Ye Xing decided to go to the second scheduled location, which was the Confucian Temple in Saint Ridge outside the east gate of Pingyuan City.
As the greatest scholar since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the Confucian Temple was named a holy teacher. It was the place where the first generation of imperial teachers of the Song Dynasty gave lectures. It is indeed a holy place of humanities.
At that time, the Holy Master advocated for the people to have the freedom to have surnames. In the past, only nobles had surnames, so the common people of the Song Dynasty had their own surnames.
The Holy Master also allowed everyone to enjoy the right to culture and education, which created the splendid culture of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the Holy Master was also the humanistic ancestor of the Song Dynasty.
Ye Xing is actually interested in these ancient ruins, but the two girls are different. The two girls firmly believe that it is necessary to visit them.
The Confucian Temple is outside the city, and the soldiers and guards have never been there, and they really want to go there, hoping to get a bit of literary flair.
Five people stayed outside the big ship, and the twenty-eight people separated, one after another, and went to play separately.
The Confucian Temple is located on the Dongshan Ridge outside the city. It is actually a small hill. A bluestone road winds up, probably about a hundred feet high. There are bamboo forests along the long road, which is very quiet.
When you reach the top of the mountain, you will see an ancient but very small building at the end of the road. In fact, it is a very ordinary brick and wooden house, which is the Confucian Temple.
Sure enough, there is a fairy. A very ordinary hilltop, which is not high, has become a holy place because celebrities once lived there.
The top of the mountain is very flat, with only one Confucian temple building and only one old man looking after it, but there are many stone monuments around it.
Ye Xing and others did not immediately enter the Confucian Temple, but first read the words on the stone tablets outside the house, and found that they were all words of praise to the sage master by later generations.
It has existed in all dynasties and is a tribute to the famous people of that time. If you look carefully, it is a written history book.
Finally, everyone arrived at the Confucian Temple. The sculpture of the Holy Master was very vivid, and it was also a metal statue. It had never been damaged and was extremely complete. It was neither gold nor silver, and no metal could be seen.
The appearance of the Holy Master is that of an extremely elegant and handsome middle-aged man, holding a book with one hand pointing forward and drooping with the other hand, looking forward. It is not a realistic sculpture, but a freehand sculpture with extremely rough, powerful and expressive lines.
The walls of the house are also covered with various calligraphy and paintings. Some of the calligraphy and paintings are quite old, and many have turned yellow, but they are quite well preserved.
Because everyone in the group was one of his own, Ye Xing let go of his consciousness inside and scanned it comprehensively.
Ye Xing vaguely had a special feeling. There was an aura here, the respect of countless people, the solemnity and solemnity gained from countless years of accumulation, and the existence of aura that he was very familiar with.
It was earth spiritual energy. Others didn't react because there were very few people with earth spiritual roots, and people who could practice earth spiritual energy were even rarer.
Sensing that the spiritual energy came from the base of the sculpture of the Holy Master, Ye Xing stepped forward and took a closer look, and it became even more obvious.
Ye Xing found that the old guardian did not follow, so he squatted down and took a closer look, and found that there were many lines carved on each side of the square base.
Others may not understand, but Ye Xing immediately knew that this was an ancient magic circle.
Ye Xing wanted to record this magic circle, so he took out the pen and paper from the space ring and immediately made a rubbing.
Everyone saw Ye Xing's movements and knew that he had discovered something, so they surrounded Ye Xing and chatted loudly on purpose to cover all of Ye Xing's movements. Therefore, the old man guarding the temple did not pay attention to Ye Xing's small movements.
Ye Xing repeatedly and carefully made several rubbings of the pattern of the magic circle before he was satisfied with it. He also carefully compared the rubbings with the original drawing to confirm that they were completely consistent.
After doing all this, Ye Xing stood up and observed the sculpture, and found that the book in the hands of the sculpture of the Holy Master was still a real book.
It was a metal book, but the color was too dark. I thought it was part of the sculpture. Ye Xing moved his fingers and realized that the book could be moved.
Ye Xing took the book down unceremoniously. It was indeed a golden book. There were several pages in it. The words on it could not be seen clearly, so he put it into the space ring without any pause.
Then, everyone chatted for a while before slowly leaving.
The old man guarding the temple did not notice at all that the book in the drooping hand of the statue of the Holy Master was missing.
Back on the boat, Ye Xing ordered to set sail immediately, and the destination was Taihua Mountain, four hundred miles away from Pingyuan City on the Song River.
Because it was a bit noisy to turn on the steam power, Ye Xing only allowed to use the sail. Taking advantage of the slight change in the wind direction in the afternoon, he adjusted the sail direction and the ship gently left the dock.
