Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

After Li Dongyang fled in embarrassment, Wang Luo stayed behind and finished the food on the table without wasting a grain of rice. During this period, the surrounding diners were just talking in low voices, but few dared to come over and talk to Wang Luo. Even Aunt Yang just silently asked Lao Li to add two meat patties and thanked her in a low voice. The atmosphere seemed quite depressing.

It’s not that they’re afraid of Li Dongyang’s revenge afterwards – the diners are very sure that with Li Dongyang’s temperament, he probably won’t have the shame to tell his colleagues what he went through when he goes back.

What's more, so what if you talk about it? No one did anything at first, but Li Dongyang himself was so heartbroken by the spray. And if Qingpingsi still wants to retaliate... Is there any more severe revenge than setting up a special team to go to Stone Street every day to post fines?

The diners are a little afraid of Wang Luo.

Obviously, with just words and words, he made Li Dongyang, a dignified patrolling Qingyi, vomit blood. His Qingyi faded, and he took over Qingyi's golden seal with his flesh and blood body. The magical power Wang Luo displayed was not only vast, it was simply terrifying.

Thank you, thank you, I am really afraid.

But for Shi Yue, Wang Luo's scary part had already been taught to him on Lingshan Mountain, and now he was only full of curiosity.

Not long after walking out of Li Ji Roast Pork, Shi Yue couldn't help but asked, regardless of the crowds of people on the street: "Master Mountain Master, how on earth did you do that!?"

"Which part?"

"All of them!" Shi Yue couldn't wait. "For example, how did you know what he was thinking? It was the ones that you wanted to cut off with Shijie as a pledge of surrender. I thought you were setting up a trap out of thin air at first, but I didn't expect to see his reaction. All of them were correct!"

Wang Luo said: "I guessed it."

Shi Yue was dumbfounded: "Guess?! Then, isn't that tantamount to constructing a trap out of thin air!?"

"That's right, it's just a trap created out of thin air."

Shi Yue's eyes doubled, and his throat felt a little dry: "Then, what if you made the wrong mistake?"

Wang Luo said: "Right and wrong are the same. As long as I anger him so that he can no longer speak eloquently, I win. The so-called right and wrong are not about right and wrong from the beginning."

Shi Yue suddenly found it difficult to accept: "But in this way, wouldn't it be a disguised admission that Li Dongyang is right in theory?"

"Yes, he is right when it comes to truth." Wang Luo nodded, "That's why I said don't talk to him about truth, or even personal matters, just attack him personally and let him break his guard. "

"But how could he be right!?"

Wang Luo said: "The truth is right, but it does not mean that things are right. The word "da truth" has the meaning of denying its principles without argument. Li Dongyang regards himself as a civilized gentleman, and in his eyes This is the biggest mistake of imitating other people’s lower-class life.”

Shi Yue blinked, thoughtfully.

Wang Luo further explained: "For example, a practitioner with excellent talent can remember a photograph and draw inferences from one instance to another. This is of course a good thing, but if he teaches a practitioner with mediocre qualifications that he only needs to read the book once, Anything more would be a waste...and what Li Dongyang did was force him to read the book only once, knowing that he couldn't remember what he had learned.

Shi Yue nodded: "So, reading the book only once is the so-called great principle. Because it is indeed effective for geniuses, and the cultivation level of geniuses is indeed higher than that of mediocrity, so it is difficult for mediocrity to deny the effectiveness of reading the book only once... …”

Wang Luo said: "Yes, in essence this is bullying others. So there is no need to argue with him at all, just let him break his defense and shut up."

Shi Yue shook his head: "He is the patrol Qingyi of Qingping Division. If you tell him to break the guard and shut up, the consequence will be to eat the Qingyi Golden Seal. Except for you, the mountain master, how can ordinary people afford it... Come to think of it... This is also the second question I want to ask, how do you receive the gold seal with your bare hands? That is a gold elixir level gold seal!"

Wang Luo thought for a while and commented briefly: "The golden elixir of cooking is not worth mentioning."

Shi Yue was immediately speechless.

A social elite who studied seriously at Rongcheng Academy, achieved first-class grades, and became one of the social elites of Qingping Division, was actually so good that he was not worth mentioning! ?

Wang Luo said: "The realm is barely noticeable, but the actual combat ability is about zero. Golden elixirs of this level were often found in the furnace cauldrons of demon cultivators' lairs or in human corrals."

Shi Yue's voice was slightly dry: "Every patrol Qingyi must undergo a full set of practical training before joining the job. Their combat power is already much higher than that of ordinary people."

Wang Luo said: "So it would be impolite for me to say some of the words that follow."

"...I lost."

The mountain guarding girl who had been impolitely alluded to could not help but sigh: "When I was in elementary school, I once heard the teacher who taught history say that the monks in the classical era were all skilled in combat skills, and their actual combat capabilities in the same realm were far from modern ones. Practitioners can't compare, even if the latter has a practice system and magical medicine that far exceeds that of ancient times. At that time, there were still many students who were not convinced and argued with the teacher... It seems that we were naive. "

Wang Luo nodded.

