How hard the geniuses of the Heavenly Saint Sect worked, Lin Xiao didn't see it, he was completely immersed in the retreat cultivation, this time a retreat was seven years, and after seven years, Lin Xiao went out of the level and cultivated to the third level of Daogang.

The last time he improved his cultivation was twelve years ago, and it took a lot of time because of Li Muxue's breakthrough, and it was only about eleven years if he calculated it carefully, Lin Xiao's momentum was still very strong, and he didn't encounter a bottleneck, of course, he was not afraid of a bottleneck, it was a big deal to use points to improve, Lin Xiao had already decided to use about ten years to improve his cultivation.

After leaving the customs, Zhang Mingtang handed over the results of the competition of the sixteen disciples to Lin Xiao, and Lin Xiao put forward three requirements, eliminating eight of the sixteen people, and the remaining eight successfully entered the next link.

It's just that because Lin Xiao is in retreat, Zhang Mingtang didn't dare to disturb easily, so it dragged on for four years, and in these four years, Zhang Mingtang treated them quite favorably, and the strength of the eight people has improved a lot, and the highest cultivation has been promoted to the eighth layer of condensation.

"Zhang Shouzao, congratulations, the twelfth layer of the condensation veins has been completed, has it been polished and precipitated?"

"Back to the master, the precipitation has been completed, and the cultivation can no longer be improved a little bit"

"Merit points, are you ready?"

"Also ready"

"Okay, after this busy time, you can take the time to upgrade your cultivation to the Purple Mansion."

Lin Xiao nodded, Zhang Mingtang is almost seventy years old, even if he breaks through the Purple Mansion, it is impossible to rise to another level, but he can prolong his life for a hundred years and serve the Heavenly Saint Sect better, the rest of the elders of the General Affairs Hall Lin Xiao have changed several batches over the years, but Zhang Mingtang has never been replaced, which is an affirmation of his ability.

"Thank you, master, how are you going to deal with these eight disciples?"

"What does Zhang Shouzuo think of these eight people?"

"Boss, with all due respect, these eight people are all the talents of my Heavenly Saint Sect, talent, understanding, hard work, and willpower, all of them are the best choice, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are dragons and phoenixes among people."

"It's rare for you to praise them so much, I have delayed the acceptance of apprentices for four years in retreat, and they have complaints in their hearts."

"No, the sect has taken good care of them in the past four years, which can be regarded as compensation, and they will not have complaints."

"Okay, even if I didn't make it clear before, what are the more challenging tasks in the sect now, which can show that the ability is dangerous and enough for them to complete."

"Well, I'm going to have to go back and take a look."

"Okay, you pick eight out, and let them draw lots when the time comes, including the missions in the Night Stalker"

Lin Xiao nodded, the night owl has been established for decades and has been wandering outside, although there is no problem at all now, but Lin Xiao also has to take precautions, and has to send a capable and loyal disciple to control it, so the eight of them will become the high-level of the night owl.

Three days later, the eight disciples and Zhang Mingtang gathered again in Lin Xiao's cave mansion, with eight wooden cards in front of them, and the wooden cards had the number of the task, and whoever drew it could go to the General Affairs Hall to receive the task.

"Yuan Ruoyun, He Zhongbao, Gu Mingyi, Yu Wancheng, Jia Mengran, Sheng Baolu, Cao Yunsheng, Yu Tianxiang, first of all, congratulations to the eight of you, defeating the other eight competitors, and entering another test of this master, after completing this test, I will accept some of you as disciples.

There are eight tasks in front of the eight wooden cards of the General Affairs Palace, which is personally arranged by Zhang Shouzuo, and I have not seen it, you can choose freely, after getting the wooden card, go to the General Affairs Hall to receive the task, and complete the task, even if it is a test.

I don't make the rest of the requirements for this test, but I have to tell you a few points, first, I won't accept eight people as apprentices, I don't have so much time to manage, so I only take the first three, how to rank, you have to follow the rules of the palace, the time is fast, the degree of completion is high, and there are no troubles, etc., then it depends on your ability"

"Yes, Master"

"Okay, let's draw lots"

Lin Xiao nodded, and the eight of them stepped forward and drew a wooden card at random, carefully looking at the number on it, and recalling what tasks the General Affairs Hall had.

"There must be some among you who win and some lose, don't be proud of those who win, don't be discouraged if you lose, you are already the elite of the thousands of disciples of the Heavenly Saint Sect, the sect will not treat you badly, and those who lose will also enjoy the treatment of core disciples, go ahead"

Lin Xiao waved his hand and asked the eight people to leave, and then instructed Zhang Mingtang to do some things, such as the tasks of these eight people must be kept strictly confidential, these eight people are the pillars of the future Heavenly Saint Sect, don't let people do it, and there must be a certain guarantee for their safety.

"Master, I've arranged all these things, but I'm also about to go into retreat, what should I do about this sect?"

"Zhang Shouza, you don't want me to deal with it, do you?"

"Ahem, boss, you're the boss"

"I really don't have that time, you elders can watch and handle ordinary things, and if you need to use the transmission note or the Lingyin Jade Book to tell me about urgent matters, I have a lot of things."

Lin Xiao waved his hand, he really didn't have time to deal with these trivial matters, he had a lot of things, even if he had time, he had to retreat and cultivate, otherwise his cultivation would not be able to keep up, as the first person in the Heavenly Saint Sect, his strength was the height of the Heavenly Saint Sect.

