Chapter 618 Nine Leaves

"Sect Master, this reward is too valuable, I can't take it!"

Qin Shaochen put the soul-nurturing tree back indifferently.

Just winning one ranking match will reward you with a soul treasure.

Qin Shaochen would not believe such a good thing.

The sect leader must have another purpose.

He wouldn't dare to take advantage of it until he understood it.

"good!"

Duan Zhengwen showed a smile of approval on his face.

"With the treasure in front of me, I can still stay calm and ask my heart straight."

"This sect leader's evaluation of you is even higher!"

Qin Shaochen was a little helpless when he heard this.

All he could do was rub his nose.

"You guessed it right!"

"The reason why this sect leader gave you a valuable treasure is not because you won a competition."

"It's because this sect leader feels that your talent is good and decided to make an exception and promote you to the sect's core disciple."

"This is an extra-judicial act of kindness, and I will reward you with the soul-nurturing tree."

"With my talent, I can still be considered pretty good. Can I still become a core disciple?"

Qin Shaochen felt a little unfair.

He just didn't want to be the core disciple who attracted everyone's attention, so he gave up using the ice spirit energy.

Choose to use soul skills to assist spells and challenge the gold list.

As a result, I went around and around and found a lonely place.

"What happened to your talent?"

"You are only in your twenties, and you are already able to use soul skills to defeat a great spiritual master in the middle stage of foundation building who has practiced for more than a hundred years."

"What is a practitioner like you but a genius?"

"Moreover, he is an extremely rare soul genius."

"People like you should be trained as core disciples of the sect."

Speaking of this, Duan Zhengwen deliberately showed a hint of surprise on his face.

"Why, aren't you reluctant?"

"No, no!"

Qin Shaochen waved his hand quickly.

"It's just that the surprise came too suddenly. I was shocked for a moment and it was a bit hard to accept!"

"That's right."

Duan Zhengwen nodded with satisfaction.

"Not just anyone who wants to be the core disciple of the sect can become one."

"The core disciples are no better than the inner disciples."

"The total number is only about thirty, and they are all carefully selected."

"Although there is also the word "disciple", in fact, his status in the sect is no worse than that of the ordinary elders of the sect!"

"And the importance is even greater than that!"

Speaking of this, he looked at Qin Shaochen with burning eyes and asked:

"Do you know what the most important task of the sect's core disciples is?"

Qin Shaochen hesitated a little and tried to answer.

"They are specially selected to study the sect's most profound inheritance, and then carry it forward!"

"You're just talking about general tasks."

Duan Zhengwen's face was a little serious.

"The core disciples have a more important task,"

"That is, we must select a true core among you, and then use all the strength of the sect to cultivate him into the next generation of Yuanying ancestors in the sect!"

Qin Shaochen was surprised.

"Cultivation of the Nascent Soul Ancestor!"

"Yes, this is the real reason why the sect specially selects some geniuses as the core."

Seeing that Qin Shaochen was a little surprised, Duan Zhengwen had a look of pride on his face.

"You have to know that the ancestor of Yuanying is the most important and core figure for a sect. It is also the deepest foundation and the most powerful trump card of a large sect."

"The reason why the four major sects are able to transcend the world is because our sects have been able to do this all the time and give birth to a Nascent Soul Ancestor every two thousand years or so."

"There has been no interruption for a hundred thousand years!"

"The biggest reason why we can do this is that we will continue to select outstanding talents and transform them into core disciples."

"In fact, every two or three thousand years, the sect will select three to four hundred geniuses as core disciples."

"After training, experience, and polishing, they can grow quickly."

"Among them, some will die midway, and some will run out of genius and become ordinary inner disciples."

"And in a few hundred years, most of the core disciples will gradually become the elders of the sect."

"This process will not be interrupted and will even continue for two to three thousand years."

"And in this long period of time, as long as one can successfully conceive a Nascent Soul."

"That means that the sect has once again succeeded and can be passed down smoothly."

"Start another Nascent Soul era!"

Qin Shaochen nodded.

If it is true as the sect leader said, the main task of the core disciples is to practice and expand the possibility of the sect producing Nascent Soul.

There is no need to participate in the messy chores of the sect.

So, it doesn't seem like a bad thing for him to stay in the Spiritual Medicine Sect and be a core disciple.

Acceptable!

