Chapter 1 Taking the Dead as a Mirror
The study and practice of all courses and subjects in Lingtian Academy are arranged by yourself, without any compulsion, as long as the money you earn on Qianlong Island can afford the monthly fee of 30 gold coins, You can live in Lingtianyuan as a high-end island hotel for the rest of your life. Of course, if you want to leave Qianlong Island at will before completing the courses and training subjects here, it is delusional.
In Lingtian Academy, in addition to learning and practicing, there are also some mandatory and optional family tasks to be completed. Some of these family tasks can allow you to earn money, and some can allow people to earn family contribution points , some are both, many family tasks even require you to return to land to complete, this is also one of the opportunities for the students of Lingtian Academy to leave Qianlong Island openly.
And almost all tasks that need to be performed on the outlying islands are generally very difficult, and some are even very dangerous. Two-thirds of the family members who sacrificed their lives while practicing in Lingtianyuan were killed while performing outlying island tasks.
Lingtian Courtyard is a school, an army, and a melting pot. This place has a free and relaxed side, but it also has an iron-blooded and strong side. The temperature here can make you sublimate, but it may also turn you into residue and ashes.
If you don't want to turn into residue and ashes, the only thing you can do here is to work hard, work hard, work hard, and keep gritting your teeth to make yourself stronger, stronger, stronger, and there is no other way.
On the first night when he came to Lingtianyuan, Zhang Tie, as a newcomer, received his first compulsory task in Lingtianyuan. When Zhang Tie was in the room, someone directly sent the The task letter was delivered to his room.
This compulsory task is a bit funny to say, it is actually to let Zhang Tie clean up, the task time is one week, and you can get 5 family contribution points. This is the first lesson for every newcomer who enters Lingtian Academy.
At the beginning, Zhang Tie also thought this task was a bit funny, but soon, Zhang Tie couldn't laugh anymore, because the place Zhang Tie needed to clean up was the Yingying Pavilion in Lingtian Courtyard.
Jiying Pavilion is an ancestral hall in Lingtianyuan, where all the children of the family who sacrificed and died in the practice of Lingtianyuan since the establishment of Qianlongtang are worshipped and enshrined here.
Early the next morning, according to the stipulated time, at six o'clock in the morning, just before dawn, Zhang Tie came to the Jiying Pavilion. In this place, only an elderly man was watching the door. After Zhang Tie arrived, the old man brought Zhang Tie into the Jiying Pavilion.
As soon as he entered the Jiying Pavilion, what Zhang Tie saw was densely packed spiritual cards, which made Zhang Tie's scalp tingle a little.
"Jiying Pavilion opens at nine o'clock in the morning and closes at nine o'clock in the evening, so you have to come early for cleaning in the morning, at least three hours in advance. Jiying Pavilion has three floors, and there are a total of 1,183 spiritual tablets enshrined in it. You need to put the upper and lower three The floors, railings, windows, and spirit altars of the first floor are all cleaned up, and every spirit seat must be wiped clean. You also need to clean it again after closing the door here at night! After you clean it, I will come to check it. Do it again! If someone comes to worship during the opening hours of the Jiying Pavilion, you should always pay attention to keeping the place clean..." The old man took Zhang Tie around the Jiying Pavilion and explained how Zhang Tie cleaned it. Hygiene here, what to pay attention to.
Finally, after leading Zhang Tie to the water room for cleaning tools and telling the respective uses of those tools, the old man sighed, "Oh, the latest spiritual position was only added two months ago. These young people..." After saying this, the old man shook his head and left, leaving the Jiying Pavilion to Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie, who suppressed his emotions, honestly cleaned the Jiying Pavilion,
Although I have killed people and seen blood on the battlefield before, but cleaning here, especially when wiping the spirit cards, looking at the black and white photos of young people on the stone spirit cards, Zhang Tie felt heartbroken. Still feeling a little fuzzy.
On the front of each spiritual tablet, there is a photo and a name, and on the back of the spiritual tablet, there is a brief introduction of the life story of the person on the photo. Talking about a few lines of text, a person's life is outlined—who are the parents? , Which year did you enter Qianlongtang, what kind of deeds did you have, and why did you die young in the end.
Everyone has curiosity. After the hairy feeling in his heart gradually disappeared, every time he wiped a spirit card, Zhang Tie couldn't help but look at the biography and cause of death of the person behind the spirit card. Unless you don't want to read the words engraved on the spirit tablet, you will inevitably see them during the wiping process.
The more spirit cards he wiped, the more he saw. Gradually, Zhang Tie felt an emotion that even he didn't know what it was.
The dead may have been different when they were alive, and each had their own life, but in the end they all returned to silence. The reasons for his death are also strange and embarrassing.
Some people are talented in the sky, awakened several ancestral bloodlines at a young age, advanced to tenth level at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and became a strong fighter, but in the process of cultivation, because they did not listen to others' advice, they forced themselves to break through At a certain level of practice, he became obsessed and vomited blood and died.
Some people with mediocre qualifications came to Qianlongtang, because they couldn't bear the pressure here, they were slowly left behind by others, complaining all day long that they couldn't make progress, and finally died of grief.
Some people overestimated their own strength when they chose to accept the family mission, and died in the process of carrying out the mission because their own strength was not enough.
Some people are actually soft-hearted and indecisive when performing certain special tasks. After sparing the enemy's life, they are killed by the enemy.
Some people died of accidents due to carelessness while performing ordinary tasks.
