Thinking about what the old man said, he looked up at the stacked bookshelf behind him, thinking that even if he couldn't get the divine fire here, he had to collect these books into his own divine sea.
Seeing the smile on Li Xiuyuan's face, the old man looked at him and said quietly: "Don't be frightened by these mountains. I have read for hundreds of years, and no one has read all the books here. ....."
His message was clear, don't be afraid, take your time.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but frown slightly, thinking that if he were replaced by an old man, why wouldn't he have to spend more effort?
"I hope you can calm down." The old man spread his hands and said, "Look at that guy Wang Qiang, he couldn't bear to run away after staying here for three months..."
"I want to give it a try." Li Xiuyuan said seriously: "I will start from the corner of this mountain. This matter will not be difficult for me..."
"Is that so?" The old man looked at him and smiled: "Do you still have time to sweep the floor and cook?"
Li Xiuyuan thought carefully for a moment and then said: "Junior, I spent half a day sweeping the world and reading a book. The meal can be simpler, but the book must be read..."
But the old man didn't want to disturb Li Xiuyuan's practice because of sweeping the floor.
He looked at him and said, "Let's do this. There are so many people talking in the mountains these days. I'll ask Wang Qiang to find someone to replace you for half a month. You can just sit here and study in peace these days..."
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he quickly stood up and thanked the old man.
After thinking for a while, he said: "In this case, this junior will be more respectful than obey orders."
The old man looked at him and smiled and said: "You don't have to cook tomorrow, just have a bite with me. Let's see if you can break through this weapon refining method in half a month!"
Li Xiuyuan was startled. He didn't expect that he wouldn't even have to cook now?
"This will cause trouble for seniors." Li Xiuyuan cupped hands with the old man, thinking that he would have to treat the old man to a drink some other time.
Without saying much, Li Xiuyuan calmed down and calmed down the excitement in his heart. He reached out and gently opened the book "The Way of Refining Weapons" in front of him.
He murmured: "Let me chop down this mountain with a knife..."
Holding a book in his hand, his spirit has been unable to gather itself. Leaning on the chair and looking at the book in his hand, he felt a little nervous.
Even he himself couldn't explain why he had such a strong desire for the mountain of books in the room in front of him.
Perhaps it was because the poems and books in Chunfeng Academy when he was a child were so easy to read that he forgot about the hardships of coming to another world to study. Everything now happened because of the love between Ping An and Yuan Zunqiu.
This made him fall in love with the mountain of books in front of him more and more, and he thought that he would copy a few books and take them back in a few days.
At least when you leave Shuwu Continent, you should bring back a few volumes of your favorite books.
He has experienced life and death to come here from Tianhuang Mountain, and he must find a way to climb these peaks in front of him.
He wanted to overcome his fatigue, walk to those higher mountains, and see more scenery that he had never seen before.
He has already traveled a lot in the thousands of miles, and now he wants to read thousands of books and destroy the mountain of books in front of him.
When Li Xiuyuan was twelve years old, his practice in Tianyun Mountain with the old man in the library was the most proud period of his life, no less than his practice in Prajna Temple.
He once said to his husband: I cut a mountain of firewood and read a house of scriptures.
Only then did I know what real reading was.
No one knows how important this trip to the Xuanwu Continent is to the young man from Luoxia Mountain in the Shura Domain who was sold as a fat sheep by the bandits.
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For Li Xiuyuan, studying with an old man was a big deal. No matter whether it was possible for him to become like the old man or not, he would give it a try.
Because Shushan is there, at least this opportunity is in front of him.
For most people, they need to remain calm during major events. Li Xiuyuan, who has experienced countless life and death hardships, is gradually allowing himself to do this.
Just like when he met those killers in Tianhuang Mountain, he forced himself to be calm. Before he could not become stronger, he had to learn to calm himself down first, so that his mood would not be disturbed when things happened.
Summer has just arrived, and there is still autumn and a long harsh winter waiting for him. This was an opportunity God gave him to learn, and he didn't want to miss it, especially with Ping An, Wang Qiang, and the kind old man in front of him.
From that day on, Li Xiuyuan never left the library, and he didn't even disturb the old man lying at the door.
Every day from dawn to dusk, a lone lamp lights up in the library, and it never goes out until midnight.
Inspired by the world of weapon refining in the book, think of yourself as a divine fire between heaven and earth, burning quietly in the wind...
The spirit in the mountain of books is gradually relaxing, and I feel like I am the divine fire.
The moment of burning is eternity, I want to think of the moment when the Shura sword in my hand gradually melts under the divine fire.
But the hand holding the hammer became tighter, a hundred times, a thousand times... ten thousand times, the hammer rose and fell.
The sword in the quenching sword is a flaming sword force that destroys everything. When Sha Na was thrown into the snow water and quenched, he encountered the Ruoshui sword Xingyi...
This is the meaning of the fusion of water and fire that Li Xiuyuan himself understood, and it has gone beyond what the old Taoist priest originally explained to him.
This is Li Xiuyuan's own swordsmanship.
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As the days passed, Dabi's recruitment of disciples arrived as scheduled, and guests from many famous sects arrived as scheduled and gathered on Tianyun Mountain.
Li Xiuyuan stayed quietly in the library, paying no attention to everything that happened on the mountain, and never went out again.
When it came to sweeping the floor, the old man asked Wang Qiang to replace him, saying that Li Xiuyuan wanted to study in peace.
Ping An would occasionally go down the mountain. He would sit aside very cutely and watch Li Xiuyuan in a daze, and then ask the old man for some snacks. After staying for a while, he would jump up the mountain.
He was in a good mood and could finally call his senior brother master.
After the competition on the mountain started, all five venerables appeared. However, this was only the news he got from Ping An, and he forgot about it after hearing it.
