Chapter One Hundred and Thirteen: Where the Road Goes
On the way back, Wu Yi walked on a mountain path with a cliff next to it. Not long after entering, Wu Yi was very careful with every step he took, for fear that he would break the path with too much force and fall to the bottom of the cliff.
It has been two years since he came to Liucheng Yiqi Taoist Temple in the blink of an eye. This place has witnessed his efforts and growth, including every bit of his life. If nothing unexpected happens, Wu Yi's chances of returning here will become worse after entering the inner gate.
Little to none.
Thinking of what happened back then, Wu Yi couldn't help but smile slightly. Although he still had to quarrel with other people in the Taoist temple here, it made him feel at ease. It was his other home.
Home is the home of the soul, a place where one can be at peace. People who practice Taoism all say that they leave home and leave the world, but in Wu Yi's opinion, it is just going from one home to another.
At most, it only took half a stick of incense to cover the distance. Wu Yi walked for several hours, stopping from time to time to watch a typical night scene.
The moon was at its zenith, it was the fifteenth day, the moon was full and bright, full of affection, which was exactly what Wu Yi was thinking about at this time.
The disciples who were traveling at night saw Wu Yi and stood aside quickly, letting Wu Yi go first, which fully reflected Wu Yi's status. Seeing this, Wu Yi sighed in his heart, knowing that this was the normal state of the monastic world, even before he rose.
Only in this way can we survive in this monastic world.
Being disturbed by the group of respectful disciples, Wu Yi knew that he could never go back to the old days. Of course, he didn't want to go back to when he was so weak. He really wanted to stay with a group of senior brothers.
Passionate years of hard work.
Striding towards his cave, Wu Yi threw down the door-sealing stone, locked up the cave, and left a line of will outside the cave that no one could enter, and went to meditate on his own.
It is already early autumn, and next year's true transmission battle will be in mid-spring, which is the same time as the disciples go to the Inner Gate Sutra Pavilion to practice. I don't know how many people in the Taoist temple will go to the inner gate with him to participate in the true transmission battle, but I want to come
There shouldn't be many people.
The battle for true transmission is so fierce that in ordinary Taoist temples, no disciple may become a true transmission for several consecutive sessions. This is a normal phenomenon.
First of all, the number of true disciples recruited by the inner sect every year is uncertain, but at most it is only a few thousand. This was still a battle for true disciples that was held every ten years before. Later, there was a change. The inner sect's Dongtian family negotiated and changed it to once every three years, but the number decreased.
There are three to four hundred people in one session. In fact, the enrollment quota is still about the same, but it has been slightly expanded.
Secondly, the upper outer gate squeezes the lower outer gate. Wu Yi only learned about the term upper and lower outer gate not long ago. This is a private name among disciples. The official term is the main courtyard and side courtyard. Wu Yi
The Yiqi Taoist temple in Liucheng where Yi is located can be regarded as a side courtyard. In fact, all Taoist temples in Dayu Kingdom can be considered as side courtyards.
Although the main courtyard is also considered an outer sect, like the inner sect, it is built in the Jade Dragon Mountains. Most of the disciples who can enter the main courtyard had their parents and ancestors once being disciples of the inner sect, but later there was no hope of advancement, so they left behind their heirs and multiplied.
These disciples are much more talented than other Taoist disciples, and many people in the master-disciple lineage will choose these people as their disciples.
The most important thing is that the children of the long-established families have also entered the main courtyard. Their talents and backgrounds are enough to raise the status of the main courtyard. It also intensifies the struggle between the master and apprentice families to a certain extent. The main courtyard has become the master.
This is the location where the disciples' lineage and the family lineage have a fierce battle.
The two forces competed, and resources were invested one after another. The disciples inside were not comparable to the disciples in the side courtyard, and there were many who had reached the foundation building level.
Even before the battle of true inheritance, the main courtyard will hold an internal competition called the Little True Succession Battle. The rankings will be divided, and about three hundred people will be selected to participate in the battle of true inheritance.
