Chapter 05: The Rules Have Changed

Thundercloud town center on the main square.

At this time, there was a sea of people, no less than 10,000 people gathered around the square, all of them were elated, and their faces were full of excitement and expectation.

Today is the day when the Qiyun Sect came to Thundercloud Town to recruit introductory disciples.

The heads of the three major families, the Shen family, the Jin family, and the Yuwen family, all stood on the platform opposite the square, waiting respectfully.

In the center of them, there stood an old man who was almost 50 years old, with an expressionless face and a solemn face, he was Su Feihu, the city lord of Thundercloud Town!

The Xuanyuan Continent was originally a wild land, the human race was weak, and it was used as rations by the Xuanyuan beasts, slaughtered and devoured at any time, and they could only flee in all directions, without clothing, which was extremely miserable.

Later, a saint was born, led the human race to practice exercises, strengthen the body, and use weapons to fight against the mysterious beasts, and in the end, the human race slowly became stronger, established a city, and became a powerful force on this continent that could compete with the mysterious beasts.

That saint is the only emperor on this continent so far--- Xuanyuan the Great!

However, the Xuanyuan Emperor did not establish an empire, but taught his life's learning to his nine disciples, and then divided the Xuanyuan Continent into eighty-one counties in Kyushu, so that all human beings could live in a strong city and escape the slaughter of the Xuanyuan beasts.

Later, Emperor Xuanyuan disappeared after guarding the human race for thousands of years. In order to commemorate him, human beings named the entire continent "Xuanyuan Continent" and honored him as "Xuanyuan Emperor".

After tens of thousands of years of development, the human race has emerged in large numbers, and they have already become the real masters of the Xuanyuan Continent in one fell swoop, driving the originally powerful and invincible Xuan Beasts to the depths of the forest, and they dare not appear easily.

Nowadays, the most powerful forces in the Xuanyuan Continent are all big sects, and the nine disciples of the Xuanyuan Emperor guarded the nine major states respectively, and they also passed down the exercises of the Xuanyuan Emperor.

Some of them are mediocre and incompetent in the end and become ordinary people, while some disciples can find their own exercises from the inheritance of Emperor Xuanyuan, become a generation of grandmasters, wantonly accept disciples, open sects, and slowly spread.

Now, tens of thousands of years later, among the nine major states, only the state lords of three states are still the descendants of the disciples of Emperor Xuanyuan, and the state lords of the other six states have already changed their hands several times.

The eighty-one county towns are even more controlled by the big families and big sects, let alone small towns like Thundercloud Town.

As a small town under Qishan County, Leiyun Town is actually the sphere of influence of Qiyun Sect for thousands of miles or even tens of thousands of miles around.

The city lords here, including the county guards of Qishan County, are actually all disciples of Qiyun Sect.

However, whether it is the city lord or the county guard, they are only used to control and control the overall situation, and they do not have strong law enforcement power like the real state apparatus.

The city guard army is only composed of warriors hired by the big families in the city, and the leader of the city guard army is also a disciple of the Qiyun Sect.

And each of the three major families in Thundercloud Town has a quota that can directly enter the Qiyun Sect without being subject to the assessment, that is to say, many of the three major families actually have many disciples who are disciples of the Qiyun Sect.

Therefore, although the city lord of Thundercloud Town is also a disciple of the Qiyun Sect, there is not much difference in status between him and the head of the three major families, and on weekdays, the head of the three major families does not take the city lord too seriously.

However, today is the day when the Qiyun Sect came to Thundercloud Town to recruit disciples, and the person who came to recruit should be the deacon of the outer gate of the Qiyun Sect, and he is considered to be the same brother as the city lord of Thundercloud Town, so the heads of the three major families still give the city lord a lot of face.

"It's here!" Su Feihu narrowed his eyes and said with a sudden smile.

Sure enough, soon, there was a crisp birdsong in the sky, and a huge gray figure with a wingspan of ten meters flew quickly.

