Preaching begins with Tai Chi

Chapter 216

Li Mi is now in a city called Luohua City, under the jurisdiction of Suiyue Jianzong, the sect of the Seven Swords of Longevity and Autumn Water Sword.

The Suiyue Sword Sect is one of the five great sword sects in the Zhouguang Sword World, and its highest skill is called "Suiyue Sword Code", which is related to the "Zhouji Suiyuejing" upon hearing it, so Li Mi is naturally very interested.

Of course, the first thing to do when you come to a new world is to look for the Tao Te Ching.

The "Tao Te Ching" in each world is a new version, which will bring great inspiration to Li Mi and reveal the mystery of Taoism in this world.

Li Mi took out a sword at his waist and wandered the streets of Luohua City.What I saw along the way was almost all adults, no children, no old people, very strange.

Regardless of men and women, almost everyone carries a sword, as if the sword is not just a weapon, but a weapon that must be held.

Soon, next to the avenue, a bookstore called "Guangyin Bookstore", which was three feet high and occupied a very wide area, was located at the crossroads, and there were many people coming and going.

Li Mi followed the flow of people into it, and saw that all the walls were bookshelves filled with various books, among which the Sword Classic and Sword Classic accounted for more than half, and the "Tao Te Ching" was also placed in a very conspicuous position.

Li Mi took out a copy of "Tao Te Ching" and flipped through it for a while, and as expected, a new chapter was born.

I also found "The Secret History of Zhouguang" and "Ancient Book of Famous Swords", which respectively told the history of the Zhouguang sword world and the deeds of famous swords in the past, and went to check out the three books together.

"These three books add up to five quarters. Please pay the bill, sir." The waiter smiled and served.

Li Mi thought for a while, and took out a piece of gold leaf and a middle-grade spirit stone.

"Sorry, Time Bookstore only accepts time, sir, didn't you bring the time book?" The clerk took out a dagger and pointed at Li Mi: "Then we can only take it from the customer's life."

Li Mi nodded slightly and let go of his protection.

The man slashed at Li Mi slightly with his dagger, and Li Mi's lifespan was instantly cut off by five quarters of an hour, that is, 75 minutes.

This guy's Taoism, but at the enlightenment stage, can actually cut off Li Mi's life essence. Although Li Mi let go of his protection, the only possibility is that the laws of the Zhouguang Sword Realm are very special.

Through this simple cut, Li Mi has already noticed that in the world of Zhou Guangjian, time itself is a currency that can be traded.

The man was very surprised. At the moment of cutting, he sensed the extreme longevity of this guest, which seemed to last thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years.

Even the Seven Great Sword Lords who have achieved longevity, their lifespan is only a thousand years, right?
What is the origin of this guest?
However, when he came back to his senses, the guest had disappeared with three books.

With three books, Li Mi found a beautiful place in Luohua City, on a bluestone platform facing the river, in an octagonal pavilion.

Open the "Tao Te Ching" and read it silently.

"Tao Te Ching" is still "Tao can be said, it is very Tao; name can be named, it is very famous." The opening chapter, and later versions, mainly talk about the method of time and Taoism.

In Li Mi's previous life, time belonged to every life, the most equal and the most precious resource, whether it is a beggar or a billionaire, whether it is an ant or a commoner, or an emperor or general, time is equal to everyone.

However, in the universe of light swords, time can be traded, so the lifespan of the poor can also be seized, and the lifespan of the rich will be extended.

Of course, immortality cannot be obtained through a simple transaction, and the life limit still exists.

The time a person obtains through trading is called external life, which is at most three times that of his own life. The improvement of this life depends entirely on the improvement of the realm.

Moreover, monks in different realms have different quality of life.

Ordinary people's natal quality is the lowest, and the years transformed by them can only be used by foundation-building monks at most; and the power of longevity realm, it is best to transform the years of monks of the same realm, and the worst is Nascent Soul monks.

Moreover, this process is naturally accompanied by great loss. An ordinary person's ten-year life span can at most be exchanged for a month's time for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Therefore, in the world of Zhou Guangjian, two things are the most important: the Suiyue Sword and the Suiyue Book.

The Suiyue Sword is a tool that can divide the delivery time, and the Suiyue Book is a tool to store other lives other than one's own life.

Of course, reducing the life of others must be a voluntary act of the person being reduced, but it cannot be done if there is a trace of unwillingness.

