Chapter 348

The Senior Sister took out a gold-embossed invitation. Just looking at the cover, one could tell it was worth a fortune: "There is a young generation sparring match at the Qingzhou Grand Ceremony. The Qingzhou government sent an invitation to our Dao Seeking Sect, hoping we would send someone to participate. I was originally planning to talk to you about this, but since Junior Brother Meng brought it up, it saves quite a bit of trouble."

"A young generation sparring match?" Lu Yang was eager to try; apart from the Five Elements Sect, he hadn't crossed hands with anyone of his own age.

"Then let's go, use my carriage," Meng Jingzhou suggested.

"Just the two of us? Aren't Junior Sister Tao and the others going?"

"I did look for them, but Junior Sister Tao said she is waiting for the results from the Second Elder and the Eighth Elder—I don't know what results she's waiting for. Besides, I saw she was focused on studying the Feathered Immortal Body, so I didn't invite her again."

"Junior Brother Man has returned to his barbarian homeland to visit relatives; no telling when he'll be back."

"Junior Brother Li is currently enjoying family life, racking his brains to help our niece reach Core Formation, so he doesn't want to come out either."

Meng Jingzhou felt it was a pity. This was such a rare opportunity. The Great Xia Dynasty had fifteen provinces, and each year there were only fifteen events of this scale. If they missed this one, they would have to wait another month. They weren't catching a good time.

He was a person who loved excitement; of course, the more people who went, the better.

After Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou left, the Senior Sister remembered something and opened the invitation: In the year 99,860 of the Great Xia calendar, on the third day of the first month, the Qingzhou Grand Ceremony will be held as scheduled. We respectfully request your sect to send outstanding disciples to participate in the ceremony and provide guidance as judges.

"Junior Brother and Junior Brother Meng shouldn't be getting on the ring... right?"

Yun Zhi muttered to herself, feeling that she was likely worrying needlessly.

As the first and second place of the Dao Seeking Sect's young generation, their strength was beyond doubt, far exceeding the others.

If they were to get on the ring, it would be too much of a bully.

"When I was at home, I often heard them talk about where there were grand ceremonies and how spectacular they were. Just listening to their descriptions made me want to go see them."

"It's just a pity that I hadn't started cultivating back then, so I wasn't qualified to go see the grand ceremony."

"The Qingzhou Grand Ceremony is a grand ceremony held for cultivators. In order not to affect the normal lives of mortals, Qingzhou will specifically cordon off a piece of land outside the city, and great cultivators will temporarily build a city."

In the carriage, Meng Jingzhou gestured vividly, and Lu Yang was also having his horizons broadened.

"Besides sparring and competitions, the grand ceremony also includes auctions, eye-for-detail appraisals, bartering, exploring ruins, Golden Core appreciation, and so on. It's all-encompassing, and every cultivator who goes there will have a great harvest."

"It's not just us of the young generation; there are also mid-to-high-tier cultivators, but those cultivators have their own social circles and won't be messing around with us."

The mid-to-high-tier cultivators were much older than Lu Yang and the others. If they were there, the young generation would inevitably feel restricted in their actions.

Lu Yang had deep personal experience with this: when classmates come over to play, the way they play when parents are present is completely different from when parents are not.

"A cultivator exchange assembly, huh? We held those back in my day too, but everyone was very aggressive back then. At the slightest provocation, they'd want to kill your whole family. Often, it was an exchange assembly on the surface, but behind the scenes, rogue cultivators would take action, killing and looting. It was very dangerous."

"So, cultivator exchange assemblies were only qualified to be held by large clans with the highest safety, such as the Lianshan Clan behind the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong Immortal, the Dragon and Phoenix clans, the Four Great Fierce clans, and so on."

The Decayed Fairy sighed with emotion, recalling the past; it really wasn't easy.

