Ji Lai shook his head and said: "The Twelve Cities recruit masters from all over the world, and the regulations are not as strict as those of the Immortal Cultivation Sect. As long as you are not a monk from the same Seven Mountains and Twelve Cities, even if you have joined another sect, Or if you are a direct descendant of a cultivation family, you can choose to join in one of the cities."
“So that’s how it is”
Liang Yan nodded and remembered the "Bihai Palace" that Song Ru mentioned before. It seemed that it was also a force in Wushuang City.
"Actually, I came here this time under the orders of my master, but until now, except for the matter of participating in the selection and assessment, I don't know anything about the remaining tasks." Ji Lai said with some annoyance.
"You don't even know?" Liang Yan looked strange and asked, "Then why did I send you here?"
"He gave me three tips and asked me to open them one by one at the appointed time. He also said that he had set a ban and would never let me take a peek in advance!"
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Liang Yan was speechless for a moment. This Sanchi Shen was even weirder than expected, making people confused.
After a long while, Liang Yan finally spoke slowly: "Since your master's privacy is involved, it is inconvenient for Liang to ask any more questions. By the way, I remember that you were not with Murong Xuewei? Why didn't she? Coming with you?"
"Don't mention it." Ji Lai sighed softly and said, "The ancestor of the Murong family seemed to have something wrong with her cultivation, and was forced to open the secret forbidden area in her family. She went into seclusion herself, and took a fancy to a few people. The younger generation were also brought in, Murong Xuewei is one of them."
Liang Yan felt relieved after hearing this. Others didn't know it, but he knew it very well. Murong Hanqiu had suffered a lot at Master Lianxin's fault, and now the so-called "culprits in cultivation" were probably due to his own incomprehension. On the bone.
"By the way, Brother Liang, you're here just in time. In a few days, there will be the 'Hundred Flowers Club' in Wushuang City. Then you can go with me." Ji Laihu said.
"Hundred Flowers Club? What is that?"
"The Hundred Flowers Club was founded by the 'Shenhua Zhenjun' of Wushuang City. No matter the cultivation level, elegance is the only thing discussed at the conference. The venue is located at the 'Guhai Peak'. There are all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, rare birds and animals on the top of the peak. There is also an extremely rare immortal fruit wine, and all young talents who have been practicing for no more than five hundred years are invited."
Listening to Ji Lai's slow words, Liang Yan couldn't help but frown.
Since leaving Nanchui Island, his horizons have gradually broadened, and he knows that the human continent is vast and there are as many human monks as crucian carp crossing the river.
Each of these people has their own personalities, and not all of them are devoted to cultivation. Some of them like to be literati and elegant. This is not a strange thing.
But with Liang Yan's character, he would not waste time going to such a place.
"Sorry, Liang is not interested in this kind of occasion. I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint Brother Ji." Liang Yan rushed to Ji and shook his head.
Ji Lai seemed to have expected this answer for a long time. He didn't look depressed at all when he heard this. Instead, he smiled and said:
"Brother Liang, don't refuse so early. It seems that you really know nothing about this selection and assessment. In fact, the assessment has already started before the selection day arrives."
"oh?"
Liang Yan raised his eyebrows and became interested instantly.
This was not the first time he heard this. Not long ago, the man in Chinese clothes in charge of registration also said similar words.
"What does Fellow Taoist Ji mean by this?"
"Haha! Brother Liang, you don't know something. The selection for Wushuang City is held every five years, and each time there are four rounds of assessments. Although the content of these assessments is completely determined by the examiners themselves, in every assessment in the past,
There is a round where you need to form a team to pass.”
"There is such a thing!" Liang Yan's face changed slightly, and he said curiously: "This is strange. Aren't the monks of our generation relying on our own magical powers to control the world? Why do we still set such rules?"
"Brother Liang, what you said is wrong."
Ji Lai shook his head and said: "Wushuang City is not like the ordinary sects that cultivate immortals. It has absorbed many forces and is divided into many factions. There are not only Buddhism, Demons, Taoism, Confucianism, but also miscellaneous sects. It can be said that a hundred flowers are blooming.
And many tasks issued by Wushuang City need to be carried out in the form of a small team. In this case, communication and cooperation between each other are particularly important."
"I see!"
After hearing Ji Lai's words, Liang Yan immediately came to his senses. Aren't people like Fang Liren and Buwen Jushi an obvious example?
These two people are inseparable every time they go on a mission. One of them is good at killing magic, and the other is proficient in defensive spells. Together, the two of them can defeat enemies several times their own every time.