These two miraculous magic weapons are very common under the influence of the world laws of the Zhouguang Sword Realm, and even ordinary enlightened monks can hold and use them.

Thanks to the laws of the world, almost all the superior sword techniques in the Zhouguang Sword World are related to time, including the "Tao Te Ching".

The way of time, from simple to difficult, is divided into three levels: change, stability, and inversion.

The so-called change is to speed up or slow down the flow of time; the so-called steadiness is to stop time, and only I can do it;

The time swordsmanship in the Zhouguang Sword Realm is basically changing levels, only the Seven Swords of Longevity may have touched a certain level.

As for rebellion, I think it can only be used when you reach the realm of immortals.

Moreover, the influence of the way of time is extremely small, basically within a square inch, so it is all reflected in the way of the sword.

If you want large-scale changes to pause or even reverse time, I am afraid that only Da Luo or even a higher realm can do it.

Through the "Tao Te Ching", Li Mi has a certain understanding of time kendo, but if he wants to complete the "Zhou Ji Sui Sui Men Jing", he wants to make friends with the sword, discuss swords with the Seven Swords of Longevity, and obtain the inheritance of the five major sword sects. Fast the best way.

"The Secret History of Zhou Guang" tells the history of the Zhou Guang Sword Realm. There is only [-] years of history to test.

Among the Seven Swords of Longevity, there is even a "living fossil" who survived from the original era.

Humans in the Zhouguang Sword Realm seem to have grown directly from the "earth" and evolved directly into the tribal era.

In the entire realm, apart from the human race, there is no other intelligent life.

But outside of the Zhouguang Sword Realm, there is an endless sea of ​​blood. Blood demons invade all the time. The war has lasted for 3000 years and has never subsided.

Because of this, when human beings give birth to young children, they will use the time sword to cut their life and quickly mature them under the condition of providing sufficient nutrition.

Although he may be only a few years old mentally, he is already an adult in appearance.

Similarly, as long as the external life in the time book is not exhausted, one can keep one's own life forever. When a person shows signs of aging, it basically means that the time limit has come.

Time, in the world of Zhou Guangjian, has become the highest currency surpassing gold, silver and spirit stones.

Suiyue Bookstore is the publishing organization of Suiyue Book and Suiyue Sword, and also a subsidiary organization of Suiyue Jianzong.

"Ancient Book of Famous Swords" tells about famous swordsmen from ancient times to the present, among which the Seven Swords of Longevity occupy the main space.

There are five major sword sects in the entire Zhouguang sword world, all of which have longevity sword masters. Among them, the Suiyue sword sect and the instant shadow sword sect have two longevity sword masters, and their status is higher than the other three sects.

The living fossil who lived from 3000 years ago to the present, the oldest sword lord in history - Sui Yue Jian Jun, is the founder of Sui Yue Sword Sect and the master of Qiu Shui Jian Jun. Now he is sitting on the front line to resist the invasion of blood demons.

The affairs of the faction are in charge of its own Qiu Shuijian.

Qiu Shuijian is the last one among the Seven Swords of Longevity, and he has achieved the status of Longevity Fruit for less than a hundred years.

Li Mi is now in Luohua City, the jurisdiction of the Sui Yue Jian Zong, so he is naturally very interested in the Sui Yue Shu Sui Yue Jian.

For a long time, Li Mi's fighting method has been very simple and rude, using magic weapons to hit people. Tai Chi Tu must be sure, and Fan Tianyin will be smashed, and it will be done directly.

It's not that Li Mi is not good at fighting, but if there are magic weapons available, why use magic techniques or martial arts?

waste time.

Among his own Taoism, Li Mi's most commonly used method is also the Summoning Heavenly Venerable in the "Shenxiao Infinite Good Fortune Sutra". This trick is also very useful when facing monsters.

Among the swordsmanship, Li Mizheng has only learned Taiji swordsmanship.

Although Tai Chi Sword is only a way to enter the Tao, when Li Mi realized Tai Chi Sword, the scene it showed was definitely a battle at the level of an immortal. It can be seen that Tai Chi Sword Art is not just a low-level sword art, its upper limit is extremely high.

Li Mi decided to learn the Seven Swords of Longevity with Tai Chi swordsmanship, and then comprehended the "Zhou Ji Sui Sui Jing".

When I was reading in Li Mi Ting and learning about the new world, Li Mi's five-carved natal life had been reported layer by layer by Sui Yue Bookstore and sent to the hands of Yan Qingzhou, the seventh elder of Sui Yue Jianzong.

