221 Fighting Conference

This battle conference in Qingzhou City was held at Qingyun Temple at one end of the east main street of the city. Qingyun Temple is the leading Taoist temple in Qingzhou. Even in the entire Nanliang Kingdom, it is well-known and ranked among the top three.

In this prosperous city of Qingzhou, where every inch of land is worth every fortune, Qingyunguan covers an area of ​​nearly 100 acres, and the entire building complex is even larger than Qingzhou City Government Office and Liao Wangfu. The believers who come to incense every day are in a constant stream.

A golden lacquer plaque hanging high on the vermilion copper door of the Taoist temple, with the four words "Ling Bu Qingyun" written on it. The dragon and the phoenix danced, with extraordinary momentum. You can feel refreshed by looking at it, and all the trivial worries of daily life are eliminated.

It is said that this is a famous immortal from the Nanliang Kingdom hundreds of years ago. When he visited Qingyun Temple to preside over the presidency, he wrote it himself, and it was one of the immortal traces of Qingyun Temple. Qingyun Temple was named because of this and became famous.

There was once a rumor that among every three people in Qingzhou, one of the three believers in Qingyunguan, and the other two are their wives, concubines and children. This shows that the popularity of Qingyunguan is almost at the point where every household believes in it.

Of course, some people sneer at this statement. What the people of Qingzhou believe in is not Qingyun Temple, but the Taoist teachings of immortals. However, almost most of the famous Taoist priests in Qingzhou are placed in Qingyun Temple, which makes Qingzhou people always run to Qingyun Temple.

This is the first day of the battle meeting. In front of Qingyun Taoist Temple, more than ten Taoist priests with fairy-like appearance and fairy-like Taoist bones are lined up to welcome guests from all walks of life.

On this day, a young man in a white shirt walked to the Qingyun Temple and looked at the four words "Lingbu Qingyun" on the plaque of the Taoist temple gate, and smiled faintly. The immortal who was hundreds of years ago was probably also a wonderful person, and the four words on the plaque were nothing strange. However, there was a formation engraved on the plaque with a clear mind. When a person looked over, he naturally felt extremely refreshed and his worries were completely eliminated.

This person is Ye Qin.

He promised to stay in Qingzhou City for ten days, helping the Zhang brothers and sisters, Fan, Xia and others to seize Qingzhou City from the Liao Palace with their help. Five or six days have passed, and there are still several days left.

Ye Qin had no intention of watching the battle meeting held in Qingyun Temple. He just waited for the matter here to be handled, so he went to Northern Qi with his sword. However, the people from Prince Liao's mansion hugged in the mansion and did not come out to fight. Instead, Ye Qin seemed to be idle for the rest of the days.

After completing the practice of the martial arts that day, Ye Qin was bored and remembered the matter that the shopkeeper Wu of the inn was nagging all day long. He wanted to see what the battle meeting in the secular world of Nanliang Kingdom was going to do.

Ye Qin came to Qingyun Temple and handed a door letter with gold thin to the Taoist priest in front of the Taoist temple. Then he entered Qingyun Temple. The listeners went to promote the Taoist Dharma of the Immortals' state of mind.

Such a post was extremely "substituted" and it was only worth a hundred gold leaves.

This is also a helpless move. After all, although Qingyun Temple is big, it cannot accommodate millions of extremely eager people in Qingzhou.

This battle conference only allows 5,000 believers to enter the Taoist temple to watch in person, and they need to hold a special door post from Qingyun Temple. Those who can enter Qingyun Temple are either rich landlords and merchants or powerful officials.

Ordinary people cannot enter and can only wait outside the Taoist temple.

Of course, they also have a way to "see" the battle between masters. Because there will be some scholars and scholars in the battle arena, who record the scenes of masters' fighting and speak one by one, and transmit them to many restaurants and teahouses outside the Taoist temple. Then, the storyteller will subtly perform the whole process in front of the teahouses in front of the teahouses, which will bring blessings to the believers.

When Ye Qin went, the battle meeting had already begun.

He entered the Qingyun Taoist Temple and came to a huge square in the temple. At this time, the square was covered with darkness, almost full of thousands of guests and believers. Such a crowd was silent, which was really magical.

In the middle of the square, there is a square high platform, with four secular monks with fairy spirits sitting in all directions, with a serious expression, sitting and talking about the state of mind. The voice is loud and extremely contagious. Even the table at the farthest square can be heard clearly.

Ye Qin casually sat down at a table with an empty seat in the square, ordered a few plates of anthocyanine side dishes and light wine, and listened while drinking.

At this battle meeting, the monks who took the stage first talked about their views on the state of mind and the immortal path, and then argued with each other whose views were more clever. Only then did they win until they refute one side speechlessly.

After such battles, one after another, until the debate was made, the most skilled person was arguing.

Speaking of which, this is also very funny.

He was a cultivator in the foundation-building stage, but in this secular Taoist temple, he heard a group of mortals who had never really practiced immortals and argued about how to cultivate immortals. If this was spread, it would be awkward to the secular mortals, making the cultivators laugh out loud, and denounced them as a ridiculous and weird act.