After all, Wushuang City is also a huge monk organization. The monks in the city exchange for the resources they need by performing tasks. The higher the efficiency, the better.
If you think about it this way, the rule that you need to form a team to pass the assessment seems understandable.
"Hehe, I just said that before the selection day comes, the assessment has already started. You need to find the most suitable teammates within this month, and then convince them to form an alliance!"
"Are you forming an alliance?"
Liang Yan stretched out his hand and knocked on the stone table in front of him, and suddenly asked: "If the ally you are looking for doesn't even pass the previous assessment, then when it comes to teaming up, won't there be no teammates?"
"So, when looking for teammates to form an alliance, the stronger the better!" Ji Lai said leisurely while tasting wine.
Hearing this, Liang Yan suddenly felt like he was on a pirate ship. He glanced at Ji Lai with a strange look on his face, and then said, "You have told me so much, have you considered me as your ally this time?"
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"That's not true!"
Ji Lai laughed and said, "Others may not know Brother Liang's abilities, but Ji knows a little bit about it. You brought it to me this time, so naturally the two of us will form an alliance!"
After hearing this, Liang Yan smiled softly.
Now that he has achieved Hunyuan and has sword pills in hand, he is confident that even if he meets the monks in the middle stage of Tongxuan in the Seven Mountains and Twelve Cities, he will still have the capital to fight. But against the ordinary cultivators in the early stage of Tongxuan, it will be like killing a chicken.
Like a dog.
These so-called masters of the Golden Core Realm no longer pose a threat to him, so they can form a team with him to build a friendship with him.
Liang Yan's silence was tantamount to acquiescence in the alliance between the two. Ji Lai's face lit up, he drank the wine in the glass, and continued: "But it's not enough just the two of us, we need to find helpers.
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"How many more people are needed?"
"It's more about being more precise than being too many. According to the previous assessment content, team assessments usually take place in groups of three, so we only need one more!"
"Oh? It seems you already have a goal?" Liang Yan asked with interest.
"That's natural!"
Ji Lai chuckled and said: "According to my investigation, there are 113 monks who came to participate in the selection and assessment this time, including you and me. These people are all top masters in the Golden Core Realm, and their cultivation level is at least
The late Jindan period. Among them, the most famous and powerful ones are the three major families and the five major casual cultivators."
"We don't need to worry about the monks from the three major families. These people are all direct descendants of the family. They all have their eyes set on the top and are unwilling to pay attention to casual cultivators like us."
When Liang Yan heard this, he couldn't help but smile slightly and said, "It seems that you have set your sights on those casual cultivators."
"Not bad!" Ji Lai nodded and said, "What I am interested in is the 'Nanhai Swordsman' Cang Yueming, who ranks first among the five major casual cultivators. This person's realm has reached the peak of the Golden Core, and his cultivation is Confucianism.
Sword skills, a sword cultivating magical power can be said to be unfathomable, if we can get this person to form an alliance, the chance of passing the test will be greatly increased!"
"Confucian chivalry? Sword tactics?"
Liang Yan suddenly became interested when he heard this. He has met very few sword cultivators since he started practicing Taoism. Now he unexpectedly met a sword cultivator who was at the peak of the golden elixir. He also wanted to see the other person's style.
Moreover, when he was at the place where the Ghost Division was sealed, he had heard Fang Liren mention that the city lord of Wushuang City was practicing the Confucian hegemony lineage. Now that he heard about a Confucian chivalrous lineage, he was really curious.
"This Cang Yueming is also a swordsman? What is the Confucian chivalry?" Liang Yan couldn't help but ask.
"Cang Yueming is naturally a sword cultivator."
Ji Lai shook the folding fan in his hand and said slowly: "Today, Confucianism is divided into three. There are three different systems, namely, Legal Confucianism, Ba Confucianism and Chivalrous Confucianism."
"Among them, the Fa-Confucian lineage has the oldest origins. The exercises they learned were created by the sage masters of the Confucian sect in ancient times. In the prehistoric era, foreign tribes invaded, human races fought within themselves, and wars raged on the continent.
The Holy Master believed that if you want to resist foreigners, you must first control internal strife. Therefore, he advocated ruling the human race by law. The rules in the sect were strict and the hierarchy was orderly. After the Holy Master ascended, later generations of Confucians not only strictly restrained their own disciples
The disciples even wanted to implement the law throughout the world, but were eventually resisted by other sects."
