ah?The palace fighting system can also cultivate immortality

Chapter 196 The assessment begins

The art of clone is not a very mysterious spell.

When a Jindan monk cuts a piece of paper, it can be temporarily endowed with a "soul" for his own use. Many monks who like quietness practice alone in seclusion, and do not even want boys to serve them. Mortals who accidentally break into their homes, from doormen to cleaners, and even the handsome men and women who accompany the monks at night, are all cut out of paper.

It can be seen that mortals who are obsessed with falling in love with paper people do not have to only look forward to the arrival of the holographic era, but can also think about the path of spiritual energy revival.

For those who are not proficient in this skill, there are already pre-written talismans available in the monks' market.

The above are the lowest level.

At a higher level, one would need the spiritual support of a high-level cultivator to travel around the Pingyun Continent with a clone.

However, these are different from the incarnations of the Gu God.

At least, looking at the "clone technique" mastered by the major sects, the results of the clone's cultivation cannot be fed back to the person himself. As long as the cultivator has not passed the tribulation and ascended to heaven, he is still a human being. However, the incarnation of the Gu God can truly break free from the shackles of the flesh and become the incarnation of the purest power.

"You obviously brought three disciples with you, but the way you are used to fighting is still fighting alone."

"The Wu Clan communicates with the spirits of heaven and earth, and the Gu God controls poison for his own use. You have neither."

Facing Du Xinghe's fierce attack, Xiaofan was still at ease, and she even focused on her shortcomings.

The snow shines with power like thousands of huge waves, one after another.

The differentiated sword light was almost blinding and even occupied Xiaofan's entire field of vision.

A tide of spiders and insects surged out, and golden spider silk gushed out, actually sticking tightly to the sword she swung out.

"You don't look like a witch at all, but your swordsmanship is outstanding... huh?"

A sharp sword blade broke out from the thousands of sword waves. It was actually one of Du Xinghe's clones who melted his arm into a blade and attacked her under the cover of his original body's sword light. It was not a real sword. It lacked the fierce sword intent, but only had scorching spiritual power.

This sneak attack cut off the strands of hair on Xiaofan's left cheek.

A clump of hair fell to the ground, transforming from a tangible object into starlight and disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Du Xinghe, who was in the fierce battle, did not notice this detail.

“Nice try.”

A faint smile appeared on Xiaofan's lips, and the girl's face showed relief and kindness that were inconsistent with her age.

At the beginning, she felt that although Du Xinghe had excellent talent, what she learned was too diverse, which might seem like she was taking shortcuts. But after two rounds of fighting, she found that she did have the potential to learn everything she saw.

Du Xinghe is a thorough pragmatist. She picks up and learns any useful moves, and quickly discards those that are of no use to her, without any mercy.

This philosophy of survival made her seem reckless even when swords were crisscrossing each other.

Du Xinghe had no idea about Fan Ji's evaluation.

She used her heavy sword Chi Xiao to shake open the immortal silk binding in front of her, and then she moved swiftly, pretended to retreat, made sword gestures, and launched the Ten Thousand Swords Formation.

Numerous sword shadows bloomed on the arena, each of them carrying a tremendous sword intent and making a magnificent sound.

The four incarnations also joined the sword formation at the same time.

Xiaofan wanted to have a battle of guidance with her, so he focused on defense, planning to give her a heavy blow to wake her up as soon as Du Xinghe slacked off.

However, Xiaofan soon discovered that

There is no word "slackness" in Du Xinghe's dictionary.

Her sword art is to attack, attack, and attack at the cost of her life!
The interlaced moves of Chi Xiao and Xue Ming were so fast that it was dazzling, which made Xiao Fan, who deliberately suppressed her realm, feel more pressured. The four incarnations and the real person attacked her - using the clones to attack in a suicide attack, and the real body looking for flaws in a safe place to deliver a critical blow? Not bad, it finally looked like a witch controlling people.

Xiaofan had just felt a little relieved when she saw that in an instant, the person who came with a sword, passed through the numerous spider arrays, put himself in danger, and went straight to her face was Du Xinghe's real body.

