Chapter 327 Dazhu Academy, conspiracy and hell

The world of cultivating immortals.

Beyond Arcturus, among the stars in the universe.

There is a huge star hanging in the sky like an upside-down sea. This star is called Dazhu. All the stars in the sky are like pendants around it, and the light of the sun and the moon is like a crown. This is a huge star world that is several times larger than Arcturus.

Deep in the depths of the Dazhu Star, a towering sacred tree grows, supporting the sky and splitting the clouds. Its roots penetrate into the thirty-six layers of earth veins. The jade air roots hanging from the tree’s crown actually resonate with the star tracks beyond the stars in this world. Every time a leaf unfolds, it is like a mustard seed of the universe.

“Hoohoo!”

The wind from the sky swept down from the gale layer, passing over the eastern branch of Jianmu at a height of 90,000 feet, and a phantom like a seven-layered glazed treasure palace appeared faintly.

The flying eaves and brackets are all made of star essence. The bronze bird-scare bells hanging from the eaves contain the spirit of ancient thunder beasts. Whenever the wind blows through, it will make the sound of a dragon roaring in the sky.

Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine cloud steps descended from the void. A black tortoise stood beside the steps, carrying a mysterious book of mountains and rivers on its back. Chaotic mist was faintly overflowing from between the cracks in its shell.

This is the location of Dazhu Academy, one of the four major academies.

This world is also named Dazhu because of the existence of Dazhu Academy.

The main hall of the academy is built on the heart of a tree. Twelve coiled dragon pillars are entwined with innate Taoist patterns. The night-shining pearl held in the dragon’s mouth seems to contain three thousand small worlds, mysterious and dazzling.

The Yaochi in front of the palace draws starlight as water.

The water droplets splashed by the five-colored koi’s tails turned into a rainbow when they fell to the ground. There was even a phantom of a dragon in the pond, which solidified every seven days and turned into a rainbow bridge across the treetops when the moon was full.

The huge building on the east side is the library of Dazhu Academy, suspended among the roots of Taoism. The building is forged from refined gold of Lihuo, and countless volumes of Taoist scriptures turn into golden crows flying around it.

Whenever Jianmu absorbed and exhaled the power of the stars, the pages of the book would automatically surge, overflowing with vast purple air, and actually condensed into every word of Confucian teachings in the void.

In the Baiyujing in front of the building, seven green phoenixes were calling, holding the Kunlun Jade Slips in their mouths. Wherever their tail feathers passed, they left tracks of the stars in the sky.

There is also a huge building on the west side, which is the Dan Pavilion.

The Alchemy Pavilion is hidden on the northwest branches of the Jianmu tree. From afar, the hundred-meter-high alchemy furnace is absorbing and spewing out true fire from the earth’s veins. When the Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram on the top of the furnace rotates, the spiritual energy within a thousand miles radius turns into colorful auspicious clouds.

Cloud cranes flew by, carrying thousand-year-old red fruits in their beaks. Their wings swept across the alchemy furnace, causing the elixir in the furnace to take shape three days earlier.

At the top of Jianmu are three huge observatories.

The three-inch-high amethyst chessboard can deduce the astrological phenomena of the whole sky. Every time a chess piece is placed, the power of the Tiangang stars is injected into it.

The stone carvings of stars around the platform wake up on the nights of the new moon and full moon. The Jiaomu Jiao raises its head to draw the power of the stars in the sky, and the Weihuo Tiger roars to shatter the stars, causing the earth veins to roar and resonate with the starlight to form a mysterious sound.

The sea of ​​clouds surged like a silver tide. From time to time, a star raft would shuttle through the gaps between branches and leaves, and the crystal sails on the raft would reflect countless stars.

At the winding point of the Jianmu tree’s trunk, nine spiritual dragons coiled together to form a natural barrier. The sun and moon crystals inlaid in the dragon’s eyes emitted brilliant light day and night, shrouding the academy in a never-ending yin and yang barrier.

This is where Dazhu Academy is located, and it is also the center of Dazhu Star.

Minglun Hall is the center of the academy.

In the main hall, a middle-aged man wearing a white Confucian robe, with his hands folded and exuding a scholarly air, stood at the top.

