er returned to Beijing, among the civil and military officials, he was the first to stand up to welcome Xiong Er and support him. In addition, he had been arrested for trying to stop the rebels.
The fight was brutal enough...it was both merit and hard work, so it was only natural that he would be reused.
Xiong Er was not a courageous person. He did not dare to over-promote Mo Xiaoxian, who had a weak foundation. He only promoted this loyal and commendable minister to one and a half levels, allowing him to act as Minister of the Ministry of Works on behalf of the Minister of the Ministry of Works.
Position - This is because the former Minister of the Ministry of Industry is not dead, and he is too shameless to tell his old age. In view of the fact that there are too few veteran ministers in the court, Xiong Er has no choice but to tolerate it.
Mo Xiaoxian sat in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Industry for eight years. He worked diligently and did a lot of things that benefited the country and the people. However, after all, his abilities were limited and he had a difficult life amidst the strife in the court. In the end, due to a big accident
Regarding the arrangement of materials for the project, he completely fell out with several powerful local county governors. Under the obstruction of those people, the project did not go smoothly, and a major accident even occurred.
Mo Xiaoxian, who had long been tired of the official career, was finally completely disappointed. Regardless of the entreaties of Qingliu's head of household affairs, Lin Lushan, to stay, he resigned and secluded himself in the mountains.
Calculating the time, it was nearly fifty years ago. Wu Jie originally thought that this old man with a wretched face had passed away long ago, but unexpectedly, Mo Xiaoxian had a strange encounter after hanging up his hat and going into seclusion. He became successful in cultivation at the age of over fifty.
Entering the realm of innateness.
As soon as he enters the Xiantian, his lifespan will increase dramatically, and his body will return to the appearance of his youth. As a result, Mo Xiaoxian, who was already very old, suddenly regained his second youth. He had four concubines, among whom he was the oldest.
The one who is younger than his son.
This may seem a bit shocking to say, but if you think about it carefully, it is actually nothing to have four concubines in more than forty years. Monks are extremely energetic and live much longer than ordinary people. They have many wives and concubines at home.
There were many people there, so Mo Xiaoxian's behavior was not surprising.
That's why he is a monk halfway through. People like Wu Jie who have been cultivating Taoism since childhood usually focus their energy on cultivation and have almost no time to think about women. Among the senior brothers, even
An Ziqing, who has been engaged to Sui Yeqiu's family since she was a child, has not yet gotten married.
Mo Xiaoxian felt a little flattered by Wu Jie's greeting. Qingyang Guanzhi Feizhen is a world-famous master and the youngest Ning Yuan Grandmaster in hundreds of years. Even in the imperial court of the Great Chu Kingdom, Ji Shihou's
The two acts of support are enough to make people awe-inspiring. In comparison, Mo Xiaoxian, whose official position is no more than a minister, and whose cultivation is no more than his innate ability, is really an inconspicuous little person.
So after a while, he sent his housekeeper to take his daughters, granddaughters, great-granddaughters, and great-great-granddaughters to visit the White Jade Tower. He borrowed an elegant room in the White Jade Tower for entertaining guests and talked with Wu Jie in detail - or rather
,consult.
"Your cultivation method should be based on our Taoist method of condensing vitality, but the method of cultivating the mind is the Buddhist method of subduing thoughts. These two methods do not conflict with each other, but they cannot complement each other. So when you practice,
Only then will you realize that although you are really angry
You are getting stronger and stronger, but your control over the Qi is declining - this is because you lack the Buddhist means of using Qi." Wu Jie first looked through the transcript of the exercises copied by Mo Xiaoxian, and then checked his body.
The situation was quickly resolved.
This result was not beyond Mo Xiaoxian's expectation. When he first obtained this set of exercises, the casual cultivator who was about to expire had once said that his lineage lacked a foundation and the exercises he practiced were just patchwork.
