The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Wang Feiyin turned around and asked Miaozhen: "Miaozhen, what about you? Among your fellow brothers and sisters, you are the only one who is not good at cooking. How about you learn to make pastries?"

Miao Zhen put down the half-eaten osmanthus cake in her hand and said seriously: "I don't like cakes."

Miao He looked at this and that, then raised his hand and said, "Master, I want to learn!"

Wang Feiyin patted her hand and said, "You have learned enough. Girls should not learn to do too many housework. Just choose your favorite food and learn it."

Pan Yun finally looked up: "Brother, I like to eat fried meat with dogwood, so I will learn how to make this dish."

Wang Feiyin was dissatisfied: "Just one dish, learn how to make red date cake and osmanthus cake. When you go into seclusion in the future, these two dishes can be kept for a long time."

Pan Yun nodded reluctantly: "Okay, let's make it clear first, if I cook something bad, you are not allowed to scold me."

Wang Feiyin waved his hand nonchalantly: "As long as you can eat it, I won't scold you."

Zhang Ziming, who had been silent, couldn't help but smile, "Why did Master Wang insist on letting them learn cooking?"

Wang Feiyin stroked his beard and smiled, “I don’t expect them to be able to cook, but they should be able to cook one or two dishes that they like.

Many difficulties in this world can be offset by food. I hope that in the future, if they encounter sad things, they can make their favorite food, and after eating it, they will not feel sad. "

Zhang Ziming raised his eyebrows and lowered his eyes as if thinking about something.

Wang Feiyin handed the food box to Miaozhen and asked her to distribute the cakes to everyone. He turned around and clasped his fists towards Zhang Ziming and Li Wenying: "I would like to thank you two Taoist friends for your support along the way."

Zhang Ziming and Li Wenying clasped their fists in return and said with a smile, "It has been a smooth journey, we have only followed for nothing. Besides, it is our duty to exorcise demons, and we are just following orders."

Wang Feiyin: "The reason why it is so peaceful is not because there are no demons, but because they are afraid of the abilities of the two Taoist friends and the reputation of Longhu Mountain."

Although Pan Yun had restrained her aura and had stronger control over her merit, there was still a steady stream of golden light of merit flowing towards her from all directions.

Even if only a tiny bit of aura leaks out, it is enough to attract humans and monsters.

The journey from the capital to Yunnan, and from Yunnan to Jiangnan, was relatively smooth because Pan Yun, Zhang Ziming, and Li Wenying in the team were not easy to mess with;

Before that, Zhang Zijin had just thrown a fourth-level bird demon back to the grassland. The threat was so great that every demon or human had to think twice before taking action.

Although Wang Feiyin lived in seclusion in the mountains, he was not ignorant. He knew that he had to thank the Zhang family and Longhu Mountain for this matter.

Zhang Ziming's eyes fell on Pan Yun, and he smiled and said, "If you don't mention that she is still a student of our academy, then she is not. Protecting the younger generation and consolidating the orthodoxy is also our responsibility. Master Wang is too polite."

Li Wenying picked up the teacup and took a sip, then chuckled and said, "It's a pity that I didn't pass the exam."

Pan Yun was full of confidence: "My nephew passed the exam, so I will definitely pass it next year."

Wang Feiyin slapped her and said, "I've taught you so many times. Even if you are very capable, you must not be arrogant, and you must not talk too much."

He said: "Do your best, and leave the rest to fate."

Pan Jun: “Oh.”

Seeing that she had behaved herself, Wang Feiyin smiled and praised Miaozhen: "You did a good job. I have decided that since you are not good at cooking, you should learn how to make porridge."

He said: "If you can cook good porridge, your life will not be bad in the future."

Miao Zhen smiled widely and nodded immediately: "Yes, Master."

After praising Miaozhen, Wang Feiyin set his eyes on Tao Yanbai, nodded and smiled, "You are not bad either. Although you didn't pass the exam this time, you have gained a lot of experience along the way. Go to Longhu Mountain to study for another two years. I calculated that it will not be a problem for you to pass the exam before you reach adulthood."

Wang Feiyin turned around and said to Li Wenying, "Friend Li, my child is the best at medicine. When he arrives at the academy, please take good care of him."

Li Wenying: "I'm not a teacher at the academy..."

"Hey, just because it wasn't the case before doesn't mean it won't be the case in the future. You are a high-ranking official of Mount Longhu, and a disciple of Master Zhang. It's not just a matter of a word for you to take care of a little disciple..."

Wang Feiyin kept on talking on and on, explaining every detail. Not to mention Li Wenying and Zhang Ziming, even An Chen couldn't sit still and each found an excuse to leave.

Now only the people from Sanqing Mountain were left.

Wang Feiyin put away his smile, pinched Pan Yun's ears with one hand, stretched out his other hand to catch the jumping fox and cat, and said to the three people who were staring at Miao Zhen, "Follow me!"

