Eternal Cultivation: Starting with Three Generations Living Together

Deadwood City.

Today is the Zhumu Festival, which is a unique celebration of Deadwood City and takes place at the end of September every month.

On this day, people from Deadwood City and its surroundings will flock to the city to participate in the Deadwood Celebration. Extremely lively,

A large number of people gathered around the dead tree, which looked like a white jade pillar holding up the sky.

Xue Shaoyang and Xue Li also came here to join in the fun.

They are now standing next to a root of this dead tree. This root has no bark and is as white as jade. It feels cold and smooth to the touch, a bit like touching jade.

Xue Shaoyang and Xue Li smeared the prepared red and yellow talisman papers with rice paste, tore off the old talisman papers that others had attached in the past but had not fallen off cleanly, and then put the talisman papers in their hands on them.

After pasting the talisman paper, Xue Shaoyang looked around.

The base of the tree where I looked was covered with talismans, giving it a different kind of beauty, as if the tree had been put on a pair of embroidered shoes.

While pasting the talisman paper, Xue Li secretly scratched the root of the tree with his extremely sharp nails.

Sure enough, this time it still failed to leave any traces on it.

Over the years, Xue Shaoyang and Xue Li have come to put up this talisman paper during every Chinese New Year holiday just to find opportunities for Xue Li to pull it a few times. He has always been curious and wanted to see how hard the roots of the tree are.

But so far, he has not been able to leave a trace on the roots of the tree, and apart from the talisman attached, he has not seen any human traces on the tree.

If this tree was an ordinary tree, it would probably have a lot of messy things carved on it over the years. Name, blessing, visit here, but he has never found such traces on this tree in these years.

I don’t know if it’s possible to leave traces on this tree with an ax or chisel… I guess it’s not possible, otherwise there will always be people who want to cut such good wood to use it to make a set of furniture.

Although this tree is now the sacred tree of Deadwood City, the government of Deadwood City has issued a decree prohibiting any harm to this Kukumu tree.

But decades ago, hundreds of years ago, when there was no decree, someone must have tried it.

After the worship, Xue Shaoyang and Xue Li followed the crowd to a street decorated with lights and colorful decorations. The street was covered with red cloth and red lanterns.

There are many shops nearby, including those for guessing lantern riddles, making couplets, and making gold eyes.

There are also some stalls spread out on the ground with various small handicrafts on them.

Lion dance, dragon dance, and stilt-walking teams ran by from time to time.

People formed circles, with jugglers, performers, monkey performers, and jugglers inside, making all kinds of noises and shouts.

Xue Shaoyang took Xue Li to look around and buy some delicious food when he saw it.

Xue Shaoyang still remembers that when Xue Li was a child a few years ago, eating candied haws was particularly delicious. At that time, Xue Li ate all sweet things, while he ate salty food.

As for now, Xue Li eats both salty and sweet food, while he eats some slightly bitter food.

…

A few days later, Xue Li went to He Nian Gate with Xue Shaoyang with a package.

These days are the He Nian Sect’s disciple recruitment meeting that takes place every ten years.

At the foot of the mountain, Xue Shaoyang entered the small town located at the foot of the mountain.

The town looks large, but most of the houses in the town look a bit shabby, as if they were made of temporary wood.

Xue Shaoyang found a hotel with the best decoration and opened a room. He found out the reason after talking to the hotel manager.

It turns out that most of the houses in the town at the foot of the mountain were temporarily built by the residents of the town mobilized by He Nianmen.

Since every disciple recruitment conference brings together a large number of people from all over the world, there are tens of thousands of young people participating in the selection alone, plus their relatives and friends who are traveling with them... together there are tens of thousands of people.

So many people poured into the town at once that the original guest rooms in the town were completely insufficient, so shanty houses could only be built.

A shanty house can accommodate more than ten or twenty people, and thousands of shanty houses must be built to barely accommodate the visitors.

Ten thousand people... Xue Shaoyang was full of confidence, but even now he has some palpitations.

He had heard before that the He Nian Sect was extremely strict in selecting candidates, but he did not expect it to be so strict.

The traitor said before that after ten years, the disciples accepted by the He Nian Sect will only be a dozen or so, and sometimes only in single digits.

This can really be regarded as one in a thousand.

Unexpectedly, his eldest son Yang Zai was such a genius.

No, Yang Zai has actually achieved the transformation of strength, and is a strong man who can temper blood at one level. It is said that even if he enters the inner sect, not one out of ten can succeed in tempering blood, and even more so if he can temper blood with divine patterns. not enough.

In this way, this traitor is still the top gear.

After renting the room, Xue Shaoyang walked a few hundred meters up the mountain, where there was a huge platform.

This is where the mountain gate of He Nian Gate is located.

There are quite a few people standing by the platform now.

Xue Shaoyang came to a registration office. There were relatively few people here, and the person who registered was an old man.

Before registering, Xue Shaoyang secretly handed the old man a generation of silver. The old man turned it in his sleeve and was very satisfied. While registering, he said:

"The official apprenticeship meeting will be held in seven days. You just need to come here before noon! Remember not to come too early. Coming too early will not only bring no benefits, but also a lot of trouble."

"If you have the ability, it is best to stay in a hotel at the foot of the mountain these days. Don't live in those temporary sheds for cheap. If you live in those sheds for a week, it is very likely that your little devil will get sick. The cold affected my condition during the trial.

"And don't go out for a run if you have nothing to do these days. These are the days when you are most likely to be in danger. I understand."

Xue Shaoyang nodded: "I understand!"

The old man looked at Xue Shaoyang and Xue Li again and nodded slightly: "Remember that you will have to wear clean and fresh clothes just like today. There are several masters in He Nian Sect who attach great importance to appearance. With this little brother's appearance, , as long as you pass the qualifications, it shouldn’t be a problem to earn a salary... Okay, that’s all I have to say, let’s go!”

Xue Shaoyang clasped his fists and thanked the old man for his advice, then left with Xue Li.

For the next seven days, Xue Shaoyang and the two stayed in the hotel as promised and did not go out.

He heard a lot of news while eating and drinking tea at the hotel.

It is easy for a group of people to get into conflicts when they are crowded together. He heard fights in certain sheds almost every day.

Some teenagers who couldn't bear the loneliness and went out to play were attacked by unknown persons. Some had their legs broken, and some had their hands broken. They had absolutely no chance to participate in the trial.

Seven days later, Xue Shaoyang brought Xue Li to the mountain gate.

At this time, most people are already on that platform.

The huge crowds of people are so spectacular.

Suddenly Xue Shaoyang heard someone shouting from the crowd.

Xue Shaoyang looked closely and found that someone suddenly fainted, and there were more than one person.

Is this... lack of oxygen?

No wonder the old man asked him to come later, and those who came early were naturally squeezed into the middle. Each of these warriors had high lung capacity, so wouldn't it be easy for him to suffer from hypoxia in such a large group of people?

After this little episode, the mountain gate of He Nian Men finally opened...