Qingmiao Courtyard.
The giant beast, carrying the mountain, squatted with its limbs bent and knelt on the ground. Su Yun and others came down from the upper floor. Monk Tu Ming said, "Qingmiao Courtyard is where the scholars in the foundation-building period study. The palace here is the classroom. There are fourteen halls in front and back."
Now is the early stage of the big exam. Qingmiao Academy has stopped teaching and the scholars are all preparing for the exam.
Su Yun, Hua Hu and others walked over and saw various halls including the Medicine Hall, the Investigation Hall, the Piano Hall, the Chess Hall, the Painting Hall, the Law Hall, etc. Different halls taught different courses.
"We have to learn so many things?" The little foxes looked unhappy.
Su Yun was also worried that it was too much for the scholars in Qingmiao Academy to study fourteen subjects.
These halls have couplets hanging on both sides of the doors, among which the couplets in the Gewu Hall are particularly interesting.
"If you study the laws of nature carefully, you will enjoy life. Why should you let vanity and fame hinder you?"
Su Yun read it again and felt the same way. He said, "To study things is to study the principles and rules of things. This sentence means to study things to gain knowledge. Studying the principles and rules of things is a happy thing. Don't let fame and fortune hold you back."
At this time, a voice came: "The principles and rules of things are physics, which is also what I Taoists call Tao."
Su Yun looked in the direction of the voice and saw a Taoist in gray clothes walking towards them. He came to the front of the Gewu Hall, looked them over, and said, "Baldy, you just came over and told me that there were a few scholars who needed extra lessons. Are they them?"
Tu Ming smiled and said, "This is Taoist Xianyun, the head teacher of Qingmiao Academy."
Taoist Xianyun opened the door of the Gewu Hall and invited everyone in. Huahu asked curiously, "Mr. Xianyun, why do the scholars of Qingmiao Academy have to take so many courses?"
"There are fourteen courses in Qingmiao Academy, which seems like a lot, but when you get to Lingguang Academy, there are only eight courses left. When you get to Shakya Academy, Confucian Academy, and Taoist Academy, there are only two or three courses. Why is that? Choose the best ones and learn them."
Taoist Xianyun came to the main seat of the hall and sat down, saying calmly: "In the Higher Learning Palace Academy, professors only do subtraction, not addition. Those who do addition are all idiots. Our Wenchang Academy first gives the admitted scholars many choices, observes the scholars' qualifications, which subjects they are good at, which subjects they are more interested in, and then conducts in-depth study and research, so that they can achieve something. Learning more and more will only mislead students, which is the principle of idiots."
Although it was a profound principle, he expressed it in a simple and easy-to-understand way, which made Su Yun and Hua Hu admire him very much.
There were cushions in the hall, and Su Yun and others sat down.
"You have all learned the Bifang Divine Movement and Qi Cultivation Chapter, right?" asked Taoist Xianyun.
Su Yun, Hua Hu and the other five people shook their heads together.
Taoist Xianyun looked unhappy and said, "In two days, you have to teach five people who have no basic skills and make sure they learn the Bifang Shenxing Yangqi Chapter! Who has this ability? Baldy, I can't take this job, please find someone else!"
Just as he was about to leave, he saw an old man in washed-out clothes walk in with his hands behind his back and sit down on a cushion in the last row.
Taoist Xianyun bowed quickly and said, "Greetings to Zuo Pushe."
The old man nodded slightly and said, "Xianyun, start teaching."
Taoist Xianyun was overwhelmed and had to go back to the Gewu Hall to get five books and distribute them to Su Yun, Hua Hu and the other three. He said, "This is the first part of Bifang Shenxing Yangqi Chapter, which is the method of practicing. You can read it first."
Su Yun and others opened the first chapter and read it word by word.
Taoist Xianyun came to the old man and complained: "Pu She, you are very talented if you can help them figure out the mental method of the previous chapter today! I am sorry that I am incompetent to teach them the Bi Fang Shen Xing Chapter in two days!"
"Do you know where they come from?" the old man asked.
Taoist Xianyun shook his head and said, "Judging from his clothes, he should be an ordinary boy from the countryside, and it's his first time in the city."
Monk Tu Ming sighed and said, "Taoist, you have also been deceived. What you think is what others tell you to think, not what you think."
Taoist Xianyun was bewildered: "Aren't they ordinary teenagers from the countryside?"
At this time, the voices of Su Yun and others came from behind. Taoist Xianyun turned around hurriedly and saw that Su Yun and others had finished reading the previous article and were discussing its content.
"A scholar learning on his own, how can that be allowed? He is truly fearless. If any word is misunderstood, he could go astray! This is clearly the behavior of an ordinary country boy who has no idea of his own limitations and does not know how to live or die!"
Xianyun was about to step forward to stop them when he thought of this, but when he heard what Su Yun and Hua Hu were explaining, his words were as precise as pearls, and from the simple to the complex, he analyzed the first part of the Bifang Divine Journey almost perfectly!
In fact, some of the explanations were things that even Taoist Xianyun had never thought of, but they were brought up by Su Yun and Hua Hu!
Xianyun was dumbfounded, but he didn't know that under the guidance of Mr. Yehu, Su Yun and Huahu could recite the obscure skills of the old saints by heart, and even explain the profound meaning of the old saints.
