Zhang Zheng's initial understanding of Tao made Zhang Zheng's connection with heaven and earth deeper.

While she was in the house, she seemed to be able to feel the joy of the osmanthus tree in the yard spreading its branches, and the joy of the flowers and plants under it enjoying the wind and sun.

As soon as her mind moved, the whole world conveyed to her the prosperity and vitality.

This is a completely different scene from what you see with your spiritual consciousness. It seems illusory, but you clearly know that it really exists.

Suddenly, the thin and pure breath of life was mixed with two stronger, strange breaths.

Someone entered the yard!

Could it be that someone sneaked into the courtyard and wanted to take her life? Zhang Zheng felt nervous, quickly took out the dagger and hid behind the door, preparing to kill her.

When there was no movement, Zhang Zheng suddenly remembered that there was such a thing as spiritual consciousness, and hurriedly used his spiritual consciousness to sneak into the courtyard and found two little girls of eight or nine years old.

One of the girls with braided braids looked at the dusty storage bag in her hand with novel eyes, and asked in surprise: "Tingting, we will be monks in the future, will we be able to fly in the sky like Senior Brother Yun?"

The Tingting in her mouth was a little girl with fair skin and a green coat. Her watery eyes were full of energy, but she had a much calmer temperament. She forced herself to be calm and said: "It's still early for you to fly in the sky like Senior Brother Yun. You

Look at all the senior brothers and sisters in the outer gate walking."

After saying that, she carefully touched the booklet "Qi Nourishing Technique" in her hand and couldn't help showing a longing look.

Zhang Zheng was confused by this scene. Why were these two little girls restricted from this courtyard? What puzzled her the most was that their behavior could clearly indicate that they were new disciples.

The admission test of Wanxuanmen has not changed for thousands of years, and it has always been conducted every twenty years. Could it be that something unexpected happened and the disciples were accepted in advance?

Reason told Zhang Zheng that it was impossible. If there were any big changes, it would be impossible for her to practice in seclusion without being disturbed.

The only possibility left is that she suddenly realized that she didn't know the sun and the moon, and more than ten years had passed quietly in the outside world.

After the little girls went back to their rooms, Zhang Zheng turned into a stream of light and quickly left the yard. He casually asked a fellow passerby how long it would be until the Mountain and Sea Competition.

Being stopped rashly, his fellow disciples were still a little angry, but seeing that the person who stopped him had a much higher level of cultivation than himself, his anger immediately dissipated and he respectfully replied: "There are still about seventy-three years left."

Seventy-three... there are still eighty-five years before the retreat, which means that twelve years have passed since her enlightenment! No wonder she happened to meet a new disciple who started.

"Senior sister, what else do you have to ask?"

Seeing the fearful and uneasy expression on the unfamiliar junior brother's face, Zhang Zheng waved his hand quickly: "No, no, no, please, junior brother."

After that, she left in a hurry, rented a spiritual beast and hurried to the management office.

After she left the courtyard just now, she tried to enter again and found that her disciple token had expired. It seemed that she had missed the cultivation test, and Wan Xuan Sect might have directly canceled her disciple status.

As soon as I stepped into the management office, I found that there was a sea of ​​people here, most of them were little carrot heads, and their cultivation level was at the first or second level of Qi training or they had not yet introduced Qi into their bodies.

Unexpectedly, I missed my entry point twenty years ago when I was in a coma, but I made up for it twenty years later by some strange combination of circumstances.

With a group of children eagerly watching, Zhang Zheng was too embarrassed to jump in line, so she had to wait in line behind them silently.

The little carrot heads entered the fairy gate for the first time, and they couldn't restrain their excitement. They were chattering so loudly that it made people's heads buzz.

Fortunately, Zhang Zheng was wearing sect uniforms, and her pretty face that had always been expressionless was now serious, which made these new disciples a little scared. Although they were very curious about this beautiful senior sister, they did not dare to go up to her and quarreled with her, so they could only think quietly.

He glanced vaguely and whispered a few words.

Soon, Zhang Zheng was finally in line.

The monk who had been distributing supplies to new disciples for a day was so exhausted that he skillfully handed over a storage bag and a book "Qi Nourishing Technique" without even raising his head.

Zhang Zheng, who had been waiting in line for a long time, did not expect that a senior brother was distributing supplies. She also did not expect that with so many new disciples, how could Elder Foundation Establishment sit there for two days and distribute supplies continuously.

He had no choice but to ask: "Senior brother, can the elder in charge be here?"

