If I let you become a druid, would you join the Demon Sect?

Chapter 12 Reading and Martial Arts
After dinner.

Gu Yan lit the candle brought by the servant and began to flip through the introductory booklet.

It mainly contains some common sense about Taoist temples, arrangements for food, clothing, housing and transportation, as well as some rules and the like.

Disciples of Qingyun Temple, even if they are just new Taoist children, are still treated very well.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Needless to say, Gu Yan was equipped with a complete set of clothes as soon as he got married. The styles and quality were all of high quality. In addition, every spring and autumn, someone would come to measure his height and weight and arrange new clothes, one or two sets at a time, and there was never a shortage of them.

For meals, there is a cafeteria that provides meals, including both meat and vegetables.

For registered Taoist priests above the age of 18, meals are personally delivered to their residences by servants.

In addition, if you want to eat something good, you can also make a request in advance and spend some money if you are a Taoist priest or above. The best meals in the city restaurant can be delivered to you by carriage to Qingyun Temple, more than 20 miles outside the city, and delivered to you on the mountain.

As for accommodation, the Taoist children live in a collective Taoist courtyard, which is actually an independent room, and the houses are all connected together.

Taoist priests with a crown and above have their own independent houses to live in, with yards.

The heads of each academy and above have the right to live in the manor at the foot of the mountain.

Finally it’s OK.

Forget about the Taoist boy, he can only wander around in a small area on the mountain.

When I miss home, I can only write letters and ask my family to come up the mountain to meet me.

Taoist priests wearing hats can go out for two days every ten days.

As for the dean, they can basically travel freely.

In Qingyun Temple, being a Taoist boy is just the beginning. Only when one becomes a Taoist priest with a crown and is included in the list, will one be relatively free and have more rights.

Here we have to mention the internal structure of Qingyun Temple.

Qingyun Temple is a typical ten-direction monastery. Except for the resident deacons and the abbot, it follows the system of "three capitals, five masters and eighteen heads".

The abbot is at the top.

The abbot is the highest religious leader in the entire temple. He is a "great lawyer who transmits precepts" with perfect precepts and high moral character, and he symbolizes the inheritance of the Taoist tradition.

The abbot of Qingyun Temple is one of this kind. He is known as the Immortal by the royal family of Youlin Kingdom and is one of the more powerful ones.

He is more of a symbol in the Taoist temple and usually doesn't take charge of anything.

The management authority of Qingyun Temple lies with the abbot.

Of course, this position can also be called host.

The abbot (chairperson) is in charge of all affairs of the temple.

This is a rotation post.

The abbot of Qingyun Temple serves a five-year term, but he or she can be re-elected.

Generally, the abbot is the one who deals with the Taoist temple, the government and the secular world. Therefore, the person who sits in this position needs to have a good influence in the local secular world, otherwise it will be difficult to get things done.

In fact, when he saw this, Gu Yan was still a little confused.

He had always thought that titles like abbot and host were only used in Buddhist temples, but now he realized that he was ignorant.

What remains are the 'three cities, five masters and eighteen heads'.

The three du are the du guan, du lecturer and du chef.

Du Guan: Take charge of daily affairs and supervise all deacons.

Dujiang: Responsible for the rituals of the altar and teaching the scriptures.

Chief Chef: Responsible for managing food in the dining hall and offerings for rituals.

When Gu Yan entered the Taoist temple, he bribed the family of the chief Taoist, Ning Cheng.

These people are almost the top leaders of the Taoist temple.

Under the three capitals, there are five lords.

Hall Master: Manages the chanting of scriptures and precepts in the scripture hall.

Temple Master: Responsible for the incense and ritual displays in the temple.

The Taoist priest goes out to collect money and food to maintain the economy of the Taoist temple.

Master Jing: guides disciples to meditate and practice.

Scripture Master: Keep and publish Taoist scriptures.

These people can be regarded as the core leadership of the Taoist temple.

In fact, these five masters are just positions in Qingyun Temple, representing status. The people below are the ones who really do the work.

Under the five masters are the various courtyards, of course, also called the eighteen heads.

For example, there is the warehouse head who is responsible for warehouse management, the garden head who is responsible for vegetable gardens and fertile fields, the fire head who is responsible for cooking for the entire Taoist temple, the patrol officer who is responsible for security inspections in the Taoist temple, etc.
These people are the grassroots deacons of the Taoist temple, the ones who really do the work.

There are more than a thousand Taoist children and Taoist priests in Qingyun Temple, and the majority of them are at the grassroots level, so the eighteen heads actually mean eighteen courtyards.

In the Xunzhaoyuan where Gu Yan worked, there were more than a hundred Taoist priests with hats and above, and two Taoist boys.

Um.
The two new Taoist children are Gu Yan and Lu Jin, who is only six years old.

