I built the Jade Capital with the Netherworld

Chapter 196 The Purification of the World by the Flesh and Blood Guanyin

It wasn't until he sat down in the lecture hall of the Guannei Taoist Academy that Ding Ran felt a sense of peace and tranquility.

Looking around, the quality of my classmates varied considerably.

The youngest were only eleven or twelve years old, while the oldest were over sixty.
Their backgrounds are incredibly diverse, ranging from families of cultivators and powerful clans to unsavory, independent cultivators from the countryside... a truly varied array.

In the past, they would never have sat in the same room.

Today we are classmates, the wonder of fate is truly amazing!

If you were to ask what the only thing they all had in common, it would probably be that they all had more than ten years of cultivation, and in the martial arts world, they could all call themselves practitioners.

"Da da da……"

Suddenly, hurried footsteps came from outside the house. Everyone was startled and looked in the direction of the sound. They saw an elderly figure stepping into the house.

"Master Baichuan?"

Ding Ran looked surprised, and everyone in the room obviously knew him, causing a commotion.

"I am Tang Tao, a specially appointed lecturer at the Guannei Taoist Academy. From this day forward, I will be the one to lecture and instruct you all..."

At this point, Abbot Baichuan paused, then continued:

"Of course, with your talents, I don't think I need to go on and on. So, whether you come to this course or not is entirely up to you. As long as you pass the general knowledge assessment and cultivate for ten years, you can choose to study the Three Thousand Great Paths. Here are the general knowledge assessment materials. Please refer to them yourself. If you encounter anything you don't understand, you can ask me."

With a wave of his hand, the Abbot of Baichuan Temple produced jade slips from his sleeve.

Ding Ran caught one and glanced at it, only to find that it was just an ordinary and cheap jade slip from Dongling. He scanned it with his divine sense, and a massive amount of information flooded into his mind.

This gave him a jolt of excitement; the Immortal Court Path was indeed not so easy to obtain.

However, upon closer inspection, his expression turned strange, as he was surprised by the information in the jade slip.

The contents of the jade slip are divided into four parts:

They are: "Immortal Court Rules", "The Hundred Trades of the Mortal World", "General Knowledge of the Mysterious Sect", and "An Introduction to Magic".

Among them, "The Hundred Trades of the Mortal World" surprised Ding Ran the most.

It contains numerous techniques for using primordial energy, essential for the survival of ordinary people. For example, the Qi Observation Technique for observing changes in clouds and rain, the Foundation Building Technique for solidifying the foundation with earth-element primordial energy, and the Dragon Taming Manual for raising livestock using the power of the five elements, etc.

This kind of down-to-earth magic made him feel like he had entered a fake Taoist temple.
Shouldn't cultivating immortality mean being detached from worldly affairs?

This place teaches people how to farm and raise pigs... Is this a Taoist temple?
Ding Ran was suspicious, and the other cultivators were even more surprised. Some even asked directly, "May I ask Mr. Tang, are the various professions in the mortal world also part of the assessment?"

The abbot of Baichuan Temple nodded and said, "The contents of the jade slip are all test points. Of course, you don't need to learn everything. Just memorize the principles. When the time comes, if you answer 60% correctly, you will pass the test."

Upon hearing this, all the cultivators breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it was utterly absurd, one has no choice but to bow one's head when under someone else's roof, and it's not appropriate to question it.

"May I ask, Mr. Tang, when can I participate in the general knowledge assessment?"

"The assessment will be held on the 15th of the middle of each month. Counting the days, there are only three days left until the next assessment. With a little effort from everyone, passing the assessment in three days shouldn't be difficult!"

Master Baichuan replied that he was so certain because it only took him a few hours to write down the information.

Although this was because of his profound cultivation and quick thinking, three days was more than enough for a rogue cultivator with ten years of cultivation.

As expected, everyone remained noncommittal upon hearing this, and some even frowned slightly as they began to remember.

