After signing the contract with the Mingxin Sect, Zhang Zhixuan and his wife waited for ten years and returned to the territory of the Ziyang Sect with four Five Elements Spirit Fruits and six Chalcedony Golden Zhizhi.
In the past ten years, the sect used the six pieces of treasure to help develop spiritual objects, and finally cultivated five Zifu. Among them was Liu Guyan's close disciple Li Yunxiu. This child was a Tianlinggen monk and succeeded without using any spiritual objects.
The Zifu was opened.
Li Yunxiu is only eighty-three years old, and has successfully opened the Zifu. His progress in cultivation is already comparable to that of Qing Chan, and faster than Zhang Zhixuan. However, it may take hundreds of years for this child to really help.
With the current scale of Ziyang Sect, what can really change the situation of the sect requires a large number of golden elixirs or Nascent Soul masters.
In the past ten years, the Ziyang Sect has distributed a large amount of Foundation Establishment Pills and Ziyang Pills, and the number of monks in the Foundation Establishment Period has also increased by fifty or sixty. The gap has been filled by about one-tenth.
After ten years of training, Zhang Sihong, who lost his arm, has recovered from his injuries. Tang Fenglan and Lu Hongniang, whose Qi sea was broken, still have to wait fifty years.
Zhou Huayang was the most seriously injured, with half of his body cut off. Now he relies entirely on spiritual objects to survive. He may be completely reduced to a useless person and will not be able to fight with others for the rest of his life.
Wang Chengcheng and You Nianwei were injured in their dantian and needed a long time to cultivate themselves. It has been difficult for them to participate in sect battles in recent hundreds of years.
The Ziyang Sect originally had nineteen Golden Elixir monks, but four of them were killed in one battle, and six were seriously injured. As a result, the number of Golden Elixir monks is now stretched thin.
Even the other end of the teleportation array on Dafang Island couldn't find enough manpower.
Those who signed contracts with Shenshui Palace, Xuanyang Sect, and Red Flame Sect are all Yuanying monks. Once the Jindan who guards the teleportation array join forces to cause trouble, the teleportation array will not have any income.
In just ten years, the income from teleportation array points to Ziyang Sect has begun to plummet, which makes Zhang Zhixuan a little worried.
Fortunately, Wuwei Sect's Five Elements Fruit Tree is mature, and with four Five Elements Spirit Fruits, Ziyang Sect can also train some people who can use it.
There are four ninth-level cultivators from Ziyang Sect, Zhang Yunlan and Wang Jingcheng, who attacked the pill-forming bottleneck for the first time. Naturally, they did not succeed. However, Gu Yunpeng and Xiao Louting took the Five Elements Spirit Fruit for the second time, and their accumulation has been relatively strong.
The good deeds of these two people were not enough in the first place, but now in order to support them, the Yuan Ying of the sect donated generously and borrowed their good deeds to save them a lot of time.
Gu Yunpeng and Xiao Louting lived up to expectations, and both succeeded in forming elixirs in seclusion for two years.
The two of them had no time to stabilize their cultivation. Gu Yunpeng was sent by Zhang Zhixuan to guard the teleportation array on Dafang Island and monitor the accounts. Xiao Louting went to the Netherworld Eye to guard the Netherworld Cave together with Nie Xingyuan and Li Lingxiu.
The two of them formed elixirs, and Zhang Sihong also recovered from his injuries, finally alleviating some of the pressure.
However, there is still no one in Danxia Shanfang City and Jiangyang Chengfang City. Except for Tianchan Cave, Guiyuan Temple, and Qingyang Mountain, the three southern wilderness spiritual mountains, the more than ten fifth-level spiritual veins controlled by the sect are also not guarded by golden elixirs.
To fill this deficit, I am afraid it will take at least a few hundred years.
There was a war ten years ago, and the Ziyang Sect suffered heavy losses. Almost every monk in the mountain sect wore mourning.
There were white flags everywhere above the mountain gate, and countless people couldn't help but cry in their arms at night.
Three of Zhang Zhixuan's five remaining disciples were also killed in the battle, Wu Ruibao was ruined, and only Tang Yinsheng was left intact.
The five members of the sect, Yuanying, Qingchan, and Lingjun, have decided not to accept disciples.
