This Taoist conference was held for three consecutive days. The first day had the most people, so it was held in the peach blossom forest outside, under the small bridges and flowing water. Every extraordinary person could come forward and talk about their understanding of Taoism, Taoist methods and cultivation, even the lowest level of innate, first- and second-order practitioners.
On the second day, in the Taoist Palace, many extraordinary people who have been able to blaze a trail will talk about their deductions of the fourth-order path and their understanding of the extraordinary path. Among these people, almost all are the founders of a school, and their own Taoist inheritance can be called a great method, or at least can lead directly to the path of immortality. Each of them is at least a third-order practitioner, and some even have one foot on the threshold of immortality.
The third day will be held on the Temple of Heaven on Huangyang Mountain, with the mirror-like Sanyang Lake as the back, where people will discuss the Dao.
Several fourth-level transcendents talked about their insights on breaking through levels. At the same time, each of them would follow convention and pass down some special methods. It was because of them that a large number of third-level transcendents came, and it also attracted groups of low-level transcendents.
A small stream runs slowly through the peach forest. The peach trees, which have long since turned into spiritual plants, have peach blossoms scattered all over the ground. The grass on the ground is slightly reddish in color. Every blade of grass in the forest may have extraordinary medicinal effects. There are also small flowers of various colors among them.
It was a bright day with sunshine. People could be seen everywhere along the small bridge over the stream. Before dawn, groups of extraordinary people began to break into Huangyang Mountain.
Although the illusion array of the peach blossom forest has not been activated, the enchanting power of the peach trees means that ordinary people cannot break in. The roads at the foot of the mountain and the nearby avenues are heavily blocked, and people without invitation letters are prohibited from entering.
Even above the sky, an iron tower not far away was constantly emitting mental detection fluctuations, monitoring the monks passing through the sky to prevent any monks from hiding their bodies and breath. Once an unrecorded soul fluctuation appeared, a warning would be issued immediately. If the warning was not heeded, a transcendent would immediately intercept them.
This iron tower is the part connected to the energy tower. It may not seem important now, but in the future it will become a part of the incense and fire realm covering the entire Weigang City. After it is successful, once it is opened, it will cover Weigang City with these iron towers as the base point.
Deep in the peach forest, some people were sitting on the ground, some were sitting on the trees, some were leaning against the river, some were standing on the bridge and looking into the distance. The open space beside the stream was the focus of everyone's attention.
The morning bell of the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain rang, and rays of light came across the sky and landed on the peach forest that was shrouded in clouds and mist and seemed like a fairyland.
"Why hasn't it started yet?" A young man who looked like he had just become a transcendent being and had never been out of the Mountain and Sea Realm came here early. At this moment, he could not contain his excitement.
Because at least thousands of extraordinary people will arrive today. Apart from the Mountain and Sea Realm, where else in the world can you see so many extraordinary people? This is definitely the largest gathering of extraordinary people in the world since the discovery of the world of gods and demons.
"It should start soon!" said a transcendent who had participated in the previous session or even the first session. Although the process of each conference is different, the time is very punctual.
There were also a few people carrying cameras in the crowd. They were reporters from the Baigang News Channel who had hurried over from Baigang. It was the most important news program in the extraordinary world and a must-watch channel for every extraordinary person every day. This event would be broadcast live in the next few days, and it would also be broadcast simultaneously on the Extraordinary Forum.
"Boom!" Sure enough, the clear morning bell rang, and everyone suddenly perked up.
“Already here!”
"here we go!"
Thousands of low-level transcendents below looked up and saw the top transcendents who were like mythical figures in the past, appearing here in batches of light.
The online supernatural forum seemed to have exploded. Many supernatural people who had not been able to come here, as well as ordinary people in the supernatural world, were able to find their idols and admired people in it.
"Lord God Jia Yi, the founder of the Qi Refiners school, is the strongest in the world!" When the fat Taoist priest who came on the cloud arrived, everyone exclaimed. Jia Yi had been at the top of the list of gods for a long time, and was just squeezed down by Fengdu. The person who was shouting was a member of the Qi Refiners lineage, and he was walking the path that Jia Yi had pioneered. In their minds, Lord God Jia Yi was the eternal god.
"The strongest is the Fengdu Taoist, who has no rivals in the world and has never been defeated. He is the original seeker of the Tao. Now all the extraordinary people can travel freely between the mountains and the sea. It is because the Fengdu Taoist was the first to break into the mountain and sea world and found the overseas immortal capital regardless of life and death that we have the current extraordinary world."
“The Fengdu Taoist once cursed to death three third-order transcendents with just a roar. At that time, he had not yet entered the fourth order.” A young girl wearing the light-colored Taoist robe that the Fengdu Taoist used to wear saw a Taoist in white and ink-colored robes walking down from the clouds. She was so excited that tears welled up in her eyes and she retorted to her companions.
She looked at the young Taoist with longing and recounted the various experiences of the Taoist of Fengdu.
