MTL - Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Misfortune Starts From Tianshi Mansion

Chapter 30 30. Accelerate practice and exempt from costs

 Hearing that Lei Jun was "assigned" by Yuan Mobai to go to the green graphite vein, Fang Jian and Shangguan Hong couldn't come to their senses for a while.

After a long time, Shangguan Hong exclaimed: "Qing Shi, don't you mean that if you stay there for a long time, you will have...some..."

　　He hesitated to say the word "harm".

Fang Jian pondered: "Junior Brother Lei has to go for so long? Isn't it temporary?"

Wang Guiyuan: "That's indeed what the master ordered. Junior Brother Lei has already passed. I guess the master has his own arrangements."

Fang Jian really wants to ask, does Lei Jun know that it is harmful for low-level monks to be exposed to green graphite for a long time?

"Well, Junior Master's arrangement like this must have a deeper meaning that we don't know about." Fang Jian nodded: "In that case, I won't bother you for now, and I will say hello to Junior Junior Uncle next time."

Shangguan Hong also said goodbye and left.

 Fang Jian returned to his residence.

 In his courtyard, another young Taoist priest was waiting, it was Li Xuan whose younger brother had died earlier.

"Green graphite mine?" Li Xuan was also stunned: "Really? Or is it just an excuse?"

Fang Jian sat down and said, "Go and have a look in a few days to confirm."

Li Xuan looked over and said, "Junior brother Fang, do you think it could be..."

"have no idea."

Fang Jian said simply: "Although I have always heard that the senior sister and the junior junior uncle are very close to each other, the junior senior uncle gets along with everyone. What is the relationship between him and senior sister? It's up to you to tell me the answer."

Li Xuan raised his head and looked at the roof: "My junior uncle and Xu Yuanzhen often have differences. They don't always advance and retreat together, venting their anger through the same nostril.

Just as you said, my junior uncle has many good relationships and gets along well with everyone, even my father.

If you really want to say who he went with, it should be with his uncle, that is, Master Qi. "

"That's true."

Fang Jian: "So, the senior sister went too far, and the junior uncle did not agree with it and was even dissatisfied?

 That’s not right, Junior Junior Uncle has always been open-minded, and even if he is really dissatisfied with Senior Sister, he will not make things difficult for Junior Brother Lei. "

Li Xuan: "Perhaps Junior Brother Lei has always been interested in Xu Yuanzhen who brought him back to the mountain and introduced him to Taoism, so he contradicted Junior Junior Uncle?"

 He stood up: "Anyway, this news is very important. I will inform my father and senior brother!"

If we can separate Yuan Mobai and Xu Yuanzhen, the effect will be much greater than making a fuss about Lei Jun, a new disciple.

 …

“So, Master takes the blame for me, and Senior Sister, you seem to have betrayed all your relatives?”

Lei Jun looked at Xu Yuanzhen.

Xu Yuanzhen: "When you are in the third heaven, draw their expressions and I will look at them when I go back to the mountain."

After Lei Jun met Yuan Mobai, she went on a long trip to the mountains again, waving her sleeves not to take away a single cloud.

"Don't guess what the three people in the house are thinking, it will be in vain." Wang Guiyuan, who came to visit Lei Jun, sighed: "Uncle, the old man, Tianshi, then senior sister, and then our master."

Two senior brothers were sitting in Master Yuan Mobai's private cave.

“Junior Brother Fang came here on his own.” Wang Guiyuan said: “Junior Brother Shangguan, he may represent Uncle Shangguan and Senior Sister Zhang.”

The image of Zhang Jingzhen, the third disciple of the Heavenly Master from Tsinghua University, flashed through Lei Jun's mind.

 At the time of the Yunhai Xianchi Incident, we had close contact.

Speaking of which, if you include Tang Xiaotang, the planned disciple that everyone agrees to, there are five direct disciples of Li Tianshi in the contemporary era. Except for his own son Li Zhengxuan and his fourth disciple Fang Jian, the other three are all female disciples.

 In this life, there is a slight increase in yin and a decrease in yang.

 In terms of the impression left on the outside world, the three women are all outstanding. They can be called the new generation signs of Tianshi Mansion, which is very conducive to recruiting new students.

Purely speaking in terms of appearance, Tang Xiaotang is indeed the number one, with stunning appearance, incomparable beauty, and obvious height advantage.

　　　But people are the most inattentive.

Senior Sister Xu Yuanzhen not only has a slightly weird personality, but also has a cold aura around her, which makes people often ignore her gender and appearance.

Taken together, the results show that the third senior sister Zhang Jingzhen has a noble temperament and a beautiful appearance, and there is no obvious problem.

 According to the current general aesthetics of the world, beautiful women holding their heads high are a plus.

However, Lei Jun is more concerned about another issue:

“Senior brother, is this ‘Zhang’ that Senior Sister Zhang refers to?”

