"Of course, are you really going to attend the Tianyu Sect's annual meeting tonight?" Fang Zhi asked worriedly.
"Of course, I am the 10,000th member of the congregation. Tonight's conference has God personally preaching for me. I am a blessing that no one can ask for." Su Ran said happily, "Look at this religious uniform. How does it feel on me, does it feel like a fairy?"
"Your figure looks good in anything you wear." Fang Zhi just glanced at it and said perfunctorily, "Preaching in person does not sound like a reliable thing. You should know this better than me, right? Why do you still think about it? When you go to a party like this, I feel like they don’t have any good intentions for you at all.”
"It's okay, don't worry. I saw the god of divination the night I joined the cult. He has a fairy-like figure and a white face. At first glance, he looks like an old god with profound Taoism. There will definitely be no problem. Then I will I followed Shang Shen to the God Realm, and after I become an immortal, I will come back to pick you and Yan Yan up. Oh, by the way, how has Yan Yan been in the past two days?"
"She's pretty good, it's just you..."
Fang Zhi originally wanted to continue to persuade Su Ran, but seeing Su Ran's excited and longing face now, she didn't know what to say, so she had to swallow the prepared words back in her stomach.
Fang Zhi sighed softly and began to regret getting Su Ran involved in this matter. It had nothing to do with her at first, but now he got Su Ran involved because of himself and Yan Yan.
"Of course, why don't you think about it again, tonight will definitely be unlucky." Fang Zhi still wanted to try harder.
"Teacher Xiao Fang, what are you talking about? Our Tianyu Sect's 900th anniversary celebration is a very happy day, so how could it be so evil?"
Fang Zhi frowned and looked back. Li Chen was walking towards the two of them with his hands behind his back and his beer belly swaying.
After sizing the two people up, Li Chen turned his attention to Su Ran and said with a smile: "Miss Su, this is the first time I have discovered that the uniforms of our Tianyu Sect can be so beautiful. What a beautiful woman is wearing?" They all look good.”
Su Ran rolled his eyes in his heart, but still had a smile on his face, "Why is Elder Li here?"
"The anniversary celebration is too grand. I'm afraid that it's your first time and you don't know how to go about the process and there are some precautions. It's really uneasy, so I just came to take you to participate in person." Li Chen explained road.
I believe your lies, Su Ran thought.
"How are you preparing, Miss Su?" Li Chen asked.
Su Ran nodded, "That's almost it. We can set off."
"Okay." Li Chen turned around and greeted Fang Zhi, "Teacher Xiao Fang, let's go now and see you after the conference."
Fang Zhi nodded, too lazy to answer Li Chen.
Since he let Li Chen get to know Su Ran, Li Chen has obviously paid more attention to Su Ran and has become much colder towards him.
Although Fang Zhi didn't care whether Li Chen paid attention to her or not, and even wished that Li Chen ignored her, she didn't want Li Chen to keep an eye on Su Ran. After all, she was the one who introduced them to each other.
"I'm leaving now to learn more." Su Ran patted Fang Zhi on the shoulder and winked at her.
Fang Zhi sighed helplessly. She knew that she couldn't stop Su Ran now. She could only watch Su Ran follow Li Chen to the annual meeting where something would obviously go wrong.
"Elder Li, will all 10,000 of us church members come to the annual meeting?" Su Ran asked curiously.
If ten thousand people come here, there won't be that much open space in the school.
When Tianyu Sect built the school, it didn't leave much open space. The largest one was a playground that could accommodate two to three thousand people. If all ten thousand people came, the playground wouldn't be able to fit in.
"Of course not. Not everyone can participate in the annual meeting. Only outstanding members of the church can participate in the annual meeting. I made a rough calculation of this annual meeting and found that only a thousand people came. People around." Li Chen explained.
Su Ran nodded, "That's a lot. I don't know what the procedures for the annual meeting are."
