Chapter 277: Ten Years Later
Time flies like an arrow, and ten years pass in a hurry.
Outside Xiaolan Island, a lonely island and a barren reef, the sea waves are undulating, and a huge treasure ship is slowly approaching in the thick fog.
Several young men and women dressed in uniform stood on the bow of the boat and watched the sea with a bit of excitement on their faces, until the big ship stopped, and Min Lian, the monk who led the team, came out of the cabin and hurriedly came over to salute.
Min Lian nodded and said to one of the female disciples, "Xueqi, call all the disciples out, I have something to say." β
The female disciple was in her early twenties, delicate and exquisite, and said crisply, "Yes." β
After a while, many disciples took place and saw each other together.
"Everyone, listen up, the sect released the experience task, is to evaluate the inner disciples, although the outstanding performance, although not necessarily immediately promoted, but can also add a few points to become a true inheritance, the merits and demerits, will be recorded in the file, follow a lifetime.
Moreover, this island is unpredictable, it is a rumored island of ghosts in the walking corpse, and you must remember to unite and fight the enemy together......"
Min Lian lectured to the disciples.
Soon after, she was standing on the deck, watching her disciples disembark and take a boat to the island deep in the fog.
"Min Lian, you are really majestic now, a dignified elder, a high and powerful position. A faint voice came, and Shang Yuxian appeared behind Min Lian.
Min Lian smiled, "Let Miss Shang smile." β
Shang Yuxian said, "I really envy you, alas, I'm really getting bored in this Chamber of Commerce, doing things I don't know why I don't know all day long, and I don't know what to do. β
Min Lian smiled and didn't answer.
Shang Yuxian said, "Then again, you just left the young disciples here to practice, is it really good?"
Min Lian said: "Now that the disciples in the sect have just grown up, the first batch of inner disciples don't know who has good human and sexual abilities, and can be appointed?
However, the purpose of our trip is not to enter the inner valley, but to sweep around the periphery and collect the newly grown resources.
As long as you are careful to avoid those difficult dangers, the disciples still have some self-preservation, they carry with them incense that can restrain those monsters, and if necessary, there are also tokens that can mobilize the great array. β
"I see, if you don't enter the inner valley, you can still be safe. "Shang Yuxian is clear.
Min Lian said again, "And this time, our sect master is also coming, and he will burn incense and cast spells here, and eradicate the newly grown foundation building demon tree according to the plan." β
Shang Yuxian was surprised: "Li Daoyou, is he coming too?"
Min Lian said, "Yes." β
At this moment, another treasure ship came from the sea in the distance, and Min Lian and Shang Yuxian turned their heads at the same time, only to see the flag of the Qizhen Building hanging on it.
Min Lian said: "Is it the people from the Nine Spirit Sect who came? Over the years, they have also obtained the right to enter and leave here through an agreement? β
Shang Yuxian said with a smile: "I think their experience is fake, and the looting of treasure materials is real? If it weren't for Li Daoyou's prohibition of the foundation building monks from entering without permission, I'm afraid that even the ground would have to be scraped off a few layers." β
Min Lian said, "They have lost the spiritual veins and the products in this island, naturally they are unwilling, but there are a lot of monsters in it, and it is a good thing to have them and those scattered cultivators who have brought their own dry food to help clean it up." β
That is, Li Daoyou is magnanimous, so he said that, but the idea of opening the secret realm to sell tickets is really ...... I don't know how he came up with it. Shang Yuxian looked at the sea and said, "It seems that Ji Feng is here, let's go meet him for a while." β
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The disciples soon arrived at the island, but they saw that the boundary of this place was gray and mist, and the gloomy aura was full of infiltrating atmosphere.
The distant mountains are hidden in the background like the night sky, adding a sense of oppression to people out of thin air.
These disciples are the first batch of outer disciples in the Jixiang Sect, and for many years before, they have been receiving the basic education advocated by Li Zhen, almost no different from the flowers in the greenhouse, that is, in recent years, they have just embarked on the path of cultivation and obtained the inheritance of supernatural spells.
Coming here, some people are frightened, some people are excited, each showing different temperaments, and the gap has begun to appear.
All kinds of strange flowers and plants are presented in front of you, the earth's veins are exposed, and the spiritual air is turning, which has brought great changes to the ecology here, and the Tai Sui spores combine with some local animals and plants, making it distorted, and it has become a unique and strange thing here.
