Chapter 16: Friendship is a cause and effect. One month after becoming an apprentice

The Zhongshan siblings welcomed the arrival of Peter and the other five people.

Peter and the other five people had just arrived here, so they felt a little uneasy. After all, this is the Xia Kingdom, not the United States. The people here are mostly yellow-skinned, black-haired and black-eyed, and their speech and customs are also very different.

Although they also supplemented the foundation of Han culture because of the need for cultivation, but in comparison, some of their usual inertial thinking have not been reversed.

In the crowd, he seems a little strange, because he is afraid of being excluded.

Although Zhong Shanyue is young, he is wise and precocious. He comes from a royal family and is familiar with past relationships.

"They are all disciples of Taiyi, and they started much earlier than us. They are my senior brothers and sisters." Zhong Shanyue said with a smile: "Since we are here, we are all one family. We don't need to care about the differences between regions and races."

After a few words to dispel the strange feeling, Zhong Shan Yuecai said: "My eldest sister and my second sister have been so busy these days helping the two senior uncles Xuantian and Xuandi to receive the junior brothers and sisters. The five senior brothers have arrived. , it’s really nice for everyone to share the burden together.”

So he was very affectionate, while explaining some of the current affairs of the sect, he led the five people to the outside of the sect's gate to receive the registered disciples who had passed the test.

Zhong Shansi and Zhong Shanwa also echoed, not seeming alienated or exclusive.

Since the new registered disciples were all Han Chinese from the Xia Kingdom, during the reception, they were much kinder to the Zhongshan siblings, but almost ignored Peter and others.

So Zhong Shanyue helped overtly and covertly, introducing their identities to the registered disciples who had passed the test over and over again. While maintaining a sense of respect, his words were sincere and his actions were not ostentatious, so as not to make them feel humiliated, nor to ignore them. This made Peter and the others feel extremely grateful.

In this way, after a few days, the relationship has become much closer.

The Taiyi Sect opened its gates, and the recruitment of disciples was in full swing. At the same time, the leader of the Zhongshan clan did not miss any of his actions.

For example, at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, a row of buildings is about to be completed. This is the free convenience store opened by the leader of the Zhongshan clan to facilitate the daily needs of the registered disciples of the Taiyi sect.

Why should it be free? This is something both Tai Taoist and the Lord of the Zhongshan clan know very well.

If it is not free, it is a commercial transaction and there is no causal connection. But if it is free, those registered disciples will have to inherit the friendship of the Lord of the Zhongshan clan and have a causal connection with it.

Of course, in fact, this convenience store is probably most useful only to registered disciples. Outer disciples will have less need to rely on it. If it reaches inner disciples, they may no longer need it.

After all, registered disciples are only in the foundation-building stage and do not transcend the worldly world. They have all the daily necessities of eating, drinking, and defecating. As outer disciples achieve Qi refining, their need for mundane sundries will be reduced. Starting from the outer sect disciples, daily necessities are linked to spiritual practice. Convenience stores no longer sell elixirs and precious materials.

Moreover, if you achieve Qi refining and feed on the pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth, you will have the ability to live without food, and your appetite will be reduced.

By analogy, the higher the realm, for example, Tai Taoist people have completely abandoned their need for mundane external things.

But for the head of the Zhongshan clan, this was enough. He just needs to have some contact with the disciples of the sect through such an aboveboard method. Even if he can't win over him, he can't let those disciples be used by him after they end their path to immortality and become teachers, but it won't make people feel disgusted.

After all, no matter whether it is the outer sect, the inner sect or the true disciple, they all start from the registered disciples. Even if you become a god, or even become an immortal, you will still have to inherit his friendship.

In addition to stepping up the construction of a convenience store at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, the leader of the Zhongshan clan has also begun to implement educational reforms. This is particularly important to him.

The Xia Kingdom wants to break away from the civilization system of technological foreign objects and switch to the immortal system. Education is the top priority.

Since this period of time, the ruler of the country has used various means to screen and select the teachers within the Xia Kingdom's education system.

This, in the eyes of the king, is a must. Every class has good and bad qualities. Some teachers are of course true teachers, preaching, imparting knowledge and solving doubts. But some of them are just corpses. Not to mention the corpses that were left bare, some were even guilty of heinous crimes.

Of course, this kind of scum cannot be allowed to blend into the new system, lest it ruin a good start.

...

For the Xia State, changing the civilization system was almost akin to changing a dynasty, and even the complexity was even more troublesome than changing a dynasty.

Take a simple example, such as the automobile industry. If we switch to the Immortal Dao system, this type of transportation will naturally incorporate Qi refining and talisman methods, and be powered by the aura of heaven and earth.

Perhaps except for the appearance, there won't be much change, but the internal structure is definitely completely different. To achieve mass production, countless low-level and middle-level monks involved in refining weapons, talismans, and formations are needed.

However, no one in the original team knew such methods.

Once the country acts too hastily, it will definitely cause a rebound in the entire industry. Even if the rebound can be suppressed, there is no telling how many people will lose their jobs.

The key is not just one industry. Once it is established that we will follow the immortal system, then the entire society and all walks of life will usher in a major change.

Fortunately, the time is not impatient. Once the Taiyi sect has just opened its gates, and the disciples leave, even if they are registered disciples, it will be a year later. Secondly, it also takes time for the education system to cultivate relevant basic talents to replace the original system.

