Chapter 51: Survival of the Fittest

"Qingyan Falu" is a book that every disciple who newly worships the Qingyan Sect will hand out.

What is recorded in the front is the introduction of some Qingyan Sect, and what is recorded in the back is some common knowledge in the cultivation world, after all, for those of them who have just entered the sect, most of them do not have a clear understanding of the cultivation world.

Most of these new disciples who have entered the Qingyan Sect have been cultivating in the secular world before, and a small number of them have relied on the power of their families to understand the anecdotes of the cultivation world, but for those disciples who have no identity background in the secular world, they are so curious about everything here.

Compared to the world they lived in before, everything here was so new.

Take the stone used to test the boxing strength before, this is a kind of stone that Su San has never seen before, it looks soft and lying on the surface, but when a punch hits it, with the depth of the fist hitting the stone, the sense of blockage increases exponentially, making Su San's fist only imprinted four centimeters deep into the stone.

It is better to say that it is a stone than a piece of mud, because it does not look solid on the outside, and once it is collided with a foreign object, the stone will be deformed, and after a period of time, it will return to its original shape.

This is really incredible, Su San has never seen such a "stone" before.

There is indeed a record of this kind of stone in the "Qingyan Law Record", and its scientific name is soft solid stone.

The texture of the soft solid stone is very soft, and its characteristic is that it will solidify itself when it is subjected to external force, and the stronger the external force, the faster it will solidify, so when Su San's punch hits it, the soft solid stone is solidified by external force, until Su San's fist is difficult to enter half a point.

But this kind of stone is strange to say, if you attack it vigorously, it will immediately become solidified, but if you gently destroy it with very little force, it can easily split it in two.

The mining of this kind of stone is in the deep soil layer of several thousand meters underground, their distribution in the ground is not uniform, the soft solid stone that Su San saw, in fact, is a lot of large and small soft solid stones synthesized together, it is also very magical, as long as the two soft solid stones are close to each other, after a certain period of time, they will fuse into one stone.

For mortals, this kind of stone is out of their reach, but for cultivators, soft solid stones are relatively common, and there is no difficulty in mining.

According to the characteristics of the soft solid stone, it is actually an existence that has no practical value for all people, because it only becomes hard when it is subjected to a strong external force, and when the external force dissipates, it will become its original form, and even for mortals, this stone is of little use to them.

And its only use is to use it to test the strength of cultivators, a soft solid stone of about two meters is called a first-level test stone, and a soft solid stone of about five meters is a second-level test stone, the hardness of this soft solid stone is not without boundaries, in the face of absolute power, it will also become vulnerable, so in the cultivation world, the biggest role of the soft solid stone is to become a touchstone for cultivators, used to test their strength.

The explanation of this stone in the book is very detailed, and it is also mentioned that there is a stronger test stone on top of the second-level test stone, but the specific name is not mentioned, limited to the length of the whole book, and what is recorded in the book is for the content that they need to master as a beginner disciple, and more and more detailed knowledge needs to be found by themselves in the library to read it in a targeted manner.

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Half an hour passed, Su San put down the book in his hand and took a deep breath.

Walking to the window of the room, opening the window, a cool breeze blew, Su San suddenly reacted from the various information filled in his mind, the room he was in was the fifth floor of this pavilion, open the window, and what greeted him was the vastness and beauty of the Lishan Mountain Range, as well as a huge mountain that towered in the distance, which was the first peak of Lishan.

The supreme head of the Lishan branch is called the hall master in the Qingyan Sect, and he is in charge of all the affairs of the entire branch and has supreme power, and the first peak in the distance that penetrates into the sky is where the residence of the Lishan hall master is located.

In half an hour, Su San finished reading the entire "Qingyan Law Record", and he already had a rudimentary form of the cultivation world system in his mind.

The first half of the book talks about the common knowledge of the cultivation world, which is the chapter on plants and trees, alchemy, refining tools, the history of Qingyan and the laws of the sect.

The soft solid stone that Su San saw before is divided into the grass and trees chapter, and the grass and trees chapter is mainly about the difference between the cultivation world and the secular world, in the secular world, you may not pay attention to any tree, but it may be a certain kind of spirit wood in the cultivation world, and the spirit wood is divided into many kinds, it is classified as a kind of plant family in the treasure of heaven and earth, and it is a cultivation resource that cultivators are keen on, and each spirit wood is valued according to its rarity and function.

There is a very important component in the Heterolithaceae of the Plants and Trees chapter - spirit stones.

The spirit stone is the hard currency of the cultivation world, similar to the silver taels in the secular world, which is mined from the leyline spirit ore formed by the perennial gathering of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the spiritual energy contained in the spiritual stone can be refined by cultivators to speed up the speed of cultivation.

The disciples of the Qingyan Sect distribute spirit stones every three months, which are also different according to different levels, ten for first-grade disciples, three for B-level disciples, and only one for C-level disciples.

There was no doubt that just these few spirit stones issued by the sect were not enough for their own use, and if they wanted to get more spirit stones, they had to rely on their own ability to earn them.

Qingyan Sect has a task hall where you can get paid by completing tasks, and all disciples can go there to receive tasks, and after completing them, they will get a certain amount of spirit stones according to their completion.

In the task issued in the task hall, the natural danger coefficient of the more spirit stones is high, and the process of doing the task is also full of danger, and the low reward is naturally the completion of the cycle is very long, although there is no danger, but the spirit stones obtained are very few.

In the secular world, even a three-year-old child knows that silver taels are a good thing, and when it comes to the immortal cultivation world, spirit stones are even more good.

With spirit stones, not only can you speed up your own cultivation, but you can also buy more elixirs, there are many kinds of these elixirs, whether it is an elixir to increase true qi and blood qi or an elixir to restore injuries, or other elixirs, the price is very expensive, for those old disciples, what they urgently need most is the spirit stone, so there will be a scene of shouting on both sides of the road before, spending a lot of money in exchange for the spirit stone in the hands of those new disciples.

For them, gold and silver no longer have a role in the cultivation world, and what really has a role is the spirit stone in their hands!

Using these useless gold and silver in exchange for the spirit stones that have just been sent down in their hands and are not yet hot, most of them still don't know what the spirit stones are for, so every time a new disciple comes, it is a good time for the old Qingyan disciples to quickly earn spirit stones without having to work hard to do tasks.

Those new disciples who were momentarily confused by money and sold the spirit stones in their hands, when they saw this book, they didn't know how they would feel, and they would probably regret it in their hearts when they did.

Don't blame the old disciples for playing tricks, the cultivation world is like this, natural selection, survival of the fittest, I am willing to be exchanged for spirit stones by useless things, no matter how much I regret it afterwards, it is useless, this is the reality.

But as the spirit stone is a hard currency, why would the Qingyan Sect give them out on a three-month cycle?

That's because these spirit stones and the cultivation of the Qingyan Sect are not free, there is a side hall next to the main hall of the Qingyan Sect's task, where the disciple assessment task is specially issued, and these disciples must complete a task issued in the side hall within two years, and those who fail to complete it on time will be directly expelled from the Qingyan Sect!

Qingyanzong does not raise waste.

No matter how dangerous the tasks posted in the side hall were, within two years, every Qingyan disciple had to complete one of them.

Survival of the fittest is a criterion that will inevitably be formed no matter when and where it is.