"Next, I am going to implement a measure in the sect. The sect's magical powers, spells, and various magic weapons such as the 'Ruyi Shuttle' will no longer be easily provided to the disciples."
After hearing Zhang Kezhi's words, Fenghua Zhenjun and others all frowned.
If you do this, then no one will be willing to learn from the inheritance of your sect.
Just listen to Zhang Ke continue:
"It is indeed a big problem that the disciples in the sect don't like to practice magic. The root cause lies in their dependence on the 'Ruyi Shuttle'.
The disciples must be made aware of the limitations of the ‘Ruyi Shuttle’, which is another reason why I established the ‘Babel Tower’.
Aren’t you fellow juniors worried that your sect’s inheritance will be lost? I have a good idea.”
Fenghua Zhenjun and the other twenty or so people were refreshed and all turned their attention to Zhang Ke.
"The 'Babel Tower' has ninety-nine floors, and each small realm has nine levels of checkpoints.
Junior brothers can place the spells and magical powers that their sect is good at in these levels.
For example, if Junior Brother Fenghua is proficient in the ‘Craftsman Sect’ inheritance, he can set up some mechanisms, puzzles and other gatekeepers in these levels.
Junior Brother Jinhu comes from "Fulong Mountain" and can use puppets to demonstrate his own methods of subduing dragons and tigers in these levels.
The level has two functions: it can let the disciples understand that the ‘Ruyi Shuttle’ cannot solve any problems, and it can also let the disciples see the power of other inheritances.
This is used to attract disciples to take the initiative to learn various inheritances."
Zhang Ke's words immediately attracted everyone. This was indeed a good idea.
Now the disciples in the sect don’t understand all kinds of inheritance at all, and they don’t know which inheritance is more suitable for them.
Only by letting them realize their own shortcomings can they learn actively.
Zhang Ke's voice continued to echo in my ears.
"Each small realm of the 'Tower of Babel' has nine levels of checkpoints. How to arrange the levels on each level requires careful study and discussion by everyone.
The difficulty should be set according to the cultivation level of the disciples at each stage. It should not be too difficult or too easy.
For example, in the innate ‘fetal breath’ realm, disciples in this realm have just embarked on spiritual practice, so the initial gatekeeping questions should not be too difficult.
You can set up some practice puzzles and problems that are easily overlooked in practice for disciples to answer.
When the disciples who are climbing the tower are stumped by difficult problems, they will naturally engage in targeted learning.
Then the difficulty of the levels is gradually increased, and some of the levels must be set so that they can only be completed through cooperation. In this case, the disciples in the sect can only cooperate with each other.
In addition, the ninth level of each small realm is more difficult to set up.
The sect no longer teaches its disciples magical powers and techniques easily, in order to use these things as trophies for breaking through the 'Tower of Babel'.
There is no need to specify what these trophies are. They can be skills, magical powers, talisman money, elixirs, magic weapons, sect contribution points, etc.
You can even throw in some more precious treasures from time to time to enhance the enthusiasm of the disciples to rush the tower.
In addition, in order to prevent the disciples from repeatedly rushing the tower to gain resources in the trial levels below their own realm.
There are restrictions on the disciples who can rush the tower. Each disciple can rush the tower once a month at most. Disciples who do not want to go through the trial are forced to rush the tower once every six months.
If a disciple repeatedly tries the same level in a short period of time, after reaching a certain number of times, the reward for climbing the tower can be reduced, and the difficulty of continuing to rush the tower can be increased as a punishment.
Of course, the disciples in the sect have different focuses of practice, so when setting up these levels, they can be divided into two categories for the disciples to choose from.
Combat levels and auxiliary levels.
There is no need to go into details about combat levels, I believe everyone already knows about them.
The auxiliary levels are prepared for the disciples in the sect who are not good at fighting.
For example, 'weapon refining', 'alchemy refining' and some auxiliary inheritors.
However, the world of cultivation is ultimately a world where the jungle prevails. In order to avoid a large number of non-combat cultivators appearing in the sect, the rewards for combat-type cultivation levels can be enhanced.
Things given for free are worthless. Only after going through a lot of hard work to obtain them will the disciples cherish them more.
The function of the ‘Babel Tower’ is to allow the disciples in the sect to realize their own shortcomings, and also to allow everyone to better demonstrate the strengths of their sect and attract disciples to learn the inheritance that suits them.
In addition, the rankings of the small realms and large realms of the 'Tower of Babel' trial must be publicly listed.
This ranking will take into account various aspects such as the time, difficulty, and number of times the disciples have rushed the tower, and the top 100 will be listed, and special rewards will be given to encourage the disciples to practice."
