Qingzhou's Grand Festival

The Immortal Fairy was flicked away by the eldest sister's finger and hung on a tree branch not far away, head down, her body swaying back and forth.

"Lu Yang, you disrespect the immortals!" the Immortal Fairy roared. She had been struck by misfortune for no reason; this was an undeserved calamity.

Back when she reigned supreme in High Antiquity, who would dare treat her like this?

Lu Yang said respectfully, "It's not that I'm disrespectful to you, Fairy, but I've just formed the Invincible Pill and am not yet familiar with it. I was hoping you could demonstrate how to use it for me."

"Thanks to the fairy's demonstration just now, I now know how to use the Invincible Pill."

"Really?" The Immortal Fairy looked at Lu Yang suspiciously, feeling that something was wrong.

"I am but a mortal, how dare I deceive a fairy?"

"Too."

The Immortal Fairy considered herself magnanimous and did not pursue the matter further.

The puppet leaped up, plucked Lu Yang from the tree branch, and grabbed him by the collar, like a mischievous cat.

The senior sister placed two fingers on Lu Yang's wrist, like a doctor making a diagnosis. She nodded almost imperceptibly. "I see. I was oversightd. When I was writing the Cultivation Method, I forgot that the Invincible Pill also has the property of making you blindly confident. The Cultivation Method makes you more confident, thus losing the ability to think normally, and you can't control your body either."

She picked up the Cultivation Method that had fallen to the ground, Cultivation Method spontaneously combusted and burned to ashes, as if it had never existed.

"I'll revise it again, please wait a moment."

The eldest sister sat by the stone table, tore open space, and took out a book without any words from it.

After a moment's thought, she knew how to revise it and wrote quickly.

Before long, a new edition of the Golden Core Elixir chapter of the "Secret of Enlightenment and Seeing One's Nature" was completed.

"Come on, try again."

Lu Yang took the Cultivation Method; compared to the previous version, only some words and phrases had changed.

Will this suppress the urge to take the Invincible Pill?

Lu Yang circulated his energy for one Greater Celestial Circuit as usual, then secretly glanced at his senior sister who was resting with her eyes closed, and breathed a sigh of relief.

This time, I didn't have the suicidal urge to hit my senior sister.

Lu Yang sat in meditation, feeling the changes brought about by the Cultivation Method.

The biggest change was that his mind was now clear, and the Cultivation Method pointed out the path forward; he only needed to follow the path of the Cultivation Method.

Previously, his cultivation involved accumulating Law Power without any improvement in his cultivation level. Now, with the new Cultivation Method, the Law Power he had accumulated came in handy, allowing him to advance from the early stage of the Golden Core to the early stage of the Golden Core realm.

It may seem like we're standing still, but in reality, little has changed.

Secondly, there are changes in Divine Sense and spiritual space. The range of Divine Sense has expanded slightly, and the spiritual space has also become larger. Originally, the Immortal Fairy's bed was against the wall, which was the boundary of the spiritual space. Now, the fairy's bed is two zhu away from the boundary of the spiritual space.

The Immortal Fairy also noticed this and pushed the bed back to the boundary of the spiritual space.

She likes to lean back against the bed with her little feet kicking against the wall; she finds it very comfortable.

"Is Lu Yang here?" Meng Jingzhou called out softly as he climbed the mountain.

Given his carefree personality, he always shouts when he needs someone.

But this is Heaven Gate Peak, and besides Lu Yang, there is also the extremely terrifying senior sister. Even if Meng Jingzhou had eight times the courage, he wouldn't dare to make a loud noise on Heaven Gate Peak.

"Senior Sister, are you there?" Meng Jingzhou bowed and scraped when he saw his senior sister leaning against the tree with her eyes closed.

The senior sister gave a soft "hmm." She had known about it from the moment Meng Jingzhou stepped onto Heaven Gate Peak.

"What do you want from me?"

