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Chapter 98
There are three important competitions in Kunlun every year, the alchemy apprentice competition, the first-grade alchemist competition, and then the qi refining period disciple competition. Among them, the rewards of the qi refining period disciple competition are the most generous. After all, Kunlun has the most Dharma practice. The strength of a sect also depends on the number of cultivators, especially the number of high-level cultivators such as Nascent Soul Huashen Breaking Void.

Li Yu originally thought that ten Pills of Tuomai in a year would be 40 in 40 years. As long as he did not build a foundation and participated in the competition for [-] consecutive years, he would be able to accumulate enough Tuomai Pills to cultivate to the Golden Core Stage, but Wu Tong's words extinguished his hope.

The top three in the competition during the Qi refining period can only participate in the competition once, and if they enter the top three this time, they will not be able to participate in the future.

Otherwise, there will be some disciples in the Qi refining period who will force them to stay in this realm and wait until they have earned enough Extension Pulse Pills before building the foundation, which will undoubtedly greatly damage the fairness of the competition.

It seems that it is not an easy task to grab the wool of the sect.

Among the three competitions, only the first-rank alchemist grand competition did not limit the number of participations, but after Li Yu established his foundation, he would definitely be promoted to the second-rank alchemist, and this wool could not be won.

Anyway, being idle is idle, and I happened to take the ten Tuomai Pills by chance.

At first, Li Yu thought that the competition between two disciples during the Qi refining period was a battle between two disciples, but Wu Tong laughed at him for being ignorant. That kind of backward competition was already a thousand years ago.

The disciple competition in the Qi refining period, like the illusion trial, is carried out in an illusion.

All the disciples faced the same opponent in the illusion, and the one who defeated the opponent in the shortest time was the leader of the competition.

Real fighting methods will inevitably lead to casualties. This method can not only reduce the casualty rate to zero, but also greatly improve the efficiency. Thousands of years ago, the various sects abandoned the primitive and backward competition methods and introduced the This more scientific way...

There are tens of thousands of disciples in the Kunlun Qi Refining Period. If it is really necessary to compete in pairs, it will not only consume a lot of space, manpower and material resources, but also the number of games for accurate rankings is impossible to estimate.

With the method of illusion trial, it is almost unnecessary to organize any manpower. As long as a magic weapon similar to the map of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains is needed, the competition can be ended in three days, and the specific rankings will be ranked. The efficiency is extremely high. Once it appears, it will be adopted by all factions. .

When Li Yu came to Tongtian Peak, it was crowded with people and there was almost no place to stay.

In the huge square in front of the hall, it was impossible to set foot. In terms of formation, it was worse than when Li Yu entered the trial for the first time.

Among them, only a small number of people came to participate in the competition, and most of the disciples came to watch the fun.

After all, this competition every year is prepared for those true arrogances of the sect, and it is extremely difficult. Only those who have the strength of the ninth level of refining Qi with a single spiritual vein are eligible to participate in the competition.

Although there are tens of thousands of disciples in the Qi-refining period of Kunlun, there are only a few thousand disciples on the ninth level of Qi-refining.

On the square in front of the trial hall, there is a huge picture scroll. Next to the picture scroll, there is a water curtain floating. The words floating on the water curtain are the names of those who have participated in the trial.

The disciples watching the bustle crowded the Tongtian Peak, looking at the trial list, talking about it.

"Ten extension pills, I'm really envious, but it's a pity that it has nothing to do with our ordinary disciples."

"Last year, the winner was one from Yuling Peak. I don't know who it will be this year?"

"Nonsense, this year's leader, who is better than Junior Brother Li?"

"Hey, that's strange, why isn't Junior Brother Li's name on the trial list?"

"Junior Brother Li hasn't come yet. He should be cultivating hard at home. Except for trials, he is rarely seen going out. It is because of his hard work that he has his current cultivation..."

"Here we come, Junior Brother Li is here!"

……

Li Yuluo landed on Tongtian Peak, and all the disciples automatically made way for him.

In the middle of the square, there is a huge scroll floating, a formation covering a radius of ten feet, separating a space, some disciples are squeezed outside the formation, and a few disciples can pass through the formation without any obstacles.

