Chapter 102 Unknowing About Cultivation (2/2)

Little children sleep early and they also wake up early. Ruoxi woke up and washed up at the first light of dawn. Shen Lian was already awake by this hour.

Shen Lian did not arrange her daily routine from day until night and allowed her to fully let her nature take over. After that, he would arrange tasks that were within her capabilities which would not feel too harsh for her.

What a cultivator sought was longevity, to attain the perpetual path. To put it simply, there was a need to live, because, by living, there were uncountable wonderful things to do, uncountable wishes to be realized.

Only by knowing the preciousness of having life and loving all of it, only when there was the ever going motivation to cultivate.

That was how Shen Lian thought of it, so when his cultivation became dry and boring, it was dry and boring but he also did not forget about the perks in life.

The ordinary human, to him, would be considered as ants. But there were rare moments when he would still find interest in watching the ants move food underneath the tree. The perks in life lied in the truth and abundance, there should not be a division on what was high or low.

The melodious sound of the Guqin rang in the compound. Ruoxi naturally did not hear the ”scattered and magnificent, the spears swung freely with great ease1” within the tune. She only felt the safest with her big brother right now.

The tune leisurely ended and Shen Lian said, ”Today I will teach you to cultivate. Even though according to the Qing Xuan rules now, I cannot recruit disciples but I can still teach you some superficial matters.”

Confusion flashed through Ruoxi’s innocent eyes. She still did not understand that if this chance was given to those who understood about cultivation in the imperial city, people would fight nail and tooth to have their descendent to train under Shen Lian.

She even did not know that her brother had left the Shen household in the search to find celestials and to seek Dao, that he had traveled far and wide to only be able to enter this school for cultivation.

Cultivation was very particular on established practices which were hard to come by. If there was no fate, like Ling Chongxiao, even though he had reached Celestialism but he could do nothing about it and carry this regret for the rest of his life.

She just asked, ”What is cultivation?”

A child’s innocent words usually shocked those who were mindful of the words.

Shen Lian could not help but smiled and answered, ”Now that you’ve asked me, I actually don’t know how to explain it to you.”

Ruoxi went ‘Oh’. She was not happy about baffling her brother. Instead, she was disappointed when she realized her brother was not all-knowing.

Big brother was big brother and not an idol, so the little girl did not understand the feeling of an idol crumbling.

Shen Lian thought, ”She is still so young, saying too much will only muddy her, I should just teach her directly.”

This proved that Shen Lian was no Patriarch Bodhi2 and Ruoxi was no monkey. She had a pure heart for Dao and a natural born body for Dao.

Even though Ruoxi’s talent was better than the ordinary person, and she also practiced calligraphy to set her nature, she did not fully understand when it came to the stage of feeling her inner Qi.

After all, no matter whether it was a monkey or a genius like Chen Jianmei, it was still rare to find people who could.

After spending half a month, Ruoxi could only feel the Qi that her big brother mentioned inside of her. Shen Lian only lets her feel it and not have her do anything else.

Ruoxi had another homework and that was to practice the ‘Yong3’ word. Naturally, the ‘Yong’ word written by Shen Lian was never that simple.

She was serious while she did her homework in the clinic. Halfway through, a youth came into the medical house. She recognized this person, it was the person next to the guy who poured water on her.

He was not as good looking as her big brother and he was definitely not as good looking as Ruoxi.”纷披灿烂,戈矛纵横” is used to describe this traditional Guqin song named ”Guang Ling San” （”广陵散”）.A character from ‘Journey to the west’ (”西游记”). He recruited Sun Wukong （孙悟空, who is also the monkey king, as his disciple and taught him the 72 polymorphic transformations and immortality.Original character is 永, which roughly means forever.