When Li Yan heard this, he felt a chill in his heart.
"Little guy, you look no more than twenty years old."
But he immediately thought of Li Wuyi, who was already over seventy years old but still looked handsome and elegant, a noble young man in this world, and he couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
"Are all immortal cultivators such monsters?"
"Sister, don't scare him. He may not be used to the appearance of a cultivator for a while.
Hehehe... Li Yan, your master and his wife are over 200 years old. Even in terms of age, it is not unfair for you to kowtow to your elders!"
He said the first half of the sentence to the woman in palace dress beside him, but then he chuckled and spoke to Li Yan in the second half.
Li Yan was shocked. Although he was prepared, he didn't expect that the young man and woman sitting on it were more grandfatherly than his grandfather's grandfather.
"If you ask me, why did you reveal someone's age again?"
The woman in palace dress next to him said with some gritting her teeth, looking at the fat young man with a bad expression.
The fat young man just smiled and didn't answer her.
“Li Yan, since you have followed Wuyi here, I think he has already told you something. He asked you to come here to get familiar with the people in the peak and then do a simple entrance ceremony.
"I don't like those red tapes, but if some rules are not followed, people from the other four peaks will find out and they will inevitably use the sect's dogma to make irresponsible remarks."
Li Yan lowered his head and said nothing. When he was becoming an apprentice, he heard similar words like "red tape" again, and a trace of resistance arose in his heart.
Seeing that Li Yan just lowered his head without any reaction, the fat young man frowned and looked at Li Wuyi, who was also stunned.
"Didn't we agree on this before? Why does this junior brother seem to have lost his mind and is silent now?"
The two men and two women sitting below also began to frown slowly, and the expressions on their faces turned a little unfriendly.
But at this moment Li Yan raised his head, scratched the back of his head with his hand, and smiled embarrassedly.
"I was just in a trance and was a little rude."
After hearing this, the fat young man and everyone else nodded. They thought that most people who could join the Wuliang Sect would be filled with overwhelming emotions and feel like they were sleepwalking.
At this time, Li Wuyi came to Li Yan with a tray with two cups of tea on it, and motioned Li Yan to come forward and serve tea.
Li Yan respectfully offered a cup of tea to the fat young man and the woman in white palace dress next to him, then stepped back and stood at the bottom of the hall with his hands hanging down.
The fat young man took a sip of tea and placed the cup on the table beside him.
"Well, from today on, you are the eighth disciple of my Xiaozhu Peak. Like your seventh senior brother Lin Daqiao, you are both registered disciples for the time being. I hope that both of you can reach the foundation-building stage as soon as possible."
As he said this, he pointed at the young man with long arms and legs below him and said with a smile.
Li Yan looked in the direction he pointed and thought to himself.
"So this person is Brother Seven. He is also in the Qi Condensation Stage. I just don't know what stage he has reached."
When Lin Daqiao saw his master pointing at him, he smiled at Li Yan.
"Finally, we have one more registered disciple. Junior Brother Li, you will be my junior brother from now on, hehe..."
It seemed that this person had always felt lonely because he was the only one here who was not a formal disciple. Li Yan could only nod and smile.
The fat young man continued.
"My name is Wei Chongran. The following people are your senior brothers and sisters. Your eldest brother should know them. The others are your second senior brother Wei Chituo, your seventh senior brother Lin Daqiao, your fourth senior sister Miao Wangqing, and your sixth senior sister Gong Chenying."
Wei Chongran pointed at the sturdy middle-aged man, the young man with long arms and legs, the woman in a goose yellow dress, and the woman with short hair and a cold face.
Most of them smiled at Li Yan, especially Lin Daqiao, who smiled even more. Even the cold woman nodded slightly, but her face was as expressionless as an iceberg.
Li Yan smiled and bowed to these people one by one. He only knew that Lin Daqiao's cultivation was in the Qi Condensation Stage, and the others should be in the Foundation Establishment Stage. As for whether they were in the early or middle stage, he had no way of knowing.
