Volume 1 The Elephant of Heaven and Earth Chapter 29 The Mission of the Sect
Several days have passed, and there is still no news of the summons of the four ancestors. Since he was always waiting for a summons, he couldn't concentrate on cultivation in retreat, and he had nothing to do, and Liang Cheng was not a particularly quiet person, so he couldn't help but feel bored after routine cultivation every day, and wanted to go to Shi Meng, that guy had been practicing the Thousand Illusions Dafa recently, so it was inconvenient to disturb. Ah Shen was recuperating again, and it was also not easy to disturb, so Liang Cheng simply walked out of Penglai Pavilion, wandered around the island, and enjoyed the beautiful scenery on the island.
The Yunyin Sect has always been dominant overseas, and no enemy dares to take the initiative to provoke it, so after a long period of peace, the door rules are very relaxed. In addition to the heavily guarded island of Anpo Island, which serves as the gateway to entry and exit, the four overseas islands are very relaxed. The disciples of the Qi training period on the island are also very free after completing the miscellaneous errands they have specified, except for a few important sects, there are not too many restrictions on coming and going on the island.
The disciples above the foundation building period will no longer bear the miscellaneous work of the sect, and can receive the spirit stones provided by the sect every year, and correspondingly have to accept the sect's tasks regularly, or go out of the island in a group to collect elixirs, demon beasts, collect intelligence, or take turns to garrison Anpu Island for defense. Other than that, most of the time you can concentrate on cultivation. If you need to go out for training, you only need to apply to the elders of the local area for permission to travel. If you want to return to the mainland, you need to use the sect's teleportation array, and you need to pay the required spirit stones yourself.
So Liang Cheng wandered around the island, and no one interfered to restrict him. Although during the stroll, Liang Cheng also met the other three disciples who won the rankings in the newcomer battle during the Qi training period, but due to the different realms of cultivation, according to the rules of the sect, the three of them called their uncle to salute as soon as they saw Liang Cheng, which seemed very restrained, and Liang Cheng also felt very boring, and the idea of playing together was dispelled.
Liang Cheng had to walk around the island alone, and on this day he came to the beach, looking at the endless sea, and when he was out of his mind, he suddenly saw a fellow door in the late stage of foundation building walking towards him. I saw the man come to his side and ask, "You are the new Senior Brother Liang, right?"
"Exactly, dare to ask the senior brother's surname, what is the noble thing to do with the junior brother?" Liang Cheng was a little puzzled, and replied with a salute.
"Hehe, my name is Zhao Desheng, and I am a disciple of His Excellency Tianxin. The person who came said with a smile: "Senior Brother Liang, the strength you showed in this competition is outstanding, the three ancestors will definitely be kind to you, a few years later, this sect has a task to select core disciples to complete, you will definitely become one of the candidates of the three ancestors, when the time comes, we will form a team, we can take care of each other, so I will get to know you first." β
"I see. The doubts in Liang Cheng's heart were also relieved, so he said: "Thanks to Senior Brother Zhao, if it is really as Senior Brother said, the younger brother will advance and retreat with Senior Brother." It's just that the younger brother's cultivation is shallow, so he may not have this qualification. β
"Hehe, there must be, there must be qualifications. Foolish brothers' other skills are commonplace, but there are still some confident eyes. Zhao Desheng said with a smile: "Now that my junior brother knows about this, please don't let this news reach the ears of others, otherwise it will be a little inconvenient, so I won't bother." After saying that, he arched his hand and turned to leave.
Liang Cheng pondered for a while, a little curious about this sect's task, thinking that if he really assigned himself to participate in the mission, whether he would accept it or not. After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't help but laugh dumbly, this task is a few years later, why should I bother with this leisure now, I might as well agree to it first, and then I will act when the opportunity comes.
After a few more days, the four ancestors finally got together, so they summoned Liang Cheng and the other four. This was the first time Liang Cheng had seen Monk Jiedan, and the unique coercion of Brother Jiedan made Liang Cheng a little uneasy, and the other three were even worse, so they fell directly to the ground. Liang Cheng muttered in his heart, and communicated with Shi Meng in his divine sense: "Shi Meng, it is said that you are a shape-shifting demon beast, equivalent to a monk of the Formation Dan, just as powerful, how can I not be nervous when I see you, but a few ancestors give me a lot of pressure?"
Shi Meng said with a smile: "Your little ancestors are deliberately testing you, so they release spiritual pressure, this young master has always been highly respected, and he pays attention to convincing people with virtue, and disdains to test you little monks, otherwise don't talk about you, even your four little ancestors will be scared half to death." After listening to Shi Meng's coaxing explanation, Liang Cheng was skeptical.
Sure enough, several ancestors praised Liang Cheng, and the three ancestors were even more fond of Liang Cheng, not only personally guiding Liang Cheng for a period of time, but also giving Liang Cheng several high-level magic weapons and many solid foundation cultivation pills, which benefited Liang Cheng a lot.
It didn't take long for the Third Ancestor Wuchen to appoint Liang Cheng to participate in the sect's mission a few years later, and Liang Cheng didn't dare to disobey, so he had to agree. Seeing that Liang Cheng was willing to participate in the mission, Wuchen was very pleased, and sent someone to arrange for Liang Cheng to build a cave in the hinterland of Yunyin Island in the place where the spiritual energy of the Yuxiao Mountain Range was thick, and instructed Liang Cheng to work hard to cultivate, improve his strength as soon as possible, and prepare for the task in a few years.
