C3412 Direct Qualification
Meng Fan had successfully stepped into the second tier and gained all kinds of benefits.
For example, the Golden Crow's Silk Ring Pellet that was commonly used in a first tier sect only allowed a first tier disciple to obtain three pellets a year. Meng Fan was given eighty pellets at once, as well as the Qilin Blood that was used to stabilize the disciples' foundations, and was also given to Meng Fan. In addition, Meng Fan was specifically allowed to move his Qingyun Peak into the second tier, so there was no need for him to create another mountain peak.
After using a few giants to move Meng Fan's mountain into the Second Level Gate, Ninth Gate left three giants behind, and they obeyed Meng Fan. These one-eyed giants with one eye were innately strong, similar to Meng Fan's Homeland Universe. The only difference was that these one-eyed giants had more strength and lower intelligence, and their intelligence was a little higher than the Secular Dynasty guard dog's, so they could understand people's commands, but they were absolutely loyal.
These benefits allowed Meng Fan to sniff out a few things. Usually, when a first tier disciple enters a second tier sect, the reward would be only half that amount.
But this was all Meng Fan's plan.
He knew that his actions had attracted the attention of some elders, and they wanted to nurture him.
Meng Fan definitely did not want to be too famous, nor did he want to attract too much attention. However, since he wanted to integrate into this world, it was not enough to just act low-key.
Actually, Meng Fan wanted to use Ninth Gate as a stepping stone to get into the World of Meaning.
As expected, on the second day after Meng Fan settled in, an elder named Chen Qin arrived.
This Elder Chen was a Celestial King of the Five Tribulations cultivator. Meng Fan could tell that his talent was pretty good, but he had already missed the best age, and his blood and vitality began to decline.
Usually, one's Celestial King Stage, meant that their vitality would not weaken, and would stay in the prime of their lives. There were only three kinds of possibility for their vitality to weaken, one was that their age was too great, and when their lifespan was at its end, they would weaken a bit. The second reason was because they were heavily injured, and the third was because their willpower was depressed.
In Meng Fan's opinion, Chen Qin belonged to the third category.
Facing Meng Fan as if he was an elder facing a junior, he simply chatted about Meng Fan's background. However, it could be seen that he didn't care and was just being polite, following that, he pointed out some of the puzzles in the way of martial arts for Meng Fan and finally told Meng Fan that he got Meng Fan the right to be a direct disciple.
The so-called Great Elder, was an unwritten form of address, referring to the Five Calamity Elder. If the Celestial King of the Five Tribulations's realm was higher by one level, then it would be equivalent to six trials, and could become a Grand Elder. Amongst the elders, there were some who had five tribulations, but there were some who had two tribulations, and even if they were all elders, their statuses and strength differed greatly, so they politely called their Celestial King of the Five Tribulations as Great Elder.
Meng Fan received a temporary qualification to talk about martial arts as he would be able to listen to a certain Great Elder's lecture about martial arts every month. This qualification was rare, but many God Kings did not advance even an inch in their entire lives because they could not see the higher peaks nor the road in front of them.
Wu said that he would be giving lectures on the third day of every month, and Meng Fan could be there when the time came.
After Meng Fan saw Chen Qin off, he also understood many of these things.
So towards disciples' gifts, they were not stingy. As long as the disciple was outstanding, the disciple would receive a huge reward from the Ninth Gate, would receive a large amount of cultivation, and would be given a good environment.
This was the grandeur of a large sect.
Otherwise, why would his Ninth Gate shine for so many years? Two billion years of history … this was no joke.
It was an order of inheritance, treating the disciples below as if they were children of their own families.
But on the other hand, as an enormous power that had two million revered Divine Kings and several trillion outer sect disciples, with such a long history, numerous Ninth Gate rules, and complicated relationships, no matter how good the environment was, there would definitely be factions that would seek benefits for themselves.
However, a fight between Elders was a pure benefit. Since they had all chosen to become Elders, then they would definitely not be as competitive as before, and their morale would not be too high. Furthermore, the peace on the surface must be maintained.
To put it bluntly, Chen Qin was investing in the future. As long as a good disciple came, he would greet them, give them benefits, give them sweetness. If this disciple develops well in the future, he would have more authority and Chen Qin would become half a master.
Not bad.
Meng Fan began his closed door cultivation inside the second sect.
After a few days, Meng Fan thoroughly stabilized the foundations of his Qingyun Peak. He then began to connect the Qingyun Peak's qi image with some of the surrounding mountains and rivers, and tamed three giants, allowing them to guard the Qingyun Peak's gate.
On the third day of the third day, he went to listen to Chen Qin's lesson. Although most of the lesson's content was meaningless, Meng Fan had long understood it, fusing it into the Ninth Gate was still his great cultivation, so he listened very seriously.
In the following days, it was impossible for Meng Fan to cultivate in seclusion.
There was a clear rule set in the Ninth Gate: disciples of the second sect would not only cultivate, they would also need to do things for the sect and make contributions.
After all, the power of the God King was very limited. Thus, the mission given to the disciples of a first level sect was usually just to repair the rivers and mountains, to nurture spirit beasts, and to do so was very easy.2
Every month, disciples had to refine a few Pills s for the sect. Of course, these Pills s were all of a very low level, and were actually given to the small powers in the outside world as rewards or as food for the spirit beasts within the sect.
Other than that, there were also some elders who needed the help of the disciples of the second sect when refining Taoist Artifact s or when doing other things.
Other than these two things that had to be done, the other things were voluntary.
There was a huge exchange rate in Ninth Gate, and it was split into two parts. The first part was a large trading house where disciples and elders could engage in free trade, and the second part was a task trading house. In the task trading shop, disciples and elders could post missions and put up corresponding bounties, and the sect would even post a large number of missions, and as long as the disciples completed them, they would be rewarded.
These are voluntary.
But in the God King's world, all the disciples hoped to climb higher, stand farther, receive missions to train themselves, and also get better rewards. Nothing could be better than this, so aside from a few particularly difficult missions, almost all the missions in the Quest Trading Company were in short supply, which was one of the main reasons why Ninth Gate could continue to develop.
Although the Ninth Gate had stated that accepting missions was voluntary, if a disciple from a Second Level Sect didn't accomplish any missions within three years, the disciple's status would be re-evaluated, and the disciple might be sent back to the First Level Gate.
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