This person is none other than Ouyang Lin, the deputy dean of Dazhu Academy, a cultivator who has reached the middle stage of Mahayana.

On his left and right sides stood three men and women, who were from the six major families of Dazhu Academy.

“Yesterday, all the decrees issued by the dean during his retreat are here.” At this time, Ouyang Lin spoke softly. While speaking, he clasped his hands in front of his chest, raised his slender index finger slightly, and spiritual power surged, and then a decree appeared in the middle of the hall.

“Is the dean preparing to ascend?”

On the left, a middle-aged woman wearing a light green gown, with an oval face and a light green diamond mark between her eyebrows said in surprise.

“Congratulations, Dean!” Upon seeing this, the others all gave their heartfelt blessings.

Well, except for the middle-aged woman at the beginning who was slightly surprised, everyone else was extremely calm.

Obviously, in their view, ascending to become an immortal does not seem to be a big deal.

But it is true. After all, Dazhu Academy is the most powerful of the four academies. The presidents of other academies would not consider ascension to heaven as a difficult task, let alone them.

Ascension is extremely difficult for those at the bottom of the immortal cultivation world, because the further you advance, the more resources you need for cultivation. The more resources you have, and with the support of your natal star and natal objects, becoming an immortal does not seem to be that difficult.

But the difficulty lies in the fact that in today’s world of cultivating immortals, various forces are fighting against each other and resources are seriously unevenly distributed.

This means that the greater the power in the world of immortal cultivation, the more leisure resources will come to me, so the difficulty of cultivating immortals or ascending to become an immortal will be relatively reduced.

A true overlord like the Academy, which rules a continent, would definitely not lack resources.

Naturally, most people don’t need to worry too much about ascending to immortality. Generally speaking, as long as they are not abandoned by the way of heaven, they can cultivate to become immortals.

As for the immortals who sit in the academy, there are a lot of tricks involved.

After all, there are many people who volunteer to become immortals. Moreover, there are many immortals who are willing to be recruited by the academy.

The immortals who were recruited by the academy were only seeking a chance to successfully pass the nine tribulations of becoming an immortal.

As for the academy being threatened with extermination? Well, that is almost impossible. Who would dare to attack the academy without fear of death?

Even those overlord-level forces outside the domain that the academy cannot afford to offend, although they have the ability to force the academy to send out the immortals, the outcome for the other party will not be too good.

Naturally, under normal circumstances, there would be no need to deploy immortal-level combat power.

So it seems that the big forces are recruiting immortals to seek strategic reserves and increase the strength of their sects and families. In fact, the immortals are being recruited by the big forces in essence to seek shelter.

“Please look down, everyone.” Ouyang Lin spoke again.

Afterwards, everyone calmed down and continued to look below the decree.

However, after seeing the following content, the patriarchs of the six major families could not help but look surprised.

“The ancient Suzaku Dynasty is sending troops to the Western Continent?” One of the young men in a green robe asked in surprise:
“Just to capture the Han Palace and the death of the princess’s son?”

At this time, someone else spoke up and said, “It makes sense, right? I remember that Princess Zhu Lan was with the son of the third branch of the Lu family on Lingxu Island.”

“However, because the King of Han disagreed and was worried that the Han Palace and some families in the imperial capital would take action against the Lu family, Princess Zhu Lan was a person who was crazy about love…”

“You actually agreed to seal yourself in the Lu family and never get married!”

“Huh?” The middle-aged woman with an oval face who had spoken earlier asked curiously, “That’s weird. This doesn’t make sense, does it?”

“If you are worried that the King of Han or some families in the imperial capital will take action against the Lu family, why do you want to stay in the Lu family and raise children?”

“Isn’t this even more damaging to the reputation of the palace and a slap in the face to those suitors in the imperial capital?”

“Hey, things are complicated here,” the shabby old man next to the woman suddenly laughed and said, “Let me tell you in detail…”

As the slovenly old man spoke, the senior executives of Dazhu Academy suddenly understood and couldn’t help but shake their heads and chuckle.

