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"What? Wanxiang Sect recruited a group of disciples just two months ago?"

Ling Xiao was extremely shocked.

Judging from the information he received, Wanxiang Sect only recruits a group of disciples every ten years.

One part is to recruit children with the qualifications to cultivate immortals from the secular world near the sect to enter the sect. The other part is to recruit some low-level monks who already have some foundation; but this part will go through a more stringent review, and generally

Sect elders, descendants of disciples.

It is difficult for outside monks like Ling Xiao to enter the Wanxiang Sect. And even if they do, it is difficult to be promoted from an outer disciple to an inner disciple.

Only inner disciples are qualified to come into contact with Wanxiang Sect’s various sect-suppressing secrets.

This is really bad news.

A group of disciples were recruited just two months ago, which means that they will not recruit new disciples until at least ten years later. As for Ling Xiao, can he wait here for ten years in vain? And even if he can endure it,

After waiting for ten years, can you guarantee that you will definitely be able to enter the Wanxiang Gate in ten years? Even if you are lucky enough to enter the Wanxiang Gate, will you definitely be taught the Thousand Refinements Technique?

In normal times, for monks, waiting for ten years is not a big deal.

After all, Ling Xiao is only eleven years old now, and will still be less than thirty in ten years, so it will still not affect his foundation building.

But things are different now. Ling Xiao still urgently needs the Thousand Refinement Technique to help temper the true energy in his body and consolidate his foundation. If he waits like this for ten years, who can predict whether it will affect his foundation?

If we don't wait, what else can we do? Ling Xiao doesn't know anyone in the Wanxiang Sect.

And with his seventh-level cultivation of Qi, he could barely be considered as a valued inner disciple in Qiyun Sect. But here in Wanxiang Sect, he is probably nothing, right?

Even the monks in the foundation building stage don’t know the number. How many disciples like him in the Qi training stage are there? I’m afraid it’s hard to count.

…

Ling Xiao was still digesting the bad news. The old monk in front of him sighed and patted his shoulder, "Every year, there are many monks like you who travel thousands of miles to come here, hoping to worship at the Wanxiang Gate.

But in fact, where is it so easy to enter the Wanxiang Sect? Even if you enter, you are just an outer disciple who is not taken seriously, so what is the use?"

As he spoke, he stood up and staggered towards the back.

Ling Xiao quickly caught up to the man and asked, "Senior, from what you say, are you a disciple of the Wanxiang Sect?"

The man turned back and looked at Ling Xiao, "Yes, I am indeed a disciple of the Wanxiang Sect. However, don't think about making decisions from me. I am just an outer sect disciple at the lowest level. People like me, let alone the whole

Wanxiang Gate, just here in the Xuanwu Mountains alone, the price is tens of millions. It’s hard to say anything.”

Although he had expected it, Ling Xiao couldn't help but feel slightly disappointed when he heard what he said.

He had already seen this monk with his Qi-gazing technique, and he was already at the tenth level of Qi training. But looking at his age, he looked like he was fifty or sixty years old, but in reality he was probably much older.

After all, after a monk reaches the seventh level of Qi training and breaks through the longevity barrier, the rate of aging will be greatly slowed down. Generally, as long as there are no accidents, one can live to be a hundred years old. But living a hundred years old does not mean that he will be more than eighty years old.

The monks in their nineties still have hope of building a foundation.

Building a foundation is almost equivalent to reshaping the physical body, just like spiritual thoughts. As the age increases, the body's endurance becomes weaker and weaker. If you take the risk of building a foundation, you may die because you can't bear the cleansing and cutting of the marrow.

After the monks broke through the longevity barrier, although the aging rate slowed down, they were still aging after all.

Judging from the age of the monk in front of me, I am afraid that his actual age at this time is also seventy or eighty years old. He is still at the tenth level of Qi training, but he does not dare to risk building a foundation, probably because he is worried that he will not be able to bear it.

Looking at him, Ling Xiao couldn't help but feel a chill running down his spine. Thinking about it, would he also fall to this point?

Although the cultivation is not slow at this time, the speed of cultivation in the future will only become more and more difficult. Moreover, the foundation is already somewhat unstable, will it affect the subsequent cultivation?

Ling Xiao didn't know, and he didn't dare to take the risk.

Therefore, he must find a way to obtain the Thousand Refinement Technique.

When he was thinking this, the monk had already continued, "You want to rent a place from me to live, of course you can. However, I advise you to make other plans. Enter the Wanxiang Gate, not be taken seriously, and build the foundation.

The success rate may not be higher than that of some other sects."

"You are not yet twenty years old, right? You have already reached the seventh level of Qi training. Although your qualifications are not amazing, they are still extremely good. Why do you have to stick to Wanxiang Gate? You have spent ten years here.

, you may not be able to enter the Wanxiang Sect; even if you enter the Wanxiang Sect, a foreign monk like you will only be an outer disciple at best, and it is almost impossible to be taken seriously by the sect... Why do you think you are going through this?"

