A few days later, the sect's rewards were distributed.
What I have to say is that this time's reward came much faster than previous rewards in terms of time alone. Tang Ping received two rewards from the sect, both for protecting Yan Shuang. Then The two rewards were slowly handed over to Tang Ping after many days. Tang Ping, who received the reward at that time, couldn't help complaining that the sect seemed reluctant to reward disciples who had made meritorious deeds; the second was the reward this time. It was considered very generous. In the meeting hall, Elder Jiang promised Tang Ping in public that the reward this time would be three times the previous reward. In the end, as Elder Jiang said, Tang Ping was the first. When she opened a storage bag to look at the rewards she had received, she couldn't help but nod her head. She secretly said that the sect was finally generous. She had received rewards from the sect twice because of Yan Shuang's affairs, but after receiving them each time, They couldn't help but curl their lips, and even complained in front of Tang Bonian about the sect's petty spirit. The disciples were beaten to death outside, but the sect was so stingy that they only gave so little in the end, and this time Tang Ping was obviously satisfied. .
However, satisfaction is all. How should such a large number of bulging storage bags be delivered to the hands of those five spirit elites? Tang Ping has the status of the leader of Qi Refining disciples now, so she cannot carry such a large amount with her. Then find the five spirit elites to send them over one by one. Not to mention the time consuming, it seems that this is not what the leader of Qi Refining disciples should do, so she naturally thought of a helper... Ma Hu !
After going through some things, Tang Ping's impression of Ma Hu has now changed. Ma Hu has a good relationship with Qian Chao. She must be willing to do things for herself, so she brought many storage items with her. Bao Bao came to the cave of Senior Tian Zhi'an and found Ma Hu.
Ma Hu was overjoyed after looking at the contents of the storage bag, and asked Tang Ping with a beaming smile:
"Hey, Junior Sister Tang, do we all have this many?"
Tang Ping said:
"Of course, anyone who follows you, Senior Sister Luo, or the two Senior Sisters Fang will be rewarded this time. Well, this time the council will give rewards exactly according to the list I gave them."
Because Meng Huaifu was about to become a disciple of Tian Zhi'an, he had been living in Tian Zhi'an's cave. For this reason, Tian Zhi'an built a small building for him outside his cave for his living, so Tang Ping came to see Ma. Meng Huaifu was also present at the time of Hu's death, and Meng Huaifu also had a share of this reward. Even though he was once a promising young master in a wealthy family, he couldn't help being surprised when he got his share and looked up. He asked with some confusion:
"Miss Tang, I am not an elite disciple of the Five Spirits, how come I have a share?"
Tang Ping said:
"Brother Meng, why can't I have your share? You have contributed, so you should be rewarded. The five of us were rewarded twice by the sect because of Miss Yan Shuang. At that time, no one said anything about the five of us. This is the elite disciple of the Five Spirits. This elite disciple of the Five Spirits is nothing more than a name. Was Senior Brother Ma just an elite disciple when he first entered the sect?"
"Yes, yes, junior sister Tang is right," Ma Hu said repeatedly, "Junior brother Meng, you fought Ge Xun not long after you entered the sect, and captured this traitor who willingly degenerated into an evil cultivator for the sect, and established the foundation for the sect. He achieved merit and was injured, so why shouldn't he be rewarded by the sect? These elite disciples of the Five Spirits not only look at their origin and family background, they also value whether they have the heart to serve the sect and the means to serve the sect. If you have both of these, then you are an elite disciple. Isn’t it normal for you to contribute to something in the future and be rewarded for your meritorious service?”
Meng Huaifu nodded after hearing this. He could only stay in the Wuling Sect in the future. Now that Ge Xie was captured by him, Ge Xie would be executed soon. He could finally fulfill his wish, and he could become a disciple of Tian Zhi'an. For him, It was a good start in the Five Spirits Sect. It would be a good thing for him to have the status of an elite Five Spirits sect.
"Hey, Junior Sister Tang, the five of you are really different from Senior Brother Fan before. As for Senior Brother Fan, he's a smart man, but he's just a bit of a good guy. Hehe, if nothing else, just use the previous two protections. As for Yan Shuang's case, the so-called five spirit elites were not present at all. Some people were afraid of going because they were greedy for life, and some people didn't take Senior Brother Fan seriously at all. Well, in the end, guess what? Those who did not go actually received the same rewards from the sect as those who fought hard after arriving. For this reason, many people were discussing privately and felt that this was not good. Well, also, Junior Sister Tang, this time Let's deal with Wen Liang. Those who didn't go are not convinced by the five of you. Alas, there are still some sect dudes among the so-called elite disciples. They have their eyes set on the top, can't do big things, and don't want to do small things. , I have never paid attention to Senior Brother Fan’s orders in the past, and this was also a headache for Senior Brother Fan at that time. This time you won such a generous reward for us, I listen to what you mean. Those who did not go No, Junior Sister Tang. Although this is encouraging, those people may cause trouble for you in the future. Well, don’t worry, as long as those guys dare to mess around, you can just come to me if you have any use for me. I always Ma Bie has no other abilities. Anyway, my reputation within the sect is average, and I can pull off this face, so I can scold some people and run away."
