Chapter 44: The Three Spiritual Roots
Just as Qu Qingge was powerlessly struggling to get up, the five black shadows in front of her suddenly stopped moving forward.
It was as if time had been suspended in an instant, and one by one they remained stiff in strange postures, motionless.
Then a familiar, mysterious voice came to her ear:
"Referring to the disciple Qu Qingge, you have been seriously injured, but you have to choose to give up this assessment? If you choose yes, you will be directly teleported out of the battle tower, and the results of this assessment will be invalid; if you choose no, you will continue to fight until you die!"
"Roll ——!" Qu Qingge gasped, his voice hoarse, his eyes were red, and he roared angrily at the voice.
At this time, she had already killed the anger in her heart, how could she be willing to give up like this, isn't it just five of herself? Since she killed them one by one, she couldn't kill them all, so let's kill them all together! Kill them until they can't regenerate!
"Judge whether the disciple Qu Qingge chooses or not, and continue to fight!" The voice still announced tepidly and unhurriedly in response to Qu Qingge's anger.
As soon as its words fell, the five black shadows suddenly moved again as if they had been turned on the speed of time, and immediately raised their swords and continued to attack Qu Qingge.
Faced with the crisis in front of him, Qu Qingge seemed to be suddenly blinded and couldn't see anything, ignoring the pain on his body, covered with scars, holding the sword in his hand with one hand, erecting the sword body, and the tip of the sword firmly against the ground.
Then she held the sword in one hand, slowly moved her body, and slowly got up with the support of the giant sword.
Qu Qingge's small body stood sideways in front of the giant sword, holding the hilt of the sword with both hands, his eyes staring at the sword in his hand, his expression soft, as if he was looking at the most important partner in this life.
A wisp of wind blew through the broken hair on her forehead, as if she finally sensed something, she slowly raised her head, her clear eyes reflecting the five black shadows that were rapidly attacking her.
With a sharp light in his eyes, Qu Qingge's aura suddenly became extremely dangerous, his expression suddenly turned into a murderous color, his lips pursed slightly, and an inexplicable glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.
She slowly raised the giant sword with both hands, and the blade of the sword, which was a few points taller than her, was easily lifted by her, and the tip of the sword pointed diagonally upward.
Time seemed to slow down incomparably at this moment, and the movements of the five black shadows were slowed down indefinitely.
Qu Qingge could even see the trajectory of their swords, watching how they were stepping, stepping on the ground step by step, walking towards her.
There seemed to be the sound of a rumbling waterfall in her ears, and the strong water seemed to be constantly washing her body, and she couldn't help but recall the time when she continued to swing her sword under the waterfall every day, and her heart seemed to have a feeling.
As soon as his mind moved, he followed the feeling in his hand, and swung his sword flatly.
This is just the most basic flat slash of one blow, which seems to be an ordinary sword move, but it contains a momentum of drawing a knife and breaking the water.
As Qu Qingge's sword swung out, a sword aura with a trace of the artistic conception of water was in the shape of a crescent moon, and it slashed towards the five black shadows without stopping!
Spike!
The five black shadows were instantly cut into ten knots by Qu Qingge's blow, separated up and down, shattered into pieces of black fragments, slowly scattered, dissolved, and finally dissipated between heaven and earth, and were completely destroyed with one blow!
"Sword Intent!" a person who happened to be sitting behind the water mirror in the secret room where Qu Qingge was located exclaimed, attracting the onlookers of the others around him.
They were a group of seven, on the top floor of the battle tower, lined up, sitting cross-legged in front of a tall jade wall.
And the seven of them are the peak masters of the other seven peaks of the Lingyun Sect in addition to the main peak.
On the jade wall in front of them, there were dense water mirrors, and in each water mirror, the scenes in each secret room were displayed, and they were the disciples who participated in the martial arts examination this time.
Every disciple in it was fighting hard against several black shadows who looked exactly like themselves.
At this time, the disciples who had already fallen into a bitter battle did not know that their every move had already been closely monitored.
After each of their disciples entered the secret room, they initially had to deal with two black shadows with the same strength as themselves.
Most of the disciples are still fighting against the two black shadows, only Qu Qingge, Chu Yan, Shui Kunyu, Zhou Zimu, Zhang Hengfeng, Yu Yingxuan, and Changsun Lingyu are the seven black shadows who have been killed more than once, and at this time, each of them is fighting against more than three black shadows at the same time.
