Such a large-scale city as Victory City immediately attracted the attention of the major forces nearby, especially the establishment of a large fourth-level spirit gathering array in this city!

This kind of spirit array is only available in the entire Shang Kingdom, and only the four major sects and royal families have it, even if it is only a fourth-level one, just for this, many big families in Sanyang Town want to move their families here.

For the city guards, the Linghua faction sent three elders from the Yan Realm and six elders from the Nine Shadows Realm to lead a group of disciples from the Taiji Realm, the Liangyi Realm and the Four Elephant Realms to serve temporarily, and then continuously recruited martial artists from all walks of life to train them for a period of time before they were added to the city guards.

The day when the Linghua faction opened the door to accept apprentices was just a month after the opening of the new city, and the conditions for the Linghua faction to accept apprentices were to make the warriors drop their jaws: first, those under the age of ten are called children, and after passing the five tests of qualification, talent, soul power, potential and heart set by the Linghua faction, they can directly become inner disciples, and they will be trained by the elders themselves. Second, if a martial disciple is cultivated above the Four Elephant Realm, he will be automatically promoted to an outer disciple after three months of miscellaneous discipleship, and those who cultivate above the Taiji Realm will enter the inner gate after three months. Third, those who have cultivated above the Yanyan realm can directly serve as the external affairs manager of the Linghua faction, responsible for some external affairs of the Linghua faction, and can be directly promoted to elder after ten years.

This kind of apprenticeship condition is not so harsh even in the Heavenly Desolate Sect, especially for the child child, but there are still no fewer people who come to the election with their children, for no other reason, just because the Linghua Sect has a group of masters like Fang Lin who can cross the border and kill completely.

It took seven days to complete the collection of apprentices, and this time the Linghua faction received more than 3,500 boys, of which only less than forty entered the inner gate; There are more than 1,500 martial disciples, but there is not a single martial artist in the Yanyan Realm, it is no wonder that such strict regulations of the Linghua Sect are unacceptable to the arrogant and arrogant powerhouses of the Yanyan Realm, but the Linghua Sect does not care about this, because they are not the real pillars of the sect.

Linghua faction, inner door, Lingwu Peak, this is where the inner door boy quenched his body, and the teaching of their first lesson was Fang Lin, standing on the big lawn, facing the more than thirty children, Fang Lin had a feeling of returning to his childhood, and the female teacher who was called "Fat Pig Woman" by these children at that time appeared in front of him again.

Smiling slightly, Fang Lin took a step forward and said softly: "My name is Fang Lin, and I am your tempering teacher. ”

After listening to Fang Lin's self-introduction, the faces of these children showed reverence, excitement and fanaticism, Fang Lin was already like a god in their hearts.

Fang Lin continued: "First of all, I want to ask you a question, do you know your body? ”

For these "uncivilized" children, this is undoubtedly a simple and difficult question, and the children's answers can also be described as strange, some say hands, heads, feet, stomachs, buttocks; Others answer skin, flesh, bones, blood, intestines······

After listening to these children's answers, Fang Lin gradually restrained the smile on his face, and shouted seriously: "You don't know what a body is at all, and you don't know your own body, so I will use the next training to let you gradually know what a body is, follow me!" ”

After speaking, he didn't even look at everyone, and walked forward by himself, all the children hurriedly followed, not daring to make a sound, for fear of making Fang Lin angry.

Fang Lin led everyone to a waterfall about forty zhang high, and said in a deep voice: "There are stone piles under the waterfall, and only one person can stand on each pile. ”

"Yes," said the crowd, and immediately jumped down from the pool, and one by one stood on top of the stone stake.

After a while, a child fell into the pool, and he didn't even get up, and then there was a plop, and there was a sound of plopping, and one after another the children fell into the pool.

Fang Lin's face was still serious, and he shouted: "Get up as fast as you can, go back to the stake, and the last one to go back will be punished for a hundred on the ground!" ”

Hula~~~, as soon as Fang Lin's words came out, the speed of all the children directly increased by three times, and one by one they stood upright on the stone pile, Fang Lin smiled with satisfaction, but the six-year-old boy at the end was going to be punished.

