Chapter 82 (1/2)
It had been three years, but the na-Yun Sect
Infor had been conspicuously absent ever since he had entered the inner court When Lin Qinxue was released half a year after he left, she had looked for hi neithin the inner court, but it was to no avail Quite a number of disciples had heard of his name as a result, but they had never personally seen the existence of such a person; it was as though the troublemaker had just up and vanished
After Fang Xing suddenly returned, everyone learned that he had been taken under the wings of Elder Bai Qianzhang for the past three years Despite the elder wanting to pass everything he knew onto Fang Xing, the latter was too mischievous and unruly and all those years had been dee fro had also been dismissed
Fang Xing was the sect's laughingstock for quite some time Those ere unable to ht to their face were iven the chance
”Did you hear? Apparently that kid's talent is very mediocre and D-Ranked It was only because he had accidentally helped beat Elder Bai in a game of Weiqi that he was proht that he wouldn'tfrom it? Three years; Elder Baielse on his mind Elder Bai was finally so upset that he dismissed the kid…”
”That's right Even after three years under the wings of Elder Bai Qianzhang, I heard that kid is still in tier four!”
”That boy was the first person of the new disciples to enter the inner court He was so young and with so much potential, yet now…”
”Being considered a genius at a young age doesn't row older!”
Such gossip had begun to fill the entire Qing-Yun Sect Fang Xing, on the other hand, had already found hihts, and all he did nowadays was eat meat and drink wine For three years he had killed nule break This was finally a chance to rest, and it was a given that he would not let it go
”Look at that kid drinking all day long on the hill without a thought of i his cultivation No wonder he was dismissed by Elder Bai…”
”Hiven up on hireat chance, the road ahead of hirow more difficult!”
People st theas a cultivator
”What are you all looking at? I'll dig out your eyeballs if you keep on looking!” Fang Xing sat up and yelled at those who had been s to themselves
”What a vile person Why don't we teach him a lesson?”
”Don't get involved This kid , but he did enter the inner court three years before us He probably has some sort of method that would be difficult to deal with”
”Yes, yes, he had gotten himself into trouble even before he joined the inner court shi+jie Lin Qinxue already said three years ago that no ifts for their help Who kno long he'll even live, so why should we get involved?”
In response, all of the disciples turned away their glances A few clearly looked unconvinced, but they were soon pulled away by the others The Cliff of Hundred Thoughts only housed new inner court disciples who had recently joined; no one had very high levels of cultivation above the minimum requirements
The Cliff of Hundred Thoughts was the place disciples lived at first upon entering the inner court, and it was here that they would study one of the five disciplines they had chosen at the Grand Hall of Promotions Once they had built a solid foundation in their individual techniques, they would then be moved to either one of the four valleys or a hall to continue their studies There was the Danxia Valley which specialized in alche spirit weapons and tools, Shuwen Valley for talismans, and Shanhe Valley for formations and divinations As for the hall, it was called the Hall of Heaven's Tribute
The words ”heaven” and ”tribute” ca of their ancestors: ”The path to heaven is paved only with tribute”, where obeying heaven's will required demons to be offered as tribute Of course, the ”de didn't only reference true de-Yun Sect; to cultivators, anyone who opposed them was considered in the same vein as demons
It could also be understood that those who studied inside the Hall of Heaven's Tribute -Yun Sect It was here that the sect nurtured their Battle Cultivators, and those ished to focus on increasing their brute strength and poould usually end up in this hall instead of in one of the four valleys The number of pupils in this hall was extremely scarce, however Each of the four main valleys would house over a hundred pupils, whereas there were only between ten to twenty studying at the Hall of Heaven's Tribute
Of these ten or so pupils, all of them were extremely talented individuals chosen fro-Yun Sect disciples chose to practice [Qing-Yun Nine Swords] right fro Even if they already had their heart set on being a Battle Cultivator, they would still choose one of the other four disciplines and only make the switch once they hadhad decided that he would also join the hall and continue down his path as a pure Battle Cultivator
”Well, I still have to take it a step at a tio check out the available foundational spells, first” Holding on to his wine gourd while tottering after every step and staggering after every third, Fang Xing slowly made his way towards the Grand Hall of Scriptures atop the Peak of the Flying Stone
During the three years of travel with Bai Qianzhang, Fang Xing had only been told to kill demons and slay beasts in order to temper himself; when it came to spells and skills, he was practically a clean slate But such basic things could be borrowed from the sect, and he would slowly learn and understand them just as he had learned [Gravitational Force] in the past
As he passed the Flying Tiger Cliff, Fang Xing saw a giant solemn hall between a few pine trees The hall itself was extre solely black stones to give off a frigid aura In front of the entrance was a square over a thousand square yards paved hite jade, and atop the center of its grand door was a large board inscribed with the words ”Grand Hall of Scriptures” Disciples in cyan-colored robes could occasionally be seen entering and leaving the hall chattering excitedly ast themselves