Although it is not difficult for those who come out to break through the innate barrier and even refine their true energy, the risk of going crazy if they want to go further is too great - among the ancestors of this lineage, most of them have failed to forcefully break through the barrier.
He became possessed and died.
Mo Xiaoxian has practiced this set of exercises for many years, and now that he is about to reach the realm of Hundred Refinements, he feels more and more that what his master said back then is not false, and that there is indeed something wrong with his own exercises.
He was determined to find better exercises, and he also got a copy of the exercises from the Immortal Mountain of the East China Sea from a kind little sect monk. However, it is not so easy to change the exercises! Whenever he wants to change to practice that
The skills on the Immortal Mountain made me feel that the true energy in my body was dissipating unchecked, and I was about to die immediately!
He tried several times, but nothing came of it except internal injuries. He had no choice but to give up and honestly follow the methods taught by his master and use the superb skills to perfect his own skills.
Mo Xiaoxian was not a genius, and the process of perfection was quite slow, even slowing down his own cultivation progress. But he had no other choice but to take his time.
He is about a hundred years old now, and he still has about fifty years of life left. He must perfect the technique at the Hundred Refining stage within these fifty years, otherwise he will either die at the end of his lifespan, or he will die after breaking through to the Hundred Refining realm.
Become possessed and die.
Fifty years seems to be a long time at first glance, but in fact it is not that long. The set of exercises that Mo Xiaoxian is currently practicing has gone through six generations of monks and took almost four hundred years to perfect.
At this point, with his talent, it is not easy to further improve it in fifty years!
That's why he was so happy when he met Wu Jie by chance this time.
Zhifei Zhenren Wu Jie is a world-famous master. Not only is he excellent in Taoism and amazing in combat power, he is also famous for his upright conduct, reasonableness in work, and his love to support and support juniors. He has lived in seclusion in Zhaoyang County for many years, and has many junior monks and even warriors.
get all
Through his guidance. In the eyes of the middle- and lower-class monks who are relatively decent themselves, he is more like a kind elder than a first-class strong man. And Zhifeizhai, where he lives, has also become a place for many low-level monks.
A holy place in the minds of monks.
It's a pity that after Mo Xiaoxian obtained the Immortal Mountain Kung Fu, Wu Jie was already busy with catching stars from the sky to save the people, and completely entered a state of seclusion. After winning the sweet rain to help the world, he returned to Qingyang Mountain and attacked Ning Yuan
Realm - maybe after leaving, he will never return to Zhaoyang County again...
Mo Xiaoxian originally planned to have no chance to ask Zhifei for advice, but unexpectedly he met him at the White Jade Tower in Changning City, and he was overjoyed.
Wu Jie did not disappoint him. After careful consideration, he started a new approach and asked him to abandon the method of overpowering thoughts that was not in line with his own skills and change it to the method of observing the precepts and self-preservation.
"Is this enough?" Mo Xiaoxian didn't expect that the method Wu Jie gave was this, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised - the method of observing the precepts and self-discipline is the most popular among all the methods of cultivating the mind, and almost everyone understands it.
However, this method is also the slowest and least likely to produce results. Except for Buddhist ascetics, almost no one can achieve results using this method.
"Keeping the precepts is the safest way, so we'll do this for the time being." Wu explained, "During this year, you should stop practicing the exercises and concentrate on keeping the precepts. After one year, our Qingyang Mountain will open the gate.
Although you may not be able to pass the entrance examination, you can still come - if you can pass the first few tests, you will naturally get a solution that can completely solve the problem."
"Your Majesty... I understand, junior! Thank you for your guidance, senior!" Mo Xiaoxian was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed down.
He has been in the officialdom for many years. Although he has not achieved his ambition, he has learned a lot after all. At this moment, it is impossible to see that Wu Jie has the intention to make some suggestions! Therefore, this worship is indeed sincere and there is no falsehood at all.
Wu Jie did not shy away and accepted his worship calmly.
