The ancient castle was like a huge beast, exuding a desolate aura. When Long Chen and Zhao Xiang entered the castle gate, they did not undergo investigation. Zhao Xiang greeted the strong man who was guarding the gate and took Long Chen into the city.
After entering the city, Long Chen discovered that the entire castle was blessed by a huge formation, and the spiritual energy in the city was several times stronger than outside, which made Long Chen amazed at Dan Valley's work.
After entering the city, Long Chen discovered that this was regarded as a holy place for alchemy cultivation, which was extremely lively. Along the way, Long Chen saw many young disciples walking around the road, but in a hurry, almost no one paid attention to anyone.
What surprised Long Chen the most was that these disciples were extremely young, and some even said that some were young, some looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, and their cultivation level was only at the level of Tongzhi.
"Our Dan Valley focuses on alchemy techniques rather than cultivation. The younger the disciples are, the greater the potential they can tap, and the lower their cultivation level, the greater the space for soul power to expand.
So it is not surprising to see these young disciples, but the competition among our Dan Valley disciples is extremely fierce. Those who can enter Dan Valley are called alchemy geniuses.
But here, geniuses became common and became ordinary people. Geniuses were dignified and used to being high above, being held high, looked up to, and worshipped.
So geniuses, when they come here, they are all practicing hard and don’t need to urge them at all. Look at them, even if they are acquaintances, they just nodded and basically didn’t speak.
Because they feel that speaking is a waste of time, they have to spend all their time on their practice," Zhao Xiang explained to Long Chen.
"Good guy, do you want to work so hard?" Long Chen was stunned, not even wasting his time saying something. This was too hard.
Long Chen felt that he was working hard enough, but compared with them, he was simply too lazy to die.
"Hehe, you can't fight. Sometimes vanity is the driving force that drives people's progress.
Everyone wants to stand above others' heads, look down on the heroes, and be the leader, and no one wants to be trampled by others.
In the Dan Valley, the alchemy technique is everything. As long as your alchemy technique is powerful enough, you will have whatever you want. Moreover, our alchemy practices take a different route than ordinary practitioners. You don’t need to keep your body as jade. As long as you Long Chen is strong enough, you need to have as many resources as you have, and beauties, you don’t need to take the initiative, and you will rush to stick it up. Hehe, you know!" Zhao Xiang laughed and blinked at Long Chen.
I'm going, the benefits are so good? Dan Xiu is so comfortable. You don't need to quit sex, it's so cool.
Normal practitioners can theoretically give birth to offspring after entering the innate realm without destroying the spiritual roots and stagnating their cultivation.
However, most practitioners will not choose to reproduce even after entering the innate realm, because the higher the level of their parents, the higher the purity of spiritual blood. The children born will inherit the power of their parents' bloodlines and the higher the probability of becoming a genius.
Therefore, most practitioners will consider finding a partner to reproduce when their cultivation reaches its peak.
Therefore, most male practitioners will find one or more dual practitioners after the innate realm, but will not choose to reproduce.
It is no problem for male practitioners to find a Taoist partner, but female practitioners usually do not choose a Taoist partner unless they have to.
This involves a mentality issue. Male cultivators usually regard beauty as wealth and satisfy their desire to conquer, but there are not many real emotions.
Female cultivators are different. Once they break their body, their mind will be greatly affected. They usually practice dual cultivation with them because they fall in love with someone.
This is different from the attitude of male cultivators. If we talk about the difference, it is that male cultivators go through the kidneys and female cultivators go through the heart.
Once a female cultivator falls in love with a man, her mood changes very much, especially after breaking her body, her mood will become chaotic for a period of time.
Practice is to sail against the current, and if you don’t advance, you will retreat. Therefore, dual cultivation has no effect on male cultivation, but has a great impact on female cultivation.
Unless it is the female cultivator who has never loved this man at all, but just relying on his own beauty to exchange for the same benefits as the man, that would be a different matter.
However, this kind of thing is rare in the world of practice. For female practitioners, such sacrifices are too great, and the rewards they can get may not be worthy of their losses.
However, alchemy is an independent and special practitioner, and female practitioners do not need to be bound in this regard. As long as they have enough talent and understanding, they do not have to maintain a clear mind.
Therefore, Dangu cannot forbidden emotional problems among disciples, and Zhao Xiang even hints that Long Chen gives Long Chen the motivation to move forward. After all, men are all animals that use kidneys.
Along the way, Zhao Xiang introduced some rules and taboos of Dan Valley to Long Chen, which are basically the same as those of ordinary sects.
Soon, a magnificent building appeared in front of him, that is the Danli Department, which is responsible for all the chores in the Dan Valley, and the registration of disciples is also included.
With Zhao Xiang leading the way, the process is very simple. You only need to submit the nameplate, and then Zhao Xiang will handle the rest, and the procedures will be completed soon.
