Isn’t it time to take a bath and get ready before setting off?”
A soft voice of a female disciple appeared outside the stone door of Lingfeng Retreat.
after awhile.
The stone chamber door opens.
Ye Chen woke up from the day's practice and then left the stone room.
Several maids looked at him with reverence and followed him to the pavilion bathroom. After burning incense and bathing, Ye Chen put on a layer of silk armor, a snow-white monk's gown, and an ancient jade pendant around his waist.
, the orthodox attire of a second-generation disciple of Tianxu Sect. When attending such a grand occasion, the image of Tianxu's top foundation-building disciple still needs special attention.
Ye Chen looked at a tall smooth water mirror in the room, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he saw the figure of a young monk who was calm and calm, with a jade-like temperament inside.
Just ten short years ago, he was a frail and skinny young man in Beilu Academy, a weak and inconspicuous little martial artist in the secular country. In the blink of an eye, he has changed so much.
He is now one of the ten strongest ninth-level disciples of the Tianxu Immortal Sect, the number one Immortal Sect in Yunzhou, and his status is considered to be extremely high in the entire Yunzhou Immortal Cultivation World.
He is even more noble in the secular world. If he goes on a mission to a secular country, even the king of any empire in Yunzhou will greet him respectfully.
All of this, it only took him ten years of hard training to become one of the ninety most powerful late-stage foundation-building disciples in Yunzhou.
But this is not enough!
Just ninety top disciples in the late stage of foundation building is far from enough.
He must prove himself in the joint examination that he is the strongest and most capable among the ninety late-stage foundation-building disciples. In the future, he will become a golden elixir monk, and he will also be the best among them.
"This Xianmen joint examination is a real big test, competing with the strongest late-stage foundation-building monks in Yunzhou!"
Ye Chen secretly clenched his fists, and his clear eyes showed an increasingly determined look. He checked his whole body and found nothing missing. He then left Lingfeng and flew to the joint examination battlefield with his sword. The maids quickly became excited.
, they did not need to guard Lingfeng. After dressing up carefully, they hurried to the joint examination battlefield to watch the excitement.
Inside Tianxu Immortal Sect, it became very lively at this time.
Thousands of flying swords can be seen flying across the sky everywhere. Except for a few forbidden areas where flying is prohibited, most places in the Immortal Sect are not allowed to fly. At this time, most of the light is directed towards the southeast corner of the Tianxu Sect.
Fly through the airspace.
Ye Chen flew with his sword for a while and arrived at a huge circular valley in the southeast corner of Tianxu Gate.
At the highest peak of the circular valley, the best observation point, a huge and majestic main observation tower has been built that can accommodate thousands of monks. VIPs from Tianxu Sect and other eight Immortal Sects are watching the battle from this observation tower.
More than a hundred Jindan monks have already taken their seats at the chairman's seat on the observation deck. The remaining monks in the middle and late stages of foundation building are sitting or standing in the back, numbering no less than a few thousand people.
Ye Chen met Sect Leader Wang, Elder Shi and other golden elixir monks, as well as fellow foundation-building monks Xu Liang, Shi Junfeng and others who were participating in the joint examination. Of course, there were also monks from the other eight immortal sects.
"Disciple Ye Chen has met Master, elders! I have met all senior brothers!"
Ye Chen respectfully saluted the headmaster Wang and other golden elixir monks.
"Well, my disciple is here! This morning it's the Jinding Sect versus the Beast Spirit Sect, and in the afternoon it's the Lingyue Sect versus the Ancient Machine Sect. The battle will start soon. You can watch the battle from the balcony first. Although you won't be on the field, it's easier to learn the fighting skills experience by watching the battle.
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Headmaster Wang was chatting and greeting other Jindan elders. When he saw Ye Chen coming, he nodded and smiled.
"Yes, Master!"
Ye Chen nodded without any dissatisfaction. He also knew very well that he was at the bottom among the nine disciples of the Tianxu Sect in the joint examination. He couldn't blame the leader Wang for not trying his best. He could only blame him for unintentionally doing so in the Immortal Sect.
He offended too many elders and was suppressed by all the elders.
He left the main tower and came to a relatively secluded mountain peak, overlooking the battlefield.
The battlefield for the joint examination of the Nine Immortal Sects is in this huge circular valley in front of you.
This valley is fifty miles long and forty miles wide. The valley has undulating mountains, ancient trees, jungles, mountains, rivers, and swamps. In some places, it is so cloudy and misty that you can't see your fingers. It is a highly simulated small battlefield.
The entire battlefield of dozens of miles was shrouded by a huge phantom formation, and the inside of the valley and the outside of the valley were completely isolated.
Only monks who hold a special protective token and take the joint examination can enter the battlefield. Once a monk encounters life-threatening danger while fighting in the valley, the token is activated, and the formation will immediately send the monk out of the valley.
In order to avoid being disturbed, within this formation barrier, the monks in the valley cannot see the situation outside the valley. However, the monks outside the valley can clearly see the battle situation in the valley.
And around the valley, there are other one or two hundred thousand foundation building and Qi refining period monks watching the battle. There are crowds of people, and countless monks are around the circular valley, or they directly use their swords to fly in the sky, control birds, and fly in the sky.
Have an unobstructed view of the battlefield.
The people who presided over this joint examination of the Immortal Sect were naturally the King of the Tianxu Sect, the ten Golden elixir elders, and the Golden elixir elders of the other eight Immortal Sects, who were watching the battle from the main tower at the top of the highest mountain in the circular valley.
