Above the source of Tao

King Dae Min, wearing the official seal, and Su Ziyu, the second son of the Dae Min Dynasty with a serious face, completely finalized the matters of the conference. The court teacher with a wine gourd hanging on his waist took out the gourd full of wine, took a sip, and shook the gourd in his hand, looking a little proud.

On the teacher's wine gourd, someone wrote four small, vigorous characters with a brush: Respect the wise and respect the humble.

The vigorous small characters are powerful and impressive. This old man who came out of the Confucian Temple of Sages has been carrying this wine gourd with him since he was born. It is always filled with wine and he never leaves it.

This pavilion palace was built at great expense, and the Guest Hall was just one of the rooms. Su Zhiyao also ordered the formation masters to set up a shielding and soundproofing formation for each room in the palace to isolate the secret conversations in each room from being overheard by others.

When the three saw Lin Chong coming back, they looked behind him with a little expectation, but they did not find anyone behind Lin Chong. He just walked forward alone, bowed, and asked loudly: "A lot of sects participating in the conference have given up, right?"

The imperial teacher, who was dressed in a Confucian robe, put away the wine gourd, put it back on his waist, and said jokingly, "As you wish, there are not many sects willing to give up."

Lin Chong was very satisfied and nodded in response. His face was solemn as he said, "It seems that the rewards given by the dynasty are too generous. The risk of losing the family's children is far less than the resources that can be obtained. The prize of this conference is unprecedented in all previous years. Anyone who agrees to participate will obtain a generous amount of Yuanjing. Aren't those small sects lacking these cultivation resources? In the Five Regions, all the large and small sects have exhausted their resources to participate in the Hundred Sects Conference. Not only the disciples, but even the elders and masters of the sects have joined the ranks of hard practice, just to be able to show their talents at the conference. After all, only our dynasty can afford such a large sum of money."

King Damin is mature and steady. He will not stop doing what his father did because of these things. They are just some Yuanjing mineral veins. The Damin Dynasty can afford them. Compared with what they are asking for, they are insignificant.

King Damin then asked, "I asked you to bring that little guy back. Have you done it?"

Lin Chong smiled and said, "I have brought him back to the Yangxin Room in the palace. I wonder if King Min can go and see him in person now?"

King Damin brushed off his sleeves and asked, "Where is my daughter now? She has been acting mysterious since she came out of the secret realm. I have been very busy with the event and neglected her. I heard that she got a boxing manual from the secret realm and wants to follow your path and become a boxing practitioner. What can she do with her brain?"

Lin Chong wanted to ease the atmosphere, so he quickly explained, "This is a common boxing technique left over from ancient times. If Xiao Tao really has the heart to do it, she can try to practice it. Xiao Tao is weak to begin with, and boxing practice can not only strengthen her body, but most importantly, it can temper her heart. Let her know that the difficulties of the world are not a bad thing."

The two high-ranking officials of the dynasty standing behind King Daemin were both surprised.

Su Ziyu smiled and agreed, "Father, what the Duke said is very true. My younger sister has been weak since she was young. Compared with other people of the same age, her body is even weaker than others. Although she was sent to Guanqian Mansion to practice swordsmanship, her health has gradually improved in the past few years. But now she is about to become a woman. Although she cannot become a boxing practitioner by practicing boxing, it is a good thing to temper her muscles and bones so that she is not so weak."

King Damin said in a deep voice: "Forget it, let her be. Without going through it, how can you know the difficulties of the world? When she finds boxing training not fun, she will naturally give up."

King Damin thought for a moment and suddenly remembered something. Since he moved from Emperor Min City to Guitian Territory in person, all the affairs of the court were handed over to the Political Council. Before leaving, he heard that a Taoist sect had appeared in a blessed land in Tianshuizhou. The sect was gaining momentum and seemed to have the ambition to establish its own sect in Tianshuizhou.

I heard from the junior ministers in the court that according to the information gathered from spies in various places, an old Taoist priest appeared in the Taoist sect. No one knew where he came from. After entering the Huang Jian Sect as a guest many years ago, he not only brought many resources for cultivation, but also drove out the original sect leader by bullying his superiors, set up his own sect, and changed the name to Huang Jian Taoist Sect.

