In the Yunxiao Mountains with a radius of thousands of miles, there are a total of nineteen peaks that are named Tianzi. These peaks all have fourth-order spiritual veins and are scattered around the mountain range, like nineteen bright stars.
The moon surrounds the huge Yunxiao Mountain.
Among them, Tianlu Peak is the most special.
There are two special features.
First, it is the shortest. Other Tianzihao peaks must be over 1,000 feet high, but this peak is only 770 feet high. Whenever clouds and fog gather in the Yunxiao Mountain area, this peak is always
Under the sea of clouds, it is so vast and invisible that many outsiders don’t know that the Yunxiao Sect has such a fourth-level spiritual vein.
Second, it is the ugliest. Which of the mountain peaks where practitioners live is not covered with mountains and green hills, with myriads of atmospheres, like a fairyland? Only this mountain has fourth-level fire-type spiritual veins and earth-fire lava beneath it.
The mountain is full of dark black rocks, or dark red flames erupting. There is almost no grass growing, and it is as bare as a disfigured woman.
Although such an environment is suitable for the practice of some fire monks and for refining elixirs and weapons, it is not a safe place to live after all, so the sect moved a hill of only three hundred feet nearby. p>
After several generations of management, this mountain named Xianglu Peak is full of waterfalls, springs, green trees and red flowers, no less than other famous mountains and rivers. Therefore, most of the courtyards of Danqiyuan are built in a scattered manner on the peak.
A place for the elders and disciples to live and practice.
Peiyuan Hall is located at the foot of Xianglu Peak. This majestic and glorious hall covers an area of 30 acres and is more than ten feet high. The space inside the hall is quite large.
Through a special formation, the earth fire was led from Tianlu Peak, and fire outlets with twenty rows each, five rows in total, were built in the center of the hall for the purpose of alchemy. Stands, tables and chairs, as well as high platforms and
Main seats and other facilities.
At the entrance of the palace gate, there is a stone drum with a large word "ji" written in the middle and some detailed rules on the back.
This is the tradition of the Alchemy Academy. Any alchemy apprentice, whether a sect disciple or a casual cultivator, if he feels that he can refine the best elixir, he can come here at any time to beat the stone drum and refine the elixir on the spot.
If successful, you can enter the Alchemy Academy and become an observing disciple, observing and studying in the Alchemy Academy for three years, just like those advanced students in Yang Zhen's previous life.
If you are already a sect disciple, you have a great chance of being spotted by the master of the Alchemy Academy and directly recruited as an inner sect disciple.
However, it is not so easy for casual cultivators to enter the Yunxiao Sect Alchemy Academy. Permission can only be obtained at certain times.
For example, the fifth day of May.
This is the day when the Alchemy Academy annually selects and assesses alchemy disciples. All Yunxiao Sect disciples who have achieved excellent results in the alchemy course final exam can take the exam on this day.
In addition, almost every state and county in the Xu Kingdom has an alchemist association. This association is nominally organized by alchemists freely, but is actually controlled by the Alchemy Institute. If these associations find apprentices with alchemy talents, they will also recommend them.
The sect participates in this selection.
If you pass, you can become an observing disciple, and if there are those who have outstanding performance or are extremely lucky, and are favored by an elder, it is not impossible to directly recruit them as disciples of the sect.
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Today is the fifth day of May.
Just after Chen hour, the door of the palace opened, and many monks who could not wait were already pouring in. Half a quarter of an hour later, the flow of people gradually became sparse, but there was always an endless stream. People kept coming here through the teleportation array, and then entered
Main hall.
Some of these people are monks who have come to take the exam. After registering, they will go directly to the center of the hall, find their seats according to the number plate, and sit down, waiting for the assessment to begin.
Most of them came to see the excitement, and some even traveled thousands of miles from various states and counties to visit. These people, except for the assessment disciples who can bring three relatives and friends for free, the rest need to spend five contribution points or fifteen spiritual stones.
