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Time passed slowly, and three years went by in a flash.

During these three years, Wang Zhifan seldom went out into the outside world and spent most of his time in Dengxian Pavilion, carefully teaching his disciples how to practice.

Of course, the operating mechanisms of the Dengxian Pavilion in all aspects, such as rewards, punishments, assessments, and promotions, have been improved, making the Dengxian Pavilion no longer as simple in structure as it initially seemed.

The number of disciples has also undergone earth-shaking changes. The total number of true disciples alone has exceeded eight thousand, and each of them has been carefully selected and can be called a genius. Coupled with the even larger groups of inner and outer disciples, the total number has reached tens of millions, making Dengxian Pavilion a veritable behemoth.

Such a new big guy would naturally attract a lot of attention from the world of immortal cultivation, especially after Wang Zhifan became a stay-at-home and rarely went out to cause trouble. Some forces that had long been suspicious of the Ascension Pavilion began to think that it was just in name only, and they started to make more and more small moves in private, constantly deepening their temptations towards the Ascension Pavilion.

Wang Zhifan was well aware of this, but he had never spent much energy to deal with it. He only established a corresponding internal organization to deal with it. But today, the outside world's patience with him has obviously reached a critical point, and he also feels that he can't delay any longer. This copy has consumed more time than he expected.

At this moment, in a hidden space in the Ascension Pavilion, Wang Zhifan took out the mythical hourglass from his pocket and found that the remaining sand inside had significantly decreased. He couldn't help but think to himself:

"We can't delay any longer. This instance needs to be completed as soon as possible. Whether we can succeed or not depends on God's will."

After he finished speaking, his figure flashed and he arrived at the sect's main hall from another dimension, ready to summon his disciples to announce the important event.

After three years of changes, the Dengxian Pavilion is no longer what it was at the beginning. The Tianyun Immortal Sect, which once occupied the majority, is now almost gone. The vast majority of personnel are selected and trained by the Dengxian Pavilion itself, which seems to be quite full of talented people.

When Wang Zhifan, the sect's eldest senior brother, appeared, everyone in the sect's hall focused their attention on him and cast a look of admiration at him.

After all, in the past three years when the old immortal alias has rarely appeared, everyone in the Dengxian Pavilion knows that the real leader is actually this eldest brother, who has the power and authority to call the shots.

"Xiao Tao, Xiao Feng, go gather all the true disciples to the square. I want to announce something important."

After saying something to a young woman in pink and a little girl wearing a feather crown, the two of them quickly disappeared into the hall to summon all the true disciples.

The reason why these two people are called Xiaotao and Xiaofeng is because they are from the Peach Blossom Demon and Ice Phoenix clans that Wang Zhifan accepted three years ago. They are the descendants of those two great demons and were arranged by Wang Zhifan to help with work in the main hall.

Another great demon, Qinglong, also has clansmen working inside the sect, but they are mainly responsible for external affairs, so they seldom appear in the main hall.

Inside the hall, the other busy people were all surprised when they saw Wang Zhifan preparing to go to the square to announce something important.

In their memory of the past three years, the eldest brother, who was equivalent to the actual leader of the sect, rarely did this. He only gathered all the true disciples when there were large-scale tests within the sect, but today was obviously not a routine test day.

One of the young men who was busy sorting documents stopped his work and asked Wang Zhifan what was going on. He seemed to be quite familiar with Wang Zhifan.

This person is not a true disciple, but has a close relationship with Wang Zhifan. He is Zhao Chun, a local cultivator who has known Wang Zhifan for a long time.

He and his good friend Li Zhuoran joined the management organization of Dengxian Pavilion two years ago. Although their strength was only at the Jindan level, they were doing very well.

"It's a big event related to the Ascension to Heaven. If you are interested, you can go to the square to listen."

After saying this briefly, Wang Zhifan disappeared in the hall and went to the square, leaving all the staff in the hall with a look of surprise.

"Is it related to ascending to heaven?"

“It’s still a big deal!”

“You must go and listen!”

……

For a moment, all the staff stopped what they were doing and rushed to the square area. Only two or three cats, big and small, were left in the hall.

The so-called square is located outside the Dengxian Pavilion. It has a huge area and is surrounded by invisible protective formations. It is an important place for the Dengxian Pavilion to hold assessments and other activities.

Wang Zhifan was standing on a high platform in front of the square at this time, looking at the nearly ten thousand disciples who were gathering rapidly below, and for a moment he felt quite emotional.

