Chapter 1265: Sect Entry Examination
The inner disciples of the Immortal Sword Divine Sect are divided into ordinary inner disciples and core inner disciples. The difference between the two is even greater than the gap between outer disciples and inner disciples.
If the resources for cultivating immortals that ordinary inner disciples can obtain are more than ten times that of outer disciples, then the resources for cultivating immortals that core inner disciples can obtain are definitely more than a hundred times that of ordinary inner disciples.
It can be said that the inner core disciples are the core of the Immortal Sword Divine Sect and the focus of cultivation of the sect. As long as they become the inner core disciples, it is almost certain that they will condense the Nascent Soul. There is also a high probability that they will impact the God Transformation and advance to the Refining Void.
This is why the recruitment of inner disciples every year will attract a large number of low-level cultivators who have condensed the sword intent to participate. Of course, in order to prevent some middle and high-level cultivators from sneaking into the Immortal Sword Divine Sect and defrauding resources, there are also threshold restrictions for candidates, that is, the realm must be lower than the Golden Core Stage, and the bone age must not exceed 30 years old.
Of course, these problems are not difficult for Xiao Lin. When he reached the Refining Void Stage, he could completely illusory his own bone age, and he could illusory into any age group at will.
Moreover, in order to allow Bai Xingge to join the Immortal Sword Sect, Xiao Lin even used the Holy Scale Burning Heaven Technique to forcibly reverse Bai Xingge's bone age. At this moment, unless there is a Tribulation Patriarch who personally investigates the two, it will definitely not be discovered.
After all, for most cultivators in the Refining Void Stage, although the Immortal Sword Sect is powerful, there is no need to switch to another sect.
Even so, in order to prevent some high-level cultivators from infiltrating the Immortal Sword Sect, before recruiting, it is necessary to investigate the spiritual consciousness and mana realm of the cultivators to eliminate this hidden danger.
For these, Xiao Lin has already considered them very carefully. In short, the three Tribulation Patriarchs of the Immortal Sword Sect will not be able to discover the true realm of the two.
The second trial project for the Immortal Sword Sect to select inner disciples is to examine the spiritual root qualifications of the trialists.
At this point, Xiao Lin can also use the Bu Tian Sutra to virtualize the immortal roots, return to the original nature, and transform them into spiritual roots. Of course, it is not really transformed into spiritual roots, but a kind of illusion.
So Xiao Lin is not worried about this.
The third item is to test the participants' understanding of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, which is purely the threshold set by the Xianjian Divine Sect.
Every time the inner disciples are recruited, the number of participants is an astronomical number. Even if the Xianjian Divine Sect has a wide mountain gate and many resources for cultivating immortals, there is always a limit, which requires the control of the sect disciples.
The purpose of this third assessment is exactly this.
After all, the realm of sword intention and spiritual root qualifications cannot be changed flexibly, but this third item, the assessment of the skills of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, is the focus of the focus.
Xiao Lin was also prepared for this.
Along the way, Xiao Lin and Luffy's casual chat also gave him a general understanding of the origins of the brother and sister.
It turns out that both of them were from a great family of immortal cultivators, and there were even senior members of the family who were in the Void Refining Stage. However, over the past few hundred years, the family has fallen into decline. Not only have the several superior immortal cultivation books collected in the family been lost, but by the time of Luffy's generation, the talent has dwindled. The strongest person in the family is only a great cultivator, and he will also die in two or three hundred years.
It was not until the birth of Luffy's sister that their family was given hope. Lu Cai'er not only had the qualifications of an earthly spiritual root, but also, when she was thirteen years old, she unexpectedly condensed the sword intent in the Twelve Sword Tombs by chance, and it was a transformed sword intent. This really made everyone in the Lu family overjoyed, and they almost spent all their resources to buy elixirs. In just seven years, she advanced from the third level of Qi Refining to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.
Not only that, Lu Caier, at a young age, also showed amazing talent in making talismans. She was able to refine primary talismans at the age of fifteen, and now she can refine primary fusion talismans. She has also cultivated a primary fire spell to the state of great perfection.
So after some family discussions, they decided to send Lu Caier to join the Xianjian Divine Sect. As long as she can successfully join the Xianjian Sect, within a few hundred years, the strength of their Lu family will be greatly improved, and it will also greatly reverse the current embarrassing situation.
