Among the peaks of Jiuhua Sect, in terms of scale, Shaoyang Peak is definitely the one. Although the remaining peaks are the residences of inner disciples and a group of elders. However, in terms of number of people, they are far less than Shaoyang Peak.
Besides, Shaoyang Peak is also the gentlest mountain peak, making it easy to build houses and palaces. Today, there are more than 200 outer sect disciples living in Shaoyang Peak, and more than 30 inner sect disciples who teach them how to practice.
As for the remaining peaks, the number of people is less than a hundred. Among them, there are only a dozen or so people on Tianjue Peak, the top peak of the Jiuhua Sect. In this way, Shaoyang Peak became more lively and noisy.
At the top of Shaoyang Peak, there is a huge palace built called Xundao Hall. It is the place where the chief elder of Jiuhua Sect and others use to preach and teach all the outer disciples.
In front of the Xundao Hall, there is a large martial arts arena. In Shaoyang Peak, competitions will be held from time to time to test the skills and practice of these outer disciples.
On the entire mountain peak, there are numerous houses built here and there for these outer disciples to live and practice.
Mu Jingyu followed Zhou Wenyi around Shaoyang Peak for more than an hour before he basically saw the entire mountain peak.
Finally, after having lunch in the canteen, we followed him to a large house halfway up the mountain.
On Shaoyang Peak, there are three larger buildings for more than two hundred outer disciples to live. The house that Zhou Wenyi led him to was the smallest of the three.
Here, there are more than twenty rooms, in which about forty or fifty outer disciples live. Because it was time to practice in the afternoon, there was no one in this house.
Zhou Wenyi pushed open a smaller house and pulled Mu Jingyu in.
I saw that this room was not big. There was a bed against the wall with bedding neatly stacked on it. Under the window, there is a small table, which is fully equipped with pens, inks, paper, inkstones, oil lamps and other items, but it seems that there is a thin layer of dust because it has been uninhabited for many years.
"Jingyu, you can live here from now on."
"Yes." Mu Jingyu responded softly and swept away the dust on the table. Suddenly he touched the table and seemed to have carved a few words with a sword.
After Mu Jingyu sighed, he took a closer look at the words engraved on it.
"The way of heaven is impermanent, but the way of humanity has its destiny. Only by breaking through the way of heaven can you change your destiny against the will of heaven! - Mo Yunshen, ten years old!"
Mo Yunshen! This is the carving left by Mo Yunshen. Then this house must be the house he lived in when he was practicing at Shaoyang Peak.
Mu Jingyu's eyes were soaked with tears again, and he touched the scratches one by one, whispering Mo Yunshen's name over and over again.
Zhou Wenyi said, "My child, this is the room where Mo Yunshen lived. Ever since he showed amazing talent in the triennial assessment ceremony, he was accepted as a closed disciple by the master Tianyang Zhenren. From then on , this house has also been completely sealed, and other outer disciples are no longer allowed to live there."
In the Jiuhua Sect, there is an unwritten rule. The rooms occupied by the outer disciples directly selected by the master are no longer allowed to be occupied by other outer disciples. Firstly, it was to praise him, and secondly, it was to encourage other disciples to practice hard.
Of course, there are exceptions to everything. Only those who are personally selected by these disciples, or those who have shown considerable talent in the early stages of entry, can make an exception and enter these rooms to live.
"Actually, after we learned about what happened in Wuji Ruins, we expected that the master uncle and the leaders of the other peaks would definitely not accept a disciple with poor qualifications, even if this was Junior Brother Yun Shen's last wish. impossible."
"At that time, Master ordered me to clean this place for you to live in. Not only because you are a disciple recognized by Yun Shen, but also because I want you to have a safe place to live in this Jiuhua Sect. ah."
It was only then that Mu Jingyu touched the tables and chairs in the room and truly felt a sense of intimacy. These things were all items used by Mo Yunshen back then. Touching it with your own hands was like holding his hand.
