As soon as this sound wave fell, Kong Laosan seemed to sense something, his face was relieved, and at the same time, three snake heads the size of adult thumbs drilled out of the cracks in the stone wall of Snake Mountain. After this period of careful recuperation, the size of the three young blood-crowned snakes seemed to have changed at all, but there seemed to be a trace of spirituality in their eyes, which made Kong Laosan quite happy.

In the next period of time, Kong Laosan walked around every day, relaxed his mind, and tried not to change his mood too much, so that his mind was relaxed, and he originally needed to recuperate for half a month, but he had already recovered in a week, as for the ten bottles of black demonic energy and a token obtained in that mysterious forbidden place, Kong Laosan also studied it carefully, and the demonic energy naturally did not say, it can affect his mind if he is contaminated with a trace, as for what it is for, I don't know it yet, and that token is quite mysterious.

On the token, black and green, in the middle is a string of strange characters, and on the back is an altar with intricate patterns printed on the back, which looks very ancient. It was so heavy that it was impossible to distinguish what material it was made of, but it could be inferred from the blurred patterns on it that the existence of this token was extremely old.

What surprised Kong Laosan the most was that when he probed with his divine thoughts, he actually felt a faint trace of spatial power in the token, which seemed very strange.

It's just that Kong Laosan's soul is still very weak now, and he can only detect this trace of spatial power, and as for the rest, he has found nothing.

After everything was taken care of, Kong Laosan began to cultivate day after day, feeding the blood-crowned snake, and hardly left the snake courtyard for a single step.

The flowing water is long, the white horse passes through the gap, and another two years have passed in a blink of an eye.

During this time, Kong Laosan's strength has improved, and he has reached the peak of the fifth layer of qi refining, and it seems that he can break through to the sixth layer of qi refining at any time, but Kong Laosan is not in a hurry, and even intentionally or unintentionally, he also slowed down the progress of the breakthrough。

Now Kong Laosan has been in Qinglingmen for five years, and he has also stayed in the Snake Courtyard for five years, and in less than a year, it will be six years, and many of the outer disciples are talking about trials.

Kong Laosan also deliberately inquired during this time, in the past, the trials of outer disciples were usually assessed by some elders in the door, as for how to assess, it will be different every year, but most of them are based on strength improvement, if the assessment is passed, you have to go out to experience a period of time, and the elders in the door will also issue tasks, as long as you complete the task, you can come back, and then you can be promoted to the inner disciple and continue to practice in the door.

However, the elders of these assessments are at least the level of Jindan Ancestor, and there is no room for sand in their eyes, so the people who can pass the assessment every year only account for a small proportion of the outer disciples, and most of the outer disciples who fail the assessment will be sent to various places to take care of the property in the sect, or leave the sect and go to the secular world.

Judging from past experience, there is usually only a one-in-ten chance of being able to pass the trial of an outer disciple, even if Kong Laosan seems to be unwavering on the surface, his heart is still more or less fluctuating, and he is not as calm as he appears.

In the wooden house, Kong Laosan sat cross-legged, and as his hands pinched out the strange trick of the Dao, the breath of the fifth layer of Qi refining around his body trembled slightly, and he suddenly retracted into his body, like a towel absorbing water, but in a moment, the breath released from his body had become the third layer of Qi refining.

Kong Laosan slowly opened his eyes, feeling the effect of the Hidden Soul Technique, and nodded with satisfaction, "Now that the Hidden Spirit Technique is also a small success, it is not easy to hide the two realms, but after cultivating to the Great Completion, you should be able to completely hide your spiritual power......

Kong Laosan said secretly, as for the problem of not being able to use spiritual power after casting the hidden spirit technique, Kong Laosan didn't care, if someone really was unfavorable to him, using the means was already the last moment, it must be a life-and-death situation, so it didn't matter whether his strength was exposed or not.

For the next period of time, Kong Laosan, as usual, was left to take care of the blood-crowned snake every day in addition to meditating and practicing secret techniques, but half a year later, a notice in the door caused an uproar in the entire Qingling Gate.

The location of this outer disciple assessment, as usual, was still selected in the Burial Demon Mountain where the Burial Demon Ancient Forest was located, but this time the outer disciple assessment was a little different from the past, the outer disciples of Qinyang Dao Palace and Liuhe Sect would also participate, and the disciples of the three factions would be assessed together, and this situation was only once more than ten years ago.