Tang Ping nodded and thanked her, and then said:
"According to my original intention, the reward distribution this time is to gather all the five spirit elites in the side hall of the meeting hall again, and give the rewards to everyone one by one in front of those who did not go. If possible, please invite a few elders of the council to witness. Unfortunately, my sixth grandfather did not allow me to do this, saying that it would hurt people too much. Those who did not go might be embarrassed and never listen to orders again in the future. Already..."
"Yes, what Senior Tang said is very true, well, let's do this, Junior Sister Tang, you leave all these things with me, I will find a few people who we went out with last time, and then I will work with them to bring these sects The rewards are delivered to those people one by one. We are neither high-profile nor low-key. We want those who have contributed to the sect to be happy when they receive the rewards, and we want to make those who have not contributed People should figure out the taste for themselves. To be honest, after Senior Brother Fan took over as the head of the Qi Refining disciples, several senior brothers were always dissatisfied and refused to obey Senior Brother Fan's orders. In the end, they even gave up the title of elite disciple, haha, We can't seek perfection, we can only try our best to gather those who are willing to contribute to the sect. Well, this time the elders of the meeting hall agreed to Junior Sister Tang's proposal, and presumably they will also do something for those who have not contributed this time. Be dissatisfied."
And this was exactly the purpose of Tang Ping's visit to Ma Hu this time. After hearing this, she quickly thanked him.
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And long before the generous gifts from these sects were distributed one by one, various rumors about the elite disciples' attack on Wen Liang under the leadership of Tang Ping and Qian Chao had already begun to spread.
The last time Qian Chao and five others went out of the sect to deal with Wen Liang, Ma Hu, Luo Ying, Fang Yang, Fang Han, Cui Yin, Gu Yuan and others led people inside the sect and captured Wen Liang's ears and eyes one by one. Because some people resisted fiercely, it was impossible to keep it completely secret. Since then, some disciples in the sect have begun to speculate and discuss.
Later, Luo Ying and Lu Shuang escorted many casual cultivators back to the sect, and more people were seen, so some people connected the two things. In the end, Tang Ping, Qian Chao and five people returned with everyone. There were many people with mixed opinions, and not all of the Five Spirits elite disciples were very strict with their words. Naturally, the truth of the matter came out.
Rumors started quite normally.
The first thing I said is that after careful investigation, the seniors within the sect discovered that there are people who have intentions that are detrimental to the sect. These people have penetrated deeply into the sect and have many eyes and ears. They are responsible for spying on all kinds of information. At the same time, they are also plotting outside the sect. In order to deal with the shocking conspiracy of Wuling Sect. When the sect was almost done with the investigation, they closed the net on them. First, they cleared the eyes and ears of those people in the sect, which was what happened before when someone in the sect was arrested. At the same time, the five spirit elites They all mobilized and found those guys outside the sect. After a hard battle, they finally wiped out all those guys. However, it was a pity that the two most important guys escaped, so the sect will continue to spare no effort in the future. to apprehend those two men.
However, people soon discovered that there was something wrong with this rumor. If there was some force secretly intending to harm the entire Five Spirits Sect, why were only the elite disciples of the Five Spirits sent to deal with those people? Even if they are elites, they are only Qi refining masters after all. You must know that the rumors say that those people are launching a shocking conspiracy against the entire sect. Can they be dealt with by just sending some Qi refining disciples? Moreover, whether it was the eyes and ears of those captured within the sect or the casual cultivators who were later escorted back, all of them had Qi refining skills. How much harm could such a guy cause to the Five Spirits Sect?
Then the rumors started to take on more variety.
