An elixir called "Muqing Dan" can be refined using the rare spiritual grass Curly Vine flower as the main ingredient. This elixir is not of great use to the monks' daily practice, but its medicinal effect can make Qi Refining Four The monks who have been unable to break through at all levels must break free from the shackles of the "Little Five Passes" as soon as possible. Therefore, many disciples who are trapped in the Little Five Passes in the sect are eager to obtain this kind of elixir. It is also used to refine the Foundation Building Pill, so there are very few people who are willing to use the Curling Vine Flower to refine the Mu Qing Pill.
Before Qian Chao and the others broke through the Xiaowu Pass, they didn't have many Curling Vine Flowers in their hands and wanted to save them for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill in the future, so they didn't refine the Muqing Pill. After they broke through the Xiaowu Pass, This Mu Qing Pill has no effect on them, so it has not been refined. However, Qian Chao recently found Yanxuan and asked her to refine a few pills.
Nowadays, curling vine flowers are not unusual for Qian Chao and the other five people. In the cave under Qian Chao's residence, as long as there are spiritual stones, curling vine flowers can continue to be produced, so Yanxuan agreed, and within a few days they The refined Mu Qing Dan was delivered to Qian Chao.
After sending Yanxuan away, Qian Chao took Mu Qing Dan to Bibo Pond in Shuiyun Valley. Of course, these Mu Qing Dan were not for him to use, but to give to Shen Wei who was trapped in Xiaowu Pass. Shen Wei is more urgent to deal with the Qin family than the five of them. If he cannot break through, the pressure of dealing with the Qin family in the future will be fully borne by Qian Chao and Tang Ping.
Qian Chao flew all the way, and at the place where the Qi Refining disciples of Bibo Pond lived, he actually saw a somewhat familiar and slim figure entering Shen Weiwei's residence in front of him.
Qian Chao concluded that the woman must be one of the Wu sisters whom he had just met at the Chengguan Examination a while ago, but looking at the back, he couldn't tell whether it was Wu Ruishan or Wu Ruiyuan. No matter what, Shen Wei now has The guest was a woman with whom he had an old relationship. It would be inappropriate for Qian Chao to knock on the door at this time.
Just when he was hesitating whether to come back another day, Qian Chao found that the woman had come out of Shen Wei's residence again. Based on the time she had been there, they had not been able to talk for a few words. Why did she ask for it so early? Going? At this time, he could see her face, and Qian Chao also recognized that the woman was Wu Ruiyuan, the younger sister of the Wu sisters. After the woman walked out, she was still very reluctant, with a look of loneliness and melancholy on her face. She kept looking back when she got up and flew away, and finally He flew away and flew away.
Is this...a failure to reach a good deal or a lack of agreement?
As early as when they were in Youming Valley, the Wu sisters were very close to Shen Wei. During the day, the three of them were always seen together, but later Qian Chao discovered that the sisters were cooperating with Qin Suijie because they had to deal with Qin Suijie, and at the same time Qian Chao wanted to use Shen Wei's hand, so he informed Shen Wei of this matter. It was for this reason that Shen Wei broke off with these two women. Today, Wu Ruiyuan came to find Shen Wei. They left after only a few words of conversation. Could it be that this woman couldn't let go of her old feelings for Shen Weilie, but Shen Weilie couldn't forget the betrayal of the two women?
Qian Chao knocked on the door of Shen Weiwan, and a somewhat impatient voice came from inside:
"I told you not to come here again."
It was Shen Wei's voice. Although he said this, the door still opened. When Shen Wei looked at the tide of money in front of the door with a strange expression, he suddenly felt embarrassed and said quickly:
"Hey, I didn't expect it was Brother Qian, please come in."
Qian Chao said:
"Brother Shen, I saw that Miss Wu, why did you drive her away so early?"
After letting Qian Chao into the room and pouring tea, Shen Wei said with a wry smile:
"The past is terrible, Brother Qian, I am not broad-minded, and I can never forget what happened in the past, so... not to mention that she has a bright future now. Not only did she break through the Xiaowu Pass, but she also surpassed the Chengguan En Examination She also performed well. It is said that in the next few days, one of your Jiuxuan Elders will accept her as a disciple. She will definitely have a place in Wuling Sect in the future. I am different. Not only did I fail the Xiaowu Pass, but in the future... ...I am destined to fight with the Qin family to the end, who knows what will happen in the end, so it is better to have less to worry about than to have more to worry about."
