Chapter 60: The Trial of the East Lake (17)

The East Lake Trial, the first round of qualifications and cultivation screening, and the second round of bloody battles in the secret outer encirclement, is to help the sect select "people with good qualifications, outstanding courage, rich experience in facing the enemy, brave and resolute, and good opportunities".

These points are all recognized by the immortal cultivation world as the criteria for the selection of talents, and they are all important conditions for ensuring the inheritance of the Dao system of sects and families.

For tens of thousands of years, the three core masters of the Sword Casting Pavilion, the Falling Star Valley, and the Liuhe Gate, most of the core masters of the past dynasties have participated in this East Lake trial, which is also the biggest encouragement and affirmation for this major event that the three families have to hold together every five years.

Therefore, once the five-year period comes, these three families must have given them enough attention, and if there is no special reason, most of the top masters in their respective sects will gather here. In addition to the momentum, it is also an attitude, a feeling, a ritual, and a inheritance.

Of course, the East Lake Trial is not the only way for these three major sects to select their disciples and disciples. These three major forces have been operating in this Donghu County for tens of thousands of years, and there are not a few immortal cultivators who are attached to them, or those so-called "people on the earth" in the world.

In the past tens of thousands of years, with the ebb and flow of the tide, spring and autumn, how many powerful families in this Donghu County have been wiped out in the dust of history, and how many families have risen in the chaos of war.

This is the case for many years, no matter who wins or loses, who wins or loses. In this Donghu County, they will eventually have to rely on these three major sects to beg for a living.

Of course, at the same time, it also provided a lot of excellent disciples for the three families. In this world, although there are people with spiritual root attributes in their bodies, they are indeed one in ten thousand, but for these immortal cultivators or "people on earth", the probability of giving birth to children with spiritual roots is much greater. After all, "dragons give birth to dragons, and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes".

Under normal circumstances, these immortal cultivators who are subordinate to the three major sects are either due to a huge cultivation bottleneck and it is difficult to make any further progress in cultivation, or by those who are jointly and dually cultivating some special exercises, or some who are born in the three major sects but have never inherited the spiritual roots of the five elements.

As for those so-called "people on the people" in Donghu County, they have to be attached to the three major sects, but how can they provide them with excellent disciples? This has a lot to do with the way the immortals of Donghu County and even the entire Beiyi Kingdom get along.

Immortal cultivators, especially low-level immortal cultivators, in this Northern Yi Kingdom, if they find that their cultivation realm cannot go further, whether they are men or women, they will probably marry those so-called "people on the people". Perhaps, after some penance but to no avail, the spring breeze is proud, and once they see all the flowers in the north, it is their best destination.

After such a combination, it can be said that it is a pair of two good, each with its own place.

And the children who do not have spiritual roots in these vassal families will be arranged to take care of the business in the family industry. Those who have spiritual roots are naturally entering the three major sects to practice Taoism and supernatural powers, hoping that one day they will be able to complete the Taoism, shine on the lintel, and seal their wives and sons.

In addition, some of the self-recommended people in the loose cultivation have also been accepted by the high-ranking monks of the three major schools from time to time. Perhaps this is also a bias in order to make up for the first round of the East Lake trial, recognizing people as "virtuous". Therefore, for tens of thousands of years, among the three major sects of Donghu County, there were occasionally rumors of inferior qualifications, and after some hard cultivation, they finally soared to the sky. This also shows very well that a good spiritual root is certainly a prerequisite for the success of cultivation, but after all, it still requires the right time, place, and people.

The East Lake Club reached its climax with the beginning of the East Lake Trial. Although the various vassal families who participated in this meeting, or the scattered cultivators from all over the world, deliberately avoided this dilapidated and ancient pavilion located in the middle of the East Lake, where the three major sects gathered, it did not affect the prosperity and liveliness of this trading event in the slightest. Not far from the pavilion, there is a small stone bridge. An old man with a hunchback was fighting with the only customer in front of his booth in recent days, blushing over the price of a small ding.

Judging from the old man's white beard, rickety figure, white-washed coat covered with patches, and especially the wrinkled but rustic face, who was not the old man who peddled Zhao Yingluo's "small stove" in this old, dilapidated pavilion on the shore of East Lake a few days ago?

In the outer enclosure of the East Lake, among the mountains on the west side, after a burst of Qingyue's sword roar, a black figure gradually condensed from the void. His person has thick eyebrows and big eyes, slightly thick lips, and a simple look on his face, but who is Zhao Yingluo, who is not the sword that escaped all the way?

Judging from his experience of sword escape for several hours, this escape technique is indeed worthy of its name. With the cultivation of the eighth layer of his Qi refining period, he was able to shrink the ground into a ruler and travel thousands of miles in a day when he only learned the first layer of the Sword Escape Technique.

And the other big surprise that this technique brings to it is that it hardly needs to consume any mana.

If Zhao Yingluo's situation at this moment was known to Wen Fengwu, it is estimated that he would definitely be angry and vomit blood on the spot.

In fact, Zhao Yingluo used the low-level cultivation of the Qi refining period to use the "Taiyi Green Scale Sword" magic weapon that had been sacrificed and refined again, and used the magic power of the sword escape technique, but it was crookedly unveiled a secret about the "Broad Sword Gate" tens of thousands of years ago.

To the east of the great river, there is only the legend of the sword god of Wen Xiaolan, the lord of the "Broad Sword Gate" tens of thousands of years ago, in the immortal cultivation world. Its Dao inheritance seems to have gone with the fall of the Sword God and gone with the wind.

In the past tens of thousands of years, although the "Wen family", a vassal family of the broadsword sect from which he was born, has also produced many talents, they all stopped at the late Yuan Dan period. No one has broken through to the pre-relief period, let alone the unfinished period like the "Sword God".

And Zhao Yingluo's second round of trials in the secret outer enclosure of the East Lake was a coincidence, and he repeatedly obtained the refining method of the "Taiyi Green Scale Sword", as well as the first three layers of the sword escape technique.

I don't know that the sword god Ye Feng in the past was supplemented by the "Taiyi Green Scale Sword" that had been practiced for the "Nine Turns Swordsmanship" to stimulate the "Sword Escape Technique", so it had the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.

Zhao Yingluo's rubbing from Wen Fengwu, mentioned in the first layer of the "Sword Escape Technique", "Use the spiritual fire of heaven and earth to re-refine the auxiliary sword weapon." This sentence, I don't know if it's a clerical error, or it's intentional, it's actually wrong.

The correct sentence that was crooked by Zhao Yingluo should be: "Use the cold fire of heaven and earth to re-refine the Taiyi Green Scale Sword." ”