Seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune starts from Tianshi Mansion

Chapter 549 548. Facing failure calmly (two chapters in one)

Chu Kun sat with Lei Jun in the dark city of the earth, looking out at the mountains and seas in the dark.

At present, there were only him and Lei Jun, so Chu Kun's conversation was relatively casual:

"Brother, your original ideas back then have been well continued by Huajie. Now the cultivation world in this world has changed more and more compared with the earlier times."

It has only been a hundred years.

Although it is still mainly concentrated in relatively limited places such as Tianshi Mansion, Shushan Sect, Xuanji Temple, Chunyang Palace, Zhenwu Temple, Yinshan Cave, etc.

But it has been expanding outward from this center. As time goes by, more and more places have gradually started.

Masters such as Zhu Junjie, Li Feiyang, Ling Hui, and Song Hang and the courts of various places have also participated.

And Fang Yue established academies in various places, and the teaching style began to improve, and the upper and lower levels began to form a joint force.

That is not just because of the high and mighty Lei Tianjun, so if the upper level likes something, the lower level will follow suit.

Those who participated in it are all getting real benefits.

It is not the relatively ethereal merit of accumulating virtue and gaining blessings, but the visible and tangible benefits that are of great help to the daily practice of the cultivators.

The most typical representatives among them are Zhang Taigang, the head of the East Peak lineage of the Shushan Sect, and Yue Xiling, the elder of the Chunyang Palace.

Both of them are already 200 years old.

Referring to the Nine Heavens cultivators, they have passed the golden period of their cultivation and are beginning to enter the prime platform stage.

There is no hope of continuing to move forward, but the upward momentum has slowed down greatly.

Waiting in front of them is the gate to the fairyland.

In the past, it was extremely difficult for them to successfully take this last step, but now there is hope.

Whether it is the Shushan Sect or the Chunyang Palace, with the accumulation of a large number of magic weapons, magic tools and even elixirs, they are constantly accumulating their foundation.

The relevant magic weapons, magic tools and elixirs are naturally impossible to come from the hands of secular people or cultivators of middle and low realms. They have to rely on the top cultivators like them to do it themselves.

But the solid foundation provides them with sufficient resources and saves a lot of time.

In fact, not only now, in the past few decades, Zhang Taigang, Yue Xiling and others, like Nie Fang and Qin Caiwei, have been continuously helped.

This will help them reach the Ninth Heaven as soon as possible, and continue to improve, and reach the perfect state of the fifth level of the Ninth Heaven as soon as possible, and retain a chance to impact the fairyland.

If the cultivator reaches the Ninth Heaven after approaching or even exceeding the age of 200, even if he can still improve in the future, at best he can only slowly accumulate and improve the small realm within the Ninth Heaven, and the hope of opening the fairyland is basically cut off.

One step fast, every step fast, one step slow, every step slow.

Just as Shangguan Hong and Guo Yan are still a few years younger than Lei Jun, but as long as they can reach the Seventh Heaven before the age of 200, they will have the hope of impacting the Eighth Heaven before the age of 400 in the future.

On the contrary, they will stop at the Sixth Heaven for life.

The difference is self-evident.

Yue Xiling, Zhang Taigang and others have higher cultivation talents, but they also need to concentrate on practicing, step by step, and constantly improve.

The increasingly perfect and developed refining of equipment and alchemy over the years have been constantly helping them, helping every cultivator to move forward faster.

The environment of the surging spiritual energy of heaven and earth is crucial.

On this basis, everything that Lei Jun started has also helped the cultivation world of this world to go a step further.

All of this can be seen and touched by most practitioners.

In this way, more and more people spontaneously follow and respond to Lei Jun’s earliest initiative, rather than simply out of fear or flattery. In the case that Lei Jun himself did not ask much about related matters afterwards, the snowball not only did not stop, but rolled bigger and bigger.

"It's still early. Now is still the rising stage. Everyone can continue to share the profits. After the rising stage is over, things will still fluctuate."

Lei Jun himself was calm: "The changes in fate have their own reasons. We can just follow the trend."

Chu Kun: "Brother, what you said is very true."

After the meeting of Zhuo Baojie and others, he accompanied Fang Yue back to Youdu.

Other matters related to seeing off the guests were entrusted to Qin Caiwei, Chi Haifeng, An Buzheng and others.