Zhang Ke's suggestion couldn't help but arouse the interest of everyone in the palace.
Not to mention the disciples in the sect, even they have some expectations and want to know how their strength ranks among the sect.
Qingmei's eyes were as bright as stars at this moment, and a strong sword intent almost came out of her body.
The practice of swordsmanship is to make rapid progress when fighting against others. She was extremely satisfied with Zhang Ke's suggestion.
'Looks like I need to reward this guy for coming up with something so interesting.'
Zhenjun Fenghua and others were also greatly surprised. In this case, as long as they show the characteristics of their inheritance, like-minded disciples will naturally be attracted and join.
At the same time, I was also heartbroken by Zhang Ke’s magnanimity.
If it had been anyone else, I would have wished that all the disciples would only practice their own lineage, how could I be willing to let them learn other lineages.
After some discussion among the people in the hall, Lord Baishi opened his mouth and said:
"Master, the resources in the sect have been distributed relatively loosely to the disciples in recent years.
Those practitioners who are currently participating in the trial may be interested in the rewards of the 'Tower of Babel'.
But the old disciples of our sect have accumulated a lot of resources over the years, and many disciples have many patents or other benefits.
Some of the wealthier disciples may not be tempted by the rewards from the ‘Tower of Babel’.”
Zhang Ke nodded, flicked his fingers, and a little light flew out and exploded in the palace, quickly constructing two different talisman forehead ornaments.
"What Shiraishi said is right, that's why I am making a fuss about the ranking of the 'Tower of Babel'.
Since rewards are to be given, they must be heavily rewarded and everyone must feel excited.
Here are two random headdresses I made.
Jin Ting, Shao Hong, stand in front of the hall!"
Yuan Jinting and Lan Shaohong responded respectfully.
Lan Shaohong and Xu Qingzhi joined the sect in the same batch, and had witnessed Zhang Ke's methods in the misty secret realm.
Later, when the sect established a branch, she took the initiative to join it. Now her cultivation has reached the level of the Dragon and Tiger Realm, and she may take the step to become a Yuanshen at any time.
After the two girls stood in front of the palace, Zhang Ke moved his fingers slightly, and the two forehead ornaments flew directly to their foreheads and fixed themselves.
The two forehead ornaments, one in gold and one in purple, are both composed of two rune-patterned belts surrounding a rune-patterned gemstone. Although Zhang Ke only constructed them casually, they are like two stars attached to each other, extremely bright.
Set off by these two star forehead ornaments, the looks of Yuan Jinting and Lan Shaohong instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the palace.
Qingmei, Ding Xiaoxiao, Xu Qingzhi and many other female cultivators' eyes suddenly became a little straight.
'so beautiful!'
Zhang Ke opened his mouth and said:
"My idea is to use the results of the 'Tower of Babel' trial to select the best disciples in each realm and arrange them into different levels.
The top 100 people in each small realm can get one such forehead ornament, and the top 100 people in the big realm can get another kind of forehead ornament to distinguish them.
The forehead ornaments awarded to the top disciples in each realm will be different.
These two pieces of frontal ornaments were just made by me at random. If you are not satisfied with the style, you can customize it later.
The reason why it looks like a forehead ornament is just to make the disciple wearing it more eye-catching.
From now on, the true disciples of our sect, elites, and ordinary disciples will all be produced from the trials of the ‘Babel Tower’.
The top three disciples in each realm can be listed as the true disciples of the sect, the remaining disciples who have entered the ranking are elites, and the other disciples who have not entered the ranking are ordinary disciples.
Ordinary disciples will also be divided into different levels according to the progress of climbing the tower in the 'Babel Tower'.
As for how many levels it is divided into and how it is displayed, it can be decided after everyone discusses it.
In this way, as long as you are a disciple of the sect, you can know the status of that person in the sect just by seeing the forehead ornaments worn by others.
However, since the strength of the disciples will continue to change, these rankings will also fluctuate.
So this is just a direction, and specific standards can be discussed and supplemented."
Some of the more powerful disciples in the temple couldn't help but look happy, while other less powerful disciples looked sad.
Zhang Ke continued:
"In addition, ordinary disciples in the sect must salute first when encountering elite disciples wearing forehead ornaments. In case of various emergencies and accidents, elite disciples wearing forehead ornaments will directly gain command authority.
Of course, if ordinary disciples think there is something wrong with the elite disciples' instructions, they can also complain to the sect afterwards.
However, when something happens, no matter whether the instructions of these elite disciples are correct or not, the disciples under the command must obey them unconditionally."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the palace felt a chill in their hearts.
