Chapter Nineteen Shaolin Courtyard
Lu Yuan had nothing to say. Even state-owned enterprises were not so good. Thinking about it, he asked again, "Then how do you see how I should pass my novice period?"
"This question is a good question." The old monk nodded, "Pragmatism is a good habit. I think you have also experienced a test that makes people gradually desperate, right?"
"You mean that spaceship?"
Seeing Lu Yuan nodding to confirm, the old monk continued, "Spaceship? That is your starting point world. Every time you return from the next world, you will return there. If you have the energy and ability, you might as well manage it well. What you have experienced is a test. Almost everyone will go through the test first after death. If you pass the first test, the reward is a time travel. If you fail, go to the Hall of Hell to drink Mengpo soup. Haha~”
"There is really a palace of Hell, Mengpo soup?"
"Go, I haven't died yet, how do you know?! Don't interrupt, listen to me. Novice will encounter the second test in the first world to see if they can seize the opportunity and increase their strength. If their strength meets the requirements, they will see the novice instructor." The old monk pointed at himself.
"When I meet me, I will tell you a lot of things to help you grow faster and better. If you don't meet me, you will be in trouble. Don't blame others if you die in the future."
"Isn't this very difficult?" Lu Yuan was shocked and sweated. If he hadn't come to Shaolin... If he hadn't come to the Sutra Pavilion... If he hadn't seen the old monk, he would definitely live according to his own ideas, and the ending would be very different.
"Tsk", the old monk gave him a blank look and sneered, "Not as difficult as you think. Shaolin Sutra Pavilion is like a famous scenic spot in the martial arts world. Wouldn't a time traveler who has reached a certain level of martial arts come and see it? Those who can't come are either useless or unlucky, why bother me!"
This is true, Lu Yuan is speechless.
"You once said that if you cannot take away your cultivation, then what is the use of practicing martial arts? You only know that the moves do not have internal strength, so won't it be Wang Yuyan?"
"What do you think of this?"
"I think there can be."
"Then do you have points?"
"Why are there new concepts coming out?! You haven't told me how much you have!"
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"Are there any suggestions on the road ahead?"
"Oh, boy, shouldn't you have already run towards the target in your heart? I'd better forget it if you're talking nonsense."
"Experience is one of the most precious treasures. Teaching experience is the meaning of setting up a novice instructor, right? If it is just some explanation, just give this manual."
"Well, smart people. What I want to say is that the body is your own, so the power inside the body is determined by you. The power outside the body is the world. No matter what you call her magic, Mana, vitality, spiritual energy or anything, it is just a kind of thing. We generally call it heaven and earth vitality."
"Does the immortal and the magician use the same power?"
"In essence, it is just a level of concentration. According to the division of the East, before the first heaven and earth first opened, the world was filled with chaotic spiritual energy. The world first opened into the mysterious yellow energy of heaven and earth, and then decomposed into innate spiritual energy. After the Shang Dynasty, only acquired spiritual energy existed. After the Song Dynasty, there was no such spiritual energy. In the industrial age, it was completely consumed."
"Why is this? They were all absorbed by the saints and immortals of the previous generation?"
"Haha, there was once such speculation. Until someone really dealt with the saint, there was an accurate answer to this question. For us, the power of the saints is as vast as the world. But for the saints, the vitality of heaven and earth is also so vast. Therefore, they do not have the ability to absorb the vitality of heaven and earth! In a metaphor, it should be that the vitality of the tide is receding. Our world is the stones left on the beach after the tide. The water gradually evaporates and the stones become dry. That's it."
"That saint and immortal..."
"Those who have the ability to transcend stones will naturally leave with the tide. Those who stay are all trash waiting to die, such as the starving Kunpeng."
"I seem to have heard of this example before?"
"Illusion must be an illusion."
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The old monk continued to sweep the floor.
Lu Yuan continued to visit the Sutra Pavilion.
After a deep conversation with the old monk, everyone went to their own business. But after having time, they continued to drink and talk about the mountains. The old monk would go and say what he could say, but Lu Yuan couldn't ask what he couldn't say.
But when he went to the Sutra Pavilion again, the old monk was no longer there. He only left a "Chain Cloud" sword, which was considered a gift before leaving.
Lu Yuan asked around, but most of the people around him didn't know that there was a monk who sweeper in front of the Sutra Pavilion!
Lu Yuan left helplessly.
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Shaolin Villa.
This Shaolin Villa was built by Lu Yuan for three years and spent more than 100,000 taels of silver. Although the Shaolin Temple in Songshan is very large, the Shaolin Temple itself is even larger. Nowadays, there are three names in the world named Shaolin Temple - Songshan Shaolin Temple, Putian Shaolin Temple and Dadu Shaolin Temple. (The information about Shaolin Temple is incomplete, and most of them are heard of. Please use it as an online article, without any research.)
Among them, there are about 100 people in Shaolin Temple in Putian, which is considered a lineage in the south of Shaolin and will be called Southern Shaolin in the future.
There are about four or five hundred people in Shaolin Temple in Dadu, but it was a branch temple established in Dadu, Yuan Dynasty after Shaolin became the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism in the early Yuan Dynasty. There are only more than twenty monks in the temple, and the rest are literary monks who study Buddhism and self-cultivation. The relationship between Shaolin Temple and the Yuan Dynasty court is complicated, which is also one of the roots of Shaolin's status as stable as Mount Tai. Only after fifty temples were built, Dadu Shaolin Temple and Songshan Shaolin Temple often have distracted due to differences in concepts and have gradually moved away.
Recently, it was because of the ownership of the Zen ancestral home that the two sides had a great quarrel. Although Shaolin, Dadu, had official support, it was an indisputable fact that Monk Fuyu was stationed in Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Xi, and this matter was so entangled until Shaolin Temple in Dadu was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty.
As the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, the main courtyard of Shaolin Temple, there are a total of thousands of monks, including novice monks, lay disciples, errands and tenants. I am afraid there are two thousand people! The top of Shaoshi Mountain has long been crowded. The four great monks can still have their own meditation rooms, and 80% of the others have to be crowded. Those with low status will live directly down the mountain.
When Lu Yuan was rushing on the grassland, he had a rough anti-Yuan plan. Therefore, after each raid, he would take away the chief's token and some of the most precious treasures. These things were inconvenient to carry, so he kept markings and buried them.
After the matter subsided, the "rich man" organized a caravan to go to the grassland to do business, and secretly brought back the wealth, becoming the start-up capital for the two.
Later, according to the plan of the two, they took advantage of Lu Yuan's ideas and the skills of the "rich man" to make money from the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty. The money was already a astronomical figure when they were collected in Lu Yuan's hands! Lu Yuan was not a selfless person. In addition to giving this money to Peng Yingyu, he of course also collected it for use.
Chapter completed!