The senior brother then raised his head, glanced at her cultivation, and then said: "The elder is in the side hall, you can go in by yourself."

Bai queued up, and Zhang Zheng went to the side hall in annoyance.

The elder in charge was having nothing to do, flipping through a book on the world of cultivating immortals, when he heard her coming in, and asked nonchalantly: "What's the matter?"

Zhang Zheng briefly informed the elder in charge of his situation, but concealed the fact that he had been in seclusion for twelve years. He only said that something went wrong during his training outside and was delayed for some time.

Although it was only an outer door, there were restrictions engraved on the outside of the disciple's room, and no one below the golden elixir could explore with spiritual consciousness. So she was not worried that she would be exposed.

The elder in charge frowned when he heard this. These days, juniors have too little sense of time.

It is not unheard of in the past for disciples to be delayed outside and fail to return to the sect in time, but this girl's delay was too long.

After all, this was not a big deal, and the sect was not too busy to investigate the whereabouts of each disciple every day. He took the expired token, with a flash of inspiration in his right hand, and pasted it on the abbreviated map of the mountain residence, and started again

Throw it to Zhang Zheng.

"Okay, okay. There are a lot of new disciples this time, and two of them are crammed into the courtyard where you live. Please be patient and don't make trouble with the children."

Of course it was impossible for Zhang Zheng to conflict with the two little girls, so he nodded to show his understanding.

The elder in charge then added: "As for the disciple test, it will be ten years before the next one, but we can't let you escape in vain."

He thought for a while.

"Let's do it this way. Within half a year, you can go to the martial arts arena to compete with fellow students with similar cultivation levels. If you win, you will be deemed to have passed the disciple test."

After leaving the steward's office, Zhang Zheng was not in a hurry to go back to his room, but instead went to Dongyashan Mansion.

For outer disciples, in addition to being allocated courtyards to live in, they can also go to Hualingshi in Dongya Mountain to rent a simple cave.

The caves are located in the Thirteen Mountains, which are also the natural barrier mountains between the outer gate and the inner gate. The concentration of spiritual energy is not as high as that of the inner gate, but far better than that of the outer gate. Of course, the rent is also quite high.

Previously, Zhang Zheng had not yet realized the Tao and had no requirements for the concentration of spiritual energy. In addition, she was the only one in the courtyard, which was better than being quiet and there was no need to rent a cave.

But now, she needs to practice her skills without being disturbed, so it is necessary to rent the cave with Hua Lingshi.

The person in charge of renting out the caves in the Thirteen Mountains was an old man with gray hair and a childish face. After facing her disciple token, she pointed to a stone slab on the right.

"For rent in the cave: five low-grade spiritual stones a day, a hundred spiritual stones a month."

Zhang Zheng plans to use this period of time to consolidate his cultivation, and then slowly convert the "Qi Nourishing Technique" he has learned into the exercises passed down by his master.

"I'll rent it for three months first, sorry to bother you, elder."

After paying three hundred spirit stones, there were only a few hundred spirit stones left in the storage bag.

As usual, I chose a cave with a remote environment and no one around.

The cave is very simple, just like a mountain wall with several large holes drilled inside. The only daily necessities are a pine needle futon.

After spending a few days to completely consolidate the cultivation of the eighth level of Qi training, and feeling that the full spiritual power in his body had become solid and condensed again, Zhang Zheng touched the technique with excitement.

Jingzeshu had already lifted the seal on the technique at the moment of her enlightenment, and Zhang Zheng easily took out a crystal clear bead from it.

When she touched the bead, an inexplicable and wonderful feeling arose spontaneously, as if she and the bead were one, and at this moment she finally regained completeness.

As soon as she thought about it, the technique completely appeared in her mind.

"The Art of Neutralizing Metamorphosis..."

Zhang Zheng unconsciously murmured the name of the technique.

"Chaos has not yet opened, and yin and yang are turbid with each other...Chaos is enlightened, yin and yang are in harmony, yang qi is light and agile, rising to become the sky; yin qi is wet and turbid, sinking to become the earth, and heaven and earth begin to divide."

"The harmony of Yin and Yang transforms the three qi - spirit, demon, and corpse; and gives rise to the five elements - water, fire, wood, metal, and earth. If Yin is alone, it will not be born, and if Yang is alone, it will not grow. Therefore, the heaven and earth are matched with the harmony of Yin and Yang, and the five elements are in phase.

To become, to transform and give birth to all things.”

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