Chapter 17: Planning for a Sect

Planning for a Sect

Since the Dao Ancestor of Yin, Yang, and Five Elements created the world, all living beings in the heavens have sought transcendence. However, the path to transcendence is destined to be difficult at every step. Cultivators either pass it on from master to apprentice or branch out, seeking help from their bloodlines. Major sects and aristocratic families have emerged as the times require, which can be described as thousands of sects competing for style. Among the heavens and myriad worlds, there has gradually been an appraisal and comment on sects and aristocratic families, just like the Nine-Rank Official System, which classifies major sects into various grades such as World Sects, Prosperous Sects, and Flourishing Sects.

The so-called World Sect is the direct transmission of the Dao Ancestor, inheriting the Dao lineage and passing it down for generations. Nowadays, there are only a few dozen in the heavens and myriad worlds. Although the World Sect ranks at the top of the sects, its scale is often not the largest, but its status is transcendent. For example, the Dao Ancestor of Dongyang, whose Dao lineage has been passed down to this day, is still elusive, and it is not known which Zhou Tian in the Dongyang Realm it is hidden in. However, there are also many World Sects that have lower courtyards in the heavens, and even in a closed Zhou Tian like the Langhuan Zhou Tian, there is no lack of their inheritance.

"For example, the Shangyang Sect is the direct transmission of the second disciple of the Dao Ancestor of Yin, Yang, and Five Elements, the Dao Ancestor of Netherworld and Li Fire. The Dao Ancestor of Li Fire is in charge of the Netherworld and Kan-Li Daos. In the heavens and myriad worlds, except for the very few Zhou Tians that can lack the Great Dao, the rest of the territories are all indispensable for the three thousand Great Daos. Where there is a Great Dao, there is the manifestation of the Dao Ancestor's will. The power of the Dao Ancestor is far beyond the universe. The Shangyang Sect has lower courtyards in the heavens and myriad worlds, and its main sect mountain gate is located in the Shangyang Zhou Tian of the Shangyang Realm. Therefore, the Shangyang Sect also has a transcendent status in the Langhuan Zhou Tian—however, although it is a lower courtyard of the World Sect, it has always been low-key and humble in its actions, not wanting to provoke too much causality."

There are three thousand Great Daos and seventy-two Dao Ancestors. Theoretically, there are seventy-two World Sects, but the lower courtyards of the World Sects known to the Langhuan Zhou Tian are only five or six. Wang Panpan told Ruan Ci one by one. She also said, "The headmaster of the World Sect is naturally the Dao Ancestor himself. Some Dao Ancestors have other transmissions, casually pointing to the Dao children around them as headmasters. Although they are sects established by the Dao Ancestor, they can only be counted as Prosperous Sects. Most Prosperous Sects are also related to the Dao Ancestor, and very few are created by Cave Heaven True Persons themselves, such as the Xuan Po Sect and Yanshan, which are both Demon Prosperous Sects. Most of the demon cultivation inheritance in the Langhuan Zhou Tian is related to the Lord of the Doushuai Heaven, but it cannot be counted as a World Sect. However, the Lord of the Doushuai Heaven has long since fallen, and the World Sect that inherited the Dao lineage has also perished for a long time."

"Prosperous Sects usually govern many national borders, but outsiders are often unable to know. The Xuan Po Sect is like this. They act secretly and are always best at hiding their tracks. They don't even know where their mountain gate is hidden. The few little insects just now were right. If it weren't for the people from Yanshan, the great powers coming from the Central Continent might not be able to find what they have hidden. Only Yanshan's inheritance technique naturally restrains the Xuan Po Sect, and the Yanshan Demon Lord also married Xie Yan. You say, can the Xuan Po Sect not go crazy looking for you?"

"Is that Yanshan Demon Lord also a Cave Heaven great power? Did he... really marry Xie Jie?" Ruan Ci asked curiously, "Wait, but Liu Yizi and the others all think Xie Jie is a man!"

"Has anyone ever said that the Yanshan Demon Lord is a man?" Wang Panpan asked back, "Besides, even if they are both men, can't a man marry a man? Your husband Qu Tan Yue's more than a hundred wives include both men and women, and even chaotic children whose yin and yang are not yet determined."

