Chapter 12: The Survival of the Sect
A mottled, antiquated sign detailing the contribution value. There are three points involved in thunderstorms:
1。 Contribution points and items are interchangeable, and the exchange rate is determined by the sect.
2。 On the identity card of the new initiation disciple, 20 contribution points are pre-deposited as borrowing, returned in the second year, and deducted from the contribution value payable at the end of the year.
3。 If the gas refining is less than six layers (including six layers), 100 contribution points will be paid to the sect every year, and it will be automatically deducted from the card at the end of the year.
On their way to the Xuanzhaofeng Sect, Director Zhang of the Foreign Affairs Hall introduced some regulations of the sect:
"Outer disciples who have not reached the foundation building period are not allowed to enter and leave the mountain gate without the permission of the sect, and those who violate the sect will be expelled from the sect."
"On the fifth day of the first day of each quarter, the inner disciple will teach and tutor the cultivation of the outer disciples, and the location is in the lecture hall next to the main hall, and if you have any questions about cultivation, you can also ask for advice there."
"The work done by the outer disciples to the sect is measured by the contribution value, and the contribution value in the sect is equivalent to the currency of the city. It quantifies the contribution of each disciple to the sect, and it is also a test of the ability of the disciples of the sect. It embodies the principle of "the sect does not raise mediocre talents and lazy people".
To put it bluntly, the outer disciples have the dual identity of cultivation and part-time work, those who stand out in cultivation, the sect accepts them as inner disciples, and cultivates them as the basic backbone of the sect, and other people who have not achieved cultivation will work in the sect all their lives and support themselves.
Those who cultivate the truth are already going against the sky, who doesn't want to live forever and become immortals? . But there has to be this opportunity, everyone has a firm grasp, and their hearts have long been focused on improving their cultivation and racing against time, and all the chores are left to the outer disciples to do, and no one really cares about how the outer disciples survive.
After knowing the concept of contribution value, the most important thing they want to know is how to get contribution value?
Senior Brother Huang's answer was: "As long as you are willing to work, you will not worry about not earning basic contribution points." You can do chores and take over the tasks temporarily assigned by the sect, and each task will give a corresponding contribution value according to the degree of difficulty, or you can find spiritual herbs and elixirs on the mountain, fight spirit beasts, mineral deposits, and even plant spiritual grass, spiritual valleys, plant medicinal materials, chop wood on the mountain, etc., in exchange for contribution points, but the exchange points of different items are different according to the supply and demand relationship of the sect."
After knowing this, the two of them began to calculate the use of contribution points, and the sect provided the new disciples with:
1. Three months of free housing, a set of daily necessities, including robes, quilts, etc.
2. Provide a free cultivation cheatbook: "Immortal Gate Qi Refining Foundation".
3. Borrow 20 contribution points as the initial survival fund and return it in the second year.
Brother Huang took out a list of jobs for them to choose from. The types of jobs offered in the list are: "Cultivating spiritual fields, cultivating elixirs, raising livestock, building, shop handymen, and so on."
Fat Dun Zhang Guangzu, who was originally an apprentice in a pharmacy, naturally chose to be a shop handyman, and he can get 25 contribution points per month.
Lei Yu has been chopping firewood since he was a child, and he has never done the rest, so he can only choose his old job of "chopping wood", with a contribution point per 100 catties.
He secretly calculated: "Even if you cut more than 100 catties a day, you can almost earn more than 30 or 40 contribution points in a month, although it is very hard, but it is free, unrestricted, and has more time to cultivate, not to mention that you can cut more than 100 catties a day if you work hard." In the future, I can find a place in the mountains to build my own house, which can not only save running away, but also save five monthly contributions."
"The sect has arranged for me to guide you in cultivation, and if you have any questions during your cultivation, you can come here to find me. The sect stipulates that in half a year, you must break through the first layer of qi refining, that is, to introduce qi into the body. You must reach at least the third level of Qi refining in three years, otherwise you will be expelled from the sect, you must remember this matter clearly, so as not to regret it when you get it", after choosing a job, Senior Brother Huang said.
"Come to me once, if you want to give me two contribution points, I can't teach in vain, right?", when Lei Yu and they went out, he added with a smile, I don't know if he was joking, or if he said it seriously, Lei Yu thought that he couldn't offend him anyway, so he had to nod vaguely and agree.
After saying goodbye to Senior Brother Huang, he carried the daily necessities he had exchanged for and held the wooden key to the temporary house. They walked towards the rented place, and on the way, Lei Yu found that most of the woodland and hillside land near the small town of Zongmen "Saponaria Tree" had been built first, and it seemed that the contribution value was not so easy to earn, as can be seen from the various simple houses scattered all over the mountains.
Xuanzhaofeng also has a small town called "Soap Tree", the rented house is in a corner of the town, a simple house built by simple treatment of trees, surrounded by courtyards, inhabited by low-level disciples who have not long entered the sect, each courtyard can accommodate dozens of people. Along the way, they also saw a lot of beautiful and chic courtyards, and I don't know who lives there, and it may be worth a lot of money to contribute.
Rented house, the room is not big, very basic, but there is a small kitchen, you can cook your own meals.
After dinner, the two chatted. Although the fat dun Zhang Guangzu looked a little tired, he was very excited, and thanked Lei Yu vigorously when he saw the opportunity: "Without your help, I will definitely not be able to hold on today, how can I still be here,......."
"Why did you want to join the Immortal Gate?"
"Since I was 10 years old, I have been an apprentice in a pharmacy in Deyuan County, and my family is in a nearby village, where my parents are farming. One day in the month of last year, a senior brother in the pharmacy stole money, after I found out, he denounced him, he was severely punished by the shopkeeper, he has always held a grudge against me, always looking for my fault, wanting to retaliate against me, I really can't stay, I heard that I recruit disciples here, so I came here to try, I want to learn kung fu, go back to take revenge, so far my parents don't know it", Zhang Guangzu replied.
When he said goodbye, he said: "Thunderstorm, good brother, if there is something in the future, even if you are told, I will follow you wherever you go", and his attitude was very sincere.
Alone in his room, Lei Yu calmed down, sat on the grass ball on the ground, and thought about the path he wanted to take in the future: "The master said that his qualifications are poor, and it will be difficult to achieve achievements in cultivation in the future. If you can't make up for your clumsiness, cultivate hard, and endure all the hardships, you will really be expelled from the sect after half a year, and everything will be gone."
After calming down, Lei Yu took out the "Immortal Gate Qi Refining Foundation" issued by the sect and read it carefully, and began his first meditation and cultivation after entering the sect.
Lei Yu has the master to give the "Eighteen Secrets of Eternal Life", I have studied for more than two years, but this secret book is too profound, although I meditate every day, but a lot of the content is difficult to understand. Now I have this beginner's manual in my hand, but the description is very simple and easy to understand, the thunderstorm was incomprehensible, but also has a feeling of waking up from a dream, although the content is not much, it can always be compared with the two, much better than the original blindness.
After a period of half a year, the qi was introduced into the body and reached the first layer of qi refining, Lei Yu didn't know that he meditated and cultivated every day, and the slightest air flow flowed in from the top of his head, could he be regarded as reaching the first level of qi refining into the body? .
No one to guide, can't find someone to ask, Lei Yu sometimes really misses the master, if his old man is alive, it would be good, now that the things are gone, it is impossible to go to Elder Nama again, everything has to rely on his own efforts, first pass the pass of this half a year.
All night, Lei Yu was silent in meditation and cultivation, and the two cultivation methods were carried out alternately.