At the foot of Junshui Peak, there is a winding mountain canal with gurgling water, named Junhua Canal. Under the waterfall at the source of this canal, the sect built a green bamboo dining hall, which can accommodate hundreds of people for dining.
At this moment, there are no empty seats in the dining hall, there are constant sounds of laughter and mist, the aroma of food is fragrant, and the New Year's Eve dinner is served.
There are nearly forty tables in the hall, with eight people per table, and a total of eighteen dishes, including six first-grade spiritual meals and two second-grade spiritual meals, including braised brown rabbit meat, Baibao duck, white fungus and ginseng cake, etc.
Each table is also equipped with four pots of one-grade spiritual wine. This is the banquet specification for this year's sect's New Year's Eve dinner.
Not only this dining hall, but also hundreds of large and small dining halls up and down Huangsheng Mountain are like this. All sect disciples can go to any dining hall early to find an empty seat and have a good meal.
In addition, each dining hall also accepts reservations. Hua Lingshi can reserve seats in advance, add dishes, or upgrade the dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, which is called "booking a table."
Bu Xuanyu, together with his two senior brothers Xuan Han and Xuanyue, had reserved seats in this dining hall early. At the price of eighteen thousand low-level spiritual stones per table, they booked fourteen tables to entertain their respective disciples. disciples.
There are also eighteen dishes, but it is much richer than the New Year's Eve dinner arranged by the sect.
There are two third-grade spiritual meals, including steamed jade shrimps and stewed tiger and leopard ginseng, six second-grade spiritual meals, and ten first-grade spiritual meals.
Each table is also equipped with a pot of mountain spring spirit wine. In short, you can drink as much as you want, but the spirit wine is enough.
This dining hall is located under the waterfall at the foot of the mountain. It is built next to the water. If you look up through the window, you can see the waterfall flowing down the cliff. It is very comfortable to smell the rumbling sound of the water and drink the wine.
Not only is this the annual New Year's Eve dinner, this dining hall is quite popular, so you need to book in advance.
In addition to the fourteen tables booked by Liu Yu and the others, the other tables were also booked two or three times in advance. The sect master Yizi had booked more than twenty tables, and the rest were Ming, Zhu, and Shanzi. A disciple of several lines.
Many disciples exchanged cups and cups, and disciples from all walks of life who knew each other walked back and forth to congratulate, eat and drink, and the hall was full of joy and excitement.
"Have you heard! A thunder leopard escaped from the Spiritual Beast Sect three months ago. It is said that it escaped into the Black and White Mountains. It has not been found yet!"
"I've heard it a long time ago. The Spiritual Beast Sect has suffered a big loss this time!"
"Who says otherwise? The high-level spiritual beasts raised by the sect can still escape. In my eyes, everyone in this spiritual beast sect is just a loser!"
"My little brother, let me ask! What level of spiritual beast is this Thunder Leopard? Why does this senior brother say so!"
"It's just a spiritual beast. It just ran away. What's the fuss about it?"
"The Spirit Beast Sect has a great cause, so what does one spirit beast mean?"
"To put it lightly, this Thunder Leopard is a fifth-level spiritual beast. It can reach the sixth level after being carefully raised. The beast elixir it produces can be refined into the "Lei Yuan Leopard elixir". The entire Spirit Beast Sect only has more than fifty animals in total."
"That's right, this "Lei Yuan Leopard Pill" is a sixth-grade high-grade elixir. Taking it can increase the success rate of the Thunder Tribulation by 10%. It is a rare and top-grade elixir."
"After running away like this, just tell me whether you feel sorry for me or not!"
"What! This Beast Pill can also increase the success rate of the Golden Pill Thunder Tribulation!"
"If that's the case, then the Spirit Beast Sect will really suffer a big loss this time!"
"Tell me, how many spiritual stones is this "Lei Yuan Leopard Pill" worth?"
"Don't think about it, it's priceless!"
"Why don't you take a closer look at such a rare spiritual beast!"
"Yeah, who knows how he escaped?"