When Ji Lai came here, he sighed softly and said: "Now that the human race has been pacified and the world is at peace, Confucianism has been passed down for countless thousands of years, but the old-fashioned style has not changed. They claim to be orthodox Confucianism and treat the Holy Saint
The Kung Fu books passed down by the previous masters are regarded as the Bible, but they disdain the magical powers created by the talents of later generations. All they practice and learn are Confucian Kung Fu from ancient times."
"I see."
When Liang Yan heard this, he couldn't help but nodded and said: "It seems that this line of Dharma and Confucianism is the one with the longest inheritance. They attach so much importance to the ancient saint's skills that they will not spread it easily, but they don't know the rest.
What about the tyrants and chivalrous scholars?"
Ji Lai lowered his head and took a sip of the fairy brew, hehehe said with a smile:
"Hegemon Confucianism values self-respect in heaven and earth. They despise etiquette and seek the true self. They do not have the red tape and rules of Confucianism and act only according to their own preferences. Therefore, there are many extreme people in the lineage of Hegemon Confucianism. Some people plead for life for the common people, while others are just.
Slaughter the city in anger! It can be said that right and wrong, good and evil, all depend on their thoughts!"
"The domineering lineage arose from the later generations of the Confucian sect. Most of them could not stand the strict laws of the Confucian sect, and finally rebelled against the sect and established their own sect. Therefore, what they cultivated and learned were the achievements of outstanding people of later generations.
The method is completely different from that of the sage. The tyrants and the tyrants are like fire and water, the tyrants despise the other's techniques, and the tyrants are not willing to learn the magical powers of the sage."
When Liang Yan heard this, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes. Although he had been practicing Taoism for nearly a hundred years, he had spent most of his time on Nanchui Island and the closed hell.
Now after listening to Ji Lai's introduction, I suddenly feel that what I know and learn is very limited. There are still many things that I don't know about the vast continent of the human race.
"What about the chivalrous scholars?" Liang Yan asked again.
"Xiaru Confucianism is more moderate. They are willing to learn the Confucian skills of ancient times, and are also willing to accept the magical powers created by outstanding people in later generations. They are even willing to do arithmetic and heresy. It can be said that they learn everything and use everything."
"These monks tend to be free-spirited and spontaneous. They like to travel around the world and do chivalry and justice. Most of them are from the same line. One master leads several apprentices and never establishes a sect."
"Oh, I understand!" Liang Yan showed an expression of sudden enlightenment and said with a smile: "Your master Shen Sanchi should be of the lineage of chivalrous Confucianism, right? He is already a monk in the Transformation Tribulation Realm, but he has not established a sect. Instead, he has
Taking on a young apprentice like you, isn’t this the same as what you just said?”
"My master?" Ji Lai smiled awkwardly and said, "In our lineage, we are fortune tellers. My master is like this, and so am I. I should not be included in the three paths of Confucianism."
Liang Yan shook his head, with an expression like "I believe you all have ghosts!" Shen Sanchi was very scheming and could tell things like a god. He had a clear mind and many means in planning. The old man and the young man didn't look like them at all.
Simple role.
"So, the last teammate we are looking for this time is this knight-errant Cang Yueming?" Liang Yan said leisurely after taking a sip of wine.
"Yes, that's why I want to find you to go to the Hundred Flowers Club!"
Ji Lai unfolded the folding fan in his hand and said with a slight smile: "According to the information I inquired about, Cang Yueming likes drinking and composing poems, and he will never miss a grand event like the Hundred Flowers Club. In fact, he is not the only one who has come to Wushuang City to participate in the selection assessment. Most of the monks will go there. After all, there are still many people who have not found allies. This Baihua Festival is a perfect opportunity for everyone to observe other competitors and then choose the most suitable partner for them."
"So that's it." Liang Yan saw the smile on Ji Lai's face and couldn't help but nodded: "It seems that you have already thought of a countermeasure in your mind. You will definitely be able to win over this 'South China Sea Swordsman' by then?"
"Hehe, although I dare not say 'certainly', the success rate is very high!"
Ji said as he stretched out his hand, he actually took out two bottles of "Tai Qing Hong Yun Pulp" from the storage ring!
"These two bottles are the only treasures left in my master's collection. I stole them all. That's Cang Yueming's good wine. I'm just going to let him have his way!"
Liang Yan looked at the two bottles of fairy wine on the table, his eyes suddenly jumped, and he almost subconsciously covered his storage ring.
"This Sanchi Shen. Did he commit any evil in his previous life?"