Although he couldn't see Uncle Cai, there was another person Zhao Ran wanted to see, and that was Yu Zhiyuan. For Zhao Ran, Yu Zhiyuan was like a bright meteor passing through the path of his life. Although it was short-lived, it was extremely dazzling.
In the two years since I met Yu Zhiyuan, this senior fellow student was absent from Wuji Academy for one and a half years. However, in this period of only half a year, he gave Zhao Ran great help.
Helped him achieve a reputation as a calligrapher, introduced him to Song Zhiyuan, helped him get out of the house in advance, and gave him a hard push on the road to receiving an ultimatum. Even in the critical link of being promoted to the Lord of Jing, there are some
Yu Zhiyuan’s contribution to the pointer! And what did he give in return to Yu Zhiyuan? Thinking back carefully, Zhao Ran found with shame that there was nothing! This was very shameful...
Yu Zhiyuan succeeded in bone setting in September of the 14th year of Jiajing's reign at Ye Xueguan when he opened the Shangmen Dharma Altar. Zhao Ran remembered that among the seven people who participated in the bone setting, only Yu Zhiyuan succeeded. At that time, Zhao Ran was extremely envious.
.But now five years later, Zhao Ran is already on the verge of completing the Taoist realm, while Yu Zhiyuan has just completed the Taoist realm. The fate of the two of them is truly beyond words.
The last time he came, Master Yuanda took Yu Zhiyuan and several other disciples to Ye Xueguan for business, so they couldn't meet each other. This time Zhao Ran brought it up again.
Originally, Dongfang Jing was planning to ask a layman to summon Yu Zhiyuan to meet Yu Zhiyuan at the cliff pavilion in Yunshuitang, but Zhao Ran refused and insisted on going there to meet him. Dongfang Jing had no choice but to accompany him and personally take Zhao Ran to Yu Zhiyuan.
On the way, Zhao Ran asked Yu Zhiyuan about his cultivation prospects. Dongfang Jing shook his head and said: "He is also a bone-setter, but his cultivation level is far worse than yours. It takes him one year to get started and four years to reach perfection. I don't know why.
It is possible to become a Taoist priest now, but it will be difficult in the future."
Zhao Ran couldn't help but be silent. In fact, this progress was quite normal, but what Dongfang Jing meant was actually Yu Zhiyuan's age. The older you are, the less chance you have of climbing the ladder.
When he first met Zhao Ran, Yu Zhiyuan was still a "young man" in his thirties, but seven years later, he was already over 40 years old. He himself was late in getting started, even if he started step by step at a normal pace - he entered in his forties.
If you become a Taoist priest, can you enter the Huangguan at the age of fifty? You must know that among the people who are stuck at this level, the age factor is definitely the largest factor. Well, even if he does enter the Huangguan at the age of fifty,
The chance of being able to form an elixir in your lifetime will also be extremely slim!
Thinking of this, Zhao Ran asked Dongfang Jing: "Senior Brother Dongfang, I want to ask you something..."
"Let me take more care of him? Since he is a senior brother who is kind to you...what did you say? Oh, it is necessary! But you also know that every test is difficult for him. It all depends on his own opportunities.
It’s just a matter of chance. No one can help me.”
Yu Zhiyuan was surprised when he saw Zhao Ran, but he was also very happy, but he seemed a little reserved in front of Dongfang Jing. Dongfang Jing knew it well, so he found an excuse to leave. Looking at Dongfang Jing's back, Yu Zhiyuan
He asked with some awe: "Junior brother Zhao is familiar with senior brother Dongfang?"
"Fortunately, he once handled a case to arrest someone, and I and a few friends helped him."
"Senior Brother Dongfang is young, but he is already a mage-level figure. He is admirable in his conduct and has a high prestige in the Jade Emperor Pavilion. It is a great blessing for me to get to know him. I must not be in front of him.
Meng Lang, if you can get his care, your future prospects will be promising."
"Yes, senior brother. Senior brother, is it okay to practice in the Jade Emperor Pavilion?"
Speaking of practice, Yu Zhiyuan burst into a smile: "Brother, I thought it would be extremely difficult to enter the country as I got older, so I immersed myself in practice. Over the years, I didn't care about anything outside the mountains and only meditated in the mountains... Finally, I didn't have enough time.