For a moment, the lecture hall was quiet.

Upon seeing this, the abbot of Baichuan Temple immediately sat cross-legged and silently began to comprehend and cultivate the Netherworld Dao Yin Talisman within his body.

This was one of the perks he received after joining the Taoist academy.

That is, one can choose any path to cultivate.

Of course, if one wishes to emulate the Celestial Master and comprehend more of the Great Dao, one must exchange celestial coins.

After much deliberation, Abbot Baichuan decided that the Netherworld Path was the safest option. The reason was simple: this path required accumulating merit to advance in rank, and as a lecturer at the Daoist academy, accumulating merit was not difficult for him. Such a straightforward path was naturally easier to cultivate than the Zhengyi lineage, which required comprehending the Great Dao.

A gust of wind came and rang the ceramic bells hanging from the eaves, and also brought out exclamations and noisy discussions from other lecture halls.

Those were the sounds from other enlightenment lecture halls.

Not all lecture halls are as quiet as the one in the Baichuan Temple. Most lecture halls teach ordinary people who have no knowledge of spiritual practice.

Many people can't even recognize all the characters.

The general education program launched by the Celestial Court was both novel and shocking, to the point that exclamations of surprise were endless.

In particular, Ding Ran and others were surprised by "The Hundred Trades of the Mortal World," which, when it came into the eyes of ordinary people, perfectly satisfied their specific imagination of "the emperor's golden hoe."

This greatly piqued their interest!

At this moment, similar scenes were commonplace in the nine academies of the Nine Paths Land.

In the old days, Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people.

Spiritual practice, almost overnight, shed its mystique and became a skill that everyone can learn.

An unpredictable and immense trend has quietly and powerfully begun.

……

Celestial Court, Celestial Master's Mansion.

Lu Wujiu, who was meditating on the Human Skin Book, suddenly opened his eyes. A Yin talisman came from the void and merged into the Human Skin Book.

"People are dying so quickly?"

He was a little surprised!
It turns out that this Yin Register was the Netherworld Path that he had spread throughout the world through the Taoist temple.

A quick calculation suggests that the Netherworld Path should only be beginning to be taught now, but unexpectedly, someone has already died and their path has been extinguished, causing the Yin Register to return to its origin.

It just goes to show that with such a large population, anything can happen.

He couldn't even be bothered to go and check on the situation.

“The Venerable Nanming is right. The ascension ritual for the preacher is indeed embodied in this disciple!”

Feeling the return of this Yin Talisman, Lu Wujiu took a soft breath.

He could sense that this Yin Talisman brought back not only the talisman itself, but also a trace of essence absorbed from its host.

This trace of essence was barely perceptible, but Lu Wujiu could already feel the immense power of hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea from it!

In fact, compared to the rites for preachers to ascend the steps.

The changes in the human skin book are truly astonishing!

After the Celestial Court bestowed titles upon celestial officials and clerks on the human skin book, the scale of the Sumeru world within the book has expanded to a distance of a thousand miles, and its area is still continuing to expand, although the rate of growth has significantly decreased.

Now, with the Taoist academy beginning to teach the Way of the Netherworld, the growth rate of the Human Skin Book has surged again.

As the owner of the Human Skin Book, Lu Wujiu also received an invisible blessing.

Unfortunately, due to the constraints of the small world, his power growth was not reflected in his realm, but rather in his primordial energy reserves.

However, Ran Zhendao has faintly touched the bottleneck of the fifth level.

Unfortunately, this was someone else's path, so Lu Wujiu naturally had little interest in it and treated it with indifference, not bothering to cultivate it at all.

"Perhaps it's time to take a peek at the flesh-and-blood Guanyin."

Feeling that his cultivation was making little progress, Lu Wujiu subconsciously thought of the flesh-and-blood Guanyin Pure Realm that the mandala in the depths of the human skin book led to.

(End of this chapter)