Dedicate One’s Mind

On the way back, Wu Yi walked on a mountain path with a cliff next to it. Not long after he entered, Wu Yi was very careful every step he took, for fear that he would break the plank road with too much force and fall to the bottom of the cliff.

It has been two years since he came to Liucheng Yiqi Taoist Temple in the blink of an eye. This place has witnessed his efforts and growth, including every bit of his life. If nothing unexpected happens, Wu Yi's chances of returning here will become worse after entering the inner gate. Little to nothing.

Thinking of what happened back then, Wu Yi couldn't help but smile slightly. Although he still had to quarrel with other people in the Taoist temple here, it made him feel at ease. It was his other home.

Home is the home of the soul, a place where one can be at peace. People who practice Taoism all say they leave home and leave the world, but in Wu Yi’s opinion, it is just going from one home to another.

At most, it only took half a stick of incense to cover the distance. Wu Yi walked for several hours, stopping from time to time to watch a typical night scene.

The moon was at the top of the sky, it was the fifteenth day. The moon was round and bright, full of affection, which was exactly what Wu Yi was thinking about at this time.

When the disciples who were traveling at night saw Wu Yi, they quickly stood aside and let Wu Yi go first, which fully reflected Wu Yi's status. Seeing this, Wu Yi sighed in his heart, knowing that this was the normal state of the monastic world, even before he rose. Only in this way can we survive in this monastic world.

Disturbed by the group of respectful disciples, Wu Yi knew that he could never go back to the old days. Of course, he didn't want to go back to when he was so weak. He really wanted to stay with a group of senior brothers. Passionate years of hard work.

Striding towards his cave, Wu Yi threw down the door-sealing stone, locked up the cave, and left a line of will outside the cave that no one could enter, and went to meditate.

It is already early autumn, and the battle for the true transmission next year will be in mid-spring, which is the same time as the disciples go to the Inner Gate Sutra Pavilion to practice. I don’t know how many people in the Taoist temple will go to the inner gate with him to participate in the battle for the true transmission, but I want to come There shouldn't be many people.

The battle for the true successor is too fierce. In ordinary Taoist temples, no disciple may become the true successor for several consecutive sessions. This is a normal phenomenon.

First of all, the number of true disciples recruited by the inner sect every year is uncertain, but at most it is only a few thousand. This was the battle for true disciples that was held once every ten years before. Later, changes occurred. The inner sect's Dongtian family negotiated and changed it to once every three years, but the number decreased. There are three to four hundred people in one session. In fact, the enrollment quota is still about the same, but it has been slightly expanded.

Secondly, the upper outer gate squeezes the lower outer gate. Wu Yi only learned about the upper and lower outer gates not long ago. This is a private name among disciples. The official name is the main courtyard and side courtyard. The Yiqi Taoist Temple in Liucheng where Wu Yi is located is considered a side courtyard. In fact, all the Taoist temples in Dayu Kingdom are considered side courtyards.

Although the main courtyard is also considered an outer sect, like the inner sect, it is built in the Jade Dragon Mountains. Most of the disciples who can enter the main courtyard had their parents and ancestors once being disciples of the inner sect, but later they had no hope of progress, so they left behind their heirs and multiplied. These disciples are much more talented than other Taoist disciples, and many people in the master-disciple lineage will choose these people as their disciples.

The most important thing is that the children of those long-established families have also entered the main courtyard. Their talents and backgrounds are enough to raise the status of the main courtyard. It also intensifies the struggle between the master and apprentice families to a certain extent. The main courtyard has become the master. This is the location where the disciples' lineage and the family lineage have a fierce battle.

The two forces competed, and resources were invested one after another. The disciples inside were not comparable to the disciples in the side courtyard, and there were many who had reached the foundation building level.

Even before the True Inheritance Battle, the main courtyard will hold an internal competition called the Little True Inheritance Battle. The rankings will be divided, and about three hundred people will be selected to participate in the True Inheritance Battle.

