Chapter 5: Sword Cultivation Talisman, True Disciple(1/2)
In the morning, outside the valley of the Ascension Dharma Assembly, it was blocked by thick white mist, and the white mist was still surging and turning, just like a tiger that chose people to eat, making people afraid to easily cross the line.
Since the Immortal Ascension Dharma Assembly outside Yuanzhang City has been held more than once or twice, the news is inevitably leaked. At this moment, at least nearly a hundred people gathered at the entrance and exit of the valley, including old and young, men and women, but most of them came with hope and left in a daze. They wanted to seek a fate of immortality, but they could not even enter the clouds and mist formation, and could not even see the gods.
Next to the road, a young man from a poor peasant family was kneeling there motionless.
There were people around him who disdained, those who laughed, and those who advised him... He was unmoved and just knelt there and gritted his teeth and persevered.
In fact, in the clouds and mist that these mortals cannot see, some casual cultivators stand on the valley walls and look down. Not only sects, but families need inheritance, but also scattered cultivators also need to inherit what they have learned. Among these immortals, mortals with truly determined and strong minds with outstanding spiritual roots will be trained by the subordinates, but they need to have spiritual roots. Otherwise, no matter how strong the mind is, they will not even have the qualifications to get started with Taoism in this plane world.
It is said that in the past, even ordinary people could seek immortals and ask for the Tao, but in this era, even spiritual energy cannot be sensed without spiritual roots, and there is no way to practice. Of course, at the front line of the secrets, it is said that mortals can also cleanse their spiritual root qualifications by practicing martial arts to the innate realm, but this path is too difficult.
In this year's Immortal Ascension Dharma Assembly, in addition to the five required art exams of alchemy, weapon refining, talisman making, formation, fighting, and five must-taken art exams, the seven major sects have taken the four minor art exams of corpse refining, puppet, master, and spiritual planting. Each sect will choose the nine major art exams from the random cultivators who choose their own sects to choose the one to two with the most outstanding performance and rank the most high-ranking one to two. In addition, those who have passed the internal assessment, the seven major sects will gather about 100 relatively outstanding disciples through the Dharma Assembly every five years, which not only gives the random cultivators a chance to leap into the class, but also brings the relatively outstanding casual cultivators to the sect.
On the side of the Qianzhushan Sect Fighting Platform, after Zhang Lie purchased the entrance ticket, he was staring at the death fight on the ring.
Because of the absence of the Qianzhushan Sect Immortal Chief, Zhang Lie also chose to participate in the battle assessment. With the powerful explosive power of innate Qigong and the targeted practice of heavy swords, Zhang Lie has won five consecutive games and entered the top twelve places in the Qianzhushan Sect's battle platform. As long as he wins three more rounds, he can directly join the Qianzhushan Sect even if he does not pass the internal assessment. However, the more he goes, the harder it will be to pass.
At this moment, there were already a lot of mottled and damaged on the giant sword that Zhang Lie carries. This was caused by using a big sword to strike the magic of the immortal cultivator. Even if the magic of the Qi Refining Realm is not too powerful, and the sword energy and innate true qi are protected, the sword is still scarred. I don’t know how long it can last. In Zhang Lie’s last battle, the opponent had already consciously tried to control Zhang Lie with the sonic wave control technique. Unfortunately, Zhang Lie had more weakness than the opponent and stuffed his ears with cotton in advance, which greatly reduced the effectiveness of the sound wave control technique of the Qi Refining Realm. Targeted fighting style became a flaw.
But as the ranking increases, not only will the opponents in the future become stronger, but they will become more and more targeted. Just as Zhang Lie will come to see their battle, his opponent will also collect opponent information.
At this moment, on the fighting platform, there was a male talisman cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining. He faced a woman in the palace dress holding a long sword and eighth level of Qi Refining. The two sides were fighting very fiercely.
Although the male talisman cultivation was deeper than his opponent, he did not dare to be careless in the competition. The yellow paper talisman covered with blue all over his body was like a peacock spreading its tail. Once stimulated, either the hurricane was rolled up flat or the fire dragon roared and thrust, with a prominent momentum, huge power and rapid excitement, extremely powerful!
(If I fight with him, I will die in a long battle. Even if I am not hit, the damage caused by the powerful spells will not be able to bear it even if I have to bear it too much. If I am passively beaten for a long time, let alone my body, this big sword made of black iron will be blown up. I must fight quickly and win with my life!) On the side of the stand, when Zhang Lie said this, on the fighting platform, the female cultivator in the palace dress had already mastered the magic sword in her hand, like a swimming fish with a combination of human and sword, and was swift in the gap between spells with an exaggerated agility and exquisiteness.
