Just like training is required when joining a new company, Yan Liqiang also regarded his experience in the Discipline Institute over the past few days as pre-job training for joining the Sword God Sect. The core of the training was the small booklet he received - "Sword God Sect Rules and Records".
The Sword God Sect's various precepts, rules, and behavioral norms that each disciple in the sect should abide by, from the big things like practicing and becoming a disciple to the small things like dressing and eating, all kinds of precautions are recorded in that book. The first priority for any disciple who enters the Sword God Sect's mountain gate is to thoroughly read and remember the contents of that book. If the Sword God Sect is compared to an armed group, to put it simply, that book is the Sword God Sect's military regulations.
The days in the disciplinary institute were monotonous, hard and boring.
At five o'clock every morning, Yan Liqiang and the four people who lived with him got up at the same time. After washing, they began to clean the disciplinary courtyard. After cleaning, at around eight or nine o'clock, they had breakfast.
Breakfast was brought to them by the disciples on duty at the Discipline Institute. Their breakfast, lunch, and dinner were all the same - steamed buns.
Two steamed buns for breakfast, two steamed buns for lunch, and two steamed buns with some pickles in the evening. The standard daily ration for each person is six steamed buns with some pickles. Every morning, they get their meals for the day. The steamed buns are still a little warm at breakfast, but by noon, the steamed buns have become cold and hard, so they can only continue to eat cold steamed buns. The same is true for dinner.
After breakfast, a lawyer from the Discipline Institute would come and explain to the five of them for half an hour the various taboos in the Sword God Sect, or the different etiquettes for different occasions. Afterwards, they would study and memorize those contents on their own in the house.
The lawyers in the Discipline Court are certainly not the kind of lawyers who helped people with lawsuits that Yan Liqiang met in his previous life. Although the two have the same name, they are not the same thing. To put it simply, the lawyers in the Discipline Court are the police or military police in the Sword God Sect. They are the professionals in the Sword God Sect who are responsible for punishment and maintaining the sect's discipline. Those who serve as lawyers in the Discipline Court are all outstanding disciples in the Sword God Sect, and those who serve as lawyers are at least elite disciples in the Sword God Sect.
At noon, after lunch, a lawyer will take them to various places in the Sword God Sect's mountain gate, show them the way, and let them get familiar with the locations of the various mountains and halls and institutions within the Sword God Sect. Afterwards, they will return to the Discipline Institute to continue self-study of the "Sword God Sect Rules and Regulations."
In the evening, after dinner, they can do some exercise in the yard at the back of the Discipline Courtyard, such as practicing boxing or exercising, washing clothes, etc. At around nine o'clock in the evening, which is the hour of Hai, they can turn off the lights and rest on time.
The next day was the same...
The Sword God Sect's mountain gate covers a vast area of thousands of square kilometers. The Sword God Sect is filled with densely packed mountains of all sizes pointing straight to the sky, and under the mountains there are all kinds of deep valleys and valleys of different sizes and shapes. Because there are exactly thirty-six peaks, the Sword God Sect named those peaks after the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs, and because there are so many valleys, the Sword God Sect gathered together seventy-two valleys and named them after the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends.
Tiankui Peak, Tiangang Peak, Tianji Peak, Tianxian Peak, Tianyong Peak, Tianxiong Peak, Tianmeng Peak, Tianwei Peak…
Dikui Valley, Disha Valley, Diyong Valley, Dijie Valley, Dixiong Valley, Diwei Valley, Diying Valley…
There are a total of 108 places and place names. It is not easy for a newcomer to name all of them, let alone recognize them. In addition, there are ten major courtyards of the Sword God Sect and various halls and buildings under the ten courtyards distributed among these peaks and valleys. If no one leads you to find your way, getting lost in the Sword God Sect is no joke for a disciple of the Sword God Sect. Once you get lost and enter a forbidden area, getting beheaded is even more unfair...
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After eating cold steamed buns over and over again for a week, Yan Liqiang's stomach started to cramp whenever he saw steamed buns. The same was true for the other people. However, everyone gritted their teeth and persevered, not daring to complain at all, because this was a hurdle that everyone had to go through.
Although the process was somewhat difficult, no matter what others thought, at least for Yan Liqiang, he felt that the training and study in the Discipline Institute for the past half month was very necessary, because such training and study would allow him to have enough understanding of the Sword God Sect in the shortest time and know the "rules of the game" here, so that he would no longer be completely in the dark or blindly follow what others say.
Yan Liqiang studied very hard, and as time went by, his understanding of the Sword God Sect became deeper and deeper.
The entire Sword God Sect was full of strict hierarchical barriers. It was extremely clear what people of different levels could do, what powers they enjoyed, and what obligations they had to fulfill. There was no ambiguity at all.
The status levels in the Sword God Sect are from low to high, namely outer disciples, inner disciples, elite disciples, direct disciples, core disciples, elders, grand elders, and sect masters. There are five levels of disciples, and each level is divided into upper, middle, and lower levels. The legend says that the grand elders who are above the elders have the same status as the sect master, but the grand elders hide in seclusion for many years to practice and do not ask about the sect's affairs. Therefore, the entire Sword God Sect is held by the sect master.
