Chapter 1440: Coming Out of Seclusion to Pay Respect to the Sect
Northern Sky Territory.
The years passed by, and three thousand years passed peacefully.
Most of the human race that originally lived in the Northern Sky Fragment had completely moved to all the rich places in the Northern Sky Territory. After three thousand years of reproduction and development, the number of human race increased by dozens or even hundreds of times.
Countless human mortal countries began to appear, and correspondingly, there were countless immortal sects. The number of disciples in the four spiritual realms and the ten divine sects increased several times, and this was under the condition that the conditions for recruiting disciples in the four spiritual realms and the ten divine sects were twice as strict.
The fourteen top forces of the human race have all been greatly improved. The immortal cultivation world in the Northern Sky Territory has almost been integrated by various sects and forces of the human race. At this moment, the human race has completely become the true master of this vast area.
Two thousand years ago, Bian Wu Yu, the master of the Fa Ling Territory, successfully advanced to the Mahayana period and became the third Mahayana cultivator of the human race after Huan Tianmou and Fengyun Wujian.
Lu Xuanzhen and Su Hongxuan also made further progress, advancing to the peak and late stages of the tribulation respectively.
Of the original four tribes in the North Sky, only the human race gave birth to a Mahayana cultivator in the past three thousand years. Although the other three tribes also grew in strength, they were still dwarfed by the human race. Although the human race has a short lifespan, its reproduction speed is outstanding among all the major races.
The increase in numbers also brought prosperity to the world of immortal cultivation. Various sects and forces also emerged like mushrooms after rain. At present, the number of middle and high-level immortal cultivators in the human race alone is probably equal to the sum of all other races in the North Sky.
In the past three thousand years, the fastest-growing one is naturally the Mitian Palace. The Great Spirit Venerable has not appeared in the past three thousand years, as if he had disappeared, but the entire Mitian Palace, under the auspices of the Golden Old Man and the Silver Woman, began to recruit disciples. There are only two conditions for joining the Mitian Palace.
That is to say, they have to go through two tests, one is to test the character and background of the people who participate in the trial, and the second is the qualifications for participating in the test.
The first one is okay, basically most people can pass it, but the second one blocks most people from joining Mitian Palace, because this second one requires that anyone who wants to join Mitian Palace must have the qualifications of heavenly spiritual roots.
This condition blocks most people who want to join Mitian Palace.
This point not only makes many human clans dumbfounded, but even the three major spiritual domains and ten major clans are also surprised. The qualifications of heavenly spiritual roots are rare in the world of immortal cultivation, and among mortals with spiritual roots, there is only one in ten thousand.
But even so, Mitian Palace can still recruit tens of thousands of disciples every three years in the entire Northern Sky Domain, which makes many human clans, including the four major spiritual domains and the ten major divine sects, complain.
Because once this condition of Mitian Palace comes out, anyone who is tested to have the qualifications of heavenly spiritual roots will choose to join Mitian Palace instead of choosing them.
What's more terrifying is that every three years, Mitian Palace can recruit several or even dozens of disciples with immortal spiritual roots.
This kind of disciple may not appear even among a million disciples with spiritual roots. Mitian Palace will find ways to recruit any mortal with immortal spiritual roots into the sect, and once they enter Mitian Palace, they will be selected as core disciples, and all kinds of immortal cultivation resources can be said to be open to supply.
As a result, the strength of Mitian Palace suddenly showed explosive growth. In just three thousand years, countless spiritual transformation and virtual refining cultivators were born in the sect, and even dozens of fusion cultivators were born.
This speed of advancement is even beyond the reach of Xiao Lin, who has a spiritual wood space.
During these three thousand years, Xiao Lin has been staying in the Mitian Secret Palace, practicing hard in seclusion, but every five hundred years, he will meet with the old man and the old woman to learn about the development of Mitian Palace in the past five hundred years and the plan for the next five hundred years.
When he learned about the criteria for recruiting disciples in Mitian Palace, he was really shocked. The condition for joining a sect actually set the minimum qualification of heavenly spiritual roots. For him, this was something he had never heard of before.
At the same time, this also proved from the side that the development of the human race in Beitian Territory has been unprecedentedly improved, and the base of the human race has become unimaginably large.
However, after careful consideration, Xiao Lin added another internal entry rule of Mitian Palace, that is, [Heavenly Road Trial]. Anyone who does not have the qualifications to join Mitian Palace but wants to join Mitian Palace can participate in this [Heavenly Road Trial]. Anyone who can pass the trial can be admitted as an exception and join Mitian Palace.
This Heavenly Road Trial was arranged by Xiao Lin himself, with the help of dozens of elders of Mitian Palace who are above the Fusion Stage. There are a total of 36,000 steps, from the bottom of Mitian Mountain, all the way to the front of Mitian Palace, and even across the Eight Diagrams Spirit Palace. This is a test of the extreme physical strength and will of the disciples who join the sect.
