Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 191: Being too old to die is a thief
Suddenly, clouds and mist rose from the Taibai Peak, and the Litian Terrace on the mountainside was just under the sea of ​​clouds that suddenly appeared, which made the guests watching the ceremony feel as if there was "the sky above their heads".

In front of the 'Ancestor's Cave', twelve Wanshou Sect disciples struggled to lift a large tripod.

This huge tripod probably weighs a thousand pounds.

Then a fire was lit under the big cauldron, and the spiritual materials specially prepared by Wanshou Sect were placed in the belly of the cauldron. As the flames under the cauldron burned, a fragrance filled the cauldron, permeating the entire hillside.

Zhao Yifu sniffed, then said with some admiration: "This is the principle of offering incense to the gods. This is a great idea."

He then shook his sleeves and asked in front of the divine summoning diagram inside his sleeves, "Ancestor, do you feel it?"

Master Fuyou said, "What did he feel? He just lit a fire under the cauldron and muttered a few insincere words. What good could that do?"

Zhao Yifu watched as a column of white smoke rose from the cauldron, reaching the sky and punching a hole in the sea of ​​clouds above. It was as if the faith of all beings below had been carried straight to heaven by the column of smoke...

To be honest, let alone ordinary people, even he, a cultivator, felt very magical when he saw this scene, and felt a little frightened.

But unfortunately, this is just a nice special effect...

The truth is, the master felt nothing.

Also, when will the incense burner take effect?

Only sincerity of heart.

Zhao Yifu himself was able to establish a connection with the ancestor because of his sincere devotion to the Tao, so he has a very deep feeling in this regard.

So, although Zeon seems to be a senior in the church, he actually changed his heart a long time ago.

Zeon was completely unaware that his underwear had been exposed and was still presiding over the ceremony very seriously.

A moment later, the ceremony reached its climax.

The column of smoke and clouds above the head intertwined to form a structure like a huge cloud eye, as if the eyes of God were looking down at the earth from high above.

This brought the mystery of the entire ceremony to its peak.

The leaders of the three branches and seven sects of the Chunyang Sect also sat down on the high platforms around the big cauldron. Except for Fairy Zhenyi who was alone, the other leaders were surrounded by their own disciples.

But one thing that makes people feel unhappy is that the platform where the Wanshou Gate is located is about three feet higher than the other six gates.

This seems to be done intentionally, but it makes it impossible to hold anyone accountable for the three-foot height.

"Hahaha, today we have all the talented people here, and our Chunyang Sect is also a gathering of elites. How about letting the younger generation show off their talents and let people judge them?"

The leaders naturally agreed.

Liang Zhongzhi whispered to Zhao Yifu, "This is very boring. It's just a live demonstration of each sect's unique skills."

"With your perspective, there's no need to participate in this kind of activity."

It sounds like a boring project, so Zhao Yifu is not interested in it at all.

After all, his serious talents are definitely at the bottom among his peers.

He has no knowledge of music, his chess skills are poor, his calligraphy is only passable, and his painting skills are good but not outstanding.

With such a low level of skill, it’s better not to make a fool of yourself.

It might be hard to believe, but if Zhao Yifu were to demonstrate the Dao of Alchemy or the Dao of Sword, he would be confident that he could defeat anyone of his generation...

He said, "Since this is a showcase of talent from each lineage, let the brothers show it off."

As a result, Wen Sheng and others also seemed to be lacking interest.

There is no way. At least there are different sects competing with each other for the Danding lineage and the Jian lineage, but there is only one Danqing sect for the Wen lineage, and there is not even any competition.

Even in the spiritual world, I’m afraid no one cares about how well they write articles and poems?

However, just when Zhao Yifu was bored, the expected trouble occurred.

A Liao clan disciple from the Wanshou Sect suddenly stood up and said, "In previous conferences, each of our clans competed among themselves. It was really boring."

"In fact, my Dan Ding School disciples also know swordsmanship, and my Sword School disciples are also proficient in alchemy."

"Our ancestor loves swordsmanship the most. How about we all compete in swordsmanship today?"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment; they had not expected such a proposal to emerge.

Upon hearing this, the two Sword Sects thought, "Is there such a good thing?"

When the people from the Danding Sect heard this, they actually did not object.

The main reason is that Yaowang Valley obviously has no opinions of its own and probably won’t participate in the sword fight.

Zhen Yidao is a young fairy who has just taken on the inheritance. Obviously, she can be ignored at this time.

The Jingyuan Sect, the only sect that could possibly express an opinion, actually showed a look of delight after a moment of surprise.

Jingxu Zhenren of Jingyuan Sect said happily, "That's good. Besides pursuing the Dao of Alchemy, we disciples of Jingyuan Sect have also cultivated a body of sword energy techniques. This is a good opportunity to show it off."

"Akirako, what do you think?"

Zeon asked about Akiko.

