Immortality

Chapter 5 Choosing Exercises
Taoist Shuimu brought more than thirty immortal seedlings to a courtyard.

The emblem of the Zi Yan Zheng family was hung on the gate of the courtyard.

Two young men were on guard, with the Zheng family's wooden plaque hanging around their waists:
"Brother Shuimu, are these the Yue Kingdom's fairy seedlings this year?"

"Yes, you settle the immortal seedlings down, and then I will teach them the skills..."

"Okay, all of you come over here..."

The two young men waved to the crowd.

The three-story courtyard is divided into dozens of rooms, each with a small room, and there is an ancient tree with twisted roots in the middle of the courtyard.

Fang Sheng, Acai and Zhao Miaoyan were assigned to the next room.

It is much better than the previous treatment when I slept on a large bunk bed in the temple.

Of course, this is not what everyone is most concerned about now.

After putting down their luggage, everyone quickly returned to the ancient tree.

Taoist Shuimu is already waiting here.

"Most of you have inferior spiritual roots. According to convention, you can only choose three low-grade human-level skills."

"The Earth Containment Technique is good at protection and concealment, and also has some effects on body refinement. The disadvantage is that other than this, it has no advantages."

"Golden Mantle Technique is good at attacking and flying, but it relies heavily on flying swords and magical tools."

"Spiritual Fire Sutra, it's average, but it's good at controlling fire spiritual power, which will give it a natural advantage in the way of alchemy in the future..."

Taoist Shuimu was introduced in front.

Fang Sheng recalled the information he learned in his previous life.

'According to the old Taoist who practices as a free-spirited cultivator, the beginning of cultivation is the Qi Refining Stage, which is divided into nine levels.'

"After Qi Refining comes the Foundation Building Stage. Without a great opportunity, one needs at least a medium spiritual root aptitude to advance. In addition, the Water and Wood Series techniques have the highest success rate..."

Others have mixed spiritual roots and hardly need to consider building a foundation, which is a matter for medium spiritual roots.

But Fang Sheng has the Green Lotus in his hand, and who knows, one day he might be able to eat enough Dao Fruit and ascend all the way to the middle level of spiritual roots.

In terms of martial arts, it is best to plan ahead.

"However, I don't have any water and wood skills... or rather, it's good enough that I have one skill to practice now."

In reality, there are not so many things that go as you wish.

Fang Sheng looked at the three stone tables in front of him, feeling helpless.

There is a set of exercises on each table.

Yuntu Jue, Jinmang Jue, Linghuo Sutra...

"Each of you can choose one of these techniques. If you have any questions, come and ask me."

After Taoist Shuimu finished his introduction, he looked at Zhou Yan in the crowd and motioned for him to follow him.

Zhou Yan seemed to have been waiting as well.

The two of them quickly disappeared into the distance.

Only the people were left to discuss and choose the technique.

"I just overheard that Zhou Yan said that he has a low spiritual root and can choose a higher-level technique..."

Zhao Miaoyan whispered in her ear, his tone full of envy through gritted teeth.

"A higher-grade technique?"

Fang Sheng suddenly remembered what the old Taoist in his previous life had said about the division of martial arts into four levels: heaven, earth, mysterious and human.

"Could it be a mysterious technique?"

"No, it's impossible. The old Taoist said that Xuan-level skills are usually only possessed by foundation-building families. It is impossible to use them on people with low spiritual roots, especially those with low spiritual roots who are ordinary people."

It can only be upper-grade human rank, or middle-grade human rank.

Most likely it's the latter.

If the difference in the skills is only one small grade, then the difference won’t be that big.

The real gap lies in the spiritual roots.

Zhou Yan is a lower spiritual root with eleven strands of Dao rhyme...

"Let's choose a technique first."

Fang Sheng held Acai's hand.

After thinking for a while, one of the brothers chose "Spirit Fire Sutra" and the other chose "Yun Tu Jue".

Zhao Miaoyan next to him seemed to be thinking about something.

He immediately took away a copy of "Golden Mantra".

