Chapter 64: Gathering at Fengwei Mountain
Before the opening of the secret realm, the participants of the four major sects and their affiliated small sects had arrived at Fengwei Mountain one after another.
Fengwei Mountain is located on the north side of the Lingshui River at the junction of Xuanjianmen and Ziyang Sect, the mountain peak is towering, several waterfalls hang down from the top of the mountain, shining rainbow light in the sun, flying in the air and looking at it from afar like a bright phoenix tail, hence the name.
In this secret realm exploration, the Qingxu faction sent Mu Gui in the middle stage of the foundation building of the Holy Beast Palace, Liu Hui, a female disciple of the Great Perfection in the late stage of the foundation building of the Spirit Rune Palace, Wan Miao Wan Yan and a pair of twin brothers in the late stage of the foundation building of the Dharma Array Palace, plus Zhang Ning in the late stage of the foundation building of the Artifact Palace, a total of five people participated in the secret realm trial.
Although Mu Gui's cultivation is not the maximum that can be allowed in the secret realm, he has a good hand of spirit beasts and has quite an outstanding; Liu Hui of the Spirit Rune Hall has the first level of drawing talismans in the Spirit Rune Palace; Wan Miao and Wan Yan The two brothers' control of the two formations of water and fire can be described as perfect, and the power of the formation is doubled.
These people are the backbone of the inner disciples of the Qingxu Sect, and it is good to retreat with their whole body, but if they are folded inside, because they are not top talents, they can be regarded as bearable losses.
Zhang Ning and the five of them, led by Elder Zheng of the Foreign Affairs Hall, flew to the top of Fengwei Mountain.
The ground is surprisingly flat and the vegetation is not very lush, so it seems that it is cleaned up every few years.
The seven members of the Haoyue Sect have arrived, and they are all in moon-white robes, spotless, and only embroidered a bright moon pattern at the hem of their clothes.
Five men and two women, the five male disciples represent the five fresh meats of sunshine, arrogance, evil charm, wisdom, and warmth, while the two female disciples keep explaining what it means to be "noble and cold".
The elder who leads the team is the spokesperson of the idiom "fairy wind bones", and looking at his appearance, he makes people feel that he is a serious old monk. I heard that one of the conditions for the disciples of Haoyue Sect to get started is to fight for their appearance, which can be seen from this.
The seven disciples of the Haoyue Sect didn't squint when they saw Zhang Ning and the five of them, and they didn't bother to say a word. Only Elder Zheng and Elder Liu on the other side exchanged a few words of greeting, and then the two sides fell into an awkward silence.
No matter which side walks away first, it is a sign of weakness, so the two teams are five meters apart but go their own way, as if the other party has collectively pasted an invisibility talisman.
The two factions are very close, and there is often friction between the two sides, and the relationship is not harmonious.
Haoyue Sect, as a rising star, is not convinced by anyone, and it also has the position of custodian token, and its status is naturally rising.
The Qingxu faction has long fallen out of the ranks of the big factions and has been reduced to the mid-range, but even if it is declining, the momentum of relying on the old and selling the old must be sufficient, and its strength must not be seen by the outside world.
Zhang Ning was secretly thinking that there should be no incident in killing the people of Haoyuemen, or they would not bear it and come to settle the account after entering the secret realm.
It wasn't until more than a dozen Qingfeng Sect disciples who were all wearing yellow coats and had money rat tails went up the mountain from the two camps under the leadership of the elder that the embarrassing situation was alleviated - the people of the Haoyue Sect flicked their horseshoe sleeves and were about to say hello when the Qingfeng Sect Nu Elder flicked their horseshoe sleeves and went away with disdain, and flew to the side of the towering cliff of the mountain rock not far away.
Elder Nu didn't think it was angry at all, and nodded with a shy face and sent it to the sect.
Qingfeng Gate is very close to the Haoyue Sect, and in order to get protection, ninety percent of the silicon ore of the sect is sent to the Haoyue Sect every year in exchange for the mining right of the silicon ore veins near its sect.
A few people from the Qingxu faction didn't seem to see the scene just now, they didn't squint or make a sound, and meditated cross-legged on the spot.
There are also several other factions that arrived early - the ghost sect in black clothes and black robes, the Huoling Sect dressed in red, the rune stone sect dressed as Taoist priests in film and television dramas, and some small sects that cowered.
There are four or five people from the larger sects, only one or two people from the smaller sects, and there are more than a dozen casually dressed cultivators, so it seems that they should be good friends with the big sects.
Only the unashamed Qingfeng Gate seems to have come here to rob the goods, and all the disciples in the foundation building period are out of the nest - you don't have to guess to know, you must have secretly spent a lot of spar bribes to make a point, and hollowed out the family fund to gamble - the fat difference of Qingfeng Gate can be stared at by many small sects around it, and there is no treasure of the town faction, and the heart is really unsteady.
