Chapter 3 Huangting Daoism

After Zhang Zhixuan finished his practice, he hastily said goodbye to his seventeenth uncle Zhang Menglan and returned to his cave.

He slowly opened a protective formation to isolate the cave, then gently took out a yellowed book from his arms, with a bitter smile on his face.

"I have been stranded in this world for sixteen years, and I finally have a little understanding of this world. When can I return to my hometown? I guess it depends on this mysterious Taoist book." Zhang Zhixuan thought secretly in his heart.

Although Zhang Zhixuan has lived in this world for sixteen years, the soul in his body comes from Earth.

More than ten years ago, when he was still on Earth, he bought an old book in the second-hand book market. He was reading it with relish at night. After meditating all night, his soul traveled to this world and possessed this little baby.

Six years later, his memory gradually began to recover, and soon he found that this Taoist book also came to this world with him.

This book is called "Huangting Daolun". It seems to be written by a Taoist master. It talks about the profound meaning of Taoism.

Even though Zhang Zhixuan has been reading this book for more than ten years, he doesn't know much about the content of the book.

However, after reading this book for many years, Zhang Zhixuan found that his memory is getting better and better, his comprehension is getting higher and higher, and even his comprehension has increased.

According to the estimation of the elders in the family, he is only a cultivator with three spiritual roots, and his cultivation speed could not be so fast.

But he has been studying this book for many years. Although this Taoist book did not bring him magical powers, he relied on his increasingly better comprehension and years of hard and self-disciplined cultivation. His cultivation progress has made great progress. Even a cultivator with two spiritual roots could not have cultivated to the sixth level of Qi training at his age.

Generally, the cultivators with two spiritual roots in large sects cultivate to the sixth level of Qi training at the age of about 20. Compared with them, Zhang Zhixuan is undoubtedly one step ahead.

Relying on his wisdom, he not only started practicing earlier than others, but also was more diligent and self-disciplined than ordinary children.

After more than ten years, he has been ahead of cultivators with the same spiritual roots for more than ten years.

The Zhang family in Lushan is the largest family of immortal cultivators near Lushan. Starting from the ancestor Zhang Tairen, the inheritance has been orderly for more than four hundred years.

Four hundred years ago, the Zhang family settled in Lushan. After hundreds of years of operation, the Zhang family now has one cultivator in the foundation-building period, more than a hundred innate and Qi-training cultivators, and 30,000 to 40,000 ordinary clan members.

According to the family tree, there are twelve generations of cultivators in the Zhang family, ranked in order from Taichu Le Meng, Zhisi Tongyuan, and Guangsheng Zemao.

Among them, the second generation of Taichu cultivators have completely passed away.

The number of cultivators in the Le generation is the smallest, and most of them have also passed away. Now only three survive.

Except for the clan leader who has an extraordinary cultivation and has already established a foundation, the other two have long been old and are now living outside the mountain.

The Meng generation of monks is the backbone of the family, with more than 30 people in total, most of whom are already in the middle and late stages of Qi training.

The Zhi generation of monks has the largest number, about more than 40 people, most of whom have low cultivation and are not very old, the oldest is only over 50 years old, and many have not yet broken through the Qi training stage and are still stuck in the Xiantian stage.

The Si generation of monks is even smaller, with only 18 people now, the oldest is only 23 years old, and the one with the highest cultivation has not broken through the ninth level of Xiantian.

This generation of monks has not yet discovered talents with outstanding qualifications, and has almost no say among the monks in the family.

The Taoist book in Zhang Zhixuan's hand is called "Huangting Daolun", and only he can read it.

In the eyes of others, this Taoist book is just a large purple jade plate, and the runes on it are so mysterious that they cannot be recognized at all.

For this reason, when his father discovered this mysterious Taoist book, he believed that his son was born with supernatural powers and was the reincarnation of a high-level monk.

From then on, he was no longer regarded as an ordinary child. Instead, he was carefully trained and taught to read and write, and to meditate and practice.

After discovering this mysterious jade token, Zhang Zhixuan's father did not make it public, nor did he tell other cultivators in the clan.

Because of this mysterious jade token, he was named Zhang Zhixuan.

And the book "Huangting Daolun" that brought him across the world for unknown reasons gradually showed some strange colors.

After his cultivation entered the Qi training stage, he finally understood the first spell from it, the Qi Yunshu.

This is a Qi nourishing spell that can refine the morning sun purple Qi, which is used to warm the Dantian of the physical body, dissolve the violent magic power in the body, and reduce the risk of going astray.

In addition to practicing this spell called the Qi Yunshu, Zhang Zhixuan has also practiced three spells in recent years.

These three spells are the Light Body Spell, the Fixed Body Spell, and the Golden Needle Spell.

Cultivators in the innate stage cannot practice any spells because they have not yet refined the spiritual energy.

Innate cultivators, apart from their tough bodies, strong strength, sharp eyes and ears, and quick thinking, are not much better than ordinary people.

If ordinary people wear sharp armor and hold crossbows, as long as dozens of armored soldiers come forward together, they can defeat ordinary innate cultivators.

When cultivators reach the Qi training stage, because their meridians are already open, they can refine spiritual power, learn spells, and control magic tools and talismans.

At this point, the abilities of cultivators are already extraordinary. Even thousands of troops often have no way to deal with cultivators.

For cultivators in the Qi training stage, their spiritual consciousness has not yet been transformed, their magic power is still relatively weak, and they can learn very few spells.

A cultivator at the first level of Qi training can only learn one spell, and for each additional level of cultivation, he can learn one more spell.

Zhang Zhixuan is now at the sixth level of Qi training, reaching the peak of the middle stage of Qi training, and could have learned six spells.

Unfortunately, Zhang Zhixuan has been focusing on improving his skills over the years and has only learned three spells.

Compared with middle-aged and elderly cultivators of the same level, Zhang Zhixuan has some gaps in experience, spells, instruments, and talismans. If he fights with others outside the mountain, he may not be able to protect himself.

"This time, when I go out of the mountain to complete the family mission, I will try to choose a place close to the mountain gate. First, I must get familiar with the world of immortal cultivation outside the mountain and try to accumulate as much experience as possible. Second, I must go down the mountain to find out the cause of my father's death and avenge him as soon as possible to fulfill my long-cherished wish. Third, although the spiritual energy is insufficient and the cultivation is slow after going down the mountain, I must also lay a solid foundation and learn a few spells to lay a good foundation for future cultivation and make up for my shortcomings." Zhang Zhixuan closed the Taoist book and thought secretly in his heart.

He slowly moved the spiritual energy, circulated the spiritual energy for twelve weeks, warmed the acupoints, stabilized his cultivation, and then opened the cave and went all the way to the top of the mountain.