I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 80 Assessment Begins (asking for monthly ticket)
The seventh day of the first lunar month in the year of Bingzi.

A notice was posted at the Lingbo Mountain Martial Arts Arena, announcing the top 50 outer disciples' written exams. As expected, Jiang Yi passed...

second!

The first place is Shen Puning. She comes from a family with a long history of learning, which is not something that Jiang Yi can make up for by just studying for three months and memorizing everything he has.

The second place also has 400 contribution points and 400 low-grade spirit stones, and the reward for first place on the gold list last month has also been received long ago.

Jiang Yi rode Hongli to the library and exchanged it for "Qingmu Yangyuan Gong (Foundation Building Chapter)".

She had 710 contribution points and 488 low-grade spirit stones left. She hadn't even touched the low-grade spirit stones that were the reward for being the first on the December Gold List, but she bought the materials needed to refine the Chengling Pill for Hongli.

She also signed Hongli up for the alchemy class in the Dharma Hall, and asked Shen Puning to ride Hongli to the talisman-making class, so that Hongli could take the alchemy class at the same time.

She was too lazy to teach herself, and it was also too lazy to spend money to buy a comfortable life.

At this moment, Jiang Yi was riding on Hongli and going down the mountain to the Deacon's Hall to buy some necessary strategic materials such as elixirs, talismans, empty bottles and bags, while reading the jade slips of the exercises in his hand.

"How about renaming this crappy technique as the Krypton Gold Technique? Spiritual wood is needed for regular cultivation, breaking through barriers, and building foundations. And it's best if it's of the third rank?"

The first-grade spiritual wood corresponds to the Qi training stage, the second-grade spiritual wood corresponds to the early and middle stages of foundation building, and the third-grade spiritual wood is mostly a material that can only be accessed by cultivators from the late foundation building stage to the early Golden Core stage.

With her current strength, she can only buy third-grade spiritual wood at the auction house, and she can't get it without 30,000 to 50,000 spiritual stones.

Hongli also made a huge initial investment in learning alchemy. This time when she went to the secret realm of Xuandu Mountain, she had to fill all the empty demon spirit bags and storage bags on her body.

However, apart from consuming spirit stones, Qingmu Yangyuan Gong is not difficult to practice at all. The effect after building the foundation also makes Jiang Yi, who has seen many good sword techniques, excited.

The technique states that it takes the third-grade spiritual wood as the foundation, refines its original wood marrow and integrates it into the spiritual power circulation, and sublimates the spiritual power circulation constructed during the Qi training period into the 'Qingmu Daoji'.

To lay the foundation for this skill, one needs to go into seclusion in a place with lush spiritual trees, absorbing the essence of plants for a hundred days, so that the vitality in the body is filled to the point of "dead wood coming back to life in spring".

After the Qingmu Dao Base is established, the internal organs and meridians will coexist with the Qingmu Dao Base. When seriously injured, spiritual wood of the second grade or above can be consumed to quickly repair the body, and regeneration of broken limbs is also a piece of cake.

The speed of true essence recovery is increased by three times, and it is immune to low-level toxins and low-level wood spells. The body shape and breath can be concealed by the scent of surrounding vegetation. The more lush the vegetation, the stronger the concealment effect.

After building the foundation, the three spells of Huansheng, Chaoyuan and Qingxin can be combined into "Spring Rain", releasing green wood spiritual rain with oneself as the center. Within the range of the spiritual rain, the injuries of people marked by one's spiritual consciousness will heal quickly, and their spiritual power will continue to recover, with a detoxification effect.

The range and duration of the spiritual rain depend on one's own true energy reserves, but in places where there is lush vegetation, one can quickly draw vitality from the surrounding vegetation to maintain the range and duration of the spell.

In addition, the foundation-building period has an additional life-saving escape technique called "Transform into a Shadow and Follow the Wind". By burning the essence of the spiritual wood, the body will turn into green smoke and escape into the wind, and instantly move to any place with lush vegetation within a hundred miles.

After escaping, it leaves behind a "wooden puppet phantom" to attract attacks. When the phantom is broken, it will turn into thorny vines to wrap around the enemy and prevent the enemy from chasing.

This method can be used once every seven days. If it is used forcibly for the second time within seven days, it will damage Qingmu Daoji and it will be irreparable, affecting the subsequent formation of Dan.

After building the foundation, every time you break through a major realm, you need a third-grade or higher spiritual wood to help you break through. Without spiritual wood, you cannot break through.

Jiang Yi seriously suspected that this technique had a higher level of follow-up. When he became an inner sect disciple in the future, he would check in the inner sect secret chamber to find out.

"If I had known that this technique would rely more and more on spiritual wood in the later stages, I should have contracted a wood-type demon spirit and used it myself."

