Chapter 46: Outer Door, Inner Door
On this day, Yan Liang told Ning Shaoyang about the living conditions of some outer disciples in Tahao Clan.
After those outer disciples entered the sect through layers of selection, all they had was thin spiritual energy and a few basic cultivation techniques.
The outer sect also has a Sutra Collection Hall, which contains many exercises and spells, all of which were collected by the Taihao sect from outside. They are not authentic Kung Fu books. Outer sect disciples can watch them, but they have to give spirit stones.
There are also some elixirs in the outer sect that are helpful for cultivation. If you want to obtain them, you also need spirit stones.
The sect will not issue spiritual stones to outer disciples. If you want to obtain spiritual stones, you need to exchange them with gold and silver.
One thousand taels of silver can only be exchanged for a low-grade spiritual stone.
Children from rich families are better off, but some from poor families simply cannot afford it.
Yan Liang came from a poor family. When the Taihao Sect was recruiting disciples, he became an outer disciple of the sect because his cultivation aptitude was acceptable.
But after entering the sect, he had nothing, knew no one, and had no one to help him.
During the period when Qi was introduced into the body, I endured the torture of headache for a long time and endured it.
After entering the realm of Qi training, while practicing, you will help those disciples from wealthy families in exchange for spiritual stones and obtain some training resources.
He did not tell Ning Shaoyang in detail what kind of "help" he meant, but looking at his face, it was a past that he could not bear to look back on.
Later, after accumulating a little bit of mana, I started to learn how to make talismans and exchanged some relatively low-level talismans for spiritual stones.
Later, he learned the art of sword control, and went with some disciples from similarly ordinary families to the barren mountains and ridges to collect elixirs, and captured wild beasts and even low-level monsters in exchange for the source of cultivation.
Earning spiritual stones is faster, but more dangerous.
"There were more than a dozen people who often went out with me. I watched them die with my own eyes. That was trading their lives for a future. Some people did it, and some people died without success."
When talking about these things, Yan Liang's face showed sadness that could not be concealed, and there was also a hint of unwillingness.
Ning Shaoyang was in a daze for a moment.
He felt that his life was already very difficult, but he did not expect that there were many people whose lives were even more difficult than his. In comparison, he was still lucky.
At least, when he enters this sect, he is an inner disciple and gets fifty spiritual stones and a bottle of Bigu Pill every month.
Although it's not that sufficient, at least you won't have to worry about not having the resources to practice.
He knew very well that taking Yishen Pills would help his cultivation.
Without this thing, his cultivation speed would be delayed by at least one or two years.
What he can receive every month, for some outer disciples, needs to be exchanged for life.
Some disciples even lost their lives just like that.
This road is really difficult to walk.
Yan Liang said with emotion: "I have seen many outstanding talents fail to survive this test and shine their due glory, and died early on the road. I am just a lucky person who survived.
After surviving in the outer sect for more than ten years, I finally entered the foundation-building realm and became an inner disciple of the sect. However, I cannot be considered as surviving, I can only say that I survived."
According to the rules of Taihao Sect, if an outer sect disciple has not entered the foundation-building realm after 20 years of entry and becomes an inner sect disciple, he must leave the sect.
Even if you enter the foundation-building realm after this period, you will no longer be eligible to become an inner disciple. Instead, you can apply to the sect for the position of city lord.
Yan Liang was quite lucky. It only took him more than ten years to reach the foundation-building realm and became an inner disciple of the Taihao Sect.
After becoming an inner disciple, my salary was much better, I became a disciple, and finally I had someone to guide me.
However, the inner disciple's monthly benefits of fifty yuan of low-grade spiritual stones could not meet his training needs as a foundation-building monk.
Still have to find other ways to exchange for spiritual stones.
He also learned to make talismans, or followed some of his fellow disciples to fight more powerful monsters.
During this period, he also witnessed the deaths of some of his fellow disciples.
After another forty or fifty years, he finally became a golden elixir monk.
"If I could enter the Golden Core Realm more than ten years earlier, I could become an elite disciple of the sect and have the benefit of a thousand spiritual stones a month. Unfortunately, it is more than ten years late and I am still just an ordinary inner sect disciple.
disciple."
Yan Liang said to Ning Shaoyang with a wry smile.
If you form an elixir within fifty years of entering the sect, you can become an elite disciple of the sect, receive key training from the sect, and receive completely different treatment.
But he was more than ten years late.
Being more than ten years late means that the potential is not that strong and it is not worth the sect spending more resources to cultivate.
If he didn't learn those miscellaneous things, he could save more than ten years of training time.
However, if he doesn't learn those miscellaneous things, he will have no way to exchange for more spiritual stones and obtain more cultivation resources. The greater possibility is that he will never be able to enter the golden elixir realm in this life.
Most of the disciples of Taihao Sect came step by step from the outer disciples, including the current leaders of the sect.
There are some inner disciples who have become inner disciples of the sect since birth and can enjoy the treatment of inner disciples of the sect. However, although this class consumes a lot of resources of the sect, not many talents come out.
Those people are called privileged people in the sect and are the objects of resentment among many sect disciples.
When Ning Shaoyang heard Yan Liang talking about this, he realized that he had become the target of others' disgust for no reason, and he felt a little embarrassed.
At the same time, there are also some grievances.
He had been in the sect for a few months, and he didn't feel that he had any privileges.
However, he had to admit that compared to those outer disciples, he was still much luckier.
He heard Yan Liang mention that the current leaders of the sect basically climbed up the ranks step by step from outer disciples, and he couldn't help but have some doubts:
"Since they have also suffered those hardships, why didn't they cut off the treatment of those privileged disciples and transfer it to the outer disciples after taking power?"
Yan Liang glanced at him and laughed: "Junior brother Ning, you are still too naive to have such thoughts."
"Isn't it supposed to be like this?" Ning Shaoyang said, "I have suffered unfairly, why not make this sect more just?"
Yan Liang retorted:
Chapter completed!