Liang Yan and Jia Ruoyan both suppressed their cultivation to the foundation building stage. They followed Shengchi and flew for a whole day and night before arriving at a swamp before sunset.
This is a grand scene in the Xu Kingdom. It is said that the entire swamp has a total of 108 lakes of different sizes, and is shrouded in clouds and fog all year round. There are also many poisonous insects and beasts in the lakes.
Therefore, ordinary secular travelers will only visit the beautiful scenery near a few large lakes on the border, but few dare to enter the depths of the swamp.
The cultivation sect Huxin Sect is located in this vast swamp shrouded in mist.
Sheng Chi took Liang Yan and the two of them through the heavy fog, and after flying in the swamp for about half a stick of incense, they saw a large lake in the distance.
This large lake covers hundreds of hectares. There are pavilions, pavilions, waterside pavilions and corridors on the lake. Various buildings appear and disappear in the mist. Together with some shining fish in the lake, it makes the place look like a fairy.
Home sanctuary.
"This Huxin Sect's handiwork is pretty good!"
Liang Yan looked at the magnificent scenery nearby and secretly admired it in his heart.
Sheng Chi saw a hint of admiration on his face and felt quite proud, but then he sighed and said: "This is our ancestral heritage. We, the younger generation of disciples, are unworthy and we may not be able to keep it!"
"Oh? What does Brother Sheng mean by this?" Liang Yan asked doubtfully.
Sheng Chi shook his head, as if he didn't want to say more on the matter, and led the two of them directly towards the center of the lake.
The Huxin Sect is famous for practicing water-type Taoism. Liang Yan walked through the corridor and saw many sect disciples along the way. They were all sitting cross-legged on the lake, meditating and practicing the special luck method.
And there seems to be another mystery hidden under this seemingly ordinary lake. Strands of true water energy are introduced into the bodies of these disciples through the lake, and then used by them to practice their own skills, just like a huge
Dojo.
Shengchi took them through several passes and finally came to a meeting hall.
Liang Yan stepped into the door and saw a middle-aged man wearing a blue robe and a kind face sitting in the main seat. There were some monks on both sides of him, who seemed to be reporting things to this person.
When the middle-aged man saw Shengchi coming in, his eyes immediately lit up, he waved his hands and said to the left and right: "Okay, that's the end of today's discussion, you can go down first!"
After hearing this, the monks each bowed and then retreated without saying a word.
After everyone left, the middle-aged man in blue robe stood up, with a hint of excitement and a little nervousness on his face.
"Elder Sheng, is this trip going well?"
Sheng Chi smiled slightly, reached out and took out a cloth bag from his arms, and handed it into the middle-aged man's hand.
"Fortunately, Sheng lived up to his mission and successfully obtained the martial arts token for the sect leader!"
"Hahaha! Okay!" The middle-aged man laughed loudly, reached out and patted Shengchi on the shoulder and said: "Elder Sheng is worthy of being the pillar of our sect. With this Lunwu token, our Huxin sect still has a chance to make a comeback!
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He smiled for a while, then turned to look at Liang Yan and asked, "Who is this?"
Sheng Chi immediately replied: "This fellow Daoist Zhang is Sheng's savior. If he hadn't helped him on the way, it would be a trivial matter for Sheng to die right now. I'm afraid the token would have been snatched away by Jin Lu of Lieshan Sect!"
"Jin Lu!" There was a faint anger in the middle-aged man's eyes, and he said bitterly: "This guy who eats everything, I thought I treated him well back then, but he was ungrateful, and instead secretly plotted against me!"
"Jin Lu is dead. He died at the hands of this fellow Daoist Zhang!" Sheng Chi said with a smile.
"Oh?" The middle-aged man was slightly surprised. He looked Liang Yan up and down again, raised his hands and said, "Zhang Daoyou's magical powers are really impressive! That Jin Lu, who is an earth-based Taoist, has already been proficient in it. Even the two members of our sect have already mastered it.
Elders in the late stage of foundation building may not necessarily be able to defeat this person in a one-on-one situation, but Fellow Daoist Zhang can actually kill him, which shows that Fellow Daoist's methods are extraordinary!"
"Hahaha, it's just a small trick! We brothers and sisters have lived in the mountains for a long time, and our knowledge is short-lived. We can't compare with the true heritage of the sect leader!" Liang Yan laughed.
The middle-aged man shook his head and said with a smile: "My fellow Taoist is too modest. I haven't introduced myself yet. I am Zhuang Zhengqi, the current leader of the Huxin Sect. I wonder where my friend comes from?"
Liang Yan smiled slightly and said: "We brothers and sisters are casual cultivators from the Fire Cloud Cave in Zhuque Mountain. We fled to a place outside the country due to the secular war, but accidentally obtained a secret book of exercises in an abandoned cave. From then on, we
I have embarked on the path of cultivation."
Zhuang Zhengqi was moved when he heard this. He was not curious about Liang Yan's fabricated bizarre encounters, but he caught the key point in Liang Yan's words: "loose cultivator"!
"It turns out he is a monk from the 'Fire Cloud Cave'!" Zhuang Zhengqi laughed and said, "Nice to meet you! I see that my fellow Taoist has already built a Taoist foundation at such a young age. I wonder what the next step is?"
Liang Yan was well aware of his thoughts, but at the moment he did not say anything. He just mused: "We have lived in the mountains for a long time, and we have encountered a bottleneck in our cultivation, so we want to go down the mountain and walk around to see if we can improve our state of mind.
breakthrough."
After hearing this, Zhuang Zhengqi sighed and said: "Young Taoist Zhang don't know. The practice of casual cultivation is really extremely difficult. Many bottlenecks are not bottlenecks at first, but they are stuck in place because of the lack of cultivation resources!"
Liang Yan knew that he was getting to the point, and immediately made a helpless expression and said: "What Sect Master Zhuang said is reasonable. We, brother and sister, have suffered in this regard and have been stuck in the middle stage of foundation building for more than thirty years.
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"If you don't mind, Daoyou Zhang, you can join our Huxin Sect. Although Huxin Sect is not a big sect, it has no shortage of training resources for foundation-building monks, and there have been fake elixirs in the history of our sect.
The monks who are in the realm of Taoism are not necessarily any worse than other monks!"
Zhuang Zhengqi finally extended an olive branch, and Liang Yan smiled in his heart. This was the moment he had been waiting for.
According to the information he learned after entering Xu State, although the Huangshi event was held at a banquet, Xu State naturally occupied a lot of places due to its convenient location.
Many invitations were scattered across Xu State, and some were even taken to auction houses or exchange meetings, but some also fell into the hands of local sects in Xu State.
This "Ningyang Mountain Martial Arts" was organized by the Ningyang Sect and invited thirteen sects from the northwest of the Xu Kingdom to attend the meeting together and share the invitations to the Yellowstone event based on rankings in fighting skills.
If Liang Yan wants to sneak into the Huangshi event, invitations alone are not enough, he also needs to have a legitimate identity, and some small sects in Xu State are a good choice.
In addition, he also wanted to take advantage of this Ningyang Mountain martial arts competition to get an invitation for his assistant Jia Ruoyan.