Chi Haifeng was responsible for seeing off Zhang Taigang and his party from Shushan Sect.

Among the participants, there was Cai Yu, a young sword cultivator of Shushan Sect.

As they walked together, he curiously asked Chi Haifeng: "Fellow Daoist Chi, I heard that your sect's Yuanci flying sword contains the method of thunder and fire, and there has been new progress?"

Chi Haifeng smiled and said: "The disciples at the level of the middle three days can control it more freely."

Cai Yu: "Your sect's innovation is amazing."

Chi Haifeng shook his head repeatedly: "Hey, I don't deserve it. The most important thing is that under the continuous refinement of Fellow Daoist Niu from Xuanji Temple, our sect changed to the latest rain pattern refined gold to forge swords, and then we made great progress. I and others really don't dare to take credit for it."

Cai Yu: "Our sect also purchased some rain pattern refined gold from Xuanji Temple. It is indeed useful, but it is not suitable for refining our sect's flying swords."

Beside him, another Shushan Sect's high-level elder Qin Baisheng also nodded in agreement.

The Taoist refining school flying sword is always quite different from the Taoist talisman school flying swords of Chi Haifeng, Feng Ting, An Buzheng and others.

To be precise, the so-called flying swords used by the Taoist talisman school are also very different from the magic tools and magic treasures they used to practice.

Qin Baisheng, Cai Yu and others have also come into contact with the latest rain pattern refined gold, which is beneficial to improving the material of flying swords, but will reduce the sensitivity of their immortal souls to control swords.

It’s okay if you are close, but the farther the distance, the greater the negative impact.

If the immortal soul is not directly sent to the sword, the sword will easily lose contact with the owner after flying a certain distance.

Therefore, it is difficult for Shushan School to follow up on the current improvement of the Yuanci Flying Sword in Longhu Mountain.

Of course, on the other hand, although they also use the power of Yuanci to bless the flying sword, they do not need to follow the improvement of the talisman school holy land Longhu Mountain in full.

In the final analysis, the biggest reason why Chi Haifeng, Cheng Rongrong, Feng Ting and others improved the Yuanci Flying Sword and contained thunder and fire is that the disciples of the middle and lower levels of cultivation in the palace fly the sword. The power is not good, but the accuracy is not good.

For example, Zhuo Baojie, Chi Haifeng, Feng Ting, An Buzheng and others fly the sword, even if they are not as accurate and swift as Lei Jun at the beginning, but they still have a general accuracy.

A flash of sword light may be the head of a very strong opponent, and the sword is out without regret and the sword is not missed.

The thunder and fire contained in the flying sword is to take care of others.

In this regard, the Yuanci Sword Controlling Technique of the Shushan School disciples and the Yuanci Flying Sword of the Tianshi Mansion Talisman School have their own strengths.

On average, the former is obviously more accurate.

But the flying sword is not as fast as the latter at the same level.

The price of accuracy is the reduction of suddenness and direct attack power.

In order to learn from each other's strengths and make up for their weaknesses, they naturally should not be completely consistent with the ideas of the Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion.

Due to time and energy constraints, Shushan disciples must focus on their own life instruments and magic treasures.

It is even more impossible to turn flying swords into consumables that can never return like the Tianshi Mansion disciples and some Xuanji Temple disciples.

"But the insights of Fellow Daoist Chi and the fellow Taoists of the Tianshi Mansion still give us great inspiration." Xie Yiying said.

The Purple and Green Swords and other founding magic treasures were offered to the Shushan Middle Peak together, and were nurtured by the four Shushan sword cultivators, so Ji Chuan and Xie Yiying no longer needed to serve as sword masters day and night.

They also each refined their own life magic swords.

For Xie Yiying, the Yuanci sword-controlling technique inherited from Chen Donglou is quite to her liking, and she has been constantly studying it for decades.

With her cultivation strength, she can control the flying sword with both power and agility.

There are some new thoughts, which are also for the consideration of the middle and lower-level younger disciples in Shushan.

It is naturally inappropriate to learn the Yuanci flying sword of the Tianshi Mansion in Longhu Mountain, but on the premise of maintaining the flexible control of the flying sword by Shushan disciples, trying to further enhance the power is also in line with the needs of Shushan disciples.

