Chapter 126

"I am indeed lacking in knowledge. If the two have time, could I trouble you to clear up my confusion?" Seeing Pei Ye smiled helplessly.

"No problem, no problem. We just finished dinner, and it's just the right time. To tell the truth, this hasn't reached the point where everyone has heard of it. If I weren't worried about whether my child should learn martial arts or study recently, I wouldn't know much either," one said. "The young hero doesn't know the Dao-Opening Society, but you should know the names of a few sword sects?"

If this question had been asked twenty days ago, Seeing Pei Ye would truly have had to rack his brains for a while.

But it was different now.

"I know Yunlang Mountain, Long Jun Dongting, and Tianshan, Kunlun... Kunlun Yanri Palace—"

"Enough, enough," the man laughed. "What the little brother mentioned are all... all..."

He didn't know how to describe it for a moment.

"They are all the Dao-Opening Society!" the other person added.

"That's also correct, haha."

Through the two's narration, Seeing Pei Ye gradually sorted out this strange term.

The Great Tang Thirty-Three Sword-Wielder Dao-Opening Society.

The Thirty-Three Swords are the thirty-three highest sword sects in the Great Tang.

Including:

Yunlang Mountain.

Long Jun Dongting, Bai Lugong, and five others.

The five Daoist families, Tianshan, Kunlun, and twelve others.

Diancang, Kongdong, Huashan, Qingcheng, the two Yunshan mountains, and twelve others.

Three small families with unique attainments in the sword path.

There are over a thousand sects in the Great Tang with proper sword technique traditions. The Immortal Platform and the Upper Six families jointly selected the following twenty-seven from among them. These thirty-three sects together can almost represent the highest achievements of the Great Tang sword path, and they jointly promote this "Sword-Wielder Dao-Opening" plan.

Sword-Wielder Dao-Opening, this is the name given by the Immortal Platform.

Wielder means the wielder of the gentleman's instrument; the sword is the instrument of a gentleman, and Dao-Opening is the opening of the sword path.

To put it plainly, this is a bold plan to jointly cultivate successors to the sword path.

It must be known that since ancient times, the most advanced sword path achievements and the best ways of practicing the sword have often been held in the hands of various sects, and sects often have deep-rooted sectarian prejudices.

In terms of talent cultivation, there are inevitably instances of treasuring one's own broom and being blind to the truth; and from the perspective of the Great Tang imperial court, once a disciple joins a sect, they are often first a disciple of the sect, and then a citizen of the Great Tang.

After many considerations, the Immortal Platform spent many years running around and planning, which finally brought about such a grand event. It is indeed a grand gesture that only the Great Tang could have.

All "Dao-Students" accepted by the Dao-Opening Society can visit the thirty-three sword sects mentioned above to travel, study, compare arts, verify their gains, and even learn sword techniques.

And "Dao-Students" come from two sources: one is the disciples of the thirty-three sects, with each sect having a different number of spots based on their status in the sword path.

The second is another participant in this plan—the Great Tang.

The Great Tang provides support and convenience for this plan through various policies. The benefit is: officials and commoners of the Great Tang also have the opportunity to become "Dao-Students" through examinations. Even those who already belong to a sect, as long as they pass a series of detailed examinations and meet certain conditions, can also become a member of this sword alliance.

The hardest condition for the examination is naturally sword path talent. In addition, there are many other considerations. Every year, only about a hundred people enter the sword alliance as outsiders.

Therefore, for those with sufficient sword path talent, this is almost like a dragon entering the sea.

Being able to study at famous orthodox sects like Huashan and Yunshan is already a bright future, not to mention the opportunity to come into contact with behemoths like Long Jun Dongting, which is simply a dream come true.

And what one wouldn't even dare to dream of is Yunlang Mountain.

Being able to enter such a plan and become a "Sword-Path Dao-Student" itself represents that you have become one of the most talented young people in the entire Great Tang in the sword path and are already receiving the best sword path education.

Of course, talent also has high and low levels, just as the thirty-three sects are clearly stratified, and the specific implementation involves many rules, all of which are stories for another time.

On the other hand, the sword sect alliance has blurred the boundaries of sects to a certain extent and dismantled some barriers. Like the Crane-Duck Register, it is another effort made by the Immortal Platform to dismantle—or rather, melt—the inherent Jianghu system and reshape the relationship between Jianghu and the imperial court.

Seeing Pei Ye naturally had no such awareness at this time; he only had the infinite yearning of a sword-wielder—that was to be in the same hall as the sword path geniuses of the entire Great Tang.

Thanking the two passersby again, Seeing Pei Ye looked back at the towering and steep Zhuoyue Building, turned, and left this prosperous place.

After changing direction and walking for a while, the sky gradually grew dark. Seeing Pei Ye asked a few passersby and turned off the main street. After winding through several side roads and alleys, he finally discovered that this city was not so clean and orderly everywhere.

The road surface became uneven, with occasional puddles and dirt, and people's faces also began to show less leisure and more busyness, but the streets were still wider and livelier than in Fenghuai.

The lights on this street were sparse, but as Seeing Pei Ye walked, he suddenly saw a brightly lit place. Orange light and shadows crowded out from the doors and window cracks, illuminating the ground in front of the house brightly.

After walking closer, Seeing Pei Ye discovered that the space inside seemed much larger than he had imagined, because the clamorous human voices clearly did not come from three or five people.

And the "appearance" of this house also seemed a bit strange to him. It looked like a shop, but it didn't sell anything. On the left side of the main gate was written "Eat Through the Four Seas," and on the right was written "Kill in All Eight Directions." Two men also stood at the door.

When Seeing Pei Ye's gaze gathered on this facade, he was inevitably attracted to another focal point in his field of vision. It seemed to have nothing to do with this facade—it was a woman.

The woman had a slender figure and was wearing a deep green long dress. If she had been walking on the street just now, it would have been very harmonious, but standing here, it was slightly abrupt.

"What do you mean he's dead?" Her voice was slightly sharp as she looked at the old man who looked like a manager.

"This is our news, Miss Qi. This news is also very clear; it must be true."

When Seeing Pei Ye passed by the two, he turned his head to look—not at the two of them, but at a large square wooden board hanging on the wall by the door, on which a list of names was written in ink. The first one was Shang Huaitong.

Following the names were several numbers.

The old man held a scroll of paper and was posting it on the wall next to this wooden board.

Several people were gathered here, arguing a bit noisily.

"Damn it, my inside information said he returned from Tianshan after learning his craft, and then took an Ascension Pill. This time he was definitely going to be a dark horse in the top four. I just placed a heavy bet, how the hell is he dead!"

"Bullshit inside information, is there anyone who doesn't know that?"

The old man posted the paper. Seeing Pei Ye looked and saw the bold characters "Notice: All bets on Cheng Jiang Hong are void," and below it were a few lines of small print, seemingly about how to handle the situation.

Seeing Pei Ye was about to look closely when a chill suddenly ran down his back.

Posting first and editing later, and the next chapter will be posted ten or twenty minutes late.

(End of Chapter)