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Chapter 919: If he can win in Emei, why can't I win in Qingcheng! (Please subscribe!)

Seeing that Hua Twelve was arguing with the statue of the ancestor, Li Jingxu quickly grabbed Hua Twelve, saying that if he continued to bow like this, the statue of the ancestor would explode.

Li Jingxu told Hua Twelve that the boy on the left of the God was the Patriarch of Qingcheng, and the one on the right was the Patriarch's junior fellow, so they should also offer incense and pay homage to him and treat him with the same courtesy as the Patriarch.

Hua Shier then lit three more incense sticks, offered them respectfully, and then bowed towards the statue of the Golden Boy. However, the statue inexplicably moved to avoid his greeting.

  Seeing that Hua Twelve was still eager to try, Li Jingxu pulled him back again and announced:

"The ceremony is over, no need to bow again!"

After burning incense to the ancestor, the initiation ceremony was completed. Li Jingxu took Hua Twelve to a quiet room and introduced him to the origins of their sect.

It turns out that the Qingcheng Sect is the orthodox sect of the Three Pure Ones and the orthodox teaching of the Chan school. Its origins can be traced back to King Wu's conquest of King Zhou and the Battle of the Conferred Gods.

In the past, Erlang Zhenjun Yang Jian once accepted two golden-haired boys as his disciples in Wuyi Mountain. They are the two golden-haired boys next to the statue of the god in the back hall.

The two boys were the incarnations of the golden-bearded ginseng spirit. One was Jinjia and the other was Jinyi. They were the only four-generation disciples of the Chan sect.

After Erlang Zhenjun's physical body was deified, Jin Jia and Jin Yi served him closely at the side of the Zhenjun in the Lingkong Immortal Realm.

However, Jin Jia and Jin Yi both left their Taoist traditions in the world.

Jin Yi originally accepted disciples who became the temple priests of Erlang Shen Temple, mainly inheriting the magic, talismans, and rituals of the Chan sect.

Wherever there is an Erlang Temple in the world, the temple priests are all descendants of Jin Yi.

Previously, the temple priests of Erlang Shen Temple, Chao Hua Twelve and Li Jingxu, called each other "ancestors" because of this relationship.

Jin Jia did not receive any disciples when he was on earth. Before he ascended to heaven, he entrusted his master's friend Qingcheng Zhangren to help him select a successor to pass on the Taoist tradition.

Later, Qingcheng Zhangren helped to select Li Jingxu.

Therefore, although Li Jingxu inherited Jinjia's Taoist tradition, he was not Jinjia's disciple and could only call Jinjia the ancestor.

The blond boy dancing on the left side of the True Lord statue is the Golden Armor Patriarch.

After receiving the inheritance, Li Jingxu lived in seclusion in Qingcheng Mountain and founded the Qingcheng Sect. In fact, he was the founder of the Qingcheng Sect.

Hua Twelve couldn't help but get excited when he heard this: "Brother, the Golden Armor Patriarch is the fourth generation disciple of the Chan Sect, so you and I are the fifth generation disciples of the Chan Sect, right?"

Li Jingxu shook his head and said:

"The elder Qingcheng once said that the Chan and Jie sects only last for four generations. So we are considered to be the Yuqing Taoist lineage, but we are not authentic Chan disciples. This is why I founded the Qingcheng Sect!"

  After hearing Li Jingxu mention Qingcheng Zhangren several times, and now knowing that he was a good friend of Erlang Zhenjun and also a senior of the sect, he opened his mouth and asked:

"I don't know where Senior Qingcheng Zhang is. Please take me to meet him!"

  Li Jingxu said sadly:

"The Grandmaster Qingcheng is the ancient immortal Ning Fengzi. He stayed in the Grandmaster Temple on Mount Qingcheng because of his unfinished earthly ties. He had already finished his earthly ties in the Southern Song Dynasty and ascended to the Lingkong Immortal Realm. Now, the Grandmaster Temple has been changed to Jianfu Palace. The jade slip contains a trace of the Grandmaster Qingcheng's divine thoughts. Although it is a divine thought, Junior Brother, remember not to be rude!"

Hua Shier nodded and asked about the 'Nine Sword Forging Methods'.

Li Jingxu sighed and said regretfully: "In fact, the Nine Sword Forging Methods is the core technique of our Qingcheng Sect. It's just that I was not lucky enough back then, so I didn't choose this technique as my foundation-building technique."

He smiled again after he finished speaking:

"Fortunately, Junior Brother, you have enough blessings to choose this method to build your foundation. It seems that you are the one who is destined to revive our Qingcheng Sect!"

Hua Twelve said helplessly: "Brother, don't always sigh, tell me what's going on here!"

