After Shang Jian's explanation, Hu Jin understood. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are three kinds of general disciples of the Five Elements Gate: registered disciples, outer disciples, and inner disciples. The corresponding cultivation levels are Qi refining from the first to third layers, the fourth to the sixth layer, and the seventh to ninth layer.

If a registered disciple is not promoted to an outer disciple within five years, and wants to stay in the sect, he can only become a miscellaneous disciple, and he is not considered a formal disciple.

As for the personal disciples and true disciples, they are the people who are selected and trained by the elders and above from among the registered disciples, outer disciples, and inner disciples.

Among them, each elder can accept one or three people, and the treatment is between the inner disciples and the elders. There are generally only a few dozen people.

The true disciple is recommended by the head of the sect from among the disciples of the personal lineage, and can only be converted into a true disciple with the consent of eighty percent of the elders who have the right to accept the disciples of the family lineage. The treatment is not inferior to that of the elders, and there are generally only a few people.

Disciples take the exam once a year, and once every three years.

What Hu Jin encountered was the latter situation.

In this case, in addition to the general test formations, pills, talismans, forging, mechanisms, puppets, etc., there are also mutual challenges between disciples, and a month-long wilderness survival test.

Among them, there is a certain mortality rate.

In addition to the general examination of basic safety, even if the same subject learns from each other, there are 12 percent of the cases of disability or even death. In the wilderness, this rate has increased to nearly 1 in 10.

The disciples of the personal transmission should be raised one level to participate in the examination. In other words, with Hu Jin's strength, although he was in the early stage of qi refining, he had to participate in the examination of the middle stage of qi refining, and he was facing competitors from the fourth to sixth levels of qi refining.

Historically, the rate of disability or even death of those who participated in the examination has also reached about 1 in 10.

Hu Jin frowned a little, his cultivation progress was getting faster and faster now. It is not impossible to be promoted to the fourth level of qi refining during the examination. If you have just refined qi at the fourth level, it will be much more difficult to face the inner disciples of the seventh to ninth layers of qi refining than if you are facing the outer disciples of the fourth to sixth layers of qi refining now.

It happened that Shang Jian was here, and he asked directly, "If I am promoted to the fourth level of qi refining the day before the exam, do I want to participate in the exam with the inner disciples?"

Shang Jian smiled: "This won't be. Two months ago, it was decided which group to participate in. On the junior brother's side, I have something to do temporarily, and I notified it late, otherwise, I would have informed the junior brother half a month ago. ”

After Shang Jian informed him of the examination, he chatted for a few words and left.

When he was about to leave the gate, he hesitated again and again, but still said to Hu Jin: "Senior brother is talented, and in just over a month, he has been promoted to the second level of qi refining. Listening to the tone of the junior brother, with more than a month left, it seems that he can go two steps further and impact the fourth layer of qi refining?"

Hu Jin was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Shang Jian meant by asking him, so he said honestly: "There is indeed a little possibility, but I will not deliberately force it, junior brother." ”

Shang Jian clapped his hands and smiled: "What a 'not deliberate', this is truly the essence of cultivation." ”

Bidding farewell to Shang Jian, Hu Jin devoted himself to cultivation again. Not deliberately does not mean deliberately relaxed, and courage and diligence are always the right path of cultivation.

Hu Jin just didn't deliberately pull out the seedlings when he was promoted.

Every time he cultivates the Xuanxuan True Sutra now, it takes less than an hour, and it takes less than half an hour to deduce a move of the Heavenly Remnant Nine Styles, and it takes less than an hour to refine the body once. In this way, I can squeeze in a little more time per day than before.

The extra time is spent in the library. There are too many books, and the time he can squeeze in is relatively limited. No matter how much time you squeeze, I don't think it's enough.

Moreover, Shang Jian had clearly told him that the test of survival in the wild was the most dangerous. Therefore, in the future, he will focus on the absorption of knowledge such as survival in the wild, light body method, and formation method, which is also a bottomless pit that takes time, and he feels that there is not enough time.

However, his progress is also obvious, not only is the time spent on various exercises and techniques decreasing, but the content is also different.

For example, when refining the body, the deduction is already the second form of the Nine Heavenly Remnants, and the Heavenly Remnants are broken. And the two deductions outside of the tempering time have also become the deduction of the first type of Heavenly Remnant Thorn of the Heavenly Remnant Nine Style, plus another real performance. It's just that his blood replenishing pill consumption has increased again.

Coupled with the perfection of the Gong Spell Technique and the Body Refining Technique, his cultivation speed should have been 12 times that of the Five Elements Pavilion. However, after all, the second layer of Qi refining is a small progress in the realm, and it is normal to increase the difficulty when it is raised.

No matter how you say it, 10 times the cultivation speed is always amazingly fast. In less than a month, his strength, speed, and physical strength values had all reached the terrifying limit of 30, and as for his mental power, although it did not increase at a 10x speed, it had also reached a terrifying level of 47.99.

Although the growth of various values continued for several days after reaching the limit, the promotion also came as expected. This time, it was in the library that there was a sign of promotion. Hu Jin fled as if he hurried back to Daoxiangju, rushed into the secret room, and opened the Spirit Gathering Array. Sure enough, within a few minutes of entering the set, the promotion came as scheduled.

He successfully ascended to the third layer of Qi refining. At this time, his data has become: cultivation, three layers of qi refining, strength 35.12, agility 36.38, physique 36.18, spiritual power, 68.46.