This alone gives great power to the disciples who are wearing accessories. Zhang Ke’s move is obviously to encourage the disciples to break into the ‘Tower of Babel’.
And subtly establishing a hierarchy within the sect's disciples.
Once a habit is formed, the obedience and discipline of the sect disciples will definitely be enhanced.
And this is not over yet, just listen to Zhang Ke continue:
"From now on, the treatment of true disciples, elites, and ordinary disciples must be distinguished.
In terms of resources, elite disciples receive five times the resources of ordinary disciples, while true disciples receive five times the resources of elite disciples.
The same goes for ordinary disciples. Different levels will receive different resource allocations.
In addition, our sect will implement a last-place elimination system in the future.
Every five years, the last three true disciples and the last ten elite disciples will automatically leave the original sequence.
The last 300 disciples ranked among ordinary disciples will become outer disciples, and their vacated positions will be taken by other disciples through battles.
Presumably, this should be able to inspire the enthusiasm of the disciples in the sect to practice."
The expressions of everyone in the palace changed slightly.
How to motivate a person to keep moving forward is not to tie a carrot in front, but to use a whip from behind.
Xu Qingzhi did some calculations and said hesitantly:
"Master, if you follow this rule, I'm afraid there won't be many true disciples of our sect.
Not counting the Yuanshen realm and the outer realm, there are only three people in each of the four innate realms, and there are only fifteen people in the four realms plus the big realm.
There are only three realms of Jindan, and there are no more than twelve people at most.
Our sect is quite large now, but if there are only twenty-seven true disciples, this is a bit unjustifiable.
Moreover, this method can only select disciples who are good at fighting. Some disciples are only good at cultivation, but may not be good at fighting."
Zhang Ke chuckled.
"It can't be calculated like this. I plan to rank the 'Tower of Babel' every three years.
All disciples listed as true disciples will no longer appear in the rankings, and another trial venue can be listed separately for trials of true disciples.
As a result, nearly thirty disciples will become true disciples every three years.
This item will be assessed by me in the end. If I am not here, Qingzhi will assess it.
Our sect’s true inheritance is different from other sects, and we would rather lack it than overwhelm it.
Therefore, even if he becomes the top three in each realm, if his strength cannot meet the sect's requirements, the sect will not classify him as a true successor.
Some disciples are indeed not good at fighting, but unless they have 'weapon refining', 'alchemy refining', 'planting' and other auxiliary abilities that are useful to the sect, everyone is treated equally.
If you are not good at fighting, just learn and practice, or become an auxiliary practitioner. The sect will not keep useless people."
Zhang Ke's words were very plain, but the meaning behind them was about to cause an uproar in the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect'.
Xu Qingzhi calculated in his mind that according to Zhang Ke's method, there should be about ten more true disciples in the sect every year.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As long as the time is long enough, after hundreds of years of development, the number of true disciples in the sect will also increase greatly.
These true disciples who stand out from the 'Tongtian Tower' can not only make other disciples admire them, but also inspire other disciples.
Moreover, this method is relatively open, fair and just.
Even if there are still some areas that are not appropriate, they can still be discussed again.
But now she has one more thing to worry about.
"Master, if this method is implemented from now on, wouldn't it be unfair to the trial disciples who are about to join our sect?
They will be faced with the situation of not having any resources after entering the sect, and I don’t know how to deal with this matter?"
This is indeed true. Today's disciples of the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect', especially those who entered the sect through the academy.
They have been joining the sect for the longest time, and the resources they have accumulated over the years are far richer than those of the disciples who joined the sect two years ago, let alone those who are still undergoing trials.
One of the biggest reasons why these disciples who are undergoing trials are willing to join the 'Xiantian Yiqi South Sect' is that they heard that the Yiqi South Sect is very wealthy and the treatment of the disciples is far better than that of other sects.
If after they finally pass the trial, they learn that the sect has reduced various expenses, I'm afraid there will be resentment.
After all, they are all casual cultivators who have just joined the sect. Don't talk about ideals or the future with them at this moment. What they want is real benefits.
Zhang Ke also considered this point, pondered for a moment, and said slowly:
"All disciples who are about to join the sect will be given three years of resources according to the sect's treatment of corresponding disciples. Disciples who joined the sect two years ago will be given one year of additional resources."
Xu Qingzhi was shocked and couldn't help but said in embarrassment:
"About 120,000 practitioners participated in this trial, and no less than 80,000 people were able to join our sect in the end.
With so many disciples distributing three years' worth of resources at the same time, it might interfere with the sect's internal market transactions.
Secondly, these disciples may not cherish these resources, which may lead to waste.
