Chapter 70 The History of Guiyuan Sect (1/2)
The next day, there were still many people in the training field, but it was obviously less than yesterday.
They stood together in groups of three or five according to their own circles.
Li Yan and a group of Li family members, as well as Xing Hu, Yan Ling and others, wore brand new yellow and blue clothes and gathered in an area.
Yellow clothes are worn by outer disciples of Guiyuan Sect, and blue clothes are worn by inner disciples of Guiyuan Sect.
The patterns on the clothes are similar, but the color of the clothes is used to distinguish inner and outer disciples.
In addition to yellow and blue, there is also white, which is for core disciples.
In the entire training field, there are a thousand people, but only one person is wearing white, which is very eye-catching.
These are the most basic common sense in Guiyuan Sect, and they are all written on the "Guiyuan Sect Code" distributed to each disciple.
The code introduces the historical background of Guiyuan Sect, the rules and prohibitions of the sect, the obligations that various disciples need to bear, and the welfare benefits of different disciples, etc.
After Li Yan received the distributed code yesterday, he read it for a whole hour before finishing it.
After all, the whole book of rules has more than a hundred pages, and Li Yan can be considered to have read it very quickly.
"You have all read "Guiyuan Sect Rules", I read it for three hours yesterday and forgot to have dinner."
Li Huahu said with some sigh.
"I have read it, to be honest, my favorite part is the history of the sect, it feels like reading a legend."
Li Yan responded.
"What a coincidence, I also like to listen to this part, I almost fell asleep when listening to other parts, but I listen most seriously here."
Yan Ling looked at Li Yan with surprise, as if she saw a fellow traveler.
"Uh, listening to books? Is there such a service here? Who tells you stories?"
Li Yan had a question mark on his face, good guy, you can also listen to books, right?
"It was a little girl. It seemed that she had sprained her leg during a martial arts performance. She was limping and had no companions to take care of her. I went up to her and helped her to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. She was cured."
"You know, we mountain people often go out hunting and get injured easily, so we are good at treating such sprains."
"She wanted to repay me, so I asked her to help me and Xing Hu read the book "Guiyuan Sect Rules". After all, I get a headache when I see so many words."
Li Yan followed Yan Ling's line of sight and saw a tall girl, all alone.
When Li Yan looked over, the girl quickly shifted her sight and dared not look over here again.
"She is still a shy little girl."
Li Yan laughed a little unkindly.
"Brother Li Yan, you looked so wretched when you laughed just now."
Suddenly, Li Huayue, who was standing next to him, said this out of the blue, which broke Li Yan's defense.
"Huayue, can you speak? Why am I wretched?"
As he said that, a big hand covered Li Huayue's head and rubbed it.
"Ah, I combed my hair for a long time, but you messed it up, you stinky thing, you bad thing."
Li Huayue was so angry that he wanted to hit Li Yan, but unfortunately Li Yan held his forehead and suppressed him directly.
Other people saw this scene, some came up to help Li Huayue, pulling Li Yan's big hand, and some stood aside and watched the show with a smile.
The atmosphere was very harmonious, attracting many people's attention.
After a while of playing around, they stopped because the sect master came.
"Line up and welcome the sect master, elder."
Hundreds of blue-clothed inner disciples quickly poured into the martial arts training ground and commanded everyone to line up.
Every hundred people formed a queue of ten rows horizontally and vertically, divided into inner and outer gates.
The outer gate was divided into eight groups, and the inner gate was divided into two groups.
The sect master came in from the left, so the two groups of inner disciples were on the left, and the one on the far left was Zhao Tongcheng, the only core disciple in white.
The third to tenth groups were yellow-clothed outer disciples, and Li Yan was in the third group.
In addition to Li Yan, the third group also includes Li Huayue, Xing Hu, Yan Ling, Zhuge Yidao, Qin Yao and others.
These people are either of superior qualifications or have great comprehension.
They may be the key training targets of the sect in the future.
As soon as everyone lined up, a group of people came into Li Yan's sight.
The one walking in front was a middle-aged elegant man in a purple robe, with a pale face, but very bright eyes.
The "Guiyuan Sect Rules" record that only the head of the sect can wear purple robes. Obviously, this is the current Guiyuan Sect leader, Gui Lingwen.
After him, there are five elders in black, four men and one woman.
Among them are the elders and the elders who pass on the skills, who are known to everyone, and no one knows the others.
Because there is no record in the "Guiyuan Sect Rules".