Although it cannot be said that all of these people can become true successors, if too many people are dismissed, the head of the main courtyard, that is, the temple masters like Wang Chuchen, can even protest and demand re-selection, which can be said to be extremely strong.
The battle for true successors will also determine the ranking. Even if some disciples in the main courtyard become true successors, they will choose to give up because their ranking is not good and strive to get a better ranking next year. In addition to personal sentiments, most of the time it involves the teacher.
The confrontation between disciples and aristocratic families.
Therefore, in addition to the battle for seats, the battle for true inheritance also involves a battle for ranking.
Because the main courtyard occupies too many positions of true disciples, in order to balance the inner and outer Taoist temples, the inner sect also specially set up side courses for disciples of Taoist temples in various places. After passing the side courses, they can still be regarded as true disciples, but they are from the same true disciples, and some treatment is not
I can't enjoy it anymore.
Wang Chuchen originally wanted Wu Yi to go to the side course, but he didn't expect that Wu Yi's cultivation had improved by leaps and bounds in the past few years, and he was already a foundation-building monk, so he gave up the idea of letting Wu Yi participate in the side course. Otherwise, in the
If you understand the Tao Yun at the first level of Qi Refining, you can take the talent and intelligence department, and you can basically pass it.
One Qimen governs the Three Kingdoms. According to Wu Yi's Dayu Kingdom, there are more than a hundred Taoist temples. The other two countries in the Three Kingdoms are also not very different. In this way, there are more than 300 Taoist temples and tens of thousands of disciples. But in the end, there were so many
There may not even be a hundred Taoist disciples who will eventually become true disciples.
That's why side projects appear. Otherwise, the strong will inevitably become stronger and the weak will become weaker. The sect will lose its blood supply and the vitality of progress will be lost little by little.
But having said that, the disciples in the main courtyard are really strong in cultivation, and those who can rank in the battle of Xiaozhenzhuan are basically foundation-building monks unless they possess valuable treasures.
After Wu Yi broke through the foundation building in the Taoist temple, he was basically proud of his peers. So far, he has not seen a disciple who practices like him, and he doesn't know if one will pop up at the last moment.
But I think that every Taoist temple will have such a few disciples, otherwise the possibility of becoming a true disciple will be completely lost. There are also hundreds or even dozens of disciples in Taoist temples who have become true disciples.
Competing with a group of foundation-building monks, Wu Yi thought about the upcoming true inheritance battle, and he didn't have much worry in his heart, because there was no possibility of failure in his heart, and the price of failure for Wu Yi was too high.
Tactically, he attaches importance to the enemy, and strategically, he despises the enemy. Wu Yi believes that his Daoyun Daofa is not inferior to anyone else, but now he can only do the latter, because even if he wants to pay attention to the former, he has no way, his status is too low
, there are not many channels, and Wu Yi doesn’t know the characteristics and weaknesses of some famous masters and disciples of aristocratic families at all.
Although Wu Yi does not know these things for the time being, it does not prevent Wu Yi from making preparations, knowing himself and the enemy, and fighting a hundred battles without danger. If he does not know the enemy, he must try his best to know himself, just like Wu Yi's previous attempt to run thousands of miles.
At this time, Wu Yi actually missed the existence of his inner demons. Although the inner demons were a big threat to Wu Yi, in the confrontation with the inner demons, Wu Yi could force out his potential, improve his flaws, and understand his own strengths.
ability.
Wu Yi has cultivated the three paths at the same time. The strength path and the law path have broken through to the realm of foundation building, but the qi path is now stuck in the last step, and the innate qi has been unable to be transformed. Maybe Wu Yi is pursuing perfection, but now that he has seen the complete transformation
Maybe, how could Wu Yi give up so easily.
The worst that can happen is that the rankings in the battle for true successors will be lower. Wu Yi thought to himself, suppressing his desire for a breakthrough in the airway. He has never considered that he might not be able to become a true successor until now. This cultivation method of nine changes in the airway of one qimen makes it possible to include
Most of the disciples, including Wu Yi, have to consider whether to break through almost all the time.
