Chapter 4: The Trial of the Sect
On this day, a trial task suddenly came from the sect: all disciples who participated in the sect's big exam after a year and a half needed to participate in a ranking trial first, and the top ten of the best could directly become disciples without participating in the big exam. In this way, it can avoid the elimination of outstanding talents due to the strong confrontation between outstanding disciples with comparable strength during the big examination in the future; second, it can also provide some opportunities for disciples to fight through trials, so that the sect can better select talents through this opportunity. Yun Feng, as a disciple of the big exam, naturally had to participate in the mission.
The scope of this mission is outside the sphere of influence of the Phantom Sword Sect, which belongs to the junction of the Seven Kingdoms of the Southwest and the Southern Barbarians, and there are only some low-level demon beasts. The task of the trial is to find some low-level herbs that the sect needs. Before leaving, Senior Brother Liao Wushuang was relieved not to go down to Yunfeng, and gave him a speed talisman, which could make his running speed reach the level of the foundation building period in a short period of time, even if he faced some powerful monsters, he could protect himself and escape. This speed talisman is extremely precious, and Liao Wushuang only has one, which shows that he loves Yunfeng from the bottom of his heart. The leader of this time is a second-generation disciple Cui Yan who has a nine-layer cultivation in the foundation building period, Cui Yan is subordinate to the main peak, and he is a master of yin and yang Taoism, and he has few opponents in the Daoist period, and he can ensure that he is foolproof in the face of demon beasts below the third level.
The group took the nine-rank Taoist canopy boat flown by the leader Cui Yan, and flew to the edge of the Nanban Land in only half a day, before entering the place of trial, Cui Yan once again reiterated the rules of this mission: first, according to the task list of the sect, it can be one or a kind, calculated by the strain, the higher the year, the more points; second, try to avoid contact with demon beasts, the strength of first-order demon beasts is roughly equivalent to the strength of eighth-level Daoists in the Rebirth Realm, and it is not easy for these trial disciples to kill alone. At the same time, in order to reduce the risk, it is necessary to carry out the task in teams, with no less than five people in each team, and it is not allowed to go into the forest for more than 1,000 miles. The trial period is a total of seven days, and the top ten disciples who collect the most herbs after seven days can automatically pass the sect exam after a year and a half, and the rest of the people are ranked according to the number of herbs, and the ranking of the contestants is confirmed. At the thought of having the opportunity to automatically pass the trial and directly become a disciple in the room, everyone was eager to try it and found a team of disciples of the same lineage.
Because Yun Feng usually doesn't like to contact others, no one took the initiative to invite him to form a team, and in the end, only the four female disciples of Luoyue Peak and Yun Feng of Luo Jianfeng were left. In this way, in a slightly embarrassing situation, Yunfeng's first trial journey began. Since entering the Demon Beast Forest, Yun Feng deliberately kept his distance from the female disciples in the team and walked at the back of the team, which caused him to not pick a few herbs at the end of the day. Although they didn't encounter any danger on this day, Yun Feng was still very bored, he knew the importance of this trial, it was definitely better than the opportunity to advance in the big test in a year and a half, he must get a good ranking or strive to pass the trial directly. The next day, he was at the front of the line, and in just one morning, he had harvested more than three times as many herbs as before. Yunfeng was secretly happy, and sure enough, the early birds had worms to eat. On this day, in order to collect more medicinal materials, each team has gradually infiltrated the hinterland of the Demon Beast Forest.
Yun Feng was collecting medicine at the entrance of an unknown cave, and there were dozens of herbs outside the cave, and he was happily picking them, when suddenly a huge roar came from the cave, which shook the leaves. Yun Feng was frightened, his heart was not good, and he was about to run back. But before he could turn around, he saw a wild beast galloping out of the cave. Yun Feng could see clearly, this was clearly a black wild boar. The wild boar was huge, more than a foot tall and more than three feet long, with two huge brown fangs stained with blood stains at the corners of its mouth, a black fur that was extremely hard, and two eyes like copper bells, staring at him extremely fiercely, as if they were about to tear him apart in the next second.
Yun Feng has learned about the classification of demon beasts from the demon beast classics of the sect, the general demon beasts are divided into seven levels: gray, black, gold, red, blue, purple and white, the first, second and third order demon beasts correspond to the three stages of human Taoist rebirth, qi refining, and foundation building, and the fourth, fifth and sixth order demon beasts correspond to the three stages of human Taoist Jindan, refining void, and transforming into gods, and the seventh-order demon beasts are also known as high-level demon beasts, which are equivalent to the strong ones of the Dao Zun, which are extremely rare, and the demon beasts that exceed the seventh order can transform into human shapes, and there are many ancient divine beast bloodlines, which only exist in legends. Obviously, Yun Feng was unlucky, the black wild boar in front of him was a fierce second-order demon beast, Yun Feng inadvertently broke into his territory and picked many herbs between collecting medicines, and the wild boar didn't seem to be willing to give up with him.
