The boy's experience was nothing special - it was nothing more than witnessing people's life and death.

What's special is the young man's thought: after witnessing life and death with his own eyes, he developed a deep fear of death, so he came up with the idea of ​​seeking the Tao.

Logically speaking, as a young man, he should be as full of vitality as the rising sun, and should not have such fear of life and death.

However, perhaps because he was born with a weak body and had problems with his upbringing in his early childhood, he could easily be saddened by trivial matters. As a result, once he witnessed the death of relatives and friends, he would become fearful of life and death.

The feeling is excusable.

After listening to Su Lingqi's story, Xie Wenyuan understood the crux of the matter: if Su Lingqi's fear of life and death could not be eliminated, his pursuit of the Tao would never be cut off.

"I understand!" Xie Wenyuan nodded, looked at the young man in front of him and said, "It seems that your father has never told you about your family's fundamental secret, right?"

"The fundamental secret?" Su Lingqi looked confused.

"That's right!" Xie Wenyuan nodded, "The so-called root secrets are the heirlooms of a scholarly family that has been in the family for more than a hundred years. These secrets are only open to the direct descendants of the family. If you don't know, there is an age limit.

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"A scholarly family that can be passed down for hundreds of years naturally has not only the classics and collections of books accumulated by the family, but also the martial arts and Taoism for future generations to learn as the fundamental secrets."

"Master, you said... our family also has Taoist classics?" After hearing Xie Wenyuan's words, Su Lingqi couldn't help but be stunned.

He has been seeking Taoism and visiting immortals in order to join the Taoist sect, practice Taoism, and gain immortality. He did not expect that he would have a collection of Taoism secrets in his home. How could he not be shocked by this?

"Of course it's true. Each family of a scholarly family that can be passed down for more than a hundred years has its own heritage, and this heritage is the foundation of family inheritance. Without the inheritance of Taoism, how can we gain a foothold in this world?"

"Then why..." Sun Lingqi looked at Xie Wenyuan hesitantly.

Xie Wenyuan asked: "You want to ask, since there is a Taoist inheritance, why does your father never appear in front of others?"

"For us scholarly heirs, although Taoism is the foundation of our family inheritance, it is not the most fundamental core. Our most fundamental inheritance is still the knowledge left by our predecessors. The most important thing in Taoism practice is the accumulation of knowledge.

, once knowledge has been accumulated to a certain level, as long as you practice a little Taoism, you can easily transport the spirit out of its shell and become a ghost immortal, and even survive several thunder tribulations with ease."

"For example, the medieval scholars have not practiced any Taoism for decades and have been concentrating on learning. Later, when the God of Fortune came out of his body, he survived seven thunder tribulations and easily became the creator of seven thunder tribulations.

This is the reason for the strong accumulation."

After hearing this explanation, Su Lingqi couldn't help but think deeply.

"As for your father not showing Taoism in front of others, because Taoism practice is a small way. The real foundation lies in the accumulation of knowledge. As long as the knowledge is accumulated, Taoism cultivation can be easily obtained."

On the opposite side, when Xie Wenyuan said this, he couldn't help but said earnestly: "You have to know that the most fundamental of our scholarly family is still the study and accumulation of knowledge. Taoism and magical powers are just side effects. You can pursue them, but

You can’t put the cart before the horse!”

"I understand!" Su Lingqi nodded obediently.

Xie Wenyuan didn't know whether Su Lingqi really listened to it or was just fooling people on the surface. However, he still came up with his trump card: "Let's put aside the Taoist matters for now. If you want to pursue immortality, you don't have to practice Taoism." Skills, Confucian literature and Taoism can also achieve long-term vision."

With that said, Xie Wenyuan picked up a piece of paper on the desk in front of him.

Su Lingqi sharply saw a piece of text written on the paper: "Dingbo carried the ghost on his shoulders... He went to Wan City and fell to the ground, turned into a sheep, and sold it, fearing that it would change and spit on it. The money is one thousand and five hundred, so go."

This passage comes from the short article "Song Dingbo Catching Ghosts". The general story is that Song Dingbo caught a ghost and took it to the market. The ghost turned into a sheep and was then sold by Song Dingbo and received fifteen hundred coins.

In just a few dozen words, I can’t see anything special.

Su Lingqi didn't know why Xie Wenyuan took out such a piece of paper, but then he saw an incredible scene.

Xie Wenyuan held the paper, and a blue light emerged from his hand and poured into the paper. The green light spread from the paper and quickly flooded the entire study. In the blink of an eye, Su Lingqi found that he had changed places.

The surroundings were full of people and brightly lit, like a night market in a certain city. However, when he looked carefully, he found that the faces of the pedestrians around him were blurry and he couldn't see each other's faces clearly.

After a while, Su Lingqi seemed to feel something. He looked up suddenly and saw an ordinary-looking young man walking from outside the city gate with a strange thing on his back.

When the young man walked to the edge of the market, he threw the thing on his back to the ground. The weird thing instantly turned into a sheep. The sheep seemed to be struggling, but as the young man spit on it, it turned into a sheep. , the sheep immediately stopped moving.

After a while, someone came forward to inquire. The young man sold the sheep to the other party and received fifteen hundred copper coins.

Seeing this scene, Su Lingqi couldn't help but look stunned: "This is... the scene of 'Dingbo selling ghosts' as written on the paper."

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding scene suddenly dispersed like smoke, revealing the scene of the study. Looking carefully again, Xie Wenyuan was still sitting behind the desk, without any sign of moving.

"That was that just now?" Su Lingqi pinched his fingers, feeling that the scene he just saw was so real.

"That was one of the scenes from "Song Dingbo Catching Ghosts"." Behind the desk, Xie Wenyuan held the paper and said with a smile, "Just now I have injected literary spirit into it, making the scenery contained in the text appear magically, and this scene has been formed. Even though Song Dingbo was just an illusion, with the blessing of literary principles, he was born with the ability to catch ghosts."

This magic-like sight instantly aroused Su Lingqi's interest.

Xie Wenyuan gave a rough explanation, and Su Lingqi finally stopped thinking about practicing Taoism, and instead became interested in the war poems, war words and war texts written by Xie Fuzi.

As a young man, Su Lingqi's purpose of seeking Taoism and cultivating immortality was for those magical spells.

Now that he sees that Confucianism also has such 'spells', he will of course choose to be near the water, first come first. After all, he has a lot of experience in Confucian knowledge. Compared with the unfamiliar Taoist practice, of course he will choose a familiar field.

"You can naturally learn these things by following me." Xie Wenyuan smiled, but then poured cold water on him, "It's just that war poems and war words are just a small way. You can use them to protect yourself and your life, but you can't indulge in them. Among them, fundamental intellectual study has been missed."

Su Lingqi replied without hesitation: "Students will definitely keep it in mind!"

Next, while Su Lingqi studied literary and Taoist practice with Xie Wenyuan, he began to study the classics of various schools of thought in more depth under the guidance of this literary and Taoist master.

In the past, his mind was only on the pursuit of Taoism, and he did not pay much attention to studying the classics of various schools of thought. Now, with the guidance of Xie Wenyuan, a great master in the literary world, he has truly begun to appreciate the vastness and mystery of the Taoism.

Unfortunately, although Su Lingqi was talented and had some foundation in reading, it did not help him. Until three days later, Su Lingqi was taken to Linlang Academy by Xie Wenyuan, and he had not yet developed his first ray of literary talent.
Chapter completed!