In the simple and elegant cabin, Xu Daozheng was sitting cross-legged quietly, with a finger of incense stuck on a low table in front of him, adding a lot of elegant fragrance to the entire cabin.
The smoke from the incense burner spiraled like a horned dragon, spinning erratically around his body.
Suddenly there was a gentle knock on the door. Xu Dao's eyelids trembled and his rhythmic breathing stopped abruptly. He still lowered his eyes, but opened his mouth and said: "Come in."
The sound of the chain sliding was heard, and a tall and tall woman with blue and blue lower body lowered her head and walked in respectfully from the door.
Yin Jianjian clasped her hands on her abdomen. She was already very familiar with the work of a maid. She lowered her head and said, "The Taoist priest in front has sent word that the sea market will arrive today and tomorrow. The nearby sea area has become restless."
"Oh!" After hearing these words, Xu Dao finally opened his eyes. His gaze was deep and extraordinary, and his eyes showed the look of finally being able to do this and looking forward to it.
Xu Dao completely stopped his efforts and walked down from the bamboo collapse.
When Yin Jianjian saw his movements, he immediately came over and took the clogs as if he were half-kneeling. He nodded and lowered his eyebrows as he helped Xu Dao put on his shoes.
Xu Dao put on his clogs with enjoyment, pointed to the half-burning incense candle in the incense burner next to him, and said: "This object really has the effect of calming the mind and calming the mind. Pindao has not had much time to practice in recent days.
Yes, you can take it for your own use."
The incense candles burning in the incense burner were traded with other nearby ships while he was waiting for half a year. The price was very high. It was only a small piece, which was equivalent to an inflow magic weapon in the hands of a Qi Refining Taoist disciple.
Logically speaking, Xu Dao could not afford such expensive items, but just as other Taoist priests could hunt and kill ferocious beasts nearby, he could do the same.
Just because he was alone without the cooperation of others, and in order to hide his strength and keep a low profile, it was inconvenient for him to take too many shots.
But a few occasional attacks have already earned him tens of thousands of blood money, which is equivalent to the salary of Taoist Ningsha for nearly a year on the Shark Island.
These talisman money was not enough to squander on the sea market, so he simply didn't save much. Instead, he made a deal with the Xihai Taoist priest he met nearby and exchanged some gadgets that could help improve his practice, so as not to waste half a year of waiting.
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Not to mention, when he was on the Merman Island, Xu Dao had not seen much of the objects in the Western Sea. Now, because there are people with good cultivation nearby, the quality of the goods in everyone's hands has gone up, and he has seen some strange things.
Weird stuff.
The incense candles you put on during practice are one of them.
Although this incense candle cannot create spiritual energy, nor can it release too much spiritual energy, it can actually make Taoists feel as if they are in a superior quiet room when burning incense and practicing, and the spiritual energy breathed out does not escape at all, and the efficiency is greatly improved.
When Xu Dao was in the Kingdom of Wu, he had never seen such magical incense candles even inside the Erhai Taoist Palace.
Later, he realized that the spiritual energy in Xihai was thin, and the Taoist priests' practices were also extreme, and all of them were heretical. However, the Taoist priests in Xihai valued the spiritual energy and utilized it more efficiently than the Taoist priests in Wu State.
For example, things like magic.
Spells are used by Taoists to consume their own spiritual energy, and are often cast on the spot whenever they need to be used. However, in this way, compared to talismans, magic weapons, puppets and other objects, it completely consumes the Taoist's own spiritual energy.
Moreover, in a hurry, spells generally waste too much spiritual energy, and are far inferior to prepared talismans, or using magical weapons, or using martial arts performed through the physical body.
Not to mention that if you want to be able to cast spells instantly, you need a Taoist to practice a spell to a great level and plant the talisman in the body. This process is still unavoidable even at the level of foundation building and above.
Therefore, the monks in Xihai have already abandoned most of the magic spells, leaving only small magic spells that are quite effective in daily life, as well as secret techniques that are not spread to the outside world.
Instead, various physical martial arts, side magic weapons, talisman puppets and other foreign objects became popular.
In short, today's Taoist priests in Xihai either rely on the physical body to use spiritual energy, or use spiritual energy through external objects. In general, there are not many Taoist priests who can practice and use magic.
After Xu Dao realized this situation, the first thought in his mind was: "The Taoist priests in Xihai are all hereditary."
Because things like magic are not only related to the strength in fighting, but also related to practice.
