"This is the selection requirement set by me and several junior brothers and sisters. Please ask the two junior uncles to take a look."

Xu Chunniang was quite uncomfortable, "Sir Yue, you should call me like you did in the past."

"The courtesy cannot be abolished."

Yue Lingzheng refused with a serious expression, "As the leader of a sect, I must set an example."

Xu Chunniang was not willing to persuade her anymore, so she took the jade slip handed over by Master Yue, scanned her spiritual sense and read all the procedures.

The selection of new disciples is divided into three levels.

In addition to the talent of spiritual roots, it will also test the disciple's mind and understanding, which is much stricter than before.

If your mind and understanding are not up to standard, no matter how good your talent is, you may not accept it.

In order to save resources, the sect has new regulations, and all newly-entered Qi training monks can only enter the outer sect.

"It is also a helpless move to make this arrangement."

Yue Lingzheng explained, "Although there are eight spiritual veins in the sect, the fundamental reason for the disappearance of spiritual energy cannot be solved, and these spiritual veins will eventually become smaller and smaller."

If there is insufficient spiritual energy, accepting too many new disciples will hinder the development of the sect.

Sheng Qingjun sighed and shook her head, "It's really worse than the next generation. Is the Dharma-Ending Age really coming?"

"Maybe."

Yue Ling was smiling bitterly and shook her head, as if she suddenly thought of something, and he looked at Xu Chunniang.

"Uncle Xu came back from the overseas cultivation world, but I wonder if the spiritual energy overseas has decreased?"

"I have not noticed the changes in the spiritual energy in the past few years."

"Maybe the overseas land is vast and rich, and it will not have much impact on some spiritual energy for a while."

Xu Chunniang wanted to speak but stopped, but she didn't say anything in her heart.

She felt that it was not that the Dharma-Ending Age was coming, but that there were other reasons that led to the changes in spiritual energy.

"If the two uncles are fine, they will enter the election the next day and can come to watch the ceremony. If there are good talents who are worthy of them, they can be recruited as registered disciples first."

Sheng Qingyun looked sad, "I don't have the heart to accept disciples, so I won't join in the fun."

Xu Chunniang also shook her head and said, "I plan to go to the Sutra Library to check some things, but I don't have this plan for the time being."

"All right."

Yue Lingzheng was rejected by the two, and he was not disappointed.

The time of the Nascent Soul monk is very precious, so he naturally won’t spend too much energy on these trivial matters.

After Yue Ling was leaving, Sheng Qingyun looked at Xu Chunniang.

"You went to the library, but you wanted to find the reason why the spiritual energy disappeared?"

"good."

Xu Chunniang nodded. She could clearly feel that compared to more than eighty years ago, the spiritual energy in the world was about one-tenth less than that in the world.

If this continues, the strength of the entire Northwest Continent's cultivation world will become worse and worse.

In the end, even breaking through the Nascent Soul became impossible.

Sheng Qingyun sighed in her heart, "What if I say, this matter has no result?"

"Everything has a cause and a result. This matter concerns you and me, as well as all fellow disciples, and even the entire Northwest Continent's cultivation world, how can we sit back and ignore it?"

Seeing the stubbornness in her eyes, Sheng Qingyun knew that she could not stop this matter.

"Forget it, follow me."

Although Xu Chunniang was a little puzzled, she still followed Sheng Qingyun and headed towards an inconspicuous deserted mountain as she said.

"In the years since the evil cultivator occupied the Xiaoyao Sect, many of the mountaintops have been attacked by them, but this mountain without returning is preserved very well even every grass and tree."

Instead of using escape techniques, Sheng Qingyun stepped onto this deserted mountain called Bugui Mountain.

"Do you know, what's special about this mountain?"

Xu Chunniang quickly swept across Mount Bugui and shook her head in confusion.

There is no spiritual energy on this mountain, and there is no special thing at all.

Sheng Qingjun smiled slightly, "It's not your fault that you can't see it. When I first came, I didn't take it seriously.

But this Buguishan is where the Nascent Soul monks of the Xiaoyao Sect have buried their bones."

Xu Chunniang was slightly shocked, and her spiritual sense swept across Mount Bugui, but she didn't even see a tomb or a tombstone.

"Stop looking for it. If you really set up a tomb and tombstone, wouldn't you be hollowed out by those evil cultivators long ago?"

Sheng Qingyun smiled indifferently, "Although our cultivators have practiced to the Nascent Soul stage and become an ancestor-like existence in the eyes of others, they cannot break through to the realm of transformation of the gods. The thousand-year path is always empty."

As she said that, she walked to a tree, took out a jar of spiritual wine and sprinkled it all over the jar.

"All monks who can break through to the stage of God Transformation are those with great opportunities and great luck, and the loss of spiritual energy makes the appearance of God Transformation monks even more difficult.

My master read countless ancient books and finally went deep into the 100,000 mountains to try to find the reason why the spiritual energy continued to disappear."

"One hundred thousand mountains?"

Sheng Qingyun came to her senses and explained.

"When you left the sect, you only had foundation-building cultivation. It is normal not to know this.

The Hundred Thousand Mountains are located in the Western Regions. You and I will continue to go west through Wuliang Mountain. With your and my feet, you will have to walk for three or five months to do your best."

After listening to her telling the mystery of the 100,000 mountains, Xu Chunniang had a guess in her heart.

The answer is likely to be hidden in the endless mountains of the Western Regions.

"Have you found the reason?"

Sheng Qingjun shook her head, "I don't know, because the master left, he has never been able to come back from now on.

This tree was planted by me personally, and the tomb of my master's clothes was under this tree."

Sheng Qingyun stroked the thick tree body, and her eyes showed a look of remembrance.

"At that time, there were a total of five Nascent Soul monks who went to the 100,000 mountains together.

One is for adventure and training, looking for various rare treasures, and the other is also to try it out to see if we can find the reason for the disappearance of the spiritual energy."

Xu Chunniang vaguely guessed the ending.

"Did they... fail?"

Sheng Qingyun nodded, with a deep look in her eyes.

"Yes, there are only one person who comes back alive in the five Nascent Soul monks."

Since then, the 100,000 mountains have become tacitly forbidden places in the world of cultivation, and no one dares to enter easily.

Xu Chunniang was silent for a long time and thanked her.

"Thank you for telling me this, otherwise I will only rely on searching the ancient books in the Sutra Library, and I still don't know when I will find it."

Sheng Qingyun frowned slightly, "After hearing so much, do you still want to go?"

"The master thinks, which one is more dangerous than the Dead Sea?"

"It's all dangerous. Even if you cross the Dead Sea smoothly, you may not be able to walk out of the 100,000 mountains.

Senior Yuanying, who escaped by chance, once said that there was a great evil thing in the mountains."

"But Master, I want to find the reason why the spiritual energy disappeared, and it is also for myself."

Xu Chunniang said frankly, "With the existing spiritual energy in the sect, you have to practice hard for thirty or fifty years to increase your level of cultivation."

"You are still young now and have plenty of time to practice. It is better to enter a little slower than to take risks."

Sheng Qingyun still disagrees with her idea. Anyway, the Nascent Soul cultivator has a thousand years of life. Even if he practices hard for hundreds of years, it would be great as long as he can break through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul.

"But have the master ever thought that maybe in a few hundred years, the spiritual energy will completely disappear?"

(End of this chapter)


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