Chapter 53 Entrance Ceremony
Tuoba Ye was still very shocked inside, he didn’t imagine a small Pill Cauldron sect has so many disciples. Pill Cauldron sects had specific requirements for selecting disciples, making the numbers of its disciples comparatively few, almost similar to those small sects’. If it was like other mid-sized sects, wouldn’t its number of disciples be even more?
He didn’t enter any sects in his previous life so he didn’t really understand the circ.u.mstances of the cultivation world.
Hearing Mu Linsen speak of it, Tuoba Ye’s heart was much more shocked, he would have to be even more careful.
Although his body was concealing the Divine Root and there was also the Divine Punishment Jade talisman inside his body, but for the time being, these treasures were of no use to him.
There were so many cultivation experts in the cultivation world that there would certainly be those who had some fortuitous encounters and those with incomparable strength, he would have to pay very special attention to them.
Rushing forward for two days, Mu Linsen said: “Junior disciple Tuoba Ye, we are going to enter the Immortal Clouds mountain. However, the Immortal Clouds mountain’s peak can only be entered by the inner sect disciples to cultivate. You have just joined so you will be sent to Immortal Clouds valley, you will cultivate with outer sect disciples and manage medicinal gardens.”
He stopped and continued to speak: “Compet.i.tions in cultivation sects are extremely intense, there will be deaths frequently. After you enter the Immortal Clouds valley, you must apply caution, do not provoke some difficult to deal characters.”
“Senior disciple Mu Linsen, many thanks for reminding me.” Tuoba Ye said gratefully.
Actually, even if Mu Linsen didn’t say it, he could make a conjection. There were limited resources but millions of outer sect disciples, so it would certainly be full of compet.i.tions. There were so many outer sect disciples, can’t say for sure if they aren’t further divided into numerous factions. The struggles between these factions perhaps would be unlike the struggles between several great clans of the State of Zhan.
To establish a footing at the Immortal Clouds valley, one must have a formidable strength.
Tuoba Ye’s physical strength was very formidable, from the start, he was not afraid of the outer sect disciples but some outer sect disciples possessed background and provoking them wouldn’t be good.
Naturally, Tuoba Ye didn’t enter the Pill Cauldron sect to struggle with the other outer sect disciples all day long. He only wanted to receive systematic teachings and if anyone hindered him, he would kick out the counterpart without any restraint.
“Junior disciple Tuoba Ye, if you need any a.s.sistance, I will do my best to help. However, I am in a bottleneck stage now so for the large part, I will be adventuring outside, searching for an opportunity to make a breakthrough.” Mu Linsen said.
Mu Linsen was late stage Lianqi expert, this stage was also called ‘Qi refined to thread’. If the cultivation reached the great circle stage, one could attack the bottleneck to become a Jindan expert. If the breakthrough was a failure, then being able to preserve the original cultivation base could be considered to be pretty good. In the future, the difficulty would be much greater when trying to advance again into the Jindan realm.
“Senior disciple Mu Linsen, thank you.” Tuoba Ye again expressed his thanks.
If it was not for Mu Linsen, he couldn’t have entered the Pill Cauldron sect so he naturally was grateful. As for looking for Mu Linsen’s a.s.sistance, Tuoba Ye didn’t have such thoughts.
Just talking of fighting strength, if Tuoba Ye went all out, just his physical strength would be enough to sweep through Lianqi experts.
If there was a problem which he, himself couldn’t settle then looking for Mu Linsen would probably also be of no use.
He naturally couldn’t tell Mu Linsen about these.
After entering the Immortal Clouds mountain, on the whole road, he could see Pill Cauldron sect’s disciples.
When those disciples saw Mu Linsen, they one by one greeted him. It seems Mu Linsen had a very big reputation among the inner sect disciples.
Tuoba didn’t care about those, after entering the Immortal Clouds mountain, he felt pure and invigorating spiritual energy.
Before his eyes were continuous mountain ranges which ends couldn’t be seens. Numerous mountain peaks rose straight to the skies, it was a majestic sight.
Only this was a genuine Immortal realm, Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi was also extremely dense, far exceeding the outside.
