After experiencing the "touching" incident of the first meeting of the senior sister and brother, Hao Zhi's three views were refreshed by the "routine". After the four of them introduced each other to each other, they were sitting at the small stone table outside the attic at this time, and Senior Sister Murong Yan was introducing the details of Xuantian Pavilion and Tianxin Peak to Hao Zhi.

This large mountain standing in the middle of the North Sea within a radius of hundreds of miles is called Xuantian Mountain, with a total of ten peaks towering into the sky, nine of which belong to the head of the sect and the eight elders respectively. It is said that at the beginning of the establishment of Xuantian Pavilion, the ancestor Xuantian Immortal Venerable and eight close friends founded Xuantian Pavilion, and did not set up the position of head of the sect, and everything in the door was managed by the "elder group" established by nine people. In the end, due to the convenience of communicating with the rest of the sects, the Great Elder Xuantian Immortal Venerable was also in charge of the position of the head of the sect, so the position of the "Great Elder" of the Elder Group was always vacant.

In order to avoid the problem that the disciples of these elders inherit the elder's seat due to their lower status and have less decision-making power than others, no matter how many generations apart, as long as they succeed to the elder, they will be called "senior brothers and sisters" with other elders. The head of the sect is always the senior brother, and the nine elders are always the youngest. Although the descendants of Xuantian Pavilion have always found this regulation very strange, after all, it is a rule left by the ancestors, and it has been passed down like this.

The layout of the Xuantian Mountain Peak is very regular, the nine elder peaks are in a circle around the main peak Tianxuan Peak located in the center, the size is several times that of the rest of the peaks, the main hall of Xuantian Pavilion, the library pavilion, the treasure building, the hidden cultivation hall, the martial arts field, the competition platform and a series of sect facilities are built on the main peak.

The disciples of the Nine Peaks are collectively known as the Inner Sect disciples, and there are a total of eight hundred and sixty-three people, except for Tianxin Peak, the Tianshui Peak belonging to the Five Elders has the smallest number of people, only more than forty people. In addition to the head of the sect and the eight elders, there are also twenty-nine "master-level" monks in Xuantian Pavilion, including ten monks in the Dihu Realm, who hold various positions in Xuantian Pavilion. The remaining nineteen Earth Spring Realm monks are the teachers of Xuantian Academy halfway up the main peak.

Xuantian Academy is the "outer gate" of Xuantian Pavilion.

If you want to become an inner disciple of Xuantian Pavilion, the normal process is that you are under the age of twenty, have a spiritual root and have not opened the Xuanmen spiritual root, or have opened the Xuanmen spiritual root to cultivate to a loose cultivation below the ninth layer of the Xuanquan Realm. You can go to Xuantian Academy to participate in the annual "Apprentice Election", complete the assessment and enter the academy, and practice in Xuantian Academy for ten years to accumulate credits. If you are unable to graduate after ten years, you can only travel to the spiritual world as a student of Xuantian, and you are not allowed to call yourself a disciple. Those who have successfully graduated with accumulated credits can choose two paths according to their intentions, one is to become a teacher of Xuantian Academy or to take care of the worldly business for Xuantian Pavilion, such as elixir houses in various cities, worship halls, etc., and second, to participate in inner door trials. If it fails, refer to Article 1. Those who have achieved excellence in the first path also have a certain chance of becoming inner disciples.

In fact, there is a third way to become an inner disciple, that is, a talented person is accidentally discovered by an elder who travels or runs errands, and brings him back to the mountain to become an inner disciple directly.

Hao Zhi and Siyu belong to this category.

After the senior sister introduced the main situation of Xuantian Pavilion, Hao Zhi raised a question that had puzzled him all along, that is, Xuantian Pavilion has been cultivated for thousands of years, but the longest cultivation time, the oldest head is only two hundred and thirty-one years old, where have all those seniors who have retired from the position of elders gone? If you enter the Heavenly Sea Realm, you can extend your life to 800 years old. No matter how Xuantian Pavilion is, there must be a few old monsters that are four or five hundred years old, right?

Speaking of this question, Senior Sister Murong Yan's face suddenly became heavy.

In the spirit world, there is the Xuanmen Sect, and naturally there are also demons and evil ways. Unlike the six major factions of the righteous path, there are only three major factions in the Demon Gate - the Dragons Sect, the Yin Kui Sect and the Liansha Valley. There are countless demonic outer Dao cultivator families and small sects that are attached to the three major demon gates, and the Rakshasa Sect that fought with Hao Zhi in Luyuan Mountain at the beginning is a subsidiary sect of Liansha Valley.

Since ancient times, good and evil have not been separated, and the battle between the Xuanmen and the Demon Gate has lasted for thousands of years. Three hundred years ago, the three major demon sects cooperated with thousands of affiliated sects to raid the Burning Sound Temple in order to snatch the relics of the Buddha in the Burning Sound Temple. The six major factions know the truth of the cold lips and teeth, once the Burning Sound Temple is destroyed, the other five major factions are by no means the opponents of the three major demon sects, so they dispatched one after another after receiving the distress signal from the Burning Sound Temple, and the battle was shocking and cried ghosts and gods.

