Next, Lin Daqiao explained the sect's rules. His seventh senior brother said there were a great many of them, and they were lengthy, but all Li Yan really needed to do was remember a few lines he must never cross.
First, disciples must not kill one another, or they would pay a life for a life. Naturally, killing purely in self-defense was another matter. Such cases would be deliberated by the enforcement hall where the incident occurred, or jointly by the enforcement halls of the two disciples' peaks. Second, if disciples encountered fellow sect members in trouble outside, they had to help unless the enemy's cultivation realm was far above their own. Those who looked only to their own safety would, in lighter cases, be fined heavily in spirit stones and stripped of several years' cultivation resources; in serious cases, their cultivation would be destroyed and they would be expelled. Third, disciples must not commit crimes outside. Although the Wangliang Sect never proclaimed itself a righteous, prestigious sect, it had its own way of doing things. Anyone found guilty of such acts would meet a truly miserable end. It would not be as simple as losing their cultivation; they might also suffer ten thousand insects devouring their bodies. Dying within a few short days would be impossible. Even suicide would be an unattainable luxury.
Where there were punishments, there were also rewards. From lowest to highest, the sect was divided into the servant division, the outer sect, and the inner sect. Not all disciples sent by subordinate cultivation sects would be accepted. Only those who passed the assessment could enter the outer sect to cultivate. Others with decent aptitude who failed the assessment did not necessarily have to be sent back to their original sects. They could first enter the