Chapter 402: Heavenly Spirit Realm Star Spirit Sect
In the eastern part of Tianling Realm lies a huge mountain range called Wuyun Mountain. This majestic mountain range covers an area of nearly one million miles in radius, with countless famous mountains and lakes.
In this mountain range, there are more than a dozen large spiritual veins scattered around, among which there are one or two top-notch ones that are well-known in the entire Tianling Realm.
It is precisely for this reason that this mountain range has attracted many cultivator families and sects to settle here. In this mountain range, there are five or six sects that are ranked among the best in Tianling.
Among them, the most famous sect is the Xingling Sect, which is also the strongest.
It is said that tens of thousands of years ago, this mountain range was once the home of the Xingling Sect and was completely occupied by this sect.
During its heyday, this sect was also ranked among the top ten sects of the human race.
But later, when its founder was said to have passed away, the sect completely declined.
Without the presence of a fusion monk, it would be impossible to monopolize such a mountain range.
Therefore, the Xingling Sect wisely gave up many interests in this mountain range step by step. In the end, they only controlled a few spiritual veins that barely matched their strength, as well as some mines, spiritual medicine production areas, etc.
As a result, a large number of other sects moved to this mountain range. Most of the sects and families that moved here were initially led by Void-Refining cultivators.
This is also a necessary condition for the Xingling Sect to give up its interests, that is, the forces that can join the Wuyun Mountains must be at the Lianxu level.
Without the Void Refining Level Force, one is not qualified to enter the Wuyun Mountains.
As a result, over the past tens of thousands of years, dozens of forces have moved here one after another.
However, a considerable number of these forces initially had Void Refinement Monks, but later these Void Refinement Monks fell.
Without the Void Refining cultivators, these sects and families would have no choice but to rely on forces like the Xingling Sect that have Void Refining cultivators.
This is the only way to ensure that they will not be driven out of the mountains.
Thus, over tens of thousands of years, this pattern was formed in the Wuyun Mountains.
There are five or six sects such as Xingling Sect that have cultivators practicing the Void Refining Technique, and a large number of small sects and immortal cultivation families depend on them.
Although the Xingling Sect is still the strongest sect in this mountain range, so much time has passed after all, and their reputation is no longer as strong as before.
Since the reputation is no longer as great as before, the standards in many aspects have to be lowered step by step.
For example, the standards for recruiting disciples are very different from before.
During the heyday of the Xing Ling Sect, if one wanted to become a disciple, one had to have at least dual spiritual roots, or a special physique.
But now, in recent years, the standard for Xing Ling Sect to recruit disciples has been lowered to three spiritual roots.
Even some cultivators with pseudo-spiritual roots can join the sect as long as they show some special talents in making talismans and refining weapons.
It seems that even in the spirit world, there is not much difference from the human world in terms of recruiting disciples.
Although if a cultivator like Ye Changsheng wants to advance to the realm of refining emptiness, he must complete the five elements of spiritual roots and harmonize the power of the five elements in the body before he can succeed.
However, this does not mean that cultivators with five spiritual roots will receive preferential treatment in the spiritual world.
No one wants it, and no one wants it.
The reason is very simple. The resources consumed in training a cultivator with five spiritual roots to the Spiritual Transformation Stage can be used to train a large number of cultivators with the same level of natural spiritual roots.
If that’s the case, why should we cultivate the five spiritual roots just for the slight advantage of advancing to the realm of refining emptiness?
A cultivator with natural spiritual roots can also complete his spiritual roots, all he needs is four transformation demon pills.
Although humans and demons are in an alliance, it is not impossible to obtain the transformation demon pill, because the demons themselves are secretly selling this thing.
It is not difficult for a Jindan cultivator, especially one at the peak of Jindan who is about to reach the threshold of Lianxu, to buy a few level ten demon pills by spending a little spirit stones.
Or, if he lowers his requirements and buys a few level eight or nine demon pills, that would be easier.
If that doesn't work, you can go find those high-level ancient beasts, hunt them, take their demon cores and refine the core spirit roots.
In short, it is not a difficult task to complete the spiritual roots in the spiritual world.
Since the cost is so small, the sects in the spiritual world will definitely not spend huge amounts of resources to cultivate the five spiritual roots just for the slight advantage of advancing to the realm of refining emptiness.
Moreover, there are so many people with the five spiritual roots in the human race that it is impossible to cultivate them even if one really wants to.
