Volume 1 Mortal Dust Chapter 1 Qinling Cloud Gate
Time: 9,990 years of the Tianyuan calendar.
Location: Tianyuan Continent, the vast land of Shenzhou, the western corner of the Central Plains, and the depths of the Qinling Mountains.
"You are all the rising teenagers of our Cloud Gate, that is, the future of our Cloud Gate, according to the rules handed down by our ancestors for hundreds of years, from today to the next seven days is our Cloud Gate five-year grand event - the Athletic Competition.
"All teenagers between the ages of 12 and 20 in our sect can participate in the competition, and the order of the competition is determined by lot, and then the competition is divided into groups in order. From today until the morning of the sixth day, the top four will be decided, the sixth day afternoon will be divided into two groups to determine the final two, and the final strong will be determined on the seventh day.
"The first prize in this competition is a 300-year-old snow ginseng and a Xuantie treasure soldier, the second place is a 200-year-old snow ginseng, and the remaining two top four are rewarded with a 100-year-old snow ginseng. ”
The man on the high platform stood with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, standing tall, wearing a moon-white robe fluttering slightly with the mountain wind, and said sonorously and forcefully. After speaking, he looked around and smiled silently.
Near the high platform, there were about 100 teenagers standing densely, the youngest of whom looked to be only ten years old, and the oldest was in his twenties. Hearing the words of the moon-white man in the long robe on the high platform, all the teenagers suddenly geared up and looked eager to try. However, even so, not a single teenager spoke loudly or talked in private.
There were rows of tables and chairs more than ten zhang away from the high platform, dozens of people sitting in order, and hundreds of people standing behind them. Among them, there were nine people sitting at the front of the first row of tables and chairs, the youngest looked no less than thirty or forty years old, the oldest was already with a white beard, and sitting in the middle was a middle-aged man in a dark blue robe who looked to be less than fifty years old. Looking at the high platform in front of him and the young people under the high platform, the middle-aged man in the blue robe nodded slightly, and looked at and smiled at the six men, two women and eight people on the left and right, seemingly quite satisfied.
The moon-white man in the long robe on the high platform paused slightly, and then continued: "The martial arts competition can be said to be an important event for the selection of our rising stars in the Cloud Gate, but after all, it is a competition between the same sects, I hope you will stop and try to avoid casualties." These events have been circulating in our door for a long time, and they have been announced a few days in advance, so I will not repeat the specific relevant rules here. Next, please come to the stage!"
After finishing speaking, his figure leaned slightly, and the whole person seemed to move with the wind, and moved back a distance of one or two zhang lightly.
Immediately afterwards, he did not look back, but tapped the edge of the high platform with his toes, and then jumped over a distance of three zhang, and landed accurately on a circular stone pillar with a diameter of no more than a foot and a half three zhang behind the high platform.
The middle-aged man in the blue robe raised his eyes slightly, and glanced at the man in the moon white robe who had inadvertently shown such extraordinary skills, and seemed to be very satisfied.
Then, he slowly stood up, the sleeves of his robe moved slightly, and before he saw how he moved, the whole person had already floated up, as if turning into a cloud of blue clouds, and crossed a distance of more than ten zhang to the sky above the high platform.
In mid-air, the middle-aged man in the blue robe just flicked his sleeves slightly, and then turned around in the air, facing under the high platform, and then landed lightly on the high platform.
Impartially, it stood exactly three feet behind the front edge of the high platform, right in the middle, where the man in the moon-white robe was standing.
In fact, this is where the "Heaven and Earth Qiankun Altar" of Qinling Cloud Gate is located.
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About 500 years ago, Yun Zizai, the founder of the Qinling Cloud Gate, moved his family to the depths of the Qinling Mountains and single-handedly created the Cloud Gate. In the past few decades, it has been famous all over the world, and Qinling Cloud Gate has also become famous.
Four hundred years ago, after nine years of retreat, Yun Zizi finally stepped into the realm of "the unity of heaven and man". Before flying away, he set the rule of "Athletic Martial Arts Competition" that every five years to cultivate and select rising stars for Cloud Gate, and then he drifted away.
From that year onwards, every five years, the Qinling Cloud Gate would hold a grand martial arts competition on the day when the ancestor Yunzi flew away. And before the start of each big competition, the first thing will be held in this Yunzi personally built Heaven and Earth Qiankun Altar as a commemoration.