As a result, all the people in the entire Sword God Sect were divided into 18 classes with a strict hierarchy. Disciples like Yan Liqiang, who had just entered the Sword God Sect's mountain gate headquarters, were all lower-level disciples among the outer disciples at the bottom of the Sword God Sect's class pyramid.
Standing at the highest point of the Sword God Sect's pyramid is the Sect's leader, Luqiu Mingyue, nicknamed the Sword King. According to legend, Luqiu Mingyue's cultivation had advanced to the level of Martial King thirty years ago, and he became a elder of the Senate of the Han Empire.
As for how many supreme elders the Sword God Sect has, that is a secret of the Sword God Sect. Not to mention Yan Liqiang, even the core disciples don't know.
Under Luqiu Mingyue, there are the seventeen elders of the Sword God Sect, each with their own responsibilities. Under the seventeen elders, there are several disciples of various ranks in the Sword God Sect, who are the most outstanding and well-known in the Sword God Sect. Within two days of Yan Liqiang’s arrival at the Sword God Sect, he heard about the names of those most outstanding disciples - Seven Heroes, Three Heroes, and One Peerless.
The Seven Heroes are the seven best among the elite disciples and direct disciples, the Three Heroes are the three most outstanding figures among the core disciples, and as for Yi Wushuang, she is recognized as the number one by the millions of disciples of the Sword God Sect and is known to be the most capable person to take over the position of the Sect Master of the Sword God Sect in the future, a woman—Ni Wushuang.
In the blink of an eye, Yan Liqiang had spent fifteen days in the Discipline Academy, learning everything he should learn and remembering everything he should know...
Early in the morning of the sixteenth day, Manager Xue, who had not been seen for half a month, appeared in front of Yan Liqiang again and handed Yan Liqiang a metal waist badge representing his identity as a disciple of the Sword God Sect and with his name engraved on it.
Half a month ago, he didn't know the meaning of the light blue clothes worn by Manager Xue, but now, he knew that the color of the clothes worn by Manager Xue represented Manager Xue's identity in the Sword God Sect, that is, a mid-level elite disciple of the Sword God Sect.
"Keep this badge safe. From now on, you must show it when you enter or leave the Sword God Sect's mountain gate or any special places. If you lose it, you know the consequences!"
"Well, thank you, Manager Xue!"
Yan Liqiang carefully put away the badge.
Today, only Yan Liqiang was present in the Discipline Court. As for Ma Liang and the others, since they had arrived here four days before Yan Liqiang joined the Sword God Sect, they also completed the "pre-job training" four days in advance and left the Discipline Court first.
During these days, Ma Liang was rude to Yan Liqiang at first but respectful later, and he kept asking him about his "connections" in the Sword God Sect. Of course, Yan Liqiang said nothing.
"Follow me..." Manager Xue said these three words expressionlessly.
Yan Liqiang carried a small bag he had packed and followed Manager Xue out of the Discipline Institute.
Half an hour later, Manager Xue sent Yan Liqiang directly to the Gray Robe Hall in Dimo Valley, handed over two bodies, and then left.
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The Gray Robe Hall is a special organization within the Sword God Sect that is responsible for the management and arrangement of outer disciples. Because all outer disciples wear gray robes, it is named the Gray Robe Hall.
After Steward Xue left, a servant in the Gray Hall, who was wearing black clothes and whose last name was Huo, looked at Yan Liqiang with a fake smile, "Your name is Yan Liqiang, right?"
Yan Liqiang nodded.
"What does the Gray Hall do? Do you understand the rules here?"
Yan Liqiang nodded again. In addition to training, outer disciples at the Sword God Sect's mountain gate headquarters are also responsible for a large number of mountain gate chores every day, which is equivalent to half a laborer at the Sword God Sect's mountain gate headquarters.
"Well, from tomorrow on, all the toilets on the top of Tianqiao Peak will be handed over to you for responsibility..."
Yan Liqiang was stunned, he never dreamed that his first job after coming to the Sword God Sect would be to be the director. Damn, what kind of luck is this
"What? Didn't you hear what I said? Or do you think cleaning the toilet is dirty and don't want to do it? And you want to be picky?" The expression on Huo Zhiyi's face suddenly turned cold, as if he was waiting for Yan Liqiang to jump up and say "no".
As his mind raced, Yan Liqiang smiled. "I heard what Huo Zhiyi said. Tomorrow I will be responsible for cleaning the toilets on Tianqiao Peak!"
"Here is the key to your residence. It is next to the farmland at the foot of Tianqiao Peak. There is a room number on the key. You can find it when you go there. If you don't clean the toilet properly and make the brothers on Tianqiao Peak unhappy, and any news reaches me, you know the consequences!"
Yan Liqiang took the key, bowed to the shitty attendant, and left without saying a word...
(End of this chapter)