The six major factions have destroyed several Heavenly Sea Realm bigwigs, and there are countless fallen Earth Realm cultivators. In the end, the three major demon gates were severely damaged and the Burning Sound Temple was saved. However, in this battle, the masters of the Burning Sound Temple all died, and the remaining cultivators who were the highest were only in the realm of the earth and sea, and their overall strength was reduced to the last of the six major factions. Even if the Xuantian Pavilion suffered the smallest losses in that battle, it also paid a great price, plus the five elders in the column fell, the two elders were seriously injured, and only the seventh elder and the ninth elder were relatively lightly injured, struggling to support the sect.

In the next 100 years, it will be the most torturous days of cultivation and recuperation for the six major factions. Many small sects and factions wanted to take advantage of the weakness of the six major factions and shake their positions to replace them, and they took action one after another. If it weren't for the six major factions joining forces, I'm afraid that some of them would have been replaced. A hundred years later, rising stars from the six major factions sprung up, allowing the old-timers who had not had time to breathe a sigh of relief after the war.

After the war, the two elders of Xuantian Pavilion who were seriously injured passed away one after another in the next fifty years, and the seven elders succeeded to the position of the head of the sect, but because they were busy with the development of the sect, they fell into cultivation, and finally stopped in the Tianhu Realm, and passed the position of head to the current head Dugu Yuyun, and entered the Xuantian Peak to return to the ruins. Among the six major sects, countless seniors will always choose to come to the blessed land of the sect before they die, and leave all the essence of their life's cultivation in the sect while releasing it to heaven and earth, so as to provide the source of spiritual energy for their sect immortal mountain.

The last old-timer of Xuantian Pavilion, the "Nine Elders", also entered the Dengxian Tower and returned to the ruins after passing the "Elder Seat" to his true disciple Liu Li'er fifty years ago. And the senior sister Murong Yan was originally a disciple of the original Ninth Elder, Liu Li'er's junior sister, but after Liu Li'er succeeded to the position of elder, she had to open her mouth to call her "Master", and Liu Li'er guided her to cultivate.

Why?

Because this is the "rule" left by the ancestors.

Although Hao Zhi has been in the spirit world for several years, the two years he has traveled in the spirit world are after all "newcomers" and he is alone, except for a handful of the spirit world that also knows nothing about the spirit world, only knows some textbook knowledge, and the key to the bright moon that can be exchanged for things also needs spiritual value, so what he has seen and heard about the history of the spirit world is only what he has seen and heard. Why don't you create a force of your own? Do you think everyone is a dragon......

So Hao Zhi could only take one step at a time, relying on the textbook knowledge of the Key of the Bright Moon to slowly explore the "Heavenly Gang and Earth Decision", and finally let him find some doorways, and successfully opened the spiritual root Xuanmen to start cultivating. At the beginning, Hao Zhi also thought about finding a sect to live in, but from the Great Qi Kingdom to the Great Wei Kingdom, except for a Tianhai Sect in the depths of the South China Sea, there were only some small sects, and the masters of many sects did not even have the strength of the Xuanhai Realm.

Therefore, under the senior sister's explanation of the spiritual information system, Hao Zhi completed the background information of the spiritual realm. However, after learning about the situation in the Spirit Realm, Xuantian Pavilion and Tianxin Peak, Hao Zhi thought of a question - in other words, Liu Li'er's real apprentices were only Shangguan Rou and Dongfang Bai?

Hao Zhi thought to himself, it seems that this "Spiegel Sword Heart" is indeed not easy!

Then he asked curiously: "The junior brother asked curiously, how many swords did the second senior sister and the third senior brother take when they were tested by the sword heart of the master Mingjing?"

Dongfang Bai said indifferently: "Ten swords." ”

Shangguan Rou also said: "Ten swords." ”

"Damn!" Hao Zhi jumped up from his position: "Why do I have to accept more than three hundred swords to pass the test?"

Shangguan Rou said solemnly: "Prove that you are very good! So compete with me!"

As he spoke, he drew his sword.

"Wait!" Hao Zhi hurriedly shouted: "Second Senior Sister, if you can tell me how you answered Master's question in the first place, I will learn from you!"

"Why cultivate immortals?"

"Yes. ”

Shangguan Rou thought for a while and replied: "Complete the last wish for my parents, cultivate to the Heavenly Sea Realm, enter the Endless Heavenly Sea, and bury the bones of my parents here." ”

"And then?"

Shangguan Rou said strangely: "What then?"

"Every time Shizun asks, you insist on this answer?"

Shangguan Rou replied as a matter of course: "Of course, this is the purpose of my immortal cultivation." So, let's shoot!"

"Wait!" Hao Zhi looked at the violent second senior sister with a headache, motioned for her to wait, and then looked at Dongfang Bai: "Third senior brother...... I don't know ......?"

Dongfang Bai said lightly: "It's no secret that I cultivate immortals, my father is a disciple of Xuantian Pavilion, and he died in a plan to exterminate the Demon Gate a hundred years ago. So I inherited my father's business and became a disciple of Xuantian Pavilion, cultivating immortals, just to defend the right path and eradicate the demon gate. ”

"Also insist on this answer, Ten Swords?"

"Yes. ”

It turns out that you just need to stick to one answer, and ten swords are enough?

Damn, is this considered cleverness but being mistaken by cleverness? But ...... Why do you feel a little pitted? I still think this stupid Bai Tian master is too complicated?

"Are you ready, draw your sword!" Second Senior Sister Shangguan Rou's voice woke Hao Zhi up from his daze.

Draw your sister's sword!

You're worthy of the word "soft" in your name, okay?