Therefore, although the Nanliang Kingdom's fighting conference was very famous in the secular world, almost no monk mentioned it in the spiritual fog cultivation world, and it was no name. It was just that Ye Qin did not care about the taboos of immortal cultivators, and there was nothing important now, so he came to this fighting conference to listen.

Ye Qin did not care much about the views of these secular masters at first. Because the secular Taoist priests have no spiritual roots and have never truly practiced the immortal Taoist crafts, it is normal that some of the words they say are full of loopholes, which naturally makes him unable to help laughing in secret.

But after listening for a while, he occasionally began to be stunned and stopped picking up the chopsticks for wine and food.

It is not in vain that these secular Taoists can gain such great fame. Among the secular mortals, there are also geniuses with outstanding minds and talents. Although they cannot cultivate immortality, it does not mean that they have no talent. Occasionally, those one or two amazing words that are enough to be famous in the history of the Southern Liang Kingdom were shocked, which shocked Ye Qin for a long time.

In the battle venue, the audience was excited and cheered loudly when they heard the amazing words.

Ye Qin looked at the secular Taoist priests on the high platform and fell into deep thought. Unconsciously, the wine and food on the table were tasteless, and his whole mind was over the arguments of several secular Taoist monks on the high platform.

After listening to the battle and argument for a long time, Ye Qin's original mentality of contempt and underestimation was completely restrained.

Not many people are qualified to appear at the annual battle meeting. The most famous Taoist temples, temples, and academies in Qingzhou City all sent one person with a very high mindset to participate. In short, only sixteen people with high moral character are qualified to participate.

In each battle, four people play at the same time. These four people, either two-on-two, or one-on-three, argue about the morality of cultivating the state of mind. Only those who win can stay on the stage.

The battle meeting was progressing very quickly, and a few days later, it reached the last debate.

Ye Qin even smiled bitterly, only regretting that he was a hunter and could not study when he was a child. Although he learned a lot of books in the herb collection hall in Zhuqi County, he spent most of his time collecting herbs. After entering the Qingdan Sect, he was even more focused on practicing. After building the foundation, he lived in the mountain gate for half a year before reading more.

When the experts on the stage were arguing fiercely, some extremely rare and ancient words broke out, which made him very difficult to listen. If he didn't understand very much, Ye Qin could only write them down in his heart and slowly recall the deep meaning.

The last battle debate was between a white-browed old Taoist priest, a fat monk, a middle-aged nun, and a young scholar. The four of them sat on the platform, debating the state of mind, the immortal path, the small perfection, the great perfection, and the highest perfection, and the state of what kind of state should be. After reaching the great perfection state, how can they be reborn and become extraordinary immortals.

In the argument between the four, the old Taoist priest was undoubtedly the most profound skill, and his eloquence and endless talk, which made the other three unable to resist. The second was the fat monk and the middle-aged nun. The weakest was the young scholar, who spoke less and was quite passive.

However, Ye Qin focused all his attention on the young scholar. The scholar didn't talk much, but never made any low-level mistakes. He did not confuse the real cultivation of immortals with the secular immortals, nor did he admit that he could simply make his mind perfect and become an immortal. This undoubtedly made the young scholar the target of public criticism and was surrounded by the other three people.

Although the other three people, although they are very eloquent, they make some low-level mistakes. They believe that after they have achieved great success in their state of mind, they can become immortals.

Ye Qin naturally paid more attention to the young scholar on the stage.

And most importantly, when arguing about how to divide the perfect state, the young scholar blurted out in anxiety, "Thinking and forgetting, being pure and harmless, this is the small perfect state of mind."

This immediately scared Ye Qin.

You should know that in the first article of "Sitting and Forgetful Sutra", this sentence is used as the core essence of the first to ninth levels of the Qi training period.

So how did the scholar say that this is a small perfect state of mind cultivation?

Ye Qin couldn't calm down.

He wanted to figure out why the scholar suddenly said this.

Unfortunately, the young scholar was refuted by three other people and stopped talking.

This made Ye Qin very upset.

There were two people on the same table as Ye Qin. One was a handsome young man dressed as a scholar, with a slick nose and a smooth face. The other was a slightly fat young master of the rich family. The two of them whispered in a low voice, and they discussed the four people on the stage, which attracted Ye Qin's attention.

Ye Qin bowed and asked the two of them with a smile: "Two, don't you know who the four on the stage are?"

The rich young master looked at Ye Qin and looked at him. Ye Qin was wearing a simple long gown. He couldn't tell what his origin was, but it was difficult for people without a status to come in. He smiled and said, "Brother, you must have heard that your accent came from another place. The four people on the stage are Master Wu from Qingyun Temple, Master Changzhi from Shuanglong Temple, Master Wuchen from Qingwan Temple, and Master Shen from Baiyi Academy."

Ye Qin asked in confusion: "That person who often speaks all over the place, is Mr. Shen?"

