The road is vague

Chapter 24: Eye of the True Spirit
Finally it was time for the afternoon feeding.

Li Mo and Lu Tianyou walked side by side to the kitchen, each took a simple meal, sat on adjacent bamboo chairs, and swallowed it with a tasteless taste.

Li Mo was still thinking about what his uncle Ding Wei had said during the day.

He was curious about the Tuxing Sect's betrayal and couldn't help but ask Lu Tianyou, "What do you think is the way to immortality?"

"Immortality."

Lu Tianyou shrugged and said, "I heard that people in Lu are very good at keeping in good health."

"So, those people from the Earthly Sect want to live longer?"

Lu Tianyou shook his head. He was not interested in this. Instead, he used his eyes to signal: "What do you think of that girl?"

Li Mo looked in the direction Lu Tianyou pointed.

This is a girl with a snake-like bun on her head, wearing a plain snow-white silk dress, and with extremely aggressive eyes and brows. Her every frown and smile seems to carry a hint of charm.

If Wang Ying of Pingshan Society is a fox, then this girl is a colorful snake.

I didn’t expect that Lu Tianyou actually likes this type of girl.

"It seems that he is not from our class."

"Ah."

Lu Tianyou chuckled and said, "I like girls who are full of wildness like this. I'll go over and talk to them later to see if there's any room for development."

After hearing this, Li Mo couldn't help but shook his head.

Just as Lu Tianyou was not interested in his topic, he was also not interested in this girl.

After meal.

Lu Tianyou actually caught up with her and started chatting with the girl.

Seeing this, Li Mo had no choice but to leave alone.

He took a quick look around the courtyard. There were at least four hundred students in the entire Enlightenment Hall, divided into twelve classes, taught by different monks. There might be more people coming from more remote counties tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but the number would not be too large.

"Li Mo!"

There were two girls standing on the roadside. One of them saw Li Mo, showed her sweet dimples, greeted him and walked towards him.

This person is Zhu Yidan.

At the dinner the day before yesterday, she sat next to Li Mo and looked lively and cute. Li Mo couldn't remember the other person's name, but she had very fair skin and looked scholarly and quiet.

"Zhu Yidan."

Li Mo greeted him, not knowing what the other party wanted to talk to him about.

"This is Zhao Xiaonan. There's a cabinet in our room that's in the way. We want to move it aside. Can you help us move it?"

"no problem."

Li Mo did not refuse, since he had nothing to do anyway.

However, just as he was about to follow the two girls to leave, Zhu Yidan signaled: "Don't worry, that cabinet is a bit heavy, I'll find someone else."

After a while.

Zhu Yidan started greeting again.

"Cousin, Wang Feng!"

A boy was walking towards them from a distance. Although he was wearing a loose crane cloak, it was not difficult to tell from the jade pendant on his waist and the leather boots on his feet that he must be from a wealthy family. His posture was a little lazy, and his face was slightly more mature than Li Mo. He was probably seventeen or eighteen years old.

Li Mo had no impression of him at all.

"Hey, I'm exhausted after a whole day of classes. I'm just about to go back and rest. What's going on?"

Zhu Yidan and Wang Feng obviously have a very good relationship.

"Help me lift the cabinet. This is Li Mo. I met him at the dinner party last night after you left."

Zhu Yidan then introduced him to Li Mo, "This is Wang Feng, my cousin. His family is from Yuancheng. My uncle thought he was being dishonest all day long, so he sent him here to gain some experience."

Li Mo was surprised when he heard this.

Yuancheng is the capital of Qian State.

The so-called Saint Lord Qianyuan, Qian refers to Qian Kingdom, and Yuan refers to Yuancheng. The other party actually came to Muzhou from Yuancheng, and the final destination that he had finally walked out of the mountains was actually the starting point for the other party to be sent down for training.

"Hello."

"Hello."

The two greeted each other, and Wang Feng curled his lips helplessly at Zhu Yidan.

"What kind of experience? Isn't it just a blind date? We met that Miss Ye yesterday. We had a good chat. She's my type. Stop talking nonsense and go move the cabinets."

After saying that, Wang Feng stretched.

