At this moment, under the setting sun, the afterglow falls on the mountain path, seeming to cover the rock steps with a layer of orange gauze, adding a bit of sacredness.
It seems that walking on it and stepping on the sunshine can lead to glory all the way.
On both sides of the mountain road, you can see green leaves and flowers everywhere. The fragrance and earthy smell blend into the mountain wind blowing, and as the humidity hits your face, it penetrates your mind and permeates your whole body.
The surrounding green trees and the clear chirping of birds seem to be composing the future of all those who have walked this mountain road, including the group of people here at this moment.
There were five people in the group, and the one at the front was the middle-aged man with a round face. He was walking with his hands behind his back, introducing the sect to Xu Qing and others behind him.
"Since you have successfully joined the Seven Blood Pupils, I will also explain the sect to you. In fact, in my opinion, the Seven Blood Pupils are not a sect."
"It is more like a huge profit industry in the name of the sect!"
The round-faced middle-aged man spoke calmly, and his words fell into the ears of the four people behind him, making these young men and women who had newly worshiped the Seventh Peak feel shocked.
Among the four people, except Xu Qing, the other three are Zhou Qingpeng, Li Zimei, and a girl.
The girl's name is Xu Xiaohui. She has a ponytail and ordinary clothes. She is obviously not from a wealthy family, but she is much better than a scavenger. She should be from a small town.
She once showed her kindness to Xu Qing on the way, but Xu Qing was not good at sociability and didn't like people getting too close to her. She just nodded, so the girl soon began to please Zhou Qingpeng.
Zhou Qingpeng's gentle smile, contrary to Xu Qing's reticence, made the girl feel closer to him, and the two of them occasionally whispered to each other in low voices on the way.
As for Li Zimei, she seems to be very reserved and has some low self-esteem, so she is at the bottom of the team and keeps a certain distance from everyone.
However, Zhou Qingpeng paid close attention to her and Xu Qing, so he would take the initiative to smile from time to time, which made Li Zimei seem less reserved.
At this moment, the mountain wind blew by, lifting everyone's hair, and also conveyed the words of the round-faced middle-aged man in front of them.
"The Seven Blood Pupils are divided into the mountain and the mountain. You can see them as two worlds. In fact, they are indeed two worlds, and you...are the people at the foot of the mountain."
"Only those who build the foundation are qualified to go up the mountain and have the right to distribute the benefits of the Seven Blood Pupils. However, the people at the bottom of the mountain live in cruelty and hardship and can only struggle."
"So for the people at the foot of the mountain, going up the mountain is their greatest desire in life. Do you know how many people are in the main city at the foot of the mountain?" The round-faced middle-aged man glanced at the four young men and women behind him.
"Three million people!" He raised his right hand and stretched out three fingers.
"These three million people include civilians and all low-level disciples in each peak. You will also be one of them and need to survive under the rules of the Seven Blood Pupils."
"The rules of the main city of Seven Blood Pupils are very simple, that is, contribution points. For everyone under the mountain, whether civilians or disciples, the cost of staying in the main city every day is thirty contribution points, which is thirty spiritual coins."
"Deductions are being made every day. Once the number on the jade slip token reaches zero, you will be expelled from the Seven Blood Pupils. This is true for civilians and the same is true for disciples."
"If you stay forcibly, you will be wiped out by the formation after an hour."
The words of the round-faced monk made the expressions of Xu Qing and the other four people change. Even Zhou Qingpeng understood it, but when he heard this rule again, his eyes showed fear.
"This is just the basic residence fee. As for food and accommodation, it's up to you to make your own choices. Survival of the fittest. Prices in the main city of Seven Blood Pupils are extremely high, but the highest prices are for cultivation resources."
Listening to the words of the round-faced monk, Xu Qing fell silent. The other three were also shocked by this harsh statement. Xu Xiaohui hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice.
