Baiyang Cave is not big, and the small Taoist temple on the highest terrain, which looks like an isolated island under the white clouds, is only less than a hundred feet high.
Zhang Yi walked and stopped, and counted the uses of some buildings in Baiyang Cave, and talked about some of the gate rules of Baiyang Cave. It took less than half a stick of incense to go left and right. , has appeared in front of Ding Ning.
Outside the Jingjuan Cave is a rough small stone hall carved according to the mountain, and the only way in and out is a cable bridge that shakes in the wind.
The wooden boards of the cable bridge are a little black, and even give people a sense of not being strong.
The uncle who holds the sword in Baiyangdong, Li Daoji, who was chilling in front of the mountain road, is already standing at the crossing of this cable bridge.
Zhang Yi stepped forward cautiously, saluted and asked a few words softly.
Li Daoji nodded, and then his cold and majestic eyes fell on Ding Ning.
"Cultivation pays attention to being out of the world, clean and less disturbing, and all the energy is spent on the perception of oneself and the vitality of the world, so that the progress of practice will be fast. Therefore, all practice sects are naturally isolated from the outside world. However, practice also has the saying of entering the world, and some When a person practices in the world, with more insights and more encounters, the progress of practice will be faster, and no matter how strong a practitioner is, he is also a human being, and he cannot escape intrigue. If he walks in the world, he will not be a goldfish raised in a clear water pond. Once you enter the turbulent river, you are not used to it. The cave master said that you are a special case, but in the final analysis, it still depends on your cultivation and progress, to see if you have such qualifications." He looked at Ding Ning, Said slowly.
Ding Ning looked into his cold eyes and said, "Uncle Shi means that I can go back to Wutongluo, but first I need to prove that my cultivation is fast enough to enter the realm?"
Li Daoji frowned slightly. He didn't know how much the wine shop boy had learned from what he said just now, but he still nodded and said in a clear voice: "You can choose and study the classics in the scripture cave by yourself. Come down to your practice and living place, and your future practice, the cave master will also make arrangements and adjustments based on your performance these days."
Listening to Li Daoji's words, Ding Ning didn't have any special reaction, but Zhang Yi in front of him and Nangong Caishu behind him, and several other disciples were once again shocked and puzzled.
Although practitioners practice the method of mobilizing the vitality of natural enemies with true essence, and the truth is the same in the cultivation of true essence, but because each practitioner has a different physique and the five qi in the body are different, so countless generations of practice The various techniques for cultivating true essence left by the practitioners are actually very different, and the condensed true essence will also have some different characteristics.
A more extreme example, such as the True Fire Palace of the Great Yan Dynasty, is only qualified to be practiced by true disciples. Si Shou Ye Ce Leng, the Lishui God Jue of Tianyi Jiange that she practiced, the appearance is all kinds of water flow.
The cooperation of different exercises and sword formulas and other means of mobilizing the vitality of the world against the enemy also has different powers and effects.
Generally speaking, after a disciple gets started, the teacher will teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and provide some suggestions based on the potential characteristics of this disciple to help him choose suitable exercises and sword techniques to practice.
This selection of cultivation methods is the first step in crossing the river by feeling the stones in the dark, and determines the life of the practitioner.
But now, Baiyang Cave is so special that it does not make any suggestions, and directly lets Ding Ning choose freely.
Until Li Daoji left gracefully again and his figure disappeared from everyone's sight, Zhang Yi still couldn't believe it was true.
However, he would naturally not go against the decision of the cave master, whom he respected to the extreme, so after crossing the cable bridge and leading Ding Ning, Nangong Caishu and others into the stone hall outside the Jingshi Cave, he couldn't help but grimace He warned Ding Ning, "Junior brother, there are many true essence formulas in Jingshikuli. Many formulas are very powerful and each has its own characteristics, but you have to see if there are any shortcomings and whether it is suitable for you, so you must carefully consider it. .”
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The stone door of the Jingjuan Cave opened slowly, revealing a stone step that slowly went up.
"When you first tested the annual cycle stone disc, you took the wrong one out of five stone beads. Was it intentional?"
On the way from entering the mountain gate to entering the Jingjuan Cave, Nangong Caishu kept a distance from Ding Ning deliberately. At this moment, he and Ding Ning started to enter the cave. Beside, asked seriously.
Ding Ning didn't expect that she was still thinking about this question. He turned his head and saw her curious and serious eyes, and couldn't help but smile slightly.
"You did it on purpose, just to let everyone compare and distinguish immediately, right?" His smile made Nangong Caishu see something, and her heart couldn't help but tremble.
"If you can take out four quickly, of course you can get all five right." Ding Ning glanced at her and said softly, "I just don't want to spend too much time."
"From the very beginning, you knew that you would definitely pass that entry test." Hearing his words, Nangong Caishu frowned deeply, and she looked at Ding Ning suspiciously, "This matter It's too weird, because even if you know you are a genius, it is logically impossible to have such absolute confidence, and then the Cave Master of Baiyang Cave will give you such a special case, and let you enter this scripture cave to choose cultivation practice The classics don't give any advice... If you can pass the test of the annual ring water plate and the jade terracotta warriors at that speed, unless you have practiced countless times with the annual ring water plate and the jade terracotta warriors before, you... you shouldn't Is he the illegitimate son of the Cave Master of Baiyang Cave?"
