Chapter 128: Outer Sect Disciple (1)
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The middle-aged man brought the selected candidates into the outer sect.
Everything in the sect amazed the young boys and girls who just entered the sect. However, they were all very smart to suppress their emotions and listened to the middle-aged man’s orders detailedly.
The outer sect disciples stayed at the same location with three people in a room, males and females separated.
Ye Qingtang was assigned to a room. Apart from her, Su Wan, who entered as the same batch as her, was assigned to that room as well.
In the room, other than the two new disciples, there was another person.
The moment she opened the door and entered the room, Ye Qingtang saw an aloof figure sitting at a table alone. Even when she and Su Wan entered the room, that girl had not looked up at all.
“Su Wan greets Senior Sister.” The gentle Su Wan was very sensible and stepped forward to greet the girl obediently when she saw the girl sitting there.
That girl was tall and had sharp features but exuded detachment and indifference. When she heard Su Wan’s voice, she merely took a look perfunctorily without replying a single word.
Su Wan’s expression turned a little ugly, but she smartly did not show anything on her face. She walked to an empty bed at a side and unpacked her luggage a little.
Ye Qingtang’s gaze swept over that aloof girl, but a yearning expression emerged in her eyes.
In her previous life, she was also allocated into this room, and there was not a change in the people in the room.
Su Wan was still Su Wan, and this aloof girl still remained there.
She was Lin Long. She had a green spirit root and was pretty talented. However, she was usually very silent and did not bother others at all. That time, Ye Qingtang stayed in this room for many years and only heard Lin Long say a few words in total.
Ye Qingtang originally did not have anything to do with Lin Long, but because Lin Long once stepped up to resolve Ye Qingtang’s predicament, Ye Qingtang remembered this favor.
“Ye Qingtang greets Senior Sister Lin,” Ye Qingtang stepped forward slowly and said with gratitude.
A word “Senior Sister Lin” made Lin Long, who was looking down, look up slightly at the stunning-looking girl in front of her.
“How do you know my name?” Lin Long’s cold voice rang.
“There is a ‘Lin’ sewed on Senior Sister Lin’s sleeve, so I took a bold guess.” Ye Qingtang smiled.
Lin Long looked down at the barely legible “Lin” word on the bamboo leaves image sewed on her sleeves. Her eyes glistened as she raised her head and took a look at Ye Qingtang, though her expression remained the same.
“Ye Qingtang? I’ll remember.”
Afterward, she continued looking at the book in her hand without wanting to say anymore.
Ye Qingtang had been used to Lin Long’s aloofness long ago and did not think much about it as she went to settle her own matters.
The rooms of Xuanling Sect’s disciples were relatively wide. Even if there were three people in a room, each person had their own individual space, and it did not seem crowded.
Ye Qingtang laid her bedsheets and sat by her bed, carrying the little lightning dragon which had been nested in her arms for a long time. The little figure seemed a little tired and laid in Ye Qingtang’s arms listlessly with its tiny head in Ye Qingtang’s palm.
Ye Qingtang realized that once the little lightning dragon turned into human form, it would become unusually frail. It was also the first time Ye Qingtang raised a lightning dragon, and she really could not understand what was going on with it.
Luckily, it did not have any other special reaction apart from being tired.
Only then was she put at ease.
After feeding the little lightning dragon a few spirit stones, Ye Qingtang started thinking about how to walk down the route in the sect.
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Chapter 129: Outer Sect Disciple (2)
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In her previous life, it was hard for Ye Qingtang to train in the sect. Even if she feigned a spirit root, she still did not have a spirit root in reality. Hence, it was especially difficult for her when she was cultivating in the sect. For a cultivation technique that others would be able to learn in a day or two, she would require over ten times the duration only to be able to barely compete with others.
Precisely because her cultivation was slow, she seemed exceptionally clumsy amongst all the disciples and suffered quite a lot.
But this time…
Everything was different.
The Black Heaven Water that Ye Qingtang required was within the sect’s mystic realm. Ye Qingtang knew of it quite late back then, and that item had already been obtained by an inner sect disciple. This time, she came at just the right time, and she would have to enter the inner sect as soon as possible if she wanted to obtain the Black Heaven Water.
And only by entering the inner sect would she obtain the sect’s highest-level martial techniques.
The outer sect was just a step of hers. She must think of a way to pass the inner sect assessment within a year; otherwise, she would have no fate with the Black Heaven Water! It would be even more difficult for her to recover from the loss of her spirit root and grow her new spirit root!
At the thought of this, Ye Qingtang was very motivated and had a clearer image of what she had to do next.
After a short rest, the newly-entered disciples had to gather outside to listen to allocations.
While Ye Qingtang just started preparing to leave, Su Wan had already left ahead of her.
Obviously, although Su Wan was not welcomed by Lin Long, she did not intend to interact with Ye Qingtang. To this, Ye Qingtang was not bothered at all.
At the public square in the outer sect, all the newly-entered disciples were gathered.
Ye Qingtang arrived a little later. Upon seeing Ye Qingtang, Yun Shu, who had already changed into Xuanling Sect’s uniform and was standing at the public square, could not help but show a gentle smile.