According to the ideas of the leader of the Zhongshan clan, elites from all walks of life must start from now on and gradually carry out education and training in industries related to the immortal system in batches to lay the foundation for the transformation of the system. Only when the high-end talents of the new system, that is, the disciples of Taiyi Sect, will start to transform the system.

In this way, the old and the new are replaced, personnel are gradually replaced, and conflicts are eliminated and reduced through various means. As time goes by, the system will naturally be transformed.

At the same time, the head of the Zhongshan clan has also put forward detailed plans for those who are lucky enough to pass the test and become registered disciples of the Taiyi sect and related benefits, and have begun to implement them.

There are so many things going on that the entire Xia Kingdom's affairs seem to be in a mess. Fortunately, the leader of the country is an outstanding person. If he replaces the helmsman with a slightly mediocre ability, he may not be able to control the direction of the country and maintain the stability of the country.

After all, the reform of the system is of great importance, and the head of the Zhongshan clan is busy with his feet on the ground, but even so, he still takes time to come down to Jiaomen Mountain every day and show his face to show his concern.

Nowadays, it is a general trend for Taiyi Sect to come to the forefront.

There is a man from Taiyi who has great supernatural powers and is in charge of the sect, but no one dares to follow his lead. Xia Guo's official support was strong, and they cooperated with the policy as soon as it was implemented.

There are also people and citizens who enthusiastically support and look forward to it.

The combination of three phases and one is not a general trend?

In this way, after one month, the entrance examination for the disciples of Zhongnan Sect Taiyi Holy Land has come to an end.

In fact, if we were to follow the original pace of the test, we wouldn't be able to finish it in a year, let alone a month. After all, there are millions of people taking the entrance examination. In the entire Xia Kingdom, there were many people over the age of sixteen and under thirty, and they all came and went.

If only a thousand people are selected every day, then it will only be 30,000 in a month.

Tai Taoist people later realized the flaws in it, so they re-refined the Immortal Ladder and took a piece of dimensional void to refine it into it.

In this way, the progress of the test was greatly accelerated.

A thousand people can enter the Immortal Ladder space at one time, one batch every half hour, twenty-four hours a day, without interruption, and there are nearly a hundred thousand people.

Only in this way can all those of the right age complete the immortality assessment within one month.

It can only be said that this is the first time that it is so troublesome. In the future, there will definitely not be as many people as this time in the annual entrance examination for registered disciples.

Based on the Xia Kingdom's population base, there will only be over 100,000 young people reaching the age of sixteen every year from now on. The entrance examination can be completed in one or two days.

...

It is the transition between spring and summer, and the sun is shining brightly. Through the layers of fairy clouds and mist, it falls on Zhongnan Mountain, revealing strange and light colors, making the Zhongnan Sect Taiyi Holy Land shine like a fairyland.

It was morning, the sun was just rising.

More than a thousand disciples walked out of the dormitory, in twos and threes, or in groups of three or five, either because of their age or because they were well-connected with each other. They walked together, laughed loudly, or talked in low voices.

It makes the entire fairyland holy land seem very popular.

"The entrance exam is finally over, it's been a month."

"More than a million people, what do you think? If the Supreme Leader hadn't refined the Immortal Ladder again, it wouldn't have been finished in a year."

When Tai Dao people re-train and climb the Immortal Staircase, it is done in public and is naturally known to everyone.

"Hey, how many people will be admitted this time?"

"More than a thousand. I heard from Senior Brother Zhong Shanyue that it seems to be more than a thousand."

"Only more than a thousand?"

"No, there are only so many."

"Isn't that one of a thousand?"

"There are more than one million people, and there are more than a thousand people who have started, so they are just one out of a thousand. Think about the difficulty of the test, I almost gave up at that time."

"Yeah, it's so difficult. It's like chasing the sun with a huge mountain on your back. I almost couldn't hold on many times."

"That's not all. It's just an entry trial. We only have one year. Within one year, if we fail to pass the second trial, we have to leave the army... I don't know how many people there will be by this time next year. Will return disappointed.”

After hearing this, many people fell silent.

"Why are you thinking so much? We've just started. We are only one in a thousand, so don't be so unsure, okay?"

Someone started laughing: "My opponent, we are all chosen from a thousand. I will definitely pass the second test. Not only the second test, but also the third and fourth tests, I can pass it! I want to become a true disciple!"

Everyone laughed.

As he spoke, he arrived outside the practice ground and walked in in twos and threes.

There is a void inside that training ground, which can accommodate even 100,000 people, not to mention more than a thousand people.

When you walk in, it's open.

From a distance, there were eight people practicing in the field. At first glance, they were the three Zhongshan siblings and the five Peters. The eight of them, counting them down, are considered to be well-known among the Taiyi sect.

Most of the disciples who passed the test before were received by them.

Seeing the registered disciples entering the training ground one after another, the eight people stopped one after another.

Zhong Shanyue came forward and greeted all the named disciples one by one, looking very affectionate. Zhong Shansi and Zhong Shanwa came together with many female registered disciples.

"Uncle Xuantian will be here soon." Zhong Shanyue said loudly: "Don't make any noise, please be patient and wait for a while."