Immortality and cultivation begin with full comprehension.

Chapter 12 Sect System
The Fu family is really annoying; they're arrogant and vengeful...

If you can't afford to offend this old Taoist priest, you can at least avoid him!
Soon, all eight teams had completed the testing.

Of the five or six hundred people, one hundred and twenty were ultimately chosen.

Those who were eliminated were all taken away by the blue-robed disciples and sent out of the mountain gate.

The remaining people lined up again and gathered together.

Among them, only Yu Yunyi and Fu Chao possess top-grade spiritual roots; twelve people have high-grade spiritual roots; the rest are like Li Yunjing.

Soon, disciples of the Shenxiao Dao Sect took Li Yunjing and his companions away according to their respective cultivation levels and spiritual root attributes.

Prodigies like Yu Yunyi and Fu Chao were naturally taken away by the old Taoist priest himself.

The treatment of true disciples is incomparable to that of ordinary disciples.

Watching Yu Yunyi leave, Li Yunjing shook his head slightly and then erased that beautiful image from his mind.

The cultivation world is more realistic than the mortal world.

If you don't have the ability, don't expect anything.

The most important thing right now is to establish myself among the menial disciples and learn everything about the cultivation world as quickly as possible.

What he lacks is the foundation of cultivation; compared to other beginners, he is far inferior.

You need to catch up with others before you can think about more things.

Li Yunjing would never do anything that is overly ambitious or impractical.

From the very beginning, you must strive to catch up with and surpass your fellow students.

Only after this step is achieved can we hope for more.

Don't overthink things, just be practical and take it one step at a time.

However, what Li Yunjing didn't know was that his spiritual root was constantly changing...

The power of the "Creation Thunder" has been constantly transforming him.

This is a comprehensive evolution.

Before obtaining this opportunity, Li Yunjing's spiritual root was only of the low grade, with only a mere three inches or less of light.

Only one day later, his spiritual root broke through a level and became a mid-grade spiritual root.

I dare not imagine what the future holds.

In addition to the five elemental spiritual roots, Li Yunjing awakened a subtle spiritual root.

This spiritual root carries the power of thunder.

It was just too subtle; even the stone mirror of the "Divine Firmament Dao Sect" couldn't detect it.

The emergence of the "Lightning Spirit Root" will bring more possibilities to Li Yunjing in the future.

The true disciples, inner disciples, and outer disciples were chosen and left with the disciples of the Shenxiao Dao Sect.

Only thirty menial disciples remained on the square.

A Taoist priest in gray robes stepped forward and surveyed the people present with an expressionless face.

"Disciple, come with me!"

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent and followed the man away from the square.

Outside this circular plaza, there are eight roads, all paved with cobblestones.

Li Yunjing and his companions followed the gray-robed Taoist priest toward the road to the west.

Li Yunjing felt a little dizzy throughout the journey.

After many twists and turns, passing countless pavilions and gardens, and taking a full hour, the group finally arrived at a palace with the gray-robed Taoist.

The plaque above this palace reads "Hall of Miscellaneous Services"!
This "Hall of Miscellaneous Services" was where the disciples who performed miscellaneous tasks were arranged.

At this moment, a dozen or so Taoist priests dressed in gray robes and with extremely sharp eyes stood in the square in front of the "Miscellaneous Service Hall".

These people were there to receive the new disciples and were responsible for assigning them jobs. As soon as Li Yunjing and his group stepped into the square, these people began to sized up Li Yunjing and his group of newcomers.

Look at these oxen and horses, see which one can do the most work, so we can make a quick decision when it comes to selecting people!
"You guys wait here!"

The gray-robed Taoist who led Li Yunjing and the others to this place gave a cold order.

He then strode quickly toward the side gate of the palace ahead.

"Dangdang!"

A short while later, the two large doors of the "Miscellaneous Service Hall" slowly opened.

Two young Taoist priests dressed in blue robes came out, glanced at the newly initiated disciples outside, and said loudly, "Line up, you can all come in."

Clearly, in the "Miscellaneous Service Hall," apart from the actual stewards, the specific affairs are handled by the outer disciples.

The crowd remained silent and filed in as instructed by the outer disciples.

In a dimly lit hall, several imposing middle-aged Taoist priests sat in chairs, each exuding an aura even stronger than that of Steward Li from before.

Clearly, these Taoists were all experts at the Foundation Establishment stage.

They were all stewards of the "Shenxiao Daozong".

Within the power structure of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect," in addition to the four levels of disciples, there is also the Dao Protector Army responsible for conquering all directions. Outside the Dao Protector Army are the sect stewards, who are responsible for specific affairs.

The minimum requirement for a steward is to have the cultivation level of Foundation Establishment.

Above the deacons are the elders and the supreme leader.

Those are high positions that can only be held by those at the Golden Core stage. These Golden Core ancestors either control a mountain peak, lead a sect, or are responsible for commanding the guardian army.

Beyond their specific duties, the Shenxiao Dao Sect also has a mysterious council of Supreme Elders.

That place is full of Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

It is the foundation upon which the Shenxiao Dao Sect can command the Tiannan Continent.

Such a person could roam the world for thousands of years and was a true terrestrial deity.

Nascent Soul stage cultivators no longer concern themselves with the specific affairs of their sects.

These important figures are all in seclusion in the secret realms of the Shenxiao Mountains, cultivating in order to break through their realms and gain a longer lifespan.

Entering the cultivation world does not grant immortality.

Every realm is a struggle against the heavens.

A cultivator at the Qi Refining Realm can live for a maximum of two hundred years. Of course, the exact lifespan depends on the level of cultivation, the cultivation method, and whether or not one has consumed any elixirs or rare treasures.

In short, those at the Qi Refining stage can generally live to be two hundred years old.

Those at the Foundation Establishment stage can live for four or five hundred years.

The Golden Core Ancestor can live for thousands of years. At this level, one can look down on the world and watch the clouds rise and fall, and the world change.

Above that is the Nascent Soul stage.

At that level, one can live for at least three thousand years, and at most five or six thousand years.

The number of Nascent Soul cultivators in the "Shenxiao Dao Sect" has always been a secret.

This is the sect's biggest secret; even the sect leader cannot know the specific data.

"Brother Li, do you see any outstanding individuals among this group of disciples?"

At this moment, the Foundation Establishment stage deacons began to scrutinize the new disciple, and one of the middle-aged men asked a question.

"I think this group of disciples is quite good."

"I've heard there are a few promising talents who could advance to the outer sect, but it will probably be quite difficult for them to advance to the Foundation Establishment realm."

A middle-aged man dressed in a Taoist robe with the colors of water and fire smiled.

The water and fire Taoist robe he wore was clearly a magical artifact, with faint water and clouds swirling around it, emitting a red glow, making him appear like a god or demon.

(End of this chapter)