Chapter 27 Xuansheng

Early in the morning, Bu Gong finished washing up and hurried out of the restaurant, heading towards the City Lord’s Mansion of Xuanhuo City; because today was the time when the City Lord’s Mansion was recruiting people, and if he went too late, he was afraid of missing this opportunity.
It was the third day since Bu Gong came to Xuanhuo City, and he had a relatively clear understanding of the roads in Xuanhuo City. After about half an hour, Bu Gong arrived at the central part of Xuanhuo City, because the City Lord’s Mansion was located in the center of the entire Xuanhuo City.
After arriving at the central area of ​​Xuanhuo City, Bu Gong discovered that this place was packed with people today; “Line up, come here, parents, please stand by and wait…” Then a series of scolding sounds rang out in the sky.
Following the sound, Bu Gong found rows of City Lord’s Mansion guards in green armor, maintaining order in an orderly manner; arranging the children and teenagers who came to line up one by one, waiting to be summoned for inspection.
The main content of the test is the child’s age and physical condition, but there is no obvious distinction between boys and girls; the general admission standard is mortal children between the ages of 10 and 16, but there are some exceptions, such as Bu Gong, who is 17 years old, but he is already close to the peak of the third level of body shaping.
At this age, the third level of body shaping is quite outstanding even among the disciples of a cultivation sect like Xianyang Sect. Bu Gong slowly squeezed into the crowd, looked for the group of children to be tested, hesitated for a moment, and then lined up at the back.
“Take your time, don’t be anxious, line up and wait patiently.” A shout suddenly rang out in the crowd; it was a middle-aged bearded man wearing blue armor and carrying a big knife at his side, moving in and out of the team, constantly scanning.
Just when his eyes inadvertently swept over Bu Gong, there was a slight pause, and then the middle-aged man walked towards Bu Gong; “What’s the matter with you? I see that you are over 16 years old, why are you also queuing at the back of this team?” The man looked at Bu Gong and asked sternly.
Bu Gong did not give too much explanation and said calmly: “It was Deacon Yu Chong from Xianyang Gate who asked me to come.” Hearing Bu Gong’s words, the middle-aged man who looked like an officer was slightly stunned, and then his eyes flickered slightly, and he was a little hesitant.
He had to be cautious about Bu Gong’s words; after thinking it over again and again, he finally said to Bu Gong: “You wait here for a moment, I’ll go in and inform them.” Bu Gong didn’t care too much about this, and nodded lightly. Then the big man turned around and walked into the gate of the City Lord’s Mansion.
But at this moment, Bu Gong felt a little bit of heat in the face of the different looks from the people around him and the children in the team, no matter how thick-skinned he was; because they almost all heard what Bu Gong said just now, “Deacon Yu Chong of Xianyang Sect asked him to come?” If that was the case, then the seventeen-year-old boy in front of him would definitely be able to enter Xianyang Sect?
So among the eyes around, there were envy and jealousy, but there were also two or three inexplicable gazes in the crowd; Bu Gong simply ignored them all, and still stood in the queue waiting with a calm expression.
After a moment, a loud laugh suddenly rang out from the gate of the City Lord’s Mansion, “Haha… young man, you are really trustworthy. There is no need to wait here. Follow me into the City Lord’s Mansion to talk.” Bu Gong looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the person who spoke was Yu Chong, whom Bu Gong met at the Liu family mansion the night before yesterday.
Yu Chong was seen with a look of delight on his face. When he saw Bu Gong, he was as cordial as if he had seen an old friend. The others, on the other hand, looked at Bu Gong as if they had seen a ghost. They had never imagined that this handsome young man in front of them was so familiar with the immortal from Xianyang Sect.
At this moment, they had dazed expressions on their faces, looking at Bu Gong with undisguised envy in their eyes; even the few rich young men who had been standing near Bu Gong just now and looked quite luxuriously dressed were now beating their chests and stamping their feet, regretting why they hadn’t tried to get close to Bu Gong just now?
But at this time, Bu Gong smiled faintly at the old man, and returned to his previous calm demeanor; he followed the old man named Yu Chong and entered the gate of the City Lord’s Mansion.