Qian Chao took a sip of tea and said with a smile:
"I don't agree with what Brother Shen is doing. Well, I don't know what's going on between you and the Wu sisters, but in my opinion, the two sisters are different. This girl Wu Ruiyuan has a weak temperament, and Her sister is more powerful. They did have contact with Qin Suijie in Youming Valley. They were worried that he would not be able to pass the spirit opening ceremony, so they found Qin Suijie. I don’t have the intention to do harm. I don’t think Brother Shen should always care about this. And I don’t think Wu Ruiyuan was the one among the sisters who came up with the idea to cooperate with Qin Suijie. She should have listened to her sister in everything before, well, Of course, Brother Shen knows the two of them best and knows more than I do. Ever since we entered the Five Spirits Sect and started practicing, the two sisters have been separated. Wu Ruishan is in the Yuling Sect, Wu Ruiyuan is in our Jiuxuan, and Cheng Guan I saw the two of them fighting in the grace test arena. Later I inquired and found out that the two sisters have never been together since they entered different sects, let alone go out to work for the Jingshiyuan. They are almost strangers. , maybe it is because of you that these two sisters have changed like this. Brother Shen might as well talk to this Miss Wu more to avoid regrets in the future."
After hearing this, Shen Wei looked at Qian Chao strangely and said:
"Brother Qian, when did you start worrying about these three aunts and six wives? I won't hide it from you. Both of these sisters have been to my place. Wu Ruishan came once, and Wu Ruiyuan came here every now and then. Brother Qian, what you just said Of course I know, but I don’t even know when I will break through the Xiaowu barrier, so why bother causing trouble to myself, not to mention that it will also be a drag on her."
Qian Chao smiled, and it was true that Shen Weilai just said that he was not a broad-minded person. He was still worried about the Wu sisters because of their past exchanges with Qin Sui. Secondly, the sisters had made breakthroughs. Xiao Wuguan, especially his younger sister Wu Ruiyuan, performed well in the Chengguan Entrance Examination, which made him feel ashamed, so he did not want to have contact with the sisters anymore.
"Brother Shen, I came to see you today for something. In the future, we can't deal with the Qin family without Brother Shen. Tang Ping came to see Brother Shen a while ago. I might as well tell you that Senior Tang Bo has agreed. As long as Brother Shen's cultivation In order to break through the Little Five Levels, Senior Tang will find a good teacher for you..."
"Oh, I expected it. You guys treated me well, and I'm very grateful. But unfortunately, this little five levels, huh, it's really annoying!"
"Brother Shen, please take a look." Qian Chao said and placed a small crystal bottle on the table, which contained a dozen small black and purple pills.
"This is?"
"Mu Qing Dan, Brother Shen must have heard of it. I asked Sister Yan to refine it specially for Brother Shen. The materials are not easy to come by. Taking this pill is very useful for Brother Shen to break through the bottleneck of Xiaowu Pass..."
This sinking moment made him excited. He stared at the small bottle on the table for a long time, then raised his eyes to Qian Chao, stood up suddenly, bowed respectfully, and said:
"Thank you, Brother Qian. I will keep the kindness of the five of you in mind!"
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The Chengguan Enexamination was over, and the matters involving Jing Jie, Jin Zhang, and Tian Du came to an end. For Qian Chao and the other five, there was only one exciting thing left in a short period of time, and that was the hundred-year tribute.
It is said that a hundred years of engraving is an ancient ritual that came into existence after the Thousand Years War. At that time, there were five major sects in the world, which were the remaining five sects among the six sects in the world, excluding the Wuling Sect.
The strength of the major sects must be different from each other. Even if there are only two, there will be strong and weak points. With five major sects coexisting in the world at that time, there will definitely be the strongest among them, and there will definitely be those who are not convinced by them. In the world of practice, although each sect or family has rules to follow, overall the entire world of practice can still be regarded as a wild land where strength is used to win. The most powerful sects rely on themselves. His strength made demands for those sects that were weaker than him, which once made those weaker sects miserable. As time went by, under the situation where one party did not restrain himself and the other party became more and more dissatisfied, there would inevitably be disputes. In the past era of the five major sects of Central Continent, there have been countless dramas of alliances, conquests and killings, and countless times the strength of Central Continent has been reshaped.
Now it is no longer possible to find out which war it was after. The strength rankings among the five major sects changed again, but this time the major sect that finally won no longer asked the losing sect to offer spiritual stones and treasures as compensation as before. What they are asking for this time is disciples, and they must be those with outstanding spiritual roots and qualifications. Moreover, this kind of thing is not done just once, but will happen again every hundred years. This is the beginning of the Hundred Years of Consecration.
