Chapter 401 Daoting (asking for monthly ticket)
A small town.
A winding river flows through the center of the town, and the main road is paved with bluestone slabs.
In the misty drizzle, a night watchman was beating a gong and shouting in the streets: "The annual spiritual test ceremony of Lieyang Dao Court is about to begin. As long as the child has spiritual roots, he can be sent to school, with free food and accommodation. In the future, he can become a high-ranking immortal master... Send the ten-year-old child to the threshing ground in the town as soon as possible, otherwise he will not be accepted..."
On the threshing ground, children accompanied by their parents had been waiting there for a long time, looking anxiously at an old man with white beard and hair touching the bones in front of them.
"No spiritual roots."
The old man looked like an immortal, but he was actually just a cultivator in the early stage of Qi training. He was reluctant to even use the spirit-detecting talisman and performed the spirit-detecting technique slowly by himself.
As soon as he said this, the little girl opposite him burst into tears.
The old man was used to this scene and said calmly, "Next."
“No spiritual roots!”
“No spiritual roots!”
“No spiritual roots!”
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In the world of cultivating immortals, spiritual roots and aptitude are only one in ten thousand.
The old man was nonchalant, adjusted his breathing, and continued to cast spells.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, he looked at a chubby little boy opposite him, and saw a faint light coming out from the top of his head. It was colorful and very short.
"Low-grade mixed spiritual roots... can enter the school."
The old man nodded and announced.
"Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!"
A farming couple hugged their son and thanked him repeatedly.
"Hehe... No need to thank me, this is the rule of the Dao Court."
The old immortal master shook his head and asked the clerk beside him to write down: "Your family has produced a fairy seedling, so you can be exempted from taxes for three years. Okay, next one!"
For some reason, there seemed to be some reluctance in his eyes. Looking at the back of the little boy, he seemed to see his former self again...
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"The unification of the immortal cultivation world has really extended its tentacles to every aspect..."
High in the sky.
Fang Xing sat on the clouds, looking calmly at everything that happened in the town below: "The Lieyang Palace governs the Lieyang Immortal Cultivation World, and has established schools in various towns of mortals to collect immortal seedlings. All the spiritual veins in the world are under the control of the Dao Court... I'm afraid there isn't much soil for independent cultivation here."
The so-called Lieyang Daoting is actually the outer gate of Lieyang Palace.
“It’s really a prosperous scene.”
When Fairy Qiong saw this scene, she felt a little envious.
"A golden age of cultivating immortals? Haha..."
Fang Xing suddenly sneered.
The range of his spiritual awareness is much wider than Fairy Qiong's, and he can be more detailed and see more things.
At this moment, accompanied by a few flashes in the void, several jade slips fell into Fang Xing's hands, and he casually threw them to Fairy Qiong: "This is the so-called introductory practice of the school, take a look..."
Fairy Qiong's consciousness entered the jade slip and she nodded gently: "The Art of Plants and Trees, the Art of the Bright King... are indeed superficial, huh?"
"You can see it now, right? Although these skills are simple, they are full of evil intentions. They are the exclusive skills of medicine men and mining slaves."
Fang Xing smiled and shook his head: "Cultivating immortals, in the end you can't even touch the edge of building a foundation, and you might even shorten your lifespan. You have to use your own essence to cultivate spiritual herbs..."
"Well... if one's aptitude for cultivating immortals is low, one may never be able to build a foundation in one's lifetime, and can only do such work."
Fairy Qiong replied weakly.
After all, there are similar cultivators at the bottom of Piaomiao Immortal Palace, but it is not so simple and direct, and there are additional compensations.
But looking at the Daoting’s current rule, it is clear that there is no compensation.
After all, they have no external enemies and don't need to worry about any criticism.
Even if the lower-level monks were in turmoil, the higher-level monks could suppress them with a wave of their hands, moving mountains and seas.
"If the child is talented, there should be hope for him to join the Lieyang Palace..."
As soon as Fairy Qiong finished speaking, Fang Xing took her and flew to a big city.
"In the academy below, there are quite a few good seedlings, at least they have top-grade spiritual roots..."
Fang Xing sneered: "It seems that what you are learning is a Taoist military technique. There is a secret door in it. Once it is triggered, the meridians will be cut off and you will die... And it is too superficial. I am afraid that there is little hope of forming a pill in this lifetime, let alone a Nascent Soul."
"This... Aren't you afraid that the inheritance of the sect will be cut off?"
Fairy Qiong said in surprise.
"We can guess the situation. It's nothing more than family-based and aristocratic... In the Lieyang Palace, there are probably tens of millions of descendants of high-level cultivators. We can just pick the best from among them... As for the promotion channels of the Lieyang Dao Court, it's not unique, but it's getting narrower and narrower."
Fang Xing shook his head: "By plundering the resources of the entire cultivation world, we can still produce a steady stream of incarnations... but don't even think about ascending to the Void Refining Stage."
In this regard, he searched the soul of the Godly Beggar Tianzun and found out very clearly.
The Lieyang Palace today is all show and no substance.
Perhaps... this is the corruption and degeneration without external enemies?
"Is it... so?" Fairy Qiong was a little unbelievable.