“I didn’t expect that the King of Han, who is so cold-blooded and domineering, is actually a daughter slave. It is reasonable for the cultivation world to rank him last among the Nine Kings of Ten Thousand Dynasties.”

The middle-aged woman, who was wearing a light green gown, had an oval face and a light green diamond-shaped mark between her eyebrows, spoke with a hint of mockery in her voice.

“For the sake of face, he did not allow his daughter to marry down, but he tolerated his daughter giving birth to a son for the third son of the Lu family. For the sake of his daughter, he did not allow other suitors in the imperial capital to embarrass the Lu family?”

“Tsk tsk, what’s that? You can hit yourself in the face, but you can’t let others hit you in the face?”

Hearing the woman say this, everyone couldn’t help but laugh. “Junior sister, you are wrong. This is not slapping yourself in the face,” the young-looking clan leader said, “This is just playing with yourself. As for others, it doesn’t hurt them.”

“Haha, no wonder the King of Wei of the Qinglong Ancient Dynasty is so resentful towards him. How could such a clown be worthy of snatching away his title of the Ninth King? Sigh, the King of Wei is also quite lucky…”

“Who says it’s not true? They are both at the late stage of fusion, but they are different in one weapon. The Suzaku Dharma Realm of the King of Han is an immortal weapon, while the one of the King of Wei is just an innate spiritual treasure.”

“It seems that the senior leaders of our academy have become rich. They don’t even care about the innate spiritual treasures, let alone these…”

“I don’t mean to belittle the innate spiritual treasure!”

Seeing the high-level officials in the hall laughing and cursing, Ouyang Lin at the top finally spoke up and said,

“Okay, the dean has told us that the ‘Red Armor Camp’ from the Han Palace will be coming. We need to take good care of them and not let them do anything that would harm the Western Continent.”

“The emperor of the ancient Suzaku Dynasty is about to abdicate and prepare to go to the upper realm. Now the position of the crown prince has not yet been decided, and the kings are watching. The king of Han’s visit to Arcturus this time is likely to cause unnecessary misunderstandings among the other kings.”

“At that time, it is likely to cause a series of unnecessary misunderstandings. We must always keep an eye on the entire Western Continent,” Ouyang Lun said with a slight pause, and then said:

“If the actions of the King of Han this time really cause misunderstanding among the kings, then more people will soon visit Arcturus, possibly from the South Continent, the North Continent, or even the East Continent.”

The others nodded slightly when they heard this.

“Every time an ancient dynasty in the Ziwei star field faces a change of throne, other star fields will be affected to some extent.”

“Even some weak star regions will be dragged into the war.”

“Although Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are united and firmly control the two star worlds of Big Arcturus and Big Kang Star in the Eastern Azure Dragon Region among the twenty-eight constellations.”

“But within the twenty-eight constellations, the star worlds of the southern Suzaku domain, the western White Tiger domain, and the northern Black Tortoise domain are already a mixture of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, as well as some families, sects, and dynasties. It can be said to be in chaos, with the strong preying on the weak.”

“As long as the benefits are great enough, the forces in these star regions will definitely take the entire star region and participate in the war.”

“If the other three regions are involved in the war, how can we remain immune?”

For a moment, the emotions of everyone in the hall became solemn.

“Do you know where the person who killed Princess Zhu Lan’s son is?” At this time, the middle-aged woman in green who spoke first said, “If we can find them in advance and hand them over to the Prince of Han’s Palace directly, we can get rid of them earlier.”

“After that, find someone to spread the news to the Suzaku Ancient Dynasty. This way, we can avoid misunderstandings among the kings that the King of Han is seeking help from foreign forces on Arcturus. It can also give an explanation to the other major academies.”

“After all, we are not the only ones who do not want to be involved in the change of power of some ancient dynasties. The other major academies are the same. It is enough for us to guard our own one acre and three mu of land.”

“We should stay away from this kind of thing.”

“I asked,” facing the looks from others, Deputy Dean Ouyang Lin shook his head slightly and said, “They refused.”

Hearing this, everyone else couldn’t help but become confused.

“This is also the reason why I asked you to keep a close eye on the Western Continent.” At this time, Ouyang Lin spoke in a deep voice, “If it is just to catch a murderer, why do we need to start a war?”

