Not speaking would prevent mistakes!
"However, based on the current situation, their talent is yet to be known, but their character has passed the test."
He looked at Su Ming before him and nodded with satisfaction. "Over the years, countless people have sought me out to take them as disciples. Some of them had power and status no less than your grandfather's..."
"But I refused them all. This time, I agreed to your grandfather's request. Do you know why?"
"Disciple does not know?"
Su Ming shook his head, truthfully admitting his ignorance.
The elder spoke in a calm voice, revealing the reason.
"It's because Su Qingshan called in a favor from many years ago, and coupled with your good disposition, I finally decided to take you as my disciple."
"So that's how it is."
Su Ming was taken aback, feeling a sense of enlightenment and also fortunate.
Gu Du Mu patted Su Ming on the shoulder and smiled, "Starting tomorrow, you will live here and learn martial arts from your master."
"Yes."
Su Ming replied immediately, appearing like an obedient child.
After immediately becoming Gu Du Mu's disciple, Su Ming did not begin practicing martial arts or swordplay, nor anything else. Instead, he started his journey of memorization.
In Gu Du Mu's words, he was completely ignorant, a complete novice!
He didn't know the major meridians in his body for internal cultivation, nor did he know basic sword stances for swordsmanship. He was useless at everything, so he might as well just memorize.
Once he had memorized all the most fundamental martial arts classics, he could think about other things.
Thus, Su Ming embarked on his long journey of memorization.
"Junior disciple Su Ming, finish memorizing these first, and then you can start looking at the basic sword stances..."
In a room, Liu Wei'er, struggling, carried a stack of thick books taller than her head and threw them onto the table in front of her.
The table immediately let out a heavy groan.
Su Ming looked at the books before him, and his mouth twitched involuntarily.
He wouldn't believe it if there were fewer than twenty to thirty of these books. The sight was absolutely spectacular.
At least in Su Ming's memory, even when he was preparing for the college entrance examination in his previous life, the amount of books to memorize was probably similar to this.
"These are just the introductory chapters on internal cultivation."
As if sensing Su Ming's thoughts, Liu Wei'er smiled, "After you memorize these, you can then look at the remaining basic sword stances."
"Junior disciple, you must persevere."
Su Ming froze on the spot.
Was it really this serious?
He had heard that learning martial arts was not easy, but he had thought it was only physically demanding. He hadn't expected it to be an ordeal comparable to the college entrance examination.
"May I ask, Senior Sister..."
Su Ming took a deep breath and cautiously asked, "So many books, do I have to memorize every single sentence, without missing any?"
"Not necessarily. However, external martial arts are different from internal cultivation. If you don't even know the meridians throughout the human body, it's very easy to make mistakes and fall into deviation."
Liu Wei'er smiled again, her expression amiable.
Su Ming said with a tone of certainty, "I understand, Senior Sister, don't worry."
It's just memorizing books...
As a man who had experienced the college entrance examination in his previous life and whose profession was traditional Chinese medicine, he didn't believe he couldn't handle this.
As a transmigator, he might not be capable of fighting people right now, but when it came to memorizing, that was his forte.
With this mindset, he began his memorization journey.
And the person responsible for teaching him was none other than Liu Wei'er.
Besides Gu Du Mu and Liu Wei'er, there was no one else in this Taoist temple.
This environment allowed martial artists to avoid distractions from other trivial matters.
Gu Du Mu had other matters to attend to besides practicing martial arts on a daily basis.
Therefore, after Su Ming arrived, the task of building his foundation naturally fell to Liu Wei'er.
Time slowly passed.
After some time, Su Ming also discovered that Liu Wei'er was actually easy to get along with.
Perhaps due to the lack of companions his own age, Liu Wei'er was very talkative and easy to get along with.
In just a short period of one or two months, the two of them hit it off and became friends.
Three months later!
"Oh?"
Gu Du Mu, drinking in his room, looked at Liu Wei'er with some interest.
"You're saying that your junior disciple has memorized all the books detailing the meridians and acupoints of the human body, word for word?"
"Yes, Master."
Liu Wei'er nodded, truthfully replying.
At this moment, a hint of daze appeared in her eyes.
The books she had moved for Su Ming earlier were quite difficult and obscure. Considering Su Ming's age, the difficulty was truly immense.
Both Gu Du Mu and Liu Wei'er believed that even if Su Ming could memorize these books, it would take him one or two years.
And how long had Su Ming been studying?
Barely over three months.
In just three months, he had achieved what took her two to three years?
Liu Wei'er, feeling demoralized, was speechless!
Gu Du Mu, after a moment of silence, instructed Liu Wei'er to call her junior disciple over.
