The Origin of the Meng Family

Within the Dao Seeking Sect are many industries, offering everything from food and drink to entertainment. Cultivation isn't about secluded, dead-end training; one can't become an immortal through monotonous practice. The necessary entertainment industries are all present.

For example, there's the Sichuan hot pot mentioned earlier, and the Hundred Fragrance Tower the three of them are about to visit.

Lu Yang heard that the Dao Seeking Sect wasn't like this before. In the past, cultivation was just cultivation; they didn't bother with these miscellaneous things, as they would affect the heart of seeking the Dao.

Later, the old Sect Master and the former elders retired, and the Sect Master and the eight elders took over. The Dao Seeking Sect was immediately refreshed, encouraging everyone to cultivate when they should cultivate, and relax when they should relax, combining work and leisure.

In their words, if such things could affect the heart of seeking the Dao, then what was the point of seeking immortality at all?

Lu Yang felt that the current atmosphere of the Dao Seeking Sect was unhealthy, and when he became a high-level member of the Dao Seeking Sect, he would definitely rectify it.

The Hundred Fragrance Tower was bustling with noise, and many Dao Seeking Sect disciples liked to gather here to eat, exchange cultivation experiences, mission experiences, and so on after completing tasks or cultivating hard.

Putting everything else aside, the taste alone was better than the cafeteria.

"Waiter, the reserved table number nine, three sets of bowls and chopsticks, and serve the dishes as I ordered before."

"Alright, you can count on me."

Going up to the second floor, the aroma of the dishes on the other tables wafted over, filling the air and making people's appetites soar, unconsciously secreting saliva.

Lu Yang stared at the waiter for a long time, and only withdrew his gaze after the waiter disappeared at the stairwell, he found that he couldn't even see through the waiter's cultivation.

Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye looked around, both curious about this place.

Lu Yang had meals at Heavenly Gate Peak, and Tao Yaoye could cook for herself, so neither of them came here.

Meng Jingzhou was quite familiar with this kind of place: "Haven't been here before, have you? Let me tell you, there are so many delicious things here, only things you can't imagine, nothing you can't eat. Take a look at the menu."

Lu Yang took the menu, opened the first page, and was quickly attracted by the content.

The first page had no dishes, only a striking reminder: This shop only sells finished products, not ingredients, please forgive us.

The second page was the main event, the dishes on the menu had two prices: contribution points and Spirit Stones.

"Steamed Lightning Tribulation Liquid, the essence of lightning tribulation left by cultivators during tribulation, greatly beneficial for understanding the Dao of Lightning."

"Braised Ice Abyss Giant Elephant, the Ice Abyss Giant Elephant lives in the cold Far North, and is the overlord of the Far North. An adult Ice Abyss Giant Elephant can shatter glaciers with one foot and face avalanches without falling."

"Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes, our shop has various types of eggs, such as ordinary chicken eggs, Eight Treasures Chicken eggs, and Golden Winged Great Peng eggs."

After seeing the prices, Lu Yang couldn't help but click his tongue. These things were clearly not for Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators like them, and Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators couldn't afford them either.

However, there were also things he could afford, such as stir-fried Grain Abstinence Pill.

Seeing Lu Yang's gradually furrowed brows, Tao Yaoye thought that he was frightened by the price, and couldn't help but ask with a smile: "What's wrong? What problem have you encountered?"

"Look, the meaning of Grain Abstinence is to take in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to replace eating, and taking Grain Abstinence Pill can achieve Grain Abstinence."

"That's right." Tao Yaoye nodded.

"Then tell me, if you eat stir-fried Grain Abstinence Pill, does it count as eating or Grain Abstinence?"

Tao Yaoye and Meng Jingzhou were both stunned. At first, they felt that this question was inexplicable, but upon closer inspection, they felt that this question was inexplicably profound.

The three of them called the waiter over and asked him if he knew the answer to this question, and the waiter was also stumped.

He had worked here for so long, and it was the first time he had encountered a diner asking such a question.

Was it because the serving speed was too slow and they were bored?