The clone provides cover while the main body attacks.

Du Xinghe's control over the avatar was still not precise enough, and at critical moments, she trusted herself more.

In order to break into the spider formation, she even abandoned the protection of the Zhenwu Incarnation Technique, making the other party think that it was an incarnation that broke in and let their guard down.

This move of hers was extremely dangerous. She tightened her right wrist and used the tip of the sword to pierce the opponent's waist and abdomen.

——In the brief fight, Du Xinghe could see that the opponent was far stronger than himself.

Even if she tried her best, cried out to the heavens, and used words of friendship, family affection, and bond, she could not accomplish this kind of cross-level kill.

So they were more open-minded in the fight, not afraid of killing each other by mistake.

In front of the water mirror, a trace of surprise appeared on Fan Ji's withered face.

Du Xinghe loosened his grip, letting the sword remain on Xiaofan's waist, and stepped back three steps: "Pull it out yourself. It will spurt out a lot of blood when you pull it out from this position... Although I have water spirit roots, I am naturally incompatible with healing spells."

Sword Spirit: "Huh?"

Sword Spirit: "Have you ever considered the sword's feelings?"

Xiaofan casually pulled Xue Ming out, tied her waist with golden spider silk, and quickly bandaged the wound tightly. Except for her chubby little face that was a little pale, her expression was still relaxed. She was silent for a moment and asked, "Aren't you staying in the safest place?"

"I sang and danced just to cover this move. Of course, it would be best if I could do it myself."

"You withdrew all your defensive spells and were trapped in the enemy's formation. Just now, you were in front of me. Even if I was hit by your sword, I could still seriously injure you... Also, if we were in actual combat, have you considered the guardians around me?"

Du Xinghe's playing style is that of an assassin who is seriously out of touch with his teammates.

And Fanji's expectation for her is to be a great wizard who can plan and win battles thousands of miles away.

Du Xinghe raised his hand and scratched his cheek: "Uh..."

The other person clearly looked like a little girl, but her tone of voice was very natural, like that of an elder.

She had met many powerful people on her path to becoming an immortal. Immortal Rong Yu had once taught her about alchemy, but this was the first time someone had told her that it was wrong for her to fight like this and that she was playing with her life.

Even Emperor Ying Cang told her to remember to ask him for help next time.

Being reprimanded by a senior——

A novel experience, but not unpleasant.

Feeling guilty, Du Xinghe whispered, "Just tell me whether you killed him or not."

"..."

Xiaofan was so angry that she laughed: "This kind of dangerous thing should be done by the Great Witch!"

Chen Bu Ran, who was searching for the ancient Gu worm in the Gu spirit's nest, sneezed.

The witch clan has a very strong collective consciousness, and even the great witch himself does not think there is anything wrong with sacrificing for the witch and the poisonous spirit.

Xiaofan glanced at her and said, "Your expression seems to be saying, why can't the witch get such a good thing? Are you envious of the witch?"

Du Xinghe hesitated for a moment, knowing that he could not hide it from the other party, so he nodded.

Xiaofan removed the spiders, walked up to her, stood on tiptoe, and couldn't reach her head, so he said dissatisfiedly: "Bend down!"

"it is good."

Du Xinghe squatted down and looked at her at eye level.

Her little hand reached for the back of Du Xinghe's neck, and actually pulled the fat boy out, shaking him in her hand.

The purple scorpion, who could normally jump around in front of Du Xinghe, was motionless in Xiaofan's hands, as if he had fainted. "You used pain to activate the Gu before... Don't you want to live anymore?"

"I have a strong desire to survive. Even if I was buried alive in a coffin, I could dig a hole and crawl out by myself." Du Xinghe hesitated, "But I... feel that the strength gained from experiencing great pain is more solid."

The girl's words pointed out a problem that Du Xinghe had never noticed.

She ate and took things from everywhere, using whatever was useful and never feeling guilty.

Such people should have a strong sense of deservingness.