When they got closer, everyone could see clearly that it was an eagle with a golden head and black feathers all over it!

"See, this is the mount of the deacons of the Qiyun Sect, named Thunder Feather Divine Eagle, that's a third-order mysterious beast!"

"Wow......" The person who saw it for the first time suddenly opened his mouth wide and his face was full of shock.

In Thundercloud Town, the martial artists of the Ning Gang Realm are the top combat power in the big family, and any martial artist in the Ning Gang Realm, as long as they are willing, they can become generals in the city defense army.

Unexpectedly, a third-order mysterious beast equivalent to a martial artist of the Condensing Gang Realm was just a tool for people to ride in the Qiyun Sect, which could also be seen from this, the power of the Qiyun Sect was magnificent!

The countless young people present were also excited, secretly thinking in their hearts that when they could sit down with this third-order mysterious beast Thunder Feather Divine Condor.

Of course, many of them can only think about it, there are thousands of outer disciples of the Qiyun Sect, and there is not one in a hundred who can finally enter the inner gate, and those who can finally stay in the Qiyun Sect and become the deacon of the outer gate must at least become the inner disciples.

In recent decades in Thundercloud Town, there have been less than ten people who have been able to enter the inner gate.

"Brush!" the Thunder Feather Condor's wings shook violently, and then slowly descended to the center of the square.

On the back of the Thunder Feather Divine Eagle, the two figures flickered, falling to the ground lightly like two feathers, and they were spotless.

The two men were wearing pale cyan robes, and their long hair was just tied up with ordinary black straps, which looked extremely casual, but they had the chic of a worldly master.

It was the deacon of the outer gate of the Qiyun Sect who was in charge of recruiting disciples in Thundercloud Town!

"I've seen Senior Brother Ling!Senior Brother Du!" Su Feihu, the city lord of Thundercloud Town, hurriedly greeted him with a smile.

Su Feihu was also a disciple of the inner gate of the Qiyun Sect, and once served as a deacon of the outer gate, but later when he got older, he was sent to Leiyun Town to become the city lord, marry a wife and have children, and settle down.

The two deacons of the outer gate of the Qiyun Sect who came to Thundercloud Town this time were not very old, they were only in their 30s, and when Su Feihu was in the Qiyun Sect, they had just entered the inner gate.

However, because Su Feihu left the Qiyun Sect early, he is now an ordinary person, and his status is naturally not comparable to the two deacons of the outer sect of the Qiyun Sect.

"I've seen Senior Brother Su!" the two also smiled and saluted.

After all, they are all brothers in the same sect, and although the two of them don't take Su Feihu very seriously, they can't lose their etiquette in front of outsiders.

The heads of the three major families also stepped forward to salute the two deacons of the outer gate of the Qiyun Sect, exchanged a few words of greeting, and invited the two of them to the back of the seats that had been prepared long ago on the high platform.

"Two junior disciples, is this year's assessment still the same as before?" asked Su Feihu with a smile.

"This year's assessment rules have changed, later, we will let the Thunder Feather Condor go to the Cloud Mist Mountain and drive some first-order mysterious beasts to the forest 50 miles away. When the time comes, the people who participate in the assessment will go to the forest to hunt the mysterious beasts. The top 7 who hunt the most will get a place to enter the Qiyun Sect. The deacon, who was called Senior Brother Ling, said lightly.

"Huh?" After hearing his words, everyone, including the heads of the three major families, was a little confused.

This rule is the first time that the Qiyun Sect has used it!

In the past few decades, the rules for selecting disciples in Qiyun Sect were almost the same, basically they were all ring matches, and after rounds of fighting and competition, 7 people were finally selected.

Unexpectedly, this year's rules have become so big, and they have been directly changed to hunting mysterious beasts!

Although there are casualties in the ring match, after all, it is a competition between people, but it is too dangerous to hunt mysterious beasts.