Chapter 27: The Newcomer's Tournament (Part 2)

  Hai Long smiled and nodded his head, saying: "As for how to use it, wait until you reach the Fútǔ realm and ask Dào Yùzi Shīxiōng directly, he will instruct you."

  "Junior brother, are you using my things to curry favor with others?" In Hong Liang's loud voice, Dao Ming Zhen Ren floated down. During these three days, Hai Long had already mastered all the Daoist techniques he was taught, thanks to his extraordinary intelligence and profound magical powers. His comprehension ability was so high that it left Dao Ming Zhen Ren in awe.

  "Hai Long said in a bad mood: 'What's the meaning of giving your things to others as gifts? Since you've already given it to me, it's my thing. Tanyun, go back and cultivate.'"

  Tangyun looked at Hailong, then at Dao Ming Zhenren, responded with a sound, and happily ran back to his own room.

  Hai Long said faintly: "When are those five people coming? Is it time to set off? Oh, right, Dao Ming, where is Xianzhao Mountain exactly? I don't recognize it."

  Dào Míng frowned, dissatisfied, and hummed a sound, muttering: "You little brat is really burning the bridge after crossing it. When you were learning Taoist magic from me before, you called me 'brother' so intimately, but as soon as you mastered the magic, you immediately changed your tone." Hǎi Lóng sneered: "Then didn't you also lose face in front of the younger ones just now? Don't worry, Fatty, I won't call you Fatty in front of others."

  Dao Ming shook his head helplessly and said, "The five people who are traveling with you this time are all about the same age as you, and they are all elite members of various peaks. The closest one to us among the six sects of Zhongyuan is Wuzhao Xian. Xianzhao Mountain is located in the southwest of Zhao Song State. You just need to fly southeast, and it will take about a day to arrive."

  Hai Long slightly furrowed his brow and said, "Flying for a day is still considered close. I recall that when the Elusive Ancestor and the Still Water Ancestor took me to the Mantra Sect, it only took us two or three days."

  "Your cultivation is no match for the two ancestors. The speed of flight is naturally different. Once you fly within a certain range of Xianzhao Mountain, you will be able to sense the spiritual guidance left by the ancestors, and following it should allow you to arrive at Xianzhao Mountain smoothly. The various ancestors attach great importance to the Newcomer Competition of the Seven Sects. I estimate that at least two ancestors will rush over."

  Hai Long's heart moved slightly, and he couldn't help but recall the elegant and refined face of Piaoyue Daozun. He thought to himself, "If only it were her who went."

  Dào Míng seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly said: "Hǎi Lóng, you don't know yet. After Zhǐ Shuǐ Dào Zūn and Piāo Miǎo Dào Zūn returned three years after your closed cultivation, they wanted to settle accounts with you. Fortunately, you were in closed cultivation. Now that eight hundred years have passed, I wonder if she still remembers the grudge. Hehe."

  Hai Long snorted, "You're just lucky. If I had met Zhi Shui Zu Shi at the Seven Sects' New Disciple Competition, she wouldn't have been able to make things difficult for me either. After all, I was going there to bring glory to my sect. Back when I was only at the level of suppressing the tiger's boundary, I wasn't even afraid of her. Now that my cultivation has improved, naturally there's nothing to be feared."

  Dao Ming pointed towards the sky and said, "Look, they've arrived. Indeed, it's a new generation that brings forth talented individuals! These five junior brothers and sisters are at least in the late stages of their cultivation as Unparalleled."

  Five streams of cyan light descended, and amidst the clanging sounds, five flying swords almost simultaneously returned to their masters' scabbards on their backs. Among the five people, three men and two women wore the same gray robes, each landing elegantly with a hint of cyan light around them, indicating that they were not weak in cultivation. For some reason, Hai Long felt that the two women looked somewhat familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before. The two women's appearances shared seven parts similarity, but their temperaments were vastly different; beneath their similarly beautiful faces, one exuded an air of heroism, while the other was gentle like water. Dao Ming Zhen smiled and said: "Let me introduce you all. This is our representative from Moyun Peak, Dao Feather."

  "Hai Long slightly nodded towards the five people and said: 'Hello. I am Dao Yu.'"

  He pointed at two of the five people, saying: "These two are both under the tutelage of Master Zhiyun, and are fellow female disciples named Dao Hua and Dao Ping."

  Hai Long's body trembled slightly, and he muttered: "Dào Huá, Dào Píng? Are your secular names Yù Huá, Yù Píng?"

