Chapter 113: Sword Technique Shakes Five Peaks (Part 1)

  The gentle rain in March, suddenly sunny and rainy, washed the air clean and cool. The tender leaves were still small, but there was a hint of green everywhere. The spring sun was not strong at all, only a soft ray of light peeked out from behind the clouds, the tree shadows were faint and pale, and there was still a bit of winter's lingering cold wind. The wild peach blossoms bloomed the earliest, their pale pink color swaying gently in the wind and rain.

  Swallows flit across the rooftops, cuckoos hide in the treetop branches, and groups of orioles softly chirp on the ancient tree trunks.

  Lu Yuan woke up amidst a burst of crisp bird calls.

  Woke up and looked outside the house.

  It's been nine months since the lockdown was lifted, and the heavenly prison training ended two months ago. Life has returned to its usual tranquility, with a hint of laziness in the air. I recall what I felt when I first entered Mount Hua: "Spring is not a time for cultivation."

  Spring is indeed not the weather for cultivation.

  Of course, although people are lazy, with the help of Ling Shi and the five cloud system spirits in Fengling Pai, although they didn't work hard, their magical powers have reached the middle stage of the tenth major cycle of Qi cultivation, surpassing before, reaching a pretty good level.

  It would be great if I had some more cloud system spiritual beasts, the cloud system spiritual beasts are really good, as long as there is a cloud system spiritual beast in the seal spirit plate, there will be endless cloud system spiritual beasts providing spiritual power into my body.

  This is truly a must-have for lazy people.

  After washing up, Lu Yuan was ready to start breakfast. The breakfast in Changchun House was served in a side room, where there were two tables, one for Li Yuanbai and the other for Lu Yuan. On each table, there were light porridge and small dishes, as it's better to eat lightly for breakfast.

  Lu Yuan was having breakfast when Li Bai spoke up: "Yesterday, Master Yuan sent over an order, assigning you to be in charge of hosting this disciple recruitment."

  "Recruit disciples." Lu Yuan was taken aback.

  The five major sects have two types of disciples. One type is the true transmission disciple, which is selected by the well-known sword immortal of the previous generation, and others have no right to intervene. However, the well-known sword immortals also need to coordinate with each other on the quota of true transmission disciples, anyway, there are only ten in total. True transmission disciples can receive true transmission and enjoy various resources and training opportunities.

  The second type is the ordinary disciple. Ordinary disciples may not have such a good fate, and their sects are unlikely to give them very good skills or swordsmanship, but rather second- or third-rate goods. Resources and training opportunities are also not particularly well taken care of. At the same time, ordinary disciples do not have limited quotas.

  Of course, it's not that ordinary disciples can't become accomplished, sometimes ordinary disciples with good opportunities and high enlightenment can also become accomplished.

  Like the Ninth Generation, the original North Peak Six Swords Immortal, they were all true transmission disciples back then.

  Later, the flying sword immortal Chu Fei replaced Li Yuanbai, the Sword Immortal of the Setting Sun. Back then, he was just an ordinary disciple. With enough opportunities and strength, he could become a well-known ninth-generation sword immortal.

  The recruitment of ordinary disciples has no quota limit, and it will come once in a while after some time. The recruitment of ordinary disciples generally does not require well-known sword immortals to go, but mostly general nine-generation elders and true transmission disciples to preside over the process of recruiting ordinary disciples. Now it seems that Master Yuan is assigning himself to do so.

  It really is

  Lu Yuan helplessly shrugged his shoulders. Who wouldn't know about Master Yuanyuan now? Master Yuanyuan also knew about his lazy nature, so he would let him rest for a while before assigning him a task, and when he was idle for a while, he would send himself on a mission. This way, he wouldn't be too busy or too idle. However, Master Yuanyuan was the master of Beifeng, and his orders had to be obeyed.

  However, at this time Lu Yuan thought of a possibility to be lazy: "Master, the house arrest order you gave me back then, isn't it still three months before it expires? Do we need to go recruit people now?"

  Li Yuanbai laughed and scolded: "You've been lazy for two months, now you're just going to preside over the recruitment of ordinary disciples. You still want to be lazy? This time, the five peaks of Huashan Xianmen are recruiting at the same time, and they are recruiting at the foot of the mountain. That place is a public area of the five peaks and does not count as outside the range of the five peaks."

  The master said so, and I had no choice but to go.

  Lu Yuan shrugged his shoulders, after all, it was just recruiting a disciple, and in fact, it wasn't anything serious.

  "Right, this time it's not just you who will be in charge of the affairs. There is also Wu Changlao, a ninth-generation elder, and your good partner Ye Fang, who will also go together to preside over this matter." Apparently, Yuan Shangren wants to train not only Lu Yuan but all ten true transmission disciples to handle affairs.

  Li Yuanbai sighed at this time, he was a person who had experienced the dispute between the 9th generation of Yuanyuan and Yuanling, and also knew that compared to personal talent, Yuanling was going to surpass his senior brother Yuanyuan. However, it seems now that the master's eyesight of the 8th generation of Beifeng was indeed correct, and Senior Brother Yuanyuan was the most suitable candidate for the position of Beifeng Master.

  If it were Yuan Ling instead, his talent would be above that of Yuan Yuan, but he absolutely cannot take care of the next generation like this.

  Lu Yuan immediately left and rushed to the location where he would be recruiting disciples.