If modern practitioners are only at the level he saw in Rongcheng, then there is really no comparison between the two sides.

In fact, this is where Wang Luo felt the biggest difference from the past after walking down Lingshan Mountain and entering the new world.

The practitioners in the new world seem to have all been delicately castrated. Not to mention that the upper limit of the realm is locked in Nascent Soul, just in terms of the realm of foundation building and golden elixir, although the cultivation realm is not false, firstly, it cannot breathe out spiritual energy, and can only rely on spiritual food to nourish; secondly, Most people are like herbivores with no fighting experience.

At that time, Li Dongyang was defeated by Wang Luo's words and used the golden seal in green clothes. The power of the magic weapon enveloped the entire store in an instant. It is true that Li Dongyang was only targeting Wang Luo alone, but according to common sense, when a practitioner faces such a murderous weapon, even if it is just based on instinctive reaction, he should quickly hold up the amulet and activate the escape method to avoid disaster.

As a result, the diners were only scared and angry without any response.

This reaction proves that not only have they not experienced any actual combat, they have not even received basic combat training. In the old immortal calendar era, even the most independent sects were bound to conduct practical desensitization training for newcomers.

When the fist comes, at least don't close your eyes tightly and freeze. Even if you encounter a strong enemy and are almost dead, you will bite the flesh and blood from the enemy before death.

This custom in the old days originated from the cruel environment at that time. Compared with the needs of practitioners who all want to achieve enlightenment and ascend, the resources that Jiuzhou Continent can provide are obviously seriously insufficient. After all, a Mahayana monk's daily breathing is enough to drain a middle-grade spiritual vein. To forge an immortal-level treasure, it is easy to require dozens of rare treasures that will last for thousands of years. And when demand exceeds supply, everyone has to rely on their own abilities.

As soon as any natural treasure comes out, hundreds or even thousands of interested people will gather. If you are lucky, you can negotiate and distribute the income. If you are unlucky, you can only have a chicken-eating contest as the senior sister said.

As for saying, don’t ask for natural resources and earthly treasures, but just want to be rich and content, is that okay? It is indeed feasible to a certain extent. You can join a famous sect, act as the tool of the sect honestly under the protection of a group of old monsters, practice and work step by step, and finally exhaust your life at different times according to your qualifications, and die with a smile...

This is indeed the ideal of many practitioners. After all, ascension is too elusive, and it is hard to live a good life now. However, although Kyushu is large, there are only so many well-known and decent families, and the stable jobs it can provide are actually rarer than those talents and treasures that appear suddenly from time to time. Therefore, the competition for these positions will naturally only become more intense.

Even the Taiqing Sect, which is famous for its benevolence, always cleans out the corpses of double-digit cultivators every time it recruits disciples at the Immortal Ascension Ceremony.

So how about avoiding these popular resources and finding a paradise with beautiful mountains and clear waters, farming and breathing, and seeking comfort?

It is certainly possible in theory, but most of the popular Utopias are owned by owners. Lands without owners basically have flaws, either due to bad Feng Shui or lack of resources. Living in such a flawed place for a lifetime may be a waste. If you can't overcome the hurdle of building a foundation... then you might as well go to the mortal world and become a rich man. What's more, even a remote Taoyuan may not be immune to war and disputes - Wang Luo has a special say in this.

Such a cruel jungle environment naturally requires everyone to be a hunter. Even if the environment is as beautiful as a spiritual mountain, actual combat training is an indispensable part.

In more than 10,000 years of history, many Lingshan people have died unexpectedly.

Those cultivators who can survive in such an environment can certainly compete with each other.

But on the other hand, Wang Luo doesn't think the actual weakness of modern practitioners is a big problem, because although the individual combat power is not good, there are enough modern practitioners! A dog food restaurant in a slum area can be packed with dozens of foundations. Considering modern spiritual practice, it often only takes ten years from entrainment to foundation building. This is more productive than the notorious Blood Demon Sect's human corral! While he was eating, he briefly inquired with Shi Yue that Rong City had a permanent population of 23 million, of which there were as many as 10 million who met the foundation building standards!

Tens of millions of foundations were built. Even if every inch of land in Kyushu was dug up, it would not be possible to dig out so many foundations. Nowadays, the old capital of a country is higher than all the nine states in the past, and while building the foundation with tens of millions of dollars, there are also more than two million golden elixirs...

More than two million. When he heard this number, Wang Luo was even more shocked than tens of millions of foundations. Because firstly, this means that the elixir condensation rate in the new era can reach more than 20%, which is five times that of the old era; secondly, an old capital only has two million golden elixirs, so how much does it add up to the whole country? How many are there in the whole world? Even if they are all food-based golden elixirs such as stoves and human and animal ones, quantitative changes will definitely lead to qualitative changes.

This kind of qualitative change, of course, does not mean that with millions of golden elixirs, you can use human sea tactics to fill everything. Seriously, let alone millions of golden elixirs, even tens of millions of golden elixirs will die if you encounter a true land immortal like Song Yijing. Mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

However, Rongcheng's tens of millions of foundations and millions of golden elixirs supported Rongcheng, which was more prosperous than heaven.

