Volume 1: Abandoned Land Chapter 25: Qingling Gate
"This is"
In the exploded ground, a long sword about one meter long was lying quietly in the pit. Kong Laosan remembered clearly that this sword was the one on the back of Zhao Hengdao. When he first met, Kong Laosan was secretly wondering why Zhao Hengdao did not take this item into the storage bag.
After taking the long sword into his hand, Kong Laosan felt his arm sinking, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes. The long sword in front of him was ten feet long, almost twice that of his body. The scabbard was simple and dull, as if it was sewn from some kind of animal skin. I don’t know what metal was added to it, which made him look a little dark.
Compared to the scabbard, Kong Laosan's eyes were more on the hilt, and there was a faint black light lingering around him, with some runes printed on it, which looked very strange.
Kong Laosan thought about it and pulled the knife out of the sheath. However, the next moment, Kong Laosan twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled bitterly. The long knife in front of him turned out to be a broken knife, as if someone had broken it from the middle with great force, only half of it left.
The runes on the blade were covered with, as if they were some kind of formation, but now they were useless. Kong Laosan sighed softly. He thought he had picked up some treasure, but now it seems that he was just a little useless discard.
Kong Laosan thought about it and was about to pack up the broken knife. The black crystal ghost face that was originally surrounded by him suddenly became restless. His empty eyes stared at the broken knife in Kong Laosan's hand, and a look of fear was rarely seen on his face.
Seeing this scene, Kong Lao San's movements slightly stopped. He looked at the trembling face beside him, and finally his eyes fell on the broken knife in his hand again. After thinking about it, a trace of gray light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and a faint power of divine thought extended from his eyebrows and spread towards the blade.
However, just as the power of divine thoughts touched the blade, a strange spiritual fluctuation came from the blade. This spiritual power was extremely huge. Under the recoil, Kong Laosan's palm holding the hilt was bounced away directly. With a "bang", the broken knife with a heavy weight fell back to the ground, and a cloud of dust bounced up. Seeing this scene, Kong Laosan's face became a little gloomy and unstable.
"There is a master?!"
Although the broken knife in front of me is unknown what it is, it must be an ordinary object from the outside, but the mental power attached to it is condensed but not dispersed. It is obviously a master object, and the master has not died yet, so this situation will occur. If the power of the divine mind is strong enough, it will be forced to erase the mental power on it and re-spend it again, it can be used. However, Kong Laosan now obviously does not have this kind of strength.
After thinking about it, Kong Laosan was a little confused for a moment, and he kept thinking in his mind that this broken knife was probably entrusted by someone to put it on Zhao Hengdao. If he took it for himself, then the master of the sword found him, wouldn’t he confirm the fact that he killed Zhao Hengdao? Just judging from the degree of mental fluctuations escaping from the sword, this person’s strength is likely to have reached the level of foundation building. If so, wouldn’t he fall into the trap?
However, if Zhao Hengdao found this thing from somewhere, he would pay it back when the person came to search for it, and maybe he could even owe him a favor.
After a cup of tea, Kong Laosan sighed in his heart. He could not take risks after all, but Kong Laosan also had a thought in his mind, hiding the knife in the pit and filling it with the sand. If nothing happened in a while, he would come back to find it.
After the matter in front of him was settled, Kong Laosan looked at the ghost banner at hand, and a hint of disgrace appeared on his face.
Since we cannot bring this ghost banner into Qingling Gate, we can only bury it or send it back to Yu'er City for the Shuiyan Gang to take care of it. However, this place is very far from Yu'er City, and it will take at least one and a half months to go back and forth. Kong Laosan smiled bitterly, and could only give up this idea, and his eyes kept patrolling around him.
The old wood in front of me was about the thickness of an adult's waist. Except for the lush branches and leaves, it was inconspicuous among the dozens of old wood around. After measuring it with my hands, a hint of satisfaction flashed across the three sides of Kong Lao.
He jumped gently and landed directly on the tree canopy. After thinking about it, he spread the banner surface. As Kong Laosan's lips moved, the face of a beautiful girl appeared faintly. I don't know what Kong Laosan had told me, the girl nodded and then sank into the black banner again and disappeared.
The black copper bar in his hand was inserted directly from the top of the tree. It was not until the entire black copper bar bar bar completely penetrated into the tree trunk that Kong Laosan had barely stopped, made an inconspicuous mark on the old wood, and turned around and left.
Mushui, one of the three major rivers of Qin, stretches thousands of miles east and west, running through the entire Qin land.
There are records in the historical documents of the Qin State that, as one of the origins of civilization, had three large-scale floods in Mushui, thousands of miles of Heze, destroyed fields and plundered land, causing the displacement of tens of millions of ordinary people.
Even so, as a commoner who has lived by mushui for generations, he is still full of gratitude to this mother river.
In the southwest of Mushui, one of the 260 prefectures in the Qin State, the Qingzhou River section, there is a small village called Mujiazhuang. There are only more than 300 families in the whole village. Every family takes the character "Mu" in Mushui as their surname and relies on Mushui to fish for a living. This has been the case for generations.
The village is not big and the people are simple. Every February 2nd, the villagers in the entire village will consciously gather on the Mushui shore and worship the Qingfeng, which is far away from the other side. I hope that the gods living on the Qingfeng will bless the village with good weather and surplus every year.
