Lingyuan Immortal

Chapter 630: The Dispute over Incense
Chen Mu was stunned at first, but when he saw the Taoist priest Tianxing's eyes flickering, as if there was something important, he did not respond easily.

He just smiled and said, "Old Ancestor, please take a seat first. If you have anything to say, please tell me slowly."

Upon hearing this, Taoist Tian Xing sighed twice and praised, "I didn't expect that after forming your Nascent Soul, your Qi cultivation skills would be so good. Well, I will tell you slowly."

He waved his sleeves and sat down aside.

Seeing this, Chen Mu waved his hand to send Xiao Qi away, and took out the Wuli Qinghao Lingcha he got from the Demon Court to entertain him.

After a moment, Taoist Tian Xing took a sip from the teacup. His eyes suddenly lit up and he exclaimed, "Great tea! It's a little bitter at first, but the sweetness lingers. Where did you get this good tea?"

Chen Mu smiled and replied, "We found a special kind of spiritual tea from Southern Xinjiang and have transplanted it to Nanming Mountain. If it suits your taste, you can bring some back to the mountain later."

Anyway, it's just some hundred-year-old tea leaves. For a cultivator at his level, it would be a pity to throw them away if they are tasteless, and there is plenty of them.

Upon hearing this, Taoist Tianxing chuckled, nodded, and sighed, "Chen Mu, ever since you followed Zhuang Yan to my Tianxing Mountain, I've sensed your extraordinary talent. I never expected that in just over forty years, you'd already entered the Nascent Soul stage. You truly lived up to my expectations!"

Chen Mu bowed slightly and sighed, "Without the ancestor's care, this disciple would not have been so successful..."

This is true. If he had not been instructed by Tianxing to go to the Western Desert to obtain the "Heart Mantra of the Ancient Buddha Dipankara", how could he have eliminated the hidden danger of the killing talisman?
If the hidden danger is not eliminated, how can he concentrate on his practice and make such rapid progress?

So although Tianxing Laodao seemed unreliable, he actually helped him a lot.

This is one of the reasons why he respects Tianxing so much...

Seeing him like this, a trace of relief flashed in Tian Xing's eyes. He smiled and said, "If you say so, I'm really a little embarrassed to assign you this."

Chen Mu smiled calmly and said, "Grandmaster, please feel free to speak."

Taoist Tianxing nodded, and after pondering for a moment, he slowly said, "Do you know why the Lihuo Patriarch died?"

Chen Mu frowned, not realizing the reason behind his question. He could only answer truthfully, "Ancestor Lihuo died from his injuries. Xu Jingyang said it seemed like the injuries were sustained in Zhongzhou..."

"That's right!"

Tian Xing said in a deep voice: "Brother Lihuo traveled all the way to Zhongzhou, but was ultimately defeated by Taoist Chixi of Piaomiao Taoist Temple and returned seriously injured.

"Piaomiao Taoist Temple? Taoist Chixi?"

Chen Mu frowned and asked, "May I ask why, Old Ancestor Lihuo... went to Zhongzhou?"

Tian Xing paused for a moment, then straightened his expression and said slowly, "Brother Lihuo, I'm going to burn some incense for Southern Xinjiang..."

"Burning incense?"

Chen Mu's heart moved, and he became even more puzzled. He asked, "What's the deep meaning of burning incense?"

Taoist Tianxing cast his gaze into the distance and sighed, "The orthodox doctrine of the world is in Zhongzhou. If you want to obtain the fortune of this world and protect the safety of your sect, you must go to Zhongzhou Daoshi Mountain to burn incense."

"But Zhongzhou doesn't want us to burn incense?" A hint of realization flashed in Chen Mu's eyes.

"That's right." Tian Xing said, "The various sects in Central Continent regard the destiny of this world as their own, so how could they easily let us get involved?"

"Then the Lihuo Patriarch will go..."

Perhaps sensing Chen Mu's doubts, Taoist Tian Xing shook his head and said, "It's just a dispute."

