In addition to the 160 seekers undergoing trials, there were also nearly twenty deacon disciples who entered the Demonic Forest.
Every disciple who enters the Demonic Ghost Forest will be given a jade disk called the Contribution Jade Disk. As the name suggests, it is used to record the sect's contribution value.
Sect contributions can not only be exchanged for exercises, magic weapons, and elixirs within the sect, but can also be used to promote positions.
On the jade plate of each seeker, there is a word "五" flashing. What does it mean? It means that each seeker has already had 5 points of sect contribution. This is the reward issued after passing the first level assessment.
Contribution jade discs will only be distributed to sect disciples. From the moment they enter the Demonic Forest, these seekers have all become Guique outer disciples and are eligible to hold contribution jade discs.
However, if you die in the forest of monsters and ghosts, then your status as a disciple will naturally become invalid. Therefore, only those who leave the Demonic Forest alive after one month can truly become Ghost Bird disciples.
The Demonic Forest is divided into nine areas. When the Ghost Bird Sect was established, the Ghost Bird Ancestor, with the peak level of Golden Core cultivation, once explored the Demonic Forest, but stopped in the fourth area and was killed by a master who was comparable to the Nascent Soul. The Ghost King was injured, and in shock, the Demonic Ghost Forest was listed as a forbidden area for the Ghost Bird Sect.
This Demonic Ghost Forest is indeed not the place where Xuan Yin Qi resides, but the weirdness of this place is probably higher than Xuan Yin Qi. After the fourth area, the Ghost Sparrow ancestor didn't know the details at all, he only knew that it was extremely dangerous.
The only good thing is that the ghosts in the Demonic Forest seem to be subject to certain restrictions. Ghosts that have reached a certain level of cultivation can only be trapped in a certain area. All ghosts cannot leave the Demonic Forest, otherwise they will disappear.
It is also extremely strange that if an enemy's corpse is thrown into the forest of demons and ghosts, it will turn into a ghost within a few years.
There is an old saying in the world of cultivation, 'The more evil the mountain, the more immortal secrets it hides'. This ghost forest probably has secrets that defy the heavens.
The second level assessment of the Ghost Bird Sect is set in the first area of the Demonic Forest, within a radius of thirty miles, and the assessment disciples can move as they please.
Fighting, yes. Killing, yes. Hunting ghosts, yes. You can also collect elixirs. Of course, it’s okay to hide somewhere for a month and do nothing.
Cultivation of the evil path is full of dangers and requires courage and perseverance. You can hide for a while, but you cannot hide for a lifetime. The dangers you should face will sooner or later have to be faced.
In the first area, there are only ghosts with Pulse Pulse cultivation level. By hunting down a ghost, you can get some contributions. For those with the third level of Pulmonary Pulse and below, you can get 1 contribution point by killing a ghost. Each ghost on the fourth to sixth floors is worth 2 contribution points. Each ghost on the seventh to tenth floor is worth 10 contribution points.
The higher the cultivation level of a ghost, the more difficult it is to hunt and the more contributions it will receive. A ghost in the early stage of soul fusion is worth 100 contributions, and a ghost in the middle stage is worth 200 contributions. Late stage ghosts, 500 contribution, peak ghosts, 1000 contribution.
To hunt the spirit-melting ghosts, you must at least enter the second area. It is not accessible to the disciples who have just entered the sect and the examination. Even for the spirit-melting elders, it is extremely dangerous to enter here.
In addition to the entrance examination, entering the demon forest to hunt ghosts will not increase the sect's contribution. The reason for increasing the contribution to the disciples who join the sect is probably just to encourage the disciples to have a fighting spirit.
Of course, if you are afraid of danger, you can also pick elixirs. In the first area, there are many elixirs that are ten years old. It is often necessary to harvest dozens of kilograms in exchange for one point of contribution.
In the first area, there is an entrance examination every ten years. The age of the elixir is naturally extremely low and extremely worthless.
In addition to the above two methods of obtaining contributions, there is another one that is more direct.
Rob!
As long as you grab someone else's contribution jade plate and destroy it, the other party's sect contribution will automatically become your own contribution.
As for the person whose jade plate was smashed, I'm sorry, but it costs 10 pieces of fairy jade to buy another one. It's not expensive. But to contribute, let’s save again.
As soon as they entered the Demonic Forest, the 160 people dispersed one after another, most of them walking alone. Occasionally, there were acquaintances walking together. The 20 deacon disciples, each hiding in the dark, will never come forward to interfere with the trial unless there is an uncontrollable situation.
