Chapter 1057

There was silence in the hall.

The various undercurrents under the hall earlier, the discussions of the Ning and Yang family disciples that were not revealed.

"Arrogant!"

"Rude!"

"Although she is a woman of my Ning family, she is so rude to her elders. Sure enough, it's the temperament of a rogue cultivator. Having left home for too long, she has even forgotten her upbringing!"

"Aunt is so amazing!"

"A mere Supreme Grade Jin Dan, yet so ignorant of advancement and retreat. Yan Shixiong Yang Ju has been forbearing in every way, truly having the demeanor of our noble family. It's fine that that woman ran away from home, but she even brought a wild man back. Although he has some cultivation, in the borderlands overseas, who knows how many wives and concubines he has? Truly not knowing how to love herself!"

"This child Qingchen, where did she learn such sharp sword techniques? In the future, she must not be allowed near my natal spirit root!"

Those mixed with malice, curiosity, defensiveness...

Thousands of threads of affection entangled, falling on Ning Qingchen's heart. After mastering the Taiyin Cutting Affection Blade Scripture, others' various views of her would entangle with threads of affection.

The more genuine the affection, the more suffering it brings.

This is also the reason why the successive Guanghan Fairies of Guanghan Palace appear as cold as ice on the surface.

In a palace of women, how many kinds of thoughts are entangled, messy and chaotic, yet the Taiyin Cutting Affection Blade Scripture is easier to master for women who are sensitive in temperament and genuine in affection.

Thus, perceiving such complexity, darkness, and malice.

Even a woman as passionate as fire would be forced to be as cold as ice.

This is the second blade of Taiyin Cutting Affection—the human heart.

It is precisely this that is "more thinking, cutting off no affection."

It's not that after passing the tribulation of cutting the Dao and seeing oneself, cutting off affection like a blade, it's over!

The first blade is Heaven's Will, the second blade is the Human Heart.

It falls at every moment, endlessly, cutting away the things you cherish most in your heart.

Whenever the human heart is like a blade, cutting her into a thousand pieces, Ning Qingchen only gains strength from those truly sincere and pure threads of affection.

This is also why the more the blade scripture is mastered, the more genuine and true to nature one becomes.

Since returning to the Ning family, these countless messy, dark threads of affection have fallen one after another, entangling Ning Qingchen's true heart bit by bit. This is a type of tempering that the Taiyin Cutting Affection Blade Scripture must go through.

The human heart is like hell; it's not something Ning Qingchen can escape just because she wants to.

Instead, she must constantly hone that blade within it...

The more this is the case, the more precious the occasional bit of sincerity becomes.

Ning Yuan, whose eyes sparkled with worship, filled with Ning Qingchen's handsomeness, and whose praise in his thoughts made Ning Qingchen herself feel embarrassed.

"She has grown up... less and less like you! More and more mischievous!"

Complex expression, with anger, suppression, annoyance.

But beneath all kinds of negativity, a trace of pride is still hidden very deeply... that man.

"So alike! So like Little Sister... that aura! Sigh! I thought she met a good person, but I didn't expect it to cause you to die young. Little Sister..."

If it is said that the threads of affection entangled from other places are all distracting thoughts.

At least, there is still some genuine affection here.

This is probably why the successive Guanghan Fairies didn't leave Guanghan Palace!

Ning Qingchen raised the ice blade, stubbornly pointing her sharpness directly at Yang Ju.

But in the silence, Zangshan Laozu Ning slowly stood up, took off his crown and scarf, and suddenly bowed: "Congratulations, Daoist friend, for forming a First Grade Jin Dan, looking forward to the Primordial Spirit!"

Even Yang Ju, whom she pointed her blade at, solemnly took off his crown and bowed: "Congratulations, Daoist friend, the Great Dao is in sight, longevity is before you!"

The entire hall, all the cultivators of the Ning family fortress, said in unison: "Congratulations, Daoist friend, for forming a First Grade Jin Dan, shaking the world!"

At this moment, Ning Qingchen was shaken by the countless threads of affection that were entangled, worshipful, solemn, and respectful—although there were still desires and darkness, they were disciplined very neatly—so much so that even the blade she raised became sluggish!

And Qian Chen beside her exclaimed—they are too practiced!

Etiquette can truly discipline the human heart!

Noble families are truly too practiced!

They are too practiced in how to flatter a First Grade Jin Dan, how to hype up a junior talent, how to cultivate reputation, and how to manage popularity!

So practiced that they have unconsciously integrated this set of processes into their values.

