Fu Xian chatted a little more with Jiming, during which the dance on the stage ended.
A few minutes later, the person they just talked about, Huan Huaming, entered the room.
She started by greeting her master before bowing to Fu Xian.
"Hua'er, come here. This is my junior brother, your uncle master, Fu Xian. He's a talisman cultivator, extremely talented and said to have drawn a third-grade talisman right around the stage you are right now!"
Jiming was astonished and she bowed once more "Greetings, uncle master!" this time, her voice was full of sincere respect.
Being at the same stage, she knew the difficulty of the next stage. She hadn't even mastered the outline of the third-stage dance, yet this senior managed to complete it!
Not to mention, her own master was a fourth-stage cultivator!
If this uncle master had such a master, he wouldn't be of the same seniority as her master, but rather at the same seniority as her.
Many considerations flew through her mind and she felt truly surprised!
Fu Xian smiled and waved his hand "Come here little girl. Your master said she picked you up when you were young!
Alas, it's so difficult to enter the city on your own, with the blessing of your master, your path will be a lot smoother.
I see that although you're dancing very well, you're actually missing a very important step…" Fu Xian paused, looking over to Jiming.
When he looked at her, he saw she didn't say anything.
Although he didn't know whether she had seen this mistake or whether it was something only he, a talisman cultivator could see, but since he had seen it, and this was the disciple of his senior sister who had just done him a favour, then he too would do a favour.
"The taoist ancestor said: From non being to supreme ultimate. From the Supreme Ultimate, Yin and Yang arose. From Yin and Yang arose the Four Symbols. From the Four Symbols arose the Eight Trigrams. Finally, from the Eight Trigrams, Ten Thousand Things arose.
You have to compare these words to the four higher stages, and the final stage is immortality."
Fu Xian then waved his hands and a neat talisman flew out of his ring "This is a second-grade peak Illusory Talisman. It dissipates your aura and whole being, engrossing yourself into nature. Use this to first comprehend 'non-being', which should allow you to stabilise your foundation.
From then on, you have to compress all your being before you entered the stage of non being into the supreme intent that is the supreme ultimate."
While Huaming was still stunned, Jiming reached out and made her bow "You should thank your uncle master! Even I am not as good as him in these matters of Taoism.
After all, if I were to teach you my whole path, you would only copy me, which won't work. Haha, while I reached where I am with my own ways, my path is not clear but difficult to strive for.
Actually, even I could use this little help and attempt to seek inspiration to advance further.
It's really a shame our immortal city doesn't have a taoist inheritance!"
Fu Xian nodded and didn't say anything. His own knowledge came from his past life, but after comparing it with a few things in this world, he was surprised that the taoist inheritance in his past life was very clear.
Though as clear as it was, it was still very foundational and only offered an outline.
He himself also followed another outline of the great dao by taoist: the dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two give birth to three, three gives birth to all things.
Previously he thought he had all three, but now he feels like his three inspirations are 'one', his reincarnation might be 'two', but he got no clue what his 'three' would be…
As he was thinking, he saw Huaming bowing once more before being told to leave.
Jiming cupped her hands at Fu Xian and thanked him "Thank you junior brother for giving my disciple and me such a gift!"
Fu Xian jumped sideways, not accepting the thanks fully, before waving his hand "Senior sister, you only didn't consider this matter, but you also have access and such basic information should be available in our library."
"Haha, it is indeed! But, as basic as it may be, if you don't have a clean taoist inheritance, such things won't be open to you. In the end, the path of cultivation is a culmination of various paths, but supreme paths like Taoism are definitely among the core.
With these things in mind, my path will definitely become smoother. I should tell my other junior brothers about this!"
"Sister, maybe you shouldn't…" just as Fu Xian said so, Jiming laughed again and said "Don't worry, I will tell them that it was you who did us the favour!"
"No, sister, it's like this. Dancing is part of etiquette and ritual, fitting with the Chan Inheritance of Taoism… but senior brother's aspirations are different.
If you really wish to tell them, then just from my own understanding, brother Longbao is fit for either the Jie Inheritance or from a whole different lineage, that of Buddhism. Miaoyu is definitely fit for Buddhism, while brother Puyan can either be Buddhism or Jie."
Jiming nodded then asked curiously "Among Taoism there's also Ren, why don't you recommend that?"
"Sister… although Sage Taiqing outlined Taoism the best, his Ren sect…
Although it's supposed to mean 'Human', it's actually the most unfit for humans.
Humans are the incarnation of action, how could they pursue the path of in-action? Maybe only those that are most 'unique' among humans may do so.
It's better to ignore the Ren inheritance, else you get a bad influence.
What is also commendable is the Earth Immortal Inheritance. Since senior brother Puyan is a planter, that inheritance might be fitting. Not to mention, although the Earth Immortal Ancestor wasn't a sage, it's said his achievements aren't much lower. And, it's said he had a very close relationship with the Red Cloud Ancestor, who was known to be lively, so it might really fit senior brother Puyan's path best!"
"You, junior brother, are making so many considerations! I will definitely tell them this! Haha, I'm sure they'll also send their disciples to you to get a bit of fortune!"
"Senior brothers and sister all helped me, of course I would be willing to give back!"