Chapter 122 The drama begins Dao Xiaofeng was extremely angry. Teeth clenched but unable to rage. In the end, Qiu Wanru smiled and robbed half of the natural treasures looted from the vast rain forest of Dianzhou. If Dao Xiaofeng hadn't used her magic tickling skill, Qiu Wanru would have wanted to record her frustrated but helpless look. Tao Tie naturally had no idea what happened later in the villa outside the capital. After entering the capital, he went straight to the headquarters of the missionary academy. Since it is the headquarters, it is naturally extraordinary. In terms of area alone, it is half the size of Liuxian County! It has been accommodating more than 60,000 teachers and students for many years, where they study, live and practice. The library is not just a pavilion, but a group of buildings consisting of six parts: Confucianism, martial arts, Taoism, Buddhism, witchcraft, and miscellaneous. Tao Tie came to pick up the jade slip of the Tiangang Method [Five Elements Great Escape] that he had ordered, and of course he went to the Taoist library.

There are four buildings in the Daobu, and the names are very interesting. The first building is the Sutra Building, which houses Taoist classics; The second building is the magic building, which houses the classics and inheritance of Taoist magic, including the earthly magic; The third building is the Dharma Building, which houses Taoist techniques, Dharma books, and inheritance, including the Tiangang Method. The fourth building is the Taoist building. It has only one floor and a blank stele inside. There is no security and anyone can enter. Tao Tie had a clear purpose. Even though he was interested in all four buildings, especially the Tao Building, he still went straight to the Fa Building to receive the jade slip. The magic building has nine floors, each floor is thirty-three feet high, and the original Tiangang magic is on the top floor. After entering the building and going up the stairs, he found the person who distributed the original Tiangang Method, received the jade slip, Tao Tie frowned slightly, and went downstairs immediately. After leaving the Dharma Building, don’t go out, but go to the Tao Building. As soon as he entered the Taoist building, his figure was obscured by the Taoist aura emanating from the inscriptionless stele. Tao Tie turned around and saw a large group of people rushing towards the Dharma building. The leader was the third prince who had seen the portrait. A middle-aged Confucian scholar full of wisdom followed beside the third prince. Xie Ruoyu, the guest of the Third Prince, who had met him once, was placed in the middle and end of the group. He was not in the position that a guest should be in and seemed to be neglected. "Come to find me?" After thinking for a while, Tao Tie put aside these unnecessary thoughts. Anyway, he has made up his mind. Even if the two issues of selecting talents and the competition for the throne among the princes are now mixed together and every talented genius has to take sides, he will stand on the side of the eldest princess. No other options. Now that we have entered the Taoist building, we should take a good look at the inscriptionless stele instead of wasting our energy on meaningless trivialities. According to reliable historical records, the inscriptionless stele was made by Taizu himself and erected here personally. Only then did the Taoist tower, the library and the missionary hall come into being. There has been a saying circulating for more than a thousand years that Taizu incorporated his lifelong spiritual insights into the inscriptionless stele.

