Chapter 351: Altar of the Valley

Duan Rong and his companions followed the crowd, walking at a moderate pace.

About an incense stick later, they heard a chaotic noise coming from the front.

After walking along the mountain road and turning around a large rock protruding from the side of the road, they saw a large crowd of people at the entrance of a canyon not far ahead.

There was another person wearing tight clothes and a waist badge, standing on a large bluestone at the entrance of the canyon, shouting: "Don't get stuck here. Go to both sides, there are passages into the valley on both sides.

The crowd was crowded, shoulder to shoulder, and the tide of people swept Duan Rong and others to one side.

Duan Rong saw the crowd, so he grabbed Xiao Yu's hand.

The two held hands and walked forward in the crowd. Xiao Yu looked at Duan Rong's profile from time to time.

They bypassed another canyon entrance, and the crowd became less crowded at the next entrance.

When Xiao Yu saw that the crowd was no longer crowded, he pulled his hand out of Duan Rong's hand.

Duan Rong turned his head and looked at Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu's face flushed slightly, and he said softly: "Too many people. It's not good to look at. ”

It doesn’t matter if they were squeezed in the crowd just now. Now the crowd is slowly loosening up. If he and Xiao Yu continue to do this, it will indeed be a bit conspicuous.

As soon as Xiao Yu broke free from Duan Rong’s hand, Ximen Kankan and Shen Mizhi pushed the crowd away and ran to their side.

The crowd was so big just now that they were dispersed for a while.

Ximen Kankan looked at the canyon entrance not far away and said, “I just squeezed over to take a look. There is another entrance over there, with fewer people than this one. Let’s go over there. "

Duan Rong smiled slightly. It was hard for Ximen Kankan to squeeze to the front with such a bloated figure.

Duan Rong and his companions followed Ximen Kankan's instructions and went around for a while. They came to the entrance of another canyon. There were few people at this entrance.

They followed the sparse crowd and walked slowly into the canyon.

Along the way, no one checked their sect's cloud certificate and review approval slip.

They walked along the mountain road at the entrance of the canyon for a while and then walked into a valley.

This valley is high on all sides, and there are five canyons leading into this valley. At this time, every canyon entrance was filled with a crowd of people.

Whispers rang in the valley, like the chirping of birds.

Many people looked at the towering mountains on all sides of the valley in astonishment.

Duan Rong stood in the crowd, and his scalp felt numb as if it had been electrocuted.

"What is this? "

The four peaks of the valley were carved into four huge stone statues.

If everyone stood there, they would only be as high as the toes of the stone statues.

These four huge stone statues, carved from the entire mountain, are the statues of the Four Great Vidyarajas in the Taizang Sutra.

"Why is the first test here?"

Duan Rong's eyes flickered, and his mind was churning.

The other registered disciples only felt that the four huge statues were towering into the clouds and majestic.

But Duan Rong was shocked that this deep valley was a huge mandala.

This huge mandala, towering into the clouds, seemed to be communicating with the laws of heaven and earth. What a terrifying pressure of the soul.

What kind of person can practice the Taizang Sutra here?

Is such an existence really still a human?

And between the four huge gods... In the center of the statue, that is, in the center of this deep valley, there is a wide white marble altar, with railings, steps, and red steps, all of which are well-made, and various carvings are also quite exquisite.

In the center of the altar, there is a large tripod, and in the tripod, there are three tall incense sticks, which are as thick as a person's arm, and are emitting curling green smoke, straight into the valley.

Not far from the feet of the four towering giant statues, there are square altars, on which are placed three large black iron plates, on which are placed The heads of cattle, sheep and pigs.

On the ground in front of the altar, there were sixteen figures sitting cross-legged on the cushions.

They all wore loose Taoist robes and sat with their eyes closed. In front of each of them was a palm-sized incense burner.

In the incense burner, there was obviously some kind of incense, emitting a faint green smoke and fragrance.

At this time, a group of people wearing tight clothes and wearing waist badges came over. These people were all from the Internal History Department.

Duan Rong had already known that the assessment of the registered disciples to advance to outer disciples was conducted by the Internal History Department. The Ministry of Justice hosted the event, and the Ministry of Judgment and the Ministry of Recognition co-organized the event.

But Duan Rong did not see anyone with the Ministry of Judgment and the Ministry of Recognition badge along the way.

The leader of the group was a tall, thin-faced middle-aged man. He walked to the crowd at the entrance of the canyon and took a bronze chime from someone behind him.

He took the chime hammer and struck the bronze chime hard.

"Ding~"

A clear and crisp sound, quite penetrating, lingering far away.

The crowd instantly quieted down.

