Chapter 867 – Ceremony
Han Li’s eyes immediately saw that the old man with glowing eyes was in all likelihood the old monster Jin, after all, he was the only one of the three who had a mid YuanYing cultivation level and was close to the peak of this realm.
As soon as this gnarled-haired old man entered the hall, he did not have the courtesy to scan towards Master Cheng and the others, and as a result, his gaze landed on Han Li, and his complexion could not help but change slightly.
”This is Fellow Daoist Han, right? I’ve heard a lot about you. But shouldn’t Fellow Daoist be an early YuanYing cultivator? Could it be that Fellow Daoist Han’s cultivation has greatly improved and advanced so quickly?” The gnarled-haired old man said slowly with a hint of eccentricity on his face.
”It’s Brother Jin, isn’t it? I’m sorry to make you laugh, but Han only advanced to the middle stage not long ago.” Han Li stood up and arched his hand, saying with a normal expression.
The old man’s heart couldn’t help but sink when he heard this. “As soon as I came out of seclusion, I heard people talk about your friend’s incredible sorts of magical abilities. It seems that even though the rumors are somewhat exaggerated, they are not far off.” The gnarled-haired old man fell silent for a moment before saying with a bitter smile on his face.
The corners of Han Li’s mouth twitched as he smiled, but before he could say anything else, Senior Brother Cheng, who was on the side, laughed out loud and stood up as well.
”Fellow Daoist Jin, why are you staring at Senior Brother Han as soon as you arrive. It’s better to sit down together, let’s have a chat between a few old guys.” The old man surnamed Cheng actually said very warmly.
”Don’t be offended, Brother Cheng, Mister Jin didn’t mean to treat Fellow Daoist as if he were blind. Before coming here, Mister Jin’s ears were filled with hefty rumors about this Senior Brother Han of yours, so naturally his curiosity was a bit greater.” Old Monster Jin snorted and said with a smile on his face.
”Is that so? Now that we’ve met Senior Brother Han, Brother Jin didn’t feel disappointed, did he?” Old Cheng asked with a smirk on his face.
”Hehehe! Of course I’m not disappointed, instead, it’s a bit out of Jin’s expectations. The Falling Clouds Sect has Fellow Daoist Han, so I’m sure it’s going to soar in the future. However, I’ve heard that Brother Han wasn’t a direct disciple of your sect before, but came from the Yellow Maple Valley!” Old Monster Jin glanced at the old man surnamed Cheng with both eyes and said with a cold smile.
”Even if Senior Brother Han used to have some involvement with the Yellow Maple Valley, what does it matter? It’s just that Senior Brother Han is an elder of our Falling Clouds Sect now.” Old Cheng said without moving.
Once old monster Jin heard this, his eyes rolled and when he was about to say something, old Feng suddenly jacked in and said, “Fellow Daoists, don’t be too busy to talk, our Hundred Qiao Yuan has newly introduced a spirit fruit with a good flavor, you may want to taste it first.” After saying this, this person immediately clapped his hands gently, a team of young female disciples who had already been waiting outside for a long time, served a few plates of red oval spirit fruits and sent them up.
Seeing this, Old Monster Jin and Old Cheng and the others naturally did not feel good about refuting their host’s face, and they all took their seats.
”This is the Fire Pomegranate Fruit, a spirit fruit collected by a disciple of this academy from an unnamed place, the flesh is sweet and juicy, and when eaten by mundane mortals, it has a certain miraculous effect of brightening the eyes.” Feng surnamed Old One waited for the female disciples to finish arranging the spirit fruits and immediately opened his mouth to introduce them.
Han Li and the others had indeed never seen this kind of fruit before, and they all tasted it with curiosity, and it was indeed exceptionally sweet, containing quite a bit of heaven and earth’s spiritual qi within it. Han Li also felt good and ate three in one gulp before calling it quits.
”By the way, how come I don’t see fellow Daoist Fire Dragon come over for this gathering? And this fellow Daoist should be your sect’s Daoist Friend Ming Xin, right? I heard that Fellow Daoist Ming Xin’s magic treasure is very rare, it was refined from ten thousand years of yellow wood, and she cultivates the top ranked wood attribute technique, Hundred Flower Yang Spring Technique.” The old man surnamed Ding glanced at the young woman from the Ancient Sword Sect and smiled as he exited and inquired.
”Not bad, my young woman is none other than Ming Xin. Senior Fire Dragon heard that there were people selling Fire Ember Beast young eggs in the workshop market of Tan Yun Mountain, and was very interested in it, and was not in the sect several months ago. And although Ming Xin has advanced to the YuanYing stage for fifty or sixty light years, she has been rarely seen, this time I can meet with a few fellow Daoists, I hope that a few fellow Daoists will not be stingy with their advice.” This young woman dressed up as a woman although she does not look stunning, but between every move, gentle and generous, there is a naturally occurring light floral aroma of the gas coming out of the body, hands and feet, so that people do not feel a great sense of goodwill.
Han Li clearly sensed that this woman after finishing these words, bright eyes flowed a bit, seems to be quite interested in him. Han Li frowned inadvertently, but then his expression remained the same.
After tasting the fruits, these Elders in charge of the three clans then began to talk.
Han Li let the silver old man, Lu Luo and the other two people and other people secretly chatting, he just rarely opened his mouth and sat quietly, occasionally talked about him, but also smiled and did not say anything. However, even so, deterred by Han Li’s reputation, these old monsters of the Hundred Qiao Yuan and the Ancient Sword Sect were still keeping an eye on Han Li’s every move, as if they wanted to discern the depths of what was going on.
