Liu Qingyi put down the wooden box in his hand and asked, "Senior brother is from Bolian County?" ”

Deacon Xu nodded and said, "Of course, our Bolian County is much bigger than your Lan County. He gestured with his hands and said, "Your Lan County is just a small handful in the bottom of our southern border, and our Bolian County is such a large piece in the middle of the southern border. ”

"It turns out that the senior brother is from a large county, and he is disrespectful and disrespectful. In this way, the senior brother also came in with the Eight Classics of Righteousness? ”

"Needless to say, I think that back then, I Xu Xiangying was also one of the best spiritual selection materials in Bolian County, and it can be seen that the Heavenly Beast Gate can pick me."

"It turns out that the senior brother's name is Xu Xiangying?"

"Yes, that's what I called, and my nurse gave it to me."

"Senior brother and nurse, this is quite exquisite, I don't know which two words Xiang Ying took in the senior brother's name?"

Deacon Xu stretched out a finger, dipped some saliva, and wrote two words on the floor.

Liu Qingyi stretched out his head to look at it and said: "It turned out to be the direction of the sunflower, and the reflection of the red mountain." ”

Deacon Xu was suspicious: "Sunflowers? Reflection of the mountain red? What is it? ”

Liu Qingyi's face was stunned for a moment, and then he smiled: "Two plants in my hometown. ”

Xu Xiangying asked solemnly, "Is it spiritual food?" ”

"It's not."

When Xu Xiangying heard that it was not spiritual food, he immediately lost interest, and skipped over and said: "Don't envy those Tsing Yi disciples who live in the Spirit Valley, what's so unusual, I was also a Tsing Yi disciple back then, and since I became this gray-clothed disciple, I was also very comfortable." ”

"Is it difficult for the sect to earn merit points?" Liu Qingyi saw that he said easily, thinking that he was just coveting the ten merits that the gray-clothed disciple could receive every month, he couldn't help but ask with a suspicious face.

Xu Xiangying smiled proudly on his face, and said in a low voice: "It's not difficult, it's just that it's dangerous to take on those sect tasks every day, and after all, being a gray-clothed disciple, I get ten meritorious points every month, although it is a little less, but I finally don't have to worry about my life." ”

Liu Qingyi suddenly smiled and said, "It turns out that you are hiding from this." ”

Xu Xiangying saw Liu Qingyi's disapproving appearance, his face tensed, and he changed to a serious expression and said: "You have only been in the beginner for a short time, so naturally it is rare and strange." The merit points earned by those sect tasks are still suitable for one or two immortal arts in the middle school of the Immortal Art Pavilion, if you want to use them to improve your cultivation to the realm, it will be a bit whimsical. You must know that if you are promoted from the Spirit Realm to the Tongyuan Realm, no matter how many merit points you have, it will not help. It's the same thing both horizontally and vertically, so why bother to take such a risk, it's better to mix up some merits like this and practice one or two immortal arts casually. ”

"I see, I probably understand a little bit about this meritorious point, but how to understand the Spirit Realm and the Tongyuan Realm? Please also ask the senior brother to solve his doubts. Liu Qingyi asked again.

"Immortal Dao monks are divided into several major realms, you beginner disciples who have just enlightened the spirit, but it is the initial stage of cultivation, that is, the so-called spirit realm, above the spirit realm, there are also Tongyuan realm, Sanyang realm, Ning Dan realm, Zifu realm and the legendary refining god and Yuan soul realm. Hey, I didn't expect you to be so lonely and unheard, maybe you weren't born in Lanjun County. ”

"Alas, my hometown is just a remote mountain village in Lan County, where do I know these profound immortal common sense. Senior Brother Fang Cai said that it didn't seem easy to advance from the Spirit Refinement Realm to the Tongyuan Realm, so what was the reason? ”

"Do you know how many people there are in our Heavenly Beast Gate from top to bottom?" Xu Xiangying blinked and asked rhetorically.

