Chapter 109: The Last Days of the Sect
Cheng Ling forcibly suppressed the urge to break through, since Liu Qingyan hoped that he would break through after arriving at the Famous Sword Academy, naturally she had a reason, and he could wait for such a while.
He stood up, knelt down on the bed and said, "Cheng Xueyao, although you are not my biological mother, but a few years of nurturing grace, let me kowtow and thank you! I hope you can live a better life in another world!"
After kowtowing, he stood up, left the hut, and walked towards the sect master's hall.
When he returned to the main hall, he gave several orders in succession. From tomorrow, the mountain gate will be opened to recruit disciples and enrich the number of disciples of the sect. Chen Cheng's two disciples were expelled, and the number of sect disciples dropped by half, and they urgently needed to be replenished.
He also spent a huge amount of capital and set up several spirit gathering arrays in the sect, and the aura of the entire Wuxiang Sword Sect was ten times higher than before, and the disciples of the sect cultivated faster and more enthusiastically, and for a while, there were disciples who made breakthroughs.
Immediately afterward, he began to integrate the forces of several halls. A month later, a big competition will be held between the sects, the sword hall and the art hall, and the masters of the two halls will be the first place in the big competition. Moreover, he awarded a large number of pills and spirit stones, and he wanted to greatly improve the overall strength of the sect in a short period of time.
As soon as this order came out, the disciples of the sect cheered, and they all geared up, ready to get good results in the big competition.
The news quickly spread, and the families and forces around the Phaseless Sword Sect rushed in one by one, hoping to join the sect. The time for recruiting disciples was forced to be extended, and it was delayed by ten days.
However, the sect is also carefully screened, and not just anyone can join, and the assessment of applying to join the disciples is more rigorous. Even so, after the enrollment ended, the number of sect disciples also exceeded 40,000, which was more than the previous number.
This is really thanks to Cheng Ling who has improved the cultivation environment of the sect a lot, and those elders who accompanied him, seeing that the aura in the sect is so strong, they didn't plan to let the children of the family join, they all changed their original intentions and added in.
Cheng Ling also pays attention to the origin of his disciples, the power of a single family must not be too strong, and after recruiting a certain number, he will stop, otherwise he will return to the old way.
The recruitment of disciples was successfully completed, and then the sect competition began. In this big competition, the disciples of the Sword Hall, the Shu Hall, the Array Hall, the Dan Hall, and the four halls shined, and they all won high rankings.
Especially in the Sword Hall, in the past few months, Cheng Ling has taken the disciples of the Sword Hall to practice swordsmanship every day, and also taught them high-level swordsmanship. He opened all the library pavilions of the Sword Hall and allowed his disciples to choose to cultivate, but each disciple was only allowed to choose one sword technique, so as not to be greedy and chew too much.
Colleague, get inspiration from Liu Qingyan. The two high-grade swordsmanship of Qingfeng Swordsmanship and Yunyin Swordsmanship were also improved and put into the library pavilion, so that the disciples could better cultivate.
For a time, the swordsmanship of the disciples of the Sword Hall made great progress, showing a blowout development. Liu Qingyan saw the results, and also opened the library of the art hall, leaving books and teaching the few simple spells he learned in the tomb.
As for the advanced spells, it's not that she doesn't want to teach them, but she's afraid that those who learn them won't be able to understand them.
As a result, the disciples of the martial arts hall were depressed. The strength of the disciples of the Sword Hall and the Shutang Hall has been soaring all the way, and the Dan Hall and the Array Hall are not good at fighting, but they are gradually becoming stronger. There is only a martial hall, and there is a lack of a strong inheritance.
Song Hanyu turned his head in a hurry, if it goes on like this, Wutang will not even be able to recruit disciples, so how can it be prosperous. He reacted to Cheng Ling and Liu Qingyan more than once, and the disciples were emotional
The fluctuation is very large, and it is almost impossible to suppress it.
Cheng Ling and Liu Qingyan were also helpless, they did not have the inheritance of martial arts. At the last moment, Xiao Changtian stepped forward and taught some of the martial arts exercises he had obtained, and also promised to improve the martial arts cultivation for the sect.
It is said that Xiao Changtian always thought that Cheng Ling was his son, but Cheng Ling didn't tell him the truth, but just showed the codex to Liu Qingyan. Liu Qingyan was silent after seeing it, and she didn't tell him, she just kept this matter in her heart.
Xiao Changtian is in a very good state now, if he knows the truth and what variables appear, the sect will suffer another turmoil.
Time passed slowly, and soon, five months passed, and there was only one month left before the Famous Sword Academy recruited disciples. Cheng Ling also decided to leave the sect and go to the south.
At the foot of Wuxiang Mountain, Liu Qingyan, Xiao Changtian, Xuan Wuxiang, Cheng Ling, Xiyan, Zhang Hu and others arrived together. Today is the day when Cheng Ling leaves the sect and goes to the south, and they come to see him off.
Xiyan forcibly suppressed the dazzling tears, and said in a choked voice: "Brother Ling, you take care all the way, come back when you have time!"
Cheng Ling stroked the hair on her forehead and said, "Xiyan, don't think about the past, in my heart, you have always been a pure and good girl, follow Uncle Liu to cultivate, I will come back to see you." ”
Xiyan nodded, said a light "um", and fled back to the mountain, she really couldn't stand being separated from Cheng Ling, and if she stayed any longer, the tears would definitely not stop.