He originally didn't want to ask, but Qiu Yuzi was a Yang God who could not be ignored.

Of course, in his mind, Danqingmen was just a group of nerds and bookworms. How could they possibly participate in a sword fight?
Qiu Yuzi laughed heartily upon hearing this and said, "Discussing swords? What objection can my Danqing Sect have?"

He agreed readily, as if he thought the sword fight had nothing to do with the Danqing Sect.

But in fact, both Chunyang Sword Sect and Huigu knew that Danqing Sect was the orthodox Chunyang Sword Dao!
Zeon was not surprised by this, as Akiuko's performance was in line with his expectations of Danqingmen.

So what if it is Yang Shen? It cannot stop Wanshou Sect from showing its strength.

That’s right, many people have now realized that the Wanshou Sect suddenly did this just to show their strength.

But why show strength?
This is what we will face next.

The disciple of the Liao clan of Wanshou Sect who made this suggestion suddenly said, "Let me, Gu Shouyue, throw out a brick to attract jade and try out the swords of each sect."

Gu Shouyue's tone was loud and made people feel uncomfortable.

But Jiong said, "Please don't be offended. This is the young disciple I accepted in recent years. He is extremely talented, but he is a little unrestrained."

At this moment, everyone's faces turned ugly, except for Yaowang Valley, who had known about this for a long time and remained calm.

How can this make people happy?
Among the leaders of various sects, Huigu has the lowest seniority, but it doesn't matter since she is alone.

Apart from Jiong who has the highest seniority, the next generation is Baicaosou, the master of Yaowang Valley. The leaders of the other four families, Danqingmen, Chunyang Sword Sect, Yangling Sword Sect, and Jingyuanmen, are all of the same generation.

So the question is, this Gu Shouyue is a disciple of Zeon, so in terms of seniority he is as high as Baicaosou, completely surpassing the others!
This is disgusting.

Zhao Yifu calculated his generation in his mind... Oh my god, he was going to call this Tartar Grand Tutor "Uncle"?!

At that moment, the way he looked at Zeon became strange.

This old man has lived too long. It's true that an old man who refuses to die is a thief!
Zhao Yifu had already begun to make arrangements for the old man's funeral...

But at this moment, Zhao Yi Fu suddenly discovered a loophole in the previous decree from Heaven.

That is, mortals can enjoy sacrifices from three generations after death, but what about practitioners?

A generation of cultivators is quite long, so wouldn’t it be too much if three generations were to offer sacrifices?

Mainly, he thought that the Wanshou Sect's skills could make people live for a very long time... Wouldn't the time of each generation be extended a lot?

And if the people of Wanshoumen performed the sacrifice after Ji Weng's death, wouldn't he be unable to arrange Ji Weng's funeral for a long time? This reality made Zhao Yifu very angry. He began to focus all his thoughts on this and had no mood to pay attention to the sword fight in the arena.

He told this to his ancestor immediately.

Finally, the Patriarch said, "This is indeed a bit unreasonable, but why would I go to the Great Heavenly Venerable to complain about such a trivial matter?"

'Da Tianzun' is another name for the Emperor of Heaven.

Zhao Yifu seemed to understand after hearing this and said, "That's right. Since it's just a small matter, let the small people report it."

Logically speaking, Zhao Yifu could have reported this matter as a ghost messenger, but his report would first have to go to the Black and White Impermanence, who would then decide whether to continue reporting it to the King of Hell in charge.

After reading it, the King of Hell has to decide whether to report it to the Emperor of Fengdu, and then let the Emperor of Fengdu decide whether to submit it to the Emperor of Heaven.

There are too many paths to turn from level to level here, it would be better to...

Without a second thought, he separated his Yin spirit and flew to Fenglin County, where he grabbed the Jade Sceptre of the Bai Na City God and began writing a memorial.

Of course, his memorials weren't as polished as the headmaster's, but having read so many, he'd consulted many sources and managed to write one. His weakness was that it wasn't tactful enough, or rather, it was forced. His strength was that he made his point very clear...

Bai Na City God looked at the memorial on the jade scepter and felt that it was very unreliable.

He said, "My dear brother, will this strike His Majesty as a bit extreme in the change in style of my memorial?"

This old man is really tactful in his words.

Zhao Yifu waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter. What I wrote is already very good. After all, I am a person who has passed the imperial examination."

This is true. Although his memorials are simple and straightforward, the writing is still very fluent and has some literary talent.

To be honest, this writing skill is better than many gods!
He puts in the effort here, and naturally relaxes on the other side.

Therefore, he did not pay any attention to the exciting fight on the Litian Terrace. He just knew that 'Gu Shouyue' performed very well. He actually defeated the disciples of Yangling Sword Sect and Jingyuan Sect in succession, and was now challenging the disciples of Chunyang Sword Sect.

