Chapter 392 Volume C The Truth, Changing Fate
Bao Qi is not yet forty years old. In terms of spiritual cultivation, this age is still very early.
If a female cultivator is in the Qi training stage, her Tao body and spiritual body will only be equivalent to a mortal's around eighteen years old when she is around forty-five years old. This means that even if she reaches sixty, her fertility will not be affected much.
As for male cultivators, needless to say, there are countless more than one hundred years old who take concubines, accompany servants, or even become Taoist couples and have children, just like the crucian carp crossing the river.
After Baoqi advanced to the advanced level of Qi Refining, Chen Huaisheng felt that this idea became less urgent.
If Bao Qi can break through and ascend in the next five to ten years and successfully establish a foundation, then it will be completely late to have children after the foundation is established, and it can even be said to be the most appropriate.
The chance of a child born to a foundation-building woman being born is very high, several times higher than that of a Qi-training monk. However, 99% of female cultivators are unlikely to advance to the foundation-building stage before they are sixty-five.
When Chen Huaisheng asked, Fang Baoqi rolled his eyes at Chen Huaisheng: "It's a letter for you, how can I read it? You can read it yourself."
Chen Huaisheng smiled and didn't say much. He just sipped the Guishan white intestine tea and activated the taste buds on his lips and tongue.
"Qingyu, help me take it apart and take a look."
Min Qingyu hesitated for a moment, then hesitantly said: "Isn't this bad?"
"What's wrong?" Chen Huaisheng shook his head pretendingly, "Then take it over and I'll see for myself."
The words in Tong Tong's letter were brief. She only said that Daogong held a Shangyuan Taoist meeting. She had also heard about it during her travels in Jiangling. She would return to Bianjing during the Shangyuan period and meet again then.
The letter did not mention whether she would return to the Chonghua Sect, but Chen Huaisheng estimated that she should have solved this knot.
But it’s hard to say whether the solution to the knot will definitely lead to a return to the Chonghua sect.
He was afraid that when she saw Baoqi and Qingyu, she would get upset again. This was what Chen Huaisheng was most worried about.
Min Qingyu is under a lot of pressure now, especially after seeing Fang Baoqi break through and advance to the next level in just twenty days.
But the more anxious he was, the harder it was to break through. Until Chen Huaisheng came back and saw her condition, he decisively let her out of the confinement. Stop getting into trouble for the time being and relax.
The third level of Qi refining to the fourth level of Qi refining is not only a leap in practice, from the first stage to the middle stage, it is also a leap in the state of mind.
Min Qingyu was immersed in chasing under pressure, but fell behind. That's why Chen Huaisheng asked her to put it down first before talking about anything else.
"What did Tong Tong say?" Fang Baoqi asked softly, not reading the letter didn't mean he didn't care.
"I only said that she would return to Bianjing during the Shangyuan Taoist Association. She is still traveling in Southern Chu, so she made an appointment to meet in Bianjing during the Shangyuan Taoist Association." Chen Huaisheng put down the letter and said thoughtfully, "It looks like This Yuandao meeting will once again be a grand event where dragons and tigers fight for the capital. It feels like everyone in the sect is gearing up and vying for the lead. "
Fang Baoqi laughed, "Only you can deal with it so calmly. Even Zhao Sitian is eager to try."
Chen Huaisheng's eyes lit up, "Senior Brother Zhao is out of seclusion? Has he reached the peak of Qi refining?"
"Well, he just came out of seclusion the day before yesterday, so he should be building his foundation. But I heard that you reached your peak before him, which made him a little bit shocked. He probably thought that the title of the number one genius of the Chonghua Sect would be given to you. "
Fang Baoqi smiled happily.
No matter what, the performance of this little man of hers was worthy of being the number one genius in Chonghua, which made her feel proud.
It has only been five years since he started, from enlightenment to the peak of Qi refining. Although he is not sure how long it will take him to build the foundation, Fang Baoqi is sure that he will be able to successfully build the foundation in less than two years.
Maybe he really is the number one genius in Zhao.
Fang Baoqi didn't know if any of the super sects like Tianyun Sect, Huaxi Sword Sect and Taihua Tao had established foundations in their twenties, but even if they had, were there any who had established foundations after seven years of enlightenment?
Absolutely nothing.
At this point, this little man himself has absolutely surpassed everyone, unprecedented in history.
"Senior Brother Zhao is not so narrow-minded." Chen Huaisheng shook his head, "To say that he and I are still on the same front, look at Senior Brother Zeng, Senior Brother Teng, Senior Brother Yang, and Senior Brother Chu. The performance of these disciples from Lingyun Sect is no better. We, the old Chonghua sect, have few disciples, and the disciples recruited from Hebei in recent years are also full of talented people. Delu, Liangkui, and De Ling all feel the pressure, so how can I be exempted?"
Fang Baoqi was silent for a moment and then said softly: "Huaisheng, let me tell you the truth. Don't you hate to hear it? The talents of Delu, Liangkui and De Ling are not very good. Compared with Qingyu, Wu Gu and even Yun Lei are far behind. Cultivation is extremely demanding of talent. I think maybe De Lu and the others will be less and less able to keep up in the future..."
Fang Baoqi's words made Min Qingyu a little uneasy, "Senior Sister Baoqi, my younger sister's talent is actually average. This time in seclusion, I was not able to fulfill Brother Sheng's wish. It's better that Senior Sister Baoqi achieved it overnight..."