After Lin Xiao sent Zhang Mingtang away, he went to see Bai Xixi, Bai Xixi had already broken through to the twelfth layer of the Purple Mansion, but he had just broken through, and it would take at least seven or eight years to break through in retreat.

Lin Xiao was afraid that she would also retreat at that time, so she told her some of the key points needed to break through Dao Gang in advance, and strive to let her succeed once, if she failed, it would take at least ten years to impact again, and if she was unlucky, it was possible to die directly.

Bai Xixi is not Li Muxue, he is a hundred relieved to Li Muxuelin, but it is really difficult to say Bai Xixi, in addition, Bai Zichen is already on the eleventh floor of the Purple Mansion, and he will break through in more than ten years.

After Bai Zichen, Li Mingyang's cultivation will be the highest, but Li Mingyang's qualifications are one layer weaker than Bai Xixi's them, and when he reaches the tenth layer of the Purple Mansion, he is already very difficult, whether he can really break through, it is difficult to say, but there are a few disciples after Li Mingyang before, and the limelight is very strong, and his cultivation is already seven or eight layers, and he is quickly catching up with Li Mingyang, which makes him very stressed.

Lin Xiao had to enlighten Li Mingyang in person, after all, he was a typical example of Lin Xiao's praise at the beginning, and he had a high reputation among his disciples, and he had always maintained a fast breakthrough speed, so Lin Xiao was also afraid that he would grow tall and fall miserably.

Within a few days, Lin Xiao received news about the Assassin God from the night owl, and after a year or two of chaos in Chen Guo, he laid the foundation for the current situation, which was a plate of scattered sand.

Chen Qinggu was no longer able to lead Chen Guo, and he still had to be protected by the Pure Yang Palace, and the secret intervention of Lu Guo and Cang Guo also made Chen Guo's forces look complicated, but they only maintained a calm appearance.

This kind of calm has passed for more than ten years, and after more than ten years of development, some of the forces of the Chen State have swelled many times, and they have long digested the benefits they occupied before, and the next step is to expand and annex outward.

There are two main aspects of this kind of force, the first is the puppet forces supported by Cangguo and Lu Guo, Chen Guo's territory is a piece of fat, they don't eat for nothing, and ordinary forces are not their opponents at all, so these sects are a little ready to move.

The second is the puppet force supported by the Assassin God, after years of investigation by the night owl, the Heavenly Saint Sect has mastered that seven families are supported by the Assassin God, and these seven families have eighteen Purple Mansion monks because of the support of the Assassin God, more than 3,000 Condensing Vein Open Vein Monks, and there are two Purple Mansion Twelve Layer Existence among the Purple Mansion Monks.

According to the report of the night owl, these seven families have begun to secretly prepare for war, preparing to launch a war of annexation against the surrounding forces, and even if there is a Daogang monk among them, they will openly merge the seven families, so that they will become the top five major forces in the Chen State, and the thorn god civet cat will replace the prince, and the conspiracy of Li Zhuang of the Tao Dynasty will be achieved.

So the night stalker was asking Lin Xiao if he wanted to interrupt their plans, such as supporting the forces, blocking their annexation, and restricting their development, with the current strength of the night stalker, he could definitely do this.

Lin Xiao thought about it for a few days, replied to the night stalker, and agreed to act, but instead of letting the night stalker lead, he used the power of Tianyun Prefecture to lead, and the night stalker just cooperated secretly.

The five largest sects in Tianyun Prefecture united to occupy three third-order spiritual mountains in Chen State, and the five sects of these three spiritual mountains did not reinvest in the source to improve the spiritual vein, but all developed into spiritual fields, a spiritual mountain can create the value of twenty Xuanjing in a year, even if it is deducted from various expenses, there are also about 100,000 benefits, and each sect can share more than 70,000 benefits every year, and it has been divided for more than ten years, and a total of almost one million Xuanjing benefits have been obtained.

These benefits made all the sects very happy, so they had already had the intention of expanding, the most positive of them were Tianhaimen and Hongshanmen, Tianyun Prefecture had been peaceful for decades, so that their Zifu monks and ordinary disciples had increased a lot, but their financial resources had not increased on a large scale, and they should not have reached the million-level, so life was tight.

The lack of resources has caused their Purple Mansion cultivators to improve their cultivation very slowly, and there are already many Purple Mansion cultivators above the eighth level in the Heavenly Saint Sect and Danyang Sect, but there are not many of them, so they are very anxious and want to use this to open up financial resources.

The Heavenly Saint Sect and the Danyang Sect were not short of money, and they originally didn't want to get involved in the chaos of the Chen Kingdom, but now Lin Xiao just pushed the boat to curb the development of the Assassin God.

Lin Xiao asked the other four sects to send people to discuss, and explained the situation in the Chen State, of course, he hid the section of the Assassin God, and told them that it was a good time to expand and send more people.

Tianhaimen and Hongshanmen immediately agreed, and the Shanhe faction also agreed, so the Danyang Sect did not refuse, so the Five Sects once again transferred manpower to secretly reinforce the three puppet families, so that they could let go of their courage and start their expansion plans.

It was precisely under the instigation of the major forces that Chen Guo finally calmed down for so many years, and the dark tide surged again, and small-scale annexation wars began to be triggered, and there was a tendency to become more and more intense.

Lin Xiao originally wanted to personally direct this plan, but after the disciple who came back from White Jade City told Lin Xiao something, Lin Xiao immediately handed over the command to Danyang Sect and secretly went to White Jade City himself.