Another year has passed, and this round of new disciples has entered the mountain gate to cultivate, and it is the last and most critical time. However, although there are many newcomer disciples on Qingyu Island, at this time, everyone is still gradually divided into different levels, and most of them have understood their respective talents at this moment after these four years of cultivation.

As for Wang Gen and the other people at the top of the Ling Xiao Sect, in this fifth year, they had set more eyes on those who were at the top of the Qi Refining Realm among the rookie disciples.

Today, at the beginning of the fifth year, the number of rookie disciples on Qingyu Island who had cultivated to the high level of the Qi Refining Realm had reached forty-six. This number far exceeded the average level of previous years, and it can be said that it is a new person in a realm where real geniuses gather and stars shine, even on Jinhong Mountain, those great elders of the Yuan Dan Realm who are high above are also looking at Qingyu Island at this moment.

If nothing else, this year will definitely be a year of colorful talents, and it will definitely be of great benefit to be able to identify talents before this time and preemptively win them over to their own faction. And according to common sense, basically all talents will also appear among these forty-six people.

Shen Shi, one of these forty-six people, also received some attention, but his cultivation speed was excellent compared to those years in previous years, but among this batch of new disciples, it could only be said to be ordinary and ordinary, not particularly eye-catching. It is said that a few days ago, Senior Brother Wang Gen personally saw it with him, saying that the spiritual power in his body was condensed and thick, like clouds rolling, it was the sign that he was about to open up the Dantian Jade Mansion and gather the spiritual power of the body, and the Ning Yuan Realm seemed to be close at hand.

In addition to Gan Ze, there are several newcomers who are also in the limelight for a while, among which the most prominent dark horse is Zhong Qingzhu, it is said that her talent and talent are all favored, and there is already a respected elder who has taken a fancy to her, and when she breaks through the Ning Yuan Realm, she will be included in the door.

In addition, there are three or four talented young heroes who are dazzling and covetous, even if some of the remaining top ten or even the top twenty rookie disciples are also favored by many elders, these days, there are really not too many sect elders who are passing by Qingyu Island.

And in the list of forty-six people, Shen Shi privately calculated it, and found that there were actually twenty-two children from the vassal families of the Lingxiao Sect, accounting for almost half, which shows that these vassal families are not all useless, on the contrary, after occupying all kinds of time and place, it is indeed this kind of disciple with a background who is more likely to succeed in cultivation on the way.

Some of the famous children of the family he knew in the past were mostly on the list of forty-six people this time, including Sun You's eldest brother Sun Heng, Hou Yuanliang of the Hou family, and the two sisters of the Zhong family, etc., Shen Shilian Hou Sheng, who was very bad with him at the beginning, was actually on this list. It's just that in the past few years, he has rarely communicated with these children of the family, and he has not interacted with each other on weekdays, just like a stranger.

Compared with the increasingly enthusiastic atmosphere of the Qingyu Island Tour, all the people were waiting for the scene that was destined to be the first in the last year, although Shen Shi's mood was also slightly affected, but it was still calm. Although he is also very eager to break through to the Ning Yuan Realm as soon as possible and worship under a certain great real person, and from then on the future will be bright and immortal Dao will be opened, but just thinking about it, he is still self-aware, knowing that he is not comparable to Gan Ze, Zhong Qingzhu and others.

But speaking of which, Shen Shi really heard that someone on Jinhong Mountain had asked for his name, this news was heard by him from Senior Brother Zhang Yihui of the Five Elements Palace, and later it was confirmed from Xu Yanzhi's mouth on the big ship to Demon Island, which senior elder they didn't say, but looking at their smiling appearances, Shen Shi probably guessed in his heart that the eight or nine was a certain elder in the magic hall.

It is also said that although talents continue to emerge among the new disciples in this round now, there are those who have a preference for achievements and even show interest in the Five Elements Technique, and as far as Shen Shi knows, it seems that he is really the only one.

Everyone is a genius with a bright future, and there are a lot of incomparably subtle and powerful divine channel techniques to practice in the future, who would spend time on the five elements technique, which is generally powerful and extremely difficult?

Thinking of this, Shen Shi was also a little helpless in his heart, and seeing the door to the Shutang these days made him a little hesitant about whether he wanted to join the Shutang in the future.

After all, the orthodoxy of the Immortal Dao today is to cultivate all kinds of beneficial Dao magic powers after the Ning Yuan Realm, and if you pick any one, it seems that it is more reliable than the Five Elements Technique.

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On the fourth day of the first month of April, it was sunny.

On this day, Shen Shi got on the boat bound for Demon Island again, compared to the past, the number of people on the big ship at this time decreased sharply, except for him, only a few senior brothers who were older than him were on the ship. And there was not a single rookie disciple with his childhood, including Gan Ze, who had been walking with him before.

As for the reason, Shen Shi knew it, when the time limit was approaching, all the newcomer disciples were cultivating frantically, even if they didn't cultivate, they had to calm down and do everything that was beneficial to their own cultivation. And going to the demon island to hunt demons is an extremely risky person, if you are actually injured on the demon island at this critical juncture, wouldn't it be worth the loss?

As for Gan Ze, who has always insisted on going to Demon Island with Shen Shi, it is because today is indeed a critical moment for a breakthrough, so he has to interrupt coming to Demon Island. It seemed that this genius boy was going to be the first of the many rookie disciples to break through to the Ning Yuan Realm.

Shen Shi couldn't even imagine how many elders on Jinhong Mountain would be arguing over accepting him as an apprentice when Gan Ze was the first to break through the Ning Yuan Realm?

"Shouldn't you be fighting for this kid in the end?" Shen Shi stood on the deck and looked into the distance, looking at the rippling blue sea, thinking a little unkindly in his heart, and then he shook his head and laughed.