Fang Baoqi interrupted Min Qingyu: "What does it mean that you have only been practicing for twenty days this time? It has nothing to do with your talent. As for me, didn't you hear that your biological brother said that I was too lazy? I should have advanced to the advanced level of Qi Refining last year. You just need to adjust your mentality a little and stop staring at me so much. I believe you can advance to the fourth level of Qi Refining soon."
Being teased by Fang Baoqi's words made her blush a little, and Min Qingyu actually knew that she was a bit obsessed.
It has been two or three years since Fang Baoqi advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining, and he was once the leading genius disciple in the Chonghua Sect. Now it is a matter of course for him to advance to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
How long has it been since I was promoted from the second level of Qi Refining to the third level of Qi Refining? If I keep comparing myself to others, I will feel a little too ambitious.
Chen Huaisheng also knows that Hu Delu and others are not as gifted as Min Qingyu, Ren Wugui and Yunlei, nor Fang Baoliu.
This may not be too obvious in the early stage of cultivation, but the gap will become more and more prominent as time goes on. Only after a certain stage will this situation slowly stabilize.
"Baolu, Delu and others may have some gaps, but they work very hard. I also hope that they can catch up in their cultivation. Some gaps can be made up with spiritual materials, elixirs and exercises. It depends on whether they can encounter opportunities and inspire enlightenment during their own cultivation." Chen Huaisheng sighed, "Since they trust me, I will naturally do my best to help them catch up."
Fang Baoliu also knew that Chen Huaisheng could not abandon Hu Delu and others now.
Especially now that the Chonghua Sect has defended its existence in Hebei after the battle between Wei Huai Dao and Yue Lu Zong, its influence has become increasingly stable, and its position in Fuyang Dao, Zhai Gu Dao, and Wei Huai Dao is as stable as Mount Tai.
The Daoists in these places all regard Chonghua Sect as their first choice, and disciples with excellent talents have flocked to Wolong Ridge, which has also caused great challenges to old disciples with average qualifications like Hu Delu.
Now every year, there are 50 to 60 new disciples selected and introduced to Wolong Ridge by the six Daos of Yanzhou alone, not to mention that Chonghua Sect still has 20 to 30 disciples introduced from the three prefectures of Yiyang, Langling, and Yinan, Huozhou every year.
In total, Chonghua Sect has nearly 100 new disciples every year, and 10 to 20 of these 100 outstanding ones can almost be promoted to the third level of Qi Refining within three to five years.
And old disciples like Hu Delu, if there are no other paths and countermeasures to change, they may be caught up and surpassed by others in less than ten years.
This feeling is too uncomfortable for Hu Delu and others.
Chen Huaisheng certainly knew that this situation was a good sign for a prosperous sect. Survival of the fittest is the same in the cultivation world.
If you can't keep up and are surpassed by others, the resources of the sect will gradually tilt towards the outstanding and leading ones, and those who fall behind will naturally become ordinary disciples.
Just like what Chen Huaisheng saw when he first entered the sect, such as Qiao Zhun, Cai Jinyang, and even Yun He and Luo Xiuyue, they finally stopped at the high stage of Qi Refining, which was a good ending.
But people are emotional. Chen Huaisheng watched Hu Delu and others follow him for so many years, and they are still struggling to pursue a glimpse of the way of heaven. The principle that diligence can make up for shortcomings may not work in the cultivation world, but he still wants to try it. Not to say that he can change his fate, but at least he can give them a few opportunities.
With the three spirits in his body and the cauldron in his body, he already has the confidence to transcend the constraints of the sect and no longer needs the resources of the sect. On the contrary, he can give his surplus resources to whoever he wants.
While Teng Dingyuan, Zeng Guolin, Yang Husheng, and Chu Yingqi still need to carefully plan what they have gained from this trip to make plans for the next step of building the foundation, and Zhao Sitian still needs to consider how to balance the allocation of resources between himself and Ren Wuchen, Chen Huaisheng no longer needs to consider these issues.
The gains from the looting of the Hanzhou Taoist Temple have already given him a considerable amount of spiritual stones to plan other things with ease.
There are also gains from the battle of Xishi Bay, and even a lot of gains from hunting golden-eyed green otters and Yunteng golden cats in the past, but now it seems that they are nothing.
Even though the consumption of the winged fire snake is quite large, it is only considered to be able to feed it more lavishly without running out of food, not that it is really unable to support it.
For example, the meat crown of the tiger-headed crowned goose, the fish meat of the golden-whiskered croaker, and the fish meat of the koi, for Teng Dingyuan, Zeng Guolin and others, is a rare thing to nourish the Taoist body and spirit, and it is impossible to give it to others.
But for Chen Huaisheng, although it is a good thing, it is not indispensable. It may be beneficial to himself, but for Hu Delu and others, it is even more beneficial.
Like Zhuo Yihang and Zhao Wuyou, Miao Miao, who was recently accepted as a disciple by Ding Zongshou, Du Qingyuan, who was accepted as an apprentice by Li Yu before he left the mountains, and Huo Yuanzong and Cui Shoufu, who came from Lingyun Sect and were praised as the twin prides of Lingyun Sect, and Ding Xizhen, who has become his junior sister, is it really entirely because of their excellent qualifications?
If there were no abundant resources supplied by Zhu Fengbi, You Shaoyou, Qi Hongkui, Ding Zongshou, and Li Yu, could they really advance several times faster than others?