It is said that in order to overthrow the Five Spirit Sect, a large enemy sect did not hesitate to spend money. They sent many alchemy monks to sneak in and seize the qi refining disciples in the sect, then lurked, and then searched for the "cross-sea" in the territory of the Five Spirit Sect. It is said that the heaven and earth cages left behind after the "War of Heaven and Earth" contained extremely ferocious beasts from ancient times. It was the ancestors of the Wuling Sect who paid a heavy price to seal these ferocious beasts. The hostile beasts were The sect believed that their strength alone was not enough to fight against the Five Spirits Sect, so they planned to send people in first to find those heaven and earth cages, and then unlock the formations that sealed those extremely ferocious beasts, and let the ferocious beasts out of the cages to cause chaos. Through these ferocious beasts The rebellion first weakened the Wuling Sect, and then took advantage of the Wuling Sect's weakness to launch a large-scale attack.
Some people also say that the origin of the matter is related to the murder of Senior Brother Xun of Jiuxuan a few years ago. It seems that Senior Brother Xun discovered something and was silenced. Then Ma Hu, who had been greatly favored by Senior Brother Xun, has been tracking down and killing Xun. After years of hard work, Ma Hu finally found out that the person who killed Brother Xun was a remnant of an evil cultivator family that had been wiped out by the sect earlier. The great enemy whose family was wiped out even sacrificed his own cultivation and took away the body of a young weapon-refining disciple named Wen Liang in the sect. He originally planned to cause chaos in the Wuling Sect, but after taking away the body, he was killed by Senior Brother Xun. Seeing the clues, Wen Liang planned to kill Senior Brother Xun outside. Ma Hu's years of investigation not only found out the real culprit who killed Senior Brother Xun, but also found out where Wen Liang was hiding outside the sect. It's a pity that the fake gentle man was so clever that the five elite disciples who came to deal with him were no match, and in the end he was wounded and escaped.
Wen Liang's name was mentioned in the rumors. This Wen Liang was also a disciple of Jiu Xuan, so some Jiu Xuan disciples thought about it carefully. It seemed that they had no impression of Wen Liang, and they immediately became alert. There were many disciples of Jiu Xuan who had disappeared over the years. , I think that the guy who took away Wen Liang had worked hard. People who had been friends with Wen Liang before or were familiar with him might have exposed his identity, so those talents disappeared one by one quietly. , many people are glad that they don’t know Wenliang.
But at the same time, some people recalled the legend of a mysterious "Senior Brother Wen" that has been quietly circulated in the sect over the years. It is said that Senior Brother Wen specially selected some people with poor qualifications and low cultivation levels to be under his command. After his guidance and training, The cultivation of those people has improved rapidly, and the reason why Senior Brother Wen is doing this is to let those people do things for him. I think that Senior Brother Wen must be the Wen Liang.
Soon, rumors began to spread about the role of Qian Chao and the other five people. It was rumored that it was not Ma Hu who discovered the clues about Wen Liang, but Qian Chao. It was even said that Qian Chao and the five people had had sex with Wen Liang several times outside the clan. Both sides had their own victory or defeat. This time it was Qian Chao, the five of them, who had become the leaders of the Qi Refining disciples and were able to coordinate the elite Qi Refining disciples in the sect. Only then did they defeat Wen Liang in one fell swoop. The rumors also described the arrangement of Qian Chao and the others against Wen Liang as miraculous. Why did the many elite disciples of the Five Spirits lurk in a forest in advance, while Qian Chao and the others were responsible for luring the enemy deep into the enemy? When the army of casual cultivators passed by the forest, the elite qi-refining disciples in the forest launched a sneak attack, killing countless casual cultivators at once, and then pursued the victory, forcing Wen Liang and a group of casual cultivators into Broken Star Lake. The giant snake that became the weather in the lake gave Wen Liang another heavy blow, and finally captured all the casual cultivators around Wen Liang in Da Cang Ze. As a last resort, Wen Liang began to fight with all his strength and summoned from the underground of Da Cang Ze. A mud monster, and then there was a big battle between the two sides. The fight was so dark that the man named Lu Pingchuan from Houtu Temple almost died in Wen Liang's hands. Finally, on the big meadow, Qian Chao and the five of them each used The amazing method finally defeated Wen Liang's mud monster, but unfortunately Wen Liang escaped in the end.
There are many versions of such rumors, which describe the battle situation at that time as extremely thrilling and miraculous, especially later, I don’t know who and where they found out that the Great Meadow is also a prison between heaven and earth, and there is a cage below. Ancient ferocious beasts, so there were rumors that Qian Chao and the other five people were also skilled in qi refining, and the reason why they were able to display that incredible method was because the five of them had the means to be banned from underground. The ancient ferocious beast "borrowed its power", otherwise it would not be possible to explain why Qi Refining disciples could use such powerful means. Well, let alone, as soon as this statement appeared, it made those who heard it believe it.
