Chapter Twenty-Three: Shannan Factions
If we talk about the types of exercises in the cultivation realm, it is no wonder that the five categories of Taoism, Buddha, Confucianism, demons, and ghosts, after tens of thousands of years of accumulation and development, have gradually developed some super sects from these cultivation methods. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info these immortal cultivation sects will establish their Dao system in the blessed land of the Cave Heaven with strong aura and rich cultivation resources. For example, the entire Yunchuan Continent has always had the saying that there are five Jedi, six cave heavens, and nine spiritual veins. Taking the nine spiritual veins as an example, they are the Phantom Void Spiritual Vein, the Pengxuan Spiritual Vein, the Danshan Spiritual Vein, the Extreme Xuan Spiritual Vein, the Chaozhen Spiritual Vein, the Jinting Spiritual Vein, the Xuansi Spiritual Vein, the Tianzhu Spiritual Vein, and the Nine Ghost Spiritual Veins. They were entrenched by the nine super sects of the Nine Shadows Sect, the Xinghai Palace, the Taiyi Sect, the Wuji Palace, the Golden Light Sect, the Ten Thousand Law Sect, the Xuangui Sect, the Haoran Pavilion, and the Ten Thousand Demon Valley. For tens of thousands of years, these superb spiritual veins have nourished thousands of cultivators, and these nine major sects have prospered for thousands of years.
Of course, in addition to these super sects, there will also be some small and medium-sized immortal cultivation sects in some places with strong spiritual energy, such as in the south of Nanping Prefecture, the northern part of Hanzhou, and the western part of Yuzhou, there are also good spiritual veins, and there are also many immortal cultivation sects gathered here. Among them, the larger ones are the Qingyu Mountain Range in the south of Nanping Prefecture, and there are Qingyu Valley, Tianxuanzong, Longchan Temple and other sects in this mountain range. In the north of Hanzhou, there is the Baiduan Mountain Range, where there are the famous refining sects Baiduan Mountain, Mingjian Sect, Zhengyang Pavilion and so on. There are hundreds of thousands of mountains in the southwest of Yuzhou, and there are ghost sects such as Spirit Beast Villa, Heavenly Demon Gate, and Demon Demon Gate. Among these sects in the three continents of Shannan, the strength of the Tianxuan Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect is the strongest, and the Hundred Forging Mountain has never participated in the battle, because he is a refining sect, the other immortal cultivation sects have deliberately befriended him. Zhengyang Pavilion is a Confucian sect of cultivation, and they have always emphasized actively entering the WTO and destroying demons and defending the Tao. Therefore, for thousands of years, Zhengyang Pavilion and the Heavenly Demon Gate and the Ghost Spirit Gate have been fighting. But this Zhengyang Pavilion is a branch of Haoran Pavilion, so although the strength of the two realms of ghosts and demons is slightly superior, it is estimated that Haoran Pavilion's face is not really good. But on the whole, these nine major sects constitute the main pattern of the Shannan Cultivation Realm, and with the support of these nine major sects, they have developed an intricately rooted and well-developed immortal cultivation family and various gang agents in the world.
Then Situ Lei mentioned the realm of immortal cultivators. It turns out that immortal cultivators are just a general term, but in fact, specifically, they will be divided into three stages: the lower realm, the middle realm, and the upper realm according to the realm of cultivation.
The lower realm includes condensation, foundation, knotting, and Yuanying, the middle realm includes the transformation of gods, refining void, and merging, and the upper realm includes Mahayana and the tribulation period.
However, there are only nine realms in this cultivation realm, but it is not that at all when it comes to cultivation. Let's not talk about such ethereal things as merging Mahayana and lifting the sun to ascend. Let's just say that this initial lower realm, refining to the peak of the Yuan Infant Stage, breaking through to the gods, according to Situ Lei, the entire Nanping Prefecture has not heard of it for nearly a thousand years, even if it is wandering in the Yuan Infant Period, it is also rare, there are only a few old monsters with deep fortunes.
The lifespan of an immortal cultivator is generally closely related to his immortal cultivation realm, and the average mortal can live to be seventy or eighty years old, which is considered a high lifespan, while most of the immortal cultivators in the condensation period can live a hundred years old. If you can build a successful foundation, then you will have a life of 200 years. If you can get lucky with Jindan Dacheng, then there is great hope for living four or five hundred years old. Further, if you can form a primordial baby and become that old monster, it is not impossible to celebrate a thousand years. As for the cultivators of the Transformation Stage and above, theoretically speaking, they already have an immortal body, but the legend says that they will be subjected to the three or three disasters, that is, the higher the cultivation level of the "Heavenly Thunder Disaster", "Yin Fire Disaster", and "Wind Disaster", the more powerful these three three disasters are. People who cultivate immortals are fighting for their lives with the sky, what they are saying is that this heavenly tribulation is powerful, and only when they truly ascend to the immortal realm can they live with the sky, and the sun and the moon will be evergreen. But these are already legends, and few people have really seen Xiuzhen soar to immortality.
In recent years, with the development and growth of the sect, the resources for cultivating immortals have become increasingly scarce, and the various sects have fought openly and secretly, and in the past five hundred years, there have been more than ten large-scale battles. Every fight is extremely draining. Therefore, in recent years, various sects have attached great importance to the selection of reserve disciples.
Speaking of reserve disciples, it is necessary to mention the talent of immortal cultivators "spiritual root", what is "spiritual root", and the immortal cultivators themselves cannot give a unified statement. But they all know that the "spiritual root" is the foundation of cultivating immortals, and people without the "spiritual root" will not be able to sense the aura of heaven and earth at all, and they will not be able to open a mansion, let alone say anything like cultivating mana!
