Cultivation of immortality in the family

Chapter 216 Lion Forest

"Great uncle, are you looking for me?"

At this time, Su Jialing had already reached a perfect level of cultivation in the late stage of Qi training.

Although her father Su Jianquan left her a considerable amount of wealth, she still lacked some money if she wanted to redeem a Foundation Establishment Pill from the family treasury.

This is the result of the Su family's rule that clan members only have to pay half of their good deeds. Otherwise, Qi-training monks like Su Jialing may not have a thousand or two thousand spirit stones in savings when they are sixty years old, even if they don't eat or drink.

The Su family today is in a different situation than it was for decades.

Because the new generation of tribesmen have not experienced the poor days of the past, they often lack some hard and simple qualities.

As a last resort, the Su family had no choice but to re-establish the clan rules. Otherwise, in the long run, the clan members would become accustomed to asking for whatever they lack, which would be detrimental to the development of the family.

As for Su Mu's children, although he would allocate his family's good deeds to advance for them as usual, this was not provided free of charge.

In the following days, they all need to do things in the family, and all the proceeds will be used to repay the advance fee for the Foundation Establishment Pill.

For example, Su Hao didn't pay off his debt until a few years ago.

Later, he lamented that he was finally debt-free, so he gathered Wu Jin and Su Jiaxiang to go to the East China Sea to have a look.

Su Jialing didn't have a biological father like Su Mu, so naturally she had to rely on her own efforts for everything.

Fortunately, she had almost gathered the good skills required for the Foundation Establishment Pill, but she knew that her foundation was shallow, and if she forced herself into seclusion, her chances of successfully advancing would be slim.

Therefore, she had no choice but to refine her own energy and magic power, and then polish it again to make the foundation as deep as possible.

"Yes, you can calm down and polish your Qi. This state of mind is already rare among the younger generation."

Speaking of which, Su Jialing's cultivation back then was higher than that of Su Dingchan, but due to her inferior spiritual root qualifications, she missed out on becoming an inner disciple of the Qingxuan Sect.

After so many years, Su Dingchan had successfully built the foundation a few years ago, and his cultivation level suddenly surpassed Su Jialing's by a large margin.

If you were an ordinary person, your mentality would probably be broken by more than half. Especially when you have collected the good deeds required to redeem the Foundation Establishment Pill, you will definitely be unable to resist seclusion in order to seek a breakthrough, so as to shorten the distance with the other party and prove yourself. Not inferior to the other party.

Unexpectedly, Su Jialing could endure it. This state of mind was indeed extraordinary. Therefore, Su Mu was quite appreciative after seeing the other party's condition.

"Uncle, in fact, I did this under the guidance of old uncle Su Xian, and I had no choice but to do this."

Su Jialing felt a little embarrassed after being praised so fiercely by her ancestor.

As early as two years ago, she couldn't wait. At that time, she also specially found Su Yan and others, and finally gathered the efforts of everyone to gather the required good deeds.

Just when she approached Old Uncle Su Xian with confidence, she was told that the only Foundation Establishment Pill left in the warehouse had been taken away by Su Mu.

Even with a golden elixir power like the Su family, it is impossible to supply an unlimited amount of foundation-building elixirs, and it will take at least another half a year to get the next one.

At that time, Su Xianyu chatted with her sincerely for a long time. In addition to telling her some experience in foundation building, he also asked her to take advantage of this time to polish her energy and mana to increase the success rate of foundation building.

Originally, Su Jialing just wanted to give it a try. Without the Foundation Establishment Pill, she had nothing to do, so she might as well make more preparations.

Unexpectedly, when she calmed down to investigate her situation, she suddenly discovered many omissions in her practice.

Only then did she understand that Uncle Su Xian had good intentions.

If she had impatiently retreated and wasted the Foundation Establishment Pills, I am afraid that after the Foundation Establishment failed, she would have been hit by Qi and blood and seriously injured.

At the age of over fifty, she only has one chance to build a foundation in this life. If she failed, she would have to live the rest of her life in regret.

After that, she learned from the painful experience and immediately started a new round of checking and filling the gaps. She made up her mind to deepen the thin foundation a few more points before building the foundation.

