Just when people were wondering if they were being dazzled, the upper level of the barren mountain floated up into the air. It was the level that the giant sword had slashed through, which proved to be the ground left behind, as smooth as an unpolished bronze mirror.
"Gather! Gather!"
The upper level of the barren mountain shrank with the sound, with a radius of seven or eight miles, several feet in thin places, and tens of feet in thick places. Earth and rocks weighing trillions of kilograms (billions of tons) gradually condensed to form a huge stone courtyard.
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The courtyard is in the shape of nine palaces. The central hall is magnificent and tall. The base of the hall is 2 feet. There are steps on all sides with 18 floors each. The top of the hall is ten feet high from the feet of the hall.
The vestibule is a large square. The gate is nine feet high and the two pillars are three feet thick. There are 36 square pillars erected in the square, with grids drawn on them, for the future monuments to the heroes who will exorcise demons and protect the Tao.
The left front yard and the right front yard are both dormitories, with male disciples on the left and female disciples on the right. There are six rows of 120 large shops on the left and right, plus kitchens, dining rooms, warehouses and toilets.
On the center left and center right is the disciple monastery. There are 12 separate courtyards in two-story buildings, which are used by outstanding disciples who assist in the management of Qingcheng lower courtyard.
The backyard is the teaching dormitory, with four large courtyards, the head teacher, the book tower elder, the alchemy room elder, and the equipment room elder.
The left and right backyards are the training hall, with a book tower and a training room, both to prevent damage and to avoid suspicion between men and women.
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The courtyard is located on the top of the mountain, and Qingcheng lower courtyard is considered to be there.
People's hearts also dropped, and their mouths that had been open were closed.
But in my heart, I recall over and over again the moment when I slashed the mountain with my sword. The aura of looking down at the sky and slashing the mountain with my sword was deeply shuddering and infinitely yearning.
Yamazaki didn't show up, and gave instructions in a louder voice.
"This is your future sect. The headmaster and elders must practice. When there is nothing else, classes will usually be held every seven days to answer questions. Only when everyone has questions will we start lectures."
"You mainly study and practice on your own, read books and understand the Tao on your own, and hold group debates and discussions on your own."
"Here, you have to do it yourself, sweep the floor, carry water, cook, and wash the toilets. You can ask servants to go up the mountain to help, but servants are not allowed to spend the night in the courtyard."
"You are allowed to go down the mountain. You can go home and practice, but you must remember two points. One is that the Dharma must not be preached to others, and the other is that you must not do evil."
"If you want to save someone, you can either wait until you achieve Yuan Shen and then save it yourself, or you can do good deeds and accumulate merit to get a quota."
"Don't think that the sect doesn't know what you have done. With your level of cultivation, the elders will know everything with just a few clicks."
"The sect will not kill you easily, but the sect's punishment will make you more painful than death, such as turning you into a pig."
The disciples turned pale when they heard this. They might not have believed it before, but now they firmly believe it.
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Qingcheng's big move, even if the experts from all sides didn't see it, they figured it out.
Surprised by Qingcheng's strength, even Emei decided to give up seeking cause and effect for Zhu Mei for the time being.
In fact, all parties thought that the formations that killed the mountains and flew the earth and condensed the mountains to gather in the courtyard were tricks arranged in advance, and they did not know that Shan Dai did it purely with strength.
The difference is the distance between one and infinity. The formation is one. The formation can treat the cut mountain top as a whole. To lift it up, just one.
And if there is no formation, what is lifted is the entire space area where the mountain top is located within a radius of seven or eight miles, and every part of the place is shrouded in power.
Not to mention gathering a courtyard, the area that the power can reach will be even wider.
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The disciples of the Qingcheng Sword Sect settled in the lower courtyard of Qingcheng on the mountain, and the entourage of Princess Zhu Fanglu came to supply supplies.
At the foot of the mountain, a large group of people soon arrived to clear up wasteland and build a town, providing high-quality logistical support for the master's cultivation of immortality.
Those who eat are soft-mouthed and those who take advantage of others are short-handed.
With the support of the disciples, the princesses became the first elite disciples to live in the single courtyard of the Jingshe.
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Yamazaki didn't care about them. This incident was inevitable and had been expected.
The bond between the monastic sect and the imperial court has been established. It doesn't matter whether Zhu Fanglu can achieve Yuanshen or not, her mission has been completed.
The establishment of Qingcheng Lower Court was to secularize the practice of Taoism.
Let people know that most immortals are just like humans, and the immortals they see are just powerful people.
These immortals also have joy, anger, sorrow, good, evil, and selfishness.
From this, the immortal Taoist techniques were slowly spread, especially the "Yiyuan Qingwei Xianyou Heart Sutra".
Finally cooperate with the court and bring the sect under control, which can at least restrict it.
Just like in the mortal world, no matter how powerful the sect in the world is, they can only abide by the laws of the court honestly.
The evil ones can only hide and be hunted down by the righteous.
Instead of being like the current situation in the world, evil people can just sit back and wait for the calamity to happen, and they can still bring harm to one party without any scruples during the period.
This is what Yamazaki dislikes the most and what he wants to change the most.
It can be said that everything Yamazaki did was with this as the ultimate goal, but it ended up causing trouble.
The situation in the world seems to be prosperous, and Emei is about to sweep away the evil spirits in the world.
But it is actually even worse, because if there is an imbalance between good and evil, and there are more and more righteous ways, without external enemies, there will definitely be internal strife, that is, sectarian disputes between Taoism and Buddhism.
This is not bad. As more and more immortals and Buddhas ascend, the spiritual energy of the earth will become less and less - all of it will be brought to heaven.
This was discovered by Yamazaki only after he resigned from his term as emperor. As he became more prosperous, he had more causes and consequences.
And when the spiritual energy of the earth becomes less and less, and karma repays its consequences, the first people to encounter it will naturally not be monks, but ordinary people.
As long as a monk lives, many people have to die. Even if a master lives for a day, dozens of people have to die to balance the spiritual energy.
In the end, people will not die, but the earth realm will become the mortal realm.
The boundless cause and effect is probably shouldered by Emei and Taoism.
The specific reason for this is not known yet, but the one who will deceive Taoism is naturally Buddhism, for the sake of future infighting among the righteous Taoists and sectarian disputes between Taoism and Buddhism.
According to Yamazaki's guess, this game was set up by Buddhism and may have been planned for thousands of years.
Ever since the great master came into contact with Changmei, no, it should have been before that, and then Changmei was fulfilled.
These gifted chess pieces are presumably children of merit found from various mortal realms.
In all realms, every 360 to 540 years, those who can achieve great merit and get rid of karma, if not extremely lucky, must be at least thirty or fifty years old, and I am afraid they are not virgins.
Arrange for them to practice when they come, and arrange for them to be reincarnated when they have souls. At the same time, they will wash away their memories of the mortal world, let them integrate into the earth, and slowly transfer them to ascend.
They have become Buddhas and immortals, but they are no longer themselves. What heaven, especially Buddhism, wants is their people, not their past.
This matter of ascending to the immortal sect may have been proposed by Buddhism, under the banner of saying that good deeds will be rewarded with good deeds, so that the sons of meritorious deeds can go to heaven.
Daomen must have expressed no opinion, and Heavenly Court agreed.
The second master's explanation was in charge of heaven, and the third master's interception was nominally to assist, but both had things to do, so they were handed over to the eldest master.
The Eight Immortals are probably the disciples specially recruited by the Eight Views Palace to serve as officials.