When Zhang Lisheng was still lost in his thoughts, Min Lan had already instructed everything clearly. In the end, she told the green-clothed Gate of Witchcraft's disciple in the courtyard, "Disciple Wei, I'll go report to Deacon Su now. Help Disciple Zhang settle down. Deacon Su will come to see him personally in a while."
"Deacon Su will come personally?" Wei Qing, who looked to be in his forties with a thin body and a protruding chin like a monkey, bowed in surprise. "Senior Sister Min, don't worry. I'll definitely help Junior Brother Zhang settle down properly."
"Alright." Min Lan nodded and told Zhang Lisheng, "Lisheng, I'll take my leave first. If there's anything you don't understand in the Gate, just ask your Senior Brother Wei. He'll take care of you." Then, she turned around and left.
"I know, Sister." Zhang Lisheng nodded and watched the girl walk out of the red-painted gate of the courtyard. Cupping his hands awkwardly at Wei Qing, he called out, "Senior Brother Wei, please take care of me."
"Junior Brother Zhang, don't stand on ceremony. Since you're someone valued by Big Boss Su, you can stay in our courtyard temporarily. I think you'll be promoted to live in a house halfway up the hill in the city soon. By then, I'll have to rely on you to take care of me.
It's like this. This courtyard has a total of two central rooms and four wing rooms. Since you're here, I'll ask Junior Brother Song and Junior Brother Chu to vacate the central room … "After Min Lan left, Wei Qing's attitude towards the young man did not change in the slightest as he said enthusiastically.
"There's no need for that, Senior Brother Wei. How can I ask my Senior Brothers to move? I'll stay in whichever room is empty." Zhang Lisheng interrupted Wei Qing's words humbly.
"T-This is not good. The empty room is a wing room. If you want to stay there, when Big Boss Su comes later …" Wei Qing forced a smile.
"What's wrong with that? I'll explain to Deacon Su when he comes. I want to stay there myself. Senior Brother Wei, which room in the courtyard is empty?"
"The one on the right side of the door. Junior Brother Zhang, actually, the environment of the wing room is not bad. It's fine if you really want to stay there." Wei Qing was quite satisfied with Zhang Lisheng's tactfulness. "You can stay there. I won't arrange anyone for the time being. She led him up the stone steps on the right, took two steps in the corridor, and entered a room of about twenty to thirty square meters.
There was very little furniture in the room, nothing but a wooden bed on the left and right walls, and a cupboard at the head of the bed.
Looking at the almost empty room, Zhang Lisheng secretly scolded the Gate of Witchcraft for being stingy and asked helplessly, "Senior Brother Wei, may I know if there's any place in this city that sells bedding and bedding?"
"Junior Martial Brother, if it's bedding, I have a few old ones that have been washed clean.
If you are not used to the old ones and want to buy new ones, you can find them at the foot of the mountain. However, they are expensive. In fact, when we buy daily necessities, we buy them in town and secretly transport them to the mountain gate after midnight. Make sure to wrap them in plastic and don't get them wet. "
"Can I go out at any time after I enter the Mountain Gate?" Zhang Lisheng asked happily.
"Looks like you really don't know much about the situation in the Gate, Junior Martial Brother Zhang. No wonder Senior Sister Min would ask me to tell you about it." Wei Qing was stunned for a moment before replying with a smile. "Entering the Gate of Witchcraft is not like going to jail. Other than those disciples with high status who are restricted by Master's rules, we can go out at any time."
"What do you mean by disciples with high status?"
"It's like this. Let me tell you in detail.
Our Gate of Witchcraft's official disciples are divided into five ranks, A, B, C, D, E. Disciples of the same rank will be ranked as Senior Brother, Junior Brother, Senior Sister, and Junior Sister according to their age. Those who are not of the same rank will be ranked as Senior Brother, Junior Brother, Senior Sister, and Junior Sister according to their rank. Just like you, Junior Martial Brother, you're an E-ranked disciple now. When you're promoted to a D-ranked disciple, you'll still have to call me Senior Martial Brother according to your age. However, if you become a C-ranked disciple, then I'll have to call you Senior Martial Brother instead.
Also, once there's a difference of two ranks between the disciples, the high-ranked disciple can directly call the low-ranked disciple as disciple while the low-ranked disciple will still have to call the high-ranked disciple as Senior Brother or Senior Sister.
That's right, the E-ranked disciple will wear a black robe while the D-ranked disciple will wear a green robe. This level is the easiest to cross over. Usually, after enduring for more than ten years, you'll be able to change from a black robe to a green robe but once you've become an E-ranked disciple, it'll be difficult for you to go up again.
Once you've become a silver-robed D-ranked disciple, you'll no longer be able to enter and exit the Mountain Gate without permission. However, at the same time, your clothing, food, accommodation, and transportation will also be provided by the Sect. Not only that, you'll also have the opportunity to be apprenticed to a Grand Wizard as your Master so your daily life can be said to be stress-free … "Wei Qing explained in a long-winded manner.
Zhang Lisheng kept nodding and patiently listened to the middle-aged man with a protruding mouth and ape-like chin beside him who continued to speak with his saliva flying all over the place, "The B-ranked disciples are the elite disciples in the Gate, the mainstay. All of them will wear a golden robe and are the direct disciples of the Grand Wizard.
For the A-ranked disciples who are ranked higher, they can wear whatever they want. For this reason, there's a simple way to live a peaceful life in the Mountain Gate and that's to look at the clothes you wear. It's best not to provoke disciples who have a higher rank than you.
