Building a sect from scratch.

After most of the disciples of the Taiyi Ziwei Sect had arrived, the Yin Immortal, with a grim face, shouted, "Fang Xianyu! Release my sect's elder at once! Otherwise, my sect's 100,000 disciples will fight you to the death!"

Fang Xianyu didn't say anything, but smiled instead. Then, a new battlefield mission popped up in the players' field of vision.

The second phase of the limited-time battlefield mission, "Eliminate the Ziwei Sect," has begun. There is no direct teleportation array to the battlefield this time; players are advised to choose their own method of travel. The battlefield location is marked on the map. Players participating in the mission will receive the "Sect Leader's Praise" and "Taiyin Goddess's Favor" effects. Killing and capturing enemy units on the battlefield will grant a large amount of Prestige Points and a chance to obtain rare items such as Heavenly-Rank Spiritual Weapons and Heavenly-Rank Equipment. Players are encouraged to participate actively! ("Sect Leader's Praise": Increases Spiritual Power Recovery Speed ​​by 100%; "Taiyin Goddess's Favor": Reduces Resurrection Cooldown by 99%)

As soon as the quest was announced, all the resurrected players were teleported to various airships or camps equipped with teleportation arrays. Near the teleportation array in Chang'an City, veteran players were still shouting: "Free teleportation to the battlefield for newbies to rack up points! Must follow orders and provide good logistics! Interested in joining a group? Guaranteed to get you to the battlefield points settlement reward!"

Some were trying to make money: "Teleport Express: 5 bosses per trip! Only 10 silver per ride! One-way express ride is only 10 silver per ride now! Bosses, come and see me!"

There were also those who took the opportunity to become resellers: "Gugu Chicken Fried Chicken Family Bucket and Duck Milk Tea Set Meal Limited Time Special Offer! 1 Yuan a Set Meal First Come First Served! While we're enjoying the show, fellow Daoist, why not get a set meal? I specially chose watermelon iced tea for the milk tea!"

Amidst the commotion, everyone flocked to the vicinity of the battlefield. However, compared to the densely packed Taiyi Ziwei Sect disciples, the number of online players was only a little over a thousand. Subtracting some casual players and those uninterested in battlefield activities, the total number was barely a thousand! And that still had to include the new players who had just entered Qi cultivation and were not as strong as the native mortal farmers of the Guixu Realm.

Seeing that the Taiyin Sect had also sent a number of people, Si Yang and Si Yin looked rather displeased. However, seeing that they had only managed to gather a few thousand people in the end, and most of them had not even reached the Foundation Establishment stage, the two began to mock them.

"Fang Xianyu! Are you sending your disciples, who haven't even reached the Foundation Establishment stage, to their deaths?"

“Unlike you, who, for your own selfish desires, force your own disciples to their deaths without batting an eye,” Fang Xianyu finally spoke, but his words stunned everyone in the Taiyi Ziwei Sect: “Besides, hasn’t anyone told you that our sect’s disciples are immortal?”

Immortality!?
Shocked, Si Yang and Si Yin looked into the sacrificial array as if searching for some evidence. Only then did they realize that all the Taiyin Sect disciples who had supposedly "died of old age" had vanished without a trace!

Not even bones were left!
Si Yangxianren felt a sense of foreboding. Before he could think further, he saw the entire Immortal Sacrifice Array emitting a blood-red light. Then, it seemed as if something dissipated from the array, and the Ziwei Sect disciples who had fallen to the ground gradually regained their youthful appearance, their white hair turning black and their rosy cheeks returning!
Before long, a few cultivators with the lowest cultivation levels managed to lift their eyelids, and then one by one, others regained consciousness.

The Immortal of Yin stared wide-eyed, muttering in disbelief, "Resurrection from the dead... How is this possible?!"

Immortal Siyang quickly deduced the conclusion: "No, it's not a resurrection, but rather that the Sacrifice Immortal Array did not obtain the lives of those Taiyin Sect disciples, so naturally it will not take away the lives of my sect's disciples who were exchanged."

For once, the Immortal Si Yin felt a surge of fear: "Those Taiyin Sect disciples... lifeless and soulless!?"

“How pitiful. As a respected teacher and elder I have revered for many years, I would rather you die than as your enemies, I would spare your lives.”

Fang Xianyu pressed on while the iron was hot, saying, "Actually, I am not your enemy. Our Taiyin Sect has only wanted to seek justice from beginning to end, so that whether it is an outer disciple, a menial disciple, or even a mortal from the countryside or a crippled person whose path to immortality has been cut off, everyone can live with dignity and be a human being!"

"Instead of being like those in the Ziwei Sect, burdened with suffocating taxes, endless chores, and even their lives at the mercy of the elders—is it fair that they don't even have control over their own lives?"

As soon as Fang Xianyu finished speaking, the players, who were sipping milk tea and munching on fried chicken, started commenting: "These lines are a bit weak, not grand enough. Who is the writer? Drag them out and give them a piece of their mind!"

"Exactly! They have no culture at all, yet they say they're 'upright and decent, living like human beings.' Such plain language, it doesn't even create the right atmosphere, tsk! Thumbs down!"

"And another thing, is our sect leader always this shameless? I remember when this limited-time battlefield mission first started, there wasn't any talk of seeking justice, right? It seemed like our sect leader just didn't like the Ziwei Sect and wanted to destroy them?"

"Hey, you obviously haven't seen the plot. Do you remember the opening animation of the first version? Before our sect leader traveled back in time, he was besieged by the forces of various sects and many immortals and gods. So strictly speaking, this is all revenge?"

"What kind of revenge is this! She went back in time! She didn't even have a chance to hit her yet. You can't judge someone based on a crime that didn't happen, can you? According to you, if I dream that my boyfriend is cheating on me, I can beat him up to vent my anger when I wake up?"

"Huh? Isn't this what you always do?"

"You fart!"

"Hey, even putting aside the opening animation, our reasoning is pretty sound! Liberate all of humanity! How wonderful!"

"Hey! Talking about systems without considering the level of social productivity and social development is just being irresponsible!"

As a few onlookers were arguing about this, a player carrying a "Gatling gun" came over and said, "Alright, alright, guys, stop talking politics. Phase two has already started and you're still just watching? Why don't you go fight and rack up points?"

"Why don't you take a look at our level?"

The player who asked the question noticed that the players discussing politics were all pitifully low-level, the highest being only level 12 and the lowest only level 10, probably just having entered the Qi Refining stage. With their level and cultivation, even using a "Gatling gun," they probably wouldn't last more than a few minutes before running out of mana. Moreover, given their movement speed at the Qi Refining stage, going there would just be suicide missions. No wonder they had occupied a prime spot to watch the drama unfold and discuss politics.

Seeing this, the player who asked the question smiled ingratiatingly and asked, "Then let's add each other as friends, and you can keep an eye on my equipment for me? My inventory is full, and I'm afraid my gear will fall off if I wear it!"

"OK, no problem!"

"A small matter!" (End of Chapter)