Chapter 29: Visitors from Xianyang Sect

“Reporting to the Lord, all the children outside the gate have been recruited.” Just as Xuansheng, Bu Gong and Yu Chong were chatting in the Xuan family compound, a warrior in armor came into the compound and informed Xuansheng.
“Oh? It’s over so soon?” Xuansheng was slightly surprised when he heard what this person said; he had gone out to check once in the morning, and at that time, the line of children waiting for testing outside the door even stretched to the streets of Xuanhuo City. The open space in front of the City Lord’s Mansion alone was already crowded with people.
Xuansheng was thinking that the class would not be over until the afternoon, but he did not expect it to be over before noon. After a moment’s hesitation, Xuansheng turned to look at Yu Chong and said, “Deacon Yu, now that all the children have been enrolled, what do you think?”
“Is it over? If that’s the case, how many people have passed the test?” Yu Chong hesitated for a moment after hearing Xuansheng say this, and then asked.
Hearing Yu Chong’s words, Xuansheng turned to look at the armored warrior who had just reported, with a questioning look in his eyes; “Master, this time we have counted 48 boys aged 10 to 16 and 20 girls; there are three cultivators over 16 years old.” Having said that, the warrior shifted his gaze to Bu Gong who was standing aside. It goes without saying that Bu Gong must have been counted among them.
“Oh? That many people?” Xuansheng was obviously a little surprised when he heard his subordinate’s report. In the past, when Xianyang Sect recruited disciples every five years, it was considered a good number for a city like Xuanhuo City to have at most 30 people at a time.
Moreover, after these 30 people are brought to the Xianyang Sect to test their cultivation talents, basically 60 to 70 percent will be eliminated, leaving only 11 or 12 people who will pass, and the rest will all be sent back to their respective homes.
As for the small number of people, it was because after Xianyang Gate issued the notice, the dominant forces in the major cities below kept the news strictly confidential; they almost all gave priority to recommending the children of their own families or forces with which they had close ties, and then allocated the remaining places to others, and finally sent them to Xianyang Gate for testing.
When people outside learned that Xianyang Sect was recruiting disciples, the deadline had already expired, so they could do nothing; and this year, no one knew how the news got out in advance, so people in small towns and villages around some big cities also sent their children to take the Xianyang Sect entrance test, so the number of people increased sharply this year.
Apparently, the news that Xianyang Sect was recruiting disciples had spread widely, so naturally, there were more people. Yu Chong, who was standing by, was also a little stunned when he heard this number.
He himself did not expect that the number of people recruited this year would be more than twice that of the last time, reaching sixty or seventy people; this number could even be comparable to the number in Xianyang City in previous years. He was silent for a moment, and then said: “In this case, I will notify Xianyang Gate and come directly to Xuanhuo City to pick people up.”
“That’s fine. There are more people this time. If we send them to Xianyang City, it will take five or six days on the road, and those children won’t be able to bear it.” Xuansheng responded after hearing Yu Chong say this.
Bu Gong, who was standing aside, had a glint of curiosity in his eyes when he heard Yu Chong say that he wanted to notify the people coming from Xianyang Sect. He really wanted to know how the Xianyang Sect deacon in front of him would notify the people coming from Xianyang Sect.
You know, he learned from Yu Chong that this place is hundreds of miles away from Xianyang Gate. “It’s impossible that the old man in front of me ran to Xianyang Gate, notified, and then ran back?” Bu Gong thought secretly in his heart.
Thinking of this, Bu Gong couldn’t help but look at Yu Chong, and then his expression became a little strange, looking at the old man in front of him whose cultivation level was similar to his own, “It can’t be true, right?”
You have to understand that even if Bu Gong has reached the third level of body shaping, he will not be able to fly in the air. Yu Chong’s cultivation level is similar to his, but he said he would notify the people from Xianyang Sect. So, apart from this method, is there any other way?
