Wonderland

Chapter 173

On this day, Xiao Lin opened his eyes from samadhi, and the two divine lights flashed away.

Xiao Lin let out a long sigh of relief, with a pensive expression on his face.

Feeling the mana flowing in his body, Xiao Lin was thinking about his future cultivation path. In fact, as early as half a month ago, he had already cultivated to the peak of the ninth level of Qi refining. More than double the depth.

In fact, Xiao Lin is already able to reach the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Period. As long as he enters the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Period, Xiao Lin can start taking the Foundation Establishment Pill and try to establish the foundation.

However, Xiao Lin did not do this. First, the Foundation Establishment Pill he needed for foundation establishment had not yet been refined. On the other hand, he did not want to attract too much attention. When he first entered the sect, he was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining At the initial stage of cultivation, it took more than a year to enter the Qi refining period of Dzogchen.

Even with his true spiritual root aptitude, it was too fast, so after reaching the peak of the ninth level of Qi refining, he never tried to hit the bottleneck in the later stage.

In the spirit wood space, the dust-cleaning grass needed for refining the foundation pill has been harvested, a total of 47 plants, and after the purple spirit flowers bear seeds, Xiao Lin has also planted all of them, and now this crop of purple spirit flowers has also grown. They all have a medicine age of 80 years. According to Xiao Lin's estimation, in about half a year at most, this batch of purple spirit flowers can reach a medicine age of 300 years.

For the current Xiao Lin, everything is ready, as long as he can refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, and with the help of the Five Elements Spirit Pill, Xiao Lin is still somewhat sure that he will enter the Foundation Establishment Stage.

But now Xiao Lin is also a little distressed. He has not seen that unreliable senior brother Xiao for a long time. It stands to reason that the task of refining the elixir can be replaced. I'm the only one, so I can't let go, can I?

If Uncle Tao came back and found that all the spiritual grass in his spiritual field had withered, wouldn't he cut himself to pieces?

Another thing that troubled Xiao Lin was how to obtain a foundation-building pill from the sect. According to his previous understanding, the outer sect disciples who entered the sect's Qi refining period through the cave trial, as long as their cultivation level entered the Qi refining period If you complete it, you will be able to get a Foundation Establishment Pill issued by the sect.

Originally, to Xiao Lin, the Foundation Establishment Pill issued by the Zongmen was irrelevant to him, after all, he would be able to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill by himself soon, but if he did not get the Foundation Establishment Pill from the Zongmen, After a while, he succeeded in building the foundation again. Isn't this clearly telling others that there is something tricky about it?

So after much deliberation, Xiao Lin couldn't think of a suitable time to build a foundation.

Qingdan Peak Cuixia Hall
In the middle of the deep hall sits an old man with a long beard who is five or sixty years old. The old man's head is tied to the road, and an emerald jade diamond is inserted horizontally on the road. There is no wrinkle at all, just like the white-haired and childlike face in the folklore.

The old man was looking solemnly at the dozen or so outer sect elders left and right, but he didn't speak.

And on the left and right below, the dozen or so elders of the outer sect who were sitting in two rows were also silent, and most of them were sitting with their eyes down.

And in the center below the main hall, there is a charming 27-year-old woman standing in a long dark green dress. She has fair skin and clear eyes. Old man.

After a cup of tea, the long-bearded old man sighed deeply, and said, "I didn't expect that our Dancao Mountain would only get 970 three foundation-building pills this time. According to the 30-year division, each year would not exceed [-] pills." Only about [-] pills can be distributed, and this is without counting the family members of the ancestors."

"Master, Tianyun Pavilion and Qianling Mountain are going too far. They rely on the strength of their sect to be slightly stronger than our other three sects. Every time they get more Foundation Establishment Pills, should we report to Patriarch Tianyi to find Are they theorizing?"

"That's right, a total of 1000 foundation building pills have been refined this time, 980 pills have been allocated to Tianyun Pavilion alone, and 850 to [-] pills have been allocated to Qianling Mountain. The Gate and the Qianfu Sect distributed [-] pills and [-] five pills respectively. From this point of view, the number of Foundation Establishment Pills that our Pill Grass Mountain has allocated this time ranks fourth, just over a hundred more than the Qianfu Sect."

"Hmph, the number of outer sect disciples of the Qianfu Sect is less than one-third of our Dancao Mountain's. Calculated, our Dancao Mountain's per capita is the least."

"That's right, but since Patriarch Futian practiced the Jinxuan Flowing Fire Sword Formation, he has become the No. , That's all, why are Qianling Mountain and Bailianmen more divided than us?"

"No way, Qianling Mountain now has as many as [-] monks in the Golden Core Realm, and the overall strength is stronger than our Dancao Mountain."

"Although the monks at the Golden Core Realm of Bailianmen are the same as us, there are as many as a thousand monks at the Foundation Establishment Stage, which is also more than us."

"Master, the allocation of Foundation Establishment Pills this time has been approved by the ancestors. Uncle Wu also distributed the Foundation Establishment Pills according to the instructions after receiving the Flying Sword letter from Patriarch Tianyi." The woman suddenly raised her head and said.

