Chapter 21: Power and Inheritance
"It's not that our five major sects are hard to find, but because our sects have been inheriting this matter since the ancient times. The powerful immortal method must have its fundamental reason for being powerful. The above also told you about several types of spiritual roots." The gray-shirted old man said to Li Yan with a wry smile.
After hearing this, Li Yan thought for a while and said, "Miscellaneous spiritual roots, mysterious spiritual roots, earth spiritual roots, heavenly spiritual roots, holy spirit roots and different spiritual roots."
The gray-shirted old man nodded and said, "Yes, it is these types, but these are only for other sects. The ancestors of our five sects created these five ancient sects respectively, and the people who are required to learn these immortal methods are different from those of other sects. This is also the reason why our skills are powerful."
Li Yan nodded when he heard this. Although he was young, he still understood this truth. There is no such thing as a pie in the sky. Good things must have their fundamental needs, but he didn't say much, just waiting for the old man to continue.
The old man glanced at him and continued, "You should be able to guess from the names of these five sects that our five sects are the most sensitive attributes of the five elements."
Li Yan nodded. This was not difficult to guess. He said, "For example, Yimu Xianmen, the immortal method must be created for the wood element, so people with good constitutions that can sense wood spirits should practice it; Dinghuo Xianmen should be mainly fire-attributed immortal methods, and people who are sensitive to fire spirits practice more. As for your Guishui Xianmen, it is naturally better for water-attributed constitutions."
The old man sighed and said, "You only guessed part of it right. The immortal methods practiced by our five sects are certainly corresponding to the strongest attributes of the five elements that they can sense, but they are different from all other sects. We don't need holy spirit roots, but we need one person who possesses all the attributes of the five elements at the same time to practice."
Speaking of this, the old man paused and looked at Li Yan, but saw that Li Yan was just stunned, but did not ask any more questions, just frowned and thought, as if considering what he had just said. I couldn't help but praise in my heart, "This boy is steady and thoughtful."
Li Yan was thinking about what the old man meant. What the old man said meant that what the five ancient sects needed was someone who could sense the five basic elements between heaven and earth at the same time, but this kind of physique should be the most despised mixed spiritual root in the world of immortal cultivation. Let's not talk about why they need this mixed spiritual root that other sects don't want. This should be related to the immortal cultivation of the five immortal sects, but it shouldn't be difficult to find. According to the old man's previous description, although the population of the immortal world is small, there should still be some to find according to the probability. What's more, there are immortal cultivators from the immortal world who come to the mortal world to establish inheritance, which increases the probability of finding. But why did the old man say that inheritance is the most headache for the five sects?
"This is the biggest secret of our five ancient sects. Although we need people with mixed spiritual roots, these are not ordinary mixed spiritual roots. Mixed spiritual roots are of course people who have sensitivity to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. We not only need this person to have these five elements, but also these five elements must be arranged in order of strength according to the law of mutual generation. The law of mutual generation of the five elements is 'water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates gold, gold generates water, and so on in a cycle, endless'. Therefore, the five elements in the body of the cultivator must also be arranged in order of strength according to the mutual generation of the five elements. For example, the 'Xinjin Xianmen' is mainly based on 'gold', so the arrangement of the five elements in the body of the cultivator must be 'gold, water, wood, fire, and earth'. The strongest one to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth should be 'gold', followed by 'water', Then comes ‘wood, fire, and earth’. If the latter is stronger than the former, then the immortal method of ‘Xinjin Immortal Sect’ cannot be practiced; similarly, the order of our ‘Guishui Immortal Sect’ feeling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is ‘water, wood, fire, earth, and gold’, and the strengths also decrease in sequence, so that we can practice our own immortal method. ”
After listening to these words, Li Yan already knew what the gray-shirted old man meant by these words. For ordinary immortal cultivators, only in this mortal world, one person may be found in 100,000 people. No matter what spiritual root it is, this is considered extremely low. And if you select mixed spiritual roots from this extremely low probability group, whether you can find one person in a million people is unknown. In the end, you have to find a person with the mutual generation constitution formed by the five elements among these people who appear almost by the waves. The probability is self-evident.