So the two of them came to Jianyuan Mountain from a remote town millions of miles away after years of traveling.
Fortunately, the two of them came in time and did not miss this trial.
Soon, the four of them came to the front of the Sword-asking Peak. When they really stood in front of the Sword-asking Peak, the four of them felt the majesty of the mountain. At the same time, bursts of cold air emanated from the sword peak of the mountain, just like the sharp sword energy.
Even if they were several miles apart, they could still feel it clearly.
Xiao Lin looked at the couplet on the Sword-asking Peak in surprise. The sharp sword energy came from the couplet, which was a thousand feet long, and each word was more than a hundred feet long.
Moreover, Xiao Lin judged that this couplet was clearly written by someone with supreme sword energy, penetrating the mountain. This person's realm and understanding of the sword way have reached the pinnacle, and even Xiao Lin sighed that he was inferior to him.
There were already crowds of people in front of the Sword-asking Peak. It was unknown how many people had gathered within a range of hundreds of miles, and these people were all cultivators who had condensed the sword intent. Xiao Lin roughly estimated that there were at least hundreds of thousands of people.
The number of inner disciples recruited by the Xianjian Divine Sect every three years is only a few thousand. The probability of successfully joining the inner sect of the Xianjian Sect is about one percent.
You should know that all the cultivators who come here to participate in the inner sect trial are cultivators who have condensed the sword spirit. They are one in a hundred or even a thousand miles. So the combination of the two makes the probability so small that it makes people feel outrageous.
This made Xiao Lin think of the cave trial that year, which was also extremely cruel. The road to immortality is full of thorns at every step.
The so-called success of a general is the sacrifice of thousands of bones, which is a good reflection of the road to immortality. For cultivators, if they are not careful, they will become one of the thousands of bones.
Although many people gathered in front of the Sword Peak, it was terribly quiet. Even Luffy, who was very familiar with people, closed his mouth and showed a bit of tension in his eyes.
Lu Cai'er, who was standing by, was sweating on the tip of her nose. As the hope of her family, she naturally valued this trial more. If she failed, she couldn't even imagine the complaints or even abuses she would suffer.
On the contrary, Bai Xingge, who was standing beside Xiao Lin, looked calm. Not only his eyes, but also his expression, looked indifferent, which made Xiao Lin secretly shake his head.
This Lord Bai Zun from the mortal world had already reached the realm of swordsmanship, and he was born for swordsmanship. It can be said that the Immortal Sword Divine Sect is really suitable for this great swordsman.
If he hadn't suffered trauma and lost his memory during the ascension process, his current swordsmanship realm would probably be higher than his own.
In his opinion, sending Bai Xingge to the Immortal Sword Divine Sect was definitely an opportunity for the Immortal Sword Divine Sect.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but laugh in his heart, because he also knew that Bai Xingge's talent would certainly stand out in the Immortal Sword Sect, but it would also inevitably bring him a lot of trouble, but this was all after he recovered his memory.
Everyone waited quietly from noon to dusk.
Until a night passed...
The next day, just after dawn, the morning sun was blocked by the mountain and had not yet peeked out, but there was already a noisy sound in front of the Sword Peak.
It turned out that at some point, several figures appeared on the bridge on the hillside of the Sword Peak.
The leader was an old man in his fifties, with a kind face, carrying an ancient sword behind him, and his gray hair looked a little messy, but his face was as rosy and shiny as that of a newborn baby.
Next to him was a young man in his thirties, with sharp eyes and a domineering aura. He also carried a sword on his back and stared at the people below with a look of contempt in his eyes.
Behind the old man were two boys, a boy and a girl, who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old. They each held a sword, and one could vaguely see the spiritual light emerging from the sword.
"Spiritual treasure?" Xiao Lin saw at a glance that the swords held by the two sword-holding boys were all spiritual treasures, and they were mid-level spiritual treasures.
Not only these four people, Xiao Lin also noticed that two groups of people appeared at the foot of the two peaks of the Sword-asking Peak and set up two trial test points. In the center of the Sword-asking Peak was a young man with a cold face. In front of him was a gray-black rock about ten feet in size, with three words written on the rock: [Sword-testing Rock].
Xiao Lin understood that the trial selection of the inner disciples of the Immortal Sword Sect was about to begin.
"You have come from afar to participate in the entrance examination and trial of the inner disciples of our Xianjian Divine Sect, which is enough to prove your firm desire to become immortal."
