Volume 1 [Initial Cultivation] Chapter 17 Trials
In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed since Zhao Dong became an outer disciple, and during this period, Zhao Dong's strength is very stable, but there is no obvious improvement.
After Zhao Dong received the cultivation resources this time, plus some of the remaining ones from before, he successfully purchased a congenital stage pill, if Zhao Dong took it, his strength should increase by a level.
It's a pity that Zhao Dong doesn't have much time to take it now, because the sect is about to hold a trial, and Zhao Dong expects it to take at least five days to absorb this pill.
This trial is a trial of the sect once every five years, and the people who participate in the trial are so outer disciples, no matter how long you have been and what your strength is, you need to participate.
No matter what your strength is, you must participate, whether it is an outer disciple who has reached the late stage of the day after tomorrow or has just started.
There will also be no situation where other outer disciples have participated once and again again, because if they have not become inner disciples for ten years, those people will be sent to take care of the sect's property.
The sect is not a good hall, the reason why it cultivates you is to better profit from you, and after reaching a certain level, it will not continue to cultivate you, but give up on you, even if you are unwilling, you can only accept it.
Taking the pill takes time to absorb the medicinal effect in it, and what Zhao Dong has to take this time is the congenital stage pill, which has consumed too long, and the trial is only a day or two, and it can only be said after the trial is over.
Ye Weiliang naturally knew about the trial, and he knew it earlier than Zhao Dong, so when he gave Zhao Dong the pill, he also gave him some healing pills in exchange for favor, and the result was naturally successful.
Zhao Dong's feeling for Ye Weiyang is that he seems to be a natural businessman, for example, this time he wants to refuse, but he can't find any reason to accept it.
Zhao Dong has always been indisputable to the world and doesn't communicate much with other people, so he doesn't know about the trial, while Ye Weiyang has already learned about the specific situation of the trial from other people's mouths.
The trials of the sect are arranged in a valley, which is very large and forbidden, and can only be entered by those who are acquired.
Whether it was artificially arranged or naturally formed still no one knows, anyway, after the Xuanyuan faction first discovered it, it was used for the trial of the outer disciples of the sect, and it has been used until now.
There are a lot of natural materials and earth treasures in the valley, but they are all acquired, and there are few congenital ones, so the sect does not pay too much attention to them, but there are natural and natural treasures, and there will be dangers.
Where there are heavenly and earthly treasures, there will basically be spirit beasts entrenched in that valley, but because of the existence of prohibition, the strength of those spirit beasts will only be acquired.
Spirit beasts, as the name suggests, are beasts that can be cultivated, but they are much more powerful than beasts.
There is no difference between the strength level of a spirit beast and the level of an immortal cultivator, but a spirit beast is also a beast after all, so its strength is generally stronger than that of an immortal cultivator of the same level.
Because spirit beasts have slowly precipitated their strength over the years, their foundation is much stronger than that of humans, and their flesh is not comparable to the weak bodies of humans.
The two days passed quickly, and when it was time to go to the trial, all the outer disciples gathered at the entrance of the worship hall and waited to participate in the trial.
Looking at the hundred or so outer disciples, Zhao Dong didn't know a few at all, and more than forty people said more than a little and said a little.
The two Tian Zheng brothers had already reached the innate stage and became inner disciples, and Zhao Dong had not been in contact with them for a long time.
"None of you have ever participated in the trial, so I'm here to tell you what you need to pay attention to, old man. Hearing the leader speak, everyone stopped talking and listened quietly, for fear of missing something.
"First of all, this trial is not without danger, so be careful, otherwise don't blame others for dying in the trial. ”
"I'm sure most of you already know a little bit about the place we're going to this time, so I'll talk about it in detail here. ”
"The place we went to this time was a valley, which the sect called the back valley here, as the name suggests, only the acquired realm can enter the valley. ”
"The spirit beasts in it are only in the acquired period, and many of you have reached the late acquired stage, so you don't need to worry too much, but you need to pay attention to the time. ”
"The valley is opened twice every five years, with an interval of seven days, and these seven days are the time of your trials. After the seventh day, it will be opened again, and after it will be completely closed, it will only be opened after another five years. ”
This means that you have to come out on the seventh day, otherwise you have to stay in it for five years before you have a chance to come out, but you have never met a disciple who has spent five years in it and comes out again. Hearing this, Zhao Dong and the other outer disciples were a little scared, they never thought that this trial would be like this.
"In order for you to reduce the danger inside, I will now issue you a unified sword, although this sword is not very good for us immortal cultivators, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it is a peerless sword. I saw the elder wave his sword and drop it into everyone's hands as if it were at his command.
Looking at the sword in his hand that suddenly appeared, Zhao Dong was particularly curious, and he could only say that he admired the elder's methods.
"Alright, let's go, or it won't be good to miss the time of the trial. The elder took Zhao Dong and the other outer disciples out of the sect and headed towards the back valley of the trial.
The Elder didn't say anything about the greatest danger in the Back Valley, and that was that the others, man, would always be more dangerous than the beasts.
Hougu is equivalent to a closed place during the trial, which means that even if you kill other people inside, there is no problem, of course, you can't let others know and sue.
Although the sect turns a blind eye to the open and secret battles of the disciples in the sect, if someone reports that you have killed someone, at this time, even if the sect wants to ignore it, if you don't deal with it, it won't chill the hearts of other disciples.
This is also the reason why Xu Feng chose to do it during the trial, as long as he did it in a hidden way so that others could not see it.
