Chapter 559: Attention
After most of the day's effort, the selection of outer disciples was finally over, and a total of forty-one people, including Qin Feng, successfully passed the test.
It is worth mentioning that these outer disciples are basically from extraordinary families, rich and wealthy businessmen, descendants of small scattered cultivation families, or princes and nobles, or children of middle and high-level officials, etc., and there are not many children of poor families in the real sense.
As for the reason, it is very simple, even for a cultivator in the Qi refining period, the resources consumed for cultivation are very amazing, the price of a most ordinary pill is equivalent to the annual income of an ordinary person, even if a child of a poor family is talented, it is in vain without basic resource support.
The cultivation seedlings with excellent root bone talent are not uncommon among the people, but because of the lack of resources, most of them are buried in vain.
Many high-level Daoist leaders are aware of such a problem, and try to make some changes, regularly sending elders to lead teams to inspect the people, and bring back to the sect to cultivate those particularly outstanding civilian children. However, in this way, it is easy to breed other problems, such as nepotism, taking advantage of opportunities for favoritism, and so on, so it is not widely recognized by the spiritual community.
In the end, the messenger named Liu Yanfei announced that the assessment was over, and those who did not pass would go back to logistics and cultivation, and there would be a chance in the coming year. Only those who fail to pass the assessment three times in a row will be completely disqualified.
Qin Feng thought about it, this island is full of spiritual energy, abundant products, and the scale of hundreds of millions of people, there are only a few dozen people in a year who meet the standards of outer disciples, which shows the high threshold for selection.
In addition to possessing the entire Chenhua Continent, the Taihao Star Palace also has countless overseas islands, branch dojos, secret realms, and even the unpredictable outer heaven and underground world, and there are countless people who rule directly and indirectly, so the number of outer disciples who can pass the assessment every year is as high as thousands.
According to the information that Qin Feng already has, the scale of the outer disciples of the Taihao Star Palace now exceeds 500,000, which seems to be quite a lot, but when you think of the group size of ordinary people, it is almost equivalent to one outer disciple out of 10 million people, and the proportion is really not ordinarily low.
Moreover, although the outer disciples have a respected status and unlimited scenery outside, but in this super sect, they are at the lowest level, and most of the errands that are hard and tiring, complicated and redundant, and difficult for ordinary people to do are in charge of the outer disciples, and there are also some dangerous tasks, so the mortality rate of the outer disciples is also quite high.
Of course, this is the normal situation in the cultivation world, those who can survive are the elite, and the geniuses who die are nothing.
"All the new outer disciples, come and receive this month's items, pay attention to order, and don't make noise." A male messenger announced aloud.
Qin Feng was a little surprised, according to the previous practice, it seemed that after the outer disciples returned to the sect, there would be resources to be used, but now this step has been advanced? Or is there something else going on above?
He pressed the doubts in his heart, lined up with the other selected disciples, and entered the building ship under the leadership of the messenger.
From the outside, the size of this building ship was not inferior to that of a heavy cruiser, and when he stepped into it, he found that the space inside was even more considerable, much larger than that of an aircraft carrier, which should be the effect of some formation.
The storeroom area is heavily guarded.
A group of outer disciples with calm faces stood in a row in front of the entrance area, all dressed in sky-blue robes and robes, holding weapons in their arms, maintaining order.
Everyone straightened up their expressions and lined up one after another.
Behind the huge thousand-year-old agarwood table, several foreign affairs elders sat upright, spreading out the jade slip book with a glittering light, meticulously recording the name of each outer disciple, as well as the images, cultivation exercises, and the like, which was a fixed process.
Qin Feng was specially arranged by Concubine Liu Yan in the first place, and after answering the elders' questions in a decent manner, an elder took a picture of him with the treasure mirror in his hand, made a record, and then took out a jade plate, punched in more than ten spiritual tips, and then handed it to him.
"This is the identity certificate of the disciples of this sect, remember to keep it and not lose it." He told carefully.
Qin Feng agreed, and secretly looked at the jade plate in his hand, this thing is also a beginner-level magic weapon, not only recording the sound and image, but also the fluctuation characteristics of the disciple's divine soul, it is extremely difficult to imitate.
And this is just the credential of the outer disciples, and the inner disciples and core disciples at a higher level will definitely have more sophisticated and complex authentication methods.
The servant next to him brought over a golden silk nanmu box, which contained two brand-new robes, a black shark skin sheath long sword, and three jade volumes, which were the basic exercises of the Taihao Star Palace. In addition, there are mango shoes, jade pendants, talismans and other items are readily available. These are all ritual weapons carefully made by the elders of the sect, and they are all good things that are hard to find in the world.
Then there is the collection of cultivation resources, even though it is only the lowest status of the outer disciples, the treatment is still generous, at least not the rich businessmen in the secular world can easily compare. Thirty Yun Yuan Pills per month, four Soul Transformation and Qi Replenishing Pills, ten liters of Xuezhi Spirit Wine, and a quota of up to 30,000 taels of red gold, which can be freely exchanged for the items you need from the treasury.
