Chapter 2: Fire of Life
Mingzhou is the eighth largest prefecture among the 24 prefectures of Yue State, but in terms of wealth, it is only behind Jingzhou and ranked second.
It is located in the northern part of Yue Kingdom, with fertile land and countless waterways, lakes and canals within its jurisdiction. In addition, it has always been good weather, so it is very suitable for growing rice, so it is the first fish and rice town in the country.
Although Yuanzhang City, located in the central part of Mingzhou, is not the capital city of Mingzhou, it is the real largest city in Mingzhou.
The Grand Canal, which runs through the north and south of the country, passes through the city center, and several other water and land main roads also pass through this place. Therefore, the transportation is extremely developed and can be called a water transport hub and a major commercial road.
There are countless merchants passing by every year, which greatly drives economic and trade activities here, so it is not uncommon for Yuanzhang City to become the largest city in the province.
It was late at night in Yuanzhang City, in a large inn, room No. 2, a young man with an ordinary appearance and only close to Louis Koo was sitting cross-legged. However, he did not breathe and practice, but was holding a piece of gold and stone in his palm. There was a ball of gold and red inside, like lightning and flames, and was constantly refining this big gold and stone with fist.
This gold and stone was slightly smaller under Zhang Lie's concentration and refining, but its pure gold quality increased slightly. Seeing this, Zhang Lie took out some gold leaves from his carry-on package and held them in his hand. As time went by, most of the gold leaves slowly melted away, covering the gold and stone.
During this process, a memory of his previous life flashed through Zhang Lie's mind. He was an orphan, and the young man worked hard, fell in love and then broke up, started a business successfully, suffered from a serious illness, and finally died on the sickbed with great reluctance.
"There is great terror between life and death. Cultivating immortality and immortality is the struggle of the monks who are eager to control their own destiny when facing life and death."
Zhang Lie was very clear about his two lives, plus his previous life experiences. What is money, power, love for beauty, and all of them are fake in the face of life and death. Therefore, when he traveled through time and rebirth to his previous life, he was seriously ill and traveled to a virtual world of immortal cultivation "Outside World", which he traveled to.
Even if you can only cultivate to the late stage of Qi refining, you can use magic power to nourish your body. Basically, all diseases will be eliminated, and the epidemic will not be damaged. Of course, Zhang Lie has no other talents in his previous life, but his strong greed and enterprising desire are embedded in his bones.
Therefore, after being identified as the Four Spiritual Roots and Pseudo-spirit root talent at the Zhang Family Spiritual Appraisal Platform, he immediately stole the family's martial arts secrets and secretly practiced and accumulated true breath. Because of his strong self-control and understanding for two lifetimes, and the age of practicing profound internal skills was too young, his innate energy had not dissipated and his meridians were not blocked. Therefore, at the age of twelve, Zhang Lie's internal energy had already cultivated to the acquired Great Perfection Realm, and he was deeply and strong and could not make progress. Then he escaped from the family and ran around the world.
Speaking of which, in the early stage of the trumpet, you can use internal strength to reach the innate realm, purify spiritual roots, and it is also a small skill in the virtual world of immortal cultivation "Outside World", but this small skill needs Zhang Lie to exert his life in the real world to verify it.
The ancients were not stupider than modern people. Even though Zhang Lie had experienced the data storm of the information age, he was also a successful person with extremely high basic qualities. However, in the past six years of his journey, he had encountered life and death crises several times. Of course, on the other hand, if he had not had these life and death crises, he would have the ability to break through the innate realm of martial arts at the age of less than 20 and cleanse the talent of purifying the spiritual roots.
Cultivating immortality emphasizes the unity of heaven and earth and oneself, but in the end, it has to change the destiny of heaven and the law of life and death. Cultivating martial arts is the confrontation between humans and the natural living environment. When the development of one's own potential and the cultivation reaches the extreme, it will naturally have the effect of deeply stimulating potential.