After stepping into the gate of the City Lord’s Mansion, what appeared before Bu Gong’s eyes were various trees, flowers, plants, rugged miniature mountains, and various miniature undulating mountain ranges that seemed to emerge from the ground without warning.
If you walk a few steps closer, you will find that this is actually a rockery garden with a radius of several hundred feet; the entire rockery garden is circular, with miniature versions of real mountains and forests, as well as all kinds of flowers, plants and trees. It can be said that this is a simulated miniature monster forest and mountain range.
However, this entire rockery garden was sunken dozens of meters into the ground in a miraculous way. At this moment, Bu Gong was also shocked by the scene before him. The entire physical version of the small monster mountain range was actually embedded in the ground. This was indeed a huge feat.
Just when Bu Gong was shocked by the scene before him, a refined man in his forties, wearing a white robe and with a face as gentle as jade, walked towards him. “Hehe… Was it this young man in front of you that Mr. Yu was going to see just now?” A gentle and mellow male voice sounded slowly, which made Bu Gong come back to his senses a little.
“Haha…Xuansheng, let me introduce you. This young man in front of me is, uh, is…” The old man named Yu Chong was stuck and couldn’t continue speaking; because even he himself didn’t know Bu Gong’s name, which made his old face look a little embarrassed.
At this moment, the man in front of him, named Xuansheng, had a strange look on his face. He glanced at Yu Chong, then turned his head and looked at Bu Gong. Bu Gong’s eyes moved slightly, and he slowly stepped forward, bowed and said, “My boy Bu Gong, I meet the City Lord Xuan.”
“Oh? How do you know that I am the mayor of Xuanhuo City?” As Bu Gong finished speaking, the middle-aged man in front of him looked at Bu Gong with a strange look in his eyes and then asked.
“Hehe… I saw the corners of your eyebrows slightly raised earlier, and there was a hint of majesty between your brows; and when you walked, your steps were consistent, and a faint sense of majesty automatically emanated from you. I really can’t think of anyone else with such a magnanimous demeanor except the Lord of Xuanhuo City,” Bu Gong said with a faint smile.
“Hmm?” The man named Xuansheng in front of him had a look of surprise and astonishment in his eyes when he heard Bu Gong say that; “Hehe…you are too modest, little brother.” Xuansheng’s tone was as gentle as usual, but this time, there was a hint of approval in his words.
“Mr. Yu, and this young brother, let’s go into the living room and talk.” Xuansheng, Bu Gong, and Yu Chong, the Xianyang Sect steward, walked towards the living room. After Bu Gong’s self-introduction, Yu Chong’s embarrassment disappeared inadvertently.
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“Xuansheng, this young man Bu Gong is incredibly talented. Even at such a young age, his cultivation is already on par with mine. So this time I want to introduce him to the Xianyang Sect.” Yu Chong said with a smile after the three of them sat down in the living room.
“Oh? You didn’t even go up and down with Old Yu first?” Hearing Yu Chong’s words, Xuansheng’s expression condensed slightly, and his tone was a little unexpected; “Well, Young Master Bu Gong is also close to the peak of the third level of body shaping, and he is about seventeen years old. What do you think of his talent?” Yu Chong said to Xuansheng meaningfully.
Xuansheng was a little silent when he heard this. Although he looked calm as usual, without any abnormality, he was actually shaken in his heart.
“At the age of seventeen, he has reached the peak of the third level of body shaping, and has not yet joined any sect.” This means that Bu Gong relied solely on his own cultivation to reach the third level of body shaping, without the assistance of any cultivation resources.
You know, even in the Xianyang Sect, there are disciples who have reached the peak of the third level of body shaping at the age of seventeen, but there are not many of them, and those disciples are all the key training targets in the sect.
Of course, there are disciples in the Xianyang Sect who can reach a higher level of cultivation and the Yuan-peek realm at the age of seventeen, but they are just a few genius freaks in the sect, and they are rarely seen in normal times.
Because those freak and evil disciples were all divided up by the sect’s supreme elders, the head master and other powerful people, who all rushed to take them as their own disciples.
As for those who had reached the third level of body shaping at the age of seventeen, they were treated like treasures by some elders in the sect and were accepted as their disciples; but even so, they were able to cultivate with the continuous supply of various resources in the sect; this indirectly reflected Bu Gong’s amazing talent in cultivation.