But there are too few people with "spiritual roots", and it can be said that they are one in a thousand, one in tens of thousands. But that's it, because most of the spiritual root owners lack the opportunity, that is, the guidance given by the leader of the immortal cultivator, they still live an ordinary life like most ordinary people. Because it is really difficult to select people with spiritual roots, they are too loosely distributed, which makes those immortal cultivation sects that want to recruit disciples feel a big headache.
And it is not that as long as there is a "spiritual root", it must meet the requirements of the Immortal Cultivation Sect. Because the "spiritual root" and the "spiritual root" are still very different, and there are good and bad.
Generally speaking, the "spiritual root" is divided into five elements such as metal, wood, water, fire, earth, etc., and most people's spiritual roots are mixed with these five or four multiple attributes, although these people can also sense the aura of heaven and earth, but the effect of cultivation can be said to be miserable, basically can only practice the five elements of the basic exercises in the stage of refining qi, practice to the third or fourth layer, and then move forward an inch, and generally have no hope of crossing the foundation building period in their lives. Therefore, spiritual roots with five or even four attributes are also called "pseudo spiritual roots" in the immortal cultivation world, to show that they are different from "true spiritual roots" that only have two or three attributes and are relatively fast to cultivate.
As for the single spiritual root with only one attribute, it is called "Heavenly Root" by the Immortal Cultivation Realm, which means the darling of the heavens. Because a person with this kind of spiritual root, no matter what kind of attribute he is, his cultivation degree is two to three times that of an ordinary spiritual root person. Moreover, when you cultivate to the peak of the foundation building period, you don't need to face the bottlenecks that you should face when you enter the foundation stage, and you can easily start to form a pill.
You must know that if it is said that among the ten Qi Refining Stage Immortal cultivators, only one can enter the Foundation Building Stage with the help of the Foundation Building Dan. Then one of the hundred people in the foundation building period may not be able to succeed in the foundation building period and enter the foundation stage. With such a disparity in the proportion of knots, how could it not make other immortal cultivators very jealous, and the "Heavenly Root" people were blessed.
Therefore, whenever a Tiangen person appears, he is often frantically scrambling for various immortal cultivation sects, after all, this is equivalent to a great master who has booked a Dan period for this sect, which can greatly increase the strength of this sect. However, the probability of the appearance of an anti-heaven spiritual root like the "Heavenly Root" is almost negligible, and it can basically be sent by the Immortal Cultivation Sect every hundreds of years. On the other hand, although it is not a "Heavenly Root", it is not a "Mutant Spiritual Root" that does not belong to the Five Elements Spiritual Root, and the probability of its appearance is relatively large, and one can appear every twenty or thirty years.
The so-called "mutated spiritual root" refers to the spiritual root that is mixed with two or three five element attributes and is mutated and sublimated. Like the "Thunder Spirit Root" produced by the mutation of "Golden Spirit Root" and "Water Spirit Root"; The "Ice Spirit Root" produced after the mutation of the "Earth Spirit Root" and the "Water Spirit Root", and of course, there are other mutated spirit roots such as the "Dark Spirit Root" and the "Wind Spirit Root".
Although the immortal cultivator of the "Mutant Spirit Root" does not have the talent to be exempted from the bottleneck of the Dan, his cultivation degree is not inferior to that of the "Heavenly Root" person, and if he can find exercises that match his attributes, most of these people will be great masters, and they can generally top three or four ordinary immortal cultivators of the same strength. Therefore, people with mutated spiritual roots are also people who are extremely popular among the major immortal cultivation sects.
But in the past, not to mention such geniuses as "Heavenly Root" and "Mutant Spiritual Root", the Immortal Cultivation Sect could not easily find them, even ordinary "True Spiritual Root" people, and it was very difficult for the various sects to find them.
You must know that only one out of 10,000 people can have a spiritual root, and only one of the five or six people with a spiritual root can find out who is a true spiritual root.
In the face of this embarrassing situation, some people with a heart finally realized after painstaking research that this "spiritual root" is very easy to appear in people who inherit the same bloodline. For example, if one of the male and female duo has a spiritual root, then the child they give birth to will have a one-in-four chance that they will also have a spiritual root. Of course, if both parents are the owners of spiritual roots, then the chances of their offspring appearing spiritual roots are even greater, and it is not uncommon for all children born to be spiritual root owners. The emergence of this incident has made those who have a heart very excited.
Under their push, many young disciples of the sect at that time were beaten out by their elders and started a family in the secular world, and when they had children, they returned to their sect to continue their cultivation. In this way, when these immortal cultivation sects lacked disciples anymore, they directly selected children with spiritual roots from the families of their portal disciples, and the proportion of their true spiritual roots also greatly increased. In this way, the big problem of the lack of disciples of the Immortal Cultivation Sect has finally been alleviated.
Although the probability of giving birth to a spiritual root among ordinary people is still so low, in general, there are more and more people who have spiritual roots, and those who inherit the spiritual root bloodline, there are endless spiritual root disciples. After a long time, after slowly branching out, the current Xiuzhen family was formed. These high-level exercises of the Xiuzhen family may not be available, but there is no shortage of slightly shallow immortal cultivation methods, and they have gradually become the peripheral gateways of various immortal cultivation sects, and they also have a certain degree of independence. Therefore, behind each Xiuzhen family, there is generally a sect of cultivating immortals supporting it, which should not be underestimated.