Those who are predestined to touch the inscriptionless stele may be able to learn secret techniques, comprehend the meaning of Taoism, or gain other benefits... This statement is not groundless. Over the years, many people have indeed benefited from the inscriptionless stele. There is no security guard in the Dao Tower, and everyone can enter and touch the inscriptionless stele, which is exactly the original intention of Taizu to erect the stele: Preach throughout the world and everyone will be like a dragon. Therefore, Tao Tie could touch the inscriptionless monument at will. After walking around the monument without words and returning to the front, Tao Tie chanted the eight great mantras to stimulate the characteristics of [purifying the mind], [purifying the mouth], and [purifying the body]. He corrected his mentality, cleansed himself, bowed solemnly, and bowed to the bottom three times. After three bows, Tao Tie walked forward and lightly touched the inscriptionless stele with respect. There was nothing unusual at first, but after a while, Tao Tie seemed to hear a true mantra. This mantra was vague and hazy, as if it had five words, seven words, nine words, or even twenty-four words. It kept changing and it was difficult to hear clearly. Tao Tie instinctively wanted to listen carefully, but the truth of the great truth suddenly disappeared, making him feel lost. But there are still gains, and a lot of them. First is the Yin God "Taiyi Great Heavenly Emperor", the golden light behind his head has become bigger and darker; Secondly, the temperament of Taotie Dharmadhatu has lost some of its ferocity, and has revealed a faint sense of peace; Secondly, the two sonic physical abilities of [Hum] and [Ha] were strengthened, and the ability to shake the soul and disperse the spirit was greatly enhanced; The last is something extremely subtle. It can be called a clear perception, a vague feeling, or a divine induction. It seems that this great truth is not completely gone, but has been engraved deep into Tao Tie's true spirit. With different subsequent paths chosen, different degrees of practice, and different results achieved, the number of words and content of the final mantra will also be different. The fewer the words, the more concise the content, the more profound the truth it contains, and the greater the power it possesses. After getting over his lost mood, Tao Tiefu bowed solemnly to the inscriptionless monument again and then left the Taoist tower. At this time, Tao Tie realized that nearly two hours had passed. During this period, no one entered the Taoist building to disturb his enlightenment. The people led by the third prince were no longer in the Law Building or the Mission Hall. No one knew where they had gone. The world is truly amazing. "Tsk." Tao Tie shook his head and smiled, then chose a direction and headed towards the warehouse of the missionary institute's headquarters. As long as you entrust the matter through the internal channels of the institute and pay the money, the instructors of the missionary institute can handle everything neatly and beautifully. What might have taken a while to accomplish at the Liuxian County Mission, the General Mission's Treasury Department took less than a quarter of an hour. "Pity."

The instructor of the main academy, a middle-aged man who was two meters tall and had bulging muscles, had strengthened the soft armor, ropes, and thunder pestle once, and when he delivered the new soft armor, ropes, and thunder pestle, he suddenly let out a sigh. Without waiting for Tao Tie to ask, the muscle master instructor said, "This tortoise shell is a good material. It is a waste of material to use it to make a heart-protecting mirror. It is better to use it to make the base material of the Da Liu Ren plate." "Thank you for your guidance, Master." Tao Tie thanked the muscle master coach, performed his duties politely, and then left. Maybe that's true, but that's the best use of the tortoise shell, not the best choice for Tao Tie at the moment. Compared to the Heavenly Secrets of Cause and Effect, which he would not practice in depth for a long time, Tao Tie always focused his practice on attack and defense. Prioritize ensuring survival before additional expansion. The opposite of "focusing one's mind on one thing and being able to accomplish anything" is exactly the opposite of "being greedy and trying to achieve everything and achieving nothing". Having achieved the purpose of his trip to the missionary institute, Tao Tie thought about it and decided to go directly back to his villa in the suburbs of Beijing. The wind and rain outside are too strong, so we’d better stay away for another half a month. It’s not too late to come out and participate in activities after the time, place, process and competition system of the competition are determined. The headquarters of the missionary academy is located in the east city of the capital, with the Imperial College on the left and the Military Academy on the right. The "suburbs of Beijing" in "suburban gardens of Beijing" refers to the eastern suburbs of the capital, not the southern, western or northern suburbs. Tao Tie had to pass through the Imperial College when he went back and forth to the main campus of the missionary academy. There was nothing when I came, but when I left, the gate of Imperial College was blocked by three circles of people inside and three circles outside. It even blocked most of the wide street in front of the entrance of the Wushu School, the Missionary Academy, and the Imperial College, which was lined up in a row and could accommodate four jade carriages running side by side. A rough count shows that there are about