Chapter 18: Planning for a Sect

Planning for a Sect

Since the Dao Ancestor of Yin and 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 disciple or spread their branches and leaves, seeking help from their bloodlines. Major sects and aristocratic families have emerged as the times require, which can be called thousands of sects competing for style. In the myriad heavens and worlds, there has gradually formed an appraisal of sects and families. Like the Nine-Rank Official System, the major sects are classified into various grades such as World Sect, Prosperous Sect, and Mao Sect.

The so-called World Sect is the direct transmission of the Dao Ancestor, inheriting the Dao lineage and passing it on for generations. Today, there are only a few dozen in the myriad heavens and 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 lineage of the Dongyang Dao Ancestor is still elusive, and it is unknown 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 closed Zhou Tians like the Langhuan Zhou Tian, their inheritance is indispensable.

"For example, the Shangyang Sect is the direct transmission of the second disciple of the Yin and Yang and Five Elements Dao Ancestor, the Youming Lihuo Dao Ancestor. The Lihuo Dao Ancestor is in charge of the two Daos of Youming and Kanli. In the myriad heavens and 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 Dao Ancestor's ability is far beyond the universe. The Shangyang Sect has lower courtyards in the myriad heavens and 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 a World Sect, it has always been low-key and humble in its actions, unwilling to provoke too many causal links."

There are three thousand Great Daos and seventy-two Dao Ancestors. Theoretically, there are seventy-two World Sects, but there are only five or six lower courtyards of World Sects known to the Langhuan Zhou Tian. Wang Panpan told Ruan Ci one by one. She also said, "The Sect Master of a World Sect is naturally the Dao Ancestor himself. Some Dao Ancestor's separate transmissions casually pointed to the Dao boy beside them as the Sect Master. Although they are also 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 are rarely established by Grotto-Heaven True Persons themselves. For example, the Xuanpo Sect and Yanshan are both Demonic Prosperous Sects. Most of the demonic cultivation inheritances in the Langhuan Zhou Tian are related to the Lord of the Doushuai Heaven, but they cannot be counted as World Sects. 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 Xuanpo Sect is like this. They act secretly and have always been best at hiding their tracks, and even their mountain gate is unknown where it 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 Xuanpo Sect, and the Yanshan Demon Lord married Xie Yan. You say, can the Xuanpo Sect not go crazy looking for you?"

"Is that Yanshan Demon Lord also a Grotto-Heaven great power? Did he... really marry Sister Xie?" Ruan Ci asked curiously, "Wait, but Liu Jizi and the others all feel that Sister Xie 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 Qu 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 scratched her face with her cat paw and shamed her, "The betrothal gift has been accepted, the bowing to heaven and earth has been done, and the tablet of the Sect Master Old Master has been placed. How can you not admit it? You are already a married woman. In the future, when Xuanpo 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 bowing to heaven and earth. It was Linu manipulating my body. Can this count?"

She took out the Spirit Brilliance Jade Disc and threw it on the ground, "What kind of betrothal gift is this? It was also stuffed to me by Qu Qu 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 disc, and wagged her tail, "You might as well open your True Eye and take a look."

Hearing this, Ruan Ci was suspicious and focused her gaze. She saw the brilliance flowing on the jade disc. In addition to spiritual power, there was colorless sword brilliance flowing and entangling. The sword intent was not released, and it actually gave a feeling of being unusually dangerous. Wang Panpan said, "This Spirit Brilliance Jade Disc is a protective magic weapon given to his beloved son by the Xuanpo Sect's Sect Master Old Master. The treasures used are very precious. Qu Qu Qu Tan Yue used his Foundation Establishment incarnation as a channel to draw all the sword Qi in your sea of consciousness that couldn't be contained into the jade disc. Otherwise, he couldn't have dissipated so much sword Qi. You would still be in that neither-dead-nor-alive state, waiting for the next container to come, but it's hard to say whether it would be successful. Go all out, then decline, then exhaust. The third pouring of sword Qi 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 inevitable. This jade disc hides the Donghua sword Qi, and it is an excellent protective magic weapon in times of danger. When you are free, it can also assist you in your cultivation. If I were you, I would treasure it well. You have seen it these past few months; not to mention that mortals' lives are like ants, even among cultivators, disputes arise one after another." Wang Panpan snorted, "Otherwise, next time, if you were Senior Brother Zhang and met Senior Brother Wang, would you still just hope for me to save you?"

