Chapter 25: Selection (Part 1)
After checking the license plate, the deacon nodded slightly, "You can go in."
Kong Zhang was overjoyed, but was immediately stopped by the deacon disciple.
"So you are Kong Zhang."
Kong Zhang couldn't help but wonder that he had never met this deacon disciple before, but fortunately the next sentence solved his doubts.
"My teacher Meng Haoran is in Xiabai." The deacon disciple said lightly, "I heard that you are a fairy who wanted to recommend your master, but the master was about to enter the pass and did not agree. However, before entering the pass, the master had already told me that if you meet you, it would be convenient."
Kong Zhang was even more surprised. He had been in Shushan like a headless fly for the past few months.
Seeing Kong Zhang's appearance, Bai Fang smiled slightly, waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be so happy. What I can do is to give you a little convenience without violating the sect's rules."
Kong Zhang hurriedly bowed: "How dare you make Senior Brother Bai embarrassed? It's just that this is the first time I've come to the Sutra Library and I know nothing about it. Senior Brother is very grateful to me for what I can tell."
Seeing that he was so tactful, Bai Fang smiled and said, "What magic tricks are there? According to the rules of the sect, you can't tell me the truth. Even if the outer disciples enter, even the first level magic tricks will not be presented to you for selection, but they will depend on your fate. Only when the inner disciples enter, the magic tricks will be presented one by one."
Kong Zhang was slightly disappointed, and Bai Fang said again: "Although there are many magic tricks inside, they can be roughly divided into five major parts: magic, magic, body, use, and supplement. If you further divide it, each category can be divided too many. The so-called magic is a relatively single driving method or Taoist technique. Such magic tricks focus on actual combat, but if there is no matching method, the power may not be fully displayed; the so-called physical trick is a magic trick that specializes in the body, and can be divided into three categories: one type specializes in the body, develops potential, and improves combat power.
One type can prolong your life, but it is difficult to fight and combine both types. The first layer of magic tricks is extremely rare and almost none. The so-called use is probably not very useful to you. This type of magic tricks emphasize the principles of Taoism or runes used in magic tools, as well as materials, elixirs, and other miscellaneous studies. This type of tricks is extremely complicated, and each sect is very difficult. If you have ten years of hard work, you cannot enter the house. Even if you choose, you will never have time to help you participate in the sect competition."
Kong Zhang nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and felt that Bai Fang was really considering him sincerely, and he couldn't help but feel good about it.
"If you enter the Sutra Pavilion again in the future, you can choose a miscellaneous study from it." Bai Fang sighed and said, "My master will not know when he will leave the seclusion this time. If you cannot be among the inner disciples and choose miscellaneous study, even if you cannot serve in the Ministry of War, in the future, your master will recommend you to be a Taoist immortal official in Dachu. You must have some real skills to learn to sit steadily."
After hearing Bai Fang continue to say it, Kong Zhang understood one more thing. If so many disciples in Shushan, including inner disciples, cannot break through the realm of the realm in the future, they will be destined to be without a fate with immortality and will not be able to continue to march into the heavenly realm. Many people will turn to the world and are willing to go to Dachu to be famous immortal officials. Moreover, among so many disciples now, a considerable number of them have wanted to take this path from the beginning, rather than to cultivate immortality.
There are now three ways to draw materials from the Great Chu: the imperial examinations of the court, the nobles of aristocratic families, and the Taoist immortal officials. The most special one is the Taoist immortal officials. The immortal officials have almost formed their own systems. Although they obey the royal family and the Political Affairs Hall, everyone knows that the Taoist elders’ association is the Taoist elders’ association, which is one of the alliance institutions composed of the sixteen sects of righteousness and Taoism, unifying the external.
The Taoist immortals themselves have great say in the Political Affairs Hall. Anyone who needs Taoism to serve the world is authoritative and has the right to speak. Ordinary Confucian masters can only stare at them. Even if the nobles of aristocrats join forces with them, they will not be able to resist in this field. It is very difficult for others to intervene.
The Emperor Wu of the Great Chu was the most powerful emperor except for the founding emperor. He strongly supported the nobles of the aristocratic family and wanted to reduce the influence of the Taoist sect. However, after a hundred years, he had only leveraged one-third of the central power. This was the result of the restraint of the Taoist sect. In the immortal officials of various places, even if the Wu Emperor and the aristocratic family were willing, they would not have so much manpower to replace them, so they could only let the Taoist sect control them.
What is most hated is that these immortal officials can also participate in the imperial examinations, or they can be recommended by the sect to serve in positions other than immortal officials.
However, Kong Zhang had no intention of taking this path since he went up the mountain. He was thinking about cultivating immortality and becoming a legend in the world of cultivation with his own strength.
Bai Fang continued to talk about it, but the last category of supplements can be divided into more than ten categories, including sequels, explanations, revisions, modifications, notes, and divines. However, this last category is rarely a separate practice technique. Simply put, the addition and revisions of the sect's magic formulas by ancestors of the sects are called continuations and modifications, and the experience of practicing a certain magic formula is called annotations, and the whole explanation made specifically for a certain magic formula is called an explanation. There are even several powerful practitioners of a magic formula that they have found in a discussion of a certain day. As long as they are of little value, they can be recorded and sent to the Recording Hall of the Sutra Pavilion. As long as the Recording Hall is verified and evaluated, they can be deposited into the Sutra Pavilion. Since Yu Haoran established the sect, a contribution of the sect can be added to the head of the people. This category is called Ji.
However, this type may be useful for Kong Zhang in the future. The last type of supplement can be said to be a collection of the experiences of the sages of the Shushan School over tens of thousands of years. When practicing the sect magic tricks, not everyone can accurately master the way of cultivation. For example, a certain magic trick says that a certain acupoint is three parts below the navel, but the human body is different. If you think about the truth, you may not be able to find this acupoint.
If there is a teacher, it will be much easier and you will point out the differences. If you practice by yourself, it will be much more troublesome and slightly different, so you can only try it yourself. The risks will naturally increase greatly. At the least, it will be delayed, and at the worst, it will be bad. Just like Kong Zhang broke his energy that day.
Therefore, there is a teacher but no teacher, and there is no sect, which is very different. Those overseas cultivators live alone overseas, with many treasures of heaven and earth, but they still have no time to meet the great monks of the Central Plains. If they don’t talk about anything else, it would be a great opportunity if they can wake up the blind spots they have when practicing.
Those with a little qualification are first willing to invest under the major sects. Even the nine evil paths and the eight demon paths that have been defeated by the sixteen righteous paths are because these sects have always had a thousand-year foundation, far exceeding overseas casual cultivators.
Chapter completed!