five thousand people gathered here! There were so many people that the scene was quite spectacular. Tao Tie originally wanted to cross the street, avoid the crowd, and go directly back to the villa. When passing the most crowded section, I suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from a dozen people who were surrounded at the core of the circle at the gate of the Imperial College. Following the sound, I saw that it was Dong Shou and Dong Guinian who had turned into a living treasure. Dong Shou's face was solemn as he said in a loud voice, "The people are the most important, the country is second, and the emperor is the least important. In my humble opinion, the court should publish a report on the whole story of the Hua'e Tower case, the criminals involved, and all the crimes of the chief culprit, the deposed Crown Prince Ju, to the world. Those who should be beheaded should be beheaded, those who should have their property confiscated should have their property confiscated, those who should be exiled should be exiled, and the chief culprit, the deposed Crown Prince Ju, should have all his writings destroyed since he was born!" Reason does not lie in the loudness of the voice. But the voice is loud and reasonable. However, although the reason is correct, it violates taboos and is most likely to cause a dull atmosphere. Dong Shou's words were extremely destructive. In a flash, more than half of the people who originally supported Dong Shou changed their stance and wanted to squeeze into other groups. The few people who had argued with Dong Shou also remained silent. It was normal for scholars to discuss politics and express their dissatisfaction with certain policies of the court and speak out against them, which was acceptable to everyone. But this does not mean that scholars can attack specific people at will.

Every word Dong Shou said made sense, the only thing he was wrong about was that he shouldn't have said it at this moment. The imperial court might not do anything to Dong Shou, but the same can’t be said about some people. These people are not classified in any specific way. They may be nobles, officials, royal family, noble families, or clans... In short, Dong Shou acted like a reckless man again and offended a lot of people for no reason. Tao Tie sighed in his heart, and left without stopping, not caring about what twists and turns might happen in front of the Imperial College. After getting out of this congested section of road, everything went smoothly. Nothing else happened before returning to the villa outside Beijing. It’s just that the senior sister didn’t seem to be in a good mood. With a dark face, she was waving a wooden sword in the martial arts field, angrily chopping a wooden man. On the head of the wooden man, there was a piece of paper with three big Chinese characters "Qiu Wanru" written on it. Dao Xiaofeng would curse angrily every time he chopped with his sword. What fur peeling, what vampire, what annoying ghost... He babbled a lot and was full of resentment. Seeing this, Tao Tie quickly stopped all movement and returned to his bedroom quietly. After resting for a while, calming his mind and spirit, Tao Tie took out the jade slip of the Tiangang Method [Five Elements Great Escape], probed his spiritual consciousness into it, and accepted the inheritance. There are a series of five-element related exercises and classic theories as the foundation, such as the Five Animal Exercises, Xingyiquan, Taiyi Body Refining Technique, Taiyi Soul Refining Technique, and [Mastering the Five Thunders]. [Five Elements Great Escape] is also learned immediately after receiving the true meaning of the exercises. Just like [Mastering the Five Thunders]. The difference is that the entry-level performance of [Mastering the Five Thunders] is the Five Thunder Palm/Palm Thunder, and the entry-level performance of [Five Elements Great Escape] is the five small escape techniques of gold escape, water escape, wood escape, fire escape, and earth escape. The reason why they are called minor techniques is that they can only move within ordinary gold, ordinary water, ordinary wood, ordinary fire, and ordinary earth. Not to mention the five elements spiritual materials, just casting spells and prohibitions on the five elements ordinary materials will make these five small techniques likely to fail. After trying out the five techniques one by one, Tao Tie took out the essence of the five elements from Xilu Lake in one go. This five-colored bead originally belonged to the female dragon. I don't know whether she knew the value of it or not, so she placed it above her nest and used it only for lighting. The spell "Clear Water Like a Spring" summoned a stream of clear spring water to wash the five-colored beads, and then used [Purification] (a method to purify disordered weather) to purify them. Tao Tie then visualized Taotie and transformed himself into Taotie, conceptually consuming the essence of the Five Elements, further improving his level of mastery of [Five Elements Great Escape] and enhancing his comprehension of the Five Elements. Something amazing happened. After eating the five-colored beads, the mastery level of [Five Elements Escape] jumped from the entry level to the (Mastery, progress: 13%) level as desired. The five-color charm of the essence of the five elements was also introduced into the Niwan Palace by the Yin God "Taiyi Great Emperor". In the purple mansion of the Lingtai in the Niwan Palace, the true words of the great way that were heard when touching the inscriptionless stele echoed. The faint golden light of merit was affected by the true words of the Great Dao, and it shone brightly for a moment.

