One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 126 Chapter 125: Secret Meeting

Therefore, the small Xuanmen Dharma Assembly held this year was ostensibly issued in the name of the ancestor of the Xie family, but in fact it was organized by Xie Anlan alone.

Dongshan, Anshi Manor is very lively today.

All the prestigious families in Guangyuan Prefecture came.

Of course, the reputation here is based on whether one has ever achieved foundation building.

As long as there has been a Foundation Establishment cultivator within three generations of one's ancestors, even if there are no Foundation Establishment cultivators now, as long as there are Xuan Guang cultivators, one will still be invited.

Xie Anlan mobilized all the manpower and resources that the Xie family could mobilize to arrange this small Xuanmen ritual.

However, behind the bustle, there was a smaller secret meeting.

Anyone who enters must be a foundation-building cultivator, and not everyone is qualified to speak after entering. They sit in two circles, inner and outer, and only those in the middle circle are qualified to express their opinions.

To obtain this qualification, in addition to one's own cultivation and family background, one also needs the support of a certain number of people.

There were six people sitting in the middle.

There were six foundation-building masters. The one who presided over this secret meeting was the Xie family, and Xie Anlan was also in attendance.

"This secret meeting is only for the future and destiny of the cultivators in Guangyuan Prefecture. Everyone please speak freely and put out your thoughts." Xie Anlan said clearly after his opening remarks.

After his words, there was silence instead.

Everyone had a lot to say in private, and those who were in groups of three or four seemed to have endless things to say, but at this moment, no one spoke.

Seeing that the people in the middle didn't speak, Xie Anlan said, "If you have anything to say, you can say it."

He was referring to those in the outer circle. Those in the outer circle were not as cautious as those in the inner circle. Since there were more people, there were naturally some who spoke their mind.

"I think we should just not help each other. No matter who comes here, can they kill me? Without us, who will maintain order here? Who will stop the demons and ghosts from breeding in the mountains? And the evil demons hiding in the corners like rats, without us, they will probably be exhausted."

Xie Anlan saw that the person who was speaking was Liu from Xiaojishan. His name was Liu Chong, a foundation-building cultivator. His family practiced the "Dense Trees Gathering to the Sky" method. From what he knew, the other party was very successful in combining evil spirits, and the method he practiced could allow his talisman seeds to produce two Dharma natures, one of 'fast growth' and one of 'dead wood'.

But as far as Xie Anlan knew, in addition to his own wood nature, he also cultivated the 'fast growth' nature.

However, although there is a trace of Dharma nature in the talisman seed, it is not so simple and easy to develop it.

Martial arts need to be passed down, and spells also need to be passed down.

But after listening to his words, Xie Anlan already had an evaluation in his mind: this person has no foresight, or he is pretending to be stupid.

Then someone else said, "In the final analysis, Daozi's new policy is to dig up the roots of our family."

Xie Anlan saw that the person who was speaking was Sha from Sanchuan Hukou. He was a clear-headed person, but he only talked about the problem but didn't say what to do.

Someone else said, "Well, I think we should ask the palace what it means."

This is a small family, a Xuanguang cultivator named Wu Xingzong, who is still young and looks afraid to speak. Xie Anlan knows that he is from the Wu family of Tiger Leaping Gorge, and the inheritance is the method of Huju Temple. However, in recent years, this Wu family has not produced a foundation-building cultivator for a long time.

Xie Anlan felt that the reason he dared to say this at this time was that someone behind the scenes must have told him to say so.

The others were silent for a while, and then someone else said, "I think as long as they don't touch our things, everything will be fine. It's not that our people can't go to Daoziyuan. Right now, there are people from each of our families practicing in Daoziyuan. I heard from my family that the things taught by the Taoist master in Tiandu Mountain are indeed much better."

"My youngest son said that the same Taoist theory, when explained by the Taoist master of Tiandu Mountain, is understandable yet profound."

The person who spoke this time had a different weight from the previous speaker. This was said by one of the six people in the inner circle, his name was Wang Lin.

Xie Anlan knew that the Wang family actually had some relationship with Tiandu Mountain. One of his sisters married the Fenhe Li family, and among the Li family, his brother-in-law came from the lower courtyard of Tiandu Mountain. After building his foundation, he never returned to the mountain.

Of course, if this is the case, every family in the entire Guangyuan Prefecture can be said to have some relationship with Tiandu Mountain. After all, Tiandu Mountain is not far from Guangyuan Prefecture. For those families with insufficient inheritance, as long as someone in the family shows good talent for cultivation, even though the tuition fees of the lower courtyard of Tiandu Mountain are expensive, there will always be families willing to send their children to study there for a few years.

However, these noble families with good heritage rarely send their children to the mountains.

Because they think that Tiandu Mountain is too expensive, and secondly, they think that their family heritage is good and does not need to be sent to the mountain. If they have it, they think it is expensive, and if they don’t have it, they have to accept it even if it is expensive.

Moreover, being sent to Tiandu Mountain does not mean that one will be able to succeed in cultivation.

As for being sent to the upper house after building the foundation, disciples who are not from the lower house also need a large sum of money. Of course, everything is for the purpose of learning skills, and it is acceptable if you can learn them by spending money.

Some families are unwilling to do so because after entering the Upper House, they will inevitably have some mountain gate missions. For example, the south of Tiandu Mountain, facing the Southern Wilderness, Tiandu Mountain needs people to guard it, and there will often be casualties. This is also the reason why some families are unwilling to return to Tiandu Mountain after building their foundation.

The six in the inner circle are Xie, Wang, Su, Li, Chen and Bao.

Wang Lin was one of them. Originally, there should have been seven people in the inner circle, and one was from the Fenhe Meng family. However, Meng Yanhu was killed by Zhao Fuyun. The Meng family and Tiandu Mountain had an irreconcilable contradiction. Xie Anlan was afraid that the secret meeting would be affected, so he did not invite the Meng family.

If Zhao Fuyun were here, he would find that many of the people in the inner circle were people he had seen before.

For example, Bao Wenhong of the Bao family is a clerk in the government office. He has been working in the government office recently. Now that the prefect is gone, he is in charge of the daily affairs of the government office.

The Tongpan was Su Yu.

The Su family of Qipan Mountain is good at battle formations and divination.

The opinion that Xie Anlan valued most here was his, but he didn't easily express his ideas. Xie Anlan was thinking about how to convince him and started to calculate the fortune of Guangyuan Prefecture.

The Su family's martial arts were inherited from the Yixing Sect, and the evil spirit they combined with was the Star Evil. Whenever the Su family wanted someone to build a foundation, they would go to the Yixing Sect.

Xie Anlan had heard what they said, and knew that the Wang family, where Wang Lin was from, was somewhat biased towards Tiandu Mountain.

The Su family is unfathomable, and with the Yixing Sect behind them, they have a sense of fearlessness.

As for the Bao family, Xie Anlan felt that the Bao family was the most cunning.

(End of this chapter)