Among the nine large monk forces in the central part of the continent, the Yuling Sect is the largest, especially compared to its neighboring Dongxuan Sect, the number of disciples within its sect is nearly double.
Moreover, since Yulingzong's sphere of influence almost covers the north and south along the Hengduan Mountains, there are often too many uncertain factors in the areas under its jurisdiction.
Some are caused by monsters and beasts, and some are caused by the monks' bad intentions.
Located in a wilderness, conflicts between monks are always more likely to be triggered than in other places.
Therefore, the large number of disciples in a sect does not necessarily reflect its true strength, sometimes it is just a forced action.
Although the Yuling Sect has nearly twice as many disciples as the Dongxuan Sect, in terms of the cohesion of the disciples and the degree of belief in the sect, they are far from comparable to the latter.
This difference becomes obvious when the two sects recruit disciples. Dongxuan Sect recruits disciples strictly and needs to go through layers of screening. If there is anything that does not meet their sect requirements, they will never be allowed to enter the mountain gate.
The Yuling Sect is different. In terms of recruiting disciples, they are much more sparse. As long as they are sure that they have no alien intentions when entering the mountain, their cultivation talents meet the requirements of the sect, and they are monks with relatively innocent backgrounds, they will accept them.
For the children who come from monk families, the two sects have completely different practices.
In order to maintain the purity of the sect, Dongxuan Sect will not recruit family members, but a considerable number of members of the Yuling Sect are members of major monk families in its region.
Even to those relatively powerful monk families, the Yuling Sect would take the initiative to give them places as disciples in the mountain.
The source of disciples is too diverse, and it is difficult to guarantee the loyalty of disciples from a monk family.
Of course the Yuling Sect also knew this, they just had no choice but to do so.
The Yuling Sect's survival in the cultivation world in the central part of the mainland depends on the beast control method. To practice this way, their sect must be established in an area with the most abundant monster resources.
The most suitable area is naturally the Hengduan Mountains.
The way of heaven is fair, the cycle of all things, and the principles of abundance and lack are all contained in the underlying principles of heaven and earth.
Therefore, while the Yuling Sect enjoys the benefits brought by the Hengduan Mountains, it must also bear its disadvantages.
Due to the threat of monsters and beasts, the chaos in the region, and the various monk forces, the relationship is relatively tense due to the external environment, and large-scale conflicts are prone to break out.
These are the problems that the Yuling Sect has had to face for more than 100,000 years, and as long as their sect remains in the Hengduan Mountains, these problems will not be fundamentally solved.
The senior monks of the Yuling Sect discovered this problem a long time ago, so they believed that since they could not attack the root cause, they could only use some external means to alleviate the situation and make the sect tend to be peaceful and stable.
develop.
Among these many external means, there is no difference in teaching, and recruiting disciples is one of them.
Recruiting disciples from family cultivation forces is also one of them.
The former ensures that when the sect faces the huge number of monsters in the Hengduan Mountains, it can have a sufficient number of disciples for direct dispatch.
The latter is to ensure the unity of family forces within the entire sect's radiation area when encountering external conflicts.
There are a large number of family disciples in the sect. Although this cannot guarantee the cohesion of the entire sect, it is good that most of the family monks in the sect's influence area can be included in the same cause and effect.
In this way, perhaps the struggle between the monks' forces still exists, but if we encounter foreign objects that can threaten the Yuling Sect, relying on the cause and effect brought by countless disciples over millions of years,
It can still temporarily unite the forces of those family monks.
After all, every family has members who practice in the Yuling Sect. Maybe the clan members who are in power in the current generation were once disciples of the Yuling Sect.
The Yuling Sect used this method, relying on a long period of time and extremely complicated causal relationships, to tie those family forces and their own sect to the same rope to a certain extent.
Every glory is a blessing, every loss is a loss.
As for the various disadvantages caused by these two approaches, Yuling Sect will seek solutions from the sect management level.
For example, establishing an internal and external sect system within the sect and establishing a review system for core disciples.
Of course, although the existence of these two systems can solve many problems, flaws will inevitably appear over time. Therefore, when the expected problems do arise, such as disciples with different intentions and monks under their command rebelling,
sign.
At this time, Yuling Sect will take the most severe measures and directly use force to solve the problem.
In the long inheritance of Yuling Sect, almost every generation of people in power will have this mentality.
"No matter what, even if you don't recruit disciples or recruit family members, these small problems will still exist. Compared with other sects, such as Dongxuan Sect, the number of times your sect encounters them will become smaller.
A little more."
"Since there are too many, just use the simplest method to solve them."
A medium-sized monk force, or a monk force with insufficient foundation, may be affected by the chaos caused by a few disloyal disciples in the sect, causing it to suffer a major blow, and the most serious one may even be the disaster of annihilation of the sect.
But Yuling Sect won't. It has enough confidence and strength to solve these problems.
They believe that the Yuling Sect will always be more powerful than the family forces under its command and those disciples with different intentions, and it is an existence that cannot be shaken by the latter.
This is the strong self-confidence of a sect that has lasted for more than 100,000 years.
Moreover, a long period of time has proven that the Yuling Sect has indeed perfectly handled the conflict between teaching without distinction and the cohesion of the sect. Today, the Yuling Sect is even stronger than most of the past.
