Chapter 37: A Whole New Cultivation
In the small Taoist temple at the highest part of the White Sheep Cave, looking at the empty sky and floating white clouds in front of him, thinking about the passing away of one of his masters and brothers by his side over the years, Xue Forgetfulness felt that his body and mind were also indescribably empty.
He sighed softly and asked Li Daoji who was standing respectfully at the entrance of the Taoist Temple, "That teenager has entered the cave now?"
Li Daoji nodded.
"If he picks and settles on a cultivation tome, come and tell me at the first opportunity." Xue Forgetfulness said with some satisfaction.
Li Daoji nodded, but his knife-like eyebrows were unconsciously raised slightly, "Master, why such interest in him?"
Sentiment surfaced in Xue Forgetfulness' eyes as he responded softly, "Not only because this youngster is special, but also because this youngster is a seed that your Senior Uncle Du Qingjiao has left behind for us in White Sheep Cave. When you reach my age, you will naturally understand what it will be like when those you have spent many years with leave one by one."
Looking at this old man who had already begun to love the old, Li Daoji no longer said anything more, seriously saluted and turned to leave.
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The Nurturing Sutra, The Finger Xuan Truthfulness Tips, The True Introduction to Inner Viewing, The Nine Realms of Cultivation Treatise, The Wisdom of Truthfulness Tips, The White Sheep Thirty-Four Sword Sutra, The Nine Ink Leaving Illumination Tips, A Brief History of Cultivation in the Changling Mountains, and the Discernment of the True Flame ......
To an ordinary cultivator, the cultivation texts in this kind of scripture and history cave were as vast as a sea of smoke, so even if they were organized and neatly sorted into different categories, they would surely be too much to pick out, so just like the scripture hiding places of most sects, the scripture and history cave of the White Sheep Cave was not particularly organized, and all kinds of texts were placed out of order.
Ding Ning knew better than Zhang Yi that all true essence cultivation methods had their own strengths and weaknesses, and that apart from some particularly heaven-defying untold secrets, there were no obvious boundaries between high and low for all techniques, so he didn't have the idea of rushing into the inner cave, and just marched forward in order, not sparing a single bookshelf.
Looking at the spines of the books or the dense text on the volumes, his heart did not have the shock and fervor that an average person would have, many of these texts were naturally very mediocre for him, but his gaze was still very serious and deliberate.
The Nine Deadly Silkworms that he cultivated was the most mysterious and profound technique in the world, with many marvelous functions that the cultivators in the world did not know at all, however, his Nine Deadly Silkworms absolutely could not be exposed under the sunlight of Changling.
Before he was strong enough, he needed to have a gong method that he could conceal, and the vast majority of the time, he would need to use the true essence generated by this gong method to fight.
This technique had to be the most suitable for the current him.
So this was no less than a brand new cultivation.
The Red Phoenix Divine Illumination Sutra
Suddenly, he stopped and his finger landed on this classical book with a reddish yellow cover.
This was a true essence cultivation method that he had heard of but had not seen the contents.
Flipping open the cover made of thick butter paper, his thoughts were immersed in this classic whose inner pages had also yellowed.
The content inside was consistent with what he had heard, this True Element Cultivation Method was very suitable for him to cultivate in his current condition, this True Element Cultivation Method itself required exuberant five qi, the natural condition within his body allowed him to skim off a large amount of qi cultivation process, the speed of cultivation could be a lot quicker than the normal techniques, and the true qi and true element cultivated in this technique was very beneficial to the dual cultivation with Changsun Asahi Xue as well.
He looked at it for a moment and first put away the book, holding it in his arms before continuing on his way.
The Five Yang Positive Body... was also beneficial to dual cultivation with Changsun Shaxue, although it wasn't as fast as the cultivation speed of the Red Phoenix Divine Illumination Scripture, the body's flesh and blood would be a bit stronger, and this technique seemed to be not bad either.
The Silent Observation of Flowing Light Method... a cultivation method that allowed the flow of true qi to become a bit faster, so that the speed from the Qi Refining Realm to the True Elemental Realm would be a lot faster than normal gong methods.
Ding Ning was fully immersed in it, and without realizing it, he had already cupped three canonical books in his arms.
The Sitting Delusion Heart Sutra
Suddenly, four such words fell into his eyes, and his body shook slightly, his face instantly stiffening somewhat.
His gaze moved forward quickly with a hint of incredulity.
''Heavenly Illumination Self-view,'' ''Degodding Law,'' ''Reversal of Destiny Technique...'' On the bookshelf in front of him, he quickly captured these words.
He took a deep breath, an odd tingling taste flooding his body, just these familiar words made him understand why the White Sheep Cave had offended the Empress, ultimately ushering in the result of being forced to merge into the Qingteng Sword Academy.
These were all canons that should not exist in the Great Qin Dynasty.
In the early years of Yuanwu, in order to stabilize the throne that had just been seated, in order to eliminate the traces of that person's existence, I don't know how many cultivators were killed, and there were quite a number of clans that were convicted of rebellion, and after those clans were annihilated, in order to express their loyalty to the saint and the empress, in order to prevent the saint and the empress from worrying about the resurgence of those clans, so countless canonical books that were related to those clans were put into flames.
In fact, when the years passed by and many things in the past became stories, even if they practiced some of the canonical books left behind by those sects, it would be very difficult for present day practitioners to associate themselves with those sects and want to do something for those sects.
