There is a large open venue in the center of Shashui City, which is a place for people to gather, perform, and buy and sell, and it has been occupied by some small traders as a market at ordinary times. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But today these people had to clean up their stalls and were pushed into the corner by the crowd.

On the south side of the square, a two-zhang high platform was temporarily erected, and a flag with black characters on a yellow background was inserted at each corner of the platform, and the word "return to the truth" was written on the script. More than a dozen soldiers from the City Lord's Mansion each held guns and halberds to maintain order under the stage, while Gong Ximing sat cross-legged on the stage with a warm spring breeze smile and preached the doctrine loudly, and two young disciples, a man and a woman, dressed in blue, stood on the left and right.

In the corner behind the left of the high platform, there is a square table, on which there is a pot of tea and a plate of fruit, and a middle-aged man in a blue uniform is sitting behind the table, casually sipping tea. He was a deacon of the Heavenly Master's Office, and was commissioned by the lord of the city to supervise the mission. It is said that the lord of the castle also sent a close confidant, but he was unhappy to find that he was the only one here. He glanced at the other chair beside him, which had been empty throughout.

Today's rain has been falling non-stop, but not a single raindrop has fallen here, the sky over the square is as cloudy as elsewhere, and there is no shelter to be seen, but the rain is all detouring, naturally Gong Ximing used astrology to do some tricks, but on such occasions, ordinary people who are not familiar with practitioners prefer to believe that this is a miracle.

In addition to miracles, there was also the recognition of the court of the Great Zhou Empire. There is no one who does not know the cyan uniform of the "tea guest" on the high platform, and no one does not know that the epaulettes carved with the sun and moon represent the Heavenly Master. The Heavenly Master Department has sent people, which shows how much this Conversion Sect is recognized and valued by the Empire.

In a remote town like Shashui, many people are full of admiration and curiosity for decades, and this grand scene has nurtured people's desire to join in the fun. So people put down their work, ran out of their homes, workshops, and shops, and crowded into the square to listen to the preaching while sheltering from the rain.

So more and more people gathered, but there was no noisy sound in the square, and everyone only had the clear and solemn voice of Gongxi Ming. It's not because no one spoke, but because Gong Ximing suppressed other people's voices through astrology. When people found that others could not hear their words at all, they became more and more in awe of the Conversion Saints on the stage, and they put away their whispering thoughts and listened to the teachings of the Conversion Religion with great devotion.

In the huge square, there is only one voice in the ears of all people, and there is only one religion in the hearts of all people.

“...... Tens of thousands of years ago, the patriarch Pangu of my True Conversion Saint Sect planted ten celestial stars in extraterritorial space with great power, namely the Taiyin Sun, the six stars of the Water Valley, and the two kings of the sky and the sea. When a child is born at the age of nine, the seed of the law can be watered with starlight to make him grow, and eventually evolve into his own law, becoming a cultivator who can harness the power of the stars......"

“...... Entering the Tao with goodness is the door of cultivation that my ancestor opened for all peoples, so that all people can be good. Having a good heart, doing good deeds, gaining good results, giving birth to evil thoughts, doing evil deeds, losing good results, and accumulating good results from generation to generation, the more accumulation in this life, the higher the cultivation qualifications in the next life. The great cultivators in this world were all great and good people in their previous lives. It's just that after all, the people's livelihood is difficult, the people are hard, and it is difficult for good to do evil, so that there is no one in ten cultivators, and our way is declining day by day. The patriarch was merciful and ordered his descendants to establish our religion to transform all peoples, and to preach and preach before the decline of the Chinese Taoism......"

“...... Remembering that it is difficult for all people to survive and that it is not easy to do good, in order to make our way prosperous, all my followers will reap good results if they do good deeds, and if they sincerely repent in front of the holy teacher and the holy image, they can also make the good results undiminished. Those who did good deeds in the past life, if they still have good intentions in this life and believe in our teaching, our religion also has the secret method passed down by the patriarch, so that they can reshape the star mansion and improve their qualifications, and mortals can also use this method to get a glimpse of the door of cultivation......"

