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Looking at the hall masters sitting in front of him, Zhong Yuanyu himself felt very depressed. He waved his hand sullenly: "Let's talk about it, what should I do?"

All the lords of the temple were divided into two sides and looked at each other, but no one spoke, and they all remained silent.

It's a new year again, and it's time for the spring competition.

This is a grand ceremony in the cultivation world, and all sects must participate, and they must not shirk it under any pretext. If the sect refuses to send people to participate in the competition, the Taiyi Palace, which orders the entire cultivation world, will issue a killing order to completely eradicate this sect that refuses to obey the rules from the cultivation world.

Compared to the past, the Guizong sect is much stronger. Now, the Guiyuan Sect has as many as thousands of outer disciples. The scale is nearly ten times larger than before. With an abundant supply of pills, the cultivation speed of the outer disciples can be described as a thousand miles a day. Every month, disciples who have reached the perfection of Qi cultivation have successfully built their foundations. The number of disciples in the Five Elements Hall has expanded dramatically, and in the last year alone, there were as many as eight hundred and three monks who were successfully selected as disciples by each hall. In the past, this would have been unthinkable.

The number of disciples in the Temple of Torture has increased by a full sixfold. The hall master Leng Su was very satisfied with this. Regardless of the sect, the Temple of Punishment is responsible for a series of related matters such as guarding, punishment, discipline, and external attacks. Generally speaking, the cultivation of the members of the torture hall will be stronger than that of other monks within the sect. There is a specialization in the art industry, the people of the Five Elements Hall are more good at attribute exercises, and the monks of the Purple Furnace Hall are specialized alchemists. Only the best of them will be elected to the Torture Temple, giving the sect the responsibility of protector and monitor. Whether a sect is strong or not, in fact, as long as you look at the number of members of the torture hall, you can make it clear.

Despite this, the number of members of the Guiyuan Sect's Torture Temple. It is still far less huge than Taiyi Palace. This data has always been a secret of all cultivation sects, but the number of members of the Taiyi Palace Torture Hall is revealed to the public every year.

Last year, there were as many as 14,701 members of the Taiyi Palace's torture hall.

This year, the number of members of the Taiyi Palace Torture Hall is 14,719.

In one year, the number of members of the Taiyi Palace's torture hall has only increased by eighteen. This figure is almost at an all-time low. And no wonder, over the past year. Even in Taiyi Palace, the cultivation progress of the disciples is not optimistic. Successful foundation building is not just a matter of saying yes. First, there needs to be enough elixirs and spiritual veins. Second, personal cultivation and the concept of Taoism are also the key that cannot be avoided.

In history, the fastest increase in the number of members of the Taiyi Palace's torture hall once reached two hundred and thirty-seven. Nothing but this is a formidable force. More than 200 foundation building monks are enough to destroy a secular nation.

The comprehensive strength of other sects is far less powerful than that of Taiyi Palace. Thereinto. The smaller sectarian torture hall has about two hundred members. Medium-sized sects are about five hundred to eight hundred. Even the Haotian Sect, whose strength was comparable to that of the Guiyuan Sect in the past, had less than nine hundred members in the Torture Palace. It can be seen that in just one year, more than 800 people have been elected to the torture hall under Leng Su, and the overall strength of the Guiyuan Sect has swelled to such a powerful extent.

The change comes from Yang Tianhong.

Nearly ten years have passed since Chen Zhengjian accepted Yang Tianhong as an apprentice and took him up the mountain. Sect Master Zhong Yuanyu remembers it very clearly: At that time. There are only more than 600 people in the Guiyuan Sect's Punishment Palace, and they can barely make a tie with Haotianmen. There is a gap in the supply of pills every month. Even the foundation monks. It is difficult to meet the baseline of one per capita per month. Although the amount of Refining Body Pill taken by Qi cultivators was larger, it was only to satisfy the consumption of their own disciples. At that time, the biggest problem that plagued Zhong Yuanyu every day was not how to increase the number of disciples in his own sect, but how to meet the needs of the existing disciples for pills.

