Journey to the head

In August of the 386th year of Jiashen, two pieces of news quickly spread throughout Cangzhou, quickly becoming the hottest topic of discussion among the monks after dinner, and they continued to spread to the surrounding areas of Cangzhou.

First, Xuanwei Sect, the leader of Cangzhou, obtained a valuable treasure and handed it over to the overlord sect Taiyi Paradise, and was rewarded by Taiyi Paradise. The thousands of giant whales traveling through the void and the tens of thousands of monks below the eighteen brilliant treasure ships could clearly see it.

Even later, when the number of treasure ships was rumored to be 888, everyone just smacked their lips and envied the Xuanwei Sect's good luck. Other than that, it would not cause any waves.

Because that is the Xuanwei Sect, the leader of Cangzhou, and the overlord of Yuheng Continent, Taiyi Paradise!

Who dares to disturb Tai Sui?
So what caused shock in Cangzhou and surrounding areas was the second piece of news that came out at the same time.

This is a statement, a statement released by the Xuanwei Sect.

"Today, the Mingyu Sword Sect of the Jindan Sect in our state, and the fourth-level intermediate spiritual veins of the Mountain Gate Splitting Sword Peak are going to be destroyed. At that time, the innate spiritual energy will emerge."

"This rare treasure is a gift from heaven. This innate spiritual energy is originally the private treasure of the Mingyu Sword Sect, and each sect should not pry into it. However, the Mingyu Sword Sect is selfless and gives back to the state in order to further prosper the state and stabilize the overall situation. The prefectures and counties proactively provide half of the innate spiritual energy to hold the competition for innate spiritual energy."

As soon as the statement came out, everyone in the streets and alleys from all walks of life were excited. They studied it over and over again and figured out a few key points.

1. From now on, Xuanwei sent envoys to the Sky-Splitting Sword Peak to monitor the progress of the spiritual vein destruction at any time, and hold a battle for the innate spiritual energy before the spiritual vein is about to be destroyed to determine the ownership of half of the innate spiritual energy.

2. From now on, the Mingyu Sword Sect will move out of the Sky-Splitting Sword Peak and into the Mingjian Mountain. The spiritual veins of the Sky-Splitting Sword Peak are protected by the Xuanwei Sect. Anyone who dares to attack the Sky-Splitting Sword Peak will be regarded as declaring war on the Xuanwei Sect. However, this kind of protection is limited to the Sky-Splitting Sword Peak and does not mean that the Mingyu Sword Sect is protected by the Xuanwei Sect.

3. The spiritual veins of the Sky-Splitting Sword Peak originally belonged to the Mingyu Sword Sect, and the innate spiritual energy was originally the private property of the Mingyu Sword Sect. Now the Mingyu Sword Sect provides half of it as a heavy prize in the competition, and the remaining half still belongs to the Mingyu Sword Sect. Other sects are not allowed to covet it, and those who dare to rob it are regarded as enemies of the Xuanwei Sect.

4. The competition for innate spiritual energy is held by the Xuanwei Sect. Participants are limited to Jin Dan and below. Those above Jin Dan are not allowed to participate in the battle.

5. This competition for innate spiritual energy adopts a team competition mode, with each team having three members. Before the start of each game, participating teams can change members, but no changes are allowed until the winner is determined during the game.

6. The competition adopts a points competition system, and the final ranking will be based on points. In the end, the top one-third of the teams will receive prizes provided by the Xuanwei Sect, and the top-ranked team will receive innate spiritual energy.

7. The participating monks are limited to monks from the same state or casual practitioners from other states. You need to form your own team first, and then register with the Xuanwei Sect. Xuanwei Sect will conduct preliminary screening and announce the list of contestants.

8. All other unexplained matters will be explained by the Xuanwei Sect.

As soon as the battle for innate spiritual energy broke out, the whole state was talking about it, and everyone saw the reason behind it.

Originally, the Mingyu Sword Sect was an independent Jindan Sect. If it wanted to preserve the entire innate spiritual energy on its own, the Xuanwei Sect had no obligation to support it.