Regardless of whether it is the path of immortality, martial arts, or the path of Sword Immortal, the first step to enter the path is to practice the spell of swallowing moonlight until a talisman is cultivated and planted in one's soul, body or utensils.
No matter how advanced the cultivation techniques are, in essence, they are just a series of spells that are composed of breathing spiritual energy, tempering true energy, and forging the soul and body.
This is why Xu Dao was able to refine his own cultivation techniques and create his own contemplation ideas.
His accumulation is profound. Although the concepts he created are not necessarily profound, they are still suitable for his current use, and he can draw the essence from more advanced practice techniques at any time in the future and add, delete, and modify them.
Moreover, magic is an understanding of the principles of heaven and earth. Practicing magic is also climbing the path of immortality.
It is like knowledge. Even if it is an evil spell, as long as it is learned but not used, it can still deepen the Taoist's understanding of the rules of heaven and earth, and help accumulate the foundation of the soul or body.
The Taoists in the West Sea have given up practicing all kinds of magic and instead just rely on brute force or foreign objects to fight and kill people. This is tantamount to falling into heresy and practicing purely for the sake of force.
You may not be able to see anything at first, and there won't be any difference between Taoist priests and Taoist priests, but as you go later, the gap will become more obvious.
Because no matter what, whether it is a magical weapon, a puppet, or a talisman, all of them are actually made by Taoist priests who spend their time refining them.
Whenever a Taoist's strength improves, the external objects will not be improved simultaneously. They must be sacrificed before the power of the external objects can match the Taoist's level.
Just like this, Dao Ningsha has been in trouble for a long time, and the cuttlefish sword and banner in his hand have been stagnant for a long time. The banner was only recently promoted to a foundation-building magic weapon.
It must be understood that people have already put a lot of effort into tempering themselves, and it is difficult to add to it. If they want to make external objects have the same level and strength, it is tantamount to repeating the work.
It is better to practice spells from the beginning and engrave them on the soul or body. As the first level increases, the power of the spells will also be improved. The later the stage, the more convenient it will be.
And for heretics, when the realm reaches a certain level, if there is no opportunity, it will be more difficult for them to improve the realm of external objects than to improve themselves, so there are often no external objects available.
Unless from the beginning, Taoists have focused on improving an external object, and this is the practice concept of the Sword Immortal Path.
Counting over and over, we can see that among all the methods in the West Sea, Taoist soldiers are the only ones that are not so heretical.
By driving Tao soldiers, Taoists not only do not need to consume their own spiritual energy, but can also use the magic power of the Tao soldiers for their own use. On weekdays, they can even use the Tao soldiers to ride forward and back.
But faced with such a situation, Xu Dao thought about it carefully and realized that the situation was not that simple.
It is impossible for all Taoist priests in Xihai to be narrow-minded and not consider the future. It is only because of the situation that they are forced to fall into a situation where everyone is a heretic.
Today, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is thinner than ever before. Taoists have reached the point of extracting souls to refine money. As long as the spiritual energy is more pure, they will use it to breathe in and refine the energy and increase their cultivation, and are not willing to waste it on fighting.
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As for the spiritual energy consumed to drive external objects, in addition to preparing it in advance, it can also use spiritual energy that is dirty or even contaminated by evil spirits.
In this way, the Taoist priests of Xihai can barely ensure the spiritual energy they need for their own practice.
And compared with the external objects that the heretics rely on, although Xuanmen's authentic magic is good, it is still too much.
Many Taoists have wasted their lifespan because of their greed for various powerful spells, which in turn delayed their own Taoism. As a result, they eventually ran out of lifespan without making a breakthrough and passed away.
Therefore, when the Taoist priests of Xihai chose to rely on external objects, they did not simply fall into the heresy, but may have been divided into two. They put their own Taoist behavior first, and the means of protecting the Tao came second, placing it on external objects.
This move has its own consequences. Compared with the blind pursuit of Taoist orthodoxy, it is more correct in Xihai, where spiritual energy is currently in embarrassment.
From this, the prevalence of martial arts and rampant monsters in the Western Sea can also be explained.
It is not because there are many monsters and foundation-building ferocious beasts that Taoist priests can only use the blood of monsters to plant spiritual roots, but because tempering the physical body is more tolerant of inferior spiritual energy than Yinshen, and is suitable for environments with thin spiritual energy.
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Once martial arts monks and immortal monks of the same realm start a fight, it is not known who will win, but the one who lasts the longest and recovers the fastest is often the martial arts monk.
There is no other reason. The Yin spirit is pure and noble, and the physical body is strong and unyielding.