Ling Xiao smiled bitterly and was very grateful for his kindness. But he had taken a shortcut in his practice before, and now he had to use the Thousand Refinements Technique to temper the true energy in his body. Although he knew it was difficult, he had no choice but to persevere.

So Ling Xiao rented a place here to stay temporarily.

The rent is not cheap, one low-grade spiritual stone is needed every month; ordinary monks in the Qi training period would really be reluctant to part with it.

However, Ling Xiao had no time to worry about this and just paid one year's rent in advance. He didn't know how long he would be staying here, so it was better to make long-term plans.

A mere twelve low-grade spiritual stones can be obtained in one year, which is insignificant compared to the major event of foundation building.

The monk obviously had a cold face and a warm heart. While shaking his head, he still took Ling Xiao's spirit stone and kept saying, "Hey, why is this so hard? What's the trouble?"

He planned to lead Ling Xiao inside.

But suddenly all I could see was the sky to the south, where thousands of gorgeous clouds suddenly rose, indescribably gorgeous.

First, the sky was full of bright colors, dyeing half of the sky in the south.

Immediately afterwards, a golden dragon shadow suddenly jumped up from the clouds, waving its head and tail, lifelike; and at the opposite position, a colorful phoenix also emerged, with its tail feathers fluttering, setting off blazing fire all over the sky. The dragon and phoenix were intertwined.

, like a pair of gold and red scissors.

Even far apart, there was a faint sound like the roar of dragons and phoenixes, which resounded in all directions and took a long time to stop.

Ling Xiao couldn't help but change his expression. With such a momentum and situation, could it be that another golden elixir stage monk took action?

But the monk next to him looked back and said calmly: "Oh, it turns out that someone has refined another spiritual weapon. Judging from the appearance, it is probably a high-grade spiritual weapon. The quality is pretty good."

He glanced at Ling Xiao and said with a smile: "Relax. This situation will happen here every year and a half. However, usually only low-grade or medium-grade spiritual weapons are born, and the atmosphere is far from what it is today.

Top-grade spiritual weapons are rare, so you are lucky. You will be shocked when you see them for the first time, but in fact, after seeing more, it will be nothing."

Ling Xiao finally realized that it turned out that his own knowledge was short-sighted. Speaking of which, this was the first time he saw the emergence of a spiritual weapon; he even felt that the changes in the celestial phenomena caused by this time were better than those caused by the fight between the Blood Demon and Mo Yuji.

That time.

After the clouds dissipated, the monk took Ling Xiao to the back to choose a place to live.

From the casual conversation, Ling Xiao also learned that his name was Xiang Jun. He was now over eighty years old, and he was afraid that his days were numbered.

In his early years, he was just a casual cultivator. Later, similar to Ling Xiao, he felt that his aptitude was extraordinary, so he came to the Wanxiang Sect. After a lot of hard work, he finally entered the Wanxiang Sect, but he was just an ordinary outer sect.

Disciple, the outer gate of Wanxiang Gate was not taken seriously at all, which wasted time and money. It was not until twenty years ago that I realized that there was no hope of building a foundation, so I left Wanxiang Gate and settled here in Beiguan to spend the rest of my days.

In his words, he was just waiting to die.

His cultivation speed was not bad in his early years. Although he was not as good as Ling Xiao, he still broke through to the seventh level of Qi training before he was thirty years old.

But it took seven or eight years and a lot of hard work to finally gain entrance to the Wanxiang Gate. It took more than twenty years to finally break through to the tenth level of Qi training.

But he was worried about his old age and weak strength. After only one failed attempt, he did not dare to continue and gave up on building the foundation...

Ling Xiao couldn't help but feel pity in his heart. Although he was better than him, if he really stayed here for ten years and could only enter the Wanxiang Sect ten years later and was still an ordinary disciple, would everything really be possible in time?

His situation is quite similar to Xiang Jun's.

Probably because of this, Xiang Jun exchanged a few more words with him.

However, he was still persuading Ling Xiao to leave here in his words. After all, if you wait here for ten years, you may not get anything in return, so it is really a waste of time.

Although Ling Xiao could not express his difficulties, he still thanked him for his kindness. He also addressed him as "Xiang Lao" as a sign of respect.

In fact, for monks like them who have no close friendship, the gap in cultivation is not particularly large. Generally speaking, calling him "fellow Taoist" is considered very polite. Ling Xiao also respects his age and takes good care of himself.

Only then was he respectfully called Xiang Lao.

Xiang Lao saw that he had made up his mind, so he didn't say anything more, but he still shook his head and sighed from time to time.

I just found a place to stay.

Most of the spiritual energy here is quite abundant. What's even more rare is that the earth fire is drawn out in the room, and the protective magic circle is set up. You can also refine elixirs and weapons in the room, which makes Ling Xiao very satisfied. It only costs 12 yuan

A year's worth of low-grade spiritual stone is not a loss.

After thanking Mr. Xiang, the latter left, and Ling Xiao stayed here temporarily.
Chapter completed!