Half a year has passed since the Dao Questioning Grand Ceremony. The new disciples of the Dao Sword Sect have settled into the rhythm of life in the sect. Those who should cultivate are cultivating, those who are slacking are slacking, those who are exploring are exploring, those who are treasure hunting are treasure hunting. In short, they have all officially begun their immortal cultivation lives.
In this world, there are always few geniuses, few hardworking people, few smart people, many foolish people, many idle people, and many gossipy people...these are the slackers.
They would rank every generation of disciples, beauties rankings or genius rankings, such as the Top 5 Beauties of the Dao Sword Sect this term.
At the same time as they ranked the Top 5 Beauties, they also ranked the Top 10 Prodigies.
It's hard to say whether the Dao Sword Sect officials participated in these rankings.
But at the very least, the Top 10 Prodigies ranked have high credibility. Each one has extraordinary talents and will at least reach the Yuanying stage in the future, and they even have hopes of participating in the Immortal Register trials of the Lingnan Immortal Sect, and thus entering the Lingnan Immortal Sect.
This ranking is indeed rarely questioned.
And generally speaking, these ten prodigies are basically the top ten candidates knocking on the Dao in three years.
For the Dao Sword Sect, the number distribution of these ten people is also very reasonable, with four from Master Peak, three from Qi Peak, and three from Sword Peak. It is unclear whether there is any intentionality involved...official intentionality.
"Why is there no one from Dan Peak?"
In the square of Master Peak, Li Shiyin was wandering around with Chasing the Wind and happened to hear a group of people talking about the Top 10 Prodigies, and she couldn't help but ask Chasing the Wind.
Chasing the Wind shook his big head. He was just a little cat weighing a few hundred catties. How could he understand these things?
"There should be two from Dan Peak. Someone as powerful as me must be a prodigy! And you, Silly Tiger, are even more powerful than me, so you should be a prodigy even more..."
Li Shiyin was very confident, crooking her fingers to calculate for Chasing the Wind and Dan Peak, "When Seven-Seven builds her foundation, she will also be a prodigy. Our Dan Peak should have three prodigies!"
Thinking this way, Dan Peak clearly has three prodigies, yet none of them are on the list. She was very dissatisfied and said indignantly, "No, I have to go ask who ranked these prodigies and why even my name is not on it..."
She took Chasing the Wind and walked over to the crowd, but before she got there, she heard someone say, "It's a pity for Huang Feiyu."
Senior Brother Huang? Her heart stirred and she stopped to listen carefully.
That person lamented, "Originally ranked in the top five prodigies of Sword Peak, his Sword Roaring Rivers technique was quite amazing. Who would have thought he would be injured in the spine by a Lionheart Mad Flame Beast, ruining his life."
Senior Brother Huang was ranked in the top five?! Li Shiyin was shocked. Huang Feiyu was that powerful? He was only on par with her!
"Such is the path of cultivation..." someone followed up, "You never know whether opportunity or death will come first."
"But I heard that Huang Feiyu was healed and his cultivation was restored..." someone else gave the "latest" news.
"But..." Li Shiyin suddenly reacted and looked at Chasing the Wind with her big eyes, "Is Senior Brother Huang in the same term as me?"
Chasing the Wind looked back at her with even bigger eyes full of puzzlement... How could he possibly know?
"Senior Brother Huang is already at the Golden Core stage, yet is in the same term as me..." Li Shiyin nodded, "It seems this ranking does make some sense."
In the Dao Sword Sect, what counts as disciples of the same term?
To be precise, starting from the end of the previous generation's knocking on the Dao to the end of the knocking on the Dao for this generation, the 50 years in between, all disciples who joined the sect are considered to be of the same term.
By this logic, disciples of the same term can have a maximum difference of 50 years in their cultivation time.
That is to say, it is entirely possible for disciples of the same term to have some who have already formed their infant while others haven't even sensed their qi yet.
Yes, aside from the Dao Questioning Grand Ceremony every 50 years, the Dao Sword Sect also accepts disciples in between each 50 years. But this recruitment is not public, rather it is the private recruitment of elders, chief disciples, stewards, sect leaders and other qualified people within the sect.
It is like a special recruitment into the sect, and they immediately become personal disciples.
For example, Qin Ran and Huang Feiyu were both accepted into the sect this way.
Qin Ran was taken by his master as a personal disciple when his master saw him during a trip out to collect alchemy ingredients. Huang Feiyu's situation was probably not much different.
