One of the twenty-eight lower courtyards of Xueyang Sect, Qingzhu Temple.
The Taoist temple is perched on the top of Jiuhua Mountain. Inside the temple are towering ancient trees, dense pines and cypresses, swaying green bamboos, and lush grasses. Looking from afar, the vermilion courtyard walls and cyan ridges alternately appear in the green sea.
Lin Fan, dressed in Tsing Yi, wielded a spiritual hoe and sweated profusely in the spiritual field.
The soil in these spiritual fields where spiritual rice is grown is extremely solid. A Qi Refining monk like him could only loosen the soil of half an acre of spiritual fields by digging around all day long.
Suddenly, he felt something sweet in his throat, and then he spat out a mouthful of black blood.
He quickly put down his spiritual hoe, sat cross-legged on the ridge of the field, and began to exercise his energy and regulate his breathing.
His thoughts were racing and he recalled the past.
He was originally from Blue Star and was struggling to survive in the apocalypse. A year ago, he accidentally traveled to this world of immortal cultivation and possessed a man also named Lin Fan.
The original owner was a wandering child. By chance, he entered the lower courtyard of Xueyang Sect at the age of ten and practiced at Qingzhu Temple. After six years of hard training, his cultivation was only worthy of the second level of Qi Refining.
He was so anxious that he went crazy during practice and died tragically on the spot.
After that, he traveled through time and inherited everything from the original owner.
However, the original owner was impoverished and left no other items except his identity as an outer disciple and a few basic books.
On the contrary, because of his obsession, the fire poison still remains in this body. This fire poison is like a bone-eating insect, eating away at his body bit by bit.
Fortunately, this poison can be cured. All you need to do is save a hundred low-grade spiritual stones and buy a "poison-removing pill".
However, these one hundred spirit stones (unless otherwise specified, the default is low-grade spirit stones) are not a small amount of money for him.
In order to save money, except for a small amount of rest time every day, he basically spent the rest of his time helping others take care of the spiritual field.
He works so hard, and his annual income is only ten spiritual stones. If he wants to collect a hundred spiritual stones, he will have to work for ten years!
However, although life was difficult, it was nothing to him who had gone through many hardships. He still maintained an optimistic attitude.
…
Until sunset, Lin Fan, who had been busy all day, returned exhausted to his small house of more than ten square meters.
He had just poured a few bowls of tea to quench his thirst when he heard someone knocking on his door.
"Is Junior Brother Lin here?"
That voice was very familiar to him. It was Li Xian, an outer disciple who started in the same year as him and had a miserable life just like him.
He immediately opened the door and welcomed Li Xian in.
"Junior Brother Lin, something big has happened!"
"Senior brother, don't panic, sit down and talk slowly."
"Why……"
After Li Xian sat down, he shook his head and sighed, and told Lin Fan the reasons for the incident.
It turns out that he got the news this afternoon.
All outer disciples will be able to practice on the mountain for a maximum of seven years. Once the period is over, if they are unable to be promoted to entry disciples, their cultivation will be revoked and they will be expelled from the mountain.
"Where did senior brother get the news?"
"This is what the temple master said personally. Tomorrow at the latest, the temple master will officially promulgate the new rules to us."
"I would also like to inform the other colleagues to take my leave first." After Li Xian finished speaking, he turned and walked out of the room.
Counting the days, Lin Fan happened to have stayed on the mountain for seven full years!
He looked at the other person's leaving figure and fell into deep thought.
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The next day.
Lin Fan received a message from the sect early in the morning, and the content was exactly the same as what Li Xian said yesterday. However, this time the reform of the outer disciples affected too much, and the sect specially reserved a six-month buffer period for them.
Once the six-month period is up, those who have been on the mountain for seven years, such as Xiang Linfan, and have not been promoted to entry-level disciples, will be immediately deprived of their cultivation and expelled from the mountain!
If you are expelled from the mountain, your cultivation will be abolished and you will become a mortal from now on.
It sounds okay. With his ability, he can be a rich man in the world.
But he, who was suffering from the poison of fire, understood that in the past year, he had only managed to suppress the poison of fire in his body only by relying on his cultivation.