Gong Ximing's teachings seem to say that the legendary Pangu God is the ancestor of the Guizhen Sect, so it seems that the Guizhen Sect is the most orthodox church in the cultivation world, and all the practitioners in the world are all disciples and grandchildren of the Guizhen Sect. This is clearly nonsense. The deacon of the Heavenly Master's Office was furious when he heard this, and he only wanted to interrupt Gong Ximing's words a few times, but found that he couldn't make any sound in his throat, and he couldn't get up from his chair, as if he was bound there by an invisible rope, and he couldn't do anything except drink tea. He didn't know when he caught the road, which meant that the other party could pinch him to death like an ant, and he was shocked in his heart, and immediately decided to be only a deaf and blind tea guest.

Those originally ridiculous words came out of Gongxi Ming's mouth, and after raising his voice through astrology, they rang in everyone's ears like morning bells and dusk drums. Even those who didn't believe it originally, seeing the clear and detached aura of the Holy Master in their eyes, and the extremely solemn and heavy voice in their ears, couldn't help but believe seven or eight points. Tens of thousands of people stood in the square, and their faces gradually showed a look of obsession and yearning.

Su'er was dressed in a light green dress, mixed in the middle of the crowd, and was also listening carefully to Gong Ximing's preaching, but she didn't see much obsession and fanaticism in her eyes. She grew up in the Huaiqing Marquis Mansion since she was a child, and she often came into contact with cultivators, and some seemingly magical monks' methods naturally could not convince her. Yesterday, Jin Luohua's persuasion to her was still echoing in her heart, she knew that Madame would not lie to her, what Madame said must be true, no one can obtain cultivation qualifications at no cost, so the so-called Holy Master of the Conversion Sect in front of her, most of the fanciful rhetoric in his mouth is obviously to deceive people.

What's more, she had seen Gong Ximing. That winter night in front of the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, this person almost injured the young master, and almost made a move with Mo Wenxin, at that time he had a face that was neither yin nor yang, but it was not such a solemn and sacred appearance. With such a person, how can Su'er have half of the trust?

But she still pretended to listen to the long lecture very carefully, just to see if the so-called "pointing" was true. If it was true, she wanted to know what it would take to give. No matter how sanctimonious his Gong Ximing is, no matter how demagogic he is, no matter what unbearable price it is, she just doesn't want to miss any opportunity.

She stood in the crowd, looking forward to it, and her heart was worried.

Gong Ximing on the stage finally finished the last sentence, claiming that the next step was to test the kindness and sincerity of the believers, so as to choose the right person for enlightenment on the spot. With a smile like the sunshine on his face, he slowly glanced at the crowd of black and oppressive people in the field. There was a crowd, but no one spoke, even though he had removed the astral suppression of the voices on the field. People just looked at him with fanatical and expectant eyes, and he was very satisfied. He nodded to the audience and spread out his right hand, hidden in the sleeve of his oversized robe.

In front of everyone's eyes, Gong Ximing's palms suddenly bloomed with a strong green light, reflecting the surroundings of the square, including the sky, in green, and people could hardly open their eyes for a while, and they all covered their eyes with their hands or turned their heads to avoid it. After a while, the green light gradually became soft, when people looked at it again, they saw Gong Ximing holding a transparent crystal ball with green light in his hand, the crystal ball was not big, it only occupied the palm of his hand, the surface of the wave flow like a pool of blue water, wrapped in fluorescent fluorescence, in the scattered light, there were finger-sized white elves flying upward, as if circling and dancing around the green crystal ball, and at the same time, there was a heavenly melody gently echoing, like a song from the distant sky, accompanied by a cheerful and pleasant birdsong.

This scene is pleasing to the eye and wonderful, and the crowd of people in the audience is in an uproar, and the sound of exclamation and praise is endless. Even Su'er was a little intoxicated, she had never seen such a beautiful star technique.