At this time, Fang Lin looked at the children and said in a deep voice, "Do you think you can control your body freely?" Do you think you know your body well? How long are your hands, how big are your feet, and how far can your eyes see······ But, just now, you see for yourself, you obviously don't want to fall off the Zhuangzi, but what is the result? You obviously want to be faster than others, but what is the result? Your body doesn't listen to the call, and it seems to be within reach, but it can't reach it for some reason, why is this? ”

Speaking of this, Fang Lin paused before he said with an aggravated tone: "That's because you don't know your body at all, you can't control your body at all, and you are very unfamiliar with your body at all!" ”

"Therefore, we need to quench the body, the so-called quenching of the body, is not simply to exercise our own flesh and skin, we also need to exercise our own muscles and bones, meridians, and internal organs, which is what the ordinary quenching realm needs to cultivate, but I tell you, all of you must continue to temper your blood and spirit! Only when all of these are tempered to the corresponding degree can they be perfectly united, and only at that time can you say that you have complete control over your body, and when the time comes, no matter who you face, no matter what you encounter, you can be mellow and free to give full play to your maximum potential, without paralysis and uncontrollable body, do you understand? Fang Lin shouted sharply.

"Understood!" As soon as the children finished answering, as soon as their bodies loosened, they fell into the water again, Fang Lin smiled imperceptibly, and threw the words of the "fat pig woman" scolding them to these children as they were, and the children were tearful and gritted their teeth.

Fang Lin's method of quenching the body is not something that any child can have, and only these inner door boys who are less than forty years old are qualified, because they have long been regarded as the hope of the future of the Linghua faction.

However, refining blood and spiritual spirit is the first-level secret of the Linghua faction, these two methods are Fang Lin and their lives in exchange, other sects do not have it at all, yes, the achievements of these thirty or so people in the future must be far from comparable to the disciples of other sects.

Fang Lin's requirements for these children were undoubtedly extremely strict, and there were those who couldn't stand the crying nose and wanted to quit halfway, but under the pressure of Fang Lin's means such as not allowing him to quit, not allowed to eat, and helping other junior brothers wash their smelly socks, there was finally no longer those crying and crying voices, and with the assistance of a large number of elixirs and high-grade meals from the Linghua Sect, it gradually aroused their competition, and slowly changed from passive training to active cultivation.

Gradually, Fang Lin found that training these children actually had a slow improvement effect on his state of mind, before Fang Lin had always thought that he was a particle of mortal dust, just immersed in his own world, but now looking at these children, how can they not be ordinary dust particles, how can they not have their hearts to the sky, by extension, everyone is a mortal particle, but every particle is full of longing for their own sky, the so-called mortal dust, that is, everyone is mortal dust, everything is mortal dust, reincarnation is also mortal dust, Qiankun is also mortal, only with the heart of mortal dust can we tolerate heaven and earth, covering yin and yang! The so-called no-face, selflessness, and non-sentient beings, the fourth layer of the state of mind, the highest meaning of mortal dust, turned out to be so.

In terms of state of mind, it was not only Fang Lin who was the only one who benefited, the other six people were also assigned the task of teaching disciples, gradually, in the past three years, the state of mind of the six people had broken through a large level, and the cultivation of a group of seven people had also entered the Yanyan realm successively, Fang Lin, Dongfang Lei, and Concubine Shu had reached the level of sitting and forgetting in the Yanyan realm with the support of the star exercises, and the lowest white lotus was already the first glimpse of the Yanyan realm.

In the past three years, the changes in the Linghua faction can be described as earth-shaking, the Great Elder and Feng Lu have reached the realm of helplessness, but Feng Lu, after obtaining the star exercises, the accumulation of the previous decades seems to be a squirt, and the strength has reached the entry level of the Nai He realm, and it looks like it is about to break through to the level of sitting and forgetting, while the Great Elder has just advanced to the level of entry.

The rest of the original elders of the Nine Secluded Realms have also been greatly improved, Gao Xuan and Li Qing have also cultivated star exercises, and they are currently two of the five elders of the Yin and Yang Realm, and now, the martial artists of the Nine Secluded Realms of the Linghua Sect can only be teachers and deacons, and even the Elders of the Hakka Realm and the Elders of Foreign Affairs have already had more than twenty, and there is also an Elder of the Yin and Yang Realm.

The second major change of the Linghua School is the establishment of the five halls of Dan, Fu, Array, Instrument, and Gong, which are only open to inner disciples who have been more than five years old, as well as core disciples and personal disciples, especially Dan, Fu, and Array have opened lecture halls above level 6, but only those with the status of core disciples and above can study.

The third change is that the Linghua faction has seven fourth-level spirit gathering arrays, five fifth-level spirit gathering arrays, three sixth-level and one seventh-level spirit gathering array; In addition, there is one for each of the Five Elements Formation, one Heart Refining Array, one Soul Quenching Array, and several other high-level Sect Protector Arrays, and even the Combined Spirit Array and the Eighth-level Great Array also have one each!