After learning about this situation, Xu Dao not only communicated with Yin Jianjian next to him, he also took the risk to travel and communicate with other Taoist priests around him who were rushing to sea.
In the end, as he expected, the Taoist priests in Xihai were not simple people, but rather sized up the situation. Only because they were forced by the world, they unanimously followed the heretical path.
All of the above thoughts came to Xu Dao's mind. He glanced at the unused half of the incense candle, and another thought suddenly came to his mind:
"Side sects are prevalent in the West Sea, but how can there be innate cultivation of the righteous Dharma in the world? It's just that whoever is the most powerful and who can achieve the path of immortality the most will be the righteous Dharma!"
His idea is not far-fetched, but rather an example.
Regardless of whether it is martial arts or swordsmanship, it was originally just a branch of the immortal way. Even the Yin Shen Immortal Way itself was only a method of Qi refining practice at the beginning.
It was not until time changed that the practice of cultivation was divided into three. All three were taken out of the path of immortality by their predecessors, and only then were they all helped to follow the right path.
Nowadays, the world is undergoing great changes, and side sects and heresies are running rampant. Who knows that these sects and heresies will not lead to immortality in the end and set the tone for future practice?
Xu Dao was quite looking forward to and agreeing with this. Because strictly speaking, he was also a miscellaneous cultivator, and his methods were mixed. In the eyes of Taoist Xuanmen, he must be one of the heretics, and most likely he would not be able to live forever.
The true Taoism of Taoism, a single scripture can lead directly to the great road, and several magic spells can lead directly to immortality. It is so mysterious!
Although Xu Dao and other members of the Taoist Palace received Huang Tian's legacy, they did not receive the cultivation classics of Huang Tian's Taoism. They only had the status of Huang Tian's successor.
After a little reverie, Xu Dao suppressed these thoughts.
His mood turned to anticipation: "When the sea market is held, I will definitely be able to see more strange goods and objects in the West Sea. I wonder if I can also see the Taoist Xuanmen skills of the past?"
Xu Dao then stepped out of the training cabin and went outside the cabin. He cast spells and communicated with several Taoist priests from the West Sea whom he had recently made friends with for inquiries.
In the room, Yin Jianjian landed behind him, following step by step. The shark girl also took off half of the incense candle from the incense burner and held it in her hand, with a little excitement on her face.
What Yin Jianjian was excited about was not the incense candle that gave him a half-hearted concentration.
No matter how fine the quality of this kind of object is, it is just a small thing for her to enjoy herself while bathing.
What made Yin Jianjian really excited and happy was that Xu Dao gave her this thing and told her to "take it for her own use". He must have decided to keep her alive and prepare to take her as a slave or concubine!
"It's been half a year, it's been half a year! This guy is so insufferable that he doesn't even touch me. I'm worried to death."
Because Xu Dao always spoke little to her, even though he did not take her life for half a year, Yin Jianjian was still anxious, which was equivalent to waiting for the result for half a year.
Now Xu Dao's attitude finally changed, which made her so excited that she almost crushed half of the incense stick in her hand.
Fortunately, Yin Jianjian suppressed her excitement in time and kept reminding herself that this was just the beginning. She had to be more patient before she could find opportunities to escape and even the possibility of revenge in the future.
But what Yin Jianjian didn't know was that Xu Dao was standing outside the cabin, and in the first batch of letters he sent out, he was asking the newly acquainted Taoist priests: "How much does a foundation-building slave cost? How much does a foundation-building shark girl cost?"
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Xu Dao did not expose Yin Jianjian's level in order to avoid attracting covetous attention from others. Now that the sea market is about to open, he must first inquire about the price to avoid being cheated in the sea market.
Whizzing!
Several talismans used for communication were swimming on the open sea. Along with it, there were also spiritual lights flashing across the sea, and ships of various sizes were also approaching.
The sea area with a radius of thousands of miles has become lively, and even the Taoist priests who are fighting with each other have stopped temporarily and are looking forward to the next grand event.
Xu Dao stood on his boat and soon received several replies. He read them one by one with a chuckle on his face.
Then, he drove the boat under his feet, found a place not too far away from the waterway, and waited quietly.
A full night passed, and when the sun rose brightly from the east sea on the second day, a giant object also slowly emerged from the east and appeared in everyone's eyes.
This giant object shone so brightly that all the Taoists on the sea were dazzled.
It looks like a raft made of bundled logs, but it is hundreds of miles long and as huge as an island.
It appears to be slow, but in fact it rides on the ocean currents below and sails across the sea at a rapid and unstoppable speed.