Chapter 81 Fellow disciples, do you want some pills?
She knew in the past that the male protagonist established his foundation a year after killing his wife to prove his truth, and that he was already considered a genius.
It was only when I arrived in Xizhou that I realized that was not the case.
The clan monks in Xizhou also began to draw Qi into the Tao at the age of twelve or thirteen, but they basically built their foundation at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Because of their family heritage and years of experience passed down by the clan, their children were raised in various ways of spiritual supplements from birth, allowing their spiritual bones and meridians to be bathed in spiritual Qi to form a habit. When the day of drawing Qi is come, it will be easy for them to practice Qi and build their foundation.
Therefore, the overall number of cultivators in Western Province is the smallest among the five provinces, but the resources per capita and the infant mortality rate are the lowest. The infant mortality rate below the foundation-building stage is less than 10%.
It's not like Nanzhou, where a casual cultivator in the Qi training stage might suddenly disappear while walking on the road.
She had never been to Zhongzhou, but as the center of the five states, it was the most prosperous place. Probably, geniuses with their speed of cultivation were not uncommon.
Moreover...she is still in the foundation-building stage, and it is too early to enter the Tao, which is "damaging to her spirit and bones".
"Whether I'm talking nonsense or not, you'll know when the secret realm ends... Hey, Xie Huai is here." Lu Jin was speaking when he suddenly saw Xie Huai standing at the door.
Xie Huai lowered his eyebrows and smiled lightly, bowing modestly. His clear voice was like broken jade hitting stone: "Hello, Senior Sister."
Lu Jin smiled from ear to ear, "Okay, okay, let's go to the Heart Stone."
Although Lu Jin had only met Xie Huai a few times, she seemed to be moving towards the direction of an outer sect female disciple. Ruan Xing couldn't help but want to wake her up.
Wake up! His face is fake and his personality is fake, don't be fooled by his appearance!
But they had made an agreement before, and Ruan Xing had no intention of ruining Xie Huai's plan. He could only look up at the sky in silence, rolled his eyes, and focused his attention on the stone of conscience.
The process was no different from when Ruan Xing first came, except that this time there were two people standing by the bridge watching.
Ruan Xing watched Xie Huaigang walk across the bridge, his expression suddenly became serious, and he shouted, "Who is this senior?"
"Pfft!" Ruan Xing couldn't help laughing out loud and almost spit out saliva.
So it really is like that! It's like watching a one-man comedy show.
Lu Jin covered his mouth and laughed secretly, "Interesting, right? But you have to keep it a secret. Apart from our treasure pavilion, there are not many inner disciples who know about this."
"I will keep it a secret." Ruan Xing agreed with a smile, and suddenly felt a little regretful, "If I had a photo stone in my hand at this moment, I could save this scene and watch it from time to time in the future."
Xie Huai dodged left and right on the stage and rolled several times on the ground in a panic, as if he was avoiding some attack.
Then, Xie Huai took out the formation flag and threw it casually, quickly formed a seal with his hands, tapped the ground with his toes and took a half step back. The formation flag floated in the air and surrounded him like an equilateral triangle, forming a golden semicircular cover to protect him.
"Not bad!" Lu Jin's eyes lit up and he praised, "He has just entered the foundation-building stage and he no longer uses formation plates but formation flags, and he can control three formation flags at the same time. He lives up to his reputation as a genius. He cultivates quickly and has a high level of attainment in formation. I'm afraid he will be able to stand out in the future when he goes to Zhongzhou, which is full of talented people."
Ruan Xing couldn't recognize what kind of formation flag it was, but he could guess that it was a defensive formation, so he asked, "Ah Jin is knowledgeable, what do you think of the defense of this formation?"
"Well... actually I can't tell the difference between them. It's just that he arranged the flags very quickly, his movements were smooth and his positions were also correct. You can tell he has practiced many times. It looks good." Lu Jin commented with admiration. Ruan Xing wanted to roll his eyes again. It's useless to just look good. You have to know how strong an attack he can defend against.
Lu Jin paused for a moment, then continued, "But looking at the spiritual power wall of the protective shield, I estimate that it can at least withstand an ordinary attack from an early Jindan. If you run into him during the discussion on the Golden Stage, you must kill him with lightning speed before he takes out the formation flags, otherwise he will have to stay on the stage like an iron turtle. If he doesn't knock back the spiritual pills in the middle of the three formation flags, it shouldn't be a problem for him to maintain them for a day or two. If he still has the energy to set up the formation plate to attack, then the enemy can only passively take the beating and can't hurt him at all. Fighting with a formation cultivator, once he lets him set up a magic formation, it's really disgusting."
Ruan Xing nodded thoughtfully.
The main means of formation repair are formation plates and formation flags. Each formation plate contains a fixed magic array. When using it, you only need to input spiritual power into it, and the formation plate will automatically disperse to form a magic array. It is also relatively simple to destroy and block it. Ruan Xing once fought with Xie Huai in an underground river passage. He only needed to use brute force to deflect the flight trajectory of the formation plate before it landed. In this way, even if the formation plate landed, the formation would be ineffective due to the position deviation, and the formation repairer would have to rearrange it.
