After instructing Ge Gen on his cultivation as usual that day, Ji Mo Fan changed into new clothes and went to the selection site for inner disciples.
The Yuncang Sword Sect has more than three thousand inner disciples, and it is not easy to select eighteen of them.
The disciples' areas of expertise are not the same, especially the disciples of the Medical Peak and the Weapon Peak, whose combat strength is incomparable to their fellow disciples who cultivate other paths.
However, they must be included in the selection of those who enter the Hidden Realm of Mist.
Needless to say, medical professionals are there to provide timely treatment when someone is injured.
As for Qifeng, opportunities related to minerals have appeared in the Misty Secret Realm in the past.
Bring along a few artifact repairmen, so you won't be completely clueless when you encounter precious minerals and regretfully miss out.
As for the rest...
The elders of the remaining six peaks also primarily teach various offensive techniques, mainly sword cultivation, supplemented by different personalized branches.
Although Ji Mofan feels somewhat uncomfortable thinking about it now, it is undeniable that his current martial arts style has indeed been influenced by Shen Yun.
Shen Yun is a man debatable, but his talent is certainly worthy of the position of elder of the Yun Cang Sword Sect.
He incorporates formations into his swordplay, making his moves unpredictable. Against enemies of higher rank, he can also use the method of using softness to overcome hardness.
Even if you can't kill them, at least confuse them with your sword formation.
Others, like Ji Yunhong, incorporate talisman cultivation into their swordsmanship. They use sword energy to write talisman inscriptions, sacrificing the speed element of their sword techniques, but this allows them to unleash even greater power in battle.
Yan Shiqi, on the other hand, followed a more unconventional path. Her disciples were mostly women, who acknowledged that, given similar age and cultivation levels, female cultivators were physically weaker than males. However, they also utilized this weakness, employing their greater agility to combine swordsmanship with mechanical devices, creating unexpected and skillful techniques.
It's actually quite interesting to watch them fight in the ring.
Ji Mofan grabbed a handful of melon seeds from his Qiankun bag and stood under the shade of a tree, cracking them open as he pondered.
There's a certain aesthetic beauty in this clash of seemingly insignificant characters.
After looking at Jimo Fan for a while, I felt my eyes were starting to hurt.
Thanks to his past dedication to the affairs of the Yun Cang Sword Sect, he knew the names and specialties of these inner disciples like the back of his hand.
But many people clearly don't know how to use their talents, which makes Ji Mofan anxious.
However, he didn't come here today to instruct his junior brothers and sisters.
He wanted to find a guarantee for his upcoming journey to the secret realm.
In his past life, when Qi Fengyu was by his side, he made many seemingly unintentional, low-level mistakes. This kept him busy and prevented him from noticing any possible underhanded tactics.
So in this life, he wanted to find an extra pair of eyes for himself among the other team members.
There's no need to consider the true disciples under the other elders; those people will only prioritize the interests of their own peak.
Besides, although Ji Mofan was more familiar with them, they didn't have a deep relationship. He didn't think he could ask them for help in the same way he had asked Fang Xian.
In that case, the only ones we can consider are the inner disciples.
If there is no deviation from the results of the previous life, then among the eighteen selected people, twelve will be from major families, or their collateral or affiliated families.
These people generally have higher levels of awareness and are more involved in various interests. Ji Mo Fan was too lazy to get involved in power struggles, so he simply excluded them all from consideration.
Of the remaining six, four were descendants of rogue cultivators, and two were abandoned infants picked up from the mortal realm by disciples of a sect when they went out to train.
It's not just the elders who pick up kids; the Yun Cang Sword Sect has many guys who like to take in children.
Many of those rescued are not properly cared for, left to grow freely. If they grow up well, they are a great help to the sect; if they don't, the sect will support them, ensuring they won't die.
Ji Mofan had never brought a child to the Yun Cang Sword Sect before.
It wasn't that he didn't have the energy to manage it, but rather that he sincerely felt that the path of cultivation wasn't necessarily much better than staying in the mortal realm.
It would be better to leave them some gold, silver, and food to help them survive during this most difficult time. Once they have truly grown up and developed the ability to distinguish right from wrong, they can then choose what kind of people they want to become based on their own will.
Ji Mofan didn't realize it at the time, but now that I think about it, it might have been a choice made by his subconscious.
He was not happy in the Yuncang Sword Sect, and therefore did not want to drag others into this unhappy vortex.
Just as he was pondering this, the sounds of fighting on the distant arena stopped.
It seemed that the previous competition had already been decided, with the loser being knocked down in disgrace, while the other received cheers from his fellow disciples.
The next group of challengers then took the stage.
Ji Mofan put the unfinished melon seeds into his Qiankun bag and dusted off the melon seed shells from his hands.
The arena of the Yuncang Sword Sect's inner sect martial arts arena is a neat circle, with the surface paved with bluestone and white marble in the shape of a yin-yang fish.
Both sides stood at the fisheye point, waiting for the referee's signal—
"Clang!"
The blades clashed, the metal clanging. The two were clearly evenly matched, and after several rounds, neither could gain the upper hand.
"Isn't Senior Brother Liang's cultivation level one level higher than Senior Brother Lin's? How come it seems that Senior Brother Lin is the one suppressing him now?"
"Shh, I'll tell you a secret: Senior Brother Liang's cultivation level was actually achieved by forcibly breaking through using rare and precious materials that his family provided for him."
The disciples below the stage not only watched but also discussed it animatedly.
"Huh? Wasn't Senior Brother Liang from a less-than-ideal background? He never went shopping down the mountain with everyone during his monthly days off."
"I guess he was saving money specifically to buy rare and precious materials that could help him cultivate, which is why he cut back on other things."
"That makes sense."
"But what's the use of all that accumulated cultivation? He still can't beat Senior Brother Lin."
"Senior Brother Lin's combat skills are really strong. Senior Brother Liang was unlucky this time and drew him."
"If he hadn't challenged Senior Brother Lin so early, he might have gone further in the elimination rounds."
"It just means we can go a little further. If we, ordinary inner disciples with no background, didn't have real skills, how could we possibly compete for such precious training opportunities?"
"Let me calculate... the probability of getting a spot is nearly one in two hundred compared to the total number of inner disciples."
"Sigh, forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Anyway, for trash like you and me, even if good luck falls on our heads, we'll probably only die unexpectedly in the secret realm."
"I came to the Yuncang Sword Sect just to make a living..."
The whispers of the disciples below the stage reached Ji Mofan's ears, and the topic gradually shifted to the two main characters on the stage.
Watching the two sparring on stage, he couldn't help but feel a sense of approval for the disciple surnamed Lin.
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