Although it cannot be said that all of these people can become true successors, if too many people are dismissed, the head of the main courtyard, that is, the audience members like Wang Chuchen, can even protest and ask for re-selection, which can be said to be extremely strong.

The battle for true successors will also determine the ranking. Even if some disciples in the main courtyard become true successors, they will give up because of their poor ranking and strive to get a better ranking next year. In addition to personal ambition, most of the time it involves the teacher. The confrontation between disciples and aristocratic families.

Therefore, in addition to the battle for seats, the battle for true inheritance also involves a battle for ranking.

Because the main courtyard occupies too many positions of true disciples, in order to balance the internal and external Taoist temples, the inner sect has specially set up side courses for disciples of Taoist temples in various places. After passing the side courses, they can still be regarded as true disciples, but they are from the same true disciples, and some benefits are not I can't enjoy it anymore.

Wang Chuchen originally wanted Wu Yi to go to the side course, but he didn't expect that Wu Yi's cultivation had improved by leaps and bounds in the past few years, and he was already a foundation-building monk, so he gave up the idea of ​​letting Wu Yi join the side course. If you understand the Tao Yun at the first level of Qi Refining, you can participate in the talent and intelligence department, and you can basically pass it.

One Qimen controls the Three Kingdoms. According to Wu Yi's Dayu Kingdom, there are more than a hundred Taoist temples. The other two countries in the Three Kingdoms are not very different. In this way, there are more than 300 Taoist temples and tens of thousands of disciples. But in the end, there were so many There may not even be a hundred Taoist disciples who can eventually become true disciples.

That's why there will be side stories, otherwise the strong will inevitably become stronger and the weak will become weaker. The sect will lose its blood supply and the vitality of progress will be lost little by little.

But having said that, the disciples in the main courtyard are really strong in cultivation, and those who can rank in the battle of Xiaozhenzhuan are basically foundation-building monks unless they are rich in treasures.

After Wu Yi broke through the foundation building in the Taoist temple, he was basically proud of his peers. So far, he has not seen a disciple who cultivates like him, and he doesn't know if one will pop up at the last moment.

But I think every Taoist temple will have such a few disciples, otherwise the possibility of becoming a true disciple will be completely lost. There are also hundreds or even dozens of disciples in Taoist temples who have become true disciples.

Competing with a group of foundation-building monks, Wu Yi thought about the upcoming true inheritance battle, and he didn't have much worry in his heart, because there was no possibility of failure in his heart, and the price of failure for Wu Yi was too high.

Tactically, we value the enemy, but strategically, we despise the enemy. Wu Yi believes that his Tao Yun Taoism is not inferior to anyone else, but now he can only achieve the latter, because even if he wants to pay attention to the former, there is no way, his status is too low, there are not many channels, some famous masters and disciples of aristocratic families Wu Yi didn't know the characteristics and weaknesses of the technique at all.

Although Wu Yi does not know these things for the time being, it does not prevent Wu Yi from making preparations, knowing himself and the enemy, and fighting a hundred battles without danger. If he does not know the enemy, he must try his best to know himself, just like Wu Yi's previous attempt to run thousands of miles.

Wu Yi actually missed the existence of his inner demon at this time. Although the inner demon was a big threat to Wu Yi, in the confrontation with the inner demon, Wu Yi could force out his potential, improve his flaws, and understand his own strengths. ability.

Wu Yi has cultivated the three paths at the same time. The strength path and the law path have broken through to the realm of foundation building, but the qi path is now stuck in the last step, and the innate qi has been unable to be transformed. Maybe Wu Yi is pursuing perfection, but now that he has seen the complete transformation Maybe, how could Wu Yi give up so easily.

At worst, the rankings in the battle for true inheritance will be lower. Wu Yi thought to himself, suppressing his desire for a breakthrough in the airway. Until now, he had never considered that he might not be able to become a true successor. This method of practicing the Nine Changes of Qimen Qi Dao makes most disciples, including Wu Yi, consider whether to break through almost all the time.

