The flat square is paved and smelted with large pieces of spiritual jade crystals, with an area of tens of thousands of hectares.
At the edge of the square, every hundred steps away stood a crystal pillar about ten feet high with several people hugging each other. The surface of the pillar was covered with mysterious and complex formation patterns with surging spiritual light.
Hundreds of thousands of well-dressed female nuns were serving as guards at the edge of the square, witnessing large groups of young men and women lining up to enter the central area of the square.
They were all dressed in snow-white robes. Under the command of the deacons, they sat in formation on the ground in the designated area, and then waited silently.
After a while, a purple jade cloud platform with a diameter of more than ten feet slowly flew over. On it were a group of high-level female fairies in gorgeous costumes and stunning beauty. There were almost none below Da Luo.
The cloud platform landed lightly near the central area of the square. The female fairies were like stars holding the moon, surrounding a beautiful young man with eyes like paint and a dragon and phoenix figure walking down.
"... Junior brother, there are three million cultivators coming this time. This is the first batch, numbering 150,000. I will leave the rest to you!"
The graceful, noble, bright and dignified Buddha Lord Miaoxin beside him said with a sweet smile.
Qin Muling nodded, and accompanied by his senior sisters, he walked up to the high platform next to him. He looked down attentively with his painted eyes. These 30,000 boys and girls were arranged in square formations. They held their breath and meditated, without squinting, and sat upright. straight.
Each of the five supreme Taoist powers in the Buddhist lineage owns one to several complete fairy realms and governs more than 100 million people in the world. If the population base is large enough, there will naturally be enough young people with excellent qualifications and suitable for embarking on the path of cultivation.
Of course, the resources of any power are limited, and it is impossible to open the door to accept disciples, so the entry threshold must be raised. Based on the principle of erring on the side of shortage, the cultivation seedlings that can be officially admitted and invested in cultivating will always be just Very few.
Even though the current Yunmeng Heavenly Palace no longer lacks training resources, and has appropriately relaxed the standards for recruiting new members out of consideration for expanding the power of the sect, it has not reached the point where the good and the bad are not distinguished, and the good and the bad are ignored.
Just like the three million cultivation seedlings sent by the Buddhist lineage this time, from the private sector to the branches of the sect's Taoist temples and to the sect's main altar, they have all gone through at least four rounds of selection and defeated hundreds of competitors. , and only after passing it will you have the opportunity to appear in front of Qin Muling.
Of course, even after reaching this point, they still cannot say that they can sit back and relax, and about 70% of them will still be eliminated in the end.
"Junior brother, take your time and take a look. If it's suitable, it doesn't matter if the number of people shortlisted is slightly larger." Lord Miaoxin Buddha added.
Qin Muling agreed and slowly turned on his innate magical power. His vision changed quietly. Above the heads of these boys and girls, there were fortune phenomena of varying strength and shape.
Those with weak luck and weak foundation will look like just a thin white qi; those with slight foundation and fair luck will have white qi appear thicker and more solid, with a faint red color emerging in the center of the white qi. .
If it is the kind of seedling with good foundation, noble destiny, and strong luck, the clouds above the head will appear golden or even cyan, and occasionally there will be phantoms of stars, lotus, exotic beasts and birds, Ganoderma lucidum, etc. Vision.
No matter which orthodox power comes across such a seedling, they will compete to accept it. Those high-ranking figures will personally take it under their tutelage and invest a lot of resources in carefully cultivating it.
However, such examples are very few. Qin Muling looked around and found only a few people.
Most boys and girls' basic luck and destiny are only qualified, and they can be trained as handyman disciples or outer disciples.
As for whether they can go one step further in the future and become inner disciples or even true disciples, in addition to sufficient hard work and hard work, it depends on their own opportunities.
It didn't take long for Qin Muling to get the result. Among the first batch of 150,000 people, more than 48,000 people were finally chosen by him.
