Lonely Immortal

Fortunately, Zhang Zhiwen had enough Xuanling Pills in his hand, otherwise, if his physical body had been upgraded to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, he would probably have no way to upgrade his cultivation to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. As Zhang Zhiwen guessed, it didn't take that many Xuanling Pills to upgrade his cultivation. He only spent about 40 Xuanling Pills to upgrade his cultivation to a level close to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

In fact, the so-called Great Perfection of Qi Refining is not a very clear boundary of cultivation. Starting from the ninth level of Qi Refining, as long as you continue to take Xuanling Pills, your cultivation will continue to improve, and then you will eventually reach a perfect state. If you want to improve again, Zhang Zhiwen will obviously feel a huge resistance in front of him. This resistance is more obvious than when he was upgraded from the sixth level of Qi Refining to the seventh level of Qi Refining. This is obviously the Great Profound Gate blocking the improvement of cultivation, and the so-called Great Profound Gate is naturally a threshold of heaven and earth for cultivators to upgrade to the foundation building.

Therefore, if Zhang Zhiwen still wants to improve his cultivation and raise his cultivation to the foundation building stage, he must break through this threshold, and the way to break through this threshold is to take the foundation building pill, so that there is a certain chance of success.

Zhang Zhiwen is no longer the Zhang Zhiwen of the past. He knows more or less about cultivation, so he knows the role of this foundation building pill and how difficult it is to break through from the great perfection of Qi refining to the foundation building stage. It is said that with the blessing of the foundation building pill, the success rate is less than 10%, which means that ten foundation building pills may be able to successfully build the foundation, and there is a high probability that it will still fail, so it is conservatively estimated that at least more than ten foundation building pills must be taken.

The materials for refining Xuanling Pill are already difficult to get, and it is conceivable that it is necessary to refine the foundation building pill. To get the foundation building pill, you must first get the formula of the foundation building pill, and this formula is only available in the ten major immortal gates. Therefore, if you want to build a foundation, you must enter the ten major immortal gates.

It is not unusual for the ten major immortal gates to recruit disciples every year. Moreover, everyone knows the rules for recruiting disciples. There are notices displayed in Dengtian City. Zhang Zhiwen has taken the opportunity to see it. He does not know what material the notice is made of. Anyway, it has been there for who knows how many years. It has never rotted in the wind and rain, and the rules on it are extremely clear and detailed.

The ten major immortal gates recruit disciples regardless of their background, sect, or gender, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they only recruit disciples under the age of 30. Age is a hard indicator.

Secondly, spiritual roots are also a hard indicator. If you want to enter the immortal gate, you must pass the spiritual root test. If the spiritual root is good, such as Lin Mingyue's double spiritual roots, which are above the middle grade, there is no problem at all. However, Zhang Zhi's spiritual roots are fine, but the low-grade spiritual roots are not good.

In addition, the third hard indicator is cultivation. The cultivation must reach the ninth level of Qi Refining or above, otherwise, forget it, and you will not even be qualified for the exam.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen cannot meet the requirements in terms of spiritual roots. Therefore, the ten major immortal sects will not recruit disciples with ordinary spiritual roots like him. However, this does not mean that cultivators like Zhang Zhiwen have no chance to enter the immortal sect. There is still a chance, but the requirements of the ten major immortal sects are different.

For example, in the Spirit Beast Sect, if the cultivator is over 30 years old and has good spiritual roots, he needs to participate in the sect trial task. After passing the sect test, he will also have the opportunity to join the Spirit Beast Sect. The sect test is different, which depends on the specific requirements of the sect.

For example, in the Golden Pill Sect, their sect trial task is to collect alchemy materials. Only after collecting them, they are eligible to take the exam.

Similarly, the other major immortal sects are the same.

That is to say, if you want to enter the immortal sect, there are generally three steps. The first is the hard indicator. If the hard indicator is reached, the sect can exempt you from the sect experience, but you still have to take the sect test and pass it. If you cannot meet the hard indicator, you must pass the test by yourself. Only after passing the test can you take the exam.

Therefore, the ten great immortal sects are fair in recruiting disciples. Disciples are either talented or diligent, and then take the exam, and they are treated equally.

Of course, this is all on the surface, and Zhang Zhiwen does not know what is actually going on.

For Zhang Zhiwen, no matter what the ten great immortal sects are secretly doing, he has no choice. If he wants to break through to the foundation building stage, he must participate in the immortal sect assessment, and his hard indicators are not enough, so he can only participate in the sect training, and there is no time limit for the sect training, as long as the requirements are met.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen must understand the sect training requirements of the ten great immortal sects. These ten great immortal sects generally have their own characteristics. Some are beast control, such as the Spirit Beast Sect, some are alchemy, such as the Golden Alchemy Sect, and so on, so the sect training must be targeted. After Zhang Zhiwen read the training requirements of the ten great sects, he felt that the only one he was more confident about was the Golden Alchemy Sect.

He knew almost nothing about other sects, such as beast taming and refining. His immortal palace could smelt and synthesize spiritual tools, but the materials needed by the refining sect were very complicated, many of which were extracted from animal bones and animal pills. How could he do that? So he could only choose the Jindan Sect, at least he could make pills.