"It's been three years. I didn't expect to be stuck in this dungeon for three years... It's really not easy to cultivate talents. Even if I have selected the right ones and put a lot of effort into cultivating them, their growth progress is still lower than I expected... But it's almost there. There are risks, and I can't expect everything to be taken care of by me."

Soon, more and more true disciples gathered in the square and formed into several square formations under the command of a special person, showing the complex components of the true teachings within the Dengxian Pavilion.

There were the largest number of disciples in the center, wearing black and gold outfits, all of them looked vigorous and powerful. They were obviously true disciples of martial arts. They accounted for almost half of the total number of true disciples, and were currently the group that Dengxian Pavilion was cultivating the most.

There is no other way. Who says there is no way to become an immortal through martial arts in this world? If Wang Zhifan wants to open up this immortal path, he must work harder and cultivate more talents. The more seedlings there are, the greater the hope of success.

And there are so many people in this world who cannot cultivate immortality but can cultivate martial arts. In the past three years, they have almost broken their heads to get into the Dengxian Pavilion. This is the result of the Dengxian Pavilion not promoting itself vigorously. If Wang Zhifan works harder, it would not be surprising if the number of martial arts masters doubles.

The second largest group of disciples beside the True Martial Arts Transmission is the mainstream of this world, the Taoist immortal cultivation school.

The attire of this group of people is not much different from that of the outsiders, but their origins are similar, that is, most of them were once independent cultivators, a few were related to the Tianyun Immortal Sect, and most of them were local cultivators in Baizhou. Wang Zhifan once seriously considered canceling this group of true disciples. The reason is very simple. The Taoist cultivation system in this world is relatively mature, and there is no need for him to open up the immortal path. He also has no advantageous resources to provide them. Staying in the Dengxian Pavilion seems to be just a waste of resources for him.

But later, considering the possible external impact caused by the cancellation of orthodox cultivation of immortals, Wang Zhifan still retained it, just as a bright signboard to let outsiders know that Dengxian Pavilion is an upright sect. Otherwise, there is a high probability that it will be rumored by some people to be a demonic sect.

Compared with the masters of martial arts, Wang Zhifan paid much less attention to the masters of immortal cultivation. He basically only provided them with techniques, elixirs, and caves for cultivation. He let them study and figure out the teachings on their own. The old immortal master was not around, and he, as the eldest brother, did not know enough about immortal cultivation because of the martial arts he practiced.

However, despite this seemingly incomplete environment for cultivating immortals, the group of immortals in Dengxian Pavilion is expanding year by year, and the number of people who want to join is far greater than those who want to quit, which is equivalent to free and wild growth but good growth.

Wang Zhifan initially thought that the cultivators who came in must be spies sent by external sects such as the Tianyun Immortal Sect, who came to deliberately take advantage of his sect's resources, but later he secretly investigated and found that there were indeed spies, but not as many as he imagined.

Many cultivators like the relaxed and free environment here, as well as the elixirs and magical skills that can be obtained as long as they practice hard or complete tasks. There is no intrigue like in other sects.

Especially the group of independent cultivators hold this place in high esteem. If it weren't for the high threshold to become a true disciple, I'm afraid all the independent cultivators in Baizhou would enter the Dengxian Pavilion.

In addition to martial arts practitioners and immortal practitioners, the third largest group of true disciples are demon practitioners. Although most of these true disciples look like human beings, in fact, none of them are human. They are all high-level demons and monsters from the Nine Provinces and Ten Regions.

Half of them were from the three major demon tribes that Wang Zhifan had initially accepted. Some were even specially resurrected by Wang Zhifan by twisting time and space, such as the members of Bing Feng.

In this world, demon cultivators have existed since ancient times, but they have always been a marginalized group, and have even been subjected to hostility and persecution for a long time. Otherwise, Wang Zhifan would not have found the three great demons in the Demon Locking Tower.

It was through the rescue of the three great demons that he was able to summon and attract demon cultivators from all over the world to gather together, making Dengxian Pavilion the most unique existence in the Immortal Sect. It not only accepted human disciples, but was also keen on cultivating demons to become immortals.

Needless to say, such a bizarre practice will definitely be talked about by the immortal sects outside. In recent years, many immortal sects have made a fuss about this, saying that Dengxian Pavilion is cultivating enemies of the human race, has ulterior motives and must be vigilant. There is a momentum of uniting other immortal sects to cause trouble for Dengxian Pavilion.

Wang Zhifan once wanted to use force to teach these gossipers a lesson, but later found that none of these immortal sects dared to cause trouble for him, and he was also very busy training disciples, so he only responded with propaganda, promoting the Dengxian Pavilion's "teaching without distinction" and "boundless love" and so on, and somewhat regained some reputation in the immortal cultivation world.

