CXnovel #687 - Crowds of people
#687 - Crowds of people
With a flash of light, a space channel instantly took shape. After a week of dilly-dallying and wandering around, Liang Yue finally stepped out and arrived at the Taibai Mountain gate of the Flowing Cloud Sect.
It seemed that his former disciples had anticipated his arrival. Less than ten minutes after he appeared, they hurriedly flew over from all directions of the mountain gate.
In just a short while, a large group of disciples, some with white hair and some appearing to be in their early twenties, gathered behind Liang Yue.
Needless to say, most of those with white hair and frail bodies were his disciples.
As for those who looked to be in their early twenties, they were not new disciples recently accepted into the sect. Those newcomers were not yet qualified to come and pay respects to him.
They were actually a group of older disciples who had been given Youth Preservation Pills by Instructor Jingxiang, Alwen, and Xiao Zhao, restoring their former appearances and figures.
Besides Liang Yue himself, and a few elders like Hinata who had come to watch the excitement, only the current high-level members of the Flowing Cloud Sect and a group of personal disciples had this privilege.
Of course, in fact, the status of all the older generation members of the sect on the mountain gate would not be too low, but there had to be a first come, first served basis.
As for the other disciples, they were divided into three levels: core, inner, and outer, guarding the hall's gate from near to far.
The main hall of the Heavenly Sect did not enshrine any gods or patriarchs like the current Taoist schools.
The origin and history of the Heavenly Sect was much longer than that of today's mainstream Taoist sects, and could be traced back to the pre-Qin period.
Therefore, the main hall of their home enshrined the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and the statues erected in other halls and courtyards were a large number of former ancestors who had meritorious records with the human race in ancient times.
Of course, this naturally also included some of the sect's elders on the Heavenly Sect's family tree~
After taking his seat in the main hall, Liang Yue first listened to a briefing from his disciples, the current head of the Flowing Cloud Sect, on various important sect matters over the years.
In fact, Liang Yue had already learned about these things from Xiao Wu before, but at this time he did not show any impatience, but instead showed a serious expression.
A full hour later, the major events of the sect accumulated over the past forty years were finally reported.
Most of them were related to changes in the external environment outside the sect. After all, a new emperor brings a new court, and after arriving in modern society, many rules naturally had to be re-established.
Every time, it would bring some new changes to the sect.
However, in general, apart from the torrent of humanity more than ten years ago, the changes in the outside world did not have much impact on these outsiders.
And as a Taoist sect that has made significant contributions to the country and the people, the so-called torrent of humanity ultimately had a very limited impact on his Flowing Cloud Sect.
Except for the problem caused by the family background of his disciples and disciples that Liang Yue had paid attention to before, only the incident where a group of punks in Xi'an City wanted to take the opportunity to rush to the mountain gate to make trouble during the most extreme moments of the sports meeting was worth remembering.
As a result, shortly after those people had just broken into the Flowing Cloud Sect archway at the foot of the mountain, they were buried forever in the thick Taibai Mountain by a wave of earth dozens of feet high.
Since then, no one dared to break into his Heavenly Sect mountain gate again.
During this period, many people left their hometowns for various reasons and ran to his Flowing Cloud Sect to seek shelter, as well as scattered solitary cultivators.
They were successively arranged in the self-cultivated land areas around Taibai Mountain, and the sect members came forward to help them build a batch of mountain residences.
Among them, some people had already left in the past few decades and returned to their respective hometowns, while others still lived there to this day.
Their descendants were also successively arranged to study in the Flowing Cloud Sect's academy.
Speaking of the academy, the place that Liang Yue and others had personally established in the first place has now been expanded and divided into two departments: a formal school and a Taoist studies department.
It is mainly a place for the nearby villagers to study and enlighten, while the Taoist studies department has not had many people for a long time.
In the following years, a group of local educators were successively sent to take office, which once squeezed the overall structure of the academy.
Making the academy overcrowded, every position and admission qualification even had to be contested, but people still flocked to it, breaking their heads to join.
The reason is very simple, because there are few things to do in his Flowing Cloud Academy, the treatment is good, and the most important thing is that the environment is stable……
However, even in this case, the Taoist studies department still maintained the previous structure and organization, but it was just more idle on weekdays.
In general, the current head of the Flowing Cloud Sect has done a good job. As a master who maintains the status quo, he has been conscientious and responsible for nearly forty years, and has done a good job of fulfilling his responsibilities.
Moreover, he has also put a lot of effort into the cultivation of the next generation and the next two generations of disciples.
In recent decades, earth-shaking changes have taken place in China, and the strength in all aspects has increased significantly, but as far as ordinary individuals are concerned.
Especially those who live in remote villages, far from the city, most people's lives are only barely enough to make a living.
And the Flowing Cloud Sect, because of its special status in China, has its own industry and a large area of northern land as its support, so the sect's internal life is actually quite good.
Therefore, it is not so difficult to recruit disciples.
Although under some tacit guidance, the disciples in the Flowing Cloud Sect have mostly reduced the frequency and number of disciples they recruit.
But on the original basis, each old generation who has reached the Xiantian realm will choose to accept one or two disciples when the opportunity arises, which is actually not too much……
So in general, in recent years, his Flowing Cloud Sect is still in a slow development and growth.
The source of the disciples is also quite wide, from peddlers and pawns, farmers and merchants, refugees and beggars, to scholarly families, stubborn clans with less ideal components, and even some monarchs with more jumpy thoughts, all have children who have successively entered the mountain gate.
Of course, there are also many excellent children who come out of the families behind the older generation of disciples.
This is also a normal human feeling.
Counting all these things together, the current Heavenly Sect mountain gate, as well as the personnel stationed in Zhenbei City in the north, together, there are already thousands of new disciples alone.
It is a pity that, with less frequent supply of pills from Liang Yue and less private practice, the overall quality of these disciples has declined significantly.
The worst of the old generation of disciples who followed him all the way to build the Flowing Cloud Sect back then have now reached the peak of the acquired stage.
And the group of people with the highest cultivation level have advanced to the late Xiantian stage, and even a few have reached the peak of the Xiantian level!
What is lacking is only a pure and strong enough energy to push them into the foundation building realm in one fell swoop!
And those disciples who were accepted into the sect after the founding of Jian'guo, although there is a lack of cultivation time, the number is actually not small.
But among these disciples, only a few have been able to advance to the Xiantian realm so far, and they can be counted on both hands.
And the realm of this part of the people is basically still hovering in the early stage of Xiantian.
From here, you can see the importance of cultivation resources to a sect and a cultivator.
Fortunately, the exercises left by Liang Yue back then were not bad, with all kinds of cultivator and martial arts classics, and the body refining method that is unique in the entire otherworld as a supplement.
In addition, there are the original life and soul dual cultivation secrets of the Heavenly Sect.
Overall, the current strength of the Flowing Cloud Sect is not weak, and it can still be called the top sect in the Chinese otherworld, it's just that the newcomers are not as strong as the older generation of disciples~
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