It takes time to line up to test your talent, so many seekers wait for a long time. This is also a test. If you can't endure hardship, even if you have excellent talent, it will be difficult to achieve anything.

In the six palaces of Baihe Temple, except for the Shang Punishment Palace, which does not accept new disciples, the other five palaces have their own quotas for admission.

However, the quotas of the five palaces are not the same. Generally speaking, the three palaces and pavilions of the alchemy palace, the artifact building palace and the world-entering palace have the largest quotas, while the Qiqiao Palace and the Zhenwen Palace are less. This is because the Qiqiao Palace and the Zhenwen Palace not only require talent for cultivation, but also have high requirements for understanding.

Most people are not very interested in these two things and think it is too complicated. Qijiao Palace and Zhenwen Palace will not accept practitioners who have insufficient understanding. Even if their cultivation talent is high, if their understanding is insufficient, the two palaces will also guide them to worship under the other three palaces to avoid wasting their talents.

The entire talent testing process is jointly handled by middle and lower-level disciples, and the real masters of Baihe Temple have no time to pay attention to these things.

Wu Sheng visited every palace pavilion. Most intermediate disciples were responsible for the final review work. Not long after they started, low-level disciples with lower cultivation were responsible for maintaining order, carrying items and other chores.

The testing process of all palaces is very complicated. It is okay to test the talent of cultivation, but the cultivation world has special tools to conduct the qualification test for cultivation.

However, each palace pavilion in Baihe Temple does not determine whether it is included in the sect based on its cultivation qualifications. They often have to record the living origins of those who seek the Tao. Each palace pavilion will test other talents related to the skills and practice requirements of the palace.

For example, the alchemy palace requires a cautious and meticulous personality and a high talent for yin energy sensing; the instrument building palace requires higher requirements in terms of the seven soul cultivation talent, and also a certain endurance talent; the worldly palace requires a smooth personality, knowing the worldly ways, understanding flexibility, and adapting to changes; the Qijiao Palace and the Zhenwen Palace both require strong learning and memory skills, and a calm personality, but the Qijiao Palace requires higher hands-on ability, while the Zhenwen Palace requires higher inquiry and innovation skills.

The talent of cultivation is easy to test, but the ability to test in other aspects is not that simple and easy. The test content of each palace and pavilion must be prepared in advance and will be replaced every time.

When accepting disciples between the palaces and pavilions, they do not separate from each other, but help each other.

For example, each palace pavilion has disciples from the world as counselors, who specialize in observing the words and deeds of those seeking the truth, draw their own conclusions from the details, and provide them with the main responsible persons of other palace pavilions. They will also supervise those seeking the truth so that they cannot cheat.

Qiqiao Palace will be responsible for the production of test props for each palace, while Zhenwen Palace will place the entire test site under certain array monitoring restrictions to avoid external and other factors interfering with the test process.

The Alchemy Palace and the Artifact Making Palace will check the physical condition and items they carry before and after the test to prevent some seekers from cheating with elixirs and magic tools.

Only by cooperating with each other can the entire Kaishan and enrollment of disciples be carried out, otherwise there will inevitably be omissions. Even so, these seekers who have passed the test of their own palace will have to go through the review of the punishment palace.

Shangfu Palace will send people to the person who passed the test to investigate the place of life provided by the person who passed the test, mainly to investigate the person's daily habits, character, family situation, etc.

Baiheguan attaches great importance to a person's moral cultivation. Anyone with major character defects will be eliminated even if he passes the test of this palace. If the situation is serious, he will be punished. This is not only the ancestral teachings of Baiheguan, but also the conclusion they summarized from many jade slips of [Zuanyi Cave].

This was the case for most ancient sects. They respect heaven and earth, and understand the cause and effect. Those aristocratic families mostly discuss emotions, reason and affairs, and put families first. Even if the large aristocratic families attach great importance to cause and effect on the surface, the core is still based on the interests and gains and losses of the family.

Members of the aristocratic families abide by the cycle of cause and effect, but do not want to damage the family fortune. Most of the inherited sects have the concept of maintaining the cycle of cause and effect, and even if this is harmful to the sect, they will do whatever they want.

Some sects have always inherited this conceptual heritage, from those ancient sects to the present. This sounds surprising. Sects are willing to sacrifice themselves to protect the world, and are somewhat like "fools" who sacrifice themselves for others, but ancient sects have been used to this.

In ancient times, practitioners and practitioners did not have the same meaning. The current aristocratic families could only be called practitioners in ancient times and belonged to the side and left-wing paths. Only those who always regard the rules of heaven and earth as higher than the sects can be called practitioners and belong to the authentic Taoist sect.

The practitioners form a sect to help each other with their fellow practitioners and practice Taoism together. The members of the sects are all seeking for the "Tao" path, that is, the rules of heaven and earth, rather than for the organization that represents the collective.

Later, the sects declined and the aristocratic families rose, and gradually confused the practitioners and the practitioners. The two actually did not mean the same thing at all.

It is precisely because of this concept of taking "Tao" and disregarding "sects" that sects are not developed as rapidly as aristocratic families. Nowadays, there are very few people who can truly be considered authentic Taoist sects. Most of the three realms are under the control of aristocratic families, leaving only those places far away from people and cities that the clans do not want to go for are occupied by sects.

Sects are the second choice of many practitioners, because even if they enter the worldly palace of sects like Baiheguan, they still have to work hard to become a military officer in the court.

Baiheguan's World-Entering Palace pursues the cultivation of Taoism with worldly affairs, and thus achieves Taoism. The ultimate goal is to realize Taoism, rather than becoming an official. It is just that some people who fall into misunderstandings only want to climb to a high position and put the cart before the horse.

If you join those aristocratic families and become members of the foreign surname, then the goal you were granted from the beginning was to take a higher position and seek more benefits for the family. For the sake of the family, they can give up their own concept of practicing Taoism. Their "Tao" is obviously lower than the family's interests, which is completely different from the concept of the Taoist sect.

There are not many real Taoist sects left, and their power and resources are not as good as those aristocratic families. Many fake Taoist sects use the aristocratic families as the banner and form of the Taoist sect. It is simpler to distinguish the two. Taoist sects would rather lower the threshold for the talent for recruiting disciples than lower their character requirements. In the eyes of aristocratic families, character is often an aspect that can be ignored.

Although Baiheguan is not very powerful, he has always adhered to the authentic Taoist philosophy inherited from the Yuan Dynasty and attached great importance to the character of his disciples.

Therefore, they lowered their requirements for the talent of cultivation. Every year, each palace will specially recruit more seekers who have passed the test, and then go to the punishment palace to eliminate some of the people who have difficulty changing their original ideas. The rest are those who can truly enter the lintel and preach.
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