You Fushi defeated all the demon kings in the demon world and successfully became the demon lord. He then hung out with Zang Liu for a while. He heard that there was good wine to drink in the world of cultivation, so he and Zang Liu took advantage of the Qianji Sect's monthly exam to sneak in and steal wine.
The taste of Baqing wine is strong and refreshing. You Fushi drank a lot in the wine cellar and was already half drunk. He pushed Zang Liu away and wanted to rest for a while and drink some more, but he didn't expect someone to appear. He not only touched his face, but also pinched his waist, and finally threw him into the swamp!
If he hadn't reacted quickly, he would have been covered in mud by now.
Whenever You Fushi thought about that person, he felt disgusted. No one in the demon world had ever touched the corner of his clothes!
He walked around in the swamp forest for several times and got lost. He hated the person who threw him out more and more, and he was determined to make her pay the price when he got out!
When You Fushi got out, several days had passed. He saw a city with people coming in and out everywhere.
He walked into the city and looked around. It seemed more prosperous than the demon world. There were many things he had never seen before, and all kinds of hot food exuded a fragrant aroma.
You Fushi was standing alone in the middle of the street, listening to the vendors shouting their wares. He looked at the people around him taking out stones of various sizes from the bags around their waists in exchange for delicious food. He subconsciously touched the corner of his clothes, but he didn't have that kind of bag, nor did he have any stones.
He stood by and watched for a while, then wanted to just rob it. In the demon world, one could live well just by relying on strength, so he could just rob anything he saw.
"Qianji Sect is recruiting disciples again!"
"Disciple? Outer sect or inner sect?"
"We have both. Three thousand from the outer sect and ten from the inner sect."
"Three thousand is a lot. I think many people will try their luck."
"Three thousand were chosen, but Qianji Sect is notoriously strict. After one year, there are less than a thousand disciples left. The elimination rate of the inner sect is even higher. For many years, the number of people who entered was almost the same as the number who left, and they all left voluntarily."
"No wonder they recruit disciples every other year."
"But it's not bad to be able to stay in there for a year. I heard from people who came out that the food, clothing, housing and transportation there are the best. The most outrageous thing is that they are said to use spiritual water even for bathing!"
"So extravagant? After a year in here, your cultivation level will improve a lot, right?"
"Of course! How about we try our luck too?"
"Us? We're not that strong."
"You can get spirit stones when you go there. I heard their food is also very good. It would be nice to go there and spend a few days there."
"Then go and try it."
You Fushi stood by and listened to the monks' conversation on the roadside, Qianji Sect, food, spirit stones... He thought about it carefully, and then followed the two monks quietly.
The two monks walked to a teleportation array in the city, handed over the spirit stones, said "go to Qianji Gate" and went straight in.
You Fushi followed suit and also said he was going to Qianji Gate, but was stopped by someone: "Spirit Stone."
He didn't have those stones.
You Fushi wanted to go in directly, but at this time all the monks in charge of the operation nearby stood up and prepared to surround him.
"I paid for his spirit stones."
At this time, a voice came from the side.
"He is a disciple of the Hehuan Sect."
"I guess he's attracted to this guy."
"The Hehuan Sect is famous for looking at appearances."
There was a sudden discussion around.
You Fushi turned his head and looked at the person next to him. He didn't recognize him, a strange male monk.
"Little Taoist friend, go ahead." The other party said to You Fushi after giving him the spirit stones.
You Fushi thought about it and said to him, "Thank you."
"No need." The other party smiled and said, "Are you going to Qianjimen to participate in the disciple selection? Maybe we can meet in the future."
You Fushi nodded hesitantly, then walked into the teleportation array.
The teleportation array reached the city at the foot of Qianjimen Mountain. When You Fushi walked out of the array, the outside was already full of people. He looked around, stayed in the crowd for a while, and quickly found his position, suppressing his realm to be almost the same as these people.
Qianji Sect was obviously very familiar with the process of recruiting disciples, and soon began to notify them that they could go up the mountain to participate in the screening.
When a weapon-refining sect selects disciples, the first and foremost condition is naturally the ability to control spiritual fire. The more proficient one is in mastering spiritual fire, the more likely one is to enter the inner sect.
You Fushi stood in line at the foot of the mountain for a long time. He was almost impatient and wanted to just rush up and wipe out the Qianji Sect. Then a young disciple came and asked him to go up.
"Your name." The young disciple asked him while holding the jade token.
"When you are in the water."
"Which words?"
You Fushi: “…I don’t know.”
Upon hearing this, the disciple immediately began to look You Fushi up and down, first his face, then his clothes, and finally he found that he didn't even have a Qiankun bag around his waist. His expression changed from surprise to suspicion, and finally to sympathy.
"Well, if you can enter the outer sect, we in Qianji Sect also have general education classes and can teach you to read." The young disciple said, "I won't write the name on the jade token."
The young disciple wrote the serial number on the back of the jade token, the 10,06th, and gave it to You Fushi.
The first round of selection was quick, with a total of one hundred people responsible for testing, and they only tested spiritual fire.
You Fushi watched as fire emerged from the hands of the people in front of him one by one. Those who did not have fire or whose hands were particularly small were taken down the mountain. He thought for a while, staring at the breath fluctuations of the people in front of him, and learning their movements of releasing spiritual fire.
When it was his turn, the person on the other side said, "No. 1006, get ready to start."
You Fushi spread out his hands, controlling the elements in the air, finding the same fluctuations as theirs, and finally releasing an extremely strong spiritual fire, which scared the people in charge of the detection.
"You, you wait a moment." The person in charge of the inspection was an inner sect disciple. He immediately used the communication jade disc to contact the elders and said that a very talented disciple candidate had appeared.
"Can I go in?" You Fushi asked impatiently. He was tired of standing and a little hungry.
"Wait a moment, the elder will be here soon."
The elder over there came quickly, asked You Fushi to release him once more, and immediately made the decision to let him enter the second round of assessment.
The second round of assessment is to test the disciples' most basic ability to identify materials. Generally, those who dare to participate in the Thousand Machine Sect's disciple selection have a basic foundation. Even if they don't have it, they have spent spirit stones to buy a few material encyclopedias outside to read, so that they can identify some materials to some extent.
But You Fushi knew nothing about it and got zero points in the second round of assessment.
The elders who were originally full of expectation: "..."
"You don't recognize any of the materials?" Elder Xing frowned and named several material books. "These material books were compiled by my Qianji Sect and spread to all parts of the cultivation world. Have you never read them? These books are not expensive and can be borrowed for free at any branch of Wendong Material Store. You don't even have to spend spirit stones to buy them."
If he only knows how to control spiritual fire but has no heart for refining equipment, it is useless to take him as a disciple.
At this time, the inner disciple who was responsible for observing You Fushi's spiritual fire walked in from outside and whispered a few words to the elder.
The elder then passed it to the side, and finally successfully passed it to Elder Xing.
"The disciples outside said he couldn't read."
Elder Xing: “…”
There are so many weird people like this lately!
"Elder Xing, if I knew everything, there would be no need for me to come to our Qianji Sect." Zhang Fengfeng tried to smooth things over, "Since he is good at controlling spiritual fire, we will accept him as an outer disciple first."
"With this talent, it would be a waste to become an outer disciple. Why don't you try becoming an inner disciple first?" said the elder who first saw You Fushi.
Elder Xing frowned for a long time before he spoke to You Fushi, "No need, you should become my disciple first and learn all the characters first."
Therefore, You Fushi unexpectedly became a disciple of Elder Xing, a man feared by everyone and feared by all ghosts in Qianji Sect. He temporarily maintained the identity of a disciple of Qianji Sect, and there was no sign of outer or inner sect.
He was required to learn literacy with the outer disciples every day.
How could You Fushi listen to such a boring class? He was at a high level, and the one who taught the outer disciples how to read was an inner disciple. He could just make a random mistake, and the inner disciples who were teaching him would have no idea that he had fallen asleep on the table.
Except for going to the cafeteria every day to eat while swimming, he took care of everything else. He even wanted to sneak into the wine cellar to drink, but he couldn't get in.
After Ye Su was captured, Elder Xing asked the Formation Hall to improve the formation of the wine cellar.
As for the leaves...
She was still immersed in the joy of refining the mountain of materials. These materials were particularly difficult to refine, and the purity had to be kept highly consistent. After refining, they were put into boxes for storage. Originally, Elder Xing thought that Ye Su would need at least a year and a half to refine them.
As a result, Ye Su worked with both hands at the same time, staying awake day and night, and finished refining a whole mountain of materials in twenty days. Only neatly stacked boxes were left in the Deacon's Hall.
Ye Su let out a breath and clenched her numb hands. She had never refined so many precious materials at once before, and the excitement in her heart was self-evident.
She stood up and walked out of the Deacon Hall, going to the door to register how many boxes of materials she had refined.
"You... have you finished refining it all?" The steward in charge of registration looked at her in shock as she wrote down that terrifying number. He said nervously, "Don't try to be sneaky. Elder Xing will punish you more severely."
"The manager can go and check it out." Ye Su said casually.
"Wait a minute, I'll go check." The steward ran over to check, and after a long while he came out in a daze, looking at Ye Su as if she were a monster. He stamped the registration form, tore it off and gave it to her, then raised his hand and waved, "... Go back."
Ye Su nodded to him, then walked down the mountain. Halfway there, he ran into Elder Xing, who had a dark face, and greeted him, "Hello, Elder Xing."
Elder Xing looked up and saw the person who was supposed to be refining materials in the Deacon Hall appeared outside. His face suddenly darkened: "Have you finished refining the materials?"
"I've finished refining." Ye Su took out the registration form with the seal on it and said to him, "Elder Xing, is there anything else?"
Elder Xing: “?”
what else
He signaled Ye Su not to move, and summoned the steward of the Deacon Hall to ask, "Why did you let her out and stamp her passport? Have you checked?"
The manager's voice came over, still revealing disbelief: "Elder Xing, she... not only completed the refining, but also made zero mistakes, without wasting any materials."
Elder Xing knew that the manager on the other side would not lie. He turned off the communication jade disc, stared at Ye Su for a long while and said, "Since all the materials have been refined, the punishment is over."
Ye Su had a look of regret on her face, thinking that if this was the punishment she would receive in the future, she would be willing to be punished forever.
"Do you like drinking Baqing wine?" Elder Xing suddenly asked her.
Ye Su didn't like drinking, but she thought of a certain junior fellow apprentice, so she nodded and said, "I like it."
"I'll give you a small jar." Elder Xing said, "Teach a disciple to recognize words. As long as he can recognize all the words, the wine is yours."
He randomly checked the homework of his new disciple today and found that he couldn't recognize a single word. He was so angry that he turned his face black and wanted to take him to the Deacon Hall.
Ye Su didn't want to waste time teaching people to read, even if it was just for a small jar of Baqing wine.
"Elder Xing, I still consider..." Ye Su was about to say this when he suddenly saw his junior fellow apprentice walking towards him slowly from a distance.
Elder Xing followed her gaze, turned around and said, "That's the new disciple. Although he has a good talent for spiritual fire, he can't read."
"I'll teach you." Ye Su immediately changed her words.