From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 374: No Wealth, No Way to Support the Dao

"We don't know about other cultivation lineages, but the Baiyun lineage emphasizes "wealth, friends, Dharma, and place", which are also the four indispensable elements in traditional Taoist practice."

Zhao Ziyao looked around and said confidently: "The so-called "wealth" refers to the economic foundation and conditions that must be possessed during the cultivation process. In general, it includes the food, clothing, housing and transportation of your daily life. In particular, it refers to the special items required for cultivation, also called cultivation resources."

"The so-called cultivation resources, since the revival of China's spiritual energy, include acquired resources, such as talismans and elixirs; innate resources, such as spiritual stones and spiritual rice; daily supplies, spiritual tea and precious medicine... If any cultivator wants to successfully cultivate and draw in spiritual energy or even reach a higher level, the cost of these resources converted into human currency is an astronomical figure."

“Therefore, there is a saying in our Taoist sect that “without wealth, one cannot cultivate the Tao.”

As soon as these words were spoken, except for a few guys who were obviously descendants of chaebols, the rest of the rookies turned pale.

The identities of these 1,800 rookies are extremely complicated, and they come from all over the world. Although some of them have very powerful backgrounds and can be called nobles, they are only a minority after all, and most of them are from ordinary families.

They all came here with great enthusiasm to seek the immortal fate, but they had no idea that there were so many twists and turns. Many of them even heard of the various resources listed by Zhao Ziyao for the first time, and looked at each other in bewilderment.

But then I thought, well, this situation is normal now. Even if you go to a traditional university, you still need a tablet, a mobile phone, an iPad, and various teaching materials.

Seeing that there was no troublemaker jumping up and down to protest, Zhao Ziyao felt a little regretful. She had been planning to kill a chicken to scare the monkey to establish her prestige as the number one protector of Baiyun Taoist Temple.

Seeing that no one objected, Zhao Ziyao continued, "However, since we have entered Baiyun Taoist Temple, it is what Li Zhenjun has always said. It is an opportunity to cultivate immortality and seek the Tao with ordinary people. The daily support provided by Baiyun Taoist Temple and its disciples is definitely not low."

"You have all been familiar with the daily meals in Baiyun Zhaitang for a few days. The rice in the cafeteria on the first floor is mixed with a certain proportion of Bailing rice, which can nourish the blood. Later, you will be given a gift pack for admission to Baiyun Taoist Academy, which includes three five-yuan life-saving talismans, one meridian-opening talisman, and one mind-calming and spirit-soothing talisman."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. No wonder they felt so much better in the past few days on Baiyun Mountain. They had previously thought it was because of the nourishing effect of the blessed mountain, but they never thought that the vegetarian meals were also helpful.

Some people also heard the hidden meaning of Zhao Ziyao's words. Since there are basics, there must be more advanced things.

Chen Li was in the front row and was the first to ask, "So if we want to get those cultivation resources you mentioned, what should we do?"

Seeing that someone was finally interacting with him, Zhao Ziyao waved his sleeves and acted mysterious: "Very good, this is also the number on your nameplate that I just talked to you about."

Everyone looked at each other, and began to examine the jade nameplates in their hands attentively. After looking at their own, they stole a glance at others.

Now some people noticed the difference. This number was not the same for everyone. Most of them fluctuated around 20, but the difference was not too big. Some had as high as 23 points, like the Yang brothers and sisters, and some had as low as 18 points, like Chen Li.

Someone immediately noticed the connection. The size of the number seemed to be related to their results in the Baiyun Three Gates Trial. The one with the highest score was a guy named Yan Fu, who had 25 points. He was the first candidate to climb to the Golden Summit of Mount Emei.

Liu Ming came over and saw the number on Wang Shuhuan's nameplate. He was a little envious: "As expected of Brother Shuhuan, the initial points are actually 22 points."

He also showed Wang Shuhuan his points, a standard twenty points.

Wang Shuhuan was somewhat helpless about this guy who was so familiar with people as if he was a street thug: "It's just luck. Now I haven't explained the effect of this point, so it doesn't mean anything."

Having said that, Wang Shuhuan couldn't help but look at Chen Li in front of the team, with some vague guesses.

His ranking in the third level was not high, only 1,300th among those who climbed to the Golden Summit. The extra points might be related to his return trip to help Chen Li.

Just as Wang Shuhuan and a bunch of noobs were thinking and inquiring about the nameplate points of the people around them, Zhao Ziyao clapped her hands and said to the three people named Yubao around them, "Please ask Immortal Yubao and that guy named Wang Xin to move out the prepared service tablets."

Wang Xin glared fiercely at someone on the stage, and moved the bluestone tablet out of the Dharma Hall with Taoist Master Yubao.

With a bang, a huge blue stone fell in the middle of the Dharma Hall, and it seemed that the entire ground shook.

"Everyone can take turns to come up and watch." After saying that, the four of them quickly made way for the 1,800 noobs.

Everyone was silent for a moment, then rushed forward. Chen Li was weaker than before, so she waited on the periphery and was the last one to squeeze in front of the stone tablet.

The stone tablet is three meters high and six meters wide, with ancient cloud patterns all over it, and it looks very solid. On the top are three large characters in red ancient seal script: "Duty Tablet"

Chen Li touched it gently, it was cool at first and then warm, with an indescribable feeling of comfort. She sighed that this was worthy of being a fairyland, and every stone tablet was not an ordinary thing.

However, what caused such a stir was the content on the stone tablet.

The stone tablet is divided into two sides, one is the task area and the other is the exchange area.

There are several wooden signs hanging in the task area, divided into daily tasks, time-limited tasks, and achievement tasks.

【Daily Tasks】：
1: Donate to the cultivation schools and methods that are not used in Baiyun Zang Temple, such as talisman drawing methods, cultivation techniques, alchemy methods... Depending on the situation and the rarity, once the donation is successfully reviewed, at least five points, with no upper limit.

2: Donation: one point for every million, with a maximum of three points per candidate per academic year.
3: Discover any unknown extraordinary spiritual herb and provide the sample growth site, and points will be awarded depending on the situation.

4: Clean the front hill of Baiyun Taoist Temple, remove dust and dirt, one point every two weeks.
5: Refining donation talismans, materials are self-provided, five white-level talismans are worth one point, one black-level talisman is worth five points, and one blue-level talisman is worth ten points.

6: ...
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【Short-term tasks】：
1: Assist in harvesting spiritual rice, a little bit a day.

2: Assist in harvesting spiritual plants, a little bit per day.

3: Assist Suzhou Taoist Temple to investigate and provide assistance for landslides and collapse geological events in hilly areas in Suzhou New District and other places.

4: Assist Gansudoin…
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【Achievement task】

1: Breakthrough in Qi, points for the first place, points for the top ten, points for the top , and points for those outside the top .

2: Breakthrough and awakening the spirit, the first place will get points, the top ten will get points, the top will get points, and those outside the top will get points.

3: Breakthrough...

4: When the soul is out of the body, the first place will get points, the top ten will get points, the top will get points, and those outside the top will get points.

5: For those who cultivate the Yuan Shen to Yin Shen, the first place will get points, the top ten will get points, the top will get points, and those outside the top will get points.

6: Semester GPA ranking…

There were so many kinds and names, and everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

Well, as I went along, I felt so annoyed, and I was reminded of the miserable mortal starts in online novels.

"Hey, look at the other side!"

Just when they were feeling melancholy, a girl suddenly pointed to the back of the service monument. Everyone looked and saw three big red characters "Exchange Area" written on it.

(End of this chapter)