The Golden Bell Platform and the Five String Hall were the cultivation grounds of the previous Sect Leaders. The grass and trees in front of the hall were evergreen all year round, and the ground was covered with beautiful flowers and jade-like grasses. In the back garden, the sea of clouds billowed in the blue sky, and the sound of the tide could be heard continuously. There was a flying pleasure boat moored in the blue sky. The boat was three thousand zhang long, and it was five stories high. It had a garden pavilion, a long corridor, and a golden bridge. The winding path led into a secluded place. Beautiful bamboos, lonely cattail leaves, strange rocks, and old pines decorated the place.
Inside the main building of the floating boat, Du Shixun was bowing to a woman with a head full of pearls and jade. He said, "Greetings, Mother."
This woman was Madam Zhao, Sect Leader Qiao's Taoist companion, and also Du Shixun's birth mother. She looked to be in her thirties, her skin was white and smooth, her skin was round like pearls, and her eyebrows were full of charm. At this moment, she was reclining on the couch, wearing a wide-sleeved robe and a light muslin covering her body, revealing a section of her snow-white arms. She said with a slight languid tone, "My son has returned. Have you seen your father?"
Du Shixun stood up and replied respectfully, "I have just returned from the banquet and have seen my father."
Madam Zhao seemed to have thought of something. She sighed and said, "Recently, your father has been worrying a lot about the Dragon Pillar Gathering. He is obviously an accomplished cultivator, but his hair is covered with white frost. In the future, you must help him more."
Du Shixun scoffed, "The elders in the sect are all useless. If it wasn't for their stubbornness and rejection of other sects' techniques, I, Zhongtai, wouldn't be suppressed by Xuan Yue."
Ever since the founding of Zhongtai Sect, the Grand Master Da Mi, the sect has used the Secret Records of the Compounding Principles as its main technique. However, after thousands of years, no one was able to cultivate to the point of ascension.
After Sect Leader Qiao took over as the sect leader, he felt that Zhongtai Sect's techniques were incomplete and had many flaws. Therefore, he wanted to take the strengths of other sects to make up for it.
However, the group of elders led by Elder Yan still held on to the original techniques. They believed that there must be a reason behind the Grand Master's techniques. As long as they took the half of the book from Xuan Yue Sect, they would have the hope of achieving Dao.
Afraid that there would be internal strife within the sect, Sect Leader Qiao could only put this matter aside for the time being.
But who would have thought that the Xuan Yue Sect was ahead of Zhong Tai? In the recent hundreds of years, this sect had learned from the strong points of others and had almost completely revised the Three Guang Hui Important Techniques, discarding many of the flaws. That was why people like Rong Junzhong had appeared.
Fortunately, Sect Leader Qiao had foreseen this and secretly sent some talented disciples to other places to practice the superior skills that the previous Sect Leaders had collected from other continents. However, this skill could not be shown to the public after all, and there were also the Sect Elders who interfered. Du Shixun was the only one who had truly succeeded in his cultivation over the past several hundred years.
After being defeated twice in the Dragon Pillar Duels, Elder Yan had no choice but to take a step back. He believed that he could ask someone from the other faction to be of use to him, but he still refused to budge on the matter of making up for the missing parts of the cultivation method. Du Shixun's actions Just Now in the hall were precisely to ruthlessly humiliate them.
While the mother and son were talking. Footsteps could be heard as a maidservant came in. She stole a glance at Du Shixun and then placed a jade plate on the table. She bent her knees and said, "Madam, I Just Now Picked the Red Fruits."
There were about a dozen of them, piled up in the shape of a pagoda, and each one was red and juicy. Madam Zhao picked one up and placed it in her mouth. Feeling the sweet juice flowing between her teeth, she could not help but let out a soft moan. She then said, "My son, this fruit was planted by someone from the South Cliff Continent. It can nourish one's inner Qi and cleanse one's blood. Since you are training your strength, it will be good for you to eat more. Why don't you try it?"
Du Shixun said, "Thank you, Madam."
He did not have the habit of tasting the fruits carefully. His abdomen swelled up, and white smoke came out of nowhere, sucking the fruits into his mouth.
Madam Zhao chuckled and sat up straight on the couch. She asked, "Since you have returned from the banquet, did you see any outstanding cultivators among the cultivators that you invited?"
Du Shixun said with disdain, "They are all Loose Cultivators. They are not even comparable to the Elders of my sect."
Madam Zhao was not surprised by this result. In the Dong Sheng Continent, the techniques practiced by the cultivators of the five big sects were the best. Other than the Xiao Cang Realm, which could be compared, the other sects were far inferior. She pondered for a while and then said, "Those people are only used to boost our reputation. Against Xuan Yue, we still need to rely on our Zhong Tai disciples. The rest cannot be trusted."
Du Shixun heard this and said, "Even the Fengxiang Sword School cannot be trusted?
Madam Zhao graduated from the Fengxiang Sword School. She was not Sect Leader Qiao's first wife. The reason why she could become the Sect Leader's wife was because of this.
Madam Zhao looked into his eyes and said seriously, "That's right. The Fengxiang Sword School cannot be trusted either. Do you really think they are here to help me?"
She had a cold smile on her face and said, "They are afraid that our two sects will unite and make up for the deficiencies in our techniques. They want Zhong Tai and Xuan Yue to suffer great losses and finally perish like the three evil sects. But if Zhong Tai dies, how can we, mother and son, go to live?"
