Pu Liuxuan nodded slowly, "That's right. But do you know why students in the world, once they are over eighteen years old, will never be admitted to the Imperial Academy?"
"Disciple doesn't know."
Li Ang shook his head honestly and waited for the teacher to announce the answer.
The serious expression on Pu Liuxuan's face slowly faded, and he said softly: "Because, what the Academy teaches students is not only Confucian classics, poems and songs, but also principles of heaven and earth such as how to build roads and improve agriculture.
The academy also teaches, Tao.
The true Tao.
The path of spiritual practice. "
Li Ang's heart suddenly paused, as if he was standing on a cliff path full of unknown possibilities and dangers, "The way to practice...?"
"That's right."
Pu Liuxuan nodded and said: "Fly to the sky and escape from the earth, control the clouds and mist, cross rivers and seas, and even sacrifice copper pills and flying swords like in the novels, and take the heads of enemies hundreds of miles away in a hundred breaths of time..."
Li Ang asked subconsciously: "Isn't it Qianli?"
"Ahem."
Pu Liuxuan choked, pulled his face down, and said seriously: "It's not that fast. We must respect the rules of heaven and earth."
This... the flying sword has penetrated the air, teacher, are you still teaching me science? Should we use aerodynamics to improve the shape of the flying sword and increase the speed of the flying sword?
Li Ang continued to admit his mistake honestly and asked Pu Liuxuan to continue.
"Anyway,"
Being interrupted by Li Ang, Pu Liuxuan could no longer pretend to be serious. He waved his hands and said casually: "The rule that people over the age of eighteen cannot be admitted to the palace is to cut off the wishful thinking of mediocre people and avoid wasting the manpower of recruiting every year. material resources.
On the other hand, it is because humans are the spiritual leaders of all things and gather the essence of heaven and earth. Most people have a little bit of cultivation talent - that is, spiritual veins.
There are five invisible and intangible spiritual veins in the bodies of ordinary people. These spiritual veins can communicate with heaven and earth and warm and nourish the soul. Once you reach the age of eighteen, all spiritual veins will automatically close.
As for practitioners, before the spiritual veins are closed, they adopt various methods to irrigate, cultivate and strengthen the spiritual veins.
Let your spiritual veins grow like saplings, continuously absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth, open up the sea of qi, and form a cycle, thereby mastering power unimaginable by mortals. "
Pu Liuxuan said lightly: "Although everyone has at least five spiritual veins, five spiritual veins are only the most basic conditions. Even if you have the best qi-entraining technique and the best cave heaven paradise, you can't cultivate anything in a hundred years. Come to fame.
Practitioners who can officially step into the threshold of cultivation can have as many as ten or as few as eight or nine, and at least seven complete spiritual veins - this is already a very broad standard. According to what I have seen before Information shows that every year, more than 50% of the school-age children in the Yu Kingdom have seven spiritual veins. "
"Spiritual veins..."
Li Ang groaned and immediately realized that something was wrong. He often read newspapers and books in Zhenzhou Prefecture School and had never come across such information.
More than 50% of school-age children in the Yu Kingdom meet the minimum spiritual standards. This kind of information can be called a military secret. How did Pu Liuxuan...
"I wonder how I know this?"
Pu Liuxuan picked up the already cold tea on the stone table, took a sip, and said calmly: "I came to Zhenzhou City alone fifteen years ago, became a teacher, and became close friends with your father.
Before that, I was actually a professor at the Academy. "
"ah?"
Li Ang opened his mouth in disbelief. You must know that Xuegong is the highest institution of higher education in the Yu Kingdom, and its status is still higher than the Imperial College.
Every student there will either enter the Sixth Department after graduation and hold an important position. Either join the military department and expand territory for the Yu State. Or, hide your whereabouts and engage in some secret tasks that ordinary people cannot know - such as taking a boat to explore the endless sea in the east and bringing back novel products from various islands.
The academy itself is the highest and largest mountain in the Yu Kingdom. As long as you enter it, you will not only have a smooth career in the future, but also have a strong interpersonal network, which is comparable to a fish leaping over a dragon's gate.
As for the academic professors who once taught those pillars of the empire, their status is so high that it goes without saying.
"do not think too much."
Pu Liuxuan looked at Li Ang's astonished expression and sighed, half amused, half sadly, he gently put down the tea cup and said calmly: "Thirteen years ago, I voluntarily resigned from my position as a professor in the Academy and sealed off all my cultivation. Returned to his hometown Zhenzhou from Chang'an.
Last month, I received a letter from the Academy reinstating my professorship.
Each academic staff member has a recommendation quota every year, and can recommend a student to skip the provincial examination in the state capital and go directly to Chang'an to take the preliminary examination of the academy. "
Pu Liuxuan looked at the fallen leaves on the stone table with sad eyes and gently twirled the tea cup. He did not explain why he resigned from his position as a professor in the academy and lost his cultivation. He obviously did not want to say more.
"Your father and I have known each other for many years, and I have watched you grow up. Although you don't have any talent in poetry or singing, you have a flexible mind. You might be able to pass the Academy Exam."
Pu Liuxuan raised his hand, interrupted Li Ang's surprise thank you in advance, and said: "The recommendation from Professor Xuegong is just a ticket to enter.
Whether you can succeed or not depends on your own ability...and luck.
Wait here. "
Pu Liuxuan stood up, walked back into the house, and came out a moment later with a dusty scroll.
Li Ang took the arm-high scroll book and waved away the dust accumulated on it, "This is..."
"The "Shangqing Inspiration Chapter" is the basic textbook of the Academy, which is used by students to sense their own spiritual veins."
Pu Liuxuan said casually: "Actually, when you get to Chang'an, these things will be sent to you, and now you can get them just a few months earlier than other children from poor families with no background.
Those princes, nobles, and descendants of aristocratic families have carried this thing on their backs since they were young.
Just read it first and see if you can figure out the pattern. "
'Read the pattern...'
Li Ang was speechless and choked. He opened the scroll book and glanced at it. It was full of mysterious and mysterious words.
What "starts from the essence of yin and turns to the bright yang." "The auspicious day of the moon comes to reflect the heart."
I can't understand it at all.
"Getting started in spiritual practice depends on fate and understanding. Don't get hung up on words, but feel and understand. If you can't even understand this, how can you compare with those noble disciples who have been practicing for more than ten years?"
Pu Liuxuan put on the airs of a teacher and nagged some more.
The entrance threshold for the academy is not only the cultivation talent, but also the regular examinations such as scriptures, policy questions, riding and archery, etc. If you want to enter the academy, you have to work harder.
"Okay, let's go."
Pu Liuxuan, who finally finished explaining, waved his hand, "By the way, you can come again in seven days.
Every year before the academy enrolls students, teachers and teaching assistants are sent to various state capitals to use compasses to find those school-age children with exceptionally outstanding spiritual talents - after all, those talents cannot be buried just because they are illiterate and cannot afford to go to state schools.
When the time comes, ask him to use a compass to help you measure the number of spiritual veins. "
Li Ang, who was still immersed in the huge amount of information, kept nodding in agreement. It wasn't until he walked out of the courtyard and onto the bustling street that he realized what he was doing. He subconsciously hugged the dusty "Shangqing Inspiration Chapter" tightly in his arms. , silently quickened his pace and walked towards home.
As I walked quickly, I was thinking, what kind of organ is the spiritual vein?
Can it be transplanted?
