Chapter 117: The First Immortal Ascension Conference
As the news of the Immortal Ascension Conference in Star City spread more and more widely, people who were interested in becoming monks within a radius of thousands of miles rushed to Star City, and by the time there were still ten days before the conference was held, Star City had already settled five times as many people as the residents of Star City.
As the number of people increases, day-to-day management becomes more difficult, and the managers, who are more than enough, are also overstretched. But fortunately, the people who came to Star City still had a great sense of awe for the monks, and they didn't make too many contradictions, and the conflicts were limited to small disputes between three or five people, and there was no feeling of making a big deal at all. Thanks to the notices posted by the Sanqing Palace, anyone who dares to make trouble here will be imprisoned for seven days or deprived of qualifications and expelled from the island.
The people who came were all ambitious people who wanted to become monks, and naturally they didn't want to conflict with others because of a small matter. However, Hao Tong naturally knew that there would definitely be people with bad intentions, relying on the notice of the Sanqing Palace, he would bully others in private, so that others would not dare to fight back because of the deterrence of the Sanqing Palace, so he also increased the intensity of the inspection to ensure that the first Immortal Ascension Conference in Star City would not leave any flaws.
As more and more people sign up, there are many problems that everyone in Sanqing Palace has not thought of, such as Zhao Xiaoyang, who has to take care of his parents because he is old and unable to live on his own, even if he intends to join Sanqing Palace, he has no way to get out. Fortunately, yesterday evening, a person came from Fangcun Mountain, and it was Luo Nan, who had not been seen for a long time. He came on Qin Guan's woodcarved boat, and he didn't rest for half a moment along the way, but fortunately, the woodcarved boat was debugged, and the speed increased by two or three times, and he rushed to the Star City in more than a month.
He brought the newly made teleportation array disk sent by the Sanqing Palace, which was much more cumbersome than the mobile teleportation array originally researched by Dong Xiuzhu and Liao Xingcheng, but the effective teleportation distance was much farther, which could reach 100,000 li. On the way Luo Nan came, he sent four people of the first rank to arrange eight arrays along the road, each guarding two arrays, which allowed Shen Da's newly recruited disciples in Star City to reach Fangcun Mountain more quickly through the teleportation array. However, all this is still carried out in secret, and I am afraid that if the news leaks out, some unscrupulous people rely on this teleportation array to enter Fangcun Mountain to make trouble.
After receiving the support from the Sanqing Palace, Shen Da also had the confidence, let go of his hands and feet, and announced to the outside world that he could bring his relatives to the Sanqing Palace together, but only for the immediate family, and the kind that wanted to take a large family with him needed to be carefully examined.
When Zhao Xiaoyang got the news, his heart also relaxed, originally he was ready to give up this opportunity and concentrate on serving his elderly mother at home, but he didn't expect such a turnaround, so that he could not only enter the Sanqing Palace, but also serve his mother nearby, killing two birds with one stone, which can be regarded as solving his worries.
However, Sanqing Palace also said that this does not mean that family members can live in the mountain gate of Sanqing Palace, these people still live outside the mountain gate, and are not with the monks, after all, the monks need to practice weekdays, and earthly things are disturbing and interfering with the monks' practice. However, this has also been able to put aside some of the concerns of many people who have elderly parents and even young children at home. Not to mention anything else, even if it is closer to the Sanqing Palace, the benefits that these ordinary people can usually get are countless, and maybe their own heirs will be able to easily enter the Sanqing Palace in the future, after all, the buildings near the water will get the moon first.
Luo Nan not only brought such a sharp weapon as the teleportation array, but also brought a piece of bad news that was expected - the Chongxu Sect and the Lingying Sect had completely started a war, and many sects in the hinterland of the North Sea had begun to choose sides, and the attacks on each other had intensified, and even affected the lives of ordinary people.
He Lianjun frowned a little and said, "Brother Luo, why did these sects start a war so easily? It is said that these large sects, with tens of thousands of disciples, shout and kill at every turn, it is not in their interests!"