These things didn't even dare to think about in the previous Linghua faction, even if Fang Lin and the others brought back the shocking wealth, it was impossible to build a facility in three years so quickly, thanks to the victory city, with such a city to continuously provide resources, the Linghua faction can have the current scale, so to speak, the Linghua faction has gradually grown in the direction of the behemoth.

However, in the current Linghua Hall, Liu Rusong said to Fang Lin with a worried face: "Fang Lin, it's been three years, why haven't the core disciples you taught have broken through the Quenching Realm, you know, many of the outer disciples in the same period have broken through to the Four Elephants Realm." ”

"Hehe, don't worry about the master, their realm was suppressed by me, at that time their oldest was eight years old, and the youngest was only five years old, this is the golden time for physical growth, and our quenching during this period of time is of great significance to the future development of these disciples, now I can say that the width, tenacity, and flexibility of these disciples' meridians are at least three times higher than that of ordinary martial artists, and some can even be more than seven times higher, and the strength of skin, flesh, bones, viscera, etc. is definitely more than five times higher, What's more, our unique blood refining spirit, hehe, I believe that when they gossip realm, all the elders will rush to accept them as personal disciples. Fang Lin said firmly.

"Oh! I remembered that it seemed that it took you three years to break through the quenching realm, and I also said that you had some adventure, but at that time, you were deliberately suppressing it, and there was no breakthrough. Liu Rusong suddenly realized.

"Yes, not only their quenching realm must be suppressed, but even the qi training period must be suppressed, and they can only break through after three years, with the body quenched by the quenching realm, it would be a pity if they were still using the cultivation methods of ordinary martial artists during the qi training period, only to compress, compress, and recompress their true qi until they are extremely pure and condensed, so that they will have the strength far beyond the same level of martial artists in the future, and this is also the capital they can cross the border in team battles in the future!" Fang Lin continued: "At the same time, this is also a prerequisite for being able to smoothly cross the realm of helplessness and even finally reach the realm of life and death in the future!" ”

Fang Lin's words caused the elders in the hall to sigh for a while, it turned out that the mystery of the cross-border challenge was here, and it turned out that the reason why many people could not cross the Nahe realm even if they had advanced exercises was also here, but unfortunately, these people had no chance, after a while, Liu Rusong said to all the elders present with a solemn expression: "Everyone, what Fang Lin said today is the top secret of my Linghua Sect, Fang Lin's training method will be the same as the blood refining of this sect in the future, and it will only be used to clear the five tests at the beginning. Children under the age of eight! ”

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As an emerging county town, Victory City continues to attract small and medium-sized families from all over the world to settle in it with its unique large array of city protection and spirit gathering array, and attracts wealthy merchants and giants from all over the world to purchase the elixirs, charms, spirit arrays, medicinal materials, demon crystals and other items produced by Linghua Sect.

On the busy street of Wansheng City, an old man in a blue robe and a middle-aged man in purple were walking carelessly, both of them looking around, like children looking so curious about everything.

"Tiansheng, in my opinion, although this city of victory is only a county town, it is much more prosperous than your state capital." The old man whispered to the middle-aged man beside him.

"Hehe, this Linghua faction has so many high-end goods, and now the situation is not very stable, so the demand is quite large, and the most important thing is that the Linghua faction has also taken the line of the Lin family, which has greatly reduced the cost of their things, hey, many big businessmen are willing to come here to buy and sell." The middle-aged man smiled helplessly.

"Haha, I'm afraid that's what you want to see, but I've heard that this Linghua faction has been attached to you." The old man said.

"Hehe, the news of the National Teacher is really well-informed, and even I got such news, but I didn't tell anyone, and I didn't record it." The middle-aged man doesn't deny you either, hehe smiled.

The rise of the Linghua faction and the rapid development of the Victory City attracted the attention of the imperial court a year ago, especially the classic battle of Fang Lin and his party, and the name Fang Lin surprised Shang Rong.

As early as after the Black Phoenix Ze incident, Shang Rong had been inquiring about Fang Lin's whereabouts, a little hairy boy in his teens, only the cultivation of the Four Elephant Realm, leading so many shrimp soldiers and crab generals to break the elite and extremely large number of Black Phoenix Ze military camps, in Shang Rong's opinion, this was simply a means to seize the creation of heaven and earth, and Fang Lin became a talent that he would win over at all costs.