In that blessed land of Langyou, the Huang Jian Sect was only a third-rate sect, and the disciples in the sect had no talent. Most of them were young children selected from the mortal world, who were just able to open their primordial bones, and barely established a small sect. After the old Taoist priest came to the Huang Jian Sect, in just a few years, it jumped into a first-rate and powerful sect in the blessed land. Although it did not act blatantly in a very short period of time, it could not stop the signs of annexing the surrounding small Taoist sects.

In recent times, many small sects have surrendered to the city, and the entire blessed land is almost falling into his hands.

According to information from the secret agents there, the old Taoist priest has been living in seclusion for many years, wandering around in the blessed land. Few people have seen him or known what he looks like.

It is said that by chance, Yuan Jingzhi, the undercover agent of Langyou Fudi, was visiting a sect called Liushanmen in the Qigao Mountains. He met the young disciple of the old Taoist priest, who came with a visiting card and said that he wanted to visit him out of humility. But anyone with a discerning eye could tell that this was not an act of wanting to make friends, but a test to see what the attitude of the sects in Langyou Fudi was.

The leader of the Six Mountains Sect was naturally aware that the Huang Jian Taoist sect was currently on the rise and many small sects surrounding that sect had already been taken under the control of the Taoist sect. The Six Mountains Sect was neither close nor far from the Shuigen Mountain Range and they had previously kept to themselves and had no intention of causing trouble.

Therefore, all the sects, big and small, in Langyou blessed land maintain a tacit understanding and do not invade each other. Although there are not many major conflicts, there are many small frictions every period of time. However, they are all resolved by slapping each other twice, and thus big things become small, and small things are resolved, and everything goes smoothly.

Since the establishment of Huang Jian's Taoist sect, although the various sects were somewhat shocked, they did not take it to heart. Since ancient times, power struggles among sects have often occurred, and everyone just watched the fights from the sidelines. Unless there was a sect they were very friendly with, they would only lend a helping hand after receiving a call for help, otherwise they would ignore it.

At first, no one took it seriously. It was just that when people heard that Huang Jianzong had experienced this, they naturally became used to it.

The newly established Taoist sect was also extremely quiet. The disciples within the sect seemed to have disappeared overnight and rarely showed their faces in front of the world, making people quickly forget their existence.

Since then, the Huangjian Dao Sect seemed to have disappeared from Youlang Fudi. It was not until the Huangjian Dao Sect conquered Yangbai Mansion in Baicui Mountain that they gradually noticed something unusual.

After the original sect master inexplicably resigned from the position of head, there was no trace of him. There are three major sects in Langyou Fudi, and the old Taoist priest is in charge of Huangjian Sect, which is itself very strange. The outside world vaguely speculates that the surrender of Yangbai Mansion is because the old Taoist priest is very ambitious and forcibly seized other sects, openly causing panic, causing the other two major sects to fall into a situation from three-legged tripod to two-family hegemony, and the rest of the small sects are in panic.

It was not until the Huangting Dao Sect gradually annexed the sects in the mountains within a radius of hundreds of miles, including Baicui Mountain, that the other sects became furious and threatened to oppose this move. The Tuyao Sect was the first to speak out, wanting to eradicate the pests in this Langyou blessed land, but in the end, for unknown reasons, it publicly announced that it would close the sect, and the current Tuyao Sect Master Rui Qingyu opened the entire sect protection formation to cover up the aura of one side and disappeared.

This move undoubtedly deepened the speculation of other sects. All the cultivators in Langyou Blessed Land knew that Tu Yao Sect, as an old sect, was very powerful. They had a place among the three major sects. But now, Yangbai Mansion had surrendered, and Tu Yao Sect had secluded itself from the world. Only Liushanmen was left, which had not made any move yet.

The Six Mountain Sect is a rising star. Compared with the other two sects, they arrived at the Langyou Blessed Land the latest. However, the sect leader, Qishan Zhenren, is a young cultivator. It is said that he is from Liulizhou, a branch of a family of seventy-three prefectures. He has a deep connection with a high-ranking official in the court of the dynasty in Min Emperor City.

