Chapter 714: Everyone Like a Dragon

Wei Yuan returned to Qingming alone, chose an open space near the edge of the Central Immortal City, refined it for seven days according to the formula, and then threw the small golden seal into the air.

The golden seal grew as it saw the wind, and finally turned into a magnificent hall ten zhang high, taking root in the earth.

Wei Yuan walked into the Dao Soldier Hall, and a tall warrior in armor appeared in front of him, holding a jade plate, kneeling on one knee in front of Wei Yuan, saying: "Please imprint your essence blood and primordial spirit, Hall Master!"

This warrior is the artifact spirit of the Dao Soldier Hall. Imprinting essence blood and primordial spirit is a necessary step for the Dao Soldier Hall to recognize its master. From then on, Wei Yuan is the first Dao soldier in the hall and the only Dao soldier at the core.

From now on, all Dao soldiers listed in the hall will contribute a little bit of strength to him. No matter where Wei Yuan is, as long as there are Dao soldiers from the hall around him, Wei Yuan can get corresponding blessings.

Wei Yuan flicked a drop of essence blood, which fell into the jade plate, and then his brain hurt, and a little of his primordial spirit had been taken away.

In an instant, Wei Yuan felt that his body seemed to disappear, and his consciousness merged with the entire hall.

The main body of the Dao Soldier Hall did not move, but Wei Yuan's perception continued to expand until the edge of Qingming.

Wei Yuan had already determined the scope of the first batch of Dao soldiers, mainly Xu family teenagers, humans who used to be high-level offerings, and elites in the Qingming army.

When the Xu family teenagers first arrived in Qingming, there were less than 40,000. During this period, they multiplied twice, and now there are more than 60,000, of which more than 20,000 are children.

These two batches of children have only undergone one mutual swallowing and fusion, and the quantity is still quite large. Although the swallowing and fusion were less and the qualification improvement was limited, the growth rate was still two or three times faster than ordinary human children.

Wei Yuan saw that the time had come and the candidate troops had assembled, so he moved his mind, and the main gate of the Dao Soldier Hall opened automatically. Then the candidate Dao soldiers waiting in formation outside the hall entered the hall in teams of one thousand.

On both sides of the hall stood fifty Dao soldier statues, holding large swords upside down, supporting the ground with the swords.

Each candidate Dao soldier entering the hall stood in front of a statue, cut his palm, and smeared blood on the large sword.

The blood was immediately absorbed by the large sword, and a Body Forging method appeared in everyone's mind, and at the same time, they felt they had lost a little, but gained a lot.

At the end of the hall stood a giant Dao soldier statue ten zhang high. The giant statue had a book in its hand. Whenever a Dao soldier smeared the sword with blood, a name would be added to the book.

Those who had completed the ceremony felt much closer to each other when they saw each other.

The last step, everyone came to the high platform throne at the end of the hall, knelt down to Wei Yuan sitting in front of the giant statue, established a connection with Wei Yuan, and from then on, they were a reserve Dao soldier.

There is no limit to the number of reserve Dao soldiers. After practicing the exclusive cultivation method of the Dao soldiers and reaching the Soul Refining Realm, and activating the primordial spirit sea of consciousness, they can become official Dao soldiers and get real blessings. A hall of Dao soldiers can have up to 50,000 people, and the final achievement of these 50,000 people relates to the strength of the entire Dao soldier legion.

If there can be 5,000 Dao Foundations among the 50,000 Dao soldiers, the blessing range is quite considerable; if there can be 10,000 Dao Foundations, the blessing can be called terrifying, which can directly increase strength by one time.

That is why Wei Yuan wanted to serve as the first Dao soldier himself to control the entire legion. For those who looked like they had no potential and were stuck in Body Forging for life, Wei Yuan did not intend to give them the official Dao soldier quota.

Wei Yuan's intended Dao soldier candidates were the upper-middle class of the first generation of Xu family teenagers, and the future bulk would be the 20,000 children who had not grown up yet. These children had undergone at least one swallowing and fusion, and their qualifications were generally better than their parents.

