The One thousand hall battle palace 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 palace was formed by a collection of different trainers who taught different schools and styles of combat and everything that encompassed 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 union combat 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 of combat, but to try and etch out a living in those early years, they each decided to come together and offer joint training as one single entity which became the framework of the present-day, One thousand hall battle palace.
Those trainers traded their arts with each other, offered each other guidance to try and improve their own crafts, and then they started accepting students. At the start the progress was slow, but with the allure of teaching multiple skills of different schools of combat to people, their numbers slowly grew.
They accepted 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 account. After the training period was up, they were free to leave and were not indentured to the battle palace. In exchange for the training, the battle palace at first accepted 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 accept spirit stones, but for the more intense ones, they'd choose other valuable resources such as specific spiritual herbs and natural treasures of a particular kind or weapons and artifacts of a particular grade.
Legacy disciples operated a little differently. Once you became a legacy disciple, your fate was tied to the One thousand hall battle palace. But in exchange, you'd get to learn all the skills the battle palace 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 particular school of combat, and there was the legacy palace 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 palace 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 pillars of the one thousand hall battle palace. Slowly something that started with 50 or so instructors on different styles catapulted into one thousand halls. Each hall signified a particular style of combat 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 palace had a thousand peak domain realm experts.
In addition, they also had one of the largest libraries filled with all kinds of different combat 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 accept students like they used to, with the current demands and the disparity between the number of trainers available to meet those demands, the One thousand hall battle palace employed measures such as adding their costs, or putting strict trials in place before you were accepted as a student.
Being accepted 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 acceptance 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 palace in his promotion ceremony. The Order and the battle palace had one of the closest relationships, more so members of the Institute. The Institute could be considered to have been founded based on the ideas of the Battle Palace, except the Institute added other areas in addition to combat training.
The Battle Palace and the Institute would have a lot of exchanges. Some of the trainers at the Institute were once students of the battle palace and vice versa.
Yang Qing had to admit when it came to pure combat, the legacy disciples of the One thousand battle palace 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 palace.
The battle palace accepted 4,000 people per hall which made their total acceptance of students to be at 400,000. Within that number, regular competitions would be held and a ranking would follow from the results of said competitions.
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 palace 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 Huilang.
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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 palace robe which was half black-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 black 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 palace on their robes which meant they were legacy palace disciples. Yang Qing recognized both of them since he drew with one of them and suffered a loss to the other, during his claim for the gold pin.
He drew with the red-haired lady 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 palatable to him if Kang Huilang didn't take the 2nd place 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 Huilang's bad habits were not involved, the first place would have been his.
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