The sea water is very clear, especially when the big boat sails to the demon island, get off the boat and stand on the seawall, and even can see the deep seabed, pieces of floating seagrass, strange-shaped corals, are all in full view.

It's just that there are no fish.

Not a single fish.

For more than two years, there has always been this strange phenomenon in the waters around the six islands of Qingyu, because when he went to Hongbang Village, Shen Shi knew about this vision from the people of the Hongbang tribe earlier than others, including the increasingly serious development in the future, to the point that there is no fish at all in the surrounding hundreds of miles of sea today.

The Red Beng Village had sacrificed to the sea god for this, but to no avail, the sea god of the pig-headed dragon seemed to ignore them, and the elders of Jinhong Mountain had also come down to check on the surrounding seas, but they could not find out what the reason was. However, except for the disappearance of the fish in the surrounding waters, there is nothing more unusual around Qingyu Island, and after the red clam people went out to sea for hundreds of miles, they found that the sea area there was normal and they could catch fish.

So in the past two years, everyone has slowly become accustomed to this strange appearance, the red clam people now have to go to the sea area hundreds of miles away every time they fish, and around the six islands of herring, no one pays attention to the disappearing fish here.

Shen Shi stared at this sea water, and suddenly remembered this matter for no reason, only to realize that he hadn't noticed or remembered those disappeared fish for a long time, and now he was busy every day boring and fulfilling, either cultivating or making talismans, or coming to Demon Island to hunt, and he hadn't been to Hongmeng Village for a long time.

I don't know how the starfish is now, whether it is more beautiful, and the red clam shell on her body must be more eye-catching.

Shen Shi thought so in his heart, and decided that after going back this time, he still had to find a time to go to Hongbang Village to see the starfish.

After going to the island, the older disciples glanced at Shen Shi who was standing alone, and there was a little complicated look in his eyes, no one had the intention of coming up to talk, and after a while, they all walked into the dense forest.

It is now Shen Shi's fifth year on Qingyu Island, and at this time, the old disciple who is still doing demon hunting tasks on Qingyu Island is equivalent to staying on this Qingyu Island for ten years but still unable to break through the bottleneck of the Qi Refining Realm, basically, the door of the Immortal Cultivation Avenue has been closed to these people.

And looking at Shen Shi's age and his high-level realm of the Qi Refining Realm, no matter what, Shen Shi's future in the future will be very different from these senior brothers, so their gazes at Shen Shi are very complicated, there are envy and jealousy, but in the end, they all left silently.

Shen Shi stared at the sea for a while, and when he came back to his senses, the surroundings were empty, and those senior brothers had already followed the path into the depths of the dense forest. Shen Shi pondered for a moment, but decided not to follow them on the same path, so he walked along the beach, and after walking a long distance, he looked around, and then walked into the forest.

In the past two years, his demon hunting career on the demon island has hardly been particularly interrupted, so that Shen Shi has become more and more familiar with this demon island, and at the same time, in countless battles with the demon beasts on the island, his combat experience has also become extremely proficient.

In the past few days, Shen Shi's Taoism has improved again, and the spiritual power accumulated in the eyebrows and hearts has become much stronger, and now he can cast eight first-order five-element spells at a time, and if converted into runes, it is equivalent to his spiritual power in a battle is enough to cast forty first-order spell runes.

However, despite this, Shen Shi still maintained a cautious and cautious mentality on this demon island, and he had always only hunted demon beasts in the vast forest below the mountain, at most, he was only close to the foot of the mountain, and never climbed the mountain range on the demon island, let alone approached the demon trapping cave hidden in the depths of the mountain range.

Speaking of which, since Gan Ze and Lin Hu had an accident there two years ago, few people have gone to the demon hunting cave, and the missing Lin Hu and Niu Xiong still have no news.

On this day, Shen Shi walked into the forest, and his mood was the same as when he came here, looking for some demon beasts that he could deal with, defeating them with talismans, and getting spiritual materials back in exchange for spirit crystals.

The reason why he still came here when the others were extinct on the Demon Island was actually very simple, just last night, he had just given Zhong Qinglu a spirit crystal for the ninth time to open the furnace to refine Pei Yuan Dan.

The transaction between him and Zhong Qinglu at the beginning, although he paid a lot of spirit crystals at the beginning, but after Zhong Qinglu's alchemy skills matured, in fact, Shen Shi also gained a lot, and Zhong Qinglu, the Qi Nourishing Pill in a furnace, kept his promise and handed it over to him without hesitation, and in the end, Shen Shi himself was already to the point where he could eat the Qi Nourishing Pill as a snack.

During the period when he was able to advance from the middle rank to the high level in the Qi Refining Realm, the Dao practice progressed so quickly, and a large number of sufficient Qi Nourishing Pills assisted him, and on weekdays, he also played a great role in restoring his spiritual power and making talismans. It is precisely because an alchemist can have such a great effect, and Pei Yuan Dan is a more advanced spirit pill than the Qi Cultivation Pill, and the effect will be even greater in the future, so even if Zhong Qinglu's alchemy failed continuously, Shen Shi still insisted on secretly funding the spirit crystal to her.

It's just that...... Eighty spirit crystals at a time, the pressure is indeed very high!

"If you don't kill a few more demon beasts today and go back to exchange for more spirit crystals, in this critical period of the fifth year, it's better to come here less, after all, it's a bit risky......"

Before walking into the crisp and quiet forest, Shen Shi subconsciously looked up at the mountains in the center of the demon island in the distance, and such a thought passed through his heart.

And as if echoing his thoughts, in the distant and unknown mountain range, a terrible scream came from afar, echoing among the mountains.