Immortal Road.

Chapter 214 Don’t bully young people into poverty

Time flies, and it is late autumn and turning into winter.

Lin Shan sits upright above the white clouds, practicing diligently in his spare time.

Over the past two months, the magma in the crater of Mount Liluan has been churning much more violently than before. People who don't know might have thought that the volcano had ended its short-term dormancy.

He also tried to go in and observe how the Black Skull Demon Lord transformed, but after diving deep into the magma, the protective aura gradually became unable to hold on, so he had no choice but to return outside.

I don’t know how deep the Black Skull Demon Lord is practicing. In fact, Lin Shan is a little envious of the lava quenching method.

Although he has the star power of the Void Star Disk to temper his body, and his "pseudo star body" can also meet the requirements and standards for breaking through the Jindan stage, but it would be better to have an "immaculate body" to be in sync with all the Jindan stage cultivators.

Lin Shan naturally would not miss any opportunity to improve himself.

Every tiny improvement is an accumulation of strengthening the foundation and cannot be ignored.

However, he was not quite sure whether the lava quenching method was suitable for human monks. If not, he could only look for an opportunity in the subsequent attack on the Dai family.

The Dai family must have the method to forge an "immaculate body"!

Just as he was daydreaming, small dots flew in from the horizon and stopped in the lake outside Mount Liluan.

From various flying vehicles came down cultivators in different attire. They seemed to be from some third-rate sects and families nearby, and they brought their disciples out to participate in the sect exchange meeting.

A rough count shows that there are more than a dozen cultivation forces.

Most of the leaders were cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, each leading twenty to thirty younger ones in the Qi Condensation Stage.

In no time, they built a large floating altar in the lake, which was about half an acre in size. Then, the sects and families went up one by one, chose places to sit down, formed a circle and began to preach and discuss the Tao, and communicate with each other.

Lin Shan was a little curious in the sky. To be honest, he had never seen such a social activity between sects, let alone participated in it.

After all, as soon as he arrived in the East China Sea and joined the Black Lotus Sect, he was immediately sent out to preach, and then the battle between good and evil began in full swing, and he had never experienced the peaceful and warm life of sect cultivation.

He had even expected to have a wonderful encounter with the innocent little sister, the gentle senior sister, or even the cold female master in the sect.

Unfortunately, the Black Lotus Sect is an evil cult, with a system of a headquarters and branches, as well as the identities of Dharma King, Dharma Protector, and Messenger. It is a straight-up pyramid scheme. How can there be any such thing as opening the door to pay homage and passing down one's lineage?
It all depends on the performance!
If you have ability, the protectors above will appreciate you, recruit you and provide you with support.

Once you leave the mountain gate, life and death don't matter, and infighting among fellow disciples is commonplace and nothing is surprising.

When there is a dispute, they would rather take action than talk, which is in stark contrast to the hypocritical politeness of those righteous people.

At present, in Liluan Lake, these sects and families are in harmony, discussing Taoism with each other very happily. There are even some younger generations exchanging glances and sending each other secret glances, as if they are in love with different sects, but they dare not reveal it in front of their elders.

Lin Shan lowered the height of the clouds slightly. Anyway, the Cloud-Descending Banner had a concealing function, and he was a cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage. The people below would not be able to find him unless they had extraordinary spiritual awareness or specifically activated the pupil technique to scan the sky.

I could only hear the Foundation Establishment cultivators below discussing the Dao. Most of the content they were talking about was the cultivation tips of the Qi Condensation Stage. They should have been mainly speaking to the younger generations. The young boys and girls also listened carefully and took note carefully.

After about an hour, the sermon ended and the competition began.

Each immortal cultivation force sent out its own disciples to fight in a battle circle in the center of the altar. The final ranking was determined according to the rules of the arena, and the top fifteen would receive generous rewards.

The rewards are selected from the treasures provided by various sects, which is equivalent to crowdfunding and used to motivate disciples.

The treasures provided by these small sects also have their own merits. It is obvious that they attach great importance to this competition and do not want to lose face for their sect, so each of them is beyond the scope of use of younger generations in the Qi training stage.

For example, high-level magic tools, top-grade magic pills, flying talismans, warrior puppets, spirit beast cubs, warning arrays, rare and precious fruits.
The group of youngsters below were staring with their eyes wide open, almost drooling, and they were rubbing their hands together, vowing to win a place.

Lin Shan, who was peeping from the sky, didn't have any ideas. With his current wealth, these things were not worth his attention. They were just a drop in the bucket.

However, there were discordant voices below at this time.

