As the date for the new headmaster's succession gradually arrived, messengers from the Immortal Sect from all over the world arrived at Miyun Mountain one after another.
Suddenly, all the immortals in Miyun Mountain gathered together and quickly became lively.
Among the envoys, some real people who had not seen each other for a long time also took the opportunity to gather together to discuss Taoism, drink and play, which was very lively.
And some thoughtful people also took the opportunity to start walking in the mountains.
Taiping headmaster cave.
Lu Yuan looked at Yang Jihua who came to visit him. Before he could speak, he said, "Fellow Daoist Yang, I know what you want to say, but now I will no longer be the leader of Taiping Dao. Without this position, even if I want to help You can't do anything."
"Master Lu, why is this so?"
Yang Jihua looked at the slightly cold Lu Yuan and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
He came to Yunan with an important mission. After arriving at Miyun Mountain, the first thing he did was to pay a visit to Lu Yuan.
Although this headmaster Lu will be resigning soon, he has been the headmaster for four hundred years and is still in this position, with no lack of power in his hands.
And even if he abdicates, given the opponent's strength and qualifications, his status within Taiping Dao will not be much worse.
It is said that he still has a lot of power and can exert influence in secret.
This headmaster only abdicated, not lost power. In the fairy world, as long as his own cultivation is still there, everything will be there.
It's not like a mortal dynasty, where you lose everything if you lose an official position.
Therefore, if you can persuade the other party, even if you just open an opening, it can bring great benefits to the Evergreen Immortal Sect.
This is also the reason why Yang Jihua approached Lu Yuan when he first arrived.
He believed that the other party would definitely not be willing to abdicate directly and give up the huge power in his hands.
As long as there is a trace of reluctance, it is possible to grasp the olive branch offered by the Evergreen Immortal Sect.
And as long as you take the bait, your goal will be achieved.
But now it seems that this road is dead.
"I know that what you have done in our Taiping Dao over the years, like Yu Shipeng and others, is secretly related to the Evergreen Immortal Sect.
But I know this, but I still don’t care. Why? "
Lu Yuan looked at Yang Jihua who was at a loss and said in a calm tone: "Because this Zhanjiao wants to develop Taiping Dao and strengthen Taiping Dao, it turns out that Senior Brother Yi's governance was too one-sided and even harmed the interests of Taiping Dao. I have always been close to the Kyushu Immortal Sect.
Taipingdao has developed for more than three hundred years, but it is still stuck in the same place without much progress.
So when I came to power, I opened the door wider to allow more people to get started, to allow more people to be reused, and to allow more people to develop in a broader world.
Therefore, he adopted the golden mean and balanced approach, made good friends with all parties, and allowed the disciples to develop on their own and interact with outsiders.
The purpose of this is to use external power to help the disciples grow and enhance the strength of my Taiping Dao.
As a result, over the past four hundred years, Taiping Dao's strength has grown rapidly. Branches have opened all over the south of the region. There are four thousand inner disciples under the sect, and the number of true disciples is no less than eighty.
There were even two true immortals among those disciples.
These are the gains of my administration.
Likewise, such development requires the help of Taoist friends and other sects.
I have always kept this in mind, so I would like to express my thanks in advance. "
Lu Yuan saluted Yang Jihua to express his gratitude.
If it weren't for the other party's desperate efforts to corrupt Taiping Dao's disciples, he would not hesitate to offer a large amount of benefits, all kinds of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, panaceas, opportunities and adventures, one after another.
How could the young disciples of Taiping Dao grow up so fast?
In just seven hundred years, two true immortals were raised.
Although the Tao of Taiping occupies the land of the Seven Kingdoms, it is only a normal level to cultivate two true immortals in seven hundred years.
But you have to know.
The Taiping Dao occupies the seven kingdoms, and more than 90% of the resources in these seven kingdoms are occupied by Lu Yuan and his clones.
For seven hundred years, the land of the Five Kingdoms has been enjoyed by them.
Occasionally, if a country is taken out, it will only be used by the disciples for a hundred years, and then it will be taken back.
The foundation that Taiping Dao really uses to cultivate disciples is actually equivalent to an ordinary immortal sect that usually occupies a country.
And for those ordinary immortal sects, how difficult is it to cultivate a true immortal?
Often a true immortal cannot be raised for thousands of years.
But Taiping Dao used the same resources to raise two true immortals in just seven hundred years.
This kind of efficiency is simply astonishing.
How did this achievement come about?