Some people had feuds with others before they came to Qianlongtang, and finally died at the hands of their enemies.
Some people, after several years of cultivation in Qianlongtang, their strength has improved by leaps and bounds, and they are full of ambitions. They go home to gather with their former partners, show off, and finally get drunk and are murdered by those who are jealous of him among their former partners.
Some people, relying on their extraordinary family affairs in the Qianlong Hall, bullied their juniors and classmates a lot, and were finally killed by someone deliberately mistakenly during sparring.
Some people, young and inexperienced, were lured by outsiders, violated Qianlongtang's rules, sold information in Lingtian's courtyard, and were finally purged.
Some people, trapped by love between men and women in Lingtian Courtyard, even committed suicide in the end.
Some people didn’t even say how they died on the spirit card, but just disappeared after entering the underground world or diving in the sea one day, and never appeared again...
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After wiping those spirit cards, Zhang Tie’s head was wiped with cold sweat. Those 1183 spirit places were written with 1183 living lives, telling you how to finally leave Qianlongtang alive. Zhang Tie finally knew Why are there not so many rules and regulations in Lingtian Courtyard, and why the first task I received after entering Lingtian Courtyard was to clean it, because all the rules and regulations in Lingtian Courtyard are in Jiying Pavilion, and every spirit card here, Every name, every story, is a mirror for you to reflect on what you have done.
In the following week, Zhang Tie basically spent time in Jiying Pavilion. He came here at six o'clock every morning to start cleaning, and after the place closed at nine o'clock in the evening, he cleaned it carefully. After returning to Songtao Pavilion, most of the time during the day, when no one came to worship, Zhang Tie stayed in Jiying Pavilion, staring at the spirit cards in a daze, thinking about the stories he saw from the spirit cards, Those lessons, and then I couldn't help asking myself - if I was in that situation, would I make the same mistake? Why make such a mistake? How can we not make such a mistake?
This is a process of constant torture and self-examination. Every day, although it seems to outsiders that staying alone in such a gloomy place is extremely boring, Zhang Tie still has different gains every day. During the introspection, Zhang Tie found that his mind became more clear and harmonious, and his whole mind matured a big step.
A week has passed in the blink of an eye...
On the night when he finally left the Jiying Pavilion, Zhang Tie carefully cleaned every corner and every spirit tablet in the Jiying Pavilion, cleaned up his clothes, washed his hands, and lit three sticks Xiang, after bowing three times to the spirit tablets on the first floor, inserted the lit incense into the incense stand.
"Brothers and sisters, I have been here with you for a week, and I won't be coming tomorrow. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for teaching Zhang Tie the past few days. This place is not big enough. Zhang Tie promises that he will never come here to squeeze seats with you guys. That’s it, Zhang Tie will definitely come and give you some more paper money when the holidays come, so that you can spend a lot of gold coins wherever you go.”
"A child can be taught!"
A voice sounded behind Zhang Tie. The old gatekeeper of the Jiying Pavilion who had fallen asleep at this time in the past unexpectedly came behind Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie turned his head and saw the old man who looked a bit crooked stroking his beard. Smile to yourself.
"Boy, your enlightenment is good and your conscience is not bad. If you have troubles in the future, come here and have a look. Think about it quietly. There is nothing difficult in the world except death. As long as people are alive, there will be solutions and hope. If you're really going to die, then it's useless to say anything..." The old man looked at Zhang Tie, nodded with satisfaction, and said to Zhang Tie gently.
"Yes, I remember!"
"Well, let's go back, we don't need to come tomorrow, and it's getting late, go to bed early!" The old man said, patted Zhang Tie on the shoulder three times, then turned and left.
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When Zhang Tie returned to his residence in Songtao Tower, it was almost 12 o'clock. After washing, Zhang Tie lay on the bed and went to sleep. He had just slept for a while. I once heard a fairy tale, the main character of that fairy tale was a monkey. It is said that when that monkey went to learn art, the fairy master also knocked on its head three times, and then the monkey was blessed to the heart and knew the meaning of those three knocks. , so in the middle of the night... quietly went to find his immortal master, and sure enough, he got the true biography.
Could it be that the old man who slapped himself on the shoulder three times just now meant this? Thinking about it this way, Zhang Tie lost all sleepiness immediately. Could it be that the old man is some kind of extraterrestrial expert hiding in Qianlongtang, and the three slaps on himself just wanted to know Are you as smart as a monkey?
After sleeping until two o'clock in the middle of the night, Zhang Tie got up from the bed, got dressed, and with a hint of excitement, a few minutes earlier, groped in the dark, and quietly came to Jiying Pavilion.
Zhang Tie spent a long time drying outside the Jiying Pavilion, listening to the insects screaming for a long time, but there was no movement. Finally, he couldn't help but came outside the hut where the old man slept, and listened carefully. The old man's snoring in the hut was quite rhythmic.
Zhang Tie stood in a daze for a while, then shook his head and smiled dumbly, and went back to Songtao Pavilion and fell asleep. Early the next morning, Zhang Tie woke up and rushed to Ling Tian on the second floor of Zhongbao with his family disc card. Academy Mission Release Center.
In the past few days, Zhang Tie's plan to evolve his ancestral bloodline has been delayed because this mandatory task has occupied all of Zhang Tie's time during the day. I think it's time to find time for my ancestral blood to complete the evolution. Zhang Tie is full of expectations for this evolution... Works, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation.)