Liu Qingyi put down the wooden box in his hand and asked, "Senior brother, are you from Bolian County?"
Deacon Xu nodded and said: "Of course, our Bolian County is much bigger than your Lan County." He gestured with his hands and said: "Your Lan County is just a small group at the bottom of our southern border, while our Bolian County is It’s such a big area in the middle of the southern border.”
"It turns out that senior brother is from a large county, so I'm being disrespectful. So, senior brother was also a serious soul-selected man back then?"
"It goes without saying that back then, I, Xu Xiangying, was one of the top talents in Bolian County. The fact that the Heavenly Beast Sect chose me is a testament to that."
"So my senior brother's name is Xu Xiangying?"
"Yes, that's what I called it. My nanny gave it to me."
"Senior brother also has a nanny, which is quite particular. I wonder which two characters Xiang Ying came from in his name?"
Deacon Xu stretched out a finger, dipped it in some saliva, and wrote two words on the floor.
Liu Qingyi stretched out his head to look at it and said, "It turns out that it's the sunflower's direction and the azalea's reflection."
Deacon Xu asked suspiciously: "Sunflower? Azalea? What is it?"
Liu Qingyi was startled at first, then smiled and said, "Two plants from my hometown."
Xu Xiangying asked seriously: "Is it spiritual food?"
"no."
When Xu Xiangying heard that it was not spiritual food, he immediately lost interest and walked over and said, "Don't envy those Tsing Yi disciples who live in Lingxiu Valley. There's nothing strange about it. I was also a Tsing Yi disciple back then, and I have been a Gray Yi disciple ever since. Disciple, I feel quite comfortable."
"Is it difficult for the sect to earn merit points?" Liu Qingyi saw that he said it easily, and thought that he was just coveting the ten merit points that the gray-clothed disciples could receive every month, so he couldn't help but ask with suspicion.
Xu Xiangying smiled proudly on his face and said in a low voice: "It's not difficult at all. It's just that it's dangerous to take on those sect missions all day long. As a gray-clothed disciple, you can get ten merit points every month. Although it's a little less, it's still good. There is no more fear for life.”
Liu Qingyi suddenly smiled and said: "So you are hiding from this."
Seeing Liu Qingyi's disapproving look, Xu Xiangying tensed up his face and put on a serious expression: "You have only been here for a short time, so naturally there are many strange things. The merit points earned from those sect missions will be transferred to Xianshu Pavilion Middle School once The two immortal arts can be used together, but if you want to use them to improve your cultivation level, it would be a bit fanciful. You must know that no matter how many merit points you have to advance from the Spiritual Forging Realm to the Tongyuan Realm, it will not help. It is the same anyway. Why go to all the trouble to take risks? Why not just make some meritorious deeds like this and practice one or two magical arts at will."
"So that's it. I probably understand a little bit about this merit point. How do I understand the Spiritual Forging Realm and the Tongyuan Realm? Please ask Senior Brother to clarify my doubts." Liu Qingyi asked again.
"Immortal monks are divided into several major realms. You disciples who have just awakened to spiritual enlightenment are only in the primary stage of cultivation, which is the so-called spirit forging realm. Above the spirit forging realm, there are Tongyuan realm, Sanyang realm, The Condensing Pill Realm, the Purple Mansion Realm, and the legendary God Refining and Yuanhun Realm. Hey, I didn’t expect you to be so ignorant, maybe you weren’t from Lan County.”
"Alas, my hometown is just a remote mountain village in Lan County. How can I know these profound common sense of immortality? Just now, senior brother Cai said that it seems not easy to advance from Lingjiu Realm to Tongyuan Realm. What's the reason?"
"Did you know that there are only a few people in our Heavenly Beast Sect from top to bottom?" Xu Xiangying blinked and asked.
Liu Qingyi said: "I haven't counted this?"
