Destiny is ashes

Chapter 675: The True Story of Mingjing (5400, second update)

Since entering Mingjing Sect through his grandfather's relationship, Gu Yeqi has spent a long time here.

She came for her senior brother, but An Jing was reluctant to return to the sect, so Gu Yeqi could only lead the Sons of Disaster who had walked out of Xuanming Manor to fight in this strange land.

Of course, he said he relied on his own efforts, but in fact, he was also taken care of by Chen Yinzi.

Chen Yinzi knew very well that Gu Yeqi and other sons of disaster were An Jing's real 'fundamental team'. Almost all of these extremely talented 'demonic cult defectors' who had experienced disasters had fate potential, but they needed special means to guide them out. An Jing also asked his master several times to take care of these little friends.

Under the care of Chen Yinzi, all the Sons of Disaster settled down in Mingguang Peak. Their daily work was to deal with the maintenance of various spiritual veins and the construction of halls on this new Ninth Peak. They could receive subsidies from the sect or build their own and slowly become familiar with their future residence.

Ming Guangchen himself had never accepted any disciples before, and Xiaoming Peak was not very populous. Over the past thousand years, only one of An Jing's uncles was still alive, and his two uncles were all dead. This was not only a reflection of the extremely high loss rate of warriors, but also a reflection of the decline of the Mingjing Sect in the past few hundred years.

Now with the presence of the Sons of Disaster, Mingguang Peak is much more lively than some peaks with fewer descendants.

As the leader, Gu Yeqi achieved inner strength through his own efforts and entered the inner gate.

She awakened her destiny - although she currently didn't know what destiny was, but having it was there, and there was a world of difference between having it and not having it.

Now, she has completely overcome the shyness she felt when she first entered the Mingjing Sect. She also has some connections and channels of her own in the sect. She no longer needs to argue with the sect's affairs and resources department when she wants to obtain some construction supplies. In the past six months, she even accumulated experience through the construction of Mingguang Peak, and led a group of fellow brothers and sisters to pass the 'Mingjing Sect Intermediate Formation Engineering Construction Certificate', thus becoming qualified to lead a team to take on work in the sect.

Don't underestimate doing the dusting. Although it sounds like just a part-time job, it can help you accumulate a lot of inspiration about formations and martial arts. Moreover, because this skill is very useful, most of the people in the sect who initially rejected them because of their status as traitors of the demon sect have begun to respect them and look at them differently.

Especially some of the younger generation who already had a good relationship with Xiao Mingfeng and Ming Guangchen were more willing to take the initiative to help Gu Yeqi and others solve some problems, saving them a lot of trouble.

Gu Yeqi is very good at this.

In Xuanming Manor, Gu Yeqi has always been a little follower following behind An Jing. She does not make decisions, but only carries out An Jing's tasks. She looks like An Jing's pendant, repeating An Jing's instructions over and over again.

But at that time, few people could understand how valuable it was to be able to fully carry out the tasks assigned by An Jing, complete the amount of training required by An Jing, understand An Jing's instructions and accurately inform everyone else.

The more the Sons of Disaster came into contact with other people, the more they understood how powerful An Jing was and how extraordinary Gu Yeqi was.

Of course, Gu Yeqi herself was not willing to endure this kind of "unusual" at all. To be honest, she didn't like to do any "big things" from beginning to end. She liked a quiet and frequent life and didn't want to live a magnificent life.

But the more he expected peace, the more impossible it would be. Doing nothing but pursuing his own little happiness would only make everything worse - whether it was the frost disaster, the situation of the Gu family, or the increasingly obvious chaos within the Mingjing Sect, they were all forcing Gu Yeqi to grow up.

Just like now, in just less than two years, by observing the actions of many inner and outer disciples and true disciples inside and outside the sect, Gu Yeqi has vaguely realized the reasons for the current internal conflicts in Mingjing Sect.

It's all because of the imbalance of the system.

Originally, the Mingjing Sect was a small sect established by Patriarch Jiankong in Chenli. There were not many disciples at first, and there was not even any clear rank or order. All disciples, regardless of age or seniority, were disciples of Patriarch Jiankong, and they listened to the Patriarch's teachings at the foot of the main peak of Jiankong Mountain.

It was not until the second True Lord [True Lord Jinghuang] appeared in the history of Mingjing Sect that the first outer peak outside the main peak was established, and the five levels of [territory outside the sect], [outer gate], [inner gate], [palace] and [peak] were clearly defined that Mingjing Sect had a clearer hierarchical system.

