Chapter 559: Changes in Taiqing Palace
Luo Yunqiu's voice was full of anger. His true energy was broken. Wouldn't this bring disaster to Luoyue Sect?
Not only because Taiqing Palace and Luoyue Sect had a trade of spiritual medicine and spiritual materials worth more than 1 billion every year, but more importantly, once Taiqing Palace was humiliated in public, even Tianshui Sect would not be willing to stand up for a small Luoyue Sect.
The room was silent, and you could hear a pin drop.
After a long time, Chi Shujian sat down dejectedly, grabbing his scalp and pulling it hard in pain.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Xiaotian's eyes flashed, and after hesitating for a moment, he said: "Don't worry, Elder Chi, maybe there will be a way in the future."
The eyes of the seven people instantly gathered on him, and Chi Shujian stood up again with an excited expression on his face.
"Just two months ago, the deacon in charge of purchasing in Taiqing Palace came to our sect. I had a chat with him and even had a few drinks," Zhu Xiaotian's eyes showed a look of reminiscence. After thinking for a moment, he continued: "According to him, the situation of the next generation of successors in Taiqing Palace is a bit complicated, and they, the boss, are a little unsure about which one to follow."
"Tell me in detail." Luo Yunqiu had never heard of this news before and was very concerned.
"Taiqing Palace is rich in various spiritual herbs and is good at refining various elixirs. The person in charge of the sect must be the top master of alchemy. Therefore, the next generation of the Holy Son has been decided long ago, that is, Yu Minghong, who has the three supreme spiritual roots of water, fire and wood. It is obvious that the whole sect will use its strength to train him into a Danhai realm cultivator. They have been doing this for decades, and with almost unlimited resources, Yu Minghong has reached the late stage of foundation building at the age of 40. It seems very likely that he will successfully impact the Jindan realm before the age of 60."
Everyone present was silent for a while, and they were full of emotion in their hearts. Such a rubbish qualification can actually have the opportunity to impact the Jindan realm at the age of 60.
It's really annoying to compare people.
"No one can shake Yu Minghong's position, because his grandfather is the Grand Elder of Taiqing Palace, Yu Ming, a great cultivator in the late Danhai Realm, and another great cultivator in the late Danhai Realm, Dugu Hu, also has a good relationship with Yu Ming. But now the situation has changed,"
Speaking of this, Zhu Xiaotian felt a little thirsty, so he picked up the teacup in front of him and drank a sip of the remaining tea.
Just as he was about to continue speaking, Chi Shujian in front of him couldn't help asking: "What has changed? It can't be that Yu Ming has fallen, right? Logically speaking, he should still have a hundred years of life."
"No, it's because of Dugu Hu!"
As soon as this sentence came out, everyone in the room was shocked, and even the usually calm Luo Yunqiu couldn't help but lean forward, his expression was extremely focused.
"What's going on? Could it be that Dugu Hu and Yu Ming have a conflict? Doesn't that mean that Taiqing Palace will split?" An old man in black clothes with pockmarks all over his face exclaimed.
"Impossible, Yu Ming will die in a hundred years, and Dugu Hu will live for at least a few hundred years. Is it necessary?" An old woman with a high bun beside him objected.
"That's not necessarily true..."
Seeing that everyone was arguing, Luo Yunqiu had to cough lightly to stop everyone from speaking.
After getting the signal, Zhu Xiaotian began to continue to tell the information he knew: "There is no conflict between Yu Ming and Dugu Hu, and their relationship is still as good as before."
Hearing this, everyone frowned involuntarily, wondering what was going on. Fortunately, Zhu Xiaotian continued to tell the whole story.
"The key to the problem is that another late-stage foundation-building cultivator with three extreme spiritual roots of water, fire and wood appeared in Taiqing Hall. He is also only forty years old, and he is also the descendant of Dugu Hu!"
The whole audience suddenly burst into an uproar, and everyone showed an expression of disbelief.
With the status and strength of Taiqing Palace, it almost only recruits disciples with three extreme grades and two middle grades or above. Although cultivators with three extreme grades of water, fire and wood are rare, it is no problem for Taiqing Palace to find hundreds of them every five years. There are even thousands of cultivators with such qualifications in Taiqing Palace.
However, it is easy for cultivators with such qualifications to advance to the foundation building stage, but it is quite difficult to advance to the elixir stage. Even with the ability of Taiqing Palace, it can only maintain about 20 elders with such qualifications in the elixir stage in the sect, responsible for the refining of most of the earth-level elixirs in the sect.
As for pushing cultivators with such qualifications to the elixir sea stage, the resources consumed are even more terrifying, and it takes hundreds of years of accumulation. Therefore, there are generally only one or two saints in Taiqing Palace, and during the hundreds of years that Yu Ming was in charge of Taiqing Palace, only Yu Minghong was established.
If you want to cultivate a cultivator of Danhai Realm, the earlier the better. As the grandson of Yu Ming, Yu Minghong has been poured with a huge amount of resources since he was a child. He has reached the late stage of Condensation Realm at the age of 14, and the late stage of Foundation Establishment at the age of 40. This speed is unique in the entire Taiqing Palace.
Now someone has reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment at the age of 40. How is this possible? Even if he is the descendant of Dugu Hu, it is not possible. Besides, if he has this aptitude, there should be two Holy Sons of Taiqing Palace.
"Dugu Hu is different from the devoted Yu Ming. He is romantic by nature, has hundreds of wives and concubines, and has many descendants. In addition, the water, fire, and wood spiritual energy of Taiqing Palace are extremely abundant, and many descendants have these spiritual roots. And this person is called Dugu Aotian, the great-grandson of Dugu Hu. He has a tough personality and is good at kowtowing and pleasing. In addition, he also likes women, which is very consistent with Dugu Hu's temper, so he accepted him as a closed disciple."
"He originally had the qualifications of the three spiritual roots of water, fire and wood, which was of the highest grade and was not at all qualified to compete with Yu Minghong. But all this changed completely fifteen years ago."
Everyone in the audience was attracted by Zhu Xiaotian's story and listened very attentively.
"Because the Five Elements Spiritual Pearl appeared!"
Everyone suddenly realized what was going on.
Since the appearance of the Five Elements Spiritual Pearl more than ten years ago, although the major super sects stepped forward to stop it, especially the Buddhist sect and the Human Emperor successively issued edicts to kill a large number of people who harmed children to obtain the spiritual pearls and attempted to change their fate, and many people became mentally ill after taking the spiritual pearls, this kind of behavior that angered both humans and gods gradually decreased.
But it did not disappear, because as long as there were Buddhist artifacts to suppress it and Buddhist monks to transcend the dead souls, most of the resentment and evil power could be solved, and people gradually discovered that as long as those who harmed children were killed, the resentment and evil spirits of some children's dead souls could also be eliminated.
Under such circumstances, some high-ranking people in some large sects would secretly do such evil deeds in order to ensure that their direct descendants could embark on the path of immortality or go further. I think Dugu Hu's great-grandson was also like this.