All of this was thanks to the wildly popular pingshu storytelling performance, Legend of the Dao Seeking Sect, which had drawn crowds of mortals who admired the Dao Seeking Sect.
Gu Junye and the other two blended into the crowd, entirely inconspicuous.
At the same time, a horse-drawn carriage slowly rolled past the three of them.
Inside the carriage, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were muttering to each other.
“How come nobody's coming to sit in our carriage?”
Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou recalled this very day three years ago, when Eldest Senior Sister had boarded their carriage, claiming she too had come to take the entry trial. Meng Jingzhou, courting death without knowing it, had bragged that he knew the exam questions. Then, once they reached the mountain gate, Eldest Senior Sister had stepped down, taken to the air, and announced that she was the chief examiner for this session.
How cool was that?
They also wanted to pick up a random person in their carriage, claim they were here for the entry trial too, and recreate Eldest Senior Sister's glory.
Unfortunately, they hadn't found an opportunity yet.
“How about letting Old Horse make another lap?” Meng Jingzhou suggested. They had already had Old Horse circle the vicinity of the Dao Seeking Sect several times.
Lu Yang shook his head. “Forget it, let's get down. Time's almost up. Don't forget we're supposed to help organize the trial.”
To hone their disciples, the Dao Seeking Sect's upper management had left the organization of both entry trials to the disciples. The person in charge last time had been Eldest Senior Sister, while this time the organizer was Dai Bufan.
Dai Bufan felt that with him presiding, nothing could possibly go wrong, so he had made Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou fellow organizers.
Elsewhere, Daoist Xiantian was busily mingling and making friends.
“Fellow Daoist, are you here for the trial too? My name is Qi Tong. What's yours?”
The man scowled upon hearing Daoist Xiantian address him as “Fellow Daoist.”
He gave a cold snort and did not say another word.
What kind of stray dog thinks he has the right to address this seat as a fellow Daoist?
If not for Emperor Yu's treasure, who would ever come to a place like this?
Taking into account that even with the Dao Seeking Sect's guard lowered during disciple recruitment, if their Great Yu Alliance attacked rashly, there was still some chance the sect might fend them off, activate their sect-protecting grand array, and hold out until imperial court reinforcements arrived.
If that happened, the operation would end in failure, and the difficulty of acquiring Emperor Yu's treasure next time would increase drastically.
Therefore, he led from the front, disguising himself as a mortal to take part in the entry trial.
Accompanying him in the trial were several of his trusted confidants.
Not far away, other Great Yu Alliance cultivators lay in ambush. As soon as he gave the order, they would coordinate from within and without, strike violently to kill, and crush the Dao Seeking Sect!
At first, his confidants had thought their Alliance Leader was making a mountain out of a molehill. Why go through so much trouble to deal with a mere Dao Seeking Sect?
Yet when they spotted an old horse at the Body Integration stage, disguised as an ordinary mortal horse, continuously circling the vicinity of the Dao Seeking Sect, they realized the Dao Seeking Sect was not nearly as simple as it appeared.
This old horse was clearly a Great Demon King belonging to the Dao Seeking Sect, secretly patrolling and searching for suspicious figures!
The confidants communicated secretly via divine sense. Being at the Tribulation Transcendence stage, they were not afraid of being detected by anyone from the Dao Seeking Sect.
“My Lord is truly My Lord. His foresight is impeccable.”
“Naturally! My Lord is none other than Daoist Lord Wanfa, whose name resonated across an entire era!”
Chapter 741