Ever since entering the Bright Mirror Sect through her grandfather’s connections, Gu Yeqi has spent a long time here.
She came for Eldest Senior but due to An Jing’s delayed return to the sect, Gu Yeqi could only lead the Children of Calamity who came from Hanging Fate Manor to strive in this unfamiliar land by themselves.
Of course, though it’s said to be relying on their own efforts, they actually had the care of Chenyinzi.
Chenyinzi clearly knew that Gu Yeqi and the other Children of Calamity were An Jing’s true ’core team’. This group of highly talented individuals experienced calamities and among the ’Demon Sect Defectors’, almost all have Fate Pattern potential which just needs special means to draw out. An Jing had repeatedly asked his grandmaster to take care of these companions.
Under Chenyinzi’s care, all the Children of Calamity settled at Mingguang Peak. Their daily tasks included maintaining the various Spirit Veins and constructing the main hall of this newly established ninth peak. They received allowances from the sect and could build their future residence while familiarizing themselves with it.
Mingguang Dust had not accepted any disciples before, and Xiaoming Peak wasn’t considered crowded either. Over the thousand years, only one of An Jing’s senior uncles remained alive, while both junior uncles had perished. This reflected the extraordinarily high attrition rate among Martial Artists, and the fact that the Bright Mirror Sect had been declining over the past centuries.
Now, with the arrival of the Children of Calamity, Mingguang Peak was livelier compared to some other peaks with fewer descendants.
As the leader, Gu Yeqi had worked hard to achieve Inner Strength and entered the Inner Sect.
She had awakened her Fate Pattern—though she didn’t know what it was yet, having it made a world of difference compared to not having it.
Now, she had completely overcome the initial awkwardness upon entering Bright Mirror Sect. She had developed her own connections and presence within the sect and could now easily obtain building materials without tussling with the sect’s resource department. Over the past six months, using the experience gained from constructing Mingguang Peak, she led a group of junior brothers and sisters to pass the ’Bright Mirror Sect Intermediate Formation Engineering Certification’, earning the qualification to take on formation construction tasks within the sect.
Don’t underestimate formation construction; though it sounds like just labor, it accumulates significant inspiration regarding formations and martial arts. Moreover, since this skill is extremely useful, most people who initially ostracized them due to their Demon Sect defector status now respected them and viewed them differently.
Especially the young generation who originally had good relations with Xiaoming Peak and Mingguang Dust were more willing to help Gu Yeqi and others, solving many troubles for them.
Gu Yeqi excelled at this task.
At Hanging Fate Manor, Gu Yeqi always trailed behind An Jing, never making decisions but only executing An Jing’s tasks, appearing like An Jing’s accessory, constantly repeating An Jing’s instructions.
Back then, few understood the value of strictly following An Jing’s tasks, completing An Jing’s training agenda, understanding An Jing’s instructions, and accurately conveying them to everyone else.
The more they interacted with others, the more the Children of Calamity understood the extent of An Jing’s prowess and Gu Yeqi’s extraordinariness.
Of course, Gu Yeqi herself was not willing to accept this ’extraordinariness’. Honestly, she never liked doing anything ’big’. She preferred a quiet and frequent life, unwilling to live turbulent days.
But the more she yearned for peace, the less likely it was to achieve it. Doing nothing and just pursuing her minor happiness would only make everything worse—whether it was the Frost Calamity, Gu Family’s situation, or the increasingly obvious internal chaos within Bright Mirror Sect, all were pushing Gu Yeqi to grow up.
Just like now, in less than two years, through observing the actions of numerous Inner and Outer Sect disciples, True Transmission and True Persons within and outside the sect, Gu Yeqi had vaguely recognized the cause of the current internal conflicts within Bright Mirror Sect.
It was all due to the imbalance of the system.
Initially, Bright Mirror Sect was a small Daoist establishment set up by Visible Empty Ancestral Master at Dust Li, having only a few disciples and not much clear ranking hierarchy. All disciples were equally regarded as disciples of Visible Empty Ancestral Master, listening to the master’s teachings at the main peak of Visible Empty Mountain.
Until the appearance of Jinghuang True Lord, the second True Lord in the history of Bright Mirror Sect, who established the first outer peak outside the main peak, clearly defining five levels: [Sect External Territories], [Outer Sect], [Inner Sect], [Hall], and [Peak], the sect started to have a relatively clear hierarchical system.
Sect External Territories were the mortal areas under Bright Mirror Sect’s jurisdiction. These territories contained some martial artists who served the Bright Mirror Sect, though not members of the sect. Among them, some excellent ones had the right to send their offspring with Fate Patterns to Bright Mirror Sect. The sect also periodically selected suitable martial arts seeds from its controlled areas to enter the sect.
Once these martial arts seeds passed the basic tests, they became [Outer Sect].
If they had a Fate Pattern, entering the Inner Sect from the Outer Sect was a sure thing. In fact, the entire Outer Sect’s training and cultivation aimed to help them adapt to the influence of the sect’s Blessed Land and produce more Life Seeds related to Bright Mirror Sect cultivation, which are [Inner Sect].
The Inner Sect was the true members of Bright Mirror Sect.