Ding Ning was listening with great interest, but when he heard her last sentence, he almost fell down on the stone steps.
"Miss Nangong, your associations are too rich."
He looked at Nangong Caishu whose eyes were full of doubts, and said helplessly: "A person like you who has such a rich associative ability should go to the Supervisor of Tiansi to investigate the case in the future."
"Are you really just relying on absolute talent?" Nangong Caishu still had a look of disbelief in her eyes, she continued to think while thinking: "But since you can be sure that you have such a talent, why don't you directly participate in each sect?" The spring test of the sect? Everyone in Changling should be very clear that, except for sects such as Minshan Sword Sect and Lingxu Sword Sect, most of the other sects have no prerequisites for the entrance examination. Anyone of the right age can participate, and based on your performance today, if there is no cheating, you can definitely enter a better sect."
Ding Ning's heart sank slightly.
This is indeed a flaw that may arouse doubts. In the future, some people will definitely have such doubts. He must give a reasonable explanation.
He frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said: "Cultivation...is not something everyone can think about. I didn't know that I had the potential to become a practitioner at first, until Fang Xiumu came to see me, Until I met Wang Taixu."
"Fangxiu curtain? The Fangxiu curtain in Fanghou's mansion?" Nangong Caishu was taken aback.
Fang Qilin, one of the Thirteen Marquises of the Great Qin Dynasty, was old and aging. However, instead of showing any signs of decline these years, the Fanghou Mansion seemed to faintly surpass the rest of the Marquis Mansions, because Fang Qilin had two enviable sons.
One of the sons, Fang Xing, is already the same as Nangong Caishu's father, a mighty general guarding the outer city, while the other son, Fang Xiumu, is a well-known sword idiot who has no interest in anything other than cultivation. Hobby.
Although the outside world does not know what level Fang Xiumu's real cultivation has reached, at least ten years ago, many real dignitaries in Changling can be sure that Fang Xiumu is among all the people of the same age in Changling who have broken cultivation. mirror the fastest.
Even according to the speed of his practice breaking through the realm, even Liangxiang and Emperor Yuanwu had concluded that he was the most promising practitioner among the young practitioners in Changling to break through the top seven realms in the future.
Above the seventh realm is the eighth realm, a realm that very few practitioners have been able to achieve throughout the ages.
For Nangong Caishu, a person who can be evaluated by Liangxiang and Shengshang is naturally a myth that needs to be looked up to.
"Who is Wang Taixu?"
Nangong Caishu took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down, she looked at Ding Ning and asked.
"The owner of the two-story building, the owner of a Jianghu street gang."
Ding Ning looked at Nangong Caishu, and said calmly and softly: "Fang Xiumu came to see me, and I know that I have a good potential for cultivation, but the Fanghou Mansion still gave up on me because my body also has very troublesome problems. … Later, I met Wang Taixu who was fighting with other Jianghu gangs and wanted to take a gamble, so I decided to take a gamble, and then decided to use his arrangement to enter the Baiyang Cave to practice."
"A gamble?" Nangong Caishu asked incomprehensibly, "What's wrong with your body?"
Ding Ning looked at her: "A prematurely aging body with excessive five qi, if there is no special encounter, it is possible to die faster after starting to practice."
Ding Ning's words were very calm, but to Nangong Caishu's ears, it was like thunder.
Her breathing paused a bit, "Die faster... how fast?"
Ding Ning said, "Maybe I can live to be more than thirty."
Nangong Caishu's footsteps stopped.
Her face turned pale. It was hard for her to imagine that such a young man like Ding Ning could have only ten years of life left, and he could talk about it so calmly.
"So I'm not the illegitimate son of the Cave Master of Baiyang Cave. He made an exception for me. Maybe he thought that no matter what I cultivated, I might be useless in the end." Ding Ning looked at her with a smile and said: "There is another It may be that he wants to see my judgment, after all, he still has to rely on his own practice, and he can see if he can choose a more suitable exercise based on my intuition, so that I can live a few more years."
Looking at his smile, Nangong Caishu was unable to speak for a long time. She inexplicably thought of a sentence, some people practice just for more glory, while some people practice because practice is their destiny.
Ding Ning continued to move forward, the slanting stone steps had come to an end, and a cave that seemed to be bathed in the soft sky light all the time appeared in front of him.
This is a cave with many ventilation holes on the top.
In those ventilation holes, there should be many refracting spar arrangements. The soft light beams sprinkled on every corner of the cave, but isolated from the wind and rain, making everything in this cave seem to be in an absolute state of static time.
The bookshelves on the four walls of the cave are filled with various classics.
On the side of the bookshelf directly in front of him, there is a narrow staircase going up, which should lead to the inner cave.
Ding Ning officially stepped into the cave of classics and history. He started to look at the classics on each shelf seriously from the left hand side.
Nangong Caishu regained his composure and followed.
As a disciple of the Ivy Sword Academy, I am fortunate enough to be able to enter the scriptures of other sects. Naturally, I must seize every minute of my time and look at as many things as possible to see if I can find that it will have a great impact on my cultivation. However, at this moment, most of the thoughts in her mind were concentrated on Ding Ning.
She really wanted to know immediately what kind of exercise Ding Ning would choose in the end.