In 475 years of the State of Xia, Wu Yu was 14 years old and a disciple of Qingbei College in Yidu City.
"Cultivating is going against the sky, and gathering spirit and transforming qi is to use the power of heaven and earth to attack one's own vital acupoints, penetrate the muscles and veins, shake the dirty lungs, break the pores, and then reach the sky..."
Qingbei University, Lingtai Grand Courtyard, above the platform, an old Taoist with white hair and beard sits here, explaining how to gather the aura of heaven and earth for beginners.
Under the Taoist platform, a group of young people who are just beginning to learn and have outstanding talents are listening carefully and asking questions from time to time.
"Shizu, when I was refining spiritual power, I often stopped refining because I couldn't concentrate. What should I do?" A fat little man in the crowd asked the Taoist priest his question.
"Xiao Pang, what are you thinking every day without thinking about cultivating well? Ha ha..." Someone teased, and everyone laughed with him. The originally quiet Lingtai became lively.
The little fat man blushed, stood up, opened his mouth, and thought of a retort. But when he saw the appearance of the crowd, he didn't make a sound. He glared at the person who made the noise, and sat down again.
Everyone laughed even more when they saw the little fat man's behavior.
"Cough, cough," the Taoist priest coughed twice, and the crowd suddenly became quiet and looked at the Taoist priest on the platform.
The Taoist priest looked around, nodded his head with satisfaction, and then looked at the little fat man: "The root of quietness is not to look at the eyes, but to return to the heart. There are four steps to stop mindfulness: mindfulness, oneness, mindfulness, and quietness. You can't stop mindfulness because you start mindfulness. I'm going to pass on the method of cutting mindfulness here to help you stop mindfulness when there are different mindfulness."
The old Taoist began to preach the Dharma in great detail, and the young people closed their eyes and hugged their knees to understand it carefully.
Wu Yu also sat in silence like other disciples, but he did not experience the old way of preaching like others. He looked up at the white clouds in the blue sky, as if thinking about something.
"Breaking away from the mundane world and turning into a cocoon is detachment. In practice, is it the heart or the Tao?" Wu Yu kept thinking in his heart, then shook his head and sighed.
In the State of Xia, children who have just turned five will be sent to the local cultivation school for enlightenment, to judge whether they are good candidates for cultivation. If their qualifications are suitable for cultivation, they will be given a free foundation pill to start a chapter with the Sky Understanding Skill, so that they can build their own foundation for cultivation.
The foundation building on the path of practice is also called Mingmen and Wujing, which correspond to five parts of the body, namely, the four poles, the five bodies, the six zang, the nine orifices, and the hundred skeletons.
If a child has completed five secret realms in eight years and can feel the aura of heaven and earth, he will have a chance to join Qingbei College, and the best of them will be accepted by the college elders as their own disciples and trained by themselves.
Half an hour later, when the old Taoist priest on the platform ended his preaching, his palm suddenly opened and sent out white lights, which fell into the hands of the teenagers. Each of them held a small jade bottle, opened the plug and sent out strange fragrance.
"This is today's psychic liquid, which can help you better understand the spiritual power of heaven and earth." The Taoist priest said that, and then it turned into white smoke and spread to the world.
Wu Yu carefully put away the jade bottle and left alone.
He walked on the path of the stone forest paved with small green bricks. He buried his head in thought, shook his head and sighed, but he could not make progress.
"Ding" Pei Cui's transparent white jade on Wu Yu's waist emits a tiny light cyan luster. Wu Yu takes it to the palm of his hand, inputs a trace of magic power, and the light cyan luster on the white jade quickly enlarges, changing one font after another, and prints in the void.
"Taiqing Pavilion, come quickly!"
Wu Yu looked at it and smiled bitterly. This jade was given by the teacher Wu Yu had worshipped after he entered the hospital. Although it was only a piece of ordinary jade, it was refined by his teacher repeatedly, but it had many more rhymes and had the effect of transmitting messages across time and space.
When I thought of the original master's gift of jade, he said that it was to keep in touch and communicate at any time, but in fact, in his opinion, it was to let him come and go whenever and wherever he called.
Remembering the kindness of his master, Wu Yu shivered and walked quickly to the Taiqing Pavilion on the white jade.
Taiqing Pavilion, located in the northwest of Qingbei University, is next to Yongxi Lake with large golden flowers on the left, and its back is against the leafy grove. Taiqing Pavilion itself is the Jinding Stone Wall, painted with various bird patterns, colorful, shining with the lake through the sun, more dazzling.
When Wu Yu came here, he saw the master standing in front of the door waving to him. She was wearing a dark plum blossom yarn robe. She was tall and graceful. Although she was clearly a woman, she had a heroic spirit that could not be concealed.
