Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 101 - 48: Xuanzhen Branch, Chixiao Sword Vein

"No need to rush, stay here for a few days. I’ll ask the young lady later."

"Alright."

Then, Chu Xiaoyu arranged a room for him in the courtyard and reminded him not to wander around here or leave the courtyard to other parts of the manor before leaving.

Su Yu watched her leave, then turned to look around.

The main peak of the Chixiao Sword Vein is tens of thousands of meters high, with the manor located halfway up the mountain. Standing at the edge of the courtyard, one can overlook various pavilions, towers, and sect buildings built along the mountain.

Sword rainbows shuttled back and forth in the air, with ninety percent being sword-controlled flying.

Compared to the city outside the mountain, where about fifty percent of players followed the flying sword path, ninety-nine percent within this sword peak followed the flying sword path, and their skills were quite good.

Of course, they’re just quite good. Many of them aren’t as skilled as he is.

It’s not that the Chixiao Sword Vein is lacking, but most of the ones he saw were just outer disciples, their strength naturally not being that high.

Having been in the other shore with an awakened law-digitized body for so long, Su Yu had learned quite a lot.

First, the difficulty of simply entering a sect isn’t actually high. As long as any innate attribute reaches over 20 points, you can try to become an apprentice. It’s generally easy to join ordinary sects that aren’t Immortal Sects.

But these are only outer disciples, also called registered disciples. Their names are not entered into the sect, not considered real disciples.

Each sect has many such disciples, with varying strengths—some very strong, some not much stronger than outside rogues.

It’s akin to casting a wide net to catch more fish.

By widely recruiting disciples and letting them compete, it’s like nurturing elite warriors like raising Gu. A few elite masters will always emerge.

Of course, the 20-point innate constitution already blocks ninety-nine percent of players.

Registered disciples generally have a ten-year probationary period. If their cultivation progress doesn’t meet the standard after ten years, they will be removed and cannot stay within the sect.

Once they meet the standard, they are promoted to formal disciples and recorded in the sect roster, then they can truly be called disciples.

Formal disciples have no time limit; no matter your cultivation level, you remain a disciple for life.

In the other shore, most disciples of various sects are outer disciples, having to leave the sect after ten delaying years.

But this isn’t something bad. Most outer disciples are mentally prepared for this, and many didn’t even intend to stay in the sect initially. Their main goal in joining the sect is not to become a formal disciple but for the sect’s cultivation skills.

No matter how bad the sect, even outer disciples practice advanced Qi Refining Heart Skills; these things cost hundreds of taels of gold outside, but if you join a sect, you can learn them for free upon entry.

Besides Heart Skills, the sect also has many Thunder Skills, various powerful spells, and so on, which are very difficult to obtain outside. Meeting the sect’s contribution standard allows you to exchange for them. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Such good things are hard to buy outside, even if you have the money, but you can easily learn them within the sect.

Also, the Daoist techniques learned and exchanged for in the sect won’t be taken back after leaving; you can continue to cultivate and improve, just not pass them to others.

These disciples eliminated from the sect are highly sought after outside, heavily pursued by various guilds of all sizes, and can easily become elite members by joining any guild.

Therefore, each year, various guilds use a lot of resources to exchange for disciple quotas from sects to specifically train elite masters.

If someone can become a formal disciple of the sect, they can receive financial aid from the guild, lending a hand.

Even if these formal disciples don’t return to the guild in the future, they can still maintain a bond of kinship and goodwill; it might seem trivial, but when the guild faces danger, they can enlist a group of masters to help anytime.

Year after year of accumulation is what makes these big guilds grow stronger and stronger.