Chapter 222: Apricot Yellow and Pear White Another Year (Seeking Monthly Votes)

End of the second lunar month, the season when pear blossoms are in full bloom.

Pear Snow Mountain is worthy of its name at this moment.

Back then, the Mount Sanqing moved the mountain and created the array to plant ginseng fruit, and newly established this Pear Snow Mountain, planting a kind of pear tree called "Clear Snow" all over the mountain.

At this moment, it happened to be spring, the clear sky was high, the pear blossoms were in full bloom, and the branches were like white snow flying. After thousands of trees and ten thousand trees of pear blossoms opened, it was a mountain full of accumulated snow.

There were dragon-like eaves hidden in the pear forest.

There was a Daoist temple here, named Guantian Temple.

At this moment, quite a few people were standing in front of the Daoist temple gate.

Some of these people were from the Mount Sanqing, and some were not. But if these people made any mistakes, even the Mount Sanqing could not afford it, and the Haoran Alliance, which had not been established for long, would probably collapse overnight.

Feng Jihu reached out and poked Cheng Xinzhan, and sure enough, he saw electric light bursting out from his fingertips, feeling interesting and surprised.

"It's been half a year, why hasn't the thunder on your body dissipated yet."

Cheng Xinzhan rolled his eyes at him.

"Do you really think it's an easy thing for me to form a core and cross the tribulation within a year?"

He sighed long and continued, "It's really as reluctant as it can be. Magic treasure, Golden Core, flesh body, all are on the verge of the limit. It's better now. When I just finished crossing the tribulation, I really breathed out thunder breath, and walked with electric light."

"Then when can you refine and absorb the tribulation thunder?"

Cheng Xinzhan thought for a while. "Three to five years is definitely needed."

Li Chengyan laughed and said at this time,

"What is this called? Xinzhan is unfortunate, but Qu is fortunate? If you hadn't gone through this, what would make you think of returning to the mountain to be safe and take on disciples and teach scriptures?"

"By the way, Xinzhan, don't forget, you still hold the position of Scripture-Transmitting Elder in our Qu Mountain. Don't worry, if you can't walk by then, we will carry you over."

Wang Chengyi echoed with a smile.

"I'll carry you to Moya Mountain."

Xiao Miaoyu said.

"I'll carry you to Toujian Mountain."

Ceng Jinian said.

"I'll carry you to Danxia Mountain."

Even Fang Weimin spoke.

Seeing his friends joking about him, Cheng Xinzhan shook his head with a bitter smile.

Indeed, he was no different from a useless person now. When he opened his heart, he had a true evil rushing into the acupoint. This time, the first core tribulation was somewhat similar to that time, but that time was helpless, and this time it was entirely his own greed.

But how could he not be greedy for the tribulation thunder that came forty-five years early?

Magic treasure, bamboo body, flesh body, primordial spirit—if they were not tempered this time, he would have to wait another sixty years—Cheng Xinzhan's second washing was sixty years later.

Time waits for no one, how could he wait for a long time?

However, forced crossing naturally has consequences. Now his flesh body and bamboo body are blocked by the heavenly thunder tribulation Qi, and his magic power is not running smoothly, so he can only refine it slowly. After all, the precious Qi is fleeting, so he has to eat it first and then digest it.

And this time, not only the flesh body and bamboo body, but all the flying swords and magic swords were also tempered in the tribulation thunder, and they all underwent earth-shaking changes, which also need to be well-nourished and polished.

Fortunately, the Golden Core and Primordial Spirit have always been hiding behind the magic treasure and magic body, bathing in the just-right tribulation thunder, washing and sublimating, and there is no restriction, otherwise he would really be a useless person.

But this is also good. Taking advantage of this effort, he paid off the debts he owed before. Cheng Xinzhan listed them, and there are really quite a few:

Pear Snow Mountain opens the Cun Shen lineage;

Qu Mountain transmits scriptures and preaches;

The flesh body's second realm acupoints are not perfect;

Bamboo body opens acupoints, refines Gangsha, and advances from two to three;

Preparation of the tribulation-blocking treasure for the next time;

……

Cheng Xinzhan thought for a while, let alone three to five years, even ten or twenty years, he has a lot of things to do in the mountain.

Anxious!

