Druid in the Xianxia world

Chapter 36: Understanding the Mystery of Growth

Zhong Cang's question made Qin Xiuye ​​completely silent.

At this moment, he really wanted to grab Zhong Cang's collar and tell him that the speed at which you accumulate magic power is already the fastest in Yun Mo's heart lake. Even Shuang Lingxue and Qi Wei, who have first-class spiritual roots and have taken elixirs, cannot accumulate magic power as fast as you.

However, as Vice Dean, Qin Xiuye ​​still cared a lot about his demeanor. Therefore, not only did he not do so, his expression didn't change much either. Instead, he quietly warned, "Want to speed up your cultivation? That's a good thing, but you also have to be careful. Cultivation shouldn't just be fast, it should also be refined. The latter is more important than the former. After all, whether you can grow higher depends not on speed, but on whether your foundation is solid."

After all, he is a good person. Zhong Cang's abnormally fast cultivation speed made him a little frightened. Fearing that there might be hidden dangers, he warned him.

Zhong Cang also agrees with the idea of ​​laying a solid foundation, but precisely because of this, Zhong Cang needs to practice faster.

"Master Dean, your teaching is correct. Fortunately, the Four Seasons Heavenly Time Wheel Sutra I chose has a step to purify mana. I will practice it a few more times to enrich my foundation."

At this point, Zhong Cang smiled sheepishly and said, "However, if I want to reincarnate, I first need to grow my own mana to its limit. If I want to reincarnate a few more times without delaying my future cultivation, I need to speed up the accumulation of mana..."

Having said that, Zhong Cang said no more, but looked at the dean Qin Xiuye, wanting to get his guidance.

In response to this, Qin Laodao was silent for a moment, but still gave him a suggestion.

"Looking at your situation, what's bothering you right now isn't a lack of spiritual energy, but rather your own slow speed in refining it. In this situation, it's actually very difficult to improve. After all, if you lack spiritual energy, you can take elixirs. To increase the speed of refining spiritual energy is like strengthening your spiritual roots... and I don't think I need to explain how difficult it is to improve spiritual roots."

Qin Xiuye ​​really doesn't need to say much about the difficulty of this.

However, just when Zhong Cang thought he was going to return empty-handed, Qin Xiuye ​​changed the subject and actually gave him a method.

"Although it's difficult, there are ways to increase the speed of refining spiritual energy. This method relies on comprehension, or in other words, cultivation techniques."

Having said that, Qin Xiuye ​​stroked his beard and sighed:

"Cultivating the Dao has always been about more than just spiritual roots; it's also about comprehension. In fact, comprehension is even more important than spiritual roots, and cultivation techniques are closely related to comprehension. If you have excellent comprehension and a deep understanding of the essence and mysteries of the cultivation techniques, even if your spiritual roots are weak, you can still improve your efficiency in refining spiritual energy."

At this point, the Taoist Qin Xiuye ​​stopped talking.

Zhong Cang benefited a lot from this.

"The essence and profound meaning of the technique... The Four Seasons and Time Rotation Sutra I'm practicing requires a high level of understanding, and there are many points to comprehend. Spring, summer, autumn, winter, life and death, withering and flourishing, these are all things I need to comprehend. But for now, the only thing I need to comprehend is the word 'life': growth, vitality..."

After thinking about this, Zhong Cang already knew what to do.

"Thank you, Dean, for the reminder."

After respectfully bowing to the Taoist Qin Xiuye, Zhong Cang left the ginkgo tree and ran towards other places in Yunmo Heart Lake.

If you want to understand the wonders of growth, it is far better to observe the growth of living things in the outside world than to think about it yourself.

Because Zhong Cang has a close relationship with plants and trees, his best method is naturally to communicate with the consciousness of plants and trees through meditation, allowing plants and trees to tell him how they grow.

As for why the ginkgo tree was not chosen... the ginkgo tree that has survived for hundreds of years has already grown to its limit and has not grown for a long time.

In contrast, other small trees, flowers and plants are in the state of "growth". In this case, paying attention to those ongoing "growth" will naturally gain more than observing the ginkgo tree at the end of its growth.

"Weed...that's you."

"Flowers are fine too... Hmm, the blooming of flowers isn't actually about spring growth, but about the blooming of midsummer... It doesn't matter. It's something I need to understand anyway, so I might as well consider it learning in advance..."

