chsdbacks Chapter 250: The Long Family
Chapter 250: The Long Family
The Hundred Flowers Sect is the third largest sect in the Thousand Mountains region. It is rumored that a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator is in charge of the sect, and it has over ten thousand registered disciples, with female cultivators as its core.
The sect's inherited cultivation methods emphasize drawing the power of Dao from the flowers of heaven and earth. Not only are all the disciples of the sect good-looking, but they also carry a light floral fragrance all year round, making them extremely famous throughout the Thousand Mountains region.
Even sects that are naturally suited to female cultivators will make exceptions and accept young men with exceptional talent into their ranks. There is no rigid rule in their sect rules that they "only accept female disciples".
That's why Long Zuo's eyes widened in disbelief, and he assumed that Dongfang Shuyi was deliberately playing a trick on him.
Wu Tianyu and Dongfang Shuyi exchanged a glance, both seeing the helplessness in each other's eyes. They desperately wanted to offer a reasonable explanation, but they simply couldn't find a single plausible reason.
They had asked Zhang Ping why he set such an outrageous rule, and he simply replied: "Female disciples are pleasing to the eye."
These words caused the two of them to stumble and almost fall on the spot.
Now, faced with Long Zuo's questioning, he naturally couldn't utter a single word.
Dongfang Shuyi could only offer an awkward yet polite smile and said gently, "Fellow Daoist, this is indeed the rule of the sect. It is not that I, a mere woman, intended to make things difficult for you."
The group of male cultivators who had gathered around, waiting to become disciples, saw that Dongfang Shuyi looked serious and didn't seem to be joking. They all shook their heads, sighed, and turned away with disappointment in their eyes.
After all, the Yin Yang Sword Sect may seem obscure, but the treatment it offers its disciples is incredibly tempting. Whether it's the free bi-weekly lectures or the library-based supplementary teachings that can be entered with zero barriers, these services precisely address the pain points of ordinary cultivators.
Everyone knows that joining a sect doesn't guarantee instant success, nor does it mean that one's cultivation will be smooth sailing.
Only a select few, one in ten thousand, are ever given the full support of a sect. Most ordinary disciples, after entering the sect, spend the majority of their time earning sect contribution points.
In the Thousand Mountains region, almost all sects exchange contribution points for all resources: pills, cultivation techniques, talismans, and array formations—without exception. Often, to obtain a reliable inheritance or a pill to improve one's cultivation, one has to spend months or even years doing sect missions, needlessly wasting a lot of cultivation time.
Compared to the other two, the benefits offered by the Yin Yang Sword Sect are like a windfall.
Unfortunately, this door was completely shut off for them, the male cultivators.
Everyone else had left, but Long Zuo remained standing. It wasn't that he particularly cared about the sect's benefits; it was just that the first sect he'd approached upon arriving at the mountain had so blatantly turned him away in front of everyone—it was truly...
That's so embarrassing!
He is, after all, a direct descendant of the Long family. Now he can't even get into a small sect he's never even heard of. If this gets back to the family, won't he become a laughing stock among the collateral descendants?
His face flushed red and then paled, and he gripped the folding fan tightly, gritting his teeth as he spoke:
"Gentlemen, I advise you to contact your sect leader and have her come over personally. Rules are rules, but people are flexible. If she knows that a direct descendant of the Long family wants to join her sect, she will definitely open the door herself and accept me as her personal disciple!"
Dongfang Shuyi and Wu Tianyu exchanged another glance, their eyes filled with utter bewilderment.
They were just following the rules to accept disciples properly. If someone didn't meet the requirements, they could just go to another sect. There were at least eighty or a hundred sects accepting disciples today. Why is this person sticking to their Yin Yang Sword Sect and insisting on joining?
Seeing that the two remained silent, Long Zuo assumed they had been persuaded and raised his voice again, his tone full of arrogance: "Gentlemen, my Long family is a top-tier family in the Thousand Mountains region, neither too big nor too small! We have four cultivators at the Divine Harmony Realm in our family, and countless sects would kill to recruit our Long family members!"
