Chapter 44: The Past of the Sect
Longhua Mountain, where the Wanhua Immortal Sect is located, is located in the easterly direction of the south of Xuanhe Continent, nearly 2,800 miles northeast of Tianyi Sect. Its mountain is not tall, only because the mountain peaks are continuous like a dragon, and because it produces more Huaye stones, it is named Longhua Mountain.
In fact, the predecessor of Wanhua Immortal Sect was called "Wanhua Sect". More than 9,000 years ago, when the founding patriarch Wanhua Taoist traveled all over the world, he found that there were rich Huaye stone veins here, so he opened a sect here and established Wanhua Sect.
And Huaye Stone is one of the necessary materials for refining the low-level magic weapons and flying swords used by the Yuanying Cultivators, so at the beginning of the establishment of the Wanhua Sect, it was quite wealthy in Xuanhe Continent with the income from this spiritual material resource, and it also made some famous halls, and the scale of the sect also expanded year by year.
And more than 5,000 years ago, his ancestor Wanhua Taoist finally cultivated to the immortal catastrophe after all difficulties, and soon succeeded in crossing the catastrophe and flew to the immortal realm. At that time, the head of the sect was his closed disciple, in order to thank the master and praise his great achievements in ascending to immortals, he changed the name of the sect to Wanhua Xianzong, and built the Wanhua Immortal Palace, and erected the statue of the immortal master of Wanhua Dao, and offered sacrifices with incense.
Because of this Wanhua Taoist people into immortals and soaring, come to Wanhua Immortal Hall to worship incense and pray for blessings once in an endless stream, because of the occasional effect, hundreds of years of incense continuous. The Wanhua Immortal Sect took this opportunity to recruit disciples, and became the first major sect in Xuanhe Continent and the surrounding five continents.
But the good times didn't last long, first more than 4,000 years ago, the Huaye stone veins were mined and exhausted, and the then head had to order the mine to be closed, no longer selling Huaye stone to the outside world, and only opening the mine to mine some when there was a need in the sect. At this time, Wanhua Immortal Sect had lost its source of wealth and was already in decline.
Later, more than 2,000 years ago, I don't know how the people of his sect provoked an old monster of the Demon Dao Loose Cultivator, who stole into the sect to retaliate, and burned down the inheritance hall where the sect stored the Xuanhuang two-order classics, and many of the secret books of exercises, refining weapons, Danfang, and formation diagrams accumulated over thousands of years were all destroyed. This old monster's cultivation is profound, and the elders in the sect can't stop it, and only after slaughtering hundreds of disciples with a ruthless heart, and killing several core elders of the sect to destroy the high-level exercises they kept, did he leave. This man-made disaster can be described as the biggest catastrophe in the thousands of years of the founding sect of the Wanhua Immortal Sect, which directly led to the loss of most of the inheritance that has not been interrupted for thousands of years, and only the exercises practiced by some disciples and elders who were lucky enough to survive have been preserved.
The once powerful and prominent Wanhua Immortal Sect has since plummeted, and most of the remaining disciples have scattered, so that the mountain gate has withered and cold, making the monks of Xuanhe Continent and its nearby continents sigh every time they talk about this sect.
There are also rumors about the reason for the decline of this sect, there are rumors that this is because the Wanhua Dao people have exhausted the luck of this sect before there should be a catastrophe of decline; there are also rumors that the Wanhua Dao people have offended a certain power in the fairy world after their ascension, and in a fit of anger, they sent down the heavens to punish and destroy their foundations, and the old monster of scattered cultivation is just acting on behalf of the sky; and it is also said that the old monster of the Demon Dao scattered cultivator was originally the enemy of the Wanhua Dao people when they were still in the lower realm, and they have been unable to hide because they are not defeated by the Wanhua Dao people, and they will not come to destroy their sect to retaliate until they are about to fly to the demon world...... In short, there are different opinions about the decline of Wanhua Immortal Sect, but they all invariably move closer to the mysterious ascending ancestor of Wanhua Daoren.
For more than a thousand years after that, the Wanhua Immortal Sect relied on a small number of loyal disciples and elders who were still holding on to it, continuing the remaining inheritance, and no longer regained its former majesty.
Until more than 870 years ago, Wanhua Immortal Sect suddenly had a genius born out of thin air, calling himself Yunyangzi, who was the twenty-first generation of the head of the family and passed on the big disciple, who was originally a fire attribute qi cultivator, and later turned to sword cultivation, and with great wisdom, the cultivated fire attribute aura was fused with a nameless sword technique, creating a set of quite powerful "Yunyang Sword Technique".
