bayedsolid Chapter 159 Mahayana Ritual 17
Chapter 159 Mahayana Ritual 17
Chapter 159 Mahayana Ritual 17
Immortal Lord Qingyang looked expectantly at his two disciples. With such outstanding performances before him, he was even more eager to see how his two disciples would perform, especially with Qingxu sitting next to him. Even though they were good friends, he didn't want to lose!
However, considering the usual behavior of his two rebellious disciples, Immortal Lord Qingyang silently lowered his standards. Even if he couldn't compare, he absolutely couldn't be too far behind!
Gongcheng and Gongyu met their master's gaze, then silently looked away.
Immortal Lord Qingyang's heart skipped a beat, but there was no use thinking too much, as the disciple's gift had already been presented.
With Cheng Jiu as a precedent, all the immortal lords were prepared.
Come on! Bring on the storm! It won't be as embarrassing and pathetic as before.
First, there are books, pens, and inkstones!
The disciples waiting nearby held up three items and showed them to everyone.
The guests below looked at the book that the disciple had brought with strange expressions.
As Qingyang Immortal Lord looked at the expressions of the guests below, his ominous premonition grew stronger.
Cheng Jiu had sharp eyes and managed to catch a few glimpses of the two people's books through the blurry image.
She looked at Gong Yu with a strange expression, and Gong Yu's ears turned red: "Junior Sister, don't say anything, I've already tried my best!"
The senior brother above took the book, first Gongcheng's. He had initially thought something was wrong because of the strange atmosphere below, but now that he had taken the book, he saw that Gongcheng's handwriting was elegant and refined. Although the wording was not as cheesy as Cheng Jiu's, it was still very well-written and showed his deep love for his master.
The Qingyang Immortal Lord above was quite sentimental. He hadn't expected that he held such a high position in the hearts of his two disciples. It was no wonder he had taken on his disciples.
The immortal lords below felt good, even a little unreal. After all, with Cheng Jiu's rather bold letter of praise, they accepted Gong Cheng's writing well.
After all, judging from what they had just observed, this was just an appetizer; the main event was yet to come!
After reading the palace's name, the senior brother who was calling out the names picked up another one, paused slightly, his eyes widened slightly, and fine beads of cold sweat began to appear on his forehead, but he still pretended to be calm and read it out.
Although this place was not close to Qingxu and Qingyang Immortal Lord, the Great Ascension Immortal Lord had extremely sharp eyesight. In particular, when Qingyang Immortal Lord sensed that something was wrong, he swept his divine sense over the area and his face turned bright red.
They were almost too ashamed to look at the crowd; it was so embarrassing!
Immortal Lord Qingxu scanned the text with his divine sense and looked at the disciple who was reading it with a bit of sympathy. There was no other reason than that the handwriting was too ugly, and just looking at it was a kind of torture.
Fortunately, he could still recognize the characters. This disciple didn't have to improvise a poem on the spot. However, he probably preferred not to recognize the characters at all, rather than having to improvise one and suffer the torment of them.
Some of the characters were so ugly that it took several seconds to barely recognize them, and this was a call to names without any pauses, which was really tough on this disciple.
Cheng Jiu took a deep breath. He had to understand that they had been teachers at Jin Yaocheng's school for many years. After all these years of teaching, had Senior Brother Gong Yu never written a single character?
Moreover, he is a formation master. Setting up a formation requires inscribing formation characters. If the formation is even slightly off, it will fail instantly.
Who would have thought this? Gongcheng, standing beside him, looked at his younger brother with considerable surprise. How come he didn't know the other's handwriting was so terrible?
He should have checked it first. Now look what he's done, so embarrassing!
The deed is done, and everyone has no choice but to accept it. However, the only good news is that Gong Yu's writing is quite good and can be considered a decent piece of writing.
Gong Yu felt extremely uncomfortable under everyone's gaze, her face flushed: "This is the tenth time I've rewritten it! I don't know why, that pen just won't obey me."
