Building a sect from scratch.

The Fang Sect Master Fang Xianyu, whom Jiao Xueling and Kui Congrong mentioned, was wearing Baili Shuang's disguise. He was observing the situation among all the players in sight from behind an auspicious cloud in the sky, together with Elder Lu Ying. Neither of them spoke.

The Taiyi Ziwei Sect is, after all, a branch of a sect with a history of several thousand years. It has its own resources, and its entire mountain-protecting formation protects the sect very well. It would be difficult to break through it easily.

Even if you forcefully break the formation by spending system energy points, it will still cost hundreds or thousands of points, which is really a bit of a pain.

Thinking of this, Baili Shuang began to miss Jiao Xueling, the Taiyi Ziwei Sect cultivator she had deliberately tried to befriend.

Baili Shuang had also heard about Jiao Xueling and her master, Master Pinglin. After sighing that some things were ultimately unavoidable, she became curious about where Jiao Xueling would run off to.

I wonder if I can recruit her after I destroy the Taiyi Ziwei Sect. Perhaps I could make her a regional agent for the Taiyin Sect, or even put her in a university as a professor. Both would be suitable options.

Right now, the Taiyin Sect is most lacking in teachers to instruct in cultivation! The sect only has a few elders and NPC disciples who can answer questions, most of whom are actually imposters she created herself! Even with the system's ability to multitask, she's already overwhelmed! Jiao Xueling, on the other hand, has trained so many junior brothers and sisters; she must have extremely rich teaching experience!
Just as she was thinking this to herself, suddenly, a thought struck her.

Looking into the distance, she indeed saw two figures flying towards her at lightning speed. One of them was Jiao Xueling, whom she had been thinking about!
Baili Shuang was overjoyed and quickly went to greet him, saying, "Fellow Daoist Jiao, it's been a long time!"

Jiao Xueling also greeted them warmly and introduced them to each other: "Fellow Daoist Baili! This is my senior master, True Man Qianzhi, who comes from the Wei family of Wuzhizhou and whose real name is Wei Congrong. This is Fellow Daoist Baili Shuang, a disciple of Sect Master Fang."

When it was Elder Lu Ying's turn, she was a little troubled: "I wonder who this is..."

Elder Lu Ying quickly introduced himself: "Oh, my name is Lu Ying, I am an elder of the Taiyin Sect, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Baili Shuang also greeted her, saying, "Master Qianzhi, I have long admired you. The Kui family's reputation is truly renowned!"

"I wouldn't dare. The Kui family is nothing but a name, not worth mentioning." Kui greeted them calmly, then went straight to the point: "I've met Fellow Daoist Baili and Elder Lu, but now I'm like a tree without roots. I wonder if the Taiyin Sect can accommodate a mere alchemist like me?"

Elder Lu Ying didn't know what to say. Baili Shuang, who was standing to the side, was stunned at first, then looked at Jiao Xueling in disbelief. When she saw that Jiao Xueling was also smiling and nodding, she realized what was happening and quickly took Kui Congrong's hand, saying happily, "Welcome, welcome! Our Taiyin Sect welcomes all law-abiding cultivators!"

Kui Congrong then asked, "Where is Sect Leader Fang located? Would it be convenient for us to pay our respects?"

"This……"

Baili Shuang hesitated about what to do, and just as she was struggling with this, she heard Elder Lu Ying speak up: "The sect leader is still in Taiyin Palace. Xiao Shuang, why don't you stay here and keep watch, and I'll take the two fellow Daoists to see the sect leader? What do you say?"

Baili Shuang twitched her lips awkwardly, but nodded naturally on the surface: "Then I'll have to trouble Elder Lu Ying!" Almost no one knew that "Baili Shuang" and "Fang Xianyu" were actually the same person. Even Elder Lu Ying and the few people in the country who knew the most information could only guess—even Wang Ergou and the others knew nothing about it!
Since it was just a guess, and Fang Xianyu didn't seem inclined to tell anyone, everyone tacitly refrained from revealing it, which was also a sign of their sincere friendship and cooperation.

After exchanging a few polite words, Jiao Xueling and Wei Congrong followed Elder Lu Ying and flew towards the Taiyin Palace.

After Baili Shuang's figure disappeared from sight, Wei Congrong cautiously asked, "Elder Lu, Baili Shuang should be your junior disciple, right? Why do you two talk like... it doesn't seem like a junior and an elder communicating?"

“Oh, according to the traditional seniority system within the sect, I would barely qualify, but in reality, I don’t have any master-disciple relationship with her,” Elder Lu Ying explained. “Even if we did, it would be quite different in our Taiyin Sect compared to the outside world.”

Jiao Xueling recalled some of the "masters and disciples" she had encountered while secretly changing her appearance and mingling near the night market outside Chang'an City. She couldn't help but whisper to Wei Congrong, "In their Taiyin Sect, it's common for disciples to rebel!"

Elder Lu Ying, whose cultivation was only average due to his long-term busyness with administrative affairs, was currently trying his best to control the flight of the auspicious cloud while laughing and saying, "Hahahaha, this is also a manifestation of good relations. More importantly, our Taiyin Sect does not have a class division of high and low, noble and lowly."

She tried to "brainwash" them using words they could understand: "In other sects, the master is like a father for life, and the authority of parents and masters is even greater than heaven. Whether the request is reasonable or unreasonable, disciples and children must obey. But this is actually a very typical manifestation of slavery."

“Disciples are not slaves, and children are even less so. Therefore, in the Taiyin Sect, a teacher is someone who imparts knowledge, teaches skills, and resolves doubts. It is merely a position. People respect him because they respect the work of the person in that position, not because they blindly admire him.”

"Therefore, in terms of personality, the master and disciple are equal. Just like cultivators and ordinary people who have not yet embarked on cultivation, their souls are equally noble."

Kui Congrong murmured repeatedly, "Their souls... are all equally noble..."

“That’s right, the reason we’re emphasizing this is because we know that nobody wants to be a slave,”

Elder Lu Ying explained carefully: "If we do not agree that all people are the same, and if we believe that cultivators are naturally superior, then it is equivalent to agreeing that those with strong cultivation can naturally dominate those with weak cultivation—regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, and regardless of whether the weak are willing or not."

"So, if we judge people solely by their cultivation level and their status solely by their strength, it seems that violence can solve all problems. Those of higher class will always be superior, and slaves will always be slaves. Even if we are exceptionally talented and one in a million, there will always be layers upon layers of even more 'noble' beings above us. In the end, we ourselves are slaves."

Upon hearing this, even Jiao Xueling seemed to be deep in thought.

"Therefore, in order to avoid making everyone a slave, our Taiyin Sect has completely abandoned the backward and corrupt governance methods of other sects that rely mainly on rule by man. We rely on the rule of law!"

Elder Lu Ying praised incessantly: "Humans have seven emotions and six desires, but the law does not. Perhaps due to a lack of experience, the law has some loopholes, and even due to changes in the times, some provisions may become outdated. But we can continuously improve it, adjust it, and revise it. This is much better than simply relying on people's conscience and morality, isn't it?" (End of this chapter)