"But even so, I have only taken the first step. This world is not peaceful. In the future, the mountain breaking temple, sword battles, Buddhist kingdoms, sect wars, ancient demon invasion, a big plot is ten times more violent than a big plot. I want to live safely and cultivate to achieve enlightenment. It is inevitable to find a sect force as a backer in the early stage. Although in the sect war plot, this backer will not be stable anymore." The refining of the gold and stone in my hand was completed. Zhang Lie picked up the gold and stone in his hand, looked in front of him repeatedly, and gradually confirmed that it was a treasure of heaven and earth. It was widely used "gold essence". Although the purity was not too high, this thing was refined by himself with his life fire and constantly sacrificing gold!
In "Outland World", when Zhang Lie finally died on the hospital bed wearing a virtual helmet, he was already a Nascent Soul Ancestor. Unfortunately, although he successfully traveled through time, he did not bring his cultivation that was completely thrust of Dan Yuan Life Fire. He was extremely weak at the beginning, but as Zhang Lie gradually grew and became stronger, it existed in Zhang Lie's heart and gradually became prosperous. Zhang Lie can summon it out of his body. After years of experiments, Zhang Lie found that it could remove impurities and refine the original, but it did not have the super-killing and destructive power of Nascent Soul Life Fire.
"Forget it, what kind of bicycle do you want? I want a bicycle. Being able to live a healthy life again has already made a big profit."
He put the golden stone that had been sacrificed for many years in a small bag placed with him. This was extracted by Zhang Lie for nearly ton of gold (20,000 taels of gold). It was also his most important asset. The purity of this golden stone is even jealous when the foundation-building cultivators saw it. If they cannot enter the seven northern sects through normal channels tomorrow, they may have to be guided through family relations.
After summarizing Journey to the West, the List of Gods, and the Legend of Shushan Sword Heroes, Zhang Lieming realized a truth: Cultivating immortals is not just about fighting and killing, but also about human affairs. Cultivators with weak cultivation must first find a large sect to protect them, and it is best to find a reliable master, so that other cultivators will not kill you without thinking.
Later generations actually felt that cultivating immortals was clear and breeze, tasting tea and discussing Taoism, and being a fairy spirit... Please, a group of the most outstanding, powerful, greedy and cruel people in the world pursue the greatest ** in this world. No matter how ups and downs the business world or political struggles are enough to compare with the terrible intensity. From ancient times to the present, cultivating immortals has been at the forefront of the secrets of heaven, and they sacrifice their lives to fight!
Controlling the life fire will consume internal energy and physical energy at the same time. Therefore, after completing the refining, Zhang Lie, who was sweating, only fell asleep after washing up. Of course, the big sword like a door panel was placed near his hand.
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The next day, Zhang Lie still got up very early. After practicing his fist and foot skills, he then hid a short knife on the outside of his left leg, carried the sword, and then checked out. Because he had already passed the letter before, Zhang Lie successfully found a group of monks of the Zhang family led by Zhang Zhengli.
Zhang Lie did not feel embarrassed about this. He was an orphan in his previous life and started a business alone. If he cares about his face, he would have no way out. What's more, this is a mutual benefit. Zhang Lie can easily enter the seven major sects in the north through the Zhang family's connections, and the Zhang family will also enhance the influence and deterrence of Zhang Lie because of Zhang Lie's existence. Zhang Lie has enough confidence. As long as he does not die, the family's investment will definitely be profitable. Since that is the case, how can he be embarrassed?
"Yuan Lie! Yuan Lie's nephew, I haven't seen him for many years, so I'm worried that I will die of my third uncle."
Zhang Lie always thought that he was already very thick-skinned, but when the fat Zhang Zhengli held his hand tightly and was chatting with tears, Zhang Lie realized that his shamelessness was everywhere and he had to continue working hard.
"Brother Zhang!"
"Brother Yuanlie! Brother Yuanlie!"
It was not just Zhang Zhengli, but the young people around Zhang family were also crying around Zhang Lie and Zhang Zhengli. Zhang Lie noticed that there was a cruel person among the people, pouring garlic juice into his eyes and then squeezing forward.
(It is worthy of being a world of cultivation, but it is not comparable to the mortal world. Even this shameless kung fu is not comparable to the skill.)