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While eating, drinking, talking and laughing, someone suddenly mentioned that a thunder leopard raised by the Spiritual Beast Sect escaped a few months ago. Many disciples couldn't help but become interested and started talking about it unconsciously. Everyone had different opinions for a while.
"The Spiritual Beast Sect attaches great importance to the Thunder Leopards they raise, so how could one of them suddenly run away?" Taoist Xuanyue couldn't help but mention it after hearing the comments from the disciples around him.
"Not long after this happened, word spread in Beiluan City. This junior happened to go back to Beiluan City at that time. It is said that the owner of this thunder leopard had planned for a long time and wanted to secretly bring this thunder leopard with him to rebel against the sect. escape."
"However, he was discovered by the Spiritual Beast Sect in the end. During the pursuit, this person was killed on the spot."
"But this thunder leopard has escaped into the Black and White Mountains, into this vast mountain. It will be too difficult to hunt down this leopard." A middle-aged Taoist priest sitting next to Liu Yu took over and said.
This human being named Lingcao is the deputy gang leader of the Blue Eyes Gang. With the cultivation level of the Third Mansion, he is the shopkeeper of "Qingji Shanhuo".
It stands to reason that this New Year's Eve dinner is only for disciples of the Huang Sheng Sect, but Liu Yu booked a "private banquet" and did not have the Hua Sect's spiritual stone. To entertain one or two outsiders, he only needed to inform the sect in advance that the sect would The door will not be opened.
"The contracted spirit beast is Thunder Leopard. Even if he has a "Lei Yuan Leopard Pill" in his hand, why would this person defect?" In addition to Xuan Yu, Xuan Han, Xuanyue and the deputy leader of the Blue Eyes Gang, Ling Cao, the rest of the table The next four people are all apprentices of Xuan Han and Xuanyue, and their cultivation has reached the foundation building stage. One of them asked in confusion.
"Senior Nephew Xuanming doesn't know something. This Thunder Leopard is only a fifth-level spiritual beast. If you want to be promoted to the sixth level, it is not easy to condense the life essence pill smoothly."
"In addition to investing a large amount of spirit stones for this purpose and carefully caring for and feeding the beasts, the Spiritual Beast Sect also selects a potential companion monk to practice special beast cultivation techniques for each thunder leopard when it is a cub."
"Different from other animal cultivation methods, which use animals to raise humans, this method uses humans to raise animals."
"This selected companion monk, also known as the "Beast Master", is actually the nourishment provided by the Spiritual Beast Sect to the Lei Guang Leopard to promote the smooth advancement of the Lei Guang Leopard and speed up the probability and cycle of condensing the natal Yuan Dan."
"When the Lei Guangbao condenses the natal elixir, the Spirit Beast Sect will kill the beast to obtain the elixir and refine it into the "Lei Yuanbao Dan"."
"As for the selected companion monks, because they spend a lot of their own energy to raise thunder leopards, they will damage their own Tao foundation, and it will be difficult to improve their cultivation."
"There is almost no possibility of advancing to the golden elixir realm. In addition, the refined "Lei Yuan Leopard elixir" has nothing to do with this person. Naturally, there will be dissatisfied people who are looking for opportunities to defect with beasts!" Xuan Han shook his head. He sighed.
"It turns out that's the case. No wonder someone would defect!" Taoist Xuanming couldn't help but be surprised after hearing this.
"Xiaodao also heard that the escaped Thunder Leopard was a pregnant female beast. The beast fled into the Black and White Mountains and disappeared."
"The Spiritual Beast Sect released news last month. If anyone finds traces of this beast and reports it to the Spiritual Beast Sect, he or she will receive generous rewards." Taoist Lingcao continued.
"Then if someone goes into the mountain and captures this beast, or finds traces of this beast, it will happen immediately!" A pregnant thunder leopard, this is a mobile treasury, Taoist Xuanming couldn't help but blurt out.
"No, as soon as the news came out, a large number of monks from Beiluan City joined forces and went into the mountains to look for him. This would cause another bloody storm in the entire Black and White Mountains!" Taoist Lingcao then said with a bitter smile.