Liu Wei'er immediately got up and left to call him from the study.
A short while later, she found Su Ming in the study.
Su Ming was quietly reading a book in the study.
Seeing him like this, Liu Wei'er's delicate eyebrows furrowed, and she suddenly felt a pang of sympathy!
"It's no coincidence that Junior Disciple has made such progress. Just this diligence and hard work are beyond the reach of ordinary people."
She sighed deeply, this thought flashing through her mind.
Over the past three months and more, she had spent day and night with Su Ming and had witnessed his hard work and dedication.
Thinking of this, the envy she had originally felt began to subside, and she felt it was only natural.
She steadied her mind and spoke.
"Junior Disciple, let's go. Master asked me to bring you to see him."
Upon hearing Liu Wei'er's words, Su Ming couldn't help but feel a surge of joy. He knew it was time to learn the basic sword stances!
Because he didn't conceal his joy, Liu Wei'er clearly saw the happiness on Su Ming's face.
Liu Wei'er couldn't help but pause, as if surprised by this.
In reality, he was not surprised at all.
...
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and Su Ming grew into an adult.
Although he started as a mortal, as a transmigator, Su Ming possessed very dense luck.
In his early twenties, Su Ming was already invincible in the martial world.
It was at this time that he fortunately came into contact with knowledge about the immortal cultivation world.
Even more fortunate, he possessed spiritual roots, and his aptitude was very high.
Thus, through his efforts, he was accepted into a small immortal cultivation sect, embarking on his legendary life.
After more than eight hundred years of effort, he finally cultivated to the Purple Mansion stage.
He became the top-tier cultivator in the Purple Continent's immortal cultivation world.
The reason he was able to achieve this was entirely due to finding an ultra-long-range teleportation token for entering the Heavenly Cloud Continent when he was over a hundred years old.
By trading immortal cultivation resources between the Cloud Continent and the Purple Continent, Su Ming obtained a large amount of cultivation resources, and through unremitting efforts, he finally reached the Purple Mansion stage.
As a transmigator, Su Ming was extraordinarily brilliant, especially in the art of talismans. Without this, he would not have reached the Purple Mansion stage.
The art of talismans, like the art of alchemy, is one of the hundred arts of immortal cultivation. However, Wu Tao had never truly mastered it.
At this moment, seeing in his memory, Su Ming creating unique cloud talismans using cloudy qi, possessing many incredible divine abilities, it felt like a new path was being forged.
Unfortunately, Wu Tao had already gone too far down the path of sword cultivation. Later, he also dabbled in Buddhist techniques and alchemy, and he truly did not have the energy to cultivate other things.
The reason Su Ming was so highly regarded by Wu Tao.
The main reason was that the talisman art he created was very different from the talisman art of the current immortal cultivation world.
The general art of talismans was to imprint spells and divine abilities onto a piece of paper, and then create single-use items.
However, the talisman art created by Su Ming could, based on the patterns of the talismans, be hidden within the Dantian and nurtured.
This method was akin to cultivating a natal magic treasure, except that one could only cultivate one natal magic treasure. Su Ming, however, could cultivate natal talismans of witchcraft.
After examining all of Su Ming's memories, Wu Tao extended a palm, and a cloud talisman instantly materialized.
In an instant, endless cloudy qi permeated the air, evolving into myriad dao patterns, rotating as if alive, giving an indescribably profound and mysterious feeling.
Following this, Wu Tao and You Meng appeared in another space within the secret realm.
And in this space, there was an ultra-large teleportation array.
This ultra-large teleportation array was entirely white, resembling white jade.
"Floating Cloud Sea Ultra-Long-Range Teleportation Array!"
Wu Tao stared intently at the array, and this memory flashed through his mind.
The Floating Cloud Sea Ultra-Long-Range Teleportation Array was an improved and more stable teleportation array modified by Su Ming in his past.
Upon activating the ultra-long-range teleportation array with the cloud talisman in his hand, Wu Tao and You Meng felt a world-altering shift and appeared in another location.
They saw clouds swirling and white mist like a vast sea.
In this hazy scene, Wu Tao and You Meng curiously observed their surroundings.
Was this the Cloud Continent suspended in the sky?
In the immortal cultivation world, cultivators could fly with their swords once they reached the Qi Refining stage.
However, even cultivators who reached the Soul Transformation stage probably had no idea how high the sky truly was.
The sky was unfathomably high, beyond reach.
In this mysterious Cloud Continent, Wu Tao and You Meng looked at the endless clouds and felt a headache.
Looking around, all they could see were pieces, chunks, and wisps of clouds.
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