Chapter 15: The Hall of the Altar

Songyu stood at the door, straightened his clothes, and knelt down across the hall: "The criminals see the master!"

"Capture the dragon, you are finally willing to come to see me. On the throne, the Taoist's eyes were closed, his long eyebrows were lowered, and his lips were motionless, but the majestic voice echoed in the hall.

Hearing the Taoist call out his name in the mortal world when he debuted, Songyu's shoulders trembled: "Master, I want to go down the mountain!"

On the throne, the Daoist's tightly closed eyes trembled for a moment, and then opened suddenly, and a dazzling light like a star burst out from under his eyelids, and the dark Lingtai Hall suddenly turned into a blazing light, but it fell into darkness with the Taoist's closed eyes.

"Are you going to see her?" the Taoist voice was unwavering, and he couldn't hear any mood swings.

"Yes, Master. It's been more than twenty years, and I want to meet her! In a few months, it's been her taboo, I've avoided her for more than twenty years, and this time, I want to meet her!" Matsuyu lay on the ground, his voice still showing a deep pain, although he tried to remain calm.

There was silence in the main hall, and above the main hall, the Taoist was motionless, and sighed for a while: "Capture the dragon, after twenty years of meditation, you still haven't been able to reach the point of purity and inaction, no desire and no desire." In fact, I didn't expect you to reach it. What happened back then, if it weren't for me, maybe she would have escaped with her life, alas, the precepts left by the patriarch must not be violated even if you are the head of the family, I hope you can understand......"

"The disciple never dared to have a grudge against the master," the Taoist did not finish his words, but was interrupted by Songyu, and a ray of light from the crack in the door shone on his face, and in the light, two lines of painful tears could be vaguely seen sliding down the dust.

"Even if you have a grudge in your heart, I won't blame you......" A sigh came out from the main hall: "You have been in Cangsongyu for twenty years, and it is time to go out." However, before you leave Fangcun Mountain, I want you to promise me one thing!"

Songyu raised his head: "Please say that the boss, Songyu will definitely agree." ”

"There are several lineages in the Fang Cun Sect, and you are one of them. If you want to leave the mountain, I have no objection, but you must accept a disciple in the Fangcun Mountain and pass on your lineage. As long as you do this, you can leave at any time!" said the Taoist in the main hall.

“...... Disciple obeys!" Songyu lowered his head again.

At this moment, a sound of footsteps came from outside the Lingtai Hall, and the footsteps stopped outside the gate of the Lingtai Hall, and a figure appeared outside the gap in the gate, and one by one the eyes fell on the loose corner in the main hall through the gap in the door.

"Master, the assessment has ended, all the disciples' assessment results have been recorded, and the disciples are here to return to their lives!" said a majestic voice outside the door.

"Squeak!" The heavy iron door opened automatically, and the bright light of the canopy shone into the main hall, and the hall gradually became brighter, and at the door, standing were the nine Taoists who participated in the assessment.

The nine people saw the pine corner kneeling at the door, and their faces changed, and they made a wave of one palm in front of their chests, and said respectfully: "See Senior Brother!"

"Catch the dragon, you get up too. Above the main hall, the Taoist spoke. With the help of the eyes shot in from the door, you can see that the person is wearing a fishtail crown, wearing a three-star robe with a slanting moon, his beard is white, and his long eyebrows hang down to his nose, and he has the style of a Taoist person.

"Master Xie," Songyu stood up, bowed back to the nine Taoists, and said calmly: "You juniors don't need to be polite, I'm just a guilty body." ”

Several Taoists lowered their eyebrows one by one, as if they hadn't heard Songyu's last words at all.

"Hand over the book. "On the main hall, the head of the Fang Cun Sect said.

The thin Taoist didn't dare to use spells, so he walked over step by step and handed over the book. The head of Fang Cunshan opened the book, glanced at it, and didn't look at it much, then closed it again: "The test results have come out, you must have already counted it in your hearts." How about it, do you have a favorite disciple in your heart?"

Your Highness, the nine Daoists had complicated expressions and did not answer at all.

"Back to the master, we haven't discussed it yet. A Taoist spoke.

The head frowned slightly, Fang Cunshan's assessment of each session, these people can quickly make a decision and choose their own disciples, only when there are several particularly excellent disciples at the same time, and several people take a fancy to them at the same time, will this kind of hesitation occur. Fang Cun Sect attaches great importance to the friendship of the same sect, and the average outstanding disciple, the two of them discussed it, and let it go, and it was decided. There are also very few times when there are particularly outstanding disciples, and only then will such a situation occur.

"How many of you have taken a fancy to Li Xuanfeng at the same time?" The head of Fang Cun Sect also seemed to know something about Li Xuanfeng.

"No," a Taoist said, stepping forward.

"Oh, what's that named disciple's name?"

"Lin Junxuan, it seems that he is only twelve years old this year!"

Above the main hall, the Taoist opened the book and found Lin Junxuan's record: "Twenty years of skill, well, it's about to enter the Jindan period......! No wonder you all took a fancy to him at the same time. "The nine people are silent, they have twenty years of cultivation at the age of twelve, and they will be able to reach the Jindan stage in a period of time, so it's no wonder that the nine people are moved by such qualifications.

"You say that the child's name is Lin Junxuan?" Songyu was originally not interested in the conversation of several people, but suddenly heard Lin Junxuan's name and raised his eyebrows slightly: "His assessment score is first?"

