"Samadhi True Fire." Lin Yi said, casually sketching out several talismanic characters that flashed by.
The old man straightened up and said solemnly, "This matter is beyond my control. Please wait a moment."
Lin Yi nodded and said, "It's alright."
The old man drew his qi into a talisman, and a beam of spiritual light flew out of the hall.
A while later, an old Taoist priest came over; he was none other than President Li of the Dingyang Academy.
"So it's Young Friend Lin and Mr. Gongsun," President Li said.
"Greetings, President Chen," Lin Yi said, standing up.
"I'm just trying to make a living, I hope Fellow Daoist Li won't laugh at me," Gongsun Chenghua said, standing up as well.
"Please have a seat, both of you," President Li said as he walked over.
After the three were seated, President Li said, "I just received a message from a spirit talisman saying that young friend Lin has a Daoist method for cultivating the Three True Fires and intends to exchange it for merit points. I wonder if this is true?"
“Exactly.” Lin Yi nodded and continued, “This Daoist technique is only a fragment. It only contains the incantation for cultivating the Samadhi True Fire, and there is no further content.”
President Li took out a jade slip, handed it to Lin Yi, and said, "Just use your divine sense to record the cultivation technique into it."
Lin Yi did as instructed, and in a short time, he recorded a formula of several hundred words into the jade slip.
After receiving the jade slip, President Li didn't even glance at it. He directly took out a talisman and slapped it onto the jade slip.
The talisman activated, transforming into a beam of azure light that carried the jade slip away.
"The authenticity of any Taoist practice must be verified by the True Persons and Grandmasters of the Taiping Academy. If any of them are moved by a particular Taoist practice, they will not hesitate to offer small acts of merit. Young friend Lin can rest assured," said President Li.
Lin Yi nodded to indicate that he understood.
This formula for cultivating the Samadhi True Fire comes from the Quanzhen School.
After mastering the True Water of the Universe, Lin Yi had been preparing for his future cultivation of the Jade Liquid Threefold Transformation. The Quanzhen Sect, eager to seize the opportunity for revival, tried its best to meet the needs of True Person Qingxuan. What did it matter if they offered a formula that didn't involve fundamental Daoist principles?
Lin Yi waited quietly. Although he believed that the Quanzhen Sect wouldn't dare to fabricate anything, it was always better to be cautious.
About the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, a beam of green light flew in from outside.
President Li reached out and a jade slip landed in his hand.
As the light shifted and changed, a line of ink characters appeared.
"The incomplete chapter of the Innate True Fire Dao Technique can be practiced by first-level cultivators who have just entered the field. Due to the lack of subsequent content, it is rated as two stars and can be exchanged for 800 merit points."
There are three more marks on the back, representing the identity of the reviewer.
Lin Yi had observed the Xuanbang (a list of powerful cultivation methods) and knew that the merit points required to exchange for a two-star cultivation method generally ranged from one hundred to nine hundred. It seemed that the True Persons and Grandmasters of Taiping Academy had a very high opinion of this incomplete Daoist method.
President Li handed the jade slip to Lin Yi and asked, "Is this price satisfactory, young friend Lin?"
"Satisfied," Lin Yi said.
“Alright,” President Li said. “I will save this Taoist technique. From now on, if anyone exchanges this Taoist technique, you will receive a quarter of the merit points. Now give me your identity jade talisman.”
Lin Yi took out his identity jade talisman and handed it over.
President Chen held the jade talisman in his left hand and used his right hand to draw qi into a talisman. A beam of divine light shone through the wall from Tongde Hall and landed directly on the jade talisman in his left hand.
The divine light flashed and disappeared in an instant, and eight more crimson star-shaped marks appeared on the jade talisman.
One red star is equivalent to one hundred good deeds.
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Chapter Thirty-Three: Jade Elixir Revolves Three Times, Lingzhou Academy
Dingyang Academy, in the Zhaixing Pavilion.
Lin Yi and Gongsun Chenghua were sitting together eating.
As the delicious food, with its perfect color, aroma, and taste, enters the stomach, a gentle spiritual energy rises from the lower abdomen and is slowly refined as true qi circulates.
After several rounds of drinks and five courses of food,
Gongsun Chenghua put down his chopsticks, drank a full cup, and asked, "This meal wasn't cheap. Fellow Daoist Lin, please feel free to ask any questions. I will answer them to the best of my ability."
Lin Yi waved his hand and said, "It's nothing serious. I'm just curious about the cultivation methods of novelists, so I'd like to ask Fellow Daoist Gongsun about it."
Gongsun Chenghua said with great pleasure, "Since Fellow Daoist Lin has such an interest, please allow me to explain slowly."
"I, as a novelist, follow the path of verifying the false and cultivating the true through the false. I open up a virtual world in my mind, constantly eliminating falsehood and retaining truth, and finally make the falsehood into truth and attain immortality."
"Specifically, there are four levels of cultivation: perfect mind and vision, guiding qi into the body, internal vision forming externally, and unity of heaven and earth. To go further, one must see through the difference between reality and illusion and reach the state of unity between heaven and man. At this point, one is undoubtedly a fifth-order true immortal."
"And after the fifth rank?" Lin Yi asked.
Gongsun Chenghua's face showed a hint of longing as he said, "I once heard my master say that after reaching the fifth level, cultivators in the novelist realm have two paths. One is to condense the seed of a grotto-heaven with their own strength, and the other is to use the power of the spiritual veins of heaven and earth to open up a blessed land and evolve a grotto-heaven. This second path is the path of the Earth Immortal."
"Let's leave the former aside for now and just talk about the latter. The spiritual veins in this world are limited, but the imperial court, sects, aristocratic families, and independent cultivators all keep a close eye on them."
"The True Immortal of Haoyang Sect in the northern part of Lingzhou has been planning to open up a blessed land for nearly two hundred years. He first obtained the imperial decree from the Human Emperor, and then gradually suppressed the aristocratic families, sects, and rogue cultivators in various counties, slowly occupying and transforming the spiritual veins in various places, but so far, there has been no news of success."
Lin Yi was no stranger to the name Haoyang Sect. His master, Lin Zhengyang, had been enlightened by a true master of Haoyang Sect, which was why he was fortunate enough to enter the immortal sect.
Later, Lin Zhengyang failed to open his ancestral aperture between his eyebrows and become a second-tier mage before the age of fifty, and could only leave in disappointment. Unexpectedly, after leaving Haoyang Sect, he had another encounter and achieved a breakthrough.