This idea is very reliable, but unfortunately the wood-type monsters that can produce spiritual wood are as rare as the storm monsters, and they are hard to come by.

The Xuandu Mountain secret realm where we're going for this assessment is like spring all year round, with peach trees and lakes everywhere. It's a place with lush vegetation and a wide variety of spiritual waters, so we might as well try our luck.
While he was thinking, Hongli had already brought Jiang Yi to the outside of the Deacon Hall. Jiang Yi looked up at the thousand-year-old tree and the flowering vines, and swallowed subconsciously.

"Forget it, I can't defeat this guy even if my golden core is not broken. I'm going to run away."

*
The wind on the eighth day of the first lunar month was still biting and cold, the mountains and rivers were covered with snow, and everything looked like silver. However, the southwestern border of the Cang Ling Sect suddenly revealed a hundred miles of spring scenery in this frosty white.

Xuandu Mountain pierces the snow curtain like a jade hairpin, and the peach forest at the foot of the mountain is in full bloom. The pink and white petals flutter in the wind, spreading out a sea of ​​fragrant snow that reaches the sky.

The mist that lingers in the forest all year round moves and swirls like a living thing, sometimes gathering into circular vortexes, hanging between the branches of ancient peach trees, and sometimes condensing into flowing clouds and gauze, brushing across the bluestone path covered with colorful fallen petals.

The misty vortex connects to another space. Under the morning light, you can vaguely see the shadows of waterfalls and springs emerging from the deep gaps in the mist.

A three-meter-high jade boundary marker stood beside the peach forest. The four characters "Xuandu Fudi" on the marker were being activated by the spiritual power of more than twenty Cangling foundation-building disciples. As the seal characters flowed, the out-of-control white mist was restrained into a regular entrance passage again.

At this time every year, the Xuandu Mountain Secret Realm will be temporarily closed, and the inner disciples and direct disciples of the Cangling Sect will no longer be allowed to enter and exit freely.

On the snowy slope east of the boundary marker, the flag of the Cang Ling Sect fluttered in the wind. Blue-clothed disciples who had walked out of the teleportation array in the distant market town came in droves, handing identity tokens to the two foundation-building disciples who were checking them, confirming their eligibility to participate in this inner sect assessment.

After the inspection, the blue-clothed disciples gathered in groups of three or five, waiting for the secret realm to officially open.

"Have you heard? For this secret realm assessment, True Lord Danxi invited True Lord Longri and True Lord Huiyuan to watch together."

"Where did you hear that?"

"As for Elder Chisongzi from the Lingbo Mountain Deacon Hall, give him some good tea and he'll tell you everything."

"Are there any important figures among those taking the test this time? Our sect has three Yuanyings in total. Are they all coming to watch the battle?"

There are nine major immortal sects in Beixuan. The Xuanying Sword Sect has four Nascent Soul sword cultivators, the Cangling Sect has three Nascent Soul cultivators, and the other immortal sects have only one or two.

"I don't know. I heard that True Lord Danxi is coming out of seclusion this time to recruit a disciple. He wants to choose one from the disciples who are taking the assessment. It's very likely that True Lord Longri and True Lord Huiyuan will also take a disciple back with them."

"Usually, only the Jindan True Masters in the sect accept disciples. The Yuanying True Masters all live in seclusion and never show up. They are served by transformed demon spirits and don't need their disciples to do anything."

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be accepted as a disciple by the Nascent Soul, so you must perform well."

"Let's forget about it. If we want to perform, we'll have to be in the top three of the Twelve Peaks' Gold Ranking. We'll be lucky if we can capture a few talented demon spirits and gather some materials for our foundation building. A Yuanying True Lord won't pay attention to everyone."

"Yes, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. If you don't have opportunities, don't prepare blindly."

"What do you think? If our Cang Ling Sect produces another Nascent Soul, can we also compete for the position of leader of the Immortal Alliance? Master Xuanhui, under the command of True Lord Danxi, has been at the peak of the Golden Core stage for many years and has the best chance of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage."

"Why would a lousy Qi cultivator like you bother with the Nascent Soul stage? First see if your crappy bird can build its foundation!"

"You damn thing, don't let me run into you in the secret realm!"

A group of people broke up unhappy.

In the market town, Jiang Yi, who had just sold his first place on the gold list, walked out of the teleportation array with Qi Tian, ​​who had just won the first place on the gold list. Both parties were very satisfied and happy about this.

　I looked at the extras everyone gave, and most of them were set in the Jindan stage, or were monsters like normal people. Some of them had particularly good background stories, but they were not suitable to appear in the next assessment, which was a bit of a waste.

　　So the appearance time of everyone's extras will be postponed a little, until the heroine reaches the Jindan level. In addition, there are some characters with great background stories, which can be used when the heroine goes out to travel, so don't worry~
　　(End of this chapter)