Under the guidance of the great truth, the five-colored charm merged into the golden light of merit that shone brightly for a moment. The progress of the Yin God "Taiyi Great Emperor" in transforming from pure Yin to pure Yang advanced a little bit. The golden light of merit behind his head changed from light white and gold to a halo of five colors: blue, yellow, red, white, and black coexisting harmoniously. The miraculous changes have not yet ended. The Yin God "Taiyi Great Emperor" controlled the [Mastery of Five Thunders]. For a moment, heavenly thunder, earthly thunder, divine thunder, water thunder, and demon thunder rumbled in the Niwan Palace, and thunder and lightning continued to appear and disappear. The hair on the body of the Taotie statue under the seat stood up straight. The magical weapon Thunder Pestle, which had just been strengthened and reached the upper level of the Earth Rank, was absorbed into the Niwan Palace. Five thunders bombard it, doing the first step of tempering, and the five-colored divine light follows closely after, doing further tempering. The friction between thunder and light created fire. This fire is born in the Niwan Palace. It is actually the king fire of the heart, also known as the divine fire, and its name is the divine fire of Shangmei. The divine fire carried out the final step of refining the Thunder Pestle. At this point, the miraculous changes caused by swallowing the essence of the five elements ended. In addition to greatly enhancing his own strength, Tao Tie also made the magical weapon Jinglei Pestle undergo a qualitative change, becoming the prototype of a magic weapon. Even the name is not suitable to continue using the word "Thunder". After exiting his practice state and playing with the Thunder Pestle in his hand for a while, Tao Tie came up with a new name. Raising a palm-length pestle with his left hand, Tao Tie bit through his right middle finger, squeezed out a drop of blood from his fingertip, and dotted it on the pestle, saying solemnly: "From now on, you will be called the Five Elements Divine Pestle." This name is very simple and straightforward. But it contains Tao Tie's expectation and vision. The Five Elements Divine Pestle absorbed a drop of blood from Tao Tie's fingertips and became much more agile. It automatically broke away and spun around Tao Tie several times. It seems to express his love for the name and his determination to realize Tao Tie's expectations and ideas. Tao Tie was very satisfied with this. He then put away the Five Elements Divine Pestle, which was already the prototype of a magic weapon, and concentrated on practicing. The same thing happened for the next half month. No matter how turbulent the outside world is, Tao Tie lives in his villa outside Beijing with peace of mind. While practicing on his own, increasing his cultivation, honing his realm, and comprehending the truth, he also sparred with his senior sister Dao Xiaofeng to improve his practical skills and experience. After finishing her duties at the Ministry of Rites, Senior Sister Qiu Wanru would often come to the villa to give Tao Tie advice. You don't know until the fight. After the fight, Tao Tie realized that Senior Sister Qiu actually followed the way of talismans and formations. With talismans in one hand and formations in the other, he can really wear people down to death. One day, Senior Sister Qiu was in a good mood and set up an ancient formation - the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, which tortured Tao Tie so much that he completely lost his temper.

However, Senior Sister Dao demonstrated how sword cultivators/knife cultivators should deal with talisman cultivators and formation cultivators. Tao Tiexin yearned for it and studied hard. In this atmosphere of turning a deaf ear to the outside world and focusing on spiritual practice, Tao Tie's days of staying at home are over. The day set by the court for the competition among the talented and noble people has arrived. Right now. (End of this chapter)