If Bu Gong’s thoughts were known by Yu Chong or Xuan Sheng, they would definitely call him a “country bumpkin”; in fact, it was reasonable for Bu Gong to have such thoughts, after all, it was his first time walking out of Shitou Town, and he was basically in the dark about everything in those immortal cultivation sects and knew nothing.
In his understanding, if people from two different places wanted to pass messages to each other, they could only go there in person and pass it on verbally. There was no other way. Just as Bu Gong was thinking about it, he saw Yu Chong take out a palm-sized jade slip from his arms.
This jade slip looks similar to an ordinary jade pendant, but if you look closely, you will find that there seems to be a bit of wriggling blood in it, constantly changing; and the surface of this jade slip seems to be wrapped in a layer of white light, covering it, which is extremely mysterious.
When Yu Chong took out the jade slip, Bu Gong also noticed it. He also discovered the strangeness of the jade slip at this time; then he saw Yu Chong’s face turned slightly pale, and a drop of blood spit out from his mouth and dripped onto the jade slip.
Within a few breaths, the drop of essence and blood slowly squirmed and gradually merged into the jade slip in Yu Chong’s hand; then a white beam of light rose from the jade slip, and then went straight through the sky, breaking through the air until it disappeared.
“This…” Bu Gong was a little surprised and curious when he saw this phenomenon; he didn’t expect that an ordinary-looking jade slip would have such a strange phenomenon; this was beyond his cognition.
Only after the white beam of light broke through the air and disappeared did Yu Chong slowly breathe a sigh of relief, and then said with a smile: “Okay, the message has been passed back, and the sect will send people here soon.”
At this time, Bu Gong was staring blankly at the jade slip in Yu Chong’s hand. He couldn’t understand why a jade slip could emit white light.
When Yu Chong looked at Bu Gong, he seemed to notice his confusion and said, “Young friend Bu Gong, are you curious about the jade slip in my hand?”
Hearing Yu Chong’s question, Bu Gong nodded slightly. He really wanted to know what this thing was that could actually transmit news hundreds of miles away.
“Hehe… This jade slip is actually used to transmit messages or transmit information remotely. You can call it a communication jade slip or a communication card,” Yu Chong explained slowly.
“Everyone in Xianyang Sect will have a communication card. In fact, after you, young friend Bu Gong, enter Xianyang Sect, the sect will automatically send you such a communication card. Then you only need to seal a drop of your own blood essence into it and you can use it. It’s just that one drop of blood essence is needed for each communication, but it will be replenished after a little practice. It’s not a big deal,” Yu Chong continued.
Listening to Yu Chong’s explanation, ripples appeared in Bu Gong’s dark eyes; “I didn’t expect there was such a thing,” Bu Gong murmured to himself in an inaudible voice.
“I guess there will be many things I don’t know about in my future journey of cultivating immortals?” Bu Gong thought to himself, and a hint of anticipation flashed in his dark pupils.
Xuansheng asked the soldiers guarding the city to temporarily settle the selected children, and then they waited for the people from Xianyang Gate to come; and when Bu Gong’s eyes swept across these children aged 10 to 16, suddenly, his eyes paused and looked at one place. Bu Gong did not expect that the two girls he brought out from Liu Mansion the day before yesterday were also selected among them.
They were Xiang Ling’er and the girl brought out by Bu Gong. They were seen following the team one in front and the other behind. There was a hint of excitement on the pretty faces of the two girls because they were chosen in advance. When Bu Gong looked at them, the two girls seemed to have sensed something and looked at Bu Gong who was standing at the gate of the mansion.
Xiang Ling’er’s beautiful eyes were still as cold and persistent, but there was an imperceptible trace of guilt in that coldness; and the girl behind her was a little weak, and there was a trace of awe when she looked at Bu Gong; could someone who could stand with the Lord of the Mansion and the deacon of Xianyang Gate be simple?
When Bu Gong’s eyes swept over the two girls, they paused slightly because of a little surprise, and then turned their eyes away.
“I can finally enter a sect of immortal cultivation, and it’s the Xianyang Sect.” When the ‘Xianyang Sect’ was mentioned, Bu Gong couldn’t help but slightly curl up the corners of his mouth, because he remembered the man and woman, Su Ziwei and Bi Qiong, who had framed the blind man Zhang.