Li Jingxu smiled and said, "Wait till I finish, then you can just be happy. Let me test you first. Who is our ancestor's master?"

"Erlang the Holy Lord!"

"Who is Zhenjun's master?"

"Master Yuding, one of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect!"

Li Jingxu smiled and nodded: "Not bad, you know all this. You should know that few people know about this. You must have read it from the Imperial Canon!"

  Hua Shier thought to himself that I read it from the novel. Even if I haven't read the novel, haven't I watched the TV series "Investiture of the Gods"? Su Daji is so beautiful. Ahem, I got off track.

Seeing that Hua Twelve knew everything, Li Jingxu began to tell Hua the origin of the "Nine Sword Forging Methods".

Actually, this is not the orthodox martial art of the Chan sect, but an offensive technique created by Erlang Shen.

Jade Ding Zhenren had an innate magical flying sword called the "Immortal Slaying Sword". Later, he took away the Immortal-Trapping Sword among the four swords of the Immortal Slaying Formation.

After the Battle of Conferred Gods, the Twelve Golden Immortals had the three flowers on their heads cut off by the Hunyuan Golden Bowl, and the five energies in their chests were destroyed. They needed to re-enter the world to accumulate merits.

During the time when Jade Ding Zhenren entered the secular world to practice cultivation, he gave the Immortal-Slaying Sword and the Immortal-Trapping Sword to Erlang Zhenjun for safekeeping.

In the Battle of Conferred Gods, Erlang Zhenjun's combat power was not outstanding. He only had an indestructible body cultivated through the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, which gave him amazing defensive power, but his offensive power was not that impressive.

After his physical body was deified, he lost all possibility of further strengthening, so he studied the art of attack and conquest day and night, hoping to further improve his combat power if his realm could not be raised.

  So he thought of the two offensive weapons, Immortal Beheading and Immortal Trapping, and he studied them day and night. Finally, he realized a hint of mystery from the two innate spiritual treasures of killing, which is the "Nine Sword Forging Methods"!

The Nine Sword-Forging Methods are divided into external training and internal training.

The method of external refining is the method of refining flying swords. One method requires nine refinings, and nine times of refining will eventually lead to the true method.

Although the method of refining flying swords is the same, the flying swords made from different materials are different.

Li Jingxu told Hua Twelve that Qingcheng Grandpa once told him that after the True Lord created the "Nine Sword Forging Methods", he once said that the flying sword forged according to the Nine Sword Forging Methods should be as powerful as Jade Ding Zhenren's Immortal Sword.

Hua Twelve keenly grasped the key point: "Wait a minute, Senior Brother, why did the True Lord say the word 'should'?"

Li Jingxu laughed:

"This is because the True Lord only created the sword-making method, but did not practice the flying sword externally, and only practiced the internal training method, so it is just a guess that it is not under the Immortal Slaying Sword!"

Hua Twelve asked, "What about the Golden Armor Patriarch? Didn't he refine a flying sword either?"

Li Jingxu smiled awkwardly and said, "The Golden Armor Patriarch did refine a flying sword, but when he ascended to the Lingkong Immortal Realm with the True Lord, the flying sword had not yet been refined, so I don't know its specific power!"

Hua Twelve immediately urged, "Brother, you don't know how to tell fortunes, why don't you ask the ancestor for a fortune?"

"roll!"

Li Jingxu said unhappily:

"The founder is cultivating in the Lingkong Immortal Realm with True Lord. How can you disturb the founder for such a small matter? You are in the front and back rooms. Just shout casually!"

Hua Shier thought so too, turned around and curled his lips. It was too inconvenient that there was not even a phone call between immortals and mortals.

Li Jingxu then talked about the method of internal cultivation.

The internal training method of "Nine Sword-Forging Methods" cultivates the true essence of magic power called "Sword Qi", which is emitted from the body as Jian Qi. Although they have the same pronunciation, there is a difference between internal and external.

After Erlang Zhenjun created his merit, he comprehended the 'Immortal Sword' through this sword energy, so it was named 'Lingbao Xiantian Sword Energy'.

When it is emitted from the body, it is exactly the same sword energy as that emitted by the Xianjian Sword.

Because the Four Swords of Zhu Xian have become the first killing weapon of the Heavenly Dao and the first sword energy of the Heavenly Dao, Erlang Zhenjun called this "Lingbao Xiantian Sword Qi" "one of the strongest sword qi of the Heavenly Dao". The reason why it is called one of them is because there are three other swords of Zhu Xian.

  When Hua Twelve heard this, his eyes lit up again, and he asked, drawing inferences from one example:

"Brother, the True Lord created this 'one of the most powerful sword qi in heaven' by comprehending the Xianjian Sword. If he has the opportunity to comprehend the other three Xianjian Swords, will he gain something else?"

