Chapter 543 New Recruits Ranking
Lingshan Mountain is a thousand feet high, and its top seems to have been flattened by a sword, forming a huge rock platform.
Atop a mountaintop platform, a towering attic, a solemn black hall, and planted with thousand-year-old sacred trees, it's steeped in history and definitely not newly built. There's also a thirteen-story ancient pagoda suspended in the clouds, looming and blending seamlessly with the laws of heaven and earth. It's unclear whether it's a magical artifact or the residence of a mysterious and powerful being.
On the square paved with green jade stones, there were newly enlisted lower-ranking sentries patrolling and standing guard. When they saw Mr. Qin, they all saluted.
Li Weiyi saw a familiar face among the lower-ranking sentries on duty.
The pure silver immortal body, Tuoba Butuo.
Tuoba Butuo showed a delighted expression, waved to him from afar, and shouted, "Brother Weiyi, great! You're here too? I heard you became the Grand Palace Master's disciple?"
Li Weiyi was not too surprised to see Tuoba. After all, the old sentinel Tuoba Tao was one of the ancestors of the Tuoba clan. How could he not cultivate his outstanding descendants?
Although the work of the Sentinel Army is dangerous, with funding from various realms, as long as one has real ability, they can obtain cultivation resources that cannot be purchased elsewhere. Hard training can also stimulate potential and advance rapidly in the competition.
After exchanging pleasantries, Li Weiyi said, "I'll go pay my respects to the deputy sentry first. You stand guard well and don't get caught."
The Shaoling Army had strict military discipline. As soon as Li Weiyi finished speaking, a serious voice came from somewhere above Tuoba Butuo's head: "If you make noise while on guard duty, three days of merit points will be deducted."
Tuoba Butuo looked as if he wanted to cry but had no tears, and dared not say anything more.
Walking in the square, Li Weiyi whispered, "The Sentinel Army is too strict, isn't it? We're just catching up and chatting."
"If we are not strict with the new recruits, won't the entire Dongxu Camp become a mess? Anyone can easily break the rules. What's the difference between it and a vegetable market?" Old Qin looked arrogant and upright.
Li Weiyi always felt something was strange when these words came out of his mouth.
The deputy hall master, Liu Tianchen, was born in the Liu tribe, the first of the eight tribes in the rainforest habitat. He has lived for 2,800 years and sits in the Dongxu camp hall with a willow clone.
Legend has it that Liu Tianchen cultivated five avatars, having mastered the fifth of the Eightfold Principle. Each of these avatars possessed unfathomable combat power, earning him the title of "Six Transcendents" in southern Yingzhou.
He was about fifty years old, with a square face, thick eyebrows and sharp eyes. He was wearing black armor and sitting beside a bronze table, checking files.
Every day, a large amount of intelligence would be sent to him from the outposts and camps in various habitats and the Netherworld. After being sorted by the Spiritual Axis Team, this intelligence information would be sent to him in batches.
"Come in!"
Hearing the call from inside, Li Weiyi followed Qin Lao and walked into the camp hall in an orderly manner.
Within the deep black hall, thirty feet deep, was a small teleportation array, used only for the transmission of urgent intelligence. Sixteen figures sat on either side of the hall, all experts from the Spiritual Pivot Group, their files piled high.
"Greetings to the Deputy Sentinel."
The two of them saluted.
Li Weiyi didn't know the deputy sentry before him was merely a clone. He only sensed a powerful aura and a breath of life. As he approached, it felt like entering another world, where he could hear the sound of flowing water, the chirping of birds, and smell the fragrance of plants.
This is a unique situation!
On the wall behind Yanagida Chen hangs a panoramic map of the East China Sea.
All the evil spirits and demonic forces surrounding the sea area are marked.
Obviously, the area around the East China Sea is the key area of monitoring by Dongxu Camp at this stage.
Liu Tianchen put down the letter talisman in his hand and looked at Qin Lao with deep eyes: "The space teleportation array in the Forbidden Mountain Range has been destroyed. From now on, if you want to go to the Ghost City of Dongxu, you will have to travel an extra 80,000 miles."
"Mo Qin, go investigate and see who's responsible. Be careful. Lately, with the return of Mist Emperor and the revival of the Immortal Dragon Vein, too many things have happened. The Netherworld of the Dead has become extremely active."
