Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 226 The Story of Wei Congrong (Revised)
Before Elder Lu Ying could answer, another player, with his hands behind his back and a protruding belly, deliberately paced in front of the player who had asked the question, saying, "The central government can't control it! They can't control it!"

Elder Lu Ying coughed awkwardly twice, trying to save face, and said, "Ahem, the disciples of the Taiyin Sect are indeed rather impulsive."

Jiao Xueling, on the other hand, knew quite a bit about it. She often secretly transformed her appearance to eat and drink at the night market when no one was looking, and occasionally she could even peek at her two junior brothers and sisters not doing anything productive. She was used to it and said to Wei Congrong with the air of someone who had been through it all: "Uncle-Master, you'll get used to it! They often argue, and the variety of words they use is simply amazing! Oh, by the way, sometimes watching them argue is quite interesting!"

Meanwhile, Elder Lu Ying smiled kindly at the player who had been complaining to him, and explained, "Once the new manager takes office in the next couple of days, you can register with him. You won't have to come to me every time. Well, if nothing unexpected happens, it should be done tonight!"

Upon hearing this, the player cheered, "Great! But we still like Elder the most!"

Veteran players, well-versed in the importance of flattery, chimed in, "Exactly! You're the best!"

"Elder Lu Ying is the best elder in our hearts!"

Kui Congrong was also infected by the players' enthusiastic emotions and couldn't help but smile and say to Jiao Xueling, "The disciples of Taiyin Sect are truly pure of heart."

Elder Lu Ying casually greeted the players, chatted with them for a few moments, and then led Jiao Xueling and Wei Congrong into the empty hall.

When Elder Lu Ying was managing certain affairs, the outer hall of the main hall was open to the public. Elder Lu Ying would "work" in the outer hall, responsible for registering player information and handling disciple tokens. Occasionally, Baili Shuang would also appear here to distribute daily tasks.

However, due to the timed battlefield issue, both Baili Shuang and Elder Lu Ying left, and the main hall was completely off-limits to players—otherwise, who knows what these players might do! A while ago, a player risked being marked red to try and remove the glazed roof ornaments from the Taiyin Palace complex, but not only did they fail because the area was reinforced with magic, they also lost 100 points of public virtue, had their sect prestige and contribution points wiped out, and even their favorability with Fang Xianyu and Baili Shuang dropped to below 50 on average. This player had to scrape together a lot of money to have a studio remove their red name, and is now working every day to pay off their debts!

As soon as the three entered the main hall, they heard a pleasant female voice: "Kui Congrong, the only Heavenly Rank Wood Spirit Root in the thirty-second generation of the Kui family, and a former young genius of the Penglai Sect, I have long admired your name!"

Following the sound, Fang Xianyu slowly emerged from behind the stone lamp.

Kui Congrong was taken aback at first, then smiled and said, "Sect Leader Fang is so well-informed, you even know this!"

Then, she politely greeted him, saying, "Greetings, Sect Leader Fang."

Jiao Xueling then greeted him, saying, "Greetings, Sect Leader Fang."

Fang Xianyu didn't presume and returned the greeting: "You two are too kind."

Kui Congrong tentatively asked, "Sect Leader Fang, you even know about these old stories. May I ask where you come from?"

"My sect is a secluded sect, not located in the Ten Continents and Three Islands, and has little reputation, so let's not talk about it," Fang Xianyu said ambiguously, not wanting to be associated with the Taiyi Qiankun Sect. "I can only hear about these things from others because Fellow Daoist Wei amazed many people back then."

Indeed. The Kui family of Wuzhizhou only went to Wuzhizhou to establish their own sect after breaking with the Penglai Sect. And the reason for the break was also related to Kui Congrong.

Kui Congrong was the thirty-second generation of the Kui family, and the only one with a Heavenly Rank Wood Spiritual Root. His cultivation secrets and the path he followed were perfectly aligned, and the discovery of his spiritual root immediately attracted the attention of the entire Kui family. When Kui Congrong was eight years old, the Kui family sent him to the Penglai Sect and went to great lengths to pull strings so that he could become a disciple of the famous Xuan Shui Immortal, one of the Eight Immortals of Penglai.

After Wei Congrong cultivated for several years and established his foundation as a teenager, some people began to be envious.

At first, Penglai Sect only arranged for Kui Congrong to enter some secret realms and trials that were not suitable for her age and cultivation level, and even arranged many sect tasks that were quite difficult for her.

At this time, everyone assumed that Xuan Shui Xianren was training this junior disciple, because he would always arrange for his other disciple, Li Yan, who had already reached the Golden Core stage, to accompany and take care of him on such missions.

But soon, after Li Yan escaped from a secret realm that Kui Congrong entered with her when she was nineteen, things started to develop in the direction of conspiracy theories.

First, Immortal Xuan Shui and his disciple Li Yan claimed that Wei Congrong had died in the secret realm and began to hold a grand funeral. However, less than half a month later, Wei Congrong surprisingly appeared in the main hall of Penglai Sect and claimed that Li Yan had killed him after failing to obtain the recipe for his family's elixir.

This incident alarmed several sects, because although the Wei family relied on the Penglai Sect for a living, they were not entirely controlled by it, and many of their members had joined various other sects. Wei's calm acceptance of the injustice aroused unprecedented unity among the Wei family members, and many of them came to the Penglai Sect to demand an explanation, using the names of other sects.

However, the final result was not as satisfactory as expected.

After the Eight Immortals of Penglai joined forces to use the Dream Traveling Immortal Technique, they discovered that they could only detect the scene of Li Yan leading them into the Evil Water to search for traces of demonic beasts, but they could not see the scene beneath the Evil Water. The Evil Water is water condensed from the demonic energy of the Nine Netherworlds, where no grass or trees grow and no fish or shrimp live. It can also block the detection of magic. Even the Dream Traveling Immortal Technique, which can recall past scenes, is powerless to do so.

As for the so-called inducement of Wei to calmly enter the evil water, Li Yan defended it as training her junior sister's abilities.

Such a clumsy explanation was naturally untenable, and Li Yan was expelled from the sect for harming her fellow disciples.

Originally, things had come to this point, which should have been considered an explanation to the Wei family. However, the Wei family did not say anything at the time, but turned around and left Penglai Island with Wei Congrong and his entire family, went to Wuzhizhou, and set up their own household.

Since the Wei family was like an octopus, having connections with various sects and factions, the matter was dropped. Wei Congrong also "betrayed" the Penglai Sect and joined the Taiyi Ziwei Sect.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Kui Congrong actually has a less-than-honorable dark history.

Although there were reasons for her leaving Penglai Sect, her reputation in the cultivation world was not good, so she never mentioned it, and gradually everyone forgot about it.

If Fang Xianyu hadn't said it now, even Wei Congrong himself would probably have forgotten about it!
(End of this chapter)