However, Li Yan noticed that the elders, the elders who pass on the skills and a strange elder are all older, while the other two look very young, especially the female elder.
Even in black, it couldn't hide her impressive figure and beautiful face. She looked only about 30 years old.
After that, there were seven core disciples in white. Li Yan only knew two of them.
One was the one-armed young man he had seen at the foot of the mountain. His name was Jing Wuji.
Another one was the one who came out yesterday to persuade the disciples who didn't pass the test to quit. His name is still unknown.
These seven people, five men and two women, all looked to be in their early twenties. Their expressions were calm, but Li Yan could sense their sharpness hidden under their calm appearance.
"I just don't know if these seven people are all in the Yunzang realm. If so, it would be terrifying."
Li Yan thought secretly.
After all, the two core disciples he knew a little bit about were both in the Yun Zang realm, and there was a high probability that the other five who were also core disciples were also in the Yun Zang realm.
The probability of breakthrough innateness for those in the Yunzang realm in their early twenties is obviously much higher than that of those in the Yunzang realm who are in their fifties and sixties.
Moreover, Guiyuan Sect is a sect with a complete innate inheritance.
Perhaps in a few years or more than ten years, the innate warriors of Guiyuan Sect may reach the number of hands.
"Hello everyone, after three rounds of assessments, you are my official disciples of Guiyuan Sect. I would like to congratulate you all and your life will take a new direction from now on."
The master's loud voice was better than a loudspeaker and was clearly transmitted to every disciple's ears.
No matter what they were thinking, everyone applauded one after another, led by the old disciple in front.
The applause lasted for ten breaths and then stopped with the leader's downward gesture.
"I believe you all have read the "Guiyuan Sect Code" that was sent to you yesterday."
"Looked at it."
Everyone answered in unison.
"Okay, just read it. Every word in it was compiled and summarized by me, Guiyuan Sect, over thousands of years. Every time the sect recruits new blood, there will be more information about the sect. new changes.”
"When I first joined the sect, the entire "Guiyuan Sect Code" only had 98 pages. Now it has increased to 103 pages. These five additional pages are the changes of Guiyuan Sect over the years."
"There are good and bad changes in this. The sect will benefit from the good changes, and you, as sect disciples, will also benefit."
"Bad changes will weaken the sect and bring peace to the disciples. This is something no one likes to happen."
"However, since it has happened, it must be faced and recorded, so as to prevent future generations from making the same mistake again."
"I hope that after you come to the sect, you can practice hard with peace of mind. As long as you work hard enough, God will not let you down."
"Perhaps, you will one day be recorded in the "Guiyuan Sect Code"."
The leader Gui Lingwen slowly spoke about his expectations for the new disciples, and everyone below listened attentively.
The same is true for Li Yan. He is not as impatient as he was when listening to the leader's speech at Blue Star.
After a long time, Li Yan learned that this was a special martial art practiced by the leader. It was very useless. It could soothe emotions and eliminate certain negative emotions through words.
Moreover, this kind of martial skill can only be used by innate warriors, because it requires the use of spiritual energy.
It can only be said that, except for those in power, for ordinary warriors, this kind of innate martial arts is not as good as a third-rate martial arts that can be used against the enemy.
"If you use copper as a mirror, you can dress appropriately; if you use people as a mirror, you can understand gains and losses; if you use history as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs."
"Although there is no such saying in this world, there are people who practice it."
This was what Li Yan was thinking at this time.
Thinking of this, Li Yan couldn't help but think of the history of Guiyuan Sect he saw yesterday.
According to the "Guiyuan Zong Code", Guiyuan Zong was founded in 1,325 years.
It is a veritable millennium sect.
The founder of the sect, Gui Lipi, a master of Ningsha Realm, was the top powerhouse of the dynasty at that time.
After reaching old age, he retired to a corner and instead of starting a family like other powerful men, he created the Guiyuan Sect with his own surname as the starting point.
Of course, the "Guiyuan Sect Code" also introduces a theory that the founder retired to the mountains and founded the Guiyuan Sect because he was suppressed in the new dynasty.
The Yuan of Guiyuan Zong may refer to the Yuan Dynasty when the ancestor was born. Guiyuan naturally means returning to the Yuan Dynasty.
However, these are only speculations by future generations, and no one knows whether they are true or not.
Since the Guiyuan Sect was passed down to the present, there have been a total of 36 heads, including the founding founder and the current head, with an average of one head changing every thirty-six years.
