Chapter Fifteen: Building Foundation Cliff

  "There's no way, can only wait until back, and then slowly study again!"

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  "The Way of Heaven reduces the excessive and augments the insufficient, thus the empty overcomes the solid, and the insufficient overcomes the excessive. Its meaning is vast, its principle profound, its significance deep; the forms of heaven and earth are divided, the signs of yin and yang are arranged..."

  "The essence of the five zang and six fu organs all ascend to the eyes and become its essence. The essence of the brain is the pupil, the essence of the bones is the iris, the essence of the tendons is the black eye, the essence of the blood vessels is the network of fine lines, the essence of the qi is the white eye, the essence of the muscles is the constriction, wrapping and binding the essence of the tendons, bones, blood vessels, and qi together with the pulse to form a connection..."

  Early in the morning, before it was fully daylight, a discordant chorus of children reading aloud came from a row of cottages behind the mountains.

  After being selected as outer disciples of the sect, they would generally start by reading books and recognizing characters. This is done to first understand the principles and then cultivate the Tao.

  For example, the "Jing Qi Shen Yi Pian" that children read, requires people to concentrate their minds highly, enter a state of selflessness in harmony, sit and forget, condense their essence, refine their energy, and supplement their spirit. It includes activities such as soul, ghost, intention, will, thought, consideration, wisdom, etc. To a certain extent, it can communicate the yuanqi to operate on the eyes, hands, and heart, achieving the effect of nourishing the body's essence and spirit.

  By doing so, Zhēn Yuán is teaching these children not only how to cultivate the Tao but also why they should do so. They must understand the principles and clarify their nature, returning to a state of natural simplicity in order to achieve anything.

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  "Dinner is ready, gather outside the hall after finishing eating." A disciple who delivered breakfast reminded.

  The room suddenly became noisy, as if everyone except Wenya knew what today was, and they all looked very excited.

  Hearing the sound outside the room, Wen Ya put away her book and looked around, her face without any obvious fluctuations. She still did what she normally did, as if nothing had happened.

  "Wen Ge, Wen Ya Ge..." Wen Ya immediately recognized the voice as that of the child with a pair of spirited eyes who had been shouting at Li Hai.

  "Ah, I'm here." Wen Ya replied.

  The shouting outside the room immediately disappeared, followed by a flurry of footsteps from the door of another adjacent room. A moment later, Lei Hai rushed over with rapid breathing.

  "Big brother, today we can officially start practicing the foundation of the Zhāi Jié Zōng's method!" Chuan Lì Hǎi grabbed Wén Yà's arm and jumped up, his face flushed with excitement.

  "Heh heh, I know. Have you had breakfast yet, Lihai?" Wenya asked with a smile.

  "No."

  "Since there isn't any, that's just as well. I haven't eaten yet either, how about we eat something together first and then you can explain it to me again!"

  "Uh-huh"

  Breakfast was rice porridge and some pickled small mustard greens, which suited Wenya's taste. After finishing their meal, the two of them came out from the side room.

  Huge fir and cedar trees, a small valley with dense shade blocking the sun, was already bustling with people. Along the right side of the valley, rows of green bamboo houses were built, all the outer disciples were lined up in nine teams.

  At the front of the team, Moyunzi, wearing a gray Taoist robe, stood solemnly, with a disciple holding a brush and a book behind him.

  Along the way, thousands of peaks compete in beauty, lush trees dripping with greenery, dense and luxuriant, basin valleys, majestic mountain scenery, ten thousand cliffs competing in wonder. Streams and springs flow through, weaving among them, appearing especially vibrant and full of life!

  Four hours later, after bypassing a precipitous cliff of strange rocks, passing through the layers of branches and thorns, deep in the dense forest, listening to the deafening "rumble" sound of the waterfall, Wen Ya and his party had arrived at their destination.

  Baiyun Peak! Zhujicrag!

  Everything in front of us suddenly became clear and bright, a landscape hidden under the dark green pines suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes.

  On the shore of a gigantic pool with a diameter of hundreds of meters, a huge waterfall falls vertically down, like a perfect and flawless silver silk. The violent and powerful impact force heavily hits the surface of a smooth green stone slab below, emitting waves of deafening roar, white mist swirling around, water splashing everywhere, as if grains of crystal clear and warm pearls, under the sunlight, radiating dazzling seven-color light, looking beautiful and full of vitality.

  On the south peak, there is a thousand-foot cliff, standing upright as if cut with a knife. Two huge seal characters are engraved on it, with the words "Wu Dao" written in bold font, about 7-8 feet high, painted red, strong and majestic, like iron painting silver hook.

  Standing in the team, Wen Ya raised his head and looked at the cliff wall in front of him, which was thousands of feet high and had a base area of hundreds of square meters, and couldn't help but shake his head in wonder.

  "This is the power of the world's top cultivation sect? To think that this is just one of the most inconspicuous stacks of scriptures and mantra from the vast ocean-like collection of the Jianchu Sect."

  This massive cliff cave is the most important place for all outer disciples of the Jianzong Sect: the Foundation Cliff!

  All the gongfa and dao kou that have been collected by the Zhēn Kōng Zōng for tens of thousands of years are stored here, but these gongfa are only the lower-level dharma for outer door disciples to cultivate.

  Despite this, all the children were still clenching their fists and staring at the huge cave in front of them with fiery eyes, their faces filled with excitement and agitation that could not be concealed.

  After all, even the lowest foundation-building exercises have essential differences in quality. If you can get a better foundation-building exercise to cultivate, it will undoubtedly allow you to take the lead from the beginning and avoid many detours on the path of cultivation.

  Strength has further increased, walking ahead of others, and the opportunity to become an inner disciple will also be greater. This is what all outer disciples dream of.

  As a place to store classic secret techniques, the defense of 'Zhu Ji Ya' is extremely strict. It is basically listed as a forbidden area and will not be open to the outside world on ordinary days. Only strong inner door elite disciples take turns guarding it, and only at this time every three years will new outer door disciples be allowed to enter and choose suitable foundation-building methods and secret techniques for cultivation.

  At the entrance of the cliff cave, six men in their early twenties with white hair tied back and wearing "Zhānkōu Zōng" sect robes stood at the entrance. On their chest, seven continuous mountain peaks were embroidered with blue silk thread. The unique emblem 'Seven Peaks Competing for Beauty' was only eligible to be owned by formal inner disciples of the sect.

  A group of people led by Mo Yunzi walked towards the rocky cliff, among whom a young man opened his eyes, and in that instant, a bronze-red light flashed through his pupils, dazzling like a brilliant star!

  Mo Yunzi spoke first, "Congratulations are in order, Xun Ci Shidi. It's been three years since we last met, and it seems your 'Refined Copper Forging Technique' has made another leap forward..."

  He nodded slightly and the man smiled and said: "Hehe, thanks to Shifu's blessing, I have indeed gained some insight in these days!"

  "Master Mo, are these children your new outer sect disciples from Mount Baoxiao?" The young man paused before speaking again.

  "Yes, these are... These children will be entirely in your care from now on."

  "Same old rules, these children, you can come and pick them up after the 15th." Upon hearing this, a hint of a smile finally appeared on Mo Yunzi's face.

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