Why do we say that ordinary heroic spirits are arbitrary for eternity?

Chapter 5 Outer Disciple Lu Yu!

In Taiping Road, there is a strict hierarchy.

The believers are organized into a "party", and a leader is set up to control the power of that party.

Qushuai has several subordinates who serve as guardians within the church and assist him in managing the many believers in the church.

Han Zhong is one of the protectors, and he has a certain status because he was an old member of the group who followed the great virtuous master.

He has accepted many disciples, including outer disciples and inner disciples, all of whom are considered his loyal followers.

After all, in the feudal era, there was nothing more intimate than the relationship between master and apprentice.

The first one is an outer disciple. Although it is not a very high status, it is at least better than ordinary believers.

Lu Yu, who knew how to appreciate someone, quickly bowed and saluted, saying respectfully: "Disciple Lu Yu, I have met the master!"

Han Zhong nodded, then waved his hand, asking Lu Yu to stand behind him and continue to recruit followers.

Lu Yu came behind Han Zhong and watched him recruit followers. After just a moment, he saw the pattern.

Whether you believe it or not is just an excuse.

Such a grand recruitment of young talents would be unbelievable in the prosperous years...

What is the purpose of recruiting so many young talents? What's the plot? I'm afraid someone will come to check your door every minute.

But at the end of this dynasty, everything is so reasonable.

It is a great blessing for the gentlemen in the county to have people help with porridge relief and take in the victims. Who cares why you recruit so many believers?
  Let alone Nanyang, even across the country, Taiping Road's evangelism was very smooth.

At this time, Taipingdao has not yet rebelled. It is an officially recognized religious organization, and it can stand upright in the sun!
  After recruiting enough disciples, Han Zhong waved his hand and said to the remaining people: "This is the end of recruiting disciples. You can continue to study my Taiping Dao teachings. If you can understand the true meaning one day, you can also join my Taiping Dao!"

Those who didn't enter Taiping Road were a little disappointed, but they didn't say anything.

After all, Taiping Dao takes in nearly a thousand people at a time, which is already a good deed.

During this famine year, some landlords had no food left in their homes. Taiping Road gave out porridge and took in thousands of people. Their kindness and righteousness were exhausted. What more could be asked of them?

With the gratitude of the victims, Han Zhong took these hundreds of people all the way to a countryside outside Nanyang City.

As an outer disciple of Han Zhong, Lu Yu was arranged into a farm with a dozen other outer disciples of the same age. He was also given a copy of the Taiping Sutra, and then someone came over to lecture him.

The speaker was a middle-aged man wearing a Taoist robe and a Confucian crown, who looked a bit nondescript.

He calls himself Dai Zhijing. It is said that he was an enlightened man before, and later joined Taiping Dao. He is now a deacon under Protector Han Zhong.

"Protector Han has recruited you to become outer disciples. He has great expectations for you. I hope you will not disappoint the protector."

"Only by diligently studying the teachings of Taiping Dao, farming seriously, and working hard will you have the opportunity to become an inner disciple and be taught the true secrets of the great sage and master by the protector!"

"The opportunity is placed in front of you, you should cherish it!"

"If you dare to cheat and act recklessly, don't blame me for driving you out of the house!"

"When the time comes, not to mention inner disciples, even ordinary believers will not be qualified to be! Wherever they come from, they will go back to where they came from!"

After giving a lecture, Deacon Dai arranged the daily tasks for everyone.

All that needs to be done every day is to study the teachings, farm, practice martial arts, and learn some basic texts.

If there are any out-of-town missions, we will notify you further.

Lu Yu was not surprised by this. It was impossible for Taiping Dao to support so many people who were living on a daily basis. The lower-level believers had to support themselves, otherwise they would not be able to function at all.

After joining Taipingdao, the first thing to do is to clean up your room.

There were three other people living with Lu Yu, all of them were skinny young men.

Several people cleaned the room together and talked about their past experiences.

After some conversation, Lu Yu also had a preliminary understanding of these people.

Wei Ergou has dark skin and his parents are both ordinary farmers.

Ren Qingshan is tall and thin. His family used to run a blacksmith shop.

Kong Yue, courtesy name Hongqing, came from a scholarly family, but later he made enemies, and his father decided to move the family to join relatives in other counties.

As a result, he was robbed by horse bandits and robbed by refugees on the way. Kong Yue was separated from his family, wandered in circles, narrowly escaped death, and wandered to Nanyang.