"Suddenly feeling jade buds growing in the mud pill, the Heavenly River pouring backward, pure Yang born. This body disperses into clear and empty Qi, blowing down the ninth flower of Kunlun."

"Congratulations, Ning Ning Shimei, for forming a First Grade Jin Dan, turning to pure Yang, Primordial Spirit in sight, Daoist Lord bowing..."

Qian Chen also obediently stood up, bowed his head, and offered emotional value to his Ning Ning Shimei.

Ning Qingchen gave him a cold look, forcing him to shut up.

Zangshan Laozu Ning also laughed loudly, pointing at Ning Qingchen and saying to Yang Ju: "Daoist friend, see my Ning family's Phoenix Girl, where is there no parasol tree for her to perch on?"

Yang Ju also nodded and smiled: "How can a phoenix have no place to land? It was my rudeness!"

"Seeds of tribulation ash planted in the deep, sun and moon twin pills open in the palm. Thirty-six peaks are still green, having already ridden the phoenix tail past Penglai."

Yang Ju bowed: "Daoist friend, according to our Central Lands etiquette, forming a First Grade Jin Dan should shake the Jade Bell thirty-six times, announcing it to the world, and then hold a First Grade Pill Assembly to receive congratulations from the world!"

"Does the Ning family have a Jade Bell?"

Zangshan Laozu Ning sighed: "The Ning family is a small clan, how dare we hope for such a Primordial Spirit seed? But after today, even if I empty the family treasury and open the storehouse, I will refine a perfect magic treasure, a Pill-Forming Jade Bell!"

Yang Ju smiled: "My Yang family has a Jade Bell, enshrined in the ancestral hall."

Looking at Ning Qingchen, he sighed: "This bell can shake the Shenzhou with its sound, and even the pillar of the south and the heavenly lake of the north can hear it. In the Yang family, this bell has rung two hundred and sixty-one times, and has been lent to fellow Daoists in Guanzhong one hundred and sixty-nine times. Now, this is the one hundred and seventieth time!"

"Shaking the Shenzhou, that's at least a magic treasure level, you noble families are really..."

Qian Chen didn't know what to say.

People are truly practiced!

The emotional value is given fully; who can withstand this?

Should I also hold a Pill-Forming Assembly when I return to the Li family?

Ning Qingchen turned her head helplessly, looking at Qian Chen, her eyes revealing—what should I do, should I still raise this blade?

Yang Ju looked at Ning Qingchen, who was slightly embarrassed, holding the ice blade, stroking his beard and smiling: "Niece, forming a First Grade Jin Dan is certainly praiseworthy. After all, cultivating a Great Supernatural Power seed is already looking forward to the Primordial Spirit. Compared to an incompetent person like me, the hope above the Primordial Spirit is much greater. But the Yang family's Jade Bell has rung two hundred and sixty-one times, and although thirty-six bell sounds are certainly worth celebrating, only eighty-one jade rings can truly reach the nine heavens!"

"After those two hundred and sixty-one jade rings, only twenty-seven people have been able to invite the Jade Chime left by the Kong family and the Golden Bell preserved by the Zhang family to reach the Heavenly Court!"

"I hope the Phoenix Girl will think about it and take it as a mirror..."

Ning Qingchen looked at Qian Chen again; he was very innocent!

Is the Primordial Spirit so amazing? I think it's average...

Of course, if the two Junior Sisters and Yan Yan Shixiong Yan achieved the Primordial Spirit, Qian Chen wouldn't hesitate to manifest the Qiankun Bow and Heaven-Shaking Arrow with the Dao Dust Pearl, tie the arrow with a red ribbon, and shoot it toward the nine heavens and ten earths.

Shooting a few Heavenly Court gods and Nine Heavens Demon Gods to celebrate would be fine.

"Hurry and invite the Jade Bell!"

Yang Ju instructed Yang Wenxiu, telling him to bow respectfully to Ning Qingchen, Zangshan Laozu Ning, and his uncle.

Yang Ju said: "Drive my cloud carriage... I allow you to enter the middle gate directly, hurry and bring the Jade Bell over."

Qian Chen suddenly spoke: "Ride my Green-Eyed Jade Dragon!"

These words were said lightly, just like a close female classmate in a class reunion getting into Tsinghua University, everyone shouting to open champagne, throwing the keys on the table and shouting: "Drive my Ferrari!"

Equally vulgar.

Equally... hateful.

But it's really useful!