Li Jingxu nodded with a smile: "This kid is teachable!"

Hua Shier felt very uncomfortable looking at Li Jingxu's appearance as a little brat while he was saying to himself that he was a teachable boy. He really wanted to go over and pinch that chubby little face.

Li Jingxu ignored him and continued:

"I heard from Qingcheng Zhangren that Zhenjun also mentioned this matter. He said that if one could comprehend the sword energy of the four swords of Zhuxian thoroughly, comprehend four internal sword energy, and then combine the four into one, then that would be the strongest offensive technique he envisioned!"

"It's a pity that the Lord of God and the other three Immortal Slaying Swords have no destiny, so this matter cannot be forced!"

Hua Shier also felt it was a pity, otherwise he would not be learning one of the strongest sword energies, but the only one.

But on second thought, Hua Twelve laughed at himself for being too greedy. Just this one "one" was something that countless people in the world could only dream of but could not get. What else could he ask for with such a fate?

After explaining the "Nine Sword Forging Methods", Li Jingxu began to tell Hua Twelve about other skills in the Qingcheng heritage.

"Golden Elixir" is a method of dual cultivation of body and soul. Because it is not the fundamental method of Qingcheng, the Qingcheng Master once passed it on to Zhang Boduan, the True Man of Ziyang in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Later, Qingcheng Zhangren also felt that this was inappropriate, so he added the "Tiandun Sword Technique" into the Qingcheng inheritance as compensation.

Hua Twelve asked curiously: "Brother, isn't this Tiandun Sword Technique Lu Zu's technique?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Jingxu reached out and knocked him on the head.

Master Ji Le didn't use any force, and Hua Twelve simply didn't dodge, he just took the blow with a smile.

Li Jingxu also laughed:

"Why are you calling yourself Lü Zu? You are wrong. We are from the Yuqing lineage, and we are ranked after the Golden Armor Patriarch. Although we are not members of the Chan Sect, we are also considered the fifth generation of Yuqing disciples. I also know the background of Lü Dongbin."

"Back then, the Saint of Taiqing transformed into Laojun and taught Tieguai Li, who taught Zhong Hanli, who taught Lü Dongbin. In fact, they are the fifth generation descendants of Taiqing. Although Lü Dongbin was a great man in his previous life, he is my brother and we are of the same generation in this life. You are my junior brother, so naturally you are of the same generation. Even if he ascends to heaven and sees Lü Yan one day, he will just call him Brother Dao!"

Hua Twelve was very excited when he heard this. Am I now on the same level as Lu Zu?

  Li Jingxu said again:

"The Heavenly Dao Sword Technique is not inherited from Taiqing, but was passed down from the Taoist Master of Qingcheng when Zhuang Zhou, the Taoist of Nanhua, was practicing Taoism in Qingcheng Mountain. He asked the Taoist Master of Qingcheng for help, and he left this sword technique as a token of gratitude to express his gratitude!"

"This sword technique is from the Nanhua lineage, and was later passed on to Zuo Ci, who passed it on to Ge Hong, who passed it on to Fire Dragon Master Zheng Yin, who passed it on to Lü Yan in Mount Lu. That's how Fellow Daoist Lü learned the Tiandun Sword Technique, but it wasn't created by him!"

"This Tiandun sword technique may not be as powerful as the sword techniques in the Nine Sword Forging Techniques, but it excels in the word 'dun'. It can control the sword and ride on the wind, and hide the secrets. It is truly a unique skill. If you are interested, you can practice it!"

Hua Twelve nodded repeatedly after listening.

Li Jingxu then talked about "The Art of Yang Shen Chong Ju".

This technique is a method of cultivating the primordial spirit. When Li Jingxu entered Taoism, he used "Golden Elixir" to build his foundation. Later, for some reason, he gave up his physical body and concentrated on cultivating his primordial spirit, so he changed to practicing "The Art of Yang Shen Chong Ju". Now his yang spirit has reached perfection, and when his external skills are accumulated enough, he can ascend to heaven at any time.

As for "Thousands of Miles of Spiritual Communication, Tens of Thousands of Miles of Heart Communication", which is a method of practicing both yin and yang, Li Jingxu told Hua Twelve that he should not consider it if he did not have a Taoist partner. In addition, since he had chosen "Nine Sword Forging Methods", it would be a waste of effort to spend time practicing this method.

After Li Jingxu finished explaining his sect's skills, he asked Hua Twelve, "Junior brother, is there anything you don't understand?"

  Hua Twelve shook his head at first, but suddenly remembered something:

"Brother, the Nine Sword-Forging Methods record many sword-making materials, such as the Western Taibai Yuanjing and the Western Taiyi Jingjin. I have two materials here that are not listed. Can you help me take a look at these two materials?"

