The two climbed the mountainside and stopped not far from the cave.

Jiang Ning was not worried, after the knife underwriter found a small spirit vein here, he deliberately dug a small spirit chamber in it. The mountain in front of the small spirit chamber is relatively steep, and even if someone accidentally breaks in or hunts and comes to this mountain, they will not come here. Even here, there are shrubs in front of you, so it's not easy to spot the cave. It's just that I found a cave, there aren't too many small caves like this, who is bored to pick up the bushes and come in to see what kind of small cave it is?

If there really is, it is better to consider walking on the street and suddenly angering a grumpy human immortal master, it is a small probability event, there will be, the probability is surprisingly small, who would consider it?

But Jiang Ning is a little strange, the three major Liupin families in Licheng, there are the Xiong family, the Zhong family, and the Xiao family, why did the child of the Xiao family come here?

Another young man was also asking, "Brother Xiao, why did you invite me to this wilderness?"

"Like a real brother, sit down and talk. ”

The two of them sat on the mountain rock where Jiang Ning and Dao Hanqing were sitting that night.

"Brother Ruzhen, have you ever heard of the Tiancang Sect?"

Heavenly Firmament Sect?

This sect is not small.

The top of Licheng is Huanzhou, and the bottom is Xizhou, by the state, and from the state to the past, it is Hanzhou, if there is no accident, the original brigade is this line. Licheng to the southeast, below is Luzhou, below Luzhou and southeast of Youzhou is Hezhou.

There is a Tiancang Mountain in Hezhou, which is several times better than Shiliang Mountain in terms of length or thickness. The Tiancang Sect is in the Tiancang Mountain, and it belongs to the standard third-grade forces, and some people even think that they are quasi-second-grade forces.

There are a total of thirty-one states in the northwest, and the Tiancang Sect is known as one of the five major sects in the northwest, which shows that it is powerful.

Specifically, because it is separated by two states, in this world, it is undoubtedly separated by thousands of miles, and Jiang Ning has cultivated Caton before, and he has heard of it, but he doesn't care too much, let alone know the details of it.

Of course, "Brother Ruyi" must have heard of it, "Brother Xiao" just asked casually, and this language problem can't be taken care of.

"Yes. ”

"Have you ever heard that the Heavenly Cang Sect recruits disciples every year?"

"They are sects, and they must recruit disciples, why do you ask this?"

"Unlike the Licheng Sanshan School, they recruit disciples every year not in the spring, but in the fall. ”

"Do you want to go? No, the policy of the Moon Dynasty is more and more biased towards the Pin family, and your family is still the home of the six pins. ”

"If you are a real brother, you don't understand, although the court is biased towards the Pin family, in the future, the Pin family itself will want to jump to the top as if it were ascending to the sky. ”

Jiang Ning nodded secretly, the child of the Xiao family saw it more thoroughly.

Just like Dao Hanqing, he served as the commander of a battalion and went through many difficulties, but after he was successfully selected as a battalion general, there were still many soldiers who were not convinced. However, if it is changed to the Xiao family, or the people of the Zhong family, as long as they have reached the innate stage and are willing to serve as camp generals, who dares to disobey, who dares to be dissatisfied!

The tilt of resources will become heavier and heavier, and the product itself will be solidified.

Jiang Ning couldn't figure out whether this system would bring good or bad results, but there was something that would inevitably appear.

If it is placed in Licheng, it will gradually block the space for the disciples from ordinary families to rise, and in the entire Yue Dynasty, it will gradually block the space for the children of the middle and lower grades to rise. That is, the strong will always be strong, and the stronger will be stronger...... In other words, the strong will always be strong, but it will also become difficult to be stronger.

The young man of the Xiao family continued: "Our Xiao family is a six-rank family, and your Niu family is a seven-rank family, but you and I are not descendants of the lineage, and we are becoming more and more marginalized. Even if we are not marginalized, our two families are kings and hegemons in Licheng, but they are placed in Pingwei Mansion. ”

Pingwei Mansion is the higher-level institution of Licheng County, and the next level is Longzhou.