Li Chen smiled and said: "Of course it is a relatively conventional process. The first one is for all the believers to worship the God of Divination together. After the worship, Sect Master Chen will start to speak, talking about the development history of our religion and the achievements we have made over the years. Achievements, in the end the sect leader led everyone to look forward to the development direction and bright future of our religion.
After these two items are completed, the most important third item begins. The four elders, including the patriarch, will hold a summoning ceremony for the god of divination. The god will come to the world, encourage the believers, and arrange new arrangements. After a one-year mission, the sect leader will offer sacrifices to the Lord God, and the Lord God will return to the God Realm with the sacrifices.
The last item is for the sect leader to make a summary of the annual meeting, and then everyone leaves in an orderly manner.
In fact, it's almost like having a party at school. The procedures are the same, nothing new.
Oh, by the way, there may be one more item in this conference. After Lord Shangshen has assigned the task, there will be a separate missionary for you. Only after the mission is completed, Lord Shangshen will leave. "
"How does this solo missionary work work? Will it be troublesome?" Su Ran wanted to find out first.
But Li Chen shook his head, "I really don't know this because I have never had such an experience before."
"Is this my first time?"
"right."
"What an honor." Su Ran couldn't help but sigh.
"But it should be similar to an ordinary missionary. You can recite scriptures from the divine world along with the god. After you finish reciting, the god will check how much you have understood, and then you can leave." Li Chen guessed, "You don't have to worry. You are the God of Wealth in the sect now, and God will definitely not make things difficult for you."
Su Ran nodded. Naturally, she wouldn't care if the god of divination would make things difficult for her. In the worst case, she would break the jar.
"Oh, by the way, you just said that the gods will not leave until you offer a sacrifice. What is the sacrifice?" Su Ran suddenly remembered this big question.
Li Chen was stunned and said with a strange expression: "You will know this when the time comes. It's not convenient for me to say it now."
While they were talking, the two of them had already arrived at the playground where the annual meeting was held. Since they were wearing teaching uniforms, the guard at the door only took one look and let them in.
It can be seen that the Tianyu Sect spent a lot of effort to decorate the annual meeting. The stage is half the size of a basketball court, and the portrait of Yin Cheng, the god of divination, hangs on a large curtain in the middle of the stage.
As for why there is no LED screen, it may be because that way the god would not be able to get up.
The huge stage did not have some colorful lights. Instead, it lit a few candles as tall as one person, dimly illuminating the stage. There was also a huge flame logo painted on the stage, just like the one on the teacher's uniform.
Directly opposite the stage is the bleachers of the playground, which is also the auditorium for this annual meeting. It is now densely packed with congregants wearing uniform uniforms.
"Speaking of which, the arrangements for this annual meeting are all thanks to you, Miss Su."
Su Ran was stunned, "What does it have to do with me?"
"Before, the elders in the sect were still worried, saying they didn't know where the funds for the annual meeting would come from, but you just donated 150 million. Now it's better, the annual meeting was successfully held." Li Chen laughed. Laughing, after all, as the person in charge of finance within the sect, if there is really no money to hold the annual meeting in the end, even if it is not his fault, he will bear some responsibility.
Su Ran was a little helpless, "Anyway, Tianyu Sect has developed for so many years, haven't you accumulated some wealth or something?"
"I'm not afraid of making you laugh when I say it. Originally, many of the church members were executives of some listed companies or were from a big family and had their own careers before joining.
Later, after entering the sect, he only wanted to accept God's teachings and follow God to ascend to the upper world as soon as possible. Gradually, his career was wasted.
There are too many places in the sect that need to spend money. The quality of life of the elders needs to be guaranteed, missionary work also needs financial support, and there are so many congregants waiting to open their mouths to eat. These are all places to spend money.
To be honest, if you hadn't brought so much money this time, Miss Su, we would have carried out a major reform this year, and let the congregants solve their own food problems from now on. "
At this point, Li Chen couldn't help but laugh again, "Thanks to you, Miss Su, I, the person in charge of finance, have saved myself a lot of trouble. Otherwise, if this reform really happened, these people wouldn't be able to eat me.
