A life of clearness

Chapter 545 Good fortune and misfortune depend on each other
After quietly pondering for a night and practicing the art of words until he was proficient in it, Rong Qing went to where Taoist Li Tao was again the next day.

The difference was that before Rong Qing, there was another senior brother who was asking Taoist Li Tao for advice. When Rong Qing came over, he met him as he was leaving.

"Junior Brother Qiu Sang." He said in a kind manner.

Rong Qing quickly returned the greeting, but her expression looked a little strange when she lowered her head.

Taoist Li Tao has tens of thousands of disciples, and the disciples are divided into hundreds of circles. And these circles, big and small, are intertwined with each other, with countless connections.

The senior brother in front of him was the leader of a certain circle. He was proud of his noble family background and looked down on those who came from the group of independent cultivators. Therefore, he often ridiculed Qiu Sang in the past, and even the fellow disciples who gathered around him tended to exclude Qiu Sang.

But here, he didn't dare.

"Hello, senior brother." Rong Qing raised her head and smiled gently.

"Yes. Master is waiting for you to come over, so I won't talk to you any more."

"Yes." Rong Qing kept bowing, "Goodbye, Senior Brother."

She stood up only after the man left, said hello to the boy, went back into the room, and knelt down below Taoist Li Tao.

Taoist Li Tao saw and heard the conversation between Rong Qing and the senior brother, but he said nothing. He just asked, "Do you have an answer to the question I asked yesterday?"

"I have been thinking hard all night, and I have to confess to Master first. In my eyes, cause and effect are invisible. But after studying the art of word spirit, I have a vague understanding of cause and effect."

"Well, tell me more about it." Taoist Li Tao said as he carefully made a book beside the table. The soft pages were aligned and tightly woven with thick thread.

"Cause and effect is an invisible line. Cause can be connected to effect, effect can be connected to cause, they are mutually implicated and transmitted. And words are another auxiliary line... This makes the entire word spirit technique like a piano. The practitioner presses the strings with one hand and plucks the strings with the other hand. Both hands must be used simultaneously, so that there will be music and sound."

For example, when Rong Qing called out Zhong Xiu's name, a thin causal line was created between Rong Qing and Zhong Xiu's name through the power of words. And Zhong Xiu's name and Zhong Xiu's existence itself have a very strong causal relationship between name and reality.

Based on the law of causality that states that cause and effect are interconnected, Rong Qing can influence Zhong Xiu's actual existence through words.

When Rong Qing thought about it last night, the more she thought about it, the more she felt it made sense. She even felt that this title inheritance leading to immortality was another form of cause and effect between name and reality. In addition, what Tianxia No. 1 said before, that in order to save his beloved, Taoist Master Xueyu changed his Taoist name to Xueyu, maybe he also valued the strong cause and effect relationship between name and reality.

"That makes sense." Taoist Li Tao nodded and put the compiled books in his hand into a pile on the left. "But if you keep such a superficial idea and don't change it, I'm afraid you will be confined to the lineage of Word Spirit for a long time and can't enter the Tao. Just being proficient in using Word Spirit Art and understanding the law of cause and effect and then using Word Spirit Art... I can tell you clearly that there is a huge difference between the two."

Taoist Li Tao created the Word Spirit lineage, as mentioned before, in order to allow disciples with weak perception to understand the law of cause and effect with the help of Word Spirit. After all, it is a roundabout way, so it is easy for disciples to go wrong if they try to figure it out on their own. This is why Taoist Li Tao calls Qiu Sang to come every day. It would be best if he could understand it on his own, but if not, he, as the master, can also adjust the direction for him.

Rong Qing was a little surprised when she heard this. She thought she had done nothing wrong but she didn't expect to receive such an evaluation. She quickly said, "Thank you for your guidance, Master. I will be more cautious when I return and think carefully before answering you."

"After all, you are just beginning to practice the Word Spirit lineage, so I don't have high expectations for you. In addition, cultivation is not something that can be done overnight," Taoist Li Tao was unconcerned about Rong Qing's nervousness: "Relax and take your time."

But Rong Qing couldn't take it seriously.

Taoist Li Tao is the master and the master of immortality, so there is no pressure.

