There are three conditions to enter the mountain gate of a sect.

First, he is a disciple of a sect who has been in the school for more than a year and can enter and exit the mountain gate freely; second, he is a disciple of a sect who has been in the school for more than three years and his relatives can go up the mountain to visit every three years; third, people who are not related to the sect can submit a famous letter of worship. After informing the deacon in charge of the management of the mountain gate, determine whether he can enter the mountain gate.

It is obvious that Chu Yun’s two maids do not meet any of the conditions.

Deacon Fang was not angry because of his obstruction of his actions. He took out a token from his arms and said, "This is Elder Yan's token. He specially handed it over to me and asked me to take the person up."

The disciple guarding the mountain looked solemn and immediately gave way to the side, not daring to stop Deacon Fang anymore.

As long as you are a disciple of the Qingcheng Sect, you know the meaning of this token. Every elder only has two tokens like this. Any disciple will carry a token with you when he executes the elder's mission, and this token can only be used for matters related to this mission.

If it is found out that someone dares to use the token for other purposes, he will be punished.

Now that Deacon Fang took out this token, it undoubtedly means that it was Elder Yan's order to take Chu Yun and his two maids to the mountain.

The elders are detached from most sect rules, including the rules of taking people up the mountain. After all, the highest person on duty is the deacon. From this point, we can see that this rule cannot be controlled by the elders.

Although Deacon Zhang had already guessed that this might be the result, he did not expect that the token was actually Elder Yan's. He had always thought that Deacon Fang was most likely to take out the token of his master Elder Deng.

This also gave Deacon Zhang a deeper understanding of Chu Yun's potential.

Although Elder Yan had something important to go to Gongzhou City this time, he should not have any connection with a new disciple. Even if both parties knew each other, they would probably only meet at most. Unexpectedly, Elder Yan would take out a token and hand it over to Deacon Fang because of his going to the mountain gate.

This shows Elder Yan attaches great importance to Chu Yun.

The others were even more confused. A new disciple could actually get involved with the elder of the sect. This is so lucky.

Chu Yun and others naturally ignored the complicated ideas of these people and went up the mountain road and the stone steps, and the speed was not very fast.

While moving forward, Deacon Fang told Chu Yun about the rules of the Qingcheng Sect, and some precautions were already paid to the sect.

Although Chu Yun had some understanding of the Qingcheng Sect in his previous lifetime, he did not know much, so he just learned something from Deacon Fang.

Although the Qingcheng Sect is not as large as the Emei Sect, it is definitely a behemoth in Shu.

The entire sect has nearly 100,000 sect members, of which nearly 90,000 disciples, and the remaining 10,000 are deacons, elders or people with higher identities.

There are indeed many of these nearly 10,000 deacons, but only one or two thousand of them remain in sects to hold various positions, while the rest travel around the world, either to the heroes or to find their own opportunities.

As for the huge disciples, many of them are also scattered in various areas of Shu, and these people also constitute the most basic force of the Qingcheng Sect in Shu.

Including Du Chongxiao, he was also considered a disciple of the Qingcheng Sect. Because he had not broken through to the Tongmai realm, he was unable to become a deacon.

In the Qingcheng Sect, those who advance to the Tongmai Realm are not necessarily deacons, but to become deacons, one must reach the Tongmai Realm.

The Qingcheng School has such a huge scale, so it naturally has a strict management system.

The entire Qingcheng Sect has eight courtyards and thirty-six peaks. Deacon Fang and Deacon Zhang belong to the Chaoyang Mountain Academy, and are also an institution for the selection and training of new disciples in the sect’s secondary school. Among the sects, Chaoyang Mountain Academy is also known as the outer sect, because after all new disciples enter, they will be arranged to the Chaoyang Mountain Academy. Only after they advance to the acupoint realm can they become inner disciples and be divided into other academies.

The number of disciples in Chaoyang Mountain Academy is not very large, because as long as you are disciples recruited into Chaoyang Mountain Academy, you can generally achieve the conditions for advancing to an inner disciple in five or six years.

Although upgrading to the acupoint realm is an indicator for inner disciples, most disciples will not think it is difficult. After all, disciples recruited into the Qingcheng Sect have the lowest qualifications and are of excellent level. Even those who have never practiced martial arts can reach the acupoint realm within four or five years of kung fu.

However, it is not so easy to practice an intermediate martial arts to the pinnacle. This not only requires patience, but also perseverance, and a certain degree of understanding.

There are now four or five thousand disciples in Chaoyang Mountain Academy, occupying two of the thirty-six peaks. One of them is the place where the newly-entered disciples practice, and the other is the place where the old disciples practice and live.

Originally, Chu Yun should have been arranged at Puzhao Peak where the new disciples were located, but due to Chu Yun's particularity, under the arrangement of Elder Yan and others, he was arranged directly to Xianglu Mountain Courtyard.

Xianglushan Courtyard is a relatively special courtyard of the Qingcheng School. It is divided into an inner gate, but its meaning is to provide the Qingcheng School with weapons, elixirs and other miscellaneous items. In other words, this is the logistics department of the Qingcheng School.

