Chapter 234 Hidden Situation
Luoxia Peak.
The sunset was still beautiful, reflecting on the faces of the practitioners who passed by. Everyone's face was as rosy as the clouds.
On the bluestone on the top of the peak, pairs of male and female practitioners cuddled together, admiring the sunset on the horizon, which was extremely comfortable.
Lin Mu and Shitou's figures were like a rainbow, heading straight towards Luoxia Peak.
The two of them walked in a hurry, without stopping at the top of the peak, and went straight to the Sutra-Tiding Pavilion.
Although the sunset was beautiful, the two of them did not have the leisure to watch it.
They were leaving tomorrow, and the two of them only had one night to copy the jade slips, and time was really tight.
Lin Mu took the stone and walked into the Scripture Collection Pavilion.
It was getting late, and there were few disciples in the Sutra Pavilion. There were only three or five people wandering among the wooden shelves, picking up a jade slip from time to time to check it out.
Next to the pavilion door, there is nothing. The place where Yinxin used to be is no longer there.
In the middle of the attic, there was a square table, and a young man in white was sitting at the table, wandering away.
Lin Mu looked at the young man in white who was sitting at the table in a daze, with a strange color flashing in his eyes.
Lingyun!
At that time, Luo Yan's disciple, one of the top five outer disciples, was good at refining weapons. Decades later, his cultivation has reached the peak of the middle stage of Lingji, and is only one step away from the late stage of Lingji.
When Lin Mu first learned to refine the Earth Spirit Hoe, it was Ling Yun who taught him.
Lin Mu walked forward and said softly: "Senior brother!"
Ling Yun suddenly woke up from his thoughts. He looked up and saw Lin Mu. He quickly stood up and said with a smile: "You are now far stronger than me, so I should call you senior brother."
Lin Mu said with a smile: "Elder Luo Yan is my half master, and you are his first disciple. As everyone knows, I naturally want to call you senior brother." Ling Yun was about to refuse, but Lin Mu hurriedly said: "Whatever you call me, it's just Xiaojie, senior brother, don’t worry about it.”
Ling Yun smiled bitterly and nodded: "It's me who's verbose." Then he asked: "Are you here to copy the jade slips?"
He had already received instructions from his master and knew that Lin Mu would come.
Lin Mu smiled and nodded: "Exactly."
Ling Yun smiled and said, "I have prepared blank jade slips for you."
After finishing speaking, he took out a large pile of jade slips from the storage bag and stacked them on the table. After a quick glance, Lin Mu knew that there were at least hundreds of them.
Lin Mu and Shitou both stepped forward to take the jade slips, each placing two to three hundred pieces.
Lin Mu pretended to be a blank jade slip and asked Ling Yun: "Senior Yinxin has been guarding the Scripture Pavilion before, why are you here now? Where is senior Yinxin?"
Ling Yun's face darkened, then returned to normal. He glanced at the scattered disciples in the pavilion and said with a strong smile: "Time is precious, and the jade notes are tight. If I have some free time, I will let you know."
Lin Mu didn't know why, suppressed his doubts and nodded in agreement.
In order to facilitate Lin Mu and Shitou's copying, Ling Yun began to drive away the disciples in the pavilion.
"It's getting late. We'll be here today. You can leave quickly and come back tomorrow."
The Jade Slip disciples were selected in the pavilion, and after hearing the words, they all made decisions. Some put down the Jade Slips and left directly, while others took the Jade Slips and came to Ling Yun to pay the spiritual stones. In a moment, the disciples in the pavilion were all gone.
Ling Yun waved his hand, and the door of the Sutra Pavilion suddenly closed, and there was a sudden darkness in the pavilion.
Ling Yun cast a dozen spells in a row, and the "Glimmer Array" around the wall was immediately activated, making the pavilion suddenly as bright as day.
Lin Mu and Shitou began to copy the jade slips.
The two discussed it and decided to start with the mental method.
Mental skills are the basis for cultivating spiritual power. The higher the level, the faster the cultivation speed.
The "Nine Directions Mind Method" that Lin Mu practiced when he first started was a second-grade mind method, and the effect of the practice was very poor.
