The Path to Immortality

No matter how suspicious he was, it was impossible for them to come to ruin the party at this time... They could only come to congratulate and watch the ceremony.

Fang Ping immediately walked quickly to the outside of the cave, ready to personally greet the three guests.

The escape light descended from the sky and landed in front of the cave.

Taoist Yun Yi, wearing a wide robe with large sleeves and a transcendent temperament, walked in front.

Seeing Fang Ping waiting outside, he smiled a little more and said, "Nephew Fang, oh no, now I should call you Fellow Daoist Fang. It's good to succeed in building a foundation in one go!"

As he said that, he pointed to the two foundation builders behind him.

He introduced: "These two are Deacon Yang of the Talisman Hall and Elder Cui of the Law Enforcement Hall. They are both good friends who often sit and discuss Taoism with me. They learned that I have a junior who is on good terms with me to build a foundation, so they came to watch the ceremony."

Deacon of the Talisman Hall is fine. After all, among the four common skills of Danzhen Fuqi, the threshold of Fudao is the lowest.

But the identity of the late foundation builder and the elder of the Law Enforcement Hall is a bit scary.

As a disciple of Luoyang Sect for decades, Fang Ping knew very well what kind of ability and status this Elder Cui had in the sect.

Although he had never had any friendship with these two foundation-building cultivators before today, the moment he was introduced by Taoist Yun Yi, Fang Ping knew that these two must have been invited by Taoist Yun Yi to help him maintain his reputation.

This Taoist priest is thoughtful...

Fang Ping was somewhat touched, thanked Taoist Yun Yi, and then greeted Yang Cong and Cui Changyong one after another.

"The foundation is solid, the spirit is complete and the energy is full... Yun Yi, you, the junior, are indeed extraordinary."

Cui Changyong is in the late stage of foundation-building, with a strong spiritual sense. He vaguely sensed that Fang Ping's strength was not as simple as that of an ordinary new foundation-building cultivator, and he couldn't help but praise him.

Originally, he came here just for the sake of Taoist Yun Yi, and didn't take Fang Ping personally seriously. After seeing Fang Ping with his own eyes, he couldn't help but become more interested in Fang Ping.

Yang Cong didn't find anything special, but since Cui Changyong had spoken, he, who was familiar with his temper, couldn't help but secretly raise his evaluation of Fang Ping.

Faced with praise, Fang Ping was not surprised, smiled and said: "Three seniors, please."

Although according to the sect's rules, people of the same realm can already call each other fellow Taoists, but with Taoist Yun Yi present, Fang Ping still regarded himself as a junior and humbly called him senior.

Under his leadership, the three foundation-building cultivators walked into the courtyard outside the cave.

At this time, it was just noon, and because no other cultivators were invited, Fang Ping winked at Deacon Gu.

The latter understood and immediately announced loudly: "Noon is here! The foundation-building ceremony begins!"

Beside the courtyard, a disciple of Zhengyang Hall had already taken out an ancient bronze bell and struck it with magic power.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

The bell rang nine times in a row. With the infusion of mana, the low bell sound echoed on Yunyang Peak, and even the clouds in the nearby low sky were temporarily dispersed.

Another disciple who served as the master of ceremonies loudly recounted Fang Ping's life and his experience during his cultivation.

"In the 2312th year of Luoyang Sect, monk Fang Ping became an outer sect disciple. In the same year, he drew Qi into his body and achieved initial Qi training."

"In the 2322nd year of Luoyang Sect, he reached the fifth level of Qi training. After investigation, he was found to have good character and was promoted to the inner sect."

"In the 2349th year of Luoyang Sect, he completed Qi training and closed his eyes for 100 days to finally achieve foundation building."

"Luoyang Sect disciples, congratulations to Uncle Fang Ping!"

As if attracted by the ceremony, a large group of snow-white cranes flapped their wings and flew out from the mountain, circling over the cave, making auspicious sounds and not leaving for a long time.