There are many people named Zhang in the world.

  But there is such a small part that is quite special. As far as Lei Jun knows, the current royal family of the Tang Dynasty has the surname Zhang.

 Contact Zhang Jingzhen, who is familiar with the Shangguan clan, Lei Jun made a guess.

“Yes, Senior Sister Zhang is a noblewoman of the royal family and was granted the title of princess. Her father and the late emperor are brothers.”

Wang Guiyuan: "In other words, Senior Sister Zhang and the current Holy Master are cousins. She is also related to Senior Uncle Shangguan and Junior Brother Shangguan, so there is no problem in calling Shangguan Senior Uncle and Aunt directly."

Lei Jun nodded: "The royal family of the Tang Dynasty made great efforts to our Tianshi Mansion."

Wang Guiyuan: "It won't work without putting in the effort. They won't. Some people have to put in the effort."

For example, Fang Jian, the fourth disciple of Tianshi, was born in the Jingxiang Fang clan.

In this world, the most prominent spiritual practice in the Tang Dynasty was neither Buddhism, Taoism, nor martial arts, but the Confucian way of practice.

 Compared with them, Taoism, Buddhism and other spiritual traditions are currently more like opposition forces.

  But strictly speaking, Confucianism does not entirely represent the official state.

 The relationship between the royal family and major Confucian families is difficult to describe.

 There were many noble families in the Tang Dynasty, and most of the Confucian cultivation methods in the world were in the hands of aristocratic families. They were passed down secretly and were taught by many masters.

 The top aristocratic family has accumulated power and influence over the years and is still above that of the Holy Land sect.

What’s more, people often say that the emperor and his family rule the world together.

There are seven major clans that are the most outstanding, all of which have been practicing families for thousands or even ten thousand years. Their history is still before the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

 The seven major clans have two leaves, two forests, one Xiao, one Chu, and one side.

The Fang clan, also known as the Fang clan, occupies a stronghold in Jingxiang, almost like a separatist state. Whether in court or in the field, they all have big trees and deep roots.

In recent years, under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, many sects' holy places have emerged and become more prestigious. This is not without the Tang emperor's intention to promote Buddhism and Taoism and cultivate civilian practitioners, thereby checking and balancing the aristocratic families.

 But obviously, the aristocratic family is not idle either.

The Zhang family and the Shangguan family of the royal family have disciples who have entered the core of the Tianshi Mansion, and the Fang family also has disciples.

Major Buddhist and Taoist holy sites were supported by several generations of Tang emperors to check and balance the famous families with lineage Confucian heirs.

 Among them, Tianshi Mansion is special.

Although it has experienced several civil strife and its vitality has been severely damaged, Tianshi Mansion is still one of the most sacred Taoist sects in the world.

 However, there are gradually rumors spreading around the world:

The Li clan in Longhu Mountain, Xinzhou has deep roots and produces numerous talented people. It should be called the Eight Clans together with the seven traditional clans.

 Lei Jun: “Wherever there are people, there are factions and sides.”

Wang Guiyuan: "Fortunately, Master and Senior Sister have independent shade trees. If we don't jump out by ourselves, we can avoid getting wet in the rain."

Lei Jun nodded.

 Farewell to Wang Guiyuan, he returned to the mines under his private residence to continue his practice.

 It is said to be a vein or mine, but in fact it is more like another secluded cave.

Although there is a faint green light emerging from the rocks in the cave, it is not scary, but has a peaceful and springlike warmth.

Lei Jun placed a few pieces of dark gravel in his hand, which flashed with a faint green light. It was the green graphite that made Shangguan Hong and Fang Jian change their colors when they heard it.

When he first came into contact with it, Lei Jun could really feel that although the green graphite had the wonderful effect of further stabilizing the Dao foundation and making the mana more pure, it would damage his physical body's energy and blood.

 The result of the two-phase effect is that it can indeed help monks in the foundation-building realm improve faster, but the bad effects will first appear when the second heaven ascends to the third heaven.

At that time, if you rush to cross the natural chasm to overcome the catastrophe, let alone being able to cross it, you may die directly due to the decline of Qi and blood.

Moreover, the effect of green graphite is as stubborn as tarsal maggots. After it is eaten away at the flesh and blood, it is difficult for monks to heal it through other means.

Of course, there are no absolutes in things in this world. There are four or nine great developments, and none of them can be used without them.

 The rare exception is the foggy cloud crystal in Lei Jun's hand.

The foggy cloud crystal is still attached to the spirit-receiving talisman, but with this spirit-receiving talisman in hand, the green graphite refined during Lei Jun's practice will no longer corrode his flesh and blood.

So just as Yuan Mobai expected, Lei Jun could use green graphite to accelerate the further improvement of his Dao Foundation.

 But immune to the cost of its side effects.

 (End of this chapter)