Four years ago, Li Tianyou succeeded to the throne, the Yeyue Empire earthquake, Shang Rong was keenly aware of the opportunities of the Shang State, so the thirst for talents like Fang Lin became more and more intense, and now although the Yulin Army has been established for more than two years, the number and quality of the warriors who defected to it are unsatisfactory, which also makes Shang Rong sad.

Therefore, after hearing Fang Lin's news, Shang Rong almost couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, but at that time, he was riddled with everything, and he had no choice but to deal with the important things first, but his eyes were always on the Linghua faction, on the Victory City, and on Fang Lin's body.

Just when the two of them were talking in a whisper while walking, a group of patrolling city guards in front came over, and when they saw this group of city guards, Shang Rong's eyes shrank, and he saw that this group of fifteen sergeants, wearing the standard military uniforms of the Shang Kingdom, holding a spear in his hand, the tip of the spear pointed obliquely at the sky, everyone had a solemn expression, their eyes did not squint, their steps were uniform, but they did not make a single footstep, and they did not even bring a piece of dust, they were all above the Four Elephant Realm.

Seeing these sergeants, Shang Rong couldn't help nodding and said, "It seems that there are experts in governing the army in this Linghua faction, and it is not easy to train a group of scattered warriors to be decent." ”

"Hehe, how can it be so, less than three months after the establishment of the city of victory, there was a man named ' Tian Yuan Sect's forces, well, probably a third-rate sect formed by some small and medium-sized forces from the Yeyue Empire after integrating some small and medium-sized forces in the original Southern Regions, wanted to rely on the advantages of their warriors to forcibly seize this victorious city, and the 30,000 city guards commanded by Fang Lin fought a decisive battle ten miles outside this city, as a result, it was such a group of seemingly rabble troops, but they only paid the price of 3,000 people but defeated the 60,000 army of Tian Yuan Sect and killed nearly 20,000 people! Long Tiansheng said.

"Huh!? Why didn't you report it? Shang Rong asked.

"Hehe, I don't know how many such things happen every day in the country at that time, and even if they are reported, they may not be noticed." Long Tiansheng said with a smile.

"Well, hehe, it seems that this Fang Lin is probably even better than I imagined." Shang Rong also smiled happily.

"What's more, just half a year after that battle, the Tian Yuan Sect made a comeback, this time the Tian Yuan Sect was almost all dispatched, led by four strong men of the Yin and Yang Realm, and sent 100,000 troops to start a decisive battle with the Ling Hua Sect, and it was this Fang Lin, who led the army of 60,000 and led three strong men of the Yin and Yang Realm to meet the enemy, but with the cooperation of the ever-changing military array and various battle formations and spirit arrays, the Tian Yuan Sect was beaten to the ground, killing three strong men of the Yin and Yang Realm, killing nearly 40,000 enemies in total, while the Ling Hua faction only paid the price of less than 2,000 people, Moreover, none of the martial artists above the Nine Shadows Realm died! After Long Tiansheng finished speaking, his face couldn't help but show pride.

Shang Rong became more and more moved when he heard this, and said with a little trembling: "We must recruit them, such talents must be recruited, and now the most urgent shortage of such talents in our country is this!" ”

"Hehe, Master Guoshi, are you digging into my corner like this?" Long Tiansheng teased.

"Hmph, I'm just afraid that such talents will be buried under your hands." Shang Rong feigned anger, and after speaking, the two looked at each other, and they both laughed.

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Lin Yuan Restaurant, this is one of the three most luxurious restaurants in the city, the boss is naturally the Lin family of Shuanglinbao, at this moment, in a VIP private room on the fifth floor of the restaurant, there is a table of exquisite banquets, and there are two old men sitting around the banquet, a middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman.

"This city is really good, densely populated, economically developed, businessmen gathered, rich families are endless, and most importantly, it is backed by the Yumeng Mountain Range, which can be said to be an endless source of treasures from heaven and earth, and there are even good things such as the Spirit Gathering Array and the City Protector Array, this advantage is simply unique." One of the white-robed old men spoke.

"Yes, such a good place, how can it fall into the hands of a third-rate sect like the Linghua faction, our Xuyang Alliance doesn't have such good conditions, this Linghua faction is really damned." The middle-aged woman gritted her teeth.

The Sunrise Alliance is an alliance composed of two second-rate sects that have only recently failed in some rich places, and in the two or three years of fighting, the two sects have been hit quite hard, so that they are basically in a half-crippled state, and then the two sects are combined, and they decided to integrate into an alliance, which can be regarded as maintaining their status as a second-rate force, but they have been injured again and again in the next battle, so they have to withdraw from the competition for those rich areas, and instead look at these more remote places, However, when they discovered the city of victory, their eyes lit up.