But in the Qingcheng School, the status of this logistics department is a bit embarrassing. It is quite good in weapon forging. It can produce several fine swords every year. Xianglushanyuan is still good at forging swords. However, it is very shabby in alchemy. Basically, there are not many that can be used. It is already a blessing to provide more than ten elixirs of Guiyuan Pill every year.

It is obvious that these elixirs are not enough for Qingcheng Sect to allocate them. Every year, Qingcheng Sect will spend a lot of money to exchange raw materials or other precious objects for elixirs from the Tianyi Sect or other elixirs to ensure the supply of elixirs within the sect.

This is also the main reason why people like Chu Yun, who have extremely high alchemy talent, value it so much.

With Chu Yun’s self-study talent in alchemy, his future achievements will definitely not be low. Maybe he can refine elixirs above 6th grade. In fact, even if he cannot self-study to refine 6th grade elixirs, as long as he can refine 5th grade, it will be a big profit for the Qingcheng Sect.

Under the leadership of Deacon Fang, Chu Yun quickly completed the registration of his discipleship identity, first obtained the identity of a disciple from Chaoyang Mountain Academy, and then was taken directly to Xianglu Mountain Academy.

As for Cheng Liangqiu, he still stayed in Chaoyang Mountain Courtyard. He needed to improve his strength to the acupoint realm here and at the same time practiced an intermediate martial arts to the level of perfection. This was undoubtedly a relatively difficult task for him.

Xianglu Mountain Courtyard is another mountain in the Qingcheng School, called Xianglu Peak.

This Xianglu Peak is close to Minling Snow Mountain. It is also the highest peak occupied by the Qingcheng School and has the largest area. It is the only mountain in Xianglu Mountain Courtyard.

In the Qingcheng Sect, the first courtyard only occupies one mountain, which is the Xianglu Mountain Courtyard.

The reason why Xianglu Peak has become the garrison of Xianglu Mountain Court, a logistics agency, is that it has two unique advantages on Xianglu Peak.

One is that the Xianglu Peak has the highest vertical height and has a relatively gentle slope on three sides. Most of the herbs can be planted here. More than 80% of the medicinal materials harvested by the entire Qingcheng School every year are produced by the Xianglu Peak.

Another advantage is that there is an underground cold spring below the south side of Xianglu Peak. When creating weapons, it can improve the quality of the weapons.

The Qingcheng Sect can create several treasure soldiers every year, and this cold spring is an indelible contribution.

Chu Yun heard Deacon Fang introduce it while on the way, especially the cold spring, which made Chu Yun feel quite surprised.

The water of the Cold Spring has excellent effect when refining weapons. Is it useless to refine some elixirs?

For example, when refining Guiyuan Dan, it is necessary to neutralize the yang energy of Zhuguo. Most people can only use other negative medicinal materials to do this, and most people even need to use precious medicinal materials.

The last time Chu Yun refined Guiyuan Pill, although he did not use any precious medicinal materials, he spent thousands of taels of silver to make up the auxiliary medicinal materials of Guiyuan Pill, and finally refined it into Guiyuan Pill.

If he had this cold spring water at that time, he could have used only a few medicinal materials to successfully refine Guiyuan Pills, and the quality of the elixirs refined would be better and the effect of increasing internal strength would be better.

Soon, Deacon Fang led Chu Yun and the other two to Puzhao Peak, took a long way from the valley below, and then came to the foot of a mountain.

The temperature here is slightly lower than Puzhao Peak, but it is not cold. However, Chu Yun and others looked up and saw that there was white snow on the top of the mountain.

It was not long after autumn that Shu was not a cold place, and there was snow on the Xianglu Peak, which showed that its height was extraordinary.

Chu Yun discovered in the distance that the south side of the Xianglu Peak were full of cliffs, while the west, north and east sides were gentle slopes. According to Deacon Fang just said, the valley on the south side belonged to the territory of the Xianglu Mountain Courtyard Zhanshen, and the other three sides belonged to the territory of the Danyi Hall.

If someone thinks that the territory of Danyitang is much larger than that of the Forging Sword Hall, it means that the status of Danyitang is higher than that of the Forging Sword Hall, that would be a big mistake.

It is true that Xianglushan Courtyard is the weakest among the Eighth Courtyards of Qingcheng School, but the Forging Sword Hall is among the top three in all the halls of these Eighth Courtyards. It can even be said that the entire Xianglushan Courtyard is basically supported by the Forging Sword Hall.

After arriving within the Xianglu Peak, several disciples were guarding there. Chu Yun roughly observed that their strength was only at the early stage of the acupoint realm, and the strongest one was the middle stage of the acupoint realm.

This can definitely be described as weak in the Qingcheng Sect.

You should know that in Chaoyang Mountain Courtyard, Chu Yun can also see many mid-stage existences of the acupoint realm. Most of these people entered the Qingcheng Sect a few years ago. After their cultivation level was improved, they failed to enter the inner sect because their martial arts realm had not yet reached the standard.

But this Xianglu Mountain Court belongs to the inner gate. If it is other inner gate mountain courtyards, it is almost the lowest in the middle stage of the acupoint realm, and even the peak of the acupoint realm should be a lot of disciples.

With such a comparison, the gap is clear at a glance.

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