Miaozhen and the other two followed with their heads hung.

Wang Feiyin walked out of the city and stopped at a secluded meadow by the river before letting go of Pan Yun's ear.

Pan Jun didn't dare to scream, she just rubbed it. Seeing Wang Feiyin leaving Hongyan and Pan Xiaohei to look over, she took the lead and said, "I didn't take the initiative to cause trouble, everything was passive defense!"

Wang Feiyin: "I didn't mention your redress for your father. I want to ask you, what's the matter with the treasure map? How did you offend the Japanese?"

Pan Yun's hands froze: "How did you know?"

"Just keep it secret from me!" Wang Feiyin snorted, "With the whole city in an uproar, how can I still be deaf and blind?"

Pan Yun muttered, "You can't blame me for this. I was forced to do it. The treasures in the treasure map were all looted from the people of the Ming Dynasty. The map was right in front of me. How could I pretend not to see it?"

She muttered, "If I don't take what God gives me, I will be blamed, so I took it."

Wang Feiyin said unhappily, "Then why didn't you tell me when you came back for the New Year?"

Pan Yun: "I thought Third Senior Brother and Fourth Senior Sister had already mentioned it, so I didn't bring it up again."

Wang Feiyin snorted and sneered, "You all made the same excuse. The third and fourth brothers also said that they thought you told me, so they didn't mention it."

Pan Yun smiled and flattered: "Big Brother, isn't this a misunderstanding caused by information asymmetry? Well, if you want to blame someone, blame us Han people for being too introverted, so we don't communicate enough. I have learned my lesson and will never dare to do it again next time."

"Really?" Wang Feiyin asked, "Besides this, what else are you hiding from me?"

Pan Yun covered his head and thought seriously: "Wait for me to think about it."

Pan Yun thought about it seriously, then raised his head and looked at him cautiously: "Uh, um, is it a big deal that Hu Jing is with my nephew?"

Wang Feiyin snorted: "What else?"

Pan Yun swallowed her saliva and began to count on her fingers: "I killed two Japanese pirates and buried them in an abandoned temple; I met Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu and threatened them, I..." She looked up at Wang Feiyin quietly and lowered her voice by eight octaves: "I passed on a set of spiritual cultivation techniques from the Yunnan Mu family."

The smile on Wang Feiyin’s face disappeared in an instant, and his face became as black as the bottom of a pot.

Pan Yun spoke very quickly: "It's not a technique from this world, it's a technique I learned in my previous life, it only cultivates the spirit and assists in the cultivation of internal strength, it definitely doesn't have any technique for cultivating Yuan force."

Wang Feiyin asked, "Do you know that the original purpose of cultivation was to cultivate the spirit, supplemented by cultivating the body?"

Pan Jun blinked: "Huh? I don't know?"

Wang Feiyin knocked on her head and said, "In the beginning of the ancient times, people's bodies were extremely strong. They only needed to refine their spirits and kill the three corpses to become gods. But later, the human body became weaker and weaker, and the way to become a god was cut off. As a human, it is difficult to refine the spirit in just a hundred years and make the soul exist independently of the body. That's why cultivators turned to self-cultivation."

Not to mention Pan Yun, even Miao Zhen and the others didn't know. They all listened with their eyes wide open.

Wang Feiyin stroked his beard and sighed, "It's my fault. I was so busy teaching you how to practice that I forgot to talk about ancient times."

Wang Feiyin held his hand and asked them to find a patch of grass to sit on. He also found a patch of grass and sat cross-legged: "Since the Tang Dynasty, no mortal has ever been promoted to a god."

Pan Yun and the others sat in front of Wang Feiyin, listening to the lecture attentively.

Wang Feiyin: "Demons, demons, and ghosts cannot become gods or immortals. The rules of heaven and earth have changed, so the King of Medicine Sun Simiao divided the levels of cultivation in detail, allowing cultivators to shift from cultivating the spirit to cultivating the body."

"The King of Medicine set the five times and seven phases, and also created his own method of self-cultivation. Although it cannot make people ascend to the divine realm, it can allow those who practice it to live several decades or even a hundred years longer..."

Pan Yun added: "A thousand years?"

Wang Feiyin glanced at her unhappily and said, "The Medicine King has not lived for a thousand years yet. The oldest person I know of who is still alive is over 160 years old. Of course, in such a big world, there may be hermits who are even older and more accomplished than him, but if they don't come out, I won't know."

Pan Yun's eyes lit up with curiosity. He moved his butt on the grass until he came to Wang Feiyin's feet. He lowered his voice and asked, "Big Brother, who is this person who is over 160 years old? What is his cultivation level?"

Wang Feiyin glanced at her and said nothing.

Pan Yun urged him, "Go ahead, go ahead. There were three questions in the preliminary examination: how many elders there are in the Tianshi Mansion, what positions they have held in the court, and what contributions they have made to the court and the Taoist tradition. I answered them randomly."

