Chapter 18: First, Second, and Third Rate

Sect Master Bai Qi debuted at the age of twenty, wandered the rivers and lakes for nearly 30 years, killed a lot of demons and evil people, and finally founded the 'Huaqing Sect' ten years ago. After founding the 'Huaqing Sect', he almost stopped making moves, and even if he didn't show up much, most of them were his disciples. It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that ten years ago, Bai Qi was a second-rate middle-grade master, and he had nearly 50 years of internal force cultivation. Now ten years have passed, and everyone in the rivers and lakes is speculating that Bai Qi should step into the ranks of first-class masters.

Huang Xiao knew something about the division of strength in the rivers and lakes from the mouth of the Qinghe River.

It can be roughly divided into two levels, non-inflow and inflow.

A person has no internal force, then such people in the rivers and lakes are classified as not entering the stream, and there are strong and weak points in this not entering the stream, although some people in the rivers and lakes do not have internal strength, but they have cultivated their external skills to the extreme, and such characters are often not necessarily their opponents even if they are some third-rate masters who have cultivated internal strength for decades.

In addition to not entering the stream, the first glimpse of the door path is roughly 1-5 years of internal force cultivation, a slight success, 5-10 years of internal force cultivation.

Third-rate lower grade, 10-15 years, third-rate medium-grade, 15-20 years, third-rate upper grade, 20-30 years.

Second-rate lower grade, 30-40 years, second-rate middle grade, 40-50 years, second-rate upper grade, 50-60 years.

First-class lower grade, 60-90 years, first-class medium grade, 90-120 years, first-class upper grade, 120-180 years.

At that time, when he heard about hundreds of years of internal force cultivation, Huang Xiao immediately raised a question, even if this person had been cultivating internal strength without eating or drinking, it was impossible for him to have hundreds of years of internal force cultivation.

However, Qinghe of course explained the mystery to Huang Xiao.

This internal force cultivation is not a one-year cultivation of the inner strength and mental method, which is considered a year's cultivation. There are also good and bad points in this exercise, and this level division is the same as the division of strength of people in the rivers and lakes, which is divided into first, second, and third streams.

Take the third-rate exercises as an example, generally speaking, the top third-rate exercises are practiced to the extreme, that is, 30 years of internal force cultivation, after that, if you don't have other better exercises or adventures, then the best result is that the internal force will not increase, but with the increase of age, the aging of the body, the internal force will gradually be lost. In this kind of exercise, practicing for a year is a year of internal force cultivation, but the result is often worse than this, and if you really want to have a year of internal force cultivation, you have to spend at least a year and a half or even more.

And for first-class exercises, maybe one year of practice can give you three years of internal force cultivation, or more. This is the difference between the exercises, and in this way, the internal force cultivation of the first-class top grade for nearly 3 Jiazi in 180 years is still natural.

However, there are very few first-class masters in the rivers and lakes, and it can be said that Yijiazi's internal strength cultivation is the dream goal in the rivers and lakes.

Huang Xiao also knew from Qinghe's mouth that it is said that there are also top masters above the first-class masters, and those are all elders who are not born from famous families in the rivers and lakes, or too elder-level figures.

In this regard, Huang Xiao only sighed in his heart, now he does not have the slightest internal force cultivation, and it is too unrealistic to think so far.

Most of the rivers and lakes are among the third-rate masters, and when they reach the second-rate masters, they can basically start a sect, which can be regarded as a generation of grandmasters. Therefore, as a suspected first-class master, Bai Bai Qi is even more in awe of countless people in the rivers and lakes, whether it is a person in the righteous path or a person in the evil and crooked way.

Qingniuguan is simply too shabby compared to those sects, it can be said that even if it is a third-rate sect, it will have dozens of disciples, and there are hundreds and nearly thousands. And those second-rate sects can reach thousands of disciples, and as for the first-rate sects, it is even more amazing, and there are tens of thousands of disciples.

Therefore, the 60th birthday of the sect master of the 'Huaqing Sect', Qingniuguan did not dare to slack off. However, due to the lack of incense in Qingniuguan, there is not much money for sesame oil. Of course, there are five masters and apprentices in Qingniuguan, and this life is okay, at least there is no worry about food and clothing. Moreover, these five people are vegetarians and do not eat meat, and the expenses are much smaller, in addition, they can also reclaim wasteland on this mountain and grow some crops and vegetables.

Therefore, there is no extra silver in the Qingniu Temple to buy the congratulatory gifts of the day. However, although Qingniuguan is not even a third-rate sect, it is still well-known within a radius of thousands of miles.

The main reason is that Xuan Zhenzi is good at refining pills, not to mention healing pills, which can save people's lives, which is extremely valuable for people in the rivers and lakes. And what makes them even more greedy is that Xuan Zhenzi can refine a lot of Gong Enhancement Pills, and the almost one is 'Pei Yuan Dan', which is taken by a third-rate master, which is enough to increase his strength and cultivation within five years. Even if it is the peak of a third-rate high-grade master, it is 30 years of internal force cultivation, and this increase of five years is a full sixth. Of course, this 'Pei Yuan Dan' is the most effective for third-rate masters, if a second-rate master takes it, I am afraid that it can only increase the strength of cultivation within 2 years, and if you change to a first-class master, it will be almost ineffective, of course, with the eyes of a first-class master, how can you look at such an elixir.

Therefore, usually Qingniuguan pays tribute to the 'Huaqing Sect' every year is 10 'Pei Yuan Dan', which is no way, after all, the Qingniu Guan is within the sphere of influence of the 'Huaqing Sect', and has to curry favor with the other party, otherwise this trouble will continue.

In addition to the annual share given to the 'Huaqing Sect', the Qingniuguan can more or less produce a few more 'Peiyuan Dan', and these pills are very attractive to other sects. Therefore, this 'Pei Yuan Dan' plus some other healing pills can be regarded as the main source of Qingniu Guan Yinliang. This is also the main reason why the incense of Qingniuguan is not prosperous, and the master and apprentice at least do not worry about food and clothing.

These scriptures are really broad and profound, and now we can only see the content and write it down, and the truth in it can only be slowly comprehended. Huang Xiao closed a scripture book, then walked to a bookshelf, and put the scripture book back in his hand.

This scripture room is a two-story side room in the backyard of Qingniuguan, before Huang Xiao came over, neither Xuan Zhenzi nor his three senior brothers came here, so when he first came to tidy up, there was dust here, and the scriptures on these shelves were also a little messy. It took Huang Xiao several days to put them one by one.

After sorting it out, after these days of research, Huang Xiao found that the books in it were not all scriptures, but also some various miscellaneous texts, such as astronomy and geography.

Later, Huang Xiao also asked a few senior brothers, and learned that the books here were basically discovered by the founder of Qingniuguan from a cave, which is said to have been originally a place of practice for a hermitage master.

It is said that the inner strength of the Qingniu view 'Changchun Gong' was enlightened by the ancestor from one of the scriptures.

'Boom~~' A lightning bolt streaked across the sky, Huang Xiao got up and closed the window, this thunderstorm came and went quickly, and the wind and rain were heavy, if the window was not closed in time, I am afraid that the house would have to be soaked. It doesn't matter if it's anything else, the main thing is that this room is full of books, and it's not wet.

After carefully inspecting it, Huang Xiao was ready to go back to the house to sleep.

'Bang dang~~' When Huang Xiao was about to close the door and leave, he suddenly heard a noise from the second floor.