Chapter 216 Yuanying Dharma Assembly
Yuanying cultivators, as the top existences in this world, are transcendent beings worthy of respect and worship by ordinary cultivators.
The birth of each Yuanying cultivator is a major event in the local cultivation world.
Yuanying cultivators with status will hold a Yuanying Dharma Assembly, inviting fellow cultivators and even enemies in the local cultivation world to gather together to celebrate this event.
This is especially true in Nanyue Province, where the strength of cultivators is generally low.
What's more, Dan Qiusheng is the head of the Five Elements Sect, and the Five Elements Sect has not had a Yuanying ancestor for a long time. It was once a laughing stock by the cultivators of Nanyue Province. Now that Dan Qiusheng has condensed his infant, he naturally wants to announce it to Nanyue. He is not afraid of people knowing it, but he is afraid of people not knowing it!
Of course, for ordinary cultivators, it is not important whether Dan Qiusheng can condense his infant. What is important is the Yuanying Dharma Assembly that Dan Qiusheng mentioned.
At that time, the new Yuanying ancestor Dan Qiusheng will hold an open-air Dharma Assembly in Houtuping, the central place of the Five Elements Sect, to teach the Yuanying Avenue and his own experience in cultivating to the Yuanying ancestor.
For Jindan masters, this is a rare learning opportunity, especially for those casual cultivators who have no sect or complete inheritance and rely on their own exploration to cultivate, it is a godsend.
Therefore, in July last year, the news that the Five Elements Sect would hold the Yuanying Dharma Assembly on the seventh day of the seventh month of the following year spread even faster than the news that Dan Qiusheng advanced to the Ningying stage.
In just one month, most cultivators in Nanyue Province had already known the news, and then they all rushed to the Five Elements Mountain.
It was okay for those who were close, such as the casual cultivators in Lingchuan Market, who only took three or five days to get to the Five Elements Sect, so they naturally didn't have to rush too much; those cultivators who were far away were miserable, because they got the news late, and they had to travel through mountains and rivers to get to the Five Elements Mountain, almost non-stop, day and night.
But no matter how hard and tired they were, they had no complaints, and countless casual cultivators rushed to the Five Elements Mountain from all over Nanyue Province.
Just because it was an opportunity to listen to the avenue!
When the time entered July, the foothills outside the Five Elements Gate were already filled with 30,000 cultivators. Of course, many of them came not only for the Nascent Soul Dharma Assembly, but also for the subsequent Sword Fighting Meeting of New Cultivators in Nanyue Province. It is said that after the Sword Fighting Meeting, there will be a super-large trade fair, which is even more exciting.
The reputation of the Five Elements Gate was spread among the scattered cultivators all over the mountains. The reputation of the weak for 30 years has been thawed today, just because of Dan Qiusheng's Nascent Soul.
With thousands of cultivators looking forward to it, the seventh day of July arrived as scheduled.
On this day, it seemed that even the sky was favoring the Five Elements Gate. The weather was clear and cloudless.
The gate of the Five Elements Gate was wide open, and even the mountain protection formation was not opened. Just let tens of thousands of cultivators enter the gate, showing the style of the three major sects in Nanyue Province, and also let people see the courage of Dan Qiusheng, the head of the Five Elements Gate.
You should know that among these tens of thousands of cultivators, although most of them are foundation-building cultivators or even Qi training cultivators, there are also hundreds of Jindan strongmen. If they have bad intentions after entering the Five Elements Sect, it is enough to destroy the Five Elements Sect's ten thousand-year foundation.
However, Dan Qiusheng withdrew the mountain protection formation so openly, which made the casual cultivators who were usually bullied by the sect quite fond of it. They privately talked about the Five Elements Sect's respect and trust for casual cultivators, as well as its temperament and heritage as an old sect.
Many people who like to do good even compared it with the Demon Shadow Sect.
If they knew that the center of the Five Elements Sect's mountain protection formation was actually in Houtuping, what would they think?
As a ten thousand-year-old sect, the Five Elements Sect's heritage is certainly not comparable to the Demon Shadow Sect. Not to mention other things, the foundation of the Five Elements Spiritual Veins in the mountain gate alone is definitely not something that ordinary casual cultivators can see.
For most of the casual cultivators, aside from Hou Tuping, the center of the Five Elements Sect, the other four spiritual places of Jinxiao Peak, Changchun Peak, Bi Bo Tan and Yanzhu Peak are all holy places for cultivation with abundant spiritual energy. The Five Elements Sect has as many as five of them, plus a variety of other small caves and spiritual gathering places, which make a bunch of casual cultivators envious.
There are also many Jindan strongmen who secretly regret that their cultivation has exceeded the foundation building stage, otherwise they can join the Five Elements Sect if they get a top 100 ranking in the sword fighting meeting!
Maybe I should find an opportunity to have a good talk with the rumored Bi Luo Fairy. Maybe the Five Elements Sect will also recruit some guest elders!