Among them, only Qu Qingge needs to fight the largest number of black shadows - five at the same time!
Therefore, her performance is also one of the most eye-catching, so that the peak master of Ling Jian Peak has been paying attention to her.
Because of this, when the five black shadows and Qu Qingge used the momentum of the snow tiger together, his eyes lit up, and he felt in his heart that Qu Qingge's talent for learning swords was extremely high, and he admired it.
Later, he saw that she actually used a blow with sword intent, even if there was only a trace of unformed sword intent, but it also shocked his heart, and he couldn't help but exclaim.
"It's really sword intent, the sword intent of water!" The peak master of Ling Qi Peak heard the exclamation of the Ling Jian Peak Lord, and when he looked at it, he also exclaimed.
"This disciple, looking at his bone age, is only five years old. A person who can comprehend sword intent at the age of five is truly a genius... No... It's Tianjiao, peerless Tianjiao!hahaha...... My sect may have another peerless celestial pride, and the next generation of the sect has this person, what a blessing!"
A majestic voice suddenly sounded from behind the seven people, and they turned their heads to look, and saw that the person who came was wearing a bright red robe, with an appearance of about forty or so, his hair and beard were as red as fire, and he was tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and his hand was resisting a large knife, and his whole body exuded the meaning of raging fire, and there was an atmospheric and hearty smile on his face.
It was actually the Hongya Ancestor, one of the three ancestors of the Tribulation Period who sat in the sect, who came in person, and the seven of them hurriedly got up and respectfully greeted him.
"I've seen the Cliff Ancestor. ”
"Don't be polite, I'm just here to take a look, you don't need to pay attention to me. Hongyalang smiled and bowed his hand, signaling that they didn't need to care about his presence.
But such a big living person is standing behind you, that is still a great power, how can you not be restrained, for a while, these seven people can take out a random character who can call the wind and rain outside, and they are all as good as quails in front of the cliff.
"There are a few other disciples who look good this time, it seems that there are quite a few preparatory disciples who can become core disciples in the end, this is a great luck for the sect, a great luck!"
Hongya didn't care, a raging fire suddenly ignited on his body, the indoor temperature rose sharply, and the blazing fire made the seven peak masters sweat, and then Hongya turned into a huge fireball, flying quickly forward, and instantly came to the front of the jade wall, showing his figure.
He stood under the tall jade wall with his hands in his hands, looked up at the scenes in the water mirrors above, and looked at the performance of the disciples, feeling quite relieved in his heart, and couldn't help but praise in his mouth, which attracted the seven peak masters to echo one after another.
Qu Qingge didn't know about these high-level people, she used the sword intent with water, and after killing the five black shadows in seconds, her eyes went black, and then she was suddenly teleported out of the dark secret room and appeared in the martial arts training ground.
Qu Qingge looked at the surrounding scene with a little confusion, and when she saw Zhou Qinjie in the distance with his hands around his chest, silently staring in her direction, or rather staring at the direction behind her, she also slowly turned around and looked.
I saw that she was standing in front of a tall black tower at this time, the door of the tower was tightly closed, and there was no one else around except her.
In the original hard battle, all the injuries on her body were gone, and at this time, there was not even a trace of the corner of her clothes, which made people wonder if the battle she had just now was real, or just her Nan Ke dream.
Knowing from the bottom of her heart that she should have passed the assessment, Qu Qingge stood in place for a while before walking towards Zhou Qinjie.
When he walked in front of Zhou Qinjie, he respectfully saluted him, "The disciple has been freed from the battle tower, and there is still something to do next, please ask Master Zhou to show me." ”
"Do you know that you are the first of the few to come out of the battle tower?" Zhou Qinjie lowered his head slightly, looked at the child in front of him who was not as tall as his waist, and asked in a deep voice, his tone complicated.
"The disciple doesn't know, and he also asks Master Zhou to teach him. To this question, Qu Qingge did not answer, but responded respectfully.
"The first one!" Zhou Qinjie didn't seem to care about Qu Qingge's answer, he just snorted in a deep voice, and then he continued to emphasize: "It is still the first one among the previous preparatory disciples of the Lingyun Sect, within the last nine sessions, the fastest to get out of trouble and take the least time among the battle towers!"