This is the biggest problem in Cheng Xinzhan's state of mind now. Even if he separates the Youjing Primordial Spirit, he cannot eliminate this emotion.

It is really ten thousand years too long, only seize the day!

Look at the pear blossoms flying like snow today, but thinking of himself dancing with a sword under the True Martial Temple before crossing the tribulation, it was golden autumn yellow leaves, as if it were just a blink of an eye, how can it not make people anxious?

The worry and anxiety in his heart surged several times, and when it reached his mouth, it was only twenty-eight words:

"Apricot yellow and pear white another year, twenty-four years in a snap.

Jingwei carries stones and never regrets, only anxious when will the Canghai be filled?"

At this moment, those gathered around Cheng Xinzhan were all outstanding people. Now hearing Cheng Xinzhan sighing about time, they nodded and echoed. Li Chengyan also said,

"Xinzhan, you have washed your core in twenty-four years of Dao cultivation, faster than us for decades, and you are still cherishing time. It really makes us feel ashamed!"

Everyone was ashamed.

After Cheng Xinzhan chanted the poem, he also felt that he had the suspicion of showing off, so he skipped this topic and asked Li Chengyan about another matter,

"I heard that the Southern Wilderness and Yu Yang are fighting very fiercely now?"

Last year, after the few people separated at Fuxia Lake, these two went to the Southern Wilderness, and later heard that they went to the Yu Yang front line to help.

Li Chengyan nodded.

"Yes, the Southern Sect has a great advantage in Yu Yang. Relying on the Green Robe Old Ancestor's river water vein, the geographical advantage of the local Daoist sect in Yu Yang is gone. Now the Daoist friends of the Jingming Sect are suffering, and both the Three Corpse Island and Yu Yang need them."

"Not bad."

Shen Zhaoming took over the conversation. His injury from forcibly opening his Dharma eyes had healed, but he had always regretted leaving first under the True Martial Temple and failing to see the grand occasion of Cheng Xinzhan crossing the tribulation.

"And the worst thing now is that the flood dragons from Western Shu to Kuizhou were killed by Emei to take eggs, and there is the Eight-Armed Dragon King who is doing well in the Southern Wilderness and is highly trusted by the Green Robe Old Ancestor. With this good head start, the flood dragons in Shu land fled one after another and entered the Southern Wilderness to take refuge with the Green Robe Old Ancestor, so there are many demonic flood dragons in the Southern Sect now, and we are quite struggling to deal with them."

Cheng Xinzhan sighed upon hearing this. Just now he heard about Longhu Mountain raising demons, and now there is Emei Mountain driving flood dragons. How many demonic disasters in this world are created by the so-called righteous path?

The Green Robe Old Ancestor walking the river and turning into a dragon has too great an influence on the world situation, and we have to add the two fifth-realm ones in the East Sea, one black dragon and one mirage dragon, none of which are easy to deal with.

The righteous path lacks water-method practitioners and methods to suppress flood dragons.

Cheng Xinzhan was thoughtful.

"Here!"

At this time, a sentence from Feng Jihu interrupted his thoughts.

Everyone looked in the direction Feng Jihu was pointing, and saw a red cloud floating over.

Several people from the Mount Sanqing recognized it. This red cloud was first in the hands of Pu Jixuan, later bought by Xinzhan, and now given to the third sister.

On the red cloud, besides the third sister and Deng Ge, there were also two children, a boy and a girl.

Li Chengyan, Wang Chengyi, and Song Jishu were very surprised to see this. Did he really recruit two?

The three of them all participated in Cheng Xinzhan's test array. It was his own proposal, Li and Wang made up for the omissions, and Song Jishu personally operated it, so they knew how difficult this test array specially customized for Cun Shen Dao to recruit disciples was.

Could he still recruit two?

Li Chengyan and Wang Chengyi looked at each other, then looked at Cheng Xinzhan. "Xinzhan..."

Cheng Xinzhan knew what they were thinking, and looked at Song Jishu again.

Song Jishu smiled and took out an array map and handed it to the two. "After finishing the array, Xinzhan told me to make two, and leave one for you."

The two were overjoyed and accepted the array map.

The red cloud landed, and the third sister and Deng Ge stepped forward, arching their hands and saluting in unison.

