Cultivation begins with separation

This year is the 873rd year of Qiantian.

It is the thirteenth year since Yi Dong left the Taoist temple.

It was a sunny day.

Yi Dong rode a green bull and slowly left Zijin Mountain.

Yi Dong was dressed in a dark blue Taoist robe and sat cross-legged on the back of the green bull with his eyes closed.

However, his short hair made him look less like a Taoist.

Everything in Zijin Mountain has been arranged.

Dongfanghong asked for the knowledge Yi Dong had collected and his research materials over the years, and promised to help Yi Dong guard the mountain for twenty years.

The most important thing on Zijin Mountain is Taichu Zixing. After Dongfanghong helped take care of it, Yi Dong handed over other matters to Yi De and Yi Fu.

His goal for this trip was Qingzhu Taoist Temple.

After all, he had studied in Qingzhu Taoist Temple. Even if he dropped out halfway, he was still a student of the Taoist Temple.

Yi Dong planned to go to the Taoist Temple to ask if there was any way to see the Taoist Temple's library.

The library of the Taoist temple is extremely large, and the knowledge inside is all-encompassing. Yi Dong read less than one ten-millionth of it back then.

If possible, he wanted to copy all the knowledge in it into his own magical space.

After the Qingniu left Zijin Mountain, his feet were as fast as the wind.

Soon, Yi Dong and the ox took a flying boat from Xia County to Bowang County.

Yi Dong waited for a whole day in Bowang County before contacting Teacher Kong and entering Qingzhu Taoist Temple.

When he was a substitute, Yi Dong had contact with many teachers in Qingzhu Taoist Temple.

However, due to his personality, his relationship with most teachers dropped to freezing point.

Only Teacher Kong had a good relationship with Yi Dong.

"Hey, it seems that you haven't wasted these thirteen years. My spiritual eyes can't see through you."

As soon as they met, Teacher Kong said with a surprised look on his face.

After listening to Teacher Kong's words, Yi Dong knew that Teacher Kong's nonsense about not being able to build a spiritual power circuit thirteen years ago was all to evade him. It turned out that this person had spiritual eyes and was probably a spiritual body.

"Tell me, what do you want to see me for?"

Teacher Kong looked Yi Dong up and down, and asked after he couldn't see anything.

"I want to go into the Taoist library to have a look."

Teacher Kong heard this and said directly:

"Impossible, there is no such precedent. The Taoist is not open to the public. If you were not a student of the Taoist, you would not even be able to enter."

"Can't you think of a way?"

"Knowledge is valuable. If outsiders can spend a little money to enter the Taoist library, then the knowledge in the library would have been turned into family collections by each family."

"The Taoist seals off knowledge just to prevent too many people from becoming Jin Xiu, but I am Jin Xiu myself, and I promise not to spread this. Spread this knowledge."

"You promise?"

How can we promise? We, the cultivators today, basically don't believe in empty things like Dao oaths. Such things are also without foundation. All magic in the world has a time limit for effectiveness. Even if you are restricted by immortal magic, you can't be restricted by magic when it expires.

If you want to enter the library, you must be a student of this academy."

"Oh, can I enter the academy again?"

Teacher Kong was speechless.

"What do you think?"

Yi Dong just asked. He knew that the age of admission to the Taoist academy basically cannot exceed 30, and there is only one chance in a lifetime.

Otherwise, there will be a lot of "previous students" and "nail households". Not to mention that it will be more difficult to pass the entrance examination of the upper Taoist academy, even the quota of the intermediate Taoist academy will be more expensive.

"What about becoming a Taoist academy instructor?"

"Taoist academy instructors are generally outstanding graduates of intermediate Taoist academies. After being recommended by instructors, they first become assistants to instructors, and then they can become instructors after passing multiple assessments.

You are not even a graduate, and you still want to become an instructor?"

"Then assistants should be okay, right?"

"After saying so much, this is your real goal, right?

Indeed, assistants are generally outstanding graduates, but there is no rule that they must be graduates. In theory, it is also possible for a dropout like you.

However, whether you can become my assistant depends on your performance in the next test."

Instructor Kong did not directly assess Yi Dong with language, but took Yi Dong to a huge experimental site and arranged some work for him.

In the following days, Yi Dong moved around several experimental sites that Instructor Kong was in charge of.

He basically did not understand a lot of experimental knowledge at the beginning, but his learning ability was very strong.

In just three months, he proved himself with his ability.

It can be said that after three months, Yi Dong's ability has surpassed Liu Fangtian, the assistant that Instructor Kong is most optimistic about.

Recently, Yi Dong's work in the experimental site has become more and more, and more and more important.

These experiments include testing new synthetic materials, researching fast-growing spiritual plants, cultivating new spiritual grains, etc.

Most of these experiments have no success or failure, and in the end there are only experimental results.

Yi Dong is very serious in every experiment. These are all processes of accumulating knowledge, which may be used in his own refining and planting in the future.

On this day, Teacher Kong met Yi Dong alone in the yard where he lived.

"Your comprehension is indeed good. We are cultivating now. The spiritual roots are the foundation, and comprehension is the future.

