Cultivation of Immortality: Starting from Fu Cultivation

Chapter 544: Huge Number of Monks

Three days later, the three-day examination of Dongxuan College officially began, and Xingluozhou fell into a rare calm in the past decade.

Although a few students gave up this exam for various reasons.

However, most of the new generation of cultivators and the older generation of cultivators in Xingluo Province were preoccupied with the examination at Dongxuan Academy.

Therefore, since the start of the Dongxuan College entrance examination, the activity of cultivators in various parts of Xingluo Province has decreased significantly.

This time, the Dongxuan College exam involved assessments on various dimensions, including the students' speed of cultivation, progress in practicing spells, basic knowledge of cultivation, and the need to study at least one of the four arts of cultivation.

The total score of the final exam will be ranked according to the scores of each dimension.

Those who rank at the top of the overall ranking, whether they are students themselves or the Dongxuan College branch they are in, will receive generous rewards from Dongxuan City.

Those who excel in individual assessments will also be trained and rewarded by Dongxuan City, but the intensity of the rewards will be one level lower than those at the top of the overall rankings.

After the calm, there comes noise.

After the three-day Dongxuan College exam is over, the Dongxuan City new generation of Qi Refining Realm cultivators competition will be held.

Although the overall score ranking of the college entrance examination has not yet been announced, the students have put it behind them after the competition and began to prepare wholeheartedly for the Qi Refining Realm Competition one day later.

The number of low-level cultivators gathered near the major cities in the entire Xingluo Province has increased by more than ten times compared to before.

Among these cultivators, some are the new generation of Qi Refining teenagers from Dongxuan City who came to participate in the Qi Refining Competition and their accompanying elders, and some are the few remaining independent cultivators in Xingluo State.

Looking at the battle arenas being set up outside the major cities, the monks who had gathered here couldn't help but feel expectant and excited.

Of course, there were also a few independent cultivators who came to watch the fun, but they were feeling annoyed at this moment.

Outside a certain city.

The casual cultivator Li Yuanxing looked at the many battle platforms that had been set up for the Qi Refining Competition, feeling depressed and somewhat annoyed:

"I should have joined Dongxuan City ten years ago. Now I have lost the opportunity. For the sake of my son's future, I want to join Dongxuan City, but I don't have any channels."

Whether it is the current Qi Refining Realm competition, or the future Foundation Establishment Realm competition and Purple Mansion Realm competition.

Although these competitions involve the entire Xingluo Province, in fact only the cultivators under the command of Dongxuan City can participate.

As for Dongxuan Academy, anyone with spiritual roots can attend it among the ordinary residents of the villages, towns, and cities under the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City, or the children of monks under the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City.

Regardless of the level of spiritual talent, one can directly enter Dongxuan College and enjoy a series of benefits of Dongxuan City.

As for those people with spiritual root talents in Xingluo Province who are not affiliated with Dongxuan City, including the children of many independent cultivators in Xingluo Province, they all need to undergo certain assessments and reach the minimum requirements for spiritual root talents before they can enroll in Dongxuan College and join Dongxuan City.

Only the battle arenas built by Dongxuan City in various places in Xingluo State have no restrictions, and independent cultivators from Xingluo State can also go on stage to fight.

If a cultivator achieves ten consecutive victories, he or she can also receive corresponding rewards just like the cultivators under Dongxuan City.

However, the number of independent cultivators in Xingluo Province has been reduced several times. If one wants to achieve ten consecutive victories in the same realm, he will inevitably face the cultivators under Dongxuan City.

It is not so easy for a casual cultivator to defeat the cultivators who have been trained with the resources of Dongxuan City.

Not to mention other things, just talk about the protective spells practiced by the monks.

An independent cultivator may only be able to come into contact with a dozen or even only a few kinds of magic spells for them to choose and practice in their entire life.

However, the cultivators under Dongxuan City can easily access thousands or tens of thousands of different types of spells, from which they can choose spells that are suitable for their own practice to protect themselves.

In addition, with the support of Dongxuan City, as long as they have enough contribution points, they can obtain various corresponding natural treasures to assist in the practice of spells.

With the accumulation of time and space, the cultivators of the same level under Dongxuan City naturally have a much deeper foundation than the independent cultivators.

Ever since the wormhole passage in Xingluozhou was destroyed by the Green Demon Realm, not only the major forces in Xingluozhou, but also the middle and high-level independent cultivators have left Xingluozhou one after another to seek other development opportunities.

Even some low-level independent cultivators whose cultivation base is below the Golden Core Stage are trying to use various connections to leave Xingluo State and settle in other large states with wormhole passages.

Therefore, in the following years, the number of independent cultivators in Xingluo Province has been decreasing.

Especially after Xingluo Province was completely controlled by Dongxuan City, Dongxuan City once again issued an imperial edict to the independent cultivators and small forces in various parts of Xingluo Province, causing the number of independent cultivators in Xingluo Province to drop directly to a low point.