After Wei Chongran saw that everyone had greeted Li Yan, he continued to speak.
"Your third brother has gone out on a mission for the sect, so we can't meet this time. Your fifth brother has gained some insights after this competition, so he is in seclusion. We will have time to meet in the future."
After saying this, he pointed to the chair below.
"Sit down."
Li Yan looked around and saw that there were two rows of chairs in the hall, but the four people were now sitting in one row in no particular order. It would certainly not be convenient for him to sit opposite them, so he walked to the end of the row. He certainly knew the order of respect and seniority.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, he was grabbed by Li Wuyi, walked to another row, and pointed to the top chair in this row.
"Junior brother, you sit over there. It's more convenient for Master to talk. We rarely get together here, and Master doesn't like too many etiquettes. Just sit anywhere."
As he spoke, he sat down on the second chair below Li Yan.
Wei Chongran nodded. He admired this eldest disciple very much. He was very perceptive. Although cultivators had sharp eyes and ears and could easily deliver their words to the other person's ears even if they were dozens of feet away, this arrangement was more appropriate.
Li Yan took a look and sat down helplessly. Although he sat down, he still knew his own limitations and didn't really think that there was no distinction between the old and the young here.
He's just not that strict. If he comes again next time, he will definitely sit in the last seat.
Wei Chongran picked up the teacup and took another sip.
"Li Yan, although I know something about you, it's all hearsay. Now that we've gotten to know each other, I still want to know more about your past. It would be best if you tell the story yourself. Of course, you don't need to mention anything about your personal privacy.
But this will be a disadvantage for you, because your seniors have heard about your past, but you don't know their own experiences.
However, you are all from the same school, so I think it won't take long for you to get to know each other. Your situation is a little special, and even I know very little, so I can only let you introduce a few things first." After hearing this, Li Yan felt a little depressed.
"As you said, I got in without knowing anything about you all, and now you want to turn me upside down."
However, he also understood that he had practiced the magic of another sect for no reason. According to Dong Fuyi, it would not be an exaggeration for the other party to kill him directly for such a thing.
It is understandable that people want to know his past now, otherwise how could they take him in for no reason? Although he told a lot to the cultivator named Yu from Lingchong Peak, this is the real culprit now.
What made him feel uncomfortable was that a group of senior brothers and sisters were also listening nearby. He really had no idea what his new master was thinking.
After Wei Chongran finished speaking, he put down his teacup and leaned back in his chair with his eyes narrowed. The beautiful woman in palace makeup next to him also looked very interested. Although the others didn't say anything, they were all staring at him.
Li Yan had no choice but to tell the story of how he left the village to join the army, how he met Strategist Ji, how he discovered something was wrong, how he contacted Marshal Hong and finally killed Strategist Ji.
However, here, he concealed the matter of Dong Fuyi and Guishui Xianmen, and changed the fact that he discovered that Master Ji was unfavorable to him into a secret letter left by the deceased senior brother.
He explained that he might have been poisoned, and hoped that someone would see this letter and avenge him, etc...
This secret letter was later discovered by himself accidentally. Combined with his own adverse reaction symptoms, he was very scared and had no choice but to find the military marshal.
He also described Marshal Hong as a chivalrous man with great ambitions. After hearing about his experience, the other party felt sympathy and helped him escape.
But in the end, he and his junior fellow apprentice died tragically at the hands of Master Ji. By the way, most of the credit for killing Master Ji was attributed to Marshal Hong and his junior fellow apprentice.
Anyway, these people are dead, so he has the final say on these matters. He had already made up this story once before coming to Lingchong Peak in order to deal with those people. Now these words sound more true.
His words came one by one, and at some points, they caused the two women to sigh continuously.
Apart from the cool short-haired Sixth Senior Sister, the white-robed Senior Sister and the goose-yellow-skirted Fourth Senior Sister would occasionally interject a few words, seeming to be worried about his situation at the time, leaving the rest of the group speechless.