He had learned this kind of math in a simple way. It was God's will that he could find someone among billions of people according to this arrangement. Even the fairy world would not be that good. I really don't know how they passed it down.
Seeing Li Yan's expression, the old man sighed and said, "So, each generation of our five sects has to work hard to find the next generation of successors. Each generation basically has only one successor or a few people. On the one hand, we have to practice the Great Dao. The time spent on practice is less at the beginning, but later it is in units of ten or a hundred years. Usually, a retreat may be dozens or hundreds of years, which is just a snap of a finger for us.
Therefore, apart from the time for cultivation, the time for going out to find a suitable successor can only be concentrated in a certain period of time. In this way, we go out intermittently, and naturally we have little contact in the eyes of the world. As for why we don’t open the immortal gate to recruit disciples, this method has been used in ancient times, and the effect is very small. It is not as fast as us using our spiritual sense to scan low-level immortals after going out. So this special mixed spiritual root constitution is exactly the problem that we can’t solve." Li Yan’s expression stagnated when he heard this, as if he remembered something. The old man noticed his expression at a glance, as if he knew what he thought of, and smiled at him, "Your teacher is not from my sect. The "Wood Shadow Sect" he mentioned also requires a special physique for cultivation. In fact, he just wants to conceal the search for people with spiritual roots, so that others think it is a special condition for recruiting disciples for the hidden Jianghu sect. "
Li Yan was silent, and he began to doubt his teacher. If he said that he wanted to hide his spiritual roots from the world before accepting him as his disciple, it was understandable. After all, immortal cultivators were too shocking for ordinary mortals. But since he had already become his disciple, if he continued to hide it, it could be said that he had ulterior motives.
The old man knew what Li Yan was thinking at the moment, and he sighed and said to him, "Although the magic power of this military advisor Ji is not worth mentioning in the eyes of most immortal cultivators, he is really a hero. We will talk about him later. ”
Li Yan nodded, knowing that the old man had something else to say.
“Our five sects rarely show up in front of the world. First, there are few people, unlike other immortal sects that can basically recruit anyone with spiritual roots; second, the world of immortal cultivation is a world of the jungle. If you don’t have strong strength, it’s not uncommon for a person to be killed and robbed by others, or die in an unprovoked fight. Therefore, those of our five sects who go out to find the inheritance of the sect must practice enough to protect themselves. Generally, they must at least reach the fusion stage. If the magic power is too weak to go out, the probability of falling is very high. If we encounter such a thing, our five sects can’t afford it. The population is too scarce.
It was so difficult to find disciples from the five sects, and as the world changed, they naturally began to decline. In my time, our five sects began to look for people to inherit their sects from the late stage of transformation. Fortunately, the immortal methods we practiced were powerful, and it was difficult for other sects of the same realm to meet opponents. Killing them was as easy as killing chickens and dogs. Even if we faced three or five people of the same realm at the same time, we could still win. Even if the enemy was one major realm higher than us, it was not impossible to kill him. "Speaking of this, the gray-shirted old man showed a proud look on his face, and his listless face was domineering, which showed his pride in the immortal method he cultivated.
