Chapter 148 The new sect’s assessment, the shadow of the second senior brother
On the nineteenth day of the winter month, everything goes well.
Changchun Sect’s new sect assessment has also officially begun.
The scale of the sect’s assessment this time is particularly large. Changchun Sect announced to the outside world that it would recruit a hundred inner disciples and a thousand outer disciples.
Therefore, as early as a few days ago, the inn in Shanxiafang City was full of mortals.
Today is the first day of assessment, and the assessment officially begins.
Lin Chen saw thousands of fifteen or sixteen-year-old children climbing towards Changchun Mountain with excitement on their faces.
What is different from the last sect assessment is that this time Lin Chen is no longer a young man climbing up.
He became an assessment elder watching the young man climb up at the top of the mountain.
In the disciple square, dozens of sect elders gathered together, pointing at the projection array in front of them.
What is displayed in this formation is the climbing scene of the disciples below.
"Tsk, tsk, the quality of the disciples this time is good! There are also many people participating in the assessment, and it has exceeded 20,000 people on the first day." One of the assessment elders said with emotion.
"That's natural. After all, the sect's assessment three years ago was cancelled, so there are more mortals coming to participate this time."
"This assessment lasts for seven days, and its scale is unprecedented. It's so big, I'm afraid the number of mortals participating in the assessment will exceed 100,000."
Lin Chen sat quietly in the corner, looking at the scene in front of him, and heard the chatter of these elders in his ears.
At this time, in the screen.
Just like a few years ago, many fifteen or sixteen year olds were talking and laughing as they climbed up the mountain.
Most teenagers don’t know how to conserve their physical strength. After climbing a thousand meters, they will gradually fall behind.
The higher you go, the fewer teenagers climb.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Lin Chen felt a little emotional.
"In a year of frequent wars, every monk is in danger, not to mention the foundation-building monks...even the alchemy-forming monks cannot completely protect their own lives."
"But these mortals still want to go there. A disciple of the Immortal Cultivation Sect wants to become an immortal... Why?"
"In fact, compared to monks, the situation of mortals is worse..."
Lin Chen thought silently in his heart. road.
In the world of immortality, the weak eat the strong.
Monks regard mortals as nothing more than trivial matters.
Powerful monks regard weak monks as pigs and dogs.
The so-called "You can become a member of my generation only after you have cultivated the Golden Elixir", I guess it was said by a certain Golden Elixir monk, which means that until you reach the Golden Elixir stage, you are not the same person as him.
Lin Chen understood this truth when he first traveled through the world of cultivators, encountered robbers who robbed caravans, and massacred mortal villages.
And then to the Jade Belt City later... millions of mortals, only less than 100,000 people remained in just a few months.
Ninety percent dead.
Most mortals do not have the ability to compete with the world of immortality.
If you want to have the power to protect yourself, there is only one way, and that is to become a monk.
"Alas, after all, there are still only a few people who can cultivate immortality..."
"Half of them have spiritual roots; and most of these half have miscellaneous spiritual roots... There are less than one tenth of the monks who can truly practice.”
"But there are only one percent, or even one in a few percent, of monks who can succeed in cultivation..."
Looking at the scene of these young people climbing up, Lin Chen felt a little compassion in his heart.
Whether it is the righteous way or the devil's way, almost all monks have one belief:
"If heaven does not give it to me, I will take it myself!"
A person who practices Taoism is essentially It is the process of contending with heaven and earth...
At this time, an idea suddenly came to Lin Chen's mind.
“I introduced the cultivation of immortality in the world of immortality to Daxia, and changed the world of martial arts...”
“Then, can I promote martial arts to the world of immortality?”
Obviously, it is possible.
In the world of high martial arts, the conditions for cultivating immortality are very harsh.
It requires spiritual energy, transplantation of various elixirs, and mastery of various inheritances in the world of immortality...
However, it is very easy to learn martial arts in the world of immortality.
After all, physical cultivation has existed in the world of immortality since ancient times.
Moreover, martial arts does not require spiritual roots. The aura of the immortal world is of great help to martial arts practice. The martial arts talents of mortals in this world are far superior to those in the world of high martial arts.
The only thing missing is a breathing technique.
If Lin Chen taught the breathing method to mortals, perhaps within a few years, he would be able to create a group of warriors comparable to foundation-building and Qi-refining monks.
Even, for this reason, he came to form a force of warriors in the world of immortality...
Once this idea came out in Lin Chen's heart, it was like a tide and was out of control.
