Beginning Of Multiverse Saga

Chapter 265: Changes In Yue Kingdom

Early in the morning, bright sunlight shone down on the land, making everything seem beautiful.

Within a regular home, a young man said goodbye to his family and set out for the Wind Thunder Sect.

As he walked, his neighbors all hurriedly came up to him to wish him luck.

"The Liu family’s second son has been chosen by immortals; he’s going to go there to cultivate."

"I heard that not only was he chosen for his talent, but he also passed the examination. In the future, he can even become an official..."

"Ai, my family’s boy also passed the examination but did not have enough talent. He can’t cultivate and can only become an official..."

"That’s already good; it’s better than what most of us could achieve in our lives."

People were discussing among themselves as they looked at the young man in admiration.

Feeling those gazes of admiration, Liu Yang felt quite pleased.

Decades after the Wind Thunder Sect had unified the Yue Kingdom, much had changed within the Yue Kingdom.

The most evident change was that the examinations for cultivators and officials had been combined.

Before, in the Yue Kingdom, no matter if it was for cultivators or officials, the systems of testing and choosing were extremely crude.

Because they were limited by resources and manpower, the sects always focused on cultivation families to choose new disciples.

As for officials, becoming an official relied on recommendations from other officials.

After the Wind Thunder Sect unified the Yue Kingdom, this had completely changed.

With Sharky ordered, and Liu Fen personally leading the way, the Wind Thunder Sect had set up spirit formations in every city, allowing people to check their talent.

Moreover, the spirit formations were free to use. However, this was just for the first time; subsequent uses cost money.

Ordinarily speaking, people would only have their talent tested once; even if they continued testing it, there would be no point.

This used up a large amount of resources.

Following this, the Wind Thunder Sect spent some years creating some basic texts for children to study.

This was not that efficient for development, but it created opportunities for many mortals.

For most mortals, as long as they lived within the Yue Kingdom, they had the opportunity to check their talent.

Even if they did not have talent, as long as they were willing, they could head to official academies to study and pass examinations to change their lives.

Over the past few decades, the Wind Thunder Sect had taken in many disciples.

Many mortals had benefited, and their lives had been changed.

Liu Yang was one of them.

His ancestors had all been mortals, and his father was just an ordinary shepherd.

If it was in the past, he would forever live at the bottom of society as a shepherd.

The Wind Thunder Sect had changed all of this.

When he was young, he had been detected to have talent, so he successfully entered the preparatory academy set up by the Wind Thunder Sect.

By now, he had already formally stepped onto the path of cultivation and was a Spirit Refining Level 1 cultivator.

As such, according to the Wind Thunder Sect’s rules, he could now officially enter the Wind Thunder Sect.

Liu Yang had been looking forward to this for a long time.

"According to the Wind Thunder Sect’s rules, as an official disciple below 20 years of age, I can receive extra resources: one spirit stone and three spirit pills every month."

Thinking back to the news he had received, Liu Yang felt quite excited.

One spirit stone and three spirit pills.

To other people, this might not be much, but for a cultivator who had only just reached the Spirit Refining realm, it was quite good.

These were the allowances for official disciples who had reached the Spirit Refining realm before the age of 20.

Liu Yang was only 15 years old, and he would be able to receive this allowance for five years.

"In five years, by the time I’m 20, I should be able to reach Spirit Refining Level 4 or 5, and I might be able to aim for an Outer Court Disciple position..."

On the way, Liu Yang felt quite excited as he thought about the future, "If I can become an Outer Court Disciple, I can receive a new allowance. Even if I can’t, I can find opportunities to earn spirit stones."

In the past, the requirements had not been so strict for Outer Court Disciples.

Back during Sharky’s time, Outer Court Disciples just needed to have Spirit Refining Level 1 cultivation.

As the Wind Thunder Sect grew, because it had many disciples, the requirements towards disciples were also raised.

Even for ordinary Outer Court Disciples, they needed to have at least Spirit Refining Level 5 or 6 cultivation.

Those below Spirit Refining Level 5 could only be Odd Job Disciples.

Moreover, only Foundation Building Level 4 cultivators could enter the Inner Court.

As for Core Disciples, they needed Foundation Building Level 9.

From where Liu Yang was, the route to the Wind Thunder Sect was not too difficult.

Over the past few decades, the Wind Thunder Sect had greatly developed the infrastructure in the Yue Kingdom.

Large numbers of cultivators were sent to build roads, and most places now had good roads and buildings.

