Mysterious mirror hanging high

On the left were two people. One had white hair and a white beard, a kind face, and held a dead branch with a new green bud perpetually adorning it. He seemed to be most friendly to Jing Yu and smiled at him non-stop.

One person only has the outline of a human figure, but his entire body is made up of a ball of innate qi - his robes are woven from billions of strands of innate pure qi condensed into substance, and flowing evil energy floats on the surface.

The person on the right looks like a female cultivator, her figure is hazy like the mist under the moon, and her face flows between reality and illusion, like a goddess in a dream, with lowered eyebrows and a faint smile.

The man in the middle is the most majestic. Sometimes he turns into a point in the chaos, and sometimes he extends to infinity. His face is like billions of stars flowing and condensing. When his eyes open and close, the birth and death of the universe appear and disappear.

As for the place next to the goddess, Jing Yu instinctively felt that there should be another person there, but that place was indeed empty, which seemed a bit abrupt.

Jing Yu was about to ask about their identities, but was stunned again. The memories of those people in his mind were quickly erased, and he soon forgot everything.

When his consciousness returned to reality, Jing Yu looked at the many monks who saluted him and smiled slightly, saying:

"Thank you all, fellow Daoists. My incarnation ceremony will be held on Tianxu Island in a year. All are welcome to participate, regardless of cultivation level, background, or race..."

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Fairyland, Water Virtue Hall

On the boundless sea, stands a transparent fairy palace.

The three thousand steps in front of the hall are all made of running water, and ripples appear when a monk steps on them.

The entire Water Virtue Hall is constantly flowing and reorganizing. The beams and pillars may suddenly turn into waterfalls, and the jade steps may melt into a cold pool in an instant. The two words "Water Virtue" on the plaque on the hall door are even more mysterious. They seem to be constantly flowing, faintly containing the high-level mysteries of the "Law of Water".

At this moment, in the hall, there were two immortals with a lofty aura sitting in meditation with their eyes closed. They were a man and a woman, both wearing aqua-colored robes and had handsome faces.

The male cultivator among them opened his eyes and said slowly:

"Shuyu, is the new round of immortal selection about to begin?"

The female fairy named Shuyu opened her eyes slightly upon hearing this and said softly, "Cangming, there's less than a year left... Should we start early?"

The immortal pondered and said, "Less than a year? Then it would be better to move it forward."

"This is the first time the two of us are presiding over the Water Virtue Hall's Immortal Selection. We should pay more attention and not let the adults get hold of us."

The Jade-Swallowing Fairy smiled lazily and said, "Why be so serious? In the past few hundred years, the Immortal Lords and Dao Lords have returned to the Immortal Realm one after another. The adults are no longer as anxious as before, and they no longer care about the Immortal Selection Hall's Immortal Selection."

"Otherwise, the people who usually preside over the immortal selections in each hall are at least at the first level of True Immortal. When will it be our turn as two little Celestial Immortals to preside over it?"

"That's right." Cang Ming sighed, "If he really cared about it, he wouldn't have asked us to stand guard here."

"Besides..."

Shuyu changed the subject again, "The Immortal Selection takes place every thousand years, and only ten people are captured each time. Unless they have a purple spiritual destiny or above, how many cultivators with white or blue destiny can successfully ascend to the Immortal Realm?"

"For every batch of immortals chosen, it's considered a blessing if one person can ascend to heaven... But even for that person who ascends, the chances of transcending the mortal world and becoming an immortal are extremely slim."

"The major Immortal Selection Halls are using such a clumsy method to screen talent? The efficiency is too low, and they won't be able to find any true geniuses."

"You can't say that." Cang Ming retorted: "Didn't a great figure emerge from the last Cihang Palace Immortal Selection?"

"Are you talking about that [Buddha's Son]?"

Shuyu's expression grew serious. "That [Buddha's Son] has only been ascending for a few hundred years, yet he has truly turned the entire Immortal Realm upside down... I remember several Immortal Lords commenting on him, saying he has the qualities of a [Buddha Lord]!"

"Buddha Lord... He is second only to the two Buddhas."

Cang Ming enviously said, "I can't think that far ahead. I'd be content if I could achieve the status of a Golden Immortal in this lifetime and live peacefully for an epoch."

"You? A Golden Immortal?" Shuyu rolled her eyes. "First, think of a way to [refine the false into the true]."

"Work!"

After saying this, Shuyu suddenly stood up and muttered:

"Fates are connected, souls return to their places..."

"Edict!"

Ten streams of light flew in from the sky and landed in the Shuide Temple. The light disappeared and turned into ten human-shaped souls.

"Cangming, let's make a bet. Do you think there will be any one with a purple or higher fate among the ten immortal candidates this time?" Shuyu said with a smile.

"I guess there will be at least one purple fate this time."

Cang Ming jokingly said, "You are notoriously unlucky in the Water Virtue Hall. How could you possibly get a purple destiny? I'm afraid it will be another blue sky and white clouds."

Shuyu said bluntly: "Just wait and see!"

He immediately took out a [Mirror of Destiny] and did not even bother to explain the origin of the Immortal Selection Hall and the identities of the ten people who had just awakened. He began to shine the light on the ten people, trying to activate their destiny.

"White?"

"Ah... white."

"Why is it white again..."

"Finally, a blue one."

When the magic mirror shone on the fifth person, bursts of black air suddenly emerged from the mirror in Shuyu's hand, and four square black seal characters appeared on the mirror:

【Talent is dull】.

The spirit looked normal at first, but when its fate was activated, its eyes suddenly became dull and its thinking seemed to be much slower.

"what!"

Shuyu was so frightened that she almost dropped the mirror in her hand.

She looked at Cang Ming with a panicked expression and a look of help in her eyes:

"Cang... Cangming... black? How can someone have a black fate?"

At this moment, veins on Cang Ming's forehead were bulging, and he was a little at a loss looking at the situation in front of him.

It was his first time hosting the Immortal Selection and he felt like the sky was falling.

"This matter... this matter has never happened before. We... we can only report it..."

But before they could send out the communication talisman, the sky suddenly darkened, the sea of ​​clouds surged, and the originally flat ground of the hall suddenly turned into water, causing huge waves.

A cold female voice came from the void, the sound like a cold spring hitting jade, and like the low hum of the deep sea:

"I already know, don't panic."

The next moment, a black-haired woman stood on the waves. She had a slender figure and her robe was as dark as the deep sea, with billions of ripples floating on its surface.

Her face was as cold as frost, with a drop of water mark between her eyebrows flashing with cold light, and her eyes were like an endless sea, reflecting the flow of water veins in the heavens and all worlds.

Cangming and Shuyu were both horrified when they saw the newcomer's face. They quickly fell to the ground with their heads touching the ground, and shouted:

"This little fairy greets the Immortal Lord!"

They thought that the presence of a True Immortal was the best they could do, but unexpectedly, they attracted the Master of the Water Virtue Palace, the boss of their boss's boss—

Immortal Lord of Water Virtue!