As he spoke, he took out a piece of vibranium the size of a fingernail and an adamantium dagger from his arms, actually from the storage space, and handed them over.

Li Jingxu didn't pay much attention to it at first, but after getting his hands on it, he found that these two metals were surprisingly hard, and one of them even had the ability to store energy.

"what?"

  Li Jingxu first observed with his naked eyes, then used his magical powers to explore, and then he couldn't help but exclaimed:

"I have never seen these two materials before, but their hardness is even higher than Taiyi Jingjin. They are rare sword-making materials and must be things from outer space. When the primitive world was broken, so many sacred mountains and rivers flowed outside the sky. It is not surprising that such materials were produced in those sacred mountains!"

The boy of bliss changed the subject and said, "However, these two materials have very poor properties in conducting mana. If they are used to refine swords, they can only serve as auxiliary materials to increase the strength of the flying sword, but they cannot serve as the main material!"

  Hua Twelve nodded and accepted the instruction. He saw that Ji Le Tongzi looked at the vibranium and adamantium daggers with a fiery look in his eyes, so he smiled and said:

"I still have some of these two materials. I'll give these two pieces to you, brother!"

Li Jingxu is a free and easy person, and he is not polite:

"Okay, thank you very much, Junior Brother. With these two materials, I can refine them into a flying sword, and I will have more confidence when I transcend the tribulation and ascend to heaven in the future!"

Hua Shier said that he still had a lot, and if Li Jingxu needed it, he would send some more over.

But the boy of bliss waved his hand and refused, saying that this was enough.

Hua Shier took off the 'Sky Cloud Sword' from his waist and asked Li Jingxu to help take a look:

"Brother, this is something I found by chance in Fusang. Although it is not very powerful, it is quite magical. Please help me take a look and see if it is a treasure!"

  Li Jingxu was amused. This junior brother must be using him as an appraiser. He took the item but didn't pay much attention to it at first. But after taking a closer look, he suddenly realized:

"It turned out to be this sword!"

According to Li Jingxu, this sword is the sword that Dayu used to slay demons and subdue gods when he controlled floods. It is also the legendary Sword of King Yu.

King Yu once used this sword to chop off one of the heads of the ancient great monster Xiangliu, and then stabbed the sword into Xiangliu's body. Xiangliu was defeated and left Shenzhou for Fusang. It is said that he later died in Fusang and the sword fell into the hands of the Fusang people.

Some people in the cultivation world had seen this sword in Fusang and discovered that the sword had been infected by Xiangliu's demonic aura and could no longer be used. It could be used as an ordinary weapon, but it could not be activated by magic power. Therefore, everyone in the cultivation world knew that the sword was in Fusang, but no one wanted to take it.

Because not only is the sword useless, but the aura of the great demon will also cause the mortals in the area to become extremely violent and inhumane, so it is not a good omen.

Hua Shier then understood that the Yamata no Orochi of Fuso was actually Xiangliu with one head chopped off. With one of the nine heads chopped off, there are eight heads left.

He also heard that this was the Sword of King Yu, and he couldn't help but feel itchy:

"Brother, is there no way to remedy this sword?"

Li Jingxu said: "Yes, there is, but it is not possible in the mortal world. As long as there is the true fire of the sun, or the six divine fires in Laojun's Eight Trigrams Furnace, they can remove the evil spirit from this magic sword, but it is impossible in the mortal world!"

After hearing this, Hua Twelve couldn't help but feel that it was a pity. If they could go back to the origin and restore the power of the Yuwang Sword, wouldn't it be another trump card? What a pity.

Even though it was useless, Hua Shier couldn't bear to throw it away, so he kept it as a commemoration. However, he had to put it back into the storage space later to prevent the demon's aura from affecting the capital. We can't learn from the inhumane place like Fuso.

The brothers chatted for more than two hours before Hua Shier asked Li Jingxu about his future destination. The latter said that he would continue to travel around the world to accumulate external skills.

Hua Shier then told Li Jingxu about his plan for Emei, and said that he had already ordered the summons of Zhang Tianshi and the head of Wudang to the palace to meet the emperor, and wanted to invite Li Jingxu to go back to Beijing with him to help him hold up the scene.

Li Jingxu thought for a moment and said, "Alright, I'll go with you. Emei has fought for the destiny of heaven, so why can't Qingcheng fight for it?"

"But I have made an agreement with Changmei not to interfere directly in Emei's affairs. When the time comes, just say that you are my junior brother, and I will not be involved in other matters."

Hua Twelve was overjoyed: "That's enough. Zhang Tianshi and the head of Wudang don't know about the agreement between you and Changmei. Let them misunderstand and think that you are supporting me. Then my plan will succeed!"

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