Ruan Ci said, "He is not my husband."

Wang Panpan scraped her face with her cat claws and shamed her, "The betrothal gift has been accepted, the hall has been worshiped, and the tablet of the Master of the Dao has been placed. How can you not admit it? You are already a married woman. In the future, when the Xuan Po Sect members see you, they will have to respectfully call you Young Madam."

Ruan Ci was very ashamed and angry, "I wasn't willing when I worshiped the hall. It was Linu who manipulated my body. Can this count?"

She took out the Linghua Jade and threw it to the ground, "What kind of betrothal gift is this? It was also stuffed to me by Qu Tan Yue. I don't want it."

"If I were you, I wouldn't throw it away," Wang Panpan jumped to the ground, picked up the jade, and shook the tip of her tail, "You might as well open your true eyes and take a look?"

Ruan Ci heard this and couldn't help but be suspicious. She focused her eyes and looked, only to see light flowing on the jade. In addition to spiritual power, there was colorless sword brilliance flowing and entangling. The sword intent was not released, and there was an abnormally dangerous feeling. Wang Panpan said, "This Linghua Jade is a protective magic weapon given to his beloved son by the Master of the Xuan Po Sect. The precious materials used are very precious. Qu Tan Yue used his Foundation Establishment incarnation as a channel to lead all the sword Qi that your sea of consciousness couldn't accommodate into the jade. Otherwise, he couldn't resolve so much sword Qi. You would still be in that state of neither dead nor alive, until the next container came, but it's hard to say whether it would be successful. Go all out, then decline, then exhaust. The third time you pour out sword Qi, it might not be as smooth as the first and second times."

"Although you can carry the Donghua Sword now, you still can't draw the sword. The Donghua Sword is of no use to you, it's just a bridge for cultivation. Walking in the Xuan Gate, disputes are always inevitable. This jade hides the Donghua sword Qi, and it is an excellent protective magic weapon in times of danger. It is also good for assisting your cultivation when you are free. If I were you, I would collect it well. You have seen it for the past few months. Not to mention that mortal life is like an ant, even among cultivators, disputes are not just coming as they say?" Wang Panpan hummed, "Otherwise, next time, if you were Senior Brother Zhang, meeting Senior Brother Wang, would you still just count on me to save you?"

She was talking about the group of people in the Wan Xiong Sect, because Senior Brother Wang was invaded by the blood-line golden insect and killed his fellow disciples. Ruan Ci recalled it and still had lingering fears. Thinking of Xie Yan fighting two Nascent Soul cultivators alone, just one palm killed a Nascent Soul cultivator who had been cultivating for many years, she knew that Wang Panpan was right. The cultivation world is only more dangerous than the mortal world. She hurriedly held the Linghua Jade tightly and hung it around her neck with a silk thread, "Alright, I accept this betrothal gift. Being his wife is being his wife. Anyway... there are many wives in the world who kill their husbands."

"Why do you always not think of good things in your head." Wang Panpan laughed and cried, "It shouldn't be me who says this, but your brain, sometimes clear and sometimes confused, is really like it hasn't grown at this moment. The Yanshan Demon Lord is Xie Yan's mistress, and the Xuan Po Sect is his old rival. Why do you always think about killing Qu Tan Yue? Isn't this just like your two brothers and sisters, who are exactly the good helpers for you? Do you really want to be caught by the Demon Lord, trained into a puppet, and dazed waiting for Xie Yan to come back and take the sword?"

In Ruan Ci's heart, Xie Yan saved her and lent her the Donghua Sword, and treated her very well. The two were naturally standing together. Loving the house and its crow, she always thought that Xie Yan's relatives and friends were naturally close to her. Awakened by Wang Panpan's words, she was shocked and secretly thought, "That's right, Xie Yan has great courage and doesn't care who has the Donghua Sword, and perhaps even hopes that my skills will be greater, so that when I take back the Donghua Sword, I can give her some obstacles, which is fun. But this doesn't mean that the people around her think the same way. If you want to ensure that Xie Yan can take the Donghua Sword when she comes back, the best way is naturally to lock me up and practice some Dao methods that can only prolong life but have no power. In this way, whether Xie Yan comes back or other Sword Seeds are reincarnated, they can easily take the Donghua Sword from my hands."