"Therefore, the selection of core disciples is related to the future of the sect and cannot be ignored."

Duan Zhengwen was still talking.

"Especially,"

"The lessons learned from the Qingxuan Sect are right in front of us, and it makes us even more vigilant!"

"Decided to make certain improvements."

"I would rather spend more resources now to broaden the scope of recruiting core disciples."

"It must not appear, because the talent is insufficient, which will eventually lead to the tragedy of the end of the Yuan Ying."

After finishing speaking, he did not forget to sigh softly.

"Master, I would like to ask you something. What happened to the Qingxuan Sect? Can you tell me something?"

Seeing Duan Zhengwen looking at him with some doubt, Qin Shaochen quickly explained.

"I dare not hide it from you, Master."

"In fact, the family I was born in is thousands of miles away, and it has some relationship with the Qingxuan Sect."

"To this day, there are still one or two family members who worship and practice in the Qingxuan Sect."

"So, I am also more concerned about the affairs of the Qingxuan Sect."

Duan Zhengwen nodded.

"It's human nature, I can understand it!"

He stroked his beard, hesitated for a while, and then spoke again:

"In theory, I shouldn't tell you those things."

"However, since you are now a core disciple of the sect, you are also qualified to inquire about some important matters of the sect."

"It doesn't matter if I tell you!"

"Thank you, Master!"

Qin Shaochen quickly clasped his fists and saluted to show his gratitude!

Seeing that a lengthy topic was about to begin, Duan Zhengwen simply rang the bell and asked a blue-clothed disciple to brew a pot of fragrant tea.

Then he slowly opened his mouth and told some rumors about the Qingxuan Sect.

It turned out that according to the intelligence of the Lingyao Sect, the Nine-leaf Patriarch of the Qingxuan Sect had gone to the back mountain of the Qingxuan Sect for retreat six years ago.

The retreat of the Yuanying Patriarch was naturally not to make his cultivation level go up a level.

Rather,

it was to retreat to death!

To put it bluntly, it was to not be disturbed by the mundane affairs of the mortal world in the last period of his life and die peacefully.

Under normal circumstances, the retreat to death would be carried out when the life span was less than three years.

And the Nine-leaf Patriarch had been in retreat for six years.

Even the people of the Qingxuan Sect believed that the ancestor was most likely dead.

However, the time for the hard switch was generally ten years later.

From this time point of view, there were only four years left to finally confirm that Nine-leaf had passed away.

The three major sects were all ready to move.

The leaders of Qingxuan Sect were also in a state of uncertainty.

Each had their own plans!

Originally, a large sect like Qingxuan Sect would not fall apart quickly even if the Yuanying ancestor suddenly died.

All they needed to do was to open the great array to protect the sect, and they could ensure that the sect would not be breached by other sects.

It would not be a problem to hold on for a few years or even decades.

But the bad thing was that Qingxuan Sect had no successors at all.

There were almost fifty late Jindan Great Perfection in the whole sect, but none of them had the hope of nurturing Yuanying.

Those late Jindan Great Perfection were either too old and their Jindan had lost its vitality.

Or they had suffered a serious injury during their cultivation, and their Jindan was damaged.

And there were no particularly outstanding and transcendent figures among the younger Jindan.

In this way, opening the great array to protect the sect, consuming huge resources, and struggling to protect the sect would lose its meaning.

If there were someone in the sect who had the hope of nurturing Yuanying successfully.

A group of disciples sealed themselves in the formation and endured for decades. Everyone gritted their teeth and could bear it.

But now, no matter how you look at it or how you look, no one in Qingxuan Sect has the hope of successfully nurturing a Nascent Soul within a hundred years.

So, opening the sect protection formation and lingering on is just a waste of resources.

It is completely unnecessary!

Especially those Jindan masters who are approaching the end of their lives will never agree to use their limited lifespans in a hopeless wait.

In fact, many elders and supreme elders in Qingxuan Sect have already begun to lay out.

At least three of the ten supreme elders of Qingxuan Sect have already sent people to contact Lingyao Sect.

They are interested in joining Lingyao Sect.

However, they are still bargaining.

The real implementation will still have to be after opening the death barrier of Master Jiuye.

After all, it is a bit unreasonable to rush to change the entrance hall before the official confirmation.

If you don't handle it well, other big guys in the sect will take the opportunity to make trouble and attack you together, which will not be worth it.