Chapter 38 (1/2)
Walking Into The Lair
Spiritual Mountain Sect, Offerings Booth
Every year at this time, the Spiritual Mountain Sect would send a portion of their cultivators to head to various large fas At the same time, the Spiritual Mountain Sect offered them protection
That was also why the Cleansing Moon Li fas It was not only to provide Li Chengfeng with the possibility of beco a cultivator, it was also so they would not be harassed in Cheng'an
The cultivators of the Spiritual Mountain Sect often talked about being free fro beyond life and death but since they were all still mortals who had not attained immortality, they were still reliant on their flesh vessels, needing to eat, drink and defecate like everyone else
There was a saying that the poor became scholars while the rich trained to bea scholar did not require tooscholars and find success Martial arts was not the sae Famous masters could not be hired without money, who are required for true, authentic practices The poor would not be able to buy good
Evencultivators Forget about the spiritual ical items and treasures used would cost a fortune!
A sect cannot cover all of a disciple's costs, therefore newly-recruited disciples had to pay a portion of their costs or they would definitely be kicked out soon
That was also why the most powerful cultivator sects required s and donations In return, these clans had a higher chance of being recruited as cultivators
Standing before the gates of the Spiritual Mountain Sect was a long line of disciples who had gone down the s They all carried small Ruyi pouches with them They looked very simple but could store vast as were inside
The offerings booth was halfway up Bull Ear's Peak At the foot of the ates halfway up the e, tall and s had been patriarchs of e was nificence
There was a long, green table on the stage One end of the table was raised, next to it was a delicate flower stand The stand was carved with detailed arrays Every disciple would put their Ruyi pouches on the stand, where the pouch would eiant mirror next to the stand would display ss within the pouch
Three men stood behind, two of them with beards on their chins and clad in cultivator's robes with two green stripes They stood on both sides like entrance deities to inti to steal anything At the centre stood a man with a black mole on his left cheek called Sun Boyi Every time he saw the stand 's' a pouch and produce the nu book at the booth A line of text recording the numbers would appear
“Ouyang fas!”
“Liu fas!”
“Xie family of Yinzhou, four thousand three hundred silvers in offerings!”
“Zhao fas!”
“Zhan fas!”
The nu, “Zhan of the Northwest? Who? Who's THAT rich?”
“Who else? It's the Champion Marquis' family!”
“Huh? But they're in the northwest region, no? Why didn't they go for the western sects, why did they come to Spiritual Mountain?”
“Nonsense, what do you take Spiritual Mountain for? We're ranked third ast all the sects in the world! Do you know people would die for a chance to enter our sect? Why would the Zhan family not see this?”
“Tsk, stop it In general, major clans usually distribute their descendants into different sects to gain everyone's favour! How do you think the Zhan family has been able to re to send the phoenix or the dragon to us”
“Haven't you heard? They're sending the phoenix and the dragon to the other sects All that's left are the pig and the dog”
The Chahter, each talented in different ways They were called the dragon, the phoenix, the dog and the pig by common folk
The eldest son, Zhan Qitian, was said to be 6 foot 3 tall, endary character At eight years old, his extraordinary skills were discovered, being a prodigy in both literature and ion broke their rules to take him in At fifteen, he co records At twenty, he successfully cultivated the Invincible Golden Body, shocking the world!
His second child was a daughter, said to be an absolute beauty Regardless of that, she was an outstanding talent in the female cultivator world, taken in by the Phoenix Hibiscus Court as a disciple at just ten years old At thirteen, she successfully co puberty, breaking Zhan Qitian's world record, at the sa the earliest female cultivator to have completed foundational cultivation The entire world was astonished
After the dragon and the phoenix, the relow of their elder brother and sister They werebecause it was said one liked to drink and play while the other was a reserved, polite man
Everyone had lowered their heads in whispers, though suddenly silence ran like a wave down the crowd
Thethe records looked up in puzzle for an elderlyrobes His face was grotesque, as if it had been roasted in a fire Both his eyes were gone, leaving two terrifying black holes!