It only took him three days to finish reading the book "The Way of Refining Weapons" in front of him.
The old man didn't care about the competition in the mountain. He just paid attention to the young man who was sitting in front of the window and slashed Shushan.
He heard Li Xiuyuan say that after reading this thick book on weapon refining in his hand, how could he believe it in his heart?
Holding the thick book in his hands, he flipped through a few questions to study Li Xiuyuan.
Unexpectedly, Li Xiuyuan memorized the old man's problems and also put forward some of his own opinions, which made the old man feel very incredible.
Looking at him, he said: "When the sect competition is over, I have to call the old man Yuan Zun... From now on, you can follow him to practice the art of weapon refining."
Although Li Xiuyuan was happy, he also knew the difficulties he faced.
Looking at the old man, he murmured: "The way of refining weapons lies in refining fire. I haven't found the legendary divine fire yet, so how can I learn the way of refining weapons from Senior Yuan Zun?"
The old man laughed angrily at him, looked at him and said seriously: "According to what you said, all the weapon-refining families only have one divine fire. Is it possible that their descendants don't need to learn it?"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned when he heard this, but he thought that he had never thought about this problem seriously.
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When night fell, Li Xiuyuan still sat quietly in front of the window of the library, opened the book of weapon refining again, started over, and studied it seriously.
After reading books for several days, plus my own previous experience, I summarized the three skills needed to refine spiritual weapons.
The first one is that he wants to learn how to refine magic weapons.
Ouyang Dongli didn't know this skill before, so he didn't teach him. Even Gui Guzi later only taught him the Tao of Talisman, and he gained some enlightenment from the Tao of Talisman.
But it cannot be regarded as entering this way. This requires him to learn from scratch.
Second, he needs to learn how to engrave restrictions.
This is not a big problem for him as a Talisman Master. As long as there is a forbidden engraving method, he can slowly try to engrave it in practice, because he has already built the formation disk under Luoxia Mountain.
The third type is to learn to use the rules of fusion between monster materials and weapon refining materials.
Mastering this law is much more difficult than his inscription of runes. This is the skill that he needs to learn from Yuan Zun. In the future, if he has good monster materials, he will no longer need to sell them.
If you refine it directly into a spiritual weapon and sell it, it will be even more valuable.
Although there are records in the book, the refining methods and skills require Yuan Zun on the mountain to guide him to get started.
Otherwise, even if he gets the divine fire, the most he can do is to re-cast his Shura sword and divine dragon bow.
If he becomes a master of weapon refining, he can carve a magic circle on the Shura Sword, turning the divine sword into a magic weapon, and its power will be doubled.
Is it possible that I can make the Shura Sword into a magic sword?
Once Li Xiuyuan sat in the Sutra Collection Tower, he sat there for fifteen days.
Until the old man reminded him to make tea and drink it, Li Xiuyuan had not washed for more than ten days.
The old man looked at the disheveled and unkempt Li Xiuyuan, frowned and said, "Why are you doing this? You made yourself look so miserable!"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the old man sitting in front of him and replied in a daze: "I have been sitting here reading these days? Senior, where is the Tao in the world? The Tao in this book is the truth, but I have not seen the Tao?"
The old man pointed to the empty cup on the table and said, "I'm thirsty. Let's make tea first."
Li Xiuyuan was stunned, stretched out his hand to light the charcoal fire in the furnace, and then continued to ask: "Senior, please help me clear up my doubts..."
The old man looked at the gradually rising fire and smiled lightly: "Tao is in the world, Tao is in people's hearts. In my eyes, Tao is everywhere, and Tao has been integrated into thousands of families."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, saying that he didn't even understand, and continued to ask: "Confucianism governs the world, so where is Confucianism? You won't tell Confucianism that Confucianism is also in people's hearts, right?"
When the old man heard this, he looked at the scroll in Li Xiuyuan's hand and couldn't help but smile. "Confucianism is in the court, and Confucianism keeps the principles straight, so that the country can run normally. If the principles are always not straight, the king will be immoral and dishonest."
Li Xiuyuan understood this sentence clearly because he had personally experienced the ups and downs of the Five Domains Dynasty.
I lowered my head and thought about it. I have a deep relationship with the old man and I still have some understanding of Buddhism.
He looked at the old man and asked, "How can we explain that Buddha heals the mind?"
"The Buddha taught all dharma to cure all minds; if there is no mind, why would we need all dharma?" The old man began to like Li Xiuyuan a little, because of Li Xiuyuan's desire for knowledge and his desire for knowledge.
Seeing that Li Xiuyuan still looked a little confused, the old man continued: "Everything we do is caused by thoughts in the mind. When the mind arises, all kinds of dharmas arise. When the mind dies, all kinds of dharmas perish."
After Li Xiuyuan heard this, he put his hands together to greet the old man and said with a smile: "Senior, you have mercy!"
The old man nodded and said with a smile: "The two minds are silent, neither sex nor action. Why don't you become my disciple? The old man has practiced a few sword skills in the past..."
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "I understand somewhat. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form, and the same is true for feeling, thinking, and knowing. It seems to be similar to what the predecessors said."
Hearing that the old man was willing to teach him swordsmanship, Li Xiuyuan immediately fell to the ground and kowtowed: "Teacher, please bow to me!"
After saying that, he offered a cup of spiritual tea with both hands, which was regarded as the completion of the apprenticeship ceremony.
The old man looked at him and laughed and said: "Since you are willing to be my student, then I have to tell you my name. My name is Meng Shentong..."
Seeing Li Xiuyuan's dazed look, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "You go and wash up, and we will have a good discussion when you come back."
Li Xiuyuan took a look at his clothes, chuckled twice, got up and walked out of the library.
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