"The prices here are not low, do you have enough contribution points?" Lu Yang didn't think too much about the Grain Abstinence Pill issue, but was a little worried about whether he would have enough money to eat.

Meng Jingzhou had only done three missions, and couldn't earn many contribution points in total.

Inviting himself and Tao Yaoye for a big meal in name, and then the three of them washing dishes together to pay for the meal seemed like Meng Jingzhou's style.

"What contribution points? Of course, I'm using Spirit Stones." Meng Jingzhou made the sound of a rich man.

Tao Yaoye glanced at Lu Yang with a slight surprise, not understanding why he would worry about the Meng family lacking money: "Haven't you heard of the Meng family?"

Lu Yang was puzzled: "Is Meng Jingzhou's Meng family very famous?"

The Central Continent was so vast that cultivators couldn't explore it all in their entire lives. There were many families with the surname Meng among them, how would Lu Yang know which one Meng Jingzhou's Meng family was?

He had known Meng Jingzhou for so long, and had never heard Meng Jingzhou talk about his family.

When Meng Jingzhou came to the Dao Seeking Sect to participate in the trial, he didn't even have an accompanying elder. Lu Yang thought that his family had declined and needed to rely on Meng Jingzhou's Single Spirit Root to revitalize the family.

"The most famous one."

Lu Yang's pupils shrank, quite astonished, and he knew which one Meng Jingzhou's Meng family was.

There were many Meng families, but the most famous one was naturally the Imperial City Meng Family.

"Is it the Imperial City Meng Family that once fought alongside the Xia Emperor's ancestors to build the Great Xia Dynasty?!"

Lu Yang was really shocked. The Imperial City Meng Family had a great background. Ten thousand years ago, the world was in chaos. As the saying goes, heroes emerge in troubled times. The Meng family's ancestors and the Xia Emperor's ancestors raised their flags and fought across the world, creating a legendary story that was widely circulated.

The story was still active in teahouses and on the opera stage, told by storytellers, and it had endured for a long time.

Ten thousand years ago, the previous dynasty was plagued by internal and external troubles, disintegrated, and became the beginning of a chaotic world. Yao barbarians and sea beasts left their respective territories, wanting to get a share of the Central Continent, a land of outstanding people and abundant resources.

The Meng family's ancestors rose from the ancestral land in the east, conquering the east and fighting in the west, traveling tens of thousands of miles, killing the Yao barbarians and fleeing to the Yao Domain, and the sea beasts hiding back in the East Sea. Traitorous officials, rebellious heroes, and heroes of the grass all bowed their heads and surrendered.

The Meng family's ancestors led the army for thousands of years, conquering half of the Central Continent, and were one of the only two overlords in the world.

The other overlord was the Xia Emperor's ancestor who conquered the other half.

The Xia Emperor's ancestor also drove out the barbarian Yao Beasts, ended the chaotic era, and ruled over half the land. The accomplishments of the two were equally impressive.

At the time, the world believed that the two overlords would either rule half of the Central Continent each, or engage in a war to conquer the world.

Thus, strategists began to conduct war simulations, calculating which side had a greater advantage and how the other side could overcome their weakness to achieve victory.

What the world did not expect was that both the Meng family ancestor and the Xia Emperor's ancestor believed that the continent had been in chaos for a thousand years, with living beings suffering and blood flowing like rivers, a truly hellish scene. If they continued to fight, no one knew how many more years of chaos there would be, and how many more people would die.

They fought to conquer the world to bring peace, not for the throne.

Therefore, the Meng family ancestor and the Xia Emperor's ancestor abandoned their armies and, as cultivators, engaged in a final battle in the vast starry sky. That battle was earth-shattering, the sun and moon lost their light, great stars fell, and ultimately the Xia Emperor's ancestor was more skilled and emerged as the victor.

The Meng family ancestor accepted defeat and yielded the throne.

At that time, the Xia Emperor's ancestor publicly announced that as long as Great Xia existed, the Meng family would never perish.

And that was indeed the case. After the establishment of Great Xia, the Meng family settled in the Imperial City and was not suppressed.