Zhao Lin grinned inwardly, the big sect was indeed extraordinary.
In the entire Qinghe County, only master Zhu Huaishan and the old leader of the Lingshan sect branch are masters of the blood realm, and not a single martial artist of the middle-aged or younger generation has reached the blood realm.
However, Xingyun Sect has an inner courtyard that only recruits disciples who have broken through the Blood Realm before the age of twenty-five, and the gap between them is simply incalculable.
Just listen to Zhu Huaishan continue to say: "There are many disciples in the outer courtyard, and their cultivation levels are also uneven, so the sect has created a dancing elephant academy, specially used to select outstanding talents among the disciples in the outer courtyard."
"Basically all the disciples in the inner courtyard come from the Dancing Elephant Academy."
The outer courtyard, the dancing elephant courtyard, the inner courtyard...
Zhao Lin roughly understood that the disciples in the outer courtyard are ordinary disciples, while the disciples in the inner courtyard are elite disciples. The Wuxiang Academy selects young and potential disciples from the outer courtyard and trains them to become future inner courtyard disciples.
"Master wants me to enter the Dancing Elephant Academy?" Zhao Lin said knowingly.
"good!"
Zhu Huaishan smiled slightly, twisted his beard and said: "The threshold of Dancing Elephant Academy is extremely high. In addition to having excellent talent, there are also two strict conditions: the age before entering the academy must not be more than twenty, and the cultivation level is at least the second level of Qi Realm."
"The reason why my master wants you to cultivate to the second level of the Qi Realm and then return to the sect is that I hope you can enter the Dancing Elephant Academy. You will have a high starting point when you enter."
"If you start from the outer courtyard, you will have no one to rely on. I'm afraid it will take a lot of trouble."
Zhao Lin asked doubtfully: "Master, according to this requirement, I am still at the first level of Qi Realm, so I can't enter the Dancing Elephant Courtyard, right?"
"Not really."
Zhu Huaishan waved his hand and continued: "Do you still remember when I asked you whether realm is more important, or combat power?"
"Yanzhou is located on the border and has been competing with nomadic tribes since ancient times. Everyone is brave and good at fighting."
"For this reason, Xingyun Sect attaches great importance to actual combat. If someone can defeat two outer courtyard disciples of the third level of Qi Realm in a row and is no more than twenty years old, he will be eligible to enter the Dancing Elephant Academy."
"I originally thought that your realm had improved too quickly and that you would be lacking in actual combat, so I wanted to wait until you reached the second level of Qi Realm before setting off."
Having said this, a smile appeared on his face, "Now it seems that I may have worried too much. Whether it is in the strength realm or the aura realm, your actual combat ability far exceeds that of a martial artist of the same realm."
"To say the least, even if you can't get into the Dancing Elephant Courtyard, you can only stay in the outer courtyard for half a year at most, and the conditions are much better than here."
Zhao Lin suddenly felt enlightened, and then thought of an issue that he was very concerned about.
"Master, what is the realm above the blood realm?"
He knew that there was a higher realm beyond the blood realm, but he never had the nerve to ask. After all, his previous cultivation level was too low, and asking these questions would inevitably seem too ambitious.
Zhu Huaishan chuckled and said: "As a teacher, I have been waiting for you to ask this question for a long time. It is a good thing to be ambitious. Which martial arts practitioner doesn't want to reach a higher level?"
"The next realm after the Blood Realm is the Yuan Realm."
"When you reach this level, you can cultivate powerful vitality, and your strength is incomparable to that of a Blood Realm warrior."
"How long can a Yuan realm warrior live?"
Zhao Lin hesitated for a moment and almost asked, "Can I live forever?"
This is his biggest concern.
He has been thinking about this since his rebirth.
I have the spirit beast map, and it is not difficult to break through the realm with the physical body transformed by the spirit, but it would be a pity if I only live to be seventy or eighty years old.
Zhu Huaishan took a deep look at Zhao Lin and felt that his apprentice was practicing martial arts just for longevity, and couldn't help but smile.
