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Chapter 81
Gao Cheng put ten gold coins on the table, bowed to Uncle Jiu and said, "Please also ask Uncle Jiu to accept me as an apprentice, this is my apprenticeship ceremony."

Looking at the ten glittering gold coins on the table, Uncle Jiu secretly swallowed.

Ten gold dollars is equivalent to 400 oceans.

When had he, Lin Fengjiao, seen so much money at once?

He has been staying in Yizhuang in Renjia Town for several years, and his monthly salary is only three oceans, which is enough for the two masters and apprentices to eat and drink.

If he hadn't been able to earn some extra money by helping people read Fengshui or exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts, he might not have the money to buy materials such as cinnabar yellow paper.

Now you can receive ten gold dollars if you accept an apprentice. It must be a lie to say that you are not tempted.

However, he still remembered Maoshan's rules and dared not accept people indiscriminately.

Just as he was about to say something, Xu Wencai threw his eyes on the table, wanting to hold ten gold coins in his arms.

Uncle Jiu slapped him with a slap.

"Oh, master, why did you hit me?" Xu Wencai held the back of his head with an aggrieved expression.

Uncle Jiu glared at him: "Can you collect this money randomly?"

Xu Wencai shrank his neck and opened his mouth to speak, but seeing the master staring at him fiercely, he immediately shut his mouth honestly.

Uncle Jiu pondered for a moment and said: "Little brother, you should keep this money. I don't know your character and qualifications at the moment. It's not so casual for me to accept disciples in Maoshan."

Gao Cheng said respectfully: "Return the Maoshan gate wall that master taught me how to enter."

Uncle Jiu said: "If you really want to learn from me, you can be an outer disciple with me for three years, would you like it?"

Three years is enough to see how a person's character is.

In the middle of this, he will teach some simple Maoshan introductory breathing and basic Taoism, and then according to the progress of the study, he can also see how aptitude and understanding this person is.

Three years later, after discovering that his character, aptitude and comprehension were all good, he accepted him as a formal disciple again.

Hearing this, Gao Cheng hesitated and asked, "If I become a disciple of Maoshan, can I still marry a wife and have children?"

The movie doesn't say that Maoshan Taoist priests can marry wives and have children, and of course, it doesn't say that they can't.

He didn't know much about Maoshan, so he had to ask this question clearly first, otherwise he would not be able to marry a wife after being admitted as a formal disciple of Maoshan, so Gao Cheng would rather not learn Taoism, and he would give priority to the system to complete world tasks.

Uncle Jiu laughed and said, "My bloodline is the righteous one, so I can't help but get married."

Then there is nothing to hesitate, Gao Cheng bowed and said: "The disciple is willing to follow the master for three years."

Then Uncle Jiu began to ask Gao Cheng about his family situation.

Gao Cheng replied: His surname is Gao and his first name is Cheng.

I am 23 years old this year. I am an orphan. My family used to have quite a lot of property. I studied abroad for several years. Now I have just returned from studying abroad and bought a house in Renjia Town.

Because he admired Taoist Maoshan's ability to subdue demons and catch ghosts, he moved his mind to learn Taoism from Maoshan.

Although Uncle Jiu was surprised, he didn't show it.

Tangtang, a student studying abroad, asked his Uncle Jiu to learn Taoism. To be honest, he was very happy in his heart.

He was originally a face-saving person.

Accepting an international student as an apprentice, it is also face-saving to say it.

He touched his bones again, and nodded secretly in his heart: he has good qualifications, but he doesn't know how to understand.

Feeling the bones in this world can only confirm whether this person has the qualifications to learn Taoism, and can only roughly feel whether the person's qualifications are average or superior, or simply have no qualifications.

It's not as exaggerated as in other fairy tale novels or film and television dramas, where you can tell that this person is a genius for cultivating immortals or a genius for practicing martial arts.

Qualification and understanding are very important in any world.

Aptitude often represents the highest limit of cultivation speed and cultivation realm.

Comprehension, represents the learning speed of comprehending a technique.

"Since you bought a house in Renjia Town, you don't have to live in Yizhuang at night."

It is August now, and the weather is too hot. Although the Yizhuang is large and has many rooms, there are only two beds.

If Gao Cheng lived in, he would share a bed with Wen Cai.

"Wen Cai, hurry up and make dinner, let your junior brother eat before leaving." Uncle Jiu ordered his apprentice to cook.

"Oh." Xu Wencai looked at the gold yuan on the table, and walked back to the kitchen step by step.