The cheap father in Zhang Lie has never seen him before, so he took his wife away from the family and went to find a fairy fate. It is said that when he left, he also took away a batch of elixirs from the family. If he did it like him, no family would be harmed enough. Therefore, the old patriarch of the Zhang family directly removed Zhang Lie's lineage from the family genealogy. It was only considering that Zhang Lie's grandfather had made contributions to the family's loyalty all his life, so he did not drive the remaining grandchildren out of the family, but he was also pushed to the most remote residence and no longer provided any family resources, which was a shame for the family.
Of course, fortunately, this is also true. Otherwise, if Zhang Lie secretly practices innate skills, the risk of exposure will be greatly increased.
After the age of twelve, Zhang Lie deviated from his family again. Although he was a little sorry for his grandfather who depended on each other, this was the only chance to win back glory for his grandfather. If he continued to be filial to his knees, Grandpa Zhang Lie would not have the chance to enter the ancestral grave when his age was over.
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Now, six years later, Zhang Lie has returned from cultivating the innate Qigong. If he can join the seven major sects, his merits and demerits will be offset, although it is not enough to erase his father's guilt, Zhang Lie's grandfather Zhang Tianzai will at least not have to be implicated again.
If the grandson makes some progress, he can even bring his grandfather to the sect.
"Uncle San, how are my grandfather doing these years?" After all, I couldn't help but ask, why didn't Zhang Lie know that he would give someone a handle like this? But he had to do it. In this life, he had no feelings for his parents, but he always cared very much about his grandfather who had been pampering and loving to him since childhood.
Hearing Zhang Lie's question, Zhang Zhengli's eyes lit up, and then he quickly narrowed, and said in a kind voice: "You have indeed been crying in the past few years of your journey in the world, but recently I learned that you have broken through the innate realm and come to participate in the seven sects' Immortal Ascension Dharma Assembly. I was immediately flickering and radiant! When I came out, I heard from the patriarch that since Uncle Tianzai's qualifications and roots are so outstanding, it is better to let the old man marry more concubines, give birth to more children for my Zhang family, and cultivate the best descendants."
Hearing Zhang Zhengli say this, Zhang Lie's muscles twitched. He wanted to refuse, but after thinking about his grandfather's character, if he refused, he would probably suck him when he went back, so he raised his hand, but he was not embarrassed to say anything he refused. After all, he was still dissatisfied with his conscience and could only say: "My grandfather is over 80 years old. Just marry a concubine and a five or six-person wife, just marry a widow and widow, don't harm other girls anymore."
"How can that work? Yuan Lie, this is a matter of principle. How can we monks be infected with the acquired turbid air of mortals!"
(Do you perverted pedophiles understand what eugenics means?) Zhang Lie strongly suppressed his words, and he was with the ancient monks who only loved virgins in their twenties who thought they were old women in their twenties, but they could not explain this principle.
Of course, this is also related to cultivation.
Female cultivators with a little foundation in the cultivation world will cut off the red dragon so that their life energy will not overflow and strengthen their foundation. Therefore, they believe that virgins who have not experienced the first meteorology have the purest qi of the yin energy, and this cognition is related to the characteristics of civilization.
After the greetings, the purpose of the Zhang family cultivators was to ascend to the Immortal Dharma Assembly. Although they selected at least seventy people based on the Immortal Arts and entered the seven major sects, most of them were ignored, except for fighting, such as refining weapons, alchemy, talisman making, formations, beast control, puppets, and divination. Zhang Lie has not learned all these years. The family enlightenment allowed him to go, but all other children bullied him... This is the price that the children of traitors have to pay, and there is nothing to say. In addition, Zhang Lie had to practice innate skills wholeheartedly in the later stage, so he could only say that he had common sense in the world of cultivation, and there was no question about the Immortal Arts.
"Although Yuan Lie's nephew has cultivated martial arts to the innate realm and has also entered some famous places in the world, I think you know that if you really fight, your chances of winning are not high. Therefore, we can only try our best in the first round of selection of immortal chiefs of each sect."