Just happened to get all the skills.

Seeing this, others also pulled their familiar immortals to follow suit.

The two Zheng family monks who were supervising on the side had no intention of interfering at all.

These skills are just common stuff in the world of immortal cultivation.

It doesn’t matter how many books you take.

"Now that you've made your choice, let's go back to the room."

"If you can't read, there will be a private school tomorrow..."

The Zheng family monk dismissed everyone and returned to the courtyard gate to stand guard. …

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

The sky was turning pale, and golden light penetrated the mist, dyeing the morning glow as fiery as fire.

The morning breeze is blowing gently.

A thin young man sat cross-legged under an ancient tree in the yard, closing his eyes and gathering his energy. There seemed to be an invisible airflow gathering around his body, causing slight ripples, which then dissipated after a moment.

After several repetitions, it was already dawn.

Fang Sheng opened his eyes, calmed his internal energy, and relaxed his muscles and bones after sitting for a long time.

"My comprehension in this life is truly amazing. Others haven't even finished reading the techniques, but I have already mastered them and started practicing..."

"It's just that the spiritual roots of these three strands of Dao rhyme are too weak. It's really difficult to practice. It takes a lot of time just to get started..."

"I was wondering why there was a fluctuation of spiritual energy in the yard? So someone started to sense the spiritual energy?"

There were voices of surprise coming from outside the yard.

It was Taoist Shuimu.

He just noticed something unusual about the spiritual energy and hurried over.

It turned out that some immortal seedlings began to practice formally.

"Mizuki-senpai."

Fang Sheng stood up and saw him.

"How polite."

Taoist Shuimu walked into the yard and looked at Fang Sheng carefully.

He had some impression of this fairy seedling.

Both brothers have spiritual roots and excellent personalities, which is quite rare.

It’s a pity that the number of Dao Yun is not high enough.

"Fang Sheng, what kind of martial arts are you practicing?"

"Replying to Senior, it is the Spirit Fire Sutra."

Fang Sheng answered.

After choosing the martial arts that day, he and Zhao Miaoyan discussed it in the room.

Finally, he chose the Spiritual Fire Sutra, which was standard and had room for further expansion.

However, Zhao Miaoyan chose the Earth Yun Jue.

As for Ah Cai?

I went to private school two days ago.

……

"Is there anything you don't understand in the technique?"

Taoist Shuimu asked with a pleasant expression.

Fang Sheng made a thoughtful expression.

With the blessing of the enlightenment of the triple human Dao fruit, he had no doubts about cultivation at all.

But you can't say that, even if it's true.

That's really ignorant of the ways of the world.

So Fang Sheng picked out a few details of the Linghuo Sutra to ask questions, all of which were tricky and difficult points.

After hearing this, Taoist Shuimu did not answer immediately.

Instead, he was secretly surprised at Fang Sheng's deep understanding of the Spiritual Fire Sutra.

Asking questions can reveal a person's true level.

People with a shallow level of knowledge will inevitably ask childish and shallow questions.

"Mr. Fang, I remember that you were born as a disaster victim of Yue State. Have you ever been exposed to immortal cultivation techniques before?"

"No." Fang Sheng shook his head.

Taoist Shuimu couldn't help but sigh:

"In just two or three days, you have studied this technique to such an extent. Your comprehension is truly rare..."

He looked at Fang Sheng and suddenly felt a little sorry.

He has a good character and good comprehension, but his spiritual roots are not good.

There are only three wisps of Taoist charm.

A cultivator with a profound background, even if his spiritual roots are not good, has the support of his family or sect, and can use all kinds of precious elixirs to continuously break through the levels of cultivation.

Even if you can't get through a big bottleneck like foundation building, the usual small bottlenecks are still no problem.

However, this cultivator of ordinary origin has difficulty overcoming even small bottlenecks.

Three spiritual roots, even the third level of Qi Refining is difficult...

Taoist Shuimu answered the questions raised by Fang Sheng in detail, while secretly sighing that the Tao is ruthless.

Then he left with mixed feelings.

(End of this chapter)