The first time, because too little soul was injected, the soul was broken before the situation in the house could be detected clearly, and the connection with the main body was lost.

But as long as you can get in, it's a huge improvement.

Jin Ziming was secretly happy and began to strengthen the input of souls. He opened a larger hole in the wooden wall and sent in more souls. Sure enough, he detected the situation in the next room and succeeded in "peeping" in one fell swoop.

Some obstacles were made of hard material, so he could only open a small hole, then compress the soul into a thread and pass through the hole to explore.

In the process, he accidentally discovered that if the soul thread was compressed to the extreme and then cut into needles, he could actually imitate the cat demon's soul needle attack.

Once this needle is refined, it may become another trump card in addition to sword skills.

Twenty-three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Jin Ziming discovered to his joy that his soul had indeed become much stronger.

What's even more exciting is that he made a soul needle. Although it is still very weak, it is still far from being able to hurt people.

Once, unable to restrain himself, he fired a needle in the dark and attacked a wild cat outside the courtyard, stabbing it unconscious.

As a new day came, looking at the rising sun outside the window, he suddenly felt that the rooms and courtyards of this simple inn were so friendly.

The sound of people getting up and the rising smoke made him feel happy.

Jin Ziming smiled and went out to have breakfast before arriving at Zeng Ze's relative's house.

The young man had been waiting at the door for a while. When he saw him coming, he pulled him into the carriage with a smile, and together they galloped towards their ideals.

Soon they saw the ethereal lake from a distance, but the road was crowded and it was difficult for the carriage to move.

So I simply abandoned the car and walked. On the last short stretch of the road, I had to rely on crowds to reach the gate of Longqing Sect.

The gatekeeper monk checked the candidates' tokens and took them back, and then the senior brothers took them in.

All the candidates gathered in a huge square. Jin Ziming roughly estimated that there were about a thousand people, divided into more than 20 small square groups, which was very spectacular.

After waiting for another half an hour, when the number of square teams reached thirty, a powerful whistle sounded, which immediately silenced all the candidates, and the square immediately became quiet.

I saw three elders leading a group of Longqing sect disciples onto the high platform, and a tall black-robed old man in the middle said loudly:

"Everyone, I am Zhang Jianfeng, the elder of the outer sect of Longqing Sect. Welcome everyone to come to Longqing Sect to participate in the assessment of outer sect disciples.

A total of 1,632 people participated in this event. Since our sect is developing rapidly, we urgently need to add fresh blood from the leaders of the Qi Refining Period.

Therefore, the sect decided to make an exception and increase the number of admissions, recruiting a total of 800 outer disciples."

As soon as these words came out, the audience roared with applause. The admission rate was close to 50%. It was definitely the easiest time to be admitted to the Long Qing Sect in so many years.

Elder Zhang’s sonorous voice continued:

"This assessment, according to tradition, is still divided into three tests, namely tests of strength, soul and understanding.

The strength requirement is to be able to lift a stone lock of two hundred kilograms, and the soul requirement is to be able to reach a detection range of ten feet.

As for understanding, a incomplete sword move is given on the spot. Please complete the move as much as possible according to your own understanding, and then write it down and submit it for the paper.

The entire square is divided into six examination rooms. Please follow the instructions of the disciples who have already started to arrive at your own examination location.

Now I announce that the examination for outer disciples has officially begun!"

Jin and Zeng were already standing in the same small formation, so they were naturally led into the same examination room.

Probably because of his experience of escaping, Jin Ziming didn't want to show off in the forest, and felt that leaving everyone alone was the safest strategy.

And since the admission rate was as high as half, we decided to retain it appropriately in the assessment and not expose our full strength.

In the first level, Jin Ziming only lifted a two-hundred-jin stone lock and stopped challenging.

In the second test, seeing that most of the candidates' soul detection distances were between ten and fifteen feet, he set his test result to twelve feet, which was not conspicuous and could ensure passing.

After the first two rounds of exams, more than 400 people were eliminated, and Zeng Ze made it to the final round relatively easily.

The remaining 1,200 people sat on the futons assigned to them and received the last test question.

This is a move called "Swing" with a broken sword. It seems to be swaying freely, but after trying it, you will find that the energy is not smooth and the sword is not round enough.

This test question stumped many candidates, but for Jin Ziming, it was extremely easy.

After he experienced the luck method of sword moves, he immediately discovered the location of the meridians and acupuncture points where the spiritual energy was blocked, which could obviously be solved by various methods.

Jin Ziming did not answer the question. He glanced around and found that Zeng Ze and most of the candidates were still thinking hard. Only 20 to 30 geniuses finished writing and handed in their papers, which made the invigilator nodded frequently and showed great appreciation.