In fact, this is nothing more than a group detection of astrology, put on a veneer of performative astrology. Gong Ximing knows people's hearts well and knows that a gorgeous and sacred scene can be more convincing, and he does not hesitate to spend a lot of star power to make this simple link very exaggerated, and the enthusiastic reactions on the field are within his expectations.

Gong Ximing slowly raised the crystal ball in his hand a little higher, and secretly lucked the star power, and layers of water waves clearly appeared on the watery surface of the crystal ball, and with the light ripple of the water waves, a circle of green light patterns slowly swayed outward with the crystal ball as the center, and each circle of light patterns passed through everyone's body and disappeared on the edge of the square. And every time it is pierced by the light streaks, people will feel a faint burning sensation between their chest and abdomen, as if something in their body is about to move. People were surprised and inexplicable, and they all lowered their heads and touched their chests with their hands, and the field suddenly became noisy.

With the continuous swinging of the light pattern, the green crystal ball also continued to shrink, after more than a dozen waves of light pattern, the crystal ball completely disappeared in Gong Ximing's hands, at the same time, in the black crowd on the square, dozens of green lights suddenly lit up, and dozens of young people scattered everywhere were surrounded by the green light that rushed to the sky, and there were white elves circling and flying around the body!

In an instant, there was an exclamation of astonishment! People turned around, turned their heads, looked sideways, and opened their eyes wide, casting their eyes on these dozens of young people with envy, jealousy, or indignation, and surrounded and embraced. Some of these young people jumped to their feet and cheered, some were flushed with excitement, and some were still in a daze, not knowing what was going on, not believing that they had become the lucky ones chosen!

This is a fortunate and sacred scene, they are the ones who have been chosen this time! They will be enlightened in public, and they will be transformed from ordinary people to monks! They will also be directly admitted to the Capricorn Temple of the Conversion Sect, and they will become the first batch of registered disciples of the Holy Master Gong Ximing!

Su'er is among these dozens of lucky ones.

If she really chooses the most devout believer as Gong Ximing said, I am afraid that everyone on the field will not be her turn. She knew that whether it was kindness or sincerity, it was just an excuse, but she didn't know what Gong Ximing's real screening conditions were. She just stood quietly in the crowd with a glimmer of hope, and when the green light suddenly lit up on her body, and the elf sang and suddenly flew up beside her, her heart couldn't help but beat violently!

Here it comes!...... This is what I hope for......

She was surprised, excited, nervous, but also scared, helpless, panicked. She suddenly felt the urge to turn around and run away, but a thousand eyes shot at once, like a thousand sharp arrows piercing the heart, and she didn't move, but looked up, staring at the elf hovering in the green light. Loud human voices rang in my ears, some people were exclaiming, some were complaining, some were cursing, and more were unintelligible. When Gong Ximing's majestic voice resounded throughout the audience again, the surroundings became quiet again. With envy and unwillingness, people retreated to both sides, making way for Su'er to accommodate only one person, leading straight to Gong Ximing's pulpit.

This is a path to cultivation, so narrow, so cramped, so congested. At the end of the road, I don't know what it is.

Su'er glanced forward, her heart was horizontal, she temporarily pressed down thousands of emotions, took a gentle step, and walked forward.

Dozens of young people walked up to the pulpit at the same time, all of them very happy. Gong Ximing was also happy on the stage, his eyes swept over those young and excited faces one by one, and there were about fifty or so people, as the harvest of the first day of public preaching, this is a good number, and there are still a few days to go, and those more than 200 people will become true disciples one by one, and if they are still left out in the end, he will find another way. He saw Su'er, but he didn't recognize her as the girl who was with Lin Du that night, an insignificant little character who wouldn't make any impression on him.

Gong Ximing slowly stood up and beckoned to the male disciple beside him, and the disciple respectfully held a black wooden box. Gong Ximing stretched out his hand to take it, and used his star power to open the secret lock on the box, and took out a black seal half the size of a palm from it, and quietly wrapped it in the sleeve of his right arm. This thing is the "enlightened" vessel given to him by the True Sect Master, that is, the True Sage, but it should not be displayed in public.