At this time, Zhao Yifu's soul returned. He recalled the previous two sword fights and knew that 'Gu Shouyue' was indeed powerful, but he was able to win because of some other means besides swordsmanship.

For example, when Gu Shouyue was fighting with the disciples of Chunyang Sword Sect, he used a secret medicine to stimulate the sword energy and swallowed a pill to enhance his perception and response.

I also take medicine from time to time to replenish my energy...

In the face of an overwhelming attack, there is also a very powerful force field-like protection.

This……

Well, taking drugs is indeed the fighting style of the Danding Clan, and magic weapons are also the mana and means of the cultivators. With Jiong standing there, no one can say anything.

The disciples of the Chunyang Sword Sect were defeated in this way because they simply couldn't hold on any longer.

To be honest, Zhao Yifu felt that this was very unfair.

In terms of swordsmanship, the disciples of the Sword Sect are definitely better than Gu Shouyue.

It’s like no matter how good a player’s skills are, he will be helpless when he encounters a big spender.

During this period of time, Zhao Yifu has developed a certain relationship with the five disciples of the Sword Sect. How could he just sit back and watch them suffer a setback?

He immediately wanted to go on stage and teach Gu Shouyue a lesson.

However, Qiu Yuzi seemed to know what he was thinking and sent a telepathic message first, "Don't be impulsive. Let's see what they want to do first."

Zhao Yifu said, "Master, do you want to expose their true intentions?"

"But the Grandmaster asked me to stop anything from embarrassing him."

Qiu Yuzi paused and asked, "Master, do you know what's going on here?"

Zhao Yifu nodded.

Qiu Yuzi asked curiously, "Could it be that this fancy offering to the heavens actually works?"

Zhao Yifu said, "No, hasn't the ancestor been inside my sleeve all along?"

Qiu Yuzi understood instantly.

Najiw led everyone through a lot of trouble for most of the day, but in the end they were making a fool of themselves by making the "man of destiny" who could really communicate with the ancestor a laughing stock.

He said, "This is also to rectify the problems within the Chunyang Sect."

"Some problems are forcibly covered up for various reasons. The only way to kill them is to make them feel that everything is going smoothly and they spontaneously expose the problems."

"Why, do you think that with me and you and your master and disciple here, we can't turn the tide and suppress the situation?"

Zhao Yifu thought this made a lot of sense and said, "Since the leader is so confident, let's wait and see what happens next."

Gu Shouyue won, which immediately attracted cheers from a group of people.

Most of them were from the Wanshou Sect, starting with the noble children of Liao Country, and gradually all the disciples of the Wanshou Sect began to cheer.

The strength displayed by Gu Shouyue was indeed commendable, at least it made everyone present at the ceremony feel that he was powerful enough.

In this atmosphere, Zeon seemed to be feeling quite complacent.

At this time, Sect Master Xuanfeng disagreed. He glanced at Qiu Yuzi who was unmoved and Zhao Yifu who looked intently as if waiting for something, and then he held down the disciple who was unwilling to accept and wanted to test his sword.

He also gave a wink to Huigu, who was eager to try.

Huigu, who had just broken through the realm, suddenly came to her senses. She suppressed her impulse and realized that she should keep a low profile at this time.

Suddenly, she remembered something and tried to find the Danqing Sect through telepathy.

"I heard from my master that this great-grandmaster Zeon is a man of great ambition. He seems to have the intention of unifying the great sect and becoming its leader..."

Qiu Yuzi said, "I see."

The Xuanfeng Sect Master sent a voice message: "Do you want to stop it?"

Qiu Yuzi said, "Why would they stop it? I think that Master Jingxu might not be unaware of this, and he also has the intention of letting it go."

"Even the Yangling Sword Sect's Lian Guang Sect Master doesn't know."

Suddenly, a cold female voice interrupted and asked, "Are you all plotting to replace him?"

It was a simple and straightforward statement, and it also reflected her sensitivity.

Hui Gu said, "I was the one who brought Senior Sister Lian Guang in. She won't be an obstacle."

Lian Guang said, "I won't get involved in the disputes in the Central Plains, but if someone wants to ride on my head and give me orders... then it depends on whether he has the qualifications."

After a pause, she continued, "If it's Senior Brother Qiu Yuzi, I have no objection."

See, this is Qiu Yuzi's idea.

Let Zeon work hard to set the stage and liven up the atmosphere, and then he can reap the rewards.

As expected of Prime Minister Xu, who has been in politics for many years, this method is really dirty...

Zhao Yifu thought so.

But who knew Qiu Yuzi would suddenly say, "I have no intention of becoming the leader, but don't worry, we will have a leader who will keep people from gossiping."

Zhao Yifu felt a stir in his heart and his scalp went numb.

Because at this moment, the Fairy Zhenyi Huigu, who had been deliberately not looking at him, could no longer help but look over...

(End of this chapter)