039, Pilgrimage to the Immortal City (I)
What Fan Bo wanted to talk to Huwa about was to ask him to represent Cuizhen Village to participate in this year's "Immortal City Pilgrimage". It is said that after the autumn harvest every year, all the villages and tribes of the Baiyi clan will select the best young talent to escort the materials for worship of Chiwangqiu to the "Immortal City".
Outsiders who are not members of the white-fronted clan, no matter how noble their status is, are not eligible to participate.
The so-called fairy city is said to be the outline of the city where the immortal family lives, but what exactly is going on, the rumors are unknown, because the vast majority of people do not have this opportunity at all. Each village can only send one person per year, and in recent years, Cuizhen Village has sent Hongyuan. And the other person before Hongyuan has now left Cuizhen Village, and the house he left behind is the courtyard where the tiger baby lives.
As for why Chiwangqiu organized a pilgrimage to the fairy city, people have different opinions. Some people say that it is to escort the supplies offered to Chiwangqiu, so each village sends the strongest people who are not more than thirty years old. In addition to the Immortal Valley, the materials they transported also included all kinds of other things needed by Chiwangqiu, including the offerings of various cities, tribes, and even the Fan Country, such a large number of goods of course needed to be well guarded.
But this explanation is obviously not quite right, who dares to rob the materials offered to Chiwangqiu, no matter which way the bandits do not have the courage. Besides, even if you need someone to protect you, how can you rely on these ordinary people?
Another explanation may be closer to the truth, because of the abundance of goods transported, the long journey, and the many desolate and precipitous places to pass. Rough tasks such as driving cars, feeding horses, and loading and unloading must not be done by the immortals on Chiwang Hill, so they need to be served by ordinary clansmen who are physically strong.
Being able to serve the immortals on Chiwang Hill is also a great honor for the people of the white-fronted clan, and going to the immortal city for pilgrimage is a rare experience in a lifetime. If he is favored by a certain immortal family in Chiwang Hill and can be accepted as a successor, it is even more difficult to dream.
As for where the fairy city is and what it looks like, of course, people who have not been there can't tell clearly, and those who have been there often don't say much in order to maintain a certain sense of sacredness and mystery. Fan Bo, the patriarch of Cuizhen, once made many pilgrimages to Xiancheng on behalf of Cuizhen Village, from the age of eighteen or nine to the age of nearly thirty, he was every year.
The pilgrimage to Xiancheng is a rare honor, and each village can only send one person per year, but for all the villagers, not everyone wants to go and can go. According to rumors over the years, the road to Xiancheng is difficult and long, and it is very difficult to transport goods for a long time, and some people may not be able to come back. Therefore, Chiwangqiu demanded that each village and tribe should select the most healthy young people.
Fan Bo privately introduced the real inside story of the so-called Xiancheng pilgrimage to Huwa. Many people's guesses are correct, Chiwangqiu does need strong labor to transport the supplies from various places to the designated place. However, after everyone arrived at the Immortal City, Chiwangqiu would send a master to hold a ceremony to guide them into the cultivation path.
And this kind of ritual, even many participants don't know the subtlety, only that they are listening to the teachings of the immortals.
Since ancient times, Chiwangqiu has been a way to select successors from among the white-fronted clansmen, so that each village and tribe can send the best young talents to them and bestow them on immortals. However, whether or not you can truly successfully enter the initial realm and be able to cultivate depends on each person's qualifications, understanding, and fate.
For example, Hongyuan has been there three times in a row, but he has not been able to become a Beginner Realm monk and worship under the Chiwangqiu Sect. And Fan Bo was even more exaggerated when he was young, he went there eleven times in a row, and the last time he was lucky enough to enter the cultivation path. However, his cultivation potential in this life is really limited, and he has no hope of having too high cultivation achievements.
When Fan Bo introduced the Immortal City pilgrimage to Huwa, he talked about his past, and inadvertently mentioned the name of the master who guided him to the immortal fate back then. This person's name is Sam Yu, and he is not one of the five elders of Chiwangqiu today, but Bai Sha's senior brother. He had been cultivating in the mountains for a long time, but his dedication to Qing cultivation was not known to outsiders, and even many of today's Chiwangqiu disciples had not heard of it.
If you talk about the order of the sect, Bai Sha is actually the elder of the five elders of Chiwangqiu today, and Xingsha and the five elders of Chiwangqiu are the same generation in terms of inheritance. Sam Xiao also has a very good personal disciple, that is, Xuansha. As for Shen Xiao's own cultivation, he had already completed the consummation of the Seven Realms and Nine Transformations back then, and he was even just one step away from breaking through to the Transformation Realm.
Fan Bo seemed to mention it intentionally or unintentionally, perhaps because of the secret method cultivated by the master of Chiwangqiu, the divine power after breaking through the transformation realm was too powerful, so in the process of breaking through from the seventh realm to the eighth realm, the test experienced was extremely difficult to overcome. Shen Yu had been plagued by this for many years, but Bai Sha had broken through the transformation realm cultivation before him.
As for what is going on from the initial realm to the transformation realm, Fan Bo also made a brief introduction to the tiger baby, this patriarch himself is not high in cultivation, but his knowledge is not shallow. Huwa originally thought that Xuansha was the same as Xingsha, and he was also a disciple of Baisha, but there was no clear introduction to this master's mentorship even in the information collected by Shaowu. Unexpectedly, today I heard here in Fan Bo that it turned out that there was another person in the master of Xuansha.
