Chapter 83: The Mountain Outside the Cultivation Gate
The three of them chatted in this stone building for a while, when a red light suddenly came from far to near. Zhuang Hong walked out of the stone building calmly, reached out and took the talisman. After a while, Zhuang Hong walked back to the stone building with a smile and said to the two of them: "Brother Zhang Shengxian and fellow Taoist Wu, let's go. I have arranged a place for you two. Most of the people renting in Jiguan Town are scattered people with no foundation. Xiu, I’ll take you two to the guest reception area outside the mountain. Zhang Sheng, since you don’t want to go to see Elder Wu Zhen, I have to live in the guest area.”
The two followed Zhuang Hong out of the stone building. Zhuang Hong led the two towards the large area in the southeast of the town that was covered by white mist. The journey of more than ten miles would arrive quickly for the three of them.
Approaching a valley before the white mist covered it, Zhuang Hong raised his hand and cast a spell on top of the ever-changing white mist in front of him. After the magic formula entered the white mist, Wu Yan saw that the originally ethereal white mist suddenly gathered and changed. In a moment, the white mist dispersed, revealing a passage more than two feet wide. In front of the passage, there was a layer of A faint blue light shield exuding huge spiritual power appeared in front of the three people, blocking the way.
The cyan protective shield suddenly parted to both sides, and two young monks in cyan robes walked out of it with expressionless faces. These two young monks were dressed the same as Zhuang Hong, except that in the middle of the pentagonal pattern on their chests, there was an ancient seal character "木" embroidered on them. When the two young monks saw the three of them, one of them said, "Zhuang Hong, what are you doing here?"
"It turns out to be Senior Brother Mu. These two are casual disciples who came to participate in this cultivation ceremony. I have just reported it to Elder Shui of the Deacon House. Elder Shui has agreed to arrange for the two of them to live in the guest area. This is Elder Shui. The talisman edict, please check it with Senior Brother Mu!" Zhuang Hong smiled and handed the talisman he just received to Senior Brother Mu who spoke in front of him.
The man looked at Wu Yan and Wu Yan in surprise, reached out and took the talisman from Zhuang Hong, inspected it, and then handed the talisman to the other person.
Wu Yan followed Zhuang Hong and quietly used his Heavenly Eye Technique to check. He was surprised. He didn't expect that the two disciples guarding the gate were actually monks in the Great Perfection realm of Qi training. He couldn't help but feel even more mysterious about the strength of this cultivation sect. At the same time, I was also a little worried about my choice to come here to participate in the cultivation ceremony. I don’t know if I can successfully pass the Cultivation Cultivation Ceremony test of the Cultivation Sect and become a disciple of the Cultivation Sect.
"Well, it is indeed Elder Shui's talisman. Let's go." The two disciples in green got out of the way. Wu Yan and Zhang Feng obediently followed Zhuang Hong and walked into the shield.
After entering the shield, the door of the shield flashed with green light and closed again. When Wu Yan and Zhang Feng turned to look, they found that the outside world had disappeared, and their eyes were covered by a thick white mist. The two monks in green returned to the big rocks on both sides with expressionless faces, sitting cross-legged and meditating, no longer paying attention to anything.
"Let's go, haha, this is our second-level mountain-protecting formation. These white fogs only serve as some blinding methods. With your current level of cultivation, you cannot see the formation that truly has offensive and defensive capabilities." "We've arrived." Zhuang Hong reminded him, and then led the two of them forward out of Lixu to a stone house built on the mountain. He bowed his hands to the stone house and said respectfully: "Disciple Zhuang Hong, please give me the gift from Master Mu. The magic weapon goes to the guest area!”
There was no movement in the stone house for a long time, but Zhuang Hong stood in front of the stone house obediently and respectfully, as if he had known it would be like this. Wu Yan and Zhang Feng looked at each other in confusion.
After a while, a cold voice came from the stone house: "Is this your first time in the mountains?"
"Yes!" Zhuang Hong replied respectfully.
The stone door of the stone house suddenly opened a gap, and a ray of blue light flew out and landed in front of Zhuang Hong. Then the stone door of the stone house closed automatically with a bang.
Wu Yan and Zhang Feng looked curiously at what was in front of Zhuang Hong, only to see a palm-sized, green banana leaf exuding a rich aura. Zhuang Hong smiled and raised his hand to cast a stream of magic power on the banana leaf. The banana leaf suddenly emitted a burst of green light, and in a moment it became several feet in size and floated in front of the three people.
Zhuang Hong jumped up first and turned to the two of them: "Come up quickly, you two. This is a high-level flying magic weapon, the Banana Leaf Boat, refined by our Qingmu Hall. It is fast and stable in flight. It is specially used in outer mountains." Used to transport disciples. Disciples below the foundation level of our sect are not allowed to fly in the outer mountains. Only by riding this specific banana leaf boat can they fly smoothly."
Only then did Wu Yan and Zhang Feng board the banana leaf boat with faces full of surprise. They looked at this high-level flying magic weapon with great interest and were filled with admiration.