Therefore, most of the cultivators who are still active in Xingluo Province are already under the command of Dongxuan City.

However, Xingluo Province is a big province after all, with a very vast territory.

There are always some independent cultivators who are used to being alone. Since Dongxuan City does not use force to force them, some independent cultivators did not choose to join Dongxuan City during the imperial edict of Dongxuan City ten years ago.

Among them is Li Yuanxing, who has reached the Purple Mansion Realm.

Later, by chance, Li Yuanxing had another encounter and unexpectedly had a child.

Li Yuanxing, who had a child, finally decided to join Dongxuan City for the future development of his child.

But at that time, in Dongxuan City, as villages, towns, and cities directly under the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City were successively established in various parts of Xingluo Province, branches of Dongxuan Academy were blossoming everywhere.

This provided a stable source of new generation of cultivators for Dongxuan City, so shortly after the large-scale appeasement ten years ago, Dongxuan City stopped accepting other independent cultivators to join.

If the children of independent cultivators want to join Dongxuan City, they can only pass the assessment of Dongxuan College and graduate from Dongxuan College before they can join Dongxuan City.

But unfortunately, according to Li Yuanxing's special secret method of early detection, his son was most likely only of the second type of spiritual root talent, and did not meet the minimum standard of three types of spiritual root talent required by Dongxuan Academy.

Therefore, it is highly likely that Li Yuanxing’s son will not be able to pass the assessment of Dongxuan College and get the opportunity to join Dongxuan City in the future.

In fact, it’s more than just Li Yuanxing.
In recent years, the reform wind of Dongxuan City has spread throughout the entire Xingluo Province. What the independent cultivators in Xingluo Province hear and come into contact with every day are people and things related to Dongxuan City.

Under such circumstances, many independent cultivators began to consider joining Dongxuan City again.

After all, after Xingluo Province was incorporated into the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City, even if they did not join Dongxuan City, they still had to accept the rules set by Dongxuan City.

Unfortunately, the opportunity is fleeting.

They were rejected by Dongxuan City's imperial edict at the beginning, and now they want to take the initiative to join Dongxuan City but can no longer find a way.

"The Xingluozhou Qi Refining Realm Competition is now officially starting!"

One day later, more than 300 prefectures in the entire Xingluo Province started the first round of eliminations of the Qi Refining Realm Competition at the same time.

For a moment, the battle platforms set up outside the more than 300 prefectures of Xingluo Province were crowded with people and the scene was extremely lively. The dense crowds had surrounded all the major battle platforms.

"Dad, Mom, look, that's Guoguo. Guoguo has defeated the bad guy."

Among the crowd around the battle arena outside Yuanqing Mansion, a little girl over three years old with two pigtails was looking at a figure on one of the battle arenas and excitedly pulled her parents' hands and shouted loudly. The couple whose hands were held by their daughter looked at their son who won the battle arena, touched their daughter's little head, and their faces were also full of joy.

They were all ordinary residents of Yuanqing Prefecture City. Because their sons had signed up for the Qi Refining Realm Competition, although they were just ordinary people as residents of Yuanqing Prefecture City, they also obtained the special right to watch the Qi Refining Realm Competition.

The format of the first round of eliminations is very simple, and even involves a certain amount of luck.

All the cultivators from each prefecture who have registered for the Qi Refining Realm Competition will be randomly assigned to fight in pairs.

The winner advances and the loser is eliminated directly.

Until the last twenty people are left, they will be randomly matched against each other in pairs again.

The winner will defend the title, while the loser will have three chances to challenge. After winning the challenge, he can take over and become the new defender.

After the defender loses, he or she will also have three opportunities to challenge.

But no matter how many times the identities of defender and challenger change, everyone only has three chances to challenge.

When all twenty challenge opportunities are used up, or no one launches a challenge again, the ten successful defenders will have the opportunity to go to the county city to participate in the second round of eliminations.

As for getting injured during a fight, which results in not being able to exert full strength in the next fight?

The wealthy Dongxuan City said that this was no big deal.

In order to ensure the smooth conduct of the Qi Refining Realm Competition, the real elites must be selected from the new generation of cultivators in the entire Xingluo State.

With Ye Qingxuan's authorization, Dongxuan City prepared a large number of elixir combination packages this time. As long as you are not dead, you can be resurrected with full health in the next second after taking the elixir.

Moreover, a special formation was set up on the battle platforms used for competitions.

As long as one's own cultivation level does not exceed the Purple Mansion Realm and the degree of attack suffered does not exceed the Purple Mansion Realm, when suffering fatal damage, there will be a force to protect the cultivator's body from suffering devastating damage.

In order to let the monks participating in the competition experience the most realistic life and death battle.