Now, the problem of the pill has been completely solved. The planting area of the medicine garden in Houshan has expanded several times. The number of alchemists in the Purple Furnace Hall is also increasing day by day. However, there are always all kinds of troubles in this world. Zhong Yuanyu was troubled by even greater trouble. That is how to cover up the constantly strengthening strength of the Guiyuan Sect.

In the cultivation world, the relationship between Taiyi Palace and other cultivation sects is equivalent to that of a butcher and a pig in the world. Although this analogy is a bit excessive, Taiyi Palace must not allow an overly powerful Guiyuan Sect to appear. For a long time. The number of torture hall disciples of the rest of the cultivation sects fluctuated around a thousand at most. Starting from 170,000 years ago, Taiyi Palace suddenly attacked all powerful cultivation sects. At that time, Zhong Yuanyu had not yet been born. He also heard from the sect master of the previous generation, and saw from the classics that had been treasured for many years that at that time, the Taiyi Palace sent thousands of torture hall men to kill the torture hall monks of various sects and factions. It was a real bloody storm, and Taiyi Palace didn't care at all, but just attacked all the cultivation sects with more than one thousand people in the torture hall according to the number of lists issued.

This kind of action would of course cause a counterattack from all the cultivation sects. However, Taiyi Palace is strong. At that time, there were as many as hundreds of Yuanying monks in Taiyi Palace alone, and there were even thousands of Jindan monks. In the face of this absolutely crushing force, even if all the cultivation sects were concentrated, they would not be able to fight against it at all. It was a time of darkness and death. Tens of thousands of monks were killed. And the reason is just that the strength of each sect and faction is too strong, beyond the scope that Taiyi Palace can control.

Taiyi Palace did not exterminate all the cultivation sects. After the era known as the "Great Extinction", there were only a few dozen disciples left in each cultivation sect. Among them, the worst situation is that the head is only a small foundation building. Taiyi Palace has become a real super faction, and it has also become the target of cultivation aspirations of ordinary people and others.

Tens of thousands of years have passed, and the situation in the cultivation world has changed. "Adventure" and "luck" are two things that never favor one person in particular. Taiyi Palace has received too much favor from the heavens. The cultivation sect has never forgotten the blood feud of the past, and is also secretly accumulating strength, desperately visiting the ruins and graves left by the previous generation of monks. Some people have obtained an astonishing amount of elixirs, some have obtained powerful magic weapons, and some have obtained rare and rare super exercises...... The failures of the past have made those who survived smarter. No one directly faced the Taiyi Palace, and the monks began to attack in secret, targeting the disciples of the Taiyi Palace who were lone outside. It's very easy for ten people to beat one person, and it can be crushed casually. In time. There are no disciples in Taiyi Palace who are willing to go out to practice, and everyone knows that as long as they leave the mountain gate, it is a dead end. Faced with the list of missing disciples of this sect reported below, the top management of Taiyi Palace was extremely angry, but there was no evidence of who was behind it against him. In desperation, the high-level officials of Taiyi Palace had to order that all the disciples who went out to practice must go together. The number of members of each team shall not be less than 100. Moreover, there must be a Yuan Infant Monk to lead the team.

Despite this, the top brass of the Taiyi Palace still underestimated those monks who had a strong desire for revenge. What if the number of personnel is as high as hundreds? Even if there is a Yuanying monk leading the team, what can it be? If the strength of one sect is insufficient, then two sects and three sects will unite. In this way, Taiyi Palace has really become the target of public criticism, and the disciples of the sect have become blind people with open eyes, unable to get any information. Thousands of years have passed, and Taiyi Palace has suffered heavy losses. All the men who traveled were killed. No one escaped alive to the mountain gate.

Despite this, Taiyi Palace is still strong, and it is still an unshakable giant in the cultivation world.

The upper echelons of the Taiyi Palace had considered destroying the other sects in the entire cultivation world. However, this kind of thing is impossible to do even if you think about it. The war between monks has a very small chance of triggering punishment from the rules of heaven and earth. However, every sect of cultivation has a heritage. If the number of kills is too large, it will definitely trigger a series of chain reactions in the upper realm. Take every hundred cultivation sects as an example. The number of kills must not exceed thirty. This is a bottom line that even Taiyi Palace can't surpass. Although the Ancient Monks have ascended, they have also left many restrictions in the Nether. Proper killing contests. It is indeed beneficial to the strength of the monks. But if the competition turns into a brutal annihilation, things will get out of control.