From this day on, when he was refining his body, he had already deduced the third form of the Nine Heavenly Remnant Style, the Heavenly Cruelty Kill. In addition to the tempering time, he can deduce the two moves of Heavenly Remnant Thorn and Heavenly Remnant Breaking in half an hour's deduction time, and he can also rehearse them all realistically.

Theoretically, his speed was already as high as 18 times when he first entered the Five Elements Guild Hall, and in fact, his cultivation speed was also 15 or 5 times that of ordinary disciples.

Finally, three days before the exam, he was promoted to the fourth level of qi refining.

However, this time, Tianhe did not report the new data after the promotion for the first time. He asked Tianhe directly, and the answer he got was that it was being restarted.

Hu Jin was suddenly overjoyed.

At this time, he vaguely felt that there was a large blazing flame in his mind, which was burning. Almost everywhere in the body, there were tiny points of light flickering.

I don't know how long it took, but I only heard a drip, and Tianhe's flat voice sounded again: "Restart successfully, self-checking, please wait for ......"

At this time, Hu Jin felt that both the flame in his mind and the light in his body had stabilized. Moreover, it is very clear to see. It's just that he can't see through the flames and points of light.

"The energy is insufficient, please replenish the speed ......" Tianhe's voice sounded again.

Only then did Hu Jin realize that the long-lost hunger pangs reappeared, and he hurriedly swallowed a Bigu Dan.

However, the hint of insufficient energy continued to sound, however, this time there were more hints: "Bigu Pill, Hemostasis Pill, Blood Replenishing Pill, Huiling Pill, etc., how many can be swallowed, in addition, please smash all the spirit stones and release the spiritual energy for the required ......"

This was the first time Hu Jin heard Tianhe's direct request, and he was surprised, but the movements in his hands were not slow. A handful of pills were swallowed like fried jelly beans, and the spirit stones were also crushed by him one by one, and the increasingly thick spiritual energy accumulated in the spirit gathering array, and entered his body pervasively.

Finally, when the last bit of aura was also absorbed, Tianhe's pleasant voice came: "The restart is successful." Actually, Tianhe's voice is still so flat, but this flat voice sounds like heaven to Hu Jin at this time.

At this time, his stats had become: cultivation, Qi refining four layers, strength 45.32, agility 46.18, physique 46.35, spiritual power, 82.46.

However, what surprised him the most was that he had the ability to see inside.

Originally, this kind of ability should have appeared when refining the seventh layer of qi and refining divine consciousness. However, the evolution of Tianhe, to a certain extent, can be comparable to divine consciousness, and in some places, it has gone beyond it.

For example, the big flame in my mind is the main body of Tianhe. And in the body, the countless points of light are the splits of Tianhe distributed in the cells.

"Tianhe, how are you doing now?" Hu Jin wanted to know more about the changes in Tianhe. He had a gut feeling that Tianhe must have taken a qualitative leap.

"Special note: satiety 8.47, extreme hunger, fast eating. Tianhe did not answer directly, but gave a special hint.

Hu Jin was surprised, but he has always been kind to Tianhe.

So, he walked out directly and was about to go to the dining room to eat. However, when he walked to the table, he realized that it was already midnight, and he had never eaten at this time. For a moment, he was a little embarrassed and a little hesitant, hesitating to call the cook up at this time.

"Master, there is a spare bottle of Bigu Dan. It has always been kept with the villain in case of emergency. The subordinates on night duty found that Hu Jin came out of the upper room, so they followed him all the way to the dining room.

"Oh, what else do you say?" Hu Jin was surprised.

"Yes, it always has been. It's just such a trivial matter, and I didn't tell the master. The burly man replied at once.

"Oh, got it. I'll go back, so go with you. Hu Jin took Bigu Dan, got up and went back to the room, and instructed the subordinate.

"Yes. The burly man hurriedly responded.

"By the way, what's your name and what are you doing in my house?" Hu Jin suddenly asked when he was about to walk out of the dining room door.

"The villain's name is Hu Yan, and he is the housekeeper of Daoxiangju. The burly man didn't have any dissatisfaction because Hu Jin didn't remember his name and duties, at least Tianhe didn't find out.

"I see. Okay, I remember. Hu Jin didn't say anything more and went straight back to the quiet room.

The reason why he asked the man a few more words was because among the bottles he took over, there were only nine Bigu Dan, and if the bottle was full, it should be ten.

This shows that Bigu Dan is the man's son. It was only for Hu Jin to look good on face that he lied that Hu Jin was spare.

If it is really a spare, one is missing, then the man will definitely not be so calm.

"What a wonderful person. Hu Jin thought as he put the nine Bigu Dan in his mouth. He used up all the pills and spirit stones, and he would fall into a state of extreme hunger, proving that Tianhe was still lacking in energy. Eat a few more Bigu Dan, and also replenish Tianhe.

Sure enough, the energy of more than eight Bigu Dan entered Tianhe's body, and Hu Jin was also relieved of his hunger.

Today's day's cultivation has actually ended, after taking a shower and changing clothes, Hu Jin fell on the bed and slept beautifully.

In the morning, he practiced the Xuanxuan True Sutra as usual, and he found that the effect was more than twice as high as when he first entered the Five Elements Pavilion, but his cultivation progress was only about half of the original.

It seems that the cultivation difficulty of the fourth layer of qi refining has increased a lot.

I wanted to practice the Heavenly Remnant Nine Styles again, but I found that the Blood Replenishing Pill was no longer available.

Looking at the time, he went to have breakfast, and after bathing and changing clothes again, he walked towards the master's cave. The fourth layer of qi refining is a breakthrough that is not big or small, so why should I report it to the master.