I think that at the beginning, Yun Zizi entered the micro realm from the beginning of the martial arts realm at the age of twenty, reached the middle stage of the micro realm at the age of thirty, entered the late stage of the micro realm at the age of forty, and reached the consummation of the micro realm at the age of sixty. Then, forty years have passed, but it has always been difficult for him to glimpse the supreme realm of "the unity of heaven and man".
As a result, Yun Zizai stepped down as the master of the Cloud Gate and traveled all over the world, devoting himself to exploring the mysteries of martial arts. Finally, ten years later, he returned from wandering, spent more than half a year carefully preparing everything, and then personally spent 9981 days to build this "Heaven and Earth Qiankun Altar".
The Heaven and Earth Qiankun Altar is located in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, where the cloud gate is located in the north.
The whole altar is three feet high, and it is all made of white marble. In the center of the altar is a high platform with a length, width and height of two zhang, and the whole body is made of micz stone. The east and west of the high platform are south and north on all sides, three zhang away, each has a stone pillar with a diameter of one foot and a half thick of two zhang high, and all of them are made of the whole body of micz stone. The high platform is on all sides, no more, no less, just thirty-six zhang away from the edge of the round altar. It is for the "round sky", which is in line with the general trend of heaven and earth.
Around the whole round altar, pine and cypress stand around it. The east half is 54 pine trees, and the west half is 54 cypress trees, which is in harmony with the yin and yang qi. A total of one hundred and eight pines and cypresses, echoing with the heavens and the earth. It is for the "Yin and Yang Qiankun", which induces the principle of yin and yang of heaven and earth.
The Heaven and Earth Qiankun Altar has been completed, and the clouds are comfortable and convenient for retreat and cultivation in the altar and comprehend the way of heaven. After nine years, he finally understood the mystery at the right time of the day, broke through the entrance, and reached the highest realm of "unity of heaven and man" in martial arts.
According to the "Tianyuan Rule", after reaching the realm of "the unity of heaven and man", you need to fly away and go to the world. Yun Zizi knew that he was about to completely leave the huge Qinling Cloud Gate that he had created, and he felt the experience of the past hundred years, so he summoned all the people of Cloud Gate to gather in this heaven and earth Qiankun Altar.
As the patriarch and first master of the Cloud Gate, Yun Zizai made a rule after discussing with the current master and elders: every five years, a competition must be held to supervise the future generations of the sect, and it can also be used as a grand event to select the rising stars of the Cloud Gate as a reward.
Then, the clouds floated freely in the sky and flew away.
And the first martial arts competition was held on the day when Yunmen Patriarch Yun Zizi flew away. Moreover, every five years in the future, a martial arts competition will be held inside the Cloud Gate on the day when Yun Zizi fled, which has continued to this day.
Of course, since it is to supervise the successors in the examination, and it is to select the rising stars to show their rewards, there must be a limit on the age of those who participate in the martial arts competition.
From the first competition of Wuda than Yunmen, there were only seven or eight hundred people in the door, and now there are thousands of people, most of the children in the later generations began to learn martial arts from an early age, and those who are talented and intelligent start at the age of three or four, and those who are slightly inferior start at the age of five or six, and the latest are also from the age of seven or eight to start practicing martial arts.
Therefore, the age of participation in the competition is set between 12 and 20 years old.
Taking the age of twelve as the lower limit, it is because most of the younger generations at this time have been practicing martial arts for a long time, and they are quite rooted, and the age at this time is not too young, so it can be regarded as a big experience.
The upper limit of twenty years old is because at the age of twenty you have become a complete adult, and the future of martial arts in the future can basically be deduced from this.
From the first martial arts competition, there were only less than 20 junior disciples who participated, to today, there are no less than 100 teenagers who participate, which also shows the growing strength of Qinling Cloud Gate.
Although hundreds of years have passed since the ancestor Yun Zizi fled, and no second person in the Qinling Cloud Gate has been able to reach the realm of "the unity of heaven and man", but the masters of the subtle realm have emerged in an endless stream, and the number of people in the sect has also increased from a few seven or eight hundred hundreds of years ago to thousands today. It is because the Qinling Cloud Gate is not the slightest weaker with the clouds flying away, but is really getting stronger and stronger.