  Hai Long's guess was correct, Dao Hua and Dao Ping were indeed the Yu Hua and Yu Ping he had met in the small village. After Hai Long left that day, Yu Hua made up her mind to go to the Lian Yun Sect to become a disciple, as Hai Long had told her. With unwavering determination, she and her sister successfully entered the sect under the guidance of Master Zhiyun. After nearly eight hundred years of cultivation, they had become the most outstanding young disciples on Mount Zhiyun, deeply loved by Master Zhiyun. When the two women saw Hai Long for the first time, they felt a sense of familiarity, but it had been eight hundred years since then, and their impression of Hai Long from his village days was already very vague. Moreover, Hai Long's temperament had undergone a drastic change, so they didn't recognize him. At this moment, when they heard Hai Long call out their names, Yu Hua suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "You... you're Big Brother Hai Long? I heard Master say you were in closed-door cultivation."

  Hailong smiled wryly and said: "So I really didn't recognize you wrongly. Who would have thought! We've actually become fellow disciples. How's your village?"

  Yu Ping let out a soft laugh and said, "Of course it's fine. That fish monster was so scared of you that the next day, it would bring hundreds of fresh fish to the village, greatly changing the lives of the villagers. However, we haven't returned in several hundred years, and now we don't know what it looks like anymore. Back then, Father strongly supported us coming to Lianyun Mountain after seeing your abilities... alas, none of us were able to serve him until his old age, truly unfilial." As she spoke, a layer of mist appeared in her gentle, watery eyes.

  Dào Míng sighed lightly: "Two fellow sisters, don't be too attached to worldly affairs. Everything has cause and effect. Since you've entered the path, past events are like passing clouds, it's better to look at them lightly."

  Yu Hua and Yu Ping exchanged a glance, then bowed and said: "Thank you, brother, for your guidance."

  Dao Ming Zhen Ren glanced at the slightly dazed Hai Long, pointing to the other three people and introducing them: "This is Dao Yan, the junior brother of the Sect Master's lineage from Jie Tian Peak. This is Dao Ling, the junior brother of Mie Yan Peak. This is Dao Yuan, the junior brother of Deng Xian Peak. The three of them have been in the sect for over a hundred years longer than you, so you should address them as senior brothers." Hai Long's gaze followed Dao Ming Zhen Ren's introduction, and he saw that these three male disciples looked very ordinary, the kind that would be impossible to pick out from a crowd. Hai Long slightly bowed and said: "Greetings, three senior brothers."

  Dào Yǎn and the other two were very polite, hastily returning the courtesy. Dào Líng smiled and said: "I've long heard of your great name, Junior Brother. Your heroic performance 800 years ago at the top of Jiē Tiān Peak truly made me deeply admire you!"

  Hailong looked at Daoling's ancient and mysterious eyes, a sense of familiarity rising in his heart. He chuckled and said, "Maybe next time, Brother Shifu can try it too."

  Dào Míng shook his head helplessly and said, "You'd better not teach him, Dào Líng is in Miè Huǒ Fēng just like you are in Mó Yún Fēng, only he's not as arrogant as you."

  Dào Líng said somewhat awkwardly, "Elder brother is joking. How can I compare to Dào Yǔ? I wouldn't dare openly confess my love to Xiāo Yuàn Zǔ Shī on Tiān Jiàn Peak. That would be a terrible death!"

  Dào Míng turned to Hǎi Lóng with a smile and said, "Among the older disciples of our Lián Yún Sect, you are quite famous. Almost every disciple from each peak knows that Mó Yún Peak has a bold and daring 'Phlegm Bucket'."

  Hailong angrily said: "I'm already a Daoist of the word generation, you still call me Tangyu, be careful or I'll turn against you."

  Yu Hua Leng Dao: "What does 'Phlegm Bowl' mean? Hai Long big brother, is that your original Taoist name?"

  Hailong grunted and didn't respond. He turned to the five of them and said, "Shall we get going? If we're late for the Seven Sects' Newcomer Competition, it won't be good."

  Dai Yan and Dao Yuan nodded in unison. Hailong turned his head towards the wooden house on Moyunping and shouted, "Xiao Zhi, it's time to go."

  "Big brother, I'm here, wait for me." A flash of yellow light, and Hong Zhi almost instantly appeared beside Hai Long. Ever since Tian Shi Dao Zun said to let Hai Long participate in the tournament, he had been pestering him to go along. Even Xiao Ji Ling wanted to leave the mountain to have some fun. Hai Long had managed to calm down Xiao Ji Ling with various excuses, but Hong Zhi was not so easy to shake off. Anyway, he also wanted a powerful bodyguard, so he agreed to come along.

  Yu Hua and the five others saw Hong Zhi and couldn't help but slightly pause, Yu Ping said: "Hai Long big brother, how come there are still monks at Moyun Peak?"

  "He doesn't belong to our Liányún Sect, he's my little brother. Let him follow us and that's it. Alright, Dào Míng Páng, Shīxiōng, let's go! You help me tell Dào Yù Shīxiōng about this." After finishing speaking, he activated his magic and flew up, the Seven Repair Sword's light flashing as it supported Hǎi Lóng's body and shot into the clouds like lightning. The five Yuè Huā people hastily paid their respects to Dào Míng and then rushed to catch up.

