Chapter 209: Longsha responds to the prophecy, the teacher of eight hundred earthly immortals (asking for monthly tickets)
The summer rain comes and goes quickly. In the blink of an eye, the rainstorm disappears into thin air.

Just as the river flood subsided and the sandbank in the river was higher than the city wall of Nanchang, the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped, and the sun shone brightly again, as if the apocalyptic scene just now was just an illusion.

The yellow dragon and green tiger returned to Cheng Xinzhan’s hands and condensed into a jade ruyi. Cheng Xinzhan and his disciples also returned to the ceremonial guard. The whole team set off again amid the cheers and praises from Nanchang City.

However, mortals with mortal eyes could not distinguish between the monks from Sanqing Mountain and those from Wanshou Palace. When they saw the ceremonial team crossing the river towards Sanyuan Mountain, they all shouted that the master of Wanshou Palace had done great deeds.

When the procession had just crossed the Gan River, Cheng Xinzhan and the others saw a bright light on Sanyuan Mountain:
The golden clouds covered the sky, dyeing it into a sea of ​​light, in which eighty-one fish and dragons were swimming and dancing.

The purple air rose up majestically, condensing into large patches of purple clouds in the golden sea of ​​light. Thirty-six nine-colored phoenixes were flying in the clouds.

And in this purple-gold sky, large groups of temples suddenly appeared in the air.

The white jade base of the palace looks like a white cloud, complementing the nearby purple clouds. The double-eaved hip roof stretches continuously, and the red glazed tiles on the roof are like flames, almost blending into the golden sea of ​​light, making it difficult to distinguish. The dragon-shaped eaves beast on the roof looks like a Chiwen, which is hard to tell whether it is real or fake, and looks like a living thing.

On the tall memorial archway to the south of the shrine complex, there hangs a ochre-colored plaque as big as a small mountain, with three red and yellow characters inscribed on it:

Longevity Palace.

Then, starting from the archway at the gate of Wanshou Palace, countless snow-white jade lotuses blossomed out of thin air and gathered into a bright jade bridge, which then stretched to the feet of the ceremonial guard.

During the ceremonial procession, Dong Shouren was startled by the commotion in the Wanshou Palace. He walked from the statue of the Three Pure Ones to the front of the team, looking in the direction of the Wanshou Palace with confusion on his face and eyes. Wasn’t it agreed that the guests would be welcomed with “Nine Phoenixes Welcoming Guests” and “Fish and Dragons Leaping in Gold”?

What is going on now?
“Golden Clouds and Sea of ​​Light”, “Purple Air Coming from the East”, “Fish and Dragons on the Ninth Month”, “Phoenixes on the Sixth Month”, “Pure Jade Lotus Bridge”, and “Mingtang of Longevity”.

Dong Shouren vaguely remembered that during the 6,000th birthday ceremony of Xu Tianshi, the Wanshou Palace did not set up such a grand ceremony.

Such a large ceremony couldn’t possibly be to welcome him, nor could it be just for the Three Pure Ones’ ceremonial procession. He suddenly looked at Cheng Xinzhan.

Is it because of this child?

What is there in Ke Xinzhan that makes Wanshou Palace value him so much?
But the next moment, Dong Shouren saw a scene that shocked him even more:

On the “Jade Lotus Pure Bridge”, Master Baoyuan came out to greet them personally!
After Master Baoyuan, there were the deputy leader, Taoist Master Zhenchang, the chief of the precepts, Taoist Master Zhongzheng, and Taoist Master Zhongde, the high meritorious lecturer…

In the Jingming Sect, everyone who could name Dong Shouren came out to welcome him!
Dong Shouren felt a little dizzy watching such a scene, not to mention the crowd that followed behind the sutra-seeking procession to watch the excitement, and the sound of them swallowing their saliva was deafening.

As for the real people and Xuanzai of “Yu Lian Jing Qiao”, the worst one was Jin Dan Yu Shi. When they all stood together in a line, even if they did not deliberately release their aura, the majesty of the great cultivators alone caused waves and whirlpools on the purple-gold sky.

Dong Shouren walked forward quickly, came to Master Baoyuan and bowed, with a wry smile on his face.

“What is the real person going to do?”

Master Baoyuan grabbed Dong Shouren’s hand and laughed loudly.
“Master Shouren, our two families were both founded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. We have been friends for 6,000 years. How could we not bear such a great event? You don’t know how happy I was when I heard from Master Hehe that your sect was coming to seek scriptures and deepen the exchanges between the two sects!”

Dong Shouren certainly didn’t believe it. The discussions between his own leader and Bao Yuan Zhenren took quite a while. The initial attitude of Jingming Sect was not as enthusiastic as Bao Yuan Zhenren said.

Behind Master Bao Yuan, Xuan Zai and Master Yu were also confused.