"In that case, why are so many civilians coming? Thirty spirit coins a day... one spirit stone a month is too expensive. Besides, if we obtain the disciple status, we also have to pay contribution points. If the disciple status
What’s the use?”
The round-faced middle-aged man glanced at Xu Xiaohui.
"The civilians who are willing to spend a lot of money to teleport here are all capable people. The reason why they rush to arrive is because the main city of Seven Blood Eyes protects civilians, and disciples cannot kill innocent people indiscriminately. In addition...here...
There are formations to isolate foreign matter and increase lifespan."
"Compared to the outside world where aliens are everywhere, ferocious beasts and desperate people are everywhere, the main city of Seven Blood Eyes is naturally the place they dream of."
"As for what's the use of becoming a disciple?"
"First, the cultivation resources are only open to those who have obtained the qualifications of disciples. Others cannot buy them. The circulation of external rumors is also strictly prohibited. Once caught, you will definitely die."
"Second, only disciples who practice the Seven Blood Eyes Cultivation Technique can have the right to go up the mountain and receive benefit distribution after the Seven Blood Eyes practice reaches the foundation. Therefore, you must work harder in the future. Although the sect is clear on the surface,
We are not allowed to kill each other, but every month...there are still quite a few disciples who disappear inexplicably in the city. To this, most of the sects turn a blind eye and just feed their poison. Death and injury are normal."
"But once an outside foundation-building monk attacks you Qi Condensation disciples, the person who does it will be severely punished. This is a violation of the rules of the Seven Blood Pupils. Of course, the sect does not care about the outside Qi Condensation disciples."
The round-faced monk smiled meaningfully.
Xu Qing was slightly relieved when he heard these words. This was one of the reasons why he came to Qixuetong.
At this moment, Li Zimei was standing aside and asked after hesitation.
"If this is the case, then how can the sect give the disciples who grew up in such an environment a sense of belonging, and how can the sect itself be cohesive?"
The round-faced monk laughed.
"Cohesion? What is cohesion? Friendship is one kind, gratitude is another kind, and awe is another kind, but these are not strong. In this cruel and chaotic world, the real sense of belonging and real cohesion are interests!"
"As long as you are a disciple of the Seven Blood Pupils and use the Seven Blood Pupils technique to break through to the foundation, you will be qualified to go up the mountain, and you will also have the right to distribute the profits of the Seven Blood Pupils."
"The monthly income of Seven Blood Pupils is public. It comes from everyone's living expenses, sales of practice resources, and port transactions. Almost 500 million spiritual coins are entered into the account every day. When calculated as spiritual stones, it is 500,000. One month is
The income of fifteen million spiritual stones.
From these profits, according to the rights and interests of different cultivation levels, in addition to the sect retaining part of the daily expenses, the rest will be distributed to all disciples with foundation building and above."
"The higher the cultivation level, the more distribution. Disciples in the early stage of foundation building can distribute about 5,000 spirit stones a month. If they reach the stage of forming pills, they can earn at least tens of thousands of spirit stones every month."
"This is why I say that the Seven Blood Pupils are more like an industry. All foundation-building disciples who have been promoted to the mountain are equivalent to joining this industry. As long as the Seven Blood Pupils exist for one day, they will have one day of profits!"
"So, do you think that when a foreign enemy wants to plunder your property, you will just watch your own interests being taken away and not take action?"
As the words of the round-faced monk came out, Xu Qing's eyes showed a deep light. He now fully understood the Seven Blood Pupils.
The cohesion in troubled times, maybe... as the other party said, interests can bind everything.
Li Zimei also fell silent and stopped talking.
The round-faced monk smiled faintly. He had brought many batches of disciples. As he had just said, he had also said it many times. In troubled times, interests are an eternal truth. At this moment, he pointed down the mountain.
"Let me tell you about the prosperity of Seven Blood Pupils. Look over there. It is the largest port in the entire Nanhuang Continent. There is an endless stream of ships coming and going on weekdays. No matter what external force is transporting, or other peaks of the sect.