With the speed of the cloud wind, he would definitely not be able to outrun the wild boar demon beast, and his mind spun rapidly. If you want to kill a demon beast in a small realm alone, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and you can only pray that you can drag this demon beast first, and then wait for the rescue of the rest of the group. This was the first time Yun Feng had faced a battle, and although he was nervous and scared, he was also a little excited. Yun Feng thought as he sacrificed the four-rank fire thunder sword that had been refined with iron essence from his body. At first, the black boar looked at his series of actions and did not react, as if the small human in front of him could not threaten it at all, until Yunfeng sacrificed the cold and shining fire and thunder sword, the black demon pig felt the danger, and immediately took the initiative to attack, and went straight to Yunfeng to attack.
Yun Feng barely dodged sideways, and immediately activated the first layer of the Illusion Sword Technique, and the Fire Thunder Sword flew towards the black boar's head. Although the speed of the Fire Thunder Sword is extraordinary, the Black Boar is a second-order demon beast after all, and its action speed is slightly faster than that of the Fire Thunder Flying Sword, and it dodges the flying sword with one pounce. And Yun Feng's attack annoyed him even more, and then he stabbed his fangs at Yun Feng again quickly, and Yun Feng barely dodged the attack. This speed is already the limit of what he can dodge, if the black boar is a little faster, he can only use the speed charm given by the senior brother, although he is reluctant, it is better than losing his life like this. He once again urged the Fire Thunder Sword to slash at the wild boar, this time just slashing the tail of the black boar, and the black boar roared in pain, and rushed at full speed again at Yunfeng in anger. Yun Feng was horrified in his heart, the speed of the wild boar's attack this time was more than twice as fast as before, and it was too late to launch the speed charm at this time, knowing that this blow would definitely not be able to dodge, but he couldn't just stand still.
Thinking about it, he quickly retracted the fire and thunder sword that was close at hand to his body, at this time the wild boar was only two feet away from him, this wild boar was not open, seeing that he did not dodge or dodge, but he didn't know what was wrong, just crashed into Yunfeng with all his strength, just at the moment when he was about to hit Yunfeng, Yunfeng mobilized all the spiritual power around him, and urged the fire and thunder sword to shoot out from Yunfeng Dantian and went straight to the black boar's eyebrows, this is a blow that Yunfeng put to death, he knew that he couldn't dodge the blow of the wild boar, so he simply attacked the black boar head-on, so that the demon beast could not avoid his attack。 Yun Feng was hit head-on by the wild boar, flying upside down for more than ten feet, until he broke the third tree, he stopped retreating, fell to the ground, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, obviously suffering internal injuries, but fortunately survived. He looked nervously at the wild boar ten feet away, and at this time the black boar fell from the sky, fell to the ground hard, struggled a few times at first, and then remained motionless. In the middle of the wild boar's skull was the sharp fire and thunder sword, and it was obvious that this black wild boar was fatally killed by the blow of the cloud wind and had already died in Huangquan.
Yun Feng looked at the huge wild boar carcass in front of him, and couldn't calm down for a long time. It was the first time in his life that he was so close to death, and it was also the first time he had slaughtered a living being in the true sense of the word, and he looked at the boar's bloody head and dilated pupils, and he felt not only afraid, but also guilty. He didn't want to slaughter living beings, but why didn't the wild boar want his life? Maybe this is the so-called cruel world of the jungle, only the strong can live, and Yun Feng has never had such a strong desire to become stronger.
The pain of reality relieved Yun Feng from his distraction, and he inspected the injury, but fortunately, except for two broken ribs and some skin injuries, his internal organs were fine. He took some pills for internal injuries and spent another two hours to heal his wounds, and he was finally able to walk again. He came to the huge boar carcass and unleashed the Edgeworth technique to retrieve the Fire Thunder Sword, but tried several times to no avail. It turned out that the Fire Thunder Sword was stuck in the wild boar's skull, feeling the pain in his chest, looking at the Fire Thunder Sword that could not be recovered, Yun Feng smiled bitterly, he could only sit down and continue to use the spiritual power in his body to heal his injuries, and at the same time try to urge the surrounding spiritual power to urge the Fire Thunder Sword.