The rich young master laughed: "Yes, that person is Master Shen. Do you know his origin? His real name is Shen Jun. He is a local genius born in Qingzhou City. He won three yuan in a row at the age of sixteen. He was named the top scholar of this dynasty. He was praised as the example of Qingzhou talent and talent by the current emperor. He was a prime minister and even privately promised to join the imperial cabinet in the future. However, this son was extremely energetic and abandoned his official career and returned to the White-Clothed Academy in Qingzhou City to concentrate on studying the state of mind. Later, our fellow villagers in Qingzhou jokingly called him Master Shen. Unexpectedly, he made an example of the first battle this year, and he broke into the top four, and was not at a disadvantage. It was amazing."

The handsome young man sneered, "What's so great about Master Shen? He went to a private school in the city with me more than ten years ago. However, after that boy became rich, he refused to recognize us former classmates, which is deeply ashamed."

The rich young master laughed and said, "Come on, you have been in a private school for more than ten years and are still a scholar. He is a top student, so of course he has no shame to recognize you as a classmate. I had the honor to have a drink with him once back then. But now he is too famous, but he doesn't have the time to hang out with us little people."

The handsome young man's face turned red and he said a few words angrily.

After Ye Qin got the surname of the book on the high platform, he stopped talking to these two rich children. After drinking a few sips of wine, he saw that the fighting ceremony had dispersed, and the young scholar walked towards the inner courtyard of the Taoist temple.

He threw a silver leaf on the table and followed it to the inner courtyard. He hadn't figured out the doubt just now, and wanted to ask Shen Jun in person why his state of mind was so similar to the morality of the "Sitting and Forgetful Sutra".

A middle-aged Taoist priest was standing at the entrance of the inner courtyard of the Taoist temple. Seeing Ye Qin going in, he hurriedly stopped him and shouted: "The Taoist sect's cultivation place, idle people are not allowed to enter! Please leave."

Ye Qin was stunned for a moment and said, "I'll look for the scholar who just entered."

The red-faced Taoist priest opened his mouth and said, "No, if it disturbs the tranquility of the priests of our institute and interrupts the cultivation, you can't afford it."

Ye Qin was secretly annoyed and didn't want to bother with this Taoist priest.

He pinched the magic tricks with his hands, gently pressed the red-faced Taoist priest's shoulder, and a faint green light flashed, "Stay!" and then entered the inner courtyard with a swagger. He used almost no magic power to a secular person. The immobilization curse would naturally disappear in just three or four hours.

The red-faced Taoist priest froze directly on the spot, his eyes were horrified, his mouth opened, and he maintained a strange posture. The Taoist priests entering and leaving the inner courtyard looked at the red-faced Taoist priest strangely, not understanding which magic technique he was practicing.

Ye Qin had already caught up with Shen Jun in a few steps. "Brother Shen, please stay here. I have a question below!"

Shen Jun was busy rushing to the road. However, he had a good temper and was suddenly blocked by someone to ask for advice. He did not show his displeasure. He just bowed and said indifferently: "Please speak, brother!"

Ye Qin asked: "When you argue on stage, you once mentioned that 'Ming and sitting forgot, being innocent and unharmed, is a small perfect state'. I wonder how Brother Shen, how could he have such an opinion?" At the same time, he stared at Shen Jun's expression tightly.

Shen Jun was shocked, looked up at Ye Qin and opened his mouth.

This sentence was said by him on stage, being forced by the other three people who fought on the battlefield, and in desperation, he blurted out unintentionally. After saying it, he regretted it. He shouldn't have said this at all.

Now I am rushing back to the inner courtyard, and I am about to apologize to his master.

Shen Jun thought about it. He was not willing to lie or tell the truth. He said, "If you follow the origin of this brother, this sentence comes from an ancient scholar Zheng, who wrote an article "Sitting Forgetful Inscription". It says: "Always silent, the vitality is not damaged, and you think less about wisdom and candles. You are not angry and the gods are harmonious, and you are not upset and cool. You do not seek to be flattering or flattering, and you do not hold on to being round or square. You are not greedy and are rich and honorable, so why not be afraid of the court if you are not careful. This means

: Always be silent, don’t argue more about meaningless small things. Don’t think hard about trivial small things, and don’t take too much attention for things outside of your body. Be patient and tolerate anger and don’t be petty about small gains and losses, so as not to worry about anger and die. In this way, the vitality of the birth will not be reduced. If this passage of ancient text is used, it will be the original intention and source of "thinking and forgetting, being pure and unharmed". There are still some common things to deal with, so say goodbye first!"

Shen Jun was unwilling to say more, and after bowing, he hurriedly turned around and walked towards the inner courtyard. He also looked back and saw that Ye Qin did not follow him, so he felt relieved and quickened his pace.

Ye Qin stood there and watched him leave silently.

The first chapter of "Sitting and Forgetful Sutra" practices the Qi Practice Phrases, which also clearly states that it requires silence and coldness, stopping the heartbeat, and reducing the loss of vital energy. This basic immortal cultivation technique actually comes from a book of secular mortals, which surprised him very much.
Chapter completed!