At that time, in the late Yuan Infant period, he took a mutilated immortal treasure obtained by chance as a bet, and invited the monks of Xuanhe Continent and the surrounding five continents to Wanhua Immortal Sect to participate in the gambling battle.
As soon as the news came out, the monks from several continents were all boiling and rushed to tell each other. You must know that the immortal treasure is a magic weapon used by the immortals in the fairy world, and there are very few that can appear in this world, and most of them are left here from the upper realm for some reason. Although the immortal treasure that Yunyangzi took out was incomplete, it was still quite valuable and of infinite use. After the monk obtains it, he can use it to deduce the method of advanced refining tools, and he can also use it to comprehend the way to become an immortal, and even if the immortal energy contaminated on it has not yet dissipated, it can also be used to resist the punishment of heavenly tribulation and thunder. There are a few other useful things that I won't mention.
This incident caused an uproar in just a few days, and on the day of the gambling fight, many monks gathered in the Wanhua Immortal Sect. There were those who came to see the excitement and feast their eyes, there were also those who wanted to get acquainted with other cultivators, and there were those who took this rare opportunity to come and exchange cultivation resources in their hands. However, it is the mainstream who comes to participate in the gambling battle to win the treasure.
Yun Yangzi dared to open this gambling fight, and used the mutilated immortal treasure as a bet, he has real skills. On that day, he fought a total of ten men and did not lose a single one. On the second day, they won eight more, and on the third day, they won nine...... For twelve days in a row, no one could defeat him, Yunyangzi defeated a total of thirteen monks in the middle of the Yuan Infant, eighty-eight monks in the late Yuan Infant period, and two half-step Divine Soul Realm powerhouses, shocking everyone present.
And Yun Yangzi also won a total of one hundred and three exercises, pills and other things as he wished, and collected them in the inheritance hall.
After that, because of his proud record, no one dared to go on stage to gamble on the thirteenth day, and only one person came to power on the fourteenth day, but it was not his opponent, this person fought with Yunyangzi for a stick of incense and was defeated, and there were few challengers for three consecutive days.
Until the eighteenth day, the sect leader of the Bishui Sect, Qingli Fairy, who had just established the sect at that time, came to challenge, this beautiful sect master was already a half-step Divine Soul Realm at that time, and the water attribute exercises were both rigid and soft, and had been perfected into the realm.
The green glass fairy held a dragon playing in the water, urging the room, but seeing the blue waves surging, the sound of the waves was deafening, and the phantom of the dragon wandered in the meantime, and the power was incomparable.
And Yunyangzi fought with a sword with a blue gold inlaid handle and a red sky iron body, and the sword qi was vertical and horizontal, the red shadow was all over the sky, and the scorching qi was pressing.
The two were evenly matched at the beginning, each holding a magic weapon to occupy half of the ring. really responded to the word "water and fire are incompatible", and between the two of them, water and fire were fierce, and the explosions were constant, and the momentum was terrifying.
The two fought for an hour and still didn't win, and when the Qingli Fairy saw this, she didn't want to continue fighting. After using the secret method to temporarily improve his cultivation, he used a powerful "Dragon Zhenhai" to barely defeat Yunyangzi, and left with the crippled immortal treasure in the envy and awe of everyone.
After this battle, the Qingli Fairy, the sect leader of the Bishui Sect, was named the "Dragon Water Peerless", and the already famous Tianyi Sect's Tianyi Zhenren's "Heavenly Dragon Golden Peerless" was called the "Xuanhe Double Peerless", and the eldest disciple of the Wanhua Immortal Sect, Yun Yangzi, was praised as the "Red Flame Sword Saint". This matter became a good story for a while, and it was talked about by the cultivators of Xuanhezhou.
Although Yunyangzi was finally defeated, his goal had been achieved, and he took advantage of this matter to collect hundreds of martial arts books, Danfang and other things for the sect, enriching the inheritance hall, although it was far less than the eleventh and twelfth under the rule of Wanhua Daoren, but it was more than double the previous one. Since then, the decline of the Wanhua Immortal Sect has gradually taken a turn. And what Tianyi Zhenren mentioned to He Lingfeng before, Wanhua Immortal Sect absorbs hundreds of schools, the exercises are complicated, and the methods practiced by the disciples in the sect are relatively complicated, and it is precisely because of these reasons.
After this incident, more than 100 years later, the then head of Wanhua Immortal Sect retired, and his eldest disciple Yun Yangzi lived up to expectations and was elected as the twenty-second generation head.