Chapter 45: The Situation of the Sect

Yunyangzi, who inherited the position of the head of the family, worked hard to make the country prosperous, and successively collected many resources such as classics and spiritual materials related to cultivation, and the number of disciples also increased year by year. Under its eloquence, the Wanhua Immortal Sect has continued to develop for more than two hundred years, and its ranking in Xuanhe Continent has risen one after another, and its overall strength has finally surpassed the Shenhuo Gate, which was originally ranked third, and squeezed it down. And above it is naturally the Tianyi Sect, which ranks first, and the Bishui Sect, which is only slightly weaker than the former.

Just when the monks of Xuanhezhou thought that the Wanhua Immortal Sect would make a comeback, in the 291st year when Yunyangzi succeeded to the head of the sect, he passed the agreed return date during an outing but did not return for a long time.

In the fifth year after Yunyangzi disappeared, several elders in the sect secretly discussed, thinking that since Yunyangzi's life soul card was still intact and undamaged, then his life was safe, but for such a long time, he had not seen the slightest trace of it, either he was trapped in an unknown and dangerous place, or there were other reasons that were difficult to guess that caused him to not return for a long time. But no matter what, the sect must have a formal head in charge, and it can't be a group of dragons without a leader, so it was decided to choose another head to come out. However, several Supreme Elders all had their own opinions, and there was no unified candidate, and the matter had not been decided for a short period of time.

However, this news spread far and wide, and after several high-level people who thought they had strength and qualifications knew about it, they immediately fought openly and secretly for the position of the head of the sect, and the Wanhua Immortal Sect was in a miasma, and there was a tendency that it might split at any time.

After making such a big commotion, several Supreme Elders finally couldn't sit still and gathered again to discuss, but there was still no candidate who could get the majority of the favor, so they had no choice but to push out Lu Jizi, who had the least controversy among the many candidates. So, as the grandson of Yunyang's apprentice, Lu Jizi was ordered to become the twenty-third generation of the head, and he is Wang Fugui's senior brother, according to the generation, He Lingfeng should be called his uncle.

With the support of several Supreme Elders, Lu Jizi quickly stabilized the situation in the sect. It's just that Lu Jizi is a relatively conservative person, and he doesn't have any eloquence, so he can't make the Wanhua Immortal Sect develop much, but under the old rules, he finally didn't let the sect decline after this change. However, Wanhua Immortal Sect has not developed, it does not mean that those sects ranked behind it are also stagnant, after so many years, the gap between each other is getting smaller and smaller, especially the Shenhuo Sect that was squeezed down back took the opportunity to chase after it, and it is growing stronger day by day, and now Wanhua Immortal Sect's third position in Xuanhe Continent is only afraid of faint security, and it is only a matter of time before the ranking falls, and the gap with the top two sects is even greater.

Moreover, for some reason, since sixty years ago, there have been problems in recruiting children in the sect, and in the introductory trials once every three years, the number of disciples who can pass to enter the sect has decreased year by year, and the quality has also begun to decline. Prior to this, most of the non-attribute spirit roots and other attribute spirit roots who successfully joined the sect after each trial were seventy-three, but now, this ratio has changed to eighty-two or even ninety-one. And it used to be possible to recruit one or two higher-grade dual-attribute spiritual roots every ten or twenty years or so, but now sixty years have passed, and there is only one such disciple. The inheritance of the disciples of the Wanhua Immortal Sect is very young, and after the high-level people notice this crisis, they often send people out to find good seedlings of cultivation, but they have little effect, but there is no other way.

This kind of reason caused the future of Wanhua Immortal Sect to be worried, and the high-level people in the sect were worried all day long. Therefore, how could Wang Fugui not be excited when he saw such a well-qualified immortal spirit jade body as He Lingfeng, and how could he not desperately protect it when he was attacked later, this was the hope of the revitalization of the sect.

All of the above things were told to him by Master Wang Fugui himself after He Lingfeng returned to Wanhua Immortal Sect. And he finally understood why when Tianyi Zhenren proposed to borrow people, Wang Fugui agreed so happily, daring to feel that his own sect's light on the cultivation of true classics was not a little worse than that of Tianyi Sect.

