Bronze door through time and space

Chapter 642: Future Oxen and Horses
When the Pink Arhat's Dharma Eyes opened, the energy and blood of thousands of servants were immediately revealed. After a quick identification, he snapped his fingers and peach blossoms appeared out of thin air, turning into pink petals that fell on the foreheads of more than two hundred servants.

"Those with flower petals on their foreheads are outer disciples."

The selected servants were all cheering with joy, but they did not know that Pink Arhat was looking at them with pity. To be precise, there were dozens of spies from the evil sect and dozens of people planted by the various sects and families among them.

More than 200 people were selected to join the outer sect, and it turned out that more than 100 of them were either spies or had ulterior motives. This ratio is unprecedented.

But there is no way, if we open the gates to the world, we have to accept the consequences.

Other sects have cultivation families founded by disciples accumulated over the years, so there is never a shortage of new blood, and loyalty is also guaranteed. At least these new bloods are raised under the care of the family, and the possibility of contact with other forces is not high, and the probability of betrayal is low.

Luanjian Mountain does not have the conditions and can only recruit in an open manner, but other sects and families will certainly not remain indifferent to the sudden emergence of new forces. Whether for speculation or exploration, it is normal for anyone who is capable to send three to five people to join. More than a dozen is nothing, after all, the losses in the process must be taken into consideration.

So these more than a hundred are not all. It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say that they account for half, but about 30% is about right.

Unfortunately, not only Fan Luohan doesn't care, Yan Xu doesn't care either.

Regardless of whether these people came here voluntarily or were coerced or induced, after truly realizing the power of Luanjian Mountain, I believe they will soon come to their senses, make the right choice, and completely break away from their past that they cannot bear to look back on.

This is human nature. After all, they are now formal disciples of Luanjian Mountain. As long as they can see enough benefits and a bright future, they will safeguard the rights and interests of the sect and fight against the evil forces in the outside world.

As I said, loyalty is just the price of betrayal is not enough, betrayal is because the price is not enough.

“You have three days to consider the next direction of your practice. It’s all fine to temper your body, train your Qi, draw talismans, make pills, and refine weapons. However, you must do it according to your own wishes and strengths. Don’t force yourself to learn something you are not good at or don’t like. The most important thing for you now is to build your foundation as quickly as possible. Only after you complete the foundation will you be eligible to choose other things.” After the pink arhat finished speaking, he handed these people over to Lin Xiangqiao. If they delayed any further, he would not be able to help but demonstrate his way to bliss in public. His Ruyi Vajra began to stir.

Lin Xiangqiao, wearing a colorful dress and holding a ruyi, walked slowly towards them. Although she no longer practiced the art of curing all diseases and instead practiced the art of elixir, she still looked delicate and frail. Her willow-shaped brows were furrowed, like Xi Shi holding her heart or Daiyu burying flowers, which made people feel pity for her.

But no one present dared to underestimate the other party, because according to the conventions of each sect, this person was at least a great cultivator who had established his foundation.

"I'm the outer sect elder, you can just call me Elder Lin. If you have any questions during this period, Dongpu can come and ask me." The gentle Lin Xiangqiao is obviously very suitable for this job. No matter what questions the new outer sect disciples have, she will answer them patiently, and this has earned her the respect of many outer sect disciples.

Regardless of their origins and purposes, their kindness in preaching and answering questions cannot be ignored.

Although he became an outer disciple, the skills he practiced were still Hunyuan Gong and Qigong, because only after practicing these two skills to perfection could he switch to advanced skills.

This puzzled some disciples who came from cultivation families, because it was too slow and consumed a lot of resources.

A simple comparison will show that the time and resources consumed by the two are twice as much.

It is not possible to show one or two of them, but any sect trains thousands of disciples, and this happens all year round. The total amount of resources consumed is simply astronomical.

But no one said anything. Those who didn't know anything about it just worked hard, while those who knew knew the benefits of it.

Although the cultivation world is now promoting a narrow, fast and urgent way of cultivation, just like those in the bodybuilding circle who wish they could use nine dragons to pull a coffin to ascend directly to the steroid planet, it's not that everyone is unaware of its shortcomings. It's just that most people have no choice, because everyone is competing, and if you slow down a step, you will slow down your whole life. If you don't fight hard, you will never get ahead.

Only some large cultivation families and sects would spend more time and resources on the foundation of their carefully cultivated younger disciples in order to increase the success rate of forming a pill. Those who have no connections and no power should not think too much. Being able to build a foundation is good enough, and forming a pill is not something they should think about at all.

It’s just like starting a business is fine, but making it big and strong is not the point.

While everyone was busy, Yan Xu was not idle either. He was improving the technical school's study subjects in order to cultivate qualified talents.

In terms of study subjects, I was lucky to have You Xia Gu's support, otherwise it would have been difficult.

Even though Youxia Valley sells clothes and accessories, it is actually an expert in talismans and refining instruments. Its skills are exquisite and unparalleled. Otherwise, how could it refine thin clothes and small jewellery into magical instruments or even magic treasures?

With Yan Xu's level of cultivation, it is not difficult to master these. The difficulty lies in integrating them with his own system and making them easy to learn and master. Otherwise, how can he quickly train qualified cattle and horses?

Now Yan Xu has completed the preliminary integration. To this end, he directly broke through the earth's crust and drew out a stream of underground fire to smelt the countless black iron ore in Luanjian Mountain.

Although Luanjian Mountain is full of black iron ore, the content is too low, mostly below 1%. If you want to refine it into a magical weapon, even if it is just a primary one, the purity must reach at least 10%.

Don't underestimate this 10%. Even a cultivator who has established his foundation will have to spend a considerable amount of time and energy to extract a few ounces from hundreds of kilograms of black iron ore.

The reason why it is so difficult is that in order to purify the black iron, extremely high temperatures are required to decompose the impurities. In the absence of a steel plant, it would be strange if this was not difficult relying solely on individual strength.

Things will be much easier with the underground fire. With a little improvement, we can mass-produce primary magic tools.

However, Yan Xu did not do it himself, but handed it over to those future talents so that they could get sufficient training and grow through labor.

After all, how can you see the rainbow without going through the wind and rain?

I have to say that he is very thoughtful. I believe that those outer disciples will be moved to tears when they know about it.

After completing his daily practice, Chen Zhen carried an iron barrel as big as half a gasoline barrel and came to a nearby valley with a group of hard-working fellow disciples who insisted on practicing Hunyuan Gong.

This place was not a valley originally, but under the iron fist of the Yellow Turban warriors, it was beaten into a depression and slowly became a valley. This was also the motivation for them to persevere. It is said that as long as they practiced the Hunyuan Gong to perfection and then switched to the next stage of practice, they would be able to achieve this level.

No one thought that the sect would deceive them, so the group of people worked as hard as if they had been injected with chicken blood, strengthening their muscles and bones, tempering their blood, and shouting with excitement all day long.

The valley was not big, and was littered with iron ores of all sizes. Chen Zhen skillfully selected the higher-quality iron ores, put them into an iron bucket, and then carried the iron bucket weighing hundreds of pounds to the fire pit.

The Fire Pit is the name given by these outer disciples. One can hear the helplessness in it, but unfortunately they have no choice.

Even if one has mastered Hun Yuan Gong to a small degree, carrying hundreds of kilograms of ore on a steep mountain road is still a heavy burden, but the real test has just begun.

(End of this chapter)