At this time, among the people present, apart from Master Baoyuan, only Shen Zhaoming’s master, Taoist Liangyuan, witnessed Cheng Xinzhan’s actions throughout the whole process. He also had a high status in Wanshou Palace and knew some secrets that others did not know. He led Shen Zhaoming forward with a smile and bowed to Dong Shouren.
“Master, what you said is absolutely right. The Three Pure Ones are here, and my Wanshou Palace is looking forward to seeing you. Our two families have been friends for generations. When I, your humble disciple, and your master of the Wanfa Sutra were slaying demons in Xiangxi, we were collectively called the Northern and Southern Kuixing. I am extremely relieved.”

Shen Zhaoming looked at his master in surprise. He had never seen his master so shocked and out of control as he was just now, nor had he ever seen his master laugh so happily as he did now. Was this still his master?

“Yes! Yes! Where is the Master of the All-Dharma Sutra of your religion? Come forward and speak to him.”

Master Baoyuan took over the conversation. Although he was talking to Dong Shouren, his eyes were already looking at Cheng Xinzhan in the guard of honor.

Dong Shouren knew at this time that he had guessed correctly, so he called Cheng Xinzhan over.

“The bone of immortality.”

Master Baoyuan looked at Cheng Xinzhan as if he was looking at some immortal who had left the world.

“Grandmaster’s bearing.”

Taoist Liangyuan looked at Cheng Xinzhan with awe in his eyes.

Cheng Xinzhan felt uncomfortable being stared at, and bowed quickly.

“I have met the real person and the Taoist priest. Thank you for your compliments.”

However, before Cheng Xinzhan could bow, the two men hurriedly moved away, saying in unison,
“Absolutely not!”

Cheng Xinzhan was completely confused and had no idea what these two Taoist priests were going to do.

Dong Shouren also didn’t understand it, and he had already started all kinds of speculations in his mind. After thinking it over, he felt that the most likely possibility was that Xinzhan was the reincarnation of the ancestor of Wanshou Palace.

“Let’s go into the mountains and discuss it in detail.”

Master Bao Yuan said with a smile.

So, Shen Zhaoming and other designated welcoming personnel went to the Sutra Library with the Three Pure Ones’ ceremonial guards, meeting the confused Huo Jingyan. The many Jindan Yu masters who were temporarily called by Master Baoyuan were merely in the welcoming line and showed their faces in front of Cheng Xinzhan. At this time, they all returned to their residences, also confused.

Dong Shouren and Cheng Xinzhan were welcomed to the Yuzhen Palace by Baoyuan Zhenren and several Xuanzai.

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The Wanshou Palace is magnificent and its uniqueness lies in the fact that its palace complex faces south and is symmetrical from east to west. It is built against the mountain and has a strong sense of standardization and beauty, just like a royal garden on the mountain.

The Yuzhen Hall is located at the end of the central line of the Wanshou Palace and is a hall dedicated to the ancestors.

The Yuzhen Hall is divided into nine sections. Master Baoyuan led the guests to the last three sections instead of the first one. Accompanied by Master Gaozhen of the Jingming Sect, Dong Shouren and Cheng Xinzhan successively offered incense to the statues of the Three Pure Ones, the Mother of Stars “Dou Mu Yuanjun” and the God of Filial Piety of the Water Palace “Madam Xiaogan”, and finally came to the last section, the Patriarch Hall.

The statue enshrined here is that of Xu Xun, the founder of the Jingming Sect.

Inside the hall, one could see Tianshi Xu with three long beards, high eyebrows, and eyes slightly drooped with a look of compassion. He was wearing a Taoist robe with an eight-diagram crane cloak and was standing solemnly on the altar.

The Heavenly Master makes the Pure Bright Dharma Seal with his left hand and holds a dragon-slaying sword in his right hand. The sword is engraved with the seal characters “loyalty, filial piety and wisdom”. His feet are stepping on the stone dragon head, and copper nails are embedded in the dragon’s eyes.

After the two guests finished burning incense, everyone went to the side hall and sat down.

Dong Shouren was the first to speak, saying,

“Master, there are no outsiders here. To be honest, the scene you put on today really scared me!”

Cheng Xinzhan nodded. It was really scary that the immortal came out of the mountain to greet him.

Upon hearing this, Master Bao Yuan laughed loudly, “Forgive me, forgive me!”

Dong Shouren added,
“Master, we have agreed that we will be met by Taoist Priest Liangyuan today when we seek the true scriptures, and then we will go to the Patriarch’s Hall to worship after the meeting. You will wait for us here, and then we will go to the Sutra Repository after the examination. Is that right?” Master Baoyuan nodded with a smile.

“But when I arrived at Sanyuan Mountain, nothing went according to plan. You also changed the etiquette of the connection ceremony. Master, let’s be frank. You have to explain it to me clearly.”

