Chapter 520 Fighting for Resources
Such rules seem good, but after hundreds of years, the Five Elements Alliance found a new problem.
Although the immortals pursue the way of longevity, they are not without desires. These grassroots forces often have disputes with each other for their own development. At the beginning, the Five Elements Alliance would come forward to help these forces resolve the disputes, but as time went on, such disputes became more and more frequent, and the Five Elements Alliance finally decided not to intervene in their disputes.
However, no matter who destroyed whom, the forces that inherited these resources would continue to "pay tribute" to the Five Elements Alliance. In this way, the Five Elements Alliance not only had fewer troubles, but also did not reduce the income of spirit stones. In order to expand, some forces would even promise to increase the proportion of "tribute" to the Five Elements Alliance disciples who collected tribute. The Five Elements Alliance naturally accepted it with pleasure. As for those destroyed forces, they were not considered.
This method, which seems to be able to increase the income of the Five Elements Alliance, has a serious problem. After hundreds of years of development, the Five Elements Alliance found that several super-large forces gradually emerged in the sea area under its jurisdiction. They continued to annex the small forces around them and continued to grow themselves.
Moreover, these large forces even formed an alliance, gradually reducing the proportion of "tribute", and even began to exclude and expel the tribute-collecting disciples sent by the Five Elements Alliance in private.
In this way, the balance of power in the sea area controlled by the Five Elements Alliance was gradually broken. After feeling the huge threat from these forces, the Five Elements Alliance began to take action.
The Five Elements Alliance began to clear out the surrounding forces with thunder and lightning. This battle lasted for a hundred years. Those large forces all collapsed and disappeared, but the Five Elements Alliance also suffered heavy losses and was seriously injured. It also caused the two major forces of the surrounding Yushui Palace and Liudao Kuimo Palace to be ready to take the opportunity to invade and divide the Five Elements Alliance.
However, the Yushui Palace and the Liudao Kuimo Palace have always been at odds, and there have been many private fights. They understand that although the Five Elements Alliance has been seriously injured, its foundation has not been lost. Once any party goes to war with the Five Elements Alliance, the Five Elements Alliance will basically be defeated without suspense, but this will also lead to the Five Elements Alliance's desperate resistance. Even if the Five Elements Alliance can be destroyed, it will inevitably be injured. When the other party attacks from the side, the entire pattern of the Eastern Territory will undergo earth-shaking changes.
This does not include the Liangyi Aurora Palace and Xiankong Island, which have been eyeing them secretly.
Therefore, under the stalemate between the Yushui Palace and the Liudao Kuimo Palace, no one took the initiative to take action. The Five Elements Alliance, which got a chance to breathe, took the opportunity to recuperate and re-divided the sea areas that originally belonged to those major forces, and divided them into more than 100 pieces according to the number of resources and islands.
In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, a force constantly strengthens itself by constantly annexing the surrounding forces. The Five Elements Alliance stipulates that a physical refining conference will be held every hundred years. The ranking of the conference will determine the allocation of these resources to these forces. Moreover, through the physical refining conference, the owners of these forces will change every hundred years, so as to prevent a certain force from becoming too powerful.
In this way, the sea area under the jurisdiction of the Five Elements Alliance has become calm again. With the gap between the Yu Shui Palace and the Liudao Kui Mo Palace, the alliance has vigorously developed its own forces. After hundreds of years of development, the vitality of the Five Elements Alliance has gradually recovered.
This is the origin of the physical refining conference. The physical refining conference is held every hundred years. Hundreds of forces each recommend a physical refining practitioner to compete. According to the final ranking, the more than one hundred areas will be reshuffled. Therefore, these forces attach great importance to the physical refining conference held once every hundred years. They cultivate some disciples with physical refining talents at all costs, just to make a splash at this physical refining conference, preserve or even gain greater benefits for themselves.
For the body refiners who participate in the body refinement conference, they can be immortal cultivators or ordinary mortals, but no matter which type, as soon as they go on stage, their mana will be suppressed, and their spiritual consciousness will be imprisoned. In addition to the physical body, they cannot use any other means.
Hearing this, Xiao Lin finally understood the origin of the body refinement conference thoroughly, and admired the management method of the Five Elements Alliance. Through this body refinement conference, not only can the hatred of the rich among these grassroots forces be appeased, but also they can compete with each other and be suspicious of each other. In this way, there will be no super-strong forces that can threaten the existence of the Five Elements Alliance.
Xiao Lin also learned from the young man that most of these grassroots forces exist in the form of families or sects, and whether it is a family or a sect, there are at least Jindan cultivators, and some of the forces have Yuanying cultivators sitting in.
However, even if there are Yuanying cultivators in charge, they dare not use force to oppress other forces. Otherwise, once they are reported to the Five Elements Alliance, they will be completely wiped out even if there are Yuanying cultivators in charge.
