Chronicles of the Green Vine: A Mortal’s Path to Immortality

This person waved his hand, and more than a dozen tokens flew out, each floating in front of Zhang Ling and the others.

Then, a flash of spiritual light appeared in the gray-robed elder's hand, and several streaks of spiritual light shot out. Zhang Ling only felt the jade token in his hand shake, and a golden light flashed before it floated in front of him.

Zhang Ling took a closer look and saw the message in the golden light, which was his simple information.

The golden light contracted and expanded, turning into tiny golden characters that flew into the bronze token. Zhang Ling looked around and saw that the people next to him were also carefully observing the bronze tokens in front of them, just like him.

"They injected a drop of their blood and a wisp of spiritual power into the tokens."

After the elder spoke, Zhang Ling and the others acted accordingly, extending a finger, and a yellow spiritual light wrapped a drop of blood, flying into the bronze token.

At this moment, the gray-robed elder condensed spiritual light in his hand, chanting incantations. Several clusters of spiritual light of varying sizes condensed on his hands. Under the urging of his magic arts, these spiritual lights transformed into mysterious runes.

Then, with a flash, these runes merged in the middle, transforming into a faint image of green mountains. The image flickered and overlapped, and then the gray-robed elder pointed towards a disciple, and this spiritual power image flashed and entered the bronze token in front of the person.

Then, the elder followed suit, creating sect identity tokens for the newly initiated disciples such as Zhang Ling. Zhang Ling touched the somewhat weighty bronze token in his hand and looked at it carefully. One side of the token was engraved with a picture of misty green mountains in cyan lines, which was exactly the appearance of Haoyang Peak. The three ancient characters of " Haoyuan Sect" were also engraved on it.

The other side was engraved with the two small characters " Zhang Ling", which was his name.

"Alright, your identity tokens are completed. From now on, you can use the tokens to walk within the sect, and you can also accept sect missions and issue missions."

After the gray-robed elder finished speaking, he waved his hand again, and twelve yellow storage bags flew out from behind him, throwing them to Zhang Ling and the others.

"Thank you, Martial Uncle Huang."

Seeing the elder finish these, Lin Feihu bid farewell to the elder and left with everyone.

After leaving the Miscellaneous Hall, the group turned towards a thousand-foot-high mountain beside them. Ascending along the steep stone steps, the ancient path was deep and secluded, with no end in sight.

Walking on the mountain path, everyone followed Senior Brother Lin silently. At this moment, Zhang Ling and the others were mostly checking the storage bags they had just received.

Suddenly, a soft cry came from the sky, and several giant blue birds landed in the nearby mountain forest. From time to time, various demon birds and spiritual beasts could be seen in the forest.

Most of these demon beasts were first-order demon beasts, and there were also several first-order peak demon beasts. Seeing the crowd, they were neither afraid nor reacted in any way. It seemed that they had seen many cultivators.

"These are the sect's raised spiritual beasts. If you are interested in accepting miscellaneous tasks, you can also pay attention to such tasks. The spirit stones for taking care of spiritual beasts are generally quite a lot."

Seeing the strange gazes of the crowd, Lin Feihu smiled and explained. After speaking, Senior Brother Lin used the Wind Control Technique to sprint up the stone steps, his clothes fluttering, and he quickly ran several feet away.

The crowd followed closely, and soon arrived at the mountainside, where there was also a huge square. There were many more figures here, and these people were all Qi Refining stage disciples. From time to time, some people could be seen flying away on flying swords and other magical instruments.

Most of these disciples gathered in a large hall on the east side, where people came and went, with disciples entering and exiting in groups of twos and threes.

"That is the Mission Hall. You accept missions there. There are many types of missions, and there is a certain degree of danger. You will understand later."

Afterwards, under the leadership of this Senior Brother Lin, the group turned to several places. These places were all places that sect disciples often went to, just places where the entire sect operated.

In addition to the Mission Hall, there was also the Scripture Pavilion, the Hundred Crafts Mountain, and the most important, the Scripture Library.

The Scripture Pavilion is open to all disciples, and sect disciples are here to teach the Dharma every day. Tell basic exercises, spells and other cultivation knowledge. On the first three days of each month, there are also foundation-building experts to answer the cultivation questions of the disciples.

Although they are already in the late stage of Qi Refining, and several of them have already cultivated to the twelfth level of Qi Refining, the sect does not only have them who are self-taught.

Every ten years, the sect will recruit disciples once. In addition to a few people from casual cultivators, most of the sect's disciples come from mortal children. Of course, some come from cultivating families.

The sect treats these disciples equally. The youngest are only six or seven years old, and the oldest are thirty or forty years old.

The role of the Scripture Pavilion is to lay the foundation for low-level disciples. This is the inheritance of the sect, and every sect will not ignore it.

Hundred Crafts Mountain is also a place to impart basic knowledge. The knowledge taught includes hundreds of immortal arts, alchemy, talisman making, weapon refining, formation, etc. Although you can only learn the basics, it can also allow monks who are interested in this way to enter the door.

The Scripture Library naturally goes without saying. This is the foundation of the sect's inheritance. Exercises and secret techniques are collected in it. It is an important place in the sect, and a Golden Core stage elder is stationed here all year round.

This is the benefit of the sect, which can allow disciples to take many fewer detours. Unlike Zhang Ling and other casual cultivators, they can only explore cultivation problems by themselves.

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After walking through these places, it was getting dark. The group came to the foot of Chaoyang Peak under the leadership of Senior Brother Lin. One side of the mountain wall here was built into many stone houses.

This place is where their outer disciples live, and they can choose any room as their residence.

At night, in a stone house, Zhang Ling looked at the situation in the house, patted the storage bag and took out a spirit stone, and placed it on a stone altar in the southeast corner of the room.

Suddenly, a spiritual light merged into the stone altar, and then the stone altar lit up and emitted a white light.

This is a simple formation, which does not have any defensive properties, but can only serve as a warning.

After the formation took effect, Zhang Ling looked at the stone house. The house was not big, and there was only a bed and a table and a chair. It was very simple, but most cultivators would not be particular about these things, after all, cultivation is what monks care about most.

Although Zhang Ling did not have cultivation, he also felt that the spiritual energy here was three points richer than the cave he rented in Falling Star City.

Sitting on the bed, he took down a yellow storage bag and poured out the contents.

Two yellow sect costumes, a sect rule book, a sect map. There are also two low-grade magical instruments, a knife and a shield, and finally three low-grade spirit stones. This is the welfare of Haoyuan Sect disciples.

Zhang Ling picked up the sect rules and read them. After an incense stick of time, he closed the book.

The rules of Haoyuan Sect are simple to say, and summed up, there is only one: you must not betray the sect and do things that damage the interests of the sect. It's that simple.

Of course, some forbidden areas and other places cannot be entered. Most of the books record the development history of Haoyuan Sect. There are many deeds of high-level sect monks.

Haoyuan Sect has existed for more than 5,000 years. The founding sect was a Nascent Soul monk, who was honored as Haoyang Realist. It is said that this person's strength was amazing and he once killed monks of the same rank.

In addition to this founder Haoyang Realist, Haoyuan Sect's Nascent Soul monks have never been broken for thousands of years. A total of seven Nascent Soul ancestors have appeared, which can be said to be a long-standing tradition.

After learning about the situation of Haoyuan Sect, Zhang Ling also began to plan his future cultivation.

Now the top priority is naturally to get rid of the silver-haired old man's control. This requires finding a way to take out the Soul Devouring Insect in the sea of consciousness.

Only without this strange insect that devours the soul can he be free. But now he has no way to do this.

You can only take one step at a time.

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