The trial lasts for one month. Anyone who leaves the Demonic Forest within one month will automatically be deemed to have failed the trial and will be deprived of his disciple status.
Ghost Forest, the first area, the air is dank and dull, and there seem to be ghosts staring in the dark.
Ning Fan held the black jade plate in his hand and pondered slightly. He turned over the ancient map presented by Lan Mei in his hand. On the map, a total of nine areas were displayed. Only the first three areas were marked with the location of the elixir and dangerous points. Only half of the fourth area was marked. It seems that the ancestor of Ghost Sparrow was injured by the Ghost King and left the fourth area in a hurry.
After the fourth area, the ghosts in it must be more terrifying than the Ghost King.
"I didn't expect this ghost forest to be so weird... I don't know what secrets are hidden in the deepest parts."
In Ning Fan's dantian, the Yin-Yang Lock faintly sensed that there seemed to be something hidden in the forest of monsters that the Yin-Yang Lock was concerned about.
It's not Xuan Yin Qi, but I'm afraid it's countless times more precious than Xuan Yin Qi.
Ning Fan thought to himself that with his own strength, it would not be a problem to control the first area. If he was more careful in the second area, nothing would happen. In the third area, if you hide and avoid fighting with ghosts, there will probably be no danger. But in the fourth area... there is a ghost king who is comparable to the master of Nascent Soul. If he enters, he will definitely die.
Thanks to Lan Mei giving him the map, otherwise, with Ning Fan's strong curiosity, he would probably go in and investigate without knowing how he died.
Among the 160 examination disciples, after knowing Ning Fan's identity, no one was hostile to Ning Fan. There were even women who secretly looked at Ning Fan, hoping to climb high. It's just that for this kind of woman, he doesn't care even if she comes to his door. I am afraid that the most indispensable thing in my life is beauty.
Speaking of which, there are 17 delicate and evil women in the cauldron ring, waiting to be harvested.
As he pondered, Ning Fan unknowingly went deeper and deeper. Ning Fan couldn't stand the 10-year-old elixirs he encountered along the way. And one after another, ghosts from the first and second levels of Pimai began to sneak attack on Ning Fan.
For these ghosts, Ning Fan easily destroyed them with a flash of sword light. In just half a stick of incense, he killed 15 ghosts. Jade Disk's contribution has reached 20 points.
While killing the 15th ghost, Ning Fan's eyes flashed, and ghost mist appeared inside the destroyed ghost, forming a dim soul bead the size of a fingernail.
This soul bead is illusory and ethereal, but it contains the essence of spiritual power. Ning Fan pondered slightly, and after a moment, he showed a look of shock. After taking the Soul Bead into his body, his spiritual power actually increased a little!
"'rosary'! Only the ghosts raised in the Nine Yin Land will have a chance to form rosary beads after being killed. Could this ghost forest be the Nine Yin Land!"
Ning Fan couldn't help but not be surprised. The Land of Nine Yin is not a naturally formed terrain, but a man-made formation. The level of the formation is even higher than the 'virtual' level formation. The formation is divided into nine areas. It is a ghost-raising formation used by ancient demons to raise ghosts. ... Could this ghost forest be a place where a certain demon in ancient times set up an array to raise ghosts and hunt for rosary beads?
If this is true, will there be a legacy of that devil in the deepest part of the Demonic Forest? It would be perfect for me to kill ghosts here, hunt for 'rosary beads', and improve my spiritual consciousness.
"In this case, we can't let these ghosts go with a leisurely mind. Let's start hunting from the first area!"
Ning Fan's eyes moved, he smiled slightly, stepped on the ice light, and held the starlight sword shadow in his hand, like an ice rainbow, dancing through the cold forest, harvesting the lives of ghosts one by one.
...
In the Ghost Bird Sect, in the Merit Hall of the inner gate, Meng Chu, the elder of the reception hall, was yawning lazily.
He was lazy by nature and had a mid-level spiritual cultivation, but he chose the most leisurely and least lucrative position as an elder, guarding the Hall of Merit.
The Merit Hall is a place where disciples can exchange their merits for treasures. It is also a place where they can receive sect tasks and complete tasks to redeem their merits.
In the center of the hall, stands a fourteen-foot-tall black jade stele. On the jade stele, dots of light flicker, recording the sect contribution rankings of each disciple and elder within the sect.
The one who ranks first in terms of contribution is naturally the sect leader Gui Quezi, with a total contribution of 9.61 million, a fraction of which is already negligible.