Shortly after Shen Liao's personal disciple Xuan Sha cultivated to the great success, Shen Xiao died in retreat, perhaps because his longevity was exhausted, or perhaps because he had not yet achieved the calamity. In short, such a master, who is now unknown in Ba Yuan, and the hardships of stepping through the path to heaven can be seen.
Introducing this, Fan Bo could not hide his sadness, sighed as if he came back to his senses, and said to the tiger baby: "When I am old, I will inevitably feel a little nostalgic, and I feel that I have said so much about the past. It's not something you and I can talk about about in the Chiwang Hill, so don't tell others. ”
Huwa hurriedly nodded and said, "Of course I know this, and I won't talk to anyone about the affairs of the fairy family." …… However, this pilgrimage to the Immortal City is an opportunity for the people of the Bai-Forehead Clan to enter the initial realm and be able to cultivate, and I am just a foreigner living here, why would you send me?"
Fan Bo patted Huwa's shoulder and said, "Huwa, because I'm optimistic about you!" and then said with a sad look on his face, "Do you know that every year every village must send one person, and the reason why I went so many times back then was because there was no more suitable person to send. I participated in the Asgard pilgrimage, and the journey was indeed too difficult for my body to resist.
If you look at the villagers of Cuizhen Village today, who among the young people can compare to you? You have spent a winter alone in the mountains and wilderness! If you go on behalf of Cuizhen Village this time, even if you don't get the fairy fate, you can return unharmed. If it were someone else, who else would be more suitable? In the past few years, Hongyuan went on behalf of Cuizhen Village, and you made him angry and left, if you don't go, who else can I find?"
How can it be said that the tiger baby made Hongyuan angry and left? But listening to Fan Bo's tone, it is clear that he is relying on the tiger baby. Huwa smiled bitterly: "I mean - I'm not from the white-fronted clan, doesn't it matter?"
Fan Bo suddenly approached, and lowered his voice with a somewhat mysterious expression: "Normally, this is not okay, but now, you are no longer an outsider, as long as I send you there." And today's Chiwangqiu, the descendants have long been all over Bayuan, and they are no longer limited to the people of the Baiyi clan, what does it matter if you go?...... This is a good opportunity, Huwa, I want to ask you - do you like Miss Ah Yuan?"
Looking at Fan Bo's expression, Hu Wa always had a feeling that this elder was calculating himself, but this calculation should not be malicious, he, a monk of the Second Realm, it was indeed difficult for him to play any tricks in front of the masters of the Seven Realms, and Hu Wa had his own magical means, and he could perceive the true feelings in his Fan Bo's heart.
But Fan Bo's last sentence really stunned the tiger baby, his face couldn't help but turn red, and after a while he bowed his head and replied: "Of course I like it, but ......"
Huwa had to tell the truth, but there were still many situations that he couldn't explain to Fan Bo, and he didn't know what to say next. And Fan Bo didn't give him a chance to continue, he patted the tiger baby on the shoulder and took the initiative: "That's right, I can also see that Miss Ayuan treats you differently from others."
Do you think anyone can make her cook every day?
That's why I'm going to give you a chance to get the fairy fate, if you can really be so lucky, then the matter between you and Miss Ah Yuan will be more complete. You are not a monk now, there are many mysteries that I don't know, and there are some things I can't explain to you. In short, Miss Ayuan looks at you differently, your immortal fate will not be simple, and you may have the opportunity to break through Dacheng cultivation in the future. ”
Huwa was confused when she heard this: "Fan Bo, what do you mean by this? Whether you like Miss Ayuan or not, does it have anything to do with whether you have a fairy fate or not?"
Fan Bo: "Like is like, it has nothing to do with other things, but no matter what you want to do, you have to have the ability after all, right......? Okay, that's it for you to go on a pilgrimage to Xiancheng, so it's decided! I just told you about the situation, and Ah Yuan also knows, you can ask her again. ”
After speaking, without waiting for Huwa to refute or excuse himself, Fan Bo turned around and left. Huwa sat alone in the house and was stunned for a long time, never expecting that she could get such an opportunity. Originally, he planned to follow the team transporting the Immortal Valley to investigate Chiwangqiu, so he had to find an excuse to leave Cuizhen Village, but he didn't expect that there was a better opportunity at this moment, and Fan Bo actually took the initiative to send him to transport those Immortal Valleys.
Does Huwa want to go? Of course, this is an opportunity to come to the door! So he didn't refuse Fan Bo, it seems that the original plan has changed, and there is no need to be as anxious as before. Fan Bo only thinks that he is an ordinary person with no cultivation, so some words are so mysterious and mysterious, and the tiger baby can understand it.
Fan Bo broke the tiger baby's thoughts about Ah Yuan, which made the tiger baby very embarrassed. But as long as there are people in the village, they should be able to see that the relationship between Huwa and Ayuan is very close now, but Huwa and Ayuan are half human, and they don't show anything to each other. In fact, Huwa didn't know that if it wasn't for Miss Ayuan treating him like that, Fan Bo would never say those words to him and send him to participate in the pilgrimage to the fairy city. R1152