Chronicles of Celestial Origins

The Xuanmen Alliance Army is stationed in the middle of Tianyuan City, located in an empty valley.

In front of the majestic cave, two rays of light fell, revealing the figures of two men. The leader of the two men was none other than Tang Ning.

The man behind him is Shangguan Xuanran, a disciple of the Palm Seal Department of Qingxuan Palace. This man is a nephew of Shangguan Yuancheng's family and a close confidant of Shangguan Yuancheng. At that time, he was the one who summoned him back to the mountain gate. He sent him to take office in the Xuanmen coalition.

Soon, a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of the Xuanmen Alliance came out. His eyes passed over Shangguan Yuancheng and looked at Tang Ning. He bowed and said, "Are you Senior Tang Ning?"

Tang Ning nodded and said, "Yes, I am right here. Do you know Tang?"

"I have never met my senior. I just heard that Senior Tang will go to the headquarters to take up a post. Now I see my senior wearing Taixuanzong clothes, so I have this suspicion."

"I have been assigned by the leader of our sect to come here. Today I am here to pay a visit to fellow Taoist Master Ying."

"Senior please."

"Uncle Tang, since Senior Ying has known about your arrival, this disciple will not follow you in, so we will take our leave." The Shangguan behind him said solemnly.

He was originally ordered by Shangguan Yuan to introduce him to Ying Yuan, the chief of the Xuanmen Alliance Army. Now that Ying Yuan had already known about this, there was no need to follow him.

"Okay, go ahead! I'll help you." Tang Ning followed the Qingzong man into the inner room and arrived at the spacious and bright waiting room.

"Senior, please wait a moment while I go to report to my ancestors." The man bowed, turned and left. Not long after, footsteps were heard outside, and an old man with gray hair on his temples and a kind-hearted look came in from outside.

Tang Ning looked around and saw that this person's aura had reached the middle stage of Mahayana. He must be the leader of the Xuanmen Alliance Army, Ying Yuan, so he stood up and saluted, "Fellow Daoist Ying, I'm sorry to bother you."

"You're welcome, Fellow Taoist Tang. Please take a seat." Ying Yuan returned the greeting with a smile, and the two of them took their seats respectively: "I heard from Fellow Taoist Rao that your sect would send a fellow Taoist to replace him in the headquarters. I didn't expect that fellow Taoist would come so soon. On behalf of The whole department welcomes Fellow Taoist Tang to join us and hopes to cooperate sincerely in the future.”

"I'm a newbie here, and I don't know much about the affairs of the Xuanmen Alliance. I hope fellow Taoist Ying can give me some advice in the future."

"This is what it should be. If Taoist Fellow Tang has any questions in the future, feel free to come to me. I once heard Fellow Taoist Rao say that Fellow Taoist Tang had been serving in Qingzhou before and had only recently broken through to the Mahayana realm. I wonder if that's the case?"

"Yes, I have been working in Qingzhou before, and I was lucky enough to break through to the Mahayana realm recently."

Ying Yuan looked at him and said with deep meaning: "This Tianyuan City is not big or small. Although our four Xuanmen are working on their own affairs, they have always maintained close contact. For such a major event as Taoist Tang's breakthrough to the Mahayana realm, I actually did it." I didn't hear any news beforehand. In normal times, if any of the four Dzogchen disciples were going to attack Mahayana, the news would have spread all over the place, but fellow Taoist disciples seemed to fall from the sky, which was really surprising. ”

"To be honest, I have not carried out an attack on the Mahayana realm at the mountain gate, so Fellow Daoist Ying has never heard of it."

"Oh? This is strange. As far as I know, all the monks of your sect who broke through the Mahayana did so at the mountain gate. Why didn't fellow Taoist Tang return to Tianyuan City?"

"It was really a fluke that I was able to break through the Mahayana. I got the opportunity in a secret realm in space, and I directly made an impact on the Mahayana realm in that secret realm."

"This is a strange thing. This attack on the Mahayana realm is no small matter. Even for the entire sect, it is also a major event. Not to mention the many preparations in the early stage, even when it comes to the final step, we must be cautious. I still remember that I When attacking the Mahayana, it was like walking on thin ice. Until the day of the impact, the entire mountain gate was under martial law. But Fellow Taoist Tang actually attacked the Mahayana in a secret space. It can be said that he is very brave. "

"At that time, I was trapped in a secret realm and couldn't get out. It happened to be an ancient ruins there. There was abundant spiritual energy between heaven and earth, so I had no choice but to take the risk."

"I see. No wonder there is no news about Fellow Taoist Tang breaking through to the Mahayana. Having said that, Fellow Taoist Tang looks so young, so his cultivation must have been smooth sailing so far! I wonder how old he is now?"

"I have been practicing cultivation for nearly three thousand years."

"It took three thousand years to break through the Mahayana realm." A look of obvious surprise appeared on Ying Yuan's face, and he exclaimed repeatedly: "A genius, a genius, Taoist Taoist Tang is really like a dragon or a phoenix among men. Ying has never heard of Taoist Taoist name before. No. It seems that he is really old and ignorant.”

The two chatted, and it was clear that Ying Yuan knew nothing about Tang Ning. When he learned that he was less than three thousand years old at this time, he couldn't help but be surprised by his life and asked him repeatedly about his deeds.

Tangning wasn't that impatient at all. She said what she should say and what shouldn't be said and just dealt with it casually.

With his current popularity, it will only be a matter of time before his deeds spread throughout Tianyuan City. The other major sects may not have known about him before, but as the news of his Mahayana breakthrough spreads, they will definitely pay attention to him and learn about him. His basic situation.

