The eight-sided 'Gathering Spirit Plate' was refined by Xie Ling's sacrifice within two days, and one of them was left for his own multi-sacrifice refinement, and when he activated them in turn, the aura gathered from all around was simply two concepts compared to before, and the aura was nearly twice as rich.

In such an environment, the income from one hour of meditation is less than half an hour, and the richer the aura, the faster it can be absorbed. Xie Ling couldn't help but think: No wonder those bigwigs in the sect want to occupy the best spiritual vein position, with their cultivation, they should be several times more than the spiritual energy that a low-level cultivator like himself needs to absorb, and even he has been constantly changing since the beginning, especially after the 'Water Spirit Technique' advanced to the fourth layer, the progress is obviously much slower than before, and the lack of spiritual energy is the main reason.

With this eight-sided 'Spirit Gathering Magic Disk', coupled with the assistance of the 'Gathering Spirit Pill', perhaps before returning the seven of these 'Spirit Gathering Magic Disks' at the end of next month, the 'Water Spirit Technique' will be able to break through to the fifth layer.

This was Xie Ling's eighth month in the Cangyue Sect, and if he could break through to the fifth layer of the 'Water Spirit Jue' next month, then his cultivation would reach the ninth layer of the Qi cultivation period, and he would be a big step forward from his goal of cultivating to the foundation building stage before the age of twenty-three!

However, he also knew that the most difficult thing was to break through the thirteenth layer of the Qi cultivation period, and there were as many as seven or eight of the ten people who were stuck here and could not go any further. When it passed, it was like a carp jumping over the dragon gate and entering a new realm.

He calmed down, there were eleven days left in this month, first finished refining the eight sword weapons of this month's basic task, and then cultivated the fourth layer of the 'Water Spirit Technique' to perfection, laying the foundation for sprinting to the fifth layer next month.

And just as Xie Ling was planning to sprint forward, the high-level leaders of the Cangyue Sect were deciding on a major event to be held at the end of each year.

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Xie Ling stretched, yesterday he finally let himself relax for the night and sleep well in the stone house.

Walking out of the underground palace, the outside looked much more lively than before, and it turned out that the qualifiers before the year-end sect competition were going to start in each courtyard and room. Now there are only three months before the New Year, and the next month is the pre-selection in each room, and then the next month is the small competition in the courtyard, and in the last month, it will gather in the martial arts field for the big competition in the sect!

This is an opportunity for the up-and-coming to let the bigwigs in the sect know their best performance, and no one wants to miss it. Xie Ling also heard the thumping in his heart, and the scene of the martial arts arena appeared in his mind again, and the blood couldn't help but start burning, and he clenched his fists, Dabi! I will definitely go.

On the last sixth day of the end of the second month, he finally broke through to the fifth layer of the 'Water Spirit Technique' with his day and night cultivation and abundant spiritual energy.

At this time, his sense of aura is becoming more and more keen, and he can even clearly distinguish the difference between them, he absorbs the white aura the fastest, that is the water aura, followed by the red aura, after these different attributes of the aura are absorbed into the body, the fastest transformation into spiritual power is also the fastest absorption of water aura, followed by the same red aura, that is the fire aura!

After entering the fifth layer, the area where the dantian can accommodate the aura has expanded by three percent, and the speed of absorbing the aura has also increased a lot, and only the remaining 'Spirit Gathering Magic Plate' that has been cultivated to the fourth layer is enough, which makes Xie Ling, who is used to cultivating in the rich aura, unable to adapt for a while.

He sighed, he had to hand over things to others today, and it would be too petty to delay until the last day.

He originally wanted to refine the four prohibitions on one side of the 'Gathering Spirit Magic Plate' inside, which could be regarded as a reward for Lin Dong for selling the 'First Glimpse of the Prohibition' to him at a low price in the early stage. But after careful consideration, it was not done. Because in this case, it will make the other party feel unhappy, you must know that every time the 'Gathering Spirit Disk' adds a prohibition, the price outside is two different concepts! Only one side is sacrificed, so what is the rest of the matter? If you really want to do it, you must have all the sacrifices in place. But in that case, Xie Ling didn't want to do it again, the four realms of sacrifice and the three prohibitions of sacrifice and refinement were completely different things, and it would take a lot more energy and time, and he had no plans to be a bad person at the moment!

"Senior Brother Xie!" suddenly a voice interrupted his thoughts.

Xie Ling turned around and saw Shu Zichun with a smile on his face.

Shu Zichun walked closer, and suddenly the smile on his face froze, and after looking Xie Ling up and down, left and right, he sighed: "Senior Brother Xie's cultivation has improved a lot!"

"It's far worse than my senior brother, it's not worth mentioning. Xie Ling shook his head and bowed slightly.

"Senior brother has only been in the school for a long time, how can he compare with someone like me who is almost useless, by the way, junior brother is going to go there?"

"Go out to breathe, people who are stuffy below all day are about to get sick!" Xie Ling naturally wouldn't tell him about going to the Treasure Pavilion.

"Yes, I'm also out to breathe, and I'm going to determine the candidates to participate in the small competition in the courtyard next month, can Senior Brother Xie sign up to participate?" Shu Zichun asked seemingly casually.

"I've only been in the pavilion for a short time, wait and see, senior brother should be in the senior apprentice group, right?" Xie Ling was very strange, even if he participated, he would only appear in the competition of the intermediate apprentice level, and it had nothing to do with the selection of the senior apprentice level he was in, why did he care about this?

Shu Zichun nodded, since last year's big competition in the sect, the seven most eye-catching people in the refining academy were collectively known as the three heroes and four masters, and he and Zhong Mian both went through the motions and didn't get anything. This time, after a year of secret preparation, he thinks he has the strength to compete in this year's big competition.

The reason why he paid attention to whether Xie Ling had signed up or not was because his younger brother Shu Zixiu was also in the sacrificial room, and for the inlay room with only three places, it was very important whether Shangguan Yu, who had a protruding peak, and Xie Ling, who had come in halfway, would participate in this year's selection of intermediate apprentices!

Xie Ling didn't know this, it was still early, and he didn't plan to sign up for the time being, so after separating from Shu Zichun, he went straight to the Treasure Pavilion.

Along the way, he was thinking about it, and after this month's contribution points were in place, he would go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to exchange the fire prohibition in the Five Elements Prohibition first. He has a base reward of 80 contribution points this month, plus the remaining three contribution points left over from the previous one, for a total of 83 contribution points. The initial number of the first huàn of the Five Elements Prohibition is fifteen contribution points, and each contribution point will be doubled for each subsequent huàn, which means that a total of ninety contribution points are required to redeem any two forbidden talisman arrays behind Huàn, and the remaining number in his Cangyue Order is not enough, so he can only redeem one of them first.

And among the Five Elements Forbidden Talisman Array, there is no doubt that the Fire Talisman Array is the most widely used, so he naturally decided to exchange the Huàn Away Fire Talisman Array first, as for how to deal with the remaining thirty-three contribution points after the Huàn, he had many considerations, but he was not very satisfied, so he simply didn't think about it, and waited until the beginning of the month.

(Wait for a more change, it will be later.) ）