At this point, she changed her tone and said, "However, although we cannot completely trust them, we cannot completely abandon them either. For example, the people that were invited to the banquet. Although they were invited because of Elder Yan, they were originally from different places. As long as Yinghong is still the Sect Leader, we can use them for our own purposes. Xun 'er, you have to pay attention. If there are any outstanding people among them, you can rope them in as soon as possible so that they can be of help to your father."
Du Shixun seemed to understand and nodded, "I understand."
Madam Zhao leaned back and said, "This time, Rong Junzhong is an obstacle in the way of the Gathering of the Dragon Pillars. Only by getting rid of this person, Zhong Tai will have a chance of winning."
Du Shixun said confidently, "Mother, the last two times I was not around, I allowed Rong Junzhong to be so arrogant. Now that I am back, there is no need to be afraid."
Madam Zhao nodded her head and her eyes were bright. She said, "Good, good. With my son's help, your father will be able to sleep peacefully."
At this moment, a servant girl carefully walked over to her side and said softly, "Madam, Taoist Hui Xuan is here."
Madam Zhao's beautiful eyes brightened and said, "Invite him in."
After a short while, a figure flashed outside and in came a Daoren wearing a crane cloak, thin lips and hawk-like eyes. This person had deep lines on his forehead, thin straight eyebrows and sideburns. But his figure was illusory and there was a cloud under his feet. It was obvious that he was the Yuanying Dharmakaya. After entering the hall, he took a look and said, "Is Xun 'er here too?"
Du Shixun did not dare to be careless in front of this Daoren. He kept his sharp aura and closed fist saluted, "Greetings, Uncle."
Elder Hui Xuan made a sound of acknowledgment and said, "That's just nice. I was just looking for you."
Du Shixun said, "Does Uncle have any instructions?"
Madam Zhao smiled and said, "Why don't Zhenren sit down and talk."
Elder Hui Xuan nodded his head and sat down at the guest seat. He then said, "Xun 'er, do you have any intention to take over the position of the next leader?"
He asked so straightforwardly, not only was Madam Zhao stunned, even Du Shixun was bewildered and asked hesitantly, "What does Uncle mean?"
Elder Hui Xuan smiled faintly and said, "You don't have to reply me. I only want to tell you that after the previous two dragon pillar meetings, Zhongtai's vitality has been greatly damaged. Even if it uses a hundred years, it may not be able to recover to its former state. In the future, it will definitely need to rely heavily on cultivators from outside the sect or from the lower sects. If you are interested, then you need to fight for the person in charge of the contract so that you can use those who are useful."
Madam Zhao frowned and said, "That matter has always been handled by Elder Yan. If Xun 'er interferes, will it make him unhappy?"
Three months later would be after the dragon pillars. Just that in order to prevent those cultivators from outside the sect from contributing, Zhongtai needs to sign the contract beforehand so that they can fight to the death with Xuan Yue.
Elder Hui Xuan blushed and said, "What time is it already? This is the last dragon pillar battle. If we lose again, Xuan Yue will not be far from swallowing Zhongtai. And in the sect, only Xun 'er and that Rong Junzhong have the ability to fight. Therefore we should fight and do not have to worry about other things."
Madam Zhao looked at Elder Hui Xuan with some resentment and lightly flicked her sleeves and said, "If Brother-in-law is willing to help, why would it be like this?"
Elder Hui Xuan said in a deep voice, "This time I will also follow Sect Leader."
He was originally a rogue cultivator and because of his exceptional aptitude, he had once received pointers from Zhongtai Cave Zhenren Zheng Weixing, therefore his achievements were extremely high. A few hundred years ago, he had already cultivated to the third stage of Yuanying and was the most hopeful person in the continent to step into Grotto-Heaven realm. However, he was after all not a disciple of Zhongtai and did not go for the previous two battles. But this time there was no such restriction, therefore he decided to go.
When Madam Zhao heard that he was willing to go this time, her beautiful eyes widened and said in surprise, "With Brother-in-law helping out, merely Rong Junzhong, I think it will be easy."
But Elder Hui Xuan shook his head and said, "Against this person, my chances of winning are not high."
Madam Zhao could not help but be surprised. From what she saw, Rong Junzhong had only reached the third stage of Yuanying for a few decades while Elder Hui Xuan had hundreds of more years of cultivation, so it should be easy to deal with him. Why did he seem to be very fearful of this person now?
Elder Hui Xuan waved his hand and said, "It is inconvenient to say the reason for this matter, we can talk about it later. I have another important matter today, which is to introduce someone to Madam and Xun-er."
After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and a puff of white smoke came out. After landing on the ground, it turned into a tall and burly cultivator with a thick beard and a wide face.
The light in Du Shixun's eyes brightened, his fists clenched tightly and he shouted sternly, "Who are you?"
If there was any abnormality in this person, he would not care who brought him and would first kill him with a punch.
Madam Zhao's brows were tightly knitted. This was her inner chamber and this Hui Xuan actually did not inform her and brought an outsider in, which made her slightly unhappy.
Elder Hui Xuan said in a deep voice, "Both of you do not panic, this friend's identity is hindered and it is inconvenient for him to enter and exit this room. There are also elders watching outside, so I had no choice but to make the decision on my own and bring him in."
The cultivator laughed and cupped his hands, "I am Luo Dongchuan, greet Madam Zhao." He then bowed to Du Shixun and said, "Friend Du is too polite."
When Madam Zhao heard his name, she was shocked and unconsciously stood up and pointed, "You are from Beimo Hai Jie, that place …"
Luo Dongchuan chuckled and said, "Madam's guess is not wrong. I am from Luo family and the clan leader, Luo Jiangyu, is my clan brother. Today I am here because of Friend Hui Xuan's invitation and for the big plan of our two families."
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