Lu Yuan didn't put any effort into cultivating his disciples. It's impossible for the disciples to cultivate themselves. Someone must have contributed.
Who is giving?
Naturally, it is the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect and the Evergreen Immortal Sect.
The other party spent his own money to help his family train disciples. This kind of self-sacrifice and dedication made people burst into tears.
Taiping Dao now has four thousand disciples and two true immortals, all thanks to those two neighbors. They are both good people.
Of course Lu Yuan was grateful to the good people who helped him.
These are all the heroes of the Taiping Dao revival.
But after thanking you, his face turned cold: "Although I thank you in my heart, I am also indignant at what you have done. You helped me revive Taipingdao. This is help, and I will keep it in my heart.
But the original intention of your help is to corrupt Taiping Dao, bribe my disciples, and let them act as your traitors and betray Taiping Dao's interests.
Over the past four hundred years, the disciples of the Taiping Dao Sect, because of their different positions and the different forces they rely on behind them, have become like enemies.
Now, the sect is on the verge of splitting.
These current conditions are all due to you, fellow Daoist Yang. "
When Yang Jihua heard this, he broke out in cold sweat.
He heard a hint of murderous intent in the words of Headmaster Lu in front of him.
Thinking about it, any sect would feel angry if they were tormented like this by others.
Can you not hate the person behind the scenes?
Unfortunately, the man behind the current chaos in Taiping Dao is the Evergreen Immortal Sect, Yang Jihua.
Lu Yuan had murderous intentions towards him, which was totally reasonable.
"Friend Lu Dao, please listen to my explanation..."
Yang Jihua thought of the consequences of turning against Taiping Dao and his own safety, so he quickly began to save himself.
But midway through his words, he was interrupted by Lu Yuan.
"Okay, Fellow Daoist Yang, there's no need to say anything more."
Lu Yuan stopped the other party from talking and said with a stern face: "I won't kill you. After all, you have really helped me Taiping Dao a lot in the past four hundred years.
Even if you have other purposes, it cannot erase the fact that you are helpful to Taiping Dao.
Moreover, our two sects have been very close to each other before. The Taiping Dao can gain a foothold in the south of the region without the help of the Evergreen Immortal Sect.
With these old feelings and grievances still there, I can pretend that some unpleasant things in the past never happened.
Even if the merits and demerits are equal. "
Hearing this, Yang Jihua breathed a sigh of relief. He said gratefully: "What fellow Taoist said is that the friendship between you and me is extraordinary. How could I harm you? There are some unpleasant things in the past, just let them go. We can start from scratch. Even if we get to know each other again, we can just build up." A true friendship.”
He still didn't want to give up, so he tried to win over Lu Yuan and Taiping Dao.
Lu Yuan smiled and said: "It's useless for you to tell me this. After I step down as the headmaster, I will retreat in the sect and cultivate in the mountains and never go out again.
General Ruyi will be like Senior Brother, he will never leave seclusion until he becomes an earthly immortal.
The future affairs of Taiping Dao will be in charge of Junior Brother Yu. He will be in charge of the sect and lead its future development.
If you want to start over with Taiping Dao, go find Junior Brother Jade, he will be the future leader.
However, with Junior Brother Yu’s temperament and the heavy responsibility entrusted to him by the sect, it is probably useless for you to find him.
Junior Brother Yu is here to clean up the sect. In his hands, the sect will purify itself and focus on developing its internal affairs. It will not actively communicate with the outside world like Senior Brother Yi and I do.
Taiping Dao must get rid of the influence of outside sects, that is, get rid of the influence of your Evergreen Immortal Sect and Jiuzhou Immortal Sect on us.
Before this goal is achieved, it will not be so easy for you to win over him. "
Lu Yuan glanced at Yang Jihua with a playful look on his face.
"How could this happen? How could this happen?"
After listening to Lu Yuan's words and looking at the other party's attitude, Yang Jihua's heart dropped.
He knew that there was no need for the Master Lu in front of him to lie to him.
If the other party says it’s useless to look for him, then it must be useless to look for him.
He is about to retreat into seclusion, and he will never leave the sect or show his face again. What use can you get by looking for him?
Maybe when the passing ceremony is over, I won't be able to see each other anymore, and everyone will be in seclusion.
There is a precedent for this in Taiping Road.
Didn’t the last Master Yi go into seclusion in Miyun Mountain after he abdicated?
Then for four hundred years, he never showed up, and no news came from him.