Xiao Lin finally understood why the body refining technique was popular in the area controlled by the Five Elements Alliance. Even when walking on the streets of the Immortal City, Xiao Lin could see many low-level cultivators and even ordinary mortals who had practiced body refining.
But most of the people who practiced body refining were only at the initial stage of body refining. Very few people could reach the middle level, and most of them were lower and middle grades. As for the middle-level body refining masters above the upper grade, they were rare.
After understanding the whole story of the body refining conference, Xiao Lin waved his hand and let the young man leave. He showed a thoughtful expression on his face. He was also quite interested in the way of body refining. Over the years, he would take a blood yang pill every few days to improve the quality of his own blood and qi, and on the other hand, to improve the body's functions and strengthen the body.
Although Xiao Lin has not been able to practice body refining for so many years, his physical strength, according to Xiao Lin's estimation, can at least reach the level of an elementary middle-grade body refining practitioner.
However, Xiao Lin has been suffering from the lack of superior body refining techniques, which has prevented him from making any progress in body refining for a long time.
In addition, Xiao Lin has not collected all the materials for the Quhuo Pill recipe. After so many years of deliberate collection, he still lacks several rare materials. This Quhuo Pill is a special elixir for improving physical fitness, but it is a pity that Xiao Lin has not been able to refine it.
In addition, there is the essence and blood of the Golden Black Dragon Turtle in Xiao Lin's hand, which can be used to refine the "Golden Blood Pill" used for body refining. Unfortunately, he does not have the recipe of the "Golden Blood Pill".
It is precisely because of these twists and turns that Xiao Lin has not made any progress in body refining. In addition, he has focused his main energy on refining magic weapons and practicing several secret techniques, and he really has no time to think about body refining.
Now that the body refining conference is held, Xiao Lin has a little interest. This body refining conference will definitely gather a lot of body refining practitioners. Maybe they will have some superior body refining techniques. Of course, if someone has the recipe of the "Golden Blood Pill", he will definitely buy it at any price.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin can't help but head towards the south of the city, wanting to try his luck.
The venue of the Body Refining Conference was a huge square that was a thousand feet long. There were ten ten-foot-high arenas on the square. Each arena was tens of feet apart and ten feet wide. When Xiao Lin arrived at the square, the entire square was already crowded with people and very lively.
A rough estimate showed that at least tens of thousands of people gathered in the entire square. On one side of the square, there was a stand where several people from the Five Elements Alliance sat, obviously the hosts of this Body Refining Conference.
Xiao Lin's eyes swept across the stands, and a surprised expression suddenly appeared on his face, because there was Che Lanxin on the stands. When Xiao Lin was looking at Che Lanxin's figure, Che Lanxin seemed to have a sense of it. She suddenly turned her head and saw Xiao Lin in the crowd. She smiled at Xiao Lin.
After a while, a disciple of the Five Elements Alliance came to Xiao Lin and said a few words in front of him. After a little thought, Xiao Lin followed the disciple of the Five Elements Alliance and came to the stands.
"Brother Xiao, I didn't expect you to be interested in watching this body refining conference. Most of the people who participate in this body refining conference are body refining practitioners sent by some sects and families. More than 90% of them are ordinary mortals. They spend their entire lives using various secret techniques to improve their physical strength in order to win a good ranking for their sects or families in this body refining conference. Most of the people who came to watch before, except for a few immortal cultivators, are ordinary mortals."
Che Lanxin came to Xiao Lin and said with a smile.
Xiao Lin naturally understood what Che Lanxin meant. After coming to this body refining conference, Xiao Lin also noticed that the many people on this side of the stands, except for a few Jindan cultivators, are mostly in the foundation building stage, with as many as hundreds of people. Obviously, these people are leading the body refining practitioners of their own forces to compete for rankings.
"Xiao was originally strolling in the fairy city, but I didn't expect to run into many people rushing to the south of the city. Out of curiosity, I followed them to see, and I didn't expect to run into Miss Lan Xin again."
"So that's it. This body refining conference is indeed very important to the many forces under the Five Elements Alliance. After all, if they can't get a place, some of the existing regions and resources may have to be handed over to others. Therefore, they will send the most powerful body refining people to participate in the competition. It is precisely because Lan Xin is about to hold the body refining conference and can't spare time that she discussed with my friend to delay the time to go out to sea to find the multi-treasure hundred-eye beast, which made Brother Xiao wait for a long time." Che Lanxin said the latter part, already through the sound transmission method, obviously did not want to be heard.
Xiao Lin nodded after hearing this. This time is nothing to him. Moreover, after half a year, the bald man of the black turtle clan will probably relax his search for himself, which is also a good thing for him.
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