The southern part of the Hundred Realms Living Area is under the supervision of the Dongxu Camp.
"The Taiyin Cult is here too!"
Lao Jiang Qin handed over the whistle and took out the corpse.
Li Weiyi discovered that white fog was rising around him, and he could no longer see the sixteen members of the Lingshu team in the camp.
"Xie Wumian and Luo Pingdan are both outstanding figures of the younger generation of the Taiyin Sect. Now that they have come to the territory of Dongxu Camp, we cannot let them leave."
Liu Tianchen showed a thoughtful look, picked up the pen and wrote the mission against the Taiyin Sect on the leather scroll.
Qin Laodao said: "If we can capture them alive, we can find out a lot of truth. After all, the Twelve Lunar Envoys are still young, and I am afraid that some of the old ones have also gone to the East China Sea."
"Since Luo Pingdan was able to mobilize the evil spirits and corpse spirit army, it shows that Chu Yutian has already visited the deceased here. There is no need for the old guy from the Taiyin Sect to come. This matter is very difficult."
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After the two finished their discussion, Liu Tianchen's gaze finally fell on Li Weiyi: "Since Shao Zun has personally approved it, you should take him to complete the procedures for admission to the camp first."
An hour later.
Li Weiyi received a large amount of supplies.
Whistle, whistle sword, blood crystal, armor, waist badge, talisman, Blood Valley Pill...
The whistle sword is a foot-long, thin sword of the ninth-grade, hundred-character weapon level. It is like a needle and has no hilt.
Every martial artist has his or her own weapon of expertise, and sentinels will not be forced to use sentry swords.
The whistle sword must only be worn when training the combined sword formation, because the whistle sword has formation patterns refined into it, and with the help of the formation patterns, the power of the sword formation can be brought into play.
Blood Valley Pills, if you receive three of them, each one can provide the blood and energy nourishment of a top-grade sentinel spirit for ten days.
Outside the Hall of Merit, a three-meter-high jade disk is hung with densely packed bamboo plaques, which make a pleasant "rustling" sound when blown by the wind.
Li Weiyi walked over curiously.
There are names and rankings on the bamboo signs.
“Yuan Zhen Wei Xiao Wei, Yuan Zhen.
"The Jade Sword Guard, the Jade Sword of Chang."
"Lu Qingwei Xiaowei, Lu Qing."
"Yanxue guards Xiaowei, Tong Yanxue."
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Old Qin put his hands behind his back, walked up behind Li Weiyi, and grinned, "This year's new recruits! Five middle-class sentinels and five lower-class sentinels, about a hundred people in each guard."
"The top five recruits in the assessment test can be named as guards until the end of the three-year recruit period."
"For the next three years, study, training, trials, assessments, quarterly exams, and annual exams will all be conducted separately."
Li Weiyi asked, "How could you recruit so many new soldiers? Didn't you say you would only recruit a dozen people in Lingxiao Biotope?"
Old Daoist Qin said, "The Dongxu Camp recruits new soldiers based on the habitat's population ratio. The Lingxiao habitat has been in turmoil for over a decade, and has also suffered from demonic calamities and the Yin corpse rice-growing disaster. The population has plummeted, and some prefectures are now almost empty. Therefore, we only recruited ten sentinels and two sentinels... No, there's also one uninvited person, so that makes it three."
"Actually, we didn't recruit that many Sentinel Spirits in previous years! It's because a group of Sentinel Spirits were lost in the East China Sea and they urgently needed to be replaced. Otherwise, there would be no one available, so we're recruiting a large number this time."
"You should know that the sentinels of the Dao Seed Realm are mainly trained and learned. Only when they reach the Immortal Realm and become sentinel spirits will they be sent into the Netherworld of the Dead to carry out dangerous missions."
Li Weiyi observed the ranking of the medium-level sentinel assessment and found that "Changyu Sword" was ranked second.
In the East China Sea, he was a helper invited by the Du'e Temple, not a disciple of the temple.
The Changhu habitat ruled by the Chang family is a small to medium-sized habitat with a population of two to three hundred million. Like Cangtu, it is a subsidiary habitat of the Demon Kingdom.