Like a ray of clear light, floating in the palm of Yan Qingzhou, Yan Qingzhou tasted it lightly, as if smelling the fragrance of the top-quality famous tea: "Its quality is pure, its longevity is like a big day, full of vitality, everything is competing, its realm, At the extreme of the Nascent Soul, only one step away from the Longevity Fruit, the strength of his original life is still above the Seven Swords of Longevity, as far as ten thousand years, the only possibility for such a special swordsman is--a visitor from another world , people from outside the territory!"

"What? Someone from outside the territory? Could it be a blood demon in disguise?" The shopkeeper of Guangyin Bookstore beside him turned pale with shock.

"Hey, don't worry about being quiet. This person's foundation is solid and extraordinary, and his aura is pure and peaceful. He must be a cultivator of the righteous way, not a monster. My Zhouguang Sword Realm is drifting in the endless void. It is rare to meet strangers. In Luohua City? Please come and see me quickly!" Yan Qingzhou was very excited: "Please come to this person, and I will meet with him. If he is someone from outside the region and has something extraordinary, he can report to Senior Brother Qiushui!"

The Suiyue Sword Sect mobilized, and soon found Li Mi who hadn't deliberately hidden it.

"This distinguished guest, dare to ask your name?" Wang Jing'an said with a warm spring breeze on her face, "I am the shopkeeper of Suiyue Bookstore. The three books purchased by the distinguished guest in my store only take five minutes of ordinary time. But the five quarters of time paid by the honored guest are the culmination of the Nascent Soul, and it is also of great use to the Sword Lord of Longevity, and its value is enough to compare with the 300-year lifespan of an ordinary person!"

"Poverty Tai Chi, shopkeeper Wang, is there such a huge gap between the life limit of ordinary people and the life limit of monks?" Li Mi put away the three books and asked with a smile.

"Of course, the original life of the Nascent Soul is enough to make up for the external life of the Sword Lord of Longevity. It is almost the most precious currency in the entire universe of light swords, second only to the original life of the Longevity Fruit. Well, this book bureau can call millions of years at will, and these external fates are more important to enlightened monks, even the foundation swordsmen are unwilling to use ordinary people's external fates, it is too low." Wang Jingan has already determined that this Tai Chi The Taoist is a visitor from a foreign land, and has the Taoism second only to the Seven Swords of Longevity, so he introduced him sincerely.

In the world of Zhou Guangjian, time is also currency, and the value of the time of ordinary people and the time of great powers is very different.

This is also in line with the objective law, and it also leads to a huge difference in life expectancy.

Among ordinary people, the impoverished and destitute are like pigs being raised, fattened at an extremely fast speed, and then get married and have children to raise offspring. The countless needs in life force them to sell their lives, and their lifespan is basically only 20 years old. years or so.

It's not that rich people still have a heart of compassion, but that their life can only be cut by two-thirds at most, no more.

When a poor person passes his life for [-] years and dies of aging in an instant, the intergenerational inheritance gap between two generations is actually only five short years.

The rich and powerful people, even if they cannot cultivate, still have their own life of more than 60 years, their external life of more than 180 years, and they can live to be more than two hundred years old, which is ten times the difference from the poor people, and they are hardly the same species.

The same is true among monks. Loose cultivators or monks of small sects are limited everywhere. Whether it is martial arts resources, most of them need to be paid by their own life. If the natal life is reduced severely, no amount of external life will be of use.

In such a strange world and such a unique civilization, it is no wonder that swordsmen have been cultivated. They are not afraid of life and death, dare to fight on the edge of the sword, and pursue their own momentary youth.

However, the true biography carefully cultivated by the great sect harvests the original life of the monks of the same realm or one lower realm, and turns it into their own external life, and the life span is much longer than that of casual cultivators.

"I also invite Taoist Tai Chi to come back to Suiyue Bookstore with me. The bookstore will deliver the equivalent of Suiyue to you, and give you a local Suiyue book for free." Shopkeeper Wang invited.

Li Mi can naturally see the existence of the Sword Sect behind the Shuaiyue Bookstore, but this is the same as his purpose, so he happily went to the appointment.

In the bookstore, shopkeeper Wang Da took out a carefully prepared prefecture-level time book. This book is equivalent to a very high-quality magic weapon, which is enough to hold the years of a Nascent Soul cultivator for a long time.

Generally, it is used by Nascent Soul monks to carry their own external life.