But the Xuanwei Sect is also very entangled with this innate spiritual energy. Leave it alone, chaos in the state may lead to a war and a loss of combat power. No matter what, the temptation of a complete innate spiritual energy is too great. Various sects in the state, led by Yuanying Sect, are not convinced and may even plot to steal it privately. The consequences are still terrible.

Moreover, Miaomiao Xuanjun did not want to see Yuanxu Lingjun and Triumphant Lingjun obtain innate spiritual energy.

But now, Mingyu Sword Sect takes the initiative to give half of it and proposes a plan for Xuanwei Sect to host the battle for innate spiritual energy. Everything is different!
Originally I wanted to lick the blood with my knife, but I didn’t know what the price would be, and I didn’t know if I could get it or how much I could get. Now that there is a reasonable and legal path, but the income is reduced, and at the same time, the Xuanwei Sect is stationed on the illegal path, everyone will naturally choose to participate in the battle for innate spiritual energy.

Moreover, it is stipulated that Yuanying forces such as Spirit Beast Sect and Sikong Family can also be added, but their player strength is limited to Jindan Zhenren. This not only ensures the fairness of the battle, but also limits the advantages of Yuanying forces. It won't block the road and force them to take risks. After all, they are very confident in their own golden elixir.

The Xuanwei Sect holds this competition. Firstly, by holding the state-wide competition, it can significantly enhance the prestige of the Xuanwei Sect and make its identity as the leader of Cangzhou more obvious. Secondly, through the competition, it can achieve the functions of training, gathering force and rectification. Maybe we can also attract Jindan casual cultivators to join Cangzhou. Thirdly, we don’t have to pay for the first place prize ourselves.

Although the lower rankings require a batch of prizes, it is not a problem at all for the wealthy Xuanwei Sect.

You can achieve it in one fell swoop, why not?
Therefore, the Xuanwei Sect quickly agreed to the Mingyu Sword Sect's plan, and sent envoys to the Sky Splitting Sword Peak to issue a statement to the entire state.

For the Mingyu Sword Sect, this is also the result of repeated considerations and trade-offs.

If you don’t give it at all, I’m afraid there won’t be anything left at all in the end. Although the alliance of the three factions is said to be quite powerful, it may still be unable to cope with the swarming wolves, not to mention the possibility of facing Yuanying.

If too little is given out, it will not be very attractive to various factions, and there is still the risk of being coveted and robbed secretly.

If too much is given out, it will undoubtedly be a huge loss.

Giving half of it is still very attractive to the majority of Jindan, and he finally has some reservations.

Although the original complete innate spiritual energy is still a little short of being able to advance to the minor realm for Yuanying, for Jindan, it is more than enough to advance to both minor realms.

Master Zangfeng will be able to break into the late stage of Jindan by cultivating himself in one or two years. There are still fifteen to twenty years before the spiritual vein is broken, which means that he can still cultivate by himself for fifteen to twenty years. In this way, even with half of the innate spiritual energy, he could barely reach the level of Golden Core Perfection.

Even if Lu Gan was promised to separate a ray, it would still be within the scope of what he could afford. At most, he would have to cultivate for a few more years.

After all, it was thanks to Lu Qian's advice and matchmaking - it was Lu Qian's matchmaking that allowed Master Zang Feng to successfully meet Master Miao Miao Xuan, otherwise Master Xuan might not have met Master Zang Feng.

Moreover, the subsequent battle for the innate spiritual energy, or for the Mingyu Sword Sect, the battle to defend the innate spiritual energy, will still require the efforts of Yunshan.

Don't forget, even though half of the innate spiritual energy is guaranteed, the Mingyu Sword Sect itself can still participate in the battle for the innate spiritual energy! If you can win the championship, won't you be able to take back your innate spiritual energy?

