Volume II: Chapter 21: Details of the Trial

Yi Cheng galloped all the way to the outside of Yuan Ping's residence, Yi Cheng was afraid that Yuan Ping was in retreat, so he did not rush in, but first sent a transmission note, and Yuan Ping came out after a while to greet Yi Cheng.

As Yuan Ping came to the cave, Yi Cheng saw that Yuan Ping was not the only one here, but also three other monks.

One of them, Yi Cheng, also recognized that it was Yan Bingling, who went to hunt the Flame Tiger together last time.

I haven't seen her for two years, Yan Bingling Fanghua is still the same, she is still so bright and beautiful, and at this time she has also reached the 10th level of Qi training.

In addition, there are two monks, an old man and a young man, who are also practicing Qi tenfold cultivation, and seeing Yi Cheng come in, Yan Bingling showed a smile on his face.

I saw her say to Yi Cheng: "It turned out that Senior Brother Yi had arrived, no wonder Senior Brother Yuan hurriedly went out to greet him, Senior Brother Yi hadn't seen him for two years, and his cultivation was even more refined." ”

"Senior sister is polite, you have also reached the tenth level of qi training, compared to my junior sister, my cultivation speed is far worse."

"What did the senior brother say, I don't dare to make this progress in front of the senior brother." Yan Bingling said with a smile.

Yuan Ping interjected at this time: "You don't have to be modest, Senior Sister Yan has outstanding qualifications, she is already in her early twenties, she has great hope of building a foundation in the future, and Senior Brother Yi is also extraordinary, I will first introduce these two to Senior Brother Yi, this is Senior Brother Hou Weilu, this is Senior Brother Chen Ang, they are all my acquaintances, we went out hunting together several times, and each other is also in life and death." ”

Yuan Ping introduced the two to Yi Cheng, and then pointed at Yi Cheng and said: "This is Yi Cheng Yi's junior brother, although he started late, but his skills are indeed extraordinary." ”

Yi Cheng exchanged a few words with the two, and the five of them sat down in the Yuan Ping Cave Mansion and said some cultivation experiences.

After that, Yuan Ping said to the four people: "Everyone, I invited a few people here today, there is a matter to discuss, I believe you are also aware of the next secret land trial, although there are many opportunities to obtain the Tsukidan, but every time you enter the secret land, only about half of them can come out alive, so it is almost a life of nine deaths to venture into it alone." So I want to go with a few people, I don't know what a few people think? ”

Yi Cheng listened to Yuan Ping's words, although he knew that there was a danger in the secret land, but such a mortality rate was still very surprising, Yi Cheng was not worried about the danger, but in order not to attract attention, it was better to be with Yuan Ping and a few people, so he looked at the other three.

Senior Brother Hou and the three of them all looked at each other, and then nodded one after another, Yi Cheng also nodded in response, and then Yi Cheng said to Yuan Ping: "Has Senior Brother Yuan entered the secret land before, can you tell me the details in it?" ”

When Yuan Ping heard this, his face showed a hint of memory, and some fear was faintly revealed on his face, and then said: "Ten years ago, I just stepped into the eighth layer of Qi training, although some people told me that there were many dangers there, but I still wanted to try my luck, but after entering, I realized the hardships in the secret land of the Dao. In the end, it was nine deaths to save his life, but the spirit grass gained nothing. Let Senior Brother Hou tell you the details of it, he entered three times, and he retreated, knowing more about it than I do. ”

Among Yi Cheng, except for Senior Brother Hou and Yuan Ping, none of them had entered the secret land, so they all looked at Senior Brother Hou at this time, waiting for him to say the situation inside, because at this time, the more understanding there is, the more hope of coming out alive.

Senior Brother Hou did not shirk, he entered the secret land three times, the first two times were not enough to exchange for the Tsukidan, and the third time it accumulated to obtain the Tsukidan, but because of his limited qualifications, a Tsukidan did not let him succeed in building the foundation.