Anyone who is interested can easily learn about his past deeds by just making a little inquiry, so there is no need for him to hide it. This is not a secret in itself.

During the conversation between the two, Tang Ning also learned some basic information about Ying Yuan and the Shangqing Sect. His position in the Shangqing Sect was the steward of the Xuande Hall. The Ying family, who was born in one of the four great aristocratic families, has been practicing Buddhism for 12,000 years. , under normal circumstances, there is only more than a thousand years of life left.

The life span of a monk in the early stage of Mahayana is about 10,000 years, that of a monk in the middle stage is 13,000 years, and that of a monk in the later stage is 16,000 years.

Although Yingyuan had mid-level Mahayana cultivation, he only served as the steward of the Xuande Hall in the Shangqing Sect. This also shows how powerful the Shangqing Sect is. Comparing the two, the Shangqing Sect is not a bit stronger than the Taixuan Sect.

The middle-stage Mahayana monks of Taixuanzong were at least at the level of the masters of each hall. The masters of Qingxuan Hall, Xuande Hall, and Yuanyi Hall all had middle-stage Mahayana cultivation.

However, the middle-stage Mahayana monks of the Shangqing Sect can only hold administrative positions. Because the masters of their three halls are all late-stage Mahayana monks, the Shangqing Sect now has a total of twenty-three Mahayana monks stationed in the sect. Get up, there are forty-one Mahayana monks.

The total number of Taixuanzong Mahayana monks is only seventeen, including Tang Ning, there are only eighteen.

Regardless of the level of cultivation, the number of Mahayana monks in the Shangqing Sect is more than twice that of the Taixuan Sect.

This is also the foundation and strength of being the head of the four major sects.

After chatting for a long time, Tang Ning got up and left, before being taken to Rao Yiyuan's cave to rest.

The next day, while he was practicing in his mansion with his eyes closed, there was a knock on the door. Tang Ning opened his eyes and the stone door opened. A disciple of Taixuan Sect came in from the outside. He was sent to him by Guo Qiuhua, the master of Yuanyi Palace of Taixuan Sect. The attendant, named Jia Yuan, said: "I am reporting to Master Tang's uncle, Senior Ying has sent someone to ask you to go to the meeting hall immediately."

Tangning nodded and walked out.

At this moment, in the spacious and bright meeting hall, three Mahayana monks from the Xuanmen Alliance were already sitting.

Sitting on the main seat is Ying Yuan, the Shangqing Emperor.

Sitting on the left side is a man in his forties with a babyish face and a slightly overweight figure.

Sitting on the right side is a middle-aged man with a slim figure, a white face and a beardless appearance, looking like a gentle Confucian scholar.

"Fellow Daoist Ying, why did you invite us here today?" The man on the left asked after taking his seat.

"It's nothing. I'm just here to introduce a newly appointed fellow Taoist to the two acquaintances. Fellow Taoist Rao Yi has returned to Taixuan Sect to serve, and a new Mahayana monk named Tang Ning has been sent there. . We will all work together in the future, so I call two fellow Taoists to get to know each other."

The man on the left frowned slightly: "Taixuanzong's newly promoted Mahayana monk? Why haven't you heard of it? When did it happen?"

"He has been serving in Qingzhou before, and even after breaking through the Mahayana, he has not returned to the Taixuan Sect. Therefore, it is normal that Fellow Daoist Yi has not heard about it. If Fellow Daoist Rao had not greeted me before leaving, I would not have known about it. "

The elegant man on the right smiled slightly: "Fellow Taoist Tang is finally here? I have long wanted to meet this real person."

The man on the left said, "Listening to what Fellow Daoist Deng said, it seems that I know something about Fellow Daoist Tang Ning."

The elegant man said: "I don't know much about him, I just heard a little about his deeds. Last time I went back to the mountain gate to deal with some affairs, and when I was chatting with a senior brother of our sect, I talked about this fellow Taoist Tang Ning. He said There is a new Mahayana monk in Taixuan Sect who has returned to Taixuan Mountain Gate. Out of curiosity, I asked about this person’s origin, but I was really surprised when I asked him.”

"This fellow Taoist Tang Ning is not a simple person. It is said that he is not a direct descendant of Taixuan Zong, but a Xuanmen monk on a small island in Qinghai between Qingzhou and Mubei. Later, due to the demon clan of Mubei moving south, all Xuanmen on the island evacuated Qingzhou , after many twists and turns, he joined Taixuanzong halfway. "

"Since then, his cultivation has been advancing rapidly. The most amazing thing is that it only took less than 600 years for him to advance from the early stage of integration to Mahayana, and his entire cultivation career has only lasted more than 2,000 years."

"What? It only took less than six hundred years to go from integration to Mahayana realm?" The fat baby man showed an unbelievable look when he heard this: "This is impossible! No one can break through from integration to Mahayana realm in such a short time , this must be a myth.”

"When I first heard it, I was also surprised. I confirmed it with the senior brother of our sect again and again. Although it was a bit unbelievable, it was indeed true. I didn't expect that this fellow Taoist Tang Ning would come to our headquarters. Fellow Taoist Deng really didn't believe it. When he came, Afterwards, it will be clearer if you ask.”

Ying Yuan's eyes flickered slightly and he said in a deep voice: "What Taoist Fellow Yi said is most likely true. When I chatted with him yesterday, he said personally that he has been practicing for less than three thousand years. At that time, I was surprised that he actually Breaking through the Mahayana realm at such a young age, it turns out that this is the secret. Fellow Daoist Yi, Guizong is very well-informed! He found out his life story so quickly." (End of this chapter)