Guan Mo and other inexperienced Qi training disciples were amazed.

But this little trick naturally could not be hidden from the foundation-building cultivators such as Taoist Yun Yi, who knew that there must be a disciple who was good at controlling beasts behind the scenes.

It must be said that at first glance, this scene does look a bit like the ancient cultivators who successfully built their foundations and got the Great Dao to manifest and hundreds of birds to come to pay homage.

In response, Cui Changyong and Yang Cong smiled but said nothing.

Elder Wu's eyes were already on the spiritual wine on the banquet table. If he smelled it correctly, it was the [Heavenly Fairy Jade Wine] that cost two hundred spirit stones per pot. He must drink it to his heart's content later.

Taoist Yun Yi's evaluation was only four words: "Fancy."

Fang Ping: "..."

Deacon Gu, you did a good job. Don't do it next time!

Fortunately, it was just a foundation-building ceremony, everything was simple, and it ended quickly, otherwise the eyes of several foundation-building cultivators would be a bit subtle.

After paying incense to the heaven and earth and the Great Dao, Fang Ping decisively announced the start of the banquet!

At this point, let's eat first.

At the table, Fang Ping was still willing to spend spirit stones.

Regardless of whether it was the table of Qi training disciples or the table of several foundation-building monks, the standard was far higher than other ordinary foundation-building ceremonies.

The several foundation-building monks were quite satisfied, and even Cui Changyong moved his chopsticks slightly.

While eating and drinking, he casually chatted with Fang Ping about some interesting things about the sect's senior leaders, and occasionally talked about some cultivation tips after foundation-building, which benefited Fang Ping a lot.

………

As an elder of the Law Enforcement Hall, Cui Changyong was still very busy on weekdays.

After staying for only half an hour, this elder Cui was the first to get up and say goodbye.

Perhaps because he had a good impression of Fang Ping, this elder Cui fumbled in the storage bag for a while, seemed a little hesitant, and finally took out a small blue-black shield with coiled snakes and black tortoise patterns on the surface.

"I came in a hurry and didn't prepare any other gifts."

"This [Pan Snake Turtle Shield] is a low-grade spiritual weapon. It was obtained when I killed a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building. I will give it to you as a gift for foundation building."

He gave a low-grade self-defense spiritual weapon right away!

Fang Ping had a real understanding of the elder's wealth.

He glanced at Taoist Yun Yi and saw the latter nodded slightly. Fang Ping then took the gift and thanked him.

After Cui Changyong left, Yang Cong also presented his gift.

Although he could not give a spiritual weapon, the gift he gave was enough to surprise people. It was a first-grade top-grade talisman drawn by himself!

[Five Thunder Talisman]!

This is a purely offensive talisman, which contains power that is difficult for cultivators in the early stage of foundation building to resist.

Even ordinary cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building who dare to resist the Five Thunder Talisman will suffer considerable damage.

"With my current attainments in the art of talismans, I can only draw some common first-grade middle-grade talismans. This Five Thunder Talisman was drawn with great difficulty, so I will give it to you for self-defense."

After saying that, Yang Cong also stood up and left.

Seeing Cui Changyong and Yang Cong, one gave out a low-grade spiritual weapon, and the other gave out a first-grade high-grade talisman drawn by himself, Taoist Yun Yi shook his head helplessly.

"I was thinking of giving some gifts, but now it seems that I can't give them out."

He sighed, took out a fire control secret technique of the alchemy from his storage bag, and handed it to Fang Ping.

"This secret technique was accidentally discovered and sorted out when I was looking through the ancient Taoist texts a few years ago. After it is cultivated, it will be of great help to the alchemist in controlling the fire."

"I heard that you have made some progress in the alchemy, so I gave you this secret technique."

As soon as he finished speaking, Taoist Yun Yi took out another book about ancient Taoist texts, which had many of his handwritten notes, and gave it to Fang Ping.