Wang Feiyin: "Such a simple question, shouldn't you remember the last two pages of the school rules that were distributed to you when you entered school?"

Pan Yun's body stiffened, and he mechanically turned his neck to look at Miaozhen and Miaohe: "Aren't the last few pages of the code nonsense notes?"

Miaohe shook his head: "I didn't see it."

Miaozhen: “…I thought everyone saw it.”

"No, why should the elders be put together with the precautions such as 'When you feel a cold, warm yourself up as soon as possible, then ask for leave and avoid the crowd, and seek medical attention if you cannot recover on your own', or put them at the end?"

Wang Feiyin smiled and raised his hand: "Please go back to the inn and ask Zhang Ziming for the next question."

"Okay," Pan Yun brought the topic back to the topic: "So the one who is over 160 years old is surnamed Zhang?"

Wang Feiyin said "hmm" and didn't say who it was, but Pan Jun knew it was Zhang.

Pan Yun stroked his chin and said, "No wonder the Zhang family is so powerful. They have titles, are officials, and can even serve as ministers in the palace..."

Wang Feiyin patted her head again: "Do you think being a worshiper in the palace is what they want?"

He said, "Fool, you have to do it. People who practice Taoism love freedom. How can it be good to be restricted from freedom?"

Pan Yun immediately straightened his sitting posture, "Brother, please continue."

Wang Feiyin: "The laws of heaven and earth have changed, not only targeting humans, but also monsters."

He said: "Before the Tang Dynasty, once a demon gained wisdom, it would become a spirit race. Once a spirit race cultivated into a human body, they would have the spiritual power to ascend to become an immortal and could be worshipped by the gods in various places."

"Our master, Mr. Pan, was originally a crane with a human head and a crane body. In the wilderness, he cultivated into a human body and was named the mountain god of Sanqing Mountain. He was worshipped by Sanqing Mountain," Wang Feiyin said. "From then on, he could eat incense and cultivate himself with incense, but now..."

He pointed at Hongyan and said, "She can also transform into a human body, but she still has a tail and cannot transform. However, her spiritual power is so high that even you cannot beat her. This is the change in the laws of heaven and earth."

"So the cultivation of demons was later divided into nine levels. The third level is the beginning of transformation, which is equivalent to the first marquis of human cultivation. The fourth level's combat power corresponds to the second marquis, and so on."

Pan Yun asked quickly: "I was able to beat Hong Yan to a pulp even before I passed the tribulation, Fourth Senior Sister can do the same."

Wang Feiyin glanced at Hongyan and said, "That's because she is weak. If you had fought a third-level eagle monster before you were promoted to the first marquis, the result would have been the same as the fight you had in the capital."

Pan Jun was honest: "Oh~~"

"So, you have to remember that the level division is just for your reference. There are always people better than you, and there are always monsters better than you. Don't underestimate the other person's fighting ability just because their cultivation seems inferior to yours; and don't be timid just because their cultivation seems stronger than yours."

Wang Feiyin said: "Cultivation is not equal to combat power. Your fourth sister's cultivation is not good, but she can kill the first marquis and even fight with the second marquis. Can you do it?"

Pan Yun remained silent.

"By the way, speaking of your fourth senior sister," Wang Feiyin was silent for a moment, and then silent again.

Pan Yun looked up, Miao Zhen looked up, Miao He also looked up at him, Tao Yanbai asked in a trembling voice: "Fourth Uncle...what's wrong?"

Wang Feiyin said sadly: "I've gotten into trouble~~"

Pan Jun covered her heart and suppressed her excitement. She was finally not the worst one.

Her eyes sparkled, and she lowered her voice and asked, "Fourth Senior Sister, what trouble have you gotten into?"

Wang Feiyin glared at her fiercely and said, "Your fourth sister brought your third brother from the Central Plains to the coast to kill Japanese pirates along the way, and then robbed someone's ship and went out to sea. Now... they are probably in Japan."

Wang Feiyin's eyes were filled with tears.

Pan Yun opened her mouth wide: "Wait a minute, didn't Fourth Senior Sister take Third Senior Brother to the grassland to seek revenge? I was planning to go to the grassland to find her when I return to the academy for training."

Wang Feiyin had a blank expression on her face: "Yes, she was originally going to the grassland, but she had just gone to Wugu Sect to fight, and when she came out she ran into some blind Japanese pirates who had come to her place and threatened her to hand over the treasure map, so she killed them."

"She kept killing people. People in Jianghu said that the treasure map was on Hu Jing. They also said that Hu Jing was in the capital and had been captured by Japanese pirates. So she turned south and killed every Japanese pirate she caught. She then interrogated other Japanese pirates and fought her way back to Quanzhou. Finally, she wiped out the Japanese pirates' headquarters, robbed their ships, and went out to sea to attack Huanglong."

Wang Feiyin remembered and glared at Pan Yun again: "She only brought your third brother with her this time!" (End of this chapter)