A young man sitting on a tree branch sighed, "It is because of people like them who have been rushing to the Mountain and Sea Realm that we have come later."
The young man looked like he had once been enrolled in the Taishou Mountain sect in the Mountain and Sea Realm. At this moment, he was wearing the robes of a Taishou Mountain disciple and was looking up at the sky in the peach forest. “It’s a pity that Patriarch Qingyang didn’t have enough luck, otherwise he should be the strongest person in the world. However, the combined cultivation of weapons and the Lingbao Ruyi Sutra he created are definitely the most powerful inheritances. Someone will surely carry them forward in the future. I look forward to that day.”
"White Wizard Hobart, the most powerful wizard, the founder of the extraordinary city of White Harbor."
"The alchemist John Vogel, the founder and pioneer of the alchemical school, the man who gained immortality through the Fountain of Youth, I heard he was actually trying to create the Philosopher's Stone."
"I heard that Sword Immortal Lin Shu really inherited the legacy of the ancient Sword Immortal. Logically speaking, she, like the former Taoist Qingyun, is a disciple of the ancient immortal and the earliest practitioner."
Every time a character appears, it can cause a commotion among them. The worship of the top extraordinary people in the extraordinary world is even greater than the belief in gods.
Everyone has the strongest person in his or her heart. These people may be the pioneers on the extraordinary road they are on. Generations of extraordinary people and strong people emerge one after another, just like chasing after the big rivers and heading towards the end.
It was this grand scene that made countless people excited and rushed towards the Mountain and Sea Realm regardless of everything.
Among those who came were the Eastern practitioners' God Lord Jia Yi, Martial Sect Master Lu Wu, Sword Immortal Lin Shu, Fengdu Taoist, and many new generation third-order transcendents, such as Tai Liang, Maji of the Corpse Driving Sect, etc., all of whom were geniuses who had blazed a new trail.
In addition, there are the Western White Wizard Hobart, the Druid Marin, the vengeful spirit Eddie Stamp, the astrologer Daryl, and the alchemist John Fogel. The old man came here from afar and watched the energy tower for several days. If he was not afraid of the power of the incense artifact, I am afraid this guy would have climbed up to carefully examine the secrets of the artifact.
"It looks a bit simple and too ungentle!" Jia Yi, who was sitting in the sky, was the first to speak. He knew that Zhang Heming was around, so he spoke.
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Heming appeared on the wind, with his sleeves fluttering and a whisk in his hand. He threw a chessboard down from the sky. The chessboard, which was originally just held in his hand, turned into a small hill the moment it fell and landed on the ground.
The huge chessboard turned into a platform and fell beside the stream, emitting dazzling light. Figures then sat down one after another on the chessboard, and cushions automatically appeared on it. The cushions were black and white, just like chess pieces.
Zhang Heming walked down slowly and stood in the center of the huge chessboard magic weapon. He looked at Jia Yi and said, "Don't you think it has more charm? It doesn't have to be as tacky as you did."
Lu Wu said, "I actually like this!"
Fang Xiu laughed and said, "I thought there would be a banquet, even without meat, but I didn't expect the Heavenly Master to be so stingy that he wouldn't even give us a sip of wine."
Everyone laughed. Zhang Heming shook his head and pointed at Fang Xiu helplessly: "Others came here to listen to the teachings, but you, Fengdu, are the only ones who come here to eat and drink for free!"
Zhang Heming waved his sleeves and said, "The meeting begins. Everyone, please take the stage in turn."
A cultivator who looked like he was practicing magical skills stepped forward and said directly, "What I want to show you is a magical skill that is currently incomplete. I call it the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique. You can tell what this magical skill does by the name. It is a technique that burns one's own blood essence to increase combat power while escaping at the same time."
"In my imagination, I should burn my own blood to escape, but now, once I burn my blood, I will burn until my blood is exhausted and die..."
The second person to take the stage was an alchemist, who demonstrated a new alchemy technique that could increase the chances of successful elixir making.
The third person to come on stage was a dark-skinned man in a grey cloak, speaking in a somewhat awkward spiritual language about a shamanic technique that controlled souls and used it on oneself.
Every person who came on stage displayed magic that was not ordinary magic, but at least was groundbreaking and innovative. In the meantime, some top extraordinary people suddenly became interested and pointed out the drawbacks and problems in the magic, as well as the areas that could be improved.
Throughout the day, dozens of people took to the stage, and the performance lasted until sunset.
However, these are basically just minor techniques and are of no use to these top practitioners.
It was not until the next day, at the grand event held in the Taoist Palace, that a real discussion about the path to transcendence took place, during which many top transcendents could be seen arguing and arguing with each other.
The magnificent hall could accommodate more than a thousand people. Everyone from the front to the back sat cross-legged, sitting in a circle. Each person had a spiritual light flowing from them. Their postures were different, but each had his or her own demeanor.