They were fed with plenty of meat and fish every day, and suddenly one day they ran out of food. No matter what happened, they would not be happy. "
Su Ran thought to himself, if I had known about this situation, I would not have given you money. I would have let you be rebelled by the church members in two months.
"Okay, we're here."
When he walked to the entrance of the auditorium, Li Chen's voice and expression became solemn.
After all, since the annual meeting was such a serious matter, he still had to maintain his dignity and identity as an elder. Maybe some young and beautiful girl would fall in love with his temperament and throw herself into his arms.
Su Ran also followed Li Chen's example and tidied up her clothes, then suddenly remembered and said, "By the way, Elder Li, where should I sit? I shouldn't be able to sit casually in this kind of occasion, right? It's not based on status or anything like that."
Li Chen slapped his head: "Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you. Today, there is a session specially held for you, so the seat arranged for you is to sit next to the sect leader and elders, so that you can receive teachings at any time. .”
Su Ran was stunned, "Wouldn't this be too eye-catching?"
"It will be more eye-catching when Lord Shangshen personally preaches to you later." Li Chen chuckled.
Su Ran had no choice but to follow Li Chen and sit next to the elders in the first row of the auditorium. Seeing her arrival, Chen Tianming nodded to her from a distance, and Su Ran also responded. A dry smile.
Sure enough, as soon as Su Ran's butt sat on her seat, she suddenly felt countless eyes staring at her from behind.
Su Ran looked back a little stiffly. Among the dense crowd behind him, more than half of them were pretending to look at him casually, while a small number of people were staring at him blatantly without any hesitation.
"You are putting me on the fire to roast." Su Ran sighed.
"It doesn't matter. You are the God of Wealth in our sect. Who dares to do anything to you? Do they want to eat and drink for free in the sect in the future?" Li Chen glanced behind him, but he didn't expect that so many people were there. Looking here, "Although there are quite a lot of people, most of them are from other sects. They went back after attending the annual meeting. It's not a big problem."
"There is also a foreign sect?" Su Ran was stunned, she had never heard of it.
“The location of the sect leader means that you are joining the inner sect. The number of people in the inner sect is relatively small, but they are all the elites within the sect.
The foreign sects are branch sects scattered across the country, which were gradually formed by the local brothers and sisters who preached. Because the foreign sects are relatively scattered, the total number of people in the sects will be larger. "Li Chen explained.
Su Ran nodded, indicating that he understood.
"Okay, it's almost time, it's time to start." Li Chen reminded in a low voice.
Su Ran also became curious and wanted to see what this annual meeting held with his own money was about.
Sect leader Chen Tianming stood up slowly, and the auditorium that had been noisy just now fell silent.
Chen Tianming slowly raised his hands upward. On the stage in front of everyone, although the portrait of the God of Divination did not use a big screen, the floor of the stage seemed to be a screen. The flame logo began to get brighter and brighter as Chen Tianming raised his hands. , slowly lighting up the entire stage.
When Chen Tianming raised his hands to the top, the huge torches around the stage were as if a bucket of gasoline had been poured on them. The flames that were still swaying suddenly jumped out, and the height of the flames reached more than ten meters in an instant. .
"Is this the God of Divination or the God of Fire?" Su Ran couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the flame logo and the torches that circled around.
"Hello, elders and congregants, I am Chen Tianming, the leader of Tianyu Sect. I welcome you all to attend the annual meeting of our Tianyu Sect's 900th anniversary today. This is the anniversary meeting of all our brothers and sisters of Tianyu Sect. Should be a proud moment!
Since the establishment of Tianyu Sect and since brothers and sisters joined Tianyu Sect, we have experienced countless difficulties, setbacks and ups and downs. Over the years, we..."
