Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Xuanmen follows an elite route, focusing more on cultivating disciples with high cultivation qualifications and calling them high-level monks. By squeezing casual cultivators and cultivating families, all resources are devoted to talented disciples to ensure the continuation of the sect.

The Demon Sect teaches without distinction, embraces all rivers, and completes quality changes through accumulation of quantity.

From a strategic level alone, Xuanmen was completely crushed by the Demon Sect, so there was a general trend in the world where Dao eliminated demons and rose. As far as the current situation is concerned, Xuanmen still occupies a dominant position.

Because of the existence of the four major Xuanmen, it is unrealistic for Demon Sect to eagerly take back the dominance from Xuanmen. However, Xuanmen’s strength is only due to the accumulation of original capital. To put it bluntly, it is just resting on its laurels. If it still doesn’t If you want to change, if you continue to be so arrogant, you don't know who will die.

Although the current situation in Xingang has its own particularities, if the Crescent Sect and Youmei Sect of Laogang had not moved here, the Blood and Bone Sect and the Corpse Puppet Sect alone would not be the enemy of the three Xuanmen sects even if they were integrated.

However, the decline of Xuanmen and the rise of Demon Sect are still undisputed facts among the monks in the world.

Tang Ning learned that the internal organizational structure of the Demon Sect was completely inconsistent with Xuanmen, which may also be a factor in its rise.

Xuanmen has a system of three halls and three academies. Under the halls, each department and department performs its own duties, with a clear division of labor and orderly order.

The most serious one of the sect's precepts is to deceive the master and destroy the ancestors, and kill each other within the same sect. This is the bottom line of Xuanmen, and it has always been strictly enforced. No disciple dares to violate this precept.

The three Xingang Xuanmen sects have never heard of such things happening, at least not openly, let alone bullying their masters and destroying their ancestors.

At that time, a disciple of the South China Intelligence Station was sentenced to thirty years in prison just for spying on the chief officer in South China.

Compared to this one, the rest of the commandments are much looser. Tang Ning resold so many medicinal herbs and stole at least tens of thousands of spiritual stones when he was in the Herbal Medicine Department, but he was only demoted to Jingbei.

The Demon Sect is different. There is no division of labor within it. To a certain extent, the order is very chaotic. Unlike Xuanmen, which has various ministries and departments that are specifically responsible for a certain matter, let alone power and functions such as the Three Halls and Three Courts. .

They only obey one leader and use tribes as a team. One person in power in each tribe is the leader. Everyone obeys his orders. Except for this person, everyone else has equal status. Apart from their different cultivation abilities, these people do not have any special treatment or rights.

Every time the group performs a task, the leader will designate one person as the core figure of the team, and the rest will only follow his orders.

The divisions in Xuanmen are very detailed, such as the Intelligence Department. Each team has a captain. Below the captain, the remaining people are divided into three, six or nine levels based on their cultivation and seniority. Above the captain, there are stewards, and stewards are divided into direct supervisors.

For example, Tang Ning is the manager in charge of intelligence liaison. He has no authority to mobilize the disciples in the intelligence department, and the disciples below will not listen to his transfer unless Lu Xingxian gives orders.

As the manager in charge of personnel affairs, Lu Guang could mobilize the disciples below, but he could not privately view the intelligence report.

Even the deacon Lu Xingxian cannot dominate the department. There is also the inspector Kong Fanxing supervising him.

This division of power and functions runs throughout Xuanmen, and even the head Wei Xuande is checked and balanced by the masters of the three halls.

The salary given by the sect to its disciples is also different depending on their functional cultivation level. For example, Tang Ning, because of her average cultivation qualifications, enjoys the sect's level C lower resource treatment, and can only receive 500 spirit stones in a month.

The new steward Yuan Jian, because of his above-average cultivation qualifications, enjoys the sect's Grade A and inferior resources, and can receive one thousand spiritual stones a month.

That's how Xuanmen is, everything unfolds step by step according to its divided procedures. Even though Tang Ning was ranked among the top three in the small competition as a dark horse and became famous in the sect, he still received the lowest salary.

Everyone in the Demon Sect has the same salary level. No matter you are a proud man or a rotten fish, you will receive the lowest salary standard of Xuanmen.

It implements a merit points system internally, where merit will be promoted and demerits will be reduced. Salaries are distributed based on merit accumulation based on unified salary standards. Those with higher merit will have higher salaries, and it is a lifelong system.

They rewarded meritorious service very generously. Every time they captured a land and killed a Xuanmen disciple, they could accumulate quite a lot of merit points, so all the Demon Sect disciples sacrificed their lives. When fighting against Xuanmen, they also strive to be the first, so they like to fight fiercely. There are often incidents of disciples fighting each other within it. In the Demon Sect, fighting between fellow disciples is not a serious matter. Private grievances between disciples are often resolved through force, resulting in death and injury. as a result of.

The precepts they value are precisely the trivial matters that Xuanmen considers trivial. No disciple in the Demon Sect dares to embezzle the sect's property. Once discovered, they will be killed directly.

They do not have functional departments such as the town government department and the prison department. The punishment methods are very simple, but also very effective. One is to reduce meritorious service, and the other is to kill.

If you are defeated, fall behind, and fail to complete the sect's mission, your meritorious service will be reduced.

If you embezzle sect property privately, you will be put to death.

