Chapter 31: Steel Dragon Wood (Second update, more later)
The Second Elder began a lengthy speech. Ye Yang saw the Disciples around him, their heads struck by the 'pie in the sky,' looking at the stage with fervent eyes, full of longing for the future.
He knew his expression was off, so he quickly adopted an expression of worship and aspiration, blending in with the crowd.
The Second Elder spoke for three-quarters of an hour, a quarter less than the Grand Elder. After finishing, he immediately declared loudly, "Now, I announce the start of the Heaven Offering Ceremony!"
As his voice faded, a grand and complex sound immediately echoed through the hall. It seemed as if someone was chanting in a low voice, profound and mysterious, ancient and distant. Coupled with the curling blue smoke in the room, a solemn and mysterious atmosphere instantly emerged.
Two strongmen carried in an ancient, large tripod engraved with gold-painted Taotie patterns. Blue smoke curled from within the tripod, its pillars adorned with mountain and river motifs, and its two ears featured bird and beast carvings, along with depictions of ancient people offering sacrifices.
The two strongmen, carrying the tripod, brought in a piece of hard black wood, the thickness of an adult's arm and three feet long. It resembled fine iron and emitted a metallic luster.
The tree body was like a Dragon, winding and vigorous, with cracked, dark black bark resembling Dragon scales. Even its leaves were as profoundly black as ink jade.
This was a rare wood called Steel Dragon Wood. It was hard and heavy, often growing deep within the Ten Thousand Mountains of Yalong Ridge. It would only reach the thickness of chopsticks in a hundred years, the size of a fist in a thousand years, and those over three thousand years old were as hard as steel and astonishingly heavy, extremely rare. It could serve as the main material for Magical Artifacts.
This section, though seemingly only the thickness and length of an adult's arm, already weighed several thousand catties; otherwise, it wouldn't have been carried by two strongmen.
Grand Elder Mo Niansheng took this section of Steel Dragon Wood with one hand and placed it into the large tripod. The tripod immediately ignited with a clear blue flame, as pure as the color of the sky.
All the Disciples in the main hall were very serious, diligently circulating their Cultivation Technique, Spiritual Qi gushing forth, not wanting to waste this excellent and precious rare wood.
Ye Yang was also very solemn, silent, and quietly preparing.
Afterward, the two strongmen carried in a huge blue Wall Gecko Beast, its skin emitting a warm luster like jade.
It was precisely the Five Poison Sect's Blue Wall Gecko Beast that Sword Vajra Ge had slain in Shaoyang Cave. After its death, this Wall Gecko was well preserved; not only had it not decayed, but after special treatment, it shone brilliantly, shimmering with blue light.
Beside the Blue Wall Gecko was a shriveled, white-haired head, which belonged to the Wall Gecko Envoy, one of the Five Poison Emissaries of the Five Poison Sect.
The head of a Martial Person Late Stage Realm individual was extraordinarily intelligent. It contained the most precious spiritual Martial Blood of a Martial Person, which was extremely rare and valuable.
Flying Heaven Gate was neither righteous nor demonic; its Sect contained both Dao Cultivation Techniques and demonic Cultivation Techniques. It did not hold itself to worldly views, only valuing the maximization of resource utilization.
Mo Niansheng stood solemnly before the tripod. In addition to these three most precious main materials, he also took out ancient medicines and precious medicines, one after another.
There were also purple three-foot-long centipedes, blue toads, silver-white pangolins, and more. These centipedes, toads, and pangolins were smashed with a hammer and thrown into the large tripod.
Immediately, colorful and brilliant rainbow Qi floated out from the large tripod. The pure blue flame that had been burning in the tripod gradually became colorful, and a sweet, milky fragrance emanated from it.
Legend has it that in ancient times, this scent was the closest to the scent of a god. Countless tribal chiefs and powerful nobles of kingdoms paid huge prices, wanting to smell it but unable to.
