Chapter 21: Arrival
After that, I occasionally encountered a few wild beasts along the way, two encounters were demon beasts, and more encounters were mortal beasts. Before the beast appeared, it had already been detected by Wang Xian's divine sense. Every time they were about to appear in sight on the road, they were deterred by Wang Xian's divine sense.
The spiritual pressure emitted by Wang Xian's divine consciousness can invade the beasts' brains, intimidating the demon beasts in the early stage of qi refining, so that they do not dare to act rashly.
For demon beasts of the same level, one-on-one, and not in the nest of demon beasts, if the demon beasts do not have the geographical advantage, the monks are generally stable against the demon beasts. Therefore, when a single demon beast travels, it is always reluctant to provoke human monks of the same level or above.
From the divine sense and spiritual pressure of the human monk, the demon beast can roughly judge his cultivation, and the demon beast has a natural sense of danger. Wang Xian's divine sense, dealing with mortal beasts, can even make them frightened, trembling all over, as if encountering demon beasts, there is a great desire to let people slaughter, begging for mercy and confession.
Wang Xian recalled the map in his memory, and it was only two or three days away from the Tianyuan Mountain Range. This time, Huatianzong's opening of the mountain gate to accept disciples is still in charge of the outer gate.
A hundred miles south of Huatian Peak, the main peak of the Tianyuan Mountain Range, there is a South China Town, which is one of the dozen or so small towns surrounding the Tianyuan Mountain Range.
The main industries of these towns are all managed by the outer gates, and there are many monks and monks from outside the towns, and there are also many mortals who come to the town to make a living.
Not far from the town, there are some small peaks formed by the remaining veins of the Tianyuan Mountain Range, these small peaks are the places where the cultivators of the outer gate practice, and the small peaks are intermittently connected into an irregular circle, guarding the main peaks such as Huatian Peak of the Tianyuan Mountain Range.
Because the town is closest to the south of the main peak, Huatian Peak, the outer gate calls it South China Town. On the periphery of the town, within a radius of thousands of miles, there are large and small second- and third-rate cultivation sects or families, which have become affiliated sects of Huatian Sect.
Two days later, Wang first came to the outside of the town of South China. I saw that there was no city wall in this town, but a simple archway was erected, and three ancient characters of South China Town were written on it. Passing through the archway, you can see that there are some scattered houses in the town, separated by some flowers and trees, and the more you go inside, the denser the houses become.
Wang first sent away the coachman at the entrance of the archway, put away the hidden spirit recipe and released the cultivation to facilitate the entry to do things. All the way in, the more you go inside, the more lively the town becomes, and the streets are full of people and traffic.
At this time, it was only three days since the opening of the mountain gate of Huatianzong, and most of the monks had gathered in the town, and from time to time there was a small group of two or three monks in uniform green robes patrolling the crowd, and at a glance they knew that they were Huatianzong's outer gate inspecting monks.
Wang Xian knew that Huatianzong Yuan could wear purple clothes during the infant cultivation period, red clothes during the Jindan cultivation period, green clothes during the foundation building period, green clothes for the Qi refining period disciples, and low-level disciples could not wear colors that only monks above the senior uncle could wear, otherwise it would be disrespectful.
Inside the door, it is generally worn according to this color grade, and outside the door, as long as it is not transgressed, it is okay to wear other colors.
Wang first asked a team of green-robed monks, and knew that the inns in the town were already full, but Hua Tianzong had opened up some empty squares in the town for the monks who could not stay in the inns to meditate and wait. Anyone who wants to join Huatianzong has to go to a small attic outside the outer gate of Huatianzong to register.
Under the guidance of the green-robed monk, Wang Xian found a three-storey small attic, with the quaint Huatian Pavilion written on the plaque at the door, which was the steward's residence of the outer gate in Huanan Town, and other towns also had such Huatian Pavilion.