This force cannot block attacks for the contestants. It can only protect the core part of the contestants' bodies from being destroyed, while keeping the contestants who have suffered a death blow in a dying state and preventing them from dying on the spot.

After the battle is decided, strong men from Dongxuan City will come to rescue the contestants and restore them to their original state.

Therefore, although this Qi Refining Realm Competition is a competition between the new generation within Dongxuan City, it is a battle without rules.

However, the new generation of Dongxuan City has never experienced the real baptism of blood and rain. In addition, the contestants are all from the same camp under Dongxuan City, so there are not many people who choose to fight to the death on the battlefield.

Most of the competitions between contestants are just a matter of points.

As time passed, many rounds of fierce fighting had already taken place on the battle platforms of various prefectures in Xingluo Province.

When the Xingluozhou Qi Refining Realm Competition officially began.

On the top of Wanling Mountain, Ye Qingxuan looked at a piece of data in his hand for a moment, his eyes dim and no one knew what he was thinking.

In the Profound Earth Realm, because of the nourishment of spiritual energy, the human body and meridians are fully developed and the spiritual roots are completely formed when they are twelve years old. They can begin to draw spiritual energy into the body and embark on the path of cultivation.

There are ways to shorten this process and allow the human race to embark on the path of cultivation earlier.

However, in order to shorten the natural gestation and growth process of the human body without damaging the potential of the cultivator, special high-level natural treasures must be used.

Even for a powerful cultivator of the Mahayana realm, it is not worth it to spend special high-level treasures just to allow his offspring to embark on the path of cultivation a few years earlier.

A few years is just a blink of an eye for mid- and high-level cultivators, so there is no need to spend too much energy in the early stages.

What's more, human intervention is sometimes not necessarily as good as letting nature take its course, so even the descendants of high-level cultivators rarely use high-level natural treasures to assist them and embark on the path of cultivation in advance.

It is also because of this that in the Dixuan Realm, people basically start testing their spiritual roots at the age of twelve and officially begin the path of cultivation.

Since the villages, towns, and cities throughout Xingluo State were built not long ago, the ordinary population has not yet grown to the capacity to accommodate them.

Among these ordinary residents, with the nourishment of spiritual energy, even ordinary people can easily live to about 130 years.

Therefore, in the Dixuan Realm, children under the age of twelve generally account for only about 10% of the ordinary residents.

Among the 10% of children, only // were detected to have spiritual roots.

When the major forces in Xingluo State evacuated before, they took away a group of ordinary residents, resulting in the ordinary residents in Xingluo State being basically at the bottom among the states in the Dongji Region.

Now, most of the ordinary population in Xingluo Province have come under the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City.

During these ten years, the number of new generations who had spiritual roots detected in the villages, towns, and cities under Dongxuan City and embarked on the path of cultivation was far from Ye Qingxuan's expectations.

But even so, the original base of ordinary residents in the vast Xingluo State is beyond ordinary people's imagination.

With a huge population base

On average, there are about five to six thousand new generation cultivators participating in the Qi Refining Competition in each prefecture of Xingluo Province.

This is because a part of the new generation has just embarked on the path of cultivation not long ago and has not signed up to participate in the Qi Refining Realm Competition.

Or they are gifted with only one or two spiritual roots, and after ten years of practice their cultivation is still at the first or second level of the Qi Refining Realm. They do not have the face to participate in this Qi Refining Realm competition. This group makes up the majority among the new generation of cultivators, and can even account for eight-tenths of the proportion.

Otherwise, if all the new generation monks born in the past ten years are counted, on average each prefecture must have at least 50,000 to 60,000 new generation monks.

Of course, before Xingluo Province was brought under the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City, the major forces in Xingluo Province would only recruit people with spiritual root talents of the third series or above.

Some of those with one or two spiritual root talents who came from ordinary backgrounds may never have the chance to embark on the path of cultivation in their entire lives, while others have become casual cultivators before Xingluozhou.

It's not just Xingluo Province. Before the invasion of the Qingmo Realm, even the Dongji Region and the entire Dixuan Realm were like this.

But this cannot deny the huge number of cultivators born in the Dixuan Realm every year.

There are so many new generation cultivators born in one prefecture within ten years.

There are more than 300 prefectures in Xingluo Province. One can imagine how many new generation cultivators have been born in the entire Xingluo Province in the past ten years.

And Xingluo Province is just the largest province with the lowest number of ordinary residents in the Dongji Region. There are a total of ninety-nine large provinces in the entire Dongji Region, and there are nine large regions in the entire Dixuan Realm.

Plus there are islands and continents as numerous as stars in the endless sea.

It is hard to imagine how huge the number of cultivators born in the Dixuan Realm is every year.

But perhaps it is precisely because of this that the Dixuan Realm has accumulated unfathomable foundation of cultivators.

Only in this way can we not lose in the battle with the Green Demon Realm and have enough monks to fight against the Green Demon Clan continuously!
(End of this chapter)