The territories outside the sect are the mortal areas under the jurisdiction of the Mingjing Sect. In these places, there are some non-sect warriors who serve the Mingjing Sect. Although they have not joined the Mingjing Sect, they serve the Mingjing Sect. Some of the more outstanding ones have the right to send their offspring with destiny to the Mingjing Sect. The Mingjing Sect will also select the areas under its jurisdiction every once in a while and choose suitable martial arts seeds to enter the sect.

Among them, after passing the most basic test, these martial arts seeds became [outer sects].

If one has the destiny, it is a foregone conclusion that the outer sect will become the inner sect. It can even be said that the entire outer sect's training and practice are all for the purpose of enabling them to adapt to the influence of the sect's blessed land in the Mingjing Sect's mountain gate and give birth to more life-sustaining seeds related to the Mingjing Sect's practice, which is the [inner sect].

The inner sect members are the true members of Mingjing Sect.

After being in the outer sect for a period of time, if one still wants subsidies from the sect, one needs to work for the sect.

The situation is different for the inner sect. They accept missions essentially for self-training and to improve their destiny. The expenses of their practice are completely borne by the sect. They are purely full-time practitioners.

Now comes the most crucial point.

The Mingjing Sect holds a sect competition every few years, which is divided into inner and outer sects. The outer sect improves status through winning the battle and promotes the destiny of the winner.

The winners and outstanding ones in the inner sect will not only see an improvement in their destiny, but may also be appreciated by the elders and peak masters of Mingjing Sect, and then ascend to the sky in one step and become the [True Disciple of the Palace], where they will learn under their own master and be granted the most fundamental inheritance of Mingjing Sect.

If An Jing knew, he would understand it in an instant: the outer gate is compulsory education, the inner gate is high school, and the competition is the college entrance examination. The outstanding ones will be selected and become the true disciples. In the process of learning, they must also start to study their own martial arts and prepare for their graduate career under different mentors in the future.

Through such rounds of selection, the vast majority of Mingjing Sect's true disciples are those with extremely high potential, great intelligence, and are very much loved by the master. Among them, the probability of the emergence of a divine treasure or even a true saint is also very high.

In the generation of Jinghuang Zhenjun, two Zhenjuns were cultivated, but the Jinghuang Peak lineage only needed one person, so the second peak [Xuguang Peak] appeared.

At this time, the relationship between the two peaks was very harmonious. The only difference was that one inherited his teacher's legacy, while the other needed to make a name for himself.

The two leaders of the two peaks can be one inside and one outside, the former presiding over the affairs within the sect, and the latter expanding the territory.

The same was true for the newly emerged [Peaks] and [Halls], which added new departments to the Mingjing Sect, responsible for internal production and construction, ammunition and talismans, weapons defense, and earth vein formations.

It sounds quite reasonable. Each peak and hall has its own duties, and inner disciples can also learn specific knowledge and demonstrate specific abilities, so that they can be better noticed by the corresponding peak hall and try to become true disciples.

But this is where the problem arises.

Not every outstanding inner disciple can be valued by the peak masters and become the new true disciple.

This was unbelievable to the Mingjing Sect at that time.

Because the Mingjing Sect was so small back then, any potential inner disciple would inevitably become a true disciple and contribute to the sect.

But now, as the Mingjing Sect has grown gradually and become the first middle sect under the upper sect, the number of inner sect disciples is dozens of times that of the past, but the number of true disciples has not changed much.

These numerous inner disciples can only serve the sect but never have the possibility to go further.

Is it because of insufficient resources?
perhaps.

But more importantly, it is because of the 'mountains within the sect'.

[Peak] This system requires every peak master to select the best of the best for his own inheritance, to ensure that there is a real person who can continue his lineage in the next generation. They would rather have nothing than have someone of poor quality, and would even rather leave the position of true successor vacant, than lower the standard.

This can certainly ensure that the heads of each peak will devote all their efforts to teaching their students and will not hide anything.

However, it will also lead to class solidification within the sect.

Originally, it was meant to separate a portion of outstanding cultivators from the entire sect to become the sect's management class. Naturally, it would not give up the power of management, but would do its utmost to reproduce and survive. Only when a new Saint-Manifested True Lord who was beyond the existing pattern appeared, would a new [Peak] appear.