Not to mention the slow movement of the heavens, every time the heavens rotate, the increase in spiritual power is not much, which is far from comparable to the "Five Elements Heart Method".
Lin Mu accepted fifty disciples, all with average qualifications, spiritual roots of all five elements, and different requirements for mental skills.
Lin Mu and Shitou stood on the wooden shelf of mental arts on the first floor. After checking for a long time, they found that most of them were second-grade mental arts, and occasionally there were only one or two third-grade mental arts. The two made a decision immediately, left the first floor and went straight to the second floor.
The mental skills on the second floor are indeed much more profound than those on the first floor.
Almost all are third-grade mental methods, and even occasionally some fourth-grade mental methods can be found.
The third-level mental method is enough for disciples in the Qi refining stage.
The two classified them according to the five elements, the five lines of spiritual power. Each line copied seven or eight third-level mental methods, and none of the five lines fell behind.
After the mental method was copied, the two of them divided the work again.
Lin Mu copied the spells, and Shitou copied the sword techniques.
As for spells, Lin Mu would not refuse anyone who came. As long as he thought they were useful spells, he would copy them regardless of their grade.
Five series of spells, from low-level to high-level, are covered.
Lin Mu believed that if someone could learn all these techniques and use them freely, it would not be difficult to defeat the sword cultivator.
Obviously, this is highly unlikely.
The learning of each technique takes a lot of time, and if you want to achieve proficiency, you have to practice it thousands of times.
Cultivators, especially low-level cultivators, have limited lifespans and do not have much time to learn techniques.
On the contrary, sword cultivators have a great advantage in this regard.
As long as you choose a sword art, you can learn it from scratch. As your cultivation level slowly improves, your understanding of the sword art will become deeper and deeper, and there is great hope of finally understanding the sword skills.
The powerful attack power of sword cultivators is also far superior to that of magic cultivators.
Those in the foundation-building stage can practice high-grade magic weapons to enhance their strength, and fight against those in the spiritual silence stage.
It would be difficult for a magic cultivator to perform high-level magic during the foundation building period.
This is also the reason why sword cultivation has become more and more popular, while martial arts cultivation has become increasingly declining.
Techniques are better because of their variety, while sword tactics are better because of concentration and powerful attack power. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
In comparison, most people still choose to practice swordsmanship.
Shi Shi has been cultivating swords for decades, and all of the sword techniques he has chosen are extraordinary, and they are all third-grade sword techniques.
He only copied seven or eight types of sword tactics from each of the five series. Even so, there were still thirty or forty jade slips.
The number of techniques Lin Mu copied was far greater than that of stone sword techniques. From low-level to high-level, there were more than 150 jade slips.
In addition, the two also copied some miscellaneous jade slips.
For example, there are jade slips for alchemy, jade slips for making talismans, and jade slips for refining weapons.
Due to the small number of people practicing physical cultivation, the Jade Slips were also classified into the miscellaneous cultivation category. Lin Mu remembered that Shi Jian practiced physical cultivation and copied a few of them.
After all, Qianyu Sword Sect is mainly focused on swordsmanship. Although these miscellaneous cultivators are involved, the collection is not complete.
Some miscellaneous repair jade slips even have missing contents, and no one has filled in the missing contents.
Lin Mu and Shitou didn't care about this, thinking that it was better than nothing, and copied all the jade slips that they thought were useful.
In addition, Lin Mu was also interested in copying some anecdotal jade slips, most of which were anecdotes about previous travels or insights.
The contents of these jade slips are messy and full of fragments of thoughts, and can only be read for entertainment.
If Lin Mu hadn't been so impressed by some of the fantastic ideas, he wouldn't have copied them at all.
At dawn, Lin Mu and Shitou Fang stopped sweating profusely.
The two worked hard all night and finally copied all the jade slips they needed.
There are all kinds of mental techniques, magic techniques, sword tactics, and miscellaneous practices, enough for fifty disciples to learn.
There was a lot of content in it, and Lin Mu was also very interested in it, and planned to study it in his spare time.