Because it is a three-on-three team battle, the two powerful forces of the Yunshan School, Fairy Jingxia or Lu Gan, are indispensable. For a team, perhaps Lu Qian, the formation cultivator, could play an even better role than Fairy Jingxia.

Of course, neither Lu Gan nor Zang Feng Zhenren had any confidence that their small team could defeat the Xuanwei Sect, the Spiritual Beast Sect or the Sikong Family's Golden Pill. But as long as you try your best to get a better ranking, you can also get other generous rewards from the Xuanwei Sect, which is not a loss.

Taoist Xichan burst out laughing after hearing this statement: "Master, it's so interesting that a piece of innate spiritual energy can lead to such a good show. This must be the trick of that kid Lu Gan. How about it? He is really Very clever."

"Assessing the situation, the greatest benefit is indeed a talent." Yuanxu Lingjun nodded slightly, then changed the topic, "How about three versus three, are you confident?"

The golden toad above his head cooed, as if in response, Taoist Xichan gave a big yawn: "Master, just look at it. I am determined to obtain this half of the innate spiritual energy, which will be of great help to my magical powers."

Eight thousand miles away from the Spirit Beast Sect's mountain gate is the land of the Sikong family. The disciples of the Sikong family sat neatly in the main hall, looking in awe at the triumphant spiritual lord Sikong Sheng who occupied the high position.

This hall is extremely tall and huge, with one hundred and eight dragon-coiled pillars. Even though there are a large group of mostly strong martial artists sitting here, it still looks empty. What is even more eye-catching is that the seats behind these martial cultivators are covered with all kinds of spirit animal furs, or the heads of spirit animals are hung on them.

These are their former trophies.

"Crooked ways." Sikong Sheng said, "I can clearly hear Lord Miaomiaoxuan's calculations here, but he is just afraid that that old bastard and I will get innate spiritual energy."

"But now that there is an imbalance of power in the state, he must be keeping a close eye on him, so let's stay away from him for the time being."

"Three versus three, who of you wants to participate?"

Suddenly, in the main hall, all the golden elixirs were vying for the first place, shouting for battle.

Sikong Heng's voice was particularly loud: "Third Grandpa, let me go! I will kill Gu Nichang of the Yunshan Sect first, and then I will kill him after Lu Gan Jindan!"

"The Yunshan sect is no better than a chicken or a dog, but they actually want to challenge my family. Let them regret deeply in this battle for innate spiritual energy!"

As the news spread rapidly, all the Jindan sects in Cangzhou and even the Jindan cultivators in the surrounding prefectures heard the news and gathered their friends to form a team and sign up for the competition.

This kind of state-wide competition is extremely rare. If you can get a higher ranking, you can not only win prizes, but also show your face and build your own brand. Even if the results were not good, it was a relatively peaceful sparring experience and was of great help to my own practice.

So after the bustling three-month registration period, a total of twenty teams signed up to compete, including sixteen sect golden elixir teams and four casual cultivator golden elixir teams.

The teams from Yunshan, Mingyu Sword Sect and Huanggen Sect were also among them. Both Zangfeng and Ye Xiao are practicing hard day and night, hoping to reach a higher level before the official competition comes.

As for Gu Nichang. In their eyes, Fairy Jingxia is in seclusion every day, so her practice will naturally not fall behind.

Various sects and casual cultivators all began to practice diligently around this competition that shocked the whole party.

In August of the 388th year of Jiashen, Zheng Duan, the representative foreign affairs elder of the Yunshan sect, an opportunity came after he completed his Qi training. With the help of his master Yang Jiye, he successfully built the foundation.

Everyone on Mianlong Mountain was very happy, especially Yang Jiye.

Zheng Duan was his first disciple. He had high hopes and worked very hard on his suggestions. Now that he has finally achieved results, he is really happy and satisfied.

Subsequently, the Yunshan Sect held an elders meeting, and in accordance with the original agreement, the word "generation" was removed from Zheng Duan. From then on, Zheng Duan officially served as the foreign affairs elder of the Yunshan Sect.