Thank you for your hard work, I have not fallen too far behind in my cultivation. In the past few months, I have felt that the Taoist realm has become complete and clear. The next step is to wait for the opportunity to break through."
"Congratulations, senior brother!" Zhao Ran took out a wooden box from the storage ring, which contained three elixirs: kidney beans, dew leaf pine needles, and Jinxuan stone. He handed it to Yu Zhiyuan: "Senior brother, I have read the "Spiritual Spirit"
"Bao Dan Sutra", there is a spiritual elixir called the Jingjing and Medullary Pill, which has a certain auxiliary effect on breaking through the realm. This is the main medicine for refining the Jingjing and Marrow Pill. Senior brother can ask Yuanda's refiner to refine it.
"
These three herbs are recorded and ranked in the "Zhilan Spiritual Medicine Manual". They are rare elixirs, but it is not difficult for Zhao Ran to obtain them. In the past few months, he has deceived many people from the wings of Baishanjun. The so-called Baihe
If you shine your wings, there must be a magic medicine, that's what it's like.
Yu Zhiyuan was facing a breakthrough level, so he didn't pretend to be pretentious and accepted it readily: "It just works, thank you junior brother. By the way, junior brother, how is your current cultivation level? I remember hearing Jing Zhimo's letter mentioning you a few years ago.
It’s been said that you have been blessed with immortality and entered the Huayun Pavilion. It’s been... well, it seems like it’s been almost three years, right?”
Zhao Ran was afraid that Yu Zhiyuan would be irritated, so he did not dare to answer the first question and interrupted with the following question: "It has been more than two years since I officially became a teacher...I heard Liu Zhiguang say before that my senior brother is very familiar with Jing Zhimo?"
Yu Zhiyuan recalled: "Yes, I was a close friend who grew up together when we were young..." After saying this, he seemed not to want to mention the past, and instead sighed: "He is very worried about Zhang Jianyuan's death.
, so I care a lot about my junior brother. I have tried to persuade him, but it is difficult to achieve results in a short period of time. I hope you can understand me. Fortunately, you are already a monk in the pavilion, so you don’t need to look at his face anymore."
Zhao Ran secretly smiled bitterly, thinking that Jing Zhimo might not have told Senior Brother Yu about his role as the Junshan Temple's blessing, otherwise he would not know when he would have to explain it. Now that Yu Zhiyuan has embarked on the path of spiritual practice, he does not want to bring this up again.
Not bothering this senior brother, I stopped dwelling on it and just talked about the situation at Huayun Pavilion.
Listening to Zhao Ran telling interesting things about Huayun Mountain and describing the scenery of Qiqiao Forest, Huoxin Cave, Yunlangang and other places, Yu Zhiyuan suddenly asked: "I heard that there is also a Qingqing Valley in Huayun Pavilion.
What’s the scenery like there?”
Zhao Ran felt slightly strange, but still replied: "To be honest, junior brother, I really don't know anything about what it's like in the Qing Valley. There are all female disciples in the valley, and even the ones who take care of the secular affairs are lay women. What do we usually have?
Everything is done by going outside the valley to call people out to talk. Master Lin is very strict..."
"A great mage?"
"Brother, do you know Master Lin? Well, she broke through last year. By the way, I heard that she placed her spiritual consciousness on the Taishang's Love Talisman. Let me tell you, senior brother, their martial arts are really weird.
What you practice is that you are too supreme to forget your feelings. Disciples are not allowed to talk about love. Otherwise, there will be bottlenecks in the practice, and it will even be easy to backfire when passing the test. Senior brother, what is this technique called? I don’t know which unscrupulous thing created it. She
Don’t you know, without experiencing life, death, pain, sorrow, joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, how can you understand life? How can you understand the great road? She also calls it Taishang Wangqing, which makes me laugh! She knows what Taishang Wangqing is.
What? The Supreme Being’s forgetfulness of love is not ruthlessness, but rather the love he loves without speaking, without thinking, without arguing. The purpose of forgetting love leads to the state of being sentimental. As the saying goes, there is a profound meaning in this, but if you want to distinguish it, you have forgotten to speak! Furthermore, the saint
Forgetting love is the worst thing that can’t be compared to love..."