Lan Mu actually thought that Lu Zhiyi had accepted Lan Qian and Lan Yao as disciples, Lu Zheng saw the smug look hidden in Lan Yao's eyes, and then saw the shock and surprise on Lan Qian's face, and then he was surprised. The man in white laughed, and said in his heart: "Congratulations, Mr. Lu, you have also started to accept apprentices, and you have also accepted a couple of young couples who are the essence of Jianmu." ”

Lu Zheng didn't have the time to answer the master, in this case, he suddenly understood one thing, although he has always had a friend's attitude, but in fact, he has a taste of guidance for Lan Qian everywhere, and Lan Qian treats his master as a disciple, so he no longer hesitated, and said with a slight smile: "This matter has not had time to ask for the consent of the patriarch, it is really a bit abrupt." However, they have not really performed the ritual of apprenticeship, and they are actually not my disciples. ”

When Lu Zheng said this, Lan Yao thought that he didn't want to recognize her and Lan Qian as disciples, and he was about to distinguish between them, but he didn't expect that Lan Qian over there had already wanted Lan Mu to bow down and say, "Ask the patriarch to be a witness for us and hold a formal apprenticeship ceremony." Lan Qian's reaction was much faster than Lan Yao's. Lan Yao came back to her senses and said, "So that's what you mean, it's really a bad ......" She wanted to call Lu Zhiyi a bad cultivator again. Lan Qi didn't know where her sister was, she coughed busily on the side, Lan Yao stuck out her tongue, and quickly knelt down like Lan Qian, and said, "Ask the patriarch to be a witness for us and hold a formal apprenticeship ceremony!" Then he and Lan Qian knelt down to Lu Zhiyi and said, "Master!"

Seeing this, Chi Ling laughed and said, "Brother, congratulations on accepting a pair of good apprentices!" Patriarch Lan Mu also said, "Mr. Lu." Three days later, our Jianmu clan will hold a sacrifice to Jianmu's consciousness, in order to restore the destroyed Jianmu forest, reawaken the forest to form an enchantment, and then arrange the apprenticeship ceremony of Lan Qian and Lan Yao after the sacrifice to Jianmu, so that the entire Jianmu clan can witness, you see how it goes!"

Lu Zheng nodded and said, "Okay, I have no opinion!"

Lan Mu said happily: "Then it is decided, I will immediately arrange a few Jianmu Spirits to serve Mr. Lu, how to arrange the apprenticeship ceremony." Just ask the gentleman to tell them to prepare. ”

At this time. Lan Yao suddenly screamed, as if she had discovered something big and attracted everyone's attention. Lan Qi asked, "Lan Yao, what's wrong with you?" Lan Yao stood up suddenly. Walked up to Chi Ling, grabbed his arm and said, "Oh no." Oh no. No, Brother Chiling, I originally called you Brother Chiling, and he also called you Brother Chiling. But I'm going to worship him as a teacher soon. In this way, I will be a generation shorter all of a sudden, I can't call you Brother Chiling like Master, I should call you Uncle Chiling or Uncle Chiling, what can I do?" said that, showing a look of grievance, everyone originally thought it was something strict, but she was worried about this, which made everyone laugh.

Lan Yao hurriedly said: "You guys are still laughing, I'm talking about serious things, Brother Chiling has become Uncle Chiling, what's so funny about this." As soon as she said this, everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter, but the sadness of the Jianmu clan just now was dispelled a lot.

Chi Ling said: "Sister Lan Yao, it doesn't matter about this, you worship your master, I will hand over to my brother, we will each have our own friends, I want to come to your master, my brother Lu is not so old-fashioned, I shouldn't mind, what do you say, Brother Lu?"

Lan Yao hurriedly looked at the master, and it was not until she saw the smile on Lu Zhi's face that she was relieved.

