Chapter 577: Dao-Attainment Assembly

After dealing with the rogue cultivators, Little Wei Yuan was already collecting the list of those who had attained the Dao Foundation in this session. Just one month after the war, Qingming had replenished over three hundred thousand refugees, and the population climbed back to 1.7 million.

This was also largely thanks to Cui Shutong; he now seemed to have an extreme desire for weapons and armor, so he didn't want silver taels, only armor to offset the price. In this way, he was willing to give 50% more refugees.

With Qingming's current steel production, producing ten thousand sets of heavy armor a day was not a problem. Thus, Cui Shutong sold over three hundred thousand refugees to Little Wei Yuan in one month. During this month, only over thirty thousand refugees came to Qingming on their own. Information among refugees was blocked, and many people still thought Qingming was still fighting and didn't dare to come.

With the expansion of the population base, those who survived a hundred battles saw rapid growth in their cultivation, and added to the fact that the great war had just passed, almost everyone had endless military merit, so this time, the number of Body Forging Great Accomplishment cultivators from the commoners increased to four thousand in one breath.

In addition, the Xu family teenagers in the New City finally achieved success in Body Forging, with over eight hundred people reaching the realm of Body Forging Perfection, and they were also able to establish the Dao Foundation.

Furthermore, the Taichu Palace also sent a letter, using a giant boat to transport three thousand Dao soldiers, asking Little Wei Yuan to train them on their behalf, with the remuneration to be settled separately.

Added to the rogue cultivators and the cultivators sent by the Cui family, all in all, the number of students in this session exceeded ten thousand for the first time.

With so many people wanting to establish the Dao Foundation, the vast majority of whom would become the backbone of Qingming's work for decades to come, Little Wei Yuan naturally attached great importance to it, viewing it as the number one major event in the near future.

So he summoned the various cultivators of the Taichu Palace to offer advice and suggestions, and at the same time, he also mobilized the crouching dragons and phoenix chicks in the Human Realm's Renjian Yanhuo.

In the end, it was Behind Bao Yun's proposal that received unanimous approval; the gist was that with so many people, there must be a sense of ritual, so it would be easy to harvest fortune. Hearing the two words "fortune," Little Wei Yuan immediately took it to heart.

A sense of ritual first required a name that was loud enough to be deafening, so the Qingming Dao Foundation Training Class was renamed the 【Qingming Six Realms Dao-Attainment Assembly】. As for which six realms the six realms were, the students could imagine for themselves.

Then there were the venue and equipment; it was no longer a bare drill ground. Instead, partitions were separated by cloth boards, with meditation cushions placed inside, so the students wouldn't interfere with each other, while the guiding teachers patrolled the entire venue, providing help and guidance at any time.

With partitions and equipment, it became possible to distinguish between high and low. Those cultivators who paid money enjoyed VIP treatment; the places where they established the Dao Foundation were a large chunk higher than other areas, the partitions were made of rosewood, the cushions were woven from Heart-Clearing Grass, and a plate of Mind-Calming Incense would also be lit.

Besides this, there were super VIPs with prominent identities and those who paid a lot of money; they had a small bell in front of them, and if they had any discomfort, they could summon a guiding teacher to provide one-on-one service at any time, and the cultivators arranged in this area were all handsome men and beautiful women.

Thus, with levels distinguished, the sense of ritual immediately emerged.

The final link of the sense of ritual was to have big figures sit in command, showing Qingming's foundation, deterring the petty people from all directions, and at the same time making the second-generation ancestors not dare to make trouble for no reason.

This candidate was originally best as Wei Boyang, but Little Wei Yuan didn't expect there would be so many people in this Dao Foundation session, so he let him leave early. So he had to settle for second best and look for other candidates.

Everyone subconsciously ignored Ancestor Xuanyue. If this ancestor sat in command of the entire venue, she would definitely have to say a few words, and then the situation would be hard to handle.

The Master Yu Jing of the Cui family and the Bao family had already returned, and besides, they weren't suitable to be bound so deeply with Qingming.

Little Wei Yuan suddenly thought of a candidate: Zhu Yuanjin. At this moment, his mind stirred, and he heard Zhu Yuanjin calling him.

Little Wei Yuan hurried over and saw her sitting at the table, handing over a storybook, saying: "It's fine for me to appear and sit in command, but I want three more storybooks similar to this one."

Little Wei Yuan took it and looked, discovering that this storybook was produced by the Human Realm's Renjian Yanhuo, and the one he gave Zhu Yuanjin last time, he didn't know which phoenix chick's handiwork it was.

The storybook was about a woman who was framed and killed, reborn back to ten years ago. The subsequent tearing apart of romantic rivals and so on were about the same as the original, except there were more plots where the husband who betrayed her cried bitterly and hugged her feet, begging for reconciliation.

