"Well, everyone, follow me." After that, Wu Cheng turned around and walked toward the green stone hall in front of the square. [Latest chapter to read …]
The stone hall was more than ten feet high and was built with green boulders. The surface of the boulders was engraved with various spiritual inscriptions, which made it look extremely mysterious. There was a plaque with the words "Heart Questioning Hall" hanging at the entrance of the stone hall.
Wang Changsheng and the other disciples did not dare to neglect and quickly followed.
After entering the stone hall, Wang Changsheng was slightly stunned after looking around.
In the huge hall, there were several yellow bronze mirrors, which were taller than a person, on both sides. Wu Cheng stopped in front of the hall, and the other disciples of Taiqing Palace stood in two rows.
Wang Changsheng and his group of sixty to seventy people stood in the hall in twos and threes, and all of their eyes were focused on Wu Cheng.
Wu Cheng looked at the messy line of new disciples, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Ten people in a team. Stand in a line."
No one dared to disobey Wu Cheng's order. The person in the front took the lead and stood in several teams, which looked much neater.
Seeing this, Wu Cheng nodded and said, "Now there is one last test. Pass this test and you will be an official disciple of the sect. Now I will give you a Conscience Questioning Talisman, one for each person."
As soon as he finished speaking, the disciples of Taiqing Palace standing on both sides of Wu Cheng walked toward the new disciples and gave each of them a silver talisman. Then they stood behind a bronze mirror.
"Is this the legendary Conscience Questioning Talisman?" Wang Changsheng glanced at the silver talisman in his hand. There were dozens of silver talismans drawn on it. The Conscience Questioning Talisman was a kind of auxiliary talisman used to judge whether the words of the cultivators were true or false.
"Put the Conscience Questioning Talisman on your body. Next, I will ask you a question, and you will answer. Don't try to hide anything. The mirrors on the left and right sides are not so easy to fool. If you lie, you will be expelled from the sect, and your spiritual power will be destroyed. Then you will be handed over to the Law Enforcement Hall," Wu Cheng said seriously.
Hearing this, Wang Changsheng and the others felt a chill in their hearts, and they all slapped the silver talismans on their bodies.
After everyone had stuck the truth talisman on their bodies, the disciples standing behind the bronze mirror began to cast spells. All kinds of spells struck the surface of the bronze mirror. The surface of the bronze mirror flashed with yellow light and shot out a yellow beam of light, covering the new disciples in the hall.
More than ten yellow pillars of light enveloped all the new disciples.
When Immortal Wang saw this, his expression became a bit nervous. The others' reactions weren't much better either, some of them feeling ill at ease, some of them remaining calm, to the extent where there were some who looked left and right, as if they didn't care at all.
"Alright, now answer my questions. Where are you from? Are you from a cultivation clan or are you rogue cultivators? Do you have any brothers or sisters?" Wu Cheng's gaze swept over everyone. After confirming that there were no mistakes, he began to ask questions.
A quarter of an hour later, Wang Changsheng and dozens of other people walked out of the stone hall. They sat on a paper boat that was more than a hundred feet long and flew towards a towering mountain peak.
In the stone hall, there were still seven or eight disciples with frightened expressions. These people's answers were problematic, and they needed to be carefully examined.
As for Wang Changsheng and the others who had passed the test, they only needed to go to receive the entry items and register their names. Then they would be official Taiqing Palace disciples.
Not long after, the paper boat carrying Wang Changsheng and the others landed in front of a stone tower that was fifty to sixty feet high.
"Martial Nephews, this is the Duty Tower. There are nine floors to this tower, and each floor has a different function. The first floor is for handling the sect's various miscellaneous affairs and assigning tasks to the disciples. The second floor is for issuing sect's bounty missions. Completing a mission will allow you to earn contribution points and spirit stones. As for the third floor, it is for exchanging contribution points for medicinal pills, secret cultivation techniques, spirit stones, and magic tools. Remember, you cannot enter the fourth floor without reaching Foundation Establishment stage," Wu Cheng said word by word.
At this moment, there were many disciples going in and out of the Duty Tower. When they saw Wang Changsheng and the others, they only glanced at them and then ignored them.
Wang Changsheng was surprised to find that the disciples going in and out of the stone tower were generally under the age of thirty. The lowest level of cultivation was at the twelfth layer of the Qi Refining stage. This made him secretly shocked. It seemed that the Taiqing Palace was really a place of crouching tigers and hidden dragons.
Wu Cheng led Wang Changsheng and the others through the door of the stone tower.
The first floor of the stone tower was a hall that was more than ten acres large. There was a round counter made of precious jade. Inside the counter sat many disciples wearing the same blue robes. Outside the counter stood more than a hundred green-robed disciples. Each green-robed disciple was talking to a blue-robed disciple. Each blue-robed disciple was holding a palm-sized white jade plate. Occasionally, a green-robed disciple would take out a token and swipe it across the blue-robed disciple's jade plate. Then he would leave with a smile on his face.