  At this time, Li Bai stood alone with his hands behind him in front of the window.

  Outside the window, in the courtyard, spring is in full bloom, and vitality is everywhere.

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  This time, there were three people in charge of recruiting disciples. One was the experienced Elder Wu, and the other two were Lu Yuan, the sixth true disciple, and Ye Fang, the ninth true disciple. It was clear that Master Yuanyuan wanted to train his true disciples' ability to handle various political affairs, so he asked Lu Yuan and Ye Fang to host this recruitment of disciples. True disciples are not just good at fighting; they are all figures who can stand alone. In the future, they will definitely have to take over political duties, just like the current ninth generation of famous sword immortals, each with a large number of affairs in hand. Therefore, Master Yuanyuan made such an arrangement. As for Elder Wu, he was experienced and helped out on the side, lest the two true disciples make mistakes in recruiting disciples due to their lack of experience.

  At this time, Wu Changlao, Lu Yuan and Ye Fang three people went to the mountain gate at the foot of Mount Hua.

  The mountain gate of Huashan Xianmen was built at the foot of Mount Hua, where the terrain is extremely flat. This time, the recruitment of disciples will be held here.

  A grey Daoist robe, with a yin-yang fish printed on the back, an old man with a refined and elegant demeanor - Wu Changlao was hurrying along the road, occasionally glancing at Lu Yuan. Wu Changlao was also a sword cultivator and had long heard of the sixth Lu Yuan, the tenth generation's true heir, whose sword skills were exceptional. However, he had never had the chance to meet him before, so this time, as they were both in charge of recruiting disciples together, he took the opportunity to ask Lu Yuan for guidance.

  Wu Changlao thought to himself before making a move, he was also at the level of practicing Qi for ten days in heaven, and his real strength was not inferior to Yunping. When he had the opportunity to ask Yunping for advice during the first and second true transmission disciples handling an affair together, the two of them ended up with a draw.

  This time, he had the rare opportunity to work with Lu Yuan, the sixth true disciple of Jianyi, who was famous for his swordsmanship. Wu Chang naturally went to ask for advice, and after this lesson, he found himself at a disadvantage in Lu Yuan's hands, losing in just twenty moves.

  This startled Wu Chang for a moment.

  He also fought with Yunping and was evenly matched.

  As a result, when he fought with Lu Yuan, he was defeated in just twenty moves.

  Originally, everyone thought that among the tenth generation of true disciples, the two strongest were Yun Yi and Yun Ping. Even though there have been rumors about Lu Yuan's exceptional sword skills in recent days, most people still believed that the two strongest among the tenth generation of true disciples were Yun Yi and Yun Ping. Who would have expected that Lu Yuan's strength had reached this level?

  Wu Changlao was truly shocked. He had fought evenly with Yunping, but he had lost to Lü Yuan in just twenty moves.

  At the beginning of his defeat, Wu Changlao took a long time to come back to himself.

  It seems that the first person of the tenth generation of true transmission disciples should be Lu Yuan.

  ……

  Finally arrived at the mountain gate of Huashan Xianmen, there is a tall archway here, with white jade pillars supporting the high archway, and four large characters "Huashan Xianmen" are written on it in a flying dragon and dancing phoenix style. The entire archway has not a single speck of dust on it, it is said that these characters were written by Tongxiao Zhenren, the founder of Huashan Xianmen 5,000 years ago. Tongxiao Zhenren's magical powers are profound and mysterious, in the past he wrote words that even after 5,000 years, there is not a single speck of dust on the archway, these four characters are just like they were 5,000 years ago, without any trace of time.

  This is the Outer Mountain Gate, which is not within the forbidden law enclosure of Mount Hua's Immortal Gate. There are not many people stationed here to guard it, and it can be considered as the outer perimeter of Mount Hua's Immortal Gate. Only after passing through layer upon layer of forbidden laws can one see the Inner Mountain Gate of Mount Hua's Immortal Gate, whose defense is completely different from that of the Outer Mountain Gate.

  At this time, the outer mountain gate is bustling with activity.

  Mount Hua Immortal Sect is the most prosperous among the five major immortal sects, with a reputation that spreads far and wide. When Mount Hua Immortal Sect recruits disciples, although they are not recruiting true direct disciples but ordinary disciples, countless people come to sign up. Among them, there are young generations of family cultivators, officials from the Great Jin Dynasty, even descendants of the imperial family, as well as descendants of some famous wealthy merchants in the Great Jin Dynasty, and people from all walks of life.

  True Disciples, those are opportunities that can be encountered but not sought after. Everyone dares not to hope to become a True Disciple, only hoping to become an ordinary disciple, becoming an ordinary disciple of the strongest of the Five Great Sects, Huashan Sect. For these people, there are also great benefits. Huashan Sect has all sorts of skills and techniques, even if the internal second or third-rate skills were to be put out in the external world, they would still be considered top-notch skills. Moreover, within the strongest Huashan Sect, one can meet various characters and have access to various human resources. If one could make friends with a True Disciple, the help it would bring to their future is immeasurable.

  (Today there are two updates. I don't know why this book is being written so slowly, but classical fantasy novels are indeed difficult to write. However, I will definitely maintain the update rate of at least two or three chapters per day, and it will not be lower than that, please rest assured. This chapter is just a setup, but it's clear that everyone can see that it's a small **.)