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Wang Fugui also took He Lingfeng to wander around the sect and learned about the general situation of the Wanhua Immortal Sect.

The dragon-shaped Longhua Mountain is wide and narrow in the west, high in the east and low in the west, and its east side is called the dragon's head, the middle is called the dragon's back, and the west side is called the dragon's tail. There are a total of 24 large and small buildings of the Wanhua Immortal Sect on the whole mountain, the dragon head accounts for half of them, the dragon's back is the place where the master and apprentice live and cultivate, and the dragon tail is the five places where the elders of the Taishang Qing Sect retreat and a sect gate forbidden place.

Among the twelve building complexes of the dragon's head, four of the six on the left side cover a huge area, and there are many treasure halls inside, all of which are dedicated to the various deities of ancient legends. Led by the three ancestors of the Great Dao, the Yuqing Yuan Shi Tianzun, the Taiqing Daode Tianzun, and the Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun, as well as the Lord of the Great Dao, the Supreme Jade Emperor of Haotian Jinque, each occupied the largest golden hall in the middle of it, and the rumored disciples and the gods under their jurisdiction were also enshrined in the various treasure halls around the four golden halls.

The fifth place is medium in area, for the sacrifice of all kinds of true spirit beasts in ancient legends, headed by the two golden halls of the Taiyin Hall and the Sun Temple, which respectively enshrine the Sun Candle Illumination, the Taiyin Shadow and the two holy beasts, and there are the green dragon, the white tiger, the Vermilion Bird, the Xuanwu four elephants and the six divine beast halls composed of Gou Chen (i.e., the unicorn), the beetle snake are ranked behind, and then the phoenix, Pixiu, Bi Fang and other auspicious beasts and so on.

The last place is small in area, and there is only one large hall, which is the Wanhua Immortal Hall that has been mentioned before, and there is a statue of Wanhua Taoist Immortal Master for the disciples to pay homage to.

There are six building complexes to the right of the dragon's head, the largest of which consists of three palaces. They are the main hall where the head and deputy head of the sect listen to reports and deal with all kinds of affairs of Wanhua Immortal Sect, discuss the main affairs and welcome foreign guests, which is called the Huaguang Palace; the cardinal hall where the high-level officials in the door discuss confidential and secret affairs; and the deacon hall where a group of deacons and elders handle their respective affairs.

The second place is the inheritance hall that was re-established after being burned down by the Demon Dao Sanxiu, which stores the Xuanhuang and Xuanhuang cultivation classics, including exercises, Danfang, refining methods, talisman seals, formations, etc. He Lingfeng visited here, and after discussing with his master Wang Fugui, he also handed over the five five-element single-attribute exercises he had cultivated to his master Wang Fugui, and placed all the exercises in the name of Wang Fugui within three years, which was to avoid causing unnecessary trouble due to suspicion. Of course, the matter of bringing these exercises to the Wanhua Immortal Sect was also asked by He Lingfeng when he left Tianyi Zhenren, and the latter agreed.

The third place is composed of the Refining Hall and the Hundred Treasure Pavilion, the former has hundreds of refining secret rooms for the use of the people in the door. And there are several elders of the Refining Hall who are responsible for teaching the method, skills, and experience of refining weapons. There are also resident refiners who provide refining services for some disciples who do not understand the method of refining weapons or the methods of refining weapons are superficial. The Hundred Treasure Pavilion is a place to collect and display a number of magic weapons.

The fourth place is composed of the Alchemy Hall, the Spirit Pill Pavilion and the Hundred Herb Garden, the first two have similar functions to the Refining Hall and the Hundred Treasure Pavilion, except that they are replaced with refining pills and storing pills, while the Hundred Herbs Garden is a medicine garden for planting some elixirs.

The fifth place is to collect intelligence information.,Publish and receive the mission of the sect.。。

The last place is the treasury where all kinds of spiritual materials and other daily necessities are stored, as well as spiritual stones.

In addition, there is also a Douxian Terrace between the dragon's head and the dragon's back, which is for the disciples in the sect to learn on weekdays, and a big test is held here every three years to test the disciples' cultivation results.