Qi Yuan had some small thoughts running through his mind, but his face remained calm.
He looked at Qi Yi and Deng Chanyu and said: "I will give you a list later. When you are traveling, go and test the children on this list to see if they are suitable to join our Emei Sword Sect.
Is it suitable for practicing swordsmanship?"
Qi Yi and Deng Chanyu hurriedly agreed, but smiled bitterly in their hearts. It seems that the master's request for them to travel was a lie, and recruiting disciples was the real thing!
It's just that there is no other way. Who made them disciples? If they don't do this errands, who will do it?
Qi Yuan turned a blind eye to the expressions on the two apprentices' faces.
In fact, the gods under the command of the Kitchen God who guarded various places provided him with lists of children with outstanding qualifications. He had already divided his mind and roughly observed them through those people's stoves for some time.
Because we were only observing these hundreds of families, it was relatively simple. It took a few days to eliminate a large number of children with average qualifications, and only the remaining thirty or fifty children were initially approved by him.
It's just that whether these children are suitable to practice swordsmanship under his disciples still needs to be tested.
Of course, he didn't want to do these trivial matters himself, as it would be a waste of time, so he planned to send these two apprentices.
It is said that if the master has something to do, the disciple should do his work, but if there is a disciple who doesn't need it, he still has to do everything himself. Isn't it too stupid?
Qi Yuan looked at the two apprentices with a smile on his face.
Although it is a bit hard to go to various parts of the human race to test dozens of children at once, once those disciples come to Mount Emei, it will be even harder for them... to work together!
In the next ten years or so, they will not only have to go all over the world to help recruit disciples, but also help him teach these new disciples after returning to the mountain.
As for traveling?
Haha, it just sounds nice to say it. In fact, Qi Yuan sent them down the mountain just to bring back the children he selected.
So their so-called travel was just running errands here and there. In a way, it was a different kind of travel.
And as there are more and more disciples in the future, they will definitely have to work harder in recent years.
Unless you wait until the first batch of disciples have achieved some success in their cultivation, you can share the pressure with them.
However, although this will make them feel hard, it will also exercise their abilities. Whether it is a test or when bringing those children back to the mountain, they need to be very patient.
In particular, some children are unwilling to leave their parents and families because of their young age. How to persuade these children and how to gain the approval of the elders of their families require them to have a keen understanding of the world and sophisticated human feelings.
However, if those children or family members are really reluctant to be separated and do not want to go to the mountains to practice, Qi Yuan does not force them. He specifically tells Qi Yi and the others that forcefulness is not sweet, and there is no need to force those who insist on not wanting to practice.
Recruiting a disciple trains their ability to deal with people. After returning to the mountain, they have to help teach the disciples and manage the sect. There will definitely be more tedious things.
However, there is no harm in exposing them to these matters as early as possible. After all, as his cultivation level improves in the future, Qi Yuan will gradually delegate power and spend more time on cultivation. At that time, Qi Yi and the others will still need to be allowed to manage the mountain gate.
And now is the best time to strengthen the Emei Sword Sect.
Now the other forces cannot care about them and will not compete with them for apprentices.
The Supreme Saint of the Human Sect has gone to heaven, and naturally his only disciple, the Great Master Xuandu, has to accompany him. The Supreme Saint only has a clone left in the heaven.
But even if he is a clone, Taishang Laojun cannot recruit as many disciples as Qi Yuan does.
According to Qi Yuan's estimation, the most that Taishang Laojun can do now is to accept Yin Xi, who is guarding Hangu Pass, as his disciple.
In the future, he may recruit a few more disciples one after another, but with such a small number of people, it is impossible to carry forward the Shangqing lineage in a short period of time.
However, Taishang has always had far-reaching plans. Although he seems to be quiet and inactive, as if he does not fight or compete, by the time others take notice, the momentum of Taiqing's lineage may have reached an extremely high level.
It's just that the layout also takes a long time to complete, so the Taiqing lineage is not a threat now.
As for Chanjiao, although they won the game of Jiejiao, they didn't gain much.
The deputy leader, Taoist Ran Deng, took four golden immortals and defected to the Western Sect directly. The remaining six golden immortals still need to spend time recovering from their injuries. After all, damaged Taoist foundations cannot be restored to their original state in a short time.
Therefore, the ones currently sent by Chanjiao to spread its branches are just ordinary disciples, and they alone cannot make much of a splash.
As for the other immortal cultivators who do not belong to the Sanqing sect, although they have their own inheritance of skills, they are far inferior to the inheritance of the Sanqing Taoist ancestors. It is basically impossible to compete with these sects for luck.
Therefore, Qi Yuan believes that the current gap period, when other sects have not yet begun to compete within the human race, is the best starting stage for him to develop and expand the Emei Sword Sect.
He wanted to lay the foundation of the Emei Sword Sect solid enough before all parties reacted, so that when Buddhism spreads eastward, it could occupy a place and compete with other sects for luck.
As for Western religions, the reason why there are no signs of spreading eastward is because the Great Tribulation of the Gods has just passed and Western religions are still in the process of integration.
After all, it was the two saints who forcibly converted the Jie Jiao disciples to join the Western Sect. Now that Yin Zhunti has gone to Tianwaitian, those Jie Jiao disciples will not obey the control of the Western Sect honestly. They definitely need a break-in.
process.
Of course, the more important thing is that Western religion currently lacks a strong figure who can suppress all parties.
