By the gurgling river, the boy clenched the small wooden sword in his hand and stared closely at the white-haired man coming to wield the sword.
"You have a good temperament, do you want to come with me?" the white-haired man said.
Although he is young, why can't he see the scenery of whistling Qingming? Just as he was about to say yes, he heard a stubborn voice next to him, "Take me away!"
The owner of the voice is his playmate and the defeated general who just had a "sword fight" with him.
The boy is well aware of the stubbornness of his partners. For example, today's "sword fight" was the first one he could count. But just because this partner lost once before, he must be so stubborn that he won't stop until he wins back.
The boy thought, then we can practice together.
He couldn't remember many details, but he still remembered the white-haired man's eyes. It is as clear as a stream and as high as the sky.
The white-haired man looked at them with his eyes, looking at the two young children who had been inseparable since childhood, with an incomprehensible smile on his lips.
"I only accept one apprentice." The white-haired man said.
He repeated: "Both of you are good, but I will only take one away."
How to do it? the boy thought at the time.
But he only had time to think about it for a moment. The next moment, he was pushed into the river.
Bang!
The sound of water splashing.
His friend, the friend who played with him naked, who was just a child, pushed him into the water without hesitation!
Across the rippling water, he saw the expressionless face of his "friend" and the calm look in the white-haired man's eyes.
Then, there was a frost-white sword light rising into the sky.
His little friend and the white-haired man were wrapped in the gorgeous and dazzling sword light, like a bolt from the blue, coming and going suddenly.
Just like the legends asked by countless immortals, they rub shoulders with miserable and mediocre mortals.
Only left, unable to let go, unable to believe, awakened from countless midnight dreams!
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Jiang Wang opened his eyes, and the dark night enveloped the surroundings and enveloped him. The dormitory was extremely quiet. Ling He and Du Yehu's breathing was long and had a special rhythm.
Jiang Wang knew that they were practicing the basic breathing and breathing method. Although the basics are simple, only inner disciples can be taught it. This is the foundational technique of Zhuangguo Taoist Academy that has been used for hundreds of years.
There was not much suspense about the selection of students in the inner courtyard of Maple Forest City Taoist Academy. Ling He, Du Yehu, and Zhao Ruchengdu became the new inner disciples, and their names were entered on the Taoist jade certificate enshrined in the sacrificial hall.
It's just that before the Taoist veins appear, they can't be regarded as official Taoist priests in linen.
Pulse-opening pills are hard to come by, and even if Maplewoods City Taoist Academy is enshrined by the state, it is impossible to give them to every disciple for free. As the best batch of disciples from the outer sect, they were selected to join the inner sect. They generally had to spend at least a year and accumulate enough merit before they were eligible to obtain the Pulse Opening Pill.
Only those with the highest contribution from the outer sect every year can exchange their contribution for a pulse-opening pill. This is the Taoist temple's special encouragement to its outer disciples. So since Jiang Wang has emerged this time, no one else can copy his path.
Even so, Jiang Wang had to fight desperately to accumulate the contribution in exchange for the Pulse Opening Pill. And now, within a hundred miles of Maplewood City, there is no other Xishan Bandit to exterminate.
He worshiped at the outer gate of the Taoist temple and practiced hard, defeating numerous competitors to enter the inner gate. After entering the inner gate, continue to practice hard and accumulate mission contributions. Finally, you will be given the Pulse Opening Pill and step into the transcendent world. This is the path of a normal cultivator in Zhuang Kingdom. It can be regarded as a visible and smooth road.
But compared to those who were born with exposed Taoist veins and directly entered the inner sect to start practicing Taoism, these young people who took the outer sect's promotion route did have to waste too much time.
The path of spiritual practice is slow one step at a time. This is the reason why Jiang Wang fought tooth and nail to complete the task when he was outside, and it is also the reason why Fang Pengju cannot curb his greed. No one wants to wait so many years!
So Jiang Wang understands Fang Pengju's desire, but cannot forgive his methods.
Among warriors as outstanding as them, no matter Ling He or Du Yehu, who has less desire for the extraordinary than Fang Pengju? But none of them did anything so mean.