Even though Liu Yang came from a small city, the road to the Wind Thunder Sect was still quite good.

Walking on the road, Liu Yang could occasionally hear other people talking.

According to the merchants’ discussions, ten or so years ago, there had not been such good roads. And there had also been much danger.

"What danger was there?" Liu Yang asked out of curiosity, "Wild beasts?"

The merchants looked at each other before laughing.

"The wild beasts are not a big deal; it was mostly the people."

A rough-looking man came up and patted Liu Yang’s shoulder as he grinned, "In the past, the Yue Kingdom was not so peaceful."

Following this, he began to tell stories of older times.

Before, the Yue Kingdom had been quite chaotic.

During the demonic cultivator disaster, countless mortals had been injured or killed.

Even though orthodox cultivators would not view mortals as resources, they often looked down on them and did not take them as the same kind.

Moreover, even within mortals, there were all kinds of inequalities and oppression.

Royals, nobles... they looked quite good but often oppressed ordinary mortals.

Currently, Liu Yang listened to the merchants talk about the past.

Before, there had been bandits everywhere, and whenever merchant groups ran into them, it was easy for them to lose their goods and their lives.

And no one came to save them.

To those people, mere bandits were not worth them acting. In fact, some of those people supported those bandits.

Occasionally, some people would act justly and fight the bandits, but this was quite rare and had nothing to do with the large factions.

However, things are different now.

Now that the Wind Thunder Sect was the ruler of the Yue Kingdom, most of the bandits within the Yue Kingdom’s borders had disappeared.

Even if there were some remaining ones, they could only leave the Yue Kingdom and move to other kingdoms.

Now, travellers could at least have some peace within the Yue Kingdom.

"It’s a pity that other places are not like the Yue Kingdom," someone said as they sighed, "If the places outside the Yue Kingdom were like this, this world would have peace."

As merchants, they had to travel to many places and clearly understood the differences between regions.

Compared to the Yue Kingdom, the other places were the same as before.

Mortals travelling would not be safe, and they could fall into danger at any moment.

Many people could not help but sigh about this.

Hearing these people speak, Liu Yang thought to himself.

He had grown up within the Yue Kingdom, and he did not know much about the outside world.

However, from his seniors, he had heard of how difficult life had been in the past.

For an ordinary mortal like him to cultivate, that was essentially impossible.

This was why most people in his hometown were quite happy with their current lives.

In fact, many people were able to join the Wind Thunder Sect, just like him.

None of this would have been possible in the past.

As they walked, Liu Yang told them of his identity and that he was going to join the Wind Thunder Sect.

Immediately, the people around him became enthused and began to treat him much more respectfully.

Within the Yue Kingdom, the Wind Thunder Sect’s disciples were very popular.

After those people found out about Liu Yang’s identity, their attitudes immediately changed.

As they headed towards the Wind Thunder Sect, Liu Yang enjoyed all kinds of benefits.

On the way, he met some people and made some friends.

Those people were like him, cultivators reporting to the Wind Thunder Sect.

During their travels, they naturally became quite close.

In the end, it took them a bit more than a month to finally reach their destination.

"This is the Wind Thunder Sect?"

Standing on a small path and looking around, Liu Yang could not help but feel surprised.

Ahead, there were massive gates standing there, looking mighty and dignified.

The gates looked ordinary, but they had many runes engraved on them, which gave off faint golden glows that looked quite majestic.

Just by looking at the gates, Liu Yang and the other disciples felt quite awed.

Ahead, there were many Wind Thunder Sect disciples hurrying about, receiving the new disciples.

There was someone ahead giving a talk about the Wind Thunder Sect’s history, as well as listing the current Sect Master’s achievements.

Below, the new disciples listened enraptured, and Liu Yang was among them.

All of the disciples had their fists gripped tightly, seeming quite excited.

"What a man!" Liu Yang could not help but think to himself.

The stories of the Wind Thunder Sect’s past caused his blood to become heated, and he began to desire to rush onto a battlefield to fight for the Wind Thunder Sect.

After the talk was over, someone led them into the Wind Thunder Sect.

Walking within the Wind Thunder Sect, Liu Yang almost felt lost.

Fortunately, there were signs everywhere, making it easy to find where he wanted to go.

There were even maps of the Wind Thunder Sect in many places, which helped Liu Yang not get lost.

Around him, there were many other disciples looking quite at a loss; they were also new disciples like Liu Yang.

Soon, a voice called out and he stopped.

"Little sir," a voice sounded out.