The formation flag is the natal magic weapon of the formation cultivator in the later stage of cultivation. Each formation flag requires a lot of blood and sweat, and then is controlled by the formation cultivator with his spiritual consciousness to form a myriad of changing formations. This kind of formation is more powerful than the formation plate, and is more flexible to use. However, the disadvantage is that when there are fewer formation flags, more than two mosaic formations cannot be arranged at the same time. Therefore, when the formation cultivator has a lower level of cultivation, they mostly use formation plates, which saves spiritual power and does not exhaust their spiritual consciousness. As long as the arrangement is successful, only a little spiritual power is needed to maintain it, and there is no need to worry about controlling it.
Xie Huai was able to control the three formation flags because he was a demon cultivator in the late stage of foundation building. His spiritual awareness was much stronger than that of a cultivator who had just entered the foundation building period. Perhaps he had already completed his foundation and was about to form a pill.
Moreover, he did not choose Ruan Xing's method of taking shortcuts and not resisting. Instead, he used his spiritual sense to control the flags of the formation to form a defensive formation. This way, he would not expose the fluctuations of his magic power and at the same time showed that he was a formation cultivator, giving him a reasonable excuse.
I have to say that he is indeed a thoughtful person, choosing the identity of a formation cultivator.
The most important thing is that the array plates and array flags can use spirit stones to compensate for power. As long as there is enough money, Qi training monks can also use high-level array plates...
Tsk, this kid is really hiding something. It is impossible that he only has a hundred low-grade spirit stones on him. She must have expected less at the beginning.
Ruan Xing's thoughts drifted further and further away. Xie Huai's case was also about to end. Lu Jin put away his gloating smile, coughed twice, and said quietly: "He seems to be dead in there. I'll go wake him up."
"Okay, then I'll go back first." Ruan Xing replied. She felt that with Xie Huai's brain, he should be able to guess that his performance was seen clearly, so it would be better for him not to stay here and get in the way. It would be bad if this petty-minded demon cultivator got angry again and affected the discussion on the Golden Stage later.
"Ah?" Lu Jin was surprised, "I haven't taken Xie Huai to choose a place to live yet."
"I won't go. Just tell me where he lives after you've chosen him." Ruan Xing made up an excuse. "Registration for the Golden Stage Forum is about to start. I have to hurry up and prepare and study my opponent."
"You are already in the middle stage of foundation building, why are you still studying opponents? It is certain that there is a spot for you." Lu Jin joked, "But you can ask Senior Brother Wu. He only participated once ten years ago and has experience."
Yes, Senior Brother Wu is also in the middle stage of foundation building, and he participated in the previous discussion.
Ruan Xing had never thought about this, and said gratefully: "Thank you for the reminder."
"Okay, go ahead." Lu Jin waved his hand, jumped onto the stage and called Xie Huai to go.
Each inner sect disciple only has one chance to participate in the Golden Stage Discussion. Many disciples who are in the early stages of foundation building participate, either because they are absolutely confident in their own strength, or because they think they will not be able to enter anyway, so they might as well take it as an opportunity for actual combat training. Some are even more arrogant and think that they will form a pill before the next ten years, so they hurry up to participate. However, there is another type of person who wants to enter the secret realm but is not confident enough, and will choose to suppress their cultivation to participate. Senior Brother Wu is one of these people.
Don't be fooled by his young appearance. He is actually an old man in his nineties, thanks to his youthful appearance maintenance skills. Lu Jin is only in his forties. However, they have one thing in common. They both practiced Qi training for almost thirty years before they established their foundation. After Lu Jin established his foundation, he saw too many disciples who established their foundation in just over ten years, so he gave up on himself and devoted himself to the affairs of the Treasure Pavilion.
Wu Xing was not so pessimistic. Although he did not give up practicing, he chose to let nature take its course in forming the Dan. Therefore, with his calm personality, he joined the External Affairs Hall. He broke through to the middle stage of foundation building more than ten years ago before participating in the Golden Platform Forum.
"Did you successfully enter the secret realm?" Ruan Xing couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, I went in. Three of my senior brothers and I killed a demon beast in the late foundation-building stage in the secret realm. We also obtained a precious elixir that can be used to refine a realm-breaking pill. One of my senior brothers was about to form a pill, so he took the medicinal material away and gave each of us a thousand spirit stones. After we came out, we divided the other gains among ourselves and earned five hundred contribution points and six or seven hundred spirit stones. I earned nearly two thousand in just one month. The Jintai Secret Realm is really good." Wu Xing said with emotion.
Ruan Xing continued, "Was the Jintai Secret Realm only open for a month? Did that senior brother go to Zhongzhou after forming the elixir?"
