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Chapter 327 Tianjing Villa, the Dharma Assembly Begins [Subscription Request]

Jiufeng Ridge.

When Zhou Chun came to visit Zhou Mingde with the invitation to Tianjing Zhenren's preaching session, Zhou Mingde was also shocked by this.

Although he lived two hundred years longer than Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde had never participated in any sermons given by Yuanying stage masters.

The last time a Jindan-stage cultivator in Jingguo succeeded in breaking the elixir and forming an infant was more than 500 years ago.

The last time a Jindan-stage cultivator in Fengguo succeeded in breaking the elixir and forming an infant was more than four hundred years ago.

Moreover, these newly promoted Yuanying stage immortals all come from major sects in the two countries. Even if they hold preaching sessions, they are only for disciples of their own sect. At most, they will invite some vassal families under the sect to attend the lectures.

A Yuanying Zhenren like Zhenren Tianjing is extremely rare even in the entire world of immortal cultivation.

In the history of Yasukuni Shrine, this has not happened for at least several thousand years!

Therefore, this time, Master Tianjing held a Dharma lecture at Tianjing Villa and invited three thousand monks to attend the lecture. This was undoubtedly a great opportunity for those invited monks.

Even a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator like Zhou Mingde was fascinated by this.

However, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun both knew that Master Tianjing's high-profile behavior was probably intended to be a noble end.

It is very likely that the things they were most worried about before will actually become a reality!
In this case, it is questionable whether the Zhou family should participate in this sermon.

"Let's take a look at the performance of Qinglian Temple and other families. According to what Yan Chu said, Tianjing Villa will definitely not only send invitations to our Zhou family, but also to other immortal cultivation families in the surrounding states."

"If the Xie family of Lianzhou and other great immortal cultivation families have also received the invitation and will send people over, then we should not miss this rare opportunity that only comes once in a thousand years, and just go!"

After Zhou Mingde pondered for a while, he gave his own opinion.

Going with the crowd may not necessarily bring you credit, but it generally doesn't involve taking responsibility, so it's the safest option.

Especially since the Zhou family was not a direct descendant of the Qinglian Temple, it would be difficult for them to receive the treatment of a direct descendant no matter what. There was no need to show anything deliberately at this time.

If you overdo it and become an example to others, that would be a serious problem.

Therefore, after listening to Zhou Mingde's words, Zhou Chun also agreed.

Zhou Daoyi had no objection either.

So half a month later, Zhou Chun and his Taoist partner Su Yuzhen visited the Xie family in Lianzhou to inquire from the Xie family about the attitude of Qinglian Temple towards the "Tianjing Dharma Assembly".

Half a month had passed by now, and all the invitations had long been sent out, and all those that should have been received had already been received.

The date of the "Tian Jing Dharma Assembly" stated in the invitation is less than three months away.

Therefore, after Zhou Chun visited the Xie family this time, he got accurate information without spending much effort.

Qinglian Temple did not have the idea of ​​stopping the immortal cultivation families under its command from sending people to participate in the "Tian Jing Dharma Assembly", and it would even send thirty cultivators to participate in the Dharma Assembly.

However, according to the Xie family, they will only send the clan leader and some elders and core clan members to participate in the ceremony, and none of the family's supreme elders will go.

This gave Zhou Chun an idea in his mind.

After he returned to the family, he immediately informed the two supreme elders of the results of his trip.

"Since Qinglian Temple won't stop us, what else can we say?"

"In this way, in addition to me and Daoquan staying behind in the family and Longxing Valley, Daoyi, you will lead the team yourself and bring Zhengchun and the others to participate in this ceremony."

Zhou Mingde immediately made the decision and arrangements.

Then he pondered for a moment and continued, "Well, don't take the Green Dragon with you. I'll give you the Fire God Jackal to take with you, just in case!"

Zhou Daoyi understood his concerns clearly and nodded in agreement immediately.

Then he asked Zhou Chun to arrange the candidates who would travel with the team.

Going to listen to a Nascent Soul Stage Immortal's sermon is an opportunity that only comes once in a thousand years, so naturally many Zhou family cultivators want to go.

But there are only ten places available, so it is certain that only a very small number of people will be able to go.

After some research and discussion, Zhou Chun finally decided that only two elders would go, and the remaining five places would be given to the younger generations of the family.

This is done for safety reasons.

Although nothing should go wrong during this ceremony, as a family, one should always be prepared for any unexpected events.

Therefore, the family elders must not all go out to participate in an event, otherwise if something goes wrong, the family inheritance will be interrupted.

Now the Zhou family has exactly six elders. Excluding Zhou Jiapeng and Zhou Zhengyong who are in charge of the pioneer stronghold and Longxing Valley, among the four elders in the family, Zhou Jiarui is the best candidate for acting patriarch in the absence of Zhou Chun. It is not convenient for him to go out with Zhou Chun. Zhou Xinlan has just successfully established his foundation and has not yet completed the transformation of his practice. There is no point in going to participate in the ceremony at this time.

