The white clouds look back and merge, and the green mist comes in to see nothing.
In the Jiuchong Mountains, at the foot of Qingyun Ridge, the Tianyan Sect's mountain gate square is crowded with people. It's time to recruit new disciples.
In previous years, Hong Tao stood in front and stared at the six-year-old children testing their spiritual roots. This year, he successfully entered the late stage of foundation building and was promoted to a position in the Internal Affairs Hall. At this time, he only had to sit back and sip tea and watch the two promoted by his subordinates. Just keep people busy in front.
The early spring wind was blowing, and Hong Tao put down the new Peiyuan Green Tea from Huaxi Valley and looked at the commotion in front of him, and the children were all in high spirits.
Every time like this, he would think of Jiang Yuebai. Along the way, from a qi-training monk to the late stage of foundation building, he is expected to form an elixir. The great elder even took a fancy to him and intentionally recommended him to be the successor after forming an elixir. In charge of the Internal Affairs Hall, all these are influenced by Jiang Yuebai.
Just for the reason why he successfully advanced this time, it was also because he bet all his wealth on Jiang Yuebai's victory last time in the Fengyun Society. This way he got a large amount of spiritual stones, so that he could concentrate on training without worrying about training resources.
Otherwise, if he is given another ten years, he will not be able to reach the late stage of foundation building.
"I don't know what level of cultivation Junior Sister Jiang is now. If she breaks through to the later stage, I will call her Senior Sister."
Thinking of this, Hong Tao felt a little weird. She was obviously the little girl he had watched grow up.
"What's the matter with you little monk? You said we are a Taoist sect and we won't accept Buddhist disciples. Why don't you listen?"
"I... I just became a monk because I was abandoned outside the temple. I don't want to be a monk anymore. Just let me test it. What if I have spiritual roots and can practice?"
The sound of quarreling came from the front. Hong Tao stood up and separated from the crowd of onlookers and walked over. He saw a six or seven-year-old bald man wearing shabby gray-blue monk clothes and carrying a bamboo hat on his back.
His body was covered in dirt, his knees were in tatters, and his feet were covered with bloody scabs and scars that were almost stuck to the straw sandals. He looked pitiful.
Hong Tao suddenly remembered Jiang Yuebai back then.
"Did you climb up from Jiuchong Mountain?" Hong Tao asked.
The miscellaneous disciples of Tianyan Sect in front of the mountain gate saw Hong Tao, who looked majestic and had a beard on his lips, and hurriedly bowed their hands in bow.
The little monk turned his head, sniffed, and nodded vigorously.
"Well, I heard from the Taoist priest in my hometown's Taoist temple that there is a fairy gate on the mountain. You can enter the fairy gate by climbing up. My master gave me this rosary before he died. The jackals, tigers and leopards on the road will not eat me."
The little monk looked innocent and unsuspecting, and raised the beads in his hand to Hong Tao.
"Are you really not planning to be a monk anymore and want to practice Taoism?" Hong Tao asked.
The little monk scratched his bald head in distress, "I don't know either, but Master asked me to live. I heard that immortals can live forever..."
"Test his spiritual roots."
Hong Tao ordered the Tianyan Sect's miscellaneous disciples to immediately bring the young monk to the soul-measuring monument. The young monk hesitated and finally pressed his hand on it.
Yellow and white rays of light gradually emerged from the spirit-detecting stele, and became stronger and stronger. Among them, the yellow ray of light representing the earth spirit root surpassed the eighth scale and was close to the ninth.
There was an uproar.
"The two spiritual roots of metal and earth, the main earth and the auxiliary metal, are rooted in...the eight earth and seven metals."
In the end, the yellow light did not exceed the ninth scale, but this kind of qualification is already the ultimate in dual spiritual roots.
Hong Tao personally took the wooden sign and handed it to the young monk. The young monk tightened his clothes and did not take it. He asked with some expectation in his eyes, "After entering the Taoist gate, will I no longer be able to chant sutras and worship Buddha?"
Hong Tao nodded, and mist suddenly appeared in the little monk's eyes, and he hesitated and took half a step back.
"Young monk wants to practice Buddhism, how about I show you a clear path?"
A clear and hearty voice came, and the crowd parted ways and turned around to look, and saw a female cultivator in white clothes walking through the air with her face covered by a gauze veil. She had an ethereal posture, looking forward to the sky, bending her eyes and smiling like a star, making everyone in the square momentarily stunned. Stunned.