Xiao Lin understood that among the three thousand great ways, there was a way for all of them to be passed. Nothing could be completely blocked. There were many ordinary mortals in this world who had spiritual roots, strong wills, and even great luck. Such people would have unlimited achievements in the future.
Just like him, if he encountered such conditions for entering the sect, he would never be able to join the Mitian Palace, but this did not mean that his achievements would be worse than those of those who had heavenly spiritual roots or even immortal spiritual roots.
This is also a backdoor he opened for those who are as firm as a rock. Anyone who can walk on this 36,000-step Heavenly Road can still worship in Mitian Palace and become a disciple of Mitian Palace.
Xiao Lin's words also made Jin Sou and Yin Po suddenly enlightened, and they happily did as he said.
Since then, the opening of the Heavenly Road every three years has attracted countless young cultivators in the Northern Sky Region. They have firm expressions on their faces, looking at the endless and straight-to-the-sky Heavenly Road, and resolutely walked up.
Although only a handful of people can finally walk to the front of Mitian Palace, it also gave countless young cultivators a glimmer of hope. This holy land of the human race does not select people based on spiritual roots, but also leaves a way for those who do not pass the spiritual root test, that is, the Heavenly Road.
In the Northern Sky Region, the disciples of Mitian Palace represent status and honor. Every disciple of Mitian Palace is a beautiful scenery wherever he goes, and all the disciples of the sect will cast envious eyes.
The old man and the old woman also united all the races in the Northern Sky Region to form patrol immortal envoys to patrol the major immortal cities in the Northern Sky Region and maintain basic order. The leaders of the patrol immortal envoys were undoubtedly disciples of the Mitian Palace.
Immortal cities stood in every corner of the Northern Sky Region. These immortal cities were connected by many large teleportation arrays, allowing cultivators to go in and out of many immortal cities, exchange what they had and what they needed, and exchange experiences. With the growth of the human race, the North Sea and the East Sea began to extend outward. Many overseas immortal mountains and nameless spiritual islands that the human race had never set foot on were gradually brought under the control of human cultivators, and many overseas sects also prospered.
Moreover, in the depths of the sea, there are countless fierce beasts and wild ancient beasts. Every item on these fierce beasts and wild ancient beasts is an extremely precious resource for cultivating immortals. Therefore, overseas, immortal cities were built one after another, and many sea areas became the trial places for human cultivators.
Endless overseas immortal cultivation resources are continuously transported into the Northern Sky Region through many immortal cities along the coast.
Xiao Lin, who was immersed in the cultivation in the Mitian Secret Palace, was naturally unaware of this. He was immersed in hard cultivation every day, which made time extremely cheap and passed quickly.
Until a few months ago, the sky above the Mitian Palace was filled with calamity clouds, covering the sky above the Mitian Mountain, and lasted for more than ten days.
The oppressive atmosphere made everyone feel irritated, but the disciples of the Mitian Palace were excited one by one, because they knew that after this heavenly calamity, the Mitian Palace would welcome another top-level cultivator in the calamity period.
In the Mitian Secret Palace, Xiao Lin sat cross-legged, and the treasure light was looming. Above his head, two men were sitting cross-legged in the air. The two men were exactly the same as Xiao Lin below. One of them was shining with green light all over his body, and lightning flashed in it, making a sizzling sound.
The other man was turquoise in color, with a solemn appearance and a looming figure, as if he disappeared into the void in an instant, and then emerged from the void in an instant, repeating this cycle.
What was even more bizarre was that a faint white light flashed on the right hand of the turquoise man. As his right hand gently passed, the figure of the cyan man beside him suddenly stagnated, and even the lightning on his body stagnated. As the right hand of the turquoise man stopped, the cyan man returned to normal.
After an unknown amount of time, the cyan man suddenly opened his eyes, glanced at the man beside him, and a trace of fear appeared in his eyes.
His figure flashed, and as the lightning shot out, he appeared hundreds of feet away. The turquoise on his body slowly faded, revealing a slender figure. He looked at the turquoise man and the man with his eyebrows lowered and his eyes closed, and there was a bit of fear in his eyes.
"Swish, swish, swish~~" Above the void, countless lights suddenly fell from the sky, most of which were green, and a few were light purple.
Each of these lights was originally more than a hundred feet in size, but after falling, they shrank rapidly and soon became an inch in size, condensing into a cloud of clouds, flying to the side of the green man, flickering and moving. Only then could I see clearly that in the cloud of clouds, there were countless small swords about an inch long, flashing with agile light, moving constantly.
The green man's eyes suddenly opened, and the void was brightened at the moment he opened them. He stretched his body and opened his mouth. Countless small swords shot into his mouth like white birds returning to their nests and disappeared without a trace.
He looked up at the void, pinched his hands, and pointed from a distance. Nine purple-green light pillars suddenly fell from the void. With a roar, nine huge purple-green shields fell on the ground around the man, like tall city walls, protecting him in the middle.