Just as the people in the hall were talking freely, red light flashed at the entrance of the hall, and after the light converged, a middle-aged cultivator clad in purple robes appeared there. Middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, imposing, at a glance is a person who has been in power for a long time.
And as soon as this person appeared at the door of the hall, Old Feng and Old Ding immediately rose to greet him. “Elder brother Blaze, the Taoist friends from the Falling Clouds Sect and the Ancient Sword Sect have all arrived, the ceremonial observances are all prepared, right?”
”Well, everything has been arranged, it’s fine for you all to go and observe the ceremony.” The middle-aged cultivator casually replied, but his gaze swept towards the crowd of cultivators in the hall.
At this time, the other cultivators also got up and greeted this person, after all, the other party was the Grand Elder of the Hundred Dexterity Academy, they naturally didn’t dare to be slow.
”Brother Blaze, you’ve finally come out. I don’t know if your Heavenly Flame Skill has improved, after the viewing ceremony is over in a while, the two of us might as well spar.” Old Monster Jin seemed to have some friendship with this person and said with a big grin.
”Hmph! Forget it. Even though my Heavenly Flame Skill is not small in power, I’m a whole realm behind you, so what benefit can I fall from fighting you, you’d better find someone else.” Old Monster Blaze rolled his eyes and said without good humor.
At this time, Senior Brother Cheng also introduced Han Li, and naturally, Old Monster Blaze was appalled at Han Li’s advancement to the mid-stage so quickly, and was unusually polite to Han Li.
Subsequently, this Hundred Qiao Yuan’s Grand Elder didn’t say any more nonsense, and immediately invited a few people to observe the master recognition ceremony. The others naturally didn’t have any opinions, and the group walked out of the cave and arrived above the platform they had just seen.
At this time, the nearby heights and mountain walls had long been empty, and directly in front of the huge pavilion, there were hundreds of Foundation Establishment Stage disciples divided into several teams waiting there. At the very front were a dozen or so JieDan stage cultivators, standing side by side with solemn faces.
In front of these people more than ten feet, but there is a peculiar style of stove tripod placed there. This tripod is about ten feet in diameter, short and flat square, carved with flame-like mysterious patterns all over the body. What’s more strange is that at the moment, this tripod is obviously empty around, but the body red light, as long as you walk into this thing within ten feet, you can feel the face to face.
But all of this did not attract the attention of all the cultivators, their eyes fell in front of the tripod ten feet away from the kneeling of a young man.
This man appeared to be not very old, kneeling on top of a gold silk futon, chanting something in a low voice. However, because his head was low and facing downward, his face was not clearly seen.
In the blink of an eye, Han Li and the others landed in front of the group of cultivators. After some commotion, the dozen or so disciples, immediately surrounded and came forward to respectfully salute.
”Seeing senior uncle and senior, Senior Yu has already been bathing and worshipping for most of the hour, and in a little while, the furnace cauldron will be opened and the ceremony will be held.” After meeting the salute, the old man with the surname Fu said respectfully to Han Li and the others as he walked out from the group of JieDan cultivators.
”Got it, you go down first.” With a nod of his head, Old Monster Blaze led Han Li and the others to stand before the crowd, gazing at the young man who was worshipping in front of him.
”Fellow Daoist Flame, is this the disciple who formed the Dan in less than a century? His qualifications are truly exceptional, and now that he has the Qiankun Pagoda to cultivate him as a life magic treasure, I’m afraid that in another two to three hundred years, your academy will have one more YuanYing cultivator.” The gnarled-haired old man carefully sized up the disciple and suddenly said.
”Hehehe, hehe, whether or not someone can condense a YuanYing it’s just a matter of chance, it’s not that a good qualification will definitely be able to advance to the YuanYing stage, it’s just that disciples with good spiritual roots have a greater hope in comparison.” Lie Huo did not think so.
The gnarled-haired old man smiled faintly and did not say anything else. The others were also silent and did not speak.
Those disciples at the back, once they saw that not only was the ancestor of the sect here, but there were also so many more multiple infancy cultivators at once, they were all even more careful, and they didn’t dare to breathe a bit. In the blink of an eye, the platform in addition to the disciple’s murmur, there is no other sound.
Han Li listened a little, just a worship of heaven and earth ordinary article, repeated chanting, and no special meaning. I don’t know if it’s these old monsters that want to refine this disciple’s mind, or if there’s really such an odd rule in the Hundred Qiao Yuan’s Master Recognition Ceremony.
To these old monsters cultivation time in years and count the concept, small half an hour is naturally the blink of an eye over things. When Han Li estimated in his mind that the time is not much, the original steadily stopped in front of the hot tripod, suddenly the tripod cover a slight tremor, and then a clear sound from the tripod leisurely output, the spirit of light suddenly released. Huge tripod near the temperature also in a moment wildly rise a cut, a circle almost visible to the naked eye of the reddish heat wave to the four sides of the puff out.
In front of Han Li and other people are okay, this heat wave came after a flash of spirit light, simply indifferent, but behind the Foundation Stage and JieDan Stage disciples, they have on the body shield flashed up to resist this strange and incomparable hot wind.
As for the young disciple kneeling about ten feet away, but also on the body of the fiery red light shield lit up, dead against the heat wave. After the hot wind passed, that disciple let out a long breath and finally lifted himself up to stare at the giant cauldron with a fiery gaze.
This was a thin young man with a clear face who looked as if he was only 27 or 28 years old. To have formed a Jindan at such a young age, it was no wonder that these elders of the Hundred Dexterous Courtyard were willing to hand over such a heavy treasure as the Qiankun Tower to this person. Han Li could not help but ponder this in his mind.