Xu Xiangying spread his fingers and counted: "Excluding the sect leader and the four elders, there are two first-generation disciples, five second-generation disciples, and only four third-generation disciples. In total, there are only eleven members of the Tianshou Sect."
"So few?" Liu Qingyi was a little surprised.
"What do you think?" Xu Xiangying looked at Liu Qingyi, with an indescribable expression on his face.
Liu Qingyi thought of the many Tsing Yi disciples who had come in together, and said in confusion: "I see there are quite a few Tsing Yi disciples. Could it be that they are not considered true disciples of the Heavenly Beast Sect?"
Xu Xiangying sneered slightly and said coldly: "Disciples in Tsing Yi? Hey, they are still considered human beings? They are just servants at most."
When Liu Qingyi heard this, he frowned and said, "According to what senior brother said, the disciples in green are just servants, so who do we, the disciples in gray, count?"
"We, of course, are not even human beings." Xu Xiangying smiled and said lightly, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.
"Look at what you said, why do I feel so sad to hear it?" The expression on Liu Qingyi's face didn't know whether he was crying or laughing.
"Haha, you are not enlightened enough yet." Xu Xiangying laughed, and then said: "You know, our Tianshou Sect has very few people. Among the three upper immortal sects in the south, Xianghuo is the weakest."
"The weakest?!" Liu Qingyi repeated loudly.
"Yes, the Heavenly Beast Sect is not very popular, just because the cultivation of this spiritual realm is too slow, not as much as other immortal sects."
"How could this happen?" Liu Qingyi was greatly surprised and a little unbelievable.
"The reason is also very simple. Who said we are a beast-control sect? Others only need to cultivate themselves, but our cultivation requires both humans and animals. Not only do we have to cultivate ourselves, but we also need to spend a lot of time looking for and cultivating companion immortal beasts. , how to do it quickly?"
"Both humans and beasts? That's how it is...!" Liu Qingyi opened his eyes wide and suddenly realized, and then asked: "How come you haven't seen senior brother's companion immortal beast for so long?"
"Of course I haven't found it yet!" Xu Xiangying replied angrily, then turned around and packed up the two wooden boxes and returned them to the window just now.
Liu Qingyi followed Xu Xiangying out of the Lingshan Hall and returned to the Heavenly Beast Hall. Seeing that everyone inside was gone, he and Xu Xiangying took out a wooden chair in front of the hall and sat down, chatting.
According to Xu Xiangying, the Heavenly Beast Sect has a structure with one sect leader and four elders. The sect leader is named Lei Zhen, a great monk in the late Zifu realm. The four elders are Peng Zhen, Feng Yan, Nie Zhong, and He Yuanji. Except for Peng Zhen, who is a monk in the early stage of Zifu, the other three are all middle stage monks in Zifu.
As for the disciples of the Heavenly Beast Sect, they have been divided into the inner sect and the outer sect since ancient times.
Disciples who have reached the Tongyuan realm and are recruited by the sect leader or elder are considered to be inner sect disciples.
These inner sect disciples live together with the elders of the sect master day and night, listening to the teachings from time to time, and the sect's resources will be tilted towards them. They can be said to be the favorites of the Heavenly Beast Sect.
The highest status among the inner sect disciples is the first generation of disciples in the Condensing Core Realm. Because the sect specially bestows white Taoist robes, they are also called white robe disciples. There are only two disciples in this realm, one is 'Dragon Immortal' Zhao Xianyu and the other is 'Tiger Immortal' Qu Liangjun. According to what Xu Xiangying said, these two immortals, Dragon and Tiger, are very famous in the world of immortal cultivation in the Southern Realm, and they are considered to be the leaders among the disciples of the Heavenly Beast Sect.
The second generation of Sanyang Realm disciples of the inner sect are Lei Lei, Guo Yan, Zeng Manting, Wu Yaqi, and Liu Qingshan. They are also called black disciples because the sect bestowed them with black clothes. Among the five, Zeng Manting has been promoted to the late stage of Sanyang Realm for many years, and has already stepped into the Condensing Pill Realm with half of her feet. She has a transcendent status among the second generation disciples, while the remaining four are all in the early to mid-stage realm.
