Chapter 669 Atmosphere
This news made Li Qi excited.
This is really interesting.
In the Zhendao Sect, someone is going to ascend.
In other words, someone has been promoted to the seventh rank in five hundred years.
How to say it...
It can't be said to be fast, but for a Taoist sect that started from scratch, this is a very, very good result. Although they have references on their way, they actually have to explore many places by themselves.
Five hundred years, for a cultivator of about the ninth rank, is about five generations. Five generations, have they figured out the method of longevity?
This is really encouraging.
After learning this news, Li Qi's motivation to hurry on was much greater. He was a little curious about how the Zhendao Sect did it.
Along the way, he came to the city under the mountain gate of the Zhendao Sect.
This city was completely built on the Zhendao Sect.
Li Qi only needed to glance from the sky from top to bottom to perceive the operation of the entire city. This is a city that exists entirely to supply the Zhendao Sect.
The city was built around the mountain gate of Zhendao Sect. A large amount of materials and labor were stored here, most of which were to be sent to the mountain.
Five hundred years was enough for Zhendao Sect to develop into a giant. For mortals, five hundred years was enough to change the world and leap from the feudal era to the modern industrial society.
However, Zhendao Sect did not develop into an industrial society. After Li Qi paid the head tax to enter the city, he looked around.
He heard a lot of arguments.
A lot of arguments, even among peddlers, or in teahouses and taverns.
Their arguments were very interesting, such as discussing whether the sun was closer to the ground in the morning or in the evening.
Discussing whether to worship the mountain god is a tribute or sincerity?
Discussing whether the world is finite? Or is it infinite?
Discussing where the center of the world is, the earth we are on or the stars we see in the sky?
The titles of these questions were so interesting that Li Qi would occasionally stop and listen, because he was very curious. These mortals didn't even have supernatural powers. They only knew basic cultivation techniques, and they were even worse than Li Qi when he was a boatman.
How could such people talk about the nature of the world, the center of the universe, and the position of the sun? It was really interesting.
However, after standing by and listening for a while, he nodded slightly, smiled and shook his head, and then left.
Most of these discussions had no real evidence. The arguments were almost all based on conjecture. The arguments were completely arbitrary, and the topic would even go off on a tangent, so that the two sides started to quarrel and even got violent.
For example, when discussing the topic of whether the universe is infinite, the side that supports infinity actually shouted to the horizon, but there was no echo, which proved that the universe is infinite. The sound can never reach the boundary, so it can't rebound, so there will be no echo, and it won a lot of applause.
To be honest, this idea is very interesting, but it is too crude.
However, Li Qi still found it very interesting.
Because, these are peddlers who haven't read much books. There is no benefit for them to talk about these things. To be honest, many of their ideas are actually the best arguments that can be thought of in their barren minds.
They are really thinking seriously, although this kind of thinking is ridiculously crude.
But the conclusion is funny, and this kind of thinking atmosphere is worthy of respect and should not be laughed at. As long as the knowledge is complete and there is sufficient knowledge as the foundation, then such thinking will definitely give birth to sparks.
Thinking is a flame, and knowledge is firewood.
With the support of firewood, the flame can burn brightly, illuminate the dark world, and point out the way forward.
This made Li Qi have some expectations for the atmosphere in the Zhendao Sect.
Ordinary people are like this, so what about practitioners?
So, Li Qi directly passed these living areas quickly and turned to the gathering place of young practitioners.
Yes, the gathering place of young practitioners can even be called a "school".
According to his scanning of the shallow thinking around him, as well as information such as maps, Li Qi can confirm that the Zhendao Sect has been training young people. If they pass the assessment, they can join the Zhendao Sect and become a formal disciple.
There are many such gathering places.
Li Qi speculated that it was precisely because of the existence of these schools that these students brought the trend of thinking outside the Zhendao Sect, so the city was filled with such a strong debate atmosphere.
Li Qi, who was full of expectations, came to the school representing young practitioners.
He did not sign up, but directly blended into nature and entered quietly.