However, as the sect distributed rewards to the elite disciples who participated in the fight against Wen Liang, the direction of the rumors changed again.
The disciples in the sect still know who the elite disciples are. Most of them don't know how much contribution these elite disciples have made this time, but they are keenly aware of who have received rewards from the sect and who have not. No, this has not happened before. In the past, as long as the sect was in trouble and those elite disciples were dispatched, there would be rewards for all members. As long as they were elite disciples, they would all have a share. But this time is different. The reward this time is said to be very generous, three times the previous reward, which is very coveted; and the most important thing is that not all the elite disciples of the Five Spirits have received this reward, actually half of them have received it. The above elite disciples did not receive this reward!
After discovering this, some people initially said that Qian Chao and Tang Ping, the five new Qi refining disciples, were suppressing people they usually disliked. However, as more and more news came out, the rumors changed again. The wind direction.
It's roughly like this:
After Tang Ping, Qian Chao and other five intermediate Qi Refining disciples were recommended as the new Qi Refining Disciple Heads by the former head of the Qi Refining Disciples, Brother Fan Yan, some of the original elite Qi Refining Disciples were originally He coveted this position and was dissatisfied because his plan failed. Therefore, he did not listen to the orders of Tang Ping and the five people in this incident, let alone serve. This is one; the other is among those elite Qi refining disciples. There are also some people who look down on Tang Ping and Qian Chao just because they are not senior enough, have not cultivated enough, and do not have enough prestige. Therefore, they turn a deaf ear to the orders of Tang Ping and Qian Chao, so they do not go out; thirdly Well, among the elite disciples there must be some senior dudes with deep backgrounds in the sect. They have always benefited from nothing but benefits, so these people will not go out to serve.
In the past, when Senior Brother Fan ordered these people, only those dandies did not obey the order. In this regard, Senior Brother Fan at that time was helpless.
But this time Tang Ping and five people ordered these elite disciples. Due to the above three reasons, less than half of the elite disciples obeyed the order. It is said that such a small number of people was the real reason why Wen Liang, the first offender, was able to escape this time. If the elite disciples were All the disciples were present at that time, how could Wen Liang be allowed to escape?
There is also Tang Ping. She has a hot temper and can't get rid of the sand in her eyes. When she sees this situation, she has been angry for a long time. I heard that Tang Ping once made a scene in the meeting hall after returning to the sect, clamoring to resign. The leader of the Qi disciples, she could only resign her post after establishing the foundation. Therefore, the elders of the meeting hall had nothing to do with her. They could only follow Tang Ping's wishes and generously reward those elite disciples who had contributed. There will be no punishment for those who did not follow orders and did not even go. Of course, the generous reward has nothing to do with them.
Then there were rumors, talking about the so-called elite disciples who did not get the reward this time. Originally, they were not optimistic about the abilities of Tang Ping and Qian Chao, but this time they returned with a great victory, so some people They regretted it very much and felt that they should not be incited to go against the current leader of Qi Refining disciples. Some people were extremely angry and felt that Tang Ping was publicly humiliating them in the sect by doing this. Of course, there were also people who didn't care at all, such as those dudes. , but this time, after all, a large amount of income was missing, so they all looked at Tang Ping coldly.
From this, people come to the conclusion that there will definitely be a lot of excitement in the sect in the future.
Having said that, after Tang Ping and Ma Hu went to work, she took her share of the five of them and sent them over one by one. Yanxuan was overjoyed to see so many spiritual stones and elixirs, and Li Jian was Tang Ping smiled slightly, but Lu Pingchuan was the most extreme. He wanted to rub all the shiny spirit stones on his face several times, but when it came to Qian Chao, Tang Ping missed it. Qian Chao was not in his residence, and Qian Chao was not found in the Chengqi Hall, and when asked by others, they all said they did not know. With a sense of doubt, Tang Ping finally returned to the master's cave.
In fact, at this time when rumors were swirling, after Qian Chao had regained his composure, he quietly left the sect and walked all the way to Ruixuan Town. He had to come to Mr. Zhuang every month, but he didn't want to Miss any opportunity to learn something new from Mr. Zhuang.
Just when Tang Ping left Qian Chao's residence in confusion, in Mr. Zhuang's small courtyard in Ruixuan Town, Mr. Zhuang and Qian Chao were sitting across from each other across the chessboard. He still had a chess piece in his hand, but But his eyes were staring at Qian Chao with great curiosity.
"Five Elements Powerful Spirit Formation? What kind of formation is this? Come on, come on. Don't rush to play chess. Please tell me in detail."
"good."