This is the voice of many Jindan casual cultivators. As for those foundation building casual cultivators who came to participate in the sword fighting meeting, they are even more motivated to strive for the top 100. Of course, there are also many casual cultivators who just come to participate in the sword fighting meeting and learn from other young masters. For them, casual cultivation is the path they pursue all their lives.
Because there are not many elite disciples of the younger generation of the Five Elements Sect, Xiao Mian was called by Leng Ningyu to garrison at Jinxiao Peak. On the one hand, he was to control the Jinlingtai, and on the other hand, he was to guide many scattered cultivators and point them in the direction of Houtuping.
Of course, the other peaks were taken care of by Huangfu Ling, Fu Qingqiong and others. As for Xiao Chuqing, because she had just successfully established her foundation not long ago, she was also taken out by Leng Ningyu to be a face and stationed at Bibotan to consolidate her cultivation and guide scattered cultivators.
Although the number of scattered cultivators who came to participate in the Yuanying Dharma Assembly was huge, they were all cultivators with cultivation after all. After the direction was pointed out, they naturally went in groups of three or five towards Houtuping. After all, they all came to participate in the Yuanying Dharma Assembly and listen to the Yuanying Avenue. If they went too late, they would suffer.
Therefore, nearly 50,000 monks gathered in Houtuping in an orderly manner, and at this time, Houtuping suddenly became larger. The flat rock surface was as smooth as a knife and as smooth as a mirror. The spacious square was enough to accommodate many monks attending the meeting.
It was almost noon, and the square of Houtuping was densely packed with monks from all over the world. Hundreds of Jindan monks sat in the front, all with soft gold-rimmed pillows, purple wood coffee tables, and various spiritual fruits, competing for beauty. This arrangement alone cost a lot of money.
As for the subsequent foundation-building monks, they naturally did not have such high treatment. Otherwise, even if the Five Elements Sect was a ten-thousand-year-old sect, it would be emptied. However, each monk was also equipped with an excellent cushion, which saved the monks from the pain of sitting on the ground.
Of course, the most prominent thing was the row of golden nanmu carved backrest chairs on the high platform in front. The sandalwood table next to the chairs not only had spiritual fruits, but also fragrant spiritual tea.
There was no one on these chairs, but none of the tens of thousands of cultivators present dared to complain.
Who could be treated better than the Jindan cultivators?
Those were clearly prepared for the Yuanying ancestors who came to attend the Danqiu Yuanying Ceremony!
Some people who were curious were counting the number of chairs on the stage, three on the left, three on the right, and one in the middle. There were clearly seven carved chairs. Obviously, there would be seven Yuanying ancestors arriving in a while, which made many cultivators very excited: it was difficult to see a Yuanying ancestor on weekdays, but now they could see seven at once. How could these low-level cultivators living at the bottom of the cultivation world not be excited?
"I don't know who the seven Yuanying ancestors will be?"
"Isn't your question superficial? The seat in the middle is obviously reserved for the head of the Five Elements Sect, Senior Danqiu Sheng. Is there anything else to say?"
"Anyone can see the seat in the middle!"
"That's right! If you have the ability, guess the candidates for the three seats on the left and the three on the right!"
"According to my estimation, three of the seats must be the Yuanying ancestors of the three major sects of Wanzongyuan!" The man who spoke saw that the monks around him were looking at him curiously, and he continued with some pride: "Perhaps you don't know? The three sects of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in Wanzongyuan each have two Yuanying ancestors, and these three sects are among the most powerful forces in my Nanyue Province. The Five Elements Sect will definitely notify them of the Yuanying Dharma Assembly held this time, and they will also send one of their Yuanying ancestors to participate.
"That's right! As for the other three seats, I think the Demon Shadow Sect will take one, the Fallen Flower Valley will take one, and the last one...”
Just as the monks were discussing, three rays of light flew from the west, east and south respectively. The white one in the west, the pink one in the east, and the green one in the south saluted after landing, but did not sit down peacefully.
The three of them looked towards the west instead, and everyone looked towards the west together.
In the western sky, three more rays of light shot from the west, heading straight towards Houtuping. One of them was blue, one was green, and one was golden. The three came in no particular order and came at the same time. They entered and landed on the stage in unison.
The scholar was the one who put away the ice-blue escape light. Perhaps because he was not in a hurry to travel, he did not use the Book of Shang.
As for the two people beside the scholar, one was a monk and the other was a Taoist priest.
The monk was as old as a dead tree, with white beard and eyebrows, wearing a gray cloth monk's robe, his eyes were closed, and his eyebrows were kind. After flying to the ground, the escape light he controlled turned into a golden light and shrank behind the old monk's head, becoming a circle of golden wheels and gradually dissipating.
The Taoist priest was quite young, and the green escape light was his own flying sword. The flying sword was sheathed, and the Taoist priest stood with a smile.
At this point, the six Yuanyings who participated in the Yuanying Dharma Assembly all appeared on the stage.