"Ah yo."
Lin Jingzhe groaned in pain, rolled up his body, and rolled around in the dormitory bed.
How could a body that was so thin and frail from hunger and cold endure such excruciating pain? After a while, he fainted.
After an unknown amount of time, he slowly opened his eyes. The burning sensation dissipated at some point, replaced by a sense of relief.
He turned over to sit up and found that his whole body was soaked to the skin, with thick liquid occupying his body, and a pungent sour smell filled the entire dormitory.
He took off his clothes and thought about wiping them once, when he heard Xiao Wu's knock on the door.
"Little Jingzhe, get up soon and listen to the scripture class. Today is the first lesson for newcomers, don't be lazy."
"The first lesson of entering Taoism, I forgot this important thing."
Lin Jingzhe patted his head and shouted quickly: "It's coming, it's coming."
He started to open the door of the dormitory and saw Xiao Wu staring at him with disgust.
"Little Jingzhe, what did you do? It smells sour. Go and wash up in my room."
"Okay." Lin Jingzhe walked into his room and started washing up without being polite to him.
From Xiao Wu's mouth, they learned that after several of them swallowed the Marrow Cleansing Pill, they did not suffer from severe pain, heat, and black mud all over their bodies.
Lin Jingzhe didn't know why, so he just assumed that his qualifications were inferior to those of them.
After washing up and putting on Taoist robes, the group of people came to the "Sutra Singing House" of Zhaixing Temple to listen to the lecture.
The lecturer was a woman who seemed to be in her mid-twenties. The woman had fair skin, red eyes, a small cherry mouth, and a straight nose.
The woman introduced them and then told them the essentials of entering Taoism.
To enter the Tao is to enter the Tao, to attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, to circulate around the body, and to let the spiritual energy take hold in the Dantian, which is to enter the Tao.
The five of them followed suit, sitting cross-legged, making finger tips with their hands, and silently reciting the Taoist formula.
Half an hour passed, Xiao Wu, Dong Zhi and two other teenagers smiled one after another.
Only the young man with a sallow complexion and a body as thin as a bamboo pole was still suffering, and beads of sweat were already covering both sides of his cheeks.
"Congratulations."
The woman looked at the new disciples and nodded with satisfaction, and continued: "You guys can leave first, and come back in half a month to receive a spell."
"Yes, senior sister." The four of them said respectfully.
Dong Zhi and the other two teenagers got up and left, but Xiao Wu was worried about Lin Jingzhe and stayed behind.
Another half hour passed, and the hungry and thin boy who was sitting cross-legged in meditation still didn't open his eyes.
Xiao Wu was a little anxious, so he asked the senior sister who had not left yet, "Senior sister, if you are a disciple who has not yet entered the Tao, will you be kicked out of the mountain gate?"
Hu Bingqing said: "No, our master will not easily drive away the disciples she brought here."
"Oh, that's good." Xiao Wu breathed a sigh of relief and stared at Lin Jingzhe.
At this time, Lin Jingzhe also opened his eyes.
"Little Jingzhe? Have you successfully entered Taoism?"
"It's done." Lin Jingzhe said slowly, wiping the sweat from his cheeks.
"Haha, then we will all be immortals from now on." Xiao Wu patted his shoulder and said excitedly.
"Yes." Lin Jingzhe nodded sincerely.
"Congratulations, junior brother successfully entered Taoism."
"Thank you, senior sister."
Lin Jingzhe did not dare to look at Hu Bingqing's beautiful face. Compared with the master and the senior sisters in the "Caizishe", Hu Bingqing had the feeling of charming all living beings, making people kneel down and make them willing to be slaves.
After bidding farewell to Hu Bingqing, Xiao Wu and Lin Jingzhe returned to their residence and began to practice the Qi training method "Xinri Ti Yang" passed down by Hu Bingqing.
Time passed by in the blink of an eye, half a month later.
In Lu Ran's dormitory, the thin young man sitting cross-legged on the dormitory bed suddenly opened his eyes, looking excited.
Finally breaking through to the first level of Qi training, it was time to say goodbye to Xiao Wu.
Lin Jingzhe stood up. His thin figure, concealed by the large Taoist robe, did not look so frail.
"Little Jingzhe, little Jingzhe."
Outside the dormitory door, Xiao Wu's knock on the door came again.
"Brother Xiao Wu." Lin Jingzhe was overjoyed and pushed open the door of the building. He saw that Xiao Wu, who had not been seen for half a month, was getting stronger.
"Xiao, Xiao Wu, have you broken through to the second level of Qi training?" Lin Jingzhe opened his mouth wide and his eyes were full of disbelief.
"Huh? How did you tell that?"
"When senior sister taught us how to enter Taoism, she told us how to identify the levels of Qi training." Lin Jingzhe explained.
"I forgot." Xiao Wu scratched his head and said, "Xiao Jingzhe, have you also broken through to the second level of Qi training?"
"My qualifications are stupid. I have only broken through one level of Qi training since I entered the Tao." Lin Jingzhe looked very embarrassed.
"Don't be discouraged. You are the smartest one in our village. One day, you will be ahead of us." Xiao Wu comforted.
"I hope so." Lin Jingzhe grimaced, and the previous confidence was gone.
"Don't ask for trouble." Xiao Wu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Maybe you can practice spells several times faster than us."
Hearing Xiao Wu's encouragement, Lin Jingzhe also brightened up.
The two of them went to the "Sutra Singing House" and the "Book Collection Pavilion" together, and each received a low-level spell.
The spell is stored in the jade tube and cannot be taken away. It can only be stuck on the forehead and imprinted in the mind.
Disciples of the Star-Zhaing Temple can receive a low-grade spiritual stone every year. The spiritual energy contained in the spiritual stone is extremely pure. When practicing, it will get twice the result with half the effort.
After leaving the Sutra Pavilion and returning to the dormitory, they encountered Dong Zhi and were blocked by a group of people.
When the two saw this, they hurried over and stood on both sides of the winter solstice.
When I saw two people from the same village arriving at the winter solstice, I felt brave and looked grateful.
"We are all from the same sect, why are you blocking our way?" Dongzhi Yin said with a sideways face.
"You must be the new disciples."
A disciple with a goatee said angrily: "Since you are a newbie, you don't understand the rules?"
"What's the rule? Open the window and speak frankly. What are you going to do?"
"Okay, Mingren don't tell any secrets, just keep the spirit stones you got, and then you can leave."
"Why?" Xiao Wu raised his voice and said coldly.
"Our cultivation level is higher than yours." said a young man with nipples and a face.
"Just because of your pretty face?" Xiao Wu stomped his feet and stared hard at the pretty face in front of him.
The boy with nipples and face was startled, stepped back, and hid behind the crowd.
Xiao Wu was overjoyed and said proudly: "Who else?"
"Noisy."
A young man suddenly raised his hands, and a disk-sized fireball appeared out of thin air.
"Fireball?" Lin Jingzhe's eyelids twitched. This was the low-level spell he picked in the library.
"What are you going to do?" Xiao Wu was also startled by this formation.
"Leave the spirit stone and get out." The young man was too lazy to talk nonsense and just finished speaking.
"Why should I give you my spiritual stone?" Dong Zhiyin turned her face sideways, seemingly not afraid.
"Dongzhi, this is a magic." Xiao Wu stopped in front of Dongzhi and whispered: "The green hills are still there, so you don't have to worry about running out of firewood. Brother Wu will help you get back the loss you suffered today."