Liu Qingyi said: "I haven't counted this?" ”

Xu Xiangying snapped his fingers and calculated: "Excluding the sect master and the four elders, two disciples of the first generation, five disciples of the second generation, and only four disciples of the third generation, there are only eleven people from the Beast Sect when the battle is full." ”

"So little?" Liu Qingyi was a little surprised.

"What do you think?" Xu Xiangying looked at Liu Qingyi, and an indescribable expression appeared on her face.

Liu Qingyi thought of the many Tsing Yi disciples who came in together, and said puzzledly: "I see that there are quite a few disciples in Tsing Yi, aren't they really Heavenly Beast Sect people?" ”

Xu Xiangying sneered lightly and said coldly: "Disciple of Tsing Yi? Hey, they're people, too? At best, it's just a subordinate. ”

Liu Qingyi frowned when he heard this: "According to Senior Brother, the disciples in Tsing Yi are only counted as people, so what are we gray-clothed disciples?" ”

"We're naturally things that aren't even human." Xu Xiangying smiled and said lightly, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

"Look at what you're saying, why am I so sad to hear that?" The expression on Liu Qingyi's face didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

"Haha, you're not enlightened yet." Xu Xiangying snorted and said, "You know, our Heavenly Beast Sect has few people, and among the three Upper Immortal Sects in the southern realm, the incense is the weakest." ”

"The weakest?!" Liu Qingyi repeated loudly.

"Yes, the incense of the Heavenly Beast Sect is not prosperous, just because the cultivation of this Spirit Refinement Realm is too slow, not as many as other Immortal Sects."

"How so?" Liu Qingyi was surprised and a little incredulous.

"The reason is also very simple, who called us the Royal Beast Sect. Others only need to cultivate themselves, but our cultivation is to cultivate both humans and beasts, not only do we have to cultivate, but we also need to spend a lot of time looking for and cultivating companion immortal beasts, how can we get it quickly? ”

"Cultivating both man and beast? I see...! Liu Qingyi's eyes widened and he suddenly realized, and then asked, "For so long, why haven't you seen Senior Brother's companion immortal beast?" ”

"Of course, I haven't found it yet!" Xu Xiangying replied angrily, then turned his head and packed up the two wooden boxes and returned them to the window of Fang Cai.

Liu Qingyi followed Xu Xiangying out of the Spirit Dining Hall, returned to the Heavenly Beast Hall, and saw that the people inside had gone, so he and Xu Xiangying took a wooden chair in front of the hall and sat down, chatting with each other.

According to Xu Xiangying, the Heavenly Beast Gate is the pattern of the four elders of the sect master, and the name of the door master is Lei Zhen, a great monk in the late stage of the Purple Mansion Realm. The four elders are Peng Zhen, Feng Yan, Nie Chong, and He Yuanji, except for Peng Zhen, who is a monk in the early stage of the Purple Mansion, and the other three are all monks in the middle of the Purple Mansion.

As for the disciples of the Heavenly Beast Gate, they have been divided into inner and outer doors since ancient times.

Cultivators who have broken through to the Tongyuan Realm and are recruited by the sect master or elder to the seat, they are regarded as inner disciples.

These inner disciples live together with the elders of the sect day and night, listen to the teachings from time to time, and the resources of the sect will also be inclined to them, so they can be said to be the darlings of the Heavenly Beast Sect.

The highest status among the inner disciples is the first generation of Ning Dan Realm disciples, because the sect specially gives white Taoist clothes, also known as white-clothed disciples. There are only two disciples in this realm, one is the 'Dragon Immortal' Zhao Xianyu, and the other is the 'Tiger Immortal' Qu Liangjun. Listening to what Xu Xiangying said, these Dragon and Tiger Immortals are very famous in the Southern Realm Immortal Cultivation Realm, and they can be regarded as the leading figures among the disciples of the Heavenly Beast Sect.

The second generation of Sanyang Realm disciples of the inner gate are Lei Lei, Guo Yan, Zeng Manting, Wu Yaqi, and Liu Qingshan. Among the five people, Zeng Manting has been promoted to the late stage of the Sanyang Realm for many years, and half of her feet have stepped into the Ning Dan Realm, and her status is transcendent among the second-generation disciples, and the remaining four people are all in the early and middle realm.