Qin Laodao said: "The Changyu Sword is not simple. It is said that a demon from the Du'e Temple helped him pick the immortal flower. He has been in seclusion recently to cultivate the immortal body."
"He didn't take this opportunity to join the Du'e Temple, but instead came to such a dangerous place as Dongxu Camp."
Li Weiyi was a little surprised, knowing that the Chang family was a very powerful Yi clan. Their sphere of influence was not limited to the Changhu habitat, but they were also extremely powerful in the Demon Kingdom.
Qin Laodao said, "First, to be chosen by the Sentinel Army, this person must have had excellent conduct over the past few decades. Secondly, the Yi clans are all betting on multiple parties to ensure the continuity of their inheritance. It is impossible for them to place all their talented children in one place. Du'e Temple already has Chang Yuqing, so Chang Yujian will naturally choose another path."
Li Weiyi asked, "Is the Demon Kingdom also one of the twenty habitats surrounding the Dongxu Ghost City? The Demon Kingdom's population is said to be over 10 billion, and that doesn't include the affiliated habitats like Changhu Habitat and Cangtu Habitat. How many sentinels does that have to recruit?"
Qin Laodao said, "The Demonic Kingdom is the largest habitat in the southern part of the Hundred Realms. How could the Cave Ruins Camp possibly escape its influence? The more powerful the habitat, the more supplies will be sent to the Sentinel Army."
"Don't worry too much! Although there are many Sentinels from the Demonic Kingdom, they have all been screened and have methods to divide them so they won't form groups."
"Besides, there are many factions within the Demon Kingdom, and they fight each other fiercely."
Li Weiyi secretly sighed at the horror of the Demon Kingdom. It was simply a behemoth. No wonder a prince had the power to almost overthrow Lingxiao's habitat.
Old Qin stared at the bamboo plaque on the jade disk: "Yuan Zhen, Lu Qing, Tong Yanxue, Yu Zheng, these people are not simple, each of them is extremely talented."
"That Yuan Zhen is a transcendent son of the Du'e Realm, a woman of transcendental origin. His body is extremely powerful, his bones and muscles contain innate transcendental scriptures, and his strength is even greater than Chang Yujian."
"It all depends on whether Chang Yujian can cultivate into an immortal body."
"Lu Qing is the top expert below the Immortal Realm in the Chi Ming Realm. Of course, this top expert changes every few years. If you reach a realm like his, you will soon break through to the Immortal Realm."
"Yu Zheng was born into the royal family of the Demon Kingdom and is the great-grandson of the emperor."
"The sixth to tenth ones are all deputy guards."
Li Weiyi couldn't find the names of Tang Zhan and Liu Ye. It was very likely that they had reached the Immortal Realm before the trial and were participating in the Sentinel Spirit Assessment. Moreover, Liu Ye wasn't a new recruit, but more likely someone with connections.
"The five medium-level sentinels have all been divided. What should I do?" Li Weiyi asked.
"You can just join any guard." said Qin Laodao.
Li Weiyi said, "Then I have to obey the orders of the Guard and the Deputy Guard?"
"Who told you to be late? Otherwise, why don't you join the Mind Master Guard? There are many beautiful women there. It is said that one of them is particularly stunning and is the most beautiful woman of this generation in a certain habitat. Anyway, everyone thinks that your martial arts career is doomed now. It's a good opportunity to cultivate your mind power to the level of a Holy Spirit Mind Master. I wanted to join it back then, but unfortunately I didn't get any bonus." Old Qin sighed.
"Can you be a guard?"
"cannot."
Li Weiyi sighed softly. He was used to being a recluse and was not used to taking orders from fellow martial artists. He asked, "What do the numbers after the first ten new recruits mean?"
Qin Lao pulled Li Weiyi to the other side of the jade disk. "New recruits' Merit List! The top ten recruits in the mid-level sentry class will be awarded 100 to 500 points of merit."
"For new recruits, merit points are hard to earn. You have to study and train for a whole day without making any mistakes to get one point."
"Only those who make it into the top 100 recruits will be listed on the Merit List."
Li Weiyi saw that the first place Yuan Zhen had 506 points of merit, and many of those ranked behind him even had single-digit points.
So, he couldn't help but ask, "Are we accumulating merit points just to get on the commendation list? There's no real benefit? For example, can we directly become a brave guard?"
(End of this chapter)
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