Seeking Immortality

Generally speaking, when a sect reappears after being closed for many years, it will make a big show. The strongest people in the sect will show their momentum and announce their existence. They will select elite disciples from the sect and send invitations to all the well-known sects to invite all the big and small sects to participate in the sect's opening ceremony.

The reason for doing so is that, generally speaking, the sects that want to close the mountain are like Jiuhua, because their strength has been greatly damaged for some reason. They have no choice but to close the mountain to recover their vitality, but this kind of retreat will inevitably make fellow practitioners underestimate them, so they recruit fellow practitioners to show their strength. Second, when a sect closes the mountain, it is equivalent to giving up all its interests in the world of immortal cultivation. The opening ceremony is a gathering to declare their own sect and discuss with other sects to get back their part of the interests.

For example, when Jiuhua Mountain was not closed, most of the products within 6,600 miles of Jiuhua, whether spiritual stones, spiritual herbs, spiritual flowers, or other products, belonged to Jiuhua. In addition, Jiuhua also had a share of the spiritual stones and spiritual medicines produced in several places where spiritual medicines and spiritual stones were very famous in the cultivation world.

But now, because the cultivation world is experiencing a catastrophe, the first bird to stick its head out will be shot, so the Jiuhua lineage will naturally not hold a grand opening ceremony. Instead, according to the decision of the Elders' Council, a group of cultivators will be selected to explore the current situation in the cultivation world outside the mountain, and then decide what to do.

On this day, all the disciples of Jiuhua gathered at the foot of the mountain, while Zhang Hualing, Xu Qingfan, and Gongsun Huasuo stood in the front with the other 42 elders. Everyone had a solemn expression. Ting'er was also standing among the 42 elders, but she only stared at Xu Qingfan in the front.

Behind the elders were nearly 2,000 ordinary disciples of Jiuhua. After sixty years of hard training, the progress of these ordinary disciples of Jiuhua is not bad. Even those who can only slightly intercept the spiritual energy of heaven and earth have reached the late stage of their ultimate Qi Refining. Among them, the disciples in the Spiritual Silence Stage are the most, about 900. However, the cultivation of these disciples has reached the limit of their talents, and it is extremely difficult to make further progress. This is one of the reasons why Jiuhua has to open the mountain. Because Jiuhua has reached the point where its strength will either advance or retreat.

Compared with the solemnity on the faces of the elders, the expressions of these disciples are more panic and more excited.

In front of everyone, there is a surging chaos, which is the reversed "Nine Extremes Formation".

"Let's start." After a moment, Zhang Hualing said slowly.

Then, forty-five Jindan stage cultivators of Jiuhua were seen turning from static to dynamic, constantly changing various finger gestures on their hands, and whispering an ancient and mysterious spell. Although the movements are complicated, they are neat. The low humming in the mouth is even more gathered into a noise. At the same time, the bodies of the Jindan-stage cultivators began to flash with various colors of spiritual light, and their might gathered together and continued to grow.

Under the control of the elders, the chaos in front of them became more and more intense and chaotic. After an unknown period of time, a low roar continued to come out of the chaos. With a huge roar, the chaos in front of them suddenly turned into a hazy and clear state.

Jiuhua's mountain protection formation "Jiuji Formation" finally operated normally, which also meant that Jiuhua was officially born again.

Seeing the clearness in front of them. All the elders had complicated expressions. Although their offerings in recent years had been reduced a lot because of the need to maintain the reversal of the "Jiuji Formation", these years were indeed the most peaceful days since they had cultivated immortals. They were devoted to cultivating immortals and ignored worldly affairs. But now, Jiuhua was about to be reborn into the noisy world, and he would face the terrible catastrophe as soon as he was born.

Then, more than ten of the original elders walked out. The majority of them were young elders who were unfamiliar. However, there were also several elders who often stayed in seclusion, including Xu Qingfan. At Xu Qingfan's suggestion, Ting'er was also among them.

And these elders were the ones sent out to investigate the current situation in Jiuhua.

Among them, Xu Qingfan was worried that he had accidentally made a big name in the world of immortal cultivation after going down the mountain twice in recent years, so he had to change his image. Otherwise, even if he took off the mask, the black on his shoulder and the "Huanyao Jade Pendant" on his waist would reveal his origin and identity.