An old man with a yellow beard said sarcastically to the young leader:
"I wonder what kind of treasures Young Clan Leader Mu Yan will bring out during this exchange between the sects and noble families?"

The boy has a delicate and childish face, eyes as bright as stars, a face as sharp as a knife, and a firmness and maturity that does not belong to his age.

This person is none other than the newly appointed young patriarch of the local cultivation family, the Mu family, Mu Yan!

Originally, the Mu family was just a third-rate cultivation family in Pengpi County. The person with the highest cultivation level in the family was his father, the patriarch, who was in the late foundation building stage. However, one day he was suddenly ambushed and abducted by a mysterious force in the cultivation world, and his whereabouts are unknown.

The family suffered countless casualties and their vitality was greatly reduced due to this great change. Not only was the house devastated, but most of their property was looted.

As the only legitimate son of the patriarch, he was entrusted with the important task of revitalizing the family in a time of crisis.

You have to know that in the world of cultivation, not everyone can create a cultivation family. If any cultivator could create a family, it would have been everywhere long ago.

Once they set foot on the immortal path, 99% of the cultivators would find it difficult to give birth to offspring, let alone have children. This is a threshold specially set by the laws of heaven to prevent the proliferation of cultivators and the shortage of heaven and earth's vitality, and it complements the lifespan limit.

After all, for mortals to improve themselves step by step through cultivation is going against the will of heaven. There are naturally many restrictions between heaven and earth. This is the principle of the Tao.

However, there are always a very small number of people with special bloodlines who have the ability to give birth to offspring. Although the chance of birth is pitifully slim, if they work hard, they can occasionally give birth to offspring with spiritual roots. Only such people are qualified to establish a family of cultivation.

Of course, for cultivators, the dual cultivation method is essentially to lock the yang and lock the yin. After the yin and yang are in harmony, they will each feed back into the body. If you really want to have a child, it will consume the source of yin and yang, which will be a great damage to your own cultivation and potential.

Therefore, there will not be random births in the families of cultivators, and naturally, the number of members in a family will not be too many.

Moreover, as the bloodline becomes more diluted from the first generation ancestor, the probability of having children naturally becomes lower.

Therefore, in the world of cultivation, a large family may have hundreds of people, a small family may have dozens of people, and in the end there may even be only a few people.

In comparison, it is more convenient to establish a sect and recruit disciples with spiritual roots from the mortal world.

However, the territory of the cultivation world is limited, and the number of sacred mountains and blessed lands is also limited. To establish a new force, the old order must be broken. For an ambitious founder like Lin Shan, this is a big challenge.

This is the way to maintain the conservation of energy in a world under the control of the current laws of heaven and earth, with various restrictions such as lifespan, childbirth, and spiritual veins.

And Mu Yan, who was able to inherit the position of patriarch at a young age and lead a family of cultivators, even if it was a third-rate small family, should have held great power and enjoyed unlimited glory.

But the cruelty of the world of cultivation is no joke. Once you fall from grace, there will always be other forces eyeing you and trying to tear a piece of your flesh off.

The Mu family is now in an unprecedented crisis, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is in a precarious situation. When the former clan leader was still alive, everyone had a foundation-building cultivator in charge, and their status was equal. The neighboring sects were all in harmony, but now they are showing their fangs one by one.

Fortunately, Lu was a Confucian kingdom, so they weren't too greedy, and they all liked the method of boiling a frog in warm water. If it were a demon kingdom, they would have eaten everything up and refused to admit their mistakes.

Mu Yan knew this very well, but he was currently only at the peak of his Qi training stage, so he had to be respectful when facing the yellow-bearded old man in the foundation-building stage.

"Don't worry, Elder Ge. My Mu family is a family of cultivators with hundreds of years of history. It's not like we can't even produce a decent treasure."

After saying that, he took out a high-level magical weapon and brought it to the Treasure Fen Rock.

The Mu family members behind him had a flash of pain in their eyes. These people knew too well the current predicament of the family. A high-level magic weapon would definitely cost a huge amount of money, but they had to hold on in front of outsiders.

The elder Huang Xuge nodded and looked at them with a sneer, as if he had seen through Mu Yan's plan, and said nothing more.

Then, disciples from each sect came out one after another. They were all elites carefully selected by their masters. Each of them was full of vigor and held their heads high. The weakest one was in the late stage of Qi training, while the strongest ones were at the peak of Qi training.

When it was the Mu family's turn, the young patriarch Mu Yan personally took to the battlefield, bringing several members of the Mu family with him.

There was constant discussion on the field.

"When the sects and noble families are fighting and exchanging skills, shouldn't the younger generation take the field? Why did the patriarch of the Mu family take action personally?"