These are mainly Taoist priests from Xunzhaoyuan, all of whom are full-time martial Taoist priests.

Poor in literature and rich in martial arts.

The cost of supporting a martial Taoist priest is equivalent to that of supporting a dozen or twenty civil Taoist priests, and it is the real "foundation" of the Taoist temple.

It is difficult for people with connections to get in.

That is to say, Gu Yan was gifted and had "natural powers" to get in. After reading this common sense, Gu Yan touched his chin.

As a qualified villain, you must never learn from the useless protagonists' lack of ambition, so it is very important to make good career plans for yourself.

He joined the Taoist temple for two main purposes.

One is the certificate of ordination.

This problem is not big.

Qingyun Temple is a large Taoist temple in a prefecture. It has ample quotas for ordination certificates. When entering, the Taoist children are given ordination certificates first before entering.

So Gu Yan already has a certificate of ordination.

Officially, he was no longer a mountain villager, but had become a Taoist priest and a legitimate Taoist priest.

But within Qingyun Temple, he was still a Taoist boy, not on the roster and without a Taoist name.

If a Taoist boy wants to become a Taoist priest and have a Taoist name, he needs to do his duty, recite the "Morning and Evening Exercises", etc. The Taoist boys who patrol the temple also need to practice martial arts in the morning and evening to lay the foundation.

This process can take as short as two years or as long as five years. After passing the assessment, a high-level master will preside over the crowning ceremony, and you will officially become a Taoist priest, take a Taoist name, and enter the "Crowning Book" of the temple. Only then can you practice the Taoist temple's advanced martial arts.

In addition to the certificate of ordination, Gu Yan's other goal is to learn martial arts.

This is actually not a big problem.

As mentioned above, ordinary Taoist children need to train for several years and pass assessments before they can practice advanced martial arts.

Gu Yan is different.

During the assessment, the head of Xunzhaoyuan promised that once he had laid the foundation, he would immediately accept him as a disciple and teach him the best martial arts in the temple.

Others still have to work hard to pass the levels.

He passed it directly.

It's not challenging at all.

"Life is as lonely as snow, without any challenges"

Gu Yan couldn't help but feel helpless about his own excellence again.

"Hululu"

Balian's snoring interrupted his spell again.

Gu Yan:
Hey, go to sleep.

He lost the mood to brag and blew out the candle.

for the rest of the time.

Under the guidance of the errand boy of Xunzhaoyuan, Gu Yan began to familiarize himself with various things. He followed the brothers in doing morning and evening exercises, and also began to learn martial arts knowledge, human body structure and so on from the old Taoist priest who was responsible for teaching in the academy.

Lu Jinze, who joined the school together, was not here. It was probably because he was too young and was still leveling up in the kindergarten.

This kind of day lasted for more than a month.

Gu Yan is self-disciplined and intelligent. With the hard work and sweat he has accumulated in the past, he has laid a very good foundation and learns everything quickly, which has amazed many senior brothers in the school.

It’s not that no one is jealous.

Human nature is greedy, ignorant and angry.

It is difficult to avoid even in a Taoist temple.

However, before those narrow-minded people could become jealous, news of Gu Yan's test in which he lifted 500 kilograms with one hand spread throughout the hospital.

Everyone was amazed again.

What is this concept?
Some Taoists who have practiced hard for many years cannot exert a force of less than 500 kilograms in one palm strike.

In other words, Gu Yan doesn't need to practice. He can rely on brute force to beat some Taoists to their knees and beg for mercy, and he can sleep with them whenever he wants.

This is jealousy.

There is no time to praise.

Everyone began to actively approach Gu Yan, the little Taoist boy, trying to establish a good relationship with him in advance and get on his good side.

These Taoists were able to enter the Xunzhaoyuan because they either had good family backgrounds or good qualifications, and they all had connections.

Gu Yan naturally would not refuse these people's kindness.

Some contact.

Everyone found that this junior brother, who was only fifteen years old, was very knowledgeable about human relationships and was very open and generous. He did not have the shyness or selfishness of a teenager at all. So their snobbish mentality in making friends gradually changed, and they began to have more admiration and respect for this new Taoist boy.

He has the Qingyun Temple platform, the qualifications and hard work, and even his mind is so stable.

This kid is bound to become a great player!

As a result, Gu Yan lived more and more comfortably in Xunzhaoyuan.

Just
The dean who had agreed to accept him as his disciple had not shown up yet. I don’t know if it was because the injury on his face had not healed yet or what.

Gu Yan asked several times, but was always evaded, so he was too lazy to ask anymore.

Anyway, after orthodox learning.

He could now understand some of the secrets of the "Iron Body Kung Fu" he got from the old Taoist priest.

Just keep working hard.

The world is fair.

If you sweat a little more today, you will be able to swing the stick faster when you fight someone tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)