There are many young people here, most of whom are children in their teens, that is, the age of junior high school and high school. Most of them have some cultivation and come from different backgrounds. There are children of great monks, children of wealthy families, and mud legs who have just climbed out of the mountain village alone relying on their talents.
But they all have one characteristic, that is, they are all young and vigorous.
Li Qi found that the threshold for admission to these schools is actually quite high. Those who can come here are all geniuses of the younger generation. After all, this is considered a youth training ground for large sects.
The speculative atmosphere of ordinary people outside also came from here. Because of this, the speculative atmosphere here is even stronger. After entering, Li Qi found a large number of students who were constantly debating with others in addition to practicing.
But...
Li Qi discovered something.
As practitioners, the content of their speculations is almost exactly the same as that of ordinary people outside, with just some added content and empirical evidence of practice.
If you think about it, this makes sense.
If this is the origin of the speculative culture, then people outside naturally learn from it here, and the topics must be copied directly from here. After all, this place is not far from the outside, and it is normal for traffickers and lackeys to imitate what they have learned.
However, it is very good for traffickers and lackeys to talk about this kind of topic, but these practitioners and students only talk about this kind of thing?
If they talk about how to organize their cultivation, how to specifically arrange their practice time to achieve the best results, and if they statistically summarize the efficiency of different spells, they will be ridiculed as talking about worldly things and ridiculed by their friends.
Therefore, what they like to talk about are things like the truth of the universe.
This is not speculation, this is metaphysics.
It’s not that the truth of the universe cannot be discussed. On the contrary, people should explore the truth more, but the premise is that it must be combined with practice.
Speculation without practice is meaningless.
Mathematical formulas are just nonsense on paper if they are not combined with engineering.
If philosophical thought does not guide social production and the construction of morality, then philosophy will be just a spark in one's own mind, and no one can see it.
This made Li Qizhi shake his head. Who could be cultivated with such a culture? Aren't they all a bunch of trash?
However, one thing that reluctantly made Li Qineng relax was that these students, at least, were not bad in cultivation. Although they liked to talk about mysteries, they did not do anything but talk about mysteries.
"Maybe they are all students, so they can't practice it, right?" Li Qi thought, and felt that it was still very possible.
With this in mind, he simply found a student who looked more withdrawn and sat next to him.
This is a young man. Everyone else is talking about mysteries and the mysteries of the universe, but he is here idly pondering the most basic route of practicing martial arts.
But the basic exercise route is not simple. It is even more difficult than the mysteries of the universe just now.
The more basic it is, the stronger it will be, especially since the early exercises of Zhen Dao Sect were actually given by Li Qi. It was the practice guide that Li Qi originally gave to Ju Ye. These foundations were formulated by the Taoist master himself. .
As trees grow, it is easy to prune the branches, leaves and flowers, but have you ever seen pruning the roots?
Of course, you can forcefully prune it, but that will only cause the tree to grow crookedly. In the future, it will be up to you how far you can go without the majestic Taoist foundation laid by the Taoist master.
Therefore, in essence, he and his classmates who talked about Xuan Dao were doing the same thing.
But the motivation is clearly different.
Therefore, Li Qi looked curiously at how he was going to modify it.
After watching for a while, the young man became dejected and chose to give up.
Nothing can be changed.
This set of foundations is too perfect, and any slight change will lead to poor results. It seems that this set is already the optimal solution at the moment.
"Classmate, what are you studying? Why don't you discuss it with others?" Li Qi suddenly appeared and asked the young man.
The young man was startled, put away the pen and paper in his hand, looked at Li Qi sharply, with a puzzled expression, and asked: "What does it have to do with you? Go, go, don't disturb me."
Li Qi, who was driven away by the boy, smiled: "I'm just curious. Everyone is so gregarious, why are my classmates alone?"
In fact, he already knew why he was alone.
This reaction to others greeting him was obviously the reason why he was alone.
"What other people are talking about has no use in practice, so what's the use? I took the exam with all my strength to practice, not to talk to them about something they don't have. Okay, get out of the way, I'm leaving. ." The other party carefully put away the pen and paper and left in a timid manner.