Senior Brother Hou, who is now in his sixties, is also very important to this trip to the secret land, and the few people Yuan Ping is looking for this time are the same as last time, they also have the same five elements of spiritual power, and they can use the five elements formation combined attack technique, which greatly improves their combat effectiveness.

Senior Brother Hou also hopes that he can gain something this time and build a successful foundation for himself.

So he told everything he knew in detail.

"I have participated in the secret trial three times, and you have all seen my qualifications, ordinary, but as a cultivator, I survived all three times, although I also got a foundation building pill, but I failed to build a foundation successfully, the older I get, the smaller the success rate of the pill, if I can't gain anything this time, I'm afraid I will really lose hope, and this life will be gone."

Senior Brother Hou's face was worried, and he continued, "I will introduce to you in detail about the situation in Midi. I won't say much about the cause of the Midi trial, but it doesn't mean anything to us. There are more than a dozen secret places that exist now, but only one secret place is opened every ten years, in principle, all monks who practice qi above the eighth layer can enter, but generally speaking, those who practice qi at the eighth or ninth level are just sent to death, and most of the monks who can come out alive in the end are monks who practice qi at the tenth level, and there are more than 10,000 monks who have reached the eighth layer of qi cultivation in Luoxia Mountain, but there are less than 5,000 people who participate in the trial every ten years, and the entire cultivation world is also 100,000 people every time, But each time no more than 50,000 people came out alive. ”

Senior Brother Hou said this, looked at Yi Cheng and the others, and saw that they were all a little embarrassed, he paused, as if he was reminiscing, and his face showed a trace of throbbing.

Then he continued: "In the secret land, the danger comes from three aspects, the first point, because there are dozens of medicinal materials needed for Zhuji Dan, most of which can be grown in other places, so each sect family will also cultivate it by itself, and the other dozen or so will only grow under those specific ring mirrors, so the first danger comes from the time of picking medicinal materials, facing all kinds of dangers and waiting for the demon beasts of medicinal materials, because there are no high-level monks entering the secret land, there are many demon beasts, and first-order demon beasts are almost everywhere, And there are also a lot of second-order demon beasts, and if you are unlucky, you will also encounter a third-order demon beast equivalent to the Dan period, so there are nearly 10,000 monks who die at the hands of demon beasts every time. ”

Yi Cheng listened, and he became clearer about the cruelty in the secret land, originally thought that he didn't have to care about the foundation building period now, so this trip to the secret land was very safe, but he didn't expect that even the third-order demon beasts would have it.

For the second-order top-level demon beasts, Yi Cheng is now confident that he can deal with them, but the third-order demon beasts are not at the same level as the second-order demon beasts, and it is a problem for Yi Cheng to escape in the face of the third-order demon beasts, let alone others.

Chen Ang asked at this time: "Isn't it true that monks above the foundation building period can't enter the secret land, isn't there no restriction on demon beasts?" ”

"The secret land was extremely cultivated to reach the powerful predecessors of the god of transformation in the formation of the imprisoned, each time it is opened, at least five Yuan Infant Ancestors need to open a portal on the formation, but only Qi cultivation monks can enter, monks above the foundation can not enter, unless they reach the god transformation stage, but the cultivation realm has not appeared for many years. And in the secret land, because of the abundant spiritual power, and there are no monks to hunt, so third-order demon beasts are not uncommon, even the legend of fourth-order demon beasts has also appeared, but whether it is true or not is not known, because no monk who has seen fourth-order demon beasts has survived. ”

Senior Brother Hou continued: "This is only one of the dangers of the secret trial, every time the monks die in the mouth of the demon beast, it is only a quarter of the total, the most terrible thing in the secret land is not the demon beast, the demon beast has its own territory, experienced monks can bypass most of the dangerous areas, the real danger is the killing between the monks, in the secret land, killing people and looting treasures can be seen everywhere, because even if they are killed there, no one can find out, just presume to die in the mouth of the demon beast." ”

