Shennong Sequence

Chapter 30: Contents of the Promotion Ceremony, the Huge List of Raw Materials Required for Daotong Pills

"After you become my disciple tomorrow, go and open up a field of one acre behind the guard post. By the way, I have used the temperature of the ground to warm up the manure I asked you to pile up the other day. You can spread it on the land when the time comes... Let's start by clearing the land and planting."

Farming for the purpose of spiritual practice.

Zhao Yun naturally agreed to this matter.

Besides, when he was at home, he often went to the fields to farm.

So farming is a piece of cake for him.

However, Zhao Yun was quite surprised by the Daotong Pill that Master Sun mentioned just now.

Rituals, rituals, and taking a pill are required before one can start practicing. This is a bit like the way of advancement in the sequence...

It’s just that the medicine he swallowed turned into a pill.

Old Man Sun waited for Zhao Yun to digest the information before continuing:

"In addition, cultivation is tested by the outer demons, so you must complete the task of developing farmland independently to comply with the rituals..."

"After you have cultivated an acre of land and planted the seeds, I will go to Lord Sinong to ask for a mid-grade Daotong Pill for you."

"When the time comes, take the elixir and follow the subsequent ritual steps... then you will become my farming disciple, a ninth-order cultivator - a cultivator."

"By then, you will have to comprehend the many profound meanings of this 'cultivator'."

"I will also pass on some other spells to you. You should practice well. Once you have mastered them, you will have a chance to advance to the eighth level..."

"Yes, Master."

Zhao Yun nodded and followed the instructions of the visitor.

Then, Old Man Sun took out a book from his bookcase and handed it to Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun took a look at it and saw the following words written on the cover: "Detailed Explanation of the Basic Training Manual for Farmers".

I took a quick look at the directory and there are 6 items in total.

1. Basic ideas of farmers;

2. Common crops version: Crops suitable for planting and their maturity time in the solar terms throughout the year;

3. Detailed explanation of the rituals and ceremonies for entering the path of practice;

4. Criteria of the ceremony: how big an acre of land is, how to measure it, and the choice of crops to be planted;

5. From the beginning to the end, how to eat Nongjia Daotongdan;

6. The ninth-level cultivator’s novel feelings are resolved (in a sealed state, and will be naturally unsealed after entering the next level).

Zhao Yun closed the book.

Wait until you get back to the bedroom and continue watching.

Now there is one more thing to deal with:
"Master, you should know my current situation. I came here after being bullied by the Hundred Households in front of me, and I am lucky to meet you."

"Although I have accepted you as my master, I still need to perform the ceremony and cultivate an acre of land independently... What if that Captain Niu knows the details of this and deliberately hires someone to trick me?"

"Isn't that an unforeseen disaster?"

"Can you please take care of me, your disciple?"

Old man Sun took a look at Zhao Yun who was able to climb up the pole.

The moment Zhao Yun entered his horse prison, he already knew everything Zhao Yun had experienced in this garrison.

Who would dare to accept a disciple without investigating the background clearly?

So he naturally knew what Zhao Yun was talking about now.

"Among our garrisons, except for the Daofa Palace and our logistics department, which are not under the jurisdiction of the commander, the commander has 5 thousand households, 50 hundred households, and more than 100 general flags under his name, and these people are in charge of more than 5000 soldiers."

"He is indeed a figure in our Wuyang Garrison."

"But he is a military man, and you are from my farming family. After you became my disciple, he would not dare to trouble you easily." "But nothing is absolute. If he can't do it openly, he will use shady tricks in secret. There are many ways to deal with you."

"How about this, when you have free time tomorrow, go and cultivate the fields directly. As for the matter of accepting a disciple, we can postpone it for a while. When you have completed this ceremony, we can add another one to accept a disciple."

"That's fine, too."

Zhao Yun nodded in response.

Old Man Sun continued:

"There is one more thing I need to tell you: all practitioners have external demons born."

"Since you have embarked on the path of cultivation, the direction I just pointed out to you is the way to avoid disasters."

"But when it comes to disasters, you can't just avoid them. You need to survive them."

"So, when you truly enter the cultivation realm of the 9th level cultivator, you must learn more techniques... You will have to face this calamity yourself sooner or later."

Zhao Yun was a little surprised. How come after practicing, he still had to go through tribulations?
However, isn’t there a saying that is often said in this world?
Bodhisattvas fear causes, while mortals fear consequences.

Tang Monk went through eighty-one difficulties to obtain Buddhist scriptures...

In addition, the advantage of having a master to guide you is that at least some of the unknown points will be pointed out to you directly.

So as to avoid taking that difficult detour.

"Disciple knows."

"Okay, the book has been passed to you. Go back and read the part about reclaiming the land. Just follow the requirements of the ritual and do it slowly. Otherwise, everything will be the same tomorrow. When you have reclaimed an acre of land, we can talk about other things..."

Zhao Yun knew it was time for him to leave, so he thanked Master Sun again and walked out the door.

I came to the yard and looked at the full moon hanging high in the clear night sky.

It suddenly became clear.

He returned to his room and turned up the dim light of the lamp a little more.

As the candlelight flickered, he opened the introductory book on farming that he had just obtained, and read the part about the rituals and farming that he needed to know most.

Zhao Yun first looked at the third chapter: Ceremony.

Promotion Ceremony:

After reclaiming an acre of land alone, he took the farmer's Taoist elixir under the bright moon within two days, and planted 99 spiritual plant seeds alone in the reclaimed farmland. He successfully made more than half of the seeds come to life and sprout out of the soil.

That’s all there is to this chapter.

“It’s a very simple farming requirement, but the process is not difficult.

Then the reason why he was able to advance so easily was probably because of the so-called Daotong Pill, which played a key role. "

Zhao Yun remembered that the 5th chapter of the book was specifically about introducing Daotong Dan.

I turned the book back again, and then I felt that several pages at the end could not be turned, but were glued together.

I looked at the table of contents again and found out that it was the sealed Chapter 6: The New Feelings of the Ninth-Level Farmer.

Turning the page forward, it is Chapter 5.

Daotong Pill: Pill taken by first-time practitioners of each Taoist school.

Ingredients for the Nongjia Daotong Pill: 5 earthworm kings, a handful of soil from where the ancestor sat (substitute: 50 grams of top-grade spiritual field soil), a section of Feng Shui dragon vein, 1 each of the five elements of earth energy crystals, and 50 ml each of rootless new rain water from spring, summer, autumn and winter.

One tumbleweed, one piece of foggy moss, one thunder flower, one Lord in the Clouds, one psychic flower, 100 random spiritual plant seeds, 5 complete plants of vitality dragon tendon grass, and one complete root of a century-old tree.

"There are so many materials. If one person were to collect them alone, he would be heartbroken."

"Fortunately, what Old Man Sun said was true. He went to Li Sinong to ask for a mid-grade Daotong Pill for me, so I don't have to collect the materials myself... It's still good to have a master."

(End of this chapter)