Li Mi finally chose to exchange the life of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator for five hours, and tried to use it.

Sure enough, with the function of the prefecture-level time book, the passage of Li Mi's own lifespan stopped, but the external life in the prefecture-level time book was at work.

But the environment around Li Mi began to become blurred, a little unreal, and unable to fully carry Li Mi's power, at most he could only use the level of the early Yuanying.

If you want to maintain this illusion, you will become an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator. Of course, when you encounter danger, you can switch back to your original life instantly according to your will, and the consumption of external life will be stopped at the same time.

It is very convenient, and it also adds a lot of longevity to the monks.

For example, the Seven Swords of Longevity also have a lot of time to socialize and deal with mundane affairs, which can be replaced by external orders.

To realize the Dao by oneself, to practice the secret method, or to face off at the peak, one must naturally use one's own life.

Still very useful.

It's just that people in the Zhouguang Sword Realm have much less life expectancy than monks of the same realm in the Shenzhou Realm.

For example, Jindan monks live to eight hundred in the Shenzhou Realm, and Nascent Soul monks live to three thousand.

But in the world of Zhou Guangjian, Jindan monks only have 300 years of life, and Nascent Soul monks only have 500 years of life.

Accompanied by shopkeeper Wang Da, Li Mi spent three days playing in Luohua City, and truly experienced the joy of beings in the world of Zhou Guangjian.

Up to the fight between the Nascent Soul cultivators, both parties bet their lives for ten years to adjudicate a public case between the two sects; among them, there was an auction ceremony hosted by the Time Bookstore, and Jindan Foundation Establishment monks participated, and they have seen the years. The real value of currency; the poorest people are like pigs being raised, ripening in ignorance, growing in suffering, and ending in regret.

Three days later, Wang Jing'an finally couldn't bear it anymore. In his opinion, this Tai Chi Taoist actually used his precious "Yuanying Zhiji" life to visit Luohua City. Isn't this a waste of time?

But it is absolutely impossible for any rational monk to tolerate such waste!

Even if it is just to exchange the original life of the Nascent Soul into the outer life of an ordinary Nascent Soul, there is a gap of 8-10 times!
But in fact, for Li Mi, these three days are by no means a waste, but enlightenment.

Feeling the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of all beings in the Zhouguang Sword World at close range, as well as the delivery of the Suiyue Sword and the Suiyue Book, and the trading changes of Shouyuan's life, is the real understanding of the way of time!

The harvest in just three days is far greater than the enlightenment gained in the previous three years in the Bajing Palace.

After all, a special realm like the Zhouguang Sword Realm is extremely rare even among the heavens and ten thousand realms.

The law of time that even ordinary people can touch is indeed a piece of dragon scale that fell off from Zhulong's body, it is so special.

Every cut to the life has potential invisible wear and tear on the monk, which is equivalent to cutting the fruit of the Dao.

When the original life is reduced too much, no matter how much external life you earn, it will not be able to make up for it.

This is also why in the world of Zhouguang Sword, the true biography of the real big faction, I am afraid that their life has never been reduced once in their life.

"Hehe, thank you for your three-day company, Mr. Wang. I think the person behind the scenes has been waiting for a long time, right? Please introduce me to the poor!" Li Mi finally spoke after he had a basic understanding of the appearance of all living beings in Zhou Guangjian's world.

Wang Jingan was overjoyed, and hurriedly led Li Mi away from Luohua City, and headed to the Suiyue Sword Sect on Yuheng Mountain not far away.

The Suiyue Sword Sect is the oldest and most famous sword sect in the Zhouguang Sword World. It has tens of thousands of disciples, all of whom practice the "Suiyue Sword Code".

Eighty percent of them are disciples of the outer sect, that is, monks who will fight for their lives at every turn. Except for a very few lucky ones and those with great perseverance and wisdom who can stand out and be promoted to the inner sect, most of the disciples of the outer sect are equivalent to the Time Sword School The high-quality meat pigs raised can only be short-lived and fall like a meteor.

It contributes high-quality enlightenment years, foundation building years, and even golden elixir years for the disciples in the sect to turn into external orders.

There are also more than 1000 inner disciples, their practice is basically guaranteed, their life is reduced by up to [-]%, and their external life can barely guarantee three times the supply of their life, they are the backbone of the Sui Yue Sword Sect.

Finally, there are more than 100 true disciples. Their original life is rarely reduced, and their external life is provided by the sect.

(End of this chapter)