Ye Xing and the other three were checking the metal book on the deck. The cover and inner pages were made of an unknown metal, but the cover was thicker and the inner pages were much thinner.
At a sudden glance, he thought it looked like a book, but it was not actually a book. However, Ye Xing's hands were extremely sensitive. When he touched the cover, he had already discovered that there were words on it and very shallow dents. But they were all black.
Under the sun, Ye Xing took out a knife and gently scraped off the black paint on the cover. There were several relatively large ancient characters, which were a variant of the previous dynasty's characters, with some twisted writing. Now Ye Xing I can understand it, the words above are "Taixu Spirit Taming Jue".
Then Ye Xing scraped off all the black paint on about a dozen inner pages, finally revealing the entire face of the metal book.
In fact, the cover is already engraved with small characters, but the black paint covers them all, and then both sides of each page are engraved with small characters. The total adds up to a book with more than ten pages, and one page has thirty pages on both sides. , but the characters are extremely small.
The three of them read the book roughly and read the words engraved with needles on the cover, and realized that it was a secret method inherited from a sect called Taixu Sect in ancient times.
According to the introduction on the cover, it should be owned by a powerful hidden sect in ancient times. Its exercises recorded various levels of exercises from Qi refining to Nascent Soul.
From the introduction of the general outline of the technique, Ye Xing learned about the hierarchy behind Qi Refining. According to reports, it is divided into five stages: Qi refining stage, foundation building stage, golden elixir stage, Yuan Ying stage, and divine transformation stage. Each stage has nine layers, theoretically totaling 45 layers. Each level is 100 times the difference in cultivation level of the previous level, not only the difference in energy capacity, but also the difference in spirit and magical power.
There is a life-and-death gap between a monk at a higher level and a monk at a lower level. Even at the same level, there are differences between high, middle and low levels. This is the difference between the advantages and disadvantages of the exercises at the same level, as well as the differences in magical powers, techniques, and skills. distinguish.
Therefore, cultivators generally do not fight. A conflict is a life or death situation. It is precisely because of a slight difference that life and death can be divided.
Cultivators pursue immortality, so they cherish life even more and are less willing to get involved in various conflicts. In the cognition of cultivators, everything in the world is just the survival life of ants.
The general outline of "Taixu Spirit Taming Jue" mentions that people at the peak of the Qi refining stage can live for more than 200 years, those at the peak of the Foundation building stage can live for more than 500 years, the golden elixir stage can live for 700 years, and the Nascent Soul stage can live for a thousand years or more. , and when you reach the stage of becoming a god, you will become a real land god, and it is possible for thousands of years.
Cultivation means cultivating life, cultivating destiny, using one's own cultivation to change destiny, in order to seek immortality.
Although people in the transformation stage will die, compared to ordinary people, their lives are truly infinite.
Cultivation requires three indispensable things: immortal roots, skills, and resources.
In the early stage of cultivation, the key is resources, and in the middle stage, the core is skills. As you get to higher levels, personal qualifications are the decisive factor. Without qualifications, no matter how many skills or resources you have, they will be useless in the end.
The general outline mentions the exercises and elixirs that can be used to cultivate to the Yuanying stage, but after entering the Yuanying stage, there are no exercises. It all depends on one's own enlightenment, understanding the laws of heaven and earth, and finally transcending the laws of heaven and earth to become a god.
The three of them are now familiar with these ancient characters, so they understand the general outline, and they are all very surprised.
Who doesn’t want to live forever? But I also know that this is impossible, but dreams can be had!
Ye Xing said solemnly, "I will put it away first and slowly understand all the words before starting to practice. Otherwise, if there is a slight mistake, our lives will be lost. We must keep it secret, and we must not reveal anything. It is a crime to have a treasure." Everyone knows."
The two women nodded solemnly, and Qin Xinyue said, "Ye Xing, after you have studied it, teach us, we are your disciples!"
Ye Xing said oh, and asked the two women to learn the "Piao Miao Spirit Art" taught by him first, although it was only the fourth level of the Qi Refining Stage.
Now the fourth level is derived by Ye Xing based on each person's own situation. It is not the same as the original method, but it is indeed an entry-level method, and it is reliable after repeated testing by Ye Xing.
Ye Xing himself continues to practice the method of breath concentration, and must completely hide his breath. Even high-level monks cannot see through it. Being low-key is actually a means of self-protection, and it is a necessity for cultivation survival.
Of course, cultivating immortality is also difficult, but it seems that I finally have a goal.