She was talking about the Wanxiong Sect group, because Senior Brother Wang was entered by the Blood-Thread 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 at the peak, and with just one palm, killing a Nascent Soul cultivator who had cultivated for many years, she knew Wang Panpan was right. The cultivation world was only more dangerous than the mortal world. She hurriedly held the Spirit Brilliance Jade Disc tightly and hung it around her neck with a silk thread, "Alright then, I accept this betrothal gift. If I am to be his wife, then so be it. Anyway... there are many wives in the world who kill their husbands."

"Why do you always not think of good things in your brain." Wang Panpan was dumbfounded, "Theoretically, I shouldn't say this, but your brain is sometimes clear and sometimes confused. This time it's really like it hasn't grown. The Yanshan Demon Lord is Xie Yan's mistress, and the Xuanpo Sect is his old rival. Why do you always want to kill Qu Qu Qu Tan Yue? Doesn't this also help your two brothers and sisters, who are good helpers for you? Do you really want to be caught by the Demon Lord, trained into a puppet, and wait in a daze 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, treating her very well. The two were naturally standing together. Loving the house and its crow, she always felt that Xie Yan's relatives and friends were naturally close to her. Awakened by Wang Panpan's words, she was horrified and secretly thought, "That's right, Xie Yan has great spirit 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 a little obstacle, which would be fun. But this doesn't mean that the people around her think the same way. If they want to ensure that Xie Yan can get the Donghua Sword when she comes back, the best way is naturally to lock me up and cultivate 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 in Xie Yan's heart, she must feel that everything is interesting only if there are more twists and turns and more dangers. She also quite admired Xie Yan's free and easy style, but her current situation was very different from Xie Yan's, and she had to be careful everywhere.

Wang Panpan saw her nodding without 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 necessarily plan everything for the other party. 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 clear 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's looking for death."

Ruan Ci said, "That's true. Others see that Qu Qu Qu Tan Yue and I are already married, and perhaps they think we are very close. Who knows that we haven't even said ten sentences to each other."

Wang Panpan meowed and laughed, "That's right. Things in the cultivation world cannot be measured by common sense. Qu Qu Qu Tan Yue can marry more than a hundred wives, and you can also 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 resist, wouldn't that be fun too."

"I don't want to." Ruan Ci played with the jade disc on her chest and said again, "Is Sister Xie a man or a woman? Also, are Xiunu and Linu Blood-Thread Golden Insects? Are these insects very powerful? What techniques does the Xuanpo Sect have? Wanxiong Sect, Lingxiao Sect, Yuxi Sect, Panxian Sect, and Yunkong Sect, what grade are they?"

While talking, Ruan Ci, under Wang Panpan's guidance, transported the few fainted mortals out of the underground cave dwelling. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to walk out of the maze array set up by Xiuli and would have to die of thirst and hunger in the cave dwelling. Wang Panpan asked Ruan Ci to take the white shirt left by Qu Qu 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 while walking. Ruan Ci waved the Donghua Sword in her hand from time to time. This sword could now be easily moved by her, and it was neither light nor heavy, hanging on her body very comfortably, but she still couldn't draw it from its scabbard.