Taiyi Palace, which had violated the anger of the public, could not violate this law. Rao is like this, Taiyi Palace still sent a large number of disciples to the sect again to carry out a second punishment for all the cultivation sects. The bloody storm of the cultivation world has come again. This time, although the number of monks killed in battle was not as large as the last time, it really dealt a devastating blow to all cultivation sects. In terms of the rules of heaven and earth. Taiyi Palace was well mastered, and none of the sects were extinct, but only a few members survived.

In the ancient texts, these two killings were called the first and second great wars of the cultivation world. Unlike the wars of another world, Taiyi Palace suffered almost no losses in the two wars. It's like a terrifying monster. By devouring the dead, they become more obese.

The hatred grew deeper and deeper, and there was no way to resolve it. In order to avoid the previous situation where the disciples of this sect were sniped on a large scale, the top management of Taiyi Palace came up with an extremely ruthless approach: every two hundred years, Taiyi Palace sent people from the Torture Hall on a large scale to coerce all the cultivation sects in the world, asking the other party to take the initiative to kill the disciples under them. The number of people who can survive varies from 500 to 30 depending on the size of the opposing sect. This inhumane approach provoked the rebellion of all cultivation sects again. However, in front of the huge mountain range-like Taiyi Palace, the other sects that had suffered heavy losses for tens of thousands of years and could not even recover their vitality at all had no power to fight back.

In desperation, there was no second choice except to honestly accept the fate of the disciples of the sect being slaughtered.

After another tens of thousands of years, Taiyi Palace truly dominated the world. The entire cultivation world has become respected by Taiyi Palace. The voice of resistance became smaller and smaller, and in the face of unshakable and formidable opponents, some cultivation sects chose to compromise. They tended to be inflammatory, and they slapped the high-level of Taiyi Palace, and became a dependent force of Taiyi Palace.

In all fairness, Taiyi Palace doesn't need these dependent sects at all. Taiyi Palace has the most powerful power in the entire cultivation world, the most extensive medicine garden, the largest number of alchemists, and the most skilled magic weapon forgers. In the face of blood and death, some fought bravely, while others retreated. Admittedly, the days of the renegade are indeed comfortable, and there is no need to worry about death coming suddenly at some point. With these people as role models, more cultivation sects gradually changed their attitudes. The monks were no longer hostile to the Taiyi Palace, but regarded the Taiyi Palace as their protector.

When Yang Tianhong first saw this part of the classic records in the Guiyuan Sect's Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, he only felt in a trance that this was the relationship between the dwarf country and the immigrant country in another world.

When the first attachment appears in this world, then more attachments appear, and it becomes inevitable.

Another three thousand years have passed, and there is no voice in the entire cultivation world against Taiyi Palace. All the cultivation sects have become vassals of the Taiyi Palace. This situation was definitely unexpected by the original group of high-level monks of Taiyi Palace. However. It's been too long, and the Taiyi monks who carried out the brutal killing at the beginning have either flown to the upper realm, or have long since been turned into loess. The inheritance of Taoism continues, and the ideas of later generations are also very different from those of their predecessors. Without the threat of an outside force, there is no potential death to be felt. The younger generations of Taiyi Palace are far less radical than their predecessors in controlling the monks. They opted for a more moderate approach to rule, or rather management.

How can we effectively control the entire cultivation world? This was the question that the top leaders of the Taiyi Palace thought about the most at that time, and it was also the most troublesome.

Killing, obviously, is not the best way to do it. There is no denying that killing has a deterrent effect that no method can replace. But with killing comes hatred. This hatred is endless, and it may last for dozens or even hundreds of generations. If you can exterminate all the cultivation sects, kill all the rebels. Then the problem is easier and simpler. However, the rules of the Heavenly Dao are there, even if Taiyi Palace has the heart and the ability to destroy all the sects in the cultivation world, it has to face the punishment of the heavenly thunder that will fall from it.

