Chapter 68 Inner disciples

Lu Qing was shocked and thought that he had become ugly enough because of refining the demon pill. Did he make his cultivation progress rapidly last night and sacrifice his appearance again? He walked back to the room and took the mirror and saw it. He was also startled. His face, which was already black and dirty, has now become swollen and fat, and his black skin is dry and cracked, and more than a dozen cracks appear, revealing the white skin inside. It looks very scary. If Fu Ling'er hadn't been used to his ugly appearance the day before, she would have been very scary this time.

Lu Qing sighed, turned around and walked out again. What's the difference between this face or not?

"Hei Chou, are you sick?" Fu Ling'er said softly, stretching out her hand to touch Lu Qing's forehead, and stopped in the air for a while, but finally didn't dare to fall.

"Senior sister, it may be because she is not suitable for the environment. It doesn't matter. Go to work." Lu Qing said with a smile, thinking that this would be fine. She has a face that is not close to the stranger, so she saves a lot of trouble. As she said that, she walked towards the material room.

The outer door of the Xilishan Talisman School is seven halls, among which the "Smelting Hall" is responsible for providing daily alchemy and dissolving and tempering materials for talisman refining for the inner door "Alchemy Hall" and "Tailing Hall". Among them, the "Smelting Hall" Talisman Paper Workshop specifically provides the smelting raw material talisman paper for the "Tailing Hall".

The "Funting Hall" among the four inner gate halls of Xilishan is the most important foundation in Xilishan. It is under the full control of Yu Qingzi, one of the four major disciples. This outer gate "Funting Hall" is indirectly under Yu Qingzi, so Yu Qingzi took Lu Qing back to the mountain, and the first thing Yu Qingzi did was to place it in the Funting Hall talisman workshop. Lu Qing's idea was completely correct. The several small branches under the outer gate seven halls belonged to these workshops, the gray-clothed disciples had the lowest level and a humble status, which was only a little higher than those employed by the servitude workers outside.

The gray-clothed disciples in the Fuzhi Workshop are basically all children with poor family and poor family business, and have no power and power. Once they enter the sect, they are forgotten here. They can only listen to the teachings of the mind several times a year. They are all low-level inner disciples gather to spread the Dharma. They can’t get the real useful things. If you want to practice and realize the Tao, you will be an inner disciple unless you have a great opportunity, even if you die of old age, you will be a gray-clothed disciple.

Every morning, the yellow-clothed disciple of the inner sect "Tao Refining Hall" takes the required talisman paper material list to the workshop to the Biyi disciple who is in charge. The Biyi disciple then calculates the specific amount of vegetation and vegetation that needs to be melted in the day, and instructs the gray-clothed disciple to prepare the things in the material room. After breakfast, the smelting begins the day. After the smelting is finished, it will be handed over to the inner sect disciple. Even if the work is completed, you can only have dinner after finishing the work. If the dinner time is missed because the required materials are not melted, you have to go hungry.

This morning, Fu Ling'er was holding a list from the inner gate "Liang Fu Tang". The above were listed were the specific requirements for talisman papers, namely the three hundred lower-grade talisman maps "Ghost Exorcism" prescribed by the Shenxiao Sect, the three hundred upper-grade talisman maps "Shenxing Talisman" prescribed by the Donghua Sect, and the three hundred required talisman papers for the Qingwei Sect.

In addition to the higher quality required by the "Shenxing Talisman", the other two are the most common talisman pictures circulating in the market: the "Ghost Exorcist Talisman" is generally used by ordinary Taoist monks to drive away evil spirits for the people, while the "Clearing Heart Talisman" is used by monks who have just entered the door of cultivation to assist in practicing and calming the mind. These two talismans can be said to be extremely ordinary, and the strength of the required smelting talisman paper is greatly reduced.

So Fu Ling'er explained the sect mission that he needed to complete today. Thirty gray-clothed disciples immediately cheered in unison. Liao Zha said happily: "These three types of talismans are the lowest among the Taoist talismans. Let's work harder and prepare the materials in the morning. Haha, I can take a break for a month. This is the easiest day."

He said that, he looked at Lu Qing inadvertently. He thought he was in a good mood, but his eyes seemed to be much more kind.

Liao Zha glanced at the list in Fu Ling'er's hand, and curled his lips disdainfully and said: "Although the magic system of this 'Shenxiao Sect' has declined, it is also the true sect of the 'Nine Sky Thunder Method' that has been passed down to the hands of the ancestor Shenxiao. It is also one of the 13 sects of the Taoist sect, but it always refines these lower-level 'Ghost Exorcism Talismans'. Will it take it back and chant curses and exorcisms for those wealthy families? It is really embarrassing to the 13 sects!"

The "Shenxiao Sect" mentioned by Liao Zha is indeed one of the thirteen orthodox Taoist sects. The mind method is transmitted from the ancestor of the Shenxiao, and it has a Taoist tradition for hundreds of years. The Shanmen Taoist temple is located in Shenfeng Mountain in the middle of Dongshenzhou. It is the originator of the "Nine Sky Thunder Method" sect of Taoist sect. However, in recent decades, the magic line has declined, talents have withered, and the incense has gradually declined, no longer as it was when it was in its heyday. Although it is now called one of the thirteen major Taoist sects, it has actually died in name only, and the incense has declined to its extreme. Sometimes, the daily life of the mountain gate actually requires disciples to go down the mountain to drive away demons and catch ghosts for some ordinary wealthy households to maintain it.

