Daojianmen holds a Daoqian Knocking Door Ceremony every fifty years. Three years before the Daoqian Knocking Door Ceremony, Daojianmen will recruit disciples from outside, which is the Daoqian Ceremony.
So the time for knocking on the door of the Taoist priest is the first day of May. So the time for the Taoist ceremony is also the first day of May.
Did you see that? The key point is knocking on the door. The disciples that were accepted in the Dao Ceremony were just for show, to make up the numbers.
So, what exactly is knocking on the door before the Tao?
On the surface, knocking on the door is an elegant name for a sect's assessment, to test whether the new disciples can go far on the path of seeking immortality and the way.
In fact, there is a door in the Daojian Sect, a Dao Gate.
Knocking on the door of Tao literally means knocking on the door of Tao.
Knocking on this door and practicing and gaining enlightenment inside is the greatest opportunity that the Daojian Sect can give to its disciples.
And every time, there are ten people who can enter the Taoist sect to practice and gain enlightenment! To some extent, they are the ten people on the Tianjiao list.
Of course, the outcome is uncertain, and everyone is a dark horse. Therefore, the only people who can actually enter the Dao Sect are the top ten people in the Dao Sect's assessment of knocking on the door.
These ten people are not necessarily the same ten on the Tianjiao list.
However, having said that, even if one does not enter the Taoist sect, those who perform well in the assessment will still be able to obtain excellent practice resources in the subsequent practice career.
On April 20th of this year, the head sect notified the chiefs and elders of each peak and sect to go to the Dao Hall to make overall arrangements.
Qin Ran naturally received the news and rushed over in time.
In such occasions, whether you arrive early or late, you will actually attract attention. So in order not to attract attention, in such occasions, Qin Ran always calculates the time and enters with the crowd when everyone else enters.
However, even though he did the same thing today, it still attracted other people's attention.
Liu Boxian, the head of Jianfeng, saw him from afar and walked straight towards him.
"Junior Brother Qin?" Liu Boxian greeted.
Qin Ran bowed without being servile or overbearing and called out, “Uncle Liu.”
"I heard that your disciple is very extraordinary!" Liu Boxian said with a smile.
Kieran replied, "No, it's just normal practice."
"Normal practice?" Liu Boxian shook his head, and he knew all of Li Shiyin's achievements. "She realized the sword energy, created her own sword technique, squeezed out Senior Brother He's disciples, made it to the Tianjiao list, and even challenged across borders. Is this normal for such a prominent figure in the sect?"
It seems that he has always been paying attention to Li Shiyin! Therefore, it can be known that the better Li Shiyin performs, the more he regrets. Until now, he must be very upset...
Why didn't he insist a little longer? That was originally his Jianfeng disciple!
"The evil disciple is quite diligent in his practice..." Qin Ran said.
In fact, in Qin Ran's opinion, if Li Shiyin had been accepted by Jianfeng, she might not have achieved the results she has today. Look at Tian Wenjin, who is as talented as Li Shiyin. How much hardship did she go through after entering Jianfeng?
...Fortunately, he had thought it through clearly at that time. Li Shiyin went to Jianfeng to compete with a group of geniuses for the few resources of Jianfeng, while Li Shiyin was in Danfeng because he, Qin Ran, did his best to cultivate her.
"Junior Brother Qin is indeed humble." Liu Boxian could only smile.
"I heard..." At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind. Qin Ran looked over and saw that it was He Daoguang, the head of Qi Peak. He smiled and said, "There are a total of four sword cultivators on the current Tianjiao list, but only two of them are disciples of Jian Peak. Is this true?"
Qin Ran just nodded to He Daoguang and then remained silent.
Liu Boxian looked at He Daoguang, a sword light flashing in his eyes, but he finally smiled and said, "The disciples under your seat are naughty and don't want to practice. Only two of them can make the list. They deserve it."
But he suddenly changed the subject and said, "But I also heard that Qifeng disciple Song Ze was knocked off the Tianjiao list by Danfeng disciple Li Shiyin with one sword; I also heard that Qifeng disciple Ye Qingxuan was defeated by Danfeng disciple Li Shiyin. Of course, victory and defeat are common in the military, but it is not a big deal. It's just that I heard that they were all defeated by people crossing the border, which is really not beautiful."
"You!" He Daoguan pointed at Liu Boxian, glanced at Qin Ran, and walked forward angrily.
When the two were arguing, Qin Ran just lowered his head, pretending not to hear what was happening. When He Daoguang had walked away, he looked up and thought to himself, "You are so petty. No wonder Shiyin hates you."
"Heh! Let's go!" Liu Boxian patted Qin Ran's shoulder and said, "Let's go. Senior Brother He is always like this."
Qin Ran glanced at him and thought to himself that you are not a good guy either, pushing him out to confront He Daoguang for no reason.
After sneaking into the Daoist Ceremony, Qin Ran found Danfeng's location and sat down in the most inconspicuous place.
He raised his head to look at the Sect Leader Gu Yueming who was sitting in the center of the hall, and discovered that even now, the Sect Leader still looked unwell and his breath was unstable.
During the Devouring Demon Willow incident, the head of the sect, Gu Yueming, was at the center of the battlefield, facing the Devouring Demon Willow in the Hedao period, and was seriously injured. After the Devouring Demon Willow incident, he had been in seclusion to heal his injuries, and only recently, when he had to hold the Dao-front Knocking Ceremony, he had to come out of seclusion to preside over affairs.
Seeing the Sect Master like this, Qin Ran became even more worried. He felt that the outer sect forces would take advantage of this opportunity to take down Daojian Sect in one fell swoop...
After the people from all the peaks and branches had gathered, Gu Yueming sat cross-legged in the center of the hall and said:
"According to the rules set by the predecessors of Daojian Sect, Daojian Sect conducts a selection every fifty years to select the ten most outstanding people in the sect to enter the Dao Sect for training."
Although he used magic to make everyone in the hall hear his voice, Kieran could clearly hear the weakness in his voice.
He looked at the Sect Leader, and as a treacherous old man he suddenly began to think, maybe the Sect Leader had already discovered the chaos in the sect, and was pretending to be weak to fish?
"... Another fifty-year deadline is coming. We will hold a grand ceremony..."
As per tradition, although he was too weak to speak, Gu Yueming still talked about everything from ancient times to the present. He first talked about what knocking on the door before preaching was, then talked about the geniuses and past glories that appeared after knocking on the door before preaching, then talked about the prizes for this year, and finally talked about the rules of selection. Finally, he assigned tasks to the elders and heads.
The leader's speech lasted for more than two hours, which further confirmed Qin Ran's guess. Otherwise, the leader looked like he was about to die while speaking, but he was still alive at the end, and looked like he was dying...
After the meeting, Qin Ran was given the task of judging.
As for the selection mechanism for knocking on the door of Tao, it is like this.
With the style of this dark cultivation world, it’s natural to have a fight!
And it’s a single round-robin elimination system!
In other words, all the names of the disciples accepted during these fifty years, whether they were menial disciples, ordinary inner disciples, or direct disciples, were mixed together and paired up randomly by drawing lots. The winner would go to the next round, and the loser would be eliminated directly.
Until the final candidate is selected.
No matter whether Lu Junxing and Liu Baiyun will face off in the first round, and no matter whether there are menial disciples among the top ten in the end, knocking on the door is a real and cruel game.
The purpose is to tell disciples that there is no fairness, there will be coincidences, there will be luck, but... this is the world of cultivation.
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