The road is vague

Chapter 40: Outer Gate
The defeated Li Mo felt relieved because he no longer cared about the test results.

But then Yang Guang actually defeated Yang Zhiman with his martial arts skills and made it into the top 128 of this assessment, which made Li Mo, Ma Ling and Niu Li sigh at the unfairness of fate. This guy was really lucky.

However, Li Mo also noticed that Yang Zhiman's cultivation had reached the middle stage of the third level of Qi training, which was actually higher than Yang Guang's. From this, it seemed that he was definitely not an ordinary person, but as a cultivator in the early stage, he had too few means and it was difficult for him to fight against martial artists.

Yang Guang was very proud. The reward he could get this time was really considerable. He was getting closer and closer to the goal of 109th place. If he could squeeze into the top 100, the reward would be raised to a higher level.

"Luck is also part of strength!"

The three of them rolled their eyes when they heard this.

What surprised Li Mo a little was that Wang Feng was also defeated.

You have to know that he had already reached the fourth level of Qi training half a year ago, and now he is probably at the fifth level of Qi training. However, he never used any magic weapon during the fight. He doesn't look like someone who can't afford a magic weapon. This really puzzled Li Mo.

So he hurried forward to ask.

"Why don't you use your magic weapon?"

After hearing this, Zhu Yidan couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh.

Zhao Xiaonan was as confused as Li Mo, and Wang Feng was helpless.

"This time when I went back, my family did prepare two handy magical instruments for me. But Ye Xuan said she was worried that I would be too high-profile and have affairs with other women. She had a relatively dangerous mission to carry out, so she took them all away."

Li Mo couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

"Then you didn't learn a few more powerful spells?"

Wang Feng smiled strangely and leaned close to Li Mo's ear.

"I'm currently learning a dual cultivation secret technique, and Ye Xuan is also practicing. We'll be collaborating with each other in the future. You won't understand how much fun it will be, hehe."

Li Mo was dumbfounded when he heard this.

"As for Lingmumen's year-end and final exam results, they're nothing. I don't need to go through Lingmumen's channels to get a job anyway."

"So what will you do after graduation?"

Wang Feng heard this and said, "I just need to graduate successfully. Then I can go back to Yuancheng to work with my connections and get a position in the court through the selection of filial and honest officials. Then I can find a way to transfer Ye Xuan to Yuancheng and give her a sinecure in Sihaitang."

Select filial and honest people?
Li Mo was really envious when he heard this.

There are five outer sect halls, namely Special Service Hall, Treasure Hall, Supervisor Hall, Four Seas Hall and Scattered Leaves Hall.

Among them, the monks who join the Special Service Hall will serve in the Qian Kingdom's Tianming Department as inspectors, responsible for maintaining public order in various places, and can enjoy the official titles and ranks of the Daqian Kingdom and the court salary.

Needless to say, Jubaotang is responsible for managing Lingmumen's businesses in various markets.

The Supervisor's Hall is where Ye Xuan currently works. Things like mining development, recruiting disciples, large-scale construction, resource exploration, and maintaining the Flying Boat Station are all the responsibilities of the Supervisor's Hall.

In comparison, Sihaitang is indeed a sinecure.

There is only one requirement for all disciples serving in Sihaitang, and that is to stay away from Muzhou and send intelligence on various major events happening in their place back to Lingmumen on a regular basis.

This is considered the intelligence organization department of Lingmu Sect.

As for the last Sanye Hall, it is an elegant name.

All the disciples who entered this hall were basically left alone. They were judged by Lingmu Sect as having no value in training. Their status in the outside world was basically the same as that of casual cultivators. Their only value was that they possessed spiritual roots.

Sihaitang will regularly hold social activities for unmarried Sihaitang disciples. When Lingmumen recruits disciples in the future, it will conduct a thorough investigation of the descendants of these Sanyetang disciples. There is no need to spend spirit stones to test their spiritual roots. That's all.

Among those who were eliminated from the Enlightenment Hall, some will join this hall.

After the third-year graduation examination, many people whose cultivation level is less than the fourth level of Qi training will be stuffed into this hall.

"I see."

After Li Mo realized that his worries were completely unnecessary, he said nothing more and left.

