Black Night Filled the Sky
Chapter 228 The Grand Ceremony of Investiture is Approaching, An Immortal Descends!
Only two days remained until the grand conferral ceremony.
The entire Great Luo Holy Land was bustling with preparations for the Holy Master's conferral.
Everyone, from top to bottom, was in a frenzy.
Mainly because the elders had all ascended, leaving behind disciples who, while not completely useless, found it difficult to take over all responsibilities immediately.
Fortunately, due to the spiritual belief in Lu Changsheng, the morale of the Great Luo Holy Land remained extremely high.
Inside the Great Luo Palace.
Lu Changsheng placed the jade scroll in his hand down and let out a long breath.
He had finally sorted out the personnel matters.
With the ascension of a large number of elders, many positions were vacant in each hall and department. Now was a time of great revival, and Lu Changsheng had been busy with this matter for almost the entire day.
Many of the 108 true disciples had also ascended, leaving only less than thirty-six now. Originally, there weren't even that many.
In fact, so many true disciples wouldn't have ascended if it hadn't been for the fact that after the Sword Opened the Heavenly Gate, a large amount of immortal qi poured out, and many prodigies were nourished by it.
Then, many prodigies directly broke through their cultivation realms and immediately ascended.
When other fellow prodigies saw this, they thought, "Oh, I didn't expect that you were secretly cultivating behind my back!"
Normally, everyone was in a competitive relationship. Seeing that you had ascended, they didn't hold back and directly absorbed immortal qi like crazy, making a concerted effort to ascend together.
As a result, only thirty-six true disciples remained.
Moreover, several of the remaining thirty-six true disciples were holding their breaths, desperately trying to cultivate and ascend, with no sense of responsibility to the Holy Land at all. If Lu Changsheng hadn't reprimanded them,
it was estimated that there would really be no one left to use.
However, this ascension could also be considered a reshuffle for the righteous path of the world. Basically, outer disciples were promoted to inner disciples, and inner disciples were promoted to core disciples.
As for core disciples, many were also promoted to true disciples. After all, the position of true disciple was extraordinary and couldn't be given casually, but still, quite a few were promoted.
But the most troublesome problem at the moment was the demon race, the demonic sects, and some evil cultivators. These were the most troublesome.
Everything else was easier to handle.
Inside the Great Luo Palace.
Lu Changsheng sighed.
He was so nervous.
What should he do if a righteous-evil war really broke out?
In fact, with his current strength, he wasn't really worried about anyone coming to his door. After all, the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda (Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda) could protect the Great Luo Holy Land from defeat.
And his own strength was even more needless to say. He could shatter the Great Luo Ancient Bell with one punch. What were Tribulation and Mahayana cultivators? He could deal with them effortlessly.
But the biggest problem now was that if a war broke out, the entire cultivation world would be plunged into misery, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it would be a catastrophe.
At that time, even if the Great Luo Holy Land survived, Lu Changsheng would still feel a sense of guilt.
This wasn't being a saint.
Anyone with a decent set of values would feel guilty.
After all, the whole thing was caused by him.
The Sword Opened the Heavenly Gate, sending away the top power of the righteous path and leaving behind the top power of the evil path. If something really happened, then it would definitely be his fault.
"Should I open a demon gate and a demon gate again?"
Lu Changsheng thought to himself.
But he quickly shook his head.
The Sword Opening the Heavenly Gate couldn't be done casually. Someone had to undergo tribulation, and it had to be the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. Otherwise, even if he wanted to open the Heavenly Gate with his sword, it would be difficult.
Unless he forcibly cheated.
But well, having already accumulated so much karma, Lu Changsheng himself was a little worried.
It wasn't that he was embarrassed about owing too much. The main thing was that he had to save some for use in the Immortal World, right?
If he used it all up in the cultivation world, what would he do when he got to the Immortal World?
What if he needed to do something big in the Immortal World and he had nothing to do?
So he had to save something for the Immortal World.
However, although he was very nervous, Lu Changsheng wasn't without ideas.
The first idea was very simple: seek peace!
Yes, that's right, seek peace!
After all, Lu Changsheng's greatest wish since he was a child was world peace.
Of course, Lu Changsheng didn't think that the demon race and the demonic sects would agree to his request.
So he had to find a way to make them agree.
The method was very simple: rely on his old tricks.
Fool them.
Lu Changsheng had already thought about how to fool them.
Promise them that in ten years, he would open the demon gate and the demon gate for them with his sword and send them to ascend.
Then, during these ten years, he would work hard to govern, rectify the sect, and improve the strength of the sect from top to bottom.
After ten years, if the strength hadn't improved, he would delay it for a few more years, have them find some rare materials, and delay it for a while longer.
Until it was almost time, and the time was ripe.
Then he would send them to heaven, which could be considered as not going back on his word.
After all, going to heaven was another kind of ascension.
Of course, if they still didn't agree, Lu Changsheng still had a way.
The Chaos Bell obtained by the Yin Yang Holy Land possessed the power to destroy the world.
If they really dared to start a war, Lu Changsheng wouldn't mind perishing together. He really didn't believe that there were people in this world who didn't cherish their lives.
But this was a last resort.
World peace was the best strategy!
Delaying time was the middle strategy!
Full-scale war was the worst strategy!
Rubbing his temples, Lu Changsheng felt a headache coming on.
"I don't want to think about it. Since I'm here, I'll just take it easy."
Lu Changsheng got up. Next, he had to deal with the security of the Holy Land.
All the formations had to be activated. For this reason, Lu Changsheng had also specially mobilized many formation materials from the Great Luo Treasure Vault and carved a peerless formation in his spare time, just to protect the Great Luo Holy Land.
After carefully checking it again,
considering the seriousness of the situation,
Lu Changsheng also sacrificed the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda.
In an instant, the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda soared to hundreds of thousands of zhang in size, covering the sky and the earth, and suspended in the Great Luo Holy Land.
Billions of strands of Xuanhuang Qi (Mysterious Yellow Qi) flowed down like a waterfall, turning into an invincible shield. Not to mention the Tribulation Realm, even immortals wielding immortal artifacts couldn't break open this pagoda.
Because this was no longer a simple immortal artifact.
The pagoda bloomed with billions of rays of light, dazzling and eye-catching. Dragons and phoenixes surrounded it, and the immortal light was brilliant. Even millions of miles away, one could see the extraordinary nature of this object.
The entire Great Luo Holy Land, in the dark, had even more prosperous and stable luck. This object was not only a treasure for attacking, but also for suppressing the luck of a lineage. It was extremely terrifying.
The Great Luo Immortal Bell and the Great Luo Immortal Sword also soared up, surrounding the pagoda.
With the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda present,
Lu Changsheng's uneasy heart gradually calmed down.
Yes, very good, very good.
Just at this moment,
in an extremely desolate place in Zhongzhou,
crack! crack! crack!
Ten thousand miles of dark clouds appeared, followed by lightning and thunder.
The void was forcibly torn open.
All kinds of terrifying visions appeared.
Finally, a terrifying figure appeared from the crack.
At this time, the immortal light was dazzling and brilliant.
An immortal appeared!
Descending into the cultivation world!