In the next three days, Lan Mu and Lan Qian began to restore the Jianmu Forest, first of all, to find the Jianmu Essence who escaped from the Jianmu Forest, and to rebuild the wooden house to resettle the remaining Jianmu Essence, and then to count it, only to find that after this catastrophe, the number of injuries and deaths of the Jianmu Essence reached almost three thousand, which made the Lanmu Patriarch sad, and Chi Ling blamed himself and spared no effort to help the Jianmu clan do all kinds of things.

At Lu Zheng's request, Lan Mu arranged a more secluded wooden house for him to live in, and at the same time ordered ten Jianmu Spirits to obey Lu Zheng's arrangement and wait for his instructions. Lu Zheng didn't refuse, he just asked these ten Jianmu spirits to come once a day, if there was nothing to do, if there was something, he would tell them to do it, and if there was nothing to do, he would tell them, so that they could do other things by themselves.

Since he wants to accept Lan Qian and Lan Yao as apprentices, Lu Zheng naturally has a different mentality, as a human teacher, he seems more stable, to be honest, he is not yet twenty years old. Fortunately, Lan Qian and Lan Yao are also younger than him, otherwise, it would be an embarrassment. As for the subsequent apprenticeship ceremony, Lu Zheng has no experience in this area at all, including the initiation ceremony held by the master in white, which is very simple, just worshipping heaven and earth.

For this reason, Lu Zheng carefully asked the man in white if there were any other rituals in his own sect, but the man in white thought that Lu Zheng's acceptance of disciples was his own business, but it had nothing to do with him, and let Lu Zheng make his own decisions, but emphasized one point, that is, it is absolutely not allowed to talk about his existence to Lan Qian and Lan Yao, or if Lu Zheng wants to accept any more disciples in the future, and it is not allowed to teach the content of the Dragon Trick to any disciple. If you want to instruct a disciple to practice, he must create his own formulas, or learn from the methods of other sects, and he can't directly teach the complete methods of any other sect!

When Lu Zheng asked this, he didn't ask about the apprenticeship ceremony, but he didn't expect to ask about so many taboos and rules, and he didn't ask why, anyway, he was already used to the rules of the master in white, and there was only room for obedience. So Lu Zheng had no choice but to agree one by one, and asked the other sects how they did when they accepted disciples. The man in white patiently explained the apprenticeship ritual for Lu Zheng this time.

Cultivators attach great importance to the way of the teacher, which was explained to Lu Zheng by Huang Weiyang when he was in Qingqiu Mountain. If this is the case, then the apprenticeship ceremony is naturally also correspondingly very important. The apprenticeship rituals in the Daomen are similar, there are parts that are interconnected and constant, and there are also rituals that are added due to their special circumstances, the former follows the habits of the Daomen itself, and the latter is based on the habits of the master who accepts the disciples. For example, when he was in Tianzong, Lu Zheng almost worshipped the virtual real person as his teacher. And the real person who broke the void asked him to manifest the original god before he was willing to accept him as a disciple.

In the Taoist sect, the ritual of accepting apprentices and apprentices is mainly divided into three parts, the first is to worship the patriarch, and the ancestor always creates any sect, and then it is passed on, which can be said to be the source of the practitioner's mastery and law. Therefore, the first thing for a new disciple to worship the patriarch is to worship the patriarch, which is the source of the method of worship. After worshipping the patriarch, he will be the disciple of the sect from now on, and the rest of the cultivation world will also think so.

After respecting the patriarch, of course, the practice of the Dharma requires the guidance of the master, so the second step is to bow to the master. Generally, it is a great bow of three kneels and nine bows. Lu Zheng has no doubt about this. However, when he wanted to bow down to the man in white, the man in white did not agree.

After bowing to the patriarch and the master, the next step is the third step, which is completed by the master who receives the disciples. That is to give ordination to disciples. New disciples get started. Observe all kinds of precepts and rules. The rules of precept vary from sect to sect. The purpose and reason for the vows are often different. But to put it bluntly, it is still for the sake of restraining the behavior of the disciples, not only for the cultivation of the disciples of the sect, but also for the harmony within the sect. There is no strife.

