Chronicles of Celestial Origins

"I would like to ask if the four senior brothers are invited to attend this wedding banquet, or if they are just like us and just come here to hang out."

Zhao Xiu smiled slightly: "With our cultivation status, how can we be invited here? It's just for fun."

"I say it's for fun, but actually I came here specifically for the Liu Mansion's banquet. Otherwise, who would be willing to travel thousands of miles here to eat and drink as if we had never had a banquet?" Xu Yang said, looking at him, he looked very cheerful. Instead of hiding the person like Zhao Xiu, he directly explained his purpose.

"Oh? Is there any mystery behind this banquet in the Liu Mansion?" Tang Ning asked curiously after hearing something in his words.

Yu Yang looked at the three of them with a half-smile but not a smile: "There is no mystery, but it is a good opportunity to get in touch with the senior management of the headquarters. Isn't that why you are here?"

Zhang Ziqing asked: "So, the head of the department and the supervisor will all attend this banquet?"

Zhao Xiu glanced at him: "Are you really not aware or are you pretending not to know? Have you never attended such a wedding banquet before?"

"We have lived in the land of Qinghai for a long time and are ignorant. Please give me some advice."

"A banquet like this usually has an entertainment program, where the outstanding ones are selected to show their strength in front of the master. There are many distinguished guests there, and the main figures from all the forces in the city will be there. It is a place for us to show our faces. Good opportunity, got it!”

These words were very straightforward, and the meaning behind them was obvious. Most of the people who came here to attend the Liu Mansion banquet were disciples with no connections or backgrounds at the bottom.

Therefore, I want to use the banquet as a stage to show my strength, squeeze out the crowd, and gain the attention of senior officials.

Tangning asked: "Is there any precedent for this kind of thing? I mean someone who relies on banquets to entertain people and his skills to outperform others and get high-level employment. Is there really such a person?"

Zhao Xiudao: "Of course, there are quite a few! Otherwise, why would there be so many people traveling thousands of miles to attend the wedding banquet? Do you think they are here to eat and drink?"

"As long as you can win the top spot, show your ability to dominate the crowd in front of the leaders of the various forces in this city, add glory to the faction, and be sure to be reused, these are all unwritten rules."

"In the final analysis, the banquet is just a gimmick for us. In fact, it is more like a competition between young disciples of various forces. If you can defeat the young talents of other sects, you will not be reused by the senior leaders of your sect. ?"

Zhang Ziqing asked: "I wonder if there is any precedent for this in this department? Is there anyone who has been reused for this?"

Xu Yang said: "The last time was more than a hundred years ago, the wedding banquet of the son of the leader of the Qianyue Sect in this city was also a big banquet. At that time, Uncle Yu Xing, the master of the same level in the Jindan Realm, won the first place in one fell swoop. The seventh squadron of the first brigade was directly transferred to the direct brigade.

"Since then, he has made rapid progress. He even has an exclusive training place in the Spirit Gathering Array. He has obtained many tasks, accumulated merit points, and exchanged them for the corresponding birth objects. He was successfully promoted to Nascent Soul a hundred years ago."

Tang Ning asked, "Is Uncle Xing still at the headquarters?"

"Of course he is, he is now Director Fang's former celebrity."

"I wonder what the entertainment program that Senior Brother Zhao is talking about is?"

"You will naturally know when the banquet begins." Zhao Xiu finished his words when he saw four or five monks coming in carrying a huge black stone slab and placing it in the center of the courtyard.

The stone slab is about three feet long and one foot high. It is as smooth as jade and looks ordinary, but it is extremely heavy.

How to know this? Because the five monks carrying the stone slab were all Jindan cultivators, they looked like they were struggling.

The five people carried the black stone slab and slowly fell down. There was a boom, just like a castle falling. The ground shook slightly, and the five people all breathed a sigh of relief.

Tang Ning noticed that since the five monks carried the slate here, everyone's attention was attracted to the slate. It seemed that this black slate was what Zhao Xiu said was a "fun show", but she didn't know What exactly does it do.

Tang Ning looked around. There were thirty round tables in the entire courtyard, with about two hundred people sitting there.

Among them, disciples of the Taixuan Sect alone occupied three tables, and others such as the Mirror Moon Sect, Xingyue Sect, Canglang Sect, as well as the Qianjia Sect, Huayuan Sect, and Liuyun Sect in the city each occupied several tables.

"Senior Brother Xu, is this black door panel just the entertainment show you are talking about? I wonder what it is?" Zhang Ziqing asked.

"This is a fourth-level force measuring plate. The main material is made of Xuanyuan Stone. The decks and sides of Xuanling Ships are also made of this stone."

"Does it do anything?"

"This object is generally used within the sect to detect the power of magical powers. All magical powers in this sect's Sutra Pavilion are divided into several levels: A, B, C and D. The standard for differentiation is to look at the power of magical powers. . The force measuring board is a kind of spiritual device that can be used to detect power. It is divided into several levels."

"In other words, the fourth-level force test board corresponds to the power of a Yuanying stage monk, right?"

"Roughly the same!"

"Why are there no Yuanying monks here? Have they been uniformly divided into another area?"