It is worth mentioning that Lei Lei among these five people is none other than the son of Lei Zhen, the master of the sect, so the second generation of disciples faintly respects this person.

As for the third-generation Tongyuan Realm disciples of the inner gate, except for Tang Mu and Li Jianyun, who had already seen them when they started, only the two brothers Luo Hou and Luo Chong, who were not familiar with each other, remained.

These so-called purple-clothed disciples finally broke through the Spirit Realm and advanced to the Tongyuan Realm, but they were still unable to defeat the iron law of the slow cultivation of the disciples of the Beast Sect, except for Tang Mu, who had reached the middle stage of the Tongyuan realm, the other three were still in the early stage of the Tongyuan Realm.

From the perspective of the inner gate alone, as Xu Xiangying said, in addition to the elders of the Heavenly Beast Gate, these three generations of disciples are not counted as only eleven people, and it is not nonsense.

As for those disciples who were still in the Spirit Temper Realm and had not been able to advance to the Tongyuan Realm, they were collectively referred to as Outer Disciples.

There are two kinds of outer disciples: Tsing Yi and Gray Yi, and Tsing Yi disciples refer to those who are younger and are expected to be promoted to the Tongyuan Realm; Gray-clothed disciples refer to those Tsing Yi disciples who were eliminated in the sect's big competition, because they were unwilling to leave the sect, they were classified as gray-clothed disciples by the sect and were under the unified control, and they were given ten points of merit every month, mainly responsible for some housekeeping and miscellaneous affairs and some sect mundane affairs, almost a servant-like existence.

There are now more than 200 disciples from the outer sect of the Heavenly Beast Sect, and there are still more than 180 disciples in Tsing Yi in addition to those deacons of the sect who are classified as gray-clothed disciples.

Because they couldn't get more sect resources, these Tsing Yi disciples not only cultivated too slowly, but even finding companion immortal beasts was an extremely difficult situation, and most of their cultivation was still in the pre-middle realm of Lingxuan.

In order to increase their strength, the only way for these Tsing Yi disciples to take on the task of the sect is to take on the task of the sect, or form a group to enter the depths of the Heavenly Beast Mountain, kill some fierce demon beasts to collect materials, or go out to do some trivial things for the sect that are not easy, earn certain merits, and practice powerful immortal arts.

And although those sect missions have achieved a lot of meritorious deeds, the risks are also extremely high. Over the past few years, many Tsing Yi disciples and even purple-clothed disciples have died among them, which can be said to be an even worse blow to the low-level disciples of the Heavenly Beast Sect, as if a vicious circle has been formed, which is also the fundamental reason for the scarcity of disciples in the inner sect of the Heavenly Beast Sect.

It is precisely because of this that many Tsing Yi disciples like Xu Xiangying voluntarily applied to be demoted to gray disciples to earn the fixed ten points of merit every month.

After all, although these gray-clothed disciples have a low status and work hard, they can safely accumulate certain merits, and they can also exchange for one or two immortal arts, which is a safe choice.

When Liu Qingyi heard this, he took a sip lightly, and said in his heart: "This Heavenly Beast Sect really doesn't care about the life or death of low-level disciples, so it seems that it is not bad to be this gray-clothed disciple, it is nothing more than another form of lying flat." If you really learned Xu Tianbao's back from the ancestors for the so-called sect task, wouldn't you be wronged if you put your life into it one day? He thought of Xu Tianbao's immortal ancestor in Humiao Village, because of the fall of the sect's affairs, he naturally didn't want to follow in his footsteps.

The two chatted for a while, and Xu Xiangying got up and took Liu Qingyi, cleaned the inside and outside of the lobby, and washed it with water again.

Then he went up to a huge conference hall on the second floor, and one person held a dust, wiped all the tables, chairs and corners in the hall, and when he returned to his residence, it was already dark.