In the morning, Headmaster Wang announced the rules of the joint examination and officially announced that the joint examination of the Nine Immortal Sects had officially begun.
The first battle.
The five monks from the Jinding Sect who are in the ninth level of foundation building are fighting against the five monks who are in the ninth level of foundation building from Lingyue Sect.
blow!
blow!
Soon, ten rays of flying sword light flew into the valley and landed at both ends of the valley.
There are more than 100,000 foundation-building monks around the circular valley, and the monks in the Qi Refining Period suddenly became excited and noisy, cheering for the Jinding Sect and Lingyue Sect monks. As the top foundation-building monk, he is extremely well-known among the lower-level monks.
Countless admirers.
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Among the lively crowd of monks.
A woman wearing a bamboo hat and veil in white clothes, with a graceful and mysterious figure, was walking slowly among the mountains. Although the veil covered her face and outsiders could not see her appearance, the breeze blew over her cheek, revealing a trace of...
Snow's skin, dripping red lips, and that peerless face can still be seen at a glance.
She was obviously a little bored.
Although the Tianxu Sect is large and has many disciples, her figure seems lonely.
Not everyone dares to guess the majesty and thoughts of Patriarch Tianxu. Before she became a Jindan monk, she obviously didn’t want to see anything she didn’t want to see. Even Elder Jindan didn’t dare to say anything in front of her.
Say a word to avoid offending the ancestor with a wrong word. As for the foundation-building disciples, under the strict control of Elder Jindan, no one dares to make mistakes.
And basically none of the more than 100,000 Qi Refining Stage disciples in our sect know him.
Yeah, that’s not quite right!
While practicing swordsmanship at Nanhu Lotus Lake in Tianxu Sect, she met a very shy and dull monk named Ye Chen who was on the ninth level of the Qi Refining Stage. He actually didn't know her identity and dared to chat with her for a long time.
Two years later, he went to take the three-year exam of the Immortal Sect, and miraculously became the first place in the three-year exam of the Tianxu Immortal Sect, and then became a second-generation foundation-building monk.
Later, she was ordered by her father to practice in seclusion, so she no longer knew the situation in the outside world. He probably left the Immortal Sect to perform the Immortal Sect's mission.
She practiced in seclusion on Tianxu Floating Island for several years, practicing "Tianxu Sword Intent" every day under the supervision of her father. This time she left seclusion to participate in the joint examination of the Nine Immortal Sects.
In fact, her cultivation level reached the ninth level of the foundation building stage very early, just to solidify the foundation of cultivation. In order to prepare for this once-a-decade Immortal Sect Joint Examination, she postponed it for several years and never attacked the golden elixir bottleneck.
But for some reason, she was not thinking about the Xianmen Joint Examination.
Although the Immortal Sect Joint Examination is a major event that caused a stir in the Yunzhou Immortal Cultivation World, it is not that important to her. Whether she wins or loses, it makes little difference to her. The future battle between immortals and demons will be the real test of life and death.
battlefield.
Instead, a faint thought flashed through my mind, and the shy and dull figure of the monk always flashed through my mind. I always felt that it was very kind and warm, as if I had known him for a long time. It was a wonderful feeling.
I was walking, thinking about something on my mind.
The veiled woman inadvertently raised her head, and her eyes suddenly froze.
In front of her, a figure of a monk who was both familiar and unfamiliar was standing alone in a remote mountain ridge, with his back to her, looking at the battlefield in the circular valley. The mountain wind was biting, but his figure did not move at all, and his clothes
Her clothes were fluttering in the wind, as if she was thinking about something.
Ye Chen was watching the battlefield and suddenly felt something.
He immediately turned back.
He saw a veiled woman looking at him blankly not far away.
Xi'er!
Almost instantly, Ye Chen recognized it.
In this Tianxu Sect, there is no woman that he can recognize at a glance without seeing her face. It's not her face, her spiritual power, or anything else, but a very wonderful momentary feeling.
Heartbeat.
Yes, exciting!
When Ye Chen saw her standing in front of him, he could clearly feel his heart trembling uncontrollably.
"Xi'er!"
Suddenly, Ye Chen cried out in a low voice, and a huge feeling of happiness surged out of his heart, making his eyes blurry for a moment.
He originally thought it would take a long time to find her, but he didn't expect to meet her here suddenly.
"Ye Chen is really you. I thought I saw it wrong just now! I didn't expect it was really you."
The veiled woman was stunned for a long time before she burst into laughter.
"My father has asked me to retreat in the past few years, and these geniuses have emerged! Hey, have you reached the ninth level of the foundation building stage?"
She was very surprised.
"I left the Immortal Sect and practiced in Wangtian City for five years. I reached the ninth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage and came back to take the Immortal Sect Joint Examination."
Ye Chen nodded. Only then did he realize that Xi'er was also a monk at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment. He couldn't help but asked strangely, "Xi'er, you are a monk at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment. Why didn't you take the joint examination?"
"Me too! Yeah, it looks like we can take the Xianmen joint entrance examination together."
Xi'er smiled sweetly.
"The same to you.?"
Ye Chen suddenly thought of something and his face was slightly suffocated.
Ancestor Tianxu!
Among the ten Tianxu disciples, there is still one missing, and it was taken by the ancestor of Tianxu. And this spot is Xi'er.
Yes.
Could it be that Xi'er's identity is the daughter of Patriarch Tianxu?!
He also vaguely knew that Patriarch Tianxu had a daughter, but he had never thought about it and did not dare to think too much about it.
Finally understand.
Why couldn't he find Xi'er's name in the list of Xianmen Foundation Establishment disciples?