This made Li Qi a little funny, but he also got the boy's name from superficial thinking.
Changyou.
Li Qi had a very strange feeling.
Chang You has an... external feeling. He doesn't look like he grew up in the Zhen Dao Sect, but like those barbaric immortal natives outside who don't care about pursuing the Tao, but just want to practice and ascend.
However, this kind of person seems so down-to-earth in this city of Zhendao Sect.
Yes, down to earth.
In the more than five hundred years of development of the Zhendao Sect, they have developed this kind of culture of chatting. The powerful sect has given them a light confidence. The Zhendao Sect... is already too strong.
If Zhudao means opening your eyes and looking at the sky, then the young students of the Zhendao Sect have raised their heads too high and often talk about the origin of the universe. They are so high that they can't see the road under their feet at all.
However, people in the immortal world pay too much attention to reality. They pay attention to the fact that they can only clearly see one or two steps under their feet, crawling like mice, but they can never raise their heads to see the depth and vastness of the sky.
After the students finished reading, Li Qi paid attention to the young man and then started to go up the mountain.
After all, he originally came to see the Zhendao Sect's ascension ceremony.
Therefore, Li Qi blended into nature and quietly climbed up the mountain.
Arriving at the mountain gate of Zhen Dao Sect, Li Qi felt as soon as he came up that they were actually divided into several sects and divided into different gates.
It’s interesting. Will the world’s set of thoughts be destined to cause divisions among Taoist traditions and then lead to Taoist disputes?
With this thought, Li Qi came to the mountain gate.
It took him five days to visit all the mountain gates.
It is indeed a fight of Dao, but it is a very primitive fight of Dao. They have not yet reached the point where their interpretations of the world are completely different and they are fighting to the death.
Interesting.
Li Qi watched all this and then climbed to the top of the mountain.
At the top of the mountain gate of Zhendao Sect, where Wanling Zhongxiu is located, a great ancestor of Zhendao Sect is in seclusion here.
The one who is going to ascend is this one.
Of course, when he is called the great ancestor, he is actually only the peak eighth grade, just one step away from the seventh grade. Everything is ready. As long as he pushes the door lightly, he can step into the seventh grade. Everything is logical.
At this point, in the world, he must have broken through long ago. After all, if you break through, no one will care about you. Even your relatives and friends will come to congratulate you and hold a banquet for you to celebrate.
In Wushen Mountain, you will receive gifts for breaking through the seventh grade.
In the human world, if you break through the seventh rank, the court will give you a plaque, because when you reach the seventh rank, you can finally join the ranks of immortals and serve the court's many long-term plans.
They will not prevent others from being promoted.
However, Xiantian, as a first-rank world, is completely different.
If they want to be promoted to the seventh rank, they need to experience the heavenly tribulation.
Li Qi wanted to see what this heavenly tribulation is today.
It is said that there are three levels of heavenly tribulation, thunder tribulation, earthly tribulation, and self-tribulation. Only one in ten people can successfully pass the tribulation.
The seventh rank is a very valuable talent, but nine out of ten people have to be killed before they can ascend...
This is really weird.
Speaking of this, Li Qi also deliberately observed the great ancestor of the Zhendao Sect.
He had a little expectation in his heart, hoping that the other party was Juye.
After all, if Juye is good at health preservation and has a little better natural quality, maybe with a little evil method, it is not impossible to live for five hundred years.
This may give a feeling of meeting an old friend.
However, when Li Qi went to see it, it was a pity that it was not.
I'm afraid Juye is dead.
I don't know what happened to Juye and Senior Sister in the end.
Maybe like what most people experienced, they were buried in history, and no one would remember what happened to them.
After all, only a few people can leave their names in history.
Li Qi sighed, and then sat down.
Waiting for the heavenly calamity.
However, while waiting, suddenly, Li Qi looked up at the sky.
A communication spell descended from the sky.
It was the Xiantian real world.
Hmm, someone saw it.
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