This is not the first time Wu Yan has flown with a royal weapon, but he doesn't care much about flying on this ship. Instead, he is very interested in the high-level flying magic weapon at his feet. He also has a Qingye Magical Artifact in his hand, but it is a low-level item. Its flight speed is the same as that of an ordinary galloping horse, and it is not as fast as him using the Wind Control Technique. Zhang Feng didn't know if it was his first time flying with a weapon, but he had an eager expression on his face.
Zhuang Hong calmly cast a spell on the banana leaf boat at his feet. With a flash of green light, the banana leaf boat jumped into the air and flew away to the southeast quickly. The speed was so fast that Wu Yan's green Several times as many as the leaf magic weapon!
Wu Yan and Zhang Feng felt the wind whistling in their ears, and the scenery in front of them kept changing and receding, and they became very excited.
"Is this your first time flying on a high-level magical instrument? Haha, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. As long as you can become our disciples, each of you will receive a medium-level banana leaf boat magical instrument that is smaller than this banana leaf boat. You will be able to experience the pleasure of flying in the future. Haha!" Zhuang Hong smiled and looked at the two people standing on the magical instruments with excitement. As he spoke, he also winked at Zhang Feng. He had contact with the Zhang family and knew that although the Zhang family was a large family of casual cultivators, they had strict restrictions on the disciples in the family. They would not let them out to practice until they reached the tenth level of the Qi Refining Stage, so naturally they would not be able to touch flying magical instruments. He had heard that the Zhang family had a young man with a different spiritual root. Elder Wuzhen in the sect was a high-level cultivator with a wind spiritual root attribute. He had repeatedly revealed to the ancestor of the Zhang family, the Confucian Saint, that he wanted to take this boy as his disciple, but the Confucian Saint had always refused politely, and even never brought him out when he came to visit friends in the Xiuzhen Sect. Unexpectedly, this boy ran out by himself this time, and he also wanted to participate in the cultivation ceremony.
Zhuang Hong had just quietly checked Zhang Feng's spiritual root attributes, and it was indeed a different kind of wind spiritual root. This made him overjoyed. He was thinking about how to quietly report this matter to Elder Wuzhen after sending the two to the guest area, and to please this great elder monk in the sect.
The banana leaf boat was flying at an altitude of more than 20 feet, with a fast and stable speed. It was indeed worthy of being a high-level flying magic weapon. In the moment of speaking, it was already more than a hundred feet away from the stone house.
Along the way, Wu Yan finally saw the power of the cultivation sect.
During their flight, there were constantly colorful escape lights flying from the sky, and their speed was more than times faster than the banana leaf boat under their feet. There was even one time when the three of them felt a huge spiritual pressure, and then they saw a fiery red stream of light, like a rapid electric star, and instantly flew away from the sky a hundred feet high and disappeared.
"Hey, it's Elder Ding Huo of Huoling Peak who has come out of retreat! So amazing!" Zhuang Hong stared at the sky with his eyes wide open while controlling the banana leaf boat and sighed.
Wu Yan and Zhang Feng also stared at the sky with their eyes wide open, and were speechless for a long time!
"This is the real land immortal! So amazing, so majestic! I must practice hard, and I will join the cultivation sect this time. In the future, I will practice to become an immortal cultivator like Elder Ding Huo!" After a long while, Wu Yan regained his mind, and felt extremely envious in his heart. For the first time, he had a goal and infinite motivation for practice.
In the past, he practiced, and he only had a vague concept of practicing to live longer than ordinary people and to be able to live forever. This time, when he saw the escape light of Elder Ding Huo flying away in the blink of an eye, an idea clearly emerged in his heart, that is, to practice to become a powerful cultivator like a land immortal, fly freely in the sky, and step on everything under his feet!
That feeling must be very cool!
Half an hour later, the banana leaf boat paused and stopped in a rough construction area. After landing on the ground, Zhuang Hong folded up the banana leaf boat and held it in his palm. He led the two to the largest stone house in the construction area and handed them over to an old Taoist priest in the eleventh level of Qi Refining in a green robe. After he explained a few words to Zhang Feng and Wu Yan, he took the banana leaf boat and left.
The Taoist robe of this old Taoist priest named Lao Huang also had the same pattern embroidered on it as Zhuang Hong. It seems that the two of them should belong to the outer sect deacon disciples of the same deacon courtyard.
This Lao Huang is the deacon disciple in charge of the accommodation issues of the casual cultivators who come to participate in the Cultivation Ceremony. In fact, every year, cultivators from various families send some of their own disciples to the Cultivation Gate to accept the test of the Cultivation Gate. The food and accommodation issues of these people are solved by Lao Huang. In fact, the Cultivation Ceremony held every five years is only for those casual cultivators who have no foundation but good potential.
Of course, only those independent cultivators who were attached to the Cultivation Sect and some large immortal cultivation families who had very good relations with the Cultivation Sect could enjoy such treatment. Ordinary independent cultivators could not even enter the outer mountain of the Cultivation Sect before the Cultivation Ceremony.
Wu Yan had the opportunity to enter the outer mountain of the Cultivation Sect in advance this time thanks to the relationship between Zhang Feng and the Zhang family. Otherwise, he would have to spend a sum of spirit stones to rent a place in Jiguan Town and wait for the Cultivation Ceremony before he could enter the outer mountain and participate in the Cultivation Ceremony.