The remaining losers are actually not bad. If they were placed among the first- and second-rate Taoist forces, they would definitely be disciple candidates who meet the requirements. However, in front of the standards of some supreme Taoist powers, they are not enough.
Qin Muling informed the results
After learning about Lord Miaoxin, she immediately asked the Buddhist elders around her to write down the list, then asked these boys and girls to withdraw, and then arranged for the second batch of candidates to come over.
After returning, the senior management of Buddhism will definitely have to review it again. Of course, Qin Muling did not do anything, so the final result will not be any different.
Just like this, I read batch after batch. By the time the last wave of candidates was finished, three days and three nights had passed.
Under Qin Muling's screening, among the more than 970,000 people who were finally shortlisted, a total of four candidates were discovered who had strong luck and good fortune and excellent basic talents, which were equivalent to the seeds of evil geniuses. There are nearly a hundred first-rate genius seeds, more than 2,000 second-rate genius seeds, and the rest are basically made up of numbers.
However, there are no absolutes in anything. Examples of people who were clearly just handyman disciples when they first started, but because of chance and encounters, their cultivation levels soared into the sky. This is not particularly rare in the Taixu starry sky or the upper world.
"Thank you for your hard work, little junior brother,"
Lord Miaoxin said with satisfaction: "The agreed reward will be given to you immediately. In addition, after the arrangements for this group of disciples are made, the master may continue to send people over for you to help with the eye. Is that okay?"
Qin Muling nodded slightly: "No problem, it's just a matter of effort."
Half a day later, the Tianzhou Tower Boat Team of the Buddhist lineage hurriedly left with these boys and girls. After all, male cultivators were not allowed to stay in the main altar of Yunmeng Tiangong for a long time.
However, there are still millions of Buddhist nuns who remain. This is an additional investment by the Buddhist lineage in the female nuns' alliance, and of course it is also to make full use of the vast territory allocated to Buddhism.
Several other female cultivators have done the same thing. Since the last time Yunmeng Tiangong defeated the Taoist attack, they have all increased their investment in the female cultivator alliance, sending out tens of millions to millions. The disciples came to stay at the main altar of Yunmeng Tiangong.
The elegant Ji Qingluan also came over, put his jade arms around Qin Muling's waist, and said with a smile: "Junior brother, the Ji family's Tianzhoulou boat team will arrive in a few days, let's come together then ?Only you can do this!"
"Okay, let's go together then."
Qin Muling sighed and looked at the senior sisters around him: "If you have the same need, please bring it up quickly and let Master arrange the timetable so that you won't be caught off guard when things happen."
"Okay, then I'll help you, junior brother!"
Haoxue, Tong Ying, Lan Hua, Jing Lan and other female emperors couldn't help but agreed. If they had such an opportunity, there was no reason to miss it.
"..."
The upper realm, the kingdom of the demon king.
The cardinal center of this super power is located above the sky, in a time and space world opened up by the Demon King himself with his great supernatural powers.
In the inner garden of the Tiangong, the clouds are steaming, the clouds are bright, the light and shadow are hazy, the Yaochi with a radius of millions of miles is vast and majestic, and the mysterious and unpredictable Taoist atmosphere permeates the space.
In the pavilion by the pool, on a warm jade cloud bed several feet long and wide, the Demon Emperor's eyes were slightly closed with a lazy look, as if he was sleeping but not sleeping.
She appeared to be a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, with a beautiful face and delicate and picturesque facial features. Her long green hair spread like a waterfall on the cloud bed. Her figure under the bright yellow skirt was voluptuous and smooth, with ups and downs.
The key is that behind her, ten snow-white and holy fox tails cover her body like a big cloak. Each hair is shining with a soft, holy, clear and noble brilliance, like a bright full moon, shrouding the emperor. in it.
The ten-tailed celestial fox is the current demon king's kingdom, or the supreme master of the demon clan's heaven. His cultivation is unfathomable, and his supernatural powers are powerful enough to hold the stars and the moon, and change the world!