In the Yunyin Sect, disciples in the foundation building period can open their own cave mansions. It's just that in this Jade Xiao Mountain, the aura is excellent, and ordinary disciples are not qualified to come, so those in this area are all core disciples in the sect. Liang Cheng was able to open a government in Yuxiao Mountain, and he was envious of many of his fellow disciples during the foundation building period, but envy was envy, but there was nothing to say, who called Liang Cheng with excellent qualifications, he was a young talent with a heavenly spirit root and a promising future, and the hope of the sect.
At this point, Liang Cheng finally has his own independent residence, and he can receive three or four hundred spirit stones and various pills needed for cultivation from the sect every year, but he doesn't have to go out to perform sect tasks, and the only task given to him by Wuchen is to improve his strength as soon as possible.
In order to cope with the task in a few years, Liang Cheng and Shi Meng discussed and weighed it, and decided that in the next three years, Liang Cheng would use the Heavenly Craftsmanship Bead to cultivate the Heavenly Dragon Hundred Array Diagram first, because whether it was to explore the secret realm or fight against the enemy, it would be a big advantage to be proficient in the art of formation, and in case of accidents, being proficient in formation may be the only way to save his life.
After explaining all the matters in the cave to Ah Shen, Liang Cheng came to the spiritual spring, adjusted his state, took out the heavenly art beads, invaded the divine consciousness into the beads, and immediately felt that he had come to a mysterious space. The space is vast, surrounded by some esoteric and simple golden mysterious runes on all sides, and time seems to stand still in the ambilight. Liang Cheng sat down cross-legged here, and concentrated on practicing and studying the formation techniques recorded in the jade slips of the Heavenly Dragon Hundred Arrays. In this bead, Liang Cheng also found several mysterious areas that could not be entered, guessing that this may be a place that can only be entered after further progress in cultivation in the future, maybe in the future, this Tiangong Art Bead will have other effects in addition to increasing the cultivation time, Liang Cheng is extremely looking forward to this.
Since then, Liang Cheng has penetrated his divine consciousness into the Tiangong beads every morning to practice the formation technique, and his body breathes and exhales beside the spiritual spring, and at night, it will automatically be transmitted out of the beads and return to the body. At this time, the consciousness has felt that half a year has passed, and the physical feeling is only the past half a day, the two feelings are intertwined, at first Liang Cheng is very uncomfortable, often has a sense of time disorder, and then slowly adapts to it after a long time, this Tiangong art bead has such a benefit, as long as the adaptation, the skill ability to practice in the bead will be completely retained, and the memory of the complicated and boring cultivation process will fade away, otherwise the consciousness stays in the bead for a day and night but increases the complex memory of a year, and after coming out, the heart and emotions are all wrong, this feeling will really crush people for a long timeγ
After the divine consciousness returned to the body in the evening, Liang Cheng had to practice his own exercises for a period of time, or go out and walk around at will, or chat with Shi Meng or Ah Shen for a few words, every day, Liang Cheng was indifferent to fame and fortune by nature, and he did not feel bitter at all, but was willing to enjoy this kind of cultivation career.
There is no nail in the mountains, and the cold does not know the year. Three years have passed, Liang Cheng's cultivation has also been promoted to the middle stage of foundation building, and the cultivation of formation techniques has been equivalent to more than five hundred years of skill, and he is already a formation mage with extraordinary knowledge, because he often has to focus on the details of the formation runes, the tempering of his divine consciousness is also extraordinary, and unconsciously, Liang Cheng's divine sense has also been cultivated extremely strong.
At the same time, three years have also made Liang Cheng grow from a somewhat thin teenager to a tall and burly young man, although Liang Cheng is only eighteen years old, but he is tall, muscular, and his face is relatively old, he looks like a man in his early twenties, and he is becoming more and more fatherly. Seeing that in a few years, I am afraid that the beard will grow. Shi Meng quit, saying that Liang Cheng is getting more and more old-fashioned, and if the two continue like this, they will not be like brothers but like father and son, which is really unpleasant, so he grinds and hardens, and Liang Cheng has to take a Zhuyan Dan, Liang Cheng has no choice but to take a Zhuyan Dan, so his appearance will always stay at the age of eighteen, because Liang Cheng is relatively old, so he looks like he is in his early twenties.
During this time, Shi Meng's Thousand Illusions Dafa also achieved some success. He was very happy, and told Liang Cheng very mysteriously that if he encountered a strong enemy that was difficult to deal with, he only needed to sacrifice the magic weapon of the painting shaft, and he could cast a set of wonderful illusions to ensure that Liang Cheng was surprised.
It's just that Liang Cheng's formation cultivation is in trouble, due to the lack of formation materials and tools, all kinds of subtle formations cannot be practiced, and the entire cultivation process has to be stopped. Liang Cheng had no choice but to temporarily change to practicing alchemy, while planning to go out and walk around, find a suitable market, and buy the materials he needed.
Because of the plan to go out, Liang Cheng changed his state of closed-door penance, and often walked around the cave, visited nearby Tongmen, and inquired about the news of Fang City. At this time, I found out that Senior Brother Zhao Desheng, who had a relationship with each other at the beach, originally lived not far away, so he decided to find an opportunity to visit and inquire about the news.