Under the stern gaze of the palace, his voice gradually weakened.
"I'll make you practice calligraphy from now on. My little brother's handwriting can't be this bad!" Gong Cheng solemnly pronounced Gong Yu's punishment.
Under his brother's imposing presence, Gong Yu silently swallowed back the words he wanted to say!
Contrary to what the three had expected, the immortals below were exchanging knowing glances and making faces, creating a very cheerful atmosphere.
Feng Jue Immortal Lord winked and said, "Junior Nephew's handwriting is just like his father's!"
Gong Sidao hadn't received much formal education, so anyone who had seen his handwriting couldn't honestly say it was beautiful, but the other party still wouldn't change it.
Sui Rong Immortal Lord said irritably, "His handwriting is much better than his father's; at least it's legible."
Everyone present laughed. Ling Guang looked at Sui Rong Immortal Lord teasingly: "You still remember after all these years?"
"I'll remember that scoundrel for the rest of my life!" Immortal Lord Sui Rong said angrily.
That's right, the other party is the guy who was tricked by Gong Sidao's terrible handwriting.
Gong Sidao was a rogue cultivator who loved gambling, especially against the sons of wealthy families. He won every single time and never lost.
Sui Rong Immortal Lord perfectly fits Gong Sidao's criteria for a fat sheep, especially since the opponent is particularly easily provoked, resulting in the most duels. Moreover, he lost every single one of them.
Finally, perhaps Heaven took pity on Gong Sidao and defeated him once, hoping to win back everything he had lost before. But Gong Sidao said, "Who can tell that the gambling book says Gong Sidao?"
Sui Rong Immortal Lord was dumbfounded, because he had suffered repeated defeats in previous battles and had not paid attention to such a small detail at all.
When he finally got the betting slip, he saw the name smeared all over the place, and he almost burst into tears. Who could possibly recognize it?
So that bastard denied signing the betting agreement, saying it was just a joke between friends and there was no need to make a big deal out of it.
Sui Rong Immortal Lord wanted to ask, what about all those things he had previously sent out?
Although Gong Sidao later added another set of spoils, it was far from what Immortal Lord Sui Rong wanted.
Seeing Sui Rong Immortal Lord's exasperated appearance, Gong Sidao might have had a change of heart, or he might have realized that his previous methods were no longer working and that Sui Rong Immortal Lord would never gamble with him again.
He was comforted, explaining that not only could he not understand what was written, but Gong Sidao himself couldn't either! He hadn't received much formal education, so being able to recognize the characters was already quite an achievement.
Sui Rongxianjun's silence at that moment was deafening; he felt so disgusted by the other party's shamelessness that he wanted to vomit blood.
He then wondered if he could return the treasures that Gong Sidao had won from him before.
Can the wager be disregarded? After all, he can't even write his own name, so how can the wager agreement be considered valid?
The answer is, of course, no. When asked why, Gong Sidao said it was because he was strong, so how could the duel agreement not be considered valid?
Immortal Lord Sui Rong immediately lost his composure and went around visiting friends. Whenever he met someone, he would drag them along to spread the word about Gong Sidao's shameless behavior.
It can be said that during that period, his friends, including all the Mahayana Immortal Lords within the Guiyuan Sect, had heard him publicize Gong Sidao's shameless behavior.
In the end, Gong Sidao didn't do anything wrong, nor did he cause any trouble for Sui Rong Immortal Lord.
Immortal Lord Sui Rong was even more vulnerable.
After going around in circles, Immortal Lord Sui Rong discovered that everyone knew Gong Sidao was shameless.
His propaganda is useless; those who are destined to be fooled will still fall for it, just like he did back then.
And he became famous after going through all that, all on his own initiative!
Almost everyone knows that he was badly tricked by Gong Sidao, that he was a fool, and that he was a great victim!
Even his friends looked at him with pity, and for a while they even sent him the heads of various monsters every day, saying that you are what you eat.
