Surrounding Area Development (1)
In this world, there are countless illiterate people like those in Xiushui Village.
He couldn't do much right now, so he thought he could start with the village where he was born.
"Aren't you afraid it will interfere with your cultivation?" Lin Xiao asked.
Sun Yigao pondered for a moment and then replied:
"I just think that cultivation is not something that can be accomplished overnight. It's like my studies. I study for my ideals, and I cultivate for my ideals, but my ideals themselves are not cultivation. So I don't think it's a delay."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao knew that he must have thought about this idea for a long time.
He was very pleased to see that Yigao had such aspirations.
"If you've thought this through carefully, then I wholeheartedly agree with your idea! By the way, if you don't have a suitable teaching location, I'll build one for you at the foot of our sect's mountain. What do you think?"
After hearing his explanation, Sun Yigao did not refuse; he smiled and said:
"If that's the case, then that would be wonderful. In that case, this private school can be considered a project for me and our sect to build in the outside world. Consider it my contribution to the sect, how about that?"
Lin Xiao naturally agreed and nodded repeatedly.
"If you're willing, that would be wonderful! This would help develop our sect's potential strength!"
[Ding--Congratulations, host, for voluntarily activating the sect construction task: surrounding construction (1): An excellent sect cannot do without the support of potential talents in the surrounding environment. Please build a private school around the sect that can provide a learning environment for the surrounding people.]
Hearing the notification sound suddenly pop up in his mind, he suddenly remembered something, his eyes lit up, and he said to Sun Yigao:
"Speaking of which, I suddenly have an idea, but I don't know what you think."
"What is it?" Sun Yigao asked curiously.
"If you agree, I'd like to take some of our sect's low-level cultivation techniques and teach them to the students at the private school. What do you think? I can make a lot of copies of those techniques so you don't have to copy them."
Hearing this, Sun Yigao was somewhat surprised.
He was somewhat surprised that Lin Xiao would be willing to share those cultivation techniques with his students.
After all, books were extremely precious in this era. Apart from the imperial-designated textbooks required for the imperial examinations, which were available in print in bookstores, many rare books were not easily shared with others.
In his spare time, Sun Yigao also browsed through the 'B-grade' low-level cultivation techniques that Lin Xiao had mentioned on the bookshelf in the cultivation room. After reading them, he thought that although these cultivation techniques were slightly inferior to the high- Earth Rank High Grade and low- Heaven Rank cultivation techniques they cultivated, they still contained many ideas that were very worth learning and exploring. These books could be considered very valuable even outside, not to mention that they were cultivation techniques that could be practiced.
Lin Xiao, however, felt it was a pity that these books were left to gather dust in the sect.
He thought that it would be good if he could select some suitable books to put in the private school for others to read and learn from.
Moreover, he was a little cunning about this matter.
He whispered to Sun Yigao:
"If, as they learn, the children in our village gradually begin to cultivate, wouldn't that provide our sect with reserve talents?"
Upon hearing this, Sun Yigao couldn't help but smile:
"If the sect leader has no objections, I would naturally be very happy to see it happen. Although those cultivation techniques are called low-level techniques, I think they are still very good books. However, they are not members of our sect. Can they learn those techniques?"
Lin Xiao had forgotten about that, and he immediately consulted the system in his mind.
[The cultivation methods used in this sect are all from normal books and can be learned by anyone outside the sect. However, those outside the sect cannot gain cultivation power by practicing these methods.]
After listening, Lin Xiao understood.
In other words, these mental techniques are perfectly fine as teaching materials; it's just that people who study these materials cannot practice according to these techniques.
Lin Xiao then explained these things to Sun Yigao. Sun Yigao thought it was a good idea, as it would prevent his sect's cultivation techniques from being stolen by malicious individuals.
Thus, after the two discussed it, Lin Xiao added the construction of a private school to his plan.
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Inside the Lingxian Sect.
With Lin Xiao away recently, everyone on the mountain has been living a very regular life.
After their daily morning cultivation sessions, without fail, everyone has recently stopped doing other miscellaneous tasks and instead heades to the Alchemy Chamber, talisman-making room, Artifact Refining Hall, and Formation Hall.
Lin Xiao put all four basic xx encyclopedias in there, and Yang Jinshu also copied a few copies recently, so everyone no longer needs to share one book.
Two days ago, after Senior Liao explained some basic principles of alchemy to everyone, he became attracted to the "Original Essence Heart Sutra" and began to lock himself in his room to study it diligently.
Anyway, everyone has asked him about cultivation issues recently, so he feels there's nothing he needs to do for the time being.
Mo Yuanjiao's cultivation has recently progressed by leaps and bounds.
Just yesterday, he successfully advanced to the Third Layer of Qi Refining.
Mo Que, who was still struggling at the Qi Refining First Layer, watched his young master cultivate so rapidly. While he was very pleased with his young master, he was also annoyed by his own slow cultivation.
After Mo Yuanjiao advanced to the Third Layer of Qi Refining, he finally remembered that he should write a letter home.
So he took out his paper and pen and ran to his room to recount his experiences along the way in a letter.
After finishing writing, he took out the General's Mansion's seal, stamped the envelope with wax, and then had Mo Que mail the letter back.
What Mo Yuanjiao didn't know was that, at this time, in Anqun County, a hundred miles away, a middle-aged man at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement had been staying in the county for many days.
The middle-aged man at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement was named Chen Feng. He was a disciple of the Shangyang Sect who was specially sent to escort Mo Yuanjiao after receiving a message from Song Jusheng.
He figured that Mo Yuanjiao was a young master from a general's mansion, and he must have been traveling around sightseeing, so he probably wasn't going very fast.
So after receiving the mission from the sect, he leisurely arrived at Anqun County, the easternmost part of the Pusi Kingdom, more than ten days ago.
Thinking that Mo Yuanjiao was a young master, he figured that once he arrived in Anqun County, he would find that there were no decent county towns further ahead, and would inevitably stay in Anqun County for a while.
So he waited there leisurely, wandering around the county town gate and the town center every day, and occasionally visiting the brothels in the secluded alleys.
Unbeknownst to him, the person the sect wanted him to guide had already passed through Anqun County Anqun County the day before he arrived, and had rushed off to Emerald Peak Town without stopping.
It wasn't until Chen Feng had waited in Anqun County for over a month, yet still hadn't seen Mo Yuanjiao, that he began to get anxious.
Why hasn't Mo Yuanjiao arrived yet? Could he have taken the wrong route?
He felt a growing displeasure towards this junior brother he hadn't even met yet. How could he get lost while walking? Wasn't this delaying his completion of the sect's mission?
The reward for this mission is a whopping fifty Spirit Stone!
This made Chen Feng restless. After waiting for several more days in Anqun County without seeing anyone, he left Anqun County and searched along the route that Mo Yuanjiao might have taken from the capital.