"There are several five-rank families in Pingwei Prefecture, and then in Longzhou, there are three four-rank families in Longzhou City, but let these four-rank families go to the Gyeonggi area, or look at the entire Yue Dynasty. In addition to the nine first-grade families, there are dozens of second-rank families and nearly a hundred third-grade families in the entire Yue Dynasty. ”

There are a total of nine first-grade families in the Yue Dynasty, nearly thirty second-grade families, and more than ninety third-grade families.

This is a family family, and there are more sects above the third grade.

However, on the whole, Pinjia has a slight upper hand.

For example, Licheng, although they are all middle and lower grade families, there are nearly 100 of them, and there is only one sect, Sanshanmen. At the same time, the two sides have great influence in the military, the government arrest, the government service and other state violence apparatus, and no one can say who is strong and who is weak.

The Pinjia seems to be more secular and aristocratic. The sect seems to be more noble, but it is more common. The Yue Dynasty pacified the Tang Kingdom, and the major families made great contributions, so they launched the product family system, which seemed to have sheltered some major sects, and also sheltered various families, and at the same time, it also pushed each family to the aristocracy and the various sects to the direction of commoners.

This, coupled with the fact that there was no serious external contradiction, began to fight, and the conflict between the Pin family and the sect became bigger and bigger, which was most likely the real reason behind the ambush in Balling Valley, Shiliang Mountain.

Jiang Ning continued to listen.

"This place probably belongs to the Dao family, you look at the few people of the Dao family, in order to fight for the little resources that the Dao Guard will leave behind, they are full of ugliness, what do we think in our hearts? It's like watching a few clowns perform. But in Pingwei Mansion and in Longzhou, those people from high-grade families look at us like clowns. ”

"You and I are the same age, both are in the expansion period, and the qualifications are good. Last month, I went to Pingwei City with several brothers in my family and a few children of the Zhong family, and also visited some families. At that time, I was still proud of my cultivation, and as a result, several of the children who came out of the family were the same size as us, and their cultivation had reached the Xuanyuan stage. Are we not qualified? Why is this so, are you willing?"

"Brother Xiao, so you want to enter the Heavenly Cang Sect to learn the arts, what criteria do they have for choosing apprentices?"

"Under twenty years of age, congenital. ”

"Haven't you and I far exceeded their criteria for selecting disciples?"

"Wrong, this is only the first criterion, after reaching the congenital stage, they also have to measure the bone age, of course, the younger the better, if you are only twelve or thirteen years old to reach the congenital, other aspects are not qualified, and you will also be selected by the Tiancang faction. But you and I are both twenty years old, so it is not congenital, we must go through a series of assessments, so that they can test their respective talents, understanding, perseverance, actual combat ability, their respective specialties and luck, and after passing, they will be selected. ”

"Seems hard to ......"

"It's not hard, the further back you go, the harder it gets. If you think about it, not to mention the children of the common people, how many middle- and lower-grade children like you and me are in the Yue Dynasty, and there are not many ways to rise through the family, and if you want to seek officials, you can't get many high-ranking officials, and if you want to cultivate, you lack the exercises and resources, so how many of them are willing? Therefore, in the future, there will be more young people who want to worship in such a big sect. The more people who worship, the less likely you will be to win. ”

"It's easy to test cultivation and actual combat ability, talent and expertise, perseverance is also easy to test, even if you can test your understanding, but how to test your luck?"

"I don't know, they change some tricks every year, and even if they are a little worse, as long as other aspects keep up, they can also be selected. Some people's cultivation has kept up with or even surpassed, but they are worse in other aspects, and they are eliminated from the competition. I want to ask you to go to the Heavenly Firmament Sect together. ”

This Niu family's "Ruzhen brother" was moved: "Okay then." ”

"Brother Ruzhen, you and I have more than enough cultivation, but the Tiancang Sect will assess its aspects, so I brought you here. You see, this place is gradually becoming less populated, and there are starting to be infested with wild beasts, but there are no powerful fierce beasts and demon beasts, isn't it a good place to try?"