Yi Cheng gradually had a guess about these, and it was not strange that they were fighting each other in the secret land for the foundation building medicinal materials, and he asked, "Do all the major sects acquiesce to these?" Aren't they worried that their disciples will be killed? ”

Senior Brother Hou smiled bitterly, but before he could answer, Yan Bingling took over and said: "The various sects are fighting openly and secretly with each other, as long as they meet outside and do a clean job under their hands, the opportunity to weaken the opponent's strength will naturally not be missed, and all the major sects also acquiesce to the fight in the secret place, and there is also an agreement between each other that they must not be entangled after the fight in the secret place comes out, and there is often no proof of death in the secret place, and no one can be found if they want to take revenge."

As for those core disciples, the real elite sects will not let them enter the secret land, and only those who have no backing from the side branches like me will participate in the secret land competition. After speaking, Yan Bingling smiled self-deprecatingly.

Yi Cheng and a few people were silent, all the sect families, and only these ordinary disciples who did not have backing qualifications would work hard for Zhuji Dan, and those cronies naturally didn't have to worry about the problem of Zhuji Dan, as long as they cultivated with peace of mind, and when it came time to build the foundation, the elders in the sect would naturally prepare everything.

Yi Cheng is not the kind of complaining character, he will not think about these useless things, he is only concerned about how to get the Tsukidan smoothly, so Yi Cheng asked: "How is the Tsukidan distributed, how can I get the Tsukidan?" I also want to trouble Senior Brother Hou to talk about it in detail. ”

"At the end of each secret trial, the disciples of each sect have to tell the sect about the medicinal materials they have obtained, and then exchange the contribution degree according to the quantity picked and the quality of the medicinal materials, and the full three thousand contribution degree can be exchanged for one Tsukidan."

"Three thousand contributions, I don't know how many medicinal materials to collect in Lu Dao to reach three thousand contributions?"

"Three thousand contributions are equivalent to refining a medicinal herb for Tsukidan. The three times I entered the Midi I only got one grain. Senior Brother Hou said helplessly.

Yi Cheng was a little curious when he heard this: "Three thousand contributions are not very difficult to achieve, as long as it takes about ten years, the monks who practice Qi Ten Levels should be able to complete it, why do you have to enter the secret land?" ”

Senior Brother Hou shook his head and said: "These three thousand contributions are not ordinary sect contributions, they are only effective if they are exchanged for medicinal materials, and if you really want to use ordinary sect contributions, it will be ten times the amount of this, so we have to risk falling into the secret land." ”

Yi Cheng also knew the reason and asked: "Why don't you make up a medicinal herb to refine it yourself, a medicinal herb shouldn't just refine a pill of Zhuji Dan, right?" ”

Yuan Ping didn't speak, and at this time, after listening to Yi Cheng's question, he replied: "How can it be so easy, let's not say that it is not easy to make up a complete set of medicinal materials, even if we get it, we dare not guarantee that we can refine it successfully, alchemists are not so easy to find, the alchemists in the sect are all trained with a large number of medicinal materials, even if they are, there is only a sixty or seventy percent Cheng Dan rate, and it is only two or three grains each time, compared to the cost-effective exchange for a Zhuji Dan." Compared with those scattered cultivators who have no door and no sect, we are already very good, even if those casual cultivators get complete medicinal materials, they can only ask an alchemist to refine them at a high price, and if they fail, they can only pinch their noses and admit it. ”

Yi Cheng also understood the truth when he heard it, he hadn't thought about these common senses carefully before, but he really understood a lot today.

A few of them said something about the secret land, and because there were still five days before the opening day, they all made some more preparations, and they met in five days, and then they left.

Yi Cheng left Yuan Ping's Cave Mansion and returned to his residence, first checked all his gains in the past few days to confirm that he didn't need to prepare anything else, so he calmly retreated in the Cave Mansion for a short time to adjust his state to the best.