Luo Nan sighed lightly and said: "The palace master also thinks so, but this matter is so unpredictable, the Lingying Sect may have been instructed by the Lingyin Building, and they don't care about the life or death of the disciples of the sect at all, they just want to beat the Chongxu Gate down in one go." And the Lie Imperial Hall failed to reconcile from the middle, and also withdrew from the conflict between the two, and watched from the wall. However, the palace master speculated that it was estimated that it would not be long before this imperial hall could not be left alone, and there was gossip that Bishan and the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons were also ready to move, secretly harmonizing together, and I don't know when it would be time to give a surprise attack to the Terran sect. ”
Shen Da's face was not good-looking, and he said, "We can't talk about stepping up the progress this time." If we still follow the previous idea and make this Immortal Ascension Conference so long, maybe on the way back, we will encounter war. ”
Luo Nan nodded and said, "That's exactly the case, that's why the palace master ordered me to come and arrange the teleportation array for you, just because I am afraid that when you return, you will bring so many people and it will be difficult to deal with it." ”
In fact, Qin Guan still has one thing that he didn't say clearly, that is, he wants to bring back a lot of people this time, and it is one thing to enrich the strength of the Sanqing Palace, and he also wants to leave some fire in a limited time, who knows that in the future, there will be continuous disputes in Beihai, and the number of human races will inevitably decrease sharply, maybe when will the next time he accept disciples, it is not a bad thing to prepare earlier.
Luo Nan continued: "A large area has been circled on the sea surface in the palace, and a lot of desert islands have been drawn from a radius of thousands of miles, and now the living conditions of these desert islands are being improved. "These islands are for the families of the new disciples who accompany them.
Shen Er said with some frustration: "I originally thought that this time it would be very smooth, who knew that there were really a lot of people coming, and we were not well prepared, but fortunately, the palace master had the foresight and prepared these in advance, otherwise we wouldn't know how to transport these people back." "The original idea of the three Shen brothers, with only a few thousand people, with two swinging sea shuttles and cross-sea shuttles, it is possible to go back after squeezing, but the plan can't keep up with the rapid changes, the original 3,000 ordinary people have now become 30,000, and even if they are bolder, it is possible to add 10,000, which greatly exceeds the original expectations.
Before the assessment of recruiting disciples began, Shen Da had already quarreled with Shen Er and Shen San several times because of the number of people, and each of the three brothers had different ideas, although they were brothers, but no one could convince anyone, and in the end, it was up to Helian Jun to reconcile and reluctantly unify their opinions.
Finally, on a beautiful autumn day, the assessment of ordinary disciples in the Immortal Ascension Conference was about to begin. Since early in the morning, the flow of people in the city began to surge towards the venue, because of the fear of a stampede, so the city lord's mansion has notified the city in advance, and those who do not participate in the assessment today are better not to go out, even if they want to go out, they must be said after all the applicants have arrived at the venue.
Originally, Shen Da wanted to divide the first assessment of ordinary people, the temperament, into three days, but because of the news brought by Luo Nan, it really put a huge pressure on them, so it was shortened to the first day. At this moment, their pressure was transferred to the three generations of disciples, and these six third-generation disciples were responsible for the scoring of these tens of thousands of people, and just being tired was not enough to explain what they were about to face.
On weekdays, he was calm and quiet, but now his face was a little pale, and he asked Shen Daodao in a low voice: "Elder, are we relaxing for a while? With so many people, the disciples really can't complete the task easily!"
He Lianjun smiled on the side: "Haha, I know what you are worried about, don't worry, there is a formation specially arranged by me in the venue, you don't need to look at it one by one, just maintain the order of the scene, and don't let go of suspicious people, the rest of the things, naturally there are formations to judge." ”
Shou Jing was a little skeptical, it wasn't that he didn't believe in Helian Jun's formation cultivation, but such a miraculous technique, why didn't he tell them about it in the first place?