The skill of controlling swords with one hand is too clever. She must practice a certain sect's profound sword technique. Otherwise, the cultivation of the casual cultivator's swords with no means to be so high. A simple swords with no word "sword technique".
"Awesome! It's really amazing. Unfortunately, these two people met together in advance. Oh, I'm so lucky."
"What's the point of sighing about this? People of us have important nature, and opportunities, fate and fate are equally important. If they lack one, they have no chance to be with the Great Dao."
While the two casual cultivators next to Zhang Lie were talking, the male talisman cultivator was unable to recover his energy due to the continuous activation of great power. The attack was slower. In this moment, he was keenly grasped and captured by the female cultivator in the palace dress. When he stepped on the sword light, he rushed towards his opponent like a rainbow light. The farther the cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm, the less powerful the power is. Therefore, the combination of man and sword, and the relative close-range fighting is inevitable.
However, when the male Fu Xiu, who was in the ninth level of Qi refining, saw the female cultivator in the palace rushing down to him, a vicious look flashed at the corner of his mouth. The next moment, a talisman burned behind him.
Boom!
The blazing flame explosion spread 360 degrees with the cultivation level of this male talisman. The terrifying fire wave spreading behind him slammed into the light wall ban and burst out a burst of flame light, causing the magic platform defense ban to emit water-like patterns, which lasted for a long time.
The female cultivator in the palace dress in front of the male talisman cultivator, facing the 360-degree range of flame waves, was unable to respond, and was directly driven down the flying sword. In an instant, the winner was decided. However, the female cultivator in the palace dress was still worried and activated the talisman floating in the left ear again, and suddenly shot out an ice cone. Before the female cultivator in the palace dress landed, she directly penetrated it as her chest and killed it on the spot.
The victory and defeat have been decided, the battle ended, and the light wall ban around the battle platform was eliminated. A male monk in the stands howled and rushed to the battle platform, hugging the frozen palace cultivator cried: "Why? You have obviously won, why do you still kill me!"
However, when the male monk who was only about six or seventh floors of aura on his body was criticized and questioned, the male Fu Xiu was too lazy to pay attention to it. As long as he passed the assessment, he would be a disciple of Qianzhushan Sect. Not to mention that there was a reason for the matter, so what if I was itchy and killed you a few random cultivators?
Both sides are not on the same class at all.
When Fu Xiu turned around and got off the ring, his eyes just met Zhang Lie in the stands. Both sides looked at each other, and then nodded and smiled. He was sure that they were all the same.
The male monk who was crying with his wife in his arms still did not dare to attack the enemy in front of him. It was not only because of the difference in cultivation and combat power between the two sides, but also because if he dared to break the rules of the Dharma Assembly, he would be killed directly, or even to refine his soul!
"I'm sorry, sorry! Not only can't protect you, I can't even avenge you, I'm sorry, sorry..."
The next day, before Zhang Lie's sixth magic battle began, the Qianzhushan Sect's elders finally arrived late.
Unlike the assessment of the Immortal Sect’s Hundred Arts, the internal assessment of the seven major sects can be superimposed. Taking Zhang Zhengli, the elder of the Zhang family, as an example, he is familiar with the elders of the Moonling Sect and Chongxuan Pavilion, so when he takes the disciples of the Zhang family to the internal assessment, if the Yueling Sect doesn’t accept it, he can go to Chongxuan Pavilion again. Unlike the assessment of the Immortal Sect’s Hundred Arts, which sect is basically the sect that is applied for. Therefore, the elders of the Qianzhushan Sect are late for several days, which is a good thing for Zhang Lie, because most of the seedlings in the casual cultivator family who can pass the internal assessment have been selected for several rounds, except for the type like Zhang Lie who is determined to enter the Qianzhushan Sect.
In the pavilion with elegant layout and extremely comfortable air temperature and humidity, under the guidance of the third uncle Zhang Zhengli, Zhang Lie and Zhang Tong gave him a greeting.
This time, the Zhang family's harvest was good. With Zhang Zhengli's full efforts, Zhang Xuan'er successfully joined the Yueling Sect and Zhang Yuanbo successfully joined the Huanxin Sect. However, the others failed to pass the internal assessment or the Immortal Sect's Hundred Arts assessment. However, it is already very good that the Zhang family can successfully join the seven major sects.