She naturally refused, and after fiercely humiliating her ex-husband, she kicked him out. From then on, the ex-husband drifted on the streets and begged for a living. And she lived a happy life with the Emperor, the Imperial Prince, and the Regent, occasionally, for the sake of the country's safety, having to meet privately with the young, handsome, and domineering Emperor of the enemy country. In Little Wei Yuan's view, the scale of this storybook was already so large that it couldn't be added to; he had only read it roughly once, and his heart was filled with countless "WTFs." This word was something he learned from Xu Wenwu, feeling it could particularly express his mood.

But Ancestor Yuanjin had such a hobby, so Little Wei Yuan gritted his teeth and assigned the task, and surprisingly, a phoenix chick accepted it immediately! This made Little Wei Yuan very surprised, not knowing what kind of talent could write such a bizarre plot.

Having settled Zhu Yuanjin and with everything ready, the first ten-thousand-person Dao-Attainment Assembly in Qingming was held.

On the day of the assembly, many students lined up in a dozen long queues and entered the drill ground one by one. Those VIPs and super VIPs originally felt the conditions were crude, but seeing the students who could only sit in the shacks below, their moods immediately improved, feeling that this Little Wei Yuan was quite sensible, and this money was not spent in vain.

So the young masters stood by the railings one by one, pointing at the poor ghosts below.

Seeing their expressions, Little Wei Yuan couldn't help but admire Behind Bao Yun's talent. This young lady said at the time that watching these ordinary students below was part of the paid content for VIPs and super VIPs, which could effectively enhance their Dao Hearts.

When entering the venue, for some reason, everyone saw a woman in red sitting under an ancient tree on the summit of the small hill beside them. Although her appearance couldn't be seen clearly, the elegant and natural temperament and the focus of reading the book touched countless people's hearts fiercely, secretly thinking that if one could get such a woman as a wife, then one's life would not have been lived in vain.

Many knowledgeable people suddenly realized that such a woman with such supernatural powers must be Master Yu Jing!

In the blink of an eye, rumors flew all over the venue, and everyone knew that Qingming had actually invited an Master Yu Jing ancestor to come in person to give guidance!

With this, many Dao Foundation ancestors watching the ceremony were tearful and knelt down. These ancestors had seen the biggest thing in their lives as Dharma Form, and they had never seen an Master Yu Jing great power so truly.

In the blink of an eye, the Dao-Attainment Assembly began, and hundreds of guides began to patrol the entire venue, giving guidance and making final persuasions, letting everyone choose a template Dao Foundation.

Read every single word carefully!

A moment later, the bell rang nine times, and in an instant, all living beings were awakened. In the blink of an eye, a ray of light soared into the sky from the super VIP area; someone had successfully established the Dao Foundation, and it was actually a Heaven Foundation! It instantly attracted the attention of the entire venue!

Little Wei Yuan knew in his heart that these few people could actually have attained the Dao Foundation long ago. The reason they spent a lot of money to come to Qingming to establish the Dao Foundation was, first, they took a fancy to the opportunity for advance enlightenment brought by the awakening of all living beings.

Second, they could attain the Dao Foundation under the eyes of everyone, which was how glorious it was; it was simply more exaggerated than the ceremony for advancement. Who else's advancement to Dao Foundation could be watched by ten thousand people?

The young master who attained the Heaven Foundation first couldn't care about stabilizing the Dao Foundation, hurriedly appeared in front of the railing, and laughed three times toward the sky, his Dao Heart becoming particularly transparent. He knew clearly that such a high-light moment would likely only happen once in his life.

After another moment, two more rays of light rose into the sky, one a Heaven Foundation and one a Earth Foundation. The two also laughed toward the sky, but no one paid attention to them.

Little Wei Yuan stood with Xu Wenwu at a high place and said: "This is a rare opportunity to understand the appearance of all living beings. If you carefully experience it later, you will be able to have a deeper understanding of this world. If you have any insights, the next step is to arrange for you to establish the Dao Foundation."

Xu Wenwu said in a deep voice: "I am ready! Let the storm come more violently!"

Little Wei Yuan was shocked and hurriedly shouted: "Shut up!"

But it was already too late; Xu Wenwu's heart was filled with passion, and he had already finished speaking.

The wood was already a boat, and Little Wei Yuan had no way, so he could only say fiercely to Xu Wenwu: "From now on, until you attain the Dao Foundation, you are not allowed to say a single word!"

Xu Wenwu naturally didn't know that fortune would become extremely unstable beside Little Wei Yuan. The boast he just made had already raised his Heavenly Tribulation by a level.

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