After leaving Xianyuntang, Zhao Lin went straight to the main hall on the top of the mountain, passed through a secret door, and walked into the underground treasury.
The treasury stores important classics, exercises, and rare medicinal herbs, as well as a secret escape route in case of emergency.
The important place of the sect is guarded by deacons day and night, and only the headmaster and elders can enter.
"Elder Zhao, please!"
Before Zhao Lin could show his belt, the four deacons guarding the treasury said respectfully one after another.
In recent years, the Xingyun Sect has been developing smoothly. The sect's treasury is full and the elixirs are all available. This is mostly due to Zhao Lin, so everyone in the sect respects him very much.
"Thanks for your hard work."
Zhao Lin nodded slightly and stepped in.
Although the Zongku is underground, the design is very clever, with good ventilation and lighting, so you won't feel stuffy even if you stay there for a long time.
Entering the corridor, there are five stone rooms lined up.
The yearbooks are stored in the third stone room, arranged neatly from near to far by year.
The two grand masters before Lu Yuanxiu were named Chen Tunan and Xu Yuan. Zhao Lin remembered the approximate time when they left the sect and quickly found two relevant yearbooks.
I walked under the bright lamp and started reading page by page.
After a while, I checked my hands and found the record of the Taoist priest's visit.
"It's a Taoist priest again!"
Zhao Lin narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the words in the book, thinking: "As I expected, these things are not coincidences!"
It is a pity that the deacon in charge of recording did not think the matter was important and just brushed it off. As for the origin of the Taoist priest and what he said to the master, there was no record at all.
"Why do Taoist priests come to your door after you reach the master level, and then the master leaves?"
Zhao Lin murmured to himself, his heart full of doubts.
Then I thought again: "Liang Song is not a master, why are there Taoist priests looking for him?"
Zhao Lin intuitively believed that the two were based on the same reason, but he couldn't figure out why.
And he had a vague feeling that these Taoist priests may not have malicious intentions.
Because whether it was Grandmaster or Liang Song, judging from what they did before leaving, they were all voluntary.
"What is so attractive? Is it worth leaving their hometown, relatives and friends?"
…
Yongning City, the town's official residence.
"Duan Gui, Tao Zhuang, take people to Xuanyue Mountain and invite the Taoist priests there. I want to see them."
Zhao Lin called the two guards leaders and assigned them a task.
Originally, the Duke could only control eight hundred soldiers and personal guards, but Zhao Lin felt it was unnecessary, so he only recruited a hundred personal guards. They usually patrol the streets and maintain public order, but today they rarely used them.
Duan Gui was the guard commander, and Tao Zhuang was Zhao Lin's subordinate when he was the catcher in Qinghe County, that is, the catcher named Tao Erleng.
Tao Zhuang had a weak brain and was helpless, so Zhao Lin transferred him to Yanzhou and became Duan Gui's deputy.
Duan Gui perked up after hearing this, and immediately clasped his fists and said, "Yes, Duke."
Tao Er stretched out his head in confusion and asked: "Boss Zhao, are you asking a Taoist priest to do the magic? My father said before that those things are all lies."
Zhao Lin was speechless and winked at Duan Gui.
Duan Gui understood and quickly took Tao Erzhuang out of the house.
"By the way, invite people here, don't use force."
Zhao Lin warned again.
I silently thought to myself that more than a hundred years have passed since the incident, and the original Taoist priest must be gone. I wonder if there is a successor? Can Taoist temples still exist?
…
Xuanyue Mountain is located in Yanzhou, only a few hundred miles away from Yongning City. Duan Gui and Tao Erleng led their soldiers and went back and forth in less than ten days.
Zhao Lin was disappointed when he brought the news.
"To inform the Duke, there is no Taoist temple in Xuanyue Mountain. We asked the people in the surrounding villages and towns and they said that there had never been any monks on the mountain."
After Duan Gui finished speaking, Tao Erleng also added: "There is not even a monk temple or a nunnery."
Zhao Lin knew clearly that the Taoist priest named Pu Yuanqing probably made up his origin casually, and maybe even his name was fake.
With a sigh, he sent the two of them away.
"It seems that it is impossible to find out the truth. As long as I have reached the innate realm, maybe Taoist priests will come to my door."
Next, Zhao Lin sat in the retreat room every day, buried in a pile of old papers, and devoted himself to studying martial arts.
It took nearly three months to finally demonstrate the body tempering technique.
He first followed the general outline of martial arts and combined with his own situation to create a technique: condensing the true energy of the six paths of water, fire, earth, wind, ice, and thunder, and blending it with his blood.
Qi is the king, blood is the minister, bones and flesh are complementary, and the internal organs and meridians make it work.
Ease tendons and cleanse marrow!
Then run the exercise in the body, stopping only at the key breakthrough point. According to the effect of the exercise, constantly adjust the exercise formula to finally complete it.
Finally, the exercise was run hundreds of times until the effect was exactly as expected, and then the final version was finalized.
In fact, although deducing the techniques is laborious and laborious, every martial artist who has cultivated to the Yuan realm is a person with outstanding talent and intelligence.
As long as they are willing to work hard, most people can deduce techniques that can impact the innate realm.
However, only one Yuanjing warrior can become a master. The real reason lies in age.
The physical peak of a martial artist is at the age of twenty-four or five. If he can break through to the blood realm before, the peak can last for ten or twenty years, that is, until he is about forty years old.
Once they pass the age of forty, even Yuanjing warriors' bodies begin to decline.
Although extremely slow, it is unstoppable.
Because reshaping the physical body requires extremely high physical requirements, the difficulty of breaking through becomes more difficult every year after the peak.
However, very few people can cultivate to the Yuan realm before the age of forty. It will take another ten years to cultivate to perfection. Even if the method is deduced by then, it will be impossible to achieve a breakthrough.
The four great masters of the Xingyun Sect in the past were all extremely talented and beautiful people. They all reached the perfection of the Yuan realm around the age of forty, and then they broke through to the Xiantian realm.
Zhao Lin broke through the Blood Realm at the age of nineteen, and reached the Yuan Realm at the age of thirty. It can be said that this is unprecedented, and there is no need to worry about age at all.
Everything was ready, Zhao Lin decided to attack the innate realm and see what would happen next.
Before the breakthrough, he compiled his practice experience over the years into a book, and revised the previously created wind, ice, and thunder techniques.
Xingyun Sect didn't have many different skills, so Zhao Lin thought that if he failed to pass the test, he could leave something behind for the sect.
Although the technique has been deduced thousands of times, it is still a deduction after all, and there is no guarantee that there will be no problems when passing the test.
The Yuanjing pass is not as risky as the previous Qi realm and blood realm. In the past dynasties, Yuanjing warriors have died due to failure to pass the pass.
Two days before the customs clearance, which happened to be the Chinese New Year, Zhao Lin returned home to have a reunion dinner with his mother and brother's family.
The father in this life was in poor health due to the root cause of his illness. Although he had been taking medicine for recuperation, he was unable to recover and passed away two years ago.
After the New Year, Zhao Lin left for his sect and went to the inner courtyard to discuss the matter with Yang Lin.
Lu Chaohuan happened to be there, playing chess with Yang Lin under the tree of Hongrong Pavilion.
Seeing Zhao Lin coming over, Lu Chaohuan picked up a chess piece and said with a smile: "Zhao Protector, I heard that you have been reading in Xinyun Pavilion, why are you free to come here today?"
(End of chapter)
