Chapter 468 Volume D: The Phoenix Will Surely Come
Everyone was shocked and envious of Chen Huaisheng's breakthrough to the third level in two years of retreat. They all wanted to understand how Chen Huaisheng did it.
You know, Chen Huaisheng had already experienced a breakthrough to the second level.
At the beginning, he did it in Huiyan Valley in one go, from the second level of Qi Refining to the fourth level of Qi Refining, which attracted countless people's attention. Now he has gone one step further, directly from the first level of Foundation Building to the fourth level of Foundation Building.
These Yuanhe Sect disciples, including Xuan Chimei, were extremely curious about how Chen Huaisheng could advance and ascend again and again. This was too inconsistent with the common sense of cultivation. There are cases of accumulation and sudden breakthrough, but they often stagnate at a certain level for too long, and finally suddenly break through.
But Chen Huaisheng's promotion has never exceeded two years, so it is impossible to be a sudden breakthrough. It is unheard of that he has reached the fourth level of Foundation Building after seven years of entry.
This is no longer something that can be explained by extraordinary talent, nor is it because Chen Huaisheng is so diligent in his practice. Instead, it should be that many factors come together to allow Chen Huaisheng to have such an almost mythical creation.
After the disciples of Yuanhe Sect entered Chonghua Sect, they were still quite courteous at first. After all, Jiulian Sect collapsed, and Chonghua Sect had to show a warm welcome to the wise and humble, and also set a better example for the later generations of Yuhan Sect and Guipeng Sect.
However, after the disciples of Yuhan Sect and Guipeng Sect joined, and more and more disciples of other Jiulian Sect branches were influenced by the three sects' allegiance, more and more came to Hebei, and the number soared rapidly, and this situation changed.
Even if the three sects of Yuanhe, Yuhan and Guipeng are not included, the disciples of the other branches of Jiulian also quickly increased from a dozen people at the beginning to dozens of people, and later reached more than one hundred and nearly two hundred people. To this day, there are still scattered disciples of Jiulian Sect coming to Wolongling to serve.
Most of these scattered disciples who came to join the sect were those who had been independent cultivators for a period of time and felt that life was not easy. Some of them were left behind in those sects after being merged and were discriminated against. They heard that the disciples of the Jiulian Sect were doing very well in the Chonghua Sect, so they came to join the sect one after another.
In the last six months of Chen Huaisheng's retreat, there was even a small climax, with more than ten people coming to join the sect in a month.
However, as time passed, when more and more Jiulian Sect disciples came to join the sect, the thoughts of the top leaders of the Chonghua Sect had changed a little.
Especially with more than 800 disciples, it was already the scale of a large sect, and the economic pressure brought was also huge.
Moreover, these disciples did not join in the early stage, but came to join in the later stage. Their loyalty is self-evident, and there are not many of them with particularly excellent qualifications.
From the perspective of the old Chonghua Sect and even the original Ding family and Lingyun Sect, it is not the best choice to accept these disciples in large numbers.
But they had already made this promise. If they wanted to change the policy and refuse to accept them, it would undoubtedly be a slap in the face of the Chonghua Sect itself, and it would also make the disciples of the Jiulian Sect who had already entered the Chonghua Sect feel disappointed, so it was impossible to do so.
Especially since there were two characters, Linghu Zui and Du Guo, who represented the interests of the disciples of the Jiulian Sect. Even Shang Jiuling, Ding Zongshou and Li Yu had to take this into consideration and could only bite the bullet and continue to accept them.
Of course, there was no large-scale publicity a long time ago. In addition, they had to be carefully identified after entering the sect to prevent undercovers sent by other sects.
In short, as the number of Jiulian disciples in the Chonghua Sect increased, the preferential treatment given to these Jiulian disciples in the sect became less and less, and then became equal treatment.
This contrast was felt most deeply by the disciples of the Yuanhe Sect who joined the sect the earliest.
And the Yuhan Sect at least had Linghu Zui to come forward, but it was difficult for them to take into account the other Jiulian Sect branches.
Du Guo had been recuperating in seclusion before his injury healed, so it was difficult for him to interject. The disciples of Yuanhe Sect and some other branches were still quite disappointed.
This mentality and emotion were also reflected in the disciples including Yu Xianxian, Xu Beihuai, Zhang Zhiruo and Wei Wuyang.
Back then, Chen Huaisheng relied on Xuan Chimei and Yi Chuyang's face to enter Chonghua Sect through the back door. He had no qualifications to join Jiulian Sect and could only settle for the second best.
Unexpectedly, in just seven years, he had not only reached the middle stage of foundation building, but also became a prominent figure in Chonghua Sect, with his own cave Taoist temple, and had a vague leadership posture, but his group was still hovering in the middle stage of Qi training.
The monthly allowance of the sect also made them feel stretched. Those with better families could still make a living, but those with worse families found it even more difficult to maintain.
But even disciples from wealthy families like Wei Wuyang and Xu Beihuai were envious of Chen Huaisheng. He was in the middle stage of foundation building, and there was such a huge gap between him and them who were still in the middle stage of Qi refining. It was simply a world of difference.