"How does that disciple compare with all the disciples after the ninth session?" Qu Qingge raised his eyes, and in his clear eyes, he stared at Zhou Qinjie's eyes with a hint of sharpness.
"Hahaha...... Among all the disciples, you are the second. Zhou Qinjie didn't care about Qu Qingge's slightly provocative eyes, smiled heartily, and said in an appreciative tone.
"Dare to ask Uncle Zhou, who is the first person?" Qu Qingge tilted his head slightly, his voice was delicate, revealing the innocence of a child, and he asked curiously.
"I can only tell you that his name is Ling Heng, and as for the rest, if you can continue on this road in the future, you will meet him one day. Even though he knew that Qu Qingge was pretending, Zhou Qinjie still rarely softened his voice and said to Qu Qingge seriously.
"Alright, there's nothing else for you to do today, you can go. Before Qu Qingge could say anything, Zhou Qinjie waved his hand at Qu Qingge, signaling that she could leave on her own.
Even if she was curious about that 'Ling Heng' in her heart at the moment, Qu Qingge knew that no matter how much she asked, Zhou Qinjie would not reveal anything too much to her, so she simply took a step back, saluted Zhou Qinjie, and after saying goodbye to him, she turned around and left.
After Qu Qingge left, the second person to come out of the tower was Chu Yan, followed by Shui Kunyu, Gongsun Lingyu, Zhou Zimu, Zhang Hengfeng, Yu Yingxuan, and Zhang Lian'er......
After them, other disciples came out of the battle tower one after another.
As soon as the disciples came out, they found that the injuries on their bodies were gone, and a bunch of disciples gathered under the tower, chattering and discussing something with each other, and finally Zhou Qinjie impatiently began to drive people away, and they left in twos and threes.
As soon as Chu Yan came out of the battle tower, he first probed himself, and then bowed to Zhou Qinjie, and then left on his own with a cold face.
Only Shui Kun Yu and Zhou Zimu stood in front of the battle tower and waited for a long time after they came out of the battle tower, but no matter how they stretched their necks and searched everywhere among the crowds that had already left the battle tower, they couldn't find Qu Qingge's figure.
In the end, they waited until the end of the assessment time, and the other disciples who had been assessed in the battle tower for more than three hours, and had not been able to break through the tower on their own, were all automatically teleported out of the battle tower, and they had not yet been able to see Qu Qingge's figure.
It was only at this time that they were reluctant to accept one thing, and Qu Qingge should have come out long before them.
In the end, the two could only leave separately with unwillingness, and at this time, Qu Qingge had already taken a medicinal bath in her small courtyard, and she didn't know that there were still two people waiting for her in front of the battle tower for a long time. "You are all elite disciples carefully selected by the sect, who have spent a lot of resources and cultivated with all their hearts. I believe that every disciple present here is a very good person. The solemn female voice echoed in the wide field, obviously there was no obstruction in the space, but there were bursts of ethereal echoes.
In the wide school field of the martial arts training ground, two hundred disciples were neatly arranged in a large phalanx, their little faces were tense one by one, and their faces were tense and solemn, and some of them were even so nervous that cold sweat broke out on their heads.
It's no wonder that they look like they're facing a big enemy, it's really because today is the time when the assessment results are announced two days ago, and some of them will stay here!
On the other side of the martial arts training ground, there was a spirit boat docked, it was the cloud boat that was going to send away the disciples who were eliminated today, no one wanted to go up, so they could only keep praying in their hearts that they would not fall outside the hundred.
Qu Qingge herself is not worried about her grades, anyway, she has done her best, and now that the assessment is over, what the results are, it depends on how the sect masters decide.
At the front end of the phalanx, there is a half-zhang high white jade platform, on which are standing several teachers who have been teaching the disciples, Xu Lao, Mu Lao, Qinghe, and Zhou Qinjie are all here.
Qinghe was standing on the jade platform with a cold expression at this time, his hands folded in front of his abdomen, staring at the disciples below solemnly, and continued to speak:
"But the strength required by the core disciples of the sect is not only this, what we need is a Tianzhi pride who is more genius than a genius disciple, and it is Tianjiao. The assessment results of the first two days have been released, and the comprehensive ranking has also been listed, according to the rules, the top 100 will stay, and the rest of the eliminated disciples will go to the cloud boat on their own and leave here. ”
As Qinghe's words fell, the golden scroll that Veteran Xu had been holding in her hand behind her tossed upward.
