Chapter 75 Suffer the Unspeakable Misery (1/2)

The third thing Shen Lian did was that he went to the Taiwei Pavillion and found the common information of the cultivation world on the first floor.

There were so many cultivation sects in this world but there was a possibility that not many sects that had immortals with longevity.

Furthermore, the celestialism which were guarded by these immortals were becoming lesser and lesser. These sects were the authentic Xuanmen.

The still standing Daoist school and Celestialism after ten thousand years of ups and downs were the four main Daoist sects. Qing Xuan was one of them.

There was a difference in cultivation between Buddhism and Daoism. The dense forests under the sky, the stars filled skies and the distance of the door were smaller than the Daoist schools but it also has its differences, which totals to a total of eight schools.

The first one was Sanlun sect, also known as Faxing sect. The second one was Yujia sect, also known as Faxiang sect, Cien sect, Weishi sect. The third one was Tiantai sect. The fourth one was Xianshou sect, also known as the Huayan sect. The fifth one was Chan sect. The sixth one was Jintu sect. The seventh one was Lv 1sect. The eight one was Mi sect, also known as Zhenyan sect.

To put it simply, the eight schools were known as 'Xing, Xiang, Tai, Xian, Chan, Jin, Lv, and Mi'.

Buddhism was an open and convenient gateway and a path to confirm the truth. However, due to the difference in wisdom, level of luck and morals and the root of the acceptor added with the different background and surrounding environments or the interpretation of Buddhism and the emphasis on cultivation, these schools were formed.

There were many masters that came from the eight main schools, there was even a highly ranked monk who wrote a poem that talks about the ins and outs of the eight schools. The poem goes like this:

Wealth for Mi sect,

scarcity for Chan sect,

and anyone for Jin sect,

Patience for Weishi sect,

wisdom and truth of Jiaxiangkong.

Huayan becomes the tradition,

The discipline of training the body.

Tightly organized were the principles of truth,

Of the Tiantai sect.

The final stage for the eight schools of Buddhism was to achieve the status of 'arhat', which was similar to the immortals of Daoism.

The immortals with longevity were then categorized to Dixian, Renxian, Shenxian, and Guixian. After Powang, the Qing Xuan methods of exercises were for Dixian.

The Renxian, Shenxian, and Guixian were not orthodox and it was not derived from the nine states of cultivation. Shen Lian could not find any details about this on the first floor of the Taiwei pavilion.

This was due to the fact that after cultivation, one's memory would not be too weak, therefore the information on the first floor of the Taiwei pavilion would not be allowed to be lent out. Even the most ordinary disciple had to spend one or two days to remember most of the content regarding the cultivation world, they could also find out through a leisure chat with their seniors and teachers.

Buddhism aside, there were also the nine paths of the demons, the five teachings of the wicked and there were also unknown figures.

Of course, the first floor also has the kind of categories on Dao skills and sword skills but Shen Lian did not research too much into it. After all, it was easy to remember these stuff but to truly understand it fully and apply it would require a lot of energy and effort. His main task was to collect the Yin Jade from the River of Spirits.

Even though the headmaster did not mention that there would be consequences if he did not complete the task of collecting the thirty pieces in one month, Shen Lian did not want to find out what the consequences were.

The River of Spirit of Qing Xuan was situated behind the Zifu peak that neighbored the Taiyi main peak. No one knew the start and the end of the final flowing direction. Shen Lian already knew that the person in white that he met that day was the soul summoning envoy of the Jiuyou netherworld. As long as he leaves before sundown from the nearby areas of the River of Spirit, he will not have another encounter.

Jiuyou was an extremely mysterious world, even within the information that Shen Lian looked through, there was only a brief mention of it and there was not even a mention of the existence of reincarnation.

As for the power of the Yin spirit of the river, the river bed would produce bits and pieces of crystalized Yin Jade by chance.

The Yin Jade was used to make jade talisman to be worn on the body. It has a calming effect. With a piece of jade talisman like this during the cultivation of inner Qi, there was a bigger chance of preventing Qi deviation.

That being said, to refine such a jade talisman would require mana of the Huandan level. Therefore this jade talisman was hard to come by.