She hadn't spent much time with Xie Yan, but for some reason, she was convinced that Xie Yan must feel that everything is more twists and turns and more dangerous to be interesting. She also admired Xie Yan's free and easy style, but her situation was very different from Xie Yan's, so she could only be careful everywhere.

Wang Panpan saw her nodding and not speaking, and softened her tone, "You will understand later. They are all old monsters who have cultivated for thousands or ten thousand years. Even if they like each other, they don't plan everything for each other. What's more, who would put their inner calculations in the public eye? Does Xie Yan really understand what the Demon Lord is thinking? I don't think so. The things between them are only known to themselves. Outsiders do say that Xie Yan was seduced by the Demon Lord, which is why she broke out of the sect and rebelled against the righteous path. But if you really treat the Demon Lord as a brother-in-law, hehe, that is looking for death."

Ruan Ci said, "That's right. Others see that Qu Tan Yue and I are already married, maybe they think we are very close. Who knows that we haven't said more than ten sentences."

Wang Panpan meowed and laughed, "That's right. Things in the cultivation world cannot be measured by common sense. Qu Tan Yue can marry more than a hundred wives, and you can marry more than a hundred husbands. When Xie Yan comes back to take the sword, you call out more than a hundred handsome men and beautiful women to block, isn't it fun?"

"I don't want to." Ruan Ci played with the jade on her chest and said again, "Then is Xie Jie a man or a woman? Also, are Xiu and Li blood-line golden insects? Are these insects very powerful? What techniques does the Xuan Po Sect have? Wan Xiong Sect, Lingxiao Sect, Yuxi Sect, Panxian Sect, and Yun Kong Sect, what grade are they?"

While speaking, Ruan Ci, under Wang Panpan's guidance, transported the few fainted mortals out of the underground cave. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to walk out of the maze set by Xiu and Li, and would be thirsty and hungry to death in the cave. Wang Panpan asked Ruan Ci to bring the white shirt left by Qu Tan Yue, saying that it was also a top-grade magic weapon that could change into a size suitable for Ruan Ci. The two talked as they walked. Ruan Ci waved the Donghua Sword in her hand from time to time. She could now easily move this sword, and it was neither light nor heavy, and it was very comfortable to hang on her body, but she still couldn't draw it out of the scabbard.

"The blood-line golden insect is one of the thirty-six strange insects raised by the Xuan Po Sect. You have seen it too. This insect aggregates as it wishes. When gathered together, it is a spiritual pet that can speak and laugh. When separated, it is one small insect after another. Wherever it crawls, it leaves a blood line. The blood-line golden insect eats everything and has endless wonderful uses. It can drill into the body of a cultivator or a common person. Once drilled into by the insect, it will be bewitched by the golden insect unknowingly. Even if the two insects, Xiu and Li, are thousands of miles away, they can secretly influence the cultivator's mind, just like an extra voice in the sea of consciousness, repeatedly chanting. If one's own mind is not firm, it will be like Senior Brother Wang, unknowingly, the thoughts are extreme, and a big mistake is made. After the golden insect stops making sound and stops talking, he wakes up and thinks he has gone astray, ashamed and committing suicide, and dies without knowing that someone harmed him secretly."

"This insect can be divided and gathered, its body is strong, and its number is large. As long as one escapes, it can still multiply in just over ten years. Its spirit is not scattered, everything is as usual, and it is almost impossible to kill. It can be said to be a major magic weapon in the hands of the Xuan Po Sect. Fortunately, heaven has its destiny, and the scale of the insect swarm has its limits. Otherwise, the Xuan Po Sect would have to become a thorn in the side of all sects in the world." Wang Panpan bent her fingers and said, "Li, Hua, Xiu, Yu, Se, Qing, Ge, E, Liu, Yun, the Xuan Po Sect only has these ten insect souls in total, and their true bodies are still sleeping in the Central Continent. Qu Tan Yue carries nothing but insect children and grandchildren. You are still worried about Xiunu being killed by you? Hmph, in order to find you, the two insects Xiu and Li don't know how many hosts they have found in South Zhuzhou. You killed those small insects of his, and in the blink of an eye, another one crawled out from nearby. If it were so easy to kill one, why would it be the signboard of the Xuan Po Sect?"

