Chapter 64: The Goodness of the Sect
Zhang Hanyan is seven or eight years older than Zhang Zhixuan, already over thirty, but her appearance looks only sixteen or seventeen years old, like a girl.
She is tall and has a smooth complexion, like a beauty walking out of a painting.
Her memory is very good, and she can easily recognize relatives she has not seen for more than ten years. After meeting Zhang Zhixuan and the other four, she said cheerfully and generously: “I came right away after receiving your letter. However, Qingxuan Sect is a vast place and I really feel sorry for keeping everyone waiting for so long.”
“We haven’t seen each other for more than ten years. My little sister has not changed much, but my sister and I are different. I have become an old woman now.” The eighteenth aunt Zhang Mengqin is a woman. She was close to Zhang Hanyan when we were at Shanmen, so Be the first to speak.
Zhang Hanyan’s exercises during his enlightenment were taught by Zhang Mengqin, and the relationship between the two became closer.
“Sister is so humble. Now is the time when my sister is in her prime. How can she grow old?”
“Don’t lie, little sister. I am nearly fifty years old now. Although a monk in the Qi training stage has a lifespan of 120 years, half of my body is already buried in the loess. In more than ten years, my appearance will not be the same. Can’t even watch it.”
It seems that both mortal women and female cultivators with magical powers undoubtedly attach great importance to their appearance.
Even the Nascent Soul stage old monsters who are powerful and capable of overturning rivers and seas still value their appearance, and female cultivators who do not value their appearance are even rarer.
With the continuous conversation, the relationship between the several people finally became no longer strangers and became much closer.
Zhang Hanyan glanced at Zhang Zhixuan unexpectedly, turned to Zhang Menglong and asked: “Fourth brother, whose child is this young man?
He looks young, but his cultivation level is comparable to mine?
When I left the family, this young man probably had not yet entered Taoism, otherwise he would always have an impression. “
Zhang Menglong smiled proudly and said: “This is the child of your twelfth brother Meng Zhen. He has good Zhixuan spiritual roots and is also a precocious child.
He practices very diligently and has great opportunities, so although he is young, his cultivation has already caught up with ours.
A year ago, the third uncle handed the elder token into his hands. “
“When I left, I heard that Brother Twelve had an accident outside Xihefang City. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, his children had grown up and began to contribute to the family.
Are your loved ones at home okay? Have they been safe these past few years? “
Facing Zhang Hanyan’s greetings, the four of them suddenly thought about the family’s hardships over the years. What made matters worse was the incident in Xihefang. The family, which had finally regained some strength, had lost blood again.
There were more than a hundred monks in the family, and nine of them were lost at once. Zhang Mengquan, who was at the ninth level of Qi training, was also damaged. It was a serious injury.
The four of them were silent for a while, and the fourth uncle, who had become a mature man, immediately said: “Everything is fine, don’t worry about your family, just concentrate on your cultivation in Qingxuan Sect.
Even if you want to help, it would be better to wait until the foundation is established. “
Zhang Hanyan was smart and clever. Although everyone changed the topic, she could guess the family’s recent difficulties, so she said with emotion: “Who can relax on the road to greatness?
It’s difficult for everyone. We are descendants of the same bloodline, so we can only try to unite and support each other through the difficulties. “
After Zhang Hanyan’s narration, everyone also learned about her situation in Qingxuan Sect.
Taoist Yunzhi is the Taoist companion of Patriarch Zhang Chuyun. With his support, he succeeded in building the foundation. Although he has reached the ninth level of foundation building, he is still over 200 years old and there is basically no possibility of further progress.
As her disciple, Zhang Hanyan was very comfortable in Qingxuan Sect earlier, and basically had no worries about various resources for cultivating immortals.
According to the rules of Qingxuan Sect, disciples are divided into servant disciples, outer disciples, inner disciples and true disciples.
Any monk who joins the Qingxuan Sect halfway can only be a handyman disciple. After entering the ninth level of Qi training, he can become an outer disciple. After successful foundation building, he will become a deacon elder. If he succeeds in opening the Zi Mansion, he will also become a Qingxuan disciple. The sect elder of Xuanzong.
Young monks like Zhang Hanyan who join the Qingxuan Sect will be trained as direct descendants and receive slightly better treatment.
She had just joined Qingxuan Sect as an outer disciple. After becoming a disciple of Taoist Yunzhi, she became an inner disciple.
There are thousands of Qi-training monks in Qingxuan Sect, and there are more than a few hundred Qi-training monks at the ninth level. Qingxuan Sect can only refine one or two furnaces of Foundation-Building Pills every ten years. On a good day, the pills can be made into twelve or three pills. , when things are bad, you can only make seven or eight elixirs.
And the high-level monks of the sect would sometimes reach out for Foundation Establishment Pills, and the number of Foundation Establishment Pills that could be allocated every ten years became even rarer.
In this situation where there are too many monks and too few rice porridge, the competition becomes particularly fierce every time when the Foundation Establishment Pill is refined.
As the saying goes, there is no rule without rules. According to the rules of Qingxuan Sect, the battle for the foundation-building pill among the ninth-level Qi-training monks must be divided into three aspects.
The first is that in terms of age, monks over sixty years old have insufficient energy and blood, and the probability of foundation building is very low, so they cannot compete for foundation building pills.
The second is in terms of merit. After joining the Qingxuan Sect, there will be a sect token, which records in detail the monk’s contribution to the sect. The monks with many good deeds in the sect will be given priority in selecting the Foundation Building Pill.
This kind of rule is very suitable for the development of monks in the family, because they will have the help of the family to earn good deeds, and because of external help, the good deeds in their hands will tend to be more.
The third is about spiritual roots. If there are monks with the same good deeds, those with good spiritual roots can be selected first.
Because the Foundation Establishment Pills are insufficient, some outer disciples who are around sixty years old, if they have great determination and perseverance, will risk building the Foundation without using the Foundation Establishment Pills at this age.
Once this kind of monk succeeds, it is often more difficult to deal with. Every ten or eight years, Qingxuan Sect will have such a monk successfully build the foundation, or become an outer sect elder, or become a true disciple.
It’s a pity that Taoist Yunzhi’s life is short, and his reputation in the sect is getting worse every year.
A few years ago, she exchanged her sect’s good deeds for a Foundation Building Pill and gave it to her family, the Lu family. This practice took the place of an outer disciple, which aroused the anger of the Qingxuan Sect elder, and her situation became even worse.
In recent years, Taoist Yunzhi has rarely shown up. In order to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill, she not only used up all her good deeds, but also consumed the favors left by Patriarch Zhang Chuyun. Now there are not many favors left by the senior leaders of Qingxuan Sect. .
Unfortunately, the Foundation Establishment Pill she exchanged was not given to Zhang Hanyan, but to her natal family, a distant nephew with good qualifications.
Therefore, although Zhang Hanyan has a very good spiritual root, he cannot borrow her power to build his foundation and can only rely on the help of his family.
(End of chapter)