The man glanced at the crowd and said, "Listen! When I strike the bronze chime again, the first test will begin. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" A few scattered voices in the crowd answered.

The man continued, "When the test begins, you go forward. Do you see the two lines? Cross the white line and you will pass the first test! If you cross the red line, not only will you pass the first test, but you will also be exempted from the second test! "

As the man spoke, all the registered disciples looked forward.

They saw a very eye-catching white line a few feet ahead.

And three feet away from the white line was a blood-red line.

And the red line was only about half a meter away from the altar in the center of the valley.

"If you can step onto the altar, you will be exempted from the third assessment and will be promoted directly to an outer disciple!" The man's last voice caused a commotion in the crowd.

"Directly become an outer disciple?!"

"What does this mean?" People in the crowd have already started discussing. "Just walk over?"

"Who can't walk?!"

"There must be some tricks! Maybe there is a trap?!"

...

Duan Rong was in the crowd, his eyes flickering. After the man announced the rules, he already knew what the first assessment was about.

Not long after the man announced the rules, a melodious horn sounded in the valley.

At the moment the horn sounded, the sixteen figures sitting cross-legged in front of the altar at the feet of the four huge statues towering into the sky suddenly moved.

With a flip of their hands, they opened the lid of the incense burner in front of them and sprinkled a kind of spice into the incense burner.

No one knew what the incense was, but when it was sprinkled into the incense burner, smoke rose.

They lifted the copper chains on both sides of the incense burner, and their bodies suddenly became as fast as ghosts, with amazing body movements. They stepped on the folds of the clothes of the towering statue and jumped vertically and horizontally.

Wisps of smoke rose around the huge statue!

Finally, the sixteen ghostly figures finally stopped.

There were four figures sitting cross-legged on the top of the statue, and in front of each figure was an incense burner with smoke rising.

There were also two figures sitting cross-legged on each shoulder of the statue, and two smokes rose from each shoulder!

There were also two figures sitting cross-legged on both sides of the two big feet of the statue, and two smokes rose from each shoulder!

And there were four figures sitting on the ground around the statue, and four smokes rose from each shoulder.

Sixteen figures, sixteen smokes!

Duan Rong looked surprised.

"This... Isn't this a smoke offering?"

But as far as he knew, smoke offering is an auxiliary sacrificial method used for practicing the dirty blood magic. And there is no smoke offering step in the Taizang Sutra...

Just when the smoke was rising in the valley, there were more than a dozen figures sitting on more than a dozen white marble chairs on the cliff on the top of a mountain in the southeast of the valley.

This mountain is quite steep, but why are there white marble chairs on the top? And who are the people sitting on the white marble chairs?

At the moment when the smoke was everywhere, suddenly there was a figure, stepping on the void, flying in the air and landing in front of the people on this mountain.

Stepping on the void, flying in the air and flying in the air, only the strong in the cave realm can do it with the power of the law.

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The man who came was Zhu He, one of the elders of the Taiyi Sect Elders Council and the head of the Internal History Department.

He was also one of the only two candidates who were able to compete for the next Sect Master.

As soon as Zhu He landed, he clasped his fists and said, "Everyone, I'm sorry. I'm late!"

As soon as Zhu He spoke, several people stood up from their chairs and looked at him.

One of them smiled and said, "It's okay! Zhu has to take care of the assessment, and everything is complicated. Besides, the assessment hasn't started yet, so it's not too late."

As soon as the man finished speaking, someone snorted coldly and said, "Yes. Zhu is busy with everything, so he naturally doesn't take us seriously. It doesn't matter if he's late, it's good enough that he can come!"

Zhu He's eyes flashed with a sharp light, but his face was still smiling like the wind, and he didn't look angry at all. The person who started to challenge him was called Ge Rushong, and he had always been at odds with him.

Although Zhu He did not say anything, someone wanted to retort Ge Rushong, but Zhu He winked at that person and that person sat down again.

Zhu He walked to his chair and was about to sit down when he heard a faint female voice coming from the end.

"If Zhu Sizu does not come again, I will let my Han Yan sit in your seat. I am afraid that this child will stand for too long and play the piano out of tune."

The one who spoke was Lin Youjian, the only female elder in the Taiyi Sect's Elders' Courtyard. Usually everyone gave her some respect, even the Sect Master Chu Qiushan was often speechless by her, not to mention Zhu He.

Zhu He saw Lin Youjian choking him, but he was not angry at all. He smiled and said, "Come, Hanyan, your master has spoken. Come, sit down for you."

