Just when the letter of meeting from Daxia was about to be delivered to Yumen Pass, there was a sword traveling westward on the Xisha Plateau in the Western Regions.

The man in the sword light was wearing a black robe embroidered with dark gold patterns.

Those dark golden patterns resemble dragons and dragons.

Under the blazing sunshine all year round on the Xisha Plateau, the dark golden dragon pattern shines brightly and vividly, as if it is about to break free from the black robe.

The Western Region is dominated by desert, with large areas of barren desert areas.

These desert areas have always been excellent hiding places for evil cultivators.

These wanted desperadoes had no place to stay, so they had no choice but to sneak into the barren desert.

Lu Qingshan once took a trip to the Mogao Desert in the Western Regions and wiped out a group of sand bandits.

However, in addition to becoming a den for evil cultivators, the hot and desolate desert also gave birth to the supreme Taoist sect in this region:

Longxiang Temple.

The thirty-six and seventy-two temples of Longxiang Fourth Courtyard are distributed in this vast desert area.

If you want to be like Buddhas, dragons, and elephants, you must first be like sentient beings like horses and oxen.

The harsh environment and hidden dangers are the best place for training for those who are truly determined to practice hard.

The entrance test for disciples of Longxiang Temple, the first two levels are the most common spiritual root testing and back adjustment, and the last level is to throw those candidates who are still mortals into a desert.

Then give nothing and let the candidates seek their own blessings.

If the candidate can survive a week in the desert, then he or she has the toughness and perseverance necessary to become a powerful physical practitioner and has passed the entrance test of Longxiang Temple.

If the candidate does not survive the seven days and dies, it can only be said that the Buddha does not save the destined person.

And if you die in the desert, even recovering your body is a luxury.

Because in less than half a quarter of an hour, the wind and sand would bury the body, and even collecting the body would be a luxury.

Such a cruel selection ensures the tenacity of the disciples of Longxiang Temple and the strength of the Longxiang orthodoxy.

In addition, Longxiang has always had the habit of suppressing bandits.

Just like fishing at sea, monks are organized to clean up bandits on a regular basis.

This also caused the bandits to be extremely hostile to Longxiang Temple and the monks, and even spread their hatred to some ascetics who did not belong to Longxiang Temple.

And the reason why those evil cultivators who fell into the desert and turned into bandits became more and more ruthless and brave in fighting was because they were forced out by the dragon elephant.

After all, if you are not ruthless enough, what you lose is your own life.

The assessment for elite Longxiang disciples is to throw the participating disciples into several deserts where the most concentrated sand bandits are, requiring them not to fly and to walk back to the sect on their own feet.

One can imagine how those evil cultivators who already hated Long Xiang would react once they saw Long Xiang's disciples.

This kind of test is a real iron-blooded test.

As for why Long Xiang didn’t clean up the bandits in one go...

In addition to the two reasons that bandits are like weeds, "the spring breeze cannot burn them all, wildfires blow again", and trying to find all the bandits in the vast desert is like looking for a needle in a haystack, there may be more or less leftover reasons.

What's the reason for using some sand bandits as whetstones for his disciples?

Who knows?

For those sand bandits, just being alive is good. They don't care about it. They wish they were regarded as a whetstone by the dragon elephant so that they could save their lives.

Jianguang traveled westward, but only five or six thousand miles apart, he encountered two waves of sand bandits wandering in the desert.

The two sides were on the verge of breaking out, and no words were spoken at all.

The man in the black gold dragon robe lightly flicked his fingers, but every time he flicked his fingers, a bandit fell from the air with blood spurting from his eyebrows and no trace of life left.

The man's speed did not slow down at all, and he just passed by. The menacing sand bandit fell from the high altitude to the desert like hailstones, and was then swallowed by the constantly flowing quicksand.

Everything was so calm and uneventful that it even made people wonder if there were any bandits here just now.

Perhaps many years later, when an ascetic was passing through the desert below, he accidentally discovered one or two skulls floating on the sand, which could prove what happened here.

The man raised his head slightly and saw the plateau rising up like an island in the sea of ​​sand in front of him.

Xisha Plateau.

He did not hesitate and swept straight towards the Xisha Plateau.

The various temples of Longxiang are not concentrated and are scattered among the major plateaus and deserts.

The Xisha Plateau area belongs to Jitang Temple.

The bandits on the Xisha Plateau have been living a pretty good life recently, because they heard that the abbot of Jitang Temple, Jitang Holy Monk, died there while supporting the Zhongling Territory.

They were dubious at first, but as time passed, the truth of the news became more and more obvious.

Until finally they were sure that the Chicken Soup Monk was really dead.

Death is a big deal.

For the bandits, this is not the case.

When the Holy Monk of Chicken Soup was still around, the bandits' feelings towards him were more of fear and fear.

But as soon as the Chicken Soup Saint Monk died, this fear changed. What else does the dead have to fear?

Fear began to turn into hatred.