But soon, Lin Chen calmed down.
“Promoting martial arts in the world of immortality naturally has great potential...”
"But, for monks, maybe this is paganism?"
"At this time, the stakes are too high to be implemented easily. We still have to go back and discuss it with the Martial Arts Palace to make a long-term plan..."
Lin Chen thought silently.
This is actually not difficult to imagine. From the perspective of monks, they practice hard and have a sense of contempt for mortals and a sense of superiority over all living beings.
If suddenly, those Muggle mortals who cannot practice have power comparable to them...
As the ultimate source, Lin Chen would most likely offend most of the monks in this world and even be hunted down.
“Therefore, until we have enough power to protect ourselves, we have to hide this idea for the time being.”
Lin Chen looked back at the scene of mortals climbing mountains in front of him.
A few hours passed and it was almost afternoon.
More than 99% of the teenagers have been kicked out.
At this time, of the more than 20,000 young mountaineers, only less than 200 were still persisting.
Most of these teenagers are fourteen or fifteen years old and have strong bodies.
Some come from a family of cultivators. They have been taking medicinal baths to nourish their energy since childhood, and their bodies are far better than ordinary people.
Some are from small villages and are hunters in the mountains.
Although he does not have abundant resources, he has hunted since he was a child and can occasionally eat mountain delicacies, and his physical fitness is far superior to that of ordinary people in Blue Star.
Even so, for these teenagers, the mountains of several thousand feet are still difficult to enjoy.
Until evening, more than a hundred teenagers climbed onto Changchun Mountain.
After climbing the mountain, some of them hugged each other and cried, and some danced happily.
For them, reaching the 30,000th level of immortality is the turning point that changes their destiny.
Soon, an assessment elder stepped forward and announced:
"Everyone, congratulations on passing the first level."
"Tomorrow, the assessment for the 30,000th level of immortality will continue, and everyone's spiritual root qualifications will be tested at the same time..."
"Now please Everyone went to the temporary disciples’ residence to rest.”
Soon, these more than a hundred mortal teenagers were taken to the disciples’ residence.
Lin Chen also completed today’s mission and returned to Dan Peak to practice.
In the next few days, the entrance examination was carried out smoothly.
By the sixth day, nearly 100,000 mortals had participated in the 30,000-level climb to immortality.
But only a few thousand people can pass.
The pass rate is about one percent.
Those who pass the first level of assessment will be reduced by about 20%.
In the end, only more than 800 disciples met the spiritual root standards and were able to join the Changchun Sect. Among them, there were about 70 or 80 people with double spiritual roots or above who were qualified to join the inner sect.
After receiving the master's order, Lin Chen did not extend an olive branch to any of his disciples.
Dan Feng had no plans to recruit new disciples, and Lin Chen wasted no time in talking and just stayed in the corner as a transparent person.
……
Until the afternoon of the seventh day, the last day of assessment.
At this time, this assessment has come to an end.
On the last day, there were more than 10,000 young climbers.
But as evening approached, they were still holding on, with less than a hundred people left.
Lin Chen stayed in the corner, yawning out of boredom. When he glanced at the formation screen with his peripheral vision, he saw a somewhat familiar figure.
"This young man looks familiar..."
Lin Chen muttered.
On the screen, the young man who was paying attention to Lin Chen was wearing coarse clothes, with his hair neatly tied back.
With a strong build, he looked like a boy from the village, not from a family of cultivators.
"Elder Liu, can you show me the assessment roster?"
Lin Chen said, and the house elder on the side quickly handed over a roster.
After Lin Chen searched for a while, his eyes quickly locked on a name.
"Zhou Tieshan...is it really him?"
Lin Chen narrowed his eyes and his memory returned to that day more than five years ago.
That was the first time Lin Chen left Changchun Gate. He and his senior brother Cen Wushan went on a mission to encircle and suppress a group of robbery cultivators.
On the way, the senior brother was afraid that he would be tired, so he rested in a village.
Coincidentally, that small village was Zhoucun, the village where Lin Chen had just traveled to the immortal world and met Jiexiu.
That day, out of interest, Lin Chen casually tested the spiritual root of a young man.
The result is a single spiritual root of earth type.
That is Zhou Tieshan in front of me...
"It has been more than five years, and Zhou Tianshan is almost fourteen years old this week..."
Lin Chen muttered.
From an eight or nine-year-old kid to a fourteen-year-old boy, it goes without saying that his appearance has changed a lot.