What the disciples didn't know was that this was the result of Li Zhen's governance of the past ten years, and now the spiritual plants on Xiaolan Island have unearthed dozens of useful spiritual materials, although they have not reached the level of tea and turnip, but they also have their own wonderful uses.
"Ah, it's blood clotting grass! That's a lot, it's just growing here?"
More than 100 people entered this place like an outing, and soon found that a large number of wonderful natural materials and earth treasures were growing all over the ground in such a grand manner.
This is because this period is banned, and idle cultivators can't break in at all, and high-level monks don't look down on this kind of low-level pseudo-spiritual material, creating the illusion that there are treasures everywhere.
Some people's eyes shine, as if they see a bright future, and there are all kinds of rewards: "Collecting these is also among the tasks, and the more you collect, the higher the score." β
Some disciples were disdainful, "What, this blood condensation grass is one of the lowest-rated spiritual materials, it is better to hunt a few black demon zombies and obtain their heart's blood as evidence." β
"You stupid, how dangerous it is to fight with the Black Devil, we are not sword cultivators, we have so many skills to slay demons and eliminate demons. β
"Forget it, everyone has their own ambitions, and I don't force you, everyone will form their own teams, so let's get together and disperse. β
It was impossible for more than 100 people to reach a reunification easily, and the sect did not force them to gather together to complete this experience, so they quickly separated in groups of three or five according to their usual interactions.
Among them, there are also lonely people who rely on their own skills, go alone, and start their own journey.
What these disciples didn't know was that at this moment, on the treasure boat, Min Lian, Shang Yuxian, Ji Feng and others were all gathered in front of a treasure mirror the size of a basin, observing their movements through mutual remote sensing with the inner magic circle.
"Your sect is following the path of accumulation, and it is like those righteous sects on land. β
"This seems to be good, the basic education in the past few years is not all useless, it has already been exposed to the arts for many years, shaping the personality, once embarking on the road of cultivation, not to mention building a foundation in 100 days, it is three or five years of success, and it is far better than ordinary monks. β
"Well, these are the concepts of our sect master, and he seems to have a very set of teaching and teaching, paying attention to teaching according to aptitude, and each has his own arrangements. β
"Smack!" Not long after, looking at the mist on the mirror, showing a little hazy, Min Lian couldn't help but pat it, "The low-level magic weapon is poor, how long has it been since it started to fog?"
"Min Daoyou, we don't want this kind of thing yet. Ji Feng, who had been silent on the side, listening to Min Lian and Shang Yuxian's chatter, said a little sourly.
This is a matching magic weapon made by Li Zhen and others after rebuilding the magic circle, which is helpful to observe the movement inside, and guide or rescue the disciples when necessary.
It is also regrettable that this island was supposed to be the foundation of the Qizhen Building transferred to them, but it was taken away by Li Zhen, so that they now finally won the opportunity to go to the island to collect, and they have to come here to rub the treasure mirror with Min Lian.
Min Lian glanced at him and knew what Ji Feng meant by this, so she adjusted the viewing point and reflected it on the beach on the other side.
Soon, the team of disciples of the Nine Spirits Sect also appeared in the picture.
The cultivation of these Jiulingmen disciples is obviously a few points higher than that of the disciples of the Jixiang Sect, each of them has more than a few years of cultivation, and some even have accumulated decades of skill with the help of pills, and their temperament is fierce and capable.
There are even a few of them who have begun to have the temperament of masters, and it is obvious that they have been trained in the mortal world, and even fought with sea beasts and pirates.
When Ji Feng saw it, he couldn't help but show a little pride, and inadvertently glanced at Min Lian who was beside him.
There is no hope for their generation, but there are still disciples in the Nine Spirit Sect, and there is still a future.
In the future, a few more powerful foundation building monks will not be able to support the sect.
Perhaps, it will be 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi.
In this way, Min Lian frequently switched the viewing treasure mirror, and the picture rotated between the two disciples.
It's an opportunity for the two to keep in touch and get to know each other.
During these years, the Jixiang Sect and the Jiulingmen have been entangled, and it is necessary to strengthen their understanding of each other's new generations.
Soon, the disciples on both sides each encountered the walking corpses on the island and fought against those rigid monsters.
The disciples of the Nine Spirit Sect showed good strength, and they simply dealt with their opponents neatly, just like those experienced casual cultivators.