However, if you don’t do some self-inflicted behavior, you won’t be able to “reward yourself” with peace of mind, which is a sign of low sense of worthiness.

The strength gained from wading through mountains of swords and seas of fire can be used with confidence to cross the galaxy.

The more rigorous the test, the more she likes it.

After realizing this, Du Xinghe couldn't help but be a little dazed, as if he was getting to know himself again for the first time.

"You have to understand that good luck won't always favor you. You have to be more selfish."

Xiaofan frowned and put the purple scorpion back on the back of her neck.

It hurriedly drilled back into her meridians and hid.

——If Du Xinghe’s former opponents heard these words, they would probably question the heavens, saying that this sword cultivator who would take away two slices of watermelon from every stall he passed by, went to the Five Elements Sect and took over the entire secret realm of the sect, and even enslaved the sect’s eldest disciple, was not selfish enough?
If she is not selfish, then who else in the world is selfish?

Du Xinghe, however, thought it made sense after hearing this: "Xiao Fan Jie is right. I am not really tired of living. In fact, sometimes, I would also happily run away... I would not really go to die..."

The more she spoke, the more guilty she felt.

After all, when I think back, I gambled with my life more often than I ran away.

"The more you cherish your life, the better you can use the Gu Shen Jue."

Xiaofan patted her head, as if teaching a younger generation: "Go on, it seems that you are not suitable for meditation and cultivation."

Only constant life and death competition can help her realize the truth faster.

Seeing Du Xinghe's rapid progress, Xiaofan was pleased and happy, but at the same time, he could not help but feel a little worried -

The successor to the witch she wants is not a battle maniac who just kills and kills!
……

The second month after Du Xinghe disappeared.

For three Jindan monks, it was not difficult to live in the altar with little food and drink. In the past, Shu Jiuqing often did not stay in proper inns to save money. He would find a cave or a place with shade from trees to draw a simple magic circle, and use the sky as a blanket and the ground as a bed to get by for a month or two.

Only Xinyue was anxious about her master's disappearance.

Just before she could no longer endure it, Chen Bu Ran appeared in front of the three of them and asked, "Is the ancestor not with you?"

With these words, Xinyue swallowed back the question that was on the tip of her tongue.

After she activated the magic circle and told him about the master disappearing in the blood pool, he was silent for a moment, his expression unpredictable: "Really... I know."

"Do you know where the master is?"

Xinyue asked anxiously.

If the difference in strength between them wasn't so huge, she would have wanted to grab him by the collar and tell him to stop being a riddler.

Xinyue was once gifted with a Gu by a Gu Spirit. Although she was not a fellow witch, Chen Bu Ran considered her half his own and did not take her offense seriously: "She was probably taken away to take the witch test. You don't have to worry too much. As long as the contract is in place, she is still alive."

Hearing this, she calmed down and felt it.

Sure enough, at her heart meridian, she could still feel the bond her master had left on her, the link that gave her peace of mind.

"I'm sorry," Xinyue lowered her head, "I'm just too concerned."

"You have been very devoted to our ancestors, so you don't need to apologize."

Chen Bu Ran said calmly, sitting down beside the blood pool, and still in the mood to comment on the appearance of the Gu Ling in the blood ice: "I have only seen the Gu Ling in the secret realm, I didn't expect it to have another face... Little monkey, you have been looking at me from just now, do you have anything to ask?"

When his name was called, Shenshui shuddered and forced an awkward smile: "Master Chen, have you seen Xizi?"

When Chen Bu Ran didn't try to hold back his aura, Shen Shui's animal instinct made his hair stand on end, almost scaring the original form out. It hid in a corner with its tail between its legs. "It's just that we came here together, and we're a little worried about one person being missing..."

"You are very kind."

He raised his eyebrows, his tone calm, neither praising nor criticizing, and said lightly: "Don't worry about her, she is just carrying out another mission I gave her. Since the ancestor has been dragged into the witch assessment, she won't be able to come out for a while... No, it may take a year and a half, three to five years, seven years, ten to twenty years, all are possible. If you don't want to wait, I can send you away."

