Chapter 7: The So-Called Cultivation World (2/2)
She went through the books one by one However, she didn't see anything unusual until she suddenly found a book called 'Qing Lian's Notes'
The author's autobiography ritten as the preface of the book The author clai Lian The preface said he was originally a scholar from Jin Country Because he was too talented, he wasn't allowed to be placed in an important position and thus wandered around the world His journey unexpectedly led hi him to cultivate the Law of Immortality Unfortunately, he wasn't successful Once he was about 200 years old, he felt that his life was almost exhausted, thus he wrote this book to be passed on to the future generation
Mo Tiange promptly returned the other books to the bookshelf She took that one book and sat beside theto start reading
The beginning of the book talked about the origins of lay Buddhist Qing Lian Mo Tiange wasn't interested and skipped that part Later on, Qing Lian started to describe how he came across the Immortal's Fate
When he roamed around the world, he passed a place called Mount Tianlao All the people who lived nearby said this mountain was always covered in clouds and limmers of five colored rays would appear on the mountain Because of that, they were convinced thereLian went up to the mountain by himself
This mountain was indeed mystical It was covered with a vast sea of clouds and filled with strangely-shaped rocks People could easily get lost on it if they were careless When he was lost on that mountain, he happened to find a place that looked like an Iraved eirdly-shaped drawings and words Seeing that they seemed to be mystical, he copied them down before he left the mountain Unexpectedly, from that record, he ca Lian practiced the Law of Ient With the passage of time, Immortal's Aura also appeared in his body Thereafter, he could actually break things without touching them and couldn't be wounded by any weapons At this point, he was already soest martial artist in the world
He contentedly continued to practice the Law of Iins Later, when he accidentally encountered another person as also practicing the Law of Immortality, he finally realized there were actually a lot of people like him They had their oorld - it was known as the cultivation world In that world, people like thee pondered for a moment The Ancestor indeed mentioned this ”cultivators” word It see the truth
After Qing Lian found out about the cultivation world, he got in touch with other cultivators and slowly learned soe in cultivation
In the Distant Past era when the Gods still existed in the human world, spiritual aura was abundant and spiritual objects were everywhere Cultivators with great divine poere innumerable Extres that possessed strange power also existed, including the Monsters and Devils Cultivators and spiritual beasts succeeding in their cultivation and beco Immortals were a frequent occurrence There were also devil cultivators and monsters who succeeded in their cultivation and becareat war suddenly broke out in the world Between the Immortals, the hued, thewas destroyed
The Middle Ages caes, the world was divided into various worlds of the Immortals and the Demons The human world, meanwhile, was left to humans and beasts that hadn't yet achieved the Dao
In this age, the spiritual aura and the circumstances in the world weren't inferior to how they were in the distant past Many schools and sects were established A lot of cultivation techniques and e ofpeacefully for hundreds of thousands of years, the devils waged war and the monsters took part Mountains were hly exterminated As time went by, the world slowly became the world they lived in now
After hundreds of thousands of years, cultivators with great divine power disappeared, high-level spiritual beasts vanished, spiritual aura became thin, and many spiritual objects were now extinct Cultivators started to go into seclusion and no longer lived together with the mortals
In the present cultivation world, cultivation schools and sects were established at places where the spiritual aura was abundant, away fro the mortals when they recruited disciples
As for the mortals, not all of them could cultivate Only those who possessed spiritual roots and could keep spiritual aura within their bodies would be able to cultivate However, only one atten thousand ence of spiritual roots greatly increased a people whose ancestors were cultivators
Bodies were separated into two poles and spirits into five ele constitutions in a body, and five kinds of elements in spiritual aura - metal, wood, water, fire, and soil A normal person's constitution was usually a co would repel each other As for spiritual roots, a the five elements, some would reinforce each other while some would restrain each other If the body possessed spiritual roots with elements that restrained each other, the spiritual roots would be neutralized Therefore, it was better if one had a purer body constitution and fewer spiritual roots
In the cultivation world, the majority of people possessed either three or four spiritual roots The cultivation of those who possessed triple spiritual roots wouldn't progress too slowly, but it was also impossible for them to become very successful As for four and five spiritual roots, they were basically disadvantageous spiritual roots People with these spiritual roots were usually trapped in the Aura Refining real real Lian himself possessed four spiritual roots Furthermore, he also didn't obtain any fated chances 4As a result, he couldn't advance into the Foundation Building real other spiritual roots better that three spiritual roots, those with double spiritual roots naturally wouldn't be encumbered by their endowments Besides, there were also mutated spiritual roots that resulted from the mutation of the five elements The cultivation of people with these kinds of spiritual roots progressed even faster than cultivators with a single spiritual root
But having spiritual roots wasn't enough In cultivating the Law of Immortality, perception and individual nature were also ih but the person was very perceptive, their cultivation speed wouldn't be too slow As for nature, it was relevant to breaking through a realm If one had a persistent and determined nature, he definitely wouldn't be trapped by his state of mind Nonetheless, spiritual roots were still the foundation of everything If soreat one's perception and nature were, they would still be useless
Mo Tiange thought about what the Ancestor said Because the Ancestor had Pure Yin constitution and double spiritual roots, the speed of her cultivation didn't lose to that of a cultivator with a single spiritual root However, the Ancestor said Mo Tiange had five-ele Lian, this was the worst kind of spiritual roots People with this generally didn't have a proh she hadn't really thought seriously about the matter that day, she was still unhappy to know her spiritual roots were categorized as bad
”Tiange, what are you reading about?” Tianqiao pushed open the door and cae closed her book and asked, ”Tianqiao, you passed?”
Mo Tianqiao grinned ”Yes! I spent a whole night copying the part yesterday to get Master's approval”
”Then what kind of book do you want to read? I'll help you find it”
Mo Tianqiao reached out and took the book Mo Tiange was reading After flipping a few pages, she wasn't interested in the book and gave it back to Mo Tiange ”You should continue with your reading, I'ht”
As Mo Tianqiao walked back and forth between the bookshelves, Mo Tiange stared at the book in her hand After a c
Non-monastics Buddhist (仙缘) destiny/fate to becofǔ): Ih in the mountain where the spiritual aura is abundant (机缘) literally means chance/opportunity/destiny However, the opportunity talked about in this novel is the one that has significant iress