Li Yu is considered an introduction to the way of formations, and one can see at a glance that the function of this formation is to filter, and only those with a cultivation level above the ninth level of Qi Refining can pass through this formation.

He walked through the passage made by the crowd and easily entered the formation.

The competition between the disciples in the Qi refining period, both the process and the ranking, is fully automatic. There is only one elder in the foundation building period, and two deacon disciples are watching here. The three are also Li Yu's acquaintances, and they are usually in charge of the illusion trial. , They are the ones who give him the elixir every time.

Seeing Li Yu, the old man who established the foundation smiled and said, "The old man said just now that if he still doesn't see you tomorrow, someone will call you at Ziyun Peak."

Li Yu smiled and said, "I also just learned about the competition."

The old man who established the foundation pointed to the picture scroll and said, "It's your first time to participate in the competition. Let me explain the rules to you. In fact, this competition is similar to the illusion trial. After you enter with the disciple token, the illusion space will transform Come out with an opponent whose strength is at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, you just need to defeat him as quickly as possible, everyone only has one chance, remember not to waste time."

Li Yu smiled and said, "Understood."

After finishing speaking, he held the disciple's badge in his hand and entered the picture scroll.

The next moment, he flashed out of the scroll again.

The disciples inside and outside the formation were also paying attention to Li Yu.

The second place in the trial list is undoubtedly the No. 1 disciple of the contemporary Kunlun Qi refining period. There is no suspense at all in such a trial. After all, the difficulty of this competition is much smaller than that of the illusion trial.

They watched Li Yu's figure enter the competition space, but after blinking, he came out again.

"Uh, did I get dazzled just now?"

"Why do I seem to see Junior Brother Li go in?"

"The competition shouldn't end so quickly, right?"

"No dizziness, look at the list next to it..."

After being reminded, they looked at the list next to the picture scroll, and saw that the first name on the water curtain had become Li Yu.

"I just blinked..."

"Is this too fast?"

"Is what we met in the illusion an opponent?"

"Normal, Senior Sister Qin participated in the competition back then, and she was so fast..."

This kind of speed made some disciples at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining who had just finished the competition doubt their lives. The opponents in the illusion are at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, and their attack and defense are very balanced. he.

Even if those geniuses with double or triple spiritual veins can be defeated, it will take some time.

For a hundred years, Li Yu was the only one who could end the competition so quickly, except Senior Sister Qin.

Coming out of the competition space, Li Yu leisurely flew back to Ziyun Peak under the shocked eyes of everyone.

This level of competition is naturally not difficult for him now. The phantom with the ninth level of Qi Refining can be dropped in seconds with a random shot, as long as he waits for the reward at home.

This competition lasted for three days.

Until the last day, when the competition ended, Li Yu's name was firmly at the top of the list, and no one could surpass it.

This is naturally what everyone expected. It is not an exaggeration to say that this competition was prepared for him. This result was doomed before the competition.

In the other courtyard, Li Yu was sitting in the pavilion, with ten pills neatly placed in the jade box on the stone table in front of him.

This is Tuomai Pill, which looks very similar to Tongmai Pill, but its volume is a bit larger than Tongmai Pill. Opening the jade box, Li Yu felt the strong spiritual power contained in the pill.

A Tuomaidan requires [-] spiritual coins to buy in Kunlun, but this is only the price. In fact, Tuomaidan cannot be bought with spiritual coins at all, and can only be exchanged through contributions.

The current Li Yu couldn't take Tuomaidan.

Before the foundation was established, his spiritual veins were not strong enough to hold so much spiritual energy. A single pulse extension pill could destroy one of his spiritual veins. He had to practice all five of his spiritual veins to the foundation establishment stage before he could start. Take Tuomaidan.

After watching for a while, Li Yu put away these Tuomai Pills and took them after the foundation was established.

Currently, Tongmai Pill is more useful to him.

Unfortunately, apart from surpassing Senior Sister Qin on the trial list, and being able to obtain ten Tongmai Pills, and a fixed three per month, he has no other channels to obtain Tongmai Pills.

On this day, Li Yu was reading in the pavilion when the doorbell of the other courtyard rang again.

