If you pass only one test, or pass the other two tests besides the one on mental discipline, you can choose whether to stay and become a servant of the Wudang Sect.
This is done simply to leave a chance for those who are not naturally gifted, and to give those who are gifted but lack the necessary character a chance to hone their character.
If, after ten years, he has not been promoted from a menial servant to a disciple, he will be sent back to where he came from by Wudang.
Of course, if someone has the right temperament and exceptional talent or comprehension, they could become Zhang Sanfeng's personal disciple, let alone a formal one.
Besides the formal examination process, there is another way to join the Wudang Sect and become a disciple.
That was a trial path that led directly from the foot of Wudang Mountain to the summit, specially set up by Zhang Sanfeng.
This path is reserved for those exceptional geniuses who may have missed the Wudang Sect's assessment for various reasons, or for strong individuals who wish to join the Wudang Sect in the future.
When a peerless genius enters the Wudang Sect through this path, he will directly obtain the status of a true disciple, which is higher than that of a regular disciple.
If any super strong person can pass this trial, he will immediately become an elder of the Wudang Sect.
This trial path is also the only way for the powerful figures in Bloodbath City to join the Wudang Sect.
During the five-year apprenticeship period following the Wudang Sect's establishment, nearly ten million humans and a small number of orcs and half-orcs from the entire Bloodbath City came to Wudang Mountain to undergo the assessment.
Unfortunately, all those who came to Wudang Mountain to take the test came with high hopes, only to leave disappointed.
After a five-year period of accepting disciples, the Wudang Sect only accepted one true disciple and a few dozen formal disciples.
In addition, there were nearly a thousand nominal disciples and tens of thousands of servants who served the Wudang Sect.
The trial path personally set up by Zhang Sanfeng saw tens of thousands of people attempt it over five years, but not a single one succeeded.
What Zhang Sanfeng didn't know was that a secret realm was hidden in the place where the Wudang Sect chose to establish its sect.
The reason Zhang Sanfeng chose to establish the Wudang Sect in the location of present-day Wudang Mountain was because he could sense that this mountain was extraordinary.
After a period of exploration, he still couldn't discover what made this mountain so extraordinary.
It wasn't until he officially established the Wudang Sect that this new Wudang Mountain became a super blessed land, and Zhang Sanfeng believed that this was the extraordinary nature of Wudang Mountain.
Little did he know that a secret realm lay hidden atop Wudang Mountain.
At the summit of Wudang Mountain lies the place where Yuan Hao planted the top-grade innate spiritual root, Huang Zhongli, and that secret realm is where Huang Zhongli hides.
As the number of disciples and servants of the Wudang School increased, the incense offerings to the Taoist patriarch also became more and more abundant.
These unclaimed beliefs, having nowhere to go, were gradually absorbed by Huang Zhongli, causing Huang Zhongli to grow at an increasingly rapid pace.
As a large amount of faith power was absorbed by Huang Zhongli, a rich Daoist aura gradually began to emanate from Huang Zhongli, and a sense of intelligence slowly began to develop within him.
As Huang Zhongli slowly developed his spiritual intelligence, the secret realm where Huang Zhongli existed also began to transform into a supreme Daoist land.
Huang Zhongli and the Taoist temple where he resided were slowly absorbing the vast amount of faith power born from the Wudang Sect and various energies between heaven and earth, transforming themselves without Zhang Sanfeng's knowledge, waiting for the day when they would be fully born.
After the five-year apprenticeship period of the Wudang Sect ended, Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji began to teach the disciples of the Wudang Sect cultivation every day.
Zhang Sanfeng only taught the true disciple and the dozens of formal disciples how to cultivate. As for the nearly one thousand nominal disciples and the tens of thousands of servants on Wudang Mountain, Zhang Sanfeng entrusted the task of teaching them to Zhang Wuji.
Zhang Wuji would occasionally take the time to teach his nearly one thousand disciples and answer their questions about cultivation.
As for the tens of thousands of servants, Zhang Wuji simply gave them a secret manual and told them to cultivate it on their own. Then, at long intervals, he would give them a public sermon.
As for how much these tens of thousands of servants can comprehend during this sermon, and whether they can pass the test to become disciples, that depends on their own fate.
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Chapter Forty-Five: Successive Ascensions
As the first sect established in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, Wudang Sect not only saw Wudang Mountain become a super blessed land, but Zhang Sanfeng, the founder of Wudang Sect, also received considerable benefits.
After founding the Wudang Sect, Zhang Sanfeng not only gained a great deal of merit, but also a tremendous amount of fortune began to gather around him.
Even though Zhang Wuji was once the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the fortune he accumulated after spreading his martial arts throughout the world was far less than the fortune accumulated by Zhang Sanfeng now.
Besides the immense merit and boundless fortune, Zhang Sanfeng's own cultivation level also improved considerably.
After a continuous infusion of merit and fortune, Zhang Sanfeng's cultivation level rose from the initial stage of Martial Dao Celestial Being to the peak of Martial Dao Celestial Being.
Ninety-nine percent of the boundless true essence within Zhang Sanfeng's body had been transformed into immortal energy. If it weren't for the limitations imposed by the world level of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, the true essence within Zhang Sanfeng's body would probably have been completely transformed into immortal energy.
After advancing to the Middle Thousand World in the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm, Zhang Sanfeng could immediately transform the last bit of true essence in his body into immortal energy.
At that time, Zhang Sanfeng's cultivation will directly enter the Immortal Martial Realm, which is also the fifth level in Yuan Hao's ten-level transcendent cultivation system.
Not long after the Wudang Sect stopped accepting disciples, Zhang Sanfeng contacted Song Yuanqiao and others in the Wudang Sect through the statues of the Nine Heavens Demon-Subduing Ancestor and the True Martial Demon-Slaying Emperor enshrined on Mount Wudang in the world of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.
After making contact with the world of Yitian, in addition to teaching the true disciple of Wudang Sect and dozens of formal disciples cultivation every day.
Zhang Sanfeng is still doing his best to guide the Wudang sect members in the world of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, as well as the important officials and powerful figures in the Ming Dynasty, hoping that they can ascend to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm as soon as possible to reunite with him and Zhang Wuji.
With Zhang Sanfeng's tireless guidance, people in the world of Yitian ascended to the Tianyuan Sacred Realm one after another.
When these people ascended to immortality, Zhang Sanfeng would plant a spiritual imprint on them through the statue of Zhenwu the Great.
During their ascension, Zhang Sanfeng could sense the location of the spiritual imprints he had planted, and then, with his incomparably powerful cultivation, he would guide these ascendants from the ascension passage to Wudang Mountain.
In the following ten years, thanks to Zhang Sanfeng's guidance and the small number of spiritual treasures he sent into the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber world at great cost, nearly a hundred powerful individuals ascended to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm.
Among these people were disciples of the Wudang Sect, the Empress Dowager and several imperial concubines of the Ming Dynasty, several important officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty, and several powerful figures belonging to the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, the two envoys of the Ming Cult, the state religion of the Ming Dynasty, and the four Dharma Kings who protected the cult, ascended to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm.