Chapter 3: Mythical Beasts

Lin Fan's cave is where Lin Shi used to practice, which saves him the process of digging the cave with a hoe, although the Ethereal Sect disciples have to dig the cave by themselves, in fact, up to now, no disciple has personally dug it, after all, there were many Ethereal Sect disciples in the past, and the three mountains all have dense vacant caves.

This cave is quite close to the Ethereal Gate, and it is only less than six miles away, Meng Jianshanzui said that he didn't want to go in the air, and said that he wanted to tell Lin Fan some precautions for the Ethereal Gate, but it was just to fool Lin Fan, Meng Jianshan's realm was only the triple heaven of the Transformation Period, and he could barely step on the leaves and jump more than ten meters, and he had to pay full attention, if he took Lin Fan, maybe he would fall to the ground, he didn't want to lose his face as a senior brother in front of this little junior brother, so he said like this.

As soon as they said this, the two of them saw the building complex of the Ethereal Gate, the disciples in the door lived on the east and west sides of the Ethereal Peak, the middle was the gate of the Ethereal Gate, and the southern position was its mountain gate.

"Do you know why our Ethereal Sect is one of the four major sects?"

Meng Jianshan whispered in Lin Fan's left ear rather mysteriously, and Lin Fan shook his head solemnly.

"In addition to the fact that our sect master and the three elders are all masters of the Three Crossing Period, it is also because we have two Guardian Divine Beasts and a mountain protection formation with unparalleled defense, this formation.... Hey, I said, you have a reply, it's all me talking about you listening", Meng Jianshan looked like he hated iron but not steel.

The defensive power of this mountain protection formation can be called unparalleled in the world, and it is the reason why many formation masters must have one person sit in the door whenever and wherever they are grateful for the great contribution made by the Ethereal Gate to resist foreign enemies.

"Where are the two beasts, I don't see them?"

Lin Fan blinked with a pair of big eyes, and looked at Meng Jianshan with suspicious eyes.

"Shhhh

Meng Jianshan's expression changed greatly, he looked around nervously, and then breathed a sigh of relief, and then said, "Have you seen the reservoir?"

Lin Fan stepped on his tiptoes and followed the direction of Meng Jianshan's finger, next to the Ethereal Gate building, there was indeed a large reservoir, and the Ethereal Gate was built next to this reservoir.

Seeing Lin Fan nodded, Meng Jianshan's face was filled with pride, and he said with a smile: "In that reservoir, it is the residence of two divine beasts, one is called Xuanwu, and the other is called Qingjiao, the realm of the two divine beasts is in the Nine Heavens Great Perfection of the Three Crossing Period, and they are the descendants of two of the five great guardian beasts of the Ethereal Gate in the past."

"That's the mountain gate, look at the pavilion, there must be disciples on duty every day."

When the two walked to the Ethereal Gate Stone Workshop, Meng Jianshan pointed to a pavilion in the distance and said.

"You see the five halls in the east, west, north, south, and middle, except for the middle hall, which is the place where the door master and the elders preach the scriptures and teach the law, and it is also the place where the door master and the elders meet."

"It's the kitchen and next to the dining hall"

"This is the study, today is my study and treasury, which are all cultivation secrets, magic weapons and other things, and when you officially step into the path of cultivation, Uncle Shi will take you here to choose a suitable weapon"

"That's the bathroom, and the clothes have to be washed and dried by yourself"

"See that garden, it's a medicine garden, what ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, etc., etc., there are all in it, and behind the medicine garden is a large orchard, tsk", Meng Jianshan wiped the saliva that flowed out, and looked at Lin Fan embarrassedly

"It's ......"

"That's ......"

Meng Jianshan led Lin Fan and continued to explain each house and hall, while Lin Fan looked at the spitting senior brother in front of him, and secretly said that this person was talking endlessly, and his ears were calloused, because after Meng Jianshan introduced the Ethereal Gate, he began to talk about his worship in the Ethereal Gate.

"Knock~"

A distant bell rang out.

"Yo he, let's eat, let's go", Meng Jianshan smiled happily, and pulled Lin Fan straight to the kitchen.

"Finally shut up", Lin Fan said silently in his heart.

"Yo hoo, it's time to eat"

"Holy shit, what are you squeezing"

"Are you starving to death, are you afraid that you won't be able to eat, squeeze every day"

......

As soon as Meng Jianshan and Lin Fan sat down on the wooden chairs in the dining hall, a group of men in their teens and thirties came, crowding at the door of the restaurant and cursing and scolding.

"Noisy, noisy, noisy, don't eat and fuck off"

A thunderous voice came from inside the kitchen, and the people outside the dining hall immediately looked at each other, and they all sat down on their dining chairs.

"This is our senior brother, the great apprentice of the master of the door, every time he takes his turn to the kitchen, he will be irritable and irritable, hehe", Meng Jianshan said softly in Lin Fan's ear.

"What are you doing, waiting for me to bring you food?"

The same voice came from the kitchen, and a middle-aged man with a large iron spoon in his right hand and a white apron stepped out of the kitchen, and roared angrily at the people sitting on the dining chairs.

Everyone didn't dare to come out, so they all got up and went to the kitchen, some served dishes and soup, some made rice, and some held the bowls and chopsticks stacked like a hill, all of them were very busy.

The canteen is quite large, with hundreds of square wooden tables, each with four long wooden chairs, all of which can seat eight people, and the first dozens of people to come to the canteen will bring the soup to the table.

After dividing the dishes and chopsticks, one after another, there were ethereal disciples, or those who walked, or galloped from afar, or flew with a sword, all came to the dining hall to eat.

On each table, there are five meats, three vegetables and two soups, and the whole canteen is suddenly filled with a strong fragrance, compared with the people who are in the midst of war and famine, it can be said that there is a world of difference, Lin Fan looked at the food on the table, and unconsciously remembered an old beggar.

Lin Fan once begged around with an old beggar, and the old beggar took Lin Fan through the cracked earth, the town with the smell of corpses, and the village with heavy snow and ice sculptures, and then stuffed a moldy steamed bun to Lin Fan, and then starved to death in a broken temple.

"No wonder everyone envies the gods", Lin Fan muttered.

"Senior Brother Meng, who is this kid next to you?"

"Yes, I wanted to ask you just now, and I was busy serving food."

Meng Jianshan sat with Lin Fan, and two of the six Ethereal Sect disciples at the same table looked at Lin Fan and asked about Meng Jianshan.

"Ahem, all the senior brothers, listen quietly, this child next to me, named Lin Fan, is the apprentice of the third elder Lin Shigang", Meng Jianshan shouted at the top of his voice.

The air suddenly fell silent in an instant, and many of the Ethereal Sect disciples stopped eating when they heard this, staring at Lin Fan in unison, the third elder Lin Shi never accepted apprentices, it was already a well-known thing in the Ethereal Sect, even the door master and the other two elders persuaded him many times, but they couldn't shake Lin Shi's determination to refuse to accept apprentices, why did he come out with an apprentice today, looking at this kid's stupid appearance, his talent was definitely not much better.

"You said it would be Elder Lin's illegitimate son, otherwise what...... Ouch"

A thin disciple said mysteriously to the senior brother next to him, and before he could finish speaking, he was slapped on the back of his head.

"Eat and eat, chew what big tongue"

This person was the middle-aged man who had just roared, with a face that was not angry and arrogant, after teaching the disciple who was talking nonsense, the middle-aged man came to Lin Fan's side and said to Meng Jianshan: "What's the matter?

"I don't know the specifics, it was Elder Lin who came to the study to find me, saying that he had just accepted an apprentice and asked me to help him", Meng Jianshan hurriedly got up and replied.

This middle-aged man is the great apprentice of the Ethereal Sect advocating Chenfeng, his name is Zhou Zhongchen, and he is also the senior brother of all the disciples of the Ethereal Sect, and his cultivation is already in the Nine Heavens Realm of the Transformation Stage.

"In that case, you should take more care of the little junior brother, okay, you can sit down"

After Zhou Zhongchen finished speaking, he looked at Lin Fan again, he really didn't see anything outstanding about the little boy in front of him, but since he was Elder Lin's first apprentice, he couldn't neglect him, so he smiled and patted Lin Fan's shoulder and said with a smile: "Since you have entered the Ethereal Gate, then we are a family, my name is Zhou Zhongchen, the middle of the middle, the dust of the dust, not a loyal minister, I am your senior brother, and I am also the senior brother of all the disciples, if you don't understand anything in the future, you can come to me."

Lin Fan just glanced up at Zhou Zhongchen, nodded, and began to gobble down the food on the table.

"Okay, everyone has another junior brother, all eat first, you guys at this table eat quickly, and send the food to the person on duty after eating", Zhou Zhongchen pointed to a dining table and said, and the eight people at this table suddenly showed a bitter gourd face.

After Lin Fan filled his stomach, Meng Jianshan took Lin Fan to the cave that he had sorted out not long ago.

"You're going to sleep here starting today, it's still early, I'm talking to you about something."

Meng Jianshan took out an oil lamp from the wooden box, lit it on the stone table, and then talked endlessly.

There are currently no second-generation disciples in the Ethereal Gate, and all the disciples are apprentices of the door master, the Great Elder, and the Second Elder, so when they meet the door master and elder, in addition to the master, they can be called the master or the uncle, which can be seen from the fact that Meng Jianshan will call the master and the elder, and it can be seen that there are not many rules in the Ethereal Gate.

There is a bell tower next to the entrance of the medicine garden, and you can see all the buildings and the mountain gate of the ethereal gate from the bell tower, so the most important duty of the person on duty in the medicine garden is to ring the bell.

When the bell rang, the kitchen meal was ready, and it was time to eat, and the door master and the three elders had someone to bring them food, so they did not come to the restaurant to eat.

When the bell rings for the second time, except for the rotation and the outgoing disciples, the rest need to gather in the square immediately.

When the bell rang three times, it was the master of the door and the elders who had important matters to discuss in the council hall.

Four bells rang, and the disciples of the three elders gathered in the three halls of the three elders, and of course they never rang four times.

Five and six bells rang, and the disciples of the second elder and the great elder gathered in the second hall and the first hall.

Seven bells rang, and the disciples of the main door gathered in the main hall.

Eight bells rang, and all the disciples who heard the bells rushed to the door with weapons, indicating that there was an invasion of foreign enemies.

The nine bells rang to let all the disciples flee quickly and not return to the door, which was to prepare for the difficult calamity, so as to leave the inheritance, since Zhang Chenfeng's four brothers re-established the ethereal door, to this day, the signals of four, eight and nine have not been sounded.

Each sect has its own territory, and in addition to occupying the mountain range of Ethereal Peak, the Ethereal Sect also protects the mortal city below the mountain from natural disasters, and in return, mortals also provide the food and clothing of the Ethereal Sect, and all the current disciples of the Ethereal Sect, including Lin Fan, are selected from among the mortals of the ancient city below the mountain.

Purple Star's current strongest cultivators, the realm is in the Nine Heavens of the Three Crossing Period, and the reason for this is that when the foreign enemy invaded back then, the strong people above the Three Crossing Period Realm had all fallen in that war, but at present, these cultivators of the Nine Heavens Realm of the Three Crossing Period are only one chance away from entering the Earth Saint Stage realm.