The scroll floated upward, and the volley automatically unfolded to the left and right, a burst of dazzling white light flashed, and rows of golden fonts fell out of the scroll, magnified dozens of times, and hung in the sky.
A huge volley of fonts appeared on the jade platform, and the disciples below could easily see the content on it, and everyone couldn't wait to find their names on it, and the disciples who found out that they existed within the hundred cried with joy, and the disciples who found out that they were ranked outside the hundred cried bitterly.
For a time, there were all kinds of things in the world.
Qu Qingge's name is hanging high in the first position, and the golden font is dazzling and eye-catching, so you can see it at a glance.
She was stunned for a while, even if she had a hunch that her grades would not be too bad, she didn't expect to be the first.
Qu Qingge was still stunned on the spot, Zhang Lian'er had already rushed up and hugged her, cheering loudly: "Qingge, you are so good, you are actually the first, the first! Hahaha......" She was excited as if she had won the first place.
Qu Qingge hugged Zhang Lian'er with her hand, her face was overflowing with a happy smile, and after the two were happy with her results, Qu Qingge asked Zhang Lian'er again: "What about you, Lian'er?"
As soon as she asked this question, Zhang Lian'er held her little head high proudly, like a proud little princess, and proclaimed loudly: "I won the ninth place!"
"Then you're also great, it's amazing!" Qu Qingge praised her with a smile and praised her according to Zhang Lian'er's meaning, so that Zhang Lian'er's image of a proud little princess did not last long, and she immediately broke her skills, and pounced on her like a crazy girl, holding Qu Qingge and jumping up excitedly.
"Ahhh......hhh I'm so happy, I didn't do well in this literary exam, I thought I was only a few dozen at most, but I didn't expect to be in the ninth, happy! happy!"
Just as the two of them were celebrating each other's good results, Zhang Hengfeng walked towards Qu Qingge with a gloomy face.
"Sister Qu ......" He stood in front of Qu Qingge and called hesitantly.
"Zhang Hengfeng, what's wrong with you?" Realizing the other party's low mood, Qu Qingge and Zhang Lian'er stopped laughing, and turned their heads to look at Zhang Hengfeng suspiciously.
"I'm here to say goodbye to you, I wasn't in the top 100 in this assessment, and I was eliminated. I don't have any acquaintances here except you, and I think about it, and I think about it, so I want to come and say goodbye to you before I leave. Zhang Hengfeng said with a reluctant smile.
After all, he is still a seven-year-old child, and in the face of this kind of thing that will affect his life, he can't maintain his former free and easy posture, his eyes are sour, but he still has to hold back tears to prevent it from flowing.
The assessment is ranked according to the comprehensive score, and the comprehensive score is a combination of 40% of the literary examination score and 60% of the martial arts examination score, and the proportion of the martial arts examination score is relatively large.
Zhang Hengfeng's martial arts examination results were very good, but his literary examination results were so bad, two phases and one comprehensive, he was ranked one hundred and one, a very regrettable ranking.
If it were someone else, he would have been unwilling to faint a long time ago, how could he still be like Zhang Hengfeng, but he was slightly depressed.
Faced with this situation, Qu Qingge didn't know what to say, and all the comforting words at this time seemed so pale and weak.
In the end, Qu Qingge only said one sentence to Zhang Hengfeng, a sentence that affected his life: "Your real opponent is only yourself, and I look forward to the day when you will stand side by side with me." ”
Qu Qingge and Zhang Lian'er kept sending Zhang Hengfeng under Yunzhou, watching him turn around and step on Yunzhou's back, until he couldn't see his figure, Qu Qingge turned around and said lightly to Zhang Lian'er: "Let's go." Then he turned away indifferently.
"Light Song ......" Zhang Lian'er softly called Qu Qingge.
Qu Qingge's back paused, but he didn't look back.
Zhang Lian'er had already cried into a tearful person, she looked at Qu Qingge's indifferent appearance in puzzlement, and was puzzled by Qu Qingge's performance at this time.
