"Alright!" The sect leader clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention and said,"Junior Brothers and Sisters, let's return to our respective halls. We also need to prepare for the cultivation world's once in a hundred years Martial Gathering in sixteen years.”
Bai Hao, Bai Li, Bai Cao, and Bai Nan said in unison,""Yes, Sect Leader Senior Brother." After saying that, everyone left.
The sect leader patted Xu Aotian's shoulder and said,""Aotian, follow me."
"Yes, Master." Xu Aotian looked at Fang Ziyu with a hint of reluctance. He sighed and left with the sect leader. Only Song Tao and Fang Ziyu were left in the room. The two of them remained silent, and the atmosphere became awkward.
"Alright." "Little Junior Brother, let's go out for a walk. I'll tell you some rules of our sect while I'm at it." Song Tao broke the silence.”
Fang Ziyu nodded and said,"Thank you, Fifth Senior Brother."
Song Tao led Fang Ziyu out of the room and said,""Our sect is called the Hollow Jade Temple in the cultivation world, but in the secular world, it's not called the Hollow Jade Temple but the Kunlun Sect.”
"Kunlun Sect?"
"That's right. The Kunlun Sect is just the name of a martial arts sect in the secular world of the Hollow Jade Temple. Only after you join my sect will you tell me the real name of the sect. Junior Brother, do you know how self-cultivators cultivate themselves?”
Fang Ziyu shook his head blankly.
"Actually, every sect in the cultivation world has their own cultivation method, and our Hollow Jade Temple focuses on alchemy."”
Seeing that Fang Ziyu didn't seem to understand, Song Tao explained in detail,"Actually, every cultivation sect has their own cultivation methods. There are martial arts cultivation, alchemy cultivation, array cultivation, and artifact refinement. The effects were different. For example, a cultivator who practiced martial arts would have a slow progress in their cultivation, but their foundation would be solid. In the future, they would be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort. However, cultivators who cultivated arrays and weapons could cultivate much faster than those who practiced martial arts. However, if their foundation was not stable, some problems would inevitably occur. However, if they could refine good arrays or magic treasures, it would be of great help to cultivators. And our Hollow Jade Temple is a sect that refines elixirs. Cultivators who refine elixirs can use elixirs to make their realms advance by leaps and bounds, but it will be harmful if they progress too quickly. Little Junior Brother, you must remember this.”
Seeing that Fang Ziyu still didn't quite understand Song Tao, he sighed and said,""It's too early to tell you this, but you'll understand when you reach the cultivation realm. Now, let me tell you about our fellow disciples of the Jade Martial Hall. There are seven halls in the Hollow Jade Temple. The Jade Martial Hall is one of the halls that is managed by the master. The master has seven disciples. First Senior Brother Yu Da Yong, Second Senior Brother Chen Fan, Third Senior Brother Huang Yuan, Fourth Senior Brother Wang De. I am the fifth. Sixth Junior Brother Ye Feng, you are the youngest of us.”
Seeing that Fang Ziyu didn't say anything, Song Tao said,""We Xiuzhenists can cultivate both men and women, but there are also Xiuzhenists who ask their masters to give them a Daoist name in order to cultivate wholeheartedly. Once a person was bestowed with a Daoist name, it meant that all the past events of this person would vanish along with his original name. From then on, this person would only cultivate alone for the rest of his life and would not marry or have children. As for Eldest Senior Brother and the others, as well as you and me, we all use our original names without dao names. As long as we like them, we can marry and cultivate together.”
"Hmm, let's talk about our cultivation method. When we first entered Master's tutelage, we cultivated here. At that time, Master ordered me to get up every morning to fetch water from the Kunlun Spring on the north bank of the Kunlun River, and to chop wood at the Jade Peak of Mount Kunlun. After lunch, he would go to Yuxian Peak to meditate and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth until night. After dinner, he had to refine pills in the pill refining room. I used to sleep for no more than six hours a day.”
"Fifth Senior Brother, is this how all of you cultivate?”
"Right, we all practice like this until we reach the Cycle Reflection stage, then we can focus on pill concoction and cultivation.”
"How long does it take to reach the Rotary Reflection Stage?"
"How long?" Song Tao raised his head and thought for a moment before answering,""I've been practicing for about thirty years."
"Thirty years?" Fang Ziyu exclaimed.”
"My aptitude is poor, so I can't help it." Song Tao smiled awkwardly.”
"Fifth Senior Brother, how old are you this year?"
