As soon as Xu Jin was reading the classics, he suddenly felt movement behind him, and turned his head suddenly, startling a woman who was quietly approaching.

This woman, who was ten years old, was the Yin Soul who was selected to cultivate with him, and was accepted as a disciple by the female monk Li Renhua.

"I'm sorry, brother, I surprised you. ”

The woman didn't expect Xu Jin to react so quickly, and couldn't help but say apologetically.

Xu Jin shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter. ”

This woman didn't mean to approach Xu Jin quietly, but the ghost walked, and she was originally silent. In the past, Xu Jin may not be able to detect it. But these days, after practicing the mantra taught by Yang Tianhong, he said that he was taking the Soul Condensing Pill, and unconsciously, Xu Jin's sensitivity to the affairs around him has greatly improved.

"Senior Brother, these cultivators have made great progress, right? Little Sister looks at Senior Brother's soul body, which is very different from before. ”

The woman said with a smile on her face.

Xu Jin himself was aware of this, and when he heard this, he also looked at this woman carefully, and it seemed that her soul body had also solidified a lot more than before, which showed that it was also the effect of cultivating that mantra. Since they are all just getting started, the basic mantra of cultivation should be the same.

Xu Jin nodded and replied, "Senior Sister's soul body has also solidified a lot. ”

These words, he was busy cultivating mantras, or reading classics in the I Ching Pavilion, and almost never interacted with people. Even Master Yang Tianhong and Xiao Wanqing have never seen it. The woman was the first person to speak to him in more than 20 days.

The woman smiled, and then said solemnly: "The junior sister's qualifications are not good, and her progress in cultivation is far inferior to that of the senior brother, it seems that there is not much hope of surviving in the big competition." ”

As she spoke, a faint look of grief flashed across the woman's face.

Xu Jin couldn't help but be stunned, and asked suspiciously, "What Dabi?"

The woman glanced at him a little strangely, as if she didn't believe that Xu Jin didn't know about Dabi: "Senior brother coaxed little sister?"

Xu Jin was surprised: "Why do you want to coax your junior sister?, by the way, in Xia Xu Jin, I haven't asked my teacher's sister to have your surname Fang." ”

The woman chuckled and said, "Don't dare, my little sister's surname is Zhou, and her single name is 'Yi'." ”

"It turned out to be Senior Sister Zhou, disrespectful...... Foolish brother is ashamed, I really don't know about Dabi, can my sister explain a thing or two for me?"

Zhou Yi's wonderful eyes flickered slightly. She looks like she is ten ** years old, and her appearance can be called gorgeous, but she is just a ghost body, slightly lacking some plump charm, and she looks relatively thin.

"It seems that Senior Brother Xu really doesn't know about Dabi. Xiaomei also learned the reason for this when she occasionally talked with a few senior sisters...... Master Li took in several disciples...... The so-called big competition is not a competition within our Nine Shadows Sect, but a competition with several other sects......"

Zhou Yi groaned slightly, and explained the matter of Dabi to Xu Jin.

When Xu Jin heard this, he immediately froze there, unable to make a sound.

The cruelty of this sect competition that Zhou Yi said was far beyond his expectations. Xu Jin was a martial arts practitioner before his death, and he had experienced a lot of things like martial arts competitions, and he didn't care very much. But the big competition in Zhou Yi's mouth is completely different.

The Nine Shadows Sect and the Yin Wind Sect of Yin Wind City and the Black Mountain Sect of Black Mountain City are actually very different. Strictly speaking, the Yin Wind Sect is not a sect, but just a group of monks led by the Yin Wind City Lord. The monks of Yin Feng City are not completely master and apprentice, most of them are sent to Yin Feng City by the high-level of the Desheng Underworld to work as errands. In order to ensure that Yin Wind City can control a certain number of spirit stone mines, it will continuously provide a large number of spirit stones to the underworld. It's just that the current Yin Wind City Lord Deng Song has won the trust of the high-level of the Netherworld, and he has been in power for a long time, and over time, the monks in Zuo Jin will call the monks of Yin Wind City the Yin Wind Sect.

The Black Mountain Sect of the Huangyan Underworld is different from the Yin Wind Sect.

A long time ago, Black Mountain City was only a very small city, not under the jurisdiction of the Huangyan Underworld, but self-contained, called the Black Mountain Sect. Later, in order to obtain more resources and protection, the suzerain of the Black Mountain Sect took the initiative to take refuge in the Huangyan Underworld and was named the Lord of Black Mountain. Black Mountain City has the Huangyan Underworld Kingdom as its backer, and it has grown rapidly, and its momentum is not weaker than that of Yin Wind City.

The Nine Shadows Sect is quite similar to the previous Black Mountain Sect, which is neither subordinate to the Desheng Kingdom nor the Huangyan Kingdom, and has its own portal. The reincarnation pool and the reincarnation channel are in the hands of the underworld, and the Nine Shadows Sect does not have these reincarnation channels, and generally no yin spirits take the initiative to come and attach to them. Therefore, the Nine Shadows Sect is a pure cultivation sect, and there are only a few ordinary Yin Souls in the door, doing some miscellaneous work of digging spirit stones and sprinkling and sweeping the courtyard. In terms of momentum alone, it is naturally far inferior to the Black Mountain Sect and the Yin Wind Sect.

After all, without a large number of ordinary Yin Soul gatherings, it would be difficult to select seedlings suitable for cultivation.