Yun Yuyu, the master of the contemporary Cloud Gate Gate, has reached the earthly pinnacle realm of perfection more than ten years ago, and although he is now nearly a hundred years old, he looks only forty or fifty years old from the outside.
There are also the eight elders of Cloud Gate, each of whom is a super master in the middle and even late stages of the Micro Realm, and Yun Yuyu, the master of the sect, is the mainstay of Cloud Gate.
Among the youngest generation, the man in the moon-white robe who presided over the martial arts ceremony, named Yun Yitian, was the winner of the martial arts competition five years ago. At that time, at the age of nineteen, he had already reached the consummation of the first realm of martial arts.
After returning from the laurels, Yun Yitian was personally accepted by Yun Yuyu as a closed disciple, and he tried his best to guide his cultivation, and then after one year of intensive cultivation, he took the reward he received from winning the next year before Dabi - a three-hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum. After that, he retreated and cultivated, and finally succeeded in breaking through to the subtle realm.
Now, after several years of hard cultivation, although Yun Tiantian's cultivation is still inferior to that of the Eight Great Elders, in the entire Cloud Gate, except for the sect master and elders, I am afraid that there are very few who can defeat him.
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On the high platform, Yun Yuyu, the master of the Cloud Gate Gate, stood tall, wearing a blue robe that moved with the wind, smiled slightly, and raised his voice: "Qinling Cloud Gate, blessed by the heavens, inherited by the ancestors, has been established for five hundred years so far.
"Four hundred years ago today, the ancestor of the self-contained enlightenment of the way of heaven, drifting away, set up a rule when he left, in order to avoid the pearl abandoned, every five years there must be a competition and martial arts competition.
"Since 400 years ago, this is the eighty-first edition. A total of 108 people participated in the competition, and the grouping will be decided by drawing lots later.
"Now, in the name of the twelfth master of the Cloud Gate, I announce that this tournament martial arts competition has officially begun!"
"Boom!"
At the moment when Yun Yuyu announced the start, the two big drums standing on both sides of the high platform were beaten together.
"Boom!" A second sound sounded.
"Boom!" a third voice sounded.
Just as the third drum sounded, the four people on the four stone pillars on the four sides of the high platform threw the red silk with colored balls on their heads that had been prepared in their hands towards the high platform.
At the same time, Yun Yuyu's figure flickered, and he had already come to the center of the high platform.
"Boom!" the fourth drum sounded!
Yun Yuyu's figure rose in response!
The four colored balls are finally about to meet three feet above the high platform!
"Boom!" followed the fifth drum beat!
The four colored balls finally collided, and the colorful paper flowers came out colorfully!
"Boom!" the sixth drum beat faster!
Yun Yuyu waved the sleeve of his robe in his left hand, passing through the colorful paper flowers that were coming out!
"Boom!" the seventh drum sounded!
Yun Yuyu's right hand robe sleeve was rolled, and four strips of red silk went up with the sleeve!
"Boom!" the eighth drum sounded!
Colorful paper flowers flew all over the sky, Yun Yuyu continued to rise in the colorful sky, and the four red silks flew into the sky first with the sleeves of his robe rolled up!
"Boom!" the ninth drum sounded!
Yun Yuyu's robe sleeves swelled, and the four red silks that were like dragons flying into the sky were cracked one after another, and in the next tighter and tighter drumming sound, they also turned into colorful flowers in the sky like colorful paper flowers!
“...... Knock! knock! knock...... Knock - "The last eighteenth drum sounded and fell!"
The young people in front of the high platform all looked up and watched.
I saw Yun Yuyu in the air more than 20 zhang high on the high platform, a dark blue robe fluttering in the wind, through the red silk and colorful paper flowers flying in the sky, looking up, it seemed that he wanted to fly away by the wind.
Martial arts celestials, it's just like that-
At this moment, not only the hundreds of teenagers, but even the dozens of people sitting more than a dozen feet away, as well as the many people in the Cloud Gate behind them, couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.
"Can I become such a martial arts celestial in my life?" At this moment, in the slightly back position of the teenagers in front of the high platform, the brilliance in the eyes of a delicate white-clothed young man gradually changed from longing to confusion, and he silently said melancholy in his heart.