The two counted the jade slips they had copied and found that the number was as high as five hundred!
Five hundred jade slips!
What a crazy night!
Most of the jade slips on the first and second floors of the Sutra Pavilion, with slightly more important contents, were copied down by the two of them.
Except for the top secret skills of Qianyu Sword Sect on the third floor, all the rest were obtained by Lin Mu.
After working hard all night transcribing, they both felt exhausted after relaxing.
Copying the jade slips consumes a lot of spiritual consciousness. Even though Lin Mu's spiritual consciousness has reached the peak of spiritual silence, he still feels dizzy.
The stone was even more unbearable and already drowsy.
Lin Mu put all the jade slips into his storage bag, bursts of joy flashed in his tired eyes.
In a blink of an eye, he found that the stone had fallen to the side of the wooden frame and was fast asleep.
Lin Mu smiled and shook his head. He did not wake up Shi Shi, but turned around and walked towards the first floor.
The first floor of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
Ling Yun was sitting cross-legged in meditation, practicing hard.
The sound of Lin Mu's gentle footsteps coming downstairs woke him up, and he hurriedly woke up from his trance.
"Already copied?" Ling Yun saw Lin Mu's happy face and asked with a smile.
Lin Mu smiled and nodded: "I'm very tired. Hundreds of jade slips consume too much spiritual consciousness."
Ling Yun smiled and nodded. He understood this very well. He guarded the Sutra Pavilion here and copied many jade slips, but he always felt dizzy.
"Where are the stones?" Ling Yun smiled when he saw Lin Mu coming down alone.
"Asleep." Lin Mu said with a smile: "His cultivation level is still shallow after all. He couldn't hold on anymore and quickly fell asleep."
Ling Yun smiled in surprise and said, "Then let him sleep for a while."
Lin Mu's face straightened, he looked at Ling Yun, and said solemnly: "What happened to Senior Yinxin?"
The smile on Ling Yun's face disappeared, and he said with a sad expression: "To be honest, Master Yinxin has run out of fuel and his life is not long. Although he was in the golden elixir stage before, he was knocked down by the master and returned to spiritual silence. During the period, his meridians were severed. After so many years, although his injuries have recovered, his cultivation has been unable to improve again. Seeing that there is no hope of returning to the Golden Core stage, he is depressed and has become ill. He is now bedridden and waiting to die. "
Lin Mu was stunned and felt sad for a moment.
Yinxin was very kind to him. If Yinxin hadn't come forward to remind him, he would have been betrayed by Shi Weihan and died in the hands of the Yuling Sect. The "Five Elements of Mind" gifted by Yinxin is also the foundation of his cultivation.
At the beginning, he was only in the Qi refining stage, but Yinxin did not despise him. He compared him with Shi Weihan and asked him to help get rid of Shi Weihan.
Lin Mu couldn't help but feel sad when he thought about all this.
But in just the past few decades, I was in the late stages of foundation building and was still far away from the golden elixir, but Yinxin could no longer hold on.
Lin Mu couldn't help feeling sad.
After a while, Lin Mu raised his head, his eyes slightly red, and said: "Where is Senior Yinxin now? I want to visit him."
Ling Yun wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said: "The master has arranged for him to be nursed back to health at Wangyun Peak. It is said that he is being nursed back to health, but in fact no one cares about it. Now that the master is so powerful, the master is unable to support himself. Although I wanted to visit him, the master did not let me Go, for fear of arousing the master's jealousy. Although you are in power now, it is better not to go to avoid embarrassment to the master."
Lin Mu's face darkened and he said coldly: "Others are afraid of him, Shi Weihan, but I am not afraid of him. In this case, I will go alone."
Ling Yun opened his mouth and wanted to persuade him, but looking at Lin Mu's gloomy eyes, he couldn't speak.
"The stone will rest here. Please take care of it. I'll come when I go, as long as I don't cause trouble." Lin Mu left a word, opened the door of the Sutra Pavilion, and went out.
Ling Yun was left standing there blankly, with expressions on his face changing, guilt, hesitation, struggle, weakness, and sighs flashing across his face one by one.
Tears rolled down his cheeks.