Lin Chen could recognize it, and he really felt that the young man's temperament was somewhat familiar...
"This simple temperament, and that look in his eyes..."
Lin Chen Looking at the young man in the picture, he took a deep breath.
"Similar, so similar..."
"Zhou Tieshan is so similar to his second senior brother..." Looking at the formation screen, Lin Chen suddenly fell silent.
He still remembered the conversation he had with his second senior brother when he was in Zhoucun.
“People who practice Taoism pay attention to the word fate...”
"Between a peck and a drink, there is a certain destiny..."
After being silent for a while, Lin Chen murmured:
"So, second senior brother, is this fate?"
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Lin Chen's heart moved slightly. He followed his master's order and had no intention of recruiting disciples for Danfeng.
But seeing the shadow of his second senior brother on Tieshan this week, Lin Chen had other ideas...
"However, let's see what this young man says? We have to ask the master if he is willing to..."
"More than five years have passed, and I don't know if he still remembers me?"
Lin Chen thought silently in his heart.
Next, Lin Chen’s eyes focused more on Tieshan this week.
Although Lin Chen left some pills behind when he left Zhoucun.
But compared to those young men from a family that cultivates immortality, Zhou Tieshan's physical fitness is still much worse.
However, Lin Chen saw a look of perseverance in Zhou Tieshan's eyes.
Although he struggled to climb, he conserved his energy as much as possible and made the final sprint towards the top of the mountain.
One step, two steps...
The steady steps and the sweat on his chin made Lin Chen think of himself back then.
...
Finally, until the sun completely sets.
Zhou Tieshan climbed to the top of Changchun Mountain, and there were about a hundred teenagers with him.
At this time, the assessment elder also stepped forward and announced:
“The current Changchun Sect entrance examination ends here!”
"Everyone, please rest for the night. The spiritual root test will begin tomorrow."
The teenagers followed the assessment elder to the temporary disciple residence.
Zhou Tieshan stood in the crowd, looking left and right, as if looking for something.
Lin Chen did not come forward to talk to Zhou Tieshan, but returned to Danfeng.
He decided to ask the master for his opinion.
...
Danfeng, alchemy room.
Lin Chen told Han Jihai about Zhou Tieshan.
After hearing this, Han Jihai was silent for a while and asked:
"Chen'er, you mean... does this young man look very similar to your second senior brother?"
"The name also has the word "山" in it..."
Han Jihai murmured to himself, with some waves in his eyes.
People who practice Taoism believe in the word fate the most.
But after the death of his second senior brother, Han Jihai also lost his mind to accept any more disciples.
After decades of hard work raising him, Han Jihai treated every disciple as a relative.
Cen Wushan's death hit him hard.
After being silent for a long time, Han Jihai just sighed and said:
"If that child intends to worship at Danfeng, please bring it to me and have a look..."
"I have to see what the child's character is like..."
Lin Chen nodded after hearing this and didn't say much.
......
The next day, Disciples Square.
Hundreds of disciples gathered together and began the spiritual root test.
By noon, the spiritual root test was halfway through.
There are quite a few disciples with dual spiritual roots among these hundreds of disciples. Unfortunately, those with single spiritual roots have not appeared yet.
Until the assessment elder announced:
"The next tester is Zhou Tieshan."
Among the crowd, the muscular Zhou Tieshan walked out and after looking around, he felt a little bit in his heart. Lost.
Finally, he walked onto the spiritual testing platform and placed his hands on the spiritual testing stone.
As the dazzling light flashed, a brown light pillar rose into the sky until it was ten feet high.
The elder who was testing the spiritual roots was stunned for a moment, and then said quickly:
"Zhou Tianshan, the best single spiritual root!"
For a time, the entire disciple square was boiling.
“Tsk, tsk, it’s actually the best single spiritual root! Look at this light, it’s only one step short of the earth spiritual root level, right?”
“It’s still an earth spiritual root, that’s right. What a good young man to join Zhenfeng! ”
The elders around him were talking a lot, and the disciples were even more envious.
A few formation elders on the side were even more excited and smiled from ear to ear:
"Haha, the top-grade earth element single spirit root is a good seedling! It is better than the original Li The talent of Zhen Gan is even better, and our Zhen Peak wants this disciple!”
Soon, the elders of the Fourth Peak of Dan Zhen Fu gathered together and began to prepare for enrollment.
Lin Chen thought for a while and stood with these elders.
After seeing Lin Chen, Elder Wang of the Formation Peak said with a smile:
"Senior Brother Lin, are you preparing to recruit disciples at Danfeng this year?"