"From today on, I am a disciple of Lingmu Sect!"

Then he looked at Li Mo beside him.

"Brother, don't overthink it. My family is just a little bit wealthy in Yuancheng, and we hold a few powerless positions in the court. We're far behind those local tyrants from the aristocratic families. Don't mistake me for a rich young master. We're both the same now, both independent disciples with no background. After three months, we'll pass the Enlightenment Hall's assessment and become official disciples of the Lingmu Sect. Only then can we study with the aristocratic disciples."

"what?"

Li Mo was surprised. The disciples of aristocratic families had so many privileges. At the same time, he was also a little confused.

"What is a disciple from an aristocratic family?"

As the four of them walked, Wang Feng explained.

"Whether or not we ordinary people possess spiritual roots is entirely up to fate, but it's different for those from aristocratic families. Because their parents are both cultivators, the probability of them being born with spiritual roots is much higher. Over time, these aristocratic families have become the backbone of various sects. In addition, due to their different environments, they have gained extraordinary knowledge since childhood and may have learned a lot of theoretical knowledge, making them well prepared for cultivation. Therefore, they don't need enlightenment at all, and naturally, they don't need to come here." "I see."

Li Mo learned from his conversation with Wang Feng that he was already eighteen years old, one year older than Li Mo.

The purpose of his coming here, in addition to successfully completing his three-year studies in Lingmumen and returning to Yuancheng to work in the court, is to marry into the Ye family, one of the four major families in Lingmumen.

"Although the Ye family has declined and become one of the four great families of the Lingmu Sect, their foundation is by no means limited to this. Not to mention the founder of the Lingmu Sect, Lingmu Zhenren, even the founder of the Ye family, the famous late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator Quanzhi Zhenren who was once famous in the Qian Kingdom, is from the Ye family. Therefore, it can be said that they are one of the great families in the entire Qian Kingdom. If my business succeeds, it can be considered as marrying up."

Wang Feng is quite self-aware.

The cabinet in the room was quickly moved to the corner by Li Mo and Wang Feng according to the requests of Zhu Yidan and Zhao Xiaonan.

The four of them then chatted for a long time in the house and became familiar with each other.

the next day.

Ding Wei still arrived in class on time and looked at the people in the audience.

"Since each country has its own tradition of Taoism, who can answer me, what is Taoism?"

After everyone looked at each other, a few people raised their hands.

After a brief thought, Li Mo also raised his arm.

But unexpectedly, after Ding Wei glanced around the classroom, he chose Li Mo as his first choice to answer this question.

"I was once a doctor who studied medicine. My master told me that the one who understands the past and the present is the Tao. The Tao is the origin of the laws and order of the world. It has no fixed content, cannot be taught by words or by example, and cannot be identified by laws. Each person needs to combine their inner feelings to understand it."

Ding Wei nodded.

After Li Mo sat down, Lu Tianyou poked Li Mo with his arm and kept raising his eyebrows and laughing.

"You can do it."

Then Ding Wei asked another boy to stand up and answer.

The boy was slightly plump and had a serious face. He seemed to be a well-behaved person. Li Mo vaguely remembered that his name was Yang Zhiman.

At that time, he suspected that the other party's father was an accountant.

"My father told me that the Tao exists only in the unknown. It is the fundamental force that drives the constant change of all things. It has no birth and no death, no form and no appearance, and it encompasses everything. Its greatness has no outside, and its smallness has no inside. It changes as it passes, yet remains unchanged throughout the ages..."

Although the content of Yang Zhiman's speech was quite good, his tone was like that of a child reciting a lesson, with his head shaking constantly and his words being catchy.

Now Li Mo couldn't help but suspect that Yang Zhiman's father might be a scholar.

"it is good."

Ding Wei nodded, then he looked at Zhao Huaxue and motioned her to stand up and answer.

After Zhao Huaxue stood up from the mat, she immediately became the focus of the class, and everyone looked at her.

Seeing her noble and cold demeanor, Li Mo suspected that her true identity might be a down-and-out noble lady, and perhaps there was also a tragic story that would shock the world and make ghosts weep?
"The Tao cannot be spoken of. Even when a person who has attained enlightenment speaks of it, it is no longer the Tao, but the Principle within his heart. Everything in the world is interwoven with the Tao and the Principle..."

