Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 335 Analysis
"This...uh..."

Wu Ke, who wasn't very good at lying, suddenly became somewhat unfocused.

The Jade Emperor also fell silent.

Seeing the two of them like this, Dai Min understood immediately. He sighed, his earlier excitement gone: "That's right, for safety's sake, those altars and secret realms are all protected by restrictions that allow entry from the outside but not from the inside. With those disciples' cultivation levels, they probably can't break through those restrictions at all..."

As he spoke, he became puzzled again: "Even so, those secret realms are all small worlds that we have carefully selected. They are well-fed and clothed, and the world is stable. Even if those disciples did not cultivate diligently, they should still have descendants, right?"

“Yes…it’s like this…”

The Jade Emperor sighed inwardly and recounted in detail what everyone had seen and heard.

Do you know that disciple's name?

The Jade Emperor couldn't quite recall either, only remembering that the Seven-Clump Wood Demon had mentioned it, but the specific details were vague: "It seems to be Qin something?"

Nietzsche quickly reminded everyone in the group chat, "Zuo Qin, that's the name the NPC is referring to. I made a special note of it!"

Guantangbao also remembered the name and loudly added, "Ah, right, right! His name is Zuo Qin! I remember he wrote something like 'a genius that comes along only once in a thousand years' on that pile of wooden pieces! He even said that the elders praised him, saying he might become an immortal!"

Wu Ke joined the discussion in the team channel, saying, "I suspect he's just bragging. For example, the Great Emperor always thinks he's got the makings of a Great Emperor, but he can't even learn a simple unlimited fighting technique..."

The Jade Emperor was immediately indignant: "Hey—I can't learn it because your teaching is so bad!? You drag me into dungeons whenever you have time! You never practice with me!"

Wu Ke got impatient: "You're not a girl! Why should I sacrifice my game time to practice with you! Do you know how much money I'll lose if I skip a dungeon?!"

"Wake up, you bald caterpillar! How could any girl possibly be interested in you!"

"You little brat—if you're so tough, don't come crashing my game next time I'm playing!"

"I was wrong, brother! Big brother! Father!"

While the two were exchanging glances and arguing happily in the group chat, Dai Min racked his brains for a long time but couldn't remember the person the Jade Emperor had mentioned.

"Qin... Liuzhou is different from your Zhongzhou. We use clan names instead of surnames, and usually we only use given names. Clan names are only used to distinguish tribes. As for surnames... they are only used when intermarrying. According to the rules of Liuzhou, people with the same surname do not marry."

As Dai Min spoke, his brows furrowed more and more deeply: "I don't think there are any cultivators with the surname Qin in Liuzhou. It's more likely that their names contain the character Qin. Of course, it's also possible that this disciple isn't from Liuzhou." Wu Ke asked with considerable curiosity, "Huh? Your Sword Sect also recruits disciples from outside?"

"Of course, most sects don't limit their recruitment of disciples to one place, and the Sword Sect is no exception. In the past, more than 30% of the Sword Sect's members were not from Liuzhou! There were even Di people and demons! Oh, by the way, among the thirty-six sword attendants, there was one Di person and two demon cultivators!"

"Demon cultivators? Our Taiyin Sect has them too! There are plenty in Chang'an alone! But what are Di people?"

The Jade Emperor was somewhat fascinated by these historical events.

Unlike other players who simply thought these were game settings or fabricated stories, he knew clearly that these were real history, facts that actually happened. This history, born in an environment completely different from Earth, had so many "coincidences" and similarities with many legends of ancient China, making it feel like a wonderful time-travel adventure, imbued with the unique romance of China.

“The Di people are the Di people! Don’t you know they are the Di people? How strange!” Dai Min looked at Wu Ke and the Jade Emperor with some doubt. He muttered something strangely before continuing, “Our Liuzhou is closely connected to the sea, so our ties with the Di people are closer than with other sects. However, I remember hearing that the Di people and humans occasionally had conflicts and friction, so the two sides have been interacting less and less…”

“Di people…” In the team channel, Guantangbao pondered and said, “Are the Di people the same as Quanxian? Are they the mermaids? I remember that the Classic of Mountains and Seas or some other book mentioned a country called Di People, and the people there have human faces and fish bodies… But our China also has a minority group called Di, and it seems that there are records of them as early as the pre-Qin period… Oh dear, I’m not sure about this!”

"Let's ask!"

The Jade Emperor casually remarked something in the communal wheat field, then turned to Dai Min and asked, "Is this 'Di people' you mentioned the same as Quanxian? Mermaids?"

Upon hearing this, Dai Min frowned in disapproval and said, "That's true, but your way of addressing me is rather disrespectful. Besides, Quanxian isn't just for the Di people; all the sea tribes call me Quanxian!"

“Ah, that must be due to the changes in the world. Now their official name is the Quanxian Clan, and others… uh, they might have other special names! Anyway, now the Quanxian Clan are merfolk, roughly what you call Di people!” The Jade Emperor explained, then suddenly paused, a thought flashing through his mind. He changed the subject urgently and asked, “I remember the Quanxian… are Di people, aren’t they able to communicate through telepathy? You mean their method of communication! Is it some kind of divine sense or something? Anyway, aren’t they able to communicate over long distances? So back then…”

"No."

Dai Min seemed to understand what the Jade Emperor wanted to say. He shook his head, his expression sorrowful: "We've tried it. It's said that communication is impossible, as if we're not in the same world as the outside world. Moreover, divine sense cannot pass through the rift... Many disciples of the Sword Sect have died here."

“I don’t understand why you are so special, but we tried everything we could think of, but even with our divine sense, we couldn’t cross that rift.”

"I understand!" The Jade Emperor paced back and forth, analyzing, "In other words, firstly, since neither the soul nor the divine sense can pass through the rift, it is basically impossible for them to borrow a puppet and then attach their divine sense to go out... Of course, we can also conduct experiments, but based on the known information, it is obviously not very optimistic."

"Secondly, whether the teleportation array is useful is unknown, because the Sword Sect disciples outside were trapped in the cave world and couldn't contact the Sword Sect inside Tiangui Mountain. Furthermore, all the teleportation arrays inside Tiangui Mountain were destroyed, and their coordinates were lost. This is why no one has tried using the teleportation array to leave, meaning—"

Wu Ke then chimed in, "The teleportation array could indeed succeed!"