Time flies, and soon another forty or fifty years have passed.

In May of this year, Qin Di got the news that the day when the Red Emperor Palace opened the mountain once every 500 years and recruited apprentices was approaching.

So, he sent his clone Qin Huo, with more than a dozen fire cultivators, through the teleportation array of Xuanshi City, to the Southern Firefly City in the Central Continent. The city is rich in fireflies, it is said that there was once a fairy, collected countless fireflies, from which a kind of fairy fire was extracted, this kind of fairy fire is very peculiar, although the lethality is not strong, but it is good at tracking, can bite the tracking object, even across thousands of mountains and rivers, can always be tracked.

Qin Di (Qin Huo) walked out of the teleportation array and quickly found the Red Emperor Palace.

The exterior walls of the Red Emperor Palace are fiery red, and there is a lake of fire at the door. The fire is blazing, and even at night, the outside of the Red Emperor Palace is very lively. Therefore, on weekdays, this is the place where people like to gather the most. As a famous faction, the Red Emperor Palace will not drive away those people in order to show its proximity to the people.

The Dragon Boat Festival in May is the day when the Red Emperor Palace opens the mountain to recruit apprentices. Until then, everyone who wants to take the test can come and pick up their number plate three days in advance.

On this day, during the Dragon Boat Festival in May, a white-haired ninth-order spirit immortal walked out of the Red Emperor's Palace, followed by five or six low-level spirit immortals, and more than a dozen miscellaneous disciples, including four or five earth immortals, and several Hedao monks.

The white-haired fairy led by the leader came to the lake of fire, threw a red token into the flames, and then prayed to the sky with a solemn expression, and did not know what to say.

In a short time, the lake of fire suddenly erupted, and the originally calm surface of the lake became undulating, and the waves became higher and higher, gradually condensing into a humanoid flame!

Someone next to him cheered: "Red Emperor Fire Spirit!"

"Look, the flames are getting closer and closer to the human form, the nose, eyes, arms, and legs are all out!

"Hey, why did the Red Emperor Fire Spirit come ashore? The flames on his body are so fierce, he won't burn people, right?"

"Ahem, since we have to test new disciples, of course the fire spirit has to go ashore! Otherwise, how can we test it? Let everyone jump into the lake of fire, I'm afraid that they won't be able to climb out if they are burned to death!"

"Don't worry, the flames on the fire spirit's body look very strong, and it makes people feel very painful when they burn on their bodies, but after the flames are burned, they will not leave indelible scars, let alone burn people to death. The last time I took the test, it was a pity that I couldn't hold on to ten breaths in the flames, and I felt pain to my bones, as if my whole body had been burned by the fire, but when I raised my right hand and gave up, I found that there was not even a single scar on my body. So, I regretted dying that day, if I could hold on for a little longer, I would be able to become a disciple of the outer sect of the Red Emperor Palace!

"Hey, I don't blame you! This is an illusion caused by the Red Emperor's Fire Spirit. I was even more miserable last time, I counted the number by myself, and I thought that I had insisted on ten breaths, so I quickly stopped, but who knew that after I stopped, I was told by the elder in charge of the test, and I only lasted eight breaths.

"Then you won't argue with the other party?"

"I argued, but even my junior brother watched from the sidelines and said that I only lasted eight breaths!"

"Ahem, then there is no way!"

"I've heard that if you can hold on to thirty breaths in the flames, you can become an inner disciple, and if you hold on to a hundred breaths, you can become a true disciple, I don't know, right?"

"I can't remember the exact number, anyway, the longer I hold on, the better! If I can hold on to three hundred breaths, maybe I can become a disciple of the personal lineage!"

"Disciple of the True Inheritance? Don't dream! The last time the Red Emperor Palace tested in many cities, it only recruited two True Disciples, and it has been many years since there have been disciples of the True Tradition. ”

At this time, I heard the white-haired spirit fairy raise his voice and say, "The test of recruiting new disciples in the Red Emperor Palace will start soon. Before that, the old man said a few words. Our Red Emperor Palace is a great sect with a long heritage, but it is not the only sect chosen by Fire Cultivation. There are thousands of sects in the entire spirit world, and there are more than two hundred of them, all of which will beckon fire cultivation disciples. So young monks, if you are frustrated, do not be discouraged. This can only mean that you have no fate with the Red Emperor Palace for the time being, and it doesn't mean that your fire cultivation qualifications are not good. You can choose to go to another sect to practice, or you can wait another five hundred years and continue to come to my Red Emperor Palace to test. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a disciple below shouting loudly: "We have identified the Red Emperor Palace! My ancestors have all practiced in the Red Emperor Palace, and there is no reason to switch to another sect! If it doesn't work this time, then wait for next time! If you come a few more times, there will always be hope." ”

Some people also whispered: "No matter what, the Red Emperor Palace will not harm people! I heard that some Fire Cultivation Sects recruit disciples in order to kill chickens and take eggs, and the disciples who are accepted in are very miserable, either they lack resources and cannot advance, or they are deprived of the Cave Heaven after advancing...... Although the number of disciples recruited by the Red Emperor Palace is not large, as long as you enter the door, you can hope to go up step by step, and you don't have to worry about being deprived of the cave sky, this is the benefit of entering the famous sect!"

Then I heard the white-haired ninth-order spirit immortal say loudly: "First ask the first five hundred monks who have received the number plate to come out and stand in the square to be tested, after the flames are coming, try to hold on for a long time, if you can't hold on, raise your left hand, or jump out of the square you are standing on, and you will be considered to have finished the test!"

So five hundred monks came out and stood in the squares of the squares that had been drawn in advance. The squares are only a few feet in size, and there are some open spaces on the sides.

The disciples who participated in the test had the lowest skill being the Buxu Cultivator, and the highest skill had already reached the Spirit Immortal. It can be seen that in such a long period of time from Bu Xuan to Lingxian, every monk has countless opportunities to participate in the test. The testing process is free anyway, and there is a chance every five hundred years. So like the man said before, if it doesn't work out this time, it's a big deal to come back next time.

However, Qin Di knew very well in his heart that if he didn't succeed the first time, the chance of success in the future would be very small. Because everyone's qualifications are basically fixed, unless there is a qualitative change later, either they get the immortal fire, their qualifications change, or they have an epiphany of the profound laws of the Heavenly Dao, it is possible to change the results of the test.

The test of the Red Emperor Palace seems to be a test of each participating disciple's ability to withstand fire, but in fact, in addition to testing the comprehensive strength of fire cultivation, it is also necessary to test whether he is suitable for the Red Emperor's cultivation exercises, in other words, this is the Red Emperor Fire Spirit selecting disciples, and the more important thing is fate.