Chapter 2689: Meeting
The Four Buddhist Temples, Three Daoist Sects, Six Sword Sects, Six Great Powers of the World, Nine Demonic Paths, and Fourteen Noble Families were the leading powers of martial arts across the land.
Each was a giant that had produced Dharmakaya masters and left behind divine weapons as their foundation.
Although Dharmakaya was difficult to attain, and most sects had no Dharmakaya expert overseeing them for most of their history, the existence of divine weapons meant that peak Exterior masters could wield them to unleash a portion of Dharmakaya might, ensuring their sects endured.
Of course, history had seen giants whose line of peak Exterior masters was cut off, leading to their destruction. But at present, these renowned sects were still recognized as sacred lands of martial arts.
Among them, Shaolin Temple, one of the Four Buddhist Temples, was undoubtedly the leader of the Righteous Path within the Great Jin Dynasty. It was guarded by Abbot Kong Wen, third on the Heaven Ranking and bearer of the Golden Body of the Subduing Dragon Arhat, suppressed by the divine weapon Ananda's Precept-Breaking Saber, and possessed the third stance of Buddha's Palm as well as the Seventy-Two Ultimate Skills.
At the same time, because Shaolin Temple had such extensive resources, it accepted a considerable number of disciples from outside every year, both lay disciples and those who took monastic vows.
Quite a few wealthy families, even powerful clans and noble families, would try to send their children there to cultivate.
Some wished to practice martial arts, while others sought refuge from disaster.
As long as these disciples met the requirements in aptitude and age, came from families of purity, and had no record of wrongdoing, Shaolin Temple accepted them all.
However, when testing a disciple's temperament, those with ulterior