Chen Bu Ran could see that the old ancestor loved her three disciples very much, so she didn't mind helping her look after them.

Xinyue asked: "Will Master's life be in danger?"

"That's not the case. You just can't get out before you pass the assessment, and this assessment period may be longer than you think."

Hearing this, Xinyue breathed a sigh of relief, and even showed a look of joy on her face: "That's okay, I'll wait here for Master to come out."

The other two had the same idea.

"I have been following my master since I left Xiaoyun Mountain. I don't know where to go when my master is not around, so it's good for me to wait here obediently."

Chen Bu Ran's eyes fell on the thinnest female cultivator: "What about you?"

When he first met Du Xinghe, this person was not with her.

Obviously, he was a new disciple who was accepted after the Immortal Alliance Competition, so the relationship was not that deep. "Me?"

Shu Jiuqing pondered, "Senior Chen, I've come all the way here. I can't get through the miasma-filled swamp by myself. Staying here is the safest option. Besides, there are many raw materials here that can be used to make magic arrays."

Although I have weighed the pros and cons, I am still determined to make this decision.

Chen Bu Ran thought highly of her.

"actually,"

Chen Bu Ran looked around and said, "I had originally planned to kill anyone who wanted to leave our ancestors. But now it seems that I was worrying too much."

"………ah?"

Jiuqing's eyes widened, and he stared at him disrespectfully, and couldn't help asking, "Didn't you just say that if we don't want to wait, you can send us away?"

"Yes," Chen Bu Ran nodded and said calmly, "I'll take you there."

It turns out that it means to send to the underworld.

Shujiu was speechless and quietly moved to the corner, away from him.

Chen Bu Ran ignored them.

Due to the pressure of the Spiritual Transformation Stage, except for Shu Jiuqing who glared at him in shock, the others instinctively did not dare to look at him directly. Therefore, they did not notice that his fair skin was faintly red and that he had several injuries on his body.

Shenshui's nose twitched as he smelled a faint scent of blood.

Human blood and the blood of poisonous animals do not smell much different, but he has a keen sense of smell and can tell that the blood on Senior Chen's body is human blood.

Who can hurt him?

Woohoo...

Shenshui shuddered and began to miss his master.

……

Time passed quickly in the attic.

Trapped in a different space, I have no idea of ​​the season or the length of day or night.

There is only practice without sunlight.

From Du Xinghe's retelling, Xiaofan learned that the only thing left of the Wu Clan now is the Gu Cultivator. They have thrown away the "True Explanation of Heaven and Earth" which is used to communicate with heaven and earth. They have not left the Nanling Mountains of Bayou and have lived in seclusion in the miasma basin. They are like rats crossing the street, and everyone wants to kill them among the upright sects.

“I have fallen to this point…”

Xiaofan was angry and intensified his guidance to Du Xinghe.

In just half a year, she had cultivated "The True Explanation of Heaven and Earth" to the fourth level. This was because she had to take the five elements into consideration. With five golden elixirs, four incarnations and the original body practicing together, one day was equivalent to five days for others.

The strength of the incarnation's realm is also growing rapidly at a terrifying rate.

This was also the first time that Du Xinghe experienced the joy of being the only child.

Resources are tilted towards her in all aspects, and incredibly powerful seniors are guiding her day and night.

"Little Fan Sister, why are you so nice to me?"

Even though he was crossing the galaxy, he couldn't help but ask this cliché question.

In the past six months, she felt that there was something ambiguous between herself and Sister Xiaofan.

Xiaofan looked at her disdainfully and said, "Because everyone except you is dead, and I don't want my opponent to be too weak, because that would make the victory meaningless."

Du Xinghe: “…Oh.”

After breaking through the fourth level, Du Xinghe felt a little stuck. Xiaofan, who had always been strict with her, did not criticize her this time. Instead, she said, "You have cultivated faster than I thought, but don't be arrogant. When you were meditating, I used my true qi to cleanse your dantian and meridians. Did you feel a dark golden spider sac in your body? That is the spiritual power I left in your dantian. It cannot be refined in a short period of time. When you leave here in the future, you must also refine it diligently every day to use it for your own benefit."

