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#685 - Liuyun Tianzong!

During this process, the treatment that Liang Yue and the others' Flowing Cloud Sect received was indeed as everyone had previously guessed.

Starting from the official level, they gradually implemented a policy of indifference, neither promoting nor advocating it, but also not deliberately suppressing it.

In some areas, such as the dissemination of Gun-Fu and some basic cultivation theories in the military, there were still some good cooperative relationships.

Every few years, the foreign affairs department of the Flowing Cloud Sect would be invited to participate in military exercises and teach Gun-Fu, and they were even specially awarded a military title with no real power.

The Flowing Cloud Sect, on its own side, also tacitly slowed down its pace of development.

Specifically, it reduced its scale of recruitment…

No longer like before the founding of the nation, when opening the door to accept disciples, they could recruit several hundred people at once.

Of course, for a Taoist sect, this trend can only be said to be gradually returning to the right track of Taoist development.

Counting all the true Adept sects in China, even the Dragon Tiger Mountain Zhengyi Dao, which has a glorious history of two thousand years, has not been as lively as their Flowing Cloud Sect.

Even if, on the surface, the Dragon Tiger Mountain sect recruits a large number of disciples, those disciples are classified into different categories.

The vast majority of them can only delve into Taoist techniques, study scriptures, and at best, practice a set of external martial arts; as for internal energy cultivation, they may not make much progress even after decades of hard work.

Such disciples are actually difficult to call Adepts.

According to official data from the Adept world, truly talented and qualified individuals who can quickly enter the path of cultivation are one in ten thousand!

Of course, in addition to aptitude and talent, factors such as bloodline, cultivation techniques, and training methods are also important.

Even so, the Flowing Cloud Sect's previous practice of randomly recruiting disciples from various clans and wealthy families from all over the country, and even rescuing young people from the hands of human traffickers in Xi'an City.

Bringing them all into the sect, regardless of their qualifications, and cultivating them into talents, was absolutely rare in the world.

Now, that batch of disciples and protégés who were taken in by Liang Yue and others have grown into capable individuals after decades of trials and tribulations.

Even the ones with the worst cultivation have the cultivation of the late Houtian stage, and their skills are exquisite!

Such individuals, even in the Adept world, are solid cornerstones of a sect and the backbone of a lineage.

Of course, the reason why they were able to achieve such accomplishments.

In the final analysis, it is still related to their personal experiences.

Especially their experience in resisting foreign enemies during the war years; those who can survive the real battlefield will, as long as they are not too hopeless, have their own opportunities.

In addition, the Marrow Cleansing Pills that Liang Yue occasionally took out to cleanse their bodies and nourish them during the early days of these disciples' entry into the sect may have also played a role…

In short, it was precisely because of the abundance of talents and the gradual accumulation of heritage in the Flowing Cloud Sect that people with various abilities became somewhat wary of their Taoist lineage.

Whether it was in the officialdom or among fellow Taoists in the Adept world, they inevitably developed a sense of apprehension towards them.

Unfortunately, despite the apprehension, no one dared to take any reckless actions against their Flowing Cloud Sect over the years.

Thinking back to the pre-founding era, during the War of Resistance, a so-called Jiashen Rebellion almost affected the stability and unity of the entire Chinese Adept world.

First, the Taoist lineage has an orderly inheritance, and the Flowing Cloud Sect itself is strong, and there are many masters under its command, and its power is vast.

More importantly, although Liang Yue has passed the position of Sect Leader of the Flowing Cloud Sect to his chief direct disciple.

I remember that when he was about to leave, Liang Yue also gave his disciple a proper Taoist name, called Baoyun ~

Then he immediately announced his seclusion, and he has not shown his face for many years. For forty years, no one, including his disciples, has seen him again.

But the people of the Adept world all believe that an invincible Jindan stage master, in terms of lifespan alone, must have at least four or five hundred years, and it is impossible for him to disappear like this!

So everyone speculated that this Senior Qing Yuanzi probably really hid somewhere to practice in seclusion, or simply ascended to the upper realm ~

This foundation is enough to make most people in this world flinch…

In short, it is powerful background, deep heritage, strong strength, ruthless style of handling affairs, and many disciples and protégés, and extremely wide connections…

Such a Flowing Cloud Sect can no longer be simply summarized as a mere Adept sect. Its power is so prosperous that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a gate valve.

In addition, what the Flowing Cloud Sect represents is the Celestial Sect lineage of Taoism, which was originally mistakenly believed to have disappeared in the long river of history, and is a genuine independent branch of Taoism.

It can be compared with the Quanzhen and Zhengyi two major Taoist traditions.

Therefore, the current Flowing Cloud Sect has basically been recognized by the Adept community as the third mountain in Taoism.

It's just because the time of its re-emergence is still a bit short, so it still takes Mount Taibai as its sect base, and it has not yet branched out…

Let's get back to the topic ~

In short, like the Eight Wonders, the cultivation techniques that can be compared with the inheritance of the top sects in the Adept world are eye-catching enough and stir up the greed in people's hearts.

In addition, those who created the Eight Wonders were ultimately weak and isolated, and some were even classified as heretics for a long time.

Under the mixture of various factors, the result was that everyone shouted and beat them.

In the final analysis, they committed a taboo in the pugilistic world of possessing a treasure invites disaster.

If they could be as powerful as their own sect, there wouldn't be so much trouble.

Of course, the Flowing Cloud Sect has a large family and a large business, but sometimes when the family business is large, various concerns will follow.

In recent years, the Flowing Cloud Sect's own life has not been very smooth.

The root cause is the identity of those disciples that Liang Yue accepted back then.

It's okay for those disciples that he and the women accepted, they were all from poor families, and some were even abducted children.

But those disciple quotas that Yuan Datou sent out at the beginning, their final destinations were all standard aristocratic families, or at least local gentry with great influence.

In the old society, they were village sages and prominent families, but in the new China, the problems involved here are complicated…

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