Although the old Taoist priest who was the deacon of the Jindan Sect was not a good person, it did not conflict with Zhang Zhiwen's entry into the Jindan Sect. The purpose of entering the ten major immortal sects was to get the formula of the foundation-building pill. This was the point. What was a little personal grudge? Zhang Zhiwen would definitely not be stupid enough not to go to the Jindan Sect because of this.

However, the training tasks issued by the Jindan Sect are quite complicated. The animal bones, animal pills and spiritual medicine materials involved almost all involve the Star Record Monsters in the Tianshui area. Zhang Zhiwen also knows a little about the so-called Star Record Monsters. When Zhao Tiehui participated in the training of the big family before, he took out the map to show it. The appearance time of the Star Record Monsters is limited to a certain period of time. It only appears for one month every year. This may be related to the beast tomb. Therefore, if you want to obtain these materials and pass the training smoothly, you must take advantage of this month to hunt the Star Record Monsters.

These Star Record Monsters are generally the ninth level of Qi Refining or even the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. Even if ordinary cultivators have reached the ninth level of Qi Refining or even the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, it is probably difficult to kill them alone. Therefore, forming a team is inevitable. In this process, the big families of the major Feixian Cities will also go out one after another. On the one hand, they are to collect the sect training materials, and on the other hand, they are also to open the beast tomb. So there is a close connection between the before and after.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen knew without much thought that the competition would be fierce, and even life-and-death struggles. In addition, the requirements of the Spiritual Beast Sect were similar, and they also needed the cubs of the Star Record Monster as the content of the sect training tasks, and even the refinement of weapons, the making of talismans, the Xuanmen... Almost all the ten major sects had similar requirements for sect training, all of which were related to the Star Record Monster.

Zhang Zhiwen actually thought about one thing, that is, although the ten major sects said that if the hard indicators were not met, they could be replaced by participating in the sect training, then in this case, the old guys of the major families would also have the opportunity to participate in the sect examination, right? But it is almost unheard of that the old guys from the major families took the exam. If so, there is only one reason, that is, this kind of experience is extremely difficult and the materials are very scarce, so the old guys from the major families can only give the materials to their children, and these children are naturally impossible to be cultivators with excellent spiritual roots like Lin Mingyue. After all, there are very few people with excellent spiritual roots, and most of them find it difficult to reach the middle grade or above. This is why the ten major immortal sects do not limit the time of sect experience. Therefore, the sect trial that seems to be quite easy is actually extremely difficult.

However, no matter what, Zhang Zhiwen must participate in the sect experience. Now his cultivation has reached a bottleneck. With his current cultivation, it is impossible to break through the foundation with his own strength. If he wants to break through, he can only get the foundation pill.

Of course, Zhang Zhiwen has a lot of time to collect materials for the sect experience task, but he promised Lin Mingyue that he needs to achieve his goal within ten years. This is not Zhang Zhiwen tying himself up, but it is a requirement for himself. Whether there is Lin Mingyue or not, will he, Zhang Zhiwen, not improve his cultivation?

If he cannot improve his cultivation as soon as possible, every additional time he participates in hunting Star Record monsters, it will inevitably increase the risk. Star Record monsters appear once a year, and each time takes a month. In this month, it is difficult to collect enough materials. Zhang Zhiwen feels that it is almost impossible for him to collect enough materials at once, because there are at least ten kinds of Star Record monsters involved. How can he kill ten Star Record monsters in a month? It takes a lot of time on the road alone, so this sect training is likely to be a long-term task, and it may not be completed in three to five years, and this is still a very smooth situation.

Therefore, if you fail once, fail twice, and delay year after year, then in the end, even if you enter the immortal gate and get the formula of the foundation-building pill, I am afraid that the possibility of breaking through to the foundation-building stage will be even smaller. After all, it takes a lot of time to collect the materials of the foundation-building pill, refine the foundation-building pill, and even break through the cultivation, so it will eventually fail, and then the life span will be exhausted.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen has already felt very clearly that on the road of cultivating immortals, a few decades of mortals is too short.

Of course, Zhang Zhiwen must go all out to participate in the sect training, and now it is almost time for the beast tomb to open, and Zhang Zhiwen has improved in the past two years and has already broken through to the great perfection of Qi Refining. In a few days, the star record monsters will appear, and Zhang Zhiwen will naturally prepare well.

The location of the star record monsters is relatively stable, which Zhang Zhiwen knows very well, but Zhang Zhiwen does not know what the characteristics of these star record monsters are. It is impossible for him to hunt monsters without knowing anything about the monsters, right?

Therefore, he planned to collect some information about the Xingji monsters first, and he must go to Dengtian City. Now that the sect training is about to begin, all the masters must gather in Feixian City. As Zhang Zhiwen guessed, Feixian City is crowded again, and the four major families are also taking action. Dengtian City is directly occupied by the four major families. Just like the opening of the beast tomb before, they want to recruit followers. Therefore, the masters from other places basically will not go to Dengtian City. Zhang Zhiwen has learned some things along the way, that is, the masters of the major masters basically go to Juxian Building, which is where the masters of the major masters gather and where the most information is.

Zhang Zhiwen has never been to Juxian Building, but when he inquired about the location of Juxian Building, he was very surprised, because the location of Juxian Building was actually outside Feixian City, and even directly crossed the boundary monument of Feixian City. There is a place similar to a market alone, which is called Juxianfang!