Once the three sects allocate so many resources, I am afraid it will be difficult, so please think twice."
Zhang Ke smiled and said:
"The release of so many resources will naturally put pressure on the sect. The sect can issue corresponding vouchers with different dates marked on the vouchers.
Then every month these disciples can use the vouchers to withdraw their own resource allocation for one month.
Most of these people are casual cultivators, so just tell them that it is safer to store it in the sect rather than on your own body."
"Hahaha! Best regards, Chief!"
"Yeah, that's a good idea."
"..."
Zhang Ke's method made everyone present laugh.
Spending tens of thousands of people's resources for three years at once would indeed have various adverse effects on the sect, but Zhang Ke's method directly eliminated all kinds of troubles.
Don’t worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality!
This principle is universal. Although this is actually a different way of saying it is to supplement resources for new disciples, it can also make the old disciples of the sect feel less resentful.
And Xu Qingzhi always felt that Zhang Ke's method was not a hasty idea, but seemed to have a deeper purpose.
Yes, Zhang Ke has the idea of establishing an internal bank within the sect.
A large amount of resources accumulated on many disciples will not be used, but will be saved.
This behavior greatly affects the operation of resources and is really wasteful.
Zhang Ke was naturally unwilling and wanted to make use of these resources.
In the blue world, there are existences similar to banks, but they are small in scale and have not yet been recognized by practitioners in the world.
In Zhang Ke's dream, there is already a wealth of experience and examples of how this kind of situation works.
But this matter is not a trivial matter. If it is not done well, the sect will lose all its support and may cause turmoil in the spiritual world.
Therefore, Zhang Ke has never dared to act rashly. Now that he has this opportunity, he wants to try to find out.
After everyone discussed for a while and gradually improved Zhang Ke's idea of sect reform and the 'Babel Tower', Zhang Ke made another suggestion.
"Junior Brother Fenghua, Junior Brother Jinhu, I have an idea that I don't know whether is appropriate or not. Please discuss it together."
The expressions of True Monarch Fenghua, Li Jinhu and others changed slightly, they looked at each other and then all looked at Zhang Ke.
"Master, please speak frankly!"
Zhang Ke, wearing a crane-feather cloak, held his chin with one hand and thought for a moment.
"Our sect now has more than 20 Yuanshen True Lords including Junior Brother Fenghua joining us. According to a rough calculation, there are nearly ten lineages, and there are countless types of systems under each lineage.
The inheritance of so many cultivation systems contains as many exercises, magical powers, and spells as stars.
The Xiantian realm is the basis for practice, but the longevity of disciples in this realm will not increase much. In addition to practicing the exercises, they also have to learn a lot of knowledge.
Even if the 'Babel Tower' trial is promoted, the disciples may learn more spells, and I am afraid that a Xiantian realm disciple will not be able to practice more than twenty spells, and this is what I have tried to say as much as possible.
After all, not everyone has Shiraishi's incredible qualifications and understanding.
If it were you, how would you choose a spell when faced with so many magical powers?"
Zhenjun Fenghua and others could not help but remain silent.
Yes, with too many choices in front of you, it is easy to be dazzled. Out of insurance, everyone will instinctively choose the most reliable method to practice.
In the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect', who can surpass Zhang Ke who is already in the cave heaven realm.
Because the example of Zhang Ke is at the forefront, the power and credibility of this lineage of practice are stronger than other lineages.
This is why most disciples will choose the practice method of Yiqi Sect.
Regarding this, Zhenjun Fenghua and others were helpless.
Just listen to Zhang Ke continue:
“I remember that when I first started practicing, I had similar confusion because I didn’t know which techniques I should learn.
After I advanced to the Golden Core Realm, I suddenly discovered that there were some spells with no potential that could no longer help me.
But when I first learned these techniques, I did spend a lot of time.
The reason why I built the ‘Ruyi Shuttle’ is to give my disciples as much time as possible to practice.
Now it seems that this method is wrong.
However, it was also Junior Brother Yunjie's idea of forming a team of practitioners with different heritages that inspired me, and now I have a new idea.
What do you think if we find some suitable exercises from various inheritances and combine them into a new system?"
Zhenjun Fenghua and others vaguely grasped the meaning of Zhang Ke's words, but still could not fully understand it.
Zhang Ke paused briefly, and after everyone understood what he meant, he continued:
"That's it, can we design a new practice system based on Junior Brother Yunjie's idea?
For example, for the defensive practitioners mentioned by Junior Brother Yunjie, can we take defense as the core and form one or more systems of defensive spells from different inheritances, including exercises, magical powers, spells, and magic weapons?