This scene is like a picture of an immortal in a scroll painting.
The event on the second day was completely different. It became lively and intense.
Some of these extraordinary paths were believed to lead directly to immortality, but some were considered to be dead ends and there was absolutely no way to achieve immortality, and many disputes arose in between.
The most intense moment came when Martial Sect Leader Lu Wu came on stage, with many people asking questions one after another. Although Martial Sect Leader Lu Wu had not yet entered the fourth level, his path as a warrior was extremely popular in Dongzhou and the present world, and many people believed that this was definitely a path that could lead to the fourth level.
Wu Zong Lu Wu came on stage, blood surging around him like a divine dragon, his whole body, including the blood in his bones, glowed with different colors, and parts of his body had begun to mutate.
With a wave of his hand, he could be seen releasing all kinds of magical powers, but there was no demonic influence at all, as if he wanted to abandon the inheritance of gods and demons and create a bloodline of his own.
Supernatural powers such as enormous strength, fire control, water control, clairvoyance and super hearing appeared on him one after another and were extremely magical.
Finally, all these minor magical powers merged into one, forming his martial arts body. When he took action, one could see that there was not a single flaw on his body. One punch from him was like a millstone, erasing any spiritual light from Taoism.
Finally, Lu Wu said: "Warriors do not cultivate bloodlines, but supernatural powers, transforming small supernatural powers into great supernatural powers, devouring the bloodlines of demons to nourish themselves, develop their own bodies, and form supernatural powers, rather than simply transforming into ancient demons."
"In my imagination, the ultimate path will be to become an immortal body with infinite changes, to be able to catch the stars and the moon, to move mountains and carry the sea, to be omnipotent."
"According to the explorations of warriors from all generations in the Mountain and Sea Realm, there are currently a total of fifty-three great magical powers that can lead to the third level, and more are being discovered."
"As for those who can finally reach the fourth level, two people in Dongzhou of the God and Demon World have already taken this step."
Fang Xiu sat cross-legged at the front, and several fourth-order transcendents beside him were also somewhat tempted. Looking at Lu Wu, they believed that this road was definitely a smooth one, and if it continued to develop, it would definitely not be weak.
This scene made Fang Xiu's original belief that the body itself has limitations undergo a slight change. Perhaps this warrior could really take a different path.
However, Fang Xiu still felt that it was too difficult. After all, this path was not like the immortal path. Walking forward step by step, although difficult, each step was solid. For a warrior, however, it was more like relying on luck. Whether one could cultivate any magical power and succeed or not depended entirely on luck. The same was true for the road ahead.
A Taoist priest who looked as skinny as a mummy walked up and said, "I am Tailiang. I cultivate the Yuanshen, which is a fragmentary inheritance from the ruins of the Mountain and Sea Realm. I am currently exploring it. You may not understand what the Yuanshen is and whether it is the same as the Dharmakāya."
"There is still a huge difference between the primordial spirit and the Dharma image of Fengdu Zhenjun. The blood, flesh, three souls and seven spirits of the whole body are completely integrated into the true spirit, and finally everything is abandoned to derive a primordial spirit."
Everyone immediately understood why Tai Liang looked so grisly. This was the question that some people had discussed before: for a cultivator of the immortal way, whether the body was really necessary. This meant abandoning the physical body and everything else and cultivating the art of the primordial spirit.
Someone immediately jumped out and said, "If that's the case, are they still human?"
Tai Liang let out a dry laugh and asked in a counter-intuitive voice: "Are those who follow the path of demons and transform into ancient demons still human?"
At this point, he asked sternly, "Those monks who follow the path of God, are they still human?"
"Or, are all of us here still human?"
This question not only fell into the ears of thousands of extraordinary people present, but also fell into the ears of everyone in the extraordinary world through the live broadcast, once again triggering a heated discussion on this issue.
The top extraordinary people sitting in the front were basically silent, while Zhang Heming in the audience said: "As long as you have moral etiquette in your heart, you are naturally a human being."
Then the friends from the Corpse-Driving Sect also came on stage. The Corpse-Driving Sect is a combination of martial arts and immortality. They use immortality techniques to control the silver corpses trained in demon and martial arts, and finally attempt to prove their Taoism with the corpses.
Many people directly believed that it was impossible to achieve immortality through this method, but Maji believed that it was a great way to heaven. When he was not recognized, he stepped down in anger and stopped talking.
Next, Lin Shu, the swordsman who practiced flying sword, came on stage and talked about the difference between flying swords and the Taishou Mountain weapon method inherited from Qingyang Sanren.
Afterwards, extraordinary people who followed the path of Yang Shen, shamans who practiced ancestral spirits, and extraordinary people who followed the path of warriors came to the stage one after another.
Fang Xiu sat in the audience for a whole day and seldom spoke, but he felt that he had gained a lot from this trip. Among these extraordinary people, there were still many geniuses, and the various inheritances that could lead to immortality were dazzling.