Master Bao Yuan was still smiling, but he looked at Cheng Xinzhan and said,
“But that heavy rain was also beyond our plan!”

“heavy rain?”

Dong Shouren was puzzled. Wasn’t it because Xinzhan was the reincarnation of the ancestor of Wanshou Palace?
“heavy rain!”

Master Bao Yuan said affirmatively.

“Okay my real man, stop keeping me in suspense!”

Dong Shouren became anxious.

When Master Baoyuan first met Cheng Xinzhan when he came out of the mountain to welcome guests, he was quite excited and out of control. Now that he was sitting in the Patriarch’s Hall, he was calm instead. He tapped his knuckles on the table and sighed,

“Time is also fate!”

Then, without waiting for Dong Shouren to ask further questions, he took the initiative to ask Cheng Xinzhan,

“Fellow Daoist, have you ever seen the sandbar in the middle of the river where you are storing rocks today?”

Cheng Xinzhan returned,
“I don’t deserve the title of Taoist friend. You can just call me Xinzhan. In reply to what you said, I have indeed seen a sandbar before. But the last time I saw it, the sandbar was not as big as it is now. It was just a little white sand.”

Bao Yuan Zhenren was obviously very interested in this matter and asked,

“When did Xinzhan first see the sandbar?”

Cheng Xinzhan had thought about this question on the way here, so he answered it quickly.
“It was 22 years ago. At that time, the sandbar was only as big as a small boat. You couldn’t see it unless you looked carefully. The year before that, when I crossed the Gan River 23 years ago, I didn’t see the sandbar.”

Upon hearing this, Master Bao Yuan smiled even more and asked,
“When did Xinzhan start practicing?”

Cheng Xinzhan didn’t know why the immortal asked this, so he answered honestly:
“Twenty-four years ago.”

Hearing this, Master Bao Yuan and several Xuan Zai looked at each other, and then laughed out loud at the same time.

This confused Dong Shouren and Cheng Xinzhan again. Is this something so funny?
After these people had laughed enough, Bao Yuan Zhenren said to Liang Yuanxuan,
“Liangyuan, you are the one who will tell Xinzhan what happened twenty-four years ago.”

Taoist Liangyuan smiled and nodded, then said to Cheng Xinzhan,

“In fact, there has been white sand accumulation and sedimentation in the middle of the Ganjiang River between our Wanshou Palace and Nanchang City. This sand reef has existed for thousands of years. However, the accumulation of white sand is very slow, so the sand reef has always been under the surface of the river. No one knows except our Wanshou Palace and the boatmen who are familiar with the Ganjiang River.

“It was not until 24 years ago that the sand reef finally emerged from the river and became a sandbar. So the reason you didn’t see the sandbar 23 years ago was not because it didn’t exist at that time, but because the sandbar just emerged at that time and you didn’t notice it.

“After the sandbar emerged from the river, the accumulation speed suddenly increased, expanding by several inches every day. So when you passed by the Gan River for the second time, which was twenty-two years ago, the sandbar was already very obvious.”

Cheng Xinzhan was still a little puzzled, so he guessed, “Could it be that the growth of the sandbar has something to do with my cultivation?”

Master Liangyuan did not give a direct answer, but said,
“This sandbar has experienced three rapid growths. The first was in the spring seventeen years ago, the second was last spring, and the third was last autumn. After last autumn, the sandbar has completely transformed into a dragon shape. Xinzhan, have you made any progress in your cultivation during these few years?”

Cheng Xinzhan spoke with surprise, “That is the time for me to advance to the second realm, the third realm, and overcome the golden elixir tribulation.”

Master Liang Yuan clapped his hands and laughed, “That’s it.”

“Then I wonder what fate this sandbar in the river has to do with my family’s Xinzhan?”

Dong Shouren asked anxiously.

This matter cannot be taken lightly. There are all kinds of strange things in the world. Some people’s destinies are connected with the mountains and rivers in a certain place. However, this kind of thing can have both good and bad consequences.

As the saying goes, the land and water nurture the people. If the land and water are good, it will be reflected in the people with the right fate, and their realm will advance by leaps and bounds, and everything will go smoothly. When the cultivation reaches a very high level, it is more likely that they will be able to achieve the Tao through this fate connection and become a great cultivator of the fifth realm.

However, if someone sees or calculates it in advance and destroys the mountains and rivers, it will be a devastating blow to the person who is destined to suffer such a disaster.

If Xinzhan really has some astrological connection with this sandbar in the middle of the river, then even if this is next to the Wanshou Palace’s bed, Sanqing Mountain will have to build a temporary palace here!
Master Bao Yuan saw Dong Shouren’s anxiety and said,
“Fellow Daoist Shouren, don’t worry. Xinzhan and Shazhou are not related in any way based on fate. They are just related by some causal relationship based on prophecy.”

