The Immortal Seeker: Legend of Bronze Mirror-Chapter 422 - 184: Palmar Thunder and True Martial Saint Body (Please Subscribe)_3

Even so, he already felt that the communication that day had some impact on his Martial Arts Cultivation.

Learning from experience, this time Xu Qing was even less anxious.

The path of Cultivation, even with clear mentorship, is still fraught with pitfalls.

Because the natural talents of mentor and disciple differ, along with various acquired influences.

For example, when Chongyang True Master teaches his disciples, he probably starts with ’first do this, then that, and afterwards like so...’

He thought it was very easy, but his disciples might not see it that way.

Chongyang True Master even felt that Ghost Immortals were something trivial; even calling them immortals.

By the time of his disciples, becoming a Ghost Immortal was already an incredible achievement!

Cultivation still focuses on teaching according to the individual’s ability, following the Daoist Law of Nature.

You can’t just accept everything the predecessors say, nor can you ignore all their advice.

You need to have your own judgment.

Flowering and bearing fruit also happen naturally.

If Xu Qing didn’t have a bronze mirror, his Cultivation would naturally be a different scenario.

Having it or not makes a huge difference!

Paperwork knowledge always feels shallow until put into practice; true understanding of this requires personal experience.

Great figures have mentioned, Cheng Zhu does hold some truths.

Denying the predecessors outright is not right, and neither is wholeheartedly accepting them.

A gentleman is like a dragon, capable of being both mighty and meek, of rising and hiding.

You need to act according to the situation, and move with the times.

Once you establish your own great momentum, you become the master of the situation, able to manipulate circumstances, adapting to both resistance and compliance.

For instance, the situation that Xu Qing has engineered now is in compliance with the state of the world.

If he initially told the nobles’ Tenants or house slaves, "Let’s dare to demand a change of heaven and earth," would that be possible?

A person’s actions must align with the era.

The spread of advanced ideas relies on a corresponding foundation in productivity.

Just as Xu Qing now dealing in silk trade, without him saying anything, the nobles of Jiangning Prefecture will think of ways to improve the quality and efficiency of silk production.

It’s all bright shiny Silver; nobody disputes with money.

At this moment, the nobles won’t dismiss clever techniques and strange skills as trivial anymore.

In essence, the nobles led by Xu Qing in New Jiangning Prefecture have already begun to diverge subtly from other nobles.

Even some Jiangning nobles have proactively let their Tenants and house slaves join dyeing workshops, no longer tilling the land.

Because these people earn more in the dyeing workshops.

For the Tenants and house slaves, working at the dyeing shop is also easier than farming.

How tough farming is, the members of Reconstruction Society have the most say.

They also have great complaints about it, but a few members have truly experienced the hardships of farming. Previously, they were exempted from production for studies, so they didn’t quite sympathize with their families’ hard labor.

Only by doing it themselves did they genuinely recognize the labor’s hardship.

However, letting Reconstruction Society members experience farm labor also shook his prestige within the Society.

If it weren’t for following Xu Qing for a clear and promising future, and Xu Qing’s astonishing methods, it would be inevitable for people’s enthusiasm to wane.

Because Xu Qing has theories, but when it came to practical actions, he was also in a haze, taking care of one end but losing sight of the other.

These matters, he also needed to explore and required the help of people like Xie Quan.

The key is, even if he explains the reasons clearly, people like Xie Quan are not very convinced by some theories. It’s not that they think Xu Qing is wrong, but that his ideas are impractical.

Xu Qing also reflects on himself, realizing indeed he sometimes takes things for granted.

It’s simply impossible for those who act to make no mistakes.

Xu Qing was also psychologically prepared for this.

In worldly affairs, not taking action naturally leads to no mistakes, but without action, only decay ensues—what meaning is there in that?

Reasonable attempts are necessary.

But the pace must indeed be controlled by oneself.

Repressing excessive desires, restraining excessive delusions...

These principles apply to cultivation as well.

If details are not handled well, they will eventually cause significant troubles that one cannot face.