Therefore, even in the spiritual world, fake spiritual roots are still not wanted by others.
Of course, the spiritual world finally gave a way out to the pseudo-spiritual cultivators.
After all, it is relatively convenient to practice in this world, and it is not to build a foundation and form a pill.
You can even cultivate further. In the history of the human race, there have been people who cultivated to the fusion stage with five spiritual roots and made a great name for themselves.
Moreover, they also left behind some skills that can only be practiced by cultivators with five spiritual roots. There are various miraculous rumors about these skills circulating among the human race, inspiring those cultivators with five spiritual roots.
After Ye Changsheng ascended to the spiritual world, he occasionally heard such legends.
Every time he heard these things, some interesting thoughts would arise in his mind. He thought to himself that if one day, a cultivator with five spiritual roots accidentally obtained such a technique, he would step into the world of cultivation and rise step by step.
This is a standard template for a good-for-nothing protagonist who rises to prominence!
Of course, the rise of such losers in the spiritual world is still a minority after all. After all, among the high-level cultivators of the entire human race, there are still very few cultivators with pseudo spiritual roots.
Because of these reasons, when the human sects in the spiritual world recruit disciples, the requirements for spiritual roots are not much different from those in the human world.
In fact, because of the larger population, the standards for accepting disciples are much higher than in the human world.
A sect like the Xingling Sect, which has millions of Qi-refining disciples, recruits disciples every ten years, and each time recruits hundreds of thousands of disciples.
Even though their requirement is to have three spiritual roots or above, they can easily reach the target number of disciples each time.
This shows how densely populated the human race in this spiritual world is.
Recently, it is time for Xingling Sect to open its doors and recruit disciples.
At the foot of the mountains near Xingling Sect, groups of young people flocked in.
Ye Changsheng appeared in the crowd and walked on the mountain path with a group of Qi Refining cultivators.
Looking around, most of the people here are teenage boys and girls.
Judging from Ye Changsheng's appearance, he is not considered old among this group of people. At least he looks to be in his early twenties.
The reason why Ye Changsheng appeared here was naturally because he wanted to sneak into the Xingling Sect to investigate the situation.
Ever since that day when he saw the white-haired old man in his team use the Star Spirit Purple Flame and learned about the situation of the Star Spirit Sect from him, Ye Changsheng had the idea of coming here to take a look.
He originally wanted to ask for more details before coming back, but unfortunately, the old man died in the last mission in Taishou Mountains.
Therefore, he had no choice but to run to Tianling Realm and inquire about the details of Xingling Sect before running back here.
Now, ten years have passed since he completed the mission in Taishou Mountain. During these ten years, in addition to improving his magic power, Ye Changsheng also tried to create the Taiyi Huaqing Talisman.
After spending a large amount of materials, he finally succeeded in making several Taiyi Huaqing Talismans, and only then did he feel at ease to come to the Xingling Sect.
Since this Xingling Sect was most likely founded by Xinggong Patriarch, it is likely that it contains the subsequent skills that Ye Changsheng needs.
After all, judging from various legends, the Star Palace Patriarch was already a cultivator at the fusion level.
His martial arts skills are of vital importance to Ye Changsheng.
Although, with Ye Changsheng's background in the Star Palace in the human world and his practice of the Heavenly Star Technique, it seems like a good choice for him to directly reveal his identity to the people of the Star Spirit Sect.
But after careful consideration, Ye Changsheng gave up this idea and chose to pretend to be a Qi-refining cultivator to infiltrate the Xingling Sect.
The reason is simple, he doesn't want to cause too much trouble.
The strongest among the Xingling Sect is the Lianxu cultivator. With the Taiyi Huaqing Talisman that Ye Changsheng had just refined, he could easily sneak into the important places of the Xingling Sect.
Especially places like the Sutra Repository.
Go there, find the skills you want, and then take them away.
If I reveal my identity, it will cause a lot of trouble.
It takes a long time just to get through the identity authentication stage.
After all, although he practiced the Heavenly Star Art, how could others know where this Heavenly Star Art he practiced came from?
It is possible that he inherited it from the Star Palace, but it is also possible that he destroyed the Star Palace Patriarch's Taoist lineage in the lower world, snatched this technique and practiced it successfully.
There are too many possibilities, so people may not believe what he says without any evidence.
If Ye Changsheng was the leader of the Xingling Sect, and suddenly one day someone came and said that he was a cultivator who grew up in the Taoist tradition left by the Xinggong Patriarch in the human world and successfully ascended to heaven, he would also have doubts.