Zhao Huaming made a deal with Zhu Yong of the Black Mountain Sect, and from the more than 2,000 Yin Souls, he selected two Yin Souls like Xu Jin and Zhou Yi who were suitable for cultivation, which could be described as extremely lucky.

Usually, among the 10,000 ordinary Yin Souls, it may not be possible to pick out a Yin Soul who is in the spiritual vein and is suitable for cultivation.

Within nearly 10,000 miles to the left, there are still many cultivators like the Nine Shadows Sect that are not attached to any of the underworlds. The main reason for this situation is that this is the junction of Desheng and Huangyan Underworld, the emperor is far away, and the two underworld kingdoms are a bit beyond the reach of the whip. If it were in the central area controlled by the underworld, there would be no such Reading Power Sect.

Beside the couch, how can you allow others to snore.

Another reason is that this place is relatively rich in resources, there are a large number of spiritual stone mines, as well as other minerals that are needed by the cultivation sect such as iron ore and copper ore concentrate, and the spiritual energy required for the cultivation of the Netherworld Cultivator is also rich and suitable for cultivation. Therefore, several powerful monks set up sects here and gathered disciples.

In addition to the Nine Shadows Sect, the Four Xuanmen, the Seven Star Sect, the Corpse Sect and other sects are also very famous, and their strength is not weaker than the Nine Shadows Sect.

And the so-called big competition happened between these sects.

Every time some new concentrate veins can be discovered here, no matter which sect finds these concentrates first, they cannot be mined alone, and each sect will intervene. But how it will be distributed must be determined by the big ratio.

Dabi is conducted every twenty years.

The rules of Dabi are also simple, several major sects have opened up a place in the "Xuanyin Land" in the central area, and they are completely closed with a forbidden array, and no one is allowed to enter except for the monks who participate in Dabi.

At the time of the Great Competition, each sect sent twenty disciples, and the six major sects of the Yin Wind Sect, the Black Mountain Sect, the Nine Shadows Sect, the Four Xuanmen Sect, the Seven Star Sect and the Corpse Bi Sect participated in the Great Competition, with a total of 120 disciples participating in the Great Competition.

If it's just a matter of competing for the winner or loser, the most important thing is that only three of the disciples who participated in the big competition can come out alive in the end. If these three people belong to different sects, then the newly discovered concentrate will be mined by these three schools separately. The other three, since no one survived in the big competition, naturally lost the right to fight.

If the three surviving people all belong to the same sect, the concentrate will all belong to one family. The remaining five can only look at the ocean and sigh.

Of course, this is extremely rare. The forces of several major sects are almost the same, and generally there will not be such a disparity in the results.

One hundred and twenty people went in and three people came out, and "nine deaths and one life" was no longer enough to describe the cruelty of this Dabi.

"Why is there such a rule?"

Xu Jin asked Zhou Yi in surprise.

Zhou Yi smiled bitterly and said, "It wasn't like this at first. I heard from the sisters that whoever discovered the concentrate at that time would be owned by whoever owned. But then it changed, and other sects were unwilling to watch one family monopolize huge profits, and often sent people to attack, fighting with each other, and the casualties were very serious. The major sects have all hurt their vitality. Several sect masters invited them to negotiate together, and finally decided to win or lose by a large margin to avoid disputes. ”

Xu Jin was surprised and said: "Since it is a big competition, it is natural that the deeper the disciple's skills, the better, how can it be related to us disciples who are just getting started?"

Zhou Yi smiled bitterly: "According to common sense, it is true. The first big competition was just like what the senior brother said, everyone had their own elite disciples to compete. It's just that in this way, the dead and injured are the most outstanding disciples, and they are still greatly damaged. ”

Xu Jin was suddenly stunned.

This kind of comparison method, the Yin Wind Sect and the Black Mountain Sect are slightly better, after all, they have a large number of ordinary Yin Souls in the city, and they can select more Yin Souls with spiritual veins to supplement the lack of monks. The other sects are in trouble, and the elite disciples are not so easy to cultivate. Often cultivating an outstanding disciple, the sect requires a lot of energy and a large amount of pills, and in the big competition, it is either dead or injured, which is not cost-effective.

"So in the end, the current rules were set, the disciples who participated in the Great Competition were limited to the cultivators in the Soul Condensation Period, and the seniors who cultivated above the Soul Training Period were not allowed to enter the Xuanyin Land. In this way, the dead and injured are all low-level disciples, and it will not affect the strength of the sect......"

Zhou Yi sighed and said.

Xu Jin couldn't help but smile bitterly.

With such a rule, he could completely deduce that among the twenty low-level disciples sent by each sect, there would only be three truly capable disciples at most. Because of the result of Dabi, in the end, only three people were allowed to walk out of the land of Xuanyin alive. Even if one sect is superior in strength and kills all the disciples of other sects, they will still score the winner between themselves, and at most three people will survive. Under this kind of rule, sending one more elite disciple in is sending him to death.

Naturally, Xu Jin also understood why the Nine Shadows Sect wanted to recruit these new souls into the sect, in fact, it was just to let them serve as cannon fodder.

In ten years, even if he has excellent roots, it will be too difficult to defeat the core disciples of his respective sects.

That's why Yang Tianhong said that ten years later, if he survived in the big competition, he would be able to officially become a member of the Nine Shadows Sect.

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