That's why Su Mu saw this scene.

After hearing the whole incident, Su Mu still praised her behavior more.

“Although you were able to achieve this under Su Xian’s guidance, it was mostly due to your own efforts.

Over the past hundreds of years, countless qi-training monks have had the opportunity to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill. However, if we really want to talk about it in detail, at least half of them failed to advance successfully, and there are many people with excellent spiritual roots among them. Do you know the reason? "

After Su Mu finished speaking, he stared at Su Jialing intently.

"Jia Ling doesn't know, I hope my great-uncle can teach me."

Seeing the other party's serious expression, Su Jialing didn't know that it was her great uncle who was telling her, so she quickly sat upright with a look on her face.

"To tell you the truth, when our Su family was still a small qi-training family, Su Xian was lucky enough to get a foundation-building experience. From this perspective, the foundation-building experience is not a secret. I dare not say it everywhere. At least it's not that rare.

Therefore, over the years, the conditions for the success of foundation building have been clearly revealed, but there are still at least half of those who succeed in the later stage of Qi training and regret it for the rest of their lives, sadly.

To put it in detail, the key lies in the foundation of Taoism and the state of mind. Based on your years of practice experience, whether it is Tao foundation or state of mind, is there any causal relationship between the two and personal spiritual root qualifications? "

"not at all!"

Hearing this, Su Jialing's initially dazed expression seemed to slowly relax.

She felt as if she was about to touch the true meaning of practice, but she also felt that something was missing, so her mind was confused.

"That's right. There is not much causal relationship between them and spiritual root qualifications. Taking Su Yan and the other three as an example, their spiritual root qualifications are quite acceptable, but without exception, when they first tried to build a foundation, they all Ended with failure.

Of course, everyone's reasons for failure in foundation building are different and cannot be confused and equated. However, in the final analysis, we cannot escape these two categories.

Under Su Xian's guidance, you realized your shortcomings, and even spent two years repairing them, virtually making up for both. "

"It is undeniable that whether the Tao foundation is deep or not is the most important thing to be able to build the foundation, but if the state of mind is not good, it is equivalent to a distance of one hundred steps, and only ninety-nine steps have been taken. Even if it is only one step short, but less After taking this step, we still failed, and the outcome is the same."

Let's take the three Su Yans as an example. In terms of those with deep Taoist foundations, Su Hao is the highest, followed by Su Nuo and Su Yan is the lowest.

But in terms of state of mind, Su Yan is the highest, followed by Su Nuo, and Su Hao is the lowest.

Therefore, the failure of the three of them was inevitable.

Fortunately, the Su family at this time was no longer a hundred years ago, and they had a close relative like Su Mu, so they still had a chance to stand up after being knocked down.

However, Su Jialing is different. She really has one and only one chance. Once she fails, she really won't be able to stand up.

At the beginning, because of Su Mu's decision, she was unable to compete with Su Dingchan. She was one step behind and one step behind.

What Su Mu didn't expect was that Su Jialing seized the opportunity in time and reversed her disadvantage.

However, from Su Mu's point of view, Su Jialing was like the monk who had taken ninety-nine steps and was just short of the last step. Out of the reluctance and a little regret in his heart, Su Mu decided that he should give her a push.

Once she makes up for the lack of mental state, her promotion to foundation building will really be a matter of course.

Fortunately, Su Mu's good intentions really worked.

Su Jialing nodded thoughtfully, and an unexpected and reasonable aura began to brew in her body.

"Thank you for your great uncle's teaching. Jia Ling understands."

"Just understand. Cultivating the Tao is not static. Blind tolerance or risk-taking is actually not what it should be. Only by examining yourself from time to time and prescribing the right medicine can you find the right path. The scale here needs to be grasped by yourself slowly."

The words can only go so far. As for how much the other party can understand, it is not Su Mu's decision.

"By the way, when was the last time you saw Dinghong? Did she do anything unusual?"

Su Mu didn't wait for the other party's answer before turning the topic to something he was interested in.

After hearing that her ancestor asked about Su Dinghong, Su Jialing thought about it carefully and said:

"Going back to great-uncle, if Jia Ling remembers correctly, the last time I saw Dinghong was probably half a year ago.

