Chapter 1445: Clan Entry Examination (I)
After generations of inheritance, the cultivators of the Soul-Calming Palace also gradually had exchanges and marriages with other soul-cultivating sects, and their skills began to blend.
During this long process, some disciples also left the Soul-Calming Palace and established their own sects or families outside, becoming vassals of the Soul-Calming Sect.
In addition to paying tribute every year, they can still pass on ordinary skills and skills that the Soul-Calming Palace allows to be passed on to their disciples.
But they are often restricted from passing on the secret skills of the Soul-Calming Sect. Once discovered, their entire sect or family will be killed.
Since these people can go out and establish sects, they are basically all talented, and they often create their own skills.
Later, after marrying with soul cultivators other than the Soul-Calming Palace, the strong men of both sides exchanged and created more new skills, which is actually repeating what the immortal sects of various circles have done.
Otherwise, there would not be too many skills in the world, and a few skills would be enough. It’s just that the soul cultivators in the past lived in darkness everywhere and did not dare to really develop.
For a time, the "Earth True Domain" gradually emerged with the shadow of a hundred schools of thought contending from generation to generation, which made the soul cultivation techniques here stronger and stronger, and more and more, becoming a holy place for soul cultivation.
In fact, the reason why the high-level officials of the Zhenhun Palace did this was that many sects had already understood it later.
That is, the Zhenhun Palace hopes to try different techniques to see if there will be unique techniques to break the shackles of heaven and earth here.
If it is found that someone can break through to the Fusion Realm after practicing to the Refining Void Realm without the help of the only special place in the Zhenhun Palace that can be promoted to the Fusion Realm.
Then it means that the other party's technique has the function of opening up a new path, and the Zhenhun Palace will take out that special place and cooperate with the other party.
Maybe, it can open the ban of the "Earth True Domain" and break the restriction of leaving here.
This is also one of the reasons why the Zhenhun Palace did not prevent the disciples from leaving and establishing their own sects. But at the same time, it gave them great restrictions, so that they can continue to innovate and improve.
The techniques were all created by humans, which is why there are so many sects. The plan of the Soul-Calming Palace is actually very long and may not yield any results.
But they have no choice but to do so. When they are desperate, they can always jump over the high walls that they cannot jump over at other times.
Including those foreign soul cultivators, they are not allowed to enter the special area where they can break through to the fusion realm. In addition to consolidating their own power, the Soul-Calming Palace is also squeezing their potential.
No cultivator would be willing to give up and die here after practicing to the Refining Void Realm, so they are forced to reach the fusion realm without relying on external forces.
Otherwise, there is nothing worth looking forward to.
After the appearance of the short and strong man, Li Yan's plan has been adjusted in various aspects.
The sect where the short and strong man is located was established by a disciple of the Soul-Calming Palace who was in the Refining Void Realm tens of thousands of years ago. He himself created a set of techniques that are not too perfect.
Later, in order to quickly solve this problem, the disciple who founded the sect successively accepted two foreign soul cultivators who were involved in this place.
After giving them extremely rich cultivation resources, everyone's cultivation has made great progress through mutual communication.
In the end, these two people became the supreme elders of the sect, and gradually formed a sect with unique skills.
Now, most of the skills of this sect have been obtained by Li Yan for free.
Stealing other people's skills is a taboo in any realm. Once it is known, it will be a fight to the death.
However, Li Yan doesn't care about this. If he doesn't do this, he will only die faster here.
Due to the realm of the short and strong man himself, this sect's skills called "Zhanlingmen" only gave him the final skills of the Nascent Soul Realm.
Li Yan couldn't ask any more.
However, Li Yan could also guess that according to the restrictions of the heaven and earth here, the skills of this sect are estimated to be at most only up to the Refining Void Realm, or even only the Transformation God Realm.
The only technique beyond this realm was the technique brought by the two foreign soul cultivators. I don't know if it was passed down, but after verification here, it was useless.
After he got the technique from the short and strong man, he practiced hard day and night, which made his soul power grow rapidly again.