Of the three remaining Nascent Souls, there were only two disciples of Zhang Zhixuan. Chen Yunfeng had even worse luck. Two of his three disciples died, leaving only one person. Although the three disciples of Liu Guyan were intact, Tang Fenglan
, You Nianwei has lost hope of attaining enlightenment, and only Li Yunxiu is left who can inherit the mantle of Ziyang Tianhuo Jue.
These three Nascent Soul Ancestors may all have lost their inheritance.
After Zhang Zhixuan and his wife returned, someone soon proposed to hold a disciple recruitment ceremony and select some of the disciples from the sect's foundation disciples for high-level monks to accept them as disciples.
Except for Qingchan and Lingjun, the remaining Nascent Souls of the Ziyang Sect are still relatively young and are barely of the same generation as the Jindan monks of the sect. Their main purpose of recruiting disciples is to pass on the Taoism.
Jindan and Zifu already have a foundation in cultivation, so the disciples recruited by the three Nascent Souls are all required to be in the foundation building stage, so that they can pass on the mantle and practice their most core spells.
Nascent Soul monks often retreat, often for more than ten or twenty years, and have no time to guide their disciples in every detail. A single oversight may lead the disciples to go astray, and it is really not suitable to teach monks who have no foundation.
Foundation-building monks already have a foundation and are very familiar with the common sense and taboos in the world of immortality. They do not need to be taught from scratch. They are most suitable for Nascent Soul monks to recruit disciples.
The sect selected disciples this time not only to pass on the Taoist tradition, but also to reward merits. It included some of the most promising monks into the core of the sect and used the master-disciple relationship to firmly bind them.
Although most of the war pensions were distributed, the sect's rewards were only distributed for good deeds.
This war has emptied the sect's treasury. Except for the unrestricted martial arts books, there are not many precious spiritual items in the treasury. Even if there are enough good deeds, it will be useless if they cannot be exchanged for spiritual items.
It will take at least several decades to alleviate this situation.
To become a disciple of a high-level monk, you will undoubtedly have a good background. At least when you are breaking through the realm, there will be people in the upper echelons of the sect who can speak for you, and you will not be bullied by others.
Moreover, if you have a high-level monk as your master, you will have someone to support you on your journey.
High-level monks recruiting more disciples can calm people's hearts and be good for the stability of the sect.
The matter of recruiting disciples was completely left to the director of the Chuan Gong Hall, who selected 160 people from the more than 2,000 foundation-building monks in the sect.
These one hundred and sixty people are all of good origin, and three generations of their ancestors are from this hometown. They are all under a hundred years old, and their spiritual roots are at least three spiritual roots. They have some prospects in practice. In the war ten years ago, these people
They have all withstood the test and achieved some military exploits.
To be able to survive the brutal war, their luck is quite good.
These one hundred and sixty foundation-building monks are actually the core of Ziyang Sect in the future.
From these one hundred and sixty disciples, Zhang Zhixuan selected two people to become his disciples.
The older one has an upright appearance, and his name is Xu Ziyun. He doesn't look young, he is already ninety-eight years old, and has just reached the sixth level of cultivation. A disciple with a stable personality like this doesn't need his master to worry about him most of the time.
The younger one is sixty-seven years old, his name is Liu Zhonghong. He has a fire-wood spiritual root. He took Ziyang Pill to successfully build the foundation before he was forty years old. His cultivation level has also reached the fifth level of foundation building, and he is about to catch up with his senior brother.
, looks more promising.
These two disciples, Zhang Zhixuan, are planning to let them practice the Chunyang Book to see if they can pass on the Taoism.
After accepting these two disciples, Zhang Zhixuan immediately began to explain the Chunyang Book to them while there was still some time to familiarize them with this technique.
It is very difficult for a monk to seek the Tao. Even with the support of teachers in the Nascent Soul stage, not everyone has a future.
Zhang Zhixuan accepted ten disciples in his early years, and only one Tang Yinsheng had the chance to become enlightened. Only one Jia Mengzhen could die of old age on his bed. Seven of the remaining eight disciples died. Although Wu Ruizhen saved his life.
, but the road was cut off.
Zhang Zhixuan was favored by God and always spared no effort in supporting his disciples.
Among his ten disciples, except for Feng Jizong, Lu Linghao, He Zhongxing, and Jia Mengzhen in the early years, the remaining six successfully opened the Zifu with his support.
It's a pity that even after opening up the Purple Mansion, the road to cultivation is still full of thorns. Four of the six disciples are still dead. The core factor why they have reached this point is lack of opportunities.