Xu Qing then communicated with the Old Heavenly Master, mainly focusing on their respective views on cultivation.

Dual Cultivation of Life and Spirit, in this regard, they share the same view.

But how to cultivate, their understandings differ.

It’s not about who is right and who is wrong, but different perspectives.

Xu Qing did not obsess over right or wrong, and the Old Heavenly Master did not pull rank due to age.

In the process of genuine communication with Xu Qing, the Old Heavenly Master truly came to understand him.

It is said that one should not judge a person by appearances; indeed, judging someone based on hearsay is even less reliable. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"So that is what Xu Gongming is like." The Old Heavenly Master initially thought Xu Gongming was proud and steadfast, the kind of person who hardly listens to others.

In actual interaction, Xu Gongming’s view of problems tends not to dwell on right and wrong, but rather seeks to further understand what motivates different people’s perceptions of issues, and why they think the answer should be as such.

Actually, Xu Qing wasn’t like this from the start, but he has come to believe that right or wrong is not the key to solving problems.

Because the root of a problem is complex.

It’s not a matter that can be resolved once and for all.

It’s not about simple arithmetic.

In talking, they naturally discussed the issue of bandits in Xijiang Province too.

The Old Heavenly Master did not dodge the topic, stating, "Regarding this matter, the Heavenly Master Mansion indeed has some disrepute, attributable partly to my Zhang Family’s lack of strict control, but the Officials acting in bad faith also play a part."

"Not acting in good faith?"

"Yes, Xu Jieyuan certainly would wonder why so many lands ended up naturally belonging to the Heavenly Master Mansion. Actually, the taxes for these lands had been paid by the people, but what happened? For instance, some of the lands were originally barren, and the Officials had declared that the newly cultivated lands would not be taxed initially, and after three or five years, they would belong to the people. Yet when the time came, the Officials reneged, directly claiming the lands as state-owned. Xu Jieyuan should know how laborious and difficult it is to open up new lands..."

Of course, Xu Qing did not fully believe the words of the Old Heavenly Master, but compared with what County Magistrate He said, there was an obvious discrepancy, that was clear.

However, from this, Xu Qing also learned an important piece of information—that the Daoist Skills of the Heavenly Master Mansion could indeed control the weather.

But this requires at least a soul of the Manifestation Level combined with an array, and soul stones to drive the array operation.

The Taoist of the Zhang Family, in this regard, are not as capable as the external Taoist of Dragon Tiger Mountain.

In matters of land development, the Taoist of the Heavenly Master Mansion did contribute their efforts.

Of course, those Taoist who exerted effort mainly did so to seize the opportunity to cultivate Daoist skills while incidentally helping the people to develop the lands.

Moreover, Dragon Tiger Mountain has a soul stone vein, which is key to their ability to undertake such tasks.

Soul stones are of little use in cultivation, but they are very useful for creating mechanisms or maintaining the operation of arrays.

But during the Dynasty’s prosperous times, when peace reigned and the difficulty and limited rewards of cultivating Daoist skills greatly restricted this area’s development.

On the other hand, the soul stone veins of the Great Yu Dynasty are scarce, making them essentially a drop in the bucket for the entire world. Moreover, the Great Yu Emperor believes that employing Daoist skills to develop land would cause the masses to blindly follow these Taoist and Buddhist sects, resulting in major local issues.

After a few attempts by the Heavenly Master Mansion during this Dynasty, they were warned by the Court, and the developed lands were soon taken over by the court, leading quickly to an end to these matters.

Xu Qing also guessed that at that time, the Heavenly Master Mansion probably had some designs, but at the time the Imperial Power was strong, and after testing the waters, realizing they could not provoke the authorities, they stopped on their own...

These matters indeed have complex internal causes.

However, the matters that the Heavenly Master Mansion dares not handle, Xu Qing dares to handle; the people the Heavenly Master Mansion dares not provoke, Xu Qing dares to provoke!

Thus, Xu Qing had some ideas forming in his mind.