So the positions of the two elders were easily determined, namely Zhou Jiahe and Zhou Zhengyuan.

The other five younger generations are Zhou Zhengqing, Zhou Xindie, Zhou Xintie, Zhou Xinyi, and Zhou Zhengbai.

Naturally, these five younger generations who were able to follow and attend the "Tian Jing Dharma Assembly" were all outstanding talents of the Zhou family. It could even be said that they were the ones with the greatest potential for building a foundation among their peers.

With these two foundation-building elders, five younger generations in the Qi-refining stage, plus Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Chun, and Su Yuzhen, there are exactly ten people in total.

It is worth mentioning that the Jiangzhou Su family was not included in the invitation range of Tianjing Zhenren.

Not only the Jiangzhou Su family was not invited, but also the other direct descendants of the Yuelun Sect and the Yanyang Sect's Jindan families were not invited.

However, golden elixir families such as the Li family of elixirs and the You family of formations received invitations, and the number of people invited to attend the ceremony was as many as twenty!

This special treatment also seems to send a certain signal.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the time for the "Tian Jing Dharma Assembly" was approaching.

On this day, Zhou Daoyi led the team personally, and the Zhou family members used their own methods and flew to Tianjing Villa together.

In the sky, Zhou Daoyi was flying alone in front, Su Yuzhen and his Taoist companion Zhou Chun were sitting on the back of a golden-winged tiger, Zhou Jiahe and Zhou Zhengyuan were each riding a red-eyed dragon eagle, with a Qi Refining stage junior on board, and the remaining three Qi Refining stage juniors were riding on one red-eyed dragon eagle.

As this team flew through the air, it also attracted the attention of some monks along the way.

When they saw the golden-winged tiger and the red-eyed dragon vultures behind it, any cultivator who had heard of the Zhou family instantly recognized the group's origins.

"So it's the Zhou family's head, Zhou Zhengchun, and his wife who are traveling. No wonder there's such a grand ceremony!"

"The Red-Eyed Dragon Vulture has the blood of a dragon. One can carry three to five people and travel three thousand miles a day. It's really a great thing!"

"The Lanzhou Zhou family, a family that has inherited the art of taming beasts, has three purple palaces, a dragon and a jackal. They are the number one family under the aristocratic families, and their reputation is well-deserved!"

From Lanzhou to Lingzhou, all the cultivators who saw the Zhou family members on the road were talking about them and sighing with admiration.

Although the Zhou family has been in Jingguo for less than a hundred years, the name of the Zhou family is already widely known in Jingguo.

Especially in the states under the jurisdiction of Qinglian Temple, few cultivators are unfamiliar with the reputation of the Zhou family in Jiufengling, Lanzhou. When the group arrived outside Tianjing Villa in Lingzhou, many cultivators who had had interactions with the Zhou family came up to greet Zhou Chun.

At this time, Tianjing Villa has become the most dazzling place in Yasukuni Shrine.

Hundreds of cultivators from various states of Jingguo, including Lingzhou, Lanzhou, Yunzhou, Lianzhou, and Cangzhou, gathered here.

Its level of liveliness was second only to the "Conference of a Hundred Races" organized by the three major forces at the time.

The influx of a large number of monks made the originally spacious Tianjing Villa suddenly appear quite compact and small.

"Have you heard? It is said that among the personnel sent by the three major forces this time, there is not a single Jindan-stage cultivator. Only a few core disciples of the Purple Mansion stage led a group of foundation-building cultivators to participate in the ceremony!"

In a small courtyard inside Tianjing Villa, when Zhou Chun was gathering with some clan leaders of immortal cultivation families, someone suddenly said something mysterious that made him and many clan leaders concentrate.

He turned his eyes and saw that the person who spoke was a little old man with the cultivation level of the late foundation building stage. He was not tall and had a rather wretched appearance.

It is really surprising that such a person could be chosen as the patriarch of a family.

However, Zhou Chun discovered that he did not know this person, and the other party should not be a cultivator from Lanzhou, Lianzhou, or Yunzhou.

Just when Zhou Chun was thinking about who to find out about this person's origins, he suddenly heard another cultivator say in a deep voice: "The various sects of the upper sect have their own considerations on how to act, so we'd better be careful with what we say!"

Zhou Chun recognized the cultivator who was speaking this time. He was the patriarch of a direct family under Qingyun Temple.

Because of his status, after he said this, no one else talked about it anymore.

But everyone couldn't help but ponder what the old man said.

If that is true, the intentions of the three major sects are intriguing.

Soon another two days passed, and on the day of the "Tian Jing Dharma Assembly" came, Zhou Chun and other cultivators were guided by the people from Tianjing Villa to a bluestone square deep in the villa.

This bluestone square is circular in shape, with a diameter of five hundred feet. In the center is a circular stone platform with a diameter of three feet and a height of thirty feet.

On the square surrounding the circular stone platform, there are thousands of small stone platforms scattered around.