After the visit was handed over, not long after, two boys came out to greet and lead.
At this time, Zhang Zhengli could no longer follow him. Zhang Tong looked back at the fat third uncle timidly, and stomped Zhang Zhengli in a hurry.
"What do I do? Follow your brother! Hold your chest up and look up, and show the momentum of a monk!"
Under the guidance of the two boys, Zhang Lie and Zhang Tong came to the Jingshe Room in the pavilion. This was a location similar to a study. The boy led the message and pushed the door, led Zhang Lie and Zhang Tong in, and then closed the door outside.
In the room, there was a gentle and gentle middle-aged man. At this moment, he was cooking spirit tea. Just the fragrance spread, it made people warm all over his body, and the pores all over his body seemed to be opened.
"Yunwuxia Zhang family, Zhang Yuanlie, Zhang Tong." After swallowing a cup of spiritual tea, the middle-aged scholar put down the tea cup and stood up. He came to the close of Zhang Lie and Zhang Tong and looked up and down.
Although the other party's eyes were as solid as the essence, Zhang Lie remained motionless after showing his salute, and his temperament was strong. When he saw this person, Zhang Lie put away the hidden golden spirit. Judging from this person's temperament, he was not like a person who was greedy for money and money. Taking action rashly may cause disgust. If that is the case, he might have cut off his way to enter the sect through the Immortal Sect Hundred Arts Assessment.
"At the age of twelve, he dared to steal secret books and deviate from his family. Zhang Yuanlie, if a person like you joins my disciple, will he rebel against the clan one day?"
Suddenly, the middle-aged scholar spoke almost heartbroken. Not only did Zhang Lie's heart move, but Zhang Tong's face turned pale.
"..." Zhang Lie did not immediately answer the words of the Qianzhushan Sect's elder, but thought for a while, then slowly said: "If you prevent someone from becoming enlightened, let alone Qianzhushan Sect, or the seven sects of Mingzhou, the entire Yue Kingdom, can you still survive? The disciple wants to join Qianzhushan Sect in order to seek better resources for immortal cultivation and cultivation environment. For this reason, I can contribute to the sect and fight to the death for the sect's majesty and majesty to the limit. But if the sect will prevent me from practicing, then I will rebel from the sect, so please forgive me."
"...You confess. The sect can help you achieve enlightenment more, you will love the sect more, and the family can help you achieve enlightenment more, and you will love the family more, OK, very good! I heard that you have successfully entered the top twelve places on the battle table. How sure are you to pass the battle table assessment?"
"Five levels of grasp, but you should suffer a lot of injuries." Zhang Lie replied directly because this question has been repeatedly deduced and thought about for a long time.
"Fifty percent of the time, it's not small. Even I wasn't sure that I could pass the Fighting Platform assessment." The middle-aged scholar said this, turned around and returned to the round table. After pondering for a while, he slowly said: "Zhang Lie, you are just a pseudo-spirit root qualification for the four spirit roots. Even if you practice martial arts and successfully advance to the innate realm and cleanse your spiritual roots, you are only a two-spirit root qualification. After returning to the sect, you will disperse the true energy of martial arts and practice again. This is another considerable expense..."
"I, Han Nuo, a monk from the Foundation Building Realm, are you willing to accept you as a true disciple, teach Taoism, and provide you with resources?"
Is this necessary to consider? Zhang Lie immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times.
Han Nuo accepted it calmly, then turned to the timid Zhang Tong and ordered: "You have good innate qualifications, but your personality is too timid. The future is a time of great struggle. Letting you enter my mountain gate may not be a good thing. You will return to your family and devote yourself to practicing."
"Master, although Xiaotong is a little weak, she has good innate qualifications..."
"Enough, my teacher's intention has been decided."
After hearing Han Nuo's decisiveness, Zhang Lie could no longer say anything. He said that he had fulfilled his friendship with the same clan, and if he said more, he would not know how to advance or retreat.
After Zhang Lie and Zhang Tong walked out, he heard that Zhang Lie was directly accepted by Han Nuo as a true disciple. Zhang Zhengli was so happy that he couldn't suppress him. He laughed at the sky. The fat all over his body was shaking like waves. The entire Zhang family was just two Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and one of them was an elder in the other surname, who was about to die. Now that he hugged Han Nuo, the thick leg of Qianzhushan Sect, the entire Yunwu Gorge Zhang family would be able to rest assured in the next few decades.