Moreover, the meals of the outer disciples are all kinds of high-grade ingredients rich in spiritual energy, all from domesticated spirit beasts and spirit birds, large-scale cultivation of spiritual rice and spiritual fruits, etc., which are basically open to supply, as long as your appetite is big enough, it is not a problem to eat as much as you want.
There are dozens of nomadic empires in the northern frontier of the Chenhua Continent, which are specially used as ingredients for the Taihao Star Palace to raise various spirit beasts, as for those spirit rice spirit fruits, they can only be cultivated in the spiritual fields full of spiritual energy, and they are all paid tribute by many dynastic families in the south.
Among the outer disciples, there are many nobles from the royal kingdom and wealthy giants, but even they are afraid that it is difficult for them to have such good treatment in the world.
After Qin Feng took the things, he retreated to the side, and a maid came to lead him away, and after turning around and turning around, he came to a rather spacious cabin, in which there were all kinds of furniture such as beds, tables, chairs, etc., all of which were made by famous craftsmen in the secular dynasty.
This is the temporary residence of the outer disciples, and when they return to the sect, there will naturally be a special courtyard and servant distribution. The chores of daily life are taken care of by special people, and the disciples themselves only need to cultivate.
After the maid explained the precautions, she retired and left, Qin Feng sat down, first changed into a robe, and then began to flip through the three volumes of jade books and Taoist books. Although it is only the most basic entry-level exercises, it is still much stronger than the big road goods that are readily available outside, and the details that are often inadvertent can be reflected in subtle details.
“…… It is worthy of a famous family with a long heritage and a perfect system. ”
Qin Feng secretly thought that although he couldn't use this exercise, it was still okay to use it for reference, and it would also be good for the starship, and when he was promoted to the inner door and even the core disciple in the future, he could also get a more advanced exercise book.
Just then, there was a knock on the door outside.
"Come in."
Qin Feng got up.
The door of the room opened, and a woman in a golden robe, who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, appeared at the door, with a long and slender figure, beautiful eyes, and a charming beauty.
"What do you command?"
Qin Feng asked naturally.
Concubine Liu Yan was slightly surprised, strictly speaking, the outer disciples are not qualified to call themselves like this, but this Qin Feng is talented and has a strong foundation, maybe it won't take long to be promoted to the inner door, but it is not too much to exceed the rules.
She bowed slightly, and walked in: "I came to see you on purpose, this time I was ordered by the elders of the sect to go out to select and assess this year's outer disciples, and lead them back to the sect." ”
"After passing through fifty-one immortal islands, hundreds of small sects that are scattered and cultivated, and thousands of tribes in the city, there are only more than three thousand qualified outer disciples, and there are very few of them who can be called excellent qualifications and are expected to go further."
Qin Feng's heart moved slightly: "Can I ask, among these shortlisted disciples, what level can I rank?" ”
The corners of Concubine Liu Yan's lips curled slightly, and she smiled indifferently: "Among the more than 3,000 people, you are undoubtedly the most outstanding one, otherwise it would not be worth me to come over to mention you." ”
She took out a piece of jade pendant with a faint light and handed it over: "This superb spiritual weapon, after being activated, can withstand three fatal injuries, I will send you to defend yourself, protect yourself in the next experience, if you can make enough achievements, the sect will also have a large number of rewards." ”
Qin Feng's expression was slightly shocked: "There is a training task so soon?" ”
According to the practice of the sect, the training tasks of the outer disciples can be chosen by themselves, and the time can also be arranged freely, why is it different this time?
Concubine Liu Yan looked at him: "I came out this time, and I am also in charge of another important task of the sect, an ancient cave mansion on this island is about to open, I am afraid that there will be many cows, ghosts, snakes and gods who will come out to make trouble, you new outer disciples, may have to end up in the war." ”
“……”
Qin Feng was stunned: "But the outer disciples are lowly in cultivation, I'm afraid they won't play a role in this level of battle, right?" ”
"Yes, so your mission is to garrison the city to prevent those demonic monks from breaking in and wreaking havoc." Liu Yanfei explained.
"No problem."
Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the sect would not deliberately use the outer disciples as cannon fodder to send them to death, such an arrangement was reasonable.
No matter how low the status of the outer disciples is, after all, it is also the foundation of the entire sect, from the head of the sect to the elders at all levels, the core disciples have to start from the outer disciples, and the rules of the secular dynasty that pass from father to son and family do not exist here.
Concubine Liu Yan stared at him: "You are now in the realm of the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Realm, and you are not far from breaking through, right?" ”
"Yes, it feels like a breakthrough will be available soon."
Qin Feng replied, with the starship shielding, it is impossible for this senior sister to see her true situation.
"Well, do it well, when you survive this experience and break through the Yunji Realm, you won't be able to run away from the quota of an inner disciple." Concubine Liu Yan said.
If you want to be promoted to an inner disciple, in addition to passing the test with your own strength, you have to make enough meritorious contributions to the sect, and many inner disciples in the sect, all of them have come over like this, even if the descendants of the middle and high-level elders of the sect have no preferential treatment in this regard.