Zhang Ning looked at the rest of these competitors, the highest cultivation was one person from the Rune Stone Sect and one of the scattered cultivators, all of whom were also in the late stage of foundation building, and most of the other cultivators were in the middle and late stages of foundation building, and there were very few in the early stage of foundation building, showing a normal distribution.
Everyone sat or stood on the top of the mountain, and after waiting for most of the day, the talents of the Xuanjian Sect, the Xuanming Sect, and the Purple Yang Sect arrived one after another.
Xuanjian Sect is a sword cultivation sect, and all of them come by riding the wind and sword, and with the sword intent they exude, it perfectly interprets what it means to be sassy and heroic, and the unity of human and sword. The cultivation of his disciples is above the middle stage of foundation building, and three of them have reached the great consummation of the late stage of foundation building.
The Xuanming Sect is a major demon cultivation sect, and the demon cultivation sect in this trial is only the first to look forward.
The leader of the Xuanming Sect was an old man who was so old that he was a pile of folds and did not have a place on his body that made people feel comfortable, Zhang Ning couldn't see this person's cultivation, but he always felt that there was a sound of devil crying around him.
Zhang Ning, who was two feet away from the old man, suddenly felt that the soul bell also had a strange reaction, and he was secretly alert in his heart.
The dozen or so disciples of the Xuanming Sect who participated in the trial also cultivated well, and the lowest cultivation was a mediocre-looking woman, and in the early stage of foundation building, the middle-aged male cultivator with the highest cultivation holding the spirit banner and a black face also reached the great consummation of the late stage of foundation building, and the others were all in the middle stage of foundation building.
As soon as the Xuanming Sect arrived, a few people from the Ghost Sect went over to salute very doggedly, but the mediocre-looking female cultivators in the Xuanming Sect sent them away with only a few words.
A few people retreated, and Zhang Ning heard one of them with black lips faintly complaining, "If it weren't for the loss of the soul refining gourd... Why is this so..."
The last Purple Yang Sect to be present faintly had the potential of a leader, leading the team with three elders, and an elder with white hair even gave an opening speech: "All the Taoist friends gather here, and lead the disciples of the sect to enter the secret realm palace to explore the treasure and experience, and how much they have obtained is determined by the will of heaven and the entanglement of grievances." Now open the secret realm!"
After the red-faced Elder A, who was dressed in a gorgeous purple robe with white hair and white beard, finished speaking, another yellow-faced thin Elder Yi with less gold thread embroidery in the purple robe raised his hand and showed a small wooden plaque of similar size to Zhang Ning's name plate, which was engraved with the word "Dong" in red italics.
Subsequently, the leading elders of the three sects of Haoyue Sect, Xuanjian Sect, and Xuanyin Sect also showed the wooden cards held by their sects one after another—they gathered the other three directions.
Zhang Ning's heart beat faster! The token looked like a thing! He almost blurted out the two-word mantra that was enough to cause the collapse of the Great Wall!
The white-faced elder of the Ziyang Sect, who was dressed in the same costume as Elder B, cast a spell, and after a tremor on the empty mountain top, a reddish-brown one-legged wooden table suddenly appeared, the top was covered with green flannel, and an endgame was placed on it.
Zhang Ning no longer hesitated, this Nima is really a mahjong table!
The four elders solemnly put the token into the ineffable part of the game, and immediately, the mahjong table hummed quietly, and a building suddenly appeared on the flat field at the top of the mountain.
Everyone looked at the newly appeared secret realm palace, and immediately, exclamations and low voices of discussion rang out.
Zhang Ning had no time to listen to other people's emotions and discussions, he looked at the European architecture with Roman columns and spires, frescoes, and the Roman numeral clock pointing to twelve o'clock on the bell tower, and his heart was excited-
Whose hotel is this all through?!
He secretly calmed down and thought...... If you take a ride, you might be able to wear it back to you!?Will you wear it abroad?Anyway, you can go home as long as you go back to the original world!
At this time, Elder A of the Ziyang Sect said again: "The disc above the tower of this secret realm palace, although the text is different from ours, and there is one more pointer, but it is also for timing purposes, the disciples of each sect should pay attention, as long as two needles, one long and one short, return to the original position, the secret realm will be closed, and you must return to the original teleportation place with the token before this." ”
After speaking, with a wave of his hand, a thin paper strip of old-fashioned mahjong tiles appeared in front of every disciple who participated in the trial, and its style was exactly the kind of leaf cards that Zhang Ning and his grandmother loved to play.
Zhang Ning stretched out his hand to hold the card, and then a white light appeared in front of him, and dizziness hit.