Chapter 411 Taiyi Pavilion

Duan Rong followed Yao Che into the depths of the dense forest.

Yao Che walked with his head down, not saying a word. Although they had just met, Duan Rong could tell that Yao Che was a taciturn person, so he walked silently and didn't talk to him.

As the two walked, they passed through a lush beech tree, and suddenly the view in front of them was bright.

This place was obviously a vacant lot developed in the depths of the dense forest.

The site was quite large, surrounded by wooden fences on the outside, and inside were some wooden houses of different sizes arranged randomly, like mushrooms jumping out of the wetland.

And among those wooden houses, there were a few tents scattered among them, like rare white mushrooms mixed in a pile of black mushrooms.

Yao Che walked into the site with Duan Rong in silence.

When they passed a wooden house, they saw a big man at the door, with a full beard on his face, naked upper body, wiping his neck with a towel.

He watched the two pass by, glanced at Duan Rong, and asked: "Yao Che, what does this guy do?"

Yao Che only looked at the road, without even glancing at the big man, and answered: "He left the tower forest."

"Really?" The big man wiped his face with a towel and threw the towel into the wooden basin, but when he looked at Duan Rong's back, who had already walked a little further away, a hint of doubt suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he muttered to himself: "That boy looks... a little unfamiliar?"

Yao Che led Duan Rong to a rather large tent.

The two stood at the door of the tent.

Yao Che looked at him and said: "You rest here for a few days. I will report your information to the Internal History Department today. There is a complicated ceremony for the inner disciples to leave the tower forest and enter the mountain gate. The custom is to hold it every two months. You are lucky, you have only waited for a few days. The three people inside have been waiting for more than a month."

After Yao Che finished speaking, he suddenly opened the tent, and the two of them went in, one in front and one behind, with their heads lowered.

As soon as he entered the tent, Duan Rong frowned, and a very strong and unpleasant smell rushed into his nose.

There were four bamboo beds in the tent, three of which were already occupied. Only one empty bamboo bed was piled with a lot of sundries.

At this time, it was still early morning, and the three people inside were still sleeping soundly.

Yao Che had a cold face, and swept all the sundries on the bamboo bed to the ground, then took out a fur blanket and a pillow from the cabinet at the door of the tent, threw them on the empty bed, and said: "That's it. Just sleep. If you have anything, come to the fifth wooden house at the east end of the tent to find me."

After Yao Che finished speaking, he lifted the curtain and walked out of the tent.

After staying inside for a while, Duan Rong's nose had already adapted to the smell inside and didn't feel it was pungent. He didn't sleep all night last night, so he wrapped himself in a blanket and lay on the bamboo bed.

The other three people seemed to have woken up after being disturbed like this.

On the bamboo bed on the other side of Duan Rong's door, a fair-skinned young man creaked at the head of the bed and propped up his elbows. The blanket slid down from his naked upper body. He rubbed the gray strips on his body, looked at Duan Rong, and asked: "This senior brother, I just heard that from Master Yao, you seem to have just left the Talin?"

Duan Rong glanced at him and smiled: "Yes! Three senior brothers, you are too, right?"

"Yes, we are!" The man across from Duan Rong suddenly answered.

"Senior brother, why do I think you look unfamiliar!" The young man rubbing the gray strips threw away a greasy gray ball in his hand and suddenly asked in some confusion.

He has been in the Talin for three years, and he knows almost everyone in it. Since this person in front of him is a newcomer to the Talin, how come he seems to have never seen him before?

Duan Rong smiled and said, "Of course. Senior brother, this is the first time we meet!"

"First time meeting?!" The young man was slightly stunned, his eyes moved, and then he asked, "Then may I ask, senior brother, how many years have you been in the tower forest?"

Duan Rong hesitated for a moment, but still answered, "Well... I entered the tower forest last night."

"What!?"

This time, the three of them sat up from the bamboo bed. One of them got up so hard that the blanket slipped under the bed, revealing a curvy body.

"Senior brother, you said you entered the tower forest last night? You left the tower forest early this morning!?"

Duan Rong said, "When we gathered in the morning, we beat the baboon family and came out."

The other three looked at each other when they heard this.

The young man who was rubbing the gray strips wrapped his lower body with a blanket, looked at Duan Rong with a strange look, and said, "Senior brother, you are not joking, are you?!"

He couldn't believe what Duan Rong said, which was completely beyond his cognition.