Especially when it came to how Marshal Hong ambushed and hunted down Strategist Ji, they were filled with sighs. They had never imagined that there were such heroic figures in the mortal world. Immortal cultivators were not superior to mortals, and it was very likely that they would die at the hands of mortals.
After hearing these words, Li Yan felt that he admired himself and that he had the potential to be a storyteller. He even almost believed some of the words.
Wei Chongran had been leaning back in his chair, listening quietly, his face sometimes solemn, sometimes thoughtful, and occasionally smiling, as if he was thinking about something. Finally, after Li Yan finished speaking, he looked at Li Yan with a half-smile.
As Li Yan spoke, he also paid attention to everyone's eyes, fearing that he would accidentally let something slip, especially when it came to the matters of Guishui Xianmen, he had to be careful to avoid them.
Otherwise, if the immortal methods of the immortal world appeared in this world, although he had just entered the immortal way, he still understood the guilt of possessing a treasure.
Dong Fuyi had said that even in a place like the Immortal Realm, all sects and schools have been searching for the Five Immortal Gates since ancient times, and they are extremely eager for the immortal arts of the Five Immortal Gates.
After he finished speaking, he noticed that the master had a half-smile on his face, and his heart skipped a beat.
"Did I make a mistake somewhere?"
For a moment, Li Yan didn't know what went wrong.
But Wei Chongran's next words put him at ease again. After Li Yan finished speaking, Wei Chongran sat up straight and just asked Li Yan a few more questions casually.
Basically, they were all about his cultivation, which made Li Yan think that it should still be about the "disintegrated poisonous body".
After Wei Chongran asked a dozen questions, he looked at everyone.
“This is also the reason why I let you sit in. Of course, this is not to expose your eighth junior brother’s past, but to let you listen to his entire training process together, and analyze and consider it yourself afterwards.
Today I will also give feedback to the sect based on what I heard and analyzed, and I hope it will be helpful.”
After saying that, he turned to Li Yan.
"Li Yan, do you know about the poisonous body 'Disintegrated Poisonous Body'?"
Li Yan stood up quickly.
"Master, Senior Brother has already told me about the general situation of the other two poisonous bodies."
Wei Chongran stretched out his hand and pressed the air, motioning Li Yan to sit down.
"It's good to know. These three poisonous bodies are the strongest fighting physiques in our sect. The other two are easy to deal with. There are still rules to be found when finding the corresponding physiques and practicing according to the immortal method.
But your 'fragmented poisonous body' is difficult to cultivate. Since ancient times, only a few people have been able to cultivate it, but they have never found a normal way to practice it.
Therefore, every person who succeeds in the sect must describe the process of cultivation in detail so that the sect can gain experience from it, so the way for your success must also be recorded.
Today, I will also let your senior brothers and sisters listen to it and see if they can gain some insights from it. That’s why I just said that they took advantage of it. I will ask you one more question: Is your cultivation process completely true? "
Li Yan thought to himself.
"I see. I was wondering why a group of people were here to snoop on me. It seems that this new master also has selfish motives. He recorded it and reported it to the sect. It is impossible for everyone to know.
Now, he wants everyone from Xiaozhu Peak to participate, except for the senior brothers who are unable to come due to other matters, because he wants them to gain some insights."
"Master, my disciple's cultivation process is all true, there is no falsehood at all!"
Li Yan answered respectfully and seriously, but at the same time he added another sentence in his mind.
"The cultivation process is definitely true. There is no lie about the process of the 'Black Night Curtain Green Art'. I just forgot to mention that I also practiced other techniques. As for this poisonous body, I myself don't know how to successfully cultivate it. I think it's useless for you to listen to it."
Wei Chongran smiled and nodded, but to Li Yan, this nod seemed so meaningful that he couldn't help feeling guilty.
"Well, let's leave it at that. Li Yan, please come forward."
After Wei Chongran finished laughing, he suddenly said this to Li Yan, which made Li Yan, who was already feeling guilty, even more unsure.
"Could it be that this cheap master discovered something?"