Chapter 41: The Opportunity to Form a Pill; True Disciple

"Disciple understands!"

After hearing Fang Yuechan's words, Su Ming immediately understood that in the next few years, the Guiyuan Sect and the Hehuan Sect would be ready to take action against the Yuling Sect, which had the upper hand.

How can it be so easy to get an extra 10% of the income for nothing?

No matter which sect has the upper hand, it will be targeted by the other two sects. A temporary lead is meaningless. Who can complete the "killer" in the end and establish the victory is the key.

Seeing that Su Ming understood, he continued:

"The tasks issued by the sect on the front line during the Lingshi Mine War are roughly divided into three types..."

"The first is the garrison mission. This mission has the least combat merit and the highest security. It only needs to defend the stronghold and use the stronghold formation to resist the enemy's offensive. Most of the time, there is no need to face the enemy's offensive..."

"The second type is the bounty mission. In addition to the normal merits of killing enemies, some monks with outstanding performance will be on the battlefield bounty list established by the Jindan monks. If you kill these monks, you can obtain the additional merits of the monks who are being rewarded. ..."

"The third task is naturally the siege task of destroying the stronghold. Once completed, all the monks participating in the task will receive a lot of military merit..."

After talking about the three tasks, Fang Yuechan suddenly turned to look at Su Ming, her eyes sharp and her tone serious.

"This time when you rush to the front line, I have only one request from you as a teacher!"

"Three thousand battle merits. When you gather three thousand battle merits, you can leave the front line and return to the sect to practice."

When Su Ming heard this, he was immediately startled. He looked at Fang Yuechan in disbelief and said, "Master, are you kidding me?"

"How can I, a rookie who has just broken through the foundation building stage, have the ability to collect three thousand battle achievements?!"

Knowing that he was going to the front line, Su Ming was naturally not unprepared. He had gathered a lot of information about the front line battlefields and had a general understanding of the difficulty of obtaining military merit.

First of all, war merit is not transferable. To collect three thousand war merit, you can only accumulate it by completing sect tasks.

If it was a garrison mission, Su Ming would have to stay on the battlefield for more than thirty years if he wanted to collect three thousand battle merits.

The premise is that the war can continue for another thirty years.

If it were a bounty mission, there would be no combat merit for a foundation-building monk to kill a monk in the Qi refining stage. Only by killing a monk of the same level could he gain combat merit.

Excluding the monks on the bounty list, the sect clearly stated the price, killing the monks in the early stage of foundation building would cost 100 meritorious deeds, 200 in the mid-term, and 300 in the later stage.

In order to collect three thousand battle merits, Su Ming had to kill thirty early-stage foundation-building monks.

But among the foundation-building monks who dare to come to the frontline battlefield, who doesn’t have some self-protection methods at the bottom of the box? How can it be so easy to kill these monks?

You must know that most of these foundation-building monks on the frontline battlefield are sect foundation-building monks. They have no shortage of skills to inherit, and their strength is not comparable to that of the "poor" foundation-building casual cultivators in the Jiang Kingdom.

Moreover, among these monks, there are also Jindan direct disciples who have come to the frontline battlefields to gain experience, or direct members of the Jindan family. Their strength, means, and net worth are not inferior to Su Ming's.

Even if he has a lot of cards, he can only protect himself on the ever-changing frontline battlefield. If he wants to take the initiative to hunt down enemy cultivators, the danger will suddenly increase a lot.

As for the final siege mission, it was the most difficult and dangerous mission among the three missions. Su Ming did not consider it at all.

"My teacher, let me ask you, how sure are you about achieving the Golden Elixir Avenue in the future?"

Seeing Su Ming's appearance, Fang Yuechan was not surprised. She naturally knew how difficult it was for a monk in the early stage of foundation building to collect three thousand battle merits.

Su Ming fell silent after hearing Fang Yuechan's question.

"Without the help of elixir-forming spiritual beings, the disciple is only 20% sure of forming a golden elixir..."

After pondering for a moment, Su Ming answered honestly.

The higher the cultivation level of the Immortal Cultivator, the more difficult it is to break through to the great realm. Guiyuan Sect, as the Yuanying sect, has 20,000 disciples in the Qi refining stage and only about 1,000 foundation-building monks.

However, there are only a dozen or so people in Jindan Zhenren's public presence, which shows how difficult it is to form an elixir.

The 20% certainty was due to Su Ming's knowledge of the Tao and the foundation building, possessing the Formation of Water Virtue, and the accumulation of all aspects of the foundation. Only then could he dare to say that he was 20% sure of forming the elixir.

Fang Yuechan nodded. Her judgment on Su Ming was also about 15% to 20% chance of forming a pill.

"You also know the situation in the world of immortal cultivation in Jiang State. Unless you leave Jiang State or go deep into the Kunwu Mountains, 90% of the alchemy spiritual objects are controlled by the three sects, and the remaining 10% are the most common ones such as 'Heavenly Fire Liquid and Xuanling Water' The elixir-forming spiritual creature..."

"What's more, without the help of the sect's resources, the possibility of you getting a pill-forming spiritual object is very slim..."

"The 30% certainty is not low for other monks in the foundation building stage. It is worth a gamble..."

"But as a personal disciple of my master, you are also a person who has learned the Tao and built a foundation. If you can win the support of the sect, you can get a golden elixir, which will increase the chance of forming the elixir by 30% out of thin air. There will be a half chance of breaking through the golden elixir stage!"

Fang Yuechan looked at Su Ming calmly and said in a serious tone: "If you want to win the golden elixir within the sect, the minimum requirement is to become a true disciple of the sect..."

"Three thousand battle merits are the battle merits required for the position of true disciple in this battle merit exchange, and are also your 'tickets' to compete with your fellow disciples for the golden elixir in the future..."

"Now, in the next two hundred years, the greatest opportunity for the sect's foundation-building monks is right in front of you. If you give up, with the longevity of the foundation-building monks, you will not be able to wait for the second batch of gold-forming pills..."

"To seek the way of immortality is to go against the will of heaven, just like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat!"

"Talents emerge in every generation. If you don't seize every opportunity to climb up, you will only become a stepping stone for other cultivators, spend your life in vain, and finally achieve the great way for others..."

"You must fight inside the sect and outside the sect!"

"Spirit stones, magic tools, elixirs, natural treasures... If you want to go further on the path of Taoism, you can't avoid fighting with others and fighting with heaven!"

At this point, Fang Yuechan's eyes were like swords, and her tone was full of sharpness: "Master, let me ask you one more question, do you really want to let go of this opportunity?!"

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The days on the Guiyuan Boat were dull and short. Due to environmental restrictions, the cultivators could not calm down to practice at all. Just like this, a month passed in a flash.

During this period, Su Ming took turns to control the Guiyuan Boat three times. In the rest of the time, apart from resting, he was comprehending the "True Explanation of the Way of Talismans", practicing the True Soul Flame and the Hidden Spirit Technique, and did not miss any opportunity to improve.

After Fang Yuechan finished her last sentence, she left the deck without waiting for Su Ming to answer, apparently ready to let him make his own choice.

Verbal words are meaningless, Fang Yuechan only cares about how Su Ming behaves on the battlefield!

In this regard, Su Ming can only take one step at a time.

If there is a way forward, Su Ming does not mind stepping on the corpses of the two sects to take a step further and become the true disciple of the sect in Fang Yuechan's words.

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