Other than that, other than the disciples of the D-ranked and E-ranked living together, the other third-ranked disciples will live from the lowest to the highest place in the mountain city. For this reason, many cautious disciples will not go to the highest place in the mountain city. "
When Wei Qing finally finished speaking, Zhang Lisheng had a grateful expression on his face. "So there are actually so many rules. If it wasn't for Senior Brother Wei …" Right at this moment, Su Deli brought Min Lan and strode into the open door.
"S-Deacon Su, y-you're here!" When Wei Qing, who was already mentally prepared, saw the Deacon's arrival, his body still became obviously stiff. Slightly flustered, he bowed and said with a smile.
"You must be Wei Qing's disciple. Looks like you've done what I told you well. Even though it's a wing room, it's very bright," Su Deli smiled and said in a slightly deep voice.
This slightly bad tone made Wei Qing explain while stuttering, "Deacon, y-you asked Senior Sister Min to pass the order to me personally, so how would I dare to neglect it?
Initially, I intended to give my main room to Junior Brother Zhang but in the end, Junior Brother Zhang repeatedly declined so I had no choice but to bring him to the wing room. "
"He's just entered the sect so he should be staying in the wing room anyway." Upon hearing this, Su Deli's frown eased a little. "Alright, Disciple Wei, you may leave now. I have some personal matters to discuss with Disciple Zhang."
"Yes, Deacon!" Wei Qing secretly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly left the wing room.
When there were only three people left in the room, Su Deli, who had changed into a suit, took out a walnut-sized skull carved with a lifelike skeleton from his handbag.
A curved tree ring connected by the roots of the tree crown.
A god statue with no face and several dozens of bean-sized monsters crawling all over its body, three books and a contract walked up to Zhang Lisheng and passed it to him. "Disciple Zhang, let's make a fair deal.
As you can see, these three secret cultivation methods that I've given you are all valuable authentic cultivation methods. Forget about the Gate of Death but it's all luck that you can find the Gate of Sacrifice and Gate of Life. You can sign the contract after you've experienced it. "
Zhang Lisheng did not understand the meaning of Su Deli's words at once. However, since he was about to achieve his goal, he did not dare to complicate the issue, nor did he ask any questions. Taking the book, he looked at the skull, the wooden ring and the monster statue on it as his mind spun rapidly.
With some speculations in his mind, he slowly placed the book on the wooden bed and picked up the skull to examine it for a while. When he realized that there was no abnormality, he hurriedly mobilized the wizard power in his body and imbued it into it.
Accidentally, the skull opened its mouth wide and revealed a pinhole-sized red spot of light in its throat, easily attracting all of the young man's attention.
When he heard the witchcraft incantation that sounded like a whistling wind, the runes and incantations that Zhang Lisheng had learned when he was young began to emerge from the depths of his consciousness one by one. Drifting and mutating, they combined into 17 cultivation methods that progressed from shallow to deep. Adding on to the fact that he was a Rank-1 Wizard, it was a witchcraft's Gate of Death secret cultivation method that led straight to the stage of Shedding and Restoring.
The young man did not care about the first ten secret cultivation methods and only looked at the last seven secret cultivation methods in his mind. When he saw that the method to break through to Rank-12 Wizard and Rank-18 Wizard was complete, even though he knew that he could not lose his composure, he still clenched his fists and muttered, "Not bad, not bad …"
Being covered by the Mask, he could not show his surging aura. In Su Deli's eyes, he was just an outer sect wizard who had never seen the orthodox witchcraft inheritance. He was obviously ecstatic to the point that he could not control himself after obtaining the true inheritance, but he still had to put on an act.
Su Deli could not help but curl his lips and said, "Of course it's not bad.
Even though this Witchcraft Bone Scripture is not the top cultivation method in the Gate of Witchcraft, it's still a secret method that points straight to the foundation.
Alright, Disciple Zhang, continue after you've finished experiencing the Witchcraft Bone Scripture. My time is precious. "
"Yes." Zhang Lisheng calmed down his emotions and put the skeleton head back on the wooden bed. Then, he picked up the statue that had a head but no face. He was not in a hurry to sense it but instead, he asked Su Deli respectfully first, "Deacon Su, cultivating the Witchcraft Bone Scripture won't conflict with the cultivation method passed down in my family, right?"
"You don't even know the common sense of witchcraft cultivation?" Su Deli was stunned. Chuckling, he sized Zhang Lisheng up a few times but a hint of surprise could be seen in his eyes. The fact that this thin young man in front of him could still make a breakthrough to the transformation stage despite being so ignorant meant that the value of the Yin energy in the Zhang family's ancestral house was so high that it might have far exceeded his expectations.
When Su Deli thought of this, he was overjoyed. Casually, he took out a wooden sign from his pocket and tossed it to Zhang Lisheng. "Disciple Zhang, looks like you're really lucky that you didn't go berserk.
The essence of witchcraft is to trace back the bloodline and find the various innate abilities of a wizard. How can the cultivation method possibly conflict with each other?
No matter what, you're still the disciple that I've recruited into the Gate. Take this wooden sign and go to the library in the mountain city to read for a few days and learn some common sense. Don't be ignorant and embarrass me. "
"There's a library here too …" Zhang Lisheng put away his unexpected gain in pleasant surprise. When he saw Su Deli's impatient expression, he no longer wasted any time and urged the wizard power in his body to surge into the statue in his hand.
In an instant, a ferocious face with a green face and sharp fangs appeared on the originally empty face of the statue. The young man immediately felt his mind go into a trance. In his confusion, another 11 secret cultivation methods appeared in his mind. They were the cultivation methods of the Witchcraft's Gate of Sacrifice's Rank-1 Wizard to Rank-12 Wizard.
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