Wu Yu hurried up to meet him. As soon as he was about to enter, a white, slender palm hit his head heavily.
"Why so long!" The woman put her hands on her hips and looked angry.
The woman's name is Le Yao. She is not only the teacher of Wu Yu, but also the youngest elder in the hospital. She seems to be in her mid twenties. She is in good taste, but she is actually over forty. Therefore, she especially taboos outsiders from mentioning her age.
"I came when I saw the message," Wu Yu replied, covering the beaten place.
"Too slow!" Leyao slapped her again.
Wu Yu can see that the question of whether to be slow or not is simply because the master has a big heart to play and tries to solve the problem with him.
"Do you know what I'm looking for today?" Le Yao asked, embracing her arms.
"You mean the token of protecting people?" Wu Yu replied carefully.
"You know!" Leyao said, raising her arms and waving at Wu Yu, but her palms didn't fall.
"Oh, no!"
Le Yao smiled and looked at Wu Yu's appearance of holding his head in defence. She was in a good mood. She had just got rid of her depression from the elder.
Qingbei College is directly under the royal family of the State of Xia. Different from the sect disciples who pay attention to cultivating their nature and cultivating their morality, the college advocates cultivating their hearts in the world.
Today, the Emperor of the State of Xia is even more famous as a good "emperor". He even issued an edict that all college students must take the people first and not bully ordinary people with their own accomplishments.
If the disciples of the Academy want to go to the ancient secret places or frontier battlefields, they must collect 81 people protection tokens in addition to breaking through their accomplishments to the realm of the most powerful. The Academy will issue a corresponding number of people protection tokens according to the degree of the event only if they do something beneficial to the people in the world.
Most of the way that the disciples of the college get tokens is to join the guild established by the disciples themselves, which can be divided into three gangs and six guilds.
Wu Yu has not received a token since he was admitted to the hospital. The reason is that he is not good at communication and always comes and goes alone. He has always believed that couples do not necessarily smile; Going alone is not necessarily lonely.
He likes to sit quietly, meditate and practice hard, and study the ancient method alone.
Wu Yu, who was called here by his teacher today, had already guessed what the so-called matter was, but what puzzled him was that most of the places where the college's guild was located were gathered in Tianqing Garden, which is in the southeast of the college. Although the Taiqing Pavilion is beautiful, few people came here because an elder once again became a hermit two years ago, because some people said it was an unknown place.
It is said that the thunder and rain on that day, the drum sound accompanied by the suona sound, seemed to cry in the void, and a white beauty appeared in the dark sky at the moment of the lightning flash, dancing, as if to lead, as if to transcend, floating away with the soul and body of the elder.
The master and the apprentice stepped into the red vermilion gate and entered the courtyard of the pavilion. They saw luxuriant trees, exotic flowers, butterflies dancing, lively and natural. It was a peaceful scene.
In the middle of the courtyard, there is a brown ring chair, and on the side of the ring chair sits a girl. The girl's eyes are closed, her long and dense eyelashes are gently shaking, and her face is soft and clean as snow lotus, with the lustre of warm jade. The warm sunshine shines on the girl's face, which is as beautiful as a picture.
When Wu Yu saw this moment, his breath suddenly stopped and his brain felt blank.
The girl seemed to notice that someone came in and opened her eyes. When her eyes were slightly closed, her gentle expression had disappeared. Instead, she had a cold temperament.
She stood up, squatted down slightly, and saluted Leyao: "I have seen the Nine Elders."
Although the tone is respectful, it seems to be a girl's natural temperament, which makes people feel cold and has a sense of disobedience.
Le Yao responded carelessly, then ran forward and took the girl's hand. The girl frowned. She took a step back and tried to pull her arm back, but she was firmly seized by Le Yao. The girl had no choice but to give up. But the expression of nervousness on her face could not be concealed, which completely showed her maladjustment.
"Xiao Ling'er is really more and more beautiful. In a few years, you can't be described by the beauty of the country and the beauty of the flowers." Le Yao said as she reached out to touch the girl's warm, jade like cheeks.
"Nine elders, please respect yourself." The girl responded, and pushed the devil's paw away with her jade hand. She was very resistant.
"What nine elders, when you followed me behind my buttocks when you were young and asked me to teach you how to practice, you could become a beautiful sister."
"Nine elders, that was before. Now, as a disciple of the college, I should obey the rules of the college, especially if you are the college elder."
"Really, the higher Linger's accomplishments, the more unlovable she becomes." Le Yao was disappointed and withdrew her jade hand to touch the girl, but she still did not let go of the other hand of the girl. Then they started chatting.