It wasn't until more than 300 people left the scene that Jin Ziming wrote down the answer at will. He chose to complete the sword moves by adding three small movements.

In fact, to be honest, adding two movements is fine, and if you enable the self-built internal channel, you only need to make a little fine-tuning and add half an movement at most to complete the sword moves.

After Jin Ziming handed in his papers, he waited outside for a while before Zeng Ze walked out of the examination room with a smile. When the final deadline came, the rest had to hand in their papers.

Some looked calm, while others looked disappointed. Finally, Elder Zhang announced that the admission list would be announced outside the sect's gate three days later.

The results were announced three days later. As expected, both Jin Ziming and Zeng Ze were admitted. The Long Qing Sect required new disciples to report within three days.

Jin Ziming checked out of the house that day, and with joy and longing, entered the Longqing Sect.

He was led to a large hall at the outer gate, where there was an instrument for testing physical attributes. A senior brother said to him:

"Stand up and put your palm on the crystal panel."

Jin Ziming did as he was told, and soon the instrument lit up with three colors of light, and the results came out.

The senior fellow who was doing the testing said loudly:

"It's made of gold, water, and wood." It's exactly the same as what the fairy in white said back then.

A deacon recorded it, then murmured a few words to the elder next to him, then took a storage bag and handed it to him.

After teaching him how to use his soul to open and retrieve objects, let him find his own place.

Jin Ziming found a green identity token, a book of sect rules, and ten low-priced spiritual stones in the storage bag.

It is said that the sect will distribute so many spiritual stones to the outer disciples every month, but nothing else.

Jin Ziming followed the instructions and came to the residence of this new outer sect disciple. With the green token, he was led into a bamboo building. Each small building has two floors and a total of four rooms.

Jin Ziming chose a room on the second floor, sat down and began to read the rules and regulations.

Soon he saw the one that interested him the most:

Disciples can use their identity tokens to go to the outer gate library and read books according to the corresponding permissions.

Jin Ziming was overjoyed. This was his biggest dream in the past ten years. He came to the cultivation sect to experience the true method of cultivation, and he rushed over excitedly.

The layout of the Longqing Pavilion is somewhat like the Qingfeng Pavilion in the city, which is a pagoda-type structure.

There was an expressionless old man sitting at the door. He checked Jin Ziming's green token and told him that he could only go to the first and second floors to read, and he could borrow three books when he left.

Jin Ziming agreed and walked briskly into the library. The first floor was a circle of circular bookshelves with densely packed books. There were signs on each bookshelf indicating the type of book.

He was immediately immersed in this vast knowledge of cultivation, reading with relish the geography and country introductions of the six continents of the Hongqing Realm, the travel biographies of masters, Buddhist scriptures and Taoist canons, and the annotations of human body meridians and acupuncture points, etc.

He was so hungry that he forgot to eat and sleep. Two whole days passed without even leaving the first floor.

But after all, he was not a foundation-building monk who could live without food. His hunger was getting stronger and stronger, but he still couldn't bear to leave.

Jin Ziming climbed up the stairs to the second floor and found that it was smaller than the first floor. There were very few miscellaneous books, most of which were pure cultivation books.

He resisted his hunger, patiently browsed through the catalog on the bookshelf, took down the three books "Basic Theory of Sword Techniques", "A Brief Analysis of Dantian" and "First Understanding of Soul" and held them in his hands.

When I went out, I registered with the old man, went to the market outside the sect to feed myself, and then hurried back to my room.

Jin Ziming took out the three books, full of hope, hoping to open a new door for himself.

He first flipped through "A Brief Analysis of Dantian", and after reading a few pages, he was shocked to find that there was not just one Dantian in the human body, but three.

Taoists believe that the Dantian is the place where energy and spirit are stored and is the foundation of life.

"The Lower Dantian is the house where the essence is stored. It is the place where the sea of ​​Qi enters. It is a void hole and the place where the elixir is formed. Refining and transforming the Qi into essence is practiced at this stage.

The middle Dantian is the house where Qi is stored. It is where the Tanzhong enters. It is also a void hole, where the fetus is nourished during the stage of refining Qi and transforming into God.

The upper dantian is also the house where the gods are hidden. Inside is the Yintang, which is a hollow hole. After the elixir is completed, this place is the place of trance. This stage of cultivation is to refine the spirit and return it to emptiness, and you can gradually cultivate the body into emptiness."

Jin Ziming was a little panicked. Could it be that everyone else had practiced two more Dantians than him? Wouldn't that be a big gap?


Chapter completed!