After all, strength is still respected in the world of immortal cultivation. When the major immortal sects learned through different channels that there were suspected immortals in the Ascension Pavilion, and that there were more than one, they only dared to make some small moves and did not dare to really fight without great certainty.

The above three groups together account for more than 90% of all the true teachings. The remaining groups are relatively fragmented and scarce, such as those who practice ghost arts and those who practice mechanical arts.

There are very few people in this group. Wang Zhifan spent a lot of effort but failed to find a few of them. Perhaps there are only these people in the whole world, and they are the result of his special training.

After all the disciples were arranged in formation and gathered in the square, Wang Zhifan on the high platform began to announce the news he wanted to announce. He said loudly:

"My dear disciples! It has been three years since the establishment of Dengxian Pavilion!

Over the past three years, all the disciples have worked together and devoted themselves to practice, making this pavilion continue to grow and develop! But it is far from enough!

We have not had a single disciple successfully ascend to heaven! This has failed to live up to our name! This is unacceptable!
It just so happened that my master sent me a message yesterday that the door to the fairyland will be opened in the near future!
Therefore, all disciples must intensify their practice and make preparations in the next few days. I will choose a day to open the Heavenly Gate for you!
I will wait and see how many of the true disciples will be able to successfully ascend to immortality by then!

I hope you won’t let Master down, and won’t let me down…”

As time was rather urgent, Wang Zhifan's words were rather straightforward and simple, without much of the mystery and oppression that an immortal sect should have.

But the true disciples below the platform were all shocked after hearing this, and the square fell into a brief silence.

The reason is very simple. None of these true disciples believed that they already possessed the ability to become immortals, and they had never thought about becoming immortals in the near future or even in the past ten years. When they heard that Wang Zhifan was going to open the Heavenly Gate for them, they were shocked and could not complain about how outrageous this was.

Wang Zhifan certainly knew what they were thinking, and he immediately explained the reason for choosing to open the Tianmen at this time, mainly from the aspects of urgency and necessity.

Urgent means that the old master, the immortal, is not satisfied with the current progress of the Ascension Pavilion and must produce results. Necessary means that in terms of experience and experience, the Ascension Pavilion needs to see what Ascension is all about.

After this explanation, all the true disciples finally understood the significance of opening the Heavenly Gate. It was not to force all of them to go to the fairyland, but to broaden the horizons of most people and provide unprecedented and valuable opportunities for a few.

For example, Ouyang Chen, the leader of the orthodox immortal cultivation array, is the contemporary great disciple of the Tianyun Immortal Sect. He has often practiced in the Dengxian Pavilion in the past three years. His personal cultivation has already made rapid progress from the initial stage of transformation to the stage of refining emptiness and to the stage of fusion. His strength is comparable to that of the elders of the Tianyun Immortal Sect.

But in terms of strength, a cultivator in the fusion stage is not enough to overcome the tribulation and become an immortal. He must go one step further and reach the Mahayana realm to meet the threshold requirement. But it is only to meet the threshold requirement. A Mahayana cultivator who directly overcomes the tribulation will most likely die halfway through his ascension to immortality.

Lack of strength is one aspect, and another is the order of resource allocation.

As a junior of Tianyun Immortal Sect, even if Ouyang Chen enters the Mahayana realm, it is not his turn to enjoy the highest level resources of Tianyun Immortal Sect. There are three supreme elders waiting in front of him, and this is a reality he cannot avoid.

Now that the Ascension Pavilion is opening the Heavenly Gate for all the true disciples, it is giving a great opportunity to a genius like Ouyang Chen. His strength may still be a little lacking, but as long as the auxiliary effect of opening the Heavenly Gate is sufficient to reduce the difficulty of overcoming the tribulation, he also has a great hope of ascending to heaven in broad daylight and becoming an immortal!

"It turned out that I made the right decision to stay in the Ascension Pavilion. Now the Tianyun Immortal Sect can no longer help me much. Only the mysterious Ascension Pavilion can give me a surprise and provide me with an opportunity to become an immortal that I never dared to think of before...

Unfortunately, the Supreme Elders will definitely know this news, and they may force their way in. It is hard to say what will happen to Kaitianmen by then. I must go and remind my eldest brother. "

Ouyang Chen, who had benefited a lot from Dengxian Pavilion in the past three years, had already leaned towards Dengxian Pavilion in his heart. He knew that Dengxian Pavilion's decision this time would cause an uproar in the world of immortal cultivation and would most likely become out of control. He decided to provide some key clues to Wang Zhifan, even if this would offend the three supreme elders. (End of this chapter)