"The insights of fellow Taoists in the Tianshi Mansion are also very inspiring to our sect."

Zhang Taigang, the head of the East Peak of Shushan, said: "Similar methods are not completely impossible for our sect. Similar to the sword and scabbard, the combination of the mother and the child may be a method that can be tried, but there are still many difficulties to overcome."

The spirituality of Shushan disciples flying swords is contained in them, and the flying swords are always in touch with the heaven and earth wherever they go.

The way of combining the mother and the child and then separating makes the magic tools and magic treasures themselves complicated.

Shushan disciples have no problem controlling it at medium and short distances.

They have many more complex and complicated magic tools and magic treasures than this.

But in that case, the meaning of increasing the range and power by using the Yuanci sword is lost.

When sending the sword thousands of miles or hundreds of miles, the fine sensing control of the complex combination of swords and magic tools becomes a problem again.

However, Shushan has already had a preliminary direction, and the next step is to tackle various detailed technical problems.

At the beginning, Lei Jun suggested that the Shushan School, the Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion, and the Xuanji Temple have a long history of developing combined magic tools and magic treasures in recent years, and all aspects are gradually becoming mature.

"Master Zhang is right." Chi Haifeng listened and nodded repeatedly: "The junior also thinks that the mother-child style is very good."

After seeing everyone off until they left the land, Chi Haifeng bowed and left.

After only the descendants of the Shushan School were left, Zhang Taigang looked back at the land, and Chi Haifeng was no longer there.

"Master?" Xie Yiying looked at Zhang Taigang.

Zhang Taigang did not speak immediately, but after a while he said:

"Regarding the mother-child flying sword, Taoist Xu Hai of Longhu Mountain must have a lot of clever ideas... No, it should be, it is already a very mature idea, right?"

The people of Shushan Sect beside him looked at each other.

Cai Yu said softly: "Disciple thinks it is possible."

Qin Baisheng: "Because Master has the same idea, he didn't mention it much?"

Zhang Taigang: "Most likely, if we have no clue, he may take the initiative to talk to us in depth about the relevant matters."

Xie Yiying laughed when he heard it: "Master Xu Hai has changed his temper. When he first came to Shushan with Taoist Hua Ting, he would not be so secretive."

No one present doubted that Chi Haifeng had a deep and even mature idea about the mother-child flying sword.

Judging from the tone of his echoing Zhang Taigang's words, he must have done relevant research.

As long as he has this in mind, he will be the top expert in this field in the world, even if he is not a disciple of Shushan Sect.

Chi Haifeng, the Tianshi Mansion of Longhu Mountain publicly announced that he is a genius with natural level of understanding.

In recent decades, he and Cheng Rongrong have been the main force in the innovation and improvement of the magical talismans and methods within the Tianshi Mansion of Longhu Mountain.

However, compared with his outspoken appearance when he was a teenager, Elder Chi of the Tianshi Mansion is now more cautious.

"Our sect will think more and have more preliminary results, so that we can communicate with Taoist Master Xu Hai later." Zhang Taigang said.

Xie Yiying smiled and said, "Master Brother is right. Before this trip, Beifeng had already started preparing. We will speed up our pace after we return."

Zhang Taigang nodded slightly, and spoke again after a while: "After fifty years of cultivation, I have reached the realm of Mahayana."

Although his current cultivation level is higher than Chi Haifeng, Zhang Taigang sighed at this moment.

Xie Yiying, Qin Baisheng, Cai Yu and others also sighed.

Three years ago, Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion added another Nine-Layered Mahayana Gaozhen.

A very young Mahayana Gaozhen, who is only over sixty years old today.

It was the Chi Haifeng elder Chi just now.

At that time, it was almost fifty years since the other party was led back to Longhu Mountain by Xin Beiyuan to enter the Tao.

In modern times, or in other words, since the catastrophe at the end of the Han Dynasty, the entire Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion has only Tang Xiaotang and Lei Jun who can be compared with them.

At present, among the entire Shushan Sect, not counting the founding patriarch who did not return to Shushan, only Shen Xi is close to him.

That is based on the fact that Shen Xi's comprehension is high enough and he has the Universe Light Immortal Body. In a special situation, the root bones of the Immortal Body level are the fastest to improve in the early and middle stages of cultivation, which saves him a lot of time and effort. He can also be said to have fully utilized his talents.