"The reason why we consider going out to look for the inheritor in the Spiritualization Stage is, of course, out of helplessness, as it is difficult to find disciples; secondly, in the world of immortal cultivation, cultivators above the Fusion Stage rarely show up. At this stage, they are basically trying their best to improve their strength and realm. Most of the time, they are in the life and death gate or go to some extremely dangerous places to find their opportunities. Unless their family or sect is at the crossroads of life and death, they will not show up easily. In this case, we can barely protect ourselves by cultivating to the late stage of the Spiritual Division and looking for inheritance. However, we will not show our sects at this time, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. Those uninformed immortal cultivators have been coveting the immortal methods of our five sects for a long time, which is also the reason why the outside world has only seen masters of the Fusion, Tribulation and even Mahayana stages in our five sects. But even so, it is very difficult to find the inheritor. Sometimes you have to cross the vast regional continent or even the interface of the two worlds to find the disciples. Because of this, it is very likely to encounter more powerful enemies and space turbulence. In this way, some masters of the five sects who went out to find the inheritors never came back. They may have fallen outside. Our five sects are becoming more and more desolate. "Speaking of this, the old man's voice was a little low, and he slowly raised his head to look at the sky, with a lonely face, as if he was reminiscing.
Li Yan did not dare to disturb him, but after a moment, the old man retracted his gaze, glanced at Li Yan, and continued, "I was the only one left in my Guishui lineage two million years ago. At that time, there was no news from the other four sects. I think they have gone before me. "The old man showed a trace of sadness and nostalgia, and his mind was already filled with thoughts and memories. Although there were disputes among the five sects at that time, they had been dependent on each other since ancient times, sharing the same spirit, practicing together, and walking together in the world. The past was like smoke, and the long years had passed. Now that he had woken up, everything was over, as if it was a dream.
When Li Yan heard the words "two million years ago", his calm face showed an expression of disbelief. How could people in this world live for millions of years? This was such a fantasy, but when it was said in front of him, he didn't know why he had already believed it. This thought arose in his heart, and he couldn't help but be surprised.
The gray-shirted old man paused for a while, shook his head gently, as if to shake off the memories in his mind, and then raised his eyes to see Li Yan, and his heart was already a little relieved.
"More than two million years ago, I was in seclusion for a hundred years. When I came out, the other four sects were already deserted and overgrown with weeds. Only Fairy Ningke of Yimu Immortal Sect left a jade slip, telling me that she had reached the realm of Lianxu after she came out, and waited here for seventy years. The other three sects had no news. Seeing that I had not come out, they also went out to look for inheritance. But after this, we have no contact again." The gray-shirted old man's expression dimmed, but his figure was a little blurry than before, and his facial expression began to be a little unclear, but Li Yan did not notice it.
After hearing this, Li Yan opened his mouth, as if he felt that it was not appropriate to interrupt the old man's narration at this moment. But the old man was such a person that he stopped talking and asked, "What don't you understand?"
Li Yan stammered, "What is a jade slip?"
The old man was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed at himself, "Haha, I forgot that you know nothing about the world of immortal cultivation." The people he had previously come into contact with all knew the basic knowledge of immortal cultivation, but Li Yan was a complete rookie.
"Then I will briefly tell you. Jade slips are like books among you mortals. They are made of a special jade material that is difficult to damage. Unlike paper books, the text, images and sounds inside can only be depicted and written by the cultivators with their spiritual consciousness. It can be said that as long as the jade slips are not damaged, they can be preserved forever, unlike paper which is difficult to preserve. Oh, yes, there is also spiritual consciousness. Spiritual consciousness is actually mental power and thoughts, but the cultivators have cultivated their mental power to a certain level of substantial power through cultivation. Your current mental power has also been cultivated to the initial stage of spiritual consciousness, but it is too weak to form a substance, let alone be released outside the body. Generally, spiritual consciousness will be generated in the third level of Qi Condensation. It's just that the coverage area is smaller, about a few feet. At that time, it can be projected outside the body, and words, images or sounds can be engraved in the jade slip; in addition, it can replace the eyes and ears to see and hear the world. The stronger the consciousness, the wider the range of what can be seen and heard. Oh, by the way, that military division master is at the third level of Qi Condensation. He can already project his consciousness outside the body. Although it is only a few feet, he can already see you without eyes, and listen to you carefully without ears. He can also scan what you are doing and saying within a certain range through consciousness, even clearer than seeing with eyes and hearing with ears. "Speaking of this, the old man looked at Li Yan with a smile.