These three hundred low-grade Taoist talismans "Ghost-exorcist Talismans" are extremely cheap, and they are booked by the Shenxiao Sect. I think it must be for the purpose of exorcism and catching ghosts.

One disciple immediately responded to Liao Zha: "Three hundred pictures, there are a thousand pictures this month, so how could so many ghosts catch him? Haha..." The other disciples laughed.

Lao Cheng also smiled and said, "Don't laugh anymore, people always have to eat? The incense of the Shenxiao Sect has declined. Do you want his disciples to go and drink the wind?"

Although everyone joked and ridiculed that the "Shenxiao Sect" was not as good as before, they were in a very relaxed mood. Lao Cheng and other gray-clothed disciples were smiling. It seemed that these gray-clothed disciples were very busy for a while before Lu Qing came. Now they could finally rest for a long time, and everyone's mood became cheerful.

Lu Qing was also quite infected. After Lao Cheng and others put the selected talisman materials into the storage bag that Yu Qingzi gave him in the Yin Ling Cave. This small bag, each disciple of Xilishan sect, was the most common storage tool. It can only be used as a small task such as picking and handling when going out every day, but it is also because of its smallness and convenience, saving a lot of effort.

After everyone prepared the ingredients and had breakfast, they began to work next to the cauldron in the yard. Fu Ling'er was chirping and directing her, and she was wearing green clothes and shuttled between the disciples like a green butterfly. Lu Qing also mastered several smelting skills under his mature advice.

Everyone was busy, and suddenly the footsteps rustled in the woods outside the yard, and several people hurriedly ran towards the talisman paper workshop.

These people's steps are light and brisk, breathing for a long time without any panting. It seems that their cultivation is above the innate stage of the Yuanjing Realm. Lu Qing's five senses and six consciousnesses are extremely sensitive. He immediately raised his head and looked around. He saw that the people's clothes were full of wind and entered the talisman paper workshop in a moment.

There were four people coming in total, all wearing yellow shirts. They belonged to the inner disciple of the Xilishan Talisman Sect. The leader was slender and upright, with thin eyebrows and big eyes, and was quite handsome. The corners of the four people were embroidered with a ball of flame. The flames that showed were five flames, and the color was bright red, which was the symbol of the inner "Tao Refining Hall".

The day before yesterday, Lu Qing learned from Fu Ling'er that the four inner halls each had their own logo: "Alchemy Hall" is an orange flame with three flames: "Liangwei Hall" is a blue flame with seven flames, while "Liangfu Hall" is a red flame pattern with five flames.

The four "Liang Fu Tang" came closer, and the leader took the lead and ran towards Fu Ling'er. Although this man was handsome, he was frivolous and impetuous. Lu Qing hated him at first sight and thought to himself that this man was almost in the same tune as Liao Zha, why did Xilishan have such talents?

The man walked swaying to Fu Ling'er, smiled and clasped his fists and said, "Sister Fu Ling'er, I haven't seen you for many days, and now you are even more in the past."

"Zhao Nanxing, you don't even call your senior sister. You're so big or small. Look at me, don't talk to Master Yu Qingzi," Fu Lu'er said angrily: "Just just entered the inner door, my eyes were overwhelmed. Let the senior sister see, your yellow shirt doesn't seem to fit well."

Lu Qing suddenly realized that this person was the person who had just entered the inner door as Fu Ling'er said yesterday. It turned out that he was responsible for the Fu Paper Workshop. Lu Qing wondered in his heart, how did this person so frivolous and impetuous, advance to the inner door from a place like Fu Paper Workshop?

"Where? Really, this was just sewn by the disciples of the 'Interior Hall'. If you smell it, the fabric is fresh," Zhao Nanxing pretended to dust off the corners of his clothes, raised his sleeves and placed them under his nose and sniffed. "Junior Sister Fu Ling'er, I can enter the inner door, and I can afford to call you Senior Brother."

It turns out that the rules of the sect in Xilishan do not judge the level of seniority before and after entry, but rather the level of cultivation should be based on the short and shortness of the cultivation level. The grades of disciples are divided by five-color clothes. Among the inner disciples, white clothes are the most noble, followed by green clothes and yellow clothes are the lowest, but they are also ten more respectful than outer disciples. The outer disciples only wear two colors of clothes, among which the gray clothes are the lowest, and the first disciples of the first disciples and those who have not increased their cultivation for a long time wear gray clothes. The disciples of the green clothes are the disciples in charge of various places in the outer sect, and their identities are naturally higher than those of the gray clothes. Not only are the treatment of the masters better than those of the gray clothes, but in terms of learning and listening to the Dharma, they already have the opportunity to listen to the disciples with high cultivation in the inner sect preaching.

Zhao Nanxing was originally a gray-clothed disciple of the Fu Paper Workshop of the outer sect "Smelting Hall". His seniority was the same as Fu Ling'er. However, two months ago, he entered the inner sect because of his cultivation breaking through the Yuanjing Realm Condensation Period and became a formal disciple. Because his seniority was still low, he could only wear yellow clothes at the moment, but this was enough for Zhao Nanxing to show off in front of the gray-clothed disciple who had eaten and lived with him.
Chapter completed!