At this point, I will not hide it from you.

It's okay to be an assistant to the Taoist temple teacher, but it's not so easy to be a Taoist temple teacher. In name, the assessment is the focus, but in fact, the assessment may be the least important link, because those who are qualified to become teachers are generally not fools, and the Taoist temple's assessment can basically pass.

The key is to pass the assessment. There is a quota for teachers in each Taoist academy. Even the dean of the Taoist academy cannot increase or decrease the number of teachers at will.

Let me tell you this, there are two ways to join the Taoist academy. One is to become a student of the superior Taoist academy. After graduation, you will naturally obtain the status of the Taoist academy, which does not conflict with the status of the immortal official. Many people who do not like worldly affairs often take up an idle position and then engage in various research in the Taoist academy.

The second way is to become a teacher in the Taoist academy. Teachers can only be appointed after being examined by the Taoist academy. After becoming a teacher, you can be promoted step by step. For example, in the intermediate Taoist academy, there are directors and deans above the teachers.

Becoming the dean of the intermediate Taoist academy can even apply to teach in the superior Taoist academy.

Therefore, the quota for teachers is millions of times more expensive than the quota for students in the Taoist academy. Even many small families do not know the tricks here.

Let me tell you this, I can become a teacher not because of how good I am, but because of the family I was born into.

Spirits are rare in Qingzhu Daoyuan, but they are not rare in the whole fairyland, because many ancient families can even solidify spirits into their blood and pass them down from generation to generation.

What is my spirit in the fairyland?

In general, if you want to become a teacher, there is no hope for you here. "

In the 100,000 years of the fairyland, not all positions are filled.

Just like the fairy officials, the 99 superior Taoist temples have a batch of fresh fairy officials every year, but they can't fill the vacancies of the official positions.

That's because in the prosperous times, the population will skyrocket every year, and every state in the fairyland is expanding day by day, and large uninhabited areas have been developed into human habitats.

Yi Dong doesn't know how big the world where the fairyland is located is, but one thing Yi Dong knows is that after 100,000 years of the fairyland, the number of human race is simply infinite compared to the fairyland. It is insignificant.

In theory, the number of intermediate Taoist academies will gradually increase, and the number of instructors will not remain unchanged.

However, it is obvious that there are too many people watching the position of instructor, and the small share that increases every year is not enough for the people above to share.

Yi Dong will not stay in a Taoist academy.

The specific length of stay basically depends on the number of books in the Taoist academy.

However, if he can become an instructor, it will be much more convenient to visit unfamiliar Taoist academies in the future.

What a pity.

"Instructor, it is enough to become an assistant and be able to read the books in the Taoist academy."

Yi Dong said sincerely.

Hearing this, Teacher Kong felt a little ashamed. He really thought that Yi Dong was a talent. If he entered the Taoist academy, he would have the hope of building a foundation for the Great Dao in the future.

After thinking about it, Teacher Kong said:

"I heard that your fellow named Yi Fan is also a celebrity in the upper Taoist academy.

Obviously, this person is valued by the big shots. Otherwise, no matter how talented you are and how much comprehension you have, it is basically impossible for you to make a name for yourself in the upper Taoist academy.

If you go to him, you may have a chance to become a teacher. "

"That's not necessary."

Teacher Kong wanted to say something, but when he thought about the bad relationship between Yi Dong and the Yi family, and the various dirty things in the aristocratic families, he thought that maybe Yi Dong had something to hide, so he stopped worrying about it.

"Follow me to go through the formalities. Becoming an assistant does not require too complicated procedures. "

In less than three days, Instructor Kong helped Yi Dong get the identity of an assistant instructor and also got an identity card.

The door of the Qingzhu Taoist Academy's library was finally opened to him.

From that day on, Yi Dong basically spent all his time in the library, except for helping Instructor Kong guide the experiments and production orders distributed by the Taoist Academy.

The Taoist Academy's library was built by hollowing out more than a dozen mountains and expanding thousands of meters underground.

The books in it are mainly jade slips, and the knowledge is all-encompassing.

A lot of knowledge is recorded in different texts, such as some ancient cultivation methods and spells.

In order to understand that knowledge, Yi Dong spent a lot of time learning various texts.

With the accumulation of knowledge, Yi Dong became more proficient in experiments and guiding production. It was easy to do.

Things that used to take three to five days to deal with, he often finished in less than half a day.

However, the time he spent reading books basically did not increase.

Because Teacher Kong's conscience would only be discovered occasionally, and most of the time his heart was black.

As Yi Dong's ability increased greatly, Teacher Kong's tasks also increased.

Teachers need to accumulate "real achievements" to be promoted.

With Yi Dong, a useful cow and horse, Teacher Kong must use him to the utmost?

Fortunately, Yi Dong would also transfer the pressure. He squeezed Teacher Kong's assistants according to their abilities. If there were not enough assistants, he would pull the students who came to the Taoist temple to fill in. If there were not enough students under the charge of Teacher Kong, he would borrow students from other teachers.

Time passed slowly, and three years passed unknowingly.