Volume 1 The First Arrival in Kyushu Chapter 22 The Five Pavilions of Aoba
I saw that the main hall in front was very open, and there were six pillars on the left and right sides to support it, and there was no carved railing and jade masonry, showing a sense of simplicity. Under the main hall, a total of nine stone steps extend down, and an incense burner more than one person high stands in front of everyone, and wisps of green smoke are slowly rising from the incense burner and slowly dissipating in the air.
After resting on the platform, everyone followed Aoki over the incense burner and came to the bottom of the stone steps of the main hall.
"Aoki, a disciple of the Jade Sword Pavilion, is ordered by Elder Musang to lead the new disciples of this year's year-end test to report," Aoki stopped, picked up the roster of the mountain gate test with both hands, and said loudly to the main hall in front of him.
"Squeak!"
After a while, the door of the temple on the stone steps slowly opened, and out came an old man with crane hair and a childish face, about fifty years old, with white sideburns and hair, but his skin was very tender, holding a whisk in his hand, and his majestic gaze swept towards everyone under the stone steps.
"Meet Uncle Li Sang!" Seeing the figure of Lao Dao, Aoki was the first to react and hurriedly bowed down to worship.
"Meet Uncle Li Sang!" Ye Cang and the others also reacted, and saluted together in the same way as Aoki.
"Get up. Lao Dao brushed the dust in his hand, and Ye Cang and the others only felt a soft energy supporting their bodies upward, and slowly resumed their standing posture. At the same time, Lao Dao waved his right hand, and the roster in Aoki's hand was also in Lao Dao's hand, and then Lao Dao began to slowly flip through it.
"Yes, the qualifications of the disciples who have entered the Buddha Meditation this year are a little stronger than in previous years, and there is even a disciple of the Three Spiritual Roots. ”
After a while, Lao Dao closed the roster, glanced at everyone, and then said, "The old man is Li Sang, the head of Cuiyun Palace, who is responsible for the report of your entry into the sect, and you will temporarily settle down in Cuiyun Hall during this time, and after the end of the year, I will arrange your whereabouts." ”
"Some of you may already know something about this sect, but Poor Dao still has to explain it to you again, and I will bother me later. The sect is divided into the outer court and the inner court, the outer court is the residence of some disciples without spiritual roots, responsible for all the external chores of the sect, usually have the opportunity to practice some martial arts, and after the expiration of ten years, you can choose to leave on your own, or you can choose to continue to stay. ”
Daoist Li Sang didn't wait for everyone to reply, and then said, "As for the inner courtyard, it is divided into five pavilions. The five pavilions are the Pill Pavilion, the Hundred Swords Pavilion, the Jade Sword Pavilion, the Library Pavilion and the Aoba Pavilion ......"
Next, Li Sang Daochang gave a detailed introduction to the internal and external distribution of the Qingye Temple, and from the narration, Ye Cang once again had an intuitive understanding of the Qingye Temple.
Originally, Aoba Temple was divided into an outer courtyard and an inner courtyard. Most of the disciples in the outer courtyard who do not have spiritual root qualifications, can practice some martial arts, and can choose to leave the sect when they reach a certain age, and the best of them can even get a good job in the city around Aoba Temple with a good skill, and live a rich life since then.
The inner courtyard is the true heart of the Aoba Temple. All the disciples who received were disciples with spiritual root qualifications, and they were assigned to different courtyards according to the different performance of the mountain gate test and the level of spiritual root qualifications. To be precise, there are five pavilions in the inner courtyard, namely the Pill Pavilion, the Hundred Swords Pavilion, the Jade Sword Pavilion, the Library Pavilion and the Aoba Pavilion.
Among them, the Pill Pavilion manages all the medicine gardens in the Aoba Mountain Range, and it is also the place where the Aoba Alchemist is located. Taoist sects pay attention to seeking the way of heaven, and the elixir is naturally a necessary thing to transcend the mundane and open up the way of heaven. Unlike cultivators, alchemists are born with the need to have strong spiritual power. Because the control of the fire attribute needs to be subtle to the smallest centimeter, and the more powerful the elixir, the higher the spiritual power required to refine it. Therefore, there are very few alchemists on the Kyushu continent, and their general status is extremely noble, and there are only more than ten alchemists in the entire Qingye Temple, and their status in the view is quite high.