These strange magic weapons, exotic insects, and supernatural powers made Ruan Ci dazzled, sighing, "As expected of a demon sect, the methods are hidden and insidious, all of which are unknowingly confusing the mind, and it is the same path as the extraterrestrial demons."

"If it weren't for this, how could the Xuan Po Sect stand in the Central Continent," Wang Panpan said, "There are many things that I only knew after following my Master. Ordinary cultivators can know the four words 'blood-line golden insect', which is already very remarkable. As for the other sects you mentioned, the Yun Kong Sect is a Prosperous Sect in South Zhuzhou, with two or three Cave Heaven True Persons, so they can have genius disciples like Liu Yin. The three sects where Liu Yizi and the others are located, three sects together worship one Cave Heaven True Person, and they only govern six countries in total. They cannot govern one country alone and can only be counted as Prosperous Sects. Liu Yizi should also have a bright future in his Lingxiao Sect, but in the Yun Kong Sect, he is very ordinary."

That Chan Guang Sect, without a Cave Heaven in the sect, has a Nascent Soul Great Perfection True Person, and its grade is even lower than the Prosperous Sect. The Wan Xiong Sect, which doesn't even have a Nascent Soul, is even worse and doesn't need to be mentioned. There are also many sects pulled up by Foundation Establishment cultivators, with shallow inheritance and crude forms. Wang Panpan didn't even have the interest to discuss them, saying, "Those are all loose cultivator sects, they can't become a climate, and they have nothing to do with you. Even if you are willing to worship as a teacher, they dare not accept disciples. This heaven-defying causality, the things it brings are not something they can bear."

After this series of changes, Ruan Ci was no longer the ignorant girl she used to be. Hearing this, she also sighed, "Panpan, can we still live in Chen Guo? I think there should be more than just the Chan Guang Sect and the Xuan Po Sect that have movements, right? There should be more than one kind of strange object in the world, right?"

"You finally woke up." Wang Panpan was quite happy, squatting on Ruan Ci and looking around, "It's not just Chen Guo? Now the whole South Zhuzhou is surging with undercurrents. If you want to run, you can't run away, but it's not easy for them to find you."

Ruan Ci was not optimistic, "Qu Tan Yue and Xiu and Li have all seen me. They must have many ways to pass my appearance to their subordinates. The Xuan Po Sect acts so secretly, it's very difficult to escape their ears and eyes."

"This is something you don't know again," Wang Panpan raised her tail and said proudly, "The Donghua Sword can suppress luck. Do you think it's fake? So what if they have seen you? The appearance of the Donghua Sword Envoy cannot be depicted."

In Ruan Ci's view, in fact, not being able to depict it is also a flaw. She has many ways to crack it, such as from today on, everyone entering and leaving the city gate must have a portrait, and those who can't be drawn will be focused on, etc. It's just that she didn't want to argue with Wang Panpan, so she endured it and didn't say it. Wang Panpan saw it and explained, "This is the same as ordinary cultivators who can't perceive sword intent being able to manipulate you at will, but I have to avoid it. They are all a kind of knowledge barrier. Only those who know your identity cannot depict you, and others don't have this requirement."

Ruan Ci also wanted to know what this knowledge barrier was. Wang Panpan sighed when asked, "These are things your master should teach you. If you don't worship into the sect, you can't learn top-notch techniques. Your physical body has been tempered by the Donghua sword intent ten thousand times, and has been boiled by the blood-line golden insect for several months. In less than a year, you have finished the road that others have taken for more than ten years, and you have refined the Donghua Sword. At this time, body refining is almost complete, and it is time to worship into the Dao gate."

The two talked as they walked, and had already walked more than a hundred miles. Ruan Ci leaped in the mountains, and with a point of her toes, she could almost jump into the clouds. Holding her breath, she could soar in the air for a cup of tea before slowly falling. Such light-body technique was already top-notch, but for her, it was natural, without any internal strength or movement technique. Wang Panpan stood on her shoulder, looking down at the beautiful green mountains and rivers of Chen Guo under Ruan Ci's feet, her tail tip curled, and she said proudly, "Three years later, when the Heavenly Boat from the Central Continent docks, Prosperous Sects gather, and Flourishing Sects are in the thousands, all coming for you. South Zhuzhou has gained this grand event because of you, which can be considered as repaying the causality for Xie Yan seven hundred years ago."

