Chapter 268: The Festival Begins

Like the White Tiger Secret Realm, a secret realm that can only be used by disciples in the Qi refining period to practice, the major sects in charge of the Five Spirits Secret Realm don't look at it at all, as long as the small sects, small families, and scattered cultivators are willing to pay, those major sects don't mind selling some of the jade plates to make a fortune.

If it weren't for the fact that their asking price was too high, and very few people were willing to pay for it, I am afraid that this "business" would have spread in the immortal cultivation world a long time ago.

After lamenting the profound heritage of the great sect, everyone turned the topic back to rescuing Ren Zixian and Yao Yuzhi.

Ren Hantang and Ren Hanyue have been thinking about it for so many years, and they already have a plan about how to act.

They recounted their ideas in detail, and Ren Hanjun and the others discussed various possible emergencies while helping them refine some immature ideas.

When they couldn't find anything missing, Ren Hanjun and the others got up to say goodbye and went back to their rooms to rest.

For more than a month after that, the monks of the Ming Dao Sect either practiced behind closed doors, or went out to trade with people in the fang market, and their lives were busy and fulfilling.

On the day of the start of the Five Spirits Festival, the festival venue on the outskirts of Pingyang Fort was overcrowded, and the endless wilderness was full of overwhelming crowds.

Ren Hanyue and the others brought a group of monks from the Mingdao Sect to the venue early, and thanks to Ren Hantang and Ren Hanyue's old acquaintances, and Tang Xinya of the Dragon and Tiger Sect, they were assigned a position that was not bad for a small sect.

After the lottery ended, the Qi refining stage disciples of the Ming Dao Sect came to the stage one after another to compete.

Because the puja stipulates that no killings are allowed, and it is forbidden to use auxiliary means such as talismans, thunder fruits, puppets, and demon beasts, the Qi refining monks who participate in the puja can only fight their opponents with their own magic weapons and spells.

This rule is very beneficial to the Qi refining stage cultivators on Qushan Island, because of the lack of resources on the island, if their lives are not at stake, they will basically not use talismans, spirit fruits, and other things to fight.

Puppets and monsters, which are rare species that cost a lot of money to get their hands on, they don't even have a single one.

In the ring, this group of young people who had been fighting sea beasts of the same rank for a long time in exchange for the materials needed for cultivation quickly showed their rich combat experience.

Later, more than half of the Qi Refining Stage cultivators who won the first and second rounds of the competition began to pray that they would not draw the same number with them.

At the end of the competition, seven of the twelve Qi Refining Stage cultivators on Qushan Island made it to the top five hundred and successfully obtained the pass jade medal.

As for the five people who failed to get the pass jade medal, they all fell in the round of 1,000 to 500.

Although the high-level monks who had cultivated above the Jindan in the Qi Refining Period rarely paid attention to it, the very few high-level monks who had disciples and grandchildren participating in the competition were keenly aware of these Qi Refining Stage monks who suddenly came out like dark horses to shine, and at the same time, the "Ming Dao Sect", a small sect with no name, also left a shallow impression in their hearts.

Killed in the top 1,000 from nearly 10,000 people, the performance of the disciples made Ren Hanjun, the head of the sect, extremely pleased, and after the competition of the Qi refining period cultivators was over, she specially opened her own private treasury to reward these twelve young people.

The five Qi Refining Stage disciples who had not been able to obtain the White Tiger Secret Realm Pass Jade Plate were originally in a very low mood, but after receiving the rich reward from their own master, they immediately smiled and were completely depressed, and Ren Hanyue and the others were all secretly amused.

The competition between the monks in the next foundation building period was much more exciting, and many monks in the middle and late stages of foundation building defeated the strong with the weak, and defeated the monks of one or even two small realms who were higher than themselves.

The Ming Dao Sect cultivated as eight people in the foundation building period, Ji Tianwen, Ji Tianwu, Ji Tianshu, Gu Xianping, and Tang Jiahua successfully entered the top three hundred, and each got a jade medal for the passage of the Spirit Turtle Secret Realm, while Ji Tianquan, Ji Tianqi and Wei Jiaohui were defeated by three monks in the Great Perfection Realm in the late stage of foundation building.

The three of them were not depressed by failure, and for them, the process of participating in the competition had already benefited them a lot.

Because of the particularity of the growth environment, they have enough combat experience, but the degree of sophistication in spells is far from enough.

Even in the use of ritual weapons, they still have a lot to be desired.

These days, whether they are competing with others in person in the ring of the Five Spirits Festival, or sitting under the ring to watch others compete, they are always hungry to learn the strengths of others.

Not to mention Ren Hanyue and other monks of the Ming Dao Sect, even those monks who did not know them, they also noticed their progress in the process of watching the battle continuously.

"This Ming Dao Sect is a bit interesting. "In Jiuhuamen, one of the eight major sects in Cangzhou, a high-ranking monk who looked to be only in his thirties said this with a smile while playing chess with his companions.

Sitting opposite him was an old Taoist priest with crane hair and a childish face, his hair and beard were all messy, and the Taoist robe on his body was also full of wrinkles, but the monks of Jiuhuamen sitting around them were all faintly headed by him, obviously this old man's status in Jiuhuamen was very transcendent.

Hearing the young monk explain that the Taoist sect was a little interesting, the old man just teased his eyelids and continued to study the chess game.

The young monk had long been accustomed to the old man's childish temperament, and when he saw the expression of "I'm not interested" on his face, he smiled slightly and lifted the subject.

The day after the competition between the Zhuji monks ended, the competition between the Jindan monks began, and Ren Hanjun, Liu Yi, Ren Hantang, Ren Hanyue, and Ren Hanfeng all signed up for this competition.

Unlike when the Qi Refining Stage Cultivators and Foundation Building Stage Cultivators competed, this time in the competition, the strength of the monks of their Ming Dao Sect was not very good.

If you only look at cultivation, Ren Hanjun, Liu Yi, Ren Hantang, Ren Hanyue in the middle of Jindan and Ren Hanfeng in the early stage of Jindan do not look like they have a chance of winning.

In fact, it is true that many Jindan monks who participated in the competition did not take them seriously at all.

In the first game, Ren Hanfeng's opponent was a mid-stage Jindan monk who thought he would definitely be able to defeat Ren Hanfeng, but what made him depressed was that he did not become the final winner in this competition.

At the beginning, Ren Hanfeng was very embarrassed by the indiscriminate bombardment of the mid-Jindan monk.

In order to reduce the consumption of spiritual power while avoiding injury, Ren Hanfeng has been quickly calculating the trajectory of dodging.

Few people noticed that the smiling young man who was chased and beaten in the ring was weaving traps little by little, while the mid-stage Jindan monk who seemed to have the upper hand was losing his advantage little by little.

It wasn't until Ren Hanfeng suddenly started to fight back that everyone was shocked to realize that the mid-stage Jindan monk had unknowingly consumed most of his spiritual power by his opponent.