Rank Advancement Celebration: The Overtures and Tests of the Various True Spirit Lineages (Happy New Year's Eve!)
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March passed in the blink of an eye, and the day for the Kong Household to hold the "Jinpin Celebration Banquet" arrived.
Over the past three months, the various True Spirit Lineage who came to participate in the celebration banquet have arrived one after another and settled in Peacock County Seat. As expected, in addition to the True Spirit Lineage in Bifang Commandery, some True Spirit Lineage from the neighboring Qinggeng Commandery, Zhuyan Commandery, and Huodou Commandery have also sent people over. This has brought a lot of prosperity and business to Peacock County Seat.
According to past practice, the "promotion celebration banquet" for Low-Grade True Spirit Lineage of the ninth to seventh rank is usually only attended by True Spirit Lineage from the same prefecture.
The fact that the Kong Household received congratulations from neighboring counties' True Spirit Lineage is clearly not normal.
Clearly, these True Spirit Lineage hold the Kong Household in high regard, and are therefore willing to make connections with them in advance.
After all, it is extremely rare for a family like the Kong Household to grow from a servant Lineage to Seventh-Grade True Spirit Lineage in just Star Inlaying or sixty years, becoming a top-tier family among Low-Grade True Spirit Lineage. This is even rarer in the tens of thousands of years of history of the entire "True Spirit Realm".
At that time, the Kong Household will be on par with the Lineage of the prefects of various counties.
Although the difficulty of breaking through from Low-Grade True Spirit Lineage to Middle-Grade True Spirit Lineage family is far greater than the advancement within Low-Grade True Spirit Lineage, often hundreds or even thousands of seventh-grade True Spirit Lineage may not succeed.
However, under the leadership of Kong Wenxuan, the Kong Household has already created one miracle after another, and no one can guarantee that they will not create another miracle.
Therefore, these True Spirit Lineage are willing to establish good relations with the Kong Household in advance.
Because of the congratulatory visits from the True Spirit Lineage in neighboring counties, the scale of the "Promotion Celebration Banquet" for the "Seventh-Grade True Spirit" Lineage held by the Kong Household this time was far greater than that of the previous "Promotion Celebration Banquet" for the "Eighth-Grade True Spirit" Lineage.
The clansmen even set up a banquet in "Peacock County Seat" to invite all the cultivators and common people in the city to participate and celebrate the Kong Household's promotion to the "Seventh-Grade True Spirit" Lineage.
However, the main celebration banquet was held at the Kong Household's "Peacock Manor" at the foot of Longevity Mountain. The cultivators from various True Spirit Lineage who came to offer their congratulations also attended the banquet at the manor, accompanied by Kong Household cultivators, and drank spiritual wine, shared spiritual food and spiritual fruit.
The entire celebration banquet followed the same procedure as the "Promotion Celebration Banquet" of the "Eighth-Grade True Spirit" Lineage.
First, there was a lively banquet to entertain everyone.
Then came the "Lectures on the Dao and the Laws." Currently, the Kong Household only has Kong Wenxuan, a Fourth Tier Golden Core True Person, so this "Lecture" was still given by Kong Wenxuan himself.
The content he spoke of was still the Way of the Five Elements, which is the most widespread and fundamental category in cultivation. Although the various True Spirit Lineage who came to He were different in terms of bloodline, Divine Ability, and inheritance, most of them were still within the scope of the Five Elements.
Therefore, Kong Wenxuan's direct explanation of the Five Elements was the most beneficial to the majority of people.
Of course, the "Five Elements Dao" he talked about on this "lecture platform" was basically the more basic part, so that the lower-level cultivators who attended the banquet could all benefit from it.
Most of the Fourth Tier Golden Core True Person were truly at the same level as him had already discussed the Dao with him privately. For these peers, the "Daoist discourse" at the celebration banquet was more of a formality.
After Kong Wenxuan finished his sermon, the disciples from various families began to discuss the Dharma.
However, this time the situation is different from the "promotion celebration banquet" of the "Eighth-Grade True Spirit" Lineage. At that time, only the True Spirit Lineage in Bifang Commandery came to congratulate them. Therefore, the Kong Household disciples only needed to discuss the law with the disciples of the True Spirit Lineage in the same county, such as the Ya Household, Jiao Household, Fu Household, and He Household family, to determine who was superior and who was the winner.
However, this time, the True Spirit Lineage families who came to congratulate the "Seventh-Grade True Spirit" Lineage on their "Advancement Celebration Banquet" were not only from Bifang Commandery, but also included True Spirit Lineage members from some neighboring counties.
At the suggestion of some, the disciples of the True Spirit Lineage from these neighboring counties who came to offer their congratulations also wanted to join in this discussion.
Furthermore, these True Spirit Lineage who came to offer congratulations even provided some rewards and benefits as bargaining chips in the debate.
This mainly involves the interests of trade routes, markets, and shops in neighboring counties.
Kong Wenxuan could see that this was partly due to the goodwill and friendly relations between the True Spirit Lineage of these neighboring counties and the Kong Household, which was why they were deliberately opening up and giving up some trade routes and shop interests.
On the other hand, it was also a test of the Kong Household's strength and methods. If the Kong Household wanted to seize the interests of trade routes, markets and shops in these neighboring counties, they had to send their Lineage members to defeat the Lineage members of these neighboring counties in this legal debate.
After all, they could all see that the Kong Household was able to create such a miracle in just fifty or sixty years mainly due to Kong Wenxuan's personal abilities, so they naturally respected and valued Kong Wenxuan very much.
However, Kong Wenxuan was only one person. They still needed to assess the strength, methods, and foundation of the Kong Household Lineage as a whole, as well as the strength and methods of the ordinary cultivators and disciples of the Kong Household, to see if they could keep up with the development of the Kong Household.
This will determine the extent to which they maintain good relations with and attach importance to the Kong Household.
If the Kong Household members lack strength and means, and the entire Kong Household relies solely on Kong Wenxuan, then as long as Kong Wenxuan is still alive, they will continue to maintain good relations with the Kong Household, albeit to a limited extent.
However, if the descendants of the Kong Household family are also quite capable and can keep up with the growth rate of the Kong Household, then they will value the Kong Household even more and the degree of friendship will be further enhanced.
Kong Wenxuan could see the implication, so he naturally did not intend to stop it.
He had some confidence in the strength and abilities of his Lineage's disciples. They were all cultivating the Five Elements True Scripture and refining the Five Elements Divine Swords and Five Elements Talisman Slips. Even if Lineage strength and abilities were not as good as his, they were definitely among the top in their level.
Therefore, he and the Kong Household were not afraid of these equally qualified arguments.
Soon, the process of this debate was determined, which was divided into three different levels: the Qi Refinement level debate, the Foundation Establishment level debate, and the Purple Mansion Stage debate.
Each of the True Spirit Lineage that came to offer their congratulations decided how many people to send and which level of the Dharma discussion to participate in; not all of them needed to participate.
The Kong Household would send disciples of different ranks to participate in all three levels of debates to determine the winner.