Uncle Jiu also subconsciously looked at the ten golden coins on the table, and quickly looked away: "Put away the gold coins on the table."

Gao Cheng hesitated, nodded, and put away the ten gold coins on the table.

With Uncle Jiu's temperament, since he didn't have a formal apprenticeship, he would definitely not accept the money.

"Master, I won't eat here, I'll go back and eat." With his appetite comparable to a few pigs, all the surplus food in Uncle Jiu's house might not be enough for him alone.

Uncle Jiu thought he was embarrassed, "It's okay, it's still early anyway, you'd better eat before going back."

"Okay." Gao Cheng reluctantly agreed.

I thought to myself, I will be full after eating a bowl, and I will eat it when I go back.

"Master, how long has Senior Brother Wencai been with you?" Gao Cheng asked curiously when he was bored.

Uncle Jiu said with complicated eyes, "It's been five years."

"Wencai is also a poor man. He has been an orphan since he was a child."

"Before I came to Yizhuang, he was begging for a living in Renjia Town."

Gao Cheng understood, that is to say, Uncle Jiu only came to Renjia Town five years ago and found a job as a guard of Yizhuang. Then he saw that Wen Cai was pitiful, and Uncle Jiu was short of staff at that time, so he was taken in. Be an apprentice.

Although the wages of guarding the Yizhuang are low, they are free. With the literary talent to guard the Yizhuang, Uncle Jiu began to pick up business everywhere, help people survey Fengshui, cast down demons and catch ghosts, and gradually became famous in Renjia Town and nearby villages and towns.

Gao Cheng asked curiously: "Master, how many ghosts have you killed in the past few years?"

Uncle Jiu was taken aback for a moment, and then he couldn't help laughing: "You think ghosts are so easy to kill?"

"Even if it's a newborn ghost, if I want to kill it, it will cost a lot of mana, and even if I kill it, the gain will outweigh the loss."

Seeing Gao Cheng's stunned expression, Uncle Jiu continued to explain.

"Lei Fa is the most masculine and powerful of my Maoshan Zhengyi School, and it is also one of the most difficult to learn. It is extremely harsh on the cultivation qualifications."

"However, once practiced, it is also the most restrained ghost. Ordinary little ghosts, once they are hit by lightning, they will either die or be injured."

"Even if it's my brother who majors in Leifa, he won't kill ghosts lightly unless he has to."

Having said that, Uncle Jiu asked, "Do you know why?"

Gao Cheng shook his head and asked curiously, "I don't know, why is that?"

No matter which world Leifa is in, he is the most restrained towards ghosts.

Why did Uncle Jiu say that he would not kill ghosts lightly unless it is absolutely necessary?

Uncle Jiu continued to explain: "Because killing ghosts will be haunted by resentment."

"Ghosts are originally formed by resentment."

"The same is true for killing demons. You will be haunted by the hostility after the demon's death."

"The stronger the ghosts and demons are, the more resentment and hostility will linger on us after killing them, and the harm to us cultivators will be too great, so we only subdue demons to catch monsters and seal them Or repression, unless forced to do so, they will not be killed.”

Gao Cheng asked: "Can't we resolve resentment and hostility?"

Uncle Jiu chuckled: "Of course it can be resolved, but the time spent is too long, and the gain outweighs the loss."

"When we cultivate the Tao, what we cultivate is life."

"Life is time."

"It's easy to kill a little devil, but it will take us several months to resolve the grievances that the little devil entangles us. Tell me, how many months do we have?"

"It's not enough to dispel the hostility and resentment in the body. These hostility and resentment will not only hinder our cultivation, but also subtly change our xinxing. Over time, those who are not cultivated enough and cannot be suppressed will go crazy."

"There are two kinds of results of going crazy, either you die directly and disappear, or your skill increases greatly and you become an evil demon. There is no third possibility."

Hearing this, Gao Cheng swallowed.

When he first came to this world, he stabbed a ghost to death with a fire stick.

In the middle of the night, the fierce bell stabbed the extremely powerful Sadako to death.

"Ma Dan, don't I have resentment haunting me too?"

Uncle Jiu sighed: "After all, it's still because it's the Dharma-ending era, and cultivation is extremely difficult."

"How many sects of Taoism are there? There is no shortage of talented disciples, but there is no one in a million who can persevere in meditation for several years or decades to cultivate mana."

"As long as the cultivation base is high enough, killing a few ghosts, the resentment can't get close at all, so why is the resentment lingering?"

"In the age of the Dharma-ending era! Practice is difficult and dangerous! This is also the main reason for the decline of various Taoist schools today."

(End of this chapter)