Chapter 40: Martial Arts Cultivation is a Bottomless Pit
A month ago, Lin Ansheng must have been full of resistance, Xia Wanzhu compared the sect to a war, and the tragedy can be imagined.
But now his mind has changed slightly.
First, he repeatedly openly provoked the plan to sabotage Xuanzong, which had made Xuanzong completely hate him, and the appearance of Lin Hao was abolished by him again, which was likely to make him have something to do with the Lin family again.
He needs the attention and protection of the sect more than in the past, and the improvement of his martial arts realm has become more urgent, so it is necessary to have a higher identity in the sect.
In addition, the huge cost of practicing alchemy is difficult to sustain with only the sharing of small pot dishes, and it is urgent to find a new way.
Lin Ansheng didn't immediately express his position, but asked: "Sister Zhu, in the last sect competition, how many inner disciples and deacons of my miscellaneous sect participated, how many died and how many were seriously injured?" ”
Looking at his cautious look, Xia Wanzhu was angry and funny, now Lin Ansheng is synonymous with "integrity and courage" in the miscellaneous sect, down to the miscellaneous servants and outer disciples, who doesn't respect him for three points, and up to the elders of the sect, who doesn't appreciate him a little.
But what they don't know is that in the bones of this guy, he is a greedy person who is afraid of death.
With Xia Wanzhu's wisdom, after pondering it last night, it can be regarded as understanding Lin Ansheng, the latter has brains, does not lack courage, and also has responsibility, what is lacking is the fighting spirit that people who practice martial arts must have, and the root cause is fear of death.
Regarding what Lin Ansheng said, she wanted An Ansheng to live a peaceful life, she didn't believe a word before, but now she believes seven or eight points.
It's just that as a martial cultivator in the cultivation world, and in such a troubled world, this kind of thought is destined to be just an extravagant hope...
"I just remember that the number of participants was over 100, and about 10% didn't make it out alive."
She gave a vague reply, but did not say that the last time the sect had a big competition, it was the least number of deaths since the establishment of the miscellaneous sect.
After hearing this, Lin Ansheng secretly said in his heart: Yicheng, this rate is not low.
"Then in the past half a year since entering the inner gate, the resources provided by the sect are equivalent to those of the inner disciples?"
"Except that there is no one-on-one teaching from the master, there are some differences in the monthly payment, and everything else is the same."
"That..."
"Is there an end?"
Seeing Xia Wanzhu frowning a little impatiently, Lin Ansheng tugged at the corners of his mouth: "And one last point, I want to come to the chef every day to help, this..."
"No problem."
After receiving an affirmative answer, Lin Ansheng had a bottom in his heart, and was silent for a moment, gritted his teeth, as if making a decision like a turning point in his life, and nodded: "Okay." ”
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The inner door and the outer door are separated by a mountain, and the atmosphere is completely different.
The outer door is like a college, and the inner door is like an enterprise.
In the daily life of the outer gate, more than a dozen deacons take turns to teach, and the outer disciples will find the deacon to solve their doubts about their cultivation problems.
The inner gate is led by the master to practice in the individual, and the elders themselves have to cultivate, and one retreat is a month.
When the inner disciples encounter problems in cultivation, they first ponder by themselves, and then once or twice a month, all the inner disciples gather together to discuss with each other, and if they can't even solve their doubts, they will privately ask the elders for advice.
It's not that the elders snub the disciples, but that the martial arts road wants to go further, and they can't lead the way by hand, so they have to let the disciples go by themselves, as a master, it's more about guiding and inspiring.
In addition to daily cultivation, inner disciples also need to perform sect tasks from time to time, and correspondingly, the monthly payment they get from the sect is also very generous.
The amount of monthly payment is linked to the level of the realm, which is the same as the outer door, but the corresponding amount is worlds apart.
Taking Xu Le as an example, he is currently refining his body eightfold, with a monthly supply of three first-grade spirit stones at the outer gate, and a full twenty pieces at the inner door, nearly seven times.
It is more than enough to ensure daily cultivation, but many "luxuries" are still out of reach, such as pills, such as soldiers, such as high-grade combat skills, and even exercises.
And these "luxuries" are precisely the ones that make Wu Xiu the most greedy.
Regular cultivation takes half a year to break through the realm, and taking one pill can save a few months, who wouldn't want to?
With a suitable soldier, you can increase the upper limit of your strength by one or two percent, or even more, in actual combat, who wouldn't want to?
Not to mention high-grade combat skills and exercises.
Therefore, don't look at the rich monthly payment of the inner disciples, they are actually more eager to get more resources than the outer disciples, and in the inner door, there are many more such opportunities than the outer door, and the competition is more fierce...
On the third day after the end of the sect's general election, forty-seven of the newly promoted inner disciples packed up and moved from the outer gate to the inner gate.
