Chapter 544 Yan Ling
Quenching Snow Court.
It was not difficult for her to recognize the place.
Rong Qing walked on the corridor without any hurry or slowness. The senior fellow apprentices who passed by all greeted her politely, because Taoist Li Tao recently liked to call her to preach, so no matter how much they looked down on this humble junior fellow apprentice in their hearts, they acted like brothers and sisters on the surface. Gong, the years are peaceful.
"Junior brother Qiusang."
"Good morning, junior brother."
Rong Qing smiled and responded one by one.
She knew she was receiving the inheritance and she knew who she was. It seemed that the mystery of the path of cause and effect itself brought her into the Snow-Quenching Courtyard in Qiu Sang's memory, and even took her place in Qiu Sang's place.
Seeing these powerful monks calling her junior brother with a smile, Rong Qing felt helpless and amused at the same time. Although she was wearing the jade-colored Taoist uniform of Quenching Xueting, she still looked like her original self, a real female cultivator.
As for the master of Quenching Snow Court, Taoist Li Tao?
To be honest, Rong Qing didn't know what the other party was thinking.
He would only glance up at her while doing things, and then help Rong Qing explain her doubts, but never called Qiu Sang's name.
Even if it was the Immortal Lord in Qiu Sang's memory, Rong Qing was not sure what he saw.
Is it Qiu Sang? Or is it Rong Qing? Or are they the thousands of monks who have accepted Qiusang’s inheritance throughout the ages?
Quenching Xueting is a luxurious and exquisite place, with care everywhere. But the place where the owner lives is a simple and even messy thatched house. There is an old cow tied up outside the house, and a boy is lying on the cow's back.
"Tong'er." Rong Qing threw a storage bag over.
"Hmm." The boy turned over and easily grabbed the storage bag into his hands. He reached into the storage bag with his consciousness and his eyes lit up. "Brother Qiu Sang is still amazing, he can find something different every time."
Qiu Sang accidentally learned that the boy was fond of sweets, so every time he came, he specially brought snacks with different flavors produced in different realms to increase the boy's favorability.
Taoist Li Tao's disciples all know how to please the boys around their master, but currently only Qiu Sang has this luck. Qiu Sang also knows how to keep a low profile and never show off in front of others.
The door of the thatched house was open, and Rong Qing could see Taoist Li Tao sitting in the house with his head bowed and writing something.
"I'll go see Master first."
"Uh-huh." The boy's voice was a little vague as he chewed the flower cake in his mouth.
The door is the boundary of etiquette. Although the door is not open, the two people inside and outside the door are still aware of each other's existence, but since there is a difference between the inside and outside of the house, Rong Qing has to abide by this difference.
She stood outside the door and bowed: "Disciple pays homage to Master. May you live forever."
"Come in." Taoist Li Tao just raised his eyes to look at her, and then concentrated on his own affairs again.
After receiving permission, Rong Qing lifted up her skirt and bent slightly to pass through the door, which was a little short for her.
Taoist Li Tao, who is sitting at the top, has a plain appearance, with a calm look on his brows. Wearing an ordinary coat and robe, which is very rare in the world of cultivation, after all, this style is often seen in the mortal world.
Taoist Li Tao is like a poor scholar in the secular world.
But Rong Qing knew that he was not, so she knelt down at the bottom with great respect, her eyes only fixed one foot in front of her, and asked and answered questions with Taoist Li Tao.
A calm male voice came: "Did you study carefully what I taught you yesterday? Let me see how you progress." Rong Qing responded in a low voice.
She turned her right hand, took out a spiritual stone and threw it forward.
"Certainly."
Before the words could be fully finished, the spirit stone suddenly stopped in mid-air, stopping at a certain point on the parabola.
Rong Qing's words were like a thread holding the spirit stone tightly, preventing it from falling.
Even now, the Qiusang inheritance that is still being continuously empowered to Rong Qing is essentially the branch of speech and spirit in the secret art of the path of cause and effect: that is, using the power of words to control cause and effect.
"The spirit of speech comes from the same source as the path of cause and effect."
Rong Qing took back the spirit stone and listened carefully to Taoist Li Tao's teachings.
"The core lies in name and reality." Taoist Li Tao's voice was deep and honest: "Everything in the world exists in cause and effect. Name and reality are a very strong cause and effect. Everything has its name, which is nothingness. It also has a name, even the way of heaven has its honorable name. The bond of cause and effect between name and reality is extremely strong."
"The so-called name is correct, and the words are smooth. The line of words and spirits touches the cause and effect between names and reality, and it is the power of words that is borrowed. The name is used to guide and influence its existence. The simplest example is the line of words and spirits. For the curse technique in the pulse, you only need to confirm that its name corresponds to the person's name, and you can use it to affect the other person's luck and so on."
"However, it doesn't matter what technique can be extended. What is important is that you can understand how the cause and effect changes behind it. How to form a connection and how to cut it off. You must know that the techniques are ever-changing, but the Tao is constant. Everyone thinks that the Tao of cause and effect is mysterious. But when you think about it, it’s just that, it’s just a natural path in the universe.”
"There are many disciples under my master, some with high qualifications and some with mediocre understanding. Those with high understanding can understand the origin of cause and effect on their own, while those with a slightly lower level of understanding will be taught by my master the branches of speech, spirit, marriage, etc. Even if you are unable to do so for a while, If you enter the Tao at the origin of cause and effect and study the lineage of Yan Ling for a long time, you will still be able to gain some insights into the way of cause and effect.”
Rong Qing thought to herself, this is the so-called quantitative change leading to qualitative change.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it for a while, you’ll get a feel for it after using it frequently.
From this point of view, although Taoist Li Tao has many disciples, he still cares about them very much. I just wonder if Taoist Li Tao knows about the undercurrents between these brothers? Wherever there are people, there will be disputes, not to mention that under the sect of the Changsheng Lord, if there is a slight deviation, there will be all kinds of overt and covert resource gaps. It’s no wonder that the disciples formed cliques and favored the superiors and disdained the inferiors.
"This disciple will devote himself to practice and live up to his master's training." Rong Qing promised from below.
Taoist Li Tao smiled silently when he heard the words, and then said: "Then I will leave a question for you, and I will answer it tomorrow."
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What do you see as cause and effect?
Rong Qing was wondering about the meaning of this question along the way. Even when I met fellow apprentices on the street, I only greeted them with a few perfunctory greetings and had no intention of distinguishing their intriguing facial expressions.
After she returned to the courtyard, she locked herself in a quiet room, repeatedly recalling and analyzing everything Taoist Li Tao said.
"See?" Rong Qing thought to herself: "Is it possible that cause and effect can really be seen? But I can't see anything..."
This is embarrassing.
She has accepted Qiusang's inheritance, and has the complete secret technique of speaking spirit engraved in her sea of consciousness. But this only means that Rong Qing can keep practicing and eventually become proficient in it. Deeper content, such as how to "see" cause and effect, is not mentioned at all.
Then the question of Taoist Li Tao is an out-of-the-ordinary question for Rong Qing.
"The solution to this question should be based on what Taoist Li Tao said just now." She pondered for a long time and gradually got some ideas.
(End of chapter)