Each peak has its own unique sphere of influence and its own area of ​​expertise since ancient times. It has no competitors in this regard and has a complete monopoly.

At this point, the Mingjing Sect, a large sect, has become an independent kingdom, and the major peak halls are the [small sects] in this kingdom.

More than that.

Each peak has a series of affiliated bloodline families, which are the bloodline descendants of the peak’s true disciples and even the true masters.

They have the heritage and foundation of their ancestors. It can even be said that many of the sect's sacred places and blessed lands were left by their ancestors. They practice in them faster than others. If they have a good fate, they will naturally be more compatible with it. Their talents are also far higher than those of the inner and outer disciples selected through normal auditions.

The huge network formed by these family bloodlines has grown from the initial small seeds to the point where it has encompassed most of the Mingjing Sect.

This is not something that can be avoided by saying that "master-disciple inheritance is superior to bloodline", because people have parents, relatives, friends, children and descendants, which is an irrefutable fact.

Especially the children of the big families in the sect, they can receive the training of the sect's resources from an early age, learn the martial arts experience of their predecessors in the Mingjing Sect's library, and cultivate their adaptability to the Mingjing Sect's martial arts.

They can easily obtain spiritual practice that ordinary people cannot get in their lifetime. Even if they have no talent, they can live a smooth life under the protection of their family.

Of course, when the family needs them, they will become necessary pawns to test, confront, communicate and make friends with some people.

The true seeds cultivated in this way can not only make the sect feel at ease, but also guarantee the lower limit, and are most convenient to use.

But on the other hand, it will also make them regard the sect as a "family business".

"Some people want to turn the Mingjing Sect into their own family's 'industry' and transfer it from public to private."

"Some people want to reform the system of the inner and outer gates of the peak hall, abolish the existence of the Eight Peaks and Nine Peaks, break this natural barrier, and restore the Mingjing Sect from its semi-fragmented state with numerous mountains to its original most vital unified form."

"Some people simply want to split up and become independent."

"Not to mention that some people simply use the resources of Mingjing Sect to build their own things, and even want to sell Mingjing Sect for a good price." Gu Yeqi never took herself as a natural member of Mingjing Sect from beginning to end - she came here to help An Jing, so she was a true bystander, and she easily saw the terrifying undercurrent beneath the seemingly friendly atmosphere of Mingjing Sect.

The true disciples of the upper class have great power and generous treatment, while the lower class, although they have no future, have the identity of a sect and have some status in the outside world. As long as they do not seek to become rich and powerful, it will be no problem for them to live a warm life.

Only the inner gate is neither up nor down. There is a future but it may not be realized, there are opportunities but they may not be able to grasp them. This kind of middle class in martial arts has always been the most uncomfortable level.

The seeds of sect rebellion and civil strife were sown among this class.

Faced with such a trend, Gu Yeqi could see it clearly, and he believed that all the True Transmitters, and even the True Lords, could see it clearly - but they could not stop it, and it was impossible for them to stop it.

Because they are the vested interests of the Fengdian system, they also have disciples and descendants, as well as bloodline descendants.

"It's said that it's hard to turn things around, but which sect in the entire Beixuan Jizhou isn't like this? No matter how little you care about bloodline, in the end it will still be filled with all kinds of people with connections... Although most of them are capable people with connections, they are still dead in the end."

Thinking of this, Gu Yeqi couldn't help but sigh: "Big Brother is alone and has nothing to worry about. Even the master is not around, so there are not so many twists and turns."

As she thought so, the girl came to the sect's main hall and prepared to go to the affairs hall to see if there were any tasks she could take. "I don't know what the eldest brother will do in the face of this situation."

Then she heard a scream.

"coming!"

At the entrance of the mountain gate, a warrior exclaimed: "An Zhen is coming!"

"Eldest brother?!"

Hearing this, Gu Yeqi's eyes suddenly lit up. She dropped all her plans for the day and ran to the mountain gate.

Then she saw it, an empty boat.

And under the airship, there was a crowd of people being driven like a flock of sheep.

It was evening at this moment, the setting sun was gradually fading, and the dim afterglow shone on the earth, casting long shadows on all things. A column appeared from the end of the horizon, crossed the hills and mountains, and the mountain trails, and came into everyone's sight.

The twilight was dim, but the crowd on the ground was lit up by dazzling ripples of light.

That is neither armor nor a weapon.

But chains.