He grew up in the Green Eyes Gang, and he knows all about the intrigues and intrigues in the vast mountains.
"Wealth and silk are so touching!" After hearing this, Liu Yu couldn't help but shake her head.
"Let's not talk about this. Come on, have a drink!" Xuan Han suggested, raising his glass.
"Come, come, come!" Everyone immediately raised their glasses to welcome him.
"Junior Wang Mo, pay homage to the master, and pay homage to all the seniors!" Before Liu Yu and others could put down their wine glasses, Xuan Lin's disciples came to toast them with their wine glasses.
Afterwards, disciples came one after another to toast, and Liu Yu and others would also go to the tables of other Zi Mai peers to say hello to each other.
The banquet lasted until Xu hour. It was already dark and everyone slowly dispersed. Many qi-training disciples immediately set off and rushed to Huangyu Square to watch the excitement.
Every year, the sect holds a night party in Huangyu Square. The sect arranges for beautiful young female cultivators to perform songs, dances, instrumental music, and plays. During the singing and dancing period, there will also be many lucky bags and red envelopes.
After guessing riddles, matching pairs, etc., the disciple who guesses correctly will be rewarded with a lucky bag containing various amounts of spiritual stones.
When Liu Yu was practicing qi when he was young, he also liked to join in the fun, but he was too shy to ask him to go on stage to guess riddles. He didn't dare to deal with pairs. The only lucky bag activity he participated in was catching lucky cranes.
The seniors of the sect will release some paper cranes regularly, and all the Qi training disciples can fly to catch them. If they catch one, they will receive a lucky bag.
Now Liu Yu had no interest in going to the night party, so she left the dining hall and did not go back to the cave. Instead, she went to find Bai Niang outside Huangling Cave and brought her a moon-howling wolf and extra meals during the Chinese New Year.
One person and one snake go to the peak and overlook it. At night, half of the peak is lit up with various fireworks. The topaz square and the foot of the mountain are lit with lights, like stars in the sky. That is Liuxian Town.
Liu Yu stood on the edge of the cliff, feeling the mountain breeze blowing, and the friendly faces that gradually became blurred due to the passage of time could not help but appear in his heart.
Grandpa, parents, sister, God's gift, God's inheritance, Kexin, Yue'er, and junior sister...
Just staying there quietly until midnight, Liu Yu said goodbye to Bai Niang and flew to the ancestral hall.
Every year, the sect leader or elder will bring the foundation-building disciples who stay at the mountain gate to celebrate the New Year, and burn incense to worship the ancestors of the sect in the ancestral hall at midnight when the old and new ones change.
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"My ancestors! The younger generation Sheng Yi has come to worship with his disciples! I hope all the ancestors will protect our sect and make it prosperous." Master Sheng Yi was dressed in costumes and holding a pillar of red incense. The third elder Qiu Mu and the fourth elder On both sides of Xuanmu's body, there were more than two hundred foundation-building disciples.
Following the command of sacrifice from Master Sheng Yi, everyone held incense and bowed in order.
Then they came forward one by one and inserted the incense in their hands into the "Golden Dragon Cauldron" in front of the altar, Liu Yu was among them.
Behind the cauldron is the altar. On the altar stands a katama tablet. Behind hundreds of soul tablets, four majestic and dignified gilded statues stand.
The first one is the statue of Fairy Jian Yue, which is also the smallest. In the middle are the Antarctic Changsheng Emperor and the Arctic Emperor Ziwei. The last one is the tallest and is Taiqing Taoist.
At this time, this was the case for all the sects of the Eastern Yuan Realm, big and small. Not only the cultivation sects, this scene also happened in front of the altar tables set up by thousands of secular households, and stood in front of the statues of Jian Yuexian in various towns in the Eastern Yuan Realm.
At this moment, tens of thousands of immortal statues in every corner of the Eastern Yuan Realm began to emit dazzling auras amidst the devout prayers of the common people in the world.