The eyes of the many small cultivators in the hall changed, and someone laughed: "The Book of Changes says: 'Same sounds respond, same Qi seeks.' There is also a legend that the phoenix does not land in a place without treasure, perching on parasol trees and drinking from sweet springs. Yan Shixiong is friends with my Ning family's Phoenix Girl, there must be something extraordinary. May I ask what grade of pill you formed, and if there is a parasol tree appearance, looking forward to the phoenix perching?"

Qian Chen said honestly: "Mixed pill in one Qi, don't know what grade."

Ning Qingchen tilted her head; yes, yes, ancient pill Dao, Jin Dan nine turns, one-step Daoist Lord!

Laughter came from below.

Someone held back laughter and said: "Then Yan Shixiong thinks he is a parasol tree?"

Ning Qingchen: I formed a First Grade Jin Dan, is it your turn to praise?

Yan Yan Shixiong spoke, asking someone to ride the Green-Eyed Jade Dragon, it was to make me happy!

Do you know what Qian Yan Yan Shixiong usually rides?

The Ning family disciples below were full of joy. The thoughts of exclusion, feeling she was arrogant, rude, and ignorant, suddenly turned into their own arrogance and pride.

Some even felt that Qian Chen in the seat of honor was an eyesore, unworthy of their Ning family's phoenix.

Ning Qingchen's expression gradually turned cold as she looked around the hall, and suddenly said: "Often heard, even if there is a parasol tree, it is hard to get a phoenix to come! Without carving the Fuxi zither, the parasol tree will not become material! In the world, there are phoenixes perching on parasol trees, but I have never heard of phoenixes perching on Jianmu trees. Therefore, Jianmu supports the heaven and earth, connects the three realms, and is majestic and supports the cosmos..."

"Even if a phoenix perches, it's just a sparrow!"

"My Yan Yan Shixiong is not a parasol tree, but Jianmu..."

She raised the ice blade again, pointing at Yang Ju: "Please enlighten me!"

Everyone didn't expect that she still hadn't let this matter go. For a while, there was silence. Although she formed a First Grade Jin Dan and pointed directly at the Primordial Spirit, Yang Ju was a Yin Spirit great cultivator, a senior who was one step ahead on the Immortal Dao. Being so aggressive was really tainted with many bad habits of rogue cultivators.

So, many people in the hall frowned, feeling that she was too boastful of her Yan Yan Shixiong and tainted with many bad habits of overseas rogue cultivators.

Even though she formed a First Grade Jin Dan, she had fallen behind in morality.

Yang Ju lowered his brow and shook his head: "Ning niece..."

Ning Qingchen raised her eyes: "Although I am not considered successful, you are not qualified to call me niece!"

What kind of people are her Yan Yan Shixiong and Ning Ning Shimei? Shaoqing orthodox successor, the generation's pill Dao master Yan Shu who refined the legendary immortal medicine. Even the Yin Spirit True Immortals of the Doushuai Palace don't dare to climb up to call them niece now.

Ning Ning Shimei Si, the beloved daughter of True Person Tao.

Qian Yan Shixiong, the body of a Daoist Lord, Tai Shang orthodox successor, one of the Three Treasures, the Louguan Dao Sect Master, Pangu!

What is your status, daring to be their uncle?

This time, Yang Ju was truly angry.

He pressed his brow, claiming good self-cultivation: "Ning Daoist friend! Perhaps you are used to staying overseas and don't know the customs of the Central Lands. Many rogue cultivators overseas are greedy for life and afraid of death, the law of the jungle, respecting the strong, and are fierce and good at fighting, using force to convince people!"

"But the Central Lands..." He shook his head: "It's different!"

"Never heard of someone who loves virtue as much as force! Forming a First Grade Jin Dan is certainly a boundless future, but upholding morality, even if it's a mortal or a small cultivator, can also be valued by the world."

"We noble families don't rely on force or cultivation to bully the world, but cultivate virtue and are valued by the world!"

"Since the Sixteen Kingdoms, the north has been fighting endlessly, the imperial court has lost its position, because we noble families lost our virtue, relied on our cultivation, the strong did whatever they wanted, and the weak were not at peace in the world, leading to this great disaster..."

Qian Chen turned the wine cup in his palm, listening to the theory that vaguely coincided with Cui Hao, and shook his head secretly in his heart.

It seems that since the collapse of the Immortal Han, after repeated demonic calamities, the Shenzhou has been killed until there are ten houses and nine empty, and hundreds of millions of living beings have been devastated, which has finally made many noble families with deep foundations reflect!

