Chapter 117 The Secret Door
The osmanthus flowers in Guchunyuan have fallen year after year. This spiritual osmanthus tree has transcended the limitations of ordinary trees and has become a spiritual tree.
The nest that had been built on the branch for a long time was covered with dust, and it was obvious that the bird had not returned to the nest for a long time.
Raindrops hit sweet osmanthus flowers in the courtyard, and the window illuminated a warm yellow color in the rainy night. Inside the window, Chen Guan was flipping through jade slips under the spiritual lamp, then picking up a pen to write, and dealing with many sundries at the mountain gate.
He was wearing the scarlet seal when he suddenly frowned and took out the summons order, which contained a spiritual message.
After he took charge of Qi Ling, he made major changes to the sect, increased its power, and put the entire sect system into good order, which greatly improved the efficiency of handling government affairs.
Today, the masters of the five peaks are just titles, handling minor matters within the peaks, and the real power lies in the General Affairs Peak.
Chen Guan knew that the rise and fall of a sect was closely related to true practice, so he specially set up secret disciples and used the whole sect's strength to support the disciples who had the hope of true practice.
The power of a secret disciple is almost greater than that of all Qi-refining disciples except the master and the elders.
A secret disciple must be nominated by at least two elders and can only be admitted after being reviewed and approved by the head of the sect.
Once obtained, one can mobilize the spiritual resources of the sect, including spiritual stones, manuals on martial arts, top-grade magical instruments, and other spiritual objects for refining qi that can be used at will.
You can even ask a true practitioner in the sect for a low-grade spiritual object of the mysterious grade to help you break through the realm.
Moreover, the identity of the secret disciples is extremely secretive. Only the elders and the head sect master know it, and even the secret disciples themselves do not know it.
All communication and contact are transmitted through the puppets in the sect. There is no need to meet the people in person. It is extremely secretive.
There are only four secret disciples in the sect now, one of whom is Bai Chen's daughter Bai Suwen, who broke through the middle stage of Qi Refining at the age of 33 and has now reached the late stage at the age of 58. The technique she practices is also the remaining chapter of "Song of Wind and Snow" in the sect, and her fighting power is quite extraordinary.
The second is Qi Feng's disciple Wang Lingyun, who practices a strange fragment called "The Cloud Viewing Sutra". His practice method has a sense of contentment of the ancient practitioners, pursuing a state of selflessness and unity of man and nature.
The reason why he can practice this skill is because he is congenitally mentally unclear. Only when he practices can he achieve the unity of man and nature similar to the legends of ancient practitioners.
The third one is a disciple named Fang Yan, who practices a perfect martial art inherited in the sect called "Hou Tu Jue", which is the remnant of the Wei Tu Taoist tradition.
He was born with a certain earth spirit body and had an extraordinary sense for earth-based spiritual objects. He broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining at the age of sixty-three.
The fourth one was named Lu Fei, and he was practicing one of the five perfected techniques in the sect, called "Qing Yuan Gong". This person had a rare earth-grade medium spiritual root, and was friendly to the wood element. Even without the assistance of spiritual objects, he was almost 60% sure.
Speaking of the perfect martial arts techniques inherited in the sect, apart from the Weiyang Xuan Jing which cannot be practiced, there are only these five books left. Each book contains a complete system from guiding Qi refining to the seven turns of foundation building.
As for the eighth and ninth turns, there is no need for guidance from any method. It all depends on the objects that each Taoist practices.
When one reaches the Jindan Zhenren realm, most of them create their own skills, unless they are practicing the ancient tradition and have a fixed path, they will continue to practice a specific skill.
Therefore, when a set of exercises is handed down, it basically only goes up to the seventh level. For anything above that, most people have to practice it themselves.
But the realm before the seventh turn is not possible without the guidance of a technique. After all, there is no sense of status before the seventh turn, and once something goes wrong, it is very common to go astray.
The five complete and inherited martial arts techniques in the sect today are "Xia Yuan Jue", "Jin Ling Sword Sutra", "Shang Yang Zhengong", "Hou Tu Jue", and "Qing Yuan Gong".
These five exercises are of legitimate origin and suitable for the general public to practice.
Compared to some small sects that obtained their inheritance inexplicably, most of the disciples of Qi Ling Sect are still happy.
Because those who practice skills of unknown origin as inherited ones may even lead their entire sect to become the essence in the mouths of evil spirits. Du Sha Dao did such a thing two hundred years ago.
The five skills of the Qi Ling Sect are all modified from the skills handed down by the ancestors, and their origins can be traced back to the Immortal Sect, so they are safe and reliable.
Chen Guan sorted out the skills in his sect. Apart from these five books, there are more than one hundred large, medium and small fragments of skills. Among them, the small fragments are skills that can only reach the peak of Qi Refining. Whether they can break through to the true cultivation depends on God's will. There are thirty-nine such chapters.
The remaining fragments of the middle chapters have a method of cultivation that can break through the true cultivation, but it only has one turn. There are as many as forty-five such methods.
The last large fragment is a cultivation method of less than four or five turns, only twenty-two minutes.
Most of these fragments are defective techniques created by true practitioners of past generations, and some are fragments obtained from outside. Most of the true practitioners in the sect cultivate these fragments, while as for practicing the five perfected techniques inherited, few people can become true practitioners.
Chen Guan, who knew all the sect's affairs, thought about many disciples who were practicing the fragments of the sect in just a moment, and finally came back to the order. It was Bai Suwen who wanted to ask for a piece of Fengyin Stone.
This stone is a lower-grade spiritual object of the Xuan level, but because it is too rare, it is almost the same as a middle-grade spiritual object of the Xuan level.