Although the two saints, Jie Yin and Zhunti, left, they handed over the power of the Western Sect to the Taoist monk Ran Deng. They believed that by means of Ran Deng, they should be able to lead the Western Sect and lay a solid foundation for its future rise.
Taoist Ran Deng is still a Daluo Jinxian Taoist, and has not reached the quasi-sage level of enlightenment. Therefore, although he can be regarded as a powerful person, he does not have the strength to suppress all parties, so he does not dare to spread Western teachings easily.
to the east.
Otherwise, if someone slaps you in the face and drives you back and becomes a laughing stock, then you will need to spend more effort to spread your knowledge eastward.
This kind of thing is really possible.
Not to mention that the disciples of Jie Jiao were displeased with them, but the golden immortals of Chan Jiao were even more resentful towards Taoist Ran Deng.
After all, this old guy not only betrayed the Chan Cult, but also kidnapped several Golden Immortals and some of his disciples.
In addition, if the Western religion spreads eastward and involves a dispute over orthodoxy, I am afraid that the disciples of the Chan religion will not even need to take action, and those disciples of the Chan religion will rush towards each other and fight with each other.
Qi Yuan had this idea in mind, so he ordered the gods who guarded various places to pay attention to outstanding children in their respective jurisdictions. As long as they reported to them and were accepted into the Emei Sword Sect, they would all be rewarded.
If some people with extraordinary talents are discovered, such as Duan Leiguo Xiaoshan, they will be directly rewarded with magic weapons, elixirs, and magical powers.
In short, he is now taking advantage of this period to strengthen the Emei Sword Sect.
Although it will definitely take a lot of hard work in the early stages, it will cost him a lot of thought and a lot of resources to lead these children one by one to the path of spiritual practice.
But once it reaches a certain scale, old disciples can be allowed to lead new disciples, and it will naturally become much easier.
As for resources, he currently has no shortage of them.
Moreover, he has already planned to dispatch a group of spiritual chefs from the Kitchen God Division to go down to the realm to help him cook spiritual meals for the new disciples and speed up the cultivation of these disciples.
At the same time, you can also select some of these disciples who like to study food and specialize in learning spiritual cooking skills. Once the scale is established, there will be no need for the kitchen god division's spiritual chefs to help.
A few days later, Qi Yuan sent several apprentices down the mountain.
He himself leisurely talked with Yang Chan in the mountains every day about mysteries and Taoism, proving the mysteries of their respective Taoisms.
When we have time, we go to the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise together, and go to the pond to enjoy the night view. We spend our days very leisurely.
If he didn't need to teach Duan Lei, Guo Xiaoshan and others, he would definitely wish he could continue to get along with his junior sister like this.
The only pity is that the junior sister is a little shy, and before getting married, she only allowed him to hold his little hands. Once he dared to take any further actions, Yang Chan would immediately turn into a light and slip away, which made Qi Yuan feel very regretful.
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However, Duan Lei and Guo Xiaoshan have now begun to practice under his guidance.
The true essence that Duan Lei cultivated was extremely sharp. Not only was he extremely fast, but he was also able to cast spells at an astonishingly fast speed, so Qi Yuan planned to tailor-make a Taiyi light-splitting sword for him.
This sword combines wind and thunder, has endless changes, can divide thousands of sword lights, and is extremely powerful.
But this is just an ideal state.
Because there will be more and more apprentices in the future, Qi Yuan does not have the energy to refine powerful flying swords for all his apprentices, otherwise it will be too time-consuming.
Even if he sacrifices and refines an ordinary fairy sword, it will take a long time. Even if he does not practice himself and spends all his time refining fairy swords, he will not be able to refine a few swords in a year.
This is because he has the help of firewood, and he has a very advanced understanding of the way of swordsmanship, so he can refine several fairy swords within a year. If it were an immortal in the realm of heaven, he would want to refine one.
I'm afraid it will take several years or even longer to make the immortal weapon.
Therefore, Qi Yuan planned to sacrifice and refine the sword embryos for his disciples in the future, and let them use the true energy to nourish and refine the rest while they were practicing, and slowly add various Dao taboos to it.
In this way, although it may not be too powerful in the early stages, it is connected to their hearts and minds. They can use it like an arm and a finger, and they can use it as they wish. Unlike those flying swords that have been completed, it still takes a long time to slowly develop.
Feel it carefully and practice it for a long time before it becomes more comfortable.
Of course, except Lingbao.
If you get a flying sword with spirituality and take the initiative to recognize its owner, no matter how bad your cultivation level is, you can still exert extremely strong attack power in a short period of time.
However, refining Lingbao will be more difficult. Qi Yuan has not yet thought of spending a lot of time refining a Lingbao-level flying sword.
Anyway, he has the Yin and Yang Qi Immortal Sword to use, so there is no need to cause trouble to himself.
Unless your cultivation progress is slow in the future and you hit a bottleneck, you can refine some spiritual treasures to kill time.
Duan Lei's Taiyi Light Sword is more energy-consuming to refine, but Guo Xiaoshan's is much simpler.
This child has a simple heart and simple thoughts, and his external image is that he is very obedient.
Basically, he would do whatever Qi Yuan asked him to do, he would never compromise on his seriousness, and he would never say anything out loud no matter how hard and tired he was.
So Qi Yuan specially arranged a training mode for him based on his personality, and made him an epee.
This sword is more suitable to be described as a big iron block than a heavy sword.
The dark sword body is three inches thick and seven feet long. Together with the wide hilt, the entire sword is nine feet away and weighs tens of thousands of kilograms.