At this time, the fifty-year-old man on the top of the Sword-asking Peak spoke.
He paused, looked at the heads moving below, and continued: "Since you have come to participate in the examination, you should naturally know the items of the examination. Those who want to participate in the entrance examination must first circulate the sword intent and strike a blow on the sword-testing rock to verify the condensation of the sword intent and evaluate the level of the sword intent. After completing the first assessment, they will enter the second item, testing the spiritual roots. The disciples recruited by our sect are all selected from thousands of miles away. Only those who have at least earth spiritual roots can enter the third assessment. If they can pass the third assessment, they can join our Xianjian Divine Sect and become a "Inner sect disciples."
Looking around, the old man continued, "As for the inner sect core disciples, they need to have sword intent that reaches the level of transformation or above, and get the first grade in the third assessment to be qualified. In addition, during the assessment, you need to pay attention to the discipline on the spot. Anyone who disrupts the order and makes noise will be disqualified from the trial."
"Now, I announce that the assessment has begun."
As the old man finished speaking, he also announced the start of the trial. Many cultivators who participated in the sect entry trial went to the two Xianjian Shenzong disciples on the right to receive the number plates and register their names and origins.
Soon, a long line formed.
Xiao Lin also pulled Bai Xingge into the line.
The people who received the number plates walked to the sword test rock and lined up in a long line.
The first person who received the number plate came to the sword test rock. After the Xianjian Shenzong invigilator indicated that it was time to start, he walked to the sword test rock with a little nervousness, and then closed his eyes.
After a moment, a faint white light flashed between his eyebrows, and a white sword shadow flashed by as he swung his sword.
"Clang~" a sound of metal clashing sounded.
There was not even a trace of it on the sword test rock.
"Fake sword intent, the trial failed." The invigilator glanced at the sword test rock and said indifferently. The voice was not loud, but it clearly flowed into everyone's ears.
When the man heard that the trial failed, he couldn't help but sighed and turned away secretly.
"Fake sword intent?" Hearing this name, Xiao Lin was slightly stunned. What did fake sword intent mean? He was a little puzzled.
At this time, the second person also came to the sword test rock, pinched the sword, and gradually emerged a trace of sharpness on his body, and a faint white light emanated from his body.
As he exhaled and spoke, a sword light flashed by.
"Clang~~"
Xiao Lin clearly saw that the sword energy of this person slashed on the sword test rock, sparks flew everywhere, but no traces were left.
"Fake sword intent, the trial failed." The same voice spread again.
"So that's it." After this observation, Xiao Lin finally understood that the reason why the previous two people failed was that they did not really condense the sword intent.
The so-called sword intent is a kind of sword energy condensed by the combination of spirit and energy, and the sword energy is driven by the sword's intention, so it is called sword intent, and it is also called sword heart by many people in the world of immortal cultivation.
This leads to the fact that the so-called sword intent is actually somewhat illusory. The initial combination of spirit and energy can also condense sword energy that exceeds the power of ordinary sword energy, but this kind of sword energy is not the sword energy driven by the real sword intent.
This kind of sword energy is called fake sword energy by the disciple in charge of the Immortal Sword Sect.
In fact, it was not wrong to accuse the two of them. This sword-testing rock was a test of the sword intent. Unless a mark could be left on it, it could not be considered as the real sword intent.
The third participant in the trial was a young man in his twenties. He was slender and wore a green Taoist robe. His neat facial features looked a bit gloomy because of a bean-sized black mole at the corner of his eyebrow.
He came to the sword-testing rock, pinched the sword formula, and a fiery sword energy suddenly burst out of his body. A pale red spiritual light began to flow out, and soon an orange-red sword energy appeared on his right hand.
The sword energy gradually condensed and soon turned into an orange-red sword light.
His momentum continued to rise. After a moment, it seemed to have reached its peak. He suddenly shouted, and the orange-red sword light in his hand flashed away.
"Swish~~" Wherever the sword light passed, a half-inch crack was cut on the sword-testing rock. The crack only lasted for a moment and then disappeared without a trace.
This sword-testing rock actually has the ability to repair itself. It seems to be a treasure of the immortals.
"First level 100 refinements, passed." The invigilator looked at the sword-testing rock and said indifferently.
The man's face immediately showed a surprised expression. He bowed to the invigilator and then walked towards the test of spiritual roots.