They began to resent the slaughter of their bandits by the Jitang Temple when the Holy Monk Shangjitang was still there.

If it's just that, it's nothing.

But two things happened recently, which suddenly made the situation on the Xisha Plateau become treacherous.

First, after the abbot Jitang died in Zhongling, Bodhi Temple, one of the Four Longxiang Temples, applied to the Longxiang Presbyterian Council to incorporate Jitang Temple under its command.

There are 36 temples and 72 temples in Longxiang, headed by the Fourth Court. The other 36 temples and 72 temples are under the factions of the Four Courts. The overall authority is the Longxiang Presbyterian Council.

The composition of the Presbyterian Council is somewhat complicated. To put it simply, it is very similar to the organization called "United Nations" in Lu Qingshan's previous life. A total of 112 abbots from all the temples formed the Dragon Elephant Presbyterian Council.

Then the Presbyterian Council, headed by the Four Houses, has the greatest privileges, just like the "permanent members" of the United Nations.

Chicken Soup Temple originally belonged to the faction of Bodhi Yuan.

But later, due to the existence of the Holy Monk of Chicken Soup, the comprehensive strength of Chicken Soup Temple skyrocketed, and it was regarded as the number one temple among the Four Courts, even approaching the Four Courts.

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, so Jitang Temple gradually became independent from the Bodhi Temple faction and became a separate temple.

It's a pity that the configuration of the thirty-six and seventy-two temples in the Fourth Courtyard of Longxiang is also fixed, neither increasing nor decreasing.

No matter how strong Jitang Temple is, it is impossible to be promoted to the fifth Longxiang Academy unless the current four courtyards are replaced by one.

As one goes higher, the Chicken Soup Temple must be trying to upgrade itself to a Chicken Soup Temple, and it has been working hard. Obviously, if the Chicken Soup Temple is really upgraded to a temple, the location of the Bodhi Temple will definitely be banned.

The dissatisfaction in Bodhiyuan's heart has been building up for a long time as his former little brother now wants to climb over him.

It's just that although the temples in the Longxiang temple are scattered, they belong to the same Dragon Elephant after all, and internal fighting is absolutely not allowed. Therefore, the Bodhi Temple can only watch the Chicken Soup Temple continue to grow stronger.

As the cultivation level of the Chicken Soup Monk continues to improve, the sense of crisis in Bodhi Temple is also growing. Especially when the Chicken Soup Monk reaches the Seven Tribulations Realm, it is completely conceivable that once the Chicken Soup Monk joins the path and enters the Nine Realms, his combat power will be greatly reduced.

How terrifying would it be?

Perhaps that will also be the time when Bodhi Courtyard becomes Bodhi Temple?

As a result, everything turned around ten years ago.

Chaos broke out in Zhongling, and the Holy Monk of Chicken Soup went to Zhongling alone, and then buried himself in that land, never to return.

Bodhiyuan, who was suffocating at this time, could no longer sit still. He took the opportunity to add insult to injury and immediately applied to the Longxiang Presbyterian Council to bring the Chicken Soup Temple, which had greatly declined in strength after losing the Chicken Soup Saint Monk, back under his command.

The Holy Monk of Chicken Soup has worked hard for so many years to make Chicken Soup Temple independent from the Bodhi Yuan faction. Now that Bodhi Yuan wants to take back Chicken Soup Temple, the disciples of Chicken Soup Temple naturally strongly disagree.

Also due to the fact that they are all affiliated with Longxiang, Jitang Temple does not cooperate. Even if Bodhi Temple is unhappy, it cannot force Jitang Temple by force. It is because of this that the disciples of Jitang Temple dare to reject Bodhi Temple's proposal so firmly.

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The two were at a stalemate.

It wasn't until the second incident happened that the situation seemed to have turned for the better.

Six months ago, the direct disciple of the abbot of Longxiang Tianwangyuan beheaded the only heir of King Huangshalong in the Erhai Desert.

King Huang Shalom is the most powerful bandit leader in the Western Regions. He has tens of thousands of bandits under his command, and he himself has the cultivation level of the Five Tribulations Realm.

Of course, in the face of the size of Dragon Elephant, this level of strength and power is completely inadequate.

However, King Huang Shalom had a violent temper, and his own heir died tragically at the hands of Longxiang disciples. It was impossible for him to swallow his anger without making any reaction.

He decided to take revenge on Dragon Elephant and let Dragon Elephant pay the blood debt with blood.

After some deliberation, King Huang Salon targeted Chicken Soup Temple.

He prepared to attack Jitang Temple.

The reason why it is Chicken Soup Temple is because if we choose an unknown dragon and elephant temple to take revenge, the dragon and elephant will not hurt at all, so how can we talk about revenge?

And when he chose Long Xiang Branch Temple who was too strong to attack, he really didn't have the strength to do it. He was undoubtedly throwing himself into a trap and giving himself to others.

So stupid!
To be continued...