“Truly an Immortal’s realm!” Tuoba Ye praised.
“Naturally, our Pill Cauldron sect’s encampment is not much worse than the nine large sects’ encampment. Only such Immortal realm is suitable for growing Spirit medicines. Many sects covet after our sect’s encampment but the nine large sects rely on us to provide medicinal pills so there naturally aren’t any sects that dare to go against us openly.” Mu Linsen said proudly.
Tuoba Ye heard Mu Linsen’s words but he was not happy.
There were no sects that went openly against the Pill Cauldron sect but there would certainly be sects with secret intentions against it. He also knew Pill Cauldron sect’s cultivation techniques were not specialized in fighting, there were no ways for its techniques to compare with other mid-sized cultivation sects’.
If a big unforeseen event occurred at the cultivation world, it was very likely for there to be a sect which would make a move against the Pill Cauldron sect.
Tuoba Ye was also regarded as a member of the Pill Cauldron sect now. Not only did he have to consider the sect’s safety, he still must think about his own safety.
After a short moment, Mu Linsen entered the Immortal Clouds valley with Tuoba Ye.
All around the Immortal Clouds valley were high mountain ranges, Immortal Clouds valley was equivalent to a basin except that its area was extremely large; its length and width, both were tens of thousands of miles long.
When they just entered the valley, medicinal fragrances a.s.sailed their nostrils, the heaven and earth Yuan Qi here was much more denser than outside.
Rabbit Master who had been sleeping from the beginning, woke up at this moment. Seeing the large patches of medicinal gardens, his eyes shone.
“Junior disciple Tuoba Ye, I will take you to see the outer sect’s elder, you have to be registered first and then, the outer sect elder will make arrangements for your Spirit medicines plantation. So long as you finish your task, you will be rewarded. Those who have just entered the Pill Cauldron sect can cultivate their techniques or can choose to cultivate the techniques imparted by the sect.” Mu Linsen said.
“Sorry for troubling senior disciple. Tuoba Ye nodded his head.
Mu Linsen and Tuoba Ye were still riding on the flying sword, flying to the depths of the Immortal Clouds valley.
“There is a new disciple again!”
“A new disciple, there will again be a good show to watch.”
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Inside the medicinal gardens, numerous outer sect disciples were busy growing Spirit medicines.
When they saw Tuoba Ye and Mu Linsen, they understood what was going on. One after another, they raised their heads to look and also started discussing.
A new disciple would have to suffer some difficulties, this was unavoidable. If the disciple possessed sufficient strength, then he could protect himself properly and it might be a little better for him. But large majority of the new disciples didn’t have strength which could compare to those outer sect disciples that had joined for several years, so they would naturally suffer bullying to some extent.
Older disciples had already gone through this process so they were also happy to see other new disciples meet with troubles.
“Senior disciple Mu Linsen, you have returned with a new disciple.” An old man saw Mu Linsen and promptly welcomed him.
Tuoba Ye discovered that old man was initial stage Lianqi expert but he was already too old, looks like he didn’t have much potential.
“Junior disciple Lu Yunfeng, this is the new disciple I recruited, Tuoba Ye. He will be in your care in the future.” Mu Linsen said.
Although Lu Yunfeng was an outer sect elder but his position couldn’t compare to the inner sect disciple, Mu Linsen.
Those that had no promise of breaking out of Lianqi realm would be given some other works. Some would be a.s.signed as outer sect elders and some would even be given responsibility to manage the states in the Pill Cauldron sect’s territory.
“Senior disciple Mu Linsen, I will make proper arrangements.” Lu Yunfeng said, smiling.
“Junior disciple Tuoba Ye, you have to listen to Lu Yunfeng in the future, he is the outer sect elder.” Mu Linsen said.
Tuoba Ye promptly said: “Tuoba Ye pays his respects to elder Lu Yunfeng.”
Even if Lu Yunfeng’s strength was nothing great, he held an important position of supervising millions of outer sect disciples. It was for the best not to provoke him.
Just by Lu Yunfeng’s strength, if he didn’t have any backers, he would certainly not be able to hold such an important position.