The second ranked one is one of the four Demon Lords of the Ghost Bird Sect - the 'Crying Lord' Ling Guicui. He left the Ghost Bird Sect seventy years ago and his life and death are unknown. However, the numerical value on the merit monument would occasionally increase by leaps and bounds. Every time it rises, it rises by more than 10,000 points. The reason why it increased by 10,000 points was probably due to the killing of righteous masters who were in the late Jindan stage or above. Before this Ling Gui cried and left the sect, he was in the middle stage of Jindan cultivation and had contributed 720,000. But now, it has already contributed 8.45 million. I don’t know how many righteous masters have been killed, let alone which righteous masters were killed, and I don’t know where they are now.
Many people have speculated that after seventy years, Ling Guiwai has broken through the Nascent Soul stage, and everything is unknown.
Ranking third was Old Demon Han. Most of the 6.83 million contributions were completed by accepting alchemy tasks. After all, refining a third-level elixir can often yield thousands of contributions.
After that, most of the top twenty were occupied by sect elders. Among the younger generation, the one who has contributed the most is Black Lord's disciple Yan Zhuiyun. This person is called the most talented person in Ghost Sparrow. He broke through to the middle stage of Soul Fusion before the age of 30 and became an elder of the sect. He has extraordinary qualifications.
And even Yan Zhuiyun only ranked 45th on the merit list with 190,000 merits.
As for the lazy Elder Meng Chu, he only gained 100 merits after guarding the merit hall for a month. Two hundred years later, he only accumulated 240,000 merits and ranked 41st on the merit list.
"Today seems to be the second test for disciples entering the sect. Hey, I wonder if any disciples can reach 100 contributions in a month. Haha, 100 contributions may be too difficult for these young boys. After all, when I joined the sect hundreds of years ago, I only hunted and killed 7 pulse-opening ghosts, collected 200 kilograms of elixirs, and gained 15 contribution points in the second level... Even the best disciples in the past, such as When Yan Zhuiyun entered the sect, he only achieved 170 contribution points in the second level..."
He was lying leisurely on the recliner, his eyes drifting across the merit list inadvertently, towards the position after the ten thousand people.
Among the tens of thousands of disciples of the Ghost Bird Sect, the new disciples who joined the sect were all ranked last when their contributions were first calculated.
"Haha, it's still 5 points of contribution. It's been two hours since the second round of assessment began. These boys are really weak. They can't kill even a ghost? Ahem, cough, wait, this is it!"
Elder Meng Chu was leisurely sipping the fragrant tea. Suddenly, he was shocked by the changes in the merit list, and a mouthful of tea choked his throat.
I saw a disciple named Li Zhihuan, and his contribution flashed several times. In just two hours, he had contributed 9 points.
9 o'clock contribution, two hours! This kid has killed four third-level ghosts. How is this possible?
Meng Chu's eyes glanced upward again, and what surprised him even more was a disciple named Lu Ziqiao. In just two hours, I already had 17 points of merit!
And then, this child's contribution actually jumped by 10 points. In order to obtain 10 contribution points, you need to kill at least seven levels of Pilei Pulse monsters!
Could it be that this disciple named Lu Ziqiao, who had just joined the sect, was able to kill a seventh-level master of Pimai? This is a genius, probably even stronger than Yan Zhuiyun!
Meng Chu stood up suddenly. He believed that it was necessary to report this matter to the senior management. After all, he guards the Merit Hall and has another task, which is to discover disciples whose contributions are growing rapidly. These disciples often have amazing potential and are worth cultivating!
But he had just stood up and was about to leave the Hall of Merit to report the matter, but he suddenly turned around and took one more look at the Monument of Merit.
This sight made him breathless and unbelievable, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat.
But he saw a disciple named 'Ning Fan' whose sect's contribution was increasing at a terrifying speed.
754 points!
In just two hours, this boy has accumulated 754 contribution points. What on earth did this boy do in the Demonic Forest!
Evil disciple! Meng Chu asked himself, even if he entered the Demonic Forest, the rate of contribution would only be this.
"Ning Fan, Ning Fan! This person must be reported to the sect master."
Meng Chu had always been aloof from worldly affairs, but he didn't know that Ning Fan's name had spread among the Ghost Bird Sect, although what had spread was only Ning Fan's profound and astonishing background.
The shock about the Monument of Merit is just the beginning. Allowing Ning Fan to enter the Demonic Forest as a new disciple was definitely a mistake made by the Ghost Bird Sect.
The merit monument will be maxed out!
(It’s also a trial, which is a bad formula for writing Xianxia novels, but Mo Mo feels that he can write a different one. What do you think? Invincible flow, just be invincible. There are too many useless flows... 12,000 words , three chapters updated, are there any rewards, are there any recommendation votes?)