Is Chen Huaisheng's talent really that much better than theirs?
Even Xuan Chimei, a genius who was said to be rare in a century, was left behind by several positions. Is there no other reason?
Although the Chonghua Sect was bullied by the Baishi Sect in recent years, it remained unyielding. Even when it was exiled to Hebei, it still showed a thriving momentum.
Before, the Chonghua Sect did not even have a Purple Mansion True Person, but Shang Jiuling, Zhu Fengbi and even Li Yu successively ascended to the Purple Mansion within five years, and suddenly jumped from an unknown third-rate local sect to a rising star close to the status of a first-tier major sect.
Three Purple Mansions in five years!
How difficult is the Purple Mansion? !
Even sects like Tianyun Sect and Taihua Dao can only produce one purple mansion every 10 to 20 years. For example, their Yuanhe Sect has only produced two purple mansions in a decade, and there has not been a single purple mansion in the past 40 years.
Seeing that the earliest purple mansion has become 80 years old, but there is no successor, Jiulian Sect is almost in this situation, which is why the ranking in the Taoist Association has dropped rapidly, and then it is coveted by others and finally divided up.
What is the purpose of joining the Chonghua Sect? Isn't it just for a brighter and more stable future, a more promising personal future?
Wei Wuyang and Xu Beihuai are from good families. If they return to their hometown of Dazhao to become a casual cultivator, they can also live a leisurely life of small wealth, but this is not their goal.
They know very well that once they leave the sect and become a casual cultivator, they will most likely only be able to live a life of Qi training, and even foundation building will become a luxury.
The story of a casual cultivator who encountered many adventures along the way, practiced hard with his own talents, and finally cultivated to become a purple mansion only exists in the plays of storytellers in teahouses and taverns. It is not that there are no such stories, but they are too rare, so they are talked about by ordinary people in the plays.
Because of this, Xuan Chimei joined the Bailu Taoist Temple. Those who have been friends with Xuan Chimei since childhood and know her better are not as surprised and puzzled as others, but they are still very curious about how Chen Huaisheng can achieve such a heaven-defying rise, and what they can get from it.
So when Xuan Chimei invited them to visit the Bailu Taoist Temple, they also agreed very readily. At that time, they did not know that Chen Huaisheng had broken through the third level in two years, which was even more heaven-defying. They just thought that Chen Huaisheng might have another breakthrough to advance to the second level of foundation building.
Even so, in their view, it was still a heaven-defying act.
Seven years is nothing for a cultivator.
The more common ones are at the second level of Qi training, the third level of Qi training with faster progress, the fourth level of Qi training for those with stronger talents, hard training, and sufficient resources, which is also considered quite excellent, and the fifth level of Qi training is basically outstanding among the entire group of disciples.
Seven years of foundation building, at least at their level, have never been seen before.
Today, I learned from Xuan Chimei that Chen Huaisheng had been in seclusion for two years and broke through the third level, and has already reached the fourth level of foundation building, the real middle stage of foundation building.
Now the number of foundation building cultivators in the entire Chonghua Sect sounds quite large, 37 people, but 24 of them are in the initial stage of foundation building, only eight are in the middle stage of foundation building, and five are in the high stage of foundation building.
Moreover, among these thirteen middle and high stage of foundation building, four are already over 130 or 140 years old, or in other words, these four basically have no room for further progress. Among the remaining nine, none of them is under 90 years old, or in other words, there are only two under 100 years old, one is in the high stage of foundation building of Yuhan Sect, and the other is in the middle stage of foundation building of Lingyun Sect.
It can be seen that it is difficult to advance to the middle stage of foundation building. It takes thirty to fifty years of hard practice to achieve it. This is also the basic situation of almost all the sects and families, including those super sects.
There are those who have advanced to the middle and high stages of foundation building at the age of thirty or fifty in those super sects and big families, but such talents are rare, and they are basically cultivated as the future core figures of the sect.
Now everyone has finally seen one in the Chonghua Sect, and it is someone around them, and they have had dealings with each other before.
They cannot judge how far Chen Huaisheng will go in the future, but now they are sure that deepening the relationship between the two sides will definitely only benefit and not harm.
"Wuyang, Beihuai, Zhiruo, welcome, welcome, you have all been in Hebei for more than a year, but I have been in seclusion and have not been able to meet. Today, it is rare for you to come to my small house for a short visit, and you must have a drink,..."
Chen Huaisheng is very enthusiastic. He also knows that these people are very sensitive now, and how to contact and deal with them is also very demanding.
Xuan Chimei has told him about the current situation of the dozens of people in Yuanhe Sect.
Duguo's injury has not healed, which makes everyone very anxious, but even if Duguo recovers to the purple palace state, it is hard to say what the Yuanhe Sect disciples will do.
Not to mention that Xu Beihuai and Ling Fan are not disciples of Yuanhe Sect, it is difficult for them to empathize with the people of Yuanhe Sect. They may have their own ideas when they come this time.
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