This long-term loss of contact with the outside world and the entire disappearance have aroused a lot of discussion from the outside world, wondering whether the Master Yi failed to break through the Earth Immortal and died under the wind tribulation and completely fell.
After all, no matter how difficult it is to break through to the Earth Immortal, it will take four hundred years to achieve a result.
But there has been no news from Taiping Road, and there has been no movement. It is difficult not to make people wonder whether the other party is hiding something.
And what is there to hide?
Naturally, it was the news of Yidancheng’s death.
This was a powerful man at the pinnacle of human immortality, and he had also served as the first headmaster of Taiping Dao. He was an extremely important existence in terms of both strength and status.
Without such a person, Taipingdao can almost be said to have lost one of its Optimus Pillars, losing at least 20 to 30% of its strength.
Out of interest considerations, if Yidan City is really dead, Taipingdao will naturally have the motive to conceal it.
However, all of the above are just guesses.
Until proven, a guess will always remain a guess.
And if they didn't have a huge grudge against Taiping Dao, no one would be willing to run out to confirm these things and form a deadly feud with Taiping Dao.
Therefore, no one mentioned this matter on the stage, and only discussed it in private.
But now Lu Yuan said that he himself would be like Yidan City. After abdicating the throne, he would go into seclusion, hide in the mountains, and never ask about foreign affairs.
This immediately shocked Yang Jihua's jaw and made others dumbfounded.
There is only one thought left in my mind, is Taipingdao crazy?
What an important fighting force a true immortal is. Even if they are human immortals, each one is precious and can have a decisive influence on a country or a place.
In an ordinary sect, if there is a human immortal in the sect, they will try their best to squeeze the opponent's ability as much as possible and use it to death.
Apart from anything else, it is always necessary to be sent out to guard a country, right?
But what about Taiping Road?
Needless to say, the Supreme Elder, as a real Earth Immortal, must stay in the sect to protect the mountain gate.
And as the leader, I will definitely stay in the sect and will not leave easily.
Now, there are two people fixed, unable to move.
Then the previous Yidan City abdicated and went into seclusion at the mountain gate, thus wasting another true immortal.
Now this Lu Yuan is doing this again, letting Taiping Dao get another true immortal who can be used.
Taiping Dao now has a total of eight true immortals. Suddenly, there are four less usable ones, leaving only four people who can be sent to do things.
You know, Taipingdao now has seven kingdoms. Just these four people, even if they are all sent out to guard a country, they will not be able to fill their own territory.
Under such circumstances, Taipingdao, which is already short of manpower, has to cut off another arm. What kind of brain circuit is this?
I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out.
Anyway, in Yang Jihua's opinion, Taipingdao was really crazy for being able to make such a decision.
Faced with such a madman, he wanted to win over him, but now he felt like he was losing his mind.
How could I possibly win over these lunatics?
With this idea in mind, after talking to Lu Yuan for a few words, he confirmed that he really wanted to abdicate and retreat and never come out again.
Yang Jihua gave up completely.
It is also confirmed that there is indeed a madness on Taiping Road.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to understand why the other party does these things.
So he left disappointed.
He failed to achieve his goal here, and even Taipingdao probably couldn't win him over.
This mission failed directly, how could I not feel depressed.
Lu Yuan sent the other party away, looking at the lonely figure with a sneer in his heart.
What he said just now was that he deliberately undermined the other party's confidence, and at the same time cut off the relationship with the Evergreen Immortal Sect first.
Now, with his breakthrough to the Earth Immortal, Lu Yuan finally has the ability to protect himself in this troubled world.
At the same time, with his breakthrough, Taipingdao also has four earth immortals, and soon, there will be five or six.
To put it a little more radically, he now has the strength to start a war with the Evergreen Immortal Sect, and he still has a certain chance of winning.
The reason why he didn't take action at this time was mainly because he wanted to wait for his cultivation level to improve a little more, reach the middle stage of Earth Immortal, and grow to the point where he could defeat Song Xiren.
When Jin Qingyue and Yu Peijin become Earth Immortals, the top-level combat power will be further strengthened, turning all potential into strength.
When the number of disciples under his sect expands further, the war machine of Taiping Dao will become more complete.
It was precisely because of waiting for this that Lu Yuan did not take action against the Evergreen Immortal Sect immediately.
But not taking action at this time does not mean doing nothing.
It is also necessary to make some layout preparations in advance for future wars.
Lu Yuan first brought up the bad things that Evergreen Immortal Sect did to Taiping Dao. He named them because they were unkind and the fault lies with them.
