At the Tiansheng Sect's mountain gate, in Lin Xiao's cave, three disciples paid homage to Lin Xiao. The apprenticeship ceremony had already been held. It was very simple, just witnessed by a few senior officials. After that, Lin Xiao was busy for a while, and now they got to know each other again.
"Okay, the three of you are my disciples. Let's rank them by age. Yuan Ruoyun is the second senior brother, Yu Tianxiang is the third senior sister, Jia Mengran is the junior junior brother, and Li Muxue is your senior sister. Do you have any objections?"
"Follow Master's Orders"
"Okay, we are destined to have a master-student relationship in this life. Our master-student relationship is different from the one you had with your teacher in the academy before, and it is also different from Yu Tianxiang following Bai Xixi in refining alchemy. It is a life and death relationship. It is a day-to-day relationship.
As a teacher, you will be a father for life. From now on, we will both be prosperous and suffer losses. You should think about this."
"We are willing to follow Master forever"
"Okay, since you have joined my sect, you must strictly abide by my rules. As my disciple, Lin Xiao, you must have perseverance, hard work, courage, and loyalty that are beyond ordinary people. At the same time, you must have both ability and political integrity.
Your skills, vision, and mind must be more powerful than ordinary people, and you must also have noble sentiments. The sect rules are only the most basic rules. In addition, I want you to abide by more than a dozen rules such as not bullying the weak and killing people and grabbing treasures.
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Only by doing this, you will be my qualified disciple, Lin Xiao, and you will be qualified to enjoy all the conveniences I provide you."
"The disciple is willing to be a monk with both ability and political integrity."
"Very good, there will be punishment. I hope you will be of the same mind and remember my words. These are the apprenticeship gifts I give you. From today on, within one year, you will follow me. I will guide you in your cultivation, and also
I will teach you how to manage and run a sect, and more importantly, I will change your perspective and let you know how to solve and think when you encounter difficulties."
Lin Xiao nodded. So far, the performance of the three disciples was extremely good. However, in Lin Xiao's view, this was far from enough. The focus was on thinking. Lin Xiao wanted to hand over some of the ways of thinking from his previous life to them.
Lin Xiao immediately gave them a apprenticeship gift, and at the same time told them that they did not have to worry about the benefits of becoming a master, such as martial arts, martial arts, elixirs, and magical weapons before Zi Mansion. Lin Xiao would personally help them in the name of the master.
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That night, the three of them moved into Lin Xiao's cave. Lin Xiao's cave has been expanded several times and now covers thousands of square meters. In addition to the living room and study room, there are also storage rooms, spiritual beast rooms, and guest rooms.
There is even a small spiritual field in the alchemy room and other places. This is also the place where Tiansheng Sect's profound energy is most abundant.
Starting from the next day, the three of them followed Lin Xiao. Wherever Lin Xiao went, they all went. Lin Xiao took them to inspect the sect and deal with the sect's affairs. Not only did they let them see how Lin Xiao dealt with those
of things.
Lin Xiao will also tell them why they should do this, what are the benefits, significance, and impact of doing so, and look at these issues dialectically.
If a decision is wrong, how to make amends, how to recognize one's own mistakes, how to summarize, etc. The three of them have a lot to learn, and Lin Xiao's teaching method is also an eye-opener for them.
Not to mention the guidance on cultivation, Lin Xiao is already a monk on the third level of Daogang. What he has seen and experienced over the years is more than the three of them can match. Guidance is more than enough for them. With Lin Xiao’s guidance
Next, the three of them have made great progress.
One year passed quickly, and Lin Xiao began to retreat. However, Lin Xiao could no longer retreat as he pleased before. The situation in Chen State and White Jade City would change at any time, and he had to remain vigilant enough.
Therefore, Lin Xiao adopted an indirect retreat method, retreating for three years, leaving the retreat for one year, and then retreating again. If the situation is unstable when leaving the retreat, then continue watching.
When he came out of seclusion for the second time, Lin Xiao sent Bai Xixi to seclusion. She had been polished and settled. It took a full eight years, much longer than Lin Xiao and Li Muxue. In addition to giving her Dao Ji Dan, Lin Xiao also
Give her a fragment of the Law of Heaven.
It wasn't that Lin Xiao didn't want to give it, but that he couldn't afford it. These two things cost Lin Xiao fifteen thousand points. Before that, Lin Xiao had just upgraded the mountain gate's mountain protection formation.
After upgrading to the fourth level of low-grade products, many precious elixirs in the elixir garden were given a shorter maturation time, which cost a lot of points.
Nowadays, Lin Xiao's point consumption is getting bigger and bigger. The points brought by the hundreds of new disciples who have joined over the years have been used up. After providing Bai Xixi with those resources, Lin Xiao's point balance is only more than 9,000, which is not enough to continue.
Even if it were a fragment of the Law of Heaven, it would be lower than the critical point of danger that Lin Xiao expected. You should know that Lin Xiao felt very insecure if he didn't have more than 15,000 points.
Moreover, Bai Zichen also raised his cultivation level to the twelfth level of Zi Mansion not long ago. Bai Zichen estimates that it will only take five years to raise his cultivation level to the twelfth level, and ten years of hard work will be enough. Fifteen years later, he will also
Needing to break through Daogang, Lin Xiao faced a huge points gap.
So Lin Xiao has already begun to think about the system branch mission. Although the assassin does not have the strength to disintegrate, there is still some hope for finding items that are not entered in the system. He has notified Bai Zihua to try to collect some strange things and come back.