He only stopped seeing the person off after he lost his temper and got angry. The person even advised him not to hide his illness from medical treatment. What kind of friend is that!
That's enough! Just thinking about that period makes Immortal Lord Sui Rong feel like he can't catch his breath.
As the Immortal Lord Sui Rong reminisced about the past, the other Immortal Lords also thought of that dramatic incident.
Some of these people may have been fooled by Gong Sidao, but who doesn't know that he is shameless and ruthless?
Neither of them intended to use gambling to win against the other; some tricks are best learned only once.
They never expected that Gong Sidao's old trick would actually succeed in luring a great innocent child.
Especially since this scoundrel came to us of his own accord.
Before the first time Sui Rong Xianjun knew, the matter had already spread throughout the entire Mahayana community.
After all, time is so long, it's bound to get boring. It's not easy to find something to gossip about, especially since the protagonist is an old guy with their level of cultivation.
Therefore, no matter what it is, they want to taste whether it's salty or not.
Moreover, because there are so many people who have been scammed by Gong Sidao, this kind of thing, although it sounds strange, is actually quite ordinary.
Unfortunately, because Immortal Lord Sui Rong kept talking about it, almost everyone knew about it, so it became common knowledge.
After recovering from his embarrassment, Immortal Lord Qingyang remembered his friend's terrible handwriting and fell silent. Suddenly, he felt that it wasn't so embarrassing anymore.
Looking at the congratulatory letter handed over by his disciple, Immortal Lord Qingyang hesitated for a long time over the illegible characters that resembled scribbles, but in the end, he carefully put the letter away and placed it in his ring.
No way! Being able to understand and having terrible handwriting are two different things. He's the apprentice he raised, and this time he absolutely can't be like his father!
Don't learn the bad things instead of the good ones. It's better not to inherit this character!
He then used the calligraphy practice books he had collected from the mortal realm to force Gong Yulian to write three hundred characters a day, determined to correct his handwriting.
Seeing his friend's inexplicable excitement, Immortal Lord Qingxu silently took a sip of tea from the table. Thinking of that person's handwriting, he silently lit a candle for Qingyang in his heart.
He felt that the other party's second apprentice's calligraphy practice journey would definitely not be smooth sailing.
After the chaotic scene in the book ended, the next topic was the Four Arts. Both Gongcheng and Gongyu could set up formations. Unlike Gongyu, Gongcheng had also learned a little about weapon crafting and had a decent talent, but it was still a bit inferior to formations.
Offering only the formation is rather monotonous!
Fortunately, before Gong Sidao and his wife ascended to heaven, they considered that their son would attend his master's Mahayana ceremony in the future.
Moreover, both husband and wife are sword cultivators, and Qingyang Immortal Lord is also a well-known sword cultivator. Thinking that his two sons would become sword cultivators in the future and not know the Four Arts, he had already included the Four Arts ceremony in the disciple ceremony he was preparing.
But who would have thought that both sons were complete idiots when it came to swordsmanship?
Fortunately, the gift was also useful. The two of them combined the gift they had made with the gift their parents had prepared to create a perfect gift of the Four Arts.
Unlike the Venerable Lord who focused on the ninth-grade pills and talismans, the other Immortal Lords completely ignored them and instead looked at the lower-grade formations and spiritual artifacts.
Seeing Gong Yu's formation, Feng Jue Immortal Lord and Long Long Immortal Lord were overjoyed.
Cheng Jiu's talent was excellent, but not enough to make these two immortal lords so eager to take him as a disciple. However, Gong Yu and the other two were genuinely tempted.
They saw a glimmer of spirituality in the array that Gong Yu had taken out.
Although it is an ordinary spirit-gathering array, the modifications to some of the patterns are truly ingenious, not only enhancing its effectiveness but also greatly reducing the amount of spirit stones required for power.
This is quite rare, especially for formations. Besides talent, they value spirituality even more.
This is something Cheng Jiu lacks; Cheng Jiu is better at simply reciting from a script. No one doubts whether Cheng Jiu will become a ninth-grade array master in the future, but that's about it.