After all, Yiqizong's own techniques cannot support so many systems.
This requires the inheritance of all of us to be gathered together to form this system.
From the Xiantian realm to the Yuanshen realm, the techniques of each realm are connected to form a system, and you can continue to practice even if you continue to advance."
'boom--!'
Everyone in the hall felt like their brains were going to explode.
True Lord Yunjie and a dozen other True Lords of Yuanshen suddenly stood up from where they were, and True Lord Fenghua lost his voice and said:
"Fellow Taoist Ruyi, you...are trying to subvert the current practice system!"
Because he was so excited, he even forgot to address him with the word 'master'.
Everyone else also looked at Zhang Ke with drastically changed expressions.
As for the other Jindan Realm masters, they even exploded and started talking in low voices one by one.
Zhang Ke waved his hand and said with a smile:
"It's not that exaggerated. If it could really have a huge impact on the spiritual world, how could I dare to say it so casually?
However, there may be a smaller impact.
Junior brothers, please sit down!"
After everyone's emotions gradually calmed down, Zhang Kecai continued:
"It is very difficult to establish such a system. Even if we work together, we don't know how many years it will take to build it.
At the same time, we can also find the most suitable spells for practitioners of various realms from the ‘Tower of Babel’ trial level.
In addition, even if this system is successful, it is still unclear whether it can produce the intended effect, so the trial of the 'Tower of Babel' cannot be given up.
The most important thing is that if you want to do this, your biggest reliance is on this skill."
Zhang Ke's eyes, filled with a layer of white mist, glanced downward.
“This sect is inherited from the ‘Shangqing Sect’, and its core technique is ‘Xiantian Yiqi’, which is a technique that extracts innate vitality from the void and refines it.
After my continuous derivation of this technique, this technique has been modified. According to the characteristics of the technique, I call it the 'Innate Hunyuan Yiqi Method'."
Zhang Ke's words made waves in the hearts of everyone in the hall.
'He can actually improve his own practice. Could it be that Zhang Ke has gone out of his own way?'
At the same time, some doubts in people's minds were also solved.
The characteristics of the "Shangqing Sect"'s exercises are dark gold in color, which means that the color of the magic power when running the exercises is dark gold.
The 'Xiantian Yiqi Nan Sect' was inherited from the 'Shangqing Sect'. When other disciples perform spells, the color of the mana that circulates and manifests is also dark gold.
But Fenghua Zhenjun and others had seen Zhang Ke perform magic, but his magic power was white gold in color.
Regarding this point, they discussed it privately a lot, and they all felt a little confused. Now they finally understood the reason.
After Zhang Ke waited for everyone to understand what he said, he continued:
"The so-called Hunyuan refers to the undivided vitality and chaos, which is the beginning of vitality!
Yuan Qi is born in chaos, within light and outside darkness.
Because there is a void between light and dark, there is too much nothingness within that void, and there is too little change to make the three qi distinct.
Xuan Qi, Yuan Qi, Shi Qi, and the three Qi are chaotic, causing Taixu to form a hole.
Because there is nothingness in the hole, there is nothingness because of nothingness, and there is nothingness because of existence. By observing the changes of emptiness and nothingness, nature can be born from nothingness.
My ‘Innate Hunyuan Yiqi’ technique, in which the word ‘Hunyuan’ is the key, can convert one’s own magic power into various other kinds of magic power.”
"What? How...how is this possible?"
"In this case, wouldn't the master be able to learn the spells of every sect in the world?"
"No wonder the leader is so powerful. With such heaven-defying skills, no one can defeat him."
"..."
The Lingxiao Palace became noisy again. Yuan Jinting saw Zhang Ke frowning slightly and immediately shouted:
"quiet!"
The sound was like a thunderbolt, blasting directly into everyone's ears, and the hall suddenly became quiet.
"hehe!"
Zhang Ke chuckled twice and looked at everyone in the hall.
"Only with this technique, I dare to propose to you to establish a new practice system based on the idea of Junior Brother Yunjie.
Because only this set of exercises can integrate magical powers and techniques from different inheritances into one place.
This is why I said it won’t have a big impact on the practice world, because it’s impossible for other sects to learn my techniques.”
After hearing Zhang Kezhi's words, the hearts of everyone in the hall started beating rapidly.
They have a feeling that a big pie may be about to fall on their heads.
As expected, Zhang Ke said leisurely:
"I am ready to contribute my core skills, and anyone who participates in the derivation of this practice system can obtain this method."
"ah--!"
The Lingxiao Palace could no longer remain calm, and everyone couldn't help but scream.