What if you get lucky?
Bai Xixi's breakthrough required a huge amount of profound energy, so Lin Xiao did not go into seclusion anymore, but continued to sit at the mountain gate and protect Bai Xixi.
However, within a few months, bad news came from Tianhai Sect. Tang Daoyou, the actual controller of Tianhai Sect, passed away. This result made Lin Xiao a little confused. Lin Xiao remembered that Tang Daoyou should have decades of life left, so he questioned him carefully.
It was only later that I found out that Tianhai Sect had not obtained Dao Ji Dan, and even the Xuanhuang Baoyu had been bought at a huge price to help fellow Taoist Tang break through to the Dao Gang stage. However, he failed and died on the spot.
This result was very regrettable. Lin Xiao personally went to Tianhaimen to express his condolences. Danyang Sect and other sects also sent people to express their condolences. Among them were Pan Xing from Danyang Sect and Mo Daoyou from Hongshan Sect. They were also ten years old in Zifu.
The second floor has been on the second floor for many years, and it has been polished and precipitated for many years. It is only a matter of time before it reaches Daogang, but it is this small gap that makes them unable to move forward or retreat.
"Old Tang is already one hundred and seventy years old. His body has suffered a lot of injuries in previous wars. It is difficult for his lifespan to exceed 200, so he can only take a chance. It is a pity."
"Fellow Daoist Mo, my condolences, please don't let your mind wander."
"Master Lin, there's nothing I can't think about. I'm almost there. Maybe I'll try to pass the test in a few years. The longer time passes, the less courage I have. I don't want to sit on the bed. Maybe I'll die while trying to pass the test.
The journey is also a kind of luck.”
Fellow Daoist Mo laughed miserably. He was about the same age as Old Tang, and he didn't have much time left to live. If he didn't rush, he wouldn't have the courage to rush through.
"I'm sorry, Fellow Daoist Mo, I broke my promise."
"Master Lin, you don't have to be like this. Dao Ji Dan is hard to come by. If you can't get it, it's because I don't have enough opportunities."
Fellow Daoist Mo shook his head. How could strategic materials like Dao Ji Dan be easily traded? Even if one of his own people doesn't need them now, he should keep them, unless they are so abundant that they can be used casually. Therefore, the previous agreement was just a joke. No one can
Not really taking it seriously.
Lin Xiao didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only wait silently. After the death of fellow Taoist Tang, there was no chaos in Tianhaimen. He had arranged everything before retreating, and his rights were smoothly transferred to a purple man named Zhao Minghai.
It was in the hands of the monks on the twelfth floor of the mansion.
Zhao Minghai is a relative of Zhao Lun, the head of the Tianhai Sect. His ancestors have been immortal cultivators for several generations, so he has excellent qualifications. Coupled with the support of the Zhao family, he has already reached the twelfth level of the Zi Mansion at the age of one hundred and thirty, which is considered a heavenly level.
He is the number one genius in Haimen, and he has more time to break through the Daogang stage.
In fact, Danyang Sect, Tianhai Sect and Hongshan Sect all have a tendency to become familial, and have been divided into many factions internally. They have not set up clans and families outside the sect, but there are still shadows of aristocratic families within the sect, and the outstanding people in the family
The younger generation has better bloodline qualifications, more abundant resources, and is more diligent with good education, so they can quickly leave behind those disciples who were born as mortals.
For example, within the Danyang Sect, Wang Dao's relatives and descendants, including Liu Yunfeng's Liu family, were all powerful in the sect. Not only did they have a large number of people, but they also had many Zifu monks who controlled real power in the sect.
There are advantages and disadvantages to turning the sect into a family. The advantage is that it can quickly improve its strength. It is precisely because of the emergence of these outstanding disciples that the sect can become more prosperous. The disadvantage is that family disciples often put the interests of the family first.
Gradually empty the sect and solidify the class.
Therefore, how to control this degree depends on the management level of the sect leaders. As many disciples of Tiansheng Sect get married and have children, these signs have begun to appear, but there is still a long way to go before becoming a family. Lin Xiao also firmly believes that,
As long as he suppresses it, family conflicts will not break out.
Wang Dao also came to express his condolences, but did not appear in public. After Lin Xiao sensed him, the two talked outside the mountain gate.
"Your Tiansheng Sect has now surpassed Danyang Sect. Before, you would have been the overlord of Tianyun State."
"Does Fellow Daoist Wang know?"
"If you don't know that your apprentice has become a fourth-level alchemist, then you are looking down on our Danyang Sect."
"I'm sorry, I broke my promise, but Dao Ji Dan is really too expensive, and it's hard for me to come up with more."
"Master Lin, don't be ridiculous. Even if you have it, you won't show it. This is true. If it were me, I wouldn't do it either. You and I are both people who control the same sect. Everything must be in the interests of the sect."
"Thank you Daoyou Wang for your understanding."
"Lin Xiao, Lang Dao and I don't have much time left. We probably won't have a chance to break through the spiritual light stage in this life. Leng Ning will be unable to survive alone. I hope you can help me then."
"Fellow Daoist Wang, it's not like this."
"I am four hundred and two years old this year, and Langdao is more than ten years older than me. I am only at the tenth level of Daogang. It took thirty years to get from the ninth to the tenth level. The bottleneck has appeared. I have no time. Langdao is about the same."
Wang Dao shook his head. It would be extremely difficult for him not to improve at all. He didn't know if he could reach the twelfth level in eighty years. Don't think about breakthroughs. Once they die, the power of Danyang Sect will be very weak.