My Xiuxian script went astray

Chapter 199 Everyone is on the Heavenly Ranking

The temple keeper looked up and stared at the old monk in white in amazement. He was silent for a moment, and the slate pencil in his hand slipped and fell to the ground with a plop.

"you"

"Don't tell me, don't ask." The old leader smiled and said, "It's me."

"When I adopted you, you were only seven years old. Looking back, you were still a boy by my side. I didn't expect that you are so old now. How old are you?" The old sect leader sighed.

"Already two hundred and seventeen." said the temple keeper, his voice trembling slightly.

"More than two hundred years," the old sect leader counted with his fingers, "When I left, you should have been only thirty-six, and I have already walked for nearly two hundred years."

"Qingzhu, have you found your parents?"

"I found them, I found them," the temple keeper suddenly lost control of his emotions, tears streaming down his face, "I found them thirteen years after you left, they were all there, and more than twenty years later, I saw them to their final resting place."

"This is a good thing. Why are you crying? Why are you still like a child?" said the old sect leader.

"Because no one has called my name for more than a hundred years." said the temple keeper in a trembling voice.

He has been in the Tianjian Sect for too long and has been guarding the temple for many years. Many people, whether elders or young disciples, recognize him. The elders will call him Elder Liu, and in the eyes of the young disciples, he is just a temple keeper.

However, he also had his youth and his past, but after the old sect leader passed away, everything he had was buried, even his name was forgotten. He no longer had a name, but only lived in the mouths of others as a temple keeper elder.

He thought that no one would ever mention this name again for the rest of his life until he heard these three words.

For a moment, his eyes were filled with tears. The old sect master was back, he was really back.

“So, you now.”

"I don't know. I have forgotten a lot of things. I seem to have gone to the underworld, but I also seem to be detached. I only know that I was the leader of the Tianjian Sect." said the old leader.

"Yes, yes! You always have been!" The temple keeper nodded suddenly.

"Who is the current leader? Ma Ziming?"

"It's him."

"It's him again, this shameless little thief. But there's nothing we can do, because he has the highest level of cultivation. Such a large territory must have a master." The old sect leader said without any hesitation.

"Let's not talk about this. What are you doing? Is this the ancestral stele? Why are there so many names? Has a war broken out again?" said the old clan leader.

“No, this is not a list of the dead, it’s a list of disciples on the Heavenly Ranking.” said the temple keeper.

"The Heavenly Ranking? The Heavenly Ranking that determines resources?"

"Yes."

The old sect master frowned, "Didn't I say back then that the sect's resources came from the world and should be returned to the people of the world, and there should be no division of resources?"

"This is the decision of the Council of Elders." The temple keeper said, "Resources have become increasingly scarce over the years, and some families have fought over this, causing great harm to the sect. In order to avoid internal consumption, a rule was established that each family must send disciples to worship their ancestors and determine the quota in the duel."

“How many places are available?”

"Ten." The temple keeper said carefully.

"You really don't listen to advice." The old sect leader said calmly. He seemed to notice the fluctuations of the ancestral weapon in the distance. "But how can those disciples from ordinary families compete with them? How can real talents be cultivated?"

The temple keeper seemed to sense the old patriarch's calming mood and did not respond.

"Engrave all their names." said the old sect leader.

"Yes."

The temple keeper walked towards the viewing platform and said in a low voice:
"Everyone listen, stop worshipping your ancestors, and come to the ancestral tablet."

Soon, many disciples arrived, and there were nearly a hundred people left. They were very confused. Was Chen Lang causing trouble again?

Then, they noticed that there was an old man beside the temple keeper, who looked familiar. "Who are you, senior?" Zhou Yuanxing looked for a while, but couldn't remember.

The old patriarch said gently, "My name is Ye Ying."

"Ye Ying?"

Many disciples were confused, because there was no such surname among the many elders of the Tianjian Sect.

"Stupid! Master Ye is your sect leader!" the temple keeper scolded.

Sect leader? Isn't the surname of the sect leader Ma?

Many disciples were puzzled and confused. Some of them remembered and showed surprise in their eyes, but hadn't the old sect leader been dead for hundreds of years?

"It seems to be true." Yan Xue'e stared at it for a while, comparing it with the mural, and then she was surprised. First the great grandmother was resurrected, and then the old sect master was resurrected. What was going on?
She suddenly began to believe that Su Qingchan might really be her great-grandmother.

"Is it true?" Some people questioned. People who had been dead for hundreds of years suddenly came back to life. This was something they had only heard of in legends.

"He is your sect leader, the old sect leader! Why don't you pay your respects to him?" The temple keeper was angry. This was the ancestor who opened up the entire territory of the Tianjian Sect. Even Ma Ziming was just a successor.

"It doesn't matter, just forget it. This world no longer belongs to us." said the old sect leader.

This left the temple keeper speechless and extremely sad.

"Write down all their names. Since only those who are on the Heavenly Ranking can get the resources, write down everyone."

"Yes."

Upon hearing this news, all the disciples were even more shocked than before, countless times more shocked.

"The Heavenly Ranking? Everyone?"

"Can we all make it to the Heavenly Ranking?" someone asked.

"That's right." The temple keeper told them this fact. Thanks to the old sect master, all the sect's spiritual resources are divided equally among the disciples. No matter if they are family members or scattered cultivators, all are equal.

This news was so explosive that everyone forgot why the old sect leader suddenly resurrected.

Zhou Yuanxing, Wuya and the others were all shocked. If everyone was on the list, that meant there was no Heavenly List. Was the ancestor worship that had existed for hundreds of years going to be cancelled?

"We are all on the Heavenly Ranking?" Fang Shao and other ordinary disciples had very strange expressions on their faces. Most of them came to worship their ancestors for other purposes and only came as followers. Anyone who knew a little about the inside story would not expect to be on this list, which meant that unless there were no accidents, becoming an elder in the future was a foregone conclusion.

However, the temple keeper had already started writing on the ancestral stele before they could digest this fact.

"Dad! Look what this is? I'm on the Heavenly Ranking, the Heavenly Ranking of the Tianjian Sect!" The little fat boy immediately took out a photo stone, turned his back to the ancestral monument, and was very excited. He said it loudly several times to make the engraving clearer.

"Don't be happy too soon." Fang Shao reminded from the side that the incident was sudden and strange, there must be something fishy.

"I know!" The little fat man pushed his hand away, "But I really made it to the Heavenly Ranking, you let me record it again!"

Chen Lang, who had just arrived from a distance, was also stunned when he saw this.

This kid is really a genius.

If I had known it was so simple, why would I have had to compete? Wouldn’t I have just gone to him directly?

"The burning is complete." The temple keeper turned around.

"Okay." The old clan leader felt very pleased when he saw the temple keeper carving names one by one on the ancestral stele. Suddenly, he turned and looked into the distance, with emotion and memories in his eyes.

"Since we're here, we should go back and take a look."

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(End of this chapter)