Behind Lin Youjian stood a slim female disciple. Her hair was tied up with a jade hairpin. She wore a light blue skirt with a moon-white lining, as if to block the wind and sand on the mountain. Her face was covered with a white veil, and only vaguely visible was a white and thin face under the veil.

This woman's name is Jiang Hanyan. At this time, she had a sword tied around her waist and a black guqin on her back.

Jiang Hanyan clasped her fists to Zhu He and said, "Hanyan dare not! My master was just joking with Zhu Sizuo. Sizuo doesn't have to take it seriously."

Lin Youjian saw that Jiang Hanyan was neither humble nor arrogant and responded appropriately, and couldn't help but smile with appreciation.

Jiang Hanyan is Lin Youjian's only disciple.

Those who can be accepted as disciples by the elders of the Elders' Council are all core disciples of the sect, and their cultivation realm is at least the Cyclone Realm.

Zhu He saw Lin Youjian looking at Jiang Hanyan with admiration, so he stopped talking and sat down quietly.

The seat next to Zhu He was empty, which was the seat of the sect master Chu Qiushan.

However, in recent years, he has basically not participated in such occasions.

After all, he will step down in six years, and these old guys don't find it strange.

On the other side of Chu Qiushan's empty seat sat Lu Zhongtang.

The moment Zhu He sat down, the two of them just nodded expressionlessly, which was considered a greeting.

As soon as Zhu He sat down, the second horn sounded in the valley.

As soon as the horn sounded, Jiang Hanyan stood beside Lin Youjian and said with a fist: "Master, the time has come."

Lin Youjian nodded and said: "Yes. Hanyan, you go."

Hearing this, Jiang Hanyan took a slight step and said to the elders: "Dear uncles and uncles, Hanyan is leaving!"

After Jiang Hanyan finished speaking, his figure suddenly jumped up like a big bird and jumped directly from the cliff.

The elders of the Elders' Council looked at Jiang Hanyan's back and nodded slightly.

This Jiang Hanyan is extremely talented and is a humble and well-behaved person. Not only does her master Lin Youjian regard her as a pearl, but the people in the Elders' Council also have a good impression of her.

In the valley.

At the moment when the second horn sounded, the sixteen figures on each statue suddenly began to change their hands and make seals, and muttered spells.

"This is..."

Duan Rong's eyelids twitched wildly.

As the figures on the statues began to make seals and chant spells, the statues in the smoke suddenly began to emit a faint blood light in their eyes.

At that moment, Duan Rong was almost certain that this was the practice of smoke offering!

Although he had never seen the practice of smoke offering in the Taizang Sutra. But he had not seen it, it did not mean that it did not exist.

After all, he only had the first twelve levels of the Taizang Sutra in his hand, and perhaps there was a practice of smoke offering in the later Taizang Sutra techniques.

Just as the huge statue towering into the clouds in the four dimensions of the valley flashed bloodshot eyes, a slender figure, with her skirt flying, jumped down from the top of a lonely peak in the dark southeast. Her toes touched the treetops and stone walls from time to time, and then jumped again and again.

After several ups and downs, she landed lightly on the altar in the center of the darkness like a fallen leaf falling with the wind.

As soon as Jiang Hanyan landed, she sat cross-legged in front of the large tripod on the altar with three incense sticks inserted.

At this moment, a bronze bell sounded suddenly at the entrance of the canyon where Duan Rong was.

These registered disciples naturally remembered the rules. When the bronze bell sounded, it was the beginning of the assessment. As long as they crossed the white line, they would pass the first assessment.

At the moment when the bronze bell sounded, Jiang Hanyan took off the black guqin behind him on the altar and placed it horizontally in front of him.

Her face behind the veil was calm, and she plucked her hands lightly, and a clear sound suddenly echoed in the valley...

The registered disciples at the entrance of the canyon were about to move, and as the clear sound rang out on the altar, an extremely powerful spiritual pressure suddenly descended.

All the bodies trembled slightly.

Even Duan Rong was no exception. He was not pretending. The moment the spiritual pressure descended, his body seemed to be stiff.

The situation of other registered disciples was even worse, and many of them turned pale instantly.

Because they felt this way the moment the clear sound rang out on the altar, many registered disciples stared angrily at Jiang Hanyan, who was sitting cross-legged on the altar and playing the piano peacefully.

They thought that their pain was caused by the sound of the piano!

But Duan Rong knew very well that the one who suddenly descended the extremely powerful spiritual pressure was actually the four dimensions of the valley, the four statues with slightly bloody eyes.

The spells, seals and smoke offerings awakened the four statues.

The sound of the piano on the altar was protecting their souls, allowing them to withstand the sudden pressure from the four gods without causing their souls to be shattered and die!

This was also the key to the first test.