In three days, the list of twenty people who temporarily entered the inner gate was released, and Lin Ansheng's name was impressively listed, in addition to him, there was also a miscellaneous disciple, who was Li Yun.
Objectively speaking, Li Yun's strength is not strong, but this guy dares to risk his life, and he is one of the only two refining fivefolds in the final selection of the inner gate election.
Coupled with Xia Wanzhu's recommendation, it is not surprising that he was selected for the list of twenty people.
After a night of preparation, the next day twenty people went to the inner gate under the guidance of a deacon.
As Shi Yurou and Qin Qianqian said at the beginning, the inner disciples live in other courtyards, and the four of them share one, so they don't need to pay extra for spirit stones.
Lin Ansheng and others did not have this treatment, and were arranged to have one room for one person.
Lin Ansheng did not move in, as soon as the deacon walked on the front foot, he flashed on the back foot, walked two miles, and knocked on the door of an annex.
Shi Yurou, Qin Qianqian, and Xu Le lived in this courtyard, and specially reserved a place for him to live closest to the backyard.
"All the things in your room in the outer gate courtyard have been moved in, and the overpaid rent for January has also been refunded."
Qin Feng was seriously injured, the Qin family came to visit, and happened to be caught by Qin Qianqian, but it saved Lin Ansheng the strength to move, facing the twenty first-grade spirit stones handed by Qin Qianqian, Lin Ansheng waved his hand and said: "I'm not an inner disciple, this courtyard won't let me live in vain, how much is the rent a month?" ”
Hearing him take the initiative to mention it, Qin Qianqian also knew that she couldn't hide it, and said truthfully: "Thirty first-grade spirit stones." ”
Lin Ansheng nodded, and was about to take out the storage bag from his arms, Xu Le stretched out his hand to stop him: "I still owe you ten first-grade spirit stones, plus twenty yuan returned from the outer courtyard, just one month's rent, and you will pay it next month." ”
Lin Ansheng looked at him and said with a smile: "Fatty, you are wide, and it is different when you enter the inner door." ”
Xu Le's face trembled: "The monthly payment I just received the day before yesterday was half gone, and there were ten first-grade spirit stones left, which was not enough at all, I had to find a way to earn more spirit stones." ”
In the end, he gritted his teeth, and there was a touch of ruthlessness in his eyes.
Lin Ansheng said: "You refine the body eightfold, and ten first-grade spirit stones in a month, it should be about the same." ”
Xu Le shook his head again and again, and sighed: "If it's at the outer gate, it's almost enough, but this is the inner door, and when I get here, I feel like a frog at the bottom of the well before." ”
Lin Ansheng blinked: "Let's talk about it specifically." ”
"The teacher gave me a cultivation plan, the sect has entered the realm of opening the veins before, and it is best to completely stabilize the realm, it is best to open up two meridians, and now there is less than half a year before the sect is compared, and it is impossible to break through the two realms in half a year, or to cross the great realm, in my opinion, it is completely impossible, but I can't say no in front of the teacher..."
Xu Le said, his face was a little more bitter: "Later, Senior Brother Chen gave me advice, if it is a regular cultivation, let alone me, with the talent of most inner disciples, it is difficult to achieve it when I am in this realm, the only way can only be to smash resources, the first thing to bear the brunt of is the blood qi pill, at least three pills will be prepared in half a year, and the medicinal properties will be at least inferior, the higher the better." ”
"And when you reach the ninefold peak of refining the body, you must prepare a pulse breaking pill, the medicinal properties are first-class, and the probability can be increased by two percent, otherwise, if you fail to rush the realm once, you will have to delay for a month or two."
"This is only based on the fact that the exercises I originally practiced were mortal-level high-grade, if there were higher requirements for strength, then I had to go to the Outer Gate Library to find a suitable yellow-level lower-grade book, and the cultivation standard of the yellow-level lower-grade exercises, the blood qi pill still needed to prepare one, and the daily cultivation of spirit stones would be consumed, and there would be at least five more first-grade spirit stones in a month."
Speaking of this, Xu Le couldn't help but sigh: "These alone already make my eyes glaze gold, not to mention that if I participate in the sect competition, I will definitely have to engage in a soldier, practice a set of yellow-level combat skills, and get a talisman to accompany my body... I now understand that martial arts cultivation is a bottomless pit at all. ”
The last sentence resonated with Qin Qianqian, and she also sighed, and then continued: "My teacher also made a plan for me, I calculated, to break through to the middle grade of the open vein before the big competition of the sect, plus equipped with some other things, not to mention seven or eight hundred first-grade spirit stones, the elder's monthly payment is only one hundred first-grade spirit stones, and half a year is not enough for this number." ”
Xu Le complained bitterly, Lin Ansheng could understand, Qin Qianqian also complained, and in Lin Ansheng's eyes, he became a blind coax.