He opened the door, but saw no one. There was a thin booklet on the ground. Li Yu picked it up and walked back to the other courtyard.

This is the "Kunlun Monthly" issued by Wu Tong. It will extract some important news about the sect. Wu Tong's business is getting bigger and bigger. In the month, anecdotes and strange things happened in the entire world of cultivating immortals.

Wu Tong obviously has a sense of proportion. He knows a lot of secrecy about the sect, but the Kunlun Monthly News is mostly well-known or innocuous entertainment news.

These things are not sect secrets, and the sect will not care about him.

And many Kunlun disciples are either doing missions outside or immersing themselves in cultivation. There is no channel for obtaining information. Some of them who are not bad for spirit coins will subscribe to a Kunlun monthly report, and a special person will deliver it to their door every month to make up for their lack of information channels. At least he can know what happened to Zongmen in the past month.

Li Yu walked back to the other courtyard, came to the swing, held Senior Sister Zhou in his arms, and the two read the newspaper together.

The headline on the front page of this issue of Kunlun Monthly is naturally Elder Zhao's death.

He was a third-rank alchemist in the Jindan period, and his status in the sect was not inferior to some ancestors in the early Yuanying period. His unexplained death can be regarded as the most important event that happened in Kunlun last month.

Li Yu became the second in the trial list, and won the leader of the disciple competition in the qi refining period, which was next to this news.

One of the Seven Sons of Kunlun, Senior Sister Xu Qingxin of Jade Everest, was also listed on the news that her cultivation had broken through the Golden Core stage.

Wu Tong is in Kunlun, and I don't know how many sources of news there are. Some arrogances of the sect have made breakthroughs in cultivation, and two Jindan elders have formed a pair of monks. This is clearly recorded...

After the news about Kunlun ended, there were some anecdotes about the world of cultivating immortals.

Not long ago, Li Yu appeared in the Emei Cave, accompanied by Bai Qingying, one of the four beauties of Emei, to try the Emei Illusion Trial and climbed to the top of the Emei Trial List.

The next thing was Emei news. Two male geniuses of the Emei Sect announced their marriage as Taoist couples in public. Li Yu could already imagine the expressions of some male disciples in Kunlun.

Fortunate to be a disciple of Emei, there are so many beautiful sisters and sisters around him who choose a man instead of choosing. Kunlun disciples can't understand it, and normal people like Li Yu can't understand it either.

He looked down at the beautiful woman in his arms who was soft and fragrant, and really couldn't figure it out.

Whether you don't understand or not, Li Yu still respects their choices.

The monthly report also said that the "Six Arts of Qingcheng" of the Qingcheng School had changed last month. One of them was over 30 years old and automatically lost his name. One of the younger disciples of the Qingcheng School replaced him. s position……

Speaking of it, the same goes for the "Seven Sons of Kunlun" and the "Four Beauties of Emei". Once they exceed their age, they will lose their names and be replaced by younger Tianjiao. The upper age limit set by each faction seems to be 30 years old.

The candidates for the four beauties of Emei have not changed much, but the twelve beauties have undergone some changes. Three of the twelve beauties have lost their names due to age reasons, and the three sisters of the Zhao family have inherited their positions.

Their looks are already outstanding, and they are born with the attributes of triplets, so they are also very famous in Emei.

Li Yu glanced over all these news, until he saw a piece of inconspicuous news in the corner of a certain page of the pamphlet, and his spirit suddenly shook.

In the corner of the monthly report, there was a line of small characters written: "Zhou Tian, ​​a disciple of the Soul Refining Sect, was hunted down by disciples of the Five Poison Sect and fled into the Thousand Poison Cave. His whereabouts are unknown..."

On the pamphlet, this seemingly inconspicuous information immediately caught Li Yu's attention.

He has always paid attention to the name Zhou Tian.

Back then in Baiyun Temple, he and Zhou Zixuan were tricked by each other twice, and Zhou Zixuan was even injured because of this. Li Yu and him, it can be said that they had formed a relationship long ago.

Later, what made Li Yu remember him was naturally a high reward. Kunlun offered a reward of [-] Tongmai Pills for this person's head, and Tiandaozong offered a reward of [-] Pills. A total of [-] Tongmai Pills was enough for Li Yu to open up all the spirits. pulse, there are still [-] remaining for Zhou Zixuan.

Although she is not as luxurious as Li Yu, who can eat Tongmai Pill as a meal, but through her own practice, plus three fixed Tongmai Pills per month, Mu Lingmai's acupoints have also been opened up to two times. Ten of them, after taking thirty Tongmai Pills, one can immediately advance from the third level of Qi Refining to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Zhou Tian's trace appeared in the Demonic Way, and Li Yu wanted to verify it with the witch, but he tried to contact the witch, but found that there was no response from the other side.

This made Li Yu a little strange. The only possibility for this situation was that the witch blocked him.

Women are really incomprehensible animals. When they signed the soul contract, they clearly said that Li Yu would contact her whenever they wanted. If they really wanted to find her, they couldn't find anyone at all...

The demon girl couldn't get in touch, so Li Yu had no choice but to go to Wu Tong.

Wu Tong no longer lives in Danding Peak.

Although he is still an alchemy apprentice, in Kunlun, as long as he has spirit coins, he does not need to live in the gathering area of ​​low-level disciples. Not long ago, he moved to Chaoyang Peak. The people who live here are all young disciples, aren't they An alchemist is a craftsman, or a practitioner of the ninth level of Qi Refining...

Wu Tong spent a huge amount of spirit coins every month to rent a small courtyard here.

Li Yu came to Chaoyang Peak according to the address Wu Tong told him in his memory, and after ringing the doorbell, no one came out.

It seems that Wu Tong should not be at home. He spends most of the time collecting information every day, and sometimes he will leave the sect to collect information. It is not easy to find him. However, Li Yu knows that if he is in the sect, he will usually In Tongtian Peak, Tianzhu Peak and Feilai Peak.

These peaks gathered the most disciples, and the information flow was the fastest.

Li Yu was lucky. He was not found in Tongtian Peak. When he arrived at Tianzhu Peak, he had just landed when he saw Wu Tong whispering with a few disciples under a mission wall.

After they finished talking, Li Yu walked towards Wu Tong.

When he saw Li Yu, Wu Tong was surprised and said: "Hey, Li Yu, you are here to take up the mission. It seems that there is no Tongmai Pill mission at present."

Li Yudao: "I'm here to find you."

Wu Tong asked in surprise, "What do you want me for?"

Li Yu took out the monthly report, pointed to a page and said, "Where did you get the news about Zhou Tian, ​​a disciple of the Soul Refining Sect, is it true?"

Wu Tong looked at it and said: "I didn't collect this news, it was first reported by Xiaoyaomen. It should not be false. They have many eyeliners in both righteousness and evil. I got it from them and put it in a monthly report."

Xiaoyaomen is the largest casual cultivator organization in the world of cultivating immortals, and it is also the largest intelligence organization. Timeliness and authenticity are some of the intelligence principles they uphold.

Li Yu felt that Wu Tong and Xiaoyao Sect should have cooperated, and they might exchange news with each other at ordinary times. There are disciples like him in all the sects.

Wu Tong looked at Li Yu and asked, "Why, are you interested in him?"

Li Yudao: "Tiandaozong and us together offer a reward of sixty Tongmai Pills, who is not interested?"

Wu Tong said with a smile: "Then you have to hurry up, there are quite a few people attracted by the fifty Tongmai Pills of Tiandaozong, not to mention our disciples of the righteous way, even the fellow disciples of the Demonic Daoist School, and even the disciples of the Soul Refining Sect, would like Zhou Tian's head is wanted, the news of Xiaoyaomen is released, I am afraid that by now, many people have already gone to him..."

Li Yu asked, "Where is the Thousand Poison Cave?"

Wu Tong told him: "In the depths of Nanzhao's miasma, there is a first-order secret realm, but usually few people enter it. That secret realm is full of poisonous smoke and miasma, and there are all kinds of powerful poisonous beasts." , even if it is a disciple at the peak of the ninth level of Qi refining, without the detoxification pill, it will not last long there. Even the disciples of the Five Poison Sect are unwilling to enter. It was caused by the connection between the Mystery of the Thousand Poison Caves and the Great World..."

After inquiring the information he wanted from Wu Tong, Li Yu returned to Ziyun Peak.

That Zhou Tian was also smart, knowing that the huge reward offered to him by Tiandaozong would make him a target of public criticism in the world of cultivating immortals. Both righteous and demons want his head, and it is very likely that even the strong in the foundation building period will be attracted, so Simply ran to a first-order secret realm.

Those who can enter the first-order secret realm are at most only the ninth level of Qi Refining, which avoids the possibility of being hunted down during the foundation building period.

The special illusion of Qiandu Cave makes it difficult to survive on the ninth floor of Qi Refining. If you want his head, you have to weigh it carefully.

However, his own cultivation is not very high. Judging from the strength of the spirit ghost he raised, a year ago, Zhou Tian's strength would not exceed the fifth level of Qi Refining, unless he had inexhaustible resources. Unceasing detoxification pills, otherwise, he would die if he entered the Thousand Poison Cave.

Even if it doesn't become a meal for the poisonous beasts there, it will be poisoned to death by the poisonous miasma.

As for Zhou Tian's head, Li Yuzhi was determined to win it. After finally getting news of him, it was natural to settle the old and new grudges together.

To be on the safe side, Li Yu went to the alchemy room first and took direct trusteeship. In the shortest possible time, he refined several furnaces of top-quality detoxification pills. Without the detoxification pills, mana would be needed to maintain the protection of the whole body, which would consume a lot of mana.

Li Yu has also refined a few batches of the top-grade Huiqi Pill. The aura in the first-order secret realm is extremely thin, and there is no way to quickly replenish it from the outside world. Huiqi Pill is also a must.

In this way, Li Yu's delay will be longer.

During this period, he only hoped that Zhou Tian would not be eaten by monsters from Qiandu Nest, nor would he be found by disciples of other sects, he must wait for him...

After making preparations, Li Yu and Zhou Zixuan talked and left Kunlun alone.

Passing through the mountain gate, Li Yu saw that there were several spirit boats parked in the square in front of the mountain gate. Some disciples of the ninth level of Qi refining gathered under the spirit boats, and there were at least two spirit boats standing on each spirit boat. Foundation building elders.

"Fifty Tongmai Pills, Tiandaozong is really generous, our sect only rewards ten."

"Hey, if you're lucky, if you can pick up the head of Zhou Tian, ​​wouldn't it be sixty Tongmai Pills, and I will be able to let the other two Taoists also practice to the peak of Qi Refining?"

"I'm different. I don't have a woman. I'm relaxed. If you give sixty Tongmai Pills to Zongmen, how can you exchange for a few Foundation Establishment Pills or Tuomai Pills to improve your cultivation?"

"You single dog, how do you know the happiness of having two Taoist couples?"

"I'm all about immortality, and I don't want women to affect my practice speed."

"You are sour. Look at Junior Brother Li. Not only was he not affected, but he became No. 1 in the Qi refining period..."

……

Once the traces of Zhou Tian broke out, some disciples at the ninth level of Qi Refining in Kunlun couldn't sit still. It was fifty Tongmai Pills. It is also an unexpected resource for the Zongmen to exchange the Jidan Tongmai Pill.

All of a sudden, many Qi Refining Ninth Levels began to look for teammates, and together they went to Qiandu Cave to hunt and kill Zhou Tian.

After all, the Thousand Poison Cave is not an ordinary secret realm, and there are many dangers in it. If they enter alone, unless they have Li Yu's ability, even if they are at the peak of Qi refining, there is a risk of falling.

The safest thing, of course, is to find a few comrades and go with them together. In this way, although it is inevitable that some Tongmai Pills will be taken away, the safety can be guaranteed.

The peaks of Faxiu even sent elders from the Foundation Establishment Period to carry the disciples of the ninth level of Qi Refining on a spirit boat and escort them all the way. Most of the Yuanying Patriarchs in the sect couldn't take out such sixty pills. If there are many, many people will naturally be moved.

In a short period of time, many spirit boats and flying boats took off from Kunlun and headed straight for Nanzhao.

(End of this chapter)