One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 64 63: Entering the Mountain

He followed the road in the mountains, bypassed the mountain where the lower courtyard was located, came to the opposite side, and crossed the canyon, and arrived at Wuliang Courtyard.

Only when you get here can you truly enter Tiandu Mountain.

People in the mountains often call the other side of the canyon the secular world and this side of the canyon the mountains.

When people live in the mountains, they are immortals.

Zhao Fuyun came to the edge of the canyon. It was morning and the sun was just rising.

Thousands of red lights in the east fell into the rising mist in the canyon, forming a circle of rainbow, and the iron chain bridge over the canyon just passed through the rainbow, like a fairyland.

He looked back and saw where the disciples of the lower courtyard were practicing.

On the east side of the mountain where the Lower Academy is located, there is a flat and spacious area where the disciples of the Lower Academy would practice every morning by absorbing the purple energy of the rising sun.

At this time, the disciples of the lower house had just finished their training, and they could just see the canyon and the iron cable suspension bridge across the canyon.

Taoist masters often tell everyone: "I hope that one day you can walk across this bridge, through the canyon, into the upper courtyard, and become an inner disciple."

Today, they saw someone about to cross the bridge, so many people stopped and looked at him.

Zhao Fuyun remembered that after he finished his training, he would often stand there and look at the canyon, and occasionally he would see someone going in.

However, no one has ever been seen walking out of the suspension bridge. Some people say that walking out of the bridge is unlucky, and it means being expelled from the mountain gate or having one's cultivation abolished.

Most of the disciples in the upper house can already fly in the air, ride on the clouds, or use flying tools. No one would walk.

He used to stand on the mountain and watch others cross the bridge, but now he has become the scenery in the eyes of others.

He walked step by step into the iron chain bridge. A gust of wind blew and the mist immediately engulfed him. He felt that he had entered the real world of cultivation and embarked on the true path of cultivation.

After crossing the bridge, he looked back at the mountain opposite where the lower house was located, but he could no longer see it clearly because it was blocked by the fog and clouds rushing up from the canyon.

Ahead was a winding stone staircase. He circled up the mountain from one side and a grand palace appeared in his sight.

The main hall faces south.

Hidden under a big tree.

He looked up, and the word "Wuliang" came into his sight.

There are red-painted couplets carved on the two square stone pillars in front of the hall.

Wuliangyuan is dedicated to facing the secular world.

In the past, Zhao Fuyun was still wondering why the place that faced the secular world and dealt with the relationships with countries and people in the world was called Wuliangyuan.

Although Wuliangyuan is called a courtyard, it cannot be a small courtyard.

He now understood that the name 'Wulian' was telling everyone not to get caught up in the mundane world, but to contemplate the infinite Dao and treat the mundane world as a place for practice.

Another thing is that when facing all kinds of grudges in the world, you must have a boundless mind, otherwise you will be entangled in it.

He went inside and found the registration room in the internal affairs department.

……

"Name?"

"Zhao Fuyun."

"Where do you practice?"

"In the year of Guimao, the month of Gengshen, and the day of Guihai, I entered the lower monastery of Tiandu Mountain. I left the mountain in May last year and was ordered to serve as a teacher in Wuze County."

Zhao Fuyun knew that there were some people who were not practicing in the lower courtyard of Tiandu Mountain, but wanted to enter the upper courtyard of Tiandu Mountain after building their foundation, so he had to ask the people in the record office clearly.

"Oh, you are my disciple, the last batch of Xuanguang disciples who entered the Great Zhou Kingdom?"

"Yes." Zhao Fuyun said.

"Where are you from?" the deacon from the record office asked again.

Zhao Fuyun was a little confused. Does one need to have a good family background to practice in the mountains?

The other party obviously saw the doubts in Zhao Fuyun's heart. Perhaps he had seen too much, so he said: "The mountain needs to know the situation of every disciple, including their family background, from which we can see the worldly entanglements behind them." When Zhao Fuyun heard this, he understood the reason.

It’s like establishing a household registration file.

"When I was thirteen years old, my aunt sent me to Taoist Master Xun Lanyin in Tiandu Mountain, and then Taoist Master Xun Lanyin sent me to the lower courtyard." Zhao Fuyun said.

The other party looked up at Zhao Fuyun and said, "Are you going for the internal free-of-charge mountain entry contract?"

"Yes." Zhao Fuyun said.

In Tiandu Mountain, every inner disciple can send one person to practice in the lower courtyard of Tiandu Mountain without paying tuition.

Of course, if he could build his foundation, then it would be impossible for him to switch to another sect. Some people who paid a tuition fee to enter the lower academy to practice might have formed a connection with other sects during the process of building their foundation, and thus would switch to other sects.

In such a situation, Tiandu Mountain will not actually intervene directly.

However, disciples who are exempted from tuition fees are not allowed to switch to other sects.

"What's your aunt's name?"

"Yun Yiqing." Zhao Fuyun said.

"Who are you from?"

"I have no fixed place to live, drifting around the world and wandering in the mountains." Zhao Fuyun said.

The man looked up at Zhao Fuyun again and said with a smile, "This is rare."

"Yes." Zhao Fuyun said.

"Okay, this is your temporary badge. You can go to the temporary residence in the back mountain and move in according to the badge number. There will be an initiation ceremony in a few days. As long as you pass the test, you can become a disciple of the upper house."

"Okay, thank you." Zhao Fuyun said.

"You guys are all good. After you enter the upper house, practice well."

Zhao Fuyun didn't know which of his group had returned, nor did he know how to deal with it, so he just responded with "yes".

He took the bronze plate in his hand and looked at it. On the front were the word "Tiandu", and on the back was the word "Lin" plus a number - Qi.

The room is not big, but it is fully furnished and has a cafeteria where you can eat and drink for free with a temporary pass.

While eating, he saw the people who lived with him in the temporary housing. Zhao Fuyun didn't know them, but they didn't seem to be very familiar with each other either. They probably arrived a few days earlier than Zhao Fuyun.

Four men and two women, including Zhao Fuyun, make a total of seven.

One of the women, upon seeing Zhao Fuyun, asked in a familiar manner, "My fellow Taoist, have you been practicing in the lower courtyard here before?"

Zhao Fuyun drank the spiritual rice porridge, ate fresh mushrooms, and nodded.

He looked at the other person and then at the other five people, and he realized that they were probably not from the lower courtyard of Tiandu Mountain.

There will be disciples from the lower academy in Tiandu Mountain who will not return to Tiandu Mountain after building their foundation. Naturally, there will also be people from other backgrounds who will transfer to Tiandu Mountain after building their foundation, especially independent cultivators. Some of their ancestors may have some kind of connection with Tiandu Mountain.

"That's great. We have finally waited for a fellow Taoist from the lower house to return to the mountain." said the woman.

"Uh, why do you say that?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Because if a disciple from the lower courtyard of our mountain returns to the mountain, the initiation ceremony will be held soon. Otherwise, we have to wait for a month before holding the initiation ceremony." said the woman.

Zhao Fuyun didn't know all this.

But just as she said, someone came to inform him that evening that the initiation ceremony would be held the next day.

However, the person who notified him looked at him and said, "If the person who presides over the initiation ceremony tomorrow asks you questions other than the initiation questions, you just need to keep your mind focused and don't speak."

Zhao Fuyun was confused and wanted to ask him why, but he had already left.

In fact, Zhao Fuyun has always had a worry in his heart, which is about the "questioning of conscience" when entering the door. However, he also understands that the content of the questioning of conscience is actually fixed.

However, it seems that someone might take the opportunity to ask more questions tomorrow.

　Chapter 2 has arrived.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)