The largest inn in the city of Longmen Mansion was originally called Mingsheng Inn, occupies a convenient place, is located on the street opposite the Vientiane School Palace, I don't know how many people go to the Vientiane School Palace to study or pay homage in a year, and when they are not allowed to enter or wait, they will wait here to see and rest, and there are many people in the School Palace who are close to the wine and talk about things.

However, after the Vientiane School Palace was changed to the Vientiane Dao Palace by the Daomen, the Mingsheng Inn was also changed to the Taiping Inn by the Daomen, and the business was still thriving.

After Qi Xuansu entered the city, he went straight to the largest Taiping Inn, because on the second floor of the inn, he could just see the southeast side gate of Ziwei City, and behind the side gate was the lower palace.

The children and teenagers in the lower palace are usually not allowed to leave Ziwei City, and occasionally go out, but also through the side door. Only those quasi-four-grade wine priests can enter and exit from the main gate, where there is only one road, which leads directly to the upper palace where the Ming Hall is located, but it is isolated from the lower palace.

Although he went straight to the Taiping Inn, Qi Xuansu was not in a hurry, watching the people around him, the memories of the past slowly came to his heart like a tide.

It's okay as a child, but it's just a matter of following the rules. When he was a teenager, he became bold and began to try to escape from Ziwei City, not to say that he broke away from the Vientiane Dao Palace, and from then on, the sky was high and the birds flew, and the sea was wide and the fish jumped, just to see the outside world. It's not even a longing for the rivers and lakes, it's just a glimpse of the capital city of Longmen Mansion. For them, Yujing, Dijing, and Jinling are too far away, and Longmen Mansion is already a world of flowers.

Although the city walls of Ziwei City are very high, the teenagers of the Vientiane Dao Palace are not ordinary people, and the best of them are about to touch the threshold of the innate people, and with the help of some tools, a city wall really can't stop them, so the teachers in the Longmen Mansion often see the instructors coming out to catch people.

After being caught, they naturally have to be punished, mostly corporal punishment.

If it is a first-time offense, it is lighter, such as punishment, no eating, work, etc.

If it is repeated teaching, then it should be heavier, directly on the whip, and it is a very special whip, which will not leave any obvious scars, but it is particularly painful and has a long memory.

There are also boards, the flesh and blood are blurred, which is quite scary, but it doesn't hurt the muscles and bones, and it is good to apply medicine for half a month, and it does not leave scars.

But even so, the teenagers still enjoyed it. They are not delicate flowers in the flower garden, nor are they pampered young ladies and young women, they are solid and tenacious, these corporal punishments are nothing to them at all, and they are not psychological shadows. Many people are also proud of being punished, after all, their grades are poor, and it is difficult to get out.

Qi Xuansu was not a man of the hour in the Vientiane Dao Palace back then, and he was also outstanding, otherwise he would not be hated by Yue Liuli, and if he said something not very good, he also needed qualifications to offend people.

Qi Xuansu naturally did this kind of thing, but he was always partnered with others, and now that he thinks about it, those fox friends and dog friends back then have not been in touch for many years, and I don't know where they are now, even if they say goodbye, it will be difficult to renew the friendship of classmates back then. After all, not everyone can afford to use the "Mother and Child Talisman", and if Qingping does not issue the "Mother and Child Talisman" every month, Qi Xuansu will not be able to use it now.

This is about the fate of the fate of the gathering, the fate of the fate of the dispersion. In a lifetime, there are not many friends, but one or two acquaintances

Thankfully.

As for these old friends and acquaintances, how many of them can get ahead, Qi Xuansu is not optimistic.

Yue Liuli and Wan Xiuwu, the two leaders of the Dragon and Tiger Society, were accepted as disciples by the real people of the Wuxu Palace, and now they are only five-grade Taoists, not even high-grade Taoists, let alone others?

Qi Niang, as Qi Xuansu's guide, once gave Qi Xuansu a detailed lecture on the promotion of the Taoist Gate.

By what do you climb up?

It is the result of the synthesis of ability and merit, personal relationships, upper recommendation, lower foundation, noble opportunities, and hard work qualifications. And in this, connections play an important role, even a fundamental role.

There are two top families within the Daomen, namely the Zhang family and the Li family, and the Qin family was originally counted as one, which was a three-legged stand, but as the Qin family became a royal family, it was no longer counted among them. The characteristics of this kind of top family are that they are inherited in an orderly manner, and they are almost controlled, such as the Zhang family is in charge of Zhengyi, the Li family is in control of Taiping Dao, and there are too many real people in the family, the Li family is known as a family of seven real people, here it only refers to the lineage of Xuansheng and Donghuang inherited from Li Daoxu, and the side branches, sons-in-law, and righteous sons are not counted. If you count it, it's far more than seven.

There are twelve second-class families, and each family has more than three second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests. There are nearly a hundred small families, and there is at least one second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest in the family.

The disciples from the Vientiane Dao Palace do not belong to these families, they have no background to speak of, they can only look at the relationship between teachers and teachers. But there is only one master, and there are so many brothers, and what can really take over the master's inheritance depends on luck.

Qi Niang once made a rough statistic, although Daomen has a suspension system, but this system actually restricts the children of the family, for ordinary disciples, almost no one can reach the standard of promotion before the suspension of the year.