It is not known whether there are other disciples like Wang Feng in this session, but after Li Mo thought about it carefully, he felt that there should be no such people. After all, even if people from outside came to Lingmumen with ulterior motives, they should have entered from Anle City, the provincial capital, which means they should have been in the enlightenment class that Ding Wei was responsible for teaching.

As for Wang Feng's arrival, the Ye family might have already informed the senior leaders of the sect.

"wrong."

Li Mo seemed to be lost in thought.

"The head of the training hall is named Ye Qing, and he is a Jindan ancestor of the Ye family. There is no need to make things complicated!"

No wonder the high-level independent monks complain about the four major families.

The four great families are indeed deeply rooted in Lingmu Sect, and through intermarriage, their connections are complex and intertwined. If the individual cultivators do not work together, it will be difficult for them to resist.

What happened to Wang Zhu when he was a gatekeeper at Jubao Hall was a microcosm of the struggle between the two sides.

However, every sect should have similar hidden dangers, and Lingmu Sect is not an exception. But the difference is that if the sect's Nascent Soul cultivators are strong enough, or the sect is developing rapidly, these hidden dangers will be suppressed, or there will be enough cultivation resources to be allocated.

But at this moment.

The only remaining Nascent Soul cultivator in Lingmu Sect has been in seclusion for ten years. In addition, the development of Lingmu Sect has been frustrated, and the contradictions between the disciples from aristocratic families and the independent disciples have naturally become increasingly prominent.

Li Mo has been in Lingmumen for quite some time.

Compared to the Pingshan Society, he has fallen in love with everything here and regards it as his home. He really doesn't want to see the Lingmu Sect decline because of the fight between the two sides.

"Look, Ye Yimeng is here."

Following Yang Guang's voice, Li Mo looked over.

Although Master Ye of the Advanced Training Hall was known to be harsh, he was now looking at the woman beside him with a doting look on his face.

Compared to the first time he saw this female cultivator more than half a year ago, Li Mo felt that she seemed to have become more beautiful. She had transformed from a stunning beauty with a bone-melting and enchanting beauty into a dignified and charming beauty, and exuded an extraordinary and otherworldly purity and charm. Under the careful instructions of Master Ye, she calmly walked towards the arena barrier.

"Tsk tsk, it truly lives up to the name of the Night-Shining Pearl on Qingming Mountain."

Someone nearby exclaimed, and many people were attracted by Ye Yimeng.

"What night-shining pearl?"

Li Mo looked surprised.

Seeing Li Mo like this, Yang Guang smiled and explained. "Some people say that she is not only the daughter of the Ye family, but also the fairy of our Qingming Mountain. That's why she is called the Night Pearl of Qingming Mountain."

Li Mo suddenly realized.

However, although Ye Yimeng is still beautiful, the reaction of the crowd is not as strong as at the beginning, and she has not aroused the enthusiasm of many people like Zhao Huaxue.

Most people look at it with pure appreciation.

On the one hand, everyone has matured a lot compared to when they first started.

On the other hand, for practitioners, the desire for sexual intercourse between men and women will gradually be suppressed by the joy of realizing the Tao.

But there seemed to be something wrong with Zhao Huaxue herself.

She seemed to exude an indescribable special charm that made many male cultivators unable to extricate themselves from her.

Ye Yimeng's opponent is a second-year female disciple.

Compared to Ye Yimeng's calmness and composure, this female disciple seemed to be under quite pressure. As the competition officially began, both sides used different magical weapons and interspersed various low-level spells to start a fight.

Judging from Ye Yimeng's body movements, she obviously has a certain foundation in martial arts, but it is not very profound, and as Yang Guang said, her magic power is very deep.

After the two sides fought for a long time, when the crucial moment of deciding the winner was approaching, Ye Yimeng suddenly raised her hand to signal.

"I surrender."

The female cultivator who was fighting with him stopped when she heard this. She was first surprised, and then became angry and embarrassed.

"what do you mean?"

Ye Yimeng smiled and replied, "It's not that I intend to give in, it's just that I'm good at cultivating my energy, and outsiders can't see through my true intentions. In fact, my magic power has been exhausted, and it's really hard to continue."

After bowing, Ye Yimeng tore off the refuge talisman on her body and left the barrier.