As the name suggests, the Hundred Knife Pavilion is mainly based on the practice of swordsmanship. Legend has it that the ancestor of the Aoba Temple, the Aoba Taoist is also good at swordsmanship, knife art, among the seven descendants of the first generation, the two disciples of the birth of the Kong Wu powerful, deep knife essence, with a set of wind-breaking knife techniques, cultivated to the Danyuan realm, and founded the Aoba View Hundred Swords Pavilion, becoming the first generation of the pavilion master.
The Jade Sword Pavilion is the two major cultivation places of the Qingye Temple that coexist with the Hundred Swords Pavilion, and it has always been stable at the head of the Hundred Swords Pavilion, recruiting disciples who are quite talented in swordsmanship. The first generation of the Jade Sword Pavilion is the third disciple of the Aoba Daoist, and he is a female disciple who was born with a sword bone. A set of wind swordsmanship was practiced to the transformation realm, and his strength was quite high among the seven sons of Aoba, and his cultivation reached the late stage of the Danyuan realm.
The library is the place where the classics of the Aoba view are located, and it is the foundation of the Aoba view. Whether a sect is strong or not, one is to look at the strength of the disciples, and the other is to look at the background. The collection of books in the library is the essence of the Aoba Kan Sect for thousands of years, and the disciples in the sect can practice different exercises according to the size of their contributions.
Finally, there is the Aoba Pavilion, which is where the core disciples of the entire Aoba Temple Inner Court are located. The minimum requirement to enter the Aoba Pavilion is to have the dual spirit root qualifications, and at the same time, it is required to be under the age of eighteen, at least the acquired consummation realm, and pass the inner court disciple competition, and the winner is eligible to enter. After hearing these conditions, Ye Cang understood why the people of the Qiu family had such a big reaction to being able to enter the Qingye Pavilion before.
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While Ye Cang and others carefully listened to the explanation of Li Sang Daochang's entry into the sect, in the west of the Qingye Mountain Range, on top of a raised peak, there is a quaint hall, the clouds and mist around the main hall are swirling, the aura is thick, the square in front of the main hall is much larger than the Cuiyun Palace, but there are fewer people here, it is slightly empty, and this is the Tiandu Peak where the head of the Qingye Temple and the elders are located.
At this time, in the main hall, there are several Taoist priests with a deep aura sitting on the left and right, among which the bottom of the left side is a white-haired Taoist man wearing a brown Taoist robe in his fifties and sixties, and on the main seat in the middle of the main hall, a young Taoist priest is sitting in the middle, a wisp of white beard is quite conspicuous, and the two are the Mu Sang Dao Chang who was in charge of the mountain gate test before and the current head of the Qingye Temple who has shown his face once.
"Okay, about the trial in the valley in five years, Senior Sister Xuesang still has to pay more attention to it, although there is still a long time, but it is always good to prepare early. This time, this sect can no longer be compared to the other two. A Sang Daoist said to a beautiful Taoist in the middle seat on the right.
"Senior brother in charge, rest assured, the disciples of the Five Pavilions have already prepared, and they have worked very each other's cultivation, and I believe that this time this sect will never be compared to the other two sects. The beautiful Dao Gu replied confidently.
"Well, let's distribute this year's cultivation resources as soon as possible, and ask a few pavilion masters to bother more, although it is the end of the year, but my cultivators no longer care about these mundane etiquette, and strive to verify the way of heaven as soon as possible, truly transcendental." A Sang Dao man looked at the people on the left and right sides and said lightly.
"By the way, Senior Brother Musang, I don't know what the results of this year's Mountain Gate test are?" After ordering everything, a Sang Daoist seemed to suddenly think of something, and suddenly asked Mu Sang Dao Chief, who was at the bottom of the left side.
"Senior brother in charge, there are six people with spiritual roots in this year-end mountain gate test, two people without spiritual roots, and one pseudo-spiritual root. Among them, there is a disciple of the Three Spirit Root from the Qiu family in the closed city, who has good qualifications. Mu Sang Dao Chang hurriedly bowed down and said.
"The qualifications of the disciples of the Three Spirit Roots are not bad, this sect has not appeared for several years. Let's go straight to Aoba Pavilion when we turn around. ”
When a Sang Dao person heard the answer, he was really satisfied, "As for the assignment of the others, you pavilion masters can discuss it yourself, and this seat will go first." ”
After speaking, before the other people got up and saluted, the figure of a Sang Dao person disappeared into thin air on the main seat.