Permanent Martial Arts

1109 Immortal Land

Seeing that no one responded, the young man muttered to himself, “Could I have taken the wrong path? That’s not right. Those people at the foot of the mountain said that the Fire Cloud Sect is on the mountain. If I hadn’t taken a detour, I wouldn’t have been able to get on this mountain.”

“Huh? What did you say? You took a detour. Why did you need to take a detour?” Senior Sister Mu asked suddenly.

“There’s a group of people at the foot of the mountain, who seemed to be from some sects. They stopped the people who came up the mountain and offered many conditions. I heard that they even used immortal techniques to rope people in to join their sects. Most of the people were roped in by them.”

Immediately, the people of the Fire Cloud Sect were filled with indignation.

“It must be the Nine Rivers Sword Sect and other sects. They obstructed us immensely when we opened the sect last time, so our Fire Cloud Sect did not receive many disciples. I didn’t expect them to go even further this time. Senior Sister Mu, let’s go down the mountain and reason with them.”

The disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect all appeared angered.

However, Senior Sister Mu shook her head. Reason with them? What was the use of reasoning with them? The Fire Cloud Sect had already declined to this extent, and there was not even a single Golden Core Perfected Person. On the other hand, the Nine Rivers Sword Sect was growing more and more prosperous, and already had two Golden Core Perfected Persons now.

They had their eyes on the Fire Cloud Sect, and intended to replace the Fire Cloud Sect among the ranks of the orthodox sects.

“There’s no need. No one is to go down the mountain. Let them be.”

Senior Sister Mu shook her head, but she was very curious about this young man. She asked in confusion, “Since they’re all obstructed, why did you take a detour to enter the sect?”

“Me?” The young man grinned and said, “I just heard the old man at the foot of the mountain mention that the Fire Cloud Sect is a orthodox sect, a true immortal sect with countless immortals. That’s why I took a detour up the mountain. By the way, are you immortals from the Fire Cloud Sect?”

“Immortals? We’re not immortals. We’re just disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect. We were originally here to screen the entry disciples. However, you’re the only one now…”

Senior Sister Mu’s expression was also a little awkward.

“All right, you’ve been selected. Come back to the mountain with me first.”

The young man was still a little stunned. He said with a strange expression, “Don’t I need to go through the screening assessment? Could it be that I’m born with the physique for cultivation and outstanding aptitude, a clear aura surging off the top of my head, so I’m a once-in-a-hundred-year genius…”

“Uh…”

The disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect were all a little speechless.

One of the good-looking women pouted and said, “You’re born with the physique for cultivation? Who do you think you are? You’re just a mortal. Originally, there were three major tests and nine minor tests in the entry assessment of our Fire Cloud Sect. However, you’re the only one who came up the mountain this time. Do you think screening you out with these tests is necessary? Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Let’s go.”

The young man was a little speechless. To think that he had specially stayed in this world for a period of time first and made sufficient preparations. He wanted to ensure that at the very least, he would have no problem passing the assessment to enter the Fire Cloud Sect.

Unexpectedly, there was no need for the assessment at all.

The young man was naturally Lin Feng. He had only been in this world for a month. During this month, he had been familiarizing himself with this world.

Only now could he be considered to have adapted. It was why he came to join the Fire Cloud Sect, a major orthodox sect in this world, so that he could enter the core circle of this world.

Lin Feng followed Senior Sister Mu and the others into the Fire Cloud Sect’s sect gate. The sect gate was surrounded by layers of arrays. The sect gate would only open when recruiting disciples once every three years.

Normally, if one wanted to exit, they would leap through the arrays directly. If they had the token, they could pass through directly.

Along the way, no one was interested in Lin Feng at all. In fact, after returning to the sect gate of the Fire Cloud Sect, even the apprenticeship ceremony was rushed. As for the “new identity” that Lin Feng had spent so much effort to create the previous month, it was useless, because no one cared at all.

Hence, Lin Feng officially became a member of the Fire Cloud Sect, a major orthodox sect, and a disciple of the Fire Cloud Sect. Moreover, he was not an outer handyman disciple, but an official disciple!

As for the outer handymen disciples… Uh, there were no longer any handyman disciples in the current Fire Cloud Sect. There were only a few dozen in the entire sect, not even a hundred.

Among them, there were even more elders than disciples.

“A sect is not bad. It can allow me to quickly understand the background of this world.”

Thanks to the fact that there were very few disciples in the Fire Cloud Sect, there were many residences. Lin Feng was assigned a private residence, which could be considered very quiet. It was just that no one served him. However, to Lin Feng, it was better if no one paid attention to him.

The hierarchy of the Fire Cloud Sect included the Sect Master, elders, and disciples from top to bottom. Lin Feng had just entered the sect, and had yet to find a master. The Chief Disciple, Senior Sister Mu, was the one who imparted cultivation techniques and assigned homework in their place.

In reality, Senior Sister Mu took charge of the cultivation of basically all the disciples of the Fire Cloud Sect in their stead. The elders of the Fire Cloud Sect were basically all cultivating in seclusion.

This was especially the case for the Sect Master. He had been in seclusion for a total of 80 years, just to complete the cultivation texts of the sect, and cultivate to the level of a Golden Core Perfected Person.

The explanation Senior Sister Mu gave Lin Feng was also very simple. She left behind a book, the Fire Cloud Aura Cultivation Technique, and explained the cultivation techniques for the first three levels before leaving. Lin Feng was left alone, which made him rather speechless.

However, he could tell that this “Senior Sister Mu” was probably the only one among all the disciples in the sect who still cared about the Fire Cloud Sect.

“The Fire Cloud Aura Cultivation Technique. What a generic name.”

Lin Feng shook his head.

From Senior Sister Mu’s explanation, he also roughly learned about the cultivation realms and some general knowledge on cultivation in this world.

This world was called the “Immortal Land”, which meant the land of cultivating the immortal way. According to ancient legends, there was a “Daoist Ancestor” who preached the way of cultivation. Then, there were cultivators, called aura cultivators.

Aura cultivators were divided into four major realms, namely Aura Cultivation, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul.

Among them, Aura Cultivation was the most basic. It was generally divided into ten levels. After that was Foundation Establishment. In the Fire Cloud Sect, the disciples were at the Aura Cultivation realm, and the elders were at the Foundation Establishment realm.

Above that was the Golden Core, called Golden Core Perfected Persons!

Once one could form the Golden Core, they would be considered a demi-immortal. They would be able to live for a long time, and would have a lifespan of at least a thousand years. The Golden Core condensed from some cultivation techniques that extended lifespans could even allow one to live for thousands of years.

Above the Golden Core were Nascent Soul Immortals. They were true immortals, and were at the realm of the Daoist Ancestor.

In the entire Immortal Land, there were only two people who were at the Nascent Soul Immortal realm. They were Holy Monk Zen Dragon of the orthodox Great Light Temple, and Sect Master Lin Mo of the heretic Demonic Sun Sect.

The two Nascent Soul Immortals, one orthodox and the other heretic, had been opposing each other since time immemorial. They had been fighting for tens of thousands of years, but neither could do anything to the other.

Lin Feng analyzed the situation of the entire Immortal Land. He realized that the situation in this Immortal Land was very clear, and not sophisticated at all. It was a great battle between orthodox and heretic factions.

Either the orthodox factions suppressed the heretic, or the heretic factions suppressed the orthodox. The cycle repeated. Since ancient times, there had been almost no major changes.

However, why exactly had two Nascent Soul Immortals been at odds with each other for tens of thousands of years, fighting to the end?