Jiang Wang's father once said: A person is determined by his choices. Jiang Wang was convinced.
And he was faced with a difficult choice before.
As we all know, there are nine levels of cultivators, with the first level being the most respected, and the ninth level being regarded as the beginning of transcendence. The sign of achieving the ninth level is the achievement of Dao Xuan and the self-generation of Dao Yuan.
Practitioners have gone through an incalculable long history, and naturally have very detailed and in-depth research on this extraordinary first step.
The spine is regarded as the dragon of the human body, and the Tao channels are hidden in the spine. After the Dao meridians appear, the cultivator can feed back the Dao meridians with the power of Qi and blood, thereby generating Dao Yuan. Daoyuan is the root of all Taoism and the basis of transcendence.
Taking Jiang Wang's Earthworm Vein as an example, every time the "Earthworm" is mobilized, a considerable amount of energy and blood power is required. Only after the entire spinal dragon can be mobilized can a Dao Yuan be generated. Practitioners at Jiang Wang's level can practice Chongmai practice at most twice a day and accumulate two Daoyuan. It's not that he doesn't work hard, it's just that his body doesn't allow it. The energy and blood consumption is too great, the source of damage is hurt, and the loss is completely outweighed by the gain.
After accumulating Dao Yuan, the next step is to divinely control Dao Yuan and list the corresponding formation points according to the foundation formation diagram. When the formation is complete, Tao Xuan will be born.
As a practitioner who has already opened his veins, Maplewood City Taoist Academy naturally taught him the foundation formation diagram. It is Zhuang Guotong's Guiyuan formation, with a total of eighty-one formation points. In other words, if there are no mistakes in listing the foundation formation diagram, it will take him at least forty-one days, almost one and a half months, to truly become a ninth-grade cultivator. (The two Dao Yuan that Jiang Wang had accumulated previously had been exhausted in the battle.)
Of course Jiang Wang had nothing to be embarrassed about before, but now he unexpectedly entered the Taixu Illusionary Realm and inherited Zuo Guanglie's "Dongzhen Ruins Blessed Land", unlocking the corresponding sword discussion platform and Taoist performance platform, so he also There are new worries.
After he obtained the Guiyuan formation diagram yesterday, in order to test the effect of the demonstration platform, he put all 1850 points into the deduction of the foundation formation diagram. In the end, he obtained the extremely complicated Zhou Tianxing Formation Diagram. The entire foundation formation diagram has 365 formation points!
Not to mention the difficulty of arranging the Zhou Tianxing Formation, even if he could perfectly reproduce the foundation formation, it would still take at least half a year to generate the first Dao Spin.
After that, to advance from the ninth level to the eighth level, you need to build three Taoist circles, and from the eighth level to the seventh level, you need to build nine Taoist circles.
Based on this calculation, the time is too long!
There is no doubt that the Zhoutian Star Fighting Formation is stronger than the Guiyuan Formation, but the long time it takes to lay the foundation is where Jiang Wang hesitates. He needs to improve his cultivation as soon as possible in order to catch up with those practitioners who are born with manifest Taoism, but time waits for no one.
But after waking up from his dream tonight, he had already made his choice.
Jiang Wang closed his eyes and activated the only Dao Yuan generated by yesterday's Chongmai to move slowly in his spine. In the vague world of perception that controls Dogen, this is an infinite and vast space.
Because the dragon lives here, it is also called the Spinal Sea.
But in word of mouth among practitioners, it has a more resounding name - Tongtian Palace!
Penetrating the Tongtian Palace and opening the gate of heaven and earth is the transformation from a beginner cultivator to an intermediate cultivator.
In the boundless Tongtian Palace, a Dao Yuan is as small as a grain of dust. But he did not follow the trend, but firmly and stubbornly implemented Jiang Wang's will. Moving, moving, finally hovering at the ideal place.
That is the position of the sun star in the Zhoutian star array chart.
When the daoyuan hovered, Jiang Wang seemed to see the eyes of the white-haired cultivator when he was young again.
He would never forget when he was pushed into the water.
Those eyes seemed to be saying to him——
"The path of spiritual practice is to fight."