Helian Jun explained: "It's not that I won't tell you, but I'm worried that if I say it, if it leaks out, this formation will have no effect." Although there is nothing mysterious about this formation, it is just a phantom array, but if someone with a heart prepares in advance, the effect of this formation will be greatly reduced. "The function of his phantom array is to confuse the hearts of the people who enter the formation, make people believe that they are in the real environment, and then because of all the actions of the people who enter the formation, all the changes in the magic circle are caused, so as to achieve the proof of how the heart of the person entering the formation is. It is roughly divided into four grades, excellent and poor, as long as it is not poor, even if it is medium, it is considered to have passed the test. All of this is automatically judged by the formation, and there is no need for these three generations of disciples to interfere, as long as the feedback from the formation is truthfully recorded. They also have a very important task, which is to eliminate suspicious people according to the instructions given by Helianjun, and to bring people who can't be judged by the formation to Helianjun, who is in charge of review.
After Shoujing understood this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It turns out that Elder Helian has already had a way, no wonder he sees the vast sea of people in the city, and he looks confident. ”
Shen San interjected with a smile: "It's not because you have been in a position to nourish your qi more than before due to physical reasons recently, and you haven't noticed that our elders are not in a hurry at all." ”
What he said was originally unintentional, but everyone who heard it sighed in their hearts, and said secretly: "This idiot, what kind of pot can't be opened!"
However, Shou Jing's face was as usual: "What the third elder said is that the disciple has also felt a little impetuous, and I think that the strange poison on my body has suppressed me a little breathless." ”
Luo Nan asked a little strangely, "What's the matter? Did you encounter something on the road?"
Helian Jun muttered a few words in his ear, and Luo Nan realized that they had encountered such a thing on the way here, and said: "I said that I would have brought some of Elder Song Dongming's latest refining elixir from the palace, and it is said that there are many of them that can resist toxins! ”
Outside the house, Hao Tong came to the door with a group of deacons and said in a loud voice: "Immortal masters, the people in the venue are almost in place, just waiting for you to go to the opening ceremony." "This opening ceremony is still an idea put forward by Qin Guan, when he was discussing with the three Shen brothers to recruit disciples, he said that this sense of ceremony, if the new disciples are allowed to experience this grand sense of ceremony at the beginning, it will help increase the centripetal force of the disciples. They don't have that much time to slowly cultivate these disciples' sense of belonging to the Sanqing Palace now, after all, there are no decades left to cultivate disciples like Shoujing and Shouzhong, and they can only achieve their goals through some means.
Shen Da came out of the house first and said, "Okay, then let's go." Behind him, a group of monks from the Sanqing Palace took Hao Tong and a group of deacons to fly in mid-air, and in a few dozen breaths, they came to the venue in the west of the city.
The venue was crowded with people, and the scene of boiling back made Hao Tong a little enthusiastic. The crowd below, seeing the monk flying in mid-air, suddenly fell silent, and the sound of a needle falling could be heard in the huge venue. When everyone landed in front of the seats, the deacon of the City Lord's Mansion took everyone to salute together: "I have seen all the immortal masters and city lords of the Sanqing Palace. ”
Shen Da cast a spell on himself, and his voice rumbled so that everyone could hear it: "Everyone, I won't repeat the superfluous words. Today is the first time that my Sanqing Palace has recruited disciples in the Star City, and I hope that you can show your true skills, and I also welcome you to join my Sanqing Palace as you wish. ”
The ordinary people below naturally responded in unison, and a small number of monks also trembled and said yes, after all, in this place on the edge of the North Sea, the quality of casual cultivation is much worse than that in the hinterland of the North Sea, and people from the sect who have inherited the sect naturally disdain to come to such a small place as Star City to participate in any immortal ascension conference. Therefore, the casual cultivation that came was naturally a small monk in the Qi cultivation period, and a few monks in the foundation building period originally came here to take a look, and when they saw that Sanqing Palace actually sent out so many Jindan period monks, they also thought about it, it is always a good thing to have a backer, and it is much easier than crawling around in the cultivation world.
However, the assessment of monks should be after ordinary people, and the monks who come now want to see in advance for the subsequent assessment, so as to save themselves from encountering any problems when they are cold, and they are panicking for a while and lose the opportunity.
"Okay, let's not talk too much, I announce that this Immortal Ascension Conference has officially begun!" After Shen Da briefly introduced the concept and situation of the Sanqing Palace, he announced the beginning of the first Immortal Ascension Conference.