In the world of spiritual practice, for a sect, no treasure is more precious than disciples with good qualifications, hope and future, because these people are likely to grow into pillars in the future. Such a requirement is very important to a sect. The failed sect was naturally reluctant, but it was already defeated. If it did not agree, it would be in danger of being destroyed, so it had no choice but to agree, but this also laid the foundation for the subsequent disputes.
This situation in which the five major sects would have a melee every few years and then the winner asked the loser for disciples has been preserved until the later "Battle across the Sea" occurred, which changed this situation .
The battle across the sea completely changed the structure of the entire Central Continent. The Five Spirit Sect was founded during this battle. After the battle across the sea, Central Continent changed from only five major sects to what people call today. There are six sects in the world. For a long period of time, the original five major sects joined forces to jointly attack the Five Spirit Sect, with the intention of destroying it and restoring the previous strength structure of Central Continent. The practice world of Central Continent also changed from the original melee of the five sects. They became the "Five Sects Defeating Spirits", and they were allied with each other to deal with the Five Spirits Sect together. Therefore, it rarely happened that the powerful sects let the weak sects donate their disciples.
But it turns out that the Five Spirits Sect can even defeat the foreign monks who come across the sea. It is really not something that the other five sects can deal with together. No matter how the five major sects made great progress at the beginning and received frequent good news, no matter how the Five Spirits Sect At first, the sect was retreating steadily and was beaten miserably. In the end, it was the allied forces of the five major sects that returned home. After countless failed joint attacks against the Wuling Sect, the five major sects finally realized that they had to accept the defeat. It was a fact that the Five Spirit Sect existed, so the "Five Sect's Conquest of Spirits" thing stopped later.
Without the war, the remaining five major sects are no longer in an alliance. They still have different strengths, with strong and weak strength. So... should we fight or not fight in the future?
Fighting will inevitably cause damage to each other. The Five Spirits Sect has always stayed aloof in the south of Zhongzhou. If the other five sects fight together, the Five Spirits Sect will definitely take advantage of it. Therefore, the strongest one among the five sects is always hesitant. ;
Without fighting, although there has been an alliance between the five sects, there are more conflicts and discords between each other, and they are still accumulating, and to a certain extent they cannot be resolved without fighting.
In the end, Mu Yangzong, who was at the bottom in terms of strength at the time and was the weakest, came up with a way to protect himself. Mu Yangzong took the initiative to select some handsome dudes in the sect and sent them to the most powerful Lion Forest at the time. , saying that he was willing to regard Shizi Lin as the head of the world's sects in the future and follow his lead, and sent the blood relatives and nephews of several noble elders in his sect to compete with the disciples of Shizi Lin. If the disciples of Muyang Sect were lucky enough to win, they would be Then go back. If defeated, stay in the Lion Forest to practice. In fact, you are acting as a hostage. This can not only express Mu Yangzong's feminine intention, but also not hurt your own face too much. After all, those remaining disciples are He had to stay after he failed, and said that every hundred years he would send another disciple to follow the same example.
Mu Yangzong did this just to protect himself in a possible war. After all, he had already expressed his obedience to the most powerful sect. At least when several sects actually fought, the most powerful lion at that time Lin would not attack Mu Yangzong, but Mu Yangzong's actions caused a series of effects. After Mu Yangzong, Motianya, who was second to last in terms of strength, followed suit and expressed his surrender to the most powerful Lion Lin at the time. Continuing like this, Meng Cailou, whose strength was only inferior to that of the Lion Forest at that time, was unable to deal with the Lion Forest independently, so he had to put away all his plans and sent disciples with unusual status in his sect to the Lion Forest.
This method has been retained by these five major sects since then. Those who are sent out are dudes who are not elite disciples in their own sects. I don’t feel bad. This is one of the reasons. The other is that these dudes’ elders are all in their original sects. They are important people with status and status who keep their word. The descendants of these people are in their own sect. If they have any plans, they will definitely be afraid of them.
The Lion Forest accepted the dandies who came to its door calmly, and stipulated that it should be done once every hundred years, and this was the beginning of the present hundred-year ceremony.
Maybe no one would have thought that the most powerful Muyang Sect would be the one who first bowed to the big sect and sent his sect’s dandy to him. In fact, in the past long years, as the strength has waxed and waned, that The five major sects were once so powerful that they oppressed the other four sects to the point of being breathless. They all accepted the hundreds of years of tribute from the other four sects with peace of mind. Of course, they all obediently sent the dandies in their own sects thousands of miles away. into the hands of others.