In the basin plain outside the Jiankong Mountains, a group of prisoners were led by a figure riding a white magical machine. They slowly approached the gate of the Mingjing Sect under the huge shadow of the airship. The earth was shaking with their heavy footsteps, and their heavy breathing and painful wails echoed on the land.

"An Zhen Chuan, Lord An Jing, please spare our lives!"

"I know I was wrong, we know we were wrong!"

Sincere and heartfelt voices of repentance rang out in the team, and the scent of death could be smelled. Cries of pleas for mercy and mourning were heard one after another from the entire team of prisoners.

"You don't know you are wrong, but you know you are going to die."

But the young warrior showed no mercy, and his voice was extremely cold: "Think about what you have done. If you can survive, it would be the greatest betrayal and ruthlessness."

These people were all traitors in Hongta City who had taken the initiative to obstruct An Jing and Bai Luo. They helped Shangxuan Sect or other forces connect the nodes of the earth veins, obstruct the transfer of airships, transform the air tunnel silver, and even fought with loyal Mingjing Sect warriors and killed their own fellow warriors... as a token of their loyalty.

If they win, they can naturally escape all judgment.

But they lost, so they are here.

They all deserved to be executed, but they should not have died so easily, in Hongta City, in an unknown corner, in a remote place where no one could see them.

They should die here, in the sight of everyone.

Died in front of the sect, in front of everyone's eyes.

Like pigs and dogs waiting to be slaughtered, they are beastly sacrifices.

Traitors deserve to die. Allowing them to live until now is the greatest mercy.

So, right now.

Just in front of the Mingjing Sect’s mountain gate.

Under the intriguing gazes of the True Lords from all sides, under the gazes of so many people who were concerned about An Jing, expecting An Jing, and fearing An Jing.

"I am the true disciple of Mingguang Peak of the Mingjing Sect and a disciple of Mingguangchen, the Six Yang True Lord, An Jing!"

The young Mingjing Sect Master announced the crimes of these prisoners and traitors in a loud voice: "Today, all the traitors in the sect from Hongta City and surrounding cities are escorted here to be punished according to the law!"

After he finished speaking, he waved his knife in the air.

Click.

In an instant, hundreds or nearly a thousand heads were chopped off, blood splattered, dyeing the surrounding land red.

"The blood of these rebels is the first great gift I offer to the sect!"

silence.

Whether it is the outer gate or the inner gate, it is the true teachings in the temple or the real person on the peak.

Even the True Lords who were the masters of a peak fell into silence after seeing this scene and the bloody murderous intent that rose to the sky.

Who are you killing this for?
If these traitors are chickens, then who are the monkeys?
never mind.

Because, as the first cheers appeared, the entire Mingjing Sect’s mountain gate was filled with thunderous cheers and applause.

"Good! Good kill!"

"As expected of you, you are the Lord of the Nine Li Armies, An Zhenchuan. We respect and love you!"

"He should be killed! No, it's better to say that he should be killed! He should be killed now!"

"What a pleasure! This is what we warriors should do!!"

[Haha, too fierce, too crazy]

Even several True Immortals could not help but applaud and exclaim: [The murderous intention is so strong. In this great catastrophe, it is really a blessing for our Mingjing Sect.]

[Killing one's own traitors is so quick and easy, killing the enemy must be even more ruthless... That's how it should be! ]

Chen Yinzi was also standing on the summit of Xiaoming Peak at this moment. He looked down at his disciple on the distant plain and smiled: "If Guangchen had half the murderous intent of this kid, many things would be much easier to handle...Haha, that's how it should be. He is worthy of being my disciple's disciple!"

His figure flashed and disappeared, turning into a stream of light.
Gu Yeqi also slightly widened her eyes and stared at the young warrior in a pool of blood. She looked at An Jing, and An Jing seemed to have noticed his partner's gaze. He looked at Gu Yeqi and smiled.

——Thank you for your hard work, here I come.

"Big Brother!"

The girl was slightly startled, and then a realization emerged in her heart.

——Yes, yes... If you want to change the Mingjing Sect, there is no other way!
Kill, only kill, only kill!

——Big Brother, this sea of ​​blood... is the omen of the changes you are going to make!

On that day, Mingjing Sect's Mingguang Peak true teaching, the divine appointed 'Jiuli Army Master' An Jing, presented the blood of 972 rebels as a gift to the sect, and was led by Chenyin Zhenjun, entered the sect, worshipped the ancestor, and was given the true teaching!

(End of this chapter)