Chapter 5 Recruiting Disciples
Qingyunmen recruits disciples every ten years, and most of the children recruited are between six and fifteen years old. At this time www.biquge.info there will be many children who come to participate in the long journey. There are also many small Xiuzhen families, who rack their brains in advance to find someone to pull a relationship and leave a place for their children, of course, there is no need for those who are talented.
On the day of recruiting disciples, Jiang Li flew to Xuanyu Peak early in the morning on a bamboo crane.
The bamboo crane is a commonly used flying machine in Qingyunmen, which is made of the unique empty bamboo of Tianji Peak, and when used, as long as a lower grade spirit bead is embedded in the tail of the bamboo crane, it can fly all day. Flying steadily and fast, it is the first choice for disciples in the Qingyunmen Qi training period to go out.
"Ah Luo, I'm looking for you."
The bamboo crane landed in a small courtyard overgrown with all kinds of herbs, and Jiang Li climbed down with his hands and feet, shouting at a wing room to the east.
The door to the wing room opened as she spoke, and a petite figure stepped out of it. Jiang Luoliu's eyebrows frowned slightly, and she wondered: "Ah Li? How did you end up here? ”
Suxiao Peak and Xuanyu Peak, one south and one north, are thousands of miles away. It takes three hours to ride the Taketsuru, so it seems like it's just past midnight.
"I'm here to go to Tianwei Peak with you." Jiang Li put on a big smile.
Tianwei Peak is the outermost peak of Ji Chao Peak, steep and majestic, straight to the sky. Every year, the recruitment site for new disciples is set up in a Taoist temple on the mountainside of the peak.
Jiang Li had always wanted to know how Qingyunmen recruited disciples, and of course he didn't want to miss this opportunity, so he had already discussed with Jiang Luo that he wanted to go and join in the fun. Jiang Luo, like her, entered the mountain gate through illegal shortcuts, and was also curious about the normal recruitment process, so she agreed at that time.
"Oh." Jiang Luo counted the days, the seventh day of the ninth month, it seems to be today: "I'm going to ask the master for leave, you wait a little." ”
"I'll go with you." Jiang Li stuck to it, took her hand, and said with a smile: "I want to ask Master Fu Zhen to help me send a message to my master, I ran out secretly." ”
Jiang Luo: ......
Fu Zhen Daojun looks like an old man on the outside, his beard and hair are all white, and his robe makes him quite a bit of fairy wind and bones. At this moment he was sitting cross-legged in front of the furnace, his eyes closed, as if he had fallen asleep.
Jiang Luo held back a smile and said what he meant, Fu Qi Daojun opened his eyes slightly after hearing this, looked at Jiang Li inscruciously, and then waved the dust and agreed to them to go down the mountain.
"Master, you must remember to help me say a few good words, otherwise I will be scolded by the master." Before leaving, Jiang Li did not forget to emphasize again and again, for fear that he would really fall asleep and forget for a while.
Fu Daojun: ......
His master's and nephew's divine sense is still very strong, okay? He'll know as soon as you get out, okay? I still have to work for an old man like me, this child is too disrespectful to the old, so I have to talk to Master Du's nephew. It's rare to put back the old man's genealogy, is it easy for him?
New disciples who enter the door must first test the spiritual root, and children with spiritual roots can enter the following test. The duration of each Spiritual Root Test remains the same, starting at midnight and ending at midnight. If you miss the hour, please go to other sects to report, because the rules of Qingyunmen only accept children under the age of fifteen.
Jiang Li and Jiang Luo arrived at their destination at a time that was neither too early nor too late - the end of the hour and the beginning of the hour. There was already a long queue in front of the Taoist temple, and from the sky, it looked like a thin and long line, stretching all the way along the winding mountain road, and there were newcomers who kept coming in the distance.
"That's a lot of people."
Jiang Li has grown so big, except for going to the sect conference, he has never seen so many people at one time.
"Of course, our Qingyunmen is famous, the largest faction in the world, and no matter how many people want to enter, they can't get in. The recruitment of disciples once every ten years, of course, those who know will not miss it, so every time a disciple is recruited, thousands of people come to sign up. There was an unconcealable pride in Jiang Luo's words.
Hearing this, Jiang Li's eyes widened, and his big sparkling eyes were full of surprise.
"It turns out that our sect is so powerful."
The Tianwei Peak is extremely high, towering to the sky, straight into the sky. Dingxian view is located in the middle of the mountainside, curved tile cornice, carved beams and painted buildings, magnificent, perennial cigarette smoke. From a distance, the entire Taoist temple is shrouded in clouds and fog, and it is not very clear, so that it really looks like a fairy palace.
The test of the spiritual root was carried out directly in the main hall, and the Taoist priests guarding the main hall notified the pilgrims three days in advance, and they could not go up the mountain if they had nothing to do within three days. Beware of having Xiaoxiao or Qingyunmen's enemies mixing in and causing trouble and hurting the innocent.
Jiang Li and Jiang Luo got down from the bamboo crane, and immediately a Taoist priest who was watching separated from the crowd and trotted over: "Two junior uncles, please come inside." ”
The priest didn't know who they were, but it didn't prevent him from recognizing the clearly marked sect clothes. The costumes of Qingyunmen are divided into three categories according to the shade of the color of the trim: light blue, turquoise blue, and navy blue. The outer disciples wear light blue, the inner disciples wear blue blue, and the miscellaneous servants wear navy blue, which is distinct.
The two of them were led by this Taoist priest, and then entered the main hall with the envy and curiosity of everyone.