On the other hand, the Jixiang Sect seems to be quite ugly, the flowers growing in the greenhouse are unbearable and hurried, and they are even so frightened that they dare not move.
But the disciples united and helped each other, cheered each other up with the friendship of classmates, and overcame the fears in their hearts.
It soon turns out that the walking corpses are actually papier-mΓ’chΓ© tigers.
They burn strange incense, apply methods, and quickly find each other's weaknesses and target them, and easily harvest them.
The initial unbearable performance is completely a thing of the past.
Ji Feng looked at the performance of those people and couldn't help but think thoughtfully.
"The Jixiang Sect does implement the heavy way and not the heavy technique, but these necessary incense products are given very generously, and the disciples have their own reliance, which seems to be full of dangers, but in fact it is as stable as iron and stone......
The disciples are childlike and have good plasticity, which really plays a role in teaching and growing.
On the other hand, the disciples of our sect really just came here to visit and collect food, but they couldn't learn anything......"
He looked at the disciples of the Nine Spirit Sect, but saw that after they came here, they were also in groups of three or five, but they were like those scattered cultivators in the recklessness, each of them acting for their own personal gains.
In general, the habits of the rivers and lakes are much heavier, and they are more in line with the maturity of the popular concept.
But what is discounted behind this maturity is the abandonment of a lot of innocence and beauty, as well as the pursuit of the Great Dao.
"Will we be on the wrong path?"
Ji Feng couldn't help but secretly doubt.
The disciples of the sect are a little squeamish of the disciples of the sect, but in fact, it is nothing, and the so-called maturity also has a price.
Soon after, Ji Feng privately corresponded with the brothers in the door, reporting what he saw and heard here.
"We're not wrong, it's the times and opportunities that we're wrong!"
Yuan Yu dismissed his idea.
"Jixiang Sect has Li Zhen, backers, and wealth, and can withstand such steady progress and slow growth, but we have to spend a greater price to cultivate the same talents. β
"Only by letting them mature as soon as possible and take charge of themselves can they support the sect to continue to operate......
"Alas......"
When Ji Feng heard it, he also felt reasonable, so he had to say no more.
The two cases have different foundations, different philosophies, and have embarked on different development paths, which is indeed helpless.
Fortunately, the road on your side is not necessarily a dead end, and there will always be some unique advantages.
What a smart person should do is to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
Through his previous observations, he noticed several methods used by those disciples of the Jixiang Sect.
"Li Daoyou seems to have excavated the so-called 'human fragrance' from the human face tree over the years, refining a strange fragrance with intimidating and terrifying effects......
Mo Dao, our disciple has been in battle for a long time, and his heart is tough, and he is also scared to pee when he smells this incense. β
In the face of supernatural spells, the so-called maturity and the so-called heart nature seem to be a joke.
This is actually the reason why he suspects that his sect's concept is wrong.
Fortunately, this kind of incense is also a spiritual incense, and it can't be so easy to see at will.
So far, he has only seen a team surrounded by more than 100 walking corpses, and he was forced to use this incense to escape.
This is the life-saving means given to the disciples by the Jixiang Sect, and the talents of the sect are all precious elite seeds, and they will definitely not be consumed here so easily.
"There is also the Rejuvenation Pill refined by the Blood Clotting Grass, the effect is outstanding, it has the effect of a few tea turnip intermittent creams, but it seems that the cost is extremely low, and their ordinary disciples all have a bottle in their hands, and they will definitely be the fierce rivals of the golden sore medicine produced by our sect in the future......
Damn, this seems to have been invented by the disciples who switched to theirs from our sect!
The magic finger wood cultivated by grafting seems to have the effect of refining the spirit incense, and it has also matured, and they have picked a lot of it back, and it seems that they are ready to use it on a large scale, which is also the transformation of our sect's technology.
The corpse stinky taro condensed by the earth's veins can be refined into a poisonous miasma that defeats the enemy, and the effect is not inferior to those notorious poisons before......"
Yuan Ling and the others on the other side of the transmission spirit talisman listened patiently, and from time to time there was a rustling voice, as if they were recording something.
Not long after, Han Kang's voice was low, and he asked his own question, "Li Zhen, has he been in the past?"
When Ji Feng heard this, his face showed a hint of confusion, "I heard that he planned to come over in person, but he never saw him." β
What Ji Feng didn't know was that just as he said this, an ethereal spirit floated, standing three feet above his head and watching silently.
After a long time, he quietly left and flew in the direction of the island.