"The Blood-Thread Golden Insect is one of the thirty-six strange insects raised by the Xuanpo Sect. You have seen it too. This insect is flexible in aggregation. 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 thread. The Blood-Thread Golden Insect eats everything and has infinite wonderful uses. It can drill into the body of a cultivator or an ordinary person. Once drilled into by the insect, it will be bewitched by the golden insect unconsciously. Even if Xiunu and Linu are thousands of miles away, they can secretly influence the cultivator's mind, just like having an extra voice in the sea of consciousness, repeatedly chanting. If one's own mind is not firm, it will be like that Senior Brother Wang, unknowingly, thinking extremely, and committing a great mistake. After the insect group stops making sound and stops talking, he wakes up and still thinks he has gone astray, committing suicide out of shame and anger, and even until death, he doesn't know 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 be propagated in 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 great magic weapon in the hands of the Xuanpo Sect. Fortunately, heaven has its destiny, and the scale of the insect group has its limits. Otherwise, the Xuanpo Sect would have to become the eyesore of all sects in the world." Wang Panpan bent her fingers and said, "Lihua Xiuyu color, Qingge stops the flowing clouds. The Xuanpo Sect only has these ten insect souls in total, and their main bodies are still sleeping in the Central Continent. Qu Qu Qu Tan Yue carrying them by his side is nothing more than insect children and grandchildren. Are you still worried about Xiunu being killed by you? Hmph, Xiuli two insects don't know how many hosts they have found in Southern Zhuzhou to find you. 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 Xuanpo Sect?"

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

"If it weren't for this, how could the Xuanpo Sect stand in the Central Continent," Wang Panpan said, "There are many things that I only knew after following the Master. Ordinary cultivators can know the four words Blood-Thread Golden Insect, which is already remarkable. As for the other sects you mentioned, the Yunkong Sect is a Prosperous Sect in Southern Zhuzhou, and there are two or three Grotto-Heaven True Persons, so they can have genius disciples like Liu Yin. The three sects where Liu Jizi and the others are located, three sects together worship one Grotto-Heaven True Person, and together they govern six countries. They cannot govern one country alone and can only be counted as Mao Sects. Liu Jizi is considered to have a bright future in his Lingxiao Sect, but in the Yunkong Sect, he is very ordinary."

That Changuang Sect, there is no Grotto-Heaven in the sect, there is a Nascent Soul Great Perfection True Person, and the grade is still below the Mao Sect. The Wanxiong Sect, which doesn't even have a Nascent Soul, is even lower, so it's not worth mentioning. There are also many sects pulled up by Foundation Establishment cultivators, with shallow inheritance and rough 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 apprentice to them, they dare not accept disciples. This heaven-defying causal link, the things it attracts are not what they can bear."

Ruan Ci, after this series of changes, was no longer the ignorant girl of the past. Hearing this, she also sighed, "Panpan, can we still live in Chen Guo? I think there should be more than just the Changuang Sect and the Xuanpo Sect that have movements, right? The strange things in the world should not be just the Blood-Thread Golden Insect."

"You finally woke up." Wang Panpan was quite happy, squatting on Ruan Ci and looking around, "More than just Chen Guo? Now the whole Southern 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 Qu Qu Tan Yue and Xiunu, Linu have all seen me. They must have many ways to pass my appearance to their subordinates. The Xuanpo Sect acts so secretly, it will be very difficult to escape their ears and eyes."

"This is what you don't know again," Wang Panpan raised her tail and said proudly, "The Donghua Sword can suppress fortune. 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 observation, 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 a kind of knowledge barrier. Ordinary cultivators who can't perceive the sword intent can manipulate you at will, but I have to avoid it. Only those who know your identity cannot depict you, and others don't have this requirement."

What this knowledge barrier is, Ruan Ci also wanted to know very much. Wang Panpan was asked and sighed, "These are things your master should teach you. If you don't apprentice and enter the gate, you can't learn superior cultivation methods. Your physical body has been tempered by the Donghua sword intent ten thousand times, and has been boiled by the Blood-Thread 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 enter the Dao Gate."