"He's not joking." Another guy, whose ribs were so thin that they could barely see them, suddenly said, "If not, how could we have never seen him after being in Tallin for several years?"

The young man who was rubbing the gray strips lowered his head to think for a moment, and when he raised his head again, he looked at Duan Rong in astonishment.

That look was as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

Although the three were greatly shocked, they still accepted the fact that Duan Rong had left Tallin overnight. After all, it was Teacher Yao who personally sent him into the tent. It can only be said that this person is gifted.

Since they were woken up, they soon started chatting.

Duan Rong originally wanted to sleep for a while, but when he saw them chatting, he joined in. He had only stayed in Tallin for one night, and he didn't know a lot of information yet, so he just took the opportunity to chat with them and inquire about some things.

Duan Rong stayed in the tent for a few days.

Although the conditions here are simple, the three people seem to live very comfortably. Duan Rong thought about it and understood that if he was locked up in that cramped tower for two or three years, he would feel like he was in heaven when he looked at the conditions in the tent after coming out. He was not deeply touched because he only stayed in that cramped tower for one night.

In the past few days, Duan Rongye basically found out all the information he needed to find out.

The inner disciples who left the tower forest must first go to Taiyi Pavilion on the worship day every two months to worship the ancestors of the sect.

The so-called ancestors of the past generations are actually the elders of the elders' council of the Taiyi Sect.

As long as you can enter the elders' council, you can enjoy the Taiyi Pavilion after death and enjoy the worship of future disciples forever.

After worshiping Taiyi Pavilion, it is the worship ceremony in the Dragon Fish Hall.

Compared with the red tape and the scene of worshiping Taiyi Pavilion, the worship ceremony in the Dragon Fish Hall is a very important thing for them.

Because not every inner disciple can become a disciple successfully. Or in other words, most inner disciples actually have no master.

These inner disciples who have no one willing to accept them can only be listed under the names of the Internal History Department, the Tongzhengshi Department, the Zongzheng Judgment Department and other departments, accepting tasks assigned by each department and the resources allocated to them for cultivation by each department.

If you perform well in each department, there is still a certain chance of becoming a disciple successfully in the department, but the probability is very slim. Basically, those who did not become a disciple successfully on the day of worshiping the ancestors of all generations will not have much chance in the future.

In addition to the elders in the Elders' Court, those who are qualified to accept disciples in the Dragon Fish Hall include the hidden elders in the sect and the successful managers of each hall.

These are three echelons.

Being accepted as a disciple by the elders of the Elders' Court naturally means that there is a bright future, and all kinds of resources and opportunities are not to be mentioned.

Although the hidden elders in the sect are usually not very prominent, they also have a lot of say in the sect. If you can become their disciples, you will also be able to make a breakthrough.

Some hidden elders are even more authoritative than some elders in the Elders' Council.

Finally, there are the successful managers of each hall. If you become their disciples, you can also get some resources. Although not as good as the first two echelons, it is much better than the inner disciples who are listed in various departments. At least, you have a master, someone to guide you in cultivation, and someone to take care of your resources. It is not a lack, but better than the lower ones.

Most of the inner disciples who leave the tower forest hope to become the disciples of the managers of each hall.

As for the elders of the Elders' Council and those hidden elders, it is really not something that ordinary people can dream of. These people basically prefer to have nothing rather than something bad, and will not easily accept disciples.

Five days later.

Duan Rong and the other three inner disciples of the tower forest came to Cuiwei Peak of the sect one day in advance.

This Cuiwei Peak is the location of the Taiyi Pavilion, the Elders' Court and the Dragon Fish Hall of the sect, which can be said to be the core hinterland of the sect.

Cuiwei Peak is not very high, it is a rather low mountain, but it is densely covered with vegetation and lush. From a distance, there is a sense of beauty.

Duan Rong and his team came to a separate courtyard under Cuiwei Peak in the evening of the previous day.

There is no mistake in the poem, the content, and the book!

In that separate courtyard, the historian and the servants in charge of etiquette in the Internal History Department tossed them all night.

They bathed and changed their clothes early, and put on heavy dresses that had been worn by countless people. Then the servants began to teach them the various red tapes of worshiping Taiyi Pavilion the next day. They were tossed until almost dawn, and then they hurriedly dozed off for a while.