The smile on Wu Xing's face faded. "No, because when we were exploring a ruin, we were unfortunately injured by a mechanism and had to leave early. The brother who was about to form a pill was seriously injured and died soon. In order to give it a try, he asked someone to refine a breakthrough pill and tried to force the formation of a pill, but he failed and died. As for the other two brothers, one went out to travel in search of a breakthrough opportunity and has not been heard from for eight years. The other died unexpectedly while participating in a secret realm in Xizhou."
"Hiss... So dangerous." Since entering the Tao, Ruan Xing has only entered the Hanshan Secret Realm. The Jintai Secret Realm, as the Xuanbing Sect's own reserve, does not even provide any guarantee for the personal safety of its disciples.
Wu Xing shook his head and laughed at himself, "In the past, those who could enter the Jintai Secret Realm were all elite inner sect members who could fight ten enemies at once. Thirty years ago, many people died and were injured in accidents, so the threshold to enter the Jintai Secret Realm was lowered. Otherwise, I wouldn't dare to participate in the discussion with my mediocre strength."
So that's how it is. Although the group of demon cultivators that suddenly appeared thirty years ago were quickly suppressed and eliminated, they also caused some impact on the Xuanbing Sect of Nanzhou.
"Well, so I can't help you with anything about the Jintai Secret Realm, because the secret realm is very large. We stayed there for a month and only explored a small area. The map provided by the sect is also scattered and basically doesn't match the map."
"Then...what is the way to discuss the Dao?"
Wu Xing introduced: "This is easy to say. The first round of the test is a rotation. Each person will play three games with different opponents. Winning a game will add one point. Finally, according to the ranking, the top 60 will enter the re-examination and start the draw. There is a ten-day interval between the first and second rounds for the cultivators to recover from their injuries until the final victory. The first place will receive a realm-breaking pill as a reward from the sect, and the second and third place will receive a low-grade magic weapon."
Ruan Xing was a little surprised that there were prizes, but she didn't think about it because she knew she wouldn't get it.
There is still time for recovery...
Ruan Xing couldn't help but ask, "What if I accidentally kill a fellow disciple?"
Wu Xing laughed, "No, there are two elders from the sect watching the whole process. If there is any danger to life, they will intervene and stop it. The sect trains us and will not let our disciples die in a place like this."
Also.
Ruan Xing nodded, "Thank you for clearing up my doubts, Senior Brother."
"So, my suggestion is..." Wu Xing suddenly said solemnly in a low voice: "Take advantage of these few days to buy some high-quality healing pills. The price will go up when the discussion begins."
Isn’t it... that there are also speculators in the world of cultivating immortals?
Ruan Xing was at a loss.
A few days passed, and the Jintai Forum event, which had been warmed up for a long time, finally began.
In the square in front of the master's hall, several circular platforms have been built using magic, with pale white protective covers on them. Once the fight begins, they will rise automatically to isolate the inside and outside, protecting the square from damage and preventing the monks inside from being affected by the outside world.
In mid-air, facing the square, there are several crystal chairs hanging, with tables and desks, and flowers and brocade ribbons closely supporting each other. Behind them is a large Xuanbing Sect logo. In the middle of each word is a crystal box, representing the three rewards for the top three places, which is colorful and magnificent.
On the opposite side, a huge water curtain was hung down, with light golden fonts appearing on it, showing the names of the applicants and their cultivation levels. When the registration deadline comes, the names on the water curtain will automatically arrange their rotation order.
Ruan Xing listened to Wu Xing's advice and took advantage of the past few days to exchange all of the remaining 300 spirit stones for medicinal materials for healing pills and soul-restoring pills. He also used up his contribution points and exchanged them for spiritual medicines from the Treasure Pavilion. He stayed in the room day and night to make pills.
Her alchemy furnace and earth fire were almost moldy in the storage bag.
Besides, this thing called underground fire has a shelf life. If she never uses it, she won’t know what will happen if it breaks down one day.
For Ruan Xing, making first or second grade elixirs is so easy that she can practice with her eyes closed without any mistakes. By the time she goes out, the several square meters of space in her storage bag is already filled with all kinds of elixirs.
She smiled slightly, looked at the crowd gathered in the square, and after signing up, she watched her name appear on the water curtain.
A few unfamiliar monks gathered nearby and complained.
"I don't know who it is, but all the second-grade healing pills in the treasure pavilion have been exchanged. I went to ask, and there was not a single one left."
"Oh, stop talking. I was the same way. Yesterday I went to the outer gate trade fair. Not to mention the second-grade ones, even the first-grade ones have gone up in price."
"Don't spoil them. It only takes one day to go to town. I'll go down the mountain to buy them in town later."
"You said it was easy, but what if you encounter an accident on the way down the mountain and it delays your return? Today is the last day to sign up."
Ruan Xing came forward and tugged at their sleeves to attract their attention. He raised his head with an innocent smile and whispered mysteriously, "My fellow disciples, do you want some pills?"
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