Lu Yang remembered that the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong Immortal once made the Decayed Fairy cook and made prisoners confess. The prisoners mentioned here were likely cultivators like rogue cultivators who had touched the bottom line of the ancient great Lianshan Clan.

"Later, the five of us became immortals and would hold exchange assemblies at irregular intervals. The exchange assemblies we held were very safe; no blind fools would dare to kill and loot. However, I wasn't good at things like holding meetings, so Qing He would help me organize them."

"Once, I suggested that since they were coming to my place for an exchange assembly, we should go to a place with unique features, like the Child-Mother River or the Twin River, places with mountains and water—what beautiful scenery! If anyone wanted to play in the water, they could go down into the river."

"Qing He righteously and sternly rejected my suggestion, saying it was very dangerous there."

Lu Yang thought to himself, Fairy, that river of yours is the greatest enemy of family planning; who would dare go into the river?

"Sometimes, the Ying Tian Immortal would also pretend to inadvertently leak some books at the exchange assembly, which recorded the great achievements of us five immortals."

"I asked the Ying Tian Immortal why he did that, and he said that books bestowed by an immortal in public would make the world suspicious of the truth of the content, but if it were inadvertently leaked by an immortal, the world would feel the authenticity was much higher."

Lu Yang felt that what the Ying Tian Immortal said made a lot of sense; he had learned a trick.

What Lu Yang didn't know was that the rumor about the Ying Tian Immortal making countless women pregnant was also spread this way.

The old horse walked slowly for two days, crossing mountains and rivers, and arrived in Qingzhou.

As soon as they entered the Qingzhou territory, the old horse restrained its ability to traverse space. Before, it was walking on mountain paths where no one could see, but now it wouldn't do; this was Qingzhou, where people were many and eyes were mixed, and it would scare the pedestrians.

Meng Jingzhou poked his head out, saw the scenery not far away, and beamed with joy: "We're almost there."

Lu Yang also poked his head out from the other side. The mountain forest was dense and lush, and between the mountains, it was filled with buildings built of bluestone, arranged in a scattered and orderly fashion, as beautiful as a painting.

Although it was built temporarily, the structure was exquisite, showing great care.

Many black dots were moving from one building to another; these were all cultivators.

The carriage was unremarkable, and the arrival of the two did not attract people's attention.

Swish—

A black shadow sped past overhead. The two looked up and found it was a flying boat with considerable speed.

The arrival of the flying boat caused exclamations from the pedestrians.

"Look quickly, that's the flying boat of the Thunder Fire Sect. What speed! How many spirit stones must this flying boat be worth? I heard that this generation of the Thunder Fire Sect has produced an incredible genius. There are a few people following closely behind the flying boat; are they the protectors of the Thunder Fire Sect's genius?"

"Oh, I saw wrong; it's the Thunder Fire Sect's flying boat speeding, and behind it are the constables."

"What kind of strange magic tool is that? The logo on the magic tool is from the Yunmeng Sword Sect!"

"Underneath the magic tool is a sword, and on the sword is a big iron shell. It's something I've never seen before."

"I know this; it's called a flying car. I heard it's a magic tool invented by a sword genius of the Dao Seeking Sect, and it hasn't become popular yet. In the past, sword flying could only carry one person, but this flying car can carry five."

"As expected of the Dao Seeking Sect; their whimsical ideas are far beyond what we can compare to."

"Who's to say otherwise? I heard that the Dao Seeking Sect is vaguely showing signs of becoming the head of the Five Great Immortal Sects, and everyone in the sect is a heaven-gifted talent!"

Meng Jingzhou turned his head to look at Lu Yang, whose expression was strange.

This flying car was invented by him. Later, the Fifth Elder had Li Haoran apply for a patent. Since then, he hadn't paid attention to this matter. Who would have thought it had already been mass-produced?

"Wait a minute, where is my patent fee?"

Recommending a book, also a comedy style, it's almost finished. The author is San Xing, who wrote "This Curse is Too Awesome."

(End of chapter)