Therefore, strictly speaking, not only is Huang Feiyu considered a disciple of this generation, even Qin Ran is...
If Qin Ran insisted on lowering his status to participate in the knocking on the Dao three years later, that would also be in line with the rules.
Li Shiyin stood there thinking for a while. Although she felt this ranking was reasonably justified, exactly because of this, that there wasn't a single disciple from Dan Peak was too embarrassing.
She, Li Shiyin, would fight for the reputation of Dan Peak.
The people here were still talking. Someone said, "I wonder who will replace Huang Feiyu in the Top 10 Prodigies."
"I still hope it's a disciple from Sword Peak..." said a pure passerby obviously from Sword Peak, "As a pure passerby, I feel Sword Peak has the strongest combat power in Dao Sword Sect."
"It's not necessarily Sword Peak!" Another passerby from Qi Peak shook his head, "I heard Qi Peak has a Senior Brother cultivating the Five Thunder Orthodox Dharma, and he recently achieved great success in his thunder techniques, claiming this spot as prodigy is surely his."
"My fellow sect brother Dugu Wenxue of Sword Peak found an ancient inheritance earlier this year, said to contain the demon-slaying sword intent of the demon-slaying sword ancestor from 30,000 years ago... I saw Senior Brother Dugu yesterday at Sword Peak. Senior Brother had an evil aura bursting to the heavens, too terrifying to look at directly. I feel he is far beyond the strength of a Gold Core cultivator now. I think this prodigy spot surely belongs to Senior Brother Dugu..."
That passerby from Sword Peak objectively stated the facts, but just as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt someone tapping his shoulder. Then a crisp female voice asked him, "Excuse me Senior Brother, who ranked these Top 10 Prodigies?"
When he turned around, he saw a cute girl with chubby cheeks, at once adorable, pure, spirited and beautiful. He was stunned for a moment.
"Hey! Senior Brother, did you hear me?" The pretty girl frowned.
"Oh oh!" He turned back, secretly wiping away the drool from the corner of his mouth, and answered, "I heard... I heard..."
"The Top 10 Prodigies were ranked by Senior Brother Dong Zhongyuan of Master Peak. Very fair and reasonable... Senior Brother Dong is one of the Top 10 Prodigies himself."
"Ranking himself and calling it fair and reasonable? His skin is thicker than Master's..." Li Shiyin pouted, then asked again, "Do you know where he is now?"
"I just saw him earlier..." The man looked around the square and pointed, "There, Senior Brother Dong is over there teaching the Jiang Sisters magic."
Li Shiyin looked over to where he pointed. There was an elegant young man in brocade robes chatting and laughing with two identically exquisite and delicate pink jade-carved little lolitas.
"It's him right?" Li Shiyin confirmed, then directly walked towards Dong Zhongyuan.
After seeing Li Shiyin turn and walk away, the passerby from Sword Peak came to his senses and hurriedly asked, "May I ask for your name, Junior Sister?"
Before Li Shiyin could answer, a half-grown white tiger ran over from the side. Hearing his question, it bared its teeth at him, scaring him so much he didn't dare wait for an answer.
"Dan Peak, Li Shiyin!" But the girl suddenly gave him an answer, even raising the sword in her hand behind her and shouting loudly, "The next prodigy!"
agon king storylines. At the start, I obtained the "Ultimate Lackey System" - the more I act as a lackey, the stronger I become. What else could I do? I chose to become the personal henchman of the ultimate villain, Su Muwan. I provoke all sorts of chosen ones, snatch away their opportunities, and commit every evil deed imaginable. You ask who's behind me? Hmph! You're not worthy of knowing my lady's name! ...... ....... I am Su Muwan, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Since childhood, I've possessed extraordinary talent in martial arts, which led to my arrogant and domineering personality in my past life. I was even foolish enough to repeatedly challenge those favored by heaven, ultimately resulting in a tragic death. In this life, I must behave and absolutely cannot walk the same path again!! However... SLAP!! "So you're the Dragon King, huh?!" When I saw my little lackey swagger over and viciously slap the Dragon King who was hiding his identity, I felt my heart sink. Su Muwan's suspended heart finally died as she watched Qin Luo, her utterly loyal lackey, standing before her. She fainted on the spot from shock. Heaven is determined to destroy me!! (Pure love 1v1, light-hearted, no angst, single female lead, villain, reincarnation, lackey)
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