Meng Jingzhou said mysteriously, "Of course it's good news! Have you heard of the Qingzhou Grand Ceremony? It's about to begin."

Lu Yang didn't know much about the common events in the Great Xia Dynasty: "What is the Qingzhou Grand Ceremony?"

"It's a grand event for cultivators, spearheaded by the Qingzhou government and involving several top-tier sects. It's held every year in early August, featuring competitions, auctions, and other activities. It's quite lively, with the main purpose of attracting young cultivators to stay in Qingzhou. Therefore, many of the participants are around our age."

Lu Yang's eyes lit up. He rarely interacted with people his own age, so this was a good opportunity.

"Go! By the way, isn't Qingzhou the same Qingzhou that the Fifth Elder mentioned, the one where the governor of Qingzhou, who was at the Tribulation Transcendence stage 20,000 years ago, moved the neighboring city to that location under the guise of a magical duel?"

"It's that Qingzhou."

The eldest sister, who had been resting with her eyes closed, slowly opened them, a hint of curiosity in her eyes. "Did the Fifth Elder tell you about the governor of Qingzhou?"

"Senior Sister, you know about this too?"

"Of course we know, after all, that governor of Qingzhou is our grandmaster."

Lu Yang: "..."

Meng Jingzhou: "..."

For some reason, neither of them was surprised by this fact.

It is indeed in line with the consistent style of the Ask Dao Sect, and it is logical, but it is outrageous.

"You should keep the matter of the Governor of Qingzhou to yourselves, but don't spread it around, as it would damage the reputation of my Ask Dao Sect."

As the de facto Sect Master of the Ask Dao Sect, the eldest senior sister cherishes the sect's reputation very much.

Although she didn't know what the reputation of the Ask Dao Sect was like outside.

Meng Jingzhou asked curiously, "Senior Sister, what happened to that governor afterward?"

"Later, he developed Qingzhou step by step. The Qingzhou Grand Ceremony you mentioned was his idea. The ceremony attracted many talented cultivators and had outstanding results. Other governors followed suit. Under his rule, Qingzhou became increasingly prosperous. After he achieved success, he retired and returned to his sect."

Lu Yang realized something. "Wait a minute, will people from our Five Great Immortal Sects be able to become officials in the imperial court?"

He also thought that the Five Great Immortal Sects held high positions and wielded great power, and that the Great Xia Dynasty, out of fear and suspicion, did not allow members of the Five Great Immortal Sects to hold official positions.

"Of course I'll give it up."

Meng Jingzhou gave Lu Yang an example. "The imperial court is eager for talented people. Where are the most talented people? Of course, it's the people of the Five Great Immortal Sects. The imperial court even invited the abbot of the Hanging Temple to serve as an official. If he had agreed, he would have become the prime minister. It's just that he didn't agree."

"And the Sect Master of the Prison Suppression Sect, the imperial court also invited him, but he declined."

"The imperial court would welcome talented young people like you and me to become officials. However, we are different from the abbot of the Hanging Temple; we need to pass the imperial examination to become officials."

The eldest sister reminded him, "Lu Yang, you cannot participate in the imperial examinations, nor can you become an official."

Lu Yang was taken aback. "Why?"

He had no intention of becoming an official, but he couldn't be denied even the opportunity to do so.

"Because of our master."

Lu Yang understood immediately. He was incredibly intelligent and grasped the key point right away: Twenty thousand years ago, the Ask Dao Sect was not the leader of the Five Great Immortal Sects. Now, the Ask Dao Sect is completely different and has become the undisputed number one immortal sect.

The imperial court was worried that the Ask Dao Sect too powerful, so it dared not Ask Dao Sect any of its disciples, or even its own Sect Master disciple, to official positions, lest the court and the public collude and undermine the rule of the Great Xia Dynasty.

The eldest sister continued, "Our master has committed many crimes, so his disciples, our grandmaster, cannot hold official positions."

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