At this time, Su'er had already come to the stage, bowing her head slightly, mixed in the middle of the other prospective disciples, her heart seemed to be a wave of the sea rolling over, I don't know what she was thinking, and suddenly heard Gong Ximing's voice on the stage: "Okay, good, you are the future of my Holy Sect! Come up one by one in order, and accept the enlightenment of this Holy Master!"

Su'er's heart fluttered again, and then she remembered that after being enlightened, she would become a member of the True Sect, and she would no longer be able to follow her wife and young master. If she didn't listen to the persuasion, and if she didn't say goodbye, Madame would be angry, right? Her mind became even more chaotic, and she mechanically followed the people around, forming a long line under the maintenance of the government soldiers, and she stood in the middle.

The next moment, the slightly noisy voices in the square suddenly became quiet, and the young people around them were nervously and curiously looking at the stage. Su'er also looked up, but saw Gong Ximing performing a lighting ceremony for the first young man. With a wave of his left sleeve, a small cluster of dazzling golden light appeared in his hand, and then he pressed this cluster of golden light between the young man's chest and abdomen, and the golden light quickly converged, like a trace of drilling into the young man's body, and soon his right hand robe sleeve flicked on the man's chest, then he withdrew his hand and stood up, and said to the young man who was still a little at a loss: "Okay, the ignition has been successful." ”

In an instant, there was a lot of discussion around him. No one could see through how it was "ignited", and the young man himself didn't seem to feel anything, so he let out a sigh and turned to the two True Disciples on the side. Su'er only saw that the female disciple asked him some questions and took notes with a pen and paper, while the male disciple casually handed over a thin book, and then led him to the "tea guest" at the Heavenly Master's place and gave a deep salute.

The "tea guest" was very uneasy. In order to verify the authenticity of the "pointing" of the Conversion Sect, he had already arranged a link for him to retest his qualifications. Of course, he didn't believe that he could really succeed, but he was deeply afraid of Gong Ximing's strength, and he didn't know if he should lie about his qualifications to help the Conversion Sect deceive the people. It was only when he hesitated to put his hand on the young man's chest and abdomen that the apprehension in his heart quickly turned into surprise and doubt.

Like everyone else in the square, Su'er was looking up at everything on the stage. The Returning Saint Master was doing the enlightenment for the next person, and the deacon of the Celestial Master seemed to be testing the qualifications of the first young man. Suddenly, I heard the young man shout like a wolf: "Haha! I can practice! I can really practice! I can really practice! I have twenty more qualifications! I can really practice! Hahahaha!"

His voice trembled with excitement and shrill with screaming. The young man was a little carried away with joy, and jumped and danced directly on the stage, as if he had lost his mind. Thousands of pairs of eyes in the entire square looked at him, but none of them had a look of contempt, only envy, enough to kill people. And hope, a blazing hope that has been rekindled after how many years of despair!

Gong Ximing didn't deceive people, he could really make ordinary people become monks!

Su'er's heart pounded again. The dream is close at hand, and it will soon come true! Practice! Practice! Practice! She kept repeating these two words in her heart, clenching her fists tightly, her fingers a little white from the exertion. At this time, what do you have to think about? Don't think about anything, just close your eyes and go on!

Practice! I can't be like my sister, who is kneaded at will and has no power to resist!

You can't be a girl with a life as cheap as grass, and you don't have the right to pursue the life you want!

Practice! Even if it's just to get closer to your beloved, and to be qualified to stand intimately with him!

Su'er's eyes were wide open, but her heart was closed, and she couldn't hear any other voices: The price? Since I can't see the cost now, I'll leave it alone! Let me use my life and everything I have to walk this path, for myself and for the young master! I am willing to be a pathfinder for the young master, to find out the price! Madam, forgive Su'er! Forgive Su'er!

The lighting ceremony went on quickly, and the people in front of the queue decreased rapidly, and Su'er didn't wait long to stand in front of the escalator on the stage, she shook her slightly disheveled hair back, and climbed up without hesitation.