Wu Cheng didn't stop at the first floor. He directly headed for the stairs. Wang Changsheng and the others hurriedly followed.
The second floor was almost exactly the same as the first floor. The difference was that the blue-robed disciples behind the counter held red jade plates. The green-robed disciples who had received their missions all left in a hurry. They seemed to be in a hurry.
When they arrived at the third floor, the blue-robed disciples behind the counter were all white-haired old men. They were tall, short, fat, and thin. They didn't have the slightest fluctuation of Fa Li.
Wu Cheng walked over and politely said to these people, "Senior Brothers, I've brought you all here to register and receive your entry items."
"So it's the new disciples. Come to me quickly. I'll register your names and give you your entry items," an old man with a goatee said very warmly.
"Don't listen to him. Disciples, let me register you. I'll give you the seal soldiers." A tall and thin old man waved his hand and said.
"Come to me. I'll help you register. It'll be very quick." A dark-faced old man looked at Wang Changsheng and the others with a very warm gaze.
Seeing this, the new disciples looked at each other. These old men were all Foundation Establishment cultivators. If they said that there wasn't something fishy going on, then no one would believe them.
For a moment, everyone stood in place. No one dared to register. They looked at each other, all wanting someone to take the lead.
"Alright, Martial Nephews, let your Senior Martial Brothers register for you! Later, we'll arrange your residences! The more people who register, the higher the performance, and the more Spirit Stones the Senior Brothers will receive each month. Don't worry, the Spirit Stones won't be taken from your hands. This is a rule set in order to make the Duty Disciples diligent and responsible. "Wu Cheng smiled bitterly and explained to everyone.
Hearing this, everyone came to a realization. Immortal Wang nodded inwardly.
With this rule, it would be difficult for the Duty Disciples to not do their jobs properly!
When they understood this, there were people who went up to register. Immortal Wang also walked up to a short and fat elder, saying his name.
The old man turned his right hand and a book-sized jade book appeared in his hand. Some silver runes were engraved on it. There was also a palm-sized white token. The front was engraved with a Bagua pattern and the right corner was engraved with the word "Tai Qing".
"Drip your essence blood into the jade book and token. Then, you'll be considered an official disciple of the sect." The old man took out an inch-long jade pen and gestured on the jade book for a while. Then, he said to Wang Changsheng.
Wang Changsheng nodded and put a finger in his mouth. He bit the tip of his finger and squeezed out a drop of bright red blood on the jade book.
The surface of the jade book glowed with a soft silver light, and a dozen silver runes flashed and disappeared. After the light faded, the three blood-red words "Wang Changsheng" appeared on the jade book and disappeared without a trace in a flash.
Wang Changsheng then dripped a drop of essence blood on the white token.
The surface of the token flashed with white light, and the three small black words "Wang Changsheng" appeared in the lower left corner of the back.
As for the storage bag, there were several clothes with the mark of the Taiqing Palace, dozens of low-grade spirit stones, two middle-grade magical weapons, and finally several jade slips.
A quarter of an hour later, under the leadership of Wu Cheng, Wang Changsheng and others walked out of the stone tower. They sat on the paper boat again and flew toward a certain place.
After flying for the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the paper boat landed on a lush mountain ridge and landed in a dense cluster of buildings. There was not a single person in the entire cluster of buildings. It seemed that all the buildings were empty. This made the group of disciples somewhat puzzled.
These buildings were of different sizes. Some occupied less than a hundred square meters, some occupied dozens of acres, and the decoration was very different. Some were just stone houses built with ordinary mountain stones, and some were pavilions and palaces built with carved railings.
"Don't be surprised, these houses are indeed empty. This is originally a place for you new disciples to live. Don't worry, you will live here for 20 years at most. The next time when the mountain opens to accept disciples, you will be moved to other mountains. Of course, if you succeed in reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage or are accepted as a disciple by an elder during this period, you can also move to other mountains." Wu Cheng saw the doubts of everyone and said lightly.
After listening to this explanation, the doubts in everyone's eyes were slightly reduced.
"May I ask Master's Apprentice Uncle Wu, are we free to choose these houses or are you distributing them?" A handsome young man in white clothes asked.
Hearing this, Wang Changsheng's heart moved, and he looked at Wu Cheng. The others also focused their eyes on Wu Cheng.
"Hehe, of course, you are free to choose," Wu Cheng said with a smile.
Then, he immediately changed his tone and said, "Of course, we won't let you live in it for free. For houses that occupy less than one mu, you will have to pay a rent of five spirit stones per year. You can also use something of equivalent value to calculate the rent. For courtyards that occupy less than one mu, you will have to pay a rent of ten spirit stones per year. For every additional mu, you will have to pay an additional five spirit stones. Less than one mu is counted as one mu. If there is a spirit spring in the courtyard, you will have to pay an additional thirty spirit stones per year."
Hearing this, the disciples in brighter clothes showed eager expressions on their faces, while the disciples in relatively shabby clothes were full of worry. Wang Changsheng didn't care about this.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