The assessment content mainly includes going to the Burial Demon Mountain to pick elixirs, kill demon beasts, and explore those unknown areas in the Burial Demon Mountain, and draw a map.

So many outer disciples entered the Burial Demon Mountain at the same time, and if they wanted to pick enough elixirs, the competition pressure was also very great, and those elixirs in the peripheral areas had already been picked by people, if they wanted to pass the assessment in this way, they needed to go to the depths of the Burial Demon Mountain, those inaccessible places, so that the probability of encountering demon beasts was also greatly increased, and the danger was greatly increased, even if several people were together, the risk of death was also very great.

Of course, if the strength is sufficient, the test can also be completed in the second way.

According to the division of the level of demon beasts, the first-order to third-order demon beasts are equivalent to the qi refining cultivators of the human race, but the specific strength also depends on their own situation, this time as long as they can kill a third-order demon beast, they can be regarded as passing the test, this news made the entire outer disciple completely explode.

As we all know, the third-order demon beast is equivalent to the seventh to ninth layer of qi refining cultivators, but because the demon beast is naturally strong in flesh and has amazing defensive power, so when it comes to real fighting, human cultivators are generally not opponents of demon beasts of the same level, if a cultivator of the ninth layer of qi refining encounters a third-order demon beast equivalent to the seventh layer of qi refining, it is possible to kill it, but it is only possible, but there are not many disciples of the outer sect of the entire Qingling Sect who can reach the sixth layer of qi refining, and how many people can reach the ninth layer of qi refining?

However, the announcement only explains how to kill a third-order demon beast, as for how to kill, the notice does not explain that maybe a few disciples with good cultivation can work together to kill a demon beast, but the deadline issued by the door is only one month, in such a short period of time, it is extremely unlikely that you want to kill more than three demon beasts, so some disciples with good cultivation are united, but there is a little certainty, but most of the outer disciples, I am afraid that there is only one result.

As for the last item to explore those unknown areas in the Burial Demon Mountain, this one is also a fight for life, unknown, usually indicates uncontrollable, between life and death, it all depends on luck. Perhaps there are powerful demon beasts in those unknown areas, once they step in, it is undoubtedly equivalent to a sheep in the mouth of a tiger, and there is almost no chance of survival;

This method is a good opportunity for the kind of outer disciples who are weak and have no strength in themselves, and are at the bottom of the sect, cultivators are going against the sky, and there is a possibility of dying anytime and anywhere, and taking their lives to fight for a future is not a difficult thing for some disciples to choose.

Since receiving this notice, in the past two days, Kong Laosan's brows have hardly stretched, and the three ways to pass the test are a little too difficult, especially for a lonely person like Kong Laosan, among the outer disciples, there are almost no acquaintances, of course, even if there are some disciples who know, with Kong Laosan's cautious temperament, they will not form a team at will.

After thinking about it, in the end, Kong Laosan decided to find an opportunity to kill a third-order demon beast.

After all, whether it is picking elixir or exploring the demon mountain, in addition to the pressure of competition, you also have to go to those unknown areas in the depths, life and death all depend on luck, Kong Laosan doesn't like this feeling of handing over his small life to heaven, although killing demon beasts seems to be equally dangerous, but there are more controllable factors, if there are some powerful talisman spirit soldiers in his hands, or some powerful formation traps and the like, even if he only has the fifth layer of qi refining, it is not impossible to kill a slightly weaker third-order demon beast under his strength.

Thinking of this, Kong Laosan must be in his heart, there is no more chaos before, and now there are nearly three months before the assessment of the outer disciples, Kong Laosan straightened out his thoughts, pulled his waist, and a bunch of miscellaneous things and hundreds of spirit stones the size of green dates fell on the table one by one, and counted them carefully.

Eight hundred spirit stones, bundles of immortal ropes, ghost faces, two jade slips that recorded the flame trick and the hidden spirit technique, ten bottles of collected demonic qi, a yellow-rank mid-grade wind escape charm and dozens of low-level rune papers, unknown ancient orders, some bottles and jars for healing and detoxification, the identity of the disciples of the outer sect of the Qingling Sect and the token of the Snake Courtyard, the identity token of Uncle Yue, and the booklet that recorded the five basic spells.

After thinking about it, Kong Laosan sorted and packed these things, saw that it was still early, and after taking care of everything in the snake courtyard, he left the courtyard and walked towards the wooden house where Fu Yinglong was.