To them, the first part of Bifang's Divine Movements to Nourish Qi was much simpler than the old sage's secret skills. They had grasped its meaning after only reading it once.
The reason they wanted to explain was that they were worried that Qingqiu Yue and the others were not knowledgeable enough and had misunderstandings.
Xianyun listened quietly to Su Yun and Hua Hu's explanation, then returned to the old man and asked in confusion, "Zuo Pushe, who are these people?"
Tu Ming smiled and said, "An ordinary teenager."
Xianyun glared at him fiercely.
The old man said, "Xianyun, if a spiritualist has never learned the Bifang Divine Movement before, how long will it take him to learn this mental method and practice it to the sixth level?"
Xianyun pondered and said, "If it is a spiritualist, it will take two or three days to understand the meaning of Bifang Shenxing Mental Method and make sure there are no mistakes. The spiritualist's vitality is strong and has his own vitality as a foundation. It takes four or five days to cultivate to the sixth level."
The old man nodded slightly and said, "Then how long will it take to learn the next chapter?"
Xianyun said: "The next chapter is difficult. The next chapter of the Bifang Divine Movement is the Bifang Transformation. You need to observe Bifang, figure out the essence, energy, spirit, and posture of the Bifang divine bird, and visualize Bifang to make it lifelike. Even if someone guides you, it will take at least a month for a spiritualist to master the Bifang Transformation."
The old man's eyes flickered: "What if he is not an ordinary spiritualist, but a genius?"
Xianyun was stunned, not understanding what he meant, and asked tentatively: "Please explain clearly, Pushe."
The old man said, "Back then, when I was young, I was arrogant and wanted to be admitted to Tiandao Academy. Five years, five times, I was eliminated every time. In the end, the examiner told me that I was good in everything, but I was still a little short of entering Tiandao Academy, and told me not to come again. I asked the examiner how far I was short, and he looked at me kindly..."
His face trembled more violently. He took a breath and continued, "He said, a little bit. I still don't know how much he meant by a little bit."
Taoist Xianyun still didn't quite understand what this matter had to do with Su Yun and others.
At this moment, the first phoenix cry came from Su Yun's body!
That was the sharp sound caused by the violent circulation and friction of vital energy in Su Yun's body!
Taoist Xianyun's face changed slightly and he turned around hurriedly to look. The moment he turned his head, the second crane cry was heard.
"When you cultivate the second level of the Bifang Divine Movement and Nourishing Qi mental method, your Qi and blood will circulate violently, triggering a cry called the Phoenix Cry!"
Taoist Xianyun had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and they all came to him at once: "But the strength of Bifang's spiritual practice is not in the blood. The blood circulation speed of this practice is not enough to produce a second cry. How did he practice the second phoenix cry?"
Just as he thought of this, a third sound came from Su Yun's body. This sound was like the cry of a phoenix in the phoenix tree and the cry of a crane in the sky. The Gewu Hall was filled with the sounds of phoenixes and cranes, and then turned into one sound.
The cry was extremely strange, as if it came from outer space, giving people the feeling of shocking the sky!
The long cry startled the sky, and pushed away the clouds for thousands of miles, making the sky clear and blue, so that you can see beyond the sky!
Taoist Xianyun had an expression of surprise frozen on his face and stood there blankly.
Behind him, the old man sighed and whispered, "Just a little bit. This is the difference between me and the Tiandao Academy Scholar..."
He pulled himself together and sneered, "But if I were young, I could probably do it! This doesn't convince me!"
When Taoist Xianyun heard this, he was greatly shocked and asked in a lost voice, "Zuo Pushe, are they scholars from Tiandao Academy?"
The old man's eyes widened as he stared at Su Yun and the others. "I must see what the little bit of the Tiandao Academy's scholars are that makes them stronger than me, what little bit of them convinces me! Xianyun, teach them the next chapter!"
Taoist Xianyun calmed himself, came to the front of the hall and sat cross-legged. One-legged Bifang divine birds flew out of his body. They were transformed from his blood and energy, and they danced in the hall in various postures.
In the center of the hall was a bronze tree with thousands of branches. The Bifang divine birds were either dancing in front of the crowd, or flying around the bronze tree, or resting on the tree. Some were in pairs, or some were swooping down and fighting.
This was his manifestation of his own vital energy, transformed into various moves of Bifang Transformation in the second part of Bifang's Divine Movement, and displayed directly to Su Yun and others.
The advantage of this kind of teaching is that it teaches students in the most intuitive way, so that while learning the moves, the students can also observe the movements, forms, habits and other details of the Bifang bird, so the scholars can learn faster.
Of course, it’s easier to get started than to master.
If one wants to learn it in depth, one needs to spend more time, even meditate every day for a year, to deepen the impression of Bifang, and cultivate the three kinds of achievements before one can be considered to have mastered it.
Taoist Xianyun, Monk Tu Ming and the old man all stared at Su Yun's every move nervously, watching how he practiced the six moves of Bifang Transformation.
Taoist Xianyun also realized that the man called "Hua Hu" should not be a scholar of Tiandao Academy. Although "Hua Hu" had a strong comprehension ability, he had only cultivated to the fifth level of foundation building, which was probably due to insufficient accumulation of vital energy.
But this one point was enough for Taoist Xianyun to be certain that "Hua Hu" was not a scholar of the Tiandao Academy.
Because as a scholar of Tiandao Academy, it is absolutely impossible for him to be short of vitality!