Chapter 46: The Signs of the End Times
It is said that it is a registration, but in fact, it is a selection, and the process is very simple, basically asking for basic personal information, and then seeing if the facial features are correct and whether the limbs are sound. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoTake two more Shi Ling for you, make sure it's not a weak physique, even if you pass.
Although Zhang Muye has lost all his martial arts, he still has a good body, needless to say, his appearance is naturally needless to say, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a dignified appearance.
The person in charge of the selection gave him a wooden card, which was a proof that he had passed the selection, and told him to report again tomorrow.
As soon as he heard that he could only report tomorrow, he was a little anxious, "Sir, why can you report tomorrow, can't you do it today?"
The person in charge was stunned by his "sir", and said happily, "Why, are you in such a hurry to enter the sect?"
Of course, he was in a hurry, he originally came to find someone, and he also saved some thoughts of borrowing money, but he couldn't find anyone now, he didn't have silver taels on him, and he didn't have a place to live at night.
I saw Zhang Muye say with a sincere face, "Mr. doesn't know, in order to go to the Qizong to learn art, he came all the way from Jinzhou, and now he is penniless, if he can't report now, the kid will sleep on the street tonight." ā
Seeing that he was polite and sincere, the person in charge patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's not a big deal, you can also stay tonight, you stay here for a while, and when this selection is over, I will take you in again." ā
Zhang Muye made a long gesture, "Thank you, sir, I don't know if Mr. can give him a name." ā
"No need to be polite, with a gesture, the old man's surname is Tang Mingjing, and he is the executive steward of this outer gate. Tang Jing smiled and waved his hand.
After speaking, he went to work again, and Zhang Muye was waiting next to him.
This is to wait until it gets dark, and there is still a long queue behind that has not been screened, Tang Jing shouted loudly, "Today's selection is over, and you will get up early tomorrow to sign up." ā
When the people in line heard this, they didn't dare to say more, and they dispersed.
Steward Tang didn't forget about Zhang Muye, and beckoned to him, "Xiao Zhao, come here." ā
"Xiao Zhao" Zhang Muye went over and followed Steward Tang into the Zongfu.
On the way, Steward Tang looked at him in light clothes, and asked him, "Xiao Zhao, why didn't you bring any luggage?"
A lie requires a hundred lies to come true, of course Zhang Muye knows this truth, and he has already thought of the rhetoric, "Tang Guan didn't know, because he didn't entangle, when he passed by Qiyun County, he took his luggage to the store for accommodation. ā
Steward Tang didn't ask much, and took Zhang Muye to a lobby, which was full of people, each holding a rice bowl, which turned out to be a canteen.
The food is good, it's free, the accommodation is free, there are bedding, and one or two cases of silver are issued every month, and when he eats, Steward Tang has already told him about the welfare of the Qizong.
In fact, Tang Guan didn't say anything, tomorrow the newcomers will report to work, and someone will tell them together. It's just that this Tang steward likes to chatter, and he feels good when he looks at Zhang Muye, so he tells him so much.
After probably saying some things to pay attention to, the rice in the two people's basins was finished, and Steward Tang sighed, "If it was in previous years, if it was as big as you, you wouldn't be able to enter the sect, but now it's different, the world has changed." ā
Zhang Muye had been wondering before, the way this instrument sect selected disciples was too simple, but in the past, the instrument sect had always given him the impression that there were many people, but there were not many, and he would never recruit people with such fanfare.
He had always wanted to ask, but he didn't find a good time, and now Steward Tang mentioned it, and asked along with him, "Why does the sect accept so many disciples now?"
Steward Tang glanced at him and said suddenly, "I forgot that you came from Jinzhou, and you have been on the road for so long in the middle, so you shouldn't know yet." A few days ago, news came from the Forgotten Palace that the seal of the demon realm that had been suppressed for hundreds of years had been loosened, and it might be almost impossible to hold on. ā
"Demon Realm Seal?" Zhang Muye wondered.
