Chapter 47: Qi Training Level 4
Song Wen came out of the corpse cave with a normal expression.
For Song Wen, everything that just happened in the corpse cave was just another show for survival.
As for what Wu Sui just said, let Song Wen choose to go to Yinsha Palace when he became an inner disciple. These have been forgotten by Song Wen.
Of course, if that day comes, Song Wen will not object to going to Yinsha Palace. No matter where he goes, as long as he can live well, it is a good place for Song Wen.
Moreover, Song Wen remembered that Wu Sheng who had bullied him was in the Yinsha Palace. If there was a chance, revenge would still have to be avenged.
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Although dissecting a corpse is full of dangers for others, and there is a risk of contamination of mind and mana at any time, for Song Wen, there is no danger at all.
The mottled blood and residual souls in the corpse cave have become resources for him to practice.
Originally, the corpse dissectors and Yuan Chengdu in the Corpse Dismantling Cave thought that with Song Wen's early stage of Qi training, Song Wen would be contaminated by the mottled turbid Qi in as short as one or two months or as long as several months, and he would go crazy and die.
What shocked them was that Song Wen had been living well and his cultivation was steadily increasing. Unknowingly, he had broken through to the third level of Qi Refining.
Today, it is exactly eleven months since Song Wen joined the Corpse Cave, and it is also one year since he joined the Corpse Demon Sect.
Song Wen, who had just received his monthly salary, received a summons from the sect's Foreign Affairs Hall.
New outer disciples must complete an outing mission every year.
The content of the summons from the Foreign Affairs Hall is that today is the last day, and Song Wen must go to the Foreign Affairs Hall to receive the mission, otherwise he will be severely punished by the sect.
Song Wen hurriedly left the corpse cave and went straight to the Foreign Affairs Hall.
There are not many people in the Foreign Affairs Hall, only a few outer disciples are here to receive tasks.
Song Wen handed his disciple token to an old man and said.
"Disciple Jiyin has met the deacon. Disciple came to receive his annual outing mission."
The old man's cultivation level is not very strong, and he looks like he is at the seventh or eighth level of Qi training. However, he has a lot of backing in the sect, otherwise the lucrative position of deacon of the Foreign Affairs Hall would not fall to him.
The old man raised his eyelids slightly and glanced at Song Wen coldly.
He didn't look down on people like Song Wen who had no foundation in the sect at all.
We need a backend but no backend, we need resources but no resources, and we can’t even squeeze out a little bit of oil or water.
But it's okay, those dangerous sect tasks are just left to these people.
If everyone was a related household, no one would go on those sect missions that would lead to a near-death experience.
The old man began to flip through the mission record book in front of him and began to look for missions for Song Wen.
Song Wen, who was well versed in the ways of the world, saw the contempt and disdain in the old man's eyes at a glance. He immediately felt moved and realized that he should do something.
With a flip of his right hand, Song Wen stuffed the salary he had just received today and the twenty spiritual stones that had not yet been warmed into the old man's hand without leaving a trace.
"The disciple has just started for a year and his strength is low. Please ask the deacon to find a low-risk task for the disciple."
Song Wen said in a very low voice.
As for why he only gave twenty spirit stones, it was not because Song Wen was unwilling to give more spirit stones to bribe the other party, but because considering his monthly salary, it was not easy to give twenty spirit stones. If he gave too many spirit stones, , but will cause unnecessary trouble.
The old man touched the spiritual stone in the bag, and a smile appeared on his indifferent face.
The disciple in front of me is young, but quite sensible.
"The alchemy room has a spiritual grass inventory task that is just right for you. The task location is the poisonous miasma swamp more than two thousand miles northwest of the sect..."
After the old man's introduction, Song Wen roughly understood the content of the task.
The poisonous miasma swamp is filled with miasma that persists all year round. It is highly toxic and naturally dangerous. It is truly an inaccessible place.
But in the poisonous miasma swamp, there is a rather precious elixir called colorful grass growing.
The Colorful Grass is inherently toxic, but it is the main ingredient for refining the Xuan Qi Pill and an important auxiliary ingredient for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill. Its value is extremely precious.
The Poisonous Miasma Swamp falls under the jurisdiction of the Corpse Demon Sect. For the benefit of the sect, the Corpse Demon Sect opened up a spiritual field in the Poisonous Miasma Swamp and arranged for the Yan family, an affiliated family of the sect, to be stationed here.
In order to prevent the Yan family from swallowing the colorful grass privately, the Corpse Demon Sect would send disciples to the Poison Miasma Swamp every three years to take inventory of the year and corresponding quantity of the colorful grass.
There are usually two assigned disciples, and one disciple who is in the late stage of Qi training usually takes one disciple who is in the early stage of Qi training.
Due to the strong strength and cruel methods of the Corpse Demon Sect, the Yan family has never done anything to embezzle the sect's interests, so the inventory of elixirs every three years has naturally become a formality.
This mission is indeed considered a mission, there is almost no dangerous mission.
"Three days later at Chenshi, you go to the alchemy room to find Elder Shen. He will give you the details of the mission. Then you will also meet the fellow disciples who will perform the mission with you. Remember to be on time and not to be late."
The old man added.
Song Wen clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, deacon. I will be there on time."
Song Wen took the mission token and left the Foreign Affairs Hall.
The mission would start in three days, and he took advantage of this time to prepare some life-saving measures.
Although the danger of the mission is extremely low, in the crisis-ridden world of immortality, there is no absolutely safe place.
Half a month ago, he broke through the bottleneck that had trapped him for two full months and reached the fourth level of Qi training. This was the first time Song Wen had felt the existence of a bottleneck since he started practicing.
According to Song Wen's own guess, there are several main reasons why he was able to break through to the middle stage of Qi training in just one year.
First, it was due to his sixth-grade spiritual root qualifications and sufficient cultivation resources.
Second, the magic method is known for its easy entry and fast early practice speed.
Third, the "Corpse King Blood Refining" he practiced is a body training method. Although it is a magic method, the body training method is the same in essence.
All the body training methods in the world are to enhance the cultivator's own Qi and blood by absorbing and refining the Qi and blood of heavenly materials, monsters, or humans, and then refine the Qi and blood into blood essence, so as to warm and temper the body with abundant blood essence, so as to enhance the cultivator's body, and finally break through the limit of the body and achieve the purpose of physical evolution.
Song Wen can directly absorb the Qi and blood of others and condense his own blood essence, which greatly speeds up the progress of Song Wen's practice and saves a lot of hard work.
This is the real reason why Song Wen's cultivation is so fast.
Otherwise, he would never have been able to break through the bottleneck so easily and advance to the middle stage of Qi training. Back then, Ji Yin was stuck at the peak of the third level of Qi training for several years without the opportunity to break through.
At the moment, Song Wen's cultivation level is the third level of Qi training.
His ability to hide his breath is extremely magical. So far, Song Wen has not found anyone who can see his hidden cultivation level.
However, so far, the cultivators Song Wen has come into contact with are mainly Qi training cultivators. As for those with higher cultivation levels, Song Wen has no idea whether they can see his hidden cultivation level.
On the way back to the cave, Song Wen was thinking about his existing means of attack and thinking about what needs to be supplemented.
After Song Wen's long efforts, he finally successfully drew the fireball talisman and the shield talisman. Since he has no shortage of cultivation resources, the two talismans have never been sold. Now he has accumulated more than 50 fireball talismans and more than 20 shield talismans.
Although these two talismans are only first-level low-grade talismans, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.
Song Wen believed that if dozens of fireball talismans were thrown down at the same time, even a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training would have no choice but to avoid their attack.