Purchase tickets to enter the venue.
Of course, among the assessment disciples, except for those who excel in the final exam that year, all other disciples, whether they are sect disciples or casual cultivators, need to pay one hundred contribution points or three hundred spirit stones as the registration fee.
The total of these scattered charges is only 10,000 contribution points, but mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are. The Alchemy Institute is so big, there are also many places to spend money.
After more than half an hour, the door of the palace was opened wide, and a middle-aged monk dressed as a scribe, followed by a group of disciples in white, were filing in.
The monk had a cold expression and walked directly towards the high platform without squinting his eyes. After a while, he stood in the middle of the high platform, and the group of disciples stood in two rows behind him, about twenty people in total.
This person is Xiao Qiqiao, Dai Chenghong's true disciple. He comes to preside over the selection examination every year to show that the Alchemy Institute attaches great importance to this matter.
Among the disciples at the back, if Yang Zhen were here, he would definitely find two acquaintances among them. One is Yin Nanxing, and the other is Senior Brother Jiang who presided over his exam three months ago.
Xiao Qiqiao glanced around and saw that all the hundred monks taking part in the examination had arrived, and almost 90% of the two thousand auditorium had come. He coughed lightly and began to announce the various regulations for the examination.
First of all, the content of the assessment is to refine the Peiyuan Pill.
Almost everyone knows this rule. The annual assessment of the Alchemy Academy is based on this topic, and even the Peiyuan Palace is named after it, which is also the reason.
Peiyuan Dan has the effect of removing impurities from the body and clearing meridians. It is often used by monks in the middle stage of Qi training to break through the realm in the later stages.
As mentioned before, the quickest and safe way to break through in the mid-term and late stages is to enter the Black Wind Valley, and the most troublesome way is to take the barrier-breaking pill.
Peiyuan Dan is in between the two. Because it has the characteristics of removing impurities, it has fewer consequences. Therefore, it is very popular among family monks or those disciples of sects who cannot make enough contribution points.
When Zhao Li achieved his late breakthrough, he took this elixir and succeeded in one fell swoop.
However, the shortcomings of this elixir are also obvious.
The first is that it takes a long time. It requires the monk to accumulate and polish for at least four or five years before taking it. Although this can save half or even more time, it is still too long for many monks.
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The second is that although the consequences are few, they still exist. The monks who use this elixir to achieve breakthroughs will need to continue to eliminate impurities for a long time in the future, otherwise their foundation will be unstable.
Of course, this is also related to the quality of the elixir. A bottle of fifteen spirit stones like the one Zhao Li bought at that time was just of low quality and would retain quite a lot of impurities in the body.
If it is medium or high grade, the impurities will be much less, and the monks can save more time.
What if it’s the best?
Almost no impurities!
The effect is even better than entering Black Wind Valley!
Therefore, the best Peiyuan Pill is rare to find in the market. Monks who can refine this kind of pill will of course be recruited by the Alchemy Academy to win over them!
"Pui Yuan Dan, three pills can be made in one furnace," Xiao Qiqiao said loudly, "If all three pills are top-grade, the test is passed!"
"If the total number of top-ranking students is less than thirty, our school will recruit some of the best students to make up the number of thirty."
"Of course -", he looked at the disciples taking the assessment in the audience, and said with a smile: "If everyone here can refine the best, even if there is only one, it will pass!"
After saying that, he looked at the clepsydra and saw that it was almost time, so he waved his hand and shouted:
"Start!"
Following this shout, hundreds of fire outlets emerged, and blazing flames instantly ignited.
Just as the monks took out the spiritual herbs from the storage bags provided by the Alchemy Academy and began to work, they saw a young man walking in at the door of the palace.
The morning sun shot into the hall from behind him, lengthening his figure and making his face dark and blurry.
Xiao Qiqiao frowned and was about to be scolded when he saw the young man striding to the stone drum and picking up the drumstick.
"Dong dong dong——"
The dull sound of drums resounded throughout the hall!