He rubbed his brows. Bai Suwen had never asked for a spiritual object before. As the maker of this rule, if he could not implement it, then the next generation after him would have an excuse to refuse, causing the system to fail.
Although this matter is a bit tricky, it cannot be ignored.
Chen Guan put the matter to heart and continued to deal with his chores.
Until dawn, a new round of general affairs poured into Guchunyuan like a stream of fire through various sound transmission notes. Chen Guan urged his divine sense to scan them one by one, and after he transmitted back everything in detail, it was already noon.
He then summoned Zhang Qi and told him what had happened last night.
"Junior Brother Zhang, you are very knowledgeable. I don't know where the Fengyin Stone is. I need to ask you something."
Chen Guan smiled and looked at him.
Zhang Qi also frowned after hearing this, "The Phoenix Singing Stone is a magical beast with the bloodline of the Phoenix bird that was deeply rooted in the way of music and then died. This spiritual object may only be found in two places.
One is the Yunlan Mountains, which contains many demon generals. Naturally, when a great demon general of such bloodline dies, one or two Fengyin Stones may be born.
Then there is the one in Tianxia Mountain Range, or more precisely, the one in Xueyin Valley."
"Snow Song Valley?" Chen Guan was stunned. "Yunlan Mountain makes sense, but I have never heard of any inherited monster beasts in Snow Song Valley."
"There is no need for any inherited monster beast, that person is not a human." A layer of gray-yellow light spontaneously floated under Zhang Qi's feet and covered the two of them. "I have spied on many secrets over the years. That person has been here for nearly three thousand years since the establishment of Xueyin Valley.
I'm afraid she's not a human, but a manifestation of a certain real person, a backup plan. If that real person dies one day, I'm afraid that's when she'll need to break through to the real person level!"
Zhang Qi slowly told the secret, and before he stopped, he continued, "Moreover, it is most likely the highest level of cold qi among the seven qi, and its status and image manifests as an ice phoenix. If we can obtain the Phoenix Singing Stone from it, it will be the most suitable for Junior Brother Bai."
Chen Guan couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this: "Junior brother, how could you have known these secrets so well? Aren't you afraid of backlash?"
"Brother, don't worry." Zhang Qi laughed and said, "If I can get more secrets of the world for the mountain sect, I will do my part for the sect. Otherwise, what's the point of living another two hundred years?
I just want to ask for this Fengyin Stone, but I am afraid there is no spiritual object left in the sect that can impress them."
"That's a problem." Chen Guan meditated for a long time, and suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile: "Xueyin Valley emphasizes the cold qi tradition, so I think it must be indispensable to have Renshui and wood spiritual objects to harmonize yin and yang.
Not long ago, Senior Zhen Ling told me that a 1,500-year-old Youyang Heyi grass had matured. If I were to exchange this rare spiritual herb for mine, I'm afraid the true cultivators under him would be tempted, right?"
"Youyang Heyi Grass? This is a good spiritual object." Zhang Qi was also surprised and said with emotion: "This kind of spiritual grass that needs to be passed down and cultivated from generation to generation can only be produced by our Qiling Sect."
"That's true. Apart from Linglong Sect, who else in the entire Nanjue Island has a medicine garden that can compare to our Qiling Sect?" Chen Guan boasted with a smile, "Not long ago, I asked my disciples to plant a batch of unique thousand-year-old spiritual herbs and take good care of them. Maybe a thousand years from now, the younger generation in the sect will also be as grateful for the legacy of their ancestors as we are.
It’s a pity that our Qi Ling Sect has never been prosperous, and we don’t have any alchemy inheritance. Even if we have spiritual herbs, we dare not show them out to others to arouse jealousy. "
Zhang Qi sighed, "This has been the case since four thousand years ago. It is because of our ancestors, or even those above the real people. We cannot force it."
"In that case, I won't ask any more questions." Chen Guan stopped talking when he heard what he said and changed the subject, "Wang Qianlei has already reached the middle stage of Qi Refining, and in a few years he might reach the late stage.
I am afraid that he will be able to sense the Dao and cultivate supernatural powers before he is forty years old. If he attracts so much attention, how will our Qi Ling Sect cope with the situation in the future?"
"This is not difficult." Zhang Qi said with a smile, "The bigwigs on the entire Nanjue Island are very secretive about him, so we can just pretend that we don't know. Instead, we can use his glory to intimidate the villains. Those with low cultivation will naturally not be able to defeat us, and those with high cultivation will not dare to take action.
If there is anyone who dares to attack him, then that person's fate has come to an end, and there will be a disaster. How can we, the true cultivators, be able to harm such a great man who was born with a strange vision? "
"Such a big shot actually has such great power, so why don't I hand over the position of the head sect to him?" Chen Guan's heart moved and he said boldly.
"Absolutely not." Zhang Qi shook his head and said, "Even if such a person is reincarnated, he will still have a Taoist affiliation. If the Qi Ling Sect is a small sect without any origins, then of course it is possible.
But if he were to take over the position of the head of the Qi Ling Sect, where would the fate of the Tianqi Xian Sect end? How would he cope with himself if he ascended the throne and recovered his memories of his past life?
If the two sects fight over it, I'm afraid it will lead us to an irretrievable situation!"
"That makes sense. I never thought of that." Chen Guan nodded and felt that it made a lot of sense. "But is this legendary destiny really so magical?"
Zhang Qi looked down at the white hair that hung down in front of his shoulders and chuckled, "Life is easy to end, and the world is unpredictable. When the time comes, you have to believe it."
(End of this chapter)
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