Finally, according to his understanding of the level of soul cultivation, Li Yan, in addition to comprehensive strength, assessed his soul strength alone, and found that he had reached the strength of the God Transformation Realm.
The reason for all this is that his soul foundation is too solid.
He has never practiced soul cultivation techniques, but it took him less than 20 years of practice to achieve such strength, which is amazing.
In fact, Li Yan didn't care about the increase in his soul strength again in these years. For him, the soul of the Nascent Soul Realm is enough for the time being.
The imbalance between soul art and technique is the shortcoming that he urgently needs to make up. He has a strong soul power, but he can't attack. At most, his soul defense has increased.
Therefore, after learning from the Soul-Slaying Sect's techniques, he finally mastered some soul techniques and finally managed to achieve a minor level of success.
Once he reached this level, Li Yan immediately left the place. He had to enter the Soul-Slaying Palace as soon as possible.
In addition to inquiring about information, entering the Soul-Calming Palace also has another benefit, which is that you have the greatest status in this world, which makes it easier to do things in many cases.
During the flight, Li Yan kept thinking about the plan in his mind, including various plans if he could not enter the Soul-Calming Palace.
At a certain moment, a mountain gate that soared into the sky appeared in Li Yan's sight. The entire mountain gate was dark green, as if it was built with huge and rough bluestone.
The whole mountain gate gave people a feeling of being covered with rich and heavy years.
The mountain gate was thousands of feet high and unknown how wide it was. If you flew in the direction of Li Yan, you could only see one side of the gatepost of the mountain gate.
When there were still hundreds of miles away from the mountain gate, the sky here had become dark, making the towering mountain gate even more in a black cloud.
The wind blew and the fog moved, and the mountain gate gave people a feeling of being far and near, as if it was constantly drifting.
After Li Yan filled his eyes with magic power, he looked up from a high place in the sky, and could occasionally see a few large characters on the mountain gate among the rolling black clouds.
"Zhenhun Palace", these three characters are blue-black, penetrating the blue stone, and each character is a hundred feet in size, like three mountains, embedded in the sky and earth.
The handwriting has been mottled with years, and the blue-black is heavy, and they are deeply embedded in the rough blue boulders covered with moss.
Anyone who sees these three characters will feel a wild and ancient air from the bottom of their hearts, rushing towards them.
As Li Yan kept approaching, he felt that no matter how he changed the direction to approach, the three blue-black characters were like three ghost eyes, staring at him firmly at all times.
The surrounding cold air was getting stronger and stronger. Even with Li Yan's cultivation, his scalp was getting tighter and tighter as he kept approaching the mountain gate, and the coldness in his body was getting stronger and stronger.
Li Yan knew that this was the restriction on the mountain gate, exerting pressure on the coverage area.
The pressure that the Soul-Calming Palace can release is aimed at the three souls and seven spirits of a person. When the souls are suppressed, they will feel the colder.
There are other monks coming and going around Li Yan, and everyone is walking through the surging black clouds.
At this moment, everyone's body seems to be coated with a layer of black ink, like a black shadow that appears and disappears in a piece of ink painting.
Coupled with the boundless cold and dampness around, it seems like a ghost shadow flashed by Li Yan's side.
No one came to talk to Li Yan. Instead, after discovering him, they would deliberately keep a distance, which made Li Fang feel as if he was in a silent space.
Li Yan also had a blank expression on his face. Until he appeared a hundred miles in front of the mountain gate, Li Yan felt that he was pressed directly to the ground by a strong force.
Li Yan fell to the ground. He knew that this was a no-fly zone, which was a common method used by many sects.
Flying is not allowed outside the mountain gate, or there is a warning. Often, everything returns to normal after entering the mountain gate.
One is to warn the newcomers, and the other is to protect the sect.
Seven or eight black figures around Li Yan fell to the ground with him.
But there were still some people in the air. They just glanced at the falling Li Yan and his companions and continued to fly towards the mountain gate.