"Logically speaking, although Mu Yan is the new clan leader, he is indeed considered a young generation."

"But considering his status, it would be fine if he wins, but if he loses, wouldn't it be a huge disgrace?"

"Perhaps, it is possible that his tribe has lost its talent and they have no choice but to send him out."

……

As everyone was whispering to each other, they were also secretly excited. If they could defeat the leader of a clan, they might be appreciated by the seniors in the sect.

After hearing this, the Mu family members clenched their fists, their faces flushed with anger and frustration. If they had not been attacked by a strange force, how could they have ended up like this? At the same time, they looked at the thin and skinny figure in front of them. At this age, he must be very tired to shoulder the responsibility of the family.

Mu Yan looked around calmly and made up his mind that he must win a good ranking and win back the magic weapon left to him by his father. He must not lose face for the clan leader and must not be looked down upon by the surrounding forces.

As the young clan leader, he has had the best resources in the clan since he was young, and his various skills and equipment are better than those of other disciples in the clan. Naturally, he needs to stand up at critical moments.

The magic competition began, and a group of youngsters performed very well. Of course, with the reminders from the elders of the sect, each of them knew the strength of their moves, and after their opponents were defeated, they stopped without using too much force.

But when I came to Mu Yan, the situation changed.

Everyone wants to step on him and use him as a stepping stone to their own fame. No one shows mercy when it comes to future prospects.

Mu Yan is worthy of being the leader of the younger generation of the Mu family. He has defeated countless opponents in a row. Not only does he have a solid foundation, but he is also proficient in several mid-level spells. He has won steadily all the way to the final decisive moment.

Standing in front of him at this time was a girl in a moon-colored robe, with delicate features and a pair of green jade pendants hanging from her earlobes. She exuded a noble aura. It was said that she was a disciple of the leader of a certain sect, and she had come out of seclusion this time to bring honor to the sect.

There are only two people left in the field. Whoever becomes the winner will become the first in this competition and have the first qualification to choose the spoils.

The girl in the moon robe took the lead, holding a green long sword, and seemed to have mastered the extraordinary sword skills of cultivation, and attacked like catkins. Mu Yan also had his own skills, and took out a Xuanzhong ruler and opened and closed it, a fierce battle.

The ruler was a relatively common instrument in the State of Lu. In the Confucian environment, pens, ink, paper, inkstones, paperweights and rulers were quite popular. It was not surprising that the Xuanzhong ruler, as a variant of it, was also used by many people.

After a fierce fight, Mu Yan finally used some unknown secret technique to turn the tables at the critical moment. His cultivation level skyrocketed and he defeated the moon-robed girl in one fell swoop.

The whole audience was in an uproar, as if they couldn't believe that the moon-robed girl would be defeated in this way.

Elder Ge, who was sitting in the stands, stood up and shouted at the people below: "Cheating is prohibited during the competition. Mu Yan, as the clan leader, don't you even have this little bit of dignity?"

Mu Yan was slightly out of breath. The battle just now consumed a lot of his spiritual power and physical strength. There was a little sweat on his forehead, but he faced the questioning calmly.

"Elder Ge, you are wrong. What I just performed was a secret technique passed down by my family. How can it be said that I cheated?"

"That's nonsense. What secret technique can allow you to go from the peak of Qi training to the next level?"

"There are countless wonderful methods in this world, it's just that the elder has not seen them. What's so surprising about it?"

"Humph! I think you are just a thief with a guilty conscience, and you are just trying to make excuses. Your actions in this competition have been seen by the elders of various factions, so don't try to make excuses!"

"you"

Mu Yan's eyes widened in anger. This Elder Ge was clearly confusing right and wrong, deliberately confusing everyone and making things difficult for him.

But what was unexpected was that the Foundation Establishment cultivators who led the major forces on the stage all had flickering eyes at this moment, and they all claimed that Mu Yan cheated and that this victory in the competition was unfair.

The truth is that the Mu family is now weak, and everyone is coveting them.

The purpose of this exchange competition is naturally to make it infamous so as to prepare for future encroachment.

The group of Mu family members brought by Mu Yan were all filled with righteous indignation, waving their arms and shouting that it was unfair.

"What kind of ruling? Are all the elders in the stands blind? Our young patriarch clearly won fairly!"

"That's right. If even using secret techniques is considered cheating, then why not just cancel all spells?"

"That's right. I think they are just jealous and can't stand seeing the young patriarch show off his power."

"The young clan leader is a genius of our Mu family. He has been fighting against opponents of higher levels since he was a child. It is as easy as eating and drinking. He can defeat those in the middle stage of Qi training, those in the middle stage of Qi training can defeat those in the late stage of Qi training, and those in the late stage of Qi training can even defeat those at the peak of Qi training. Now, we are both at the peak of Qi training. Who can compete with him?"