Most of the disciples who go to sea to complete their missions come from us, and the seventh peak controls this port area."
"So, the boat... is the key to my Seventh Peak disciple's practice. We call it the Dharma Boat."
Xu Qing looked in the direction of his finger. In the setting sun, from this position on the mountain, he could clearly see the main city port below.
Near the sea, many horseshoe-shaped harbors have been dug out. Each one is very large and seems to be able to accommodate a large number of boats. There are many such harbors, hundreds of them.
It is vast and spreads far, but the overall color is also different. Half of it is white, with most of the huge merchant ships inside, and the other half of the harbor is mostly purple with buildings inside.
Looking from a distance, the boats in the purple area are very small and densely packed.
In addition, every harbor has a gate and a lighthouse erected high up.
"The white area is open to the outside world, and the purple area is the residence of my Seventh Peak disciples."
"The boat inside it is the Dharma boat I just mentioned!" came the words of the round-faced monk.
"My Seventh Peak's Dharma Boat is famous throughout the entire Nanhuang Continent, and it is also the core and soul of the Seventh Peak's disciples' practice."
"It is not only your cave, but also your mount. It is also your fighting partner and a necessity for obtaining resources. You can completely regard the magic boat as a... magic weapon!"
When the round-faced monk said this, both Li Zimei and Xu Xiaohui opened their eyes wide, obviously knowing the existence of the magic weapon, and Zhou Qingpeng also showed a strange look in his eyes, with strong expectations.
Xu Qing felt the same way, and his mind was shaken. He knew very well the value and rarity of the magic weapon, so he looked at the purple area of the port again, but the densely packed boats there made him feel that it seemed somewhat inconsistent with the rarity of the magic weapon.
"Of course it's not a real magic weapon, but my seventh peak's magic ark has the ability to grow. As your cultivation level improves and you continue to refine it, sooner or later, it is not impossible that it will become a magic weapon."
"So, owning a Dharma boat of your own is the biggest dream and pursuit of every disciple who has just entered the Seventh Peak."
"It's just that the most basic Dharma Ark also needs to be exchanged. It requires 100,000 contribution points, which is 100 spiritual stones."
"In addition, only disciples with Dharma Ark are eligible to be randomly assigned to work and practice in the harbor."
"As for the disciples who do not have a Dharma Ark, they can only find ways to make money on their own. The limit is three years. If they cannot accumulate enough contributions to redeem the Dharma Ark within three years, their cultivation will be revoked and they will be expelled."
"Because, my seventh peak's skills are related to the sea. If you practice with the Dharma Boat and use the spirit gathering array inside, you will get twice the result with half the effort. By the way, the skills are free. You can get them by becoming a disciple."
Listening to the words of the round-faced middle-aged man, Xu Qing's heart stirred up. While he was attracted by the special boat of the Seventh Peak, he also gradually learned more about the Seventh Peak.
The Dharma Ark is a key item for Seventh Peak disciples.
Disciples who own the Dharma Boat will be assigned responsibilities and are eligible to live in the purple sea area of the harbor. Therefore, the round-faced middle-aged man said before that the Dharma Boat is a cave, but if you want to live there, you have to spend contribution points.
Disciples who do not have boats can only do chores on the shore, struggle to practice, and must work hard every day to accumulate contributions.
Moreover, most of the people from other peaks and even the entire Nanhuang Continent go to sea here, so it is often necessary to rent a boat from a disciple of the Seventh Peak. This is also a way to earn contribution points.
Basically, the vast majority of disciples in the entire Seventh Peak are like this. Everyone is trying to survive, hoping to break through and become a foundation builder, and obtain the qualifications for the distribution of benefits from the Seven Blood Pupils.
"Therefore, the Dharma Ark and cultivation are the key to surviving on this seventh peak before establishing foundation and cultivation."
"We must exchange for a Dharma Ark as soon as possible!" Xu Qing's eyes flashed, and there was a strong sense of urgency in his heart.