"You have seen it too, this path to transcendence is dangerous at every step. The first step of worshiping a teacher will screen out I don't know how many people. For example, that Liu Yizi, I think he is very good, his aptitude is good, and he speaks well, but it's a pity that he worshiped into a Prosperous Sect. The foundation is always less than that of a Prosperous Sect disciple. On the road of cultivation, one step slow and every step slow. It is very difficult for him to have great achievements. Even if you worship into a Prosperous Sect, the Central Continent and other continents are very different. This time, the Heavenly Boat recruits disciples, and the cultivation seeds in South Zhuzhou with knowledge are naturally trying their best to worship into a high gate, fearing that they will not enter the eyes of a Prosperous Sect. You are different. Except for a few World Sects in the Langhuan Zhou Tian, you can worship whichever sect you want, and there is no one who will not agree. Ruan Ci, have you thought about it, what kind of sect do you want to worship into?"

Ruan Ci pondered, "It is said that everyone accepts it, but I think, worshiping into an ordinary sect, if the identity is leaked, it will eventually be transferred to a Prosperous Sect."

Wang Panpan couldn't help but meow and laughed, "There is a bit of flavor. That's right, Prosperous Sects, Flourishing Sects, Grace Sects, and Flat Sects all have protection relationships. You worship into a small sect, and you will eventually be presented as a gift. It's just that for a small sect, like the Chan Guang Sect, they will eventually transfer you to the Yun Kong Sect. As long as they are related to you, they can get endless benefits from you. But for you, this also means endless trouble and fighting. The Xuan Po Sect snatched you from the Wan Xiong Sect, but if you are discovered by others before Qu Tan Yue's true body receives you, they will also send elite troops to fight for it. If you are afraid of trouble, then worshiping into a Prosperous Sect is naturally good. —For example, go to the Xuan Po Sect to be a Young Madam, isn't it very good?"

"Forget it. The demon sect's methods are the most hidden. If they put some blood-line golden insect in my body unknowingly, and keep chanting some three obediences and four virtues in my heart, or something good about Qu Tan Yue, making me crazy about Qu Tan Yue and being a thug for the Xuan Po Sect, then I am not willing."

Ruan Ci muttered, making Wang Panpan laugh non-stop, "You have the Donghua Sword on you, a blood-line golden insect crawls over, and it is killed by the sword intent. They dare not come to provoke you. However, you are right, the demon sect's techniques are strange, and they don't fit with the Donghua Sword. It's fine if you don't go. Qu Tan Yue and you are already married, naturally he will help you. Worshiping into the Xuan Po Sect again is actually a waste."

She pondered, "Your master's sect is indeed difficult to choose. Yanshan is not a place to go, you have to hide and walk, and it will be bad if you are found. The rest, such as the Wugou Sect, the Liuming Hall, the Guiyi Sect, etc., who knows if there are hidden Sword Seeds? Last time you killed one with a sword, they have long held a grudge."

"If you worship into such a sect, they will raise you for hundreds of years, and when the carefully cultivated Sword Seed grows up, they will come to kill and take the sword. That is indeed troublesome for you, and you cannot perceive the Dao rhyme, you have to borrow the Donghua Sword to absorb spiritual energy to cultivate. This point cannot be hidden, and there is no way to hide your identity, walking in the night in brocade clothes."

Ruan Ci knew nothing about the sects, so she could only be planned by Wang Panpan. Wang Panpan thought for a long time and sighed, "In my opinion, only one sect is the most suitable, but it's a pity that I don't know if there is anyone from their family on the Heavenly Boat from the Central Continent this time."

"Which one is it?" Ruan Ci couldn't help but be very curious, "Isn't it said that everyone wants to accept me as a disciple? Why is it an exception for them?"

"Shangqing Sect." Wang Panpan said, "One of the three pillars of the Central Continent, with Cave Heaven emerging in the sect, Nascent Soul gathered, it is the Prosperous Sect among the Prosperous Sects, and it is also Xie Yan's original master's sect."

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