"Master, 5,312 people participated in the Dharma trial, and two passed. They have been brought here."

At this time, Song Jishu raised his eyebrows at Cheng, Li, and Wang. Letting more than 5,000 people fall into the illusion, even if there was Xinzhan's Mirage Cloud as the array base, this was enough to show his Song Jishu's ability to carve arrays.

The three understood and sent admiring looks together.

Cheng Xinzhan beckoned and let the two children walk to the front.

The two children rode the clouds all the way here, saw the beautiful scenery of the immortal mountain, and knew that they had entered the legendary Three Pure Xianshan, so the people here should all be immortals.

The girl was clever. Seeing that the two immortals who brought her in both called the blue-robed immortal "Master," and that immortal was beckoning to her, he must be the one taking on disciples this time. It's just that this immortal is so young, and the immortals here are all so young.

She stepped forward and knelt before Cheng Xinzhan.

"Little girl Zhu Shuyu, greetings to the immortal."

Seeing this, the little boy hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, learning the girl's words and saying,

"Little commoner Lin Fengnian, greetings to the immortal."

Cheng Xinzhan hurriedly helped the two children up, patted the dust on their knees, and said,

"We Daoists don't practice kneeling, no need for such great gifts in the future."

Seeing the immortal so easy-going and even patting the dust for them, the two children were at a loss for a moment and nodded blankly.

"From now on, you two are my registered disciples in Pear Snow Mountain. You two need to support each other. You must not only focus on asking about the Dao but also have the world in your hearts."

Cheng Xinzhan said kindly.

The two were a bit confused. Wasn't it said that after entering the mountain for the last Dharma trial, there would be an assessment? How come they were directly taken as disciples? But not having to take the exam was naturally a great thing, and being able to become an immortal's disciple was an even greater thing.

The two agreed, subconsciously wanting to kneel again, but remembering the immortal's instructions just now, they stopped abruptly and just arched their hands and saluted.

"Disciples obey orders."

Cheng Xinzhan was originally prepared to tell the registered disciples about the source of the Dharma lineage and the classics that needed to be read, but now it seems that these two children are too young, and they don't even know the basic Daoist etiquette. Thinking about it, they must not have read Daoist classics either. It is better to let them understand the basic situation of secular Daoism before teaching them.

It doesn't matter if they are young. Nourish their bodies with the spiritual energy in the mountain, and then learn the Qi-eating method and various Daoist matters together.

However, there are many people here today, so don't say too much else. Just take them to recognize people. So, Xinzhan introduced them one by one.

"This is Daoist Fang Weimin. According to seniority, you have to call him Ancestor, but in our Mount Sanqing, there is no need to be so formal and cumbersome. Just call him Elder Fang."

"Greetings, Elder Fang."

Cheng Xinzhan is the first to take on disciples in his generation, so these friends of his all like these two children very much.

Fang Weimin was prepared and took out two boxes of elixirs and distributed them to the two.

The two didn't dare to accept and looked at Cheng Xinzhan.

Cheng Xinzhan smiled and said, "Accept it, but keep it well, no rush to take it."

The two bowed and thanked them repeatedly, and then accepted the gift.

From the two's behavior, it can be seen that the girl is alert and understands etiquette. Every word and action is too formal. It is clear that she came from a wealthy family in the secular world.

Although the boy doesn't understand these things much, his eyes are very sharp. No matter what the girl says or does, he copies it, and he learns very quickly. If you don't pay attention, it is hard to find that his words and actions are one step behind the girl.

"This is Daoist Sun Miaoshu. You also have to call him Ancestor, but he hasn't been promoted to the position of Elder yet, so you just call him Daoist Sun."

"Greetings, Daoist Sun."

The two children continued to salute.

Sun Miaoshu naturally also had preparations and took out two gifts.

By the time a circle of people was recognized, the two children had already held their arms full of gifts. Among them, Li Chengyan and Wang Chengyi's gifts were the thickest, giving two volumes of visualization atlases.

"Xinzhan, the family background of these two children when they entered the door is much richer than yours back then."

Feng Jihu said with a smile.

Back then, Mountain Master Wenshan only gave a few words and let Cheng Xinzhan go to Little Wan Mountain, and nothing was given. He was also very surprised when he saw it back then.