"Senior Sister Qin, a few hundred first-grade spirit stones are not a burden on you, at the auction house, you took a first-class medicinal blood qi pill, but you even blinked your eyelids."
Looking at Lin Ansheng's playful eyes, Qin Qianqian rolled her eyes: "The family substitutes me with thirty first-grade spirit stones every month, and I can't spend it at all when I get to the outer gate, but when I get to the inner door, do you think it's enough?" ”
Lin Ansheng was puzzled: "Thirty first-grade spirit stones, so you took that first-class blood qi pill and used up two months' savings?" ”
Qin Qianqian pouted: "Not to mention two months, more than sixty first-grade spirit stones, I don't say half a year, you don't think that I have been in the outer gate for four years, and my daily cultivation is to take blood qi pills." ”
Lin Ansheng stared at her for a while, and said slowly: "Then when you took that blood qi pill, you also increased the price by ten first-grade spirit stones every time, I didn't see you feel a little distressed." ”
Qin Qianqian was choked very lightly, her pretty face was a little red, if it was a different person, she would really spit it out.
The children of the family have the best face, especially if she is still a woman, no matter how painful it is, even if it is a drop of blood in her heart, she can't show half of it on her face.
This guy clearly did it on purpose.
Lin Ansheng really didn't mean it, looking at Qin Qianqian's appearance, he naturally guessed a few points, and shook his head secretly in his heart, it seems that he overestimated the financial resources of the family disciples, and it's right to think about it, which big family has thousands of people in each success, and there are dozens of young generations if not a hundred, and no matter how big the family business is distributed to everyone, it is always limited.
Moreover, because there are many people in the big family, they pay more attention to the rules, whoever can get as much as they can have to follow the rules, and there are so many rules that it is the most taboo thing.
Because of this, the big family will be so complicated, the family members fight openly and secretly, and the blood relationship is far less than that of the ordinary people.
At this time, Shi Yurou spoke, but she didn't complain, and there was a tenacity in her tone.
"In the inner door practice, the monthly payment alone is definitely not enough, and the family subsidy is also a drop in the bucket, if you want to get more resources, you have to rely on yourself to fight for it, fortunately, there are still many opportunities."
Hearing this, Qin Qianqian and Xu Le nodded thoughtfully, the bitterness on their faces faded, and their eyes became persistent.
Lin Ansheng became interested: "What are the opportunities?" ”
Shi Yuju: "The sect will send tasks every month, except for a few designated candidates, most of them are consciously voluntary, and you can get a reward for completing the task." ”
"There will be a martial arts exercise once a month, and if you get a good ranking, you can also get additional rewards."
"In addition, you can apply to go to the mine to help supervise the work, and there are three mortal spirit stones a day, if you can refine medicine, refine soldiers, or carve talismans, you can also apply for help, I heard that the highest day can have two first-grade spirit stones."
Speaking of which, he glanced at Lin Ansheng.
Lin Ansheng understood what he meant, he was practicing alchemy, and he could go to the alchemy hall to help.
It's just that there are only two first-grade spirit stones a day, which is still the highest, which makes him completely uninterested.
The spirit stones he needed were massive, and in a sense, they had surpassed the understanding of Shi Yurou and the others.
Not only is it that the cultivation of alchemy is very expensive, but the cultivation of martial arts is also, as far as he knows, the first floor of the Inner Gate Library Pavilion, which is open to all Inner Gate disciples, has the highest grade of exercises and combat skills in it is the lower grade of the Yellow Rank, and the systematic cultivation method in his mind has been promoted to the upper grade of the Yellow Rank.
The cultivation standard of the Yellow Rank Upper Grade, as far as Lin Ansheng's current Open Pulse Medium Grade is concerned, the regular cultivation is required, and there are no less than 100 first-grade spirit stones per month.
This was still half of the time he had to devote to practicing alchemy.
Seeing that Lin Ansheng didn't have the slightest intention, Shi Yurou remembered that a week ago, Lin Ansheng asked her and Qin Qianqian to help exchange another batch of medicinal materials, and it was not difficult to think that there was not much left of the previous batch of exchanges.
And the previous batch, equivalent to five or six hundred and one grade spirit stones, was only more than half a month, and according to such consumption, I am afraid that even the elders of the sect would not be able to afford it.
Shi Yurou didn't think that Lin Ansheng would continue forever, but one thing was for sure, the consumption of practicing alchemy was much more than martial arts cultivation.
Yes, she didn't know that Lin Ansheng had a stable income from a small pot of dishes, and she was really worried about Lin Ansheng.
When exchanging the second batch of medicinal materials, Lin Ansheng made it clear that this was his last family wealth, that is, the property looted from the three men had been consumed.
What should be done in the future?