Moreover, every generation of sect leader is a descendant of the ancestor Gui Lipi. For example, the current sect Gui Lingwen is the descendant of the ancestor for who knows how many generations.
A inheritance like the Guiyuan Sect, for more than a thousand years, will naturally make some ambitious disciples dissatisfied.
This is especially true when the leader is not strong enough to convince the public.
Therefore, almost every two hundred years, someone wants to replace Guijia and take the position of head of Guiyuan Sect.
The most dangerous event recorded in the "Guiyuan Sect Code" was a power-seizing movement initiated by an elder at the peak of the Xiantian realm and more than a dozen disciples of the Xiantian realm.
At that time, the entire Guiyuan Sect only had more than thirty Xiantian realm warriors, and the leader had just entered Xiantian, so there was no hope of victory at all.
But that's it, in the end, the leader's faction won.
The "Guiyuan Sect Code" naturally does not describe the specific process, but only vaguely said that the leader used the backhand left by the ancestors to repel the troublemakers.
This rebellion also became the trigger for the Guiyuan Sect to turn from prosperity to decline, and also laid hidden dangers for the subsequent war.
Since then, the number of Xiantian warriors in Guiyuan Sect has been maintained at about a dozen, and the entire Guiyuan Sect has also been divided into three factions.
However, the leader of this faction always has the most innate warriors.
Because the leader of the family has the means to increase the chance of breakthrough innateness.
Fortunately, although the Guiyuan Sect is divided into three factions, the development of the sect is booming and moving towards diversification.
The original Guiyuan Sect's main source of income came from the rent of a nearby state city and the harvest of more than 100,000 acres of land around its own sect.
The Guiyuan Sect has been passed down for too long. The state city next to it has been rebuilt two or three times, and the Guiyuan Sect would help each time the state city was rebuilt.
Helping naturally has rewards, and the rewards are large pieces of land deeds.
In the end, nearly one twentieth of the land deeds in the state city with millions of people belonged to the Guiyuan Sect.
Every year, the rent collected by the Guiyuan Sect was pulled back by carriages.
In addition, the harvest of more than 100,000 acres of land around the Guiyuan Sect was enough to feed thousands of people in the Guiyuan Sect at that time.
After diversified development, large tracts of fertile land became medicinal fields, and a large amount of silver was used to buy various prescriptions and materials.
From then on, the Guiyuan Sect vigorously developed alchemy and refining.
After that, the Guiyuan Sect had an endless stream of alchemists and refining masters, who not only earned more, but also made friends with many major forces.
Its influence is much greater than that of its peak period.
However, the strange thing is that even in such a prosperous Guiyuan Sect, its innate warriors are still in their early twenties.
Such a huge benefit, but without sufficient strength to protect it, will naturally attract others' covetousness.
So, just three months ago, led by the sect founded by the traitor who had defected before, three or four forces that were not weaker than Guiyuan Sect joined together to attack the mountain gate of Guiyuan Sect.
If the head of the sect had not invited a master of the Condensation Realm to mediate in time, I am afraid that the entire Guiyuan Sect would have been destroyed at that time.
However, even so, Guiyuan Sect also lost its sect residence, and less than one-tenth of the wealth accumulated over thousands of years remained.
One-twentieth of the land deeds of the state city and the hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land were naturally robbed.
And the most important skills, martial arts, and pill recipes were all copied by these people.
For Guiyuan Sect, it is a great shame.
However, what hurt Guiyuan Sect even more was the loss of elders and disciples.
When attacking the sect, a group of elders and disciples were lost.
When Guiyuan Sect was about to move, many disciples and elders who were unwilling to leave their hometowns chose to leave Guiyuan Sect.
After all, this departure might be for a lifetime.
In the end, only those who were very loyal to Guiyuan Sect and orphans who were adopted by Guiyuan Sect since childhood followed Guiyuan Sect.
This is also the reason why Guiyuan Sect did not have an outer disciple before.
Because, at the moment they made the decision to move with the sect, even if he was an outer disciple, he had been promoted to an inner disciple.
Thinking back, the head of the sect had finished speaking at this time.
Now began the distribution of disciples like Li Yan.
Guiyuan Sect did not recruit them to be young masters and young ladies, but to serve the sect.
They will be assigned to departments, led by old disciples, and gradually filled in according to the original framework of Guiyuan Sect.
"Refine weapons, make pills, farm, manage, build... What can you do, where do you want to go?"
"I can make pills, I want to go to the Alchemy Pavilion."
Li Yan replied confidently.