"I just heard the same expression as you, and I haven't heard of the Demon Realm Seal, and we didn't know what was going on until the Forgotten Palace was announced this time. The old steward stood up worriedly, "Send the dishes and chopsticks first, I'll take you to the dormitory, and I'll talk to you on the way." ā
It wasn't until he reached the door of the dormitory that Zhang Muye knew what was going on.
A few days after the border town was ravaged by the pig demon, the Forgotten Palace sent a message to the various sects, revealing a secret that had been hidden for hundreds of years.
In the past, as long as there were monsters mentioned, it was said that there were occasional escapes from the 100,000 mountains, and there were not many of them, and only one might come out every few years.
But now the letter of the Forgotten Palace says that these demon beasts all ran out of a certain place in the thousand mountains and leylines, and there is a demon cave connected to the other world in that place, but the demon cave was sealed by the powerful people on the rivers and lakes thousands of years ago, and only occasionally there are one or two demon beasts, whose strength is relatively small, and they can escape the power of the seal and run out.
But this time is different, the Red Eye Pig Demon King washed the border town with dozens of Red Eye Pig Demon blood, but it is no longer as simple as a fish that slipped through the net.
The letter from the Forgotten Palace has already stated that the seal is no longer very stable, and a hole will break out from time to time, and the demon beasts on the opposite side will take the opportunity to run out.
Fortunately, the Forgotten Palace is worthy of being a martial arts holy land, and has sent several innate masters to station at the entrance of the demon cave, one is to constantly try to repair the seal, and the other is that once the demon beasts run out, they can also be killed immediately, so as not to let them come out to bring disaster to the world.
And the expansion of the Instrument Sect this time is also related to this matter, since the letter from the Forgotten Palace came out, everyone on the rivers and lakes was in danger for a while, and all the major sects were also trying to find ways to strengthen their own forces to deal with the impending disaster of demon beasts.
Now all the major sects in the rivers and lakes are expanding their recruitment sharply, and the five major sects like the Instrument Sect are okay, and naturally there are people who come all the way to take refuge without publicity, but some small sects have no strength and no fame, so they can only send leaflets everywhere to pull people.
In fact, at such a stormy moment, there is only one fate for these small sects, that is, to be annexed by the big faction, and most of the time, before the external fighting, there must be a bloody internal fighting.
Originally, all the disciples of the inner and outer sects of the Qi Sect, plus some general staff, that is, some cooks, florists and the like, were only more than a thousand people. Now, in just three days, more than 2,000 newcomers have been recruited, and the number of sects has more than tripled.
It is said that the head of the sect will continue to expand his recruitment, and his goal will not be limited to a mere 3,000 people, but to make the Qizong a 10,000-person faction.
However, the Qi Sect is famous for being rich, and it is estimated that the other four major sects in the five major sects together are not as rich as them, and they are different from the other four major sects.
The other four major sects are the source of money for nothing more than looking at the market, collecting taxes, and at most opening some shops. Like the Dragon and Tiger Sect and the Iron Sword Sect are typical, so they will always covet Jiangyin, because Jiangyin is a large county of Caoyun, and there are tens of thousands of silver flowing out of Qujiang every year, not to mention that Jiangyin is prosperous in commerce and trade, densely populated, and tax collection alone is a big head.
However, the Instrument Sect is different, they not only open restaurants and shops all over the country, but also sell the weapons made by their sect to various places. In other words, they are not only real estate developers, but also ordnance dealers.
Everyone knows that there is a lot of profit in the armament, but the forging level of the Instrument Sect is superb, the weapons are of high quality and low price, and others want to share the profit of the market, unless there is also a forging level like the Instrument Sect. Nowadays, on the rivers and lakes, as long as you can afford it, even the kitchen knife has to buy the utensils, and the iron tools of the utensils have formed a brand effect.
The same brand effect is the medicine of Yaowanggu, but the medicinal materials are not as good as steel, and this thing is not renewable, so Yaowanggu mostly makes some high-end products, and the product profits are naturally much less.
Qizong has money and land, and it is naturally not a problem to raise more than 10,000 people, it is just a matter of collecting money bags.
Therefore, even if they were going to recruit 10,000 people, they would only live in a four-person dormitory.