Although Chi Haifeng is young, he has the Senluo Immortal Body on the basis of his natural level of comprehension, and he has great stamina.

After sighing, everyone in the Shushan Sect returned to Shushan.

Everyone suddenly fell silent halfway.

Occasionally, their eyes crossed, and everyone had a tacit understanding, realizing that they should be considering the same thing:

Elder An Buzheng, the direct disciple of Lei Zhangjiao and the direct disciple of Master Zhuo Tian, ​​has also reached the fourth level of the eighth heaven, and is only one step away from the Mahayana realm.

Although the inside story is unclear, if there is no major accident, he will be able to reach the Mahayana realm within 60 years of entering the Tao.

Looking at the world of ancient and modern times, he is also a demon who shocked the ancient and modern times, a genius among geniuses.

At least the Shushan Sect itself is quite envious of Longhu Mountain for having such a talent.

But...

He is gradually being left behind by Chi Haifeng.

If it was not obvious from the seventh to the eighth heaven, then now from the eighth to the ninth heaven, the situation is gradually becoming clear.

Of course, in addition to the competition between the two sides of the Tai Chi Dao body, An Buzheng also has the opportunity to sublimate his own understanding from tranquility to nature.

Time is long.

At their age, the future is still long. As long as they don't die young, the excitement of life has just begun.

As long as An Buzheng's foundation can catch up with Chi Haifeng as soon as possible, then looking back after hundreds or even thousands of years, the gap now is just so-so.

But, what if?

If An Buzheng's fate is bad, then the years ahead will be long, and the longer the time goes, the bigger the gap between the two sides may be.

Zhang Taigang, Xie Yiying and others who have seen the rise of Lei Zhangjiao, Tang Zhenjun, Xu Zhenjun and others have the best experience of this.

The direct teaching of the Heavenly Master is often not only valued by the Heavenly Master himself, but also paid attention to by the Heavenly Master's Mansion. Therefore, most of the time, the new Heavenly Master is born from the Heavenly Master's direct teaching.

There are precedents of others falling in the long history.

It's just that Lei Zhangjiao is detached from the world and can watch the changes of the three realms for a long time.

Even if it is Zhuo Tianshi, as long as he can successfully open the immortal gate, his life span will also be greatly extended. Even if he resigns as Tianshi, he can still continue to pay attention to Longhushan Tianshi Mansion.

Will they mind that the position of Tianshi falls to someone other than the direct heir?

How would An Buzheng himself view this matter?

Everyone in Shushan Sect exchanged glances, all with a lot of thoughts, but in the end no one spoke, and they just hurried back to the mountain silently.

In the land, Chi Haifeng saw off the Shushan Sect and returned to Youdu.

On the way, he happened to meet An Buzheng who had sent off Qiao Yang, Hu Hengyuan, Tian Cheng and others and also returned.

"Brother An." Chi Haifeng greeted him.

An Buzheng came forward and said, "Are you back?"

The two walked together, and Chi Haifeng gestured casually, "Great minds think alike. The head of the Shushan Sect, Zhang, and others also have the idea of ​​a mother-and-child flying sword."

An Buzheng asked, "Then you left your four-sided mother-and-child sword?"

Chi Haifeng: "That's right, they will definitely figure it out by themselves. I won't show off now. When the fellows of the Shushan Sect come up with their own styles, it won't be too late to discuss it then."

Over the years, the major sects have communicated a lot.

If the people of the Shushan Sect don't have any ideas, Chi Haifeng will naturally communicate with them, and the other party won't mind. There are precedents for similar things.

As Chi Haifeng was talking, a flying sword appeared in front of him without him seeing how he moved. The blade was much wider and heavier than ordinary flying swords.

The sword was in the shape of a mother and child, nested inside and outside.

When the sword flew out, the outer blade would split in mid-air and split into four, then fall to the ground together with the remaining inner blades, each containing thunder and fire, and then explode together, thus obtaining a wider attack coverage and more powerful lethality.

Hence the name Four-sided Mother-Child Yuan Magnetic Flying Sword.

Of course, this was still the way of their Tianshi Mansion Yuan Magnetic Flying Sword.

Not only the split outer blade, but also the remaining inner flying swords, were also not intended to be recovered.