A few days ago, Lin Chen didn't even It was the last day that I came to recruit students. This made Elder Zhenfeng a little confused.
After hearing this, Lin Chen smiled and said:
“I saw a disciple today, and I am a little interested. I just don’t know if he is destined to my Danfeng... If he is destined, I will earn the income on behalf of the master. Danfeng is a closed disciple.”
After hearing this, Elder Wang nodded.
But then he felt something was wrong, and muttered:
"If you are interested...it can't be that Zhou Tieshan, right?"
Thinking of this, Elder Wang felt something in his heart Bad feeling.
At this time, about twenty inner disciples were choosing the main peak where they would worship.
Elder Wang decided to strike first, so he came to Zhou Tieshan and said:
"Zhou Tieshan, do you have any plans to worship at my formation peak?"
"My formation peak is the Changchun Gate. The First Great Peak, you have earth spiritual roots and are very suitable for the cultivation of formation..."
However, Elder Wang has not finished speaking yet.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Tieshan ignored him and walked to Lin Chen.
With six points of excitement and four points of uncertainty in his eyes, he asked:
"You...are you the Changchun Sect Immortal Chief who passed by Zhoucun back then?"
Lin Chen laughed after hearing this. He smiled, but he didn't expect this kid to still remember him.
So he nodded and said:
“I didn’t expect that you would have grown so big after five years.”
Seeing Lin Chen's admission, Zhou Tieshan was pleasantly surprised and said quickly:
"Can the Immortal Chief accept me as a disciple? I would like to worship the Immortal Chief as my teacher..."
Lin Chen shook his head after hearing this. Said:
“I am not the master of the peak, and I have no intention of accepting a disciple...”
“However, I am a disciple of Dan Peak. If you are willing to worship me, you can become me. Junior brother..."
When he heard the first half of the sentence, Zhou Tieshan felt cold in his heart.
In the past five years or so, he always remembered Lin Chen's kindness, and even learned from his parents that Lin Chen was the immortal who saved their Zhoucun seven years ago.
So he was determined to become Lin Chen’s disciple.
But after hearing Lin Chen say that he could not be a disciple, but could become a junior disciple, Zhou Tieshan was satisfied.
So he quickly said:
"Brother, I would like to worship at Danfeng."
After hearing this, Lin Chen nodded slightly and said:
"That's fine, you are destined to be with me at Danfeng. I will take you to meet me. Master, it seems that I am willing to accept you as my disciple..."
After hearing this, Zhou Tianshan was very willing.
On the side, a group of elders, including the elders of Zhenfeng, felt sad after seeing this scene.
Well, you Danfeng, this sect assessment has not made any move to recruit disciples.
As a result, the best disciple was taken away as soon as he took action...
A group of elders looked at each other and finally gave up helplessly.
Today’s Danfeng cannot be compared with the past.
Leaving aside the fact that Han Jihai, the leader of Dan Peak, is now a Dan Peak cultivator, his status in Dan Peak has skyrocketed.
Let’s just talk about Lin Chen...
These elders can see Lin Chen’s growth for all to see.
In just seven years, he grew from a mortal to a foundation-building Dzogchen monk.
Coupled with the fighting prowess Lin Chen showed in the sect competition a few years ago, how could these sect elders dare to snatch disciples from Lin Chen?
I’m afraid that even if we go together, it won’t be enough for Lin Chen...
What's more, these elders also know that Lin Chen is not far from the Dan Formation Realm.
If he was interested in becoming the sect leader, he would probably be the most powerful competitor for the sect leader of the Changchun Sect.
Thinking of this, several elders hurriedly stepped forward and said:
“Congratulations to Elder Lin for gaining a junior disciple!”
“Congratulations to Danfeng for gaining another good disciple! ”
Since he can't be accepted as a disciple, the elders from other peaks will naturally want to come over to gain favor with him.
Lin Chen smiled and responded one by one:
"Brothers, I have to go back and ask the master for his opinion this time..."
"I will stay here soon. . ”
After hearing Lin Chen’s words, these elders were disgusted again.
They couldn't wait to offer sacrifices to such top-notch single-spiritual geniuses.
But when they arrived at Danfeng, they actually had to ask before deciding whether to accept him or not...
With a smile on his face, Lin Chen took Zhou Tieshan to Danfeng and brought him to the master.
"Master, this young man is Zhou Tieshan, look..."
(End of this chapter)