“I am leaving.” Mu Linsen rode his flying sword and quickly disappeared.
“Tuoba Ye, right? You will be in charge of this patch of medicinal garden, the spiritual medicines have already been planted, you just have take care of them.” Lu Yunfeng pointed at a map, his tone was somewhat cold: “There are two books here, one book has information on planting Spirit medicines and another book has sect’s fundamental techniques on Wood Spiritual arts and Fire Spiritual arts. You can choose which one you want to cultivate but you absolutely cannot divulge them.”
Tuoba Ye received the two books and said: “Many thanks, elder.”
He also saw the map, the medicinal garden he was in charge of was numbered ‘102’ and it was located on the outermost part of the Immortal Clouds valley.
The disciples who have just entered the Pill Cauldron sect could only look after the peripheral medicinal gardens.
Each disciple were in charge of medicinal gardens which was only about hundred square meters and besides it was a small wooden cabin which was the residential area for the outer sect disciple. As the residential area was just besides the medicinal garden, it was convenient for taking care of the Spirit medicines at any time.
There were millions of outer sect disciples so there were also millions of wooden cabins, just this was enough to be considered remarkable.
However, Tuoba Ye didn’t understand much about the Pill Cauldron sect, he also didn’t know whether all the outer sect disciples were at the Immortal Clouds valley or not.
He didn’t dare to ask, carrying his stuffs, he went to the number 102 medicinal garden.
When Tuoba Ye left, Lu Yunfeng said coldly: “This new disciple doesn’t understand even a little, just let him suffer a bit. Hehe…..”
If new disciples gave benefits to the outer sect elder, then the outer sect elder would acknowledge them and there naturally won’t be outer sect disciples that would find trouble with the new disciples.
But if they were like Tuoba Ye, not giving benefits to outer sect elder, the outer sect elder would naturally not do a meddlesome thing like acknowledging them.
So long as the outer sect elder didn’t acknowledge the new disciple, the new disciple would most likely have to endure hardships.
When Tuoba Ye left, there were already many disciples watching him.
Tuoba Ye saw some disciples watching him but he didn’t care.
Lu Yunfeng’s residence was at the central region of the Immortal Clouds valley so Tuoba Ye needed a lot of time to reach his residence and as such, he didn’t have the time to pay attention to others.
He increased his pace, he just wanted to return early to his place and read the information on Spirit Medicines first, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to take proper care of the Spirit Medicines and that would probably cause a not small inconvenience.
“This kid is really foolish, he didn’t give any benefits to the outer sect elder, he should be taught a lesson!”
“It really is invigorating recently. Only yesterday, two new disciples were taught a lesson, and today again, there is a new disciple who needs to be taught a lesson.”
The discussions of those people still fell on Tuoba Ye’s ears.
He was, all of a sudden, clear on what was going on, he was afraid Lu Yunfeng was intentionally making these outer sect disciples teach a lesson to new disciples so that it would be easy to increase his income.
Even after understanding the situation before him, Tuoba Ye didn’t go back to give benefits to Lu Yunfeng.
“Since they want to find trouble, then let them come!” Tuoba Ye snickered.
Tuoba Ye also noticed the people at his behind were increasing more and more, it seemed there were a lot that wanted to teach him a lesson and even more were those that wanted to see the show.
Those outer sect disciples didn’t make a move and it was also impossible for Tuoba Ye to start the fight.
He pretended to not notice and continued to move forward in large strides.
After he walked very far, those outer sect disciples finally couldn’t bear it.
Several disciples that looked particularly strong moved quickly and outpaced Tuoba Ye, blocking off his path.
“Kid, a newcomer, right?” A tall youngster said coldly.
“I am a newcomer.” Tuoba Ye said flatly.
“Since you are a newcomer, do you know the rules?”
“Since I am a newcomer, I naturally don’t know any rules.” Tuoba Ye said calmly.
He very much wanted to see what tricks these guys had prepared.
“Kid, a newcomer must hand over ten thousand gold coins or else you will be sorry.” The tall youngster said.
“Ten thousand gold coins! I don’t have such amount, why do I have to give gold coins to you?” Tuoba Ye said doubtfully.