In Yu Yunmo's heart lake, Zhong Cang didn't even bother to absorb spiritual energy. Instead, he ran around observing the flowers and plants, communicating with them, or quietly comprehending their growth process - well, he did this because Zhong Cang felt that the cost-effectiveness of practicing here was not high.

After all, although Yunmo Heart Lake is a Taoist temple carefully built by the Taoist temple with abundant spiritual energy, Zhong Cang practices here alone.

In Huangni Village, within his own spiritual land, he had an entire processing plant to aid his cultivation. It went without saying who was faster or slower. Zhong Cang ran around in Yunmo's heart lake, even going outside to interact with the flowers, plants, and trees. Seeing this, Qin Xiuye ​​frowned, but ultimately, he said nothing.

"Forget it, let's wait and see. If Zhong Cang can maintain this progress, we can talk to the other teachers and ask them to train Zhong Cang well... With another genius, our Xuehu Daoyuan will be more at ease when dealing with external provocations or competing for resources."

Thinking of the current situation facing Xuehu Taoist Temple, Qin Xiuye ​​sighed.

"We lost in the previous battles. This time, with Shuang Lingxue here, it's our best chance. We can't lose again!"

As students, Zhong Cang and the others only need to consider their own cultivation.

As the dean, Qin Xiuye ​​has a lot of things to worry about.

What made him even more worried was that the situation at the Snow Lake Taoist Academy was not very good. Instead, it could be said that it was surrounded by enemies on all sides.

——The Taoist temple system of Xue Ye Kingdom did not always exist. In recent years, demons and evil spirits have been rampant, and the Central Plains Kingdom has even produced an emperor with great talent and strategy, who intends to expand the territory and compete for supremacy. Therefore, Xue Ye Kingdom has introduced the Taoist temple system to respond to the emergency and strive to cultivate talents for the country.

However, the training of monks requires resources, and in the eyes of the original nobles, sects, and temples, these resources are all theirs.

In the eyes of many families and sects, using one's own resources to provide for poor disciples is like cutting one's own flesh and committing a sin.

Therefore, the Taoist temple system became a thorn in the eyes and flesh of some aristocratic families.

However, there was indeed chaos in Xue Ye Country, and the king was fully supporting the Taoist temple, which made many powerful families dare not openly oppose it.

But they still have the courage to resist secretly instead of openly.

For example, the fighting confrontation that gave Qin Xiuye ​​a lot of headaches.

Under the slogan of not wasting resources, using them effectively, and cultivating elites, the aristocratic families proposed to hold numerous examinations within the Taoist temple.

The 100-day assessment is one of them.

If they fail this assessment, the aristocratic families will have reason to say that these people are not suitable for practicing Taoism and will expel them from the Taoist temple.

As the number of people practicing Taoism decreases, the major Taoist temples naturally cannot ask for more resources.

In addition to the pass rate in the 100-day assessment, the aristocratic families also proposed to determine the rankings, and use the rankings to decide how the resources should be used - only the elite with good talents can use the resources, and it is a pure waste for mediocre people to use the resources.

Such a proposal seemed reasonable, and those aristocratic families even said that if a peerless genius appeared and the Taoist academy’s resources were insufficient, they would make up for it.

Such a proposal benefits the country and the poor, so the king cannot veto it and can only agree to it.

Then, in every hundred-day assessment, those who occupied the top rankings were all from aristocratic families, and there were very few people from humble backgrounds.

What made Qin Xiuye ​​even more disgusted was that during the 100-day assessment and the subsequent tests, the aristocratic families would send their own trained direct descendants, or disciples from major sects to come and exchange ideas - well, strictly speaking, it was a battle in the name of exchange.

During the battle, those children of the aristocratic families who have obtained a lot of resources and occupied the front row will mostly have something urgent to do or be injured and will not participate in the exchanges and battles.

This means that the Taoist academy can only rely on disciples from poor families. Without resources, the disciples from poor families in the Taoist academy will naturally not be a match for the children of the aristocratic families and the children of the big sects, and they may even be defeated miserably.

With such substantial achievements, the noble families in the royal city naturally had something to say.

"We've spent so many resources, but we can't even defeat the inner disciples, let alone the core disciples of the sect. Lord, this Taoist academy is useless!"

(End of this chapter)