This experience is legendary enough.

"Brother, what about you?" "My name is Lu Yu. When I was young, my parents contracted the plague and died, so I followed a wandering Taoist priest around. Later, the old Taoist priest also contracted the plague and died." Lu Yu spoke concisely and to the point.

"This experience is not simple. Then you were a Taoist priest before?" Kong Yue asked subconsciously.

"That's right." Lu Yu nodded.

"In this case, we have a foundation. If you become an inner disciple in the future, please take care of us senior brothers." Kong Yue said with a smile.

"We should work together and become inner disciples." Lu Yu said with a smile.

"It's difficult. I just inquired about it. There is a quota limit for inner disciples every year. Only those with superior performance can stand out." Ren Qingshan sighed and said: "And... we can become outer disciples, four to one. The room and treatment are already very good.”

"I heard from the old people in the village that for those new believers, dozens or hundreds of people sleep on a big bunk! Even if they turn over at night, they will start a group of people!"

Ren Qingshan said it vividly.

Afterwards, several people were chatting away from each other, while Lu Yu casually opened the "Taiping Sutra".

Just as he guessed, there is no practice method here, let alone any magic method. They are all detailed explanations of the teachings of Taiping Dao and the concepts and ideas of Taiping Dao.

What Lu Yu wanted was magic talismans, but with his current status, it was obviously unrealistic to obtain those.

Han Zhong only showed up when he accepted him, and immediately became the hands-off shopkeeper after he came back.

As an outer disciple, only Han Zhong could see them, and they were not qualified to seek Han Zhong.

Lu Yu was not in a hurry. After all, it was still safe to stay in Taiping Road before the Yellow Turban Army rebelled.

First practice the true method of internal strength and slowly improve your level.

He has just embarked on the path of spiritual practice now, and it is far from a good thing to be so ambitious.

If one can reach a certain level, even without spells and talismans, the simplest spiritual attacks can still be released. Although the efficiency and damage are far less than those of spells and talismans, at least there will be some means of self-protection.

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The Bai family martial arts arena.

Bai Yuyao came here wearing martial arts uniforms and carrying a lot of food and drink in her hands.

Of course, these foods are not eaten by Bai Yuyao herself, but are used for 'feeding'.

After putting away the food and drink, Bai Yuyao immediately summoned her heroic spirit.

Lu Yu's figure slowly emerged.

Not as ragged and unkempt as last time.

This time, he was wearing simple clothes and his body was clean.

Seeing this scene, Bai Yuyao's eyes suddenly lit up, and she was very relieved at the same time - had her heroic spirit finally gotten rid of the obsession of wandering and starving to death? This is a good thing!

Lu Yu slowly opened his eyes, looked at the little rich woman in front of him, and asked with a smile: "We meet again, why did you call me?"

"It's like this. I have cultivated spiritual power, and I was thinking about whether this spiritual power can be integrated with martial arts to enhance the power of martial arts?" Bai Yuyao asked her own question.

Lu Yu frowned, thought for a while and said: "Theoretically speaking, of course it is possible, but the amount of spiritual power required should be quite a lot... If the spiritual power is too scarce, I'm afraid it won't be able to produce an amplifying effect. As for whether it really does. You have to try it yourself to see the effect!"

The words were ambiguous and belonged to nonsense literature. In fact, Lu Yu didn't know the specific effect, so he could only say some nonsense.

"Okay, let me give it a try!" Bai Yuyao nodded seriously, then pointed at the food and said, "These are what I brought specially for you to eat."

Bai Yuyao still had fresh memories of the last time Lu Yu had a 'eating broadcast', so when she saw something delicious, she thought of bringing it to Lu Yu to eat. He would definitely like it.

Lu Yu couldn't help but twitch his index finger when he looked at the food. The food eaten at the farm was extremely bland and had no oil or water at all. It was completely incomparable to these delicacies.

"By the way, how many strands of spiritual energy have you cultivated in your body?" Lu Yu suddenly remembered this and asked.

"How many wisps?" Bai Yuyao was stunned, shook her head and said: "I haven't counted them. They are densely packed and there are too many, but there is still a long way to go before the next stage of melting into a 'mist'."

Lu Yu: "..."

Bai Yuyao asked strangely: "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

"It's okay...your cultivation talent is pretty good."

Lu Yu's expression was slightly numb.

(End of this chapter)