The First Conference of the Sect

On this day, Lin Xiao gathered everyone in the sect hall, preparing to hold the sect's first general assembly.

Standing on the high platform of the sect hall and looking at the assembled humans, demons, souls, and even his own father below, Lin Xiao felt a tiny bit nervous in his heart.

He swallowed, took a deep breath, and then announced loudly to everyone:

"The first sect assembly of the Lingxian Sect begins now!"

The crowd, not quite understanding what this was about, quietly waited for him to continue.

"There are three main topics for this assembly," Lin Xiao held up three fingers and continued:

"The first is regarding Yigao and Jianghe's upcoming long journey."

As he spoke, he first brought out the eleven peach wood swords he had made three days ago and said:

"These are the weapons currently allocated to everyone by our sect."

He controlled ten of the peach wood swords, hovering them in front of the crowd.

Everyone looked at the peach wood swords suspended in mid-air before them, marveling inwardly at how high Lin Xiao's cultivation base had become. They reached out to take the swords, but the moment they grasped them, they felt a surging, abundant energy flowing out from the blades! Highly amazed, they held the swords carefully, examining them in detail.

Down below, Little Luan saw that everyone else had one, except for itself and the black wooden figure next to it. It protested unhappily:

"Cluck, cluck, cluck! What about me! Cluck wants one too!"

Lin Xiao looked at its short, plump chicken wings and said helplessly:

"Your wings can't even hold a sword, what use is giving one to you?"

Little Luan looked down at its own wings, then up at the nimble hands of the others holding their sword hilts. It hesitated for a moment and said:

"Cluck will soon be able to be like them, cluck!"

Lin Xiao could only nod and smile:

"Alright, alright. Once you grow hands, I'll give you a sword too."

Following that, he said to the crowd:

"Also, considering the safety of Jianghe and Yigao while they are away, as well as the inconveniences in their cultivation, I have additionally equipped each of them with an accessory that can hide their cultivation base so outsiders won't recognize them as cultivators, along with a small spirit-gathering formation meant for a single person's cultivation.

"Furthermore, since Jianghe is going out to open up financial avenues for our sect, I am giving him all the remaining money left over after distributing everyone's stipends to serve as his starting capital. Although it isn't much, it is currently all the wealth our sect possesses."

As he spoke, Lin Xiao sent two peach leaf pendants and the peach blossom spirit-gathering formations over to Sun Yigao and Qin Jianghe, and also handed a bag of copper coins to Qin Jianghe.

After briefly explaining how to use the peach blossom spirit-gathering formations and the peach leaf pendants to the two of them, he cleared his throat and continued addressing the crowd:

"This is only for now. In the future, if new people join our sect and want to obtain these items, they will all need to exchange contribution points for them.

"This brings me to the second matter I want to discuss.

"Contribution points are earned based on the contributions each person makes to the sect. From now on within our sect, aside from basic allocations, disciples will need to use contribution points to exchange for anything else.

"Of course, if you take in your own disciples in the future and want to give them something yourselves, that will have nothing to do with contribution points."

At this point, Lin Xiao suddenly blinked and gave a cheeky smile to everyone, saying:

"Currently in our sect, strictly speaking, only Fuzi is my disciple. Does anyone else want to be my disciple? I have a lot of good stuff, you know~"

Lin Xiao's gaze first landed on his father. However, Lin Dayou, standing below, completely ignored the eager look in his son's eyes and simply lowered his head to admire his peach wood sword.

The reason Lin Xiao said this was because he felt he had only formally taught Fuzi and had only seriously discussed the master-disciple status with Fuzi, but not with anyone else. So, he wanted to take this opportunity to clarify things, lest everyone remain confused about their relationships.

After all, if the sect truly grew big and strong in the future, these relationships couldn't be left in a mess.

At this moment, Sun Yigao suddenly spoke up from the crowd:

"For all of us here, except for Senior Liao and Little Luan, the cultivation methods we practice all came from you. So, wouldn't it be correct to say that we are all your disciples?"

Hearing this, the crowd, who hadn't known how to respond a moment ago, hurriedly nodded.

"Yigao is right, that's how it should be."

"Yes, yes, yes, exactly."

Naturally, the people nodding did not include Lin Dayou.

He felt a bit awkward. How did he, the father, suddenly become his own son's disciple?

But since everyone else was being so supportive, he wouldn't embarrass his son at this moment. On second thought, he figured, sigh, it's just a disciple title. With a master-disciple status, would this brat really dare to ride on his head and act wildly?

Hearing their words, Lin Xiao felt rather embarrassed and said:

"You can't exactly put it that way... but since that's the case, I'll shamelessly act as everyone's master. However, I won't easily take in disciples from now on. But if you take a liking to someone and want to accept them as a disciple, that is your freedom. I only have one requirement: their character must be good. We don't want anyone with a crooked disposition. Just remember, anyone who is not a disciple of our sect cannot cultivate our sect's mental methods."

The crowd below listened seriously and took his words to heart, though they felt that taking in disciples was still far too early for them.

After all, aside from Lin Xiao and Sun Yigao, their cultivation levels were still quite low.

Everyone was very self-aware and didn't think taking in disciples had anything to do with them at present.

Of course, Little Luan and Liao Pantu were exceptions to this.

Little Luan was already pondering in its heart which wild pheasant from the back mountain it should take in as its eldest disciple.

And Liao Pantu was planning to ask Lin Xiao after the assembly whether he would be willing to let him become Sun Yigao's second master.

Lin Xiao, however, remembered the main topics and continued:

"But since our sect currently only consists of us, I plan to slowly perfect this sect contribution point system later on."

Naturally, no one had any objections to this.

Thus, Lin Xiao immediately said:

"Finally, there is our sect's near-term construction plan.

"First, let me introduce something to everyone.

"Generally speaking, immortal cultivation has four major auxiliary arts: first is pill refining, second is artifact forging, third is talisman crafting, and fourth is array formations. These four arts are an indispensable part of a cultivator's life."

Looking at the crowd below, all of whom, except for Liao Pantu, showed expressions of confusion, Lin Xiao patiently explained:

"Let me give you an example. Everyone knows about pill refining now, right? I was saved previously because Yigao learned how to refine an antidote pill from Senior Liao. But there are thousands upon thousands of pills in the world, not just antidote pills. If you could refine something like a life-extending pill for the elders in your family to take, they might just gain a much longer lifespan.

"As for artifact forging, of course, it's not the 'Qi' from our Qi Condensation stage, but the 'artifact' for tools. This artifact forging involves spiritualizing mortal objects, infusing various items, tools, and weapons with energy so they can withstand a cultivator's spiritual power, thereby unleashing even greater might and utility."

"Take the hoes we have at home, for instance. If we were to refine them, we might just end up with a spiritual hoe! Now, a spiritual hoe is nothing like our ordinary tools. With it, you could probably till an entire acre of land in the blink of an eye!"

Hearing Lin Xiao use such a relatable example, the previously bewildered villagers of Xiushui Village were suddenly enlightened.