The One thousand hall battle pce could be considered a sect and not a sect at the same time, though to most it could be considered a cultivation academy, kind of like what the institute was for the Order.


    The battle pce was formed by a collection of different trainers who taught different schools and styles ofbat and everything that epassed it. Among the many techniques taught by those trainers were; fist arts, spear arts, sword arts, palm, arts, kicking arts, movement and evasion arts, soul arts, knife arts, and the like, and it progressed down to niche arts like spirit beast unionbat arts, which were derived from learning how spirit beasts fought and incorporating those techniques to be used by human cultivators.


    All these different trainers individually had nothing that stood out except their familiarity with the basics of certain schools ofbat, but to try and etch out a living in those early years, they each decided toe together and offer joint training as one single entity which became the framework of the present-day, One thousand hall battle pce.


    Those trainers traded their arts with each other, offered each other guidance to try and improve their own crafts, and then they started epting students. At the start the progress was slow, but with the allure of teaching multiple skills of different schools ofbat to people, their numbers slowly grew.


    They epted students and legacy disciples. The former would pay a certain sum and get trained in a number of skills in respect to the sum they paid for. The duration of the training was also taken into ount. After the training period was up, they were free to leave and were not indentured to the battle pce. In exchange for the training, the battle pce at first epted spirit stones as payment but with time they made their form of payment to be varied, depending on the degree of training. For minor training, they would ept spirit stones, but for the more intense ones, they''d choose other valuable resources such as specific spiritual herbs and natural treasures of a particr kind or weapons and artifacts of a particr grade.


    Legacy disciples operated a little differently. Once you became a legacy disciple, your fate was tied to the One thousand hall battle pce. But in exchange, you''d get to learn all the skills the battle pce had to offer, provided you had the talent for it.


    Within the legacy disciples, there were two variations; there was the legacy hall disciple who would learn the skills of a particr school ofbat, and there was the legacy pce disciple who could be considered the elites of the elites, as they had the talents to learn from more than one school and hall to the level of exceeding the topmost figures within those halls.


    The battle pce gradually grew especially from the number of students they started taking in. The number of legacy disciples also grew and with it their prestige because they were some monstrous talents among those disciples who took up the mantle as the next pirs of the one thousand hall battle pce. Slowly something that started with 50 or so instructors on different styles catapulted into one thousand halls. Each hall signified a particr style ofbat and each hall had a hall master who was in the peak stage of the domain realm, which meant that at base value, the One thousand battle hall pce had a thousand peak domain realm experts.


    In addition, they also had one of thergest libraries filled with all kinds of differentbat arts. Some of the collections stored were created in-house from their own trainers, while others were bought or bartered for as payment for their training.


    With their current reputation, even if they still ept students like they used to, with the current demands and the disparity between the number of trainers avable to meet those demands, the One thousand hall battle pce employed measures such as adding their costs, or putting strict trials in ce before you were epted as a student.


    Being epted as a student there could now be considered a badge of honor, with how hard it is to get in, the requirements could be considered to be in the same vein as the eptance standards of rank 2 to rank 1 organizations. Those who got in either had sufficient capital to get them in or they had talent worthy enough to get in.


    Yang Qing wasn''t all too surprised to see the One thousand hall battle pce in his promotion ceremony. The Order and the battle pce had one of the closest rtionships, more so members of the Institute. The Institute could be considered to have been founded based on the ideas of the Battle Pce, except the Institute added other areas in addition tobat training.


    The Battle Pce and the Institute would have a lot of exchanges. Some of the trainers at the Institute were once students of the battle pce and vice versa.


    Yang Qing had to admit when it came to purebat, the legacy disciples of the One thousand battle pce were a cut above the rest, even those from the Order would struggle against them. One of their prerequisites for graduating from the Institute was to earn a gold pin from the One thousand hall battle pce.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    The battle pce epted 4,000 people per hall which made their total eptance of students to be at 400,000. Within that number, regrpetitions would be held and a ranking would follow from the results of saidpetitions.


    The top 200,000 would get a pin in recognition of their achievements.


    Those between 200,000-100,000 would receive an iron pin


    Those between 99,999-50,000 would receive a bronze pin


    Those between 49,999-20,000 would receive a silver pin


    Those between 19,999-101 would receive a gold pin while a purple pin was given to the top 100.


    Yang Qing suffered some of the greatest losses of his life within the battle pce before he got his gold pin and eventually a purple pin. The reason for this was, they not only fought against other students but the legacy disciples themselves. During his year the only person who scaled through easily was Kang Hung.


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    Yang Qing nodded in greeting to their members as they made their way to their seats. The team consisted of seven people. The lead was a male who seemed to be in his early forties. He had the normal Battle pce robe which was half ck-half white, however on his robe there was an insignia of a spear surrounded by galling winds. From the information he was given, Yang Qing knew he was the current hall master of the Rapid spear hall.


    The other six members had the same ck and white robes, but they had different insignias which meant they belonged to different halls, except two people. One of them was a young female in her early twenties who had red curly hair and the other was a young man in his early twenties too, who had silver hair and a sleepy look to him. They had a pce on their robes which meant they were legacy pce disciples. Yang Qing recognized both of them since he drew with one of them and suffered a loss to the other, during his im for the gold pin.


    He drew with the red-haireddy and suffered a loss to the silver-haired man. The loss didn''t weigh heavily on him since he suffered a few losses in that period and also that silver-haired young man ended up holding the 4th-ranked position during that period. Though Yang Qing himself didn''t do too badly since he ended up in the 13th position.


    The results would have been ptable to him if Kang Hung didn''t take the 2nd ce as for the 1st position, it was taken by a sword heart disciple from the Radiant sword sect. The thing that incensed him the most was as much as he hated to admit it if Kang Hung''s bad habits were not involved, the first ce would have been his.