"Sister Fairy! Is she a fairy sister from heaven?"
The children looked at the visitor with stars in their eyes, and the cultivators of Tianyan Sect looked at them with confusion. They had never seen such a female cultivator at the golden elixir stage, but she had a personal disciple token of Tianyan Sect hanging on her waist.
The female cultivator landed, flicked her sleeves, took off her veil and smiled at everyone.
"Master Wangshu of Heavenly Crying Peak is here."
Hong Tao was shocked in his heart and almost crushed the wooden sign in his hand. All the Tianyan Sect monks around him who recognized Jiang Yuebai were also shocked beyond measure, with their mouths wide open.
When she left the sect two years ago, she was still in the late stage of foundation building. She came back only two years later and she had already formed a core?
How old is she? Start practicing at the age of six, build the foundation at the age of fifteen, and create the golden elixir at the age of twenty-nine?
This kind of speed is not so fast in Tianyan Sect, even the ancestor!
Hong Tao couldn't believe that Jiang Yuebai was the Five Spiritual Roots, or the Five Spiritual Roots that he had measured personally. Even the Heavenly Spiritual Roots could not match this speed.
At that time, Hong Tao thought that Jiang Yuebai's statement about wanting to be Lu Xingyun's second best was a child's joke. Looking at it now, she was afraid that she would not be able to be second best, but would surpass her ancestor's achievement!
While Jiang Yuebai was still standing, Hong Tao was the first to react and hurriedly led the surrounding disciples to bow in bow.
"Greetings to Master Wangshu."
Everyone shouted in unison. This momentum made all the children present feel numb with excitement and couldn't control themselves with excitement.
"Um."
Jiang Yuebai hummed lightly, she was now a Jindan Master, she had to be more calm in front of outsiders, and she had to learn how Master Fuyi behaved on weekdays.
Jiang Yuebai turned around to see her master nodding to her from high in the sky, and returned to the sect first.
Before she even arrived at the mountain gate, she had already clearly seen everything happening here with her super long-distance consciousness. She took a liking to this young monk at a glance, explained the whole story to her master, and came here only after she got his approval.
Jiang Yuebai ignored the others and walked straight to the little monk who was looking at her dumbfounded. After thinking about it, she knelt down to look at him levelly.
"You want to live forever but don't want to practice Taoism, right?"
The young monk's cheeks turned slightly red when Jiang Yuebai saw him, and he lowered his head shyly, "Well, I still want to pray to the Buddha."
"You can live forever if you practice Buddhism. I promised a person to find a disciple for him to leave the inheritance of his lineage. He is also a monk, a um... not quite a monk. Do you want to hear about him? story?"
Jiang Yuebai's voice was soft and his eyes were smiling, making the young monk feel more cordial and nodded.
"Okay, then I will take you back to where I live first. After you listen to his story, if you are willing to accept his inheritance, I will pass it on to you. If not, I will have someone send you to the Vajra Platform, where It’s a Buddhist holy place.”
"Okay, thank you fairy sister."
Jiang Yuebai smiled. She was actually thirty this spring, and she felt a little uncomfortable being called sister.
"Master Hong..." Jiang Yuebai stood up and called his senior brother almost out of habit. He paused and said, "Manager Hong, I will take this young monk back to Tiancrying Peak first. My master knows about this and he will go there." Tell the sect leader, you don’t have to be embarrassed.”
Hong Tao came to his senses from his daze, "Ah? Okay! Hard-working Jiang... Hard-working Wangshu Master."
Jiang Yuebai nodded, his big sleeves rolled up in the wind, and the cranes chirped loudly and sweetly.
Under the envious gazes of all the children, Jiang Yuebai took the little monk up on the crane and flew to the Qingyun Fairy Mountain surrounded by clouds and mist.
At that time, the sky was crying on the peak.
Jiang Ziying, who is already twelve years old, is running at lightning speed, carrying a sickle and chasing a little kitten with three tails all over the mountain.
In the cat demon's mouth, she held the red fruit that she had managed to cultivate.
"Stop! You bad cat, when Uncle Jiang comes back, I will sue you."
Meow! !
Ouch~~
Qionglin Tiger slept in the shadow under the tree and yawned.
(End of chapter)