Dong Shouren calmed down and said,
“Appreciate further details.”

Master Bao Yuan nodded, and this time he did not let anyone else speak for him, but spoke the whole story himself:

“That was 5,240 years ago. My ancestor Xu was a natural Taoist who was waiting for an order to ascend to heaven. At that time, Poyang Lake Dragon Mother Ao Xue led Poyang Lake Dragon Prince Po Feiyu back to the South China Sea to visit his relatives and traveled south along the Gan River.

“Po Feiyu was only about ten years old at that time, a young dragon. He had never left Poyang Lake since he was born. The dragon mother took him back to the South China Sea to show him to his relatives.

“The mother and son dragons followed the Gan River upstream, out of Yuzhang and into Yuyang. The closer they got to the source of the river, the narrower the river became. Po Feiyu thought that the narrow river didn’t lead to the South China Sea, which would be a disgrace to his mother’s return to the sea to visit her relatives, so he transformed into a real dragon and plowed the soil in front of him to open up the river, hoping to open the river directly into the South China Sea.

“When he made such a fuss, both sides naturally suffered. The Dragon Mother was injured because of giving birth to a child, and she was barely able to leave after ten years of recuperation. Naturally, she was unable to stop Po Feiyu at this time. Those shrimp soldiers and crab generals did not dare to stop the real dragon, and the Dragon Mother could only persuade them.

“But Po Feiyu grew up in Poyang Lake and was raised by his parents. He had a body of iron and steel and had never had the opportunity to release his strength. Now that he had left the lake and seen the outside world, he became playful and did not know how to restrain himself. He did not listen to the Dragon Mother, causing heavy casualties among the people on both sides of the river and destroying countless crops and farmland.

“The cries on both sides of the river woke up the ancestor who was sitting in meditation. The ancestor counted with his fingers and knew what had happened. He drew his sword and chased after them. How could the little dragon be a match for the ancestor? There were still hundreds of miles between them. The ancestor’s sword energy cut off its tail from a distance. When the ancestor came close, he was going to cut off the dragon’s head to comfort the people on both sides of the river.

“At this time, the Dragon Mother was eager to protect her son and tried to stop the Patriarch. The Patriarch raised his hand and struck with his sword, severely injuring the Dragon Mother. The Patriarch also accused her of failing to discipline the Poyang Dragon King.

“The Dragon Mother knelt at the Master’s feet, grasping the Master’s sword-holding hand and begging desperately, but there were many mortal mothers and children who died on both sides of the strait because of Po Feiyu. The Master naturally could not agree and wanted to kill the Dragon Son on the spot.

“But the master never thought that the dragon mother had been pregnant with this dragon child for thousands of years, and she valued it more than her own life. Seeing that the master was determined to kill the dragon child, she even offered to sacrifice her own life in exchange. Before the master could object, she cut her own neck under the master’s sword.

“At this time, Poyang Dragon King also came here after hearing the dragon son’s cry of a broken tail. As soon as he arrived, he saw the dragon mother died under the master’s sword. He immediately asked the master to kill him as well, just to spare the dragon son’s life.

“At this time, the Dragon Mother was determined to die, and there was no hope for life. The corpse of the white dragon fell into the mountains and turned into a white mountain. The Dragon King and his son cried and bled. The ancestor couldn’t bear it, so he ordered the Dragon King and his son to deal with the aftermath on both sides of the strait, and ordered the dragon son to never leave Poyang Lake, and let the dragon son go.”

“This place was later called Bailong Mountain, also known as Haimu Mountain. It is also the source of the Gan River. The Gan River washes over Bailong Mountain and carries the white dragon sand downstream.

“Half a year after this incident, the ancestor who returned to Sanyuan Mountain suddenly saw the white sand at the bottom of the river. The ancestor sighed that parents love their children regardless of their race. At this time, it was destined by heaven that the ancestor’s ascension time had arrived. The ancestor left his house and ascended. Before entering the gate of heaven, the ancestor looked down at the white sand at the bottom of the river, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and left a prophecy for his disciple, the second generation ancestor of our Wanshou Palace.”

“What prophecy?”

Dong Shouren asked repeatedly, and it seemed that after listening for a long time, the last sentence was the key point related to Xinzhan.

Master Bao Yuan looked at Cheng Xinzhan and said slowly,
“Five thousand two hundred and forty years after my passing, eight hundred earth immortals will emerge in the five mausoleums of Yuzhang. Their master will be from Yuzhang and spread my teachings. A dragon-shaped sandbar suddenly appeared in the middle of the river in the county. That was the time. The one who added white sand to the dragon’s ridge to make it higher than Nanchang City was that person. If there are dragons and water monsters causing harm at this time, those eight hundred people will follow the master’s orders and kill them.”

(End of this chapter)