“Junior Sister Ye, you’re the only one left. Hurry up.”
Ye Qingtang chuckled and stood beside Yun Shu immediately.
The middle-aged man who was in charge of the assessment had left, and the person standing before Ye Qingtang and the rest was an outer sect elder.
Sects are divided into the inner sect and outer sect, with the disciples in the former being in a respectable place that outer sect disciples could not be compared to. Thus, the elders in charge of the outer sect were Xuanling Sect’s second-class elders.
One would not have any fate to meet the real elders from the four factions if they did not enter the inner sect.
The elder standing in front of them was donned in gray, and his both hands were behind his back. He looked over fifty years old and had a strict expression. Looking over the crowd, he frowned slightly when he saw Ye Qingtang, but did not say anything much. He simply said to the group of new disciples,
“After entering Xuanling Sect today, you all are no longer the same as those people outside. You must remember that you are a disciple of Xuanling Sect, and regardless of what you do, the sect’s honor must be placed as a priority. From today onwards, you will enter the outer sect’s Sword Faction to cultivate your swordsmanship. You are to listen to all the arrangements by the sect. If there’s anyone who dares to go against the sect’s rules, the person will be expelled from the sect and never be allowed in ever again.”
Ye Qingtang did not know whether it was real or not, but she kept feeling that the outer sect elder seemed to be looking at her when he mentioned the “sect’s honor.”
She touched the tip of her nose. It seemed that all the elders already knew that she passed the assessment with a red spirit root.
Indeed, in sects where orange spirit roots were already very rare, her only red spirit root was already unusually “eye-catching.”
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Chapter 130: Outer Sect Disciple (3)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Despite the fact that Ye Qingtang passed the three segments of the entrance assessment with flying colors, her red spirit root was still ultimately displeasing to all elders.
Very obviously, the elder from the outer sect’s Sword Faction did not think highly of Ye Qingtang, who had a red spirit root. Even if the elder did not show any extreme behavior, the casual look on his face already revealed his despise and belittlement.
Ye Qingtang had already expected this, as she experienced the same thing in her previous life as well.
However…
Having a red spirit root today did not mean she would have a red spirit root her entire life.
After admonishing the new disciples for a while, the elder from the outer sect Sword Faction informed them of the rules in the sect.
The sect would assign certain missions for disciples apart from cultivation. Upon completion of the missions, the disciples would obtain Xuanming points from the sect.
These Xuanming points had a special meaning in the sect. Not only could the disciples use the points to exchange for elixirs and martial technique scrolls, but it could also be used to exchange for the right to use the holy land for cultivation.
It could be said that the Xuanming points were equal to another type of currency within the sect.
It could bring even more opportunities for cultivation and benefits for all disciples.
Other than the assigned missions, one could also obtain the Xuanming points by heading to the Rewards Pavilion and completing any mission of their choice where points were rewarded correspondingly.
After he was done announcing the rules of the outer sect, the elder from the outer sect’s Sword Faction nodded at a disciple behind him.
That disciple went forward immediately. In his hands was a tray with dozens of small porcelain bottles placed in it.
Ye Qingtang’s eyes shone when she saw the porcelain bottles. At the same time, the elder said once again, “This is the Xi Spirit Pill. In the future, everyone will be given two bottles of the Xi Spirit Pill every month.”
Looks of happiness could be seen in the new disciples’ eyes when they heard the elder’s words.
The Xi Spirit Pill was a rather rare elixir which was extremely helpful for their cultivation. However, outside the sect, even royals had difficulty buying such an elixir. These kinds of elixirs could only be refined in sects, and the prescriptions were held in the hands of the Herbal Factions’ elders without circulating it outside.
If brought outside the sect, such a Xi Spirit Pill would still be in short supply even if it were to be sold for over thousands per pill.
Yet, in the sect, this was given to disciples monthly.
Two bottles of Xi Spirit Pill were enough for the new disciples to feel the distance between the sect and the outside world, and this was merely the most basic thing.
Those Xi Spirit Pills were quickly placed into the hands of the new disciples, and almost everyone held it exceptionally carefully.
Even for disciples from prominent backgrounds such as Lu Xiuwen and Yun Shu, they could not help but wear a happy expression when they saw the Xi Spirit Pills.
This was an item that normal people were unable to obtain.
Ye Qingtang’s lips tugged up as she looked at the Xi Spirit Pill. This item was really a good thing. The Xi Spirit Pills could help her in her cultivation and even nourish her newly-grown spirit root.
The Xi Spirit Pill had a strong spirit energy, and what her spirit root needed to grow was none other than spirit energy!
After handing out the Xi Spirit Pills, the elder left straight away without saying much.
In the outer sect, the elder would not teach the disciples martial arts directly. If they wanted to cultivate, they had to go to the Sword Faction Pavilion and listen to the lessons by the elders of the outer sect.
Just when everyone was excited over obtaining the Xi Spirit Pills, they did not notice a few devious pairs of eyes staring at the Xi Spirit Pills in their hands.
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