It turned out that the warm current she felt in her body when she meditated these days was not an illusion.

She thought that the love-warming pill she took was working.

The system had scolded her many times for being mean and vulgar because she had taken the Warming Pill to a five-year-old girl, but she turned a deaf ear to it - she was doing it to speed up her cultivation! The system's thinking was too dirty! She was a serious cultivator!

After hearing this, Du Xinghe noticed something strange: "Didn't you say that you can only leave here after passing the witch test? If I lose to you, then I won't be able to leave. Do you want to lose to me on purpose?"

This time it's really a bit ambiguous.

Xiaofan, however, looked at her as if she were a fool, and said calmly, "You can still get out even if you lose. You are too weak, and the attic doesn't even want to keep you."

Du Xinghe had no idea about the rules of the assessment, and the only person who knew about it, Kui, was vague about it the whole day.

She didn't mind it too much.

The improvement in your cultivation here is real and the benefits are obvious, so why bother yourself?
Just like when you eat cheap and delicious takeout, you don’t think about how dirty the kitchen is.

It's almost free, why are you being picky!
Du Xinghe straightened his back and stretched. "Since you are so confident that you can beat me, let's fight again?"

"……Row."

Hearing her enthusiastic challenge to a fight, Xiaofan's eyebrows twitched speechlessly.

As a witch, the most important thing in the tribe is to practice and communicate with heaven and earth. When encountering foreign enemies, she will stay in the core area and decide the victory thousands of miles away.

I didn't expect that today, ten thousand years later, I would be living a life of high-intensity combat.

After practicing meditation every day, Du Xinghe would start fighting as soon as he opened his eyes.

She didn't feel sick of it, but Xiaofan was about to vomit.

Even the old woman in front of the water mirror showed a trace of fatigue that she had not seen in many years.

Although he was exhausted, Xiaofan flew to the arena without any hesitation and once again fought one against five.

Another thing that Du Xinghe has improved rapidly in the past six months is her control over the four avatars. She has finally reached the point where she can control them as easily as with her own arms. Even without her control, the avatars can make corresponding combat decisions based on the highest orders she issued at the beginning.

Xiaofan, who exchanges ideas with her every day, feels her progress most personally.

While happy, Xiaofan also became more worried.

Although Du Xinghe had really changed her habit of risking her life, the characteristics she showed were not what she wanted in a witch woman...

The more she trained him, the more I felt that she and the barbarian warriors might have a lot in common.

But there is no choice.

When Du Xinghe found an opportunity again and pierced her shoulder, and the spider silk covered the wound but did not heal immediately, Xiaofan knew that the time God had left for her was really not much.

I can’t wait for the witch clan to produce another witch.

"Are you ok?"

Before she knew it, Du Xinghe had retracted his sword, flashed in front of her, and looked at her bleeding arm with concern.

The blood seeped through the golden spider silk and fell to the ground.

"I have some medicine on me..."

Du Xinghe just wanted to use the storage ring, but he found that he could not use it in the attic.

"No problem."

Xiaofan had to use a little more strength to heal the wound.

She raised her chin proudly, hiding the sadness in her eyes: "You just sneaked up on me today."

Seeing that she had recovered her spirits and could easily mock him, Du Xinghe's frown loosened and he teased her in return: "Yes, yes, I succeeded by sneak attack. Keep your voice down, it's too shameful. When I pass the assessment, I will become the first assassin witch in the history of the witch clan who is good at sneak attack."

Xiaofan: “…”

Why did she feel that this girl was really capable of doing such a shameful thing?

Xiaofan: "We, the witches, will win the battle from a thousand miles away!"

"I sneak attack others from thousands of miles away."

Du Xinghe nodded obediently.

Xiaofan is irritable.

The two returned to the room. Du Xinghe sat down on the futon and propped up his chin. "When will the assessment start? I'm a little worried about my apprentice in the altar."