Gong Yu may rise to the next level and become a grandmaster of formations, possessing unlimited potential. Perhaps one day, a sudden flash of inspiration will make him the founding grandmaster of a formation school.
In the eyes of these array masters, Gong Yu is a rare talent in array formations, one in ten thousand years!
And this promising young talent actually became a disciple of a sword cultivator. Just thinking about it made them feel suffocated. What a waste of talent!
Their sorrowful gazes slowly shifted to the peak master of the Array Peak among the Seven Peaks, as if asking, "What were you thinking? Such a promising genius in array formations, snatched away by a sword cultivator! This is the tragedy of array cultivators, this is the shame of array cultivators!"
Little did he know that the Peak Master of the Formation Peak was also heartbroken when he looked at Gong Yu's formation. If time could be reversed, even if he had to be beaten by Grandmaster Qingyang, he would still take Gong Yu as his disciple.
This was a future grandmaster of formations, a true ninth-rank formation master, perhaps even higher! And we just missed out on him! We missed out…
Thinking about it this way, he also became gloomy. Master, I am sorry. I am really not worthy of this position as the peak master of the formation.
First, because he was too shy, he missed out on Le Feng, a young genius in formations. Then, he missed out on another natural talent for formations! Although he later took on many disciples, none of them could compare!
Where exactly does the path to the revival of Zhenfeng lie?
The Sword Peak Master, standing nearby, felt a pang of guilt as he looked at the Array Peak Master's gloomy figure. Had he been too harsh on the child?
If you don't compete for the opportunity to take on apprentices, others will snatch them all up. You have to do whatever it takes to get good apprentices!
My dear junior apprentice, you're too young to handle this! Let me, your senior apprentice, take the lead.
Sword Peak Master, his face contorted with heartache, cast aside his conscience, for he had truly wronged this child.
He had only just taken office and hadn't even accepted any disciples yet when he was tricked by him.
How can you tell someone's formation aptitude just by looking? Besides, as long as the person with gold-level aptitude isn't too bad, they'll basically be taken in as soon as they enter the sect. There's no time to see if someone can reveal their formation aptitude.
Even if they do reveal their skills, they don't consider whether their master will let them go. Most people don't mind if their disciples achieve something in formations, like Master Lefeng.
My apprentice is a formation master, so it's convenient if needed, isn't it?
You can go to Zhenfeng and get freebies, but your apprentices will absolutely not allow it.
The peak master of Zhenfeng was too young and naive back then. And his master didn't teach him how to communicate with those ruthless senior uncles and elder brothers.
The main reason is that I never imagined my colleagues would be so shameless, like the Sword Peak Master, who openly deceives children.
Even now, although the Peak Master of the Formation Peak has taken in a few disciples, the talent for formations is truly mysterious, especially since formations are the most difficult to learn. So far, he has only managed to recruit one disciple of medium to high quality, while the others don't even have any talent for formations.
Thinking about this, he looked at the three people above him and felt even sadder, because he sadly discovered that even Gongcheng, who had the worst aptitude, had a top-notch talent in formations, better than the disciples he had currently taken in.
He missed three in a row! Three! Heaven hopes he won't be as unlucky as his uncle, the pharmacist! He still wants to retire as soon as possible.
If Yao Lao, who was unaware of his thoughts, knew, he would only want to ask, "Are you being polite?"
The final gift was presented, prepared personally by Gong Sidao and Song Qing.
The treasures that catch their eye are, of course, rare and priceless gems.
What's even more remarkable is that they are all metallic, meaning they can be used immediately upon acquisition.
In terms of value, it is in no way inferior to what Cheng Jiu offered.
Those Tribulation Transcending Venerables and guests below were secretly shocked as they looked at these things. Was this the disciple ceremony presented by the disciples of a major sect?
That's amazing! Even they would have a hard time collecting just one of those items.
Amidst the astonishment and shock of the crowd, the disciple's ceremony was completed!