No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 80 Master and Apprentice

Three months later, Lan Dao Ren also returned to the courtyard.

He saw Zi Su and Xu Shun who were practicing hard and felt very surprised.

It would be fine if Xu Shun practiced hard, as there were few people more diligent than Xu Shun, but it was even rarer to see Zi Su practice hard.

So Zishu told him what happened between Zisu and Ziyan a few months ago.

"Oh?" Lan Daoist nodded and said, "Is that so? Qingtao's disciple's grandson... hehe..."

He chuckled softly, the meaning unclear.

It seems ridiculous and sarcastic.

Zishu said: "Master, I have a question. I don't know if I should ask it or not."

"Well, I don't know whether I should ask or not, but I should ask." Taoist Lan looked at his eldest disciple with a smile.

"Master... why do you treat them differently from Junior Brother Zi Ran and I?" Zi Shu asked, "Is it just because I am your first disciple?"

"Haha~" Lan Dao Ren chuckled and said, "You, after so many years, are still struggling with such things."

"I said you are old-fashioned because you sometimes get hung up on little things like this. Wouldn't it be better for me to be strict with you?"

Zishu said: "That's good, but..."

But when he saw his fellow apprentices were as happy as if they were free to go, he felt that he was forced to practice by Lan Dao Ren, which was really... sour!
Who doesn’t want to practice freely in the mountains?

"Everyone is different." Lan Dao said, "All four of you are different."

"If you reach the level of Yuan Shen, you will be qualified to accept disciples. I will talk to you about it."

"Disciple, I'm all ears!" Zishu brought a bamboo mat to Taoist Lan and a tea table with fragrant tea.

He did a lot of these things two hundred years ago.

Taoist Lan lay down on the bamboo mat, leaned sideways and said, "It's not a famous saying, it's just a little experience of yours truly."

"When you teach a disciple in the future, you must know the disciple's character and how to make up for it during the practice."

"You are old-fashioned and sometimes stubborn. You tend to focus on details rather than the overall situation. In addition, you are born with a pure yang body, so your understanding of cultivation is far better than others."

“It’s easy to take detours on the path of practice and get distracted by side details along the way, so you need to be disciplined more so that you know the direction of practice.”

Congenital pure yang is a special constitution.

Just as there are albinos among animals, there are also mutations among monks. One of these mutations is the innate pure yang body.

The Xiantian Pure Yang practiced the masculine skills, and achieved twice the result with half the effort. The sword energy and sword light were even more blazing, just like the pure Yang of the sun, and were specifically designed to destroy demons and evil spirits.

It is said that this kind of skills become even more mysterious after becoming an immortal.

Lan Daoist continued, "Although Zi Ran is impatient and impulsive, he is tough on the outside but flexible on the inside. Sometimes he has no opinion of his own and is easily influenced by what others say. Therefore, I have to discipline him more and give him many warnings."

Zi Shu nodded. He knew that his master had criticized his second junior fellow disciple a lot.

"Zi Cai... is very interesting!" Taoist Lan thought of Xu Shun and said with a smile.

"Interesting?!" Zi Shu knew that his master rarely used the word "interesting" to describe someone.

Lan Daoist said: "First of all, he is quite experienced. Experienced Taoists sometimes do not look like their age, and their experience and knowledge are somewhat similar to mine. He does not look like a teenager at all, so when he says he has innate wisdom, I believe him."

"Is there really someone who has innate wisdom? Could he have been a bald donkey in his previous life?" Zi Shu asked doubtfully.

Zishu had only seen such people in books. When he traveled around the world, he met many people who claimed to have innate wisdom, but they were basically all liars.

"He is not a bald donkey." Lan Daoren said: "He told me that he was an ordinary person in his previous life. An ordinary person. Neither a noble nor a genius. So he always thinks that he is ordinary and he is very self-disciplined."

"Self-control?" Zi Shu was puzzled. He didn't feel that Zi Cai was restraining anything.

"His wisdom from his previous life allowed him to experience a lot. So, he knows what he wants and what he is pursuing. After going through hardships, he also understands the 'I' and knows what the 'I' in his heart is like."

"Among you, he is the most diligent and the most self-disciplined."

"Even if he was given an endless amount of silver, he would still choose to spend it according to his own habits."

"He only sees himself as an ordinary monk, not as a disciple of a master. He has his own moral behavior, like a circle that surrounds himself."

"He has his own bottom line and mode of action. He just needs to practice step by step and then embark on his own path."

"I have taught him everything I should have taught him. The rest is up to him. When the time comes, whether he chooses to expand the circle, break it, or be bound by it and unable to escape, it will all depend on him."

Taoist Lan personally took Xu Shun for thousands of kilometers and taught him everything he could.

After all, spiritual practice is a personal matter.

"I am looking forward to his subsequent practice and what path he will take."

After Lan Daoren finished talking about Zicai, he began to talk about his last disciple: "As for Zisu, he is different from the three of you."

"As for him, what he needs is a desperate situation." Lan Daoren said, "A favorable situation will not bring him any benefit. Instead, it will make him relax. Comfort will continue to paralyze him."

"Only in adversity and despair does he have a kind of obsession that is almost demonic."

"It's rare for someone to burst out with such persistence in a desperate situation. This will make his practice very smooth, but it can also lead him to an irretrievable disaster."

"A comfortable life will only wear away this kind of paranoia, so I won't bother with him."

"It all depends on his choice!"

Zishu understood that he and Ziran were the ones who needed to be restrained and disciplined, while Zicai and Zisu were more on their own, so Lan Daoren didn't care about them.

There's no point in caring about it.

When “dragons fight tigers”, only you can choose!

"Why do I feel like Master is waiting to see the fun?" Zi Shu smacked his lips, tasting a different flavor.

"Is there?" Lan Dao Ren said, "Maybe I don't know how they choose, so I want to see it too. I have seen enough of the scenery in the world of immortal cultivation, and I want to see something different!"

"Master will see the scenery of the fairyland one day!" Zi Shu said sincerely.

The monks who ascend to heaven are one in a million!

"As for the fairyland..." Taoist Lan looked at the roof and stopped talking.

At last, when Zishu thought that Lan Daoist had stopped talking, he heard Lan Daoist say, "I hope the fairy world is just as interesting!"

Xu Shun, who was practicing, had no idea about the conversation between Zi Shu and Lan Dao Ren.

He just read books, practiced, and practiced swordplay silently. He found the life that others thought was boring very interesting and happy.

No need to go to work, no need to punch in, no need to struggle for a living, no need to please other people’s feelings.

He would never get tired of living like this even if he lived for a hundred years!

Day after day, year after year, there is no time in practice.

Twenty years passed in a flash.

　It will be on the shelves tomorrow, with a big update!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)