“I wonder if Su Ziwei and Bi Qiong, whom Grandpa Zhang mentioned, are still in Xianyang Sect?” Bu Gong murmured. About a quarter of an hour later, Bu Gong looked up at the distant sky with a slight feeling.
In the distant sky, two black spots grew rapidly. In a few breaths, two young men stepped on the void and came to the sky above Bu Gong’s head. One of the two men had a slender figure, a handsome face, and was wearing a white robe. The corners of his clothes fluttered in the wind, giving him a sense of otherworldliness.
The man next to him was wearing a loose black robe, his face was a little rough, and his figure was much bigger and stronger than the man in white robe. Then the two of them paused briefly in the sky and slowly landed.
Yu Chong, who had been chatting and laughing just now, showed a look of disbelief in his eyes when he saw the two men; his heart was almost turning upside down, “Why, why would the sect send out these two great masters this time?” Yu Chong’s expression was a little dazed at this time, as if he had seen something incredible.
“This, isn’t this the legendary monster who has been in seclusion for several years and has not appeared, Lin Xin?” Yu Chong looked at the man in white robes and couldn’t help muttering; then his eyes moved to the man in black, “That man, seems to be the grandson of a supreme elder in the sect, Wu Likun.” Thinking of this, Yu Chong shuddered all over.
Then, he quickly came to his senses; he saw Yu Chong smiling, bowing slightly, and then approaching the two men in front. Then, with a slightly flattering smile, he said, “Hehe… Master Lin, Master Wu, why did the sect send you two here?”
“What? We can’t come?” The man in white heard Yu Chong say this and spoke slowly, his voice a little ethereal; “Hehe…how could that be? I mean that this kind of thing should not trouble you two gentlemen.” Yu Chong’s face tightened when he was asked by the man in white, and then he began to explain.
The man in white didn’t say anything more, but instead looked at the children who had already been selected. He nodded gently and said with a sigh, “The number selected in Xuanhuo City alone this year is more than double that of previous years. It can be seen that there shouldn’t be too few in other cities. I hope there will be a few good seedlings this time.”
The man in black next to him grinned and said, “Haha… I see you haven’t had an opponent for a long time, so you’re feeling lonely and itchy. What? Are you fantasizing about someone putting pressure on you?”
In response to the words of the young man in black, the man in white robe just smiled slightly, shook his head lightly, and said no more; but at this time, Bu Gong was a little shocked and shocked, because when the man in white robe chuckled just now, Bu Gong actually had the urge to laugh. This fleeting feeling made Bu Gong have an inexplicable fear of the man in white in front of him.
“Every move can actually affect people’s minds. What kind of realm is this?” Bu Gong couldn’t help but ask himself in his heart at this moment; and the boys and girls and children who were queuing below were all looking at the two men who had just fallen from the sky with shining eyes. They looked like they were worshipping and curious like a group of natives who had discovered a new continent.
“Is everyone here? If so, let’s go,” the man in white said with a slight glint in his eyes. At this moment, Yu Chong hurriedly stepped out of the crowd and said a little stiffly, “Master Lin, Miss Yue hasn’t arrived yet, but she should be here soon.”
“Then wait a moment.” Hearing Yu Chong say this, the man in white was quite generous; then his eyes wandered again; but when his eyes swept over Bu Gong, the man in white’s eyes condensed slightly, and then his brows gradually frowned.
At this moment, the black-clad man beside him, Wu Likun, also noticed Lin Xin’s unusual behavior. He followed Lin Xin’s gaze and also fixed his eyes on Bu Gong. Then, he asked with some confusion, “Lin Xin, what’s wrong? Is there something wrong with that red-clad boy?”
Lin Xin did not rush to answer Wu Likun’s question. Instead, he shook his head slowly and said in a somewhat uncertain tone: “That young man gave me a very faint sense of weirdness, but I couldn’t find out what it was exactly.”