The female cultivator on the stage looked suspicious upon hearing this.

Many cultivators in the audience opened their spiritual eyes, but found nothing. Li Mo also frowned. Just when he was about to believe it, he suddenly noticed that the birds on the sacred tree were silent at this moment, especially quiet. He was stunned for a moment, until Ye Yimeng left, the spiritual birds on the sacred tree became active again.

"How is this going?"

Li Mo instinctively realized that Ye Yimeng must be harboring a big secret.

"Whatever the secret is, try to stay away from her."

Li Mo is also a person with secrets. He is not curious about the secrets of Ye Yimeng, and he does not want to attract the attention of such a person with opportunities and complicated background because of his curiosity.

In the following loser group competition, Li Mo had no choice but to admit defeat due to his previous overdraft and failed to enter the top 200.

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Day three.

With Yang Guang's defeat, the year-end assessment is over for the four-member team.

Next came the fight between the second-year disciples. As for what kind of ranking Jiang Sheng, who possessed the Three Yang Body, would get, the four of them were not too concerned.

So Li Mo found Master Chen Rong from the Alchemy Hall and told her that he was going to take the test tomorrow.

"Okay, wait for my news tomorrow."

After hearing this, Li Mo watched the game from the audience for a while and learned a lot of fighting experience.

He could see that many first-year disciples seemed to have suffered a great blow from this assessment and were determined to work hard to become stronger.

Compared with the fights between the first and second year disciples, the fights between the third year disciples can be said to be fought with all their might and without any hesitation, because this graduation assessment is not only related to the current assessment rewards, but also to their future hall allocation, specific positions, and future prospects. Naturally, they must be well prepared and strive to be the best.

Li Mo was also feasting his eyes.

Sudden.

He noticed that one of the two people appearing this time was Tian Fen, who taught him how to summon Lei Nu.

The female cultivator who was fighting against him seemed to be a female disciple from a noble family. Li Mo remembered that when he was watching the battle yesterday, this female cultivator had successively sacrificed many kinds of magical weapons, and her strength was extraordinary.

As the game began, the two sides quickly started fighting.

Li Mo could almost conclude that the strength of these two people was not inferior to that of the Tianfu Sect cultivator who had killed Jiujiang Thunder Dragon Zhou Tai. Although Tian Fen's magic weapons were not as many as the female cultivator's, he had a set of three flying swords, coupled with his endless thunder and fire dual-attribute spells, the fight between the two sides was truly exciting.

Tian Fen's cultivation level is the ninth level of Qi training, and the female cultivator is most likely at the same level. It can be said that it is a collision of strong opponents, and they are evenly matched.

"I don't know when I will be able to possess such strength."

Li Mo felt a little envious.

As the fight between the two sides continued, it seemed that they had reached a critical moment where they were at the end of their rope. Suddenly, the female cultivator sneered, took out two talismans, and summoned two mighty stone lions, one on the left and one on the right, which pounced towards Tian Fen, making a rumbling sound when they stepped on the ground.

Tian Fen's eyes grew slightly solemn.

Then something in his body seemed to explode suddenly, and astonishing electric light burst out from his body surface. His momentum increased instantly. Under the shocked gaze of the female cultivator, Tian Fen quickly passed by the two stone lions, combined his three swords into one, and smashed her umbrella-shaped magic weapon with one sword.

The refuge talisman flashed, and the female cultivator appeared outside the barrier.

"you!"

The female cultivator turned her head and looked at Tian Fen inside the barrier, still in disbelief.

Tian Fen knelt on one knee, breathing heavily, and greeted with a victorious attitude.

Li Mo's eyes in the audience were almost popping out. At that moment, Tian Fen's speed was too fast and his explosive power was too strong.

He suddenly remembered that the other party had said that as long as he collected 300 spirit stones, he would teach him the secret art of thunder magic.

Could it be the ability that was displayed just now?
The more Li Mo thought about it, the more excited he became, and he wished he could get three hundred spirit stones right away.

But this is three hundred spirit stones after all, which is not a small amount. With his cultivation level of only the fourth level of Qi training, it is just a thought for him.

After sighing, Li Mo turned and left, preparing to rest early and recharge his energy for tomorrow's alchemy test.

(End of this chapter)