Whether it is his official position in the Great Chu Kingdom or his status among the monks, he is worthy of Mo Xiaoxian's worship. As for the age gap... what the monks value is the time to practice, the time to reach a higher realm.
Rather than an ordinary age.
When Wu Jie entered the Tao, Mo Xiaoxian was still a mortal; when Mo Xiaoxian entered the Tao and began to practice, Wu Jie was already a well-known rising star; when Mo Xiaoxian broke through the innate realm and officially became a monk,
Wu Jie is already a refining flying immortal, a famous Zhifeizhenren; but now Mo Xiaoxian is just a common innate peak in the monk circle, but Wu Jie is already a Ning Yuan Grandmaster who has reached the end of the earthly world...
To put it bluntly, if it weren't for chance and coincidence, in the world of immortal cultivators, Mr. Mo from the Ministry of Industry would not even be qualified to meet Zhifei Zhenren in person!
After giving Mo Xiaoxian some pointers, Wu Jie suddenly felt something in his heart. He smiled at him and left a piece of bamboo talisman as a certificate. He disappeared into Yazhu and in a blink of an eye came to the big dry tree on the edge of the Imperial Palace of the Great Chu Kingdom.
Next to the tree.
Under the big tree, a young man with a delicate face and a delicate look was concentrating on reading.
This young man was dressed luxuriously, and some of the accessories on his body could only be used by the royal family. Considering his age and behavior, he was probably the third prince of the Chu Kingdom, Xiong Jiong, who the emperor wanted to ask Wu Jie to help introduce to the Immortal Sect.
In Wu Jie's impression, Xiong Jiong is an introverted and dull child. Compared with ordinary children, he is overly mature and withdrawn. But this child is not bad in nature and is quite polite and kind to the servants in the palace.
There is no special pursuit of material things. If you have the heart to pursue the Tao, it is indeed a good seedling that can be cultivated.
In the blink of an eye, nine years have passed. Nine years later, Xiong Jiong has changed from a child to a teenager. But as a prince, he is studying in this dark place, with no one to look after him around him.
It can be seen that he is still an introverted and lonely person, and his status in the palace is not high.
Perhaps as the emperor said back then, this child was not suitable for the royal family, and it would be more suitable for him to go to cultivate immortality.
Wu Jie nodded and walked to Xiong Jiong.
Xiong Jiong was concentrating on reading when he suddenly heard footsteps in front of him. He looked up and was stunned for a moment, then put down the book and bowed respectfully.
"Junior Xiong Jiong, pay your respects to Zhifei Zhenren!"
"You don't have to be so polite." Wu Jie smiled and asked him to stand up and answer. He glanced at the book next to him and saw that it was a book introducing the customs and customs of various places. He suddenly had some suspicions in his heart.
"Do you want to visit all the places in the world?"
"Yes, I have always wanted to travel across Kyushu and see all kinds of customs and customs."
"Even if you are cultivating immortality now, you may not be able to cultivate to the level where you can travel to the North Sea in the morning and stay in the Nanshan Mountains in the evening."
"The requirements for juniors are not that high. As long as they are able to travel to various places without being blocked by mountains, rivers and trees, and without being troubled by footpaths and supplies, that is enough."
Wu Jie looked at Xiong Jiong's frank and sincere eyes and smiled.
"Next spring, come to Qingniu Town in Dai Viet Country."
"Thank you, senior!" Xiong Jiong waited for many years and finally received a clear answer. His heart was filled with joy and he hurriedly bowed down again. However, he only saw a flash of a human figure and realized that the real person had disappeared, leaving only a green bamboo on the ground.
The talisman reflects a warm light in the late autumn sunshine.
Similar situations are happening in many places across Kyushu.
After years of observation and testing, the twenty-seventh generation disciples of Qingyang Temple have each chosen their favorite people and are granting them the opportunity to lead to the path to immortality.
As for whether they can really embark on the road of cultivating immortals in the future, and how far they can ultimately go on this road, it depends on themselves...