If his cultivation was abolished, he would definitely die on the spot!
As for escaping, he never considered it at all.
Outer disciples cannot go down the mountain privately. If he dares to leave the sect privately, he will be regarded as a defector.
With my level of cultivation, if I dare to defect, I will definitely not survive more than three days!
He just wants to live, even if it is a little bit more painful and tiring, he can accept it.
Why is fate so rough that even this little hope of mine has to be cut off?
There was a strong light in his eyes. The situation was so critical, but he was as calm as ever.
If he wants to become an entry-level disciple within six months, there is only one way for him, which is to pass through the third floor of the trial tower.
Generally speaking, only those who have reached the sixth level of Qi Refining can pass through the third level. But now that he has only reached the second level of Qi Refining, it seems to be hopeless.
However, with a calm mind, he soon found a glimmer of hope.
If you want to pass the third level of the trial tower with the second level of Qi Refining, it is only possible with the help of high-level talismans!
He still had to think about the details on how to obtain high-level talismans in a short period of time.
Suddenly, he had a splitting headache and almost fell to the ground. Not long after, the headache suddenly disappeared. It was like a gust of wind, coming and going as quickly as it came.
He quickly mobilized his mind and checked his mind.
He saw a colorful pagoda floating in his mind!
This pagoda has always existed in his mind since he traveled to this world, but it has always been dim. No matter how he tried, he could not communicate with this pagoda.
At this moment, seeing the pagoda door open, his mind moved, and his soul immediately entered the pagoda.
He carefully started to investigate, but found that there was nothing around except a fog. Moreover, he could only move within a radius of ten feet, and he could not walk any further.
There is no spiritual energy here, and it is obviously impossible to practice here.
"It can't be that this mysterious space is useless, right?" He tried it with some reluctance.
Such as whether it is possible to put outside items in, whether there is any benefit from inhaling the purple mist into the soul, etc. However, these attempts have all ended in failure without exception.
"Could it be that this space can improve thinking ability?" Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
He didn't notice it before, but he didn't realize it until now. Since entering this space, his mind has been extremely active.
Just like the countless ideas he had tried before, they all came to his mind in an instant.
Thinking of this, he quickly calmed down and meditated on the Ming Shui Jue that he had memorized by heart.
As he devoted himself wholeheartedly, he instantly entered a mysterious realm of understanding!
There is no secret in any of the contents of this book and the various spells recorded in it!
In less than a moment, various techniques such as water arrow technique, water wall technique, and water tiger technique had been practiced countless times in his mind. He naturally mastered the true meaning of these techniques and reached the state of perfection!
As he gradually understood, some shortcomings and flaws of Ming Shui Jue were gradually discovered by him.
"Maybe you can try this..." He murmured, trying to improve the Ming Shui Jue.
After a while, he looked happy, having successfully made up for some of the flaws in the Ming Shui Jue. Although the current Ming Shui Jue cannot be called a superior technique, it is much stronger than before.
Then he began to comprehend the Spirit Turtle Fist practiced by his predecessor.
The predecessor of this boxing technique has been practicing hard for several years, but it has only stayed at the fourth level. As for the last three levels, it is completely unable to touch the threshold.
Each level of Spirit Turtle Fist mastered will have the power of a turtle, which is equivalent to two hundred kilograms.
At this moment, it only took him a few breaths to fully comprehend the last three levels of the Spirit Turtle Fist and reach the ninth level!
In this space, every breath of his mental power was consumed greatly. After comprehending the Spirit Turtle Fist, he almost reached the limit of mental collapse.
He quickly exited the space with his soul.
Lin Fan's eyes were full of confidence as his soul returned to his body.
If he just wanted to live before, now he still wants to cultivate the path of immortality and live as long as heaven and earth!
At this moment, he was extremely exhausted physically and mentally, as if he hadn't slept for days and nights, and he yawned repeatedly.
"I wonder what the outcome of this epiphany will be?" With a trace of expectation in his heart, he lay on the bed and soon fell asleep. This chapter has been completed!