"Jingyu, Jingyu, thank you Uncle Wenyi and Grandpa Yunyang!" Mu Jingyu said, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to Zhou Wenyi three times again.
Zhou Wenyi helped him up and said, "Jingyu, I see you are tired too, so just rest here for the day. When it gets dawn tomorrow, I will take you to Zhishou Hall and assign you a junior uncle."
The Zhishou Hall in Shaoyang Peak is a place dedicated to giving lectures and teachings to these outer disciples who have just entered the Jiuhua Sect. Only there, after you have a preliminary understanding of what cultivation is, the rules of the Jiuhua Sect, and the various exercises of the Jiuhua Sect, can you enter the next stage of cultivation.
The door closed with a creak, and the room instantly became dark. Mu Jingyu sat at the table, staring blankly at everything in the room. I thought of the young and old in Mujia Village who died tragically, of the Green Bull Spirit in the Cangwu Mountain, of Bi Yun imprisoned in the Demon Underworld Palace, and finally of Mo Yunshen's pale face. Unable to control his grief any longer, he lay on the bed and covered his head with a quilt, crying loudly.
I don’t know how long I cried bitterly. The grief coupled with the exhaustion of the past few days finally fell into a deep sleep.
At dusk, Zhou Wenyi entered the room carrying some food. Seeing Mu Jingyu sleeping deeply, he did not wake him up. After tucking him in, he took the food and closed the door again.
Mu Jingyu's first day in the Jiuhua Sect passed quietly amidst grief and sleep.
Crisp chirps of birds came from the mountains, and the sky became slightly brighter.
Smell the unique fragrance of the mountains and listen to the crisp chirping of birds. Mu Jingyu seemed to have returned to Mujia Village. He opened his hazy eyes from his sleep and called softly, "Grandpa? Daddy?"
After seeing the surrounding environment clearly, he suddenly realized that his family, old and young, had long been buried in a forest in front of the village.
"I really wish I was still lying in my little wooden house now. When grandpa hears the sound of me getting up, he will come and wake me up with a bowl of hot rice porridge."
Mu Jingyu opened his eyes and stared blankly at the roof for a while, and then he put away his sad mood and sat up from the bed.
"Jingyu? You're awake."
The door was pushed open with a creak, and Zhou Wenyi walked in holding two sets of clothes. Seeing that Mu Jingyu had already gotten up, he put the clothes beside the bed.
"These are the clothes prepared by Master. Please put them on and see if they fit you."
Since they left Wuji Ruins, they had been on the road for more than ten days, and his clothes were already dirty. Mu Jingyu happily took the clothes and was about to try them on. Suddenly there was an unpleasant smell on his body, and his face turned red unconsciously.
"Uncle Zhou, look, I haven't taken a shower for a long time. Can you, can you let me take a shower first and then put on new clothes?"
Zhou Wenyi slapped his forehead and laughed and said, "I would have forgotten if you didn't tell me. I wanted to ask you to take a shower last night. I just saw that you were sleeping too deeply, so I didn't bother you."
Zhou Wenyi said and led him out of the room. After passing these houses, we came to a rather large house at the back.
"Nuo, this water room is where outer disciples use to bathe. You go in and take a bath first, then put on these clean clothes, and then I will take you to eat."
Mu Jingyu nodded in agreement, and then walked into the water room with clean clothes in his arms.
After less than half an hour, a young man wearing a green Taoist robe and a flowing cloud scarf on his head walked out.
When Zhou Wenyi saw it, he couldn't help but smack his palms and said sincerely, "What a handsome young master! If I hadn't known that you came from the mountains, I would have thought you were a young master from a noble family!"
The freshly groomed Mu Jingyu not only has clear eyes, but also is rich and handsome. This decent Taoist robe made him even more elegant and majestic.
Mu Jingyu's cheeks immediately turned red when he praised him. Ever since he was a child, no one has ever praised him so much.
"Uncle Zhou is really joking. Jingyu is just a grassroots man. How can he be called the son of a noble family?"