In this way, under the introduction of the round-faced monk, Xu Qing and his party arrived halfway up the mountain. This is where the full function of the identity token is activated for the new disciples. At the same time, Kung Fu Taoist robes are distributed.
There is only one kind of Taoist robe, and that is the gray Taoist robe.
The gray robe is the basic clothing for all Seven Blood Pupil peak disciples. It will be distributed free of charge to disciples who activate their identity tokens.
Just opening the token requires one thousand contribution points, and the token after opening records each person's basic information and contribution value, and can also be used for communication.
As everyone obtained the skills and opened their identity tokens one after another, they obtained the gray robe. Xu Qing held it in his hand and felt the weak spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from it, knowing that the material of this robe was good.
It feels very soft and will not wrinkle easily. If placed outside, this robe would probably be worth a lot.
Li Zimei on the side, who was similar to Xu Qing, was also stroking the Taoist robe, with firmness in her eyes. Xu Xiaohui on the other side looked at Zhou Qingpeng.
Zhou Qingpeng blinked, glanced at the round-faced monks and the sect seniors distributing supplies, and suddenly spoke softly.
"Senior, this junior wants to buy a Dharma boat."
The round-faced monk smiled when he heard this. The person handing out supplies was a skinny old man. He glanced at Zhou Qingpeng and spoke calmly.
"One hundred thousand contribution points, or one hundred spirit stones." As soon as the skinny old man spoke, Li Zimei and Xu Xiaohui took a breath. In their understanding, one hundred spirit stones was an unimaginable amount of money.
At this time, Zhou Qingpeng quickly stepped forward, took out a golden paper ticket, and handed it over respectfully.
"Second Peak Spirit Ticket? Okay." The old man took it and looked at it. After putting it away, he took out a purple brocade box and pushed it over. Then he looked up at the others.
"Which of you wants to redeem?"
Li Zimei and Xu Xiaohui both lowered their heads. After thinking for a while, Xu Qing endured the pain and stepped forward to take out a hundred pieces of spiritual stones from the leather bag and placed them in front of the skinny old man.
Without saying a word, the old man gave him a brocade box despite the envy of Li Zimei and Xu Xiaohui and the sideways glances of Zhou Qingpeng.
Xu Qing took it and opened it. There were only two items in the brocade box, a jade slip and a transparent vial.
The vial was very strange. It was only about the size of a palm. It was half full of liquid, like sea water. And on the sea water, there was a small black-topped boat floating!
This small boat is all black and looks simple, but if you look carefully, you can find that every plank on it is filled with a large number of runes. Even if the entire boat is separated in a bottle, it still has a powerful and powerful look.
Press to spread.
It can be said that both the bottle itself and the boat are worth far more than a hundred spiritual stones. As for the jade slip, it records information about the black-topped boat.
"Okay, you can go down the mountain. Remember not to teach the skills and techniques to others, otherwise... it will be very miserable." A middle-aged voice with a round face interrupted Xu Qing's observation.
"Xu Xiaohui and Li Zimei, please work harder to take care of yourself and strive to obtain the Dharma Ark as soon as possible. As for Zhou Qingpeng and Xu Qing, your identity tokens have employment information, so go your separate ways."
The four people immediately clasped their fists at the round-faced monk. Xu Qing was about to leave, but was stopped by the round-faced monk.
"Xu Qing."
Xu Qing turned his head and looked at the round-faced monk respectfully.
"Among the low-level monks, you are very strong. You are obviously only at the seventh level of body refining, but you have formed the shadow of qi and blood that can only be achieved by the perfect body refining. It shows that your talent is good. It can be said that among the low-level monks, you are already a strong one.
They are in the same category, and it is easy to kill some miscellaneous cultivators and Xiao Zongjiu, ten levels of Qi Condensation."
"However, body training is relatively simple. It is just the accumulation of speed, strength and recovery, but this is not the great road."