The male cultivators who hadn't gone far nearby all changed their expressions upon hearing this. Their previously slowed pace quickened instantly, as if they wanted to get as far away from this place of trouble as possible.
Unlike other regions, the Thousand Mountains region is home to numerous sects and families. In addition, the Penglai Plain is well-connected, resulting in a high mobility of cultivators. The law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak, is fully manifested here.
Those small forces that establish their own sects without a sect decree might be wiped out one night; even legitimate sects established with a sect decree are at risk of being raided in the middle of the night.
If even sects are like this, what about ordinary families and independent cultivators?
Cultivators with powerful backgrounds act arrogantly and domineeringly, and it is commonplace for them to plunder the resources of rogue cultivators. When ancient cultivation sites are discovered in the wild, the major powers in the surrounding area will even join forces to block them, giving weaker forces and rogue cultivators no chance to enter.
This is why most of the independent cultivators who come to this Hundred Sects Conference are eager to find a sect to join, or for a few familiar cultivators to join forces to build a small sect and survive together.
Long Zuo's words were ostensibly a boast about his family's wealth, but in reality, they were a blatant threat: "My Long family has four Grandmasters at the Divine Realm. If your newly established sect angers me, you might be wiped out one night!"
Wu Tianyu instantly sensed the threat in the words, his face darkened, he took half a step forward, and his aura tightened abruptly.
"Hmph, my Yin Yang Sword Sect was established with the orthodox sect token of Penglai Immortal City. Our sect leader is a master cultivator at the Divine Integration Realm, and he has a close personal relationship with Captain Inkfish of the Flying Pavilion. How could we be afraid of a few verbal threats from your Long family!"
She spoke these words with unwavering conviction, each word ringing out with a resounding force, conveying an undeniable confidence.
Who is the captain of the Flying Pavilion? He must be at least a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to be qualified for the position! The four Nascent Soul cultivators of the Long family are at most at the early stage of Nascent Soul, and they are not qualified to compete with the Flying Pavilion at all.
Moreover, they possess an orthodox sect token issued by Penglai Immortal City. Since Long Zuo dared to publicly threaten them today, if something truly happens to the Yin-Yang Sword Sect in the future, the first family Penglai Immortal City will hold accountable is his Long family.
This is Penglai, and the sect tokens of Penglai Immortal City are never a joke.
Long Zuo was clearly surprised that the sect leader of this little-known sect was actually a cultivator at the Divine Integration Realm. He had thought it was just a small workshop casually set up by a cultivator at the Marrow Infusion Realm, but when he heard Wu Tianyu mention the Flying Pavilion and Penglai Immortal City, he instantly realized that he had misspoke, and his face turned pale and then black, looking extremely ugly.
The female cultivators who had been hesitant to leave due to their fear of the Long family suddenly brightened up, their faces filled with surprise.
They were just hesitating because this little-known sect was offering ridiculously good treatment, and they wondered if it was a scam to lure people away; they were also afraid that if they joined the sect, they would be resented and retaliated against by the Long family.
But after Wu Tianyu said those words, all his concerns vanished instantly.
With a legitimate sect order and a sect master at the Divine Harmony Realm in charge, these two factors alone are enough to place the Yin Yang Sword Sect among the top three hundred sects in the Thousand Mountains region! And sects of the same caliber have always had extremely strict requirements for their disciples' spiritual roots and talents!
"Yin Yang Sword Sect, good, very good!" Long Zuo glared at Wu Tianyu, then glanced at Dongfang Shuyi, whose expression remained calm, and gritted his teeth as he squeezed out a few words.
He knew he wouldn't gain anything today, and staying any longer would only make him look worse. So he snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, stomped his feet heavily, and turned to leave with a fierce expression on his face.