"Of course, not only the Yuanying monks and the Golden Core monks are separated, but Xuanmen, the Chamber of Commerce, the practicing families and the casual cultivators are also separated. There are only Xuanmen monks here."

"How to test it?"

"It's very simple. Put your palms on the force plate, and then continuously transmit the spiritual power in your body to get a corresponding value."

"Isn't it said that it is used to detect the power of magical powers? Doesn't it require the use of magic?"

"That's the second round of the competition. The top three will be selected and brought to the main table to demonstrate what they have learned in their lives. The master will reward objects based on their performance." After Xu Yang said this, he saw a group of women in white outside. They filed in holding jade plates in their hands.

Soon, fruits, vegetables, wine and food were placed on the table, and the fragrance filled the nostrils and filled the entire courtyard.

The people of the Liu family are quite wealthy. There are dozens of third-level spiritual food on the table. Each person has two pots of spiritual wine. This table of wine and food alone is far more than the birthday gift for three people.

"Thank you all Taoist friends for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend our wedding banquet. Today is my uncle's 2500th birthday. I hope you all come and come back with all your heart. Although our mansion is small, we never neglect our distinguished guests. We offer fruits, vegetables, wine and food. , today is not over, you can enjoy it." At this time, several men and women outside came to the courtyard, and the first one, a middle-aged man with big ears, said, but he was a middle-stage Nascent Soul monk.

After the man finished speaking, several men and women behind him came to each banquet table to toast and talk. In an instant, the entire courtyard came alive, with everyone drinking and chatting happily.

"My Excellency, Liu Yuan, I would like to express my gratitude to you fellow Taoists for coming to my residence to attend my uncle's wedding banquet. I apologize for your poor care." The middle-aged man came to Tang Ning and others and greeted them.

Everyone stood up one after another, and Zhao Xiu was the first to say: "Senior, you're welcome. Senior Liu is very righteous and has a great reputation. Everyone in Xuantang City knows it. I have admired Senior Liu for a long time. It's a pity that I have never met him. Today I can It is an honor for us juniors to participate in the 2,500th birthday of our seniors.”

"This is my first glass of wine to celebrate my uncle's 2,500th birthday with you all." Liu Yuan took the wine glass from the jade plate in the hand of the maid in white behind him and drank it all in one gulp.

Everyone also drank up the wine.

"Second glass of wine, thank you for giving us all the noodles and taking time out of your busy schedule to attend our wedding banquet. I wish all fellow Taoists a smooth journey in your future cultivation and may you fly thousands of miles." Liu Yuan drank another glass.

"The third glass of wine! Our house has prepared some gadgets. If you are interested, you can come forward and try them out. Those who can surpass the others can go to my uncle's banquet and show off his power. My uncle will give you a big reward. "Liu Yuan drank three glasses in a row, chatted for a few words, then left, and went to another table to drink.

After he left, a few people sat down. Everyone drank spiritual wine, ate spiritual food, and chatted. During this period, monks from the Liu family kept coming to toast and persuade.

Unconsciously after drinking for three rounds, the sun was setting in the west. Liu Yuan walked to the huge black stone slab in the center and coughed slightly: "Everyone, please be quiet and listen to me. Today, the house is full of friends and distinguished guests, which makes the humble house shine. , on this festive day, my government is not happy. I have a test board for Tebuli. I dare you to try it, just to make friends with you. "

"Those who are capable of overpowering other heroes can come to my uncle and show off their power. I will give you a great gift from our government. I don't know which fellow Taoist will come first to give it a try."

The words echoed through the entire courtyard and reached everyone's ears clearly.

For a moment, the courtyard fell into silence, and no one spoke to answer.

After a while, at a banquet table on the left, a burly man wearing Xingyue Sect costume slowly stood up, walked to the stone slab in the center of the courtyard, and bowed his head to everyone: "Xingyue Sect Duan Shiping, you have shown yourself ugly."

"Fellow Daoist Duan dares to be the first in the world. This kind of courage is enough to arrogantly stand out among all the heroes, please." Liu Yuan said with a smile on his face. He praised Duan Shiping and at the same time secretly stepped on everyone present. He was obviously motivating everyone. At the same time, the maid next to him nodded. A stick of incense.

Duan Shiping put his hands on the stone slab, and saw that the stone slab was emitting a faint light, and a huge cylindrical symbol appeared on it, divided into ten grids. The white gas inside the cylinder was slowly increasing.

As the spiritual power in his body was continuously input into the stone slab, the black stone slab became more and more radiant, and the white gas in the cylinder also increased.

As time went by, the black stone slab covered by his hands turned red and spread to the surroundings. After burning the incense, Duan Shiping was slightly out of breath.

"The time for burning incense is up, Fellow Daoist Duan, you can stop." Liu Yuan said.

Duan Shiping took his hands off the stone slab and exhaled slightly. At this time, nearly half of the entire stone slab had turned red, and the white gas in the cylindrical symbol that appeared on the stone slab had also crossed two grids.

After Duan Zhengping's palms left the stone slab, the light emitted from the stone slab quickly dimmed, the red color disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the white gas on the cylinder mark also disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Is there any other fellow Taoist who is willing to come up and give it a try?" Liu Yuan said while looking at the crowd.