Entering the door, I saw more than a dozen outer disciples of Huatian Sect dressed in green robes performing their duties in the small pavilion, with a few people standing at the door in charge of receiving and a few people behind the long table in charge of registration.
Under the guidance of the disciples at the door, Wang first went to the registration office in front of the long table and received a jade plaque, and said that he would use the jade plaque as a voucher to follow the team into the mountain, and the jade plaque contained various arrangements for accepting apprentices this time.
Wang first carefully inspected the jade plaque and learned about these arrangements. This time, Huatian Sect opened the mountain gate to accept all the disciples from the outer sect, and mortals can also sign up.
The first level is to test the spiritual root, and those who have the qualifications of the heavenly spiritual root and the alien spirit root, regardless of whether they are cultivators or not, are directly accepted as inner disciples. Monks with spiritual roots below the three spiritual roots should participate in the competition and be recruited on the basis of merit. Mortals with spiritual roots below the three spirit roots will be hired by the town as miscellaneous servants of the outer gate.
Miscellaneous servants are not considered disciples, but they do mortal work in the small town of the outer gate, and they work in various industries in the outer gate, such as inns, restaurants, running halls, being shop boys, and so on.
The outer gate will issue these mortals with an ordinary cultivation method, and issue the corresponding spirit stones according to the contribution of the miscellaneous servants. In this way, these mortals can cultivate on their own in addition to serving miscellaneous labor, and the extent to which they cultivate depends on their own creation.
As long as they have cultivated true yuan and spiritual power, have a sense of qi, and become cultivators above the qi refining period, they can participate in the introductory competition together with foreign cultivators.
The competition is divided into three groups: the beginning, middle and end stages of gas refining, and the three groups have a passing place.
In this competition, I don't know how many cultivators participated, but looking at the crowded flow of people in South China Town, Wang Xian estimated that there were tens of thousands. However, the number of recruits is very small, and the number of open recruits is 150 people in the early stage of gas refining, 200 people in the middle stage of gas refining, and 300 people in the final stage of gas refining.
Before Wang Xian came, he had a detailed understanding of the situation of Huatian Sect, and knew that the outer disciples of Huatian Sect did not completely rely on this way of opening the mountain gate to accept disciples from the outside world, and some of them were recommended by the monks above the foundation of the sect to become outer disciples.
For the recommended disciples, the requirements in the door are stricter, the qualifications are above the three spirit roots, and when testing the mana, it is necessary to be able to beat more than ten disciples of the same level of the outer sect for more than five consecutive years.
Despite the strict rules, monks above the foundation level are qualified to recommend one person every five years, so there are many disciples from this channel. After all, many of the monks above the foundation were born in small and medium-sized immortal cultivation sects or families, and it is necessary to recruit the strong ones into the sect to strengthen the strength of the sect.
Wang first thought about the grouping, in the Xia Kingdom Cultivation Realm, the number of people in the early stage of Qi refining was more than four times that of the middle stage, and the middle stage was more than three times that of the end stage. Huatianzong is grouped, and the higher the cultivation, the more people will pass, which is understandable.
Wang Xian has a hidden spirit trick and can participate in the group competition of the early stage of qi refining, but Wang Xian only wants to play a few fewer games and try not to attract attention, so he still decides to participate in the group competition of the middle stage of qi refining.
Wang first found an empty square opened up by Huatian Sect, and there were three green-robed monks patrolling the square, Wang first checked it, two in the middle stage of Qi refining and one in the end of Qi refining cultivation. In Huatianzong's sphere of influence, no foreign monks generally make trouble, and most of them are very respectful to these Huatianzong monks.
At this time, there were more than 2,000 people in the square, and they were almost full, leaving less than a half of the open space, some talking in groups of three or five in low voices, and some meditating and cultivating alone.
Compared with most people, who arrived in Huanan Town six or seven days in advance, and familiarized himself with the situation and prepared, Wang Xian calculated that it was too late, so he found an open space and sat down, and began to meditate and close his eyes and pranayama.