To avoid wrinkling their dresses, they could only lean against the pillars to take a nap. After a while, they were pulled away by the servants. Early in the morning, when it was just dawn, they stood at the foot of the high and majestic stone steps of Cuiwei Peak with hungry stomachs.

They looked up with drowsy eyes, and saw the distant stone steps in the hazy sky, layer upon layer, like a ladder to the sky, leading directly to the top of the mountain. At the end, there was a magnificent and majestic hall, like a giant beast.

When it was bright, the ceremony began at the selected auspicious time, and at this time, Duan Rong and his companions had been standing dryly at the foot of the stone steps for nearly an hour.

Duan Rong and his companions performed the ritual of kneeling three times and bowing nine times under the sound of a horn before climbing the steps. When they reached a certain platform, they kneeled again and burned incense before continuing to drag the hem of their heavy dresses up the stone steps...

When the worship ceremony at Taiyi Pavilion was halfway through, the Dragon Fish Hall not far away was already full.

The old servant who had been on duty at the Dragon Fish Hall for many years was frightened.

What happened today?

All the elders in the Elders' Court and some old sect elders who had been hiding for many years were present.

The old servant had been on duty in the Dragon Fish Hall for more than 20 years and had never encountered such a scene.

"Could something have happened?" The old servant was worried.

Since so many elders and old elders had come, he naturally did not dare to neglect them. He immediately directed the young servants under him to add tables and chairs and serve tea.

The old man looked at the two young men taking tea leaves from the cupboard and immediately shouted, "Not there!"

"Don't you see who is here? And you're taking the tea leaves here! Can you drink last year's old tea? The jar under the cabinet contains this year's new tea. How many times have I told you?"

The young servants were in a hurry, but finally served the tea under the command of the old servant.

The old servant saw that the basic arrangements were in place, and finally took a breath, walked over slowly, and said respectfully: "May I ask all the elders and adults, why are you here in the Dragon Fish Hall?"

"You old boy, why are you pretending to be confused? We are here to recruit disciples!"

"Yes!"

The old servant was shocked and looked around. "Are you all here to recruit disciples?"

"Why don't you collect the invitations!" An old woman with a wrinkled face and white hair suddenly shouted.

"Yes, yes, yes. I am negligent!"

The old servant didn't react for a while. These people are actually here to recruit disciples! ?

This was natural, as the Dragon Fish Hall was the place for the apprenticeship ceremony. But he had been here for more than 20 years and had never seen such a scene. He thought something had happened in the Dragon Fish Hall, which had alarmed so many people!

It turned out that after all the commotion, all these people were here to accept disciples!

The old man bowed to each one of them and accepted all the letters from the elders and old men. He took a thick stack of letters in his hand, bowed again in the center of the hall, and then left the front hall and came to the back hall.

The old man sat down in front of the table in the back hall, wiped the sweat from his forehead with a cotton towel, cleaned his hands, and then opened the top letter in the stack of letters in front of him.

The letter contained the inner disciples selected by these elders and old men who wanted to be accepted into the sect.

The old man first glanced at the seal on the letter, and saw that it was the letter from Ge Rushong, the elder of the Elders’ Hall.

This Ge Rushong is not only an elder of the Elders' Council, but also the chief of the Tongzhengshisi, which means he is in a high position and has great power.

If you can be favored by him and accepted into the sect, you will almost be promoted to a high position, and you will have the opportunity to participate in many important affairs of the sect.

Below the seal is the condition offered by Ge Rushong! This part is not necessary, because Ge Rushong's identity itself is a condition that is difficult to refuse.

But Ge Rushong's post still has five densely packed additional conditions, and each one makes the old man tremble.

He swallowed his saliva and finally looked at the name at the bottom of the post.

He was a little unfamiliar with that name, as if he had never heard of it.

"Duan Rong?!"

The old man was stunned. He was wondering who this Duan Rong was, and how he was worthy of being wooed by someone like Ge Rushong!

He thought about it, but still had no impression of this name. He put down Ge Rushong's post and picked up the second post.

It was a post from Yang Sixian, the head of the Zongzheng Judgment Department!

The old man's eyes widened immediately.

"It's Duan Rong?!"

He opened the third and fourth posts...

With the sound of rustling, all the posts were spread out on the table in front of him.

"Oh my goodness!"

"They are all from Duan Rong!?"

Who on earth is this person! How could the elders of the sect and those hidden elders all scramble to take him into their sect!

And the conditions are more generous than one! ?

What the hell! ?