This kind of habit similar to sacrificial tradition has been passed down from generation to generation since the founding of the Qin Dynasty. It has lasted for nearly three thousand years. Not to mention that the Mushui flooded three times and the water flooded the earth. However, the villagers of Mujiazhuang escaped three catastrophes in a daze. The entire village was not damaged at all, which made people amazed.
But the villagers of Mujiazhuang didn’t know that there was a fairy family in the depths of the vast Qing Peak on the other side of Mushui.
Qingling Gate, one of the three major immortal families in the Great Qin State, is as famous as the Liuhe Sect, which is located in the western part of Qin State, which is located in the Qinyang Dao Palace, where the capital of the northern Qin State is located, and is bordered by the Luo River.
Qinyang Taoist Palace is the well-deserved leader of the three great immortal sects. Unlike the other two immortal sects, in addition to teaching the magic techniques of the immortal sect, Qinyang Taoist Palace also teaches the scriptures and arts, and contains martial arts inheritance and classical teachings to govern the country.
Therefore, in the Qinyang Taoist Palace, in addition to those who pursue immortals and Taoism, there are also excellent martial arts seedlings and a large number of Confucian scholars who are determined to be a career in the officialdom.
The inheritance has been passed down for thousands of years. Whether it is the magic tricks of immortals, the unique martial arts, or the governance strategy, the Qinyang Taoist Palace is all-encompassing and is listed as the first institution of Qin. It is well-known.
However, the Qinyang Taoist Palace recruits disciples mainly for royal relatives, or direct descendants of the imperial court prime ministers, or some genius students from all over the world. It is basically impossible for ordinary people to enter the Qinyang Taoist Palace.
Among the three great immortal sects, if you are talking about the momentum, you should be the first in Liuhe Sect. The main thing is that Liuhe Sect preaches, regardless of identity, poverty or humbleness, and three religions and nine ranks. As long as you have spiritual roots and are determined to be immortal, you can go to the mountain to learn skills. Therefore, the number of disciples of Liuhe Sect is spread throughout the Qin State, with uneven strengths and extremely different differences.
Of course, if you want to obtain a true inheritance, you can only be accepted as disciples by those elders.
The mountain is not high, but it is famous if there is an immortal. This sentence is vividly reflected in Qingxia Mountain.
Qingxia Mountain stretches for only more than 100,000 miles. It is a small mountain range in the entire Xiling land. The entire mountain range falls on a spiritual vein. Therefore, all year round, the green color is misty and the grass is abundant.
Qingling Gate landed on several main peaks of Qingxia Mountain, blocked by a huge formation. Looking at the naked eye, you can only see the surging green shade and the beautiful scenery of the peaks.
The six peaks of Qinglingmen are connected in parallel. Except for the Tongtian peak, which exists as the main peak in the middle, the other five peaks are named after the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. They are respectively the gold aggregate, wood, water, water, and water, and are heavily flowing. According to the different spiritual root attributes of the monk, they worship different peaks.
In addition to the head of Qingyang Zhenren, there is an elder in the entire Qingling Sect, which is the top power of Qingling Sect. Of course, in addition to these real power elders, according to the rules of Qingling Sect, some idle elders who have reached the Golden Pill Realm also have the right to occupy a peak as a main temple for the temple.
The most noble person under the Jindan Ancestor is the true disciples. There are more than 10,000 cultivators in the Qingling Sect, but only about twenty true disciples. If you want to become a true disciple, in addition to having extraordinary talent and perseverance, your weakest strength must also reach the foundation building.
Below the true disciples are those sect managers and inner disciples who are in the five peaks. The sect managers have certain rights and are in an embarrassing position of being neither up nor down. Many sect managers are held by inner disciples. To be honest, their identity is no more valuable than inner disciples.
Most of the inner disciples at each peak have one or two hundred, and no more than three hundred at most. If ordinary outer disciples want to become inner disciples, in addition to reaching the sixth level of Qi refining within the prescribed period, they also have to complete some assessment tasks assigned by the sect. After passing the assessment, they can become inner disciples.
The lowest level belongs to the outer disciples. Strictly speaking, the outer disciples are not considered to be the true disciples of the Qingling Sect. They are just in the assessment stage and are regularly taught by the elders of the sect. If they cannot reach the sixth level of Qi refining within six years, they will not be accepted by the Qingling Sect, and the outer disciples will be assigned some chores, and the time for cultivation is really limited.
Within six years, those who can truly reach the sixth level of Qi refining are usually less than one ten, but compared with the tens of thousands of disciples who visit the mountain gate every year, the competition is still very fierce.
The Qingling Sect recruits disciples mainly for those aristocratic families, merchants and tycoons, or sects with certain strength, and those with unknown origins will not be included unless they have a superior qualification. If it were not for the odds, Kong Laosan would not come here anyway.
Above the void, a flying boat rushed over. In just half a cup of tea, the mountain gate that was still far away in the sky was already close. Looking down from a high altitude, the six peaks of Qingling Gate were slightly curved, penetrated straight into the sky, and the clouds were floating, looking like an immortal palace, with a sense of unreal and illusion.
Li Xiuchen pinched his hands and the flying boat buzzed and slowly landed towards the foot of the mountain. At the same time, he warned everyone behind him, "The disciples of the Qingling Sect usually live in those bamboo houses at the foot of the mountain. If they are not allowed, they are not allowed to climb the sixth peak. Every month, the elders in the sect will teach you the methods of cultivation. With your qualifications, it is not difficult to reach the sixth level of Qi training within six years."
Chapter completed!