Controlling the Five Thunders and the Two Worlds

Chapter 404 Gexuan Mountain Spiritual Treasure Sect
Gan Province, Gexuan Mountain.

As the last of the Three Mountains of Talismans, it is actually the least prominent of them all. In fact, its lineage was even interrupted at one point. If it weren't for the fact that there are still branches in other places, it would probably have lost its lineage altogether.

For example, Master Qingye, who is sitting in the backyard of Chongzhen Palace drinking tea, is actually from Fujian Province. However, he cultivates the Lingbao lineage and has high Taoist cultivation and seniority. That's why he was invited to become the first abbot after the reconstruction of Chongzhen Palace.

However, Master Qingye did not serve as abbot for long. After sorting out the lineage, he handed over the position and spent his days leisurely sightseeing, meditating and cultivating in the mountains, living a very comfortable life.

Although Gexuan Mountain is very famous in Taoism, being the ancestral home of the Lingbao School, one of the three mountains of Zhengyi Talismanism, it is actually located in a remote area and is not a very famous scenic spot. It is much more remote than Sanmao Mountain, Longhu Tianshan Mountain, or even Feiyun Mountain.

Therefore, Master Qingye has always lived a leisurely life.

However, he has been anything but idle lately.

There were too many people coming up the mountain, especially those surnamed Ge. They all claimed to be related to Ge Xuan, saying that one was a 78th-generation descendant, another an 89th-generation descendant, and some even had family genealogies!

"Isn't this nonsense?" Master Qingye shook his head speechlessly.

"Master, are you really unable to fly?" a young Taoist priest asked expectantly.

Master Qingye chewed the tea leaves he had just put in his mouth, swallowed them, and smacked his lips. "Of course not."

The young Taoist priest didn't believe it. "Even Master Mingchong of the Celestial Master's Mansion can fly, so why can't you? You're much more powerful than him!"

Master Qingye pointed to the cliff next to him, "I can fly. Go up and jump down, and I will fly over to catch you."

The young Taoist priest shook his head vigorously, "I'm not going!"

"Then why are you asking?" Master Qingye shook his head.

"I was just curious," the young Taoist priest chuckled. "I've also cultivated internal energy, but I haven't felt any spiritual energy resurgence."

“Our Gexuan Mountain is a famous Taoist mountain. There’s no reason why Qingcheng Mountain and Longhu Tianshan Mountain, and even Laoshan Mountain, have seen their spiritual energy recover, while we’ve overlooked our Gexuan Mountain, right?”

"What spiritual energy revival?" Master Qingye chuckled, shaking his head and laughing. "It's because someone discovered a blessed land and took those old guys there."

"Huh?" The young Taoist priest exclaimed in surprise, "Master, you know?"

Master Qingye drank another cup of tea. “Your master is, after all, the Supreme Elder of Xuanshan of the Three Mountains of Talismans. I know Shenhao of Sanmao Mountain and Mingyu of the Celestial Master’s Mansion. How could I not know?”

"Daoist Shenhao and Daoist Mingyu can fly too?" The young Daoist's eyes widened.

"Yes," Master Qingye said calmly.

"Then why don't you go to that blessed land?"

"Of course, it's because my time hasn't come yet."

"Why does going to a blessed land require such a special opportunity?"

"Everything depends on opportunity," Master Qingye said with a smile. "Isn't your becoming my disciple an opportunity?"

The young Taoist priest couldn't help but scratch his head and chuckle, "That's true."

The young Taoist priest, whose Taoist name is Xiuming, is only twenty-two years old this year and has just graduated from university, but he has been practicing Taoism for nineteen years. As an abandoned orphan, he was adopted by Taoist Master Qingye shortly after birth. As a member of the Xiu generation of the Lingbao School, he is very young but has a high seniority. Many middle-aged Taoist priests on the mountain who are in their forties or fifties but entered the sect late all call him "Uncle-Master".

"Tell me the details," Xiu Ming asked curiously. "Besides, you've never mentioned it before. If it weren't for Master Ming Chong's miraculous appearance, I wouldn't know anything at all."

"Because the time is not right, there's no point in saying anything," Master Qingye said matter-of-factly.

"As for the specifics, neither Shenhao nor Mingyu told me," said Daoist Qingye. "I'm still concerned about that old man Shenhao's health. When I called him, his disciple Hanzheng vaguely mentioned it to me."

"Later, Shenhao called me back and only said that if I had cultivated the true path of inner energy, I would have an opportunity, and told me to focus on my cultivation."

Master Qingye pursed his lips. "I thought he was just getting old and senile, so I called Mingyu, but he wasn't there either. Zhiqing answered the phone, giving the same excuse about the patriarch being in seclusion."

"We're all old foxes, what are you talking about with this ghost story?" Master Qingye sneered. "It's not like I don't go into seclusion, but that doesn't stop me from eating, drinking, relieving myself, sleeping, or answering the phone!"
Later, Mingyu called me back, and just like that old guy Shenhao said, not long after, people from the system came to Gexuan Mountain to register their True Dao information. I could sense spiritual energy from them.

The young Taoist priest Xiuming was taken aback. "They can cultivate too?"

“They cannot cultivate, but they carry spiritual talismans, the kind drawn by true cultivators.” Master Qingye shook his head. “Even your master, who has cultivated for fifty or sixty years, could not draw such a spiritual talisman.”

Based on various sources and considering the frequent disappearances of Shen Hao and Ming Yu, I suspect that someone discovered a place filled with spiritual energy, similar to a blessed land, and then led them inside.

Moreover, this blessed land should have some limitations. Either the area is not large, or the spiritual energy output is limited. In any case, there must be a limit to the number of people that can be brought in.

I did the math, and Mingyu should have left first, followed by Shenhao and Mingchong. Later, I contacted them again and found that Zhiqing and Hanzheng were also missing, which shows that they were leading people in batches.

But I estimate that the spiritual energy in this blessed land should be sustainable; otherwise, Shen Hao and Ming Yu wouldn't have given me hope over the phone, and the people within the system wouldn't be wearing talismans.

The young Taoist Xiuming felt a bit indignant on behalf of his master, "It's one thing to be Uncle-Master Shenhao, Mingyu, and Uncle-Master Mingchong, but why are Senior Brother Zhiqing and Senior Brother Hanzheng also in front?"

Master Qingye smiled but remained silent.

The young Taoist priest Xiuming was a little embarrassed. "I was just saying."

Master Qingye nodded, "You have achieved great success in your cultivation, you shouldn't have said such things."

Xiu Ming poured his master another cup of tea, then asked expectantly, "Will I have a chance to go?"

"Then you've asked the wrong person," Master Qingye laughed. "I don't even know which direction the gate to that blessed land faces, how would I know if you can go there?"

"Then you're wrong. A blessed land, where would you get a gate?"

Master Qingye and young Taoist Xiuming turned around abruptly and saw Master Mingchong walking side by side with a young man.

Xiu Ming immediately stood up, bowed, and said, "Greetings, Uncle Ming Chong!"

Master Qingye's eyes lit up, and he immediately knew that his opportunity had come. He first greeted Master Mingchong, and then looked at the young man in casual clothes next to him.

"Qingye from the Lingbao Sect of Gexuan Mountain greets fellow Daoist!"

"Gu Zhao of the Great Luo Palace greets Daoist Qingye!"

(End of this chapter)