In addition, there were the best among the tens of thousands of high-level human offerings, as well as the strong men in the Qingming army, which was the Dao soldier distribution Wei Yuan envisioned.

The hall was silent, with only neat footsteps. Teams of Xu family teenagers moved as one, neat enough to be daunting.

After the 30,000 Xu family teenagers, there were 15,000 high-level offerings, and then 100,000 army elites. By the time all the processes were completed, a day and a night had passed. Wei Yuan sat motionless, acting as a statue for a whole day, and also re-observed the core elites of Qingming that he had created with his own hands.

Subsequently, announcements were posted in various cities in Qingming, announcing that 1,000 official Dao soldier quotas would be opened to the civilian class, with the condition that military merit was sufficient and they must be able to advance to Dao Foundation within the specified time.

The treatment of official Dao soldiers is equivalent to captain officers, which is the highest military rank among low-level officers. As soon as the announcement was made, it immediately attracted people to flock to it. In just one day, as many as 100,000 people signed up to become reserve Dao soldiers.

Wei Yuan naturally would not sit in the Dao Soldier Hall again, but replaced it with a Dao Foundation warrior, and in a while, it could be replaced with a real statue.

The Dao Soldier Hall in Qingming was ready, and the 5,000 Dao soldiers of the Grand Void Gate were also sent, so Wei Yuan held the Dao Foundation Ceremony again.

The process of this ceremony was much more formal and complicated. The first day was a sacrificial ceremony, sacrificing to heaven and earth, the ancestors of the Grand Void Gate, and the immortals who founded Qingming. In this process, Wei Yuan took the opportunity to bless the people who needed it with luck.

The so-called need: Qingming's own cultivators naturally needed it; those from the Grand Void Gate also needed it; the children of the Bao family, Cui family, and small and medium-sized aristocratic families and sects had all paid money, so naturally they also needed luck.

Finally, Wei Yuan found that there were only more than 2,000 loose cultivators left who didn't need luck. These loose cultivators didn't pay less money than the children of aristocratic families and sects, but the problem was that aristocratic families and sects had a long-term relationship with Qingming, and training a batch of disciples was a favor.

Just like the Ji Zhao Cui family where Cui Yu was, 80% of the new Dao Foundations in the past few years came from Qingming. As a result, the Dao Foundations from Qingming not only hugged each other, but even the entire Ji Zhao Cui family was almost completely leaning towards Qingming. Some small sects and small forces were also like this.

The Bai Feng Academy, which cultivated Fang Hetong and Sun Chaoen back then, now also cooperated with Qingming. During the last Dao Foundation Ceremony, they sent more than a dozen excellent disciples, and finally five formed the Dao Foundation.

This time, the Master of the Bai Feng Academy personally escorted twenty young disciples, and Wei Yuan naturally attached great importance to it, giving each of them three extra luck blessings. The Master was quite poor and had no way to repay, so he could only hold Wei Yuan's sleeve and think of Fang Hetong, so he couldn't help but wipe his tears constantly.

Seeing the old master of more than 100 years old so sad, Wei Yuan also spent a long time calming the old man down.

And these loose cultivators were a one-time deal. After forming the Dao, except for a small part who would sign a blood contract and stay to serve Qingming, most of them would pat their butts and leave, from then on mountains and rivers were long, and they would never see each other again.

Many who failed to form the Dao Foundation often had to make trouble, or wanted to steal or grab some souvenirs from Qingming to make up for the immortal silver spent. Therefore, every Dao Foundation Ceremony in the past had to kill a few loose cultivators who made trouble and broke the law.

And loose cultivators mostly practiced alone, drifting around. Many of them either had poor roots or had bad luck in their early years and suffered hidden injuries. Compared with children of big families, and even those who grew up in Qingming, the proportion of forming Dao Foundations was significantly lower.