Especially for those monks with low qualifications, but they are unwilling to admit that their qualifications are not high, so they keep putting it off until they can no longer hold on.
Wu Yi thought a lot before practicing. This can be regarded as a habit of Wu Yi. Only by understanding where his goal is and then practicing can he achieve success. Otherwise, he will just fly around and seem to be working hard all the time.
, but in the end nothing was achieved.
Eliminating distracting thoughts, Wu Yi began to extract the acquired Qi from the body, and at the same time stimulated the Zhen Qi seedlings to accelerate its transformation process. However, even with Wu Yi's subjective intervention, the speed was not much faster.
Is it necessary to continue traveling thousands of miles? After Wu Yi sensed the changes in his body's spiritual energy, he began to think about it, but soon he shook his head. Only after the acquired energy is drained out will the innate energy be transformed.
The earth is the fastest, this is the instinct of the human body, and this was the result of running thousands of miles before.
But if he does this now, not to mention whether he will be regarded as crazy by others, and subjectively he has no motivation, he may not be able to persist halfway through.
The effect of running thousands of miles is to exhaust Wu Yi's acquired Qi, because currently only the acquired Qi can be used by Wu Yi. The innate Qi and the acquired Qi do not belong to each other, and the Qi channel cannot be used to build the foundation.
, Wu Yi cannot use his innate energy. To a certain extent, the more Wu Yi's innate energy is transformed before entering the foundation, the more his strength will decrease.
"We need to find a new way to consume the acquired energy in the body." Wu Yi knew this truth, but he still couldn't come up with a practical way. It was a pity, so he had to continue the transformation according to the original method.
On the one hand, Wu Yi urged the Zhenqi seedlings to transform into spiritual energy, and on the other hand, a ray of spiritual consciousness entered the world of stone tablets. Now it is time to see if the giant rat ghost has made the "right" choice, if it is still as stubborn as ever.
, Wu Yi had no choice but to find another way to make up for the shortcomings of the Nine Ghost Locking Palace Formation.
Wu Yi had previously untied the shackles of the Monument World on the Rat Ghost, but the isolation from it was still not lifted. The Rat Ghost was separated from the many ghosts living in the Monument World by Wu Yi.
When Wu Yi saw the rat ghost, he stopped and stared at the lake full of sinister energy. There was its soul fire in it. It could sense that the soul fire was getting stronger all the time, so it could deny its main power.
body, but in this way life and death are in the hands of others, and there is no freedom.
After becoming a evil spirit, the rat ghost became accustomed to bossing around, and had forgotten the scene when he was a low-level ghost and surrendered to other ghosts, and could not accept the fate of being controlled by others.
Wu Yi understood what he was thinking. In fact, this is true for any independent individual. Being able to become a evil ghost, the rat ghost is also very intelligent. He did not approach it, but it made it sense its own existence. This
Isn't it a kind of pressure?
Not long after, the rat ghost took a sip of water from the Yinsha Lake. His momentum dropped, like a deflated ball, he came to Wu Yi and surrendered respectfully at Wu Yi's feet.
Wu Yi looked directly into his eyes and understood that this time it should be considered completed.
With a wave of his hand, the barrier was broken. The rat ghost was surprised to find that there were many ghosts around him, many of which were the ghosts that had besieged it before. Due to his nature, a sharp look flashed across his eyes, thinking of revenge. The indigenous ghosts were also like a giant.
The enemy prepared their positions in an orderly manner.
Wu Yi stopped the upcoming battle, and each side fought a battle, allowing them to practice the formation together. Seeing that the two sides had stabilized, Wu Yi pretended to leave, but in fact he was still paying attention to their movements.
As for whether they will fight, Wu Yi believes that this is inevitable. The anger suppressed in his heart cannot be solved by Wu Yi's beating. It doesn't matter if they fight, I know it hurts.
Seeing Wu Yi leaving, the two sides looked at each other distrustfully, and conflicts gradually aroused in each other's eyes.