After completing the procedures, Long Chen obtained a new nameplate, which is a disciple nameplate.
"This disciple's nameplate is the inner disciple's nameplate. It's useless, it's just a formality.
Your goal is to enter the Divine Pill Hall, which is a place for elite disciples to practice, and the treatment you enjoy is thousands of times better than that of inner disciples.
There are millions of outer disciples of Dangu, more than 80,000 inner disciples, while there are only three thousand disciples of Shendan Hall.
Moreover, this number of people remains unchanged. In other words, if you can enter the Shendan Hall, then the person who ranks the lowest in the Shendan Hall will be squeezed out by you.
I took a look and there were still ten days left before the next inner disciple's qualification competition to attack the Shendan Hall.
This competition is conducted every two months. Inner disciples and those who rank in the top 1,000 are eligible to participate.
According to my opinion, I want you to participate in the next competition, but the Dharma Protector means that time is tight, and only by entering the Divine Pill Hall can you get the best training.
You are just an inner disciple now, and the guardians can not get much resources for you. After all, there are those old-fashioned guys, so I can see it too tightly.
But if you enter the Shendan Hall, it will be different. We will support you some precious resources, and they will not dare to say anything."
"Well, I understand, Master Guardian has done a good job, and I understand, by the way, Elder Zhao, I heard that there is a second part of the Great Brahma Sutra? I don't know if I have the opportunity to practice." Long Chen asked.
"This... I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. The first part of the Brahma Sutra, any disciple can practice, is not a top secret.
However, the second part of the Brahma Sutra requires a certain status to practice. Usually only the strong man with the qualifications of the tower master can practice." Zhao Xiang shook his head and said, because even he is not qualified to practice the second part of the Brahma Sutra.
"So? That disciple cannot practice?" Long Chen couldn't help but look disappointed. He came for the second part of the Great Brahma Sutra. If the disciple does not practice it, Isn't this nonsense?
"Actually, you don't have to be disappointed. Disciples can learn it. The main thing is to see if you are amazing enough. If you are really amazing enough, I believe that the Lord Protector will definitely help you fight for it." Zhao Xiang hurriedly comforted him, afraid that Long Chen would lose motivation.
The following days, Long Chen spent the next day in a secret room. In the secret room, there were jade stamps worth several people high, and there were as many as thousands of jade stamps.
Each jade sticker is a classical alchemy, recording various alchemy theories and failures, as well as some ideas, which are valuable experiences left by the predecessors and sages throughout their lives in alchemy.
"Idiot, I've seen too much of this thing, I'm afraid I can't even practice pills!"
Long Chen was locked in a secret room alone to learn these things because it was related to the theoretical competition of entering the Shendan Hall.
Because the competition in the Shendan Hall is divided into theory and practice, you not only need to know how to refine elixirs, but also need to say what is said.
But the things in front of you are all different from one's own opinion. Everyone tells you all their personal experience. They do not have many alchemy techniques, and some theories are also very novel and unique.
But those things only meet their tastes and preferences, just like everyone is learning to draw. I am learning landscape painting. Do you ask me to see those beautiful women’s pictures to make hair?
The most hateful thing is that you have to write down your review and experience, otherwise even if you learn a wrong subject and don’t pass the test, will you be sick?
When I learn how to cook roast chicken, I need to know how the chicken comes from? I also have to figure out whether there is a chicken or an egg first before I can learn it?
But there is no way, because you will test these things during the competition. If the theory fails, you will not even be qualified to refine alchemy, so Long Chen can only grit his teeth and read it.
In ten days, Long Chen almost vomited. Even with Long Chen's terrifying soul power, he felt dizzy and swelling when he remembered these things.
What makes Long Chen the most uncomfortable is that some theories are simply wrong, but Long Chen still has to memorize them by rote and follow them wrong.
Because the assessment standards are all based on these things, only the answers can be considered correct. Long Chen learned the "knowledge" of alchemy so painfully for the first time.
Ten days later, Zhao Xiang released Long Chen from the secret room, and Zhao Xiang's eyes were filled with a hint of worry.
It is already very good for ordinary elixir practice to remember these theories in two months, but Long Chen only has ten days, which is indeed a bit difficult.
After all, he is now responsible for everything about Long Chen, sharing honor and disgrace with Long Chen. Zhao Xiang said, "How is it?"
"It's okay, I remember basically everything, there should be no problem." Long Chen rubbed his slightly tired face, and he also tried to do it for the second part of the Brahma Sutra.
"That's good. Don't feel too much pressure in your heart. Even if you can't pass this time, you will definitely pass it next time." Zhao Xiang comforted.
After saying that, Zhao Xiang took Long Chen and walked straight to a building behind Danli Department. When he walked into the building, Long Chen found that there were already dark figures inside.
"Long San?"
Chapter completed!