In March of the 389th year of Jiashen, Xu Yingcai, the former leader of Qingli Mountain and now the honorary elder of Yunshan Sect, successfully established the foundation. He attributed this breakthrough entirely to the wise leadership of the Yunshan Sect.

In fact, Lu Gan felt that his own good attitude played a big role.

Although he had long lost his authority, Xu Yingcai didn't care. Instead, because he didn't have to worry about anything and had all kinds of cultivation resources, he was able to relax and concentrate on his cultivation, and finally achieved a success that even surprised him.

After he successfully established the foundation, he was assigned a task, which was to serve as a teacher and practice feeding moves with the Yunshan disciples. Nothing else has changed. So there was a foundation-building Taoist priest on Mianlong Mountain who was cheerful and glowing all day long.

But in October of the same year, Sun Hanjun, the former leader of the Zhuquan Sect and now the honorary elder of the Yunshan Sect, also looked for a place to build a foundation, but unfortunately failed. She herself was also very depressed, but she had no choice but to brace herself up and get ready to fight again. It's a pity that I don't know when the second opportunity will come.

In September of the 390th year of Jiashen, after Supervisory Deacon Su Yan had successfully practiced Qi for two years, the opportunity came to build the foundation. The Yunshan Sect did not take it seriously and appointed Wang Yu and Ding Shu to lead a group of elite disciples to guard and build the foundation.

But ultimately the foundation building failed.

Lu Gan was also surprised when the news came. Su Yan had the opportunity to build a foundation this time, and he had already reached the threshold of foundation building in practice. Why did he fail?
There is no problem with personality. He is a calm and steady person. Although he doesn't talk much, he is very considerate in dealing with others. He is not the kind of person who is withdrawn and unsociable.

Nowadays, the Yunshan Sect has a great cause, and the supervision department used to have no major issues, but now it has become a very busy place. It is necessary to supervise the entire work process of each department and check various accounts, details, and records. In recent years, it is no longer uncommon for disciples to feel that individual deacons are acting unfairly and to request supervisory intervention.

But Su Yan can handle these things in an orderly manner and is a talented person. Originally, Lu Gan planned to promote him to Acting Supervisor Elder after he succeeded in building the foundation, but unexpectedly he failed.

As expected, the practice of cultivation is full of surprises, and building the foundation is even more difficult. Even if you are fully prepared and your quality is excellent, there is still a possibility of failure.

Fortunately, Su Yan himself has a tenacious personality, and he adjusted in time with Lu Qian's comfort, quietly accumulating strength and waiting for the next opportunity.

In April of the 393rd year of Jiashen, the opportunity came after Wu Zhilan, a true disciple of Wang Yu and the expedition deacon of the Yunshan sect, had completed his Qi training for a year, and Wang Yu personally protected him.

Unfortunately, the foundation building failed.

Lu Qian knew in his heart that this probably had a lot to do with her mentality. After adjusting to the post of Expedition Deacon, her mentality still failed to recover. She was depressed all day long and was out of shape in her work and practice.

Cultivators are originally fighting against heaven and earth, and against fate. Without the spirit of courage to move forward, failure in foundation building is inevitable.

But even if they understood the truth, there was still a wave of uproar among the Yunshan sect.

This is already the third Qi-training consummation that failed in foundation building.
My faction seems to be having bad luck lately.

Even Lu Qian felt a little guilty in his heart. After offering incense and praying to the ancestors of all generations, he thought about the subsequent failure of Su Yan and Wu Zhilan to build the foundation. They were both guarded by Wang Yu. Ahem, maybe it was the half-corpse body of Senior Brother Wang, and the living body. A bit of a conflict in popularity?

Hey, for good luck, it’s better not to let Senior Brother Wang protect you from now on.

After three consecutive failures, who will be next to build a foundation?

Can he succeed?

The eyes of the Yunshan sect were all focused on one person.

That is Tan Yunxing, the second disciple of the sect leader who has been practicing Qi for more than two years. (End of chapter)