It's been tens of thousands of years, how come you are the only one who has successfully ascended? Isn't the probability of ascension too small?
In fact, in the minds of the people in the Xingling Sect today, the Taoist tradition of their ancestor in the lower world has most likely been destroyed long ago.
Otherwise, how come no one has been able to ascend for such a long time?
You must know that with the strength of the Taoist tradition left by the ancestors, there will be absolutely no problem in cultivating a cultivator who has reached the state of Divine Transformation.
In this case, the identity of this incarnation cultivator who claims to be the descendant of the Star Palace is quite suspicious.
Even if Ye Changsheng told them that something was wrong in the human world, they might not believe it.
Moreover, who knows whether the Heavenly Star Art he displayed is the real Heavenly Star Art?
There are so many miraculous skills in the spiritual world, it is not impossible to imitate one of them.
This person might be someone sent by the hostile forces to infiltrate.
Therefore, just on the entry level, Ye Changsheng has to face so many troubles.
Even if his identity problem was finally solved and he was successfully admitted.
What happens after he enters the sect? Will the Xingling Sect treat him like a treasure?
Impossible!
Just look at the treatment of ascended monks in Tianyuan City and you will know that an outsider like Ye Changsheng would definitely be excluded if he joined the Xingling Sect.
People are afraid that he will come up and fight for power and seize the interests that belong to them !
Even those Void-Refining cultivators of the Xingling Sect had a broader vision and truly recognized Ye Changsheng and were willing to train him as the future of their sect.
It is also impossible to pass on the master's skills to him right away.
After all, it is impossible for the Xingling Sect monks to recognize him immediately when they meet him. It will take several hundred years of observation before they can recognize him.
This is the prudent approach.
How can you easily cultivate a person as your confidant without spending a long time carefully observing him?
Ye Changsheng did not think that the high-ranking officials of the Xingling Sect were fools who would pass on the Xinggong Patriarch's skills to him as soon as they met.
And he didn't plan to stay in the Xingling Sect for hundreds of years to gain their recognition.
So, he planned to sneak in directly and steal the skills!
He would only consider joining the Star Spirit Sect if it was truly impossible to steal.
After all, the value of the Xingling Sect to him was only its martial arts techniques, nothing else.
After all, it is just a Void Refinement Sect. If there is a cultivator at the Fusion Stage, Ye Changsheng joining it can provide him with certain protection.
The medicinal resources that Xingling Sect can provide are far inferior to those in Tianyuan City. Ye Changsheng can buy the most precious elixirs here in Tianyuan City.
Perhaps the Star Palace Patriarch left behind some trump cards, but Ye Changsheng had no chance of getting access to such things.
Therefore, based on these reasons, he simply pretended to be a Qi-refining cultivator, intending to sneak into the sect.
With his level of cultivation, it would be easy for him to deceive those people who were recruiting disciples for the Xing Ling Sect.
Even if a Divine Transformation cultivator appeared in front of him, he would not be able to see his problem.
It is actually very difficult for an outer disciple in the Qi Refining Stage to be noticed by a disciple in the Spirit Transformation Stage.
So Ye Changsheng stayed at the foot of the mountain and waited.
As time passed, more and more young men and women appeared at the foot of the mountain. Ye Changsheng took a rough look with his spiritual sense and found that there were millions of Qi-refining cultivators here.
This made him smack his lips .
In the end, I don’t know if only one tenth of these people were able to get started.
Ye Changsheng demonstrated his talent in his original dual spiritual roots, and concealed it with the Dan spiritual root refined in his body and his bone age.
This is not a difficult task.
A few days later, rays of light finally appeared on the mountain. Some Xingling Sect monks in the Foundation Establishment and Core Formation stages flew out and guided the Qi Refining monks gathered at the foot of the mountain to huge squares.
More than a dozen squares easily accommodated millions of people.
Then, on the square where Ye Changsheng and others were, a white-haired old man who had reached the Jindan stage came out and shouted in a loud voice:
"Next, all cultivators with true spiritual roots or above are requested to enter the path of self-examination on the right hand side of this old man. This is the first test for you!"
"Those with fake spiritual roots should not try to sneak in. Otherwise, if something happens that your cultivation is completely destroyed, we in the Xingling Sect will not be responsible!"
After the old man finished speaking, figures immediately walked out of the crowd and headed towards the path of self-examination.