Chi Haifeng himself could not use it, and it was actually worth considering whether the Tianshi Mansion disciples with middle and lower cultivation levels could use it.

First, this cost much more than the ordinary thunder and fire Yuan Magnetic Flying Sword, and it might not be worth it.

Secondly, the Yuanci flying swords of the monks from their Tianshi Mansion were too swift, and the mother-and-child flying swords could easily disintegrate midway, which would affect the chance of hitting the target.

Not everyone has the fine control of Chi Haifeng.

Unless the technical difficulties and usage threshold are further reduced, it will not be worth the loss, so it is a bit useless for the Yuanci Flying Sword of the Tianshi Mansion.

But it is suitable for the Shushan Sect monks.

It just needs to change some ideas.

For the Shushan monks, the concept of the mother-child sword is more like adding another layer of blade to the flying sword they control.

In other words, the flying sword carries an extra blade that can be detached and separated.

And these extra blades will further contain thunder and fire, and then explode.

Similar magic tools and magic treasures are not without precedents in the history of the Shushan Sect.

The current focus is to further combine the faster, more sudden and long-range strike capability brought by the Yuanci Sword Controlling Technique.

Chi Haifeng's four-sided mother-child Yuanci Flying Sword has completed quite a lot of technical details.

Later, he was willing to have more exchanges and discussions with the Shushan Sect.

The two returned to Youdu and reported to Zhuo Baojie.

Zhuo Baojie looked at the two figures in front of him, one tall and one short.

An Buzheng was quite tall after he became an adult, like a jade tree in the wind, with an immortal look.

Although Chi Haifeng was also tall after he became an adult, he was half a head shorter than An Buzheng, of medium build, and somewhat plain.

Compared with his extremely lively eyes when he was a teenager, Zhuo Baojie looked at him at this moment, and saw that his pupils looked dull, showing a sign of returning to nature.

Chi Haifeng, a rising star of Longhu Mountain who is now well-known in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and even in the Confucian World, looks ordinary.

But in the eyes of high-level cultivators such as Zhuo Baojie, the other party seems to be one with the natural world of heaven and earth, and there is no difference between them.

"Master."

"Master."

The two stepped forward to greet Zhuo Baojie.

Zhuo Baojie nodded slightly, and first instructed Chi Haifeng: "Things here are gradually coming to an end. If you want to travel to the Confucian world, you can choose your own time to set off. In order to be complete, go see Uncle Chu before leaving."

Chi Haifeng smiled and said: "Yes, Master Uncle!"

He looked quite expectant, rubbing his hands, and turned to look at An Buzheng beside him.

An Buzheng: "I won't go this time. I will concentrate on meditation for a while. You should be careful when you cross the Abyss of Time."

Chi Haifeng: "Then I will go there first to check it out."

After chatting for a few more words, he said goodbye and left.

An Buzheng stayed and waited for his master Zhuo Baojie's instructions.

Zhuo Baojie casually said, "Haste makes waste."

An Buzheng really understood the relevant truth: "Master, please rest assured. I have no intention of trying the calamity of the eighth to ninth heaven right away. I will practice for a while first, and then go into seclusion."

Zhuo Baojie nodded slightly: "That's good."

An Buzheng pondered slightly, thinking about how to speak next.

Zhuo Baojie saw this, his eyes moved slightly, but he didn't say anything, waiting quietly.

"Master, my disciple's mind is currently on cultivation. I hope to break through to the ninth heaven realm as soon as possible and add another great master to our sect..." An Buzheng spoke carefully.

Zhuo Baojie could see that his disciple seemed to have made some kind of decision.

But An Buzheng's next words were beyond Zhuo Baojie's expectations:

"...After reaching the Mahayana stage and consolidating my cultivation, I intend to leave the mountain, find a blessed land, and establish a school, so that I can establish a branch for the Fulu School and Tianshi Mansion, and spread the branches."

After the initial surprise subsided, Zhuo Baojie laughed instead, looking up and down at his disciple:

"Are you trying to force your way in front of me, or are you giving up so easily?"

An Buzheng was also at ease, and he spoke relatively casually in front of Zhuo Baojie:

"Master, you and the old master know that I am not someone who can't afford to lose. Although my acquired talent may still be uncertain, it is still a long way to go. Besides, I am not just losing to Junior Brother Chi in talent and realm."