As for Zhang Tong being returned, Zhang Zhengli didn't find it too surprising. Don't think that the second spiritual root qualification is very high. Although a single spiritual root cultivator is considered a cultivator with good talent, a single spiritual root cultivator is not a cultivator of heavenly spiritual root, because in addition to the number of spiritual roots, there is also a problem of spiritual root purity or numerical value.
According to the quantitative data, ordinary humans have twenty points in gold, wood, water, fire and earth, so the five elements are balanced, and if they have spiritual roots, they are missing one of the five elements. Add one of the twenty points in gold, wood, water, fire and earth to other spiritual roots. Therefore, the smaller the number of spiritual roots, the better the qualification to cultivate immortals. However, this value is not perfectly superimposed. If a single spiritual root cultivator has a superimposed value below seventy-five points, it is a simple single spiritual root cultivator. Only if the spiritual root value is superimposed to more than ninety points, it is a heavenly spiritual root cultivator. Such subtleties cannot be found in most families, so they can basically wait for the identification of the sects.
The cultivator of Tianling Root is not only a fast spiritual energy swallowing and spewing efficiency, but also does not break through the bottleneck when breaking through the Dan Killing Realm. This makes countless families and sects crazy. Having a disciple of Tianling Root is directly equivalent to having a cultivator who starts at least in the Dan Killing Realm in the future. This can be used to suppress the number of sects and sects.
Therefore, the Tianling Root is the first-class cultivation qualification in the world of immortal cultivation, followed by the extraordinary spiritual roots such as Fenglei Flame and Yanbing. The cultivation speed is not slow and the combat power is strong. The second is the single spiritual root cultivator, the second is the second-class cultivator, the mixed spiritual root cultivator, and the false spiritual root cultivator... Zhang Tong's innate talent is only the fourth-class. In addition, he is timid and has no other special skills, so it is very normal to be rejected. If you return to the family and purify your bloodline for the clan members, all aspects of welfare are also indispensable.
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhengli ignored Zhang Tong, who looked lonely, and took the two back to the family pavilion with a smile.
Zhang Lie saw Zhang Tong's depression, patted her on the shoulder and comforted her a little: "I think you know the Zhang family and the mortals outside the valley. You are much lucky compared to them. You are protected by the family for the rest of your life, safe, worry-free and worry-free. You and my relatives in the Zhang family, those girls who have no spiritual roots may have given birth to four or five children at your age, and are devastated by life."
The best way to comfort someone is to make the other party realize that someone is much worse than her. Zhang Lie understands this truth deeply. Sure enough, the gloom in Zhang Tong's expression dissipated a lot, and he raised his head and smiled at Zhang Lie gently.
"Thank you, Brother Yuan Lie, I feel much better."
"Yes." Hearing this, Zhang Lie nodded and then moved forward again.
Since he has passed the internal assessment, even if the battle assessment of the Immortal Sect Baiyi has successfully reached the twelfth place, there is no need to participate again. This is to make the opponent Zhang Lie's turn be promoted directly bye.
That night, Zhang Lie began to sort out his previous gains from exposing the scam stall owner. If it is useful in Qianzhushan Sect, then stay. If it is useless, then leave it to the family, so that the grandfather can treat the family better.
Among the many groceries, the best one is a spiritual pen and a book "Five Elements Primary Curse Collection". The talisman painting spirit pen has been given to Zhang Zhengli by Zhang Lie. Anyway, it is a business that is not a fundamental business and he does not understand the art of talismans.
In addition to these two spiritual objects, there are also some five talismans such as "quicksand", "freezing technique", "light spirit technique", "winding technique", and "body-hiding technique", which are all of them at the level of the first-level middle-level and lower-level. Two bottles of spiritual elixir and two bottles of spiritual elixir. In addition, they are some valuable basic materials and debris. Except for leaving the talisman paper, Zhang Lie cannot carry other Zhang Lie on his body.
"And you, old friend, please ask Uncle San to bring you back to the family tomorrow. From now on, I will not be with you anymore."
In the room, Zhang Lie gently stroked the thick iron sword and sighed softly. Even if he still uses the heavy sword and giant axe in the future, he would use magic weapons and spiritual weapons. This mortal iron cast into a heavy sword used to fight against magic weapons and magic weapons of Qi Refining Cultivators based on its weight, which is meaningless to him.
