A life of clearness

Chapter 544 Yan Ling

Snow Courtyard.

It was not difficult for her to recognize the place.

Rong Qing walked in the corridor at a leisurely pace. The brothers who passed by greeted her politely, because recently Taoist Li Tao liked to call her to preach, so even if they looked down on this brother of humble origin, they pretended to be friendly and respectful to each other and lived a peaceful life.

"Junior Brother Qiu Sang."

"Morning, Junior Brother."

Rong Qing smiled and agreed to everything.

She knew she was receiving inheritance, and she also knew who she was. It seemed that the mystery of the law of cause and effect itself brought her into the Snow Tempering Court in Qiu Sang's memory, and even replaced Qiu Sang's position.

Seeing these powerful monks all calling her "Junior Brother" with a smile, Rong Qing felt helpless and amused. Although she was wearing the jade-colored Taoist robes of Quexueting, she still looked her original self, a true female cultivator.

As for Taoist Li Tao, the owner of Quexueting?
To be honest, Rong Qing didn't know what the other party was thinking.

He would only look up and glance at her in between doing things, and then preach to Rong Qing and answer her questions. He never called Qiu Sang's name.

Even if it was the Lord of Immortality in Qiu Sang's memory, Rong Qing was not sure what the other party had seen.

Is it Qiu Sang? Or Rong Qing? Or is it the thousands of cultivators throughout history who have inherited Qiu Sang's teachings?

The Quexue Courtyard was a luxurious and exquisite place, with every detail carefully designed. However, the place where its owner lived was a simple and even a bit dirty thatched house. An old cow was tied outside the house, and a boy was lying on the cow's back.

"Tong'er." Rong Qing threw over a storage bag.

"Hmm." The boy turned over and easily grabbed the storage bag. He probed into the storage bag with his spiritual sense, and his eyes lit up. "Brother Qiu Sang is really good. He can always find something different."

Qiu Sang accidentally learned that the boy loved sweet things, so every time he came, he would bring snacks with different flavors produced in different realms to increase the boy's favorability.

All the disciples under Taoist Li Tao knew that they had to please the boy next to their master, but at present, only Qiu Sang had this luck. Qiu Sang also knew how to keep a low profile and never showed off in front of others.

The door of the thatched hut was wide open, and Rong Qing could see Taoist Li Tao sitting inside the hut, writing something with his head lowered.

"I'll go see Master first."

"Hmm." The boy's voice was a little unclear as he chewed a flower cake.

The door is the boundary of etiquette. Even if the door is not opened, the two people inside and outside the door are still aware of each other's existence, but since there is a distinction between inside and outside the house, Rong Qing must abide by this distinction.

She stood outside the door and bowed: "Disciple greets Master. May you live long and well."

"Come in." Taoist Li Tao just looked up at her and then concentrated on his own affairs again.

After getting permission, Rong Qing lifted her skirt, bent down slightly and passed through the door which was a little too small for her.

Taoist Li Tao, who sat at the head of the group, had an ordinary appearance, but his expression was calm. He was wearing an ordinary coat, which was very rare in the cultivation world, as this style was more common in the mortal world.

Taoist Li Tao is like a poor scholar in the secular world.

But Rong Qing knew that he was not, so she knelt down with great respect, her eyes fixed only on the area one foot in front of her, and answered questions with Taoist Li Tao.

A steady male voice came: "Did you study carefully what I taught you yesterday? Let your teacher see how you progress." Rong Qing responded in a low voice.

She flipped her right hand, took out a spirit stone and threw it forward.

"Certainly."

Before he finished speaking, the spirit stone suddenly stopped in mid-air, at a certain point on the parabola.

Rong Qing's words were like a string that held the spirit stone tightly, preventing it from falling.

The Qiu Sang inheritance that is still being continuously instilled into Rong Qing even now is essentially the word spirit branch of the causal Tao secret technique: that is, using the power of words to influence cause and effect.

"The lineage of words and spirits comes from the same source as the law of cause and effect."

Rong Qing took back the spirit stone and listened attentively to Taoist Li Tao's teachings.

"The core is in name and reality." Taoist Li Tao's voice is deep and sincere: "Everything in the world exists in cause and effect. Name and reality are a very strong kind of cause and effect. Everything has a name, even nothingness has its name, and even the way of heaven has its honorable name. The causal bond between name and reality is extremely powerful."

"As the saying goes, if the name is right, the words will flow. The Word Spirit School touches upon the cause and effect between name and reality, and it borrows the power of words. Using the name as a guide, it affects its existence. The simplest example is the curse technique in the Word Spirit School. As long as you make sure that the name corresponds to the person correctly, you can use it to influence the other person's luck and so on."

"However, it is not important what technique you can extend. What is important is that you can understand how the cause and effect behind it changes. How to establish a connection and how to cut it off. You must know that the techniques are ever-changing, but the Tao is the only constant. Everyone thinks that the law of cause and effect is mysterious, but once you figure it out, it is just like that. It is just a path in the universe and nature."

"I have many disciples, some with high aptitude and some with mediocre understanding. Those with high understanding can comprehend the origin of cause and effect on their own, while for those with slightly lower understanding, I will teach them branch veins such as Word Spirit and Marriage. Even if you cannot enter the Dao of the origin of cause and effect for the time being, if you study the Word Spirit vein for a longer time, you will still be able to comprehend the Dao of cause and effect."

Rong Qing thought, this is what is called quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it at first. You will get the feel for it after using it more often.

It seems that although Taoist Li Tao has many disciples, he still cares about them. I just wonder if Taoist Li Tao knows the undercurrents between these fellow disciples? Where there are people, there are disputes, not to mention that in the disciples of Changsheng, if there is a slight bias, there will be all kinds of obvious and hidden resource gaps. It is no wonder that the disciples form cliques and factions and flatter the powerful and trample the weak.

"Disciple will practice diligently and live up to Master's cultivation." Rong Qing promised solemnly from below.

Taoist Li Tao smiled silently upon hearing this, and then said, "Then I will leave you a question, and you can answer it tomorrow."

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What kind of cause and effect do you see?
Rong Qing was thinking about the meaning of this question all the way. Even when he met fellow apprentices on the road, he just said a few perfunctory greetings, not caring about their intriguing facial expressions.

After she returned to the yard, she locked herself in a quiet room, repeatedly recalling and analyzing everything Taoist Li Tao had said.

"See?" Rong Qing thought: "Could it be possible that cause and effect can really be seen? But I can't see anything..."

This is awkward.

She had inherited Qiu Sang's legacy, and had the complete Word Spirit Secret Art engraved in her sea of ​​consciousness. But this only meant that Rong Qing could continue to practice and eventually become proficient in it. There was no mention of deeper content, such as how to "see" cause and effect.

Then Taoist Li Tao's question is beyond the syllabus for Rong Qing.

"The solution to this problem should start from what Taoist Li Tao said just now." She pondered for a long time and gradually got some clues.

(End of this chapter)