However, this represented an attitude...His Holiness and the Empress, did not want any hint of possibility.
The existence of such a tome that should have been destroyed in the Scripture and History Cave of the White Sheep Cave was indicative of the attitude of some of the cultivators in the White Sheep Cave's Palm Cave.
Even if they simply felt that cultivation techniques were not sinless, for cultivators under the sun, any insights gained from groping on the path of cultivation were rare experiences, yet many people in Changling would feel that they at least had a hint of sympathy for those sects, and that they had a different outlook on some of the events of that year.
Ding Ning's heart is filled with unspeakable feelings, he looked deeply at those in Changling I'm afraid that has become a book of books, slightly stiff fingers but did not touch, continue to glide forward on the bookshelf.
His mood gradually calmed down.
The True Explanation of the Great Dao of Spiritual Origin, a thin ancient book inexplicably attracted his gaze.
In his memory, this was a cultivation technique that originated from the Zhao Earth's Spirit Source True Treasure Sect, the most common of all, and had been circulated in the folklore of all dynasties, this ancient booklet's in the White Sheep Cave was obviously not valued by anyone either, the ancient cover had already shown a lot of breakage, and there was no one to repair it, and from the traces of the booklet and the shelf's contact, this ancient booklet had not been touched for many years as well.
It was only through the tattered cover that Ding Ning saw part of the picture of the line-work diagram on the inner pages, but it did not seem so ordinary.
Unconsciously frowning slightly, he carefully pulled out this side of the ancient book and slowly opened it.
Immediately, his brows furrowed even deeper, and an abnormal light began to flash in his eyes.
The presentation of the inner pages at the beginning didn't seem to be much different from the True Explanation of the Spiritual Origin Great Dao, yet the first pair of lineage diagrams was definitely not simple, and the further he flipped back, the more surprised Ding Ning's heart became.
He was certain that this was definitely not an unusual Spiritual Origin Great Dao True Explanation, but rather an extraordinary cultivation secret code that had been mistaken for an ordinary Spiritual Origin Great Dao True Explanation!
After flipping through a few more pages, and seeing a few lines of arcane and obscure words next to a diagram of a work in progress that was simply impossible for most cultivators to understand, the immersed Ding Ning nearly cursed outright.
Where was this some ordinary tome that had been handed down by an ordinary sect before the Great Zhao Dynasty, this was clearly the secret code of the Selfless Palace, one of the three major cultivation sites of the former Great Han Dynasty, the "Chopping Three Corpses and Selfless Innate Elemental Nerve"!
To the general practitioners, "three corpses" refers to the three "evil desires" of human beings, selfish desire, appetite and lust, which are all unfavorable to cultivation, and should be reduced as much as possible, except for this "Chopping the Three Corpses and the Selfless Lifelike Elemental Nerve" of the Wu Wei Palace, which is, instead, to stimulate the human being in the process of cultivation, to stimulate the human being in the process of cultivation. In the process of cultivation, one has to stimulate these three desires in one's body, and then at some critical stages of cultivation, one hardens and cuts down these desires in one go.
In the process of stimulating these three desires in the body, it would allow the cultivator's five qi to be secreted more vigorously than the average cultivator, and once chopped off, as long as it was successful, the power of the mind and the state of mind would all be greatly enhanced.
This is a kind of dangerous and desperate technique that puts one's life in danger, and it is also a powerful technique that exceeds the general cultivation techniques.
Decades before it was destroyed by the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty and the neighboring Wei Dynasty were in constant battle, and the Palace of Selflessness was destroyed in one of the Han Dynasty's great defeats.
Legend has it that the palace covers an area of thousands of hectares, and after it was broken, the flames burning the palace were not completely extinguished for a full month, and in the battle at that time, the treasures and books of the palace suffered from the routed army of the Han Dynasty and the army of the Wei Dynasty, and the surviving practitioners of the palace desperately grabbed a few things to escape, or desperately destroy them to prevent useful books from falling into the hands of the Wei Army, and the countless remnants of the books flew like butterflies in the flames like butterflies.
Ding Ning didn't know how this book disguised as an ordinary gongfu, the "Chopping Three Corpses and Selfless Lifelike Elemental Nerve," had come to be lying in the Scripture and History Cave of the White Sheep Cave, but he was quite certain that this gongfu was extremely powerful, and that he would surely be very quick to cultivate it.
At the same time, he was also certain that even the inner cave of the White Sheep Cave, which he had yet to enter ahead of him, could not possibly have a gong method that was stronger than this one.
So he put down the three tome in his arms and only took this one in his hand.
Then he stopped looking at the gongfu for cultivating true essence and began to concentrate on picking out matching body techniques and sword techniques.
As time passed, he entered the inner cave.
The inner cave was about a third of the size of the outer cave, but the tome in the cave was indeed much more profound and responsible than the one outside.
Eventually, his finger landed on a sword scripture with an extremely ordinary name.
This black-covered sword scripture was called the Wildfire Sword Scripture.
He then showed no more interest in the sutras within, and walked towards the several futons in the empty space to one side.
"Could it be that after picking and choosing, you ended up choosing just two canonical books like this?"
"You just want to cultivate such two tomes?"
Two unbelievable voices rang out in succession in the silent cave, reaching Ding Ning's ears.