There are so many powerful people in the demon clan heaven, and peerless monsters and giants emerge in endlessly. At any time, there is no shortage of careerists who covet the position of the demon emperor, and they always want to replace him. However, in front of this seemingly weak emperor, they are all knocked down. Bleeding heads and heavy losses.
The Demon Emperor has been in charge of the supreme authority of the demon clan for hundreds of millions of years, commanding countless demon clans, and her position is as stable as a rock. Until now, no one has been able to oust her from the throne.
Around the cloud bed, not far away from the corridor pillars, hundreds of confidants lowered their eyebrows and lowered their eyes.
He stood with his hands down, quietly waiting for the summons from His Majesty the Demon Emperor.
After an unknown amount of time, an old man in red robe with an Eguan Bo belt and a cold and majestic look hurriedly walked over from the depths of the fog in the distance. Many guards along the way turned a blind eye.
"His Majesty……"
The old man in red robe stood three feet away from the cloud bed, bowed slightly and called softly.
The Demon King, who was wandering in a fuzzy state, quietly woke up, opened his beautiful eyes that captivated all sentient beings, and spoke in a ethereal, magnetic voice: "What's going on?"
"The one from the Shiyuan Star Palace woke up again two days ago and met with his direct disciple Bingchan who returned from the Taixu Starry Sky. It seemed that they talked for a long time..."
The old man in red robe stated calmly: "As for the specific content of the conversation, we have no way of knowing because of our insufficient eye contact."
"..."
The Demon Emperor was silent for a while, and his voice turned cold: "She is so sneaky and hidden, no one would believe her if she has no evil intentions!"
"Thinking about it, it's unlikely to be something else. Duogan is about the whereabouts of the innate Hongmeng spiritual seed, right?"
"After deductive reasoning, I believe that this possibility is indeed very high!" The old man in red robe agreed.
The Demon King slowly sat upright with his long and plump body, his eyes were serious, and he said calmly:
"After the battle in the chaotic void, her injuries were not particularly serious, but she recovered not long after, and her cultivation level reached a higher level, all thanks to the innate Hongmeng spiritual seed!"
"It's a pity that the emperor believed in that *** and promised to temporarily hand over the innate Hongmeng spiritual seed to her for safekeeping. Little did he know that she actually went straight to the ink and refused to let the emperor see her again!"
The red-robed old man pursed his lips and said nothing. The grudges that existed tens of millions of years ago have never been resolved to this day. The reason for the frequent wars between the two superpowers is the ownership of this innate Hongmeng spiritual seed.
It was only when the Demon Queen came that she learned that the innate Hongmeng spiritual seed had actually been hidden in the main altar of the Origin Star Palace in the Taixu starry sky, and had not been carried by the owner of the star palace.
Unfortunately, by the time she received the news, the main altar of the Origin Star Palace in Taixu Star Sky had been destroyed by those Taoist forces, and the innate Hongmeng spiritual seed that had been nourished in the Qianye Merit Green Lotus Pond was also destroyed. Fly away without a trace.
Siyuan Star Palace has been conducting overt and covert investigations on this matter, but so far there seems to be no substantial progress. Otherwise, the owner of the Star Palace should have taken the crucial step towards eternal transcendence long ago!
"How do you think this matter should be handled?"
After thinking for a long time, the Demon King finally asked.
The red-robed old man said softly: "Now that the date of the unification of the two realms is getting closer and closer, those forces have begun to spread out in the Taixu starry sky. Naturally, our holy race cannot fall behind. It is better to send some of our forces to come over there first. Lay down the foundation.”
The Demon King nodded lightly: "This is what it should be, and we need more manpower. We can put other things aside for the time being and focus on monitoring the movements of the Shiyuan Star Palace. If we can detect the whereabouts of the innate Hongmeng Spirit Seed, You must report back immediately!"