Zhang Hu laughed and said, "Master don't worry, I will take care of the eldest lady and never let her suffer the slightest grievance." ”
Among those old people in Fallen Leaf City, only Zhang Hu has always insisted on the title of eldest lady. Xiyan did not stop it, because it represented a day of their common struggle.
Cheng Ling said angrily: "Just because you still want to protect her, your cultivation is not Xiyan's opponent at all, remember, if I don't reach the late stage of Jindan when I come back, I will be expelled from the division!"
Zhang Hu's talent is good, but he has a problem with him, he is too lazy, he occupies the identity of the sect master's disciple, and there is no shortage of resources and exercises, but the time for cultivation is too little, and now he has barely reached the foundation building consummation.
Until now, Cheng Ling felt that Xuan Lingzi had expectations and helplessness for himself, and he was also so patient that he could endure it for a long time.
Xiao Changtian looked at Cheng Ling, opened his mouth, and didn't know what to say, so he could only keep silent in the end. He knew that Cheng Ling still didn't admit that he was his father, and only hoped that time would change everything.
Liu Qingyan said indifferently: "Go, the affairs of the sect, Senior Brother Xuan will take care of it, and I will also pay attention to one or two, when you get to the Famous Sword Academy, remember to be cautious." ”
Cheng Ling nodded, agreed, and said, "Okay, let's go back, it's not a life or death, I'll be back after a while." ”
After speaking, he waved his hand, turned around and floated away!
From the Wuxiang Sword Sect all the way to the south, tens of thousands of miles away, you can reach the Famous Sword Academy. Cheng Ling didn't fly in the sky all the time, but stopped and stopped, and sometimes entered the cities and markets along the way to buy some gadgets. Sometimes, I would hire a carriage and sit comfortably on it.
One month is enough. After coming to this world, I have only been to the sea of waves, and the rest of the time I have been wandering around the sect, and it is time to go out and see the world.
Cultivation is not a blind closed-door asceticism, heaven and earth
Everything has its own way, and only through all kinds of things can we understand the true meaning of the way. This is also the reason why both the family and the sect encourage their disciples to go out and practice.
Along the way, Cheng Ling has also seen many rare things in this world. Both mortals and monks have their way to survival. The road is under his feet, the goal is ahead, his soul is constantly refined, and his divine sense and spiritual power have been greatly improved.
After more than twenty days, he found that there were more monks along the road, all of them young people about twenty years old. And the cultivation is not low, basically in the Jindan period, they are all marching in the same direction at the same time, presumably they are all going to the Famous Sword Academy to participate in the recruitment of disciples.
In this way, I walked for another two days, and there were more people on the side. Cheng Ling kept moving forward with the flow of people, and soon found that there was a large forest in front of him.
He was secretly surprised, could it be that the academy was built in the forest? Soon, the answer was revealed. I saw that the front looked far away, there was a very large stone carved archway, about five zhang high, and there were ten zhang horizontally, and the end was a high mountain and the weather was strict!
There are four big characters engraved on the archway, which is "Famous Sword Academy!" It was built in the forest. Looking around, there are high mountains and cliffs on the left and right, only the fog in front of you is covered, and you can't see it clearly at all, even your divine sense is affected, and you can only see the front end of the fog.
In front of him, hundreds of thousands of monks stood in front of the mountain gate, waiting for the mountain gate to open and join the academy. Cheng Ling was secretly surprised, it was indeed the largest school in the south, it was magnificent, and even the disciples who participated in the screening had hundreds of thousands.
He raised his eyes and looked around, picked out a young man with an honest appearance and was dressed in a dark robe and asked, "This brother, when will the opening of the Famous Sword Academy begin?"
The young man glanced at him, his divine sense swept away, and he couldn't see through the cultivation, so he smiled and said, "Daoyou is also here to participate in the disciple election, my name is Fang Jie, I come from a small family in the south, and I haven't asked for the name of Daoist yet." ”
Cheng Ling said secretly, this kid is honest and cautious, so he said: "Don't dare, in the next Cheng Ling, I just want to try my luck." ”
Because of Liu Qingyan, Cheng Ling didn't want others to know that he was from the Wuxiang Sword Sect, but just said that he was a loose cultivator.
Fang Jie said: "With the cultivation and age of Taoist friends, eighty percent of them are sure of admission, so why be humble." That's right, in half an hour, it will be the time to officially open the mountain and accept apprentices. ”
"Brother Fang has won awards, and I have practiced blindly. I don't know how this disciple was recruited, so many people, I'm afraid it will take a long time. ”
"Brother Cheng doesn't know, although there are a lot of people who come to participate, most of them can't enter, the academy has very high requirements for recruiting disciples, and only by passing the three levels of the famous sword can it be possible to enter the academy and become an outer disciple. ”
"What are the three levels of the famous sword?"
"The three levels of the famous sword are the tests that the disciples who come to participate in must pass, the first level is called thousands of mountains and rivers, the second level is called the flying bird is difficult to cross, and the third level is the fish leaping dragon gate. Only by passing these three levels will the deacons of the academy assess your bone age and spiritual root, so as to screen out the disciples you want!"
Cheng Ling was taken aback and asked, "No, you can only enter the assessment after passing through three levels first, so how many of these hundreds of thousands of disciples can pass?"
Fang Jie said indifferently: "According to past experience, less than thirty percent can pass!"
Cheng Ling was shocked, such a strict screening, just to fight for an assessment place, I can't do it, I can't leave now, it seems that it's still too late!