There are three types of small stone platforms. One is ten feet in diameter and ten feet high, with a total of twenty-four. One is seven feet in diameter and seven feet high, with a total of three hundred. One is three feet in diameter and three feet high, with a total of thousands.

According to the monks of Tianjing Villa, the three stone platforms correspond to the monks in the three realms of Jindan, Zifu and Zhuji respectively.

Because there are not so many foundation-building cultivators, Qi-refining cultivators can also climb onto the smallest stone platform.

This may also be the most embarrassing thing about Tianjing Villa.

After all, they are not as powerful as the three major sects. Even though they had the protection of Master Tianjing and gathered hundreds of independent cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage, they are still far inferior to the three major sects.

This is reflected in the fact that none of the many stone platforms originally prepared can accommodate the number of cultivators of the corresponding level of cultivation.

There were only eight Jindan-stage cultivators sitting on the twenty-four first-level stone platforms, and most of the visitors were the rulers of Jindan families like the Li family, who did not have deep ties with the three major sects.

There were only more than sixty Purple Mansion Stage cultivators sitting on the three hundred second-level stone platforms, and more than ten of them were cultivators from Tianjing Villa.

On the remaining three stone platforms, there were less than four hundred true Foundation Establishment cultivators sitting there.

This embarrassing situation was visibly visible to the naked eye, and it was only thanks to the fact that the monks from Tianjing Villa were able to remain calm and sit on the corresponding stone platforms according to their cultivation level.

Zhou Chun, together with other Zhou family cultivators, sat cross-legged on the third-level stone platform.

In front of him was the area where the second-level stone platform was located, where Zhou Daoyi and Su Yuzhen were sitting.

When all the invited monks were seated in the square, a golden beam of light suddenly descended from the sky and shone on the high platform in the center of the square.

Then, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, an old man in a white robe with white hair and a youthful face descended from the sky and landed on the platform in an instant.

"Greetings to the Ancestor of the Heavenly Mirror!"

I don't know which cultivator from Tianjing Villa shouted, but the cultivators from Tianjing Villa and many independent cultivators who were seated all put their hands in front of them, one hand pressing on the other, their foreheads touching the backs of their hands, and began to kowtow.

On the other hand, Zhou Chun and other monks who were invited here just bowed their heads and said respectfully, "Greetings to Master Tianjing!"

"Fellow Taoists, there is no need to be so polite. Please stand up!"

A majestic voice rang out from the podium, and it seemed to have a strange power that went straight to people's hearts, making them irresistible.

"Thank you, ancestor!"

"Thank you, Master!"

Everyone stood up and thanked him, their attitude very respectful.

Then he saw Tianjing Zhenren sitting cross-legged on the high platform, and he said slowly: "Today, I will give a lecture here, following the ancient rituals and old system, teaching everyone, regardless of your background or cultivation level, as long as you come here, you can listen to the lecture!"

"The great way is infinite, and there are countless methods. The methods I have taught only represent my own opinion. Fellow Taoists, please just listen to them. If you have different opinions, don't worry about it. Just follow your heart and do what you want!"

Such statements also surprised Zhou Chun.

He didn't expect that Master Tianjing, a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage, would be so humble.

"No, this is not humility, but reverence for the Tao!"

“Even if you are a Yuanying Stage True Person, you are still just a seeker on the road. Before you have truly achieved the Great Dao of Immortality, no one dares to say that the path you are on is the Great Dao to Heaven!”

Zhou Chun suddenly realized something and immediately understood the true meaning of Master Tianjing's words.

However, Master Tianjing had already started his lecture at this time.

"The world has spiritual energy, and human beings have spiritual roots. Only those with spiritual roots can breathe in spiritual energy, condense magic power, and lay the foundation for the Tao..."

Starting from the initial practice process of an immortal cultivator, Master Tianjing slowly expressed his understanding of the practice in the Qi Refining Stage.

Although Zhou Chun and other Foundation Establishment cultivators and Purple Mansion cultivators had already passed this stage, they still gained a lot from listening to a Nascent Soul cultivator explain these things. They discovered many details and key points that they had never noticed or understood before.

If they had discovered these things at the beginning, their cultivation speed in the Qi Refining Stage would have been much faster.

This made them even more excited about Tianjing Zhenren's explanation of the Foundation Establishment Stage and Purple Mansion Stage.

At the same time, Zhou Chun was also carefully remembering what Master Tianjing was saying, preparing to use it in the future to enlighten those Qi Refining cultivators from the Zhou family who were not present.

However, he knew very well in his heart that even if he wrote down every word that Tianjing Zhenren said, when he told the younger generations of his family about it, the effect would definitely not be as good as when he did it live.

Because when a Yuanying stage immortal is preaching, the minds of those listening there will be guided by him and sink into a special state.

In this state, the monk has a very clear understanding of his own situation and can easily verify whether what the other party says is effective for him.

But Zhou Chun, a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, doesn't have such ability!
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