"I feel that this innate Hongmeng spiritual seed is unlikely to return to the chaotic void, let alone come to the upper world. It is probably still hiding in the Taixu star sky!"
Previously in the Kingdom of the Demon King, those masters who were good at mystical and non-deductive reasoning tended to believe that since the innate chicken spirit species was an innate divine object born in the depths of the chaotic void, most of them would return to the chaotic void after they escaped from trouble. , it is unlikely to stay in the Taixu starry sky.
The Demon Emperor has always been dubious about this. After all, as one of the two top powers who had come into contact with the Innate Hongmeng Spirit Seed, she firmly believed that her intuition would not be wrong.
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will go and take action on this matter right now!"
The old man in red robe said respectfully, bowed his hands and bowed out.
The Empress was silent for a moment, then said calmly: "If she really has recovered the innate Hongmeng spiritual seed, how should we deal with it?"
In the space, a cold and eerie voice came: "We can't let her get it, we must use all means to get it back, including restarting the war!"
"Yes, I think so too."
The Demon King said calmly: "One day, I will make her understand that you can't keep other people's things! She couldn't compete with me back then, but today, the result will not change in any way!"
Faced with the opportunity of attaining enlightenment, becoming a saint, and eternal transcendence, there is absolutely no reason to give in. From the standpoint of the Demon King, even if the last drop of blood of the trillions of monsters is shed, there is no way to give in!
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The main altar of Shenhuang Palace.
In the secret palace sealed by numerous formations, the Grand Palace Master sat in the middle, surrounded by the supreme elders of his faction.
"...That's what happened. After I come back this time, I can't stay long. I have to go over there after the matter is settled. I won't feel relieved if I don't personally stay by his side!"
After recounting his experience in the Taixu Starry Sky, the Grand Palace Master with a solemn expression finally said this.
"Well, that's as it should be,"
A beautiful woman with blond hair, blue eyes, and dazzling snow-skinned skin smiled slightly: "Since the founder of our Divine Phoenix Palace, we have never heard of any Supreme Headmaster accepting a male cultivator as his direct disciple. But if it is the innate Hongmeng who created Qinglian, then it is only natural!"
These Supreme Elders who once held high positions in the Divine Phoenix Palace looked at each other and smiled. Being able to obtain the incarnation of the Qinglian created by the innate Hongmeng early would be beneficial to the sect and themselves in just three days. I couldn't finish talking for three nights.
There is no need to doubt the authenticity of the matter. Just seeing that the Grand Palace Master went out for this trip, his own luck increased by more than 10%, and with the inspiration and Tao Yun from the innate Hongmeng creation Qinglian, he healed several seriously injured Taiyuan on the spot. Elder, do you need more evidence?
"But, Headmaster, are you really not going to tell them about this?"
A pretty and lively girl who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old asked: "We are all fellow disciples. If we keep hiding such an important opportunity from them, I'm afraid they will have objections in the future!"
She was talking about the high-level sects of other factions. Strictly speaking, the Grand Palace Master’s current operations violated the sect’s laws. If any core elders made a fuss about this matter and criticized her afterwards, it would be a big deal. trouble.
The Grand Palace Master shook his head: "This matter is too involved. Everything must be done with the first goal of ensuring Qin Muling's safety. Let's not talk about it for now. We will discuss this matter when I return to the sect next time!"
She can still shoulder this responsibility. In addition to the consideration of confidentiality, she also has some small thoughts of her own, giving priority to the senior members of the faction to enjoy the benefits. This can enhance the faction's voice in the sect and allow other factions to settle down. Share a little.
"Now, Master, what are you going to do? Bring another group of people to the Taixu Starry Sky?"
A dignified young woman who was gentle and quiet, like a lady, asked softly: "If possible, let me come with you! After staying in this secret realm of the sect for so long, I really want to go out for a walk and relax. Woolen cloth!"
Her words attracted the glances of the senior and junior sisters around her. Do you want to go out to relax? We are too embarrassed to expose you!