"The great way for our monks is to practice Dharma! I advise you to practice Dharma more seriously in the future. The power of spiritual magic in your body is too weak. It is okay to face miscellaneous cultivators. But if you face a large number of disciples, you will be very difficult.
Suffer!"
Xu Qing was shocked when he heard this.
"Also, I don't know where you lived before, but I guess you must have been surrounded by dangers, so you developed some instinctive habits."
"Habit?" Xu Qing was startled.
"Since this is my test for you, let me remind you. For example, when you walk, your right hand barely moves, especially your index and middle fingers are always on alert. I guess there is something in the leather bag on your right side.
A needle-like or throwing knife-like weapon that can be held between two fingers so that you can take it out at any time."
Xu Qing's expression condensed. This was the first time that someone had seen through him so clearly.
"But I advise you, it is best not to take your habits as nature. In this case, you will be easily spotted by others and suffer a loss. You must know that there are no traces and the needle is hidden in the cotton, which is the way of our generation."
The round-faced middle-aged man opened his mouth with a smile, but he didn't look sharp at all. This time he reminded the disciple in front of him that for him, it was just a casual investment, nothing more.
But Xu Qing felt a chill in his back. After standing there, he took a deep breath and bowed deeply to the other party.
Until he walked far away, Xu Qing's heart was echoing the other person's words. He lowered his head and looked at his right hand, trying hard to control it to make it more natural.
Under the control of this attempt, his right hand gradually changed. It was no longer stiff, but slightly more natural. But if you look carefully, you can see that in this naturalness, every shake seems to contain an edge.
.
On his way down the mountain, he kept trying, and in a strange scavenger camp in the wilderness far away from Qixuetong, Qi Ye was squatting on a roof, looking at a man not far away with interest.
The young man was fighting with a wild dog. The young man's mouth was full of blood and blood stained with dog hair, and his expression seemed to be bloodthirsty.
Seeing this scene, Master Qi showed appreciation in his eyes.
Beside him, a servant was also squatting there. At this moment, he took out the jade slip, checked it, and spoke in a low voice.
"Master Qi, the child has reached the seventh blood pupil."
"What kid?" Master Qi looked at the young man in front of him and said casually.
The servant smiled bitterly and explained in a low voice.
"He was the young man who was reluctant to wear new clothes before killing someone. You also helped him talk to Master Bai, taught him the art of grass and trees, and later gave him a white token."
Qi Ye looked dazed and nodded, remembering Xu Qing, his eyes showed appreciation again.
"I remembered that he was a kind and kind boy."
"Does it require special care?" the servant asked.
Master Qi waved his hand.
"No need, in this troubled world, if you want to survive, you need to rely on your own efforts. If he can finally rely on himself and come to me, I will give him a good fortune." As he said that, Qi Ye pointed not far away.
A boy who fights with wild dogs everywhere.
"Do you think this young man is more like a wolf cub than a child?"
The servant glanced at the boy pointed by Master Qi and gave a wry smile. He had answered similar questions several times. This was already the ninth child that Master Qi had favored along the way.
"It's pretty much the same."
When Master Qi heard this, he glanced sideways at the servant and suddenly laughed.
"I helped the child speak to Master Bai and gave him the white token. This was a favor from me, but it does not mean that I must accept him as a disciple. I don't owe him, I just gave him a chance."
"And I really want to recruit the fourth child, but when I first accepted the third child, I gave out more than 50 white tokens to get the third child. You and I have only been together for a short time, so you don't know my identity.
style."
"This time, I think more than fifty tokens are not enough to appear as a fourth child. It will cost at least one hundred yuan."
"Young man, go and give me a white token. There is still no need to say anything." After Master Qi spoke, he stood up and walked towards the distance——
The two chapters total nearly 9,000 words, so I didn’t forcefully divide it into three chapters.
I’m very happy to see the monthly ticket rankings. Thank you to all the pretty ladies, especially Brother Yanhui for your support~