Although it is certain that people will not starve to death in the mountain, he still privately instructed Jiyuan to take care of him, but he forgot that Jiyuan was also unreliable. He only heard later that Xinzhan ate white cakes raw for several days when he first came.

Cheng Xinzhan let the two children take the children to live in Little Wan Mountain, and then pick some easy-to-understand Daoist classics to send over. The children are still young, so it is not suitable to say too much today. Wait for a few days before calling them to the front to explain things carefully.

The few children left, but the people who came to watch the ceremony did not leave, but turned to start a Dao discussion meeting. It is not easy for these people to gather together on weekdays. Today, taking advantage of Cheng Xinzhan taking on disciples, they rushed over from all over the world.

Of course, in the nearly a month that followed, most of the time it was Cheng Xinzhan speaking, and the others listening.

Cheng Xinzhan has walked all the way here. Most people look up to him. Few can communicate with him about Daoist methods. Those who can follow closely without falling behind are few and far between. As for those who can keep pace or even surpass him, there are none yet.

When he first entered the mountain gate, everyone on Little Wan Mountain was his senior;

When he ate Qi, he surpassed those who had been in the mountain for several months and had not yet mastered the essentials of eating Qi in a few breaths;

When he opened his heart, he was only a few months later than He Jiyuan who had been in the mountain for eight years;

When he practiced thunder methods, he was said to be a genius not seen in Shuji Mountain for a hundred years. At this time, He Jiyuan could no longer keep up with him, and those who were on par with him were the Six Sons of Huang Mountain;

When he practiced sword methods, he became famous in Baiyujing. When he practiced refining methods, he was valued by Bai Hu Mountain and entered the eyes of the Sect Master. At this time, others no longer mentioned the Six Sons of Huang Mountain in front of him;

When he went to West Kunlun to eliminate demons, those who teamed up with him were all people on the Nandou List;

By the time he returned from West Kunlun, everyone didn't know what happened, but they often saw him entering and leaving the Three Pure Palace, listening to lectures in various veins. Various peaks and mountains were spreading that he was a candidate for Sect Master;

Then it was opening the Five Mansions and entering the second realm. The entire Mount Sanqing saw the shocking vision, and everyone tacitly agreed that he was a candidate for Sect Master;

When he went to Longhu Mountain, his companions were already people at the level of Daoist children and heirs of a Dharma lineage;

After returning from Longhu Mountain, he served as the White Tiger Envoy, advocated the establishment of the Engineering Office, and built the Fusong Building. All the disciples in the sect were convinced by him;

Then he went out to travel. Not many people in the sect knew he went to sea, but after he returned from sea, he formed a core, which was another vision that shocked the entire sect;

So when he formed the core and went out to invite people to the Haoran Alliance, the elites of all sects responded to the call;

Later, he first beheaded Yang Xuanla, rebuilt Fuxia Lake, then beheaded White Impermanence, and destroyed the Soul-Lost Stream. When the news spread back to Mount Sanqing and Haoran Alliance, the mountains were excited;

When he crossed the tribulation and returned to the sect, he discovered that there was no one left to stand side by side with him.

In twenty years, he walked the path of others for two hundred years.

So although it is called a Dao discussion meeting, in fact, most of the time he is speaking, and others are listening.

Later generations called this Dao meeting the Pear Mountain Dao Meeting. Many people in the Dao meeting later admitted that their core formation methods and initial washing methods were all formed in this Dao meeting.

Later, the Pear Mountain Dao Meeting was held many times and for many years. People were no longer limited to these people, and the place was no longer limited to Pear Snow Mountain. But the people who participated in the Dao meeting were basically geniuses of various families around fifty years old. The content discussed inherited the first Pear Mountain Dao Meeting, which was how to form a core, cross the initial washing tribulation, and discuss the general trend of the righteous and demonic paths in the world.

The keynote speaker of the first Dao meeting, that world-suppressing Earth Immortal, said a sentence at the end of the Dao meeting, which also stirred the hearts of all young geniuses again and again with the holding of the Pear Mountain Dao Meeting, namely the so-called:

Already know the greatness of the universe, still pity the green of grass and trees.

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VIP Volume 1 "Confident Life for Two Hundred Years" ends.

Next volume: Already know the greatness of the universe, still pity the green of grass and trees.

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