Zhao Dong didn't know that Xu Feng was already thinking about how to kill him, and Zhao Dong was now familiarizing himself with the sword in his hand.
Zhao Dong had never touched such a thing as a sword before, the sword was not suitable for hunting, Zhao Dong had never touched it at all, but the knife was often touched.
Among the outer disciples, there was a person who stared at the other people around him, his gaze was like a hunter looking at his prey, if Zhao Dong saw it at this time, he would definitely remember who he was, he was the man who had reservations when he participated in the entrance examination with Zhao Dong.
The aura on his body now is only in the early days of the day after tomorrow, but after a few years, his strength is probably more than that.
"We've arrived at our destination, so you can rest here for a while and wait for the valley to open. "The elder took Zhao Dong and the others to a misty valley and then stopped, this is the place of trial.
The entrance to the back valley was filled with thick fog, and they couldn't see it at all, and now Zhao Dong and the others could only wait for the back valley to open before entering.
An hour later, the dense fog at the entrance of the valley slowly dissipated, and I saw a skeleton on the ground, seeing this scene could scare Zhao Dong and the others half to death.
"Isn't it just a few bones that scare you?"
"I'm telling you that this fog is poisonous, and if you don't get in when it's opened, the bones will be doomed. Looking at the frightened Zhao Dong and the others, the elders also hated that iron could not become steel, and they were afraid of being like this with a few bones.
People like Zhao Dong and them haven't experienced any ups and downs yet, and they are completely useless, but now that the Xuanyuan Sect is about to face a situation of lack of success, how can it be good?
After sighing, the elder shouted, "If you don't enter at this time, when will you wait?"
After a while, the thick fog once again filled the entrance of the valley, and after the elder watched this scene, he sat down cross-legged and meditated, he would wait here for Zhao Dong and their outer disciples to come out.
When he entered the back valley, it was obviously a bunch of people, but Zhao Dong didn't feel the presence of other people, and through the dark entrance to the inside, Zhao Dong felt the breath of the sun.
When he opened his eyes, Zhao Dong didn't see anyone else, only he was here, and when he turned around, he didn't find the entrance to the valley.
This frightened Zhao Dong, how can he get out when there is no entrance? After looking for a long time and not finding it, Zhao Dong can only give up.
"What kind of place is this? Have we arrived?" Han opened his mouth to ask at this time, Han had been sleeping since Zhao Dong went to the gathering, so he didn't know that it had begun.
"We have now entered the valley of trials, and we will not be able to leave it for seven days. Zhao Dong told Han about the trial.
"Isn't this just right? Zhao Dong, don't you need a long time to absorb the pill? You can't leave until you leave after seven days here, so you can take advantage of this opportunity to do it." "As the so-called authorities are obsessed with bystanders, the cold words woke up Zhao Dong at once.
Now that you have time, why don't you take this opportunity to cultivate well?
Although it was indeed the best time to cultivate, Zhao Dong couldn't cultivate right away, and Zhao Dong could only start cultivating after preparing food.
Although Zhao Dong didn't know how to dance swords, he relied on this sword to easily solve the problem of food, and after collecting some edible wild fruits, Zhao Dong found a cave as a place to live and began to cultivate.
Xu Feng looked at the empty front and took out a small bag from inside his clothes, Xu Feng already knew that after entering the valley, everyone would appear in a random place, so he was not too surprised.
After untying the rope tied to the top of the bag, three bees flew out of it, and these three bees were not ordinary bees but man-seeking bees.
The other party can be found through a special smell, and Xu Feng secretly sprinkled the liquid with the smell on Zhao Dong's body as early as when he gathered.
The space in the valley was so large that he couldn't fully explore even if he walked with all his strength for two whole days, and in this case, if he didn't use some means, he Xu Feng naturally couldn't guarantee that he could find Zhao Dong's location.
Xu Feng spent a lot of money to get this man-seeking bee, but he spent most of the savings he had accumulated over the years.
Xu Feng followed the man-seeking bee to approach Zhao Dong step by step, Zhao Dong didn't know that danger had attacked him at this time, and he was trying to absorb the medicinal effect of the pill.
Meng Jin looked at an outer disciple not far in front of him and showed an intriguing smile, but his eyes were full of greed.
It was as if he was the hunter hiding in the jungle and the outer disciple in front of him was the prey, and all he needed to do now was to ambush carefully and then give him a fatal blow.
Meng Jin's luck was not bad, and not long after he came in, he met the outer disciple in front of him, but he didn't plan to come forward to team up with this disciple, but wanted to kill him.
Meng Jin's strength has not improved at all since he joined the Xuanyuan Sect, until one time he killed a spirit beast, and after drinking the blood of the spirit beast, he felt that his strength was improving rapidly.
That's just the blood of the spirit beast, if it's human? Meng Jin has never been able to do it in the sect, and this time he can confirm the guess in his heart.
As soon as Zhou Chang came to this valley, he felt that something was attracting him, but he didn't know what was attracting him.
I don't know how to be good, Zhou Chang is ready to fight, his talent is too poor, even if he has joined the sect for almost five years, he has not reached the late stage of the day after tomorrow, if there are no accidents, I am afraid that he will reach the late stage of the day after tomorrow at most in this life.
The thing that attracted him might be a chance, as long as he got it every week, he would be able to leap into the dragon gate and become a genius from then on.
Zhou Chang followed his feelings and slowly walked in that direction, even if he didn't know what was in that place.