“I’m afraid there must be a bigger hidden story behind this.”

Hearing this, everyone fell silent. This was the last thing they wanted to hear.

At the same time, in the Western Continent, on Floating Light Island, one of the seventy-two islands, outside Tingchaoxian City, there is the Green Field Black Market.

At night, the guest came to the inn again.

“When Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva practiced the profound Prajna Paramita, he saw that the five aggregates were empty and was able to overcome all suffering.”

“Shariputra! Form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form.”

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. The same is true of feeling, perception, volition and consciousness.”

“Shariputra! All dharmas are empty in nature: neither born nor destroyed, neither defiled nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing. Therefore…”

In the number one guest room where the magic circle refuses to disturb.

A childish voice was heard reciting the Heart Sutra, and a string of Buddhist beads was held in the little hands as white as green onions.

If Yan Shifan were here, he would definitely recognize that the bald little monk, about eight years old, sitting cross-legged on the bed was none other than the Master Zhunian with whom he had traded before.

“Snap…” Suddenly, when Zhunian was halfway through reciting the Heart Sutra, the string connecting the Buddhist beads in his hand broke instantly.

For a moment, the Buddhist beads scattered and a dense “crackling” sound was heard.

“Swish!” Zhunian’s eyes suddenly opened.

A ruddy face suddenly turned bloodless and pale.

“It seems that I underestimated the danger of the immortal weapon. I thought that if Yan Shifan killed Lu Yu, he would be hunted down by Lu Yu’s mother Zhu Lan, and the blood contract I made with him would no longer exist.”

“Afterwards, I used the bone of creation as bait to resolve the cause and effect that I could not bear, and I survived the catastrophe of life and death. But I didn’t expect,” Zhunian shook his head slightly, “Suzaku Dharma Realm is worthy of the name of immortal weapon. I was careless…”

“It seems that I am still not able to bear the consequences of the Bone of Creation with my cultivation, even though it has turned into a rebellious bone!”

“In this case, it seems that there is only one way left.” After taking a deep breath, Zhunian’s tone suddenly calmed down and said, “People in the world are suffering. If I don’t go to hell, who will? If I want to peek into the door to the Buddhist world, I must go to hell first.”

Waving his hand to remove the magic circle that refused to be disturbed, Zhu Nian got off the bed, stood up and walked out of the inn.

And just as he walked out of the inn, his shape, appearance, and aura also changed at this moment.

In the inn, no one who passed by him was aware of his existence, as if he were air.

All the way to the backstage of the largest auction house in the Green Black Market.

“Fellow Daoist, what items would you like to auction?” The person in charge of reception was a tall, cute female cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage with a ponytail.

“An innate defensive magic weapon,” Zhu Nian transformed into a middle-aged cultivator and took out an ice-blue armor from his storage ring. In front of the surprised gaze of the female cultivator, he took out a photo stone and said:
“In addition, I request that your bank broadcast the explanation in the image stone to all monks during the auction.”

“However, you cannot watch before the auction begins.”

“We can agree to this,” the nun took the photo stone and said indifferently, “but we need to inspect the goods first.”

The nun who received them was not surprised by this request.

After all, innate magic weapons are very precious. Unless the owner has no other choice, he will continue to use the resources and will not auction them. They have seen many such customers.

It goes without saying what is inside this photo stone. It simply tells the next owner of the magic weapon to take good care of it and express his or her true feelings to show his or her reluctance to let it go.

Doing these is just a comfort to my heart.

As she spoke, the female cultivator took out a special jade token and pointed it at the armor until the words “Innate Magical Treasure” appeared on it. Then she smiled again and said, “You are a guest. My guild will arrange for you to watch the auction in the VIP seat.”

“Of course, you can also participate in the auction during the process. Whether it is deducted from the proceeds of the auction items or additional deductions, we will comply with your request!”

“Okay.” Zhu Nian nodded and left under the guidance of another waiter.

The contents of the photo stone are naturally about the bones of creation and the method to open the road to heaven.

“After today, the entire world of immortal cultivation will be in complete chaos and turned into an endless purgatory. Amitabha…”

“…”

(End of this chapter)