Su Ran didn't bother to listen after just two sentences of Chen Tianming's words. Sure enough, it was just like what Li Chen said, some superficial words without any connotation. Moreover, Chen Tianming seemed to have no culture at first glance. His opening remarks were not even as good as those college students at his school's welcome party. They are full of emotions, like a machine that can only read aloud.
However, Chen Tianming's words were indeed long enough. He recited them for more than twenty minutes. Su Ran felt a little drowsy before he stopped.
After Chen Tianming finished his opening remarks, he shouted: "Now please stand up!"
Su Ran woke up immediately and stood up in a daze along with the others.
"kneel!"
Chen Tianming's voice, as high as a bell, echoed in the playground. Su Ran watched everyone around him kneel down, and he quickly followed suit.
"bye!"
Everyone bowed their heads in front of the huge portrait of the God of Divination. Su Ran bowed symbolically. Just as he was about to get up, he saw from the corner of his eye that the people around him still had their heads buried on the ground, so he stopped again. .
"rise!"
Following Chen Tianming's order, everyone stood up and returned to their seats.
Chen Tianming stood up and left his seat, walked to the stage in front of him, put the microphone in his hand to his mouth, and after brewing his emotions for a while, he began to introduce: "This year we have many new believers joining Tianyu Sect. There were also many new friends from all over the country participating in the conference. Some of them have not met each other, have never been to Inner Sect, and do not know much about the history of our religion.
But it doesn’t matter. At this 900th anniversary conference, I will once again explain to you the history and development of my religion.
Our religion was founded in 1122 AD. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the people of the Northern Song Dynasty were in dire straits and the royal family did nothing. They were about to be divided up by the Jin people.
On a wide plain, Zhang Ziqing and Chen Hao stood face to face, imposing as mountains. They are all the most outstanding warriors in the Yandi tribe and possess powerful Taoist power.
Zhang Ziqing stared at Chen Hao, his eyes revealing firmness and determination. He clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and began to recite the incantation silently. The surrounding air began to become thicker, and a powerful energy surged in his body.
Not to be outdone, Chen Hao raised his hands and stood motionless. There was a hint of indifference and confidence in his eyes. As he breathed, a wave of heat emanated from his body, forming a barrier of flames.
As Zhang Ziqing read the last syllable, a golden light shot out from his hand and headed straight for Chen Hao. The light cut through the air like a sharp sword, and it was so fast that it was difficult to dodge.
Chen Hao smiled slightly, quickly formed a seal with his hands, and a huge fireball rose from his hands, facing the golden light. The golden light and the fireball collided together, making a huge explosion.
The battle between the two became more and more intense. Zhang Ziqing transformed into a phoenix, flapped his wings, and blazing flames spurted out from his body and attacked Chen Hao. Chen Hao transformed into a mighty dragon, with its tail swinging and violent winds and flames raging wildly.
In a Taoist competition, the two of you come and go, every move is a matter of life and death. Zhang Ziqing used his thunder and lightning technique, and a bolt of lightning struck down, breaking through Chen Hao's defense. Chen Hao used the earth escape technique to disappear in an instant, avoiding the fatal blow.
At the most intense moment of the battle, both Zhang Ziqing and Chen Hao were wounded all over their bodies, but they still did not flinch and were determined to defeat each other. Their bodies emitted powerful energy fluctuations, as if they were about to destroy the entire plain.
Although the battle is over, the friendship between Zhang Ziqing and Chen Hao has begun. They learn together and make progress together, hoping that one day they can compete again and find each other's shortcomings.
This battle is not only a competition in Taoism, but also a collision of souls. Through this battle, Zhang Ziqing and Chen Hao strengthened their beliefs and gained growth and improvement. They will continue to work hard to strive for a more glorious future for the Yandi tribe.
Fortunately, Lord God came to the world at that time. In order to protect my Chinese dragon vein, he guided our ancestors to establish the Tianyu Sect to issue the heavenly decree.
After the Tianyu Sect was established"
