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[Day 1: You realize that you seem to have traveled through time, and you find yourself in a remote, uninhabited deep mountain forest. While feeling both bewildered and anxious, you can't help but also feel a bit excited and thrilled.
Drawing from the wilderness survival videos you've watched before, you first find a higher spot to check if there are any rivers nearby.
Luckily, you soon discover a small river. You start walking along the river, searching for any possible human villages.]
[Day 2: After walking along the river for a day and a night, you finally come across a small village.
Feeling your stomach growling from hunger, you don't think too much and just want to have a good meal and then get some proper sleep.
Just as you find it strange that the village seems unusually quiet, you suddenly catch a whiff of a nauseating smell of blood.
Following the direction of the smell, you see a horrifying scene that would give anyone nightmares—bodies everywhere, and blood flowing like a river!
Before the look of terror on your face fades, a streak of light suddenly descends from the sky, transforming into a blue-robed young man standing on a flying sword.
Sword flight! A sword immortal! A cultivator!
Seeing that such beings exist in this world, you feel a surge of ecstasy, but then everything goes black as you faint.
You haven't eaten for a whole day, and after traveling for so long, you were already very weak.
Add to that the sudden sight of so many dead bodies and a sword immortal straight out of mythical tales, the shock and excitement were too much, and you simply couldn't hold on any longer.]
[Day 3: When you wake up from your coma, you find yourself in a quaint, antique-style room.
Just as you are curiously looking around, the blue-robed young man who came on the flying sword yesterday suddenly pushes the door open and walks in, saying he will take you to see the sect leader.
Under your puzzled gaze, two boys about your age walk out from the next room.
When you hear the names of the two boys—Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu—you feel as if struck by lightning, instantly realizing that you have traveled into the world of "Zhu Xian."
Led by the blue-robed young man, you quickly arrive at the main hall of Tongtian Peak, where you meet the Qingyun Sect leader, Dao Xuan Zhenren, and the heads of the other five peaks, except for Master Shuiyue.
When Dao Xuan and the others learn from Lin Jingyu that you are not a resident of Caomiao Village, they can't help but suspect your origins and ask why you appeared in Caomiao Village at that time.
Facing their suspicious gazes, you innocently say that you don't know either. You only remember getting lost in the mountains and finally finding a small inhabited village, only to discover dead bodies everywhere, and then you fainted from fright. You can't remember much of what happened before.
At first, no one believes you, but after Dao Xuan personally uses his spiritual power to examine your body and finds that you are just an ordinary person who has never practiced cultivation, their suspicions are mostly dispelled.
With the blue-robed young man testifying that you were very weak when he found you and must have gone without food for a long time, Dao Xuan and the others believe that you are just a passerby who happened to be there.
Just as Dao Xuan is about to send someone to take you down the mountain, you suddenly burst into tears, saying that you can't remember where your home is and only remember that your name is Xiao Feng.
If Dao Xuan and the others force you to leave, you will surely starve to death, or at best, become a beggar.
Seeing you crying so pitifully, Dao Xuan can't bear it and finally lets Tian Buyi take you and Zhang Xiaofan under his wing.
Although the tough-talking Tian Buyi wants to complain that Dazhu Peak is not a garbage dump, he reluctantly accepts you two unfortunate orphans.
After following Tian Buyi back to Dazhu Peak, you and Zhang Xiaofan formally kneel and offer tea to Tian Buyi in front of everyone, officially becoming his disciples.
Since you are slightly older than Zhang Xiaofan, you become Tian Buyi's seventh disciple, while Zhang Xiaofan is the eighth.]
[First Month: Having been interested in cultivation novels before your time travel, now that you've luckily traveled into the world of "Zhu Xian" and coincidentally joined the Qingyun Sect, you naturally don't dare to slack off in your cultivation.
Since becoming Tian Buyi's disciple, every day besides following Tian Ling'er and Zhang Xiaofan to cut black bamboo in the back mountains, you spend almost all your time diligently practicing the Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao.
You even go so far as to replace sleep with cultivation, practicing the Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao non-stop every night.
Hearing about your hard work, Tian Buyi, who initially thought your talent was mediocre, can't help but show a satisfied smile and uses you as an example to scold Zhang Xiaofan and the others.
Faced with your relentless, almost obsessive cultivation behavior, even Song Daren and the others find it a headache.
After all, compared to your extreme dedication, their normal cultivation efforts seem lazy, forcing them to increase their daily cultivation time by several hours.
Finally, it's Shisu who steps in, requiring you to spend an hour each day playing with Tian Ling'er outside, putting a stop to your insane 24/7 cultivation routine.
It's not that Shisu doesn't appreciate your hard work, but she worries about overdoing it and fears you might end up in a state of Qi deviation.]
[Third Month: Although your cultivation talent is average, through your relentless and almost desperate hard work, you manage to reach the first level of the Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao in less than three months.
Feeling the spiritual power within your body, you are excited but not at all complacent.
Because you know that the Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao starts easy but gets progressively harder. Most people take about a year to reach the first level of the Jade Clear realm.
The further you go, the longer it takes. Reaching the second level usually takes about five years.
The third level is a watershed; those with slightly poorer aptitude may stagnate there for life, while even the better ones might take fifty or sixty years.
Therefore, after reaching the first level of the Jade Clear realm, you find an opportunity to get Zhang Xiaofan drunk and extract the cultivation method of the Great Brahma Prajna from him.
The Great Brahma Prajna is the main cultivation method of the Tianyin Temple, on par with the Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao. Both are high-level cultivation techniques derived from the insights of ancient scriptures by predecessors in the cultivation world, and they complement each other.]
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