They also have no divisions such as the elixir department and the weapon refining department, so there are only a handful of people who know the skills of elixir refining and weapon refining. This has a lot to do with their living environment.

Skills such as alchemy and weapon refining require word of mouth and personal experimentation. They are honed through constant failures. Without a stable environment, it is difficult to cultivate such disciples.

What's more important is that both elixir and weapon refining require fire veins. They often move around and have no fixed place to stay, so how can they get the fire veins to refine elixirs and weapons.

Tang Ning has carefully thought about their organizational structure, and has to say that although this structure is simple, it is very effective and fits their living conditions very well. This is a crucial point for them to survive and thrive in the cracks before being completely eliminated.

Xuanmen follows the elite route, and each disciple is a carefully selected spiritual root holder. He has put in a lot of effort since the beginning of his transformation, so disciples are strictly prohibited from killing each other in the same sect.

And because they hold a lot of resources, they turn a blind eye to the corruption below. Disciples are corrupt for the sake of their own cultivation. This is consistent with the Taoist philosophy, and everything is centered on cultivation.

For Xuanmen, everything.

People are the most important, so-called people-oriented.

This is not the case with the Demon Sect. They teach without distinction. Most of the disciples they accept are the disciples with poor spiritual roots and low qualifications eliminated by Xuanmen. The sect has been divided into parts for a long time, with little contact with each other. In addition, the influence of the merit system has formed a elimination mechanism.

Regardless of one’s origins or spiritual roots, one thing only matters: ability.

The capable ones go up, and the incompetent ones go down. The capable ones move up step by step through meritorious deeds, and get more and more resources. The incompetent ones are like weeds, no one cares about them when they die.

Because their resources are really limited and their disciples are diverse, they value their practice resources very seriously and people very lightly. Embezzling sect property is the most stringent commandment, and killing fellow sect members is a small crime.

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In the main hall of Qianxing Mountain, the masters of the three halls and courtyards of the Qianyi Sect were present. Wei Xuande sighed.

"Today, I invite you junior brothers to come here to discuss matters, not for other reasons, but to discuss the strategy to fight against the Demon Sect. A few days ago, the Corpse Puppet Sect took action again and took over the Cangyunling ore land. The Feng family, a local wealthy family, has fallen dead. Puppet Sect, yesterday, Wang Quan led a team to attack to recapture Cangyun Ridge, but was ambushed and returned with a heavy defeat, with many casualties. "

Shi Ming then said: "We can't go on like this. If we don't take action, the cultivation resources outside the sect will be eaten up by them. As one goes and the other goes up, the losses will only get bigger and bigger."

Geng Channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: "If we don't fight, more and more families that control the cultivation resources will fall to the Corpse Puppet Sect."

Tong Quan'an of the Secret Academy said: "The Corpse Puppet Sect and the Blood and Bone Sect are at odds with each other. One is in the west and the other is in the south. If they all come out in force, the Blood and Bone Sect may attack our mountain gate. If the strength is insufficient, it will be difficult to do so." To defeat the Corpse Puppet Sect, and the Blood and Bone Sect is watching, if we need to take action, it is better to contact the Qingyang Sect and attack together. We will attack the Corpse Puppet Sect at the same time, so we will have no worries. ”

Wei Xuande said: "I have already thought about this matter and discussed it with the Qingyang Sect, but they have many concerns. There is the Blood and Bone Sect in the north of Wu State and the Youmei Sect in the south. They are all eyeing it, fearing that it will be affected by it. whole body."

Cheng Shuimin of the Foreign Affairs Council said: "Without the cooperation of the Qingyang Sect, I think it is not advisable to move lightly. If the war goes unfavorably, the Blood and Bone Sect will attack from the front and back, which may damage the foundation of the sect."

Shi Ming then said: "Are we going to give away all our resources like this? Rumors are spreading that our Xuanmen is unable to suppress the Demon Sect. If it continues to expand like this, in less than a few years, the entire Chu State will be theirs. ”

"It's better to have deep ditches and high barriers to reject them, and build large formations at various resource strongholds, just like the Demon Sect, step by step, turn each stronghold into a camp, and connect each other to prevent the Demon Sect from invading." Luo Qingshui said.

The leader, Wei Xuande, frowned deeply.

"What worries does the leader have?"

"Deep trenches and high fortresses to resist the enemy is indeed a way, but the sect may not be able to survive financially. There are so many cultivation resources outside the mountain gate, and formation restrictions have been built. The finances have been drained and we can't afford it. Just run it every day. The cost of the formation is quite a lot.”

"There is no need to build large formations everywhere. You only need to build formation restrictions at some important resources. You can set a standard and build a camp every hundred miles, connected to each other. Even the Corpse Puppet Sect can spend money to build it. Isn’t it as difficult as our Xuanmen’s financial resources to set up a formation ban?”

"This is incomparable. The land occupied by the Corpse Puppet Sect is still a small part of the Chu Kingdom, with a radius of only a thousand miles. However, the area controlled by our sect has a radius of thousands of miles. If a camp is a hundred miles away, it will require a hundred formations. "

"But our sect's financial resources are ten times or even dozens of times that of the Corpse Puppet Sect. Doing extraordinary things in extraordinary times costs a lot of money, but compared to losing those cultivation resources, which one is more important?"