"However, it is not easy for us to take this victorious city, it is said that more than two years ago, in the two major battles between the Linghua Sect and the Tianyuan Sect, the Tianyuan Sect lost all of its old bottoms, and even the surviving elders of the Yin and Yang Realm also lost themselves to the Linghua Sect and became the guest elders of the people, or the kind that can never be deviated." The middle-aged man said.

"Hmph, Tianyuan Sect is a fart, it's just a third-rate force, don't forget, we have two Supreme Elders of the Nai He Realm, when the time comes, as long as the strong man of the Na He Realm comes out, his Linghua faction will not surrender obediently?" Another blue-robed old man said disdainfully.

"Don't be underestimated!" The white-robed old man whispered, "The people of the Linghua Sect can cross the border to challenge, don't you know the origin of the name of this city?" ”

"Well, Uncle Shi is right, in the past three years, the Linghua faction has experienced dozens of battles, but each battle is almost a defeat of the opponent at a very small cost, although they have not heard of the emergence of a strong man in the helpless realm, however, their reputation over the years has really been played, and their combat effectiveness can be said to be quite not weak." Middle-aged humane.

"Poof, senior brother, are you afraid, you should know that the Linghua faction only had three martial artists in the Yin and Yang Realm three years ago, and now even if they have one more, there are only four, however, there are as many as six martial artists in our Rising Sun Mengguang Yin and Yang Realm, not to mention two masters and ancestors of the Nai He Realm, I see, the Linghua faction is the meat on the board, we can slaughter it as we want, giggle······" The woman laughed at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was not annoyed, he just frowned and said, "I'm only afraid that this war, our disciples below the Yanyan Realm will have a lot of losses, and if we don't hurt the root, even if we win the entire Linghua Sect, we may not be able to defend it." ”

"Hehe, Anwar, I know you've always been cautious, which is a good thing, but sometimes being too careful can lead to missing a lot of opportunities." The white-robed old man said.

"Yes, thank you Uncle for your teachings." The middle-aged man named Anwar said respectfully: "The disciple just thinks that we may have the best of both worlds. ”

"Oh? Let's hear it. The other three were in good spirits.

"If you want to talk about large-scale battles, Linghua faction Fang Lin's command ability is indeed fearful, however, I heard that he only has the strength of the Nine Secluded Realm, let's go to Linghua faction to make an appointment, just on this victory platform, only carry out the three battles of the Yanyan Realm, the Yin and Yang Realm and the Nai He Realm, for the sake of insurance, you can admit defeat, and you also have to make a bet, the losing side must make a soul blood oath, all members join the winning side, and in the future, we will be loyal, and there will never be the slightest idea of betrayal, in this way, we can not only get the victory city, You can also get the complete Linghua faction, and most importantly, you can also get Fang Lin's group of disciples who can cross the border to challenge, so that not only will we not have the slightest loss, but we can also greatly increase our strength, and who will dare to take our territory at that time?" Anwar finished speaking, and looked at the three of them with a smile.

"Wonderful, wonderful, haha~~~ Anwar, you are really outstanding, I was still sighing just now, it would be a pity to kill a promising talent like Fang Lin, if you can recruit under your command, you can make great contributions to our Rising Sun Alliance in the future, as a result, you have such an idea, hehe, directly avoid Fang Lin's group of people completely, very good, very good, haha" The old man in the white robe was extremely happy when he heard this.

In fact, Anwar's arrangement can be described as extremely wonderful, just by admitting defeat, it can be seen that he has good intentions to save his own powerhouse, in his opinion, whether it is the people of their Sunrise Alliance or the people of the Linghua faction, they are already people on their own side, and it is not worth it to let others die in this kind of "internal friction", even if the first two games are defeated, it doesn't matter, as long as the strong man in the realm comes out, the Linghua faction can only stare dryly, you four or five warriors of the Yin and Yang Realm go up to the top? That's just looking for abuse.

However, they all made an extremely major mistake, that is, their intelligence was not accurate, however, it was no wonder that they would have thought that in such a short period of three years, there would be two people from the Linghua Sect who had broken through to the Nai He Realm, and there were even six powerhouses of the Yin and Yang Realm, and they didn't dare to think about it even if they wanted to break their heads, so their newly established Rising Sun Alliance was destined to become a part of others. And all this that Anwar painstakingly arranged is also destined to be married.

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On the street, Shang Rong and Long Tiansheng were talking with relish, and at this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd, but it didn't look like someone was making trouble. ”

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