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Hearing this, Lu Yunsheng had no choice but to put down his chopsticks, quickly swallowed the food in his mouth, and looked at Gong Yuanhuan with an innocent face.

Seeing Lu Yunsheng looking so uncomfortable, Gong Yuanhuan smiled and said, "You should eat. We can talk while we eat."

Lu Yunsheng didn't dare to look directly at Gong Yuanhuan's beautiful face. He just nodded but didn't move his chopsticks.

Gong Yuanhuan was helpless when he saw this, so he had to continue asking, "What does Pavilion Master Lu think of this spiritual treasure?"

Lu Yunsheng was stunned when he heard this. He glanced at the cultivators in the hall and said slowly, "Me? What can a small follower like me in the early stage of Yuanying think? Well, I have no opinion, and I dare not have one."

Gong Yuanhuan burst out laughing after hearing this: "Pavilion Master Lu, you are really joking. Even though there are so many cultivators gathered here, I only look at you with new eyes."

After these words were spoken, not only Lu Yunsheng, but even Huang Yiren who was beside Lu Yunsheng heard something was wrong.

But Lu Yunsheng still pretended to be calm and said to Gong Yuanhuan: "Miss Gong really flattered me."

Seeing Lu Yunsheng's serious expression, Gong Yuanhuan whispered, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore. This is your first time attending the Merchant Alliance Conference, so you probably don't know the procedures. How about I explain it to you?"

In fact, Lu Yunsheng was just about to discuss this with Huang Yiren, but since Gong Yuanhuan took the initiative to bring it up, he couldn't refuse, so he could only nod and say, "Then I'll trouble you, Miss Gong."

"The Ten Domain Business Alliance Conference is usually divided into three stages. The first stage is the trading of natural treasures and the exchange of resources. Some of the precious treasures can only be exchanged by barter. So if Pavilion Master Lu wants to exchange some treasures, he needs to prepare some treasures in advance."

Lu Yunsheng nodded upon hearing this.

Gong Yuanhuan continued, "The second stage is the various competitions between the two forces, such as refining pills, refining magic weapons, and refining talismans. In this stage, cultivators in the Spiritualization Stage are not allowed to participate. We will select the cultivators who are best at these aspects in advance. For example, Master Huang is the one we selected in advance to represent us in the alchemy competition. Unfortunately, our four domain cultivators have lost five consecutive times in this stage."

When Lu Yunsheng heard this, he was also stunned.

From what Palace Master said just now, although he already knew that the Six Realms cultivators were very powerful, he did not expect them to be so strong. Judging from this competition alone, the Four Realms cultivators simply had no power to resist at all.

Gong Yuanhuan knew what Lu Yunsheng was thinking from his expression, and he continued helplessly, "The third stage is the ultimate goal of this conference, collecting spiritual tea. The winning party can send thirty people to the mountains to pick tea, while the losing party can only send twenty people. Even Divine Transformation cultivators are not allowed to participate in this stage."

"Collecting spiritual tea? The Ten Domain Business Alliance Conference held once every hundred years is for collecting spiritual tea? Is there something special about this spiritual tea?" Lu Yunsheng asked curiously.

Listening to Lu Yunsheng's question, Gong Yuanhuan smiled and said, "Pavilion Master Lu is indeed smart. This spiritual tea is indeed not an ordinary spiritual tea, but a mutant of spiritual tea. No matter whether it is a cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage or a Nascent Soul Stage, after drinking this tea, there is a certain chance that they will enter a state of enlightenment, thereby greatly improving their control over the power of heaven and earth. It is even possible to directly enter the Tao, so this tea is called the Enlightenment Tea."

"What?!" Lu Yunsheng exclaimed in surprise after hearing this.

Lu Yunsheng knew the importance of sudden enlightenment, and he also knew how important it was for a cultivator to enter the Tao.

Shengyang once told him that there are only two ways to control the power of heaven and earth and use it against the enemy.

Either break through to the Spiritual Transformation Stage, or enter the Dao. And now, this spiritual tea for enlightenment actually has the opportunity to help cultivators enter the Dao. It is really too incredible.

Lu Yunsheng pondered the information in Gong Yuan's illusion, and suddenly found a problem. He immediately asked: "Enlightenment can indeed improve your understanding of the power of heaven and earth, but if you don't enter the Tao, you can't control the power of heaven and earth, right?"

Hearing this, Gong Yuanhuan smiled and said, "Actually, it is possible."

When Lu Yunsheng heard this, his heart was filled with turmoil. Indeed, he remembered that Shengyang himself had said that his understanding of Taoism was all hearsay.

Seeing Lu Yunsheng's puzzled look, Gong Yuanhuan continued to explain: "Some of the 'momentum' and 'intention' we have comprehended are actually the most superficial 'Tao'. It is precisely because we have comprehended it too superficially that the power of heaven and earth that we can control can be ignored. With the help of the Tao Enlightenment Tea, we can continue to improve our understanding of the 'Tao'. When we reach a certain level, even if we have not entered the Tao, we can control the power of heaven and earth around us in a small range to fight against the enemy. Naturally, the wider the range of control, the stronger the combat power."

"So that's it!" Lu Yunsheng suddenly realized.

"In the Nascent Soul stage, those cultivators who can control the power of heaven and earth to fight against the enemy are the ones with the highest combat power. Therefore, these cultivators from the six regions have defeated us for five consecutive times during the competition. Each time, they collected much more spiritual tea for enlightenment than us. After five hundred years of snowballing, we have become increasingly unable to resist. I'm afraid the situation will get worse in the future." When Gong Yuanhuan said this, his face was full of worry.

Seeing Gong Yuanhuan's frowning and worried look, Lu Yunsheng couldn't help but comfort her: "Miss Gong, don't worry. Things change over time. Things may change over time."

Gong Yuanhuan sighed and said, "Hey, Pavilion Master Lu, you don't know that this Enlightenment Tea grows on the Tingxue Mountain, thirty miles south of the city. It sprouts new buds every hundred years, and the yield each time is only two or three kilograms. We lose to the cultivators from the Six Regions every time we compete, so we have fewer people than them when collecting tea, and the amount of tea we collect is less, but this is not a big deal. The main thing is that every time we collect tea, these cultivators from the Six Regions will take the opportunity to hunt down our Nascent Soul cultivators, causing our strength to become weaker and weaker. Some cultivators are even afraid to come to the Ten Regions Business Alliance Conference."

After hearing this, Lu Yunsheng finally understood why he and Huang Yiren were the only ones from Canglan Domain to attend this conference.

He came to participate without knowing it, but Huang Yiren had obviously participated in this business alliance conference.

Thinking of this, Lu Yunsheng couldn't help but admire Huang Yiren's courage even more.

"Miss Gong, this Enlightenment Tea should belong to the natural treasures of your Seven Treasures Region. Why do you allow these outsiders to collect it?"