Chapter 28 Gathering Of The Newbies (1/2)

Early the next day, Lyu Liang sent a message through the jade token to the founding father of Sword Character, explaining to him the problem Giant Tiger encountered during cultivation. Lyu Liang's intention was to request for a few demon stones so Giant Tiger could use them for cultivation. Later on when opportunity arose, he would like Giant Tiger to continue its cultivation in the trial field where there was the presence of some Demon Qi.

However, the founding father of Sword Character showed such generosity that Lyu Liang was taken by surprise. The founding father of Sword Character said he already went to survey the mine and realized that it was a mine range full of upper grade demon stones. The entire underground area for mining was considerably large that he could assign a small area of the mine for Giant Tiger to enter for cultivation. At the same time, he suggested for Giant Tiger to be in charge of managing the other demon beasts in the trial field. After all, the Early-stage of Great Demon beast was a substantial level of cultivation which should not be overlooked. As for the two demon beasts which had reached the Peak Great Demon Level, there were guards who took turns to watch over them and Giant Tiger need not be involved.

Both Lyu Liang and Giant Tiger were elated to hear this news and on the same day they received the news, Giant Tiger went to the designated area at the mine for cultivation. At this instant, it totally did not feel the restraint of being subservient to Lyu Liang. In fact, it was filled with gratitude towards Lyu Liang.

Another day passed and it was finally the day which the second test came to an end. At midday, Lyu Liang was summoned by Hunyuan Sword Immortal to go to the main hall of the Sword Character Immortal Palace.

Lyu Liang followed Hunyuan Sword Immortal into the main hall and came face to face with two other groups of people. One of which was a group of ten cultivators led by Saint Tianfang. Observing them carefully, Lyu Liang realized that each of them possessed a murderous aura, which betrayed the fact that they had just been through a fierce battle of life and death. With a jerk, Lyu Liang could now fully comprehend the callousness of the genius disciples Zhang Ran talked about. Starting with a few tens of thousands of people and eventually only ten were left. This was too cruel! Lyu Liang wondered how many had given up before the battle? He could almost guess the extent of casualties.

As expected, and to Lyu Liang's relief, Zhao Tianding who was wearing a black coat and a straw hat, was among the ten. Coincidentally, Zhao Tianding also spotted Lyu Liang looking at him and as their eyes met, they gave each other a smile.

On the other hand, the other group was led by a middle-aged man cladded in a long black robe. Lyu Liang could vaguely remember that this middle-age man should be Immortal Zhenyuan, whom Hunyuan Sword Immortal mentioned. All five people following behind him were cultivators possessing special bodily constitutions.

Thereafter, the crowd gradually moved into the main hall where incense tables and ancestral tablets were set up.

”These tablets were inscribed with the names of the powerful figures in the history of the Sword Character Immortal Palace. Some of them had ascended to Heaven Realm, while others who had died had contributed greatly to the suzerain in one way or other. It's my hope that one day, your names will also be inscribed on these tablets!” Hunyuan Sword Immortal said loud and clear and his voice rang throughout the hall.

While Lyu Liang did not recognize any of the names, Lyu Liang and the rest were filled with admiration and greatly encouraged by looking at those names. After this, an image of a green scroll appeared in Lyu Liang's mind and written on the scroll were the house rules of the Immortal Palace.

”These are the house rules of Sword Character Immortal Palace. As disciples of the palace, all of you ought to know them by heart and abide strictly by them, especially the three iron rules. If any of these three were broken, your soul would be destroyed!” the voice of Saint Tianfang sounded as a warning to the new disciples.

Thereafter, Saint Tianfang allocated the residences to the new disciples and they dispersed to go to the designated places. The disciples did not have to worry about the allocation of masters either because there would be someone to help each of them choose a suitable master according to their Mind Mantra after a few days.

From Lyu Liang's chats with the old man in charge of the herb garden earlier on, he knew that a disciple with special bodily constitution would directly become the Immortal Lord's disciple. While those with varying or multiple Spiritual Roots would become temporary disciples of seniors who were at cultivation levels of Void Return stage and Nascent Soul stage. Until these disciples reached the Gold Core stage, they would then be assessed to see if they could become the Immortal Lord's direct disciples.

Under normal circumstances, there would still be a considerable number of disciples under the Immortal Lord. However, there would only be a few pro-disciples. These would be the exceptionally talented disciples with excellent characters. Moreover, only the pro-disciples would eventually inherit Immortal Lord's mantle.

After Lyu Liang returned to his cave residence in the back hills, he began studying the house rules of the Immortal Palace carefully. He knew it was reasonable for him to abide the rules since he was under the roof of the Immortal Palace. Although there were numerous items on the list of house rules, they were more or less those often mentioned by the long-time disciples. Some examples included showing respect for the masters as well as rules against fighting and killing among disciples.

Lyu Liang took special care to remember the three iron rules.

First iron rule: The disciples of the Immortal Palace should never harm a mortal man under any circumstance.

Second iron rule: The disciples of the Immortal Palace should never kill any innocent disciples from the same sect or from Xuan Nyu Sect.

Third iron rule: The disciples of the Immortal Palace should never practice any evil Cultivation Method that might harm or kill any creature.

Apart from these, the house rules also included instructions on the disciple's apparels. In concrete terms, the respective colors of the disciples' apparels would reflect their different levels of cultivation.

Disciples in the Qi Refining stage would put on green clothes, disciples in the Foundation Establishment stage would put on white clothes, disciples in the Hascent Soul stage would put on blue clothes, while disciples in the Void Return stage would put on purple clothes.

When Lyu Liang was in the midst of studying the house rules, Zhang Ran came to pass a message to him. He said a man named Zhao Tianding wanted to see Lyu Liang and was waiting for him at the entrance to the back hills. After receiving the news, Lyu Liang got up immediately to go to fetch Zhao Tianding back to the valley into his cave residence.

When Zhao Tianding entered his cave residence, he bowed to Lyu Liang respectfully and said, ”Boss, you've also entered the Immortal Palace! I have heard that you were the one who broke the Great Demon Beast's ploy at the trail field! You are formidable!”