"There is a ban on spreading swordsmanship. If my senior brother can learn swordsmanship, he must be a disciple of a certain uncle. And if the uncle accepts such a monster, there is no way he will not bring it back to the sect."
"But senior brother didn't come to the sect, and uncle didn't come back either. Something unexpected must have happened during this period, which prevented senior brother from returning. It's even possible that senior brother just learned the swordsmanship and didn't know about the existence of the sect."
During his travels, Li Qilin had never heard anyone mention the Sword Control Sect, and he personally experienced the sect's extremely low popularity.
Whether it is to strengthen the sect, or to raise the profile to attract the attention of his senior brothers and return, Li Qilin must first strengthen the sect.
When the sect wanted someone, Li Qilin would recruit him.
People couldn't learn the art of sword control, so Li Qilin created a simplified version of it.
Every step he took was to live up to his master Feng Ze's instructions.
The seven or eight townships were still surrounding Li Qilin. Li Qilin dealt with them one by one and tried to lead the topic to registering to join the sect.
Although he regarded these people as white mice, he had no bad intentions.
It would take him a year to practice this simplified version of sword control, but the villagers were all practitioners. Even if their qualifications were poor, it would not take them more than twenty years to learn it.
Twenty years is equal to half a life for ordinary people, but for cultivators, it is not a long time.
Moreover, even if they really can't learn it, these twenty years are not wasted. They will improve after practicing, and they can strengthen their bodies no matter how bad they are.
Therefore, although Li Qilin deceived people, it was beneficial and harmless to the villagers.
Li Qilin took the villagers back to the inner hall and prepared to register to join the sect.
A voice came with spiritual power, covering the entire Sword Control Sect.
"Tianyan Sect has established a new sword-controlling peak, and has made an exception to expand the number of disciples. Anyone who can control spiritual power can join the sect, and practitioners who have been eliminated before can also take a second assessment."
The Tianyan Sect is recruiting people, and they are even recruiting people from the Sword Control Sect’s mountain gate.
Li Qilin only heard that the newly built hilltop of Tianyan Sect was called "Yujian Peak", so he knew who was coming.
Not all of Li Qilin's masters and uncles were traveling to recruit disciples for the sect; there were also traitors among them.
Rong Ma, Li Qilin's former junior uncle, defected to Tianyan Sect.
Not everyone is willing to guard a broken gate until death. Money, status and fame are all reasons for betrayal.
The strength of the disciples of the Sword Control Sect is extremely disproportionate to their status.
For example, a super genius like Li Qilin is only the same generation as Qin Shuo and Bai Panpan, but he is already at the peak of the Transcendence Realm, and has even begun to impact the next stage of the Taoist Realm.
If Li Qilin was not in the Sword Control Sect, but in another more famous sect, his name would have been known to the world, and the benefits brought by his fame would be immeasurable.
But he was in the Sword Control Sect, so not only was his name unknown, but even mending the floors and walls required him to do the chores himself.
Li Qilin has a very high level of consciousness and practices hard. If he doesn’t endure hardship, how can he cultivate?
But Rong Ma was different. He was born as a poor boy and was brought into the sect by his master. He started practicing since he was a child. He never left the sect until he was over a thousand years old, and he had never seen the colorful world outside.
After the master passed away, Rong Ma's sword control skills also broke through to sixty-six and thirty-six swords. He inherited the master's mantle and went out to look for disciples, but he was suddenly lost in the feasting and feasting.
His cultivation brought him great benefits, and the praise from others also made him feel elated. He gradually felt that he could get better, guarding the Sword Controlling Sect, and running for the sect all his life, but there was no benefit.
He didn't even formally leave the Sword Control Sect before he took Master Yi Tou to the Tianyan Sect.
Rong Ma was able to wield thirty-six swords, so his aptitude was naturally extremely high. He was quickly appreciated by the Tianyan Sect and rose to a position equivalent to the leader of the Fox Clan, becoming the peak master of a sword peak.
But when he reached the position of peak master, Rong Ma's opponents became other peak masters. His qualifications were no longer outstanding, and he felt the pressure from other sword peaks.
If he only relied on the Taoism learned from Tianyan Sect, he would not be able to gain a foothold in Tianyan Sect.
He betrayed the Sword Controller Sect, but in the end, he could rely on the Sword Controller Sect.
Sword-controlling is known as the best swordsmanship in the world, and it's not for nothing. In a peer-to-peer competition, even Jianfeng, the strongest swordsman in the Tianyan Sect, was overwhelmed by Rong Ma.
Gradually, voices of doubt arose, and Rong Ma used other sects of swordsmanship to overwhelm the Tianyan Sect. Not only did this not bring glory to the family, it also slapped the Tianyan Sect in the face.
Rong Ma's shameless journey began. He actually declared to the outside world that the swordsmanship was originally the swordsmanship of Tianyan Sect. Because the secret book was stolen and exiled, it was lost in Tianyan Sect.
Such a lie could have been exposed at once, but the current head of the Tianyan Sect actually adopted a tacit attitude towards it.
Rong Ma smiled, this was what he expected, and he was accepted into the Tianyan Sect and his status rose rapidly. This also meant that the sect leader induced and forced him.
The conflict between the three major sects of the Dao Sect is no less than the overt and covert struggle between the four demon clans.
However, the Taoist sect's swordsmanship and the best swordsmanship in the world are not among the three major sects of the Taoist sect, which makes the three major sects somewhat unworthy of their reputation.
The purpose of Tianyan Sect's taking in Ma is to collect swordsmanship. Swordsmanship is recognized as the lost swordsmanship of Tianyan Sect. If Tianyan Sect possesses the best swordsmanship in the world, its reputation will rise again.
The other peak masters of Tianyan Sect also vaguely guessed what the sect leader meant, and their doubts about Rong Ma were suppressed.
Rong Ma was raised to the position of peak leader at the top, and he also needed to stabilize his position.
The foundation of his status comes from the skill of sword control, so he needs the skill of sword control.
And he wants to master swordsmanship, not just in name.
He only mastered the thirty-six swords. The highest sword-controlling skill of the Sword Controlling Sect was the sixty-four swords left by Feng Ze.
He can simply and easily convince Tianyan Sect to make sword control the swordsmanship of Tianyan Sect.
He can even easily deceive the people in the world, because most of the people in the world have never even heard of the Sword Controlling Sect.
But Rong Ma couldn't deceive the other two major sects, nor could he deceive the Sword Controlling Sect itself. If he wanted to solidify his position, he had to at least surpass the entire Sword Controlling Sect in terms of sword control skills.
Rong Ma is the youngest among Li Qilin’s masters, but he is also thousands of years old.
And his senior brothers and sisters are very different from his age, and more than half of them have even passed away.
Senior brothers and sisters have upheld the tradition of the Sword Control Sect. They have been looking for disciples for many years, and it only takes hundreds of years to bring back one or two disciples.
Some senior brothers and sisters died outside, and some heard that they went to other worlds. In short, under normal circumstances, it is extremely difficult to contact the disciples who stayed behind in the Sword Control Sect.
The people left behind in the Sword Control Sect now are all disciples of Li Qilin's generation, and their number is less than twenty.