At the same time, as his mind moved, a silver light flashed in front of him, and a silver mirror about ten feet in size appeared in front of him. As his hands changed their spells, a light green spiritual light suddenly began to gather on the surface of the silver mirror. When the light condensed to the extreme, a light green light column immediately shot out. The light column shot out only ten feet, and the void in front suddenly cracked. The light column passed through the crack and entered it. The void next to the man suddenly cracked, and a light green light column shot out from it. It only shot out ten feet, and then another crack appeared, and the light column shot into it. This cycle repeated, and soon a huge elliptical aperture appeared above the void.
The light column that originally did not bend unexpectedly formed a circle strangely, which was extremely strange.
Seeing this, the cyan man showed a satisfied expression on his face. With a wave of his sleeves, the silver mirror flew out and flew over his head. It grew bigger and just covered the nine huge shields.
Then the cyan man flashed and shot straight into the void, disappearing without a trace.
The Mitian Mountains are boundless, and there are several mortal empires of mankind alone. The location of the Mitian Palace only covers a range of tens of thousands of miles. In the thousands of feet of void hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Mitian Palace, the void suddenly cracked a crack, and then a cyan figure walked out of it.
The man closed his eyes, as if sensing something. After a moment, he opened his eyes, flashed, took a step, walked straight into another dark crack, and disappeared.
Hundreds of thousands of miles away, the man appeared again, looking forward, with a thoughtful expression on his face, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face, and his figure flashed, and disappeared again.
Beihan Divine Sect.
Standing on a ten-thousand-foot snow peak, it stretches for hundreds of thousands of miles around, and there are ice palaces scattered on the peaks.
Three thousand years ago, the Beihan Divine Sect had only tens of thousands of disciples. Among the ten great sects, it was definitely the sect with the fewest disciples. Because the Beihan Divine Sect was located in the extremely cold north, it was not easy to recruit disciples. Moreover, since it only recruited disciples with water and ice spiritual roots, it also limited its expansion.
After three thousand years of development, the strength of the Beihan Divine Sect has been greatly improved. Due to the rapid increase in the number of human beings, the major secular countries basically have recruitment bases set up by the immortal sects. As one of the ten great sects, the Beihan Divine Sect, coupled with the relationship with Lin Xueying, was assigned at least hundreds of secular countries of the human race.
From these secular countries, the Beihan Divine Sect recruited a large number of disciples, and also reached an agreement with the Huanling Divine Sect and the Yufu Divine Sect. Disciples with water and ice spiritual roots in the jurisdiction of these two great sects will be given priority to the Beihan Divine Sect, while mortals with other spiritual roots within the jurisdiction of the Beihan Divine Sect will be enrolled in the Huanling Divine Sect and the Yufu Divine Sect. Such an exchange can be said to complement each other's strengths and weaknesses.
After all, there are no requirements for the spiritual root attributes of the disciples of the Huanling Divine Sect and the Yufu Divine Sect. Moreover, the two major sects' skills, one focuses on controlling spirit pets, and the other focuses on refining talismans. There are no restrictions on the cultivation of immortals.
In the Hanling Palace, the Jade Spirit Fairy sat high up, and next to her was the young palace master Lin Xueying, who was wearing a white veil. Both of them exuded a powerful aura. In the Jici Temple, three thousand years of seclusion allowed the Jade Spirit Fairy to take a step further and advance to the middle stage of the Crossing Tribulation, while Lin Xueying advanced to the middle stage of the Fusion.
Even Ye Yuexin below broke through the early stage of the Refining Void and reached the late stage of the Refining Void. This was because he needed to cross the small three disasters and thunder tribulation, so he came out of seclusion in advance. Otherwise, even if he advanced to the peak of the Refining Void, it would be very likely.
Below were a group of elders of the Beihan Divine Sect. The lowest cultivation level was also in the late stage of the Refining Void. Looking around, there were at least hundreds of people.
Three thousand years ago, this number would have been reduced by at least two-thirds. It can be seen that the development of the Northern Cold Divine Sect in the past three thousand years has reached an extremely astonishing level.
Suddenly, an extremely cold air shot into the hall from outside the hall, and all the elders looked shocked.
Then, accompanied by a burst of laughter, a turquoise glow shot into the hall from outside the hall. Wherever it passed, the ground froze instantly. Even the elders of the Northern Cold Divine Sect who were close to them all stagnated, and were sealed by a layer of mysterious ice.
Fairy Yu Ling also snorted coldly, stood up, and stretched out her right arm from her robe. She had already pinched the Piaoxue Immortal Technique, and shot out a ray of turquoise glow, which also shot out a ray of turquoise glow, and greeted the turquoise glow that was shot in.
The two rays of light collided, and suddenly the rays of light shone brightly, sweeping in all directions. The main hall of the Hanling Palace was seen to condense layers of black ice at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even the hundreds of elders of the Beihan Divine Sect were mostly imprisoned by the black ice that climbed up their bodies, unable to move, with expressions of horror on their faces.
"Master Yuling, how are you? Xiao Lin came to visit you."