Reflecting that they couldn't kill those crude military men;

Couldn't make trouble for those nine demon sects;

The background of having someone at the top couldn't compete with the two religions of Buddhism and Daoism;

Couldn't compete with those barefoot rogue cultivators in fighting fiercely.

Even the resilience of being like mud and soil, trampled by others, was not as good as those common people who were bitter to the bone.

Reflecting that the wealth, peace, and foothold of noble families lie in stable order.

Qian Chen felt that this might be a collective reflection of the people of insight in the Shenzhou. They were reflecting on the end of the Immortal Han, when various demonic calamities killed the Shenzhou until it was empty, and hundreds of millions of living beings were devastated, which also caused many noble families with deep foundations to suffer repeated heavy losses.

After a group of military barbarians, demons, careerists, and barbarians stood on their heads...

The question of where the Shenzhou should go.

Some want to return to the time when the Immortal Dynasty was powerful and suppressed everything.

Some want the Heavenly Court to descend and directly rule the Earth Immortal Realm, with the human world divided and enfeoffed by the Heavenly Court.

Some want to re-establish the divine path and correct the human path.

Some want to paste and fill, stabilize quickly, and solidify the class.

Some want to cleanse all the flies and dogs, knock everything down, sweep away the chronic illness, and establish a new heaven!

The peace that has been maintained for thousands of years in the North and South Dynasties is no longer stable—the building is about to collapse!

And the Yang family, and this eloquent Yang Ju, he felt the undercurrent and trend, but they feared change, longed for order, and while relying on the existing order, they were dissatisfied with their own interests and status.

They longed to return to the past.

But saying when that past was, it was not the Xia, Shang, Zhou, or Yu dynasties, but the best era in their memories, or even illusory memories.

Doing big things but cherishing their bodies, seeing small profits and forgetting righteousness!

No wonder the Yang family's trend is gone, and the Mandate of Heaven is about to end...

Yang Ju continued to talk eloquently: "... How about the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Murong Chui who is strong? Killing the Heavenly King Fu Jian, assassinating the driver in Chang'an, the military and demonic paths are rampant in the north, winning every battle, the Murong clan's geniuses emerge one after another, First Grade Golden Cores are like rain, Yin Spirit great cultivators are constant. But they only know how to kill indiscriminately, not cultivate morality, and finally they are defeated and scattered, and a few days ago, as a Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo, they approached the Six Towns, but were defeated by a Buddhist expert, and finally killed by a female monarch of the demon path!"

"Strength cannot last long. The Daoist Zangshan Laozu said: Who can rule the world with the Dao? Virtue returns to it, and each gets its place!"

Ning Qingchen asked with a smile: "If you rule with morality, why do you slash the overlord to get the marquis?"

Yang Ju opened his eyes wide and waved his sleeve:

"If you want to ask about that blade, you can just come..."

Yang Ju said frankly: "See the morality of my noble family, how can it resist your supernatural powers!"

With his words decided, a phantom of a stone tablet appeared behind him, which was the family-transmitted scripture "Dharma Words" of the Yang family.

This was a scripture opened by the True Person of the Western Han, Yang Xiong, upholding the Dao of both Confucianism and Daoism. Later generations engraved its sentences on the tablet, word by word, like true words.

The so-called: The words of the Dharma, can you not follow them!

As Confucius said, standing on morality and etiquette, how can you not follow?

Dharma is the downstream of the Dao. Heaven and earth follow the Dao, and its track is the Dharma.

Establishing laws for heaven and earth is the merit of the hundred schools of thought.

Using one's own will to carve traces on heaven and earth and establishing rules for the operation of the Great Dao is the Dharma—this is the trace carved by the hundred schools of thought on heaven and earth when they observed the operation of the Dao fruit in the Daoist Lord realm.

They named it Dharma.

And Dharma Words are the traces that Yang Xiong observed when he read the scriptures and biographies of the hundred schools of thought, and the Dao fruit was carved on heaven and earth.

He used his own will to distort these traces, borrowed them, verified them, and wrote the principles in his heart.

These are Dharma Words.

And the "Dharma Words" scripture passed down by the Yang family is to use the principles Yang Xiong realized to capture the various Dao traces left by the hundred schools of thought in the Earth Immortal Realm, and try every means to extract them, carve them on "tablets," "books," and "oracle bones."

When it reaches the Great Completion, use the Yang Spirit as a tablet, and carve various Dharma Words on it.

Melt them into your own Dao rhyme, and finally break through the Primordial Spirit, refining the Dharma into the body!

On the stone tablet, the sixteen-character true words shone brightly...