Zhang Zhengli said this, taking into account Zhang Lie's face. In fact, in this world, the first reaction of a congenital warrior when encountering a cultivator is to kneel down and lose his mind. In most cases, he does not even have the will to fight. What's more, even if he can overcome psychological obstacles, in actual combat, innate warriors are indeed full of disadvantages in facing cultivators in Qi Refining Realm. Fortunately, this is a competition for the competition. Otherwise, even a person like Zhang Lie with a strong mind would not come with a big sword on his back, because it is impossible to reach the top ten by fighting.
If the combat space is large enough, Zhang Lie may have defeated one or two cultivators with his strong skills and targeted practice of the great sword killing method. However, as long as the cultivators prepared later have a little preparation, there will be ten thousand ways to distance themselves. At that time, the cultivators will win but not lose.
"I don't know which sect my nephew plans to join? Or which sect or which sect is OK?" Zhang Zhengli asked endlessly, as if he was about to give advice to the students who were about to make suggestions for him.
In fact, it is precisely because of his personality that the Zhang family sent him because it is suitable.
"My Zhang family has disciples in Yueling Sect, Chongxuan Pavilion, and Xuanmo Sect. Of course, I don't recommend that you join Xuanmo Sect. Yueling Sect mainly focuses on female disciples, but occasionally some male disciples will be recruited. After joining, you basically don't have to worry about finding a dual-cultural partner. Chongxuan Pavilion has excellent weapon refining skills, and it is not very strictly forbidden for monks to pass these skills to the vassal family."
"I want to join the Qianzhushan Sect."
Shi Yi had a strong sense of purpose and asserted directly, but Zhang Zhengli, who was constantly talking, was stunned.
"The Qianzhushan Sect has not developed very well in recent years, and its major is not good at practicing martial arts. Although it has excellent methods in spiritual consciousness, it has almost never completed the authentic foundation building... Well, since the nephew Yuan Lie has made up his mind, then there must be your reasons. Uncle San will still do his best to help you."
Hearing this, Zhang Lie looked up straight, then stood up and bowed with his hands upright, and bowed deeply to Zhang Zhengli.
"Thank you for your help. If Yuan Lie makes a fortune in his studies in the future, he will definitely live up to the family and the third uncle's kindness."
"Hahahaha, Yan is so heavy, Yuan Lie's nephew Yan is so heavy. Although the third uncle has been practicing for so many years, his cultivation is not very good, but he still has some face and favors. However, if he does not have outstanding Zhang family members, this face and favors are useless."
If you are valuable, if you have a favor, they are willing to sell you three points of face. If you are valuable and have a favor, they are willing to sell you one point of face. This is true in the world of cultivation and secular world. It is just that the world of cultivation seems more direct and cruel because of the extreme inequality of superior and inferior status.
Seven days later, the Northern Seven Sects Ascension Dharma Assembly was held.
A large number of casual cultivators gathered here. Fortunately, Yuanzhang City, Mingzhou, was a city with a huge population and a relatively small number of immortal cultivators, so in fact, mortals could not feel anything strange at all.
However, from the perspective of the cultivator, in the valley less than 30 miles outside Yuanzhang City, flying swords were scattered across the rainbow, and strange birds soared into the sky, and there was already a rush of people.
This is not only a good time for the seven northern sects to hold the Immortal Ascension Dharma Assembly, but also a time for many casual cultivators to trade.
Of course, in this process, picking up treasures, tricks, even killing and robbing people are endless. The long road of life is paved with bones. There are as many practitioners as a cow's hair, and few as a horn in the Tao. This is the world of immortal cultivation.
Because he was familiar with Journey to the West, the List of Gods, and the Legend of Swordsman in Shushan, Zhang Lie already understood this kind of world, but when he really saw it, he still felt shocked and shocked. This was ten times more intense than the enemy fights he had experienced in the past few years.
Fortunately, Zhang Zhengli, the leader of the crowd, is a real old monk. With him in front of him, the young monks of the Zhang family only increase their knowledge and do not experience it themselves.
Chapter completed!