Everyone in the world knows that there are many cultivators who have been granted high positions and titles by the dynasty, and there are countless complicated relationships in Emperor Min's city. They all have merits, and granting them territories is actually sending them to various areas in Xinyang Region to serve as spies of the Damin Dynasty to monitor the sects in various places. After all, the emperor is far away and it is impossible for King Damin to focus his energy on these complicated matters all the time.

This is a fact that is evident to all in all continents except Liuli Continent.

The territories conquered by their fathers included many monks who had made great achievements. Their descendants should be treated well, so they set up fiefdoms and took charge of the mountains and rivers. Although there was a saying of the Damin Dynasty, the Damin Dynasty would no longer care about a piece of land after giving it. If they wanted to gain a foothold in the fiefdom, it would depend on whether their strength matched that of the fiefdom.

Many descendants of the fathers, due to their own weak strength, are unable to compete with the sects within the fiefdom, and can only become third-rate forces. Therefore, these younger generations of cultivators who are granted fiefdoms have to compromise. If they want to become the overlord of a place, they can only rely on their own continuous struggle.

Ever since Huang Jian's Taoist sect visited the Six Mountain Sect, it was ostensibly a visit, but in reality it was a test of strength. Not long after, there were often mountain monks harassing the territory at the edge of the Six Mountain Sect's sphere of influence, which inevitably made Taoist Qi Shan feel that these small actions were a provocation, but he had no way to detect it.

Whether the monks in the mountains are monks of Huang Jian Dao Court, when they encounter this matter, they can only send disciples to go. However, since the border territory is a bit far away, those monks are just harassing. When they see the people coming from the Six Mountain Gates, they flee early and do not give them any chance to fight.

After that, Yuan Jingzhi, who was secretly spying on the Minister of the Central Secretariat, reported everything he saw and heard to Wang Chao one by one. It happened that the Hundred Sects Conference was about to start, and he had no time to take care of this trivial matter. He only heard that the young cabinet minister was flipping through the small memorial.

King Damin just took a look and came to the Tongtian Hall of the royal palace. He withdrew the team of a thousand people, leaving only the team of a hundred people, and hurried to the town of Wangliang.

As I have been feeling uneasy these days and matters concerning the conference have been basically settled, I now have time to think about this matter.

Fortunately, there has not been any major conflict in Tianshui Island, so there is no need to deal with this matter in a hurry.

Lin Chong looked at King Damin, who was lost in thought and did not move for a long time, as if he had forgotten about meeting Yun Changan. He had no choice but to ask again, "King Min, should we go meet that little guy now?"

King Damin, whose mind was wandering far away, withdrew his thoughts and still did not speak. Instead, he looked at the people in front of him, but finally shook his head lightly and put the matter of Tianshuizhou aside for the time being.

Compared to the affairs of Tianshuizhou, the most important thing at the moment is the Hundred Sects Conference. After the conference starts, all matters will be handed over to Su Ziyu and Su Zhiyao. It will not be too late to talk about it after I return to Min Di City.

After thinking it over again and again, King Damin only said one thing, go and see the little guy, what is the charm of this guy that makes his daughter worry about him day and night.

King Damin, who was the ruler of a region, had a frank heart-to-heart talk with Su Tao when Su Tao went to the secret realm. However, Su Tao was determined to go to the secret realm at that time, and she never listened to a word of King Damin's earnest teachings, so she could only let the conversation go hastily.

Several people followed King Damin to the Yangxin Room, pushed the door open, but found that Yun Changan was no longer there. Looking along the window, they saw Yun Changan gesturing to Su Tao under the waterfall in the distance.

This made King Damin, who was very protective of his daughter, instantly furious. Yun Chang'an was holding several dried strips of grass that he had picked from somewhere, pointing at Su Tao, as if he was teaching Su Tao how to practice boxing.

Half an hour ago, although Yun Chang'an stopped persuading Su Tao to give up boxing and focus on kendo, Su Tao was a reasonable person. It was impossible for her to give up unless he could convince her.

Su Tao, who was unwilling to give up, insisted that Yun Chang'an explain to her why he asked her to give up practicing boxing. Simply because she was too old was not enough to convince her.