Unlike the crowd outside, the inside of the hall was noticeably quieter. Two men and one woman, three disciples of Qingyunmen lined up and sat on the futon. In a corner of the main hall, more than a dozen children who passed the test have gathered
"Uncle Shi, there are two little uncles here."
"Ah Luo, Ah Li, why are you here?" Luo Jinxiu looked at the two villains who suddenly appeared in front of her in surprise.
Luo Jinxiu is the junior sister of the Bibo Fairy, her talent is not good, the three spiritual roots of earth, fire, earth, wood, people and water, it is rare that she has a high understanding, cultivates hard and steadily, and her cultivation is much faster than most people of the same age.
When Jiang Luo was in Zichan Peak, he was quite taken care of by everyone, and Jiang Liang was a frequent visitor to Zichan Peak, and they were all acquaintances.
"Senior Sister Luo is good, two senior brothers are good." The two of them saluted the three of them obediently.
Two men, one is Lin Jianyu, the younger disciple of Shouming Peak Zhiyuan Zhenren, and the other is someone they don't know, they should be the representative sent by the deacon hall of the sect, and they heard Lin Jianyu call him Kong Yan.
Luo Jinxiu heard them call her senior sister, and pursed her lips and smiled: "Ah Li is right to call me senior sister, Ah Luo, you are now the personal disciple of Master Fu Zhen, call me senior sister, I don't dare to respond." ”
Jiang Luo's face flushed: "Senior sister, you say so, Ah Luo is really ......"
"No, no, Ah Luo is my sister, I don't want to call her uncle." Jiang Liang domineeringly circled Jiang Luo's waist, the senior sisters are all called Uncle Aluo, so what should she do? She doesn't want to call Uncle Aluo, she looks smaller.
"Poof!" Luo Jinxiu couldn't help laughing: "People are small and big." ”
"Is this the new genius disciple of Master Fu Zhen?" Kong Yan finally found a gap to interject and came to meet the rumored genius alchemist, "I am fortunate to meet you today, Kong Yan in the lower deacon hall, and I will invite a teacher in the future...... Take care of it. ”
Establishing a good relationship with an alchemist is definitely a good thing that benefits and harmless. Kong Yan can mix from an inconspicuous outer disciple to the deacon hall, he is not a human spirit but also a top human being, how could he let go of such a good opportunity.
Jiang Luo's face turned even redder, she was only eight years old, and her cultivation was only at the third level of Qi cultivation, how could He De take care of a senior brother who was already in the foundation building period.
"Okay, if you keep talking, Ah Luo's face can be dyed." Lin Jianyu saw Jiang Luo's discomfort, and hurriedly changed the topic: "I heard that Ah Luo, you are the Tianmu Tianhuo Spirit Root?" ”
"Yes."
It is precisely because she is the Heavenly Wood and Heavenly Fire Spirit Root that she will get twice the result with half the effort in alchemy.
"Ah Luo, you test it for them, and let them know what the real best spiritual root is." Luo Jinxiu instigated, and at the same time glanced at Kong Yan proudly.
She has been unhappy with this Kong Yan for a long time.
Qingyunmen recruits new disciples, and it stands to reason that the personnel sent out should all be foundation building and cultivating. But she and Lin Jianyu both belonged to the "someone above" type, so they got this errand. She is the ninth layer of qi training, and Lin Jianyu is at the stage of great perfection of qi training. In fact, it was the senior brothers and sisters who were higher in cultivation than them who were not willing to waste their time on these chores, so they pushed them out.
At first, this Kong Yan saw that they were inner disciples, and he was polite and respectful. Later, I learned that the qualifications of the two of them were not good, so I was a little more disdainful in and out of my words, and I looked down on the inner disciples. Lin Jianyu didn't want to worry about this little thing with others, so he didn't hear it. Luo Jinxiu was not happy, and faced each other a few times openly and secretly.
Jiang Luo was unwilling, but she couldn't hold back Luo Jinxiu's enthusiasm and walked to the test stone.
Generally speaking, when cultivation reaches the stage of conformity, you can see through the spiritual roots of others at a glance. But many monks in the Convergence period would not waste this time recruiting disciples for the sect. Therefore, in order to allow the disciples of the foundation building period and the disciples of the qi cultivation period to better find people with spiritual roots, each major sect has developed magic weapons that can test spiritual roots. For example, the Heavenly Star Ruler of Xingluo Pavilion, the Four Elephant Beads of Xuantian Sect, etc.
Qingyunmen is a gossip plate made of jade-like non-jade. It is engraved with the eight characters of "gold, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, thunder, wind", each word occupies a large grid, and each large grid is divided into three small grids, which respectively represent the three levels of "heaven, earth and man". It is said that it was made by a lazy predecessor in Qingyunmen, and later it was improved by the ancestors, and there was no loophole in a hundred looks.
Jiang Luo pressed her hand on the gossip plate and calmed down. Almost instantly, the word wood fire lit up, and the large grid where the word was located was all filled with white light. This means that Jiang Luo is a wood fire dual spirit root, and they are both heaven level, such a spirit root is no worse than a low-level single spirit root.
Even Lin Jianyu couldn't help but be full of envy, if he had such a good spiritual root, he might have broken through the Qi cultivation period long ago, and now maybe he could already hit the Merge Dao period.
Not to mention the children who had just come in, they all looked at Jiang Luo in surprise. The best of them is also a double spirit root, but unfortunately they are all human-level, and they are not as good as some slightly higher-level three spirit roots.