Next, Lin Daqiao talked about the sect's rules. At this point, the seventh senior brother said that the sect's rules were many and very long, but as long as we remember a few points and don't violate them, it will be fine.
First, you must not kill your fellow disciples, otherwise, the sect will make you pay with your life. Of course, if the killing is purely in self-defense, that is another matter. At that time, everything will be discussed by the law enforcement hall where the incident occurred or the law enforcement halls of both mountains.
Second, when you encounter fellow disciples in trouble outside, unless the gap between your realm and that of the enemy is too great, you must step forward to help. Those who keep to themselves will be punished lightly by having a large amount of spirit stones taken away, and their resources for cultivation cut off for several years; in serious cases, their cultivation will be abolished and they will be expelled from the sect.
Third, they are not allowed to commit crimes outside. Although the Wuliang Sect never claims to be a reputable and upright sect, it has its own style of doing things. Once such people are discovered, their end will be quite miserable.
It's not just as simple as abolishing your cultivation. You may also have to endure the pain of being devoured by thousands of insects. It is impossible to die in just a few days, and suicide is a luxury.
Wherever there are punishments in the sect, there will be rewards. The sect is divided into the miscellaneous affairs department, outer gate, and inner gate from bottom to top.
Not all disciples sent by subordinate immortal sects can be accepted as disciples. Only those who pass the assessment will be accepted as outer sect disciples to practice.
Another part of those who have good qualifications but have failed the assessment do not need to be sent back to their original subordinate sects immediately. They can be placed in the menial service department first and do menial work temporarily.
On weekdays, they do chores such as chopping wood, cooking, and cleaning. They get rewards by doing things, and exchange them for spirit stones for diligent practice. They also take part in the annual small examination within the sect held in each peak, and those who pass can enter the outer sect.
However, if a disciple is still doing menial work for ten years, then he has returned to where he came from.
To enter the inner sect, only the elite disciples in the outer sect are eligible to take the assessment. Only after passing layers of assessment can they enter the core of the sect, become the genius of each peak, and the future hope of the sect.
There is another situation in which one can enter the inner gate, that is, no matter you are a servant or an outer gate disciple, once you successfully build your foundation, you can also enter the inner gate. Having said that, Lin Daqiao glanced at Li Yan.
"You can enter our sect, which is related to the foundation building of the outer sect."
Li Yan felt strange after hearing this. As his mind turned, he suddenly remembered what Dong Fuyi had said to him. He vaguely guessed something, but his expression was one of surprise as he looked at Lin Daqiao.
Lin Daqiao felt that Li Yan's expression seemed to indicate "I knew it so", so she smiled mysteriously and started talking.
About twenty years ago, a disciple named Lianshan from the outer sect of Lingchong Peak successfully established his foundation and was originally qualified to enter the inner sect. However, he was ultimately unable to do so because he may have raped and killed a mortal woman outside.
He handled this matter very secretly. The sect only received reports from the subordinate immortal sects, but had no evidence, so they wanted to observe and observe for a while before deciding how to make a decision.
Unexpectedly, Lianshan seemed to be alert. Without waiting for Lingchong Peak to react, he stole the introductory books and jade slips of Lingchong Peak and defected from the peak.
When the top leaders of Lingchong Peak learned about this, they were furious and continued to send people to hunt him down. However, due to his cunning personality and the fact that he had been in the Wuliang Sect for more than several decades and was familiar with their methods of hunting, their efforts were fruitless.
Later, this person died outside a golden elixir cave, and the contents of the storage bag were taken away by the "Xunxian Lineage".
After listening to half of it, Li Yan realized that it was the same as he guessed, but in the end he still showed an expression of "I see."
In addition, there is a special type of disciple who joins the sect, like Lin Daqiao and Li Yan, who directly join the Jindan sect without any assessment, but they can only be regarded as outer disciples.
In addition, the sect holds a competition for disciples below the middle stage of foundation building every five years, and a competition from the middle stage to the late stage of foundation building every ten years. This is a joint fighting competition where all the peaks gather together, and every peak must participate and cannot shirk.
The former is mainly to check the general cultivation level of the disciples in each peak, while the latter is mainly to check the strength of the rising stars in the sect and to measure whether there are good materials and jades capable of forming a pill among these disciples, so as to prepare for the next step of training.
This is how much importance the ancient sects attached to inheritance. Everything was for the sake of inheritance, and every competition had generous resource rewards, usually secret manuals, large amounts of spirit stones, etc., to motivate disciples to show their true abilities.
Although this type of competition is bloody, most people are seriously injured and there are relatively few deaths. As long as the cultivator does not die, he can basically recover after taking elixirs and recuperating for several months or years.
The four major sects would periodically hold exchanges, competitions, and treasure hunts in secret realms. This kind of competition between the sects was truly cruel, with each other hunting for life and death.
They also focus on building the foundation and condensing Qi as a supplement. The purpose is to add fresh blood to the sect, strengthen their own survival ability, and obtain more resources for cultivation.
At this point, Lin Daqiao turned the topic to the distribution of resources within the sect.
Sect disciples can choose some skills and magic arts for free, but the levels of these skills and magic arts are usually not very high. If you want skills and magic arts of good quality, you will need to use spirit stones to buy them.
The purpose of the sect is to strengthen the survival consciousness of the sect disciples, so that they will not be too comfortable and forget the law of the jungle in the world of immortal cultivation. If that happens, the sect will be destroyed soon.
Qi Condensation disciples like Li Yan would receive three low-grade spirit stones every month. Combined with the sect's rich spiritual energy, this was enough for their cultivation.
But as the practice progresses, cultivators will only need more and better skills, magic arts, elixirs, talismans, etc., and all of these must be exchanged for spirit stones.
So where do these spirit stones come from? The sect mission hall of Laojun Peak is the place to earn spirit stones, and you can take on various missions there.
There are tasks such as hunting monsters, looking after the medicine garden for the sect elders, searching for elixirs for others, and even assassinating cultivators from other sects.
The four major sects are not as harmonious as they seem on the surface. As long as you don't assassinate your fellow sect members and don't let any evidence fall into the hands of others, it will be fine.
Once the evidence falls into someone else's hands, it is purely your personal behavior and has nothing to do with the sect. The sect is a force, and although it always wants to kill its opponents, it depends on the strength of the opponent. If the two sides are evenly matched, the consequence of a sect war is usually that both sides will suffer losses.
The tasks in the Mission Hall are quite varied, and these tasks are the main source of earning spirit stones. Of course, there are also many disciples who form private teams to go out treasure hunting and hunting monsters, and come back to sell or exchange them for spirit stones, which is also a good source of income.
The mission levels in the Mission Hall range from the Qi Condensation Stage to the Golden Core Stage. Even Golden Core Stage cultivators will take on some difficult missions, and their cultivation requires more spirit stones.
But an old ancestor like the Yuanying Master does not need to accept any tasks. Apart from the rare treasures in the world that he needs to exchange with spirit stones, the rest of his daily needs are provided by the sect.
They are the pillars of a sect. When the sect is facing life and death, they are needed to make the final decision.
In addition to the Laojun Peak sect mission hall, each peak also has its own small mission hall, but the tasks here are more unique and targeted, and less universal.
You can also earn spirit stones by accepting tasks from the small task hall. For example, when someone from Lingchong Peak goes out, they need to find someone to temporarily raise the spirit insects and spiritual objects for them. Laojun Peak also often needs people to assist in refining pills and making tools.
However, the tasks from the small mission hall are usually not enough for the main peak to grab. After all, they are the experts who are most familiar with their own peak.
Among the five peaks, the tasks at Xiaozhu Peak are the most popular. There are all kinds of chores in the peak, like watering spiritual plants, cooking, raising animals, etc. Since there are too few disciples here, they can't finish all the tasks, so many tasks are often issued, and other peaks will come and scramble for the task lists.
Li Yan's eyes were full of questions when he heard this. He could understand watering the spiritual plants, but what about cooking
Aren’t those menial disciples he saw doing just that, or are there too few menial disciples at Xiaozhu Peak to do the job
Besides, cultivators can practice fasting after reaching the third level of Qi Condensation Stage. They can go without food or drink for a few days. Even if they want to eat occasionally, it is not enough to issue a task.
