Mortals' aspirations to cultivate immortality

"It's okay." Song Feichen waved his hand: "You have already mastered these low-level materials. After you participate in the outer sect competition, you can start learning forging and engraving rune formations."

From refining materials to spiritual tools, it is necessary to go through the steps of refining, shaping, engraving rune formations, etc. before a real spiritual tool can be refined.

Lin Yi has only learned to refine and has just taken the first step.

For Song Feichen's arrangement, Lin Yi naturally agreed.

Although Tianhuo Sect is only a Jindan sect, there are many outer sect disciples in the Qi Refining period, as many as 50,000.

However, the quality is not as high as that of Qingyang Sect. The source of Tianhuo Sect's disciples is mainly the mortal cities it controls.

As long as you reach the four spiritual roots, Tianhuo Sect will recruit.

Therefore, the number of foundation-building cultivators has dropped sharply, only a little over a thousand.

Most of these a little over a thousand are still in the early stage of foundation building.

The number of people who can cultivate to the middle or even late stage of foundation building or perfection is decreasing sharply at each level.

Therefore, after thousands of years of accumulation, the Tianhuo Sect only has seven Jindan Zhenren.

The reason why this happened is mainly because the Tianhuo Sect's foundation is insufficient.

The big sects on the Shenwu Continent can ensure that the sharp decline in the structure of cultivators in the sect is not so terrible, mainly because their foundation is strong enough.

Without saying too much, just say that the secret realm that Lin Yi entered when he participated in the Ascension Conference was enough to make countless forces crazy.

That is just the foundation that the sects on the Shenwu Continent can put on the surface.

Lin Yi doesn't know about other sects, just say Qingyang Sect, there are three secret realms that Lin Yi knows about, which are specially used by Qingyang Sect to grow spiritual medicine.

Otherwise, how can the Qingyang Sect guarantee that so many disciples will have foundation-building pills as long as they enter? How to ensure that as long as there are contribution points, they can exchange for the pills they need?

Even the Jindan opportunity is specially cultivated.

This can only be done by those sects with strong enough strength and long enough inheritance.

Back to the point, although there are 50,000 Qi Refining disciples in Tianhuo Sect, most of them will not participate in this outer sect competition.

According to Lin Yi's understanding, there are less than 10,000 disciples who will participate in this competition.

Of course, no matter how many disciples there are, one of the top 100 places belongs to Lin Yi, and no one can take it away.

The day after Lin Yi signed up, the number of applicants came down.

As Lin Yi guessed, only 9,380 people signed up.

The rules of the outer sect competition are also very simple, and they will directly conduct a knockout round. Two-on-two battles, the winner will advance, and the loser will be eliminated.

If there is an odd number of people in the total number, a bye will be decided by drawing lots, and the remaining 147 people in the sixth round will all be issued with foundation-building pills.

Yes, the foundation-building pills that can be obtained in each outer sect competition are not fixed. The number ranges from 100 to 200, and the specific number depends on when the number is below 200.

This simple and rough rule made Lin Yi wonder if the person who made this rule was being lazy.

However, the competition is not over yet. The elimination round will continue until the top ten are decided and generous rewards are given.

It is said that the reward for the first place is still a magic weapon!

For Lin Yi now, magic weapons are almost the same as wooden sticks, and he has no interest in them at all.

Lin Yi's goal in this competition is to advance to the sixth round and obtain a foundation-building pill to make his foundation-building cultivation pass. He will never show too much.

Under the attention of the crowd, the outer sect competition officially began.

The opponent Lin Yi encountered in the first round was a young cultivator of the seventh level of Qi Refining.

When he came on stage and saw Lin Yi's cultivation, his face suddenly fell.

I was thinking about whether I could get a foundation-building pill by luck, but I met Lin Yi as soon as I came. How can I fight like this?

"Junior brother, why don't you go down directly?"

Lin Yi was speechless when he saw that the other party was only in the seventh level of Qi Refining. These disciples are purely here to fish in troubled waters. Although it is not ruled out that some disciples are powerful and can kill enemies above their level, this is still a minority.

The disciple in front of him obviously could not kill the enemy above his level.

"Brother, I, I still want to try!" The young man looked at his fellow disciples who were watching the arena below, gritted his teeth, and took out his spiritual weapon - the middle-grade spiritual weapon Qinggang Sword.

Lin Yi rolled his eyes and took out the Cold Light Sword directly.

The aura of the top-grade spiritual weapon was immediately revealed.

"Top-grade spiritual weapon, that is a top-grade spiritual weapon!"

The disciples below were shocked when they saw the Cold Light Sword.

"It's really a top-grade spiritual weapon. Who is this senior brother? Why haven't I seen him before?"

"There are no more than ten senior brothers who can take out top-grade spiritual weapons. I haven't heard of this senior brother."

"Well, this sword looks familiar."

"It's the Cold Light Sword! Yes, it's the Cold Light Sword!"

"Well? Isn't the Cold Light Sword from Senior Brother Song? How come it's in the hands of this senior brother?"

"Don't you know yet? It is said that a year ago, a senior brother passed Senior Brother Song's test and followed Senior Brother Song to learn weapon refining. This Cold Light Sword should be lent to this senior brother by Senior Brother Song to participate in the competition, right?"

It has to be said that these disciples guessed accurately.

"How about it, junior brother, do you want to try again?" Lin Yi ignored the words of the disciples below, but looked at his opponent with a smile.

When the young man saw Lin Yi take out the top-grade spiritual weapon, he felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a fly: "No more fighting, no more fighting, senior brother is extremely powerful, junior brother is no match for him."

After saying that, the disciple left the ring without looking back.

The deacon who was responsible for being the referee and protecting the safety of the disciples gave the young man a speechless look. He didn't even have the courage to fight. What kind of immortal was he? He should just go back to farm.

No, Tianhuo Sect already had large areas of spiritual medicine gardens for these disciples to plant. Most of the disciples came to Tianhuo Sect to farm.

"Sin, sin." The referee secretly said sin, and then announced: "Lin Yi won this battle and entered the next round!"

There was no cheering, no congratulations, Lin Yi left the ring with a calm face.

The fighting between low-level cultivators was fast, and there were a hundred rings set up here, so the competition went on very quickly.

In the afternoon, Lin Yi started the second round of fighting.

Well, this time the opponent is a little bit better than the last round.

But not much better, he is at the eighth level of Qi Refining Stage, and he has a top-grade spiritual weapon, and he has some experience in fighting. If he were to face another ninth level Qi Refining Stage opponent, he might be able to fight him.

Unfortunately, he met Lin Yi.

Lin Yi was too lazy to waste time, and simply and roughly activated the Cold Light Sword, which burst out a large amount of cold air, and chopped the opponent off the stage with one sword.

"In this battle, Lin Yi wins, and advances to the next round."