Zhang Hengfeng...... Isn't it from the same place as Qingge? Although Qingge didn't say it, she also knew that Qingge treated her as a friend, in this case, Zhang Hengfeng was eliminated and left, why didn't she see Qingge sad?
"Lian'er, Zhang Hengfeng is a person who knows me, but there is no banquet in the world, he is only leaving temporarily, if there is a fate in the future, we will meet again, don't be too sad about it. ”
After a long while, Qu Qingge turned around and said a heart-to-heart sentence to the innocent child behind him, and then no longer caring whether she could understand the meaning of her words, with the reconvening of Aunt Qinghe, she returned to the jade platform.
Everyone consciously re-ranked again according to their size, and Qu Qingge was still depressedly ranked in the first row, the first place.
Even though she has grown a lot taller in the past two years, because of her age, she still became the shortest of all the disciples.
Among the remaining hundred preparatory core disciples in the field at this moment, in addition to Qu Qingge, the youngest disciple is also seven years old, Qu Qingge is at least two years younger than others, no wonder he is so much shorter than others.
The phalanx with less than a hundred people looked much smaller than the original, but the division commanders standing on the jade platform had a cold face and didn't care.
This elimination is not the final confirmation of the quota, in the future, there are more severe tests waiting for them, at this time, let this group of ignorant children be blind for a while.
After all the disciples had found their new positions, Mu Lao took a step forward and said with a gentle smile: "Before announcing the rewards for those who have passed the assessment this time, the old man also wants to ask the remaining disciples to come forward and do a quiz. After a while, the disciples who will be called by name will come up to the jade platform, and the old man will take the test for you. ”
When the words fell, Mu Lao waved his hand, and a verdant streamer flashed, and then a tall jade ruler appeared on the jade platform, the body of the ruler was slightly transparent light green, and the bottom was firmly fixed by a pedestal filled with colorless condensate, and the ruler was marked with different values from zero to hundred.
Seeing the curious eyes of the disciples below. Mu Lao didn't sell much guanzi, stroked his beard, and said aloud with a chuckle: "This is a six-grade spirit treasure measuring ruler, which can measure the number and attributes of each person's spiritual roots and the specific spiritual root purity value. ”
"The number and attributes of a person's spiritual roots are determined when he is born, but within the same spiritual root, there are differences in different purities, and the difference in the purity of spiritual roots will affect the affinity and absorption degree of spiritual energy between each person and heaven and earth. ”
"Among them, it is divided into four grades according to different values, one to thirty is the purity of the lower grade, thirty-one to sixty is the purity of the middle grade, sixty-one to ninety is the purity of the upper grade, and ninety-one to one hundred is the purity of the best grade. ”
"Old man to give an example: compared with a person with two spiritual roots and a person with three spiritual roots, the purity of the spiritual roots of the people with two spiritual roots is only of medium grade, while the purity of the spiritual roots of those with three spiritual roots is of the highest grade, and in the same spiritual environment and the same understanding of the two, the cultivation speed between the two is actually equal to the top. ”
"However, because the Dual Spirit Root has only two Spirit Roots in his body, the Spiritual Qi in his body is still purer than that of the Three Spirit Roots. ”
"And after each person was born in the world, although the number and attributes have been determined, the development of each spiritual root is not stable, and the purity of the spiritual root will also be affected by the turbidity of the world, and there will be certain changes. ”
"At the age of five, it is also the age at which the meridians in each person's body have initially grown, and at this moment, if you can get the exact value of your spiritual root, the sect can arrange the most suitable cultivation method for you. ”
All the disciples listened to Mu Lao's explanation with a serious face, and when Mu Lao said that they could finally start formal cultivation, they all looked uncontrollable with excitement, and they all hoped that Mu Lao would quickly finish measuring the spiritual root value for them, and then start formal cultivation as soon as possible.
"Now, the roll call begins. Knowing that the disciples below couldn't wait, Mu Lao began to call people one by one after explaining the intention of his move.
"Song light song. ”
Because Mu Lao started to read according to the first place in the score list, the first person to be called was Qu Qingge.
There are no steps to go up to that jade platform, so as soon as Qu Qingge heard her name, she directly tapped the ground on her toes, and jumped to the jade platform with a light movement.
"Disciple Qu Qingge, I have seen Mu Lao, Xu Lao, Qinghe Shigu, and Zhou Shibo. ”