Qiu Sang is different. He must keep a position in the Snow Tempering Court and he cannot slack off for even a day. There are many people who want to squeeze him out of the position.

The same goes for Rong Qing. She doesn't know when she will be able to escape from here, so she must seize the opportunity and learn as much as possible from the Lord of Changsheng.

……

The Shadow Vein clone was receiving inheritance in a distant secret realm, and his mind was drawn to Qiu Sang's memory. On the top floor of the Juntian Tower in the Qinghang Realm, Rong Qing himself also spent a lot of time learning the core secrets of Kaishan Dao and Wuhou Dao.

Although it was very hard and stressful, Rong Qing felt very excited and full of fighting spirit. These were life-saving skills, high-level secret techniques that ordinary cultivators would never be able to access in their lifetime, but for Rong Qing, she could learn them for free and the elders could give her guidance at any time. She was not someone who didn't appreciate the blessings she had, so she would of course do her best to take advantage of such an opportunity.

However, the two elders were right when they said they were strict. If Rong Qing couldn't keep up with the progress, it meant she was incompetent, and they wouldn't slow down to accommodate her.

Just as Rong Qing was struggling to understand a small part of the Kaishan Dao secret technique by relying on her own power source, she heard Number One Under Heaven say hesitantly in her sea of ​​consciousness: "Rongrong ah..."

"Master, just speak frankly."

"It seems you have found the master you were looking for from Xuanfeng Mansion."

This is no small matter. Rong Qing interrupted the analysis process, causing the elder Kaishandao's eyes to slightly open, and he glanced at her sideways through the gap.

"where?"

Rong Qing's Hades Mask was tied to her soul, and was even in her sea of ​​consciousness. Number One Under Heaven had been using the aura of the Hades Mask to search for the cultivators sent by Xuanfeng Mansion.

"Very close." Number One Under Heaven simply replied, and then added: "But you don't have to be too happy too soon."

"Why did Master say that?"

“Since you broke through the fourth level, don’t you think you’ve been too successful? You’re treated with courtesy wherever you go, and resources are pouring in. You must know that fortune and misfortune are interdependent, like a sip of water and a peck of grain.” Number One Under Heaven said leisurely in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Rong Qing had no expression on her face and slowly opened her eyes.

"Why did you stop?" The elder Kaishan didn't have many wrinkles on his face, but the smile lines around his eyes and mouth were more obvious. At this time, he saw Rong Qing suddenly loosen his hands and stopped analyzing the secret technique. Although his tone was not good, his face was still smiling as usual.

"I have a question in my mind and would like to ask the elder for advice..."

"Oh?" Even Elder Wu Houdao was quite interested and looked sideways.

She asked bluntly: "Two elders, which side are you on?"

……

A small flying boat was flying in the sea of ​​clouds, traveling on a fixed route. On the deck of the flying boat, men and women of all kinds gathered in groups of three or two.

"Brother, do you think that is the Juntian Tower?" A female cultivator in a pink skirt excitedly pulled the man beside her, and the bells in her hair made a ringing sound as she moved.

The male cultivator looked helpless and really wanted to pretend that he didn't know this person. He tugged at the female cultivator's arm and begged, "Little girl, can you please keep your voice down?"

All the people present were sent by the many mother worlds under the Qinghang Realm to study for a hundred years. It was their first time here, so no matter how excited they were, they had to be reserved on the surface to avoid being laughed at. But this young lady, after getting on the flying boat, acted like a monkey that hadn't been out of the mountains for eight hundred years, looking here and touching there.

"I'm happy in my heart." She pouted, glared at her senior brother who turned away and didn't want to pay attention to her, then looked again at the top of the Juntian Tower that pierced through the clouds.

However, this one glance made her eyes widen, and she fell into great fear, and let out a heart-wrenching scream!
The men and women on the deck turned their heads one by one and saw a scene they would never forget in their lives—

A strange giant covered in a red robe pierced through the clouds, with its arms spread out loosely. There was no head under its hood, only a frightening dark void.

The almost weirdly tall body bent down, and the wide red hood was like a huge mouth, completely covering the top of the Juntian Tower.

The pink-clothed female cultivator's scream seemed to have disturbed it. Such a terrifying existence disappeared in an instant, along with the top floor of the Juntian Tower that once sat above the clouds...

(End of this chapter)