"Heavenly God, Heavenly Brightness, illuminating the four directions. Heavenly Essence, Heavenly Purity, all things are classified!"

The Yang family doesn't have much else, but they have many cultural relics.

Extracting Dao rhyme from the relics of the hundred schools of thought, preferably words, refining them into Dharma Words, and carving them on tablets is like a supernatural power.

These sixteen characters refined from Yang Xiong's manuscripts fell.

Suddenly gathering Heavenly Essence and Heavenly Purity, it turned into an illusory god to bless himself. Heavenly God, Heavenly Brightness, illuminating the four directions, that kind of mysterious spiritual sense and supernatural power merged with the Yang family's family-transmitted Four Knowings Sword.

Heaven knows, earth knows, you know, I know.

Sensing heaven and earth, reflecting your and my human heart, like a sword that peeks at all heavenly secrets and strikes first, although it hasn't left its sheath, it has already filled the heaven and earth!

"The dragon coils in the mud, the salamander is rampant!"

Another Dharma Word fell.

When the dragon crouches in the mud pond, the salamander runs rampant!

The Four Knowings Sword is increasingly hidden above the nine heavens and below the nine earths, reflecting the human heart.

The sword intent is deeply hidden in Yang Ju's heart, while the sword light reflects and appears in Ning Qingchen's heart. Once the sword is drawn, those who are good at attacking move above the nine heavens, sharp and unstoppable.

Those who are good at defending hide below the nine earths, breaking everything.

The sword intent bursts, the sharpness is revealed, cutting the enemy and seeing oneself, its sharpness is unstoppable!

This is the Yang family's Four Knowings Sword Dao, striking first, calculating everything, striking later, already having the realm of pre-knowledge.

Not to mention a Jin Dan cultivator.

Even if it's a First Grade Jin Dan, what if they hit a prototype of a Great Supernatural Power?

Yang Ju was confident that he could break it with one sword, letting this junior who doesn't know good from evil understand the true foundation of a noble family! Letting him know that although the Central Lands are large, noble families have hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and a First Grade Jin Dan really doesn't count for much!

Which generation of the Yang family didn't have a First Grade?

But Ning Qingchen was a bit helpless. The Taiyin Cutting Affection Blade Scripture arises from the heart and cuts everything.

You borrow the Dao of Dharma Words and summon the Heavenly God and Heavenly Brightness to bless your body. The Four Knowings Sword Dao pays even more attention to the sword heart and sword intent, hiding the heart in the four directions of heaven and earth. It is very strong.

The sword of heavenly secrets knows everything.

But what is known is the heavenly blade. If I slash this blade, in heaven and on earth, no one can save you...

Do you know?

Ning Qingchen flipped her ice blade and slashed a blade.

Yang Ju hadn't done anything yet.

Zangshan Laozu Ning jumped up like a rabbit and slipped away.

And Yang Ju only saw a blade light like ice-cold, covering everything.

What Four Knowings sword intent, what Heavenly God and Heavenly Brightness, were all frozen under that blade, and his sword heart was suddenly frozen, and under the blade light, everything was cut.

This is truly—the dragon coils in the mud, the salamander is rampant!

Does the dragon necessarily want to fly to heaven?

If it flies, the group of salamanders will hide in the mud, shivering!

A scream of extreme terror: "Ice Soul Divine Blade!"

The fleeing ancestor even complained: "Qingchen! I have no malice toward you, why slash me too? It hurts me so much..."

At the foot of the natal spirit root in the distance, a blade mark pierced through the tree body.

The blade mark with a little frost froze all the branches and leaves of the spirit root, and for a time, the spirit root seemed dead.

The fleeing Zangshan Laozu Ning lay at the foot of the spirit root, moaning, on the verge of death.

And Yang Ju's flying sword slipped from his sleeve, standing there blankly. In the deepest part of his pupils, there was still that white cold light, cutting open his pupils and leaving a reflected blade mark on the iris!

In the hall, the two great cultivators who tilted the Ning family were one fleeing and one stiff.

A slash of a First Grade Jin Dan shocked everything.

Making the Ning and Yang family disciples below have only one thought in their hearts: "As expected of a First Grade Jin Dan, as expected of the Ning family's unparalleled!"

"What is a Yin Spirit great cultivator?"

"A First Grade Jin Dan is truly fearless, below the Primordial Spirit, unstoppable!"

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? The explosive updates are over, lasting seven days, at least ten thousand words every day.

? On the 26th, I will go back to Kunming for a check-up and recuperate my body. I will continue in April!

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