"Well, Senior Brother also knows about this son?" asked a Taoist.

"The head of the sect asked me to choose one of this year's registered disciples as a disciple. Songyu glanced at the nine people, smiled, and the voice fell, and several people changed color at the same time: "Senior brother also takes a fancy to Lin Junxuan?!"

"That's good!" Songyu said, "I want to choose him to be my disciple." ”

Although a few people have a lot of respect for Songyu, they can't care so much about the matter of their own disciples. For a disciple with such excellent roots and qualifications, it is not difficult to reach the dragon and tiger stage, or even the heavenly and human stage. If such a disciple comes from his own discipleship, wouldn't his status in the sect rise in the future. In the future, if he is born and descends from the mountain, he will go to the world to experience and make a name for himself in the cultivation world, and the prestige of the Fang Cun Sect will also be enhanced, and correspondingly, as a master who is such an outstanding disciple, his reputation in the cultivation world will also increase accordingly.

"Master!-" The nine people looked at the head of the Fang Cun Sect in the main hall at the same time.

"Don't be in a hurry about this matter first, summon them to the main hall tomorrow, test their five elements and surnames first, and then discuss it not too late!"

The monastic community believes that heaven and earth are composed of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and that the five elements are mutually reinforcing. Wood makes fire, fire gives birth to earth, earth gives birth to gold, gold gives birth to water, water gives birth to wood, and the Taoist technique of mutual birth can be practiced, compared to a person's five elements belong to gold, his practice is mainly to practice the metal surname Tao, supplemented by the water surname Tao, if the metal surname Taoist is cultivated to the peak, it can promote the practice of the water surname Tao. Of course, it is not so easy to cultivate a certain caste Dao method to the peak. Although one can generally choose to practice two Dao methods at the same time, most people will not do this, but will put all their minds on one Dao method that belongs to the caste.

In addition to the five elements, there are also five elements of mutual restraint. If a person's five elements belong to gold, he must not practice the Tao of fire at the same time. Among the five elements, fire is gold.

"Yes, sir. The head of the house spoke and made a decision, and the nine people did not dare to refute it anymore.

"Let's all go down, and when the morning dawns, you will come back to the main hall. On the main hall, the Taoist waved his hand, and the nine people waved their hands and left.

"You go too. ”

"Yes, sir. Matsuyu retreated.

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After dinner, Lin Junxuan came out of the wing room for a walk as usual. After the assessment, the Cangsong Garden was much quieter, the only thing that made a lot of noise was Dongfang Yu's wing, many teenagers groveled outside Dongfang Yu's room, hoping to enter the Dongfang family through Dongfang Yu's relationship before going down the mountain.

Passing by Songyu's room, Lin Junxuan pushed the door open again and entered. Songyu still hasn't returned, and I don't know where he went. Lin Junxuan returned to the room full of doubts.

Early the next morning, after eating fast, around the hour, a silver-robed disciple of the Inner Sect came to Cangsong Garden, standing in front of the courtyard, holding a scroll, and said in a loud voice:

"All the registered disciples of Cangsong Yuan obey the order, and whoever reads the name will immediately leave the wing, and follow me up the mountain to meet the master, Lin Junxuan, Li Xuanfeng, Dongfang Yu, Song Siming, Ying Donglai, ......"

After reading the name, Lin Junxuan and the others all walked out of the wing. In the envious eyes of the other teenagers, he followed the inner sect disciple towards the Lingtai Hall of the mountain hall.

The clouds and mist on the mountain are ethereal, like a fairyland on earth. Looking at the mountain at the bottom of the mountain, you can only see a magnificent hall, but when you really get closer, you find that there are white wings around the hall standing in a circle around the top of the mountain. Ahead of the wing, on the rugged rocks, a disciple of the Inner Sect sat cross-legged on it in a white plain robe, and the thick heaven and earth vitality around them flowed into their bodies as if in the sluice. The torrent of spiritual energy that Lin Junxuan saw from the sky at the bottom of the mountain was formed by the convergence of the spiritual qi absorbed and involved by these inner sect disciples. Within three feet of the ground of the entire Fangcun Mountain, the smoke was thick, and the ground could not be seen at all.

Lin Junxuan and the others stepped on the steps, passed through the wing room where the outer disciples lived, and walked towards the inner hall. When a few people passed by, these inner sect disciples turned a blind eye and didn't even open their eyes. Standing here and looking at the spiritual platform, I feel that this spiritual platform hall is magnificent.

The Lingtai Hall occupies almost the entire mountain, the whole hall is made of metal, the temple style of the building, the eaves are high and pecked, there are more than 80 zhang high, nearly 20 floors. Lin Junxuan stood more than a hundred zhang away from the Lingtai Hall and watched from a distance, only to see that there was an old man with a white beard sitting on each of the raised eaves of the Lingtai Palace, these old men sat on it, motionless, the white aura around them was drumming, and wisps of milky white aura pillars shot straight down from the sky and fell on top of their heads. Seeing these white-haired Daoists, Lin Junxuan understood that the pillar of qi that he had seen in the center of the aura torrent in the wing room before was really a convergence of the aura absorbed by these old Daoists.

"Let's go, the head is waiting in the Lingtai Hall. The Inner Sect disciple who led the way urged.

After a while, a group of ten people finally arrived outside the Lingtai Hall, the iron door hole more than ten zhang high and heavy was open, and it was quiet inside, and a majestic and solemn aura came from the main hall......

(To be continued)