He paused, then continued, "In ancient times, our human race originated from Zhongzhou. At that time, the Taiyi Xuanling Realm, except for Zhongzhou, was a wild and desolate land, full of demons.

After tens of thousands of years of change, the Five Continents reached a prosperous era with human traditions. Speaking of which, the founders of the three Northern Plains sects, like ours, were all cultivators from Central Continent. And not just us. The ancestors of the Western Desert, Southern Xinjiang, and even the East China Sea all have ties to Central Continent.

Therefore, in terms of qualifications, we all have the right to go to Daoshi Mountain to burn incense.

But since my strength is not as good as theirs, how could they just watch me and the others share the luck of this world?"

Chen Mu pondered for a moment, then asked for confirmation: "So they set up some kind of test to prevent us from burning incense?"

Taoist Tian Xing smiled coldly and nodded, "That's right. In order to silence the people's gossip, they divided the incense into 27 branches and declared that the whole world would fight for it!
But they have occupied this world for a long time, and have produced outstanding people from generation to generation. How can we, the Beiyuan and Ximo sects, compete with them?"

"Twenty-seven... and we can't even get one."

Chen Mu's heart trembled, and he became more and more aware of the gap between Zhongzhou and Beiyuan.

Perhaps he could see what he was thinking, as the Taoist priest Tian Xing sighed deeply and murmured, "The current Central Earth Divine Continent is headed by nineteen sects and eight great families, which together add up to exactly twenty-seven!
To be honest, they never intended for us to go and burn incense..."

Chen Mu nodded slightly, and suddenly asked, "Is the Piaomiao Taoist Temple behind the Chixi Taoist who injured the Lihuo Patriarch one of them?"

Taoist Tianxing nodded after hearing this, but his expression grew even more serious. "You guessed correctly. Piaomiao Taoist Temple is indeed one of the nineteen sects, and... it's ranked at the bottom..."

Chen Mu narrowed his eyes, feeling emotional, and more or less guessed the purpose of Tianxing's visit.

"Grandmaster, do you wish for your disciple to go and compete?"

But what he didn't expect was that Tian Xing Taoist shook his head and said, "Yes, and no..."

He didn't try to be mysterious and said frankly, "The one who really wants you to go is Sun Zhiyan of Xuantian Mansion, the old monster Sun!"

"Who is Sun Zhiyan?" Chen Mu's heart moved.

"Sun Zhiyan is from the same generation as me. His talent is much stronger than mine. He is now in the late Nascent Soul stage. Apart from the two True Lords of Transformation, his realm is the highest in Beiyuan."

Taoist Tianxing was amazed and his expression was full of admiration.

After saying this, he continued, “In fact, if it were in the past, we would not be willing to go through such hardship and travel all the way to Zhongzhou to burn incense.

This is not the feeling of our Beiyuan's True Lord Huashen, who said that the demonic calamity is coming. If we don't take action, when the calamity comes, Beiyuan will be devastated.

Therefore, it was at the suggestion of the True Lords that we had the idea of ​​going to Zhongzhou to burn incense."

Chen Mu was touched when he heard the word "demon calamity".

He had heard this from Taixuan several years ago, and now it seemed that what Taixuan said was true...

Taoist Tianxing sighed and said in a deep voice: "If we can get a bit of the luck of this world by burning an incense stick on Daoshi Mountain, we can add a few more Nascent Soul cultivators before the devil's calamity comes!

There might even be someone who can use this to achieve the status of a True Lord."

By this point, Chen Mu had already understood the situation. What they were doing was nothing more than gaining some luck for Beiyuan, so as to resist the coming demonic calamity...

After the two of them pondered for a moment, Taoist Tian Xing turned his gaze and sighed, "Logically speaking, you have just reached the Nascent Soul stage, so you shouldn't be allowed to go on this matter. However, our Beiyuan has been weak for a long time, and we urgently need new talents like you to support us..."

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(End of this chapter)