The meaning of the precepts is far-reaching, and it is to allow the disciples not to do something, but not to let the disciples do something. Only by starting with something can anyone really do something in the end. Only by reflecting and reflecting on what we do is that we can gradually clarify ourselves from the chaos and ambiguity, which is of great help to the practice of mental detachment itself, and it is even more useful for standing between heaven and earth. Therefore, the more the sect is large, the more complicated the precepts tend to be, and there are many things accumulated for them, so it is better to prevent problems before they occur.

Among these three items, Lu Zheng first encountered a problem with worshipping the ancestor, because in the sense of the ancestor, what he practiced was the Dragon Sect, so it stands to reason that Lan Qian and Lan Yao should be allowed to bow to the Holy Sect, but the master of the man in white did not allow him to reveal the Dragon Recipe and the Holy Sect, so wouldn't this one be impossible. Lu Zheng had no choice but to let the master make his own decision, anyway, the problem was given by him, so let him solve it. Unexpectedly, the man in white did not hesitate at all, and said directly, just let Lan Qian and Lan Yao worship heaven and earth.

Worship heaven and earth? This is interesting, in the human world, it is the etiquette used by husband and wife when they get married. Lu Zheng thought about it, it was really suitable to use it on Lan Qian and Lan Yao, but I don't know if Jianmu's essence wants to worship heaven and earth? Anyway, worship heaven and earth, worship heaven and earth, this worship of the ancestor is solved. Then the second one is to bow to the master, but the third one is troublesome, Lu Zheng himself has never received the precepts in any sect, and the master in white also said that he doesn't have this kind of thing, and he doesn't know the rules of other sects very well.

This time it stumped Lu Zheng, where can I find the precepts. After thinking about it, Lu Zheng suddenly patted his head and secretly scolded himself for being so stupid, it was clear that there was a ready-made one! When he was in Sun Moon Lu, how many various etiquettes did the teacher Li Yi teach him, and it was not just used as the precepts of this sect, as long as it was modified according to the special situation that Lan Qian and Lan Yao were the essence of building wood.

Fortunately, the teacher taught him so much at the beginning, otherwise he would have really made a joke at the apprenticeship ceremony later. Lu Zheng quickly recalled the various etiquette rules taught by the teacher on the side, and revised some more, with a total of 300 articles, including words and deeds, residence and action, and all aspects of handling affairs, so he breathed a sigh of relief. When reciting these etiquettes taught to him by the teacher at the beginning, he couldn't help but recall the days when he was in the Sun and Moon Mansion, and he suddenly found that these etiquettes seemed to have a hidden effect on his own practice, especially for the restraint and enlightenment of the mind, and there was a very subtle infiltration.

For example, the teacher taught himself the etiquette of cleaning, focusing on how to clean his body and clothes, as well as his own house and the qiē environment in which he lived, combined with his own practice, it turned out to be exactly the same as the realm behavior after knowing the body realm, for example, Lu Zheng walked all the way in this wilderness, and the clothes he wore were always neat and tidy. This is not only a supernatural spell, but also a habit that he himself has developed in Sun Moon Lu. What we pay attention to is the cleanliness of the body and mind inside and outside, and each one is in its place and orderly.

Another example is the etiquette of doing things and the etiquette of responding to people, Lu Zheng has gone all the way, no matter what demons and monsters he encounters, he has always adhered to the etiquette of dealing with people, neither from his own contempt and attention, nor refusing to communicate with him, he is always sincere, which is exactly the calm realm in his heart after the completion of his heart. Another example......

The more Lu Zheng reminisced, the more surprised he became, could it be that the teacher had taught himself these rituals of dwelling, disciples, coping, and so on, all of which were cultivation? It's just that the teacher cleverly turned into the requirements of etiquette and melted into his words and deeds. Could it be that his original words and deeds are already in the process of cultivation? (To be continued......)