Wei Yuan saw that the luck blessing was only missing these loose cultivators, so he thought about it and felt that he should give them a chance.

So Wei Yuan called a few smart confidants and let them spread gossip among the loose cultivators, saying that if they paid more money, they could be taken to secretly worship the Qingming Immortal Stone, and the chance of forming a Dao Foundation would be significantly increased.

These were all eloquent people. In the blink of an eye, more than half of the loose cultivators were fooled. These loose cultivators paid a large amount of extra immortal silver, and then were taken to a remote wilderness to worship a girl stone statue.

Strange to say, after worshiping, they really felt comfortable and clear-minded, and they had a few more points of confidence in forming the Dao Foundation.

This was not a matter of worship, but Wei Yuan gave these people luck blessings by the way. Finally, among the more than 20,000 people in the ceremony, only 600 loose cultivators did not get Wei Yuan's luck blessing.

These loose cultivators either had no money or no luck, or neither. There was no external object to borrow on the Dao path, so they could only rely on their physical bodies to harden it.

The second day, morning and afternoon, there was a "Moment of All Beings" for everyone to experience in advance, each time for ten breaths, as a warm-up.

As a result, more than 100 people in the Qingming army and Xu family teenagers formed the Dao Foundation on the spot. The example was right in front of them, and the people in the aristocratic families and sects naturally had a few more points of confidence.

The third day, early morning, the first ray of morning light fell, the "Moment of All Beings" was synchronized, and the real foundation casting began, ending at noon.

This time, 2,000 Dao Foundations were formed among the 15,000 people in Qingming, and the number was far beyond Wei Yuan's expectations.

The probability of Dao Foundations for sect and aristocratic family children was about the same as the previous few times. Those who paid extra money had a probability of forming the Dao that was two times higher than those who didn't pay, a result that left both the rich and the poor speechless.

Among the 1,200 loose cultivators who paid for worship, 85 Dao Foundations were produced. Wei Yuan had really tried his best. This batch of materials was really too poor. The so-called rotten wood cannot be carved, they were not even as good as rotten wood.

And the last 600 loose cultivators only formed 17 Dao Foundations.

This Qingming Dao Foundation Ceremony was grand in scale and famous far and wide. Everyone knew that in Qingming, immortal silver could really buy a Dao Foundation.

Unexpectedly, the biggest harvest was True Lord Chuhe. More than 200 people in Qingming actually cultivated the Dao Foundation "Beast Control Heavenly Heart"!

This Beast Control Heavenly Heart was not the Beast Control Immortal Heart. After True Lord Chuhe's painstaking modification, the difficulty was reduced by more than one grade.

The Beast Control Immortal Heart still had a little bit of beast control ability, while the new version of the Beast Control Heavenly Heart had almost zero beast control ability, but it had improved a lot in communicating with spiritual beasts, and even the emotions and moods of ordinary beasts could be grasped seven or eight out of ten.

Wei Yuan asked, only to find out that True Lord Chuhe had been paving the way for a long time, and even specially pulled out the snake to demonstrate the beast control ability. When the snake revealed its true body, it was more than ten zhang long, fierce and messy, naturally scaring those who had never seen the world, so many people with suitable roots switched to the Beast Control Heavenly Heart.

Wei Yuan had no opinion on this. Anyway, there were plenty of template Dao Foundations, and the uncles could grab people based on their own abilities. Besides, with more people practicing the Beast Control Heavenly Heart, there would be people to take care of the cattle and horses.

After this round of ceremony, Qingming sat on 12,000 Dao Foundations. Although most of them were template Dao Foundations, they could still be called behemoths. Wei Yuan's ideal of "everyone like a dragon" already had scales and claws at this moment.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 715 =====

After this round of the grand ceremony, Qingming possessed twelve thousand Dao Foundations. Although the vast majority were template Dao Foundations, it could still be called a behemoth. Wei Yuan's ideal of "everyone like a dragon" now had the first glimpses of reality.

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