……

This shouting shocked everyone from other forces. The elders in the stands were even more shocked. After learning about Mu Yan's extraordinary talent, a thought flashed through their minds:
This child must not be kept!
Even Lin Shan, who was peeping from the sky, was startled and felt that this young man named Mu Yan was extraordinary.

Every realm can fight across levels, this is too powerful.

Could it be that just because a name contains the word "Yan", one can easily jump to a higher level? Is it really that outrageous?
But thinking of the achievements of his good brother Lin Fan and the Black Skull Demon Lord, he felt relieved. This world is full of talented people, and there are always people who have the ability to cross levels. The boy below is just fighting in a small realm, which doesn't seem to be too outrageous.

He was watching the show in the sky while thinking wildly. The situation below was getting worse and worse. The major Foundation Establishment cultivators jointly announced that Mu Yan had been labeled a cheater, and his record was invalidated. The treasures were divided up by the fifteen people behind him.

Looking at the ugly faces of these people, Mu Yan trembled all over, clenched his fists, and felt extremely sad.

Especially after seeing someone take away the high-level magic weapon left by his father and waving it in front of him to show off, he finally couldn't help but speak out:

"Very good. I have nothing to say about the decision of the uncles. I am inferior to others, so Mu Yan admits defeat."

When the Foundation Establishment cultivators on the field saw him bow his head and surrender, they became even more wary of him. They thought that this boy was adaptable and could not help but plan how to harm him after returning.

However, at this time, Mu Yan did not stop talking, and Fu Lin, in his heart, said another cold remark:
"Remember today's events, but don't forget the old saying, 'Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west, don't despise the young and poor!'"

"What???!!!"

"!!!"

"!!!"

This sentence seemed to be too destructive. Everyone on the field was stunned and shocked.

As soon as Mu Yan said this, he immediately regretted it and cursed himself for having nothing better to do than to say this.
Lin Shan in the sky was even more stunned at this time, and began to ponder. He always felt that these words were so familiar, as if he had heard them somewhere before he traveled through time in his previous life.

However, things got out of hand here.

Because the Qi training disciples present were fine, they were only surprised by this statement, and then sneered, thinking that Mu Yan was just speaking in anger.

However, the Foundation Establishment cultivators were all experienced people, and they could instantly understand the weight behind these words. A thought flashed through their minds again:
Never give him a chance to grow!

The world of cultivation has never been a greenhouse for growing flowers. Behind it are the cruel laws of the jungle. No one would do such a stupid thing as showing leniency. The mainstream is to cut the weeds and eradicate them completely.

Elder Ge immediately sneered: "Good boy, it seems that we can't keep you here."

The other foundation-building cultivators looked at each other and stood up one after another: "Since Clan Leader Mu is dissatisfied with the ruling just now, how about having a fight with us?"

Mu Yan was under pressure from so many Foundation Establishment cultivators present. His pride would not allow him to kneel down. Instead, he looked around with red eyes:

"A Foundation Establishment Stage challenged a Qi Training Stage, are you really planning to bully the weak?"

The elders of each faction shook their heads in unison: "You are now also the head of a family, and your status is equal to ours. It is not considered bullying the weak."

Mu Yan sneered: "What if I don't accept the challenge?"

A gloom flashed across Elder Ge's face: "It's not up to you! You have to fight today, whether you want to or not!"

After saying that, he jumped out of the stands directly. A gray light flashed from his sleeves, and a black cone magic weapon shot out and headed straight for Mu Yan.

No one present expected Elder Ge to be so ruthless. He would start action as soon as he said it would, without any hesitation.

You have to know that he is a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building. Even if Mu Yan is able to surpass other levels, how can he resist him?

At this moment, there was a sudden deafening roar from the towering Liluan Mountain in front, and a thick red column of lava shot straight into the sky.

"Rumble————"

Countless magma burst out and rolled out, the snow on the top of the mountain was eroded in an instant, and everyone was unable to stand steadily as the earth shook.

Mu Yan took this opportunity to dodge the fatal blow with difficulty, but his left arm was still scratched and blood gushed out from a large cut.

At this time, the foundation-building monks of various sects did not care about anything else. Seeing the eruption of the Liluan Mountain volcano, they hurriedly held up their flying magic tools and gathered their own disciples to fly into the sky.

I heard a long roar from the crater in front of me, and a black-gold figure stepped out from the magma. Wherever it passed, smoke and waves surged, and flames flew with the wind.

(End of this chapter)