"No wonder you brought me here. ”

Jiang Ning wanted to scold.

The two wanted to defect to the Tiancang Sect to learn art, and he agreed.

But what is there to try here, this is the place where all the children of the Dao family hunt!

Well, the two of them try out here every day, and they can no longer go in and out casually.

......

"Second brother, this is ......"

Dao Hanqing was a little dumbfounded.

It was very simple to dig this cave back then, an outer hole, the outer hole was relatively large, and then a small spirit chamber and a stone gate were chiseled on the spiritual vein, and the others were gone.

But now, Jiang Ning dug a stone pond in the outer cave, and there was still some clear water in the stone pool.

"Brother, don't mention it. ”

Jiang Ning told the two young people of Xiao Niu's family about the trial.

They didn't talk about playing, but they really came here to try, where did Jiang Ning dare to go out. It's convenient, the big ones can be solved at night, and the small ones are solved outside, but whether it's washing or drinking, you need a lot of water every day.

Jiang Ning forced the two children to dig a pool, go down the mountain at night, and go to the stream below the mountain to fill a bag of water with a water bladder and put it in the pool.

He even took out Xia Youliang's high-grade magic sword from the ring and called it as a spade, while digging the mountain rock, he sighed, this sword really sharpens iron...... No, it's like cutting stone like mud. Xia Youliang is dead, otherwise he would be angry to death when he saw this scene.

"You said they had reached the Pulse Expansion Period?" Dao Hanqing asked in disbelief.

"What they said ......" Jiang Ning suddenly thought about what the young man surnamed Xiao said, they looked at the dispute between the Dao family like clowns, with a difference of one or two grades, which was equivalent to a world apart.

"Expansion Period, how do they cultivate?"

"Is it rare, if Xiaomeng is not unexpected, she will not be able to enter the expansion period without being twenty years old. The extension period is not unusual, but the rare period is the Xuanyuan period. ”

There is a level between the two that is bigger than the congenital, and many people are not talented and have been stuck in this level all their lives.

Therefore, after the young man surnamed Xiao went to Pingwei City, he was surprised to see several people of the same age who had reached the Xuanyuan period.

Jiang Ning said again: "As far as I know, my stepfather broke through to the True Liquid Stage when he was thirty years old, and I don't know what kind of cultivation my stepfather was when he was twenty years old, but I think he has already reached the Pulse Expansion Period, and maybe he has already broken through the Xuanyuan Period." As for the disciple of the head of the Sword Hall who was killed in Shiliang Mountain, he was only seventeen years old, and he was cultivating in the enlightenment period. ”

"Second brother, what's in the Sword Palace...... Don't talk about it. But the two young people you mentioned, I know that one may be Niu Ruzhen of the Niu family, and the other may be Xiao Dai'an of the Xiao family, although these two people are the direct descendants of the Xiao Niu family, their ancestors are separated by several generations from the ancestors of the two families, and they are indeed marginal figures. The relationship between the two has always been good, and it is rumored that their cultivation talent is also very amazing...... Expansion period. ”

Speaking of which, these two people are still a year younger than themselves, Dao Hanqing finally recited enviously.

can't be compared with Xia Youliang's favorite disciple Jin Wushuang, it was purely looking for a draw.

Xiao Niu and his family are behemoths in Licheng, but they are only kings and hegemons in Licheng, and the twenty-year-old Tuomai is already super good, and they are still the descendants of the two marginal families.

"Tiancang faction. Dao Hanqing showed a yearning look again.

"Brother, I'll say something that upsets you. Xiao Dai'an said very clearly, twelve or thirteen years old, they may take care of it. That is, Li Meng's talent may not be qualified. As for you and me, let's rest early. The dream is wonderful, but the reality is cruel. ”