So, what will happen if you choose Huairou?

According to the opinions of some high-level officials of Taiyi Palace, the most obedient ones can be selected from the vassal sects. Cultivate it so that you can turn it into your own thug. This method was initially unanimously agreed upon by all the high-level officials of Taiyi Palace. Indeed, in the hundreds of years after that time, good results were obtained. However, once the seeds of hatred are planted, they are difficult to kill. Even if it is a vassal, no one can see through whether there is a bad intention hidden behind the smiling face and flattery? Just when Taiyi Palace felt at ease, the first cultivation sect suddenly rebelled. When the secret is revealed under the sun. The high-level management of Taiyi Palace suddenly realized that all the previous considerations were a joke in the face of reality. Even vassals have hubris and the desire to replace themselves at any time. On the surface, they honestly obeyed themselves, but secretly they used the various resources given by the Taiyi Palace to strengthen themselves, and even cultivated some more potential sects. After all, no one is a fool. We all know the truth that power can only really work if it is in our own hands. The reason why he chose to grovel and be willing to be a slave for a while was that one day he would be able to catch up and completely crush the entire Taiyi Palace under his feet.

After the suppression of the rebellion, the same old problem was still in front of the top management of Taiyi Palace.

Domination, much more difficult than the seizure of power by war. This is not just a problem that can be solved by courage and fearlessness. Even powerful Mahayana monks do not necessarily have the foresight to control the world with their dexterity.

In this way, killing and war continued to alternate for tens of thousands of years. In the meantime, all kinds of wise men and warriors have emerged. Their deeds could be written in thick books of millions of words, and there are countless legends about the monks circulating among the people. The magic weapons abandoned in the war were found by descendants in the mountains and wilderness from time to time, and many lucky people got the treasures left over from the war, which became the focus of attention at that time.

More than 60,000 years ago, a truly intelligent figure appeared in Taiyi Palace. He creatively put forward the idea of "controlling the world with resources". It was from that time that Taiyi Palace monopolized almost all the production of pills in the world. They changed their brutal and bloody practices in the past, hired them with heavy money and bribed them with exercises, and enveloped all the middle and senior alchemists of various sects under the gate of Taiyi Palace. It is said that at that time, other cultivation sects were not able to refine the Yuan Qi Pill at all. Even the Refining Body Pill, which had a slightly higher refining speed, had to send someone to the door to ask for help from the Taiyi Palace.

Facts have proved that this method is very effective, and it also completely cuts off the powerful path of other cultivation sects.

Taiyi Palace occupies almost all the spiritual veins in the world. Without the elixir, the cultivators of other sects would not be able to cultivate at all. Of course, it is impossible for all smart people to exist in Taiyi Palace, and many high-level monks with vision also sense that danger is constantly approaching. Some people gave up cultivation and instead focused their energies on alchemy. Since you can't get help from others, you can only rely on yourself to solve the problem. It's just that not everyone can become an alchemist, and not everyone has this talent. Even if someone is lucky enough to become an alchemist and has enough elixir for their own use, they can't solve the problem of raw materials such as medicinal herbs and spirit fruits from the root.

A person who is strong is actually of no use. Fights are always better than few. Without companions, without the foundation of the sect, no matter how talented a character is, he can only become a hero who will die in the legendary story, and will not become the winner who has the last laugh.

From the bloody era to the present, many things have been forgotten by future generations. However, the Taiyi Palace, which controlled the vast majority of the resources of the entire cultivation world, had never changed. Perhaps, it will continue like this in the future.

Zhong Yuanyu and the hall masters did not dare to reveal their strength at all. Despite having the Mahayana master of the Steel Armor Storm in charge, Guiyuanzong was still not the opponent of Taiyi Palace. As long as Taiyi Palace is willing, as many as tens of thousands of torture hall monks can wipe out the entire Guiyuan Sect in an instant. Moreover, this is just the power on the bright side of Taiyi Palace. As for how powerful is the real power hidden behind the Taiyi Palace...... No one knows the answer to this question. (To be continued.) )