I saw that the long hair on Xu Qingfan's head was not tied into a Taoist-like bun like before, but tied together like a young knight in the mortal world, which looked less stable, but more chic. At the same time, Xu Qingfan also changed his white robe that had remained unchanged for thousands of years into a green long gown, and asked an elder who was good at making jade to slightly change the style of the "Huanyao Jade Pendant" to make it smaller, and then took some "Qinglin Powder" used for refining from the Jiuhua Secret Library and melted it on its surface, but it turned into an unknown jade pendant with a green glow. In addition, Xu Qingfan's cultivation has made great progress over the years, from the middle stage of the virtual pill when he first came down the mountain to the late stage of the real pill now, and his demeanor and temperament have become more ethereal and mysterious.

Although all aspects have only changed a little, all the changes together seem to be a completely different person. If it weren't for someone who was interested and observed carefully, no one would be able to tell which Nanhuang casual cultivator was Xu Qingfan.

The biggest flaw is the little black on Xu Qingfan's shoulder, but he is just suspicious. Dark Crow is notoriously difficult to evolve, but the progress of little black in recent years is faster than Xu Qingfan. Even if he doubts it in his heart, he can't believe that little black can evolve to the advanced level of the earth level in just a few decades. It's like he can't believe that Xu Qingfan can break through from the middle stage of virtual pill to the late stage of real pill in a few decades, so in the end it is just suspicion.

Because of these reasons, Xu Qingfan is confident that even if Jiuhua will act together with the Righteous Alliance in the future, he will not reveal his identity.

"Please, everyone."

Zhang Hualing walked to the thirteen elders responsible for exploring the world of immortal cultivation and said with a bow.

"Please rest assured, master." Under the leadership of Xu Qingfan, the thirteen elders bowed to Zhang Hualing and said in unison.

Zhang Hualing nodded slightly, and a spell suddenly appeared between his fingers. He raised his hand, and the spell flew quickly to the clear and bright place in front of everyone. Then it ignited without wind. When the flame went out, a cave with light appeared in front of everyone, which was the exit of the Jiuji Formation.

"Everyone be careful."

Before Xu Qingfan and others left, Zhang Hualing reminded them again.

Outside Jiuhua Mountain, there is an endless expanse. Although the sun is hanging in the sky in the distance, the sunlight is not dazzling. Under the gathering of thousands of clouds, there is a sparse drizzle in the air. It is quietly suspended in the air, feeling the slanting wind and drizzle around, and for a while, everyone's nervous mood has become peaceful.

"My fellow Taoists, the catastrophe in the world of immortal cultivation should not have passed at this time, and it may even have gradually reached the peak. Everything must be small.

As the exit of the "Nine Extremes Formation" gradually closed, Xu Qingfan reassured the other eleven elders.

Most of these eleven elders belonged to the younger generation, so they had a very good attitude towards Xu Qingfan, especially after the two fierce battles between Xu Qingfan and Jin Qinghan and Feng Qingtian, and the last time he saved everyone's life in the tunnel, when they looked at Xu Qingfan, there was a hint of admiration in their eyes in addition to respect. So after hearing Xu Qingfan's instructions, they all responded, and then continued to float in the air, waiting for Xu Qingfan's next instructions.

After Xu Qingfan waved his hand and said "Go", these elders all bowed to Xu Qingfan, and then two or three of them flew quickly in different directions.

Xu Qingfan looked at Ting'er who was standing quietly behind him, and said softly: "Ting'er, let's go too. "

Ting'er nodded slightly, and under the leadership of Xu Qingfan, she flew towards a small hill in the south of Jiuhua. That small hill was the exit of Jiuhua's secret passage.

Under the control of Xu Qingfan's fingers, an exit appeared silently on the hill, and then Bai Yu rushed out of the exit, looking at the scene outside the mountain, and kept shouting excitedly. While Bai Yu was shouting, Zhang Ningmei also appeared from the tunnel with a faint smile.

In addition to exploring the situation in the cultivation world at this time and secretly contacting the Righteous Alliance on behalf of Jiuhua, Xu Qingfan went down the mountain this time, and another purpose was to give Bai Yu and Zhang Ningmei a formal identity as Jiuhua disciples in Jiuhua, so that the two could officially become As his disciples. So before he left the mountain, he took the two to the exit of the tunnel and let them wait in peace. Because he was worried that Ting'er would be lonely and worried in the cave, he simply let Ting'er go with him to explore outside the world of immortal cultivation.

After the exploration, Xu Qingfan will take Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu back to Jiuhua officially, and tell the outside world that they are his disciples outside the mountain. As for the two's spiritual silence period, Xu Qingfan can explain that they were originally disciples of a certain sect and transferred to his sect. Anyway, there will be no shortage of sects that were destroyed in the catastrophe, and the recruitment records of the disciples are also the responsibility of his deacon elders, so no one will say anything.