It is worth mentioning that Lei Lei among these five people is none other than the son of the sect leader Lei Zhen, so this person is vaguely respected by the second-generation disciples.
As for the third-generation Tongyuan realm disciples of the inner sect, apart from Tang Mu and Li Xiangyu, who they had already met when they first entered, there were only two brothers Luo Hou and Luo Chong who were not familiar with them.
These so-called disciples in purple finally broke through the Spiritual Forging Realm and were promoted to the Tongyuan Realm, but they were still no match for the iron law of slow cultivation of the Beast Sect disciples. Among the four, except for Tang Mu, one person had reached the middle level of Tongyuan Realm, and the other three were still at the middle level of Tongyuan Realm. Stay in the early stage of Tongyuan Realm.
From the perspective of the inner sect alone, as Xu Xiangying said, apart from the sect master and elders, the three generations of disciples of the Tianshou Sect together can only count as a mere eleven people, which is not nonsense.
As for those disciples who are still in the Lingsheng Realm and have not been promoted to the Tongyuan Realm, they are collectively called outer disciples.
There are two types of outer disciples: Tsing Yi and Gray Yi. Tsing Yi disciples refer to those younger Qi Ling disciples who are expected to be promoted to the Tong Yuan Realm. Gray Yi disciples refer to those Tsing Yi disciples who were eliminated in the sect competition. They Because he didn't want to leave the sect, he was classified as a gray-clothed disciple and was under the unified control of the sect. He was given ten points of merit each month to support him. He was mainly responsible for some housekeeping chores and some mundane affairs of the sect, almost like a servant.
There are now about two hundred outer disciples of the Tianshou Sect. Apart from the sect deacons who are classified as gray-clothed disciples, there are still more than one hundred and eighty green-clothed disciples.
Because they were unable to obtain more sect resources, these Tsing Yi disciples not only practiced too slowly, but also found it extremely difficult to find companion immortal beasts. Most of their cultivation levels were still in the early to mid-level realm of spiritual forging.
In order to increase their strength, the only way for these Tsing Yi disciples to increase their strength is to take on sect missions, or form a group to enter the depths of the Heavenly Beast Mountain, kill some ferocious monsters to collect materials, or go out to do some not-so-easy chores for the sect, and earn some money. Get certain merits and practice powerful magic.
Although those sect missions brought a lot of merit, the risks were also extremely high. Over the past few years, many disciples in green and even in purple have died. This has dealt a worse blow to the lower-level disciples of the Heavenly Beast Sect. It seems to have formed a vicious cycle. This is also the fundamental reason for the scarcity of disciples in the inner sect of the Heavenly Beast Sect.
Because of this, many Tsing Yi disciples like Xu Xiangying voluntarily applied to be demoted to Gray Yi disciples to earn the fixed ten points of merit each month.
After all, although these gray-clothed disciples have low status and hard work, they can safely accumulate a certain amount of merit and can also exchange for one or two immortal skills, which is a safe choice.
When Liu Qingyi heard this, he spat softly and thought to himself: "This Heavenly Beast Sect really doesn't care about the life and death of the lower-level disciples. From this point of view, being this gray-clothed disciple is not bad, it's just another kind of It's just a formality. If for the so-called sect mission, I learned from Xu Tianbao's ancestors and risked my life one day, wouldn't it be unfair?" He thought of Xu Tianbao's immortal ancestor in Humiao Village, It was because of the decline of the sect affairs that he naturally did not want to follow in his footsteps.
The two chatted for a while, then Xu Xiangying got up and took Liu Qingyi with him to clean the lobby inside and out and flush it with water.
He then went up to a large meeting hall on the second floor. One person held a whisk and wiped all the tables, chairs and corners in the hall. When he returned to his residence, it was already dark.