Then using these mistakes to directly erase the other party's help to Taiping Dao over the years, this is to eliminate the debt of gratitude.
Otherwise, when the other party is kind, Taipingdao directly attacks the benefactor. This reputation will not be good.
When outsiders see it, they might classify Taiping Dao as the third sect of Jiuzhou and Changqing.
How bad are the reputations of those two sects in the outside world now?
Lu Yuan could see it clearly.
He didn't want his Taiping Dao to become such a sect in the future and be cast aside by the world.
Therefore, it is necessary to decide on the identity first, cut off the relationship, and sever the relationship at this time.
Let the world know first that it was the Evergreen Immortal Sect who acted unjustly first, and then Taiping Dao, forced by past kindness, chose to be patient and suffered this loss.
But because of this, the kindness was wiped out.
After completing this step, Taiping Dao will no longer have any psychological and moral burden when fighting against the Evergreen Immortal Sect in the future.
Doing this seems cumbersome and pedantic.
But in the era outside the Evergreen Territory, when all immortal sects still want to have face, this is necessary.
As long as you don't want to cut yourself off from the world, you must do these face-saving tricks.
Lu Yuan has not yet reached the point of being invincible in the world. He is not even an immortal. Of course, he will not break these rules rashly.
That doesn't do any good.
Fortunately, the Evergreen Immortal Sect is not a good thing, and it has not been a good person in these years. Together with the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect, he took the initiative to reach out to the Taiping Road.
He also made Taiping Road into a smoky mess, causing all the surrounding immortal sects to hear about it.
He gave Taiping Dao an excuse so that Lu Yuan could easily make a cut.
This is true, I cried to death, what a good man.
As for other than the cutting, Lu Yuan took the initiative to reveal that he was going into seclusion to practice cultivation. This was a bid to hide his capabilities and bide his time.
There are too many secrets hidden in Taiping Road now, and the immortals in the door appear one after another. If these things are exposed, it will definitely cause the entire Evergreen to be shocked.
Even the entire Donghua continent will be shocked.
After all, these are not one or two Earth Immortals, but four at a time, or even six soon.
If this news spreads, Lu Yuan doesn't know how the immortal sects outside the territory will react.
But the two immortal sects in the Evergreen Domain would definitely be extremely frightened, and then they would do everything they could to suppress and defend Taiping Dao.
By then, even if Lu Yuan is not afraid, it will seriously slow down the progress of his plan.
In order to avoid these troubles, it is necessary to hide it before the plan officially starts.
He and Yidancheng, as headmasters, were reluctant to leave and had to communicate with the outside world frequently. With his status in Taiping Dao, he might sometimes have to meet other earthly immortals.
Lu Yuan, with his cultivation as an Earth Immortal, wanted to hide those Human Immortals who were a big step behind. This was not difficult, it could be done easily.
But it's not that easy to hide it from those earthly immortals of the same level.
If you are not careful, you will be exposed.
Therefore, in order to avoid this, he and Yidancheng both broke through the Immortal Queen and chose to retreat, hiding in the mountains and not meeting people.
I have been hiding and not meeting people, so naturally there is no possibility of being exposed.
It just so happened that Yi Dancheng abdicated after taking over, giving Lu Yuan an excellent excuse.
Now he has followed suit after abdicating the throne, directly treating it as a system and forming a routine.
In this way, the past was directly covered up, so that outsiders could not guess the reason and could only watch Taiping Dao go crazy.
How perfect.
Even not only he and Yidancheng, but also Cheshidao, who had been stationed in Jiuchuan Kingdom, had been hiding in Shuifu Dragon Palace in recent years, practicing in seclusion there.
Apart from showing his face every few decades, he never made any move, and An Xin became his own ascetic monk.
This is also to hide the fact that he has broken through to the Earth Immortal.
In order to keep a low profile and hide his strength, Lu Yuan turned himself and his many clones into otakus.
They all hid at home and refused to come out.
Fortunately, their posture successfully concealed themselves, and even won praise from the outside world.
Many people believe that all the true immortals on Taiping Dao are dedicated to the Tao. They can endure loneliness and endure hardships. They are indeed the seeds of true immortals and will surely become great talents in the future.
This attitude of neither fighting nor grabbing, focusing on cultivation, and developing steadily has also allowed Taiping Dao's reputation to grow rapidly in recent years.
This was something Lu Yuan had not expected before, and it was a surprise.