"Hahaha, when you become successful in cultivation and your name is resounding throughout the Nine Provinces, you will naturally be worthy of this title. Now, let's have breakfast first and then take you to Zhishou Hall."
Because Mu Jingyu took a bath, he had already missed breakfast. It was Zhou Wenyi who specially ordered someone to make some porridge at short notice, which filled his stomach.
There is quite a distance from the house to Zhishou Hall. Along the way, Zhou Wenyi briefly explained to Mu Jingyu the rules of practice in Zhishou Hall.
After Mu Jingyu wrote down most of it, he also came to Zhishou Hall.
Although Zhishoutang has the name "tang", it is not a room. Instead, a pavilion dozens of feet in size was built in the open space on the mountainside.
Four stone pillars carved like jade flutes bear a crown that looks like a mountain peak. Mu Jingyu looked at it carefully and saw that it looked like Tianjue Peak.
In the pavilion, there were more than thirty young people sitting on futons, listening carefully to the sermon of a middle-aged man above them.
When the man saw Zhou Wenyi leading Mu Jingyu outside the pavilion, he quickly stopped talking. He hurriedly walked to the outside of the pavilion, raised his fist towards him, and said, "Senior Brother Zhou, why do you have time to come to Zhishou Hall today?"
Zhou Wenyi shook his head slightly and returned the gift, then smiled and said, "Junior Brother Fan, yesterday Senior Uncle Songyang led a group of disciples back to the master from Wuji Ruins. The children saved by Junior Brother Yun Shen were sent to us. Here comes Fei Lu Peak. Master ordered me to take him to Zhishou Hall and let him start practicing."
Zhou Wenyi said, pulling Mu Jingyu over and saying, "Jingyu, this is my junior brother Fan He, who is also the coach of Zhishoutang. In the first few months, you have just followed him to learn the basics of Jiuhua Sect." The technique is done.”
In Feilu Peak, all inner disciples who teach outer disciples how to practice are called coaches.
Mu Jingyu also imitated Fan He, bowed his hands and said, "Jingyu pays homage to Uncle Fan."
Zhou Wenyi smiled and shook his hand and said, "Little guy, after entering Jiuhua Mountain, you can no longer call us uncle. You have to call us uncle, and call Master and others as master."
Although these disciples who entered Feilu Peak were considered outer disciples of the Jiuhua Sect, they could not be considered true disciples in the strict sense. Only after passing the disciple assessment and becoming a disciple of other peaks can one be considered to have a true master and become an entry-level disciple of the Jiuhua Sect. Therefore, in Feilu Peak, they can only call these coaches who teach them as uncles.
"Is he Mu Jingyu?"
What Mo Yunshen did in Wuji Ruins had already spread throughout the Jiuhua Sect. Therefore, most inner disciples have heard of the name Mu Jingyu.
"Sure enough, the birth is quite good!" Fan He couldn't help but praise Mu Jingyu Junlang's appearance. However, after putting his hand on his wrist vein, he frowned unconsciously, and it took him a long time to retract his hand.
"Senior brother, this qualification..."
Fan He just said a few words and then stopped talking. This meaning is understandable. With Mu Jingyu's qualifications, let alone entering other peaks. I'm afraid that if I can't even enter Feilu Peak, I'll be sent home.
"What? Can't you teach someone with such qualifications?" Zhou Wenyi's eyes were so sharp that Fan He trembled.
The disciples under Feilu Peak all know this, even if Zhou Wenyi is usually smiling. But once a junior brother makes a mistake, he will be very strict, and many junior brothers have been punished by him.
Fan He naturally knew that Zhou Wenyi didn't want to undermine Mu Jingyu's confidence in front of him, so he spoke a little harshly to himself.
He touched the sweat that suddenly appeared on his forehead and quickly replied, "What the senior brother is punishing is that the junior brother is responsible for Zhishoutang, so he can naturally teach all the outer disciples."
There was a bitterness in Mu Jingyu's heart, but he still pretended that he didn't know anything and tried his best to smile. "After Jingyu, please ask Uncle Fan to teach you more."