Ding Wei asked everyone who raised their hands to answer one by one before he began to talk about today's content.

"As the saying goes, everyone has their own Tao in their hearts. Tao cannot be described, but the Tao tradition can. The Tao tradition that our Qian Nation upholds is called the Tao of the Elders of All Creatures, and it was realized by the Sage Lord Qian Yuan."

Everything in the Qian Kingdom is inseparable from the Holy Lord Qian Yuan.

He is the founder of this country.

Although Tao is the origin of everything and cannot be described, there are the so-called Three Thousand Great Ways, which refers to the Taoist tradition.

"It is rumored that the Saint Lord was born in a small country that has long since disappeared. In his youth, he practiced in a sect called the Six Arts Sect. After realizing the Great Dao over two thousand years ago, he founded the Qian Kingdom. Therefore, if we want to comprehend the Way of the Elders of All Creatures, we must learn everything we can about the Six Arts Sect."

Ding Wei recounted the history of the Six Arts School more than two thousand years ago.

For ordinary people, things that happened more than two thousand years ago are really too far away. Those are things that their grandfather’s grandfather, their grandfather’s grandfather... experienced.

"Back then, the Central Plains was far from peaceful like it is today. It was a dark and turbulent era where demons and monsters were rampant. The Six Arts Sect was merely a third-rate sect founded by six independent Jindan cultivators. These six Jindan cultivators were skilled in alchemy, talisman making, weapon refining, magic, puppetry, and rune formations, hence the sect's name..."

A whole day passed while Ding Jie was giving this lecture.

He talked about the founding of the Liuyi Sect in the dark and turbulent times, the enlightenment and rise of Saint Qianyuan, the establishment of the Qian Kingdom more than two thousand years ago, and then more than a thousand years ago, when Lingmu Zhenren traveled thousands of miles to join the Qian Kingdom and founded the Lingmu Sect, which has gone through three generations of leaders and continues to this day.

"Therefore, all the sects in Qian Nation are established under the principle of the supremacy of all living things, which is also the principle of human dignity. For the cultivators of Qian Nation, everything in the universe is ours to claim and can be used as a tool for our enlightenment and cultivation. It is no longer limited to the Six Arts."

It can be heard that the way of the most intelligent creatures is to allow practitioners to maintain the characteristics of "human" in their practice.

The difference between humans and other animals is the use of tools.

"However, as several students mentioned before, although we share the same Dao, everyone has their own unique understanding. Our Lingmu Sect's understanding of the Dao of the Elders of All Creatures is limited to that of the Tianding Sect. We focus on developing tools to master various tools, while the other sects mostly insist on studying a single tool."

The twelve major sects of Qian Kingdom all have their own unique main cultivation methods under the principle of the most intelligent of all creatures.

This is also the different understanding of the way of the most intelligent creatures among all sects.

Among them, there are ten major sects, all of which are specialized in studying one of the six arts. There are many who have reached the pinnacle of skill, and their main techniques and fighting methods are distinctive.

The Lingmu Sect and the Tianding Sect, on the other hand, focus on studying the six arts in depth.

One is to try to develop your eyes and see the essence of various skills. The other is to collect various skills, decompose and restore them with your natal treasure tripod, and crack the essence.

"Starting tomorrow, I will teach you the main cultivation method for the Lingmu Sect, called 'Eye of the True Spirit'. This is our sect's only main cultivation method. As your cultivation becomes more and more profound, your eyes will gradually be able to perceive the great trends of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, distinguish the properties of the materials of spiritual objects, and glimpse the operation of spells and spiritual power. By doing so, you will comprehend the way of the primates of all things, and you will benefit immensely."

When everyone heard this, they all looked expectant.

Li Mo had some guesses in his mind.

During these two days, in addition to popularizing basic knowledge to everyone, Uncle Ding was also waiting for the arrival of people with spiritual roots from remote counties.

Lingmumen tries its best to put everyone in a relatively fair environment and screen out useful talents.

(End of this chapter)