Besides, doesn't Xiaozhu Peak also raise a lot of spiritual insects? Isn't this something that only happens in Lingchong Peak and Buli Peak
Lin Daqiao saw Li Yan's surprised expression and smiled mysteriously.
"Hey, Junior Brother, the cooking in the mission hall in the peak is not ordinary cooking. Second Senior Brother is mainly responsible for this. Sometimes he is too busy and will issue tasks.
As for raising spirit insects, it is also different from that of Spirit Insect Peak and Buli Peak. This is the responsibility of Fourth Senior Sister and Fifth Senior Brother. You will understand it clearly in the future."
Having said this, he actually stopped explaining and looked mysterious.
Looking at the secretive look on Senior Brother Seven's face, Li Yan was reminded of the Bulifeng Gu worm that Li Wuyi mentioned.
"Could it be that Xiaozhu Peak is raising some special spiritual insect or beast? If it's something as terrifying as the poisonous insect..."
Li Yan thought about the fact that he lived in a place where there were those small insects crawling everywhere around him. The scene of the "rustling" sound of the insects crawling all over the mountain in the middle of the night made his pores stand up.
Lin Daqiao stopped talking, but looked at Li Yan's uncomfortable expression, chuckled, and thought to himself.
"When I first came here, Fifth Senior Brother also said the same thing to me, which caused me to not sleep well for a few days. I didn't feel better until I understood the situation from First Senior Brother.
Junior brother, you can try it too. I don’t know if these senior brothers are doing it on purpose. I heard that newcomers in the sect are taken to other peaks for a tour before coming to Xiaozhu Peak. The most abominable thing is that Senior Brother Five actually took me to the Buli Peak on the first day.”
When Lin Daqiao thought of this, he shuddered and looked at Li Yan hurriedly. Fortunately, Li Yan was imagining the scene of bugs crawling all over the ground at Xiaozhu Peak and didn't notice his appearance.
Seeing that Li Yan didn't pay attention to him and had an embarrassed expression, he knew that this new junior brother had fallen into the trap, so he coughed dryly and changed the subject without giving Li Yan time to think about it. He asked Li Yan to think about it slowly in the evening.
"When the night is quiet, look out the window and think about these things. It will be more interesting, little brother!"
Lin Daqiao thought to herself.
Seeing that the seventh senior brother no longer continued the topic, Li Yan was speechless and had to force himself to listen to him continue "teaching skills".
Next, Lin Daqiao talked about the treasure pavilions of each peak. The treasure pavilions of each peak were roughly divided into three categories: one category was books and jade slips on martial arts and immortal arts; one category was spiritual weapons, magic weapons, talismans, puppet collections and the like; and the other category was various elixirs and poisons.
The skills of each peak are the same as or auxiliary skills of the main spiritual root attributes of the cultivation on that mountain. The introductory skills of each realm from the Qi Condensation Stage to the Golden Core Stage are free.
In addition, the various magic arts in the Collection Pavilion, such as the general basic magic arts such as "Wind Blade Magic", "Fireball Magic", and "Quicksand Magic", are basically the same in each peak and are also free.
Advanced magic also requires the exchange of spirit stones.
Li Yan asked a question here. Since they are "Wind Blade Technique", "Fireball Technique" and "Quicksand Technique", why are they universal in all peaks? Logically, they should correspond to the wind attribute, fire attribute and earth attribute respectively.
Lin Daqiao's answer was that these basic magic skills were not very profound and could be used with other attributes, but they were not as smooth and powerful as those using spiritual power of the corresponding attributes.
As for elixirs, spiritual weapons and the like, apart from the one-time distribution upon entry, they must be purchased with spirit stones in the future, and the cost can easily be several, dozens, or even hundreds or thousands of spirit stones.
After hearing this, Li Yan thought about the three low-level spirit stones he had received, and realized that he was just a cultivator who was so poor that he couldn't even afford a pair of pants.