Daoists in the reincarnation realm can generally only mobilize the spiritual power in their bodies, so the spiritual power is extremely limited, and only when they enter the Qi refining period can they mobilize the spiritual power around their bodies. As the name suggests, Qi refining is to turn the external aura into one's own use, and cultivators can use the aura to improve their cultivation, temper their bodies, use the Five Elements Spells, and various rune spells, and enter the Qi refining period to truly embark on the road of cultivation. Yun Feng now wanted to get out of the predicament, so he could only try to mobilize the aura around him to urge the Fire Thunder Sword. Adversity can stimulate a person's true potential, and now that Yun Feng is in the hinterland of the Demon Beast Forest, he may become the belly of the beast at any time, and he can only work hard to cultivate wholeheartedly.
After more than half a day, Yun Feng's injuries basically recovered, and at the same time, the Fire Thunder Sword also began to hum. Yun Feng knew that he was the aura of the outside world that began to play a role, and he continued to concentrate on cultivation, and after a whole night of suffering, Yun Feng's injuries were exhausted, and faintly began to show signs of breakthrough. Yun Feng decided to try, he first swallowed all the elixirs that had been treasured for a long time that would help his cultivation, and at the same time once again urged the spiritual power in his body and the outside world to operate at full strength. With the exertion of medicinal power, the majestic spiritual power in the body filled the dantian, and the impact on the meridian bones creaked, and the whole body seemed to be dissipated at any time, and the pain was extreme. Just when he could barely bear to faint, he suddenly felt that the acupoints of his whole body were opened, and a stream of powerful spiritual power poured into his body from the outside world, filling the meridians and acupoints of his body, and began to repair the meridians. Yunfeng suddenly felt comfortable, his body seemed to be nothing, the wind and grass around him, the insects and birds were crisp in his ears, and he felt like a virtual existence. The Fire Thunder Sword let out a cheerful roar at this time, flew out from the boar's corpse, and after circling in the air for a few laps, it entered Yun Feng's body at once, and it was finally completed.
At this time, Yun Feng had already taken advantage of the opportunity to kill the beast to break through the bottleneck of rebirth, and officially entered the Qi training period, as soon as he entered the Qi training, he could use the aura of the surrounding nature to cultivate, and his body was also connected with nature, thus producing the most critical divine consciousness of the cultivator. Divine consciousness is the material form of consciousness, and practitioners can use divine consciousness instead of ears and eyes to observe and identify things around them, and at the same time, they can use divine consciousness instead of sound to transmit and communicate with divine consciousness. Yun Feng is currently closing his eyes tightly, but any wind and grass within thirty zhang of the surrounding area is clear in his heart, this is the power of divine consciousness. After another two hours of conditioning and stabilization, Yunfeng has officially entered the Qi Refining Period, and it is in the hinterland of the Demon Beast Forest, which is a good time to stabilize the Qi Refining Period by killing low-level demon beasts. Moreover, now that he had divine sense, he could immediately sense the danger within a radius of thirty zhang, and the danger of the pilot was greatly reduced, so Yun Feng continued to go deep into the hinterland of the Demon Beast Forest.
On this day, it was already the last day of the trial, and the path Yun Feng had walked in the past few days had already exceeded the range of a thousand miles stipulated by the team leader, he had already killed more than a dozen first-order demon beasts one after another, and at the same time, he also used his divine sense to avoid several second-order demon beasts, and his cultivation was completely stable at the first level of the qi cultivation period. After these few days of actual combat, Yun Feng faintly felt that he could use his aura to refine the meaning of the fire and thunder sword in his body, which indicated that the sword transformation technique was about to break through to the second layer, and Yun Feng had really gained a lot from this trial trip. Just as Yun Feng was about to return after killing a first-order demon beast again, he suddenly sensed a black and white stuffed thing moving directly in front of him. Yun Feng was very curious and quickly chased after him, and the white hair ball was able to keep a distance of about ten zhang from Yun Feng at all times. Yunfeng chased all the way to the edge of a cliff.
Looking at the past from afar, under the cliff is full of dense barren grass and wild forests, at the end of the barren grass there is a huge towering ancient tree, this ancient tree is ten zhang thick, towering into the clouds, can not see the canopy, there are a large number of rare and exotic grasses growing around the roots, the number is not less than hundreds, it seems that each plant is at least a few hundred years old, and the value of any one is several times more than the sum of Yunfeng's current income. There is an ancient cave next to the giant tree, and there is a round black and white small animal at the entrance of the cave, which looks like an ordinary person's kitten, and is staring at the cloud and wind with two big round eyes, which is very cute. It turned out that the moving black and white ball of hair turned out to be a small animal. Yun Feng looked at the herbs next to the giant tree, and his excitement was uncontrollable, if he brought these herbs back to the sect, he would definitely be able to win the first place in the trial and pass the sect's big exam directly.