These people's eyes were either indifferent or playful.
Li Yan knew at a glance that those who could continue to fly must be the monks of Zhenhun Palace...
After Li Yan walked a hundred miles, he finally came to a corner of the mountain gate, near a stone pillar on one side of the mountain gate.
Standing on the ground and looking up, this stone pillar stretched upward into the sky, giving people the feeling of a huge green mountain that looked straight up and down.
Li Yan walked here with several black shadows in front of him. There might be three or two people whispering along the way, but Li Yan was alone.
After arriving here, Li Yan saw that there were already 20 to 30 people gathered in front of the mountain gate, being interrogated by five monks in black robes.
The five people had a strange red flame logo embroidered on their black robes. Wearing a black robe, they gave people a sense of coldness and mystery.
Li Yan stood silently behind the team, moving forward with the crowd little by little. After listening to some whispered questions and answers in front, Li Yan also found out the reasons why some people came here.
Among them, there were monks who wanted to worship in the Soul-Suppressing Palace. They seemed to be outstanding disciples of some sects, and were led by the elders or sect masters of their own sects.
More were monks from shops who came to conduct various transactions.
The five people asked very carefully. After each person was registered one by one, a disciple in a black robe would walk out of the mountain gate and lead those people into the mountain gate and disappear.
About a cup of tea later, it was finally Li Yan's turn.
A woman in her thirties looked Li Yan up and down. She was also good-looking. Li Yan saw that she was a Jindan cultivator through the fluctuations of her soul power.
Guarding the mountain gate with a Jindan cultivator was only in the fairy world.
After sensing the aura emitted by Li Yan, the woman's pretty face showed a little respect.
"Senior, what do you want to do here?"
"I want to join the Zhenhun Palace!"
Li Yan was also straightforward, and his expression did not change much.
"Oh? Which sect are you from?"
Although the female cultivator was surprised, her pretty face did not show any strange expression.
Although there are many sects in the "Di Zhen Realm", there are many monks who want to enter the Soul Soul Palace in the end. Some of them are recommended by the sects, and some come to pass the examination on their own.
These people are basically monks of Transformation God and below. If they are a Void Refining monk, it is extremely rare and is especially valued by Zhenhun Palace.
"I am a casual cultivator. My ancestor was a monk of the Soul-Slaying Sect. After leaving the sect, I have been practicing in a remote place!"
"Slayer Sect? That sect is not weak. If you want to join our sect, you must pass the examination."
When the female cultivator heard the name of the sect from Li Yan's mouth, she just nodded slightly.
She didn't ask why Li Yan didn't recognize his ancestor and return to the sect. Since the other party's ancestor left the Lingzhan Sect, he had his own reasons.
Li Yan already said that he went to a remote place. Either his ancestors were ostracized by others in the sect, or they had "ambitions". Now that they have gotten so messed up, their descendants will have no shame in going back...
What Li Yan said was a more detailed plan remade after searching the stocky man's memory.
The Lingzhan Sect has been inherited for more than 100,000 years. There are countless monks who have left the sect. He doesn't even need to change his surname. No one will check whether any monk named Li has left the sect in the past 100,000 years. .
What Li Yan wants is that he comes from a decent background. Once he performs his spells, some of the Soul-Slaying Sect spells he performs can be explained away.
"I know all this, so I'll trouble this fellow Taoist!"
Li Yan just said a few words lightly, with an expression that was already clear to him.
"Then I will register for senior now, but I still want to say that once senior passes the examination, he can only enter the 'Yi Que Hall'.
In the future, some of the required training resources may be more difficult to obtain than other halls, especially some secret techniques, which still depend on the contribution of the seniors to the sect.
Then, it must be evaluated by the elders before it can be purchased. These are all things that the seniors need to know in advance. "
The female cultivator didn't know whether Li Yan knew everything about the situation before he came, but she explained the restrictions one by one after Li Yan entered.
"Oh? I wonder what kind of contribution is required?"
Of course, Li Yan already understood a lot of things, but he wasn't too clear about some of the specific rules in the Zhenhun Palace.