Colorful smoke drifted out from the tripod, and the entire hall immediately became dazzling and enchanting. The smoke flowed, and rainbow light shimmered in seven colors, as if it were the Immortal Realm.
"Prepare to sit cross-legged and circulate your Cultivation Technique!" the Grand Elder shouted.
The more than two hundred Disciples in the hall, hearing the Grand Elder's shout, immediately entered a state of meditation, entering a profound and mysterious Realm.
Ye Yang closed his eyes, allowing the colorful smoke to enter and exit his seven orifices. He only felt his body weary, his eyes hazy, as if he were about to fall asleep.
"No! The opportunity to Awaken my Innate is precious. No matter what, I must persevere."
Ye Yang's mind was heavy. At the critical moment, he forcefully bit the tip of his tongue, and a sharp pain came, a trace of blood sliding from the corner of his mouth.
The sharp pain cleared his mind for a moment.
He strenuously circulated the Mang Gu Strength. Many people, even if they participated in the Heaven Offering Ceremony, might not be able to Awaken their Innate, so he was exceptionally diligent, forcing himself to stay awake.
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"The precious materials used in this Heaven Offering Ceremony are all rare. It stands to reason that the number and quality of Innate Awakenings among this batch of Disciples should be much better than in previous ones."
In the main hall, Mo Niansheng said solemnly.
"That is natural. Leaving aside other things, just the Steel Dragon Wood and Wan Du's head far surpass previous sessions."
The Second Elder laughed heartily, seemingly having had a long-standing feud with the Five Poison Sect.
When he was young, he had suffered a great loss at the hands of Wan Du, the Wall Gecko Envoy of the Five Poison Sect. Now, seeing his enemy dead and his head turned into a sacrifice, he felt extremely pleased.
"Then let's see how much potential these little guys have."
"They certainly won't be worse than us."
The Second Elder laughed heartily, and a group of Vajra Ge and Protectors behind him also laughed along.
"If any of these Disciples can enter the qianlong ranking, then there will be no regrets."
Grand Elder Mo Niansheng's expression was a little serious.
Ren Taxian of the Great Fortune Dynasty swept through the six directions, unifying over a hundred feudal states, using men to step on immortals, attacking mountains and destroying temples, assaulting Sects and conquering factions.
Lietian Sword Sect, Tai Xu Dao Sect, and Rebirth Zen Temple's contemporary Innate experts joined forces, fighting until the mountains and rivers were shattered, yet they could not win. Instead, they were forced back by Ren Taxian into the depths of the Ten Thousand Mountains of Yalong Ridge, and the unrest has not ceased for a long time.
And the Hundred Temples of the Western Regions were suspected to have been attacked by the Shatuo and Asura tribes. Nowadays, many lamas, living Buddhas, Dharma Kings, and wise men advocate migrating to the Eastern Land to establish new Foundations.
Coincidentally, the Eastern Land, in Old Yang Province and several surrounding prefectures, suffered a great natural disaster. First, there was no rain for three years, leaving a thousand miles of scorched earth, followed by floods and locust plagues like clouds. People were selling their children and daughters, and the common folk fled in all directions, unable to make a living."
How long can the peace of Yalong Ridge last?
He was old after all, even old enough to be close to death.
The future was destined not to belong to them.
In the great changes of the future, whether Flying Heaven Gate could still exist was uncertain.
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On the other side, Ye Yang finally had some enlightenment. Seven-colored smoke shot out from his mouth and nose, rising like mist, transforming into a huge, ferocious Vicious Beast phantom.
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Selling children and daughters: refers to being homeless and forced to sell one's children. From "Officialdom in the Present Day."
The recommended reading rate for this book has always been too low. After communicating with the editor and collecting reader feedback, the book title has been changed.
The book title has been changed from "My Unyielding Journey in the Cultivation Realm" to "Sect Rise: I Am the Most Persistent Cub in the Cultivation Realm." Please be aware.
If a strange book suddenly appears on your bookshelf, please don't be surprised.