After hearing the words, all the noise stopped abruptly, and the old man standing in the center of the hall sighed softly, and said: "Since it was a decision made after private discussions among the ancestors, then we juniors can only It was followed."

"Master, we now have thousands of outer sect disciples who have reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining Stage, and there are 30 of them under the age of 500, and the number is increasing every year. But twenty or thirty pills are far from enough to meet the demand."

"Yes, if things go on like this, those outside disciples who meet the requirements of the Qi refining period may come out and make trouble. How can we calm down their unhappiness?"

"Hmph, it's just outer sect disciples, can it be against the heavens?"

"Senior Brother Gongsun, it is impossible to say that. The disciples in the Qi refining period are the cornerstone of our sect and the foundation of our Dancao Mountain. We must find a proper solution to this matter, otherwise it will shake the foundation of our sect."

"Then what else can we do? There are only so many Foundation Establishment Pills, and there are too many people, so we can only give priority to those disciples with better aptitude."

"That's what I said, but our Li family's annual quota of three Foundation Establishment Pills must not be less."

"There are quite a few of you in the Li family, and our Wen family's quota of three foundation-building pills is also indispensable. No, our Wen family has an extra outstanding disciple who is in the Qi refining period of Dzogchen this year. We will divide it into four pills this year. enough."

"Hmph, our Gongsun family has seven or eight children who have qualified for the Great Consummation of the Qi Refining Period, so shall we distribute eight Foundation Establishment Pills this year?"

The whole hall started to be noisy, and the elders of the outer sects who represented the major cultivation families also blushed.

The long-bearded old man looked helplessly at the group of elders who were arguing below, but did not speak.

The old man with long beard is the current head of Dancao Mountain, Changqing Zhenren, a cultivator in the late stage of foundation establishment. Changqing Daoist is in charge of Dancao Mountain for one year, and he is now nearly two hundred years old.

He has been in the late stage of foundation establishment for 80 to 150 years, and he has already given up hope for his own future of cultivation. Under normal circumstances, if a cultivator of the foundation stage cannot form an alchemy before the age of [-], then he can still become a golden alchemy in this life. There is little hope for monks.

More than half of the elders of the outer sect below are in the same situation as Daoist Changqing. Most of these elders of the outer sect are from cultivation families. The family seeks more benefits, so as to cultivate excellent offspring.

And the foundation-building period cultivators who are really obsessed with the Dao are usually not interested in the management of the sect. They either retreat and practice hard all the year round, or travel around in search of immortality, and they will not focus on these trivial matters in the sect. of.

Master Changqing himself is also from a cultivating family, and he is an elder of the Wang family, the head of the top ten cultivating families in Dancao Mountain. Over the years, Master Changqing has sought benefits for his clan, and only the rewards issued by Dancao Mountain every year There are at least four or five pills of Foundation Establishment Pill that flow into the Wang family every year.

This situation has been going on for hundreds of years. Although Daoist Changqing is the Supreme Elder of the Wang family, the head of the top ten cultivation families, when he just became the head of Dancao Mountain, he also wanted to change this situation. Because if this continues, the outer disciples at the bottom of the Qi refining period will continue to accumulate resentment, and in the long run, the development of Dancao Mountain will also be greatly affected.

However, with his own strength, he can't change this situation at all. More than half of the [-] Jindan ancestors above his head come from cultivating families, while the rest are from casual cultivators, but they don't care about it. Zongmen's affairs are all about pursuing the Dao.

Once he moved the interests of the cultivation family, he would face pressure from the ancestors of the cultivation family, and he had to submit.

Thinking of this, Master Changqing couldn't help sighing.

The noisy quarrel below lasted for half an hour before finally calming down. Everyone turned their attention to Master Changqing, as if they were waiting for his decision.

Glancing around at everyone, Master Changqing caressed his long beard and said, "There are fewer and fewer Foundation Establishment Pills refined today, and in the next few decades, the average number of Foundation Establishment Pills issued each year will be less than thirty. , In this way, our major cultivation families will definitely be affected, but there is no way to do this."

"According to previous years' practice, the quota of one foundation-building pill for each of the outer sect disciples Zhonghuanglinggen must not be changed. These people are the elites of our Dancao Mountain, and they are related to the long-term development of our sect. As for the remaining foundation-building pills Dan, I will make a decision after the head of the sect reports to Uncle Su."

Hearing what Master Changqing said, although the elders of the outer sect below showed dissatisfaction on their faces, none of them refuted, but all chose to remain silent.

It's not that they don't want to refute it and use it to fight for the interests of the family, but they also know that the reduction in the number of Foundation Establishment Pills will have an impact on everyone. Master Changqing obviously knows this truth, so he wanted to ask Uncle Su for instructions first. .

This Uncle Su is the most beloved disciple of Patriarch Tianyi, and his cultivation has already reached the mid-stage of Golden Core. The one that is easy to use, because this Uncle Su has been by Patriarch Tianyi's side all year round, he has become the endorsement of Patriarch Tianyi.

(End of this chapter)