Chapter 294: Dharma Assembly

Every Dharma Assembly competition has an adjudicator presiding in the center; this is common practice and nothing strange.

After all, conflict is inevitable.

Once they start fighting, there will inevitably be winners and losers, and a hierarchy will be decided.

Most of those who come to the assembly are talented disciples of the Eight Sects and Six Schools, geniuses of great families, or the sole pillars of small sects and families.

If they suffer too many casualties, the Dragon Palace would find it hard to explain to the outside world.

Since that is the case,

they can only invite a person of great supernatural power to watch over them.

To prevent the cultivators from getting truly angry during the competition and being unable to hold back their hands...

However, the adjudicators of past Dharma Assemblies were all high-ranking ministers, trusted divine generals of the Dragon Palace, or the old dragons themselves.

They were all Dragon Palace insiders, with few exceptions.

But this time, it was Master Yan Xi who was chosen to preside in the center.

Because of this,

combined with the rumors that Master Yan Xi is about to marry one of the Dragon Lord's beloved daughters,

all the cultivators understood in their hearts.

It seems those rumors were not groundless.

I fear it will soon become reality...

At this moment, Master Yan Xi did not delay further; he simply took a golden list from his sleeve and began to read the rules for this Dharma Assembly.

As his words spread, before long, the expressions of the cultivators in the flying pavilion changed slightly, each showing different emotions.

The atmosphere in the arena became subtle in an instant, with a rather treacherous trend.

"The rules for this Dharma Assembly are actually like this; it seems it will take some effort..."

After Master Yan Xi finished reading, the arena was silent, almost to the point where a falling needle could be heard.

Chen Hang's eyebrows twitched, and he thought to himself.

Past Dharma Assembly competitions were mostly one-on-one duels, where success or failure depended entirely on individual skill and means, with few exceptions.

But this time, it was different.

This Dharma Assembly is divided into two parts—

The first part requires the thousands of Purple Palace high-gong in the flying pavilion to enter a territory called the "Wide Wilderness Minor Realm" to compete for twenty-four "Chongzheng Golden Plates" and forty-eight "Yuji Silver Plates."

Only cultivators who hold a "Chongzheng Golden Plate" or "Yuji Silver Plate" in their hands

are qualified to enter the next round.

As for those who fail to obtain a golden or silver plate,

they will naturally be eliminated like sand washed by the waves, losing their qualification to participate in the Dharma Assembly.

This means that after the first round of fighting,

of the thousands of cultivators currently in the flying pavilion, only seventy-two will be able to fight their way out and enter the next round.

The fighting involved is truly extremely intense!

And during the competition, the Dharma Assembly does not forbid cultivators from joining forces.

Because of this,

those who fight alone will inevitably suffer, and the situation will be unfavorable.

Hearing this news,

some were naturally happy while others were sad, inevitably stirring up an undercurrent...

Since the Dharma Assembly offers two types of selection, "Chongzheng Golden Plate" or "Yuji Silver Plate," there are naturally differences between them.

When the next round begins,

among those seventy-two cultivators, the final ranking will be determined by the number of talismans each holds.

There are seventy-two talismans in total, which are spat out from the mouth of a Pixiu bronze statue.

However, this object cannot touch grass, trees, iron, or stone; if it touches the ground, it turns into a puff of clear qi and vanishes, leaving no trace, wasted for nothing.

Once a talisman is spat out by the Pixiu bronze statue, cultivators must use a "Chongzheng Golden Plate" or "Yuji Silver Plate" to carry it to preserve its integrity.

However, during this process, the golden plate has the ability to turn one into two; if you compete for a talisman and place it in the golden plate, after a few breaths, a total of two talismans will appear, while the silver plate lacks this means.

And how many talismans one can snatch depends entirely on individual skill.

At this moment, after reading the rules of the Dharma Assembly,

Master Yan Xi tapped his hand lightly. The black tiger beneath him understood immediately. After a roar, clear and turbid qi intertwined above its head, and a mass of green clouds rose leisurely, then swirled in the air, emitting a thunderous sound.

The green clouds turned into thousands of rays of light, like tired birds returning to the forest, shooting down one after another, falling into the bodies of the many cultivators in the flying pavilion.

Chen Hang reached out and grabbed the shooting light, but before he could examine it carefully, the wisp of light in his hand suddenly dissipated like a bubble.

At the same time,

Chen Hang also felt a strange sensation in his body, as if he were being watched.

"After all, this is just a competition of skills; it wouldn't be good to lose harmony. It is better not to lightly use external objects like magic treasures or secret talismans."

Master Yan Xi smiled and said peacefully:

"Of course, if any of you are unable to hold on, based on the sensing ability of this object, I will naturally move you out of that 'Wide Wilderness Minor Realm.'

If there are no objections, then please proceed."

After speaking, he joined two fingers and drew a line forward slightly.

The void in front of him seemed to have a layer peeled away, revealing a piece of brilliant golden light and blurred five-element qi.

It was as if separated by a thin fetal membrane—

The scenery behind the golden light was all hazy; looking up, one could vaguely see some mountain shapes and stream shadows, but it was not very clear.

After hesitating for a moment, the cultivators in the flying pavilion bowed to Master Yan Xi and threw themselves into the golden light.

Chen Hang also launched his sword, transformed into a sword rainbow, passed through the golden light in an instant, and then his figure suddenly faded and disappeared from this world.

Like a dream, trance-like—

After a brief moment of darkness, he saw a stretch of distant peaks, impossible to see the edge of, towering and precipitous, pressing against the clouds.

And several clear streams flowed like white silk between the mountains and valleys, winding endlessly; the scenery was very pleasant.

Chen Hang looked around for a moment, knowing that this was the "Wide Wilderness Minor Realm" mentioned by Master Yan Xi. Although it was a minor realm, it was truly vast and boundless; compared to the "Huaiwu Cave" magic treasure he had seen at Daojun Fu Yu Lake, it was truly a hundred or a thousand times greater.

The gap between the two cannot be measured in miles!

At this time, many cultivators had already entered, guarding against each other, looking like soldiers on high alert.

Chen Hang urged his sword light and landed on a nearby mountain peak.

The few cultivators near the peak saw him move, their hearts terrified, and they hurriedly used their escape techniques, retreating one after another, not daring to compete at all.

After landing from the clouds, Chen Hang didn't do anything else, just stood with his hands behind his back, watching coldly.

After about half an hour, there was a sudden loud noise in the sky, like a city collapsing or a building falling.

Then a silver plate fell straight down, wrapped in colorful clouds, gorgeous like a brocade screen!

"First is the Yuji Silver Plate?"

Chen Hang's eyes flashed, and he thought to himself.

At the same time,

in a magnificent heavenly palace in the Dragon Palace,

a golden-robed old man watched for a long time before slowly withdrawing his gaze, looking at the person opposite him, and shaking his head:

"Is it this child? You want to change the rules of my Dragon Palace Dharma Assembly just for him? Senior Brother Tongxuan, with your status, why do you need to pay excessive attention to a small Purple Palace cultivator?

If you feel that things have been too quiet lately, I still have many troubles under my command; why don't you deal with them for me?"

"The kid just happened to bump into my hands, so I might as well take this opportunity to see what this piece of unpolished jade is really like!"

Tongxuan smiled:

"Old friend, I came here this time because I have something important to discuss with you."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 295 =====