In fact, what Yu Chong and Xuan Sheng didn’t know was that the reason why Bu Gong was able to reach the peak of the third level of body shaping so quickly was not entirely due to his own practice, but mostly because of the mysterious airflow emitted by the Hong Wang consciousness group wrapped in black lines in his mind; but they didn’t know this, and of course Bu Gong himself didn’t know either.
Therefore, they believed that Bu Gong was very talented, but they did not expect that Bu Gong had some extraordinary encounters; and Xuansheng could also hear some meaning from Yu Chong’s slightly meaningful words just now, but he was not in a position to express his opinion now.
Because Bu Gong also wants to join the Xianyang Sect, and, judging from his current performance, Bu Gong’s future achievements will definitely be very high, but who can say for sure what will happen in the future?
There is no guarantee that Bu Gong will not soar to great heights in the future; judging from the cultivation talent that Bu Gong has shown so far, when he grows up, he is likely to become a figure comparable to the elders of Xianyang Sect; and the elders of Xianyang Sect are generally strong men with the cultivation level of Tongyuan Realm at the lowest, which shows how profound their cultivation level is.
If he encounters any more opportunities along the way, his achievements may be even higher, because the path of cultivation is full of uncertainties and opportunities; if Bu Gong really has some great adventure in the future, not to mention whether the Xianyang Sect can accommodate him, he may become a well-known strong man even in the entire Sangyun State.
Therefore, Xuansheng did not respond clearly to the meaning of Yu Chong’s words and could only remain silent.
As for Sangyun Province, it is actually just one of the provinces in the Eastern Realm of Xianyuan. In the entire Eastern Realm of Xianyuan, there are three major provinces, Sangyun Province, Dahan Shengzhou and Wanxiao Mingzhou; and Xianyang Sect is just a medium-sized sect with average strength in Sangyun Province.
You know, for a Danyuan Realm expert, it would take at least several years to cross the entire Sangyun Province at full speed. So you can see how huge the entire Sangyun Province is. For a mortal, it might take a lifetime to leave this so-called Sangyun Province.
At this time, Bu Gong was sitting on one side of the living room, occasionally chatting with the old man from Xianyang Sect and Xuansheng, and then he kept silent; he seemed a little silent and quiet.
At this moment, a man dressed as a servant suddenly walked to the door of the living room in a hurry, bowed to Xuansheng and said, “Master, the young lady is waiting outside the hall; maybe because there is someone in the hall, she didn’t come in.”
Xuansheng was slightly stunned when he heard this, a trace of doting flashed across his face, and then he said slowly: “Let her in”; “Yes” the servant agreed and left the living room.
In a few breaths, a graceful and exquisite figure appeared at the door of the living room; Bu Gong turned his head slightly and looked towards the door of the living room, but was a little surprised, because the woman coming in was exactly the woman in the carriage he met on the way to Xuanhuo City a few days ago, the daughter of the City Lord of Xuanhuo City, Xuan Yue.
She was still wearing a blue dress, with a beautiful face, a tall figure, and a well-proportioned body; but perhaps because of her practice, she looked ethereal and uncertain.
At this moment, in the living room, Yu Chong, the deacon of Xianyang Sect, suddenly stood up from his stool when he saw the woman in front of him. His previous casual, even slightly arrogant look was slightly restrained until it disappeared, and he seemed a little restrained instead.
The woman’s beautiful eyes swept across the living room. When her gaze passed Bu Gong, she paused slightly, a little surprised, and then looked away. Then she swayed her delicate body and slowly came to the hall. She bowed slightly to Xuansheng, then took slight steps and walked to the side.
When she passed by Yu Chong on one side of the living room, she paused slightly, and a clear female voice as clear as heavenly sound rang out in the hall, “Huh? Deacon Yu? Why are you in Xuanhuo City? I seem to remember that the people sent by Xianyang Sect to pick up the mortal children this time are some senior brothers and sisters, right?” Xuan Yue asked in a somewhat indifferent tone with a hint of sarcasm.
Anyone with a discerning eye could hear the challenging tone in Xuan Yue’s voice.