Especially for those monks with low qualifications, but they are unwilling to admit that their qualifications are not high, so they keep putting it off until they can no longer hold on.

Wu Yi thought a lot before practicing. This can be regarded as a habit of Wu Yi. Only by understanding where his goal is and then practicing can he achieve success. Otherwise, he will just fly around and seem to be working hard all the time. , but in the end nothing was achieved.

Eliminating distracting thoughts, Wu Yi began to extract the acquired Qi from the body, and at the same time stimulated the Qi seedlings to accelerate their transformation process. However, even with Wu Yi's subjective intervention, the speed was not much faster.

Do we still have to continue traveling thousands of miles? After Wu Yi sensed the changes in his body's spiritual energy, he began to think about it, but he soon shook his head. Only when the acquired energy is drained out will the innate energy transform the fastest. This is the instinct of the human body. Before This is the result of running a thousand miles.

But if he does this now without asking whether he will be regarded as crazy by others, and subjectively he has no motivation, he may not be able to persist halfway through.

The effect of running thousands of miles is to exhaust Wu Yi's acquired Qi, because currently only acquired Qi can be used by Wu Yi. Innate Qi and acquired Qi do not belong to each other, and the Qi channel cannot enter the foundation building. , Wu Yi will not be able to use his innate energy. To a certain extent, the more Wu Yi's innate energy is transformed before entering the foundation, the more his strength will decrease.

"We need to find a new way to consume the acquired energy in the body." Wu Yi knew this truth, but he still couldn't come up with a practical way. It was a pity, so he had to continue the transformation according to the original method.

On the one hand, Wu Yi urged the Zhenqi seedlings to transform into spiritual energy, and on the other hand, a ray of spiritual consciousness entered the world of stone tablets. Now it is time to see if the giant rat ghost has made the "right" choice. If it is still as stubborn as ever , Wu Yi had no choice but to find another way to make up for the shortcomings of the Nine Ghost Locking Palace Formation.

Wu Yi had previously untied the shackles of the stele world on the rat ghost, but the isolation from it was still not lifted. The rat ghost was separated from the many ghosts living in the stele world by Wu Yi.

When Wu Yi saw the rat ghost, he stopped and stared at the lake full of evil spirit. There was its soul fire in it. It could sense that the soul fire was getting stronger all the time, so it could also deny its main power. body, but in this way life and death are in the hands of others, and there is no freedom.

After becoming a evil spirit, Rat Ghost became accustomed to bossing around and had forgotten the scene when he was a low-level ghost and surrendered to other ghosts. He could not accept the fate of being controlled by others.

Wu Yi understood what he was thinking. In fact, this is true for any independent individual. To be able to become a evil ghost, the rat ghost is not low in intelligence. He did not approach it, but it allowed it to sense its own existence. This Isn't it a kind of pressure?

Not long after, the rat ghost took a sip of water from the Yinsha Lake. His momentum dropped, like a deflated ball, he came to Wu Yi and surrendered respectfully at Wu Yi's feet.

Wu Yi looked directly into his eyes and understood that this time it should be considered completed.

With a wave of his hand, the barrier was broken. The rat ghost was surprised to find that there were many ghosts around him, many of which were the same ghosts that had besieged it before. As a result of his nature, a stern look flashed across his eyes, thinking of revenge. The indigenous ghosts also prepared their formations in an orderly manner as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

Wu Yi stopped the upcoming battle, playing a board on each side, allowing them to practice the formation together. Seeing that the two sides had stabilized, Wu Yi pretended to leave, but in fact he was still paying attention to their movements.

As for whether they will fight, Wu Yi believes that this is inevitable. The anger suppressed in his heart cannot be solved by Wu Yi's beating. It doesn't matter if they fight, I know it hurts.

Seeing Wu Yi leaving, the two sides looked at each other distrustfully, and conflicts gradually aroused in each other's eyes.