"How old?" Song Tao thought for a moment and then replied,"I forgot. He's about two hundred years old."”
Fang Ziyu took a deep breath and only managed to spit out a word after a long while,"Heavens!"
"Little Junior Brother, actually, the moment you embark on the path of cultivation, age is already meaningless." Cultivators were different from mortals. There were a total of eleven stages in cultivation, namely: Foundation Establishment, Revolving Reflection, Fusion, Heart Movement, Spirit Silence, Nascent Soul, Leaving Aperture, Soul Separation, Fusion, Tribulation Transcendence, Mahayana. Every time a cultivator broke through to a new level, his lifespan would increase by a lot. Sometimes, breaking through to a new level could increase his lifespan by hundreds of years. Therefore, cultivators have the opportunity to cultivate to the immortal realm, but there are also many people with stupid talent who can't cultivate to the dacheng realm in their entire life. Those people can only wait for reincarnation in the end.”
Leaning on Fang Ziyu's shoulder, Song Tao led him as they walked and said,""Junior brother, you must remember this. The most important thing for us cultivators is to be in the nascent soul stage.”
"What is the original level? Is it important?"
"The Nascent Soul Stage is a transition period for Cultivators. Of course it's important. If a Xiuzhenist managed to reach the Yuanying stage, it was equivalent to having his own inner core.”
"Oh?"
"Yes, I am. In fact, the Nascent Soul stage referred to the cultivation of a small person that looked exactly like you in the mud ball, and this small person was where your soul was. When you break through the dacheng stage and ascend, it means that the yuanying breaks out of the body and ascends to the heaven realm.”
Seeing that Fang Ziyu didn't answer him, Song Tao didn't mind and continued,""After ascending, the body will remain in the same place, but the Nascent Soul will break out of the body and ascend. At that time, the person will truly live as long as the world and will never have the pain of birth, old age, illness, and death. However, there were also obstacles when ascending. Do you know what it is?"
Seeing Fang Ziyu shake her head, Song Tao smiled and said,""It's the heavenly tribulation. When you ascend, the heavenly tribulation will come. At that time, the heavenly tribulation will directly attack your yuanying. You have to protect it with all your might. If your nascent soul is destroyed by the heavenly tribulation, you can just wait for your soul to dissipate.”Laughing, Song Tao continued,"There are also some people who can't transcend the heavenly tribulation but aren't willing to be reincarnated, so they disband and become loose immortals.”
"You must know that the power of loose immortals is beyond the imagination of Xiuzhenists. They were second only to immortals, and their strength was close to that of immortals. I once heard that a large cultivation sect offended an Itinerant Immortal. That Itinerant Immortal came to seek revenge alone and destroyed the large sect in just a few minutes.”
"So powerful? Is this true?"
"I don't know. I only heard about it. This is because loose immortals are rarely seen in the Xiuzhen world.”
"Why?"
"He has monstrous strength close to that of an immortal and can exist in the cultivation world with his physical body. These loose immortals would suffer a heavenly tribulation every thousand years. If they could safely transcend the heavenly tribulation, their strength would advance another step. If they could not transcend it, they would be reduced to ashes. As a result, loose immortals are busy looking for magic treasures for the heavenly tribulation that occurs once every thousand years. Who has the time to care about the matters of the cultivation world? Furthermore, each heavenly tribulation is more and more powerful than the last, so the loose immortals who can safely transcend the heavenly tribulation are also getting fewer and fewer.”
"Then why did they disband their weapons and become loose immortals?”
"There's no other way. I can't ascend smoothly, and I'm unwilling to be reincarnated. The only way is to disband the weapon first and then think of a way after becoming an Itinerant Immortal.”
"There's a way for loose immortals to return to the Heaven Realm?”
"Yes." Song Tao nodded. As long as the loose immortals have a way to re-form their yuanying, they can ascend again. However, if he failed this time, he would not be able to resolve the situation. His body and soul would be destroyed. If he succeeded in ascending, he would enter the Heaven Realm again.”
"Is there any way to re-cultivate the Yuanying after it has been scattered?”
" This..." Song Tao scratched his head and said,""I'm not too sure either. There should be.”"Let's not talk about this for now. Junior Brother, let me show you where you usually do your homework." Song Tao said after a pause. In the future, you'll have to carry water and chop wood by yourself every day. I'll teach you the basics of breathing and pill refinement later.”
Fang Ziyu nodded and followed Song Tao to visit the place where he would do his homework in the future.
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