  Hong Zhi laughed and said, "After going out, there will be good food to eat, haha." A flash of golden light, his Buddhist crystal rosary suddenly enlarged tenfold, under the Buddha's light, he quickly caught up with the crowd in front.

  Watching the sea dragon leave, Dao Ming patted his own fat chest and muttered: "Finally sent this kid away. In the past when he was poorly cultivated, he made a mess of Moyun Peak, now that his cultivation is high, if he didn't leave, wouldn't my place be torn apart? Although I lost a few bottles of spiritual medicine, it's worth it."

  The dragon king effortlessly controlled his seven-refined sword, and for the past three days, as he cultivated his Taoist skills, he became increasingly fascinated with this sensation of riding on clouds and fog, not even using his magical powers to protect himself from the cold wind blowing in his face.

  Yu Hua sisters' cultivation shocked the sea dragon extremely, among the crowd, they can be said to have entered the latest, but their high magical powers are still above Dao Yan's three people, and have reached the middle stage of the burden.

  "Yu Hua, why has your cultivation improved so quickly? In just over 800 years, you've reached such a high level." Hai Long couldn't help but ask the question that had been on his mind.

  Before Yu Hua could answer, Dao Ling hastily said: "Junior brother, you don't know this, but the two junior sisters are rare talents in our Xiūzhēn world, encountered only once in a thousand years. When they first joined our Lián Yún Sect, it caused a dispute among several ancestors. In the end, Zhìyún Ancestor successfully accepted them as disciples with the help of the sect master. You should know that they are the only two direct disciples under the Second Generation Ancestor in our Lián Yún Sect. They are the main force for us to participate in this competition. It's really embarrassing to say, but I've cultivated for over a hundred years more than them, and my current realm is only at the late stage of Wú Shuāng. Our current realm is different from that of Dào Míng and his fellow disciples back then. At the beginning of their cultivation, they were assisted by the ancestors' supreme power. Therefore, they could reach a higher realm within hundreds of years, but their method of cultivation also had its drawbacks - after reaching the Dào Lóng realm, it was very difficult to make further progress. But we are different now; we cultivate step by step on our own, and after passing the initial stage of breaking out of the shell, our promotion speed will be much faster than that of fellow disciples who cultivated using Dào Míng's method. Moreover, our cultivation will be more solid."

  Hong Zhi smiled and said, "The state of no doubles is not bad either! As far as I know, among those who have cultivated for a thousand years, there are many people who stay in the middle to late stages of climbing the peak. You've reached the later stage of no doubles, and from now on, it will be much easier to cultivate further. There are indeed many cases like Dao Ming's in Lianyun Sect, no wonder they haven't had a breakthrough in the state of not falling for 800 years. It turns out that it was because of premature promotion. Alas, with their way of cultivation, wanting to surpass the state of not falling will be difficult. I don't know what your ancestors were thinking back then. They must have been too eager to improve their disciples' strength, but gradual progress is the right principle!"

  Yu Hua said to Dao Ling: "Elder brother, don't mock us sisters. We owe our achievements today to the deliberate cultivation of our benevolent teacher."

  Dào Líng smiled and said: "Junior sister is being polite. Oh, right, Dào Yǔ junior brother, I heard you've been in closed-door cultivation all this time! What realm have you reached this time after coming out of seclusion?"

  Hai Long said calmly: "I'm just a late-stage Unparalleled, far inferior to both of you, my junior sisters."

  Hongzhi slightly nodded, and Hailong knew the boundary very well. Although he didn't quite understand why Hailong was telling a lie, he also didn't expose him.

  Yu Ping curiously looked at Hai Long's cyan long gown and said, "Brother Hai Long, why is your clothing different from ours? Shouldn't we three generations of disciples all wear gray robes?"

  Hailong looked down at the long gown on his body, which seemed ordinary, but he couldn't help feeling secretly pleased. This was one of the three magical artifacts given to him by Tian Shi Dao Zun, and it was his favorite. This was no ordinary cloth gown, but a defensive artifact called the Tian Ming Yi. It contained six small defensive arrays, each with a special property - concealment. Even if someone used a probing technique to examine Hailong's surroundings, they would not be able to detect anything unless their cultivation level was higher than three realms above Hailong's. Moreover, once the six small arrays were activated simultaneously, they would merge into a brand new large-scale defensive array. Its defensive power was far beyond what the Xing Lan armor could compare to. The Hailong of 800 years later had already changed and no longer cared about appearances. This unassuming treasure was even more to his liking.

  "This was given by my master Tian Shi Dao Zun, so I wore it out and didn't notice the color issue."

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