Although Zhang Lie can also use life fire to refine it into iron essence, it is difficult to explain. Secondly, the basic material of iron essence is not valuable in the world of immortal cultivation, so there is no need to consume mental energy for it. If you have time, it is better to refine more essence and increase its quality.
Just as Zhang Lie sorted out the items and was about to rest, the door of the room suddenly became knocked. Zhang Lie got up and walked over to open the door, but it was Zhang Zhengli, the fat third uncle.
"Uncle San, is it so late?"
"Oh, Uncle San is happy. You are so happy to join the Qianzhushan Sect, my nephew Yuan Lie. Uncle San is so happy, so happy!"
"Hahaha, please come in, Uncle San."
"That's not. It's so late, it's delayed your rest. How can you go to Master Han's listless tomorrow? Uncle San had earned your spiritual pen before, but now you're going to Qianshanzhu to teach you. No, this is Uncle San's life-saving talisman, you can take it." Yan said, although he could see obvious reluctance, Zhang Zhengli still pushed a yellow paper talisman to Zhang Lie, then pushed him into the door, closed the door, and turned around and left.
"Uncle San, Uncle San?"
When Zhang Lie opened the door again and walked out, he could see Zhang Zhengli's short and fat back.
"Lie'er, Uncle San is a philanderer, but Uncle San really hopes that the family can prosper, not to mention your father!" Suddenly stopped and said this, then Zhang Zhengli walked up the stairs.
Zhang Lie looked down at the paper talisman in his hand, and identified it for a while before he could recognize it. It was a first-level top-grade earth escape talisman. No wonder it was called the life-saving talisman by Zhang Zhengli. The value of this kind of talisman started with hundreds of low-grade spirit stones, especially among the Qi Refining Cultivators, which had a price but no market.
Zhang Zhengli’s gift tonight is certainly not wanting to consume precious favors by a spiritual pen, but there is also a reason why he doesn’t want Zhang Lie to fall. When he goes to a sect, the conditions in all aspects are good, but the competitive pressure is also great.
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A few days later, a middle-aged scholar was squeezing behind a huge gourd, 12 people flying fast against the wind.
At this time, Han Nuo took the lead in refining weapons, corpse, puppet, and mastering the first leader in the four arts. There were several more people passing the internal assessment. Therefore, at this moment, there were one more cultivator who entered as an internal assessment than cultivator who passed the Immortal Sect Hundred Arts Assessment. Although the sect immortal masters have such power, they usually rarely do this. After all, this has destroyed the unspoken rules between the sect and the casual cultivator, causing some trouble.
(For the Immortal Ascension Dharma Assembly, it was a chance for a carp to jump over the dragon gate. As a result, the master finally got through the exam, but the master was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was in charge of kicking people. In the long run, the monk would have a lot of grievances. Even if the master returned to the sect, he would probably be punished. What's more, the people who came in with the internal assessment were obviously not better than the leader of the four arts.)
(Master, is it just that he is honest on the surface but is actually greedy for wealth? Then why did he accept me as his disciple?)
The wind was howling around the mountains. Because the gourd under him had a gravitational force, the twelve Qi-refining cultivators did not need to pay much attention to maintaining balance.
"Senior Brother Zhang Lie, eat an orange. This is what I brought from my family. Although it is not a spiritual fruit, it is also very sweet."
At this time, a young and lively female cultivator opposite Zhang Lie handed a tempting orange with a scent of fragrance. She was also a disciple accepted by Han Nuo. This time, Master Han Nuo accepted four disciples, including Zhang Lie in one breath. Therefore, these four people were of course a small group of their own compared to the other eight people.
Although he is alone in the world, Zhang Lie's communication skills are not too bad. His third junior brother An Shijie, fourth junior brother Jin Zuzhi, and fifth junior sister Ye Ling all come from the Immortal Cultivation Family and are all people with backgrounds. Therefore, the four of them are quite intimate in their jokes, and it seems that they have become good friends in a very short time.
Time is not too difficult to bear when welcoming each other like this. At the full speed of the late-stage monks in the foundation building stage, in just a few days, the Thousand-year-old Qianzhu Mountain Sect appeared in front of everyone. This is a sect of immortal cultivation located among dense mangosteens. The green mountains and clear waters are densely covered with bamboo forests, and the spiritual aura is evaporated. The monks of the Thousand-Zhu Mountain Sect are good at cultivating spiritual consciousness, good at controlling puppets, and high-level monks are good at setting sword formations, because many of the monks in this sect use spiritual bamboo as tools.
To be continued...