"Isn't it normal for immortal cultivators who value resources so much to eventually become monopolists?" Fang Xing said with a smile, "As far as I know, there are four sects in Lieyang Palace: Hua, Li, Sun, and Qian. They take turns to hold power... There is also the Danding sect, the Jianyang sect, and so on. Anyway, they all unite to fight against dissidents and only recruit their own people... And all the spiritual veins in Dayang's immortal cultivation world belong to Lieyang Palace. Those who don't obey will be killed... Various immortal cultivation techniques are set as taboos. Except for the academy, anyone who dares to teach privately will be executed!"
In such a world, the lower-level cultivators must be very desperate, but the power of the cultivators belongs to themselves.
As long as the Lieyang Palace produces a divine master from generation to generation, the cultivators below will be unable to resist at all.
No matter how outstanding the immortal seedlings are, they can only reach the stage of Dan formation after practicing Daobing techniques. How can they fight against the gods with their heads? This kind of rule has been maintained for tens of thousands of years, and it can even be imagined that it can continue for hundreds of thousands or millions of years in the future... As long as there is no external influence, it can still continue.
"What's even more ridiculous is that this world of immortal cultivation was originally controlled by the Jiaolong King's Court, and the human race was treated like livestock. At that time, the Lieyang Palace was the savior of the human race. They fought for six hundred generations and overthrew the Jiaolong King's Court, making great contributions to the human race."
Fang Xing sighed silently: "It's just that it's completely rotten now."
"Aren't you the one who is sweeping the world now? I wonder if you have any plans to preach here?" Fairy Qiong asked with her beautiful eyes shining and a sweet smile.
"No, I will search and plunder this Great Yang Immortal Realm and give it to you, Piao Miao Immortal Palace."
Fang Xing said lightly.
But I added in my heart: "Just consider it as a tip..."
"Then I would like to thank you in advance." The Piaomiao Palace Master smiled sweetly and said, "I just don't know how you plan to start?"
"Such a corrupt force, even with a sixth-level formation, is like a pile of withered bones in a tomb. With the death of the Divine Beggar Venerable, the highest force suddenly lost its balance, and they may even start fighting among themselves."
Fang Xing sneered.
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The gate of Lieyang Palace is located in Dayang Mountain.
It is an extremely majestic mountain range that stretches for an unknown length of time and is thousands of miles high. It is said to be the ancestral vein of Dayang's immortal world.
"Such a rich spiritual energy... The core is probably of the sixth-grade upper grade."
Fang Xing couldn't help but sigh when he arrived at the mountains thousands of miles high.
"It's really... a waste of natural resources."
Fairy Qiong also felt the same way.
"Haha...has the trouble started within the family?"
Fang Xing's soul sensed the surge of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, and suddenly spoke.
"Huh? The fight has already started?"
Fairy Qiong's eyes lit up.
"It seems that the peace in the human world before was just an illusion. After all, they are the last ones to rule. No matter how the big guys fight, it has little to do with them... Those who should be medicine men should be medicine men, those who should be miners should continue to be miners, and the same goes for the Taoist soldiers..."
Fang Xing complained in his heart, then he made a hand gesture, and a hazy light enveloped the two of them, and then his figure disappeared.
When you fly to the top of the mountain, you will see magnificent palaces stretching for thousands of miles.
At this time, a thousand-foot-tall black dragon was wreaking havoc in the Lieyang Palace.
"Huh? Why hasn't the mountain protection formation been activated?"
Fairy Qiong could tell something was wrong at first glance.
"It was destroyed from within... As expected, the trouble begins within."
Fang Xing shook his head and looked at the four powerful gods who were fighting each other.
One of them was naturally the black dragon, and the other three gods were divided into two camps.
A man with a tall hat and a strange face is joining forces with the Divine Dragon to fight against two other Divine Masters.
"In Lieyang Palace, there are four Divine Transformation Monks of this generation."
'However, only the Divine Beggar of the Hua family cultivated to the late stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, while the rest were in the early stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, from the Li, Sun, and Qian families... This was already the heyday of the Lieyang Palace.'
'I didn't expect that the demon forces in the world of immortal cultivation could rebound. A fifth-level dragon appeared in this generation... and the god-transforming master of the Sun family actually let the wolf into the house.'
In the blink of an eye, Fang Xing saw the situation clearly, and he was complaining in his heart:
"I was too cautious... I always thought that Lieyang Palace, as a holy place, had a lot of heritage. I should be more careful to avoid capsizing."
"But I didn't expect that before I even arrived, they would fight among themselves... and even bring in foreign enemies."
"Even the most important sixth-order formation was destroyed... Seeing the miserable state of Jiaolong, he must have used all his trump cards, right?"
In fact, after searching the soul of the Beggar God, Fang Xing might know more about the Lieyang Palace than these three gods.
Even the true and false information of the Lieyang Palace's guardian formation - the Nine Dragons Holding the Sun Formation - was clearly known.
It is entirely possible to sneak in without anyone noticing, then assassinate the gods one by one, and then take control of the overall situation.
This was Fang Xing's original plan, but he didn't expect that the enemy was even more stupid than he thought.
When the news of the sect's ancestor and strongest fighter's death came, instead of responding to the outside world, they began to fight among themselves.
Even...they introduced the demon forces for this purpose!
It is easy to tell whether the fifth-level black dragon is a spiritual pet.
In fact, Fang Xing could feel that this dragon was stronger than the three Divine Transformation Masters, but it was hiding its strength on purpose, wanting to make the three Divine Transformation Masters of the human race suffer losses.
"It seems that if I hadn't come... the Lieyang Palace cultivators might have been overthrown, and even the Lieyang cultivation world might have fallen into the hands of the demon race?"
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