The two of them talked while walking, 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 down. 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, the Heavenly Boat from the Central Continent arrives, Prosperous Sects gather, Mao Sects are in the thousands, all coming for you. Southern Zhuzhou has gained this grand event because of you, which can be considered as repaying the causal link of seven hundred years ago for Xie Yan."

"You have seen it too. This path to transcendence is dangerous at every step. The first step of apprenticing will screen out many people. For example, that Liu Jizi, I think he is very good, his aptitude is good, and he speaks well, but it's a pity that he apprenticed to a Mao Sect. His foundation will always be a few points less than that of a Prosperous Sect disciple. On the road of cultivation, one step slow, every step slow. It is very difficult for him to have great achievements. Even if he apprenticed to a Prosperous Sect, the Central Continent is very different from other continents. This time, the Heavenly Boat recruits disciples. Cultivation seeds in Southern Zhuzhou with insight are naturally trying every means to apprentice to a high gate, fearing that they will not be seen by a Prosperous Sect. You are different. Except for a few World Sects in the Langhuan Zhou Tian, you can apprentice to whichever family you want, and there is no one who will not respond. Ruan Ci, have you thought about it? What kind of sect do you want to apprentice to?"

Ruan Ci pondered, "It is said that everyone accepts it, but I see that apprenticing to 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, Mao Sects, En Sects, Ping Sects, all have shelter relationships. You apprentice to a small sect, and you will eventually be transferred as a gift. It's just that for a small sect, like the Changuang Sect, it will eventually be transferred to the Yunkong Sect. As long as you have a relationship with you, you can get infinite benefits from you. But for you, this also means infinite trouble and disputes. The Xuanpo Sect snatched you from the Wanxiong Sect, but if you are discovered by others before Qu Qu Qu Tan Yue's true self receives you, they will also mobilize their elite troops to compete. If you are afraid of trouble, then apprenticing to a Prosperous Sect is naturally good. —For example, go to the Xuanpo Sect to be a Young Madam, wouldn't that be very good?"

"Forget it. The demonic sect's methods are the most hidden. If I am unconsciously put with some Blood-Thread Golden Insect in my body, and I keep chanting some three obediences and four virtues in my heart, or something good about Qu Qu Qu Tan Yue, making me crazy for Qu Qu Qu Tan Yue and being a thug for the Xuanpo Sect, then I am not willing."

Ruan Ci muttered, and Wang Panpan laughed endlessly, "You have the Donghua Sword on you. If a Blood-Thread Golden Insect crawls over, it will be killed by the sword intent, so it won't dare to provoke you. However, you are right. The demonic sect's cultivation methods are strange and don't fit the Donghua Sword, so you don't have to go. Qu Qu Qu Tan Yue and you are already married, so he will naturally help you. Apprenticing to the Xuanpo Sect is actually very wasteful."

She pondered, "Your master's sect is indeed difficult to choose. You can't go to Yanshan, you have to hide and walk, and it will be terrible if you are found. As for the rest, Wugou Sect, Liuming Hall, Guiyi Sect, etc., who knows if there are any hidden Sword Seeds? You killed one with a sword last time, and they have long held a grudge."

"If you apprentice to such a sect, they will raise you for hundreds of years, and when the carefully nurtured 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 must borrow the Donghua Sword to absorb spiritual energy to cultivate. This point cannot be hidden, and you cannot 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. It's a pity that I don't know if there are people from their family on the Heavenly Boat from the Central Continent this time."

"Which family is it?" Ruan Ci couldn't help but feel curious, "Isn't it said that everyone wants to accept me as a disciple? How come they are the exception?"

"Shangqing Sect." Wang Panpan said, "One of the three pillars of the Central Continent. There are many Grotto-Heaven True Persons in the sect, and Nascent Soul cultivators gather. It is the Prosperous Sect among the Prosperous Sects, and it is also Xie Yan's original master's sect."

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