To use the simplest analogy, Qi Xuansu's six-rank Taoist priest to fifth-grade Taoist encountered the restriction of stopping the year, and it took a year before he could be promoted, because he wasted too much time at this stage of the seven-grade Taoist, and when he was going around the seven-grade Taoist, Wan Xiuwu and Yue Liuli had already accumulated seniority in the six-grade Taoist, so naturally there was no restriction on stopping the year. Later, Qi Xuansu's promotion was too fast, and he almost skipped the six-rank Taoist priest directly before he encountered this bottleneck.

But the reality of others is that the suspension of the year only needs a one-year time limit, but it takes more than five years to accumulate meritorious deeds, for them, the suspension of the year has no effect, and almost no one can be tightly stuck in the time limit of the suspension year to complete the promotion.

Qi Niang came to the conclusion that, on average, it takes nine years to go from a nine-rank Taoist to an eight-rank Taoist, three years from an eight-rank Taoist to a seventh-grade Taoist, seven years from a seventh-grade Taoist to a sixth-grade Taoist, and seven years from a sixth-grade Taoist to a fifth-grade Taoist.

That is to say, an ordinary young man who left the Vientiane Dao Palace at the age of the crown entered the Daomen and became a nine-grade Taoist, and was promoted to an eighth-grade Taoist at the age of twenty-nine, a seventh-grade Taoist at the age of thirty-one, a sixth-grade Taoist at the age of thirty-eight, and a fifth-grade Taoist at the age of forty-five. Only a few people can get away with becoming a four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist, but that's the end of it.

is also fifty years old, and the disciple from the Vientiane Dao Palace is only one

is a fifth-grade Taoist, and the disciple from the family is already a second-grade Taiyi Taoist, and is even expected to win the throne of the Great Palm Sect.

But this is still a very smooth state, more people stop at the nine-grade Taoist priest or the seventh-grade Taoist priest, and there are many people who have been a nine-grade Taoist priest all their lives.

A child of a poor family has been working hard for 20 years, probably from this hall to that hall, turning many halls, and as a result, he has been standing still, and at the same time, the children of the family have already crossed the threshold of the four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist priest and entered the ranks of high-grade Taoist priests.

In fact, each product is a threshold, in which there are several or even a dozen invisible stairs, which vary depending on the hall, the palace and the position. Some halls and positions are easier to promote, such as the deacon of the Shaking Light Division of Tiangang Hall, and some positions are difficult to promote, such as the deacon of the Requiem Division of the ancestral hall.

The children of the family with a background can complete the jump in just a few years, and finally become a rookie in the Daomen, ranking among the high positions such as the deputy hall master, the deputy house master, and the auxiliary manager, at least the grade of the third-grade Youyi Taoist. Zhang Yuelu was only promoted to the position of deputy hall master with the grade of the fourth-grade sacrificial wine Taoist because of the suspension of the year, but this was only temporary, and it was only a matter of time before Zhang Yuelu was promoted to the third-grade sacrificial wine Taoist.

At this time, their opponents are no longer ordinary children of the poor family, but the children of the same family with the same background, as well as some of the children of the poor family with outstanding ability, so the promotion of most people has become slow, and even stops there, and only a few people can stand out and rank among the ranks of the second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests, and really step into the upper echelons of the Daomen.

However, if you have a background, have the ability to make meritorious achievements, and have opportunities, then you must have a great future. For example, Zhang Yuelu, after she participated in cracking the Jiangnan case, she entered the eyes of the local master, and was soon exceptionally promoted, bringing a series of reactions, which made her stand out from the crowd of sisters and sisters, and was designated as the successor by Cihang Zhenren, becoming the little master in the mouth of others, and the future is limitless.

As for Qi Xuansu, he didn't have much hope. The turning point is that Qi Niang helped him enter Tiangang Hall, and the third hall is not for fun, the promotion is already fast, and he met Zhang Yuelu, a good boss, and naturally made steady progress. If he hadn't left the Daomen because of an accident, the Sipin Sacrifice Wine Taoist would have been stable, and as Zhang Yuelu's descendant, after Zhang Yuelu became a real person, he would probably be able to ascend to heaven and become an ordinary real person with a sword of wisdom, serving as Zhang Yuelu's deputy. For example, Zhang Yuelu served as the head of Tiangang Hall, and he served as the chief deputy hall master or the second deputy hall master.

His fate since then has been firmly bound to Zhang Yuelu, if Zhang Yuelu can become the Great Sect Master, then he is also expected to ascend to the throne of the real person.

This is an opportunity, and it is hard to come by.

How many people can meet Qi Niang and Zhang Yuelu?

Qi Xuansu never felt that his fate was miserable, the sky was too hypocritical, in fact, he was also a lucky person, or that if he didn't die, there would be a blessing in the future, the assassin sent by Shen Yulai failed to kill him, so that he met Qi Niang, just like a pawn crossing the river, although there is still no advance or retreat, but there is room for tossing and turning.

Therefore, most of Qi Xuansu's classmates are still struggling, and they may not be able to survive.

Qi Xuansu looked in the direction of the Vientiane Dao Palace, and sighed in his heart, I don't know if he will meet his old friends back then.