The only exception is the Five Spirits Sect. In the past years, those five sects have never paid tribute to the Five Spirits Sect.
Now I don’t know how many times Mu Yang Sect’s strength has reached its peak. Today’s Mu Yang Sect is more powerful and greedy than any previous sect when it was strong. They seem to be like a giant that never has enough to eat. The beasts kept eating away at the other four sects, and the first one who couldn't bear it was Jiu Genyuan. Muyang Zong later instigated the relationship between Motianya and Jiu Genyuan, provoking a war between the two sects, and prepared to swallow Jiu Gen Yuan completely in one fell swoop while he was weak.
In the end, Jiu Genyuan reached an alliance with the Wuling Sect in order to protect himself, and saved himself under the strong intervention of the Wuling Sect. But next, no one expected that Mu Yangzong would turn his attention to Motianya, which had been greatly damaged by the battle with Jiu Genyuan. This move made the other four sects wary. Who knows what day Mu Yang Zong will decide? It hit him on the head, and the Wuling Sect showed amazing strength in preserving Jiu Genyuan, so the four sects also sent people to the Wuling Sect during the centenary consecration. In the matter of hundreds of years of worship, Jiu Genyuan was very straightforward and ignored Mu Yang Sect and directly sent his disciples to Wuling Sect to practice. Although the other three sects were on the fence, they all planned to use Wuling Sect to contain Mu Yang Sect. .
This is why after Jin Zhang's misdeeds in the Wuling Sect were exposed, the senior officials of Lion Forest were furious and almost let the Wuling Sect deal with him.
This is the first time for the Wuling Sect to conduct this centenary ceremony. In fact, the excitement of this centenary ceremony is far less than that of the Chengguan Enexamination that just passed. In addition, immediately after the Chengguan Enexamination, something happened involving the Tian family and the sect's dandies. As well as the major incident in the Lion Forest, the centenary offering was postponed. Now that everything has been settled, the centenary offering is naturally on the agenda.
And just a few days before this hundred-year dedication was to be carried out, Tang Ping found her sixth grandfather at night.
"Grandpa Six, would you like to do us a favor?"
Hearing this, Tang Bonian asked with some vigilance:
"Well, what's the matter?"
"Aren't we going to have a hundred years of dedication? I heard that the decision of those people's stay will be determined by a competition, so a few of us also want to compete. Can you make arrangements for us?"
Tang Bonian looked at Tang Ping strangely and asked:
"What's your idea?"
"It's nothing, I just want to compete with Jin Zhang from the Lion Forest in the ring."
"Hmph, isn't this just about revenge? No, what if you kill him in the ring? The sect has already reached an agreement with Shizi Lin and promised to let this kid go. No extraneous matters can arise."
Tang Ping suddenly said unconvinced:
"Yes, we just want revenge. Although Jing Jie's cultivation has been abolished this time, he will definitely live a happy life for the rest of his life. Although Tian Du is imprisoned, he is the safest. We have never seen or touched him. We can't reach him. There is only one Jin Zhang left, and I want you to let him go. We paid a heavy price that night. Boy Qian was seriously injured, Brother Li was seriously injured, and Brother Lu was also seriously injured. Each of these You have either let go or protected us, and you have reaped the benefits, so why don’t you let us vent the bad anger in our hearts!"
"Hey, girl, haven't you received enough benefits this time? Besides, the sect has given you a lot of rewards this time. It's just to compensate you, why are you still not satisfied? Well, a hundred years of tribute, this is the sect's first This time, those who stay and those who want to leave have already made an agreement, and who will appear on the stage to compete has already been agreed upon. It is against the rules to change it again!"
"Hmph, you broke into someone else's cave at night and started demolishing the house. Why didn't you know the rules at that time? Now you're teaching me a lesson..."
"You..." Tang Bonian said angrily, "You little beast! I didn't do that for you, why did you use this matter to arrange it for me!"
"Yes, Grandpa Six, I know you are doing it for me, so just break the rules for me again and help us make arrangements. You should let me vent the anger in my heart, otherwise it will be so uncomfortable to hold it in, then Where else can I find the boy once he’s gone?”
Finally, under Tang Ping's hard work, Tang Bonian said helplessly:
"Okay, okay, I'll try..."
"Great, Grandpa Six. There are three of us who want to fight him. The first is me, the second is Mr. Qian, and the third is Lu Pingchuan. Don't get this order wrong."
"Why are there three again? Forget it, girl, you have to promise me one thing. Jin Zhang must be alive after the competition, do you understand?"
"understand!"