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The cause-and-effect entanglement of the Yuling Sect's recruitment of disciples is not limited to the sect's influence, but has also tentatively extended its reach further afield.
For example, every twenty years, the Yuling Sect will distribute a varying number of special tokens, regardless of who obtains the token or by what means.
As long as a monk brings him to the mountain gate of the Yuling Sect and passes the latter's preliminary test, he can become an outer disciple of the sect and enjoy the basic treatment of a disciple of the Yuling Sect.
Yuling Sect is a towering tree to all the monks in Chaoyang Continent, so this token is equivalent to an opportunity for practice for many people.
If you can enter the Yuling Sect, even though you are the outermost existence, the resources you may obtain in the future and the opportunities you may encounter for practice will be very different from before.
This is an excellent opportunity for those casual cultivators, cultivators of small cultivating forces, and cultivators who lack spiritual talent and cannot normally pass the test for recruiting disciples from the Yuling Sect.
The token that Li Changqing prepared for Li Yuheng was one of the tokens that the Yuling Sect had given out in the last twenty years.
When Li Xuangang said that he could enter with Li Yuheng's qualifications, he did not mean that he could enter the mountain gate of Yuling Sect, but that the latter could quickly enter the sight of Yuling Sect.
After all, in Yuling Sect's huge sect system, outer disciples are divided into different levels, and disciples at different levels naturally enjoy different training resources and access to different sect affairs.
If Li Yuheng's status can be promoted quickly, the purpose of fifth uncle Li Changqing's sending them here this time will undoubtedly be better carried out.
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All affairs in the Jieyuan space have not changed much from when Li Xuangang left last time, except that the growth of the Golden Source Fruit in the Lingtian is more gratifying.
This shows that Zhengda is becoming more and more skilled in taking care of spiritual plants.
Outside the cave under the rock wall, under the peach tree, Li Xuangang sat quietly, with Zheng Da standing beside him.
He raised his head slightly and saw that the peach tree in his eyes was in bloom, with clusters of pink dotted between the branches and more than ten jade bees lingering among them.
The transparent wings flapped loudly, bringing some noise to Li Xuangang's ears.
These sounds are not annoying.
After watching for a while, he lowered his gaze and looked at the large piece of flat land in front of him.
The Golden Source Fruit grows regularly in the spiritual field, reflecting a faint golden light.
Not far from the spiritual field, there are three green Juyuan bamboos.
As he breathed in and out, he seemed to be able to see ripples of spiritual energy spreading out layer by layer around the three Yuan Yuan bamboos.
The concentration of spiritual energy in the space has not changed for a long time. Li Xuangang stretched out his right hand, then spread it out, using the tips of his fingers to feel everything in the space.
So in the next moment, the clear and moist spiritual energy entered his body along the front of his fingers.
What you enter along with it is the unique aura emitted by the various spiritual plants in the space. It is a kind of vitality that belongs exclusively to the spiritual plants.
"Has anything unusual happened recently to Zong Er?"
Li Xuangang suddenly asked, so Zhengda subconsciously glanced into the cave behind him, and then answered:
"Your Majesty, there have been no other abnormalities recently, but the spiritual energy has fluctuated a bit more violently. I was worried that his aura would affect the group of Yuluo Peaks, so I moved him to the cave."
Li Xuangang nodded and did not ask any further questions.
It should take some time for Zhan Er to wake up, but I don’t know if his advancement this time is smooth enough.
Now just wait for it to wake up.
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The sky was overcast. There had just been a light rain, and a thin layer of mist rose from the mountains, and then covered the entire Shuangjiao City.
When Li Xuangang and Zheng Da appeared again, they were already not far outside Shuangjiao City.
Zheng Da acted like an ordinary monk, wearing a black robe, and followed Li Xuangang unhurriedly.
"This time, Fifth Uncle asked Yu Heng to go to Yuling Sect for two purposes."
"One of them is related to the two fifth-level dragons, but some of the sources of this purpose are not sure whether they are true or false, so it is very likely that it cannot be completed."
"The second is related to Yu Heng himself. Yu Heng's talent for cultivation is very strong. All the clansmen know this. But there is one thing that most clansmen don't know, and that is that Li Yuheng's talent in beast control is even more amazing.
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Li Xuangang walked slowly, walking through the crowd while constantly thinking about these things in his mind.
"I knew that the fifth uncle had some worries before. This move is both to pave the way for Yu Heng and to test him."
"I didn't say it, but Yu Heng was very thorough yesterday. He saw it more deeply than I did..."
Unknowingly, a smile suddenly appeared on Li Xuangang's lips.
He suddenly came back to his senses, and a word that Li Yuheng mentioned repeatedly yesterday lingered in his mind.
"Family faith..."
But before he could recall it carefully, his thoughts were interrupted by a commotion ahead, so he looked forward.
A huge city gate stood in front of him, with the three characters "Double Dragon City" towering on it, majestic and powerful.
Li Xuangang and Zheng Da stopped. The commotion at the city gate had nothing to do with them.
They all slightly raised their heads and looked at the giant thing in front of them, and their figures seemed a little small at this time.
"Let's go."
Li Xuangang spoke first and stepped towards the gate of Shuangjiao City, with Zheng Da following behind him.