"For example, if you have improved an elixir, or a certain skill, or killed at least ten evil spirit monks of the same level outside, etc., a dedicated deacon will inform you of these matters after passing the assessment."
After half a stick of incense, Li Yan was taken to a large stone room a hundred miles inside the mountain gate by a disciple.
In the stone room, Li Yan looked around. He clearly heard that there were people who wanted to worship in Zhenhun Palace, but he didn't see them here.
He didn't fly very fast just now, and he didn't know if he was delayed intentionally. Li Yan guessed that there were more than one assessment place.
Behind a large table, there was only a young man with a very gloomy face. The young man was reading an ancient book in his hand.
The disciple who came with Li Yan immediately put a "soul slip" in his hand on the table as soon as he entered the room, saluted the young man, and left without saying a word.
Li Yan looked around and saw that the disciple who led him over did not instruct him how to do it.
In fact, there was no need for instructions at all. There were only two people in the room, namely him and the young man behind the long table opposite.
The young man slowly raised his head, but did not put down the book in his hand.
Li Yan sensed that the other party was also a monk in the Yuanying realm, but he might be in the late Yuanying stage.
"Early Yuan Ying monk!"
The young man glanced at Li Yan first. After saying this, he picked up the "soul slip" on the table in front of him without waiting for Li Yan's reply, and then the soul power sneaked into it.
Soon, the young man raised his head.
"Fellow Daoist Li, the assessment is very simple. You enter the room on one side. Inside is a formation. I will adjust the difficulty of the formation assessment according to the level of fellow Taoist.
After you enter, there will be a stick of incense time, and there will be layers of attacks in the formation. You can try your best to break the formation. Finally, the assessment results will be judged based on how many restrictions fellow Taoists can break!
What I want to say is that this kind of assessment is dangerous and can even lead to direct death. Therefore, I can see the entire process of breaking the ban, fellow Taoist, please know this.
Because I want to ensure that at critical moments, I can stop the operation of the formation in time to protect the lives of fellow Taoists. "
The young man looked at Li Yan and said slowly.
"no problem!"
Li Yan nodded.
When the other party saw the process of breaking the ban, it was not only to protect the monks inside, but also to observe the status of the techniques he used.
This is also to confirm whether Li Yan told lies when registering outside.
After seeing that Li Yan had no problem, the young man stood up with a smile.
"Fellow Daoist Li, please come with me!"
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This is a space of ice and snow. In front of you is a vast plain of ice and snow. The howling cold wind is rolling up the ice and snow all over the sky, and is rolling towards Li Yan.
Li Yan could feel the bone-chilling chill here, as if he had really arrived in an extremely cold place.
He stood there and did not move his body immediately. The other party just said that after entering here, there would be a formation prohibition attack, but Li Yan didn't know what attack it was.
Unable to use his spiritual sense, he could only look around vigilantly and be on guard carefully.
After practicing some soul cultivation techniques, Li Yan understood the viciousness of soul cultivation more clearly.
In the past, he could use soul techniques to attack. Now, except for the "pulling soul to kill", which was considered a real technique, the methods he figured out were extremely crude.
To put it nicely, his set was considered an attack. To put it bluntly, he was just a big fool who had a lot of strength but picked up a big stick without any rules when facing the enemy and swung it around.
Not only did he waste a lot of energy in vain, but the effect he could play was also extremely limited.
Those real soul cultivation masters, after attacking the enemy, can make a person look intact, and even make that person talk and walk normally.
But in fact, that person may have been just a walking corpse!
Li Yan just stood here, but after standing there for more than ten breaths, there was no attack. There was only endless wind and snow around, filling the entire sky and earth, and endless coldness came.
"Hmm? No..."
The protective light shield on Li Yan's body suddenly glowed, causing the snow that rolled on his body to fall off.
In just ten breaths, Li Yan felt that his consciousness was a little dull.
Moreover, the coldness here did not decrease due to the operation of his magic power, but it seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.