"Re-tempering the physical body in the Yuan realm will naturally prolong life. As long as there are no mistakes in practice and proper maintenance, the life span can reach ninety or even a hundred years."
"And there is another advantage, the skill decays slowly. Although I am a master in the blood realm, my cultivation level is only 23/10 compared to when I was at my peak."
"Yuanjing masters can maintain their realm for a long time, and they can still have at least 50% of their cultivation level left until the end of their lives!"
Only live to be a hundred years old...
Zhao Lin felt a little disappointed and then asked: "Master, is there a realm above the Yuan realm?"
Zhu Huaishan nodded and said: "Further up is the innate realm, but there are very few people who have achieved this level throughout the ages. Those who can reach this level are called masters."
He paused for a moment, and without waiting for Zhao Lin to ask, he took the initiative and said: "The life span of a grandmaster can be up to one hundred and twenty years, how about it?"
"sharp!"
Zhao Lin praised him, but thought in his heart: "It seems that after practicing martial arts to the top, you can only live for these years. I'd better do some research on how to absorb the souls of lighthouse jellyfish and sea lobster."
"Master, are there many strange animals in Yanzhou?"
This issue is related to the future development of the spirit beast map and is of great significance.
There is a piece of information in the memory of the spirit beast map: the higher the level of the beast, the stronger it absorbs the soul.
After more than a year of exploration, Zhao Lin found that this was indeed the case.
There are currently five spirits in the spirit animal map: bear, leopard, chrysanthemum bat, skylark and scent-smelling marten.
Among them, the most significant effect is undoubtedly the strength. Whether it is the degree of transformation of the body by the spirit, or the ability to release white mist on a daily basis, it is much stronger!
When absorbing Skylark's spirit, he tried to transform his own skeleton, but was quickly suppressed by Xiong Zhen and Jin Leopard. This is the difference between the strength and weakness of the spirit.
Zhao Lin also discovered that some of his previous understandings might be wrong. For example, the inability to absorb the souls of scorpions and spiders was due to their body structure.
Because he had recently tested it with fleas and grasshoppers, and the spirits could not be absorbed either.
The specialty of these two kinds of bugs is bouncing. It is said that there is no need to add additional organs, as long as they have legs.
But the flea's spirit is so thin and small that it is almost difficult to distinguish it with the naked eye, and the spirit animal picture has no response at all.
The spirit of the grasshopper was slightly better, barely taking shape, and the spirit animal diagram shook extremely slightly.
This shows that the spirit beast map cannot absorb the spirits of the two because the spirits are too weak and have no ability to transform the physical body.
Then think about it further, if there is a mutated grasshopper, or insect, can it absorb its soul?
Zhao Lin is self-aware that there are so many geniuses in the Xingyun Sect, but he will definitely be unable to catch up with them just by studying hard and practicing hard, and he will have to rely on the spirit beast map.
Now five of the nine grids in the spirit beast map have been used. In addition to absorbing new souls, we must also consider "upgrading" the existing spirits and find new strange beasts.
There are exotic animals in Baekdu Mountain, but there are not many types, and many of their specialties are not suitable for them, such as the iron-spined lizard that changes color and the hydra that can sense thermal effects.
There is a Yanyun Mountain in Yanzhou. It is a rare majestic mountain in the world. It stretches for thousands of miles. To be precise, it should be called Yanyun Mountain. Baitou Mountain is just its remnant.
Zhu Huaishan didn't expect Zhao Lin to ask this question. He thought he was just curious and didn't think much about it. He said, "That's natural. Yanyun Mountain is beautiful, and alienated birds and beasts are not necessarily rarer than ordinary beasts."
"The Xingyun Sect also specially compiled an atlas to record these strange beasts."
"Is there an album?" Zhao Lin's heart moved.
"What, you still want to take advantage of strange beasts?"
Zhu Huaishan glanced at him and said in a warning tone: "Although the meat of exotic animals is toxic, the internal organs of some exotic animals are the best choices for martial arts prescriptions and cannot be killed at will."
(End of chapter)