And ten Song Dynasty mirrors cannot design the magnificent scenery of Rongcheng.

In addition, Li Dongyang's golden seal just now is indeed an insult to the realm of Jindan, and it is even more disrespectful to the prestige of Qingpingsi. However, there are as many as 30,000 of these braided Qingyi in Rongcheng... Not all of them may have Li Dongyang's ability, but they definitely All have gold seals as standard. It is said that if you encounter trouble, you can apply for more powerful magic weapons. Wang Luo thought that it would be easy to pick up one or two gold seals with bare hands, but if there were too many, it would really be difficult for him, who was seriously injured.

So in this new world, personal strength, especially personal force, is not actually important. In fact, it didn't matter even if he couldn't accept Li Dongyang's golden seal before. The golden seal only had a suppressive effect and did not have much actual killing power. Even if he was suppressed and Li Dongyang's heart was broken afterwards, he would still win this battle.

While thinking, Wang Luo heard Shi Yue start to ask curious questions again.

"Master Mountain Master, how did you break Li Dongyang's Dao Heart? I know that you ancient cultivators have amazing combat power. With the foundation-building cultivation, it is easy to kill a modern Jindan, but can you break people's Dao Heart with strong force?"

Wang Luo smiled and shook his head when he heard this: "Of course not. A Dao Heart that can be broken by force is not worthy of being called a Dao Heart. In the old days, even a land-based True Immortal in the Mahayana period would not be able to break the Dao Heart of a Qi-inducing child with brute force."

The so-called Dao Heart is the most tenacious and incredible thing in the world.

The road for cultivators to seek the Dao is a long and difficult road full of failures, and there is almost no end in sight. Even if the conditions are good like the people of Lingshan, only a few people can finally ascend to the fairyland, and most people can only die before reaching the end.

To stick to such a path, cultivators need to explain two questions: why do I practice; what is the Dao I practice.

Only by being able to clearly answer these two questions can one stick to the heart of Taoism under the scouring of hundreds of years.

So, to put it simply, the combination of "why practice" and "what is practiced" is the so-called Taoism. With Taoism, practitioners can often surpass their own limits and achieve success in practice.

And the broken Taoism means that the answer prepared by the practitioner for himself was ruthlessly slapped in the face.

For example, some people practice to protect their motherland in the mortal world, not seeking immortality or ascension, but only seeking peace and prosperity for the country and the people. However, several years later, the domestic political turmoil, the people's hearts turned upside down, the royal orthodoxy was overthrown, and the practitioners who protected the old order were cursed as traitors by the people... At this time, the practitioners are likely to have their Taoism broken.

For example, some people practice to stay with their Taoist partner, but their Taoist partner is just a bitch raised by a great monk, and the love story with others, even the marriage relationship and even their own children are just the master's task... When the truth is discovered, the Taoism is basically hopeless.

The consequence of a broken heart is also very simple: everything gained by relying on the heart will be lost when the heart is broken.

Because of the adherence to the heart of Tao, practitioners can persist in breathing in spiritual energy and accumulating true essence for hundreds of years. When the heart of Tao is broken, the true essence condensed by the heart of Tao will naturally dissipate. The supernatural powers achieved by the true essence will naturally no longer exist. In addition, the breaking of the heart of Tao is often accompanied by the collapse of the three views, and the three views are closely related to the primordial spirit, so when the heart of Tao is broken, the primordial spirit will most likely be severely damaged.

And Li Dongyang...

"Since it wasn't force, how did the mountain master break Li Dongyang's heart of Taoism?"

Wang Luo pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps it was because I exposed his nature of abusing power for personal gain, and he felt that he was not worthy of the official uniform on his body, so his heart of Taoism was broken."

Shi Yue blinked: "Mountain master, are you serious?"

"Seriously."

"But this doesn't make sense!" Shi Yue protested, "There are countless people like Li Dongyang who abuse their power for personal gain. There are hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats who are dismissed and investigated by the Golden Deer Hall every year. Many of them are so heinous that they are even struck by thunder from the Golden Deer Hall! But I only heard of those who refused to repent, and never heard of a few people whose hearts of Taoism were broken because of this!"

"Maybe it's because they didn't meet me."

Shi Yue's protest came to an abrupt end, and after a long time, he clasped his fists and bowed his head: "...I lost."

And with Shi Yue's countless surrenders, the two finally arrived at the end of this journey.

After passing the bustling commercial street, we went deep into a winding narrow alley. After walking for a while, the view suddenly opened up to a spacious small square.

On one side of the square was an old, simple but neat and elegant courtyard.

Gray bricks and brown tiles, a black-bottomed gold-plated plaque hung on the red wooden door. Although the two characters "Shifu" were mottled, they were still neat and powerful, without losing their spirit.

The red-dressed girl's emotions reached the highest point of the day at this moment.

"Master Mountain Master, we are home!"