During that time, she changed her past depression and seemed to be in a much better mood. I heard her mutter a few words, as if she was going on a long trip.

At that time, I didn't pay much attention. I thought she was talking nonsense again, so I didn't care much.

Later, I focused my attention on repairing the road foundation. Unexpectedly, more than half a year passed in a blink of an eye. "

Speaking of Su Dinghong, many tribesmen actually have no impression of her.

Due to her poor spiritual qualifications and her origins from Fengwuya, her presence is not high either on Huoxi Island or in Luoxiafang City.

Su Mu could remember her because she was Su Jiaxiang's daughter and had a close friendship; secondly, she had given Su Mu a six-character mantra, which was a great help to him.

Now, Su Mu wants to get married with the Buddhist disciple from Cihang Temple in Luojia Mountain from her side.

Unexpectedly, she disappeared.

"Did she still have a close relationship with a Buddhist master from the South China Sea over the years?" Su Mu continued to ask.

"Yes, how could my great-uncle know this?" Su Jialing said in surprise.

"Does anyone know where the Buddhist master lives?"

"Uncle, we don't know whether that is a Buddhist master. However, it is an indisputable fact that he behaves strangely."

"Why are you acting weird?"

I originally thought that without Su Dinghong, I might have lost information about the Buddhist master.

However, from what the other party said, it seemed that Su Jialing also knew something.

"I heard Dinghong call the Zen Master Gufa. It is said that one of his great wishes is to build forty-nine pagodas all over the world.

If that's all it is, it wouldn't really be called weird. The strange thing about the other party is that his construction, whether it was site selection or construction, was all done by himself and not by outsiders.

I have seen him from a distance several times. He looks like an ordinary person in the world, without even a trace of cultivation.

Not to mention building forty-nine pagodas, with his mortal body, wanting to travel all over the world in his lifetime is really outrageous. Isn't it weird? "

It could be heard that Su Jialing knew this ancient Zen master quite well, but he just disagreed with what he did.

"By the way, Dinghong must have followed Zen Master Gufa. Otherwise, apart from her family, the only person she knows is from the South China Sea, so how could she do such weird things."

Suddenly, Su Jialing muttered something and seemed to have thought of some clues.

"I will ask people to investigate Dinghong's whereabouts. You don't have to worry about this. However, do you know where the ancient Zen master was when he last appeared?

It would be best if you know the place where the other party built the pagoda. "

After all, Su Dinghong is a member of the Su family, and Su Mu will not ignore both emotions and reasons.

However, since the other party has been away for more than half a year, if you want to find him, it may not be possible in a day or two.

After hearing Su Jialing talk about some of the ancient Zen masters, Su Mu became more and more interested in him.

"The ancient Zen master mostly appears in secluded places in the wilderness. Jia Ling has only seen him a few times from a distance. That's all I know about him just now.

As for the location of the pagoda, it seems to be in a place named Lion Grove. However, where exactly it is is also unclear. "

Hearing this, Su Mu knew that the other party's understanding was limited to this, and there was nothing more.

After sending Su Jialing away, Su Mu took out the map of the sea area and checked it out. There was no lion forest at all.

So, he condensed these things into a small transmission note and asked Su Yan to help find out the information.

……

Spring passed and autumn came, and five years passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, Su Yan mobilized many people to help find out the news, and finally got some.

According to some insiders, Su Dinghong did follow Gufa Zen Master, but the two of them did not go back to the South China Sea, but to the East China Sea.

The East China Sea is so vast that the two people are inconspicuous, just like a drop or two of rain falling into the sea, unable to even cause a ripple.

Therefore, this thread was cut off.

However, Su Mu was not the type to give up easily. He wrote two letters and asked Baida Nian and Su Hao to help pay attention to them. Once there was news, they would inform him immediately.

In addition to this incident, the lion forest was also found.

Sure enough, there really is a thirty-three-foot-high pagoda in the Lion Forest.

It's just that because it is located in a valley, it is not well known by people.

After knowing about it, Su Mu went to investigate several times in person.

Unfortunately, there is nothing unusual about this pagoda. Apart from its unique style, there is almost nothing special about it.

(End of this chapter)