A large crowd gathered in front of the patriarch's hall.
Upon seeing Chen Sangruo and Wuwei Daoren emerge, the sword cultivators immediately began their accusations:
"Sect Master, Young Sect Master, you two be the judges! Those people from the Hehuan Branch are blocking our branch every day!"
"They said they'd give us spirit stones and make us their Daoist partners, so we could cultivate together. It's one thing for people of the opposite sex to do this, but they don't even spare people of the same sex!"
"In broad daylight, under the clear sky! How can you speak so recklessly? Aren't you ashamed?!"
"We sword cultivators may be poor, but we have integrity! How could we possibly sell ourselves for a few spirit stones!"
"Oh, really?" Liu Ruyan arrived and said to the sword cultivator elder, "But more than a dozen people from your sword cultivator branch have already agreed, including your eldest disciple. Didn't they tell you?"
"What?!" The sword cultivator elder's pupils dilated in shock, and he turned to look at his eldest disciple. "You really agreed?"
"Yes!" The eldest apprentice nodded shyly.
A group of people behind him nodded vigorously.
"Hey! Master! Master! Why did you faint!"
The eldest disciple rushed forward to support the sword cultivator elder who was about to faint.
"You, you, you..." The sword cultivator elder couldn't utter a single word for a long time.
"Sect Master, Sister Sang Ruo, dual cultivation is a specialty of our branch. It improves the cultivation of both parties and is a legitimate cultivation method." Liu Ruyan tried her best to defend the reputation of the Hehuan Sect.
"Moreover, our dual cultivation emphasizes mutual consent, and we would never force anyone."
They have toned it down a lot.
Back when the Hehuan Sect hadn't declined, her master's generation advocated directly administering aphrodisiac pills to people.
"You mean by 'mutual consent'? Does that mean blocking the entrance to the Sword Cultivation Branch every day until they agree?" The Sword Cultivation Elder, on his deathbed, sat up in shock.
"Ahem, we're all members of the Ninghua Sect, it's perfectly reasonable for us to wander around the sect, isn't it?" Liu Ruyan said, feeling guilty but still trying to be defiant.
“Well said,” Yuan Jin from the Beast Taming Division said. “But could you people from the Hehuan Division please stop staring at our division’s spirit beasts all the time?”
"They're just spirit beasts, you wouldn't be so heartless, would you?"
Liu Ruyan opened her eyes wide and glanced at the disciples behind her who were pretending to whistle, her expression indescribable.
Then, clenching his fist, he forced a smile and said, "They're good-looking, so it's reasonable for us to take a second look, right?"
Liu Ruyan gritted her teeth. Those little brats, she'd deal with them when she got back!
"Your beast taming division isn't much better!"
The Spirit Plant Branch, mainly composed of Spirit Plant Valley members, also stepped forward.
"I don't even want to talk about the spirit beasts in your branch. The spirit plants we just planted two days ago were devoured the very next day!"
"Haha, I thought it was wild, and I was even thinking of thanking nature for its gift." Yuan Jin laughed sheepishly.
"Are your wild spiritual plants growing so neatly?!" The Elder of Spiritual Plants was so angry that his beard almost stood on end.
"Talismans for sale! Talismans for sale!" The talisman branch, mainly composed of members from the Divine Talisman Sect, set up a stall on the spot when they saw a large crowd. "Three mid-grade spirit stones for one talisman, ten mid-grade spirit stones for three talismans."
Immediately someone said, "No way, aren't you just setting your father up?"
"Sorry, it's my occupational habit. I can't help but set up a stall when there are a lot of people. I can't help but want to be a shrewd businessman."
The scene gradually became chaotic, turning into mutual accusations between the various branches.
The medicine cultivation branch said that the few demon cultivators recruited by Ninghua Sect this time sold them medicine materials at high prices, which were the skins of the demon cultivators' feet that they had just peeled off.
The demonic beasts then turned around and accused the medicine cultivators, saying that they had almost treated them as spirit beasts from the beast taming division and sterilized them.
If Bai Ruoan were here, she would definitely say, "Great, things are in complete chaos again, let's drink it while it's hot."
Shen Sangruo and Wuwei Daoren exchanged a glance, both seeing the complex expression on each other's faces.
"Sect Master, it seems our Ninghua Sect is doomed."
This is not exactly the same as what they imagined—a thriving clan creating a glorious future together—it's completely unrelated.
"Sect Master, are you sure there's nothing wrong with the testing tools and artifacts left behind by Ninghua Sect?" Shen Sanruo asked Wuwei Daoren as she fell into deep thought.
How did these oddballs pass the test?
These are the elite cultivators they selected and kept after going through layers of screening?
The Taoist Master Wuwei was clearly not very confident. "Um... it's possible that it's been neglected for years and is malfunctioning."
“It seems we should formulate some new clan rules.” She stroked her chin.
The Ninghua Sect didn't have so many branches in the past, so its rules are naturally not as comprehensive as they are now.
They calmed the crowd and mediated between the various branches. After the crowd dispersed, they immediately began to work on formulating new rules.
The two thought about it for a day and then rushed to make it. The next day, they distributed it to the entire clan for trial use.
These include:
Loitering at the entrances of other branches is prohibited (especially the Hehuan branch).
The Beast Taming Division must keep a close watch on their spirit beasts and prohibits them from roaming freely within the sect.
Add a fence to the spiritual fields of the spiritual plant branch.
Setting up stalls for trading is prohibited within the sect.
etc.
Anyone who violates this rule will be severely punished.
In this way, the "unhealthy tendencies" within Ninghua Sect were finally suppressed, and the sect officially got back on track.
Only then did Shen Sanruo believe that there was no problem with the testing tools and artifacts of Ninghua Sect.
If they don't get into abstract concepts, they are still several levels better than ordinary cultivators in all aspects.
More than two months have passed since Immortal Lord Changli went into seclusion.
On this day, Shen Sangruo and the others finally saw layers of tribulation clouds appear on the mountain where he was.
Even from this distance, they could clearly see the tribulation clouds and even faintly sense the restless power in the air.
One can imagine how terrifying those tribulation clouds must have been.
The clouds of calamity continued to gather, almost completely enveloping the entire mountain peak.
The surrounding sky quickly darkened.
A storm is brewing.
Shen Sangruo and Ye Huai were all worried for Immortal Lord Changli.
A blinding flash of light illuminated the dark world, followed by a thunderclap that deafened everyone.
The thunderous sound resounded throughout most of the cultivation world.
Only cultivators at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm or above can withstand such a powerful lightning tribulation.
Countless cultivators stopped to watch.
Elders from various sects sent people to investigate which family had produced another great talent.
Upon learning that it was Immortal Lord Changli of Ninghua Sect, they were extremely shocked.
During the sect competition, he was still in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and only a few months later, he is about to break through to the late-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
At the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, they were each capable of fighting against True Person Lingxiao. Now that they have reached the same level of cultivation, it is truly hard to say who will be the number one cultivator in the cultivation world in the future.
The elders stared at the tribulation clouds in the sky.
Ninghua Sect first snatched the title of the number one sect from Feiyun Sect, and now Immortal Lord Changli is about to compete for the position of the number one cultivator of True Man Lingxiao.
The landscape of the cultivation world is likely to change.
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