At this time, Qie, who had pushed the door open, happened to hear her words and said:

"Don't worry, the Great Wizard is taking good care of them."

Du Xinghe was startled: "Hasn't the Great Wizard already..."

From what she saw in the Gu Ling dream, the Great Witch had clearly burned himself, donated all his blood and cultivation to his natal Gu worm, and fought to the death with the general of Xuan Kingdom.

"The new Great Wizard,"

Kui raised his hand and pushed open a water mirror out of thin air. "The man from the Wu clan traveling with you, his name seems to be... Chen Bu Ran? He even brought a Gu master with him, he is more prepared than you."

The water mirror reflected the three disciples that Du Xinghe had not seen for half a year.

Even without her supervision, the three of them practiced hard every day.

Xinyue was even prepared to wait for her master here for ten years, and she and Canshui built a small wooden cabin for meditation.

They didn't want to live in the same room with Chen Bu Ran.

The pressure from the powerful people in the Spirit Transformation Stage puts them under high-pressure threat all the time, making it impossible for them to calm down and practice.

But there are many powerful poisonous insects in the temple, and by staying with Chen Bu Ran, one can get his protection.

Shu Jiuqing drew a barrier around the cabin that could block most of the air, so that they could steal a moment of breathing space. Chen Bu Ran did not comment on this. He was refining the ancient Gu worms and insect corpses left in the Gu Ling's nest.

A tense, subtle yet peaceful atmosphere was maintained in the altar.

"He is the new Grand Wizard? Doesn't the Grand Wizard need to be assessed?"

Du Xinghe was a little unwilling to accept the fact that he had been preparing for the exam for half a year only to find out that others had been admitted.

Hui closed the water mirror and was about to answer her question, but his eyes fell on the bloodstain on Xiaofan's shoulder.

Her pupils shrank into a line, and she took a step forward with bursts of white light flashing in her hands.

"I'm fine, I just got a little distracted during the sparring today." Xiaofan raised her hand, and the white light in Kui's hand immediately went out. She stared at her and said, "The witch test has begun."

Her words seemed to be a heavy blow to Via. Her frail body swayed and her thin lips moved.

But under Xiaofan's intense gaze, Kui took two deep breaths and said nothing more, but confirmed her: "Yes, the shrine maiden examination... is about to begin."

Kui turned her head, her beautiful face tense: "Are you two ready?"

"Ok?"

Du Xinghe was still thinking about Chen Bu Ran's recommendation to become a great wizard. He was stunned by the question, and then answered without hesitation: "Of course I'm ready."

She didn't really want to stay in the attic for ten or eight years.

If it's really like what Sister Fan said, if you lose you'll be sent out...

I accept that too.

Maybe Sister Fan is more suitable to be a witch than her. Considering their friendship, if she becomes a witch, she will not only not have to shoulder the responsibility of reviving the witch clan, but also receive the benefits of "Gu Shen Jue" and "Heaven and Earth True Explanation", and by the way, she will have a strong witch as a good friend...

The more Du Xinghe thought about it, the more he felt that he was sure to win!
During this period of time, she would occasionally ask Sister Xiaofan why she wanted to be a shrine maiden and what her ambitions were after becoming a shrine maiden.

Sister Xiaofan would often give her a blank look and describe her questions as very boring.

But there was no other entertainment in the attic, and it was impossible for a person to be tense 24 hours a day. Very occasionally, she would answer her boring questions.

——It is my responsibility to be a shrine maiden.

——I want to lead the Wu tribe out of the Bayou Nanling Mountains.

Du Xinghe turned to look at her: "Little Sister Fan, no matter whether we win or lose, we will both be sent out. You have been here for a long time and have never seen the outside world. I have many connections. After I defeat you... as compensation, I will take you around and show you something."

Xiaofan held his chin, the golden spider silk on his shoulder melted away, and the bloodstain on his shoulder disappeared.

Hearing Du Xinghe's invitation, she smiled:
"Defeat me first, then we'll talk."