"Um??"
In the open space of Taoist temple.
Seeing Chenghuo approaching the ancient well, standing there with a calm expression just like Tieniu before, Yue Hongyi couldn't help but let out a light sigh.
no....
This is too high-profile.
After hearing Elder Yue Hongyi's soft cry, he realized something, so he pretended to be confused and at the same time silently counted the time in his heart...
After about eighty breaths had passed, he seemed to be out of control and made a gesture to stick his head towards the mouth of the well.
Seeing the act of survival, Yue Hongyi reached out and patted his back and shouted: "Wake up!"
Chengshuo turned around with a look of surprise on his face.
"Eighty-one breaths." Yue Hongyi said: "It's not bad, you passed!"
Chenghuo bowed his fist to the elder Yue Hongyi and walked away silently.
"Fellow Daoist Cheng, you must have felt it, right?" Seeing that Cheng Huo passed the test, Le Zhengxun hurriedly stepped forward.
He lowered his voice and said, "That ancient well seems to be able to amplify the side effects of the 'Power of Pain'."
"Side effects?" Chengshuo looked puzzled.
Tieniu and Meng Qingyao on the side also showed doubts.
"I also heard what the deep dive monk said..."
Le Zhengxunyi explained: "According to them, the 'power of pain' absorbed by monks during practice will pollute the practitioner's spirit."
"This contamination is a side effect of the 'Power of Pain'."
"It's just that the realm of the monks in the worshiping and embryo-building stages is too low, the 'power of pain' in the body is too little, and the purity of the essence is not high, so the contamination is not obvious."
"But when a monk is about to break through to the deep submergence stage, as the 'power of pain' in the body increases and the purity of the essence becomes higher and higher, the pollution to the spirit becomes more and more obvious."
"I understand what you mean." After listening to Lezheng Xunyi's explanation, Chengshuo said: "If the 'power of pain' can pollute the human spirit, then the monks must be able to absorb the 'power of pain' A constitution that resists pollution.”
"People who don't have this kind of physique are very likely to go crazy due to the contamination of the 'power of pain' after breaking through to the deep dive stage."
"These people are the so-called monks who have no talent to break through to the deep dive stage."
"And the ancient well has the effect of amplifying the pollution of the 'power of pain', which can be used to screen out these monks who have no deep dive talent."
"Those who are screened out are the ones eliminated in the first round."
"As for the remaining monks who can withstand the contamination of the 'Power of Pain', they are talents worthy of the court's efforts to cultivate."
"Correct answer!" Seeing Cheng Huo draw inferences, Le Zhengxun praised: "Cheng Taoist friend really wants to go with me."
He continued: "So, whether a monk can break through to the deep dive stage mainly depends on whether the person can withstand the pollution."
While several people were talking, Zhong Ran also passed the test.
When he came to Chenghuo and others, he saw Lezheng Xunyi said unexpectedly: "I just made a rough calculation. The people who can pass the ancient well test probably only account for less than a quarter of the total number of people."
"But even with such a low probability, a few of us were able to pass. This can really only be said to be great luck."
In fact, it is not all because of good luck that Chengshuo and others were able to pass.
Among several people.
The fact that Zhong Ran, Le Zheng Xun Yi, and Le Zheng Xun Yi's younger junior sister Meng Qingyao were able to pass may just be due to good luck.
But Survival and Tieniu were able to pass, mainly due to the 'power of flesh and blood' in their bodies.
'The power of flesh and blood' and 'the power of pain' are powers of the same nature.
in.
The 'power of pain' is closely related to today's practitioners.
The 'power of flesh and blood' has some connection with the ancient immortals from thousands of years ago.
For example, the blood tree in the blood forest.
Another example is the jet-black armor in the ancient immortal ruins of Hongshui Lake...
According to Wu Sheng, when a monk has both the "power of flesh and blood" and the "power of pain" in his body, two situations will occur:
The first one is that the two forces cancel each other out...just like Yuan Xiujie who drank the sap of the blood tree before.
The second type is when the two forces are evenly matched...just like the iron bull who drank the sap of the blood tree and the survival who swallowed the blood fruit.
It is precisely because of the existence of the second situation that the surviving party can use the pollution of the "power of flesh and blood" in the body to suppress the pollution of the "power of pain".
The two play a role similar to 'fighting fire with fire'.
In this way, the problem of contamination of the 'power of pain' can be perfectly solved, so that practitioners no longer have any worries when practicing.
This kind of physique is really too heaven-defying.
Perhaps, this is the fundamental reason why Wu Sheng tried so hard to seize Tieniu's body...
In the Taoist temple.
After more than two hours of testing, a total of fifty of the more than two hundred monks, including the surviving group, passed successfully.
Calculated in this way, it is exactly one-quarter of the passing rate.
Among the crowd, some of the monks who failed to pass the first round of tests immediately left the back mountain of Ruyun City in dismay.
The rest of them took Elder Yue Hongyi's flying boat and flew back to the Taoist Sect's headquarters in Ruyun City.
The second round of the competition will be held on the martial arts field at the Taoist Religion Station...
…
At the same time.
Ruyun City, in the backyard of 'Li Ji Kuanmian'.
At this moment, Wu Sheng was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the courtyard... Around him were piles of monks and mortals who had been tortured beyond recognition, as well as a small number of young Buddhist monks.
Although these people are not dead yet, they all have only one breath left, which is shocking to see.
Among them, the mortals and monks all looked as if they were worse off than dead.
But the little Buddhist monks were all smiling, and there was a hint of pain in their smiles...
On the dirty ground.
Suddenly, Wu Sheng opened his eyes.
He smiled at Wu Xin beside him and said, "My disciple has flown back from the back mountain of Ruyun City... If nothing else, the first round of testing should be over."
"Shan!" Wu Xin responded: "Then, should we take action now?"
"Just now!"
Looking at the corpses piled all over the yard, Wu Sheng looked guilty.
But soon, this guilt was replaced by the enthusiasm in his eyes.
He thought for a while and said: "With the 'power of pain' these people can provide, you and I can probably sustain it for about a day."
"So you and I must find those two skins within one day, and then seize them."
As Wu Sheng spoke, he clasped his hands together and recited an obscure scripture in a low voice...
Under the influence of the scriptures, a faint black thread appeared out of thin air on the chests of the corpses in the yard.
